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To fulfill a long-standing desire for more specialty grocery stores in Bowie, city officials say they plan to once again push legislators to pass an incentive to attract the retailers. For a third consecutive year, city officials plan to propose legislation when the Maryland General Assembly gears up in January in Annapolis that would permit the sale of beer and wine in small-scale Bowie grocery stores, said city manager David Deutsch. Maryland Sen. Douglas J.J. Peters (Dist. 23) of Bowie proposed similar bills during the 2011 and 2012 legislative sessions. Both failed. Peters did not return repeated calls for comment. City officials have had their sights set in particular on Trader Joe’s, a national specialty grocery chain based in California, since 2011, but said the company GREG DOHLER/THE GAZETTE
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When Sydney Harrison was born in 1974, he was two months premature, the product of a gang rape, weighed about 2 pounds and his birth mother — who was beaten the same day — abandoned him at
the hospital. Harrison, 39, of Upper Marlboro learned of his background when he was 32, when he first met his birth mother after a 14-year search. Harrison, who enjoys a career in real estate and has an 18-year old son who loves soccer and basketball, said he is alive and successful today because of the love he received from his adopted family. He said he has made it his mission to give a similar love back to Prince George’s
County youth in need. “I think that every child deserves a loving, nurturing and stable environment,” Harrison said. “My ultimate dream is to someday make that a reality.” To realize that dream, Harrison said he has been working with county foster children by mentoring the youth and giving speeches at events detailing his life as an adopted child. He also started a toy drive five
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Officials say Bowie building has brought benefits beyond battling overcrowding BY SOPHIE PETIT STAFF WRITER
Overcrowding woes forced Bowie High School to begin housing the freshman class in a shuttered school down the street in 2005, a plan they say has evolved into a success story regarding the transition of students into high school. “We could have easily chosen to move the 12th-graders or a different group,” said Bowie High Principal Drewana Bey. “As time went on, we really looked at it outside of an overcrowding solution and said ‘Let’s use this as a small learning environment for our ninth-graders.’”
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Gardner defeats second-time opponent in city’s only contested race BY SOPHIE PETIT STAFF WRITER
Bowie’s council members will be a set of familiar faces for the next two years. In Bowie’s sole contested district race, incumbent Henri Gardner, who represents District 3, which includes most of southern Bowie around the Bowie Town Center, was re-elected Tuesday with the majority of the vote - 74.79 percent. This is Gardner’s second victory against his opponent, Babatunde Alegbeleye, who garnered 25.12 percent of the vote. Gardner won the District 3 seat in 2011 with about 79 percent of the vote against Alegbeleye, who received 21 percent. “I am, of course, pleased with the outcome. The voters have spoken, and I will, as I have previously, continue to work on behalf of Bowie’s residents,” Gardner said after election results were released around 11 p.m. Tuesday. “I am grateful for all those who supported me.” All other incumbents, including Bowie Mayor G. Frederick Robinson, were also re-elected. One advisory question was placed on the ballot, asking residents whether they support four-year terms for council members instead of their current two-year terms. About 66 percent of residents voted in favor of extending council members’ terms, with about 34 percent voting against it. “I believe in order to make a change you need the time to do that, and two years is not enough,” said Alice Lanire, 53, who lives on Easton Drive. spetit@gazette.net
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ing Community Center, 12500 Fort Washington Road, Fort Washington. Celebrate the harvest and take a hayride, race in a pumpkin roll, create a craft, play carnival games and more. Fee includes a hot dog, chips and a drink. Cost: $7 per resident, $9 per non-resident. Contact 301-292-9191; TTY 301-203-6030. Fourth annual Community Celebration Day, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., My Girlfriend’s House, 9244 East Hampton Drive, Suite 621, Capitol Heights. Free event is open to the community and will feature fun games and activities along with our annual purse stuffing. This year we welcome special guest host Deja Perez of WKYS 93.9 and exclusive music by DJ Heat. Contact 301-560-0506 or marketing@mygirlfriendshouse.org. Food Drive, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Freestate Mall at Bowie. The Bowie Blue Jays are hosting a food drive at the Giant at Freestate Mall. Please bring donations of food and/or money to be donated to a local food bank. Contact 240-620-2699 or rikki.wodall@bowiebluejays.org. Trash to Treasure Green Fair, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Watkins Nature Center, 301 Watkins Park Drive, Upper Marlboro. Browse for unique, hand-crafted goodies from more than 40 local vendors. Try your luck at a raffle item; do hands-on activities with your children and much more. All vendors selling items at the fair use at least 50 percent recycled, sustainable, organic or fair trade materials. Contact 301-218-6702; TTY 301-699-2544.
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University of Maryland’s School of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies presents “Moliere Impromptu.” SPORTS Going into the final week of the football regular season, only one playoff berth is still available to either Wise or Bowie. Check online this weekend for coverage of both their games.
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Harmony Hall Regional Center in Fort Washington is exhibiting works by collage artist Ronnie Spiewak of Cheverly. The exhibit, “It Happened One Night,” runs through Dec. 27. Her collage “Homage to Avery” is a tribute to one of her favorite artists, painter Milton Avery. For information, visit http://arts.pgparks.com.
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a.m., Old Maryland Farm, 301 Watkins Park Drive, Upper Marlboro. Learn how to interact and communicate with a horse or pony. Reservations required. Cost: $2 per resident; $3 per non-resident. Contact 301-218-6770; TTY 301-699-2544. Italy and France Adventure, 11:15 a.m., LargoKettering Branch Library, 9601 Capital Lane, Largo. For ages 3 to 5 with stories from Italy and France.
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NOV. 8 Movie Madness, 2:30 to 5:30 p.m., Indian Queen Recreation Center, 9551 Fort Foote Road, Fort Washington. Join the Kids’ Care staff to see “Monster University.” Refreshments will be served. Cost: $5 per resident; $6 per non-resident. Contact 301-839-9597; Bowie High School presents Disney’s musical “Beauty and the Beast,” 7:30 p.m., Bowie Center for
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Center, 301 Watkins Park Drive, Upper Marlboro. Meet animals and learn about their characteristics. Reservations required. Cost: $2 per resident, $3 per non-resident. Contact 301-218-6702; TTY 301-6992544.
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Wanted: Residents’ ideas on how to make Bowie ‘greener’ Bowie residents are once again being asked to come forward with any and all ideas about how the city can reduce its carbon footprint, said Kristin Larson, the city’s sustainability planner. “I want residents to know there is an opportunity for their community ideas to be heard,” Larson said. The city is hosting its second climate action series presentation at 7 p.m. Nov. 20 at the Kenhill Center, which Larson said is a great place for residents to voice their opinions while getting advice on how to save money and energy at home and at work. Several energy-efficiency experts will be there, including representatives from the Maryland Energy Administration and energy company Baltimore Gas and Electric, Larson said. The city’s final climate action series presentation will be at 7 p.m. Jan. 13 at the Kenhill Center, 2614 Kenhill Drive, and will focus on trails and public transit, she said. Residents can also submit their ideas online at www.cityofbowie.org/communityclimateaction.
Bowie High student named Scholar of the Week Bowie High School senior John Quinn, 17, was named Prince George’s County Public Schools Scholar of the Week on Oct. 28. Quinn has been president of his class since sophomore year, has completed at least 10 advanced placement classes and currently holds a cumulative 4.18 grade-point average, according to a county schools news release. Last year, he also organized a school-wide community service effort in which students and staff provided new hats and gloves to every student at District Heights Elementary School, the release states. Quinn said he is applying to college and hopes to attend the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he will
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Clinton residents Myra Marquez (left) and her daughter, Megalya Marquez (center), 16, hear about the features of West Virginia State University from admissions counselor Fanica Payne during a college fair Saturday at Mount Ennon Baptist Church in Clinton. receive a teaching degree and ultimately become a school administrator, according to the release.
Bowie’s leaf-collection program continues The city of Bowie’s curbside leaf collection program is running through Dec. 19. Residents are asked to make sure leaves are curbside by 7 a.m. on the day pickup is to occur in their neighborhood and to make sure vehicles are not blocking access to the leaves. The following neighborhoods will receive leaf-collection visits in the next week: Nov. 11: Holiday; no collection. Nov. 12: Long Ridge and Kenilworth. Nov. 13: Remaining part of Kenilworth not visited Nov. 12, Rolling Hills, Foxhill and Tulip Grove. Nov. 14: Remaining parts of
Tulip Grove not visited Nov. 13, Somerset, Highbridge Park and Northridge. Nov. 15: Remaining parts of Northridge not visited Nov. 14. For a full schedule, visit the city’s website at www.cityofbowie.org.
Lung cancer awareness event planned An event to raise awareness about lung cancer will be held at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 14 at the Wayne K. Curry Sports and Learning Complex, located at 8001 Sheriff Road in Landover. People tend to only focus on cancer during October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness month, so the Shine A Light Vigil raises awareness of another dangerous cancer, said Krystal Hamlet, Upper Marlboro resident and event organizer. “When the month of October is over, things seem to fall to the wayside,” Hamlet said.
“There are other cancers out there.” The Shine A Light Vigil is a national event promoted by the Lung Cancer Alliance that advocates for communities to learn more about the dangers of lung cancer, Hamlet said. The vigil will feature a forum of speakers who will talk with participants to educate them about lung cancer prevention and testing and support those who have lung cancer, Hamlet said. Hamlet asked that interested participants register at www.landovervigil.kintera.org, but anyone can show up to the free event without registering.
PETA recognizes fire/EMS officials for rescuing dogs The largest animal rights organization in the world recognized Prince George’s County Fire/EMS Department officials Oct. 28 for their efforts to save two dogs from a burning home
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in Bowie. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, known as PETA, sent the fire department a framed certificate of PETA’s Compassionate Fire Department Award, a thank you card and a box of vegan chocolates, said Merrilee Burke, one of PETA’s project managers. “We always keep an eye on the media for any kind of stories about kind people who didn’t look the other way when any animal needed help,” Burke said. County fire/EMS officials rescued Otis and Mylo, two Chihuahuas, from a burning home in Bowie on Oct. 23. The dogs received oxygen masks and were retuned to their owner, who was not at the house during the fire, said Mark E. Brady, county fire department spokesman. No one was injured during the fire. Otis died several days later from complications due to the fire, Brady said. Mylo, however, is doing fine, he said. “The fire department did everything they could, and we hope their effort will inspire others,” Burke said.
The Millwood-Waterford Citizen’s Association has signed up 80 more people than anticipated for its scholarship fundraising event on Saturday. Association president Margaret White said they only anticipated about 100 people signing up for the dinner, but the association has signed up about 180 people total for the event at Camelot by Martins, located at 13905 Central Ave. in Upper Marlboro. “We wanted to help the students buy books and have spending money while away at college,” White said. The citizen’s association distributes scholarship money to Prince George’s County graduates each year; last year, the association awarded $10,500 in scholarships to 12 different applicants, White said. Each award ranges from $250 to $1,000 depending on the applicant’s need, she said. Tickets for the event are no longer available.
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Greater Baden Medical Services celebrated its 41st anniversary gala on Oct. 22 in Upper Marlboro. The event honored several community leaders including Prince George’s County Councilwoman Karen Toles (D-Dist. 7) of Suitland and Pastor John Jenkins of First Baptist Church of Glenarden, according to a Baden Medical Services news release. These individuals were honored for contributions in improving local health outcomes, according to the news release. The event also celebrated the medical services implementation of its team-based health care, according to the news release. Greater Baden Medical Services is a nonprofit, federally qualified health center that has provided primary care to Southern Maryland since 1972, according to the release.
The Fort Washington Medical Center is celebrating its 30th anniversary from 6 to 11 p.m. Nov. 23 with a fundraising event featuring two auctions, live music and dancing. The event will celebrate the hospital’s 30 years of service to residents while also raising money to enhance services at the center, said Judy Mitchell, Fort Washington Medical Center spokeswoman. There will be a live and silent auction, to include trips to Dubai and Ethiopia, Mitchell said. “Come out for an evening of fun,” she said. Tickets to the event cost about $125 and can be purchased on Eventbrite.com; by calling 301-686-9010, Ext. 117; or going to the medical center’s website at www.fortwashingtonmc.org, according to the center’s news release. Tickets are available until Nov. 15.
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Justin Williams, 10, scrolled through the menus in his computer program quickly; showcasing a familiarity with the video game software he hoped will attract a teammate for December’s video game jam contest. “I want to be a game designer when I grow up,” said Justin of Mitchellville. Justin was one of about 20 participants in a video game design workshop on Saturday intended to prepare the interested children for the Dec. 7 Video Game Jam. The workshop taught them how to use Kodu, a video game design software, with a tutorial created by Illinois-based DeVry University. The workshop was held by the Patriot Technology Center at the Largo-Kettering Library in Largo. The center is holding its fifth Video Game Jam, a contest where teams spend two hours creating a game that will be judged by video game professionals, said Thurman Jones, president of the Patriots Technology Training Center. The winning team will receive a $100 gift card and second and third place will get $50 and $25 cards, respectively. Two workshops have been held in Prince George’s County with another two scheduled from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Nov. 16 at the Oxon Hill Library, 6200 Oxon Hill Road, and Nov. 23 at the South Bowie Library, 15301 Hall Road in Bowie. Designing games requires knowing math, engineering, design and a myriad of other skills so it prepares the children for a technology-demanding world, Jones said. “It gets them more into the
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(Top) Justin Williams, 10, of Mitchellville goes through a video game design tutorial Saturday during a workshop held by The Patriot Technology Center at the Largo-Kettering Branch Library. (At left) Michael Coker (left), 14, of Upper Marlboro asks a question to Sean Gamble, 14, of Mitchellville during a video game design tutorial. PHOTOS BY GREG DOHLER/THE GAZETTE
business of games,” Jones said. “We want to get students involved with STEM education so we can attract more high-tech firms to the county.” The workshop consisted of a short tutorial that introduced participants in the Kodu software. After the tutorial, Jones brought the students together to form teams. Justin said he had a couple of prospective teammates and plans to compete in the Video Game Jam on Dec. 7 at Prince George’s County Community College in Largo.
Justin’s mother, Tamara Williams, said she supported his interest in learning how to design games. He plays them often, so this is a chance for him to make friends and get an interest in designing games, Tamara Williams said. “If he is going to spend this much time playing the games, he might as well learn how to build them,” Tamara Williams said. “It makes [the family] feel better that he is having a learning experience and enjoying the games.”
Michael Coker, 14, of Upper Marlboro, also attended. He said the software was a good way to expose youth to careers like engineering and video game design. Those careers can be intimidating, but the Kodu software is a good place to start, Michael said. “Don’t be intimidated,” he said. “Try it out before you say no. Don’t give up on your dreams.” ccook@gazette.net
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Financial lessons in Prince George’s County will soon have a new resource, as the groundbreaking was held Oct. 30 on a new $2.5 million facility expected to help students learn how to manage their money and prepare for the future. “I think this is going to be an amazing, amazing opportunity for our students here in Prince George’s County,” said school board Vice Chairwoman Carolyn Boston (Dist. 6). “Financial literacy is just as important as the ability to read and write.” The 13,000-square-foot Finance Park — a partnership between Junior Achievement of Greater Washington, Prince George’s County Public Schools and Capital One Financial Corp. — is being built on the G. James Gholson Middle/Cora L. Rice Elementary School campus, and is expected to open in the fall of 2014, said JAGW Chief Executive Officer and President Edward J. Grenier III. The construction cost is being paid by Capital One through its philanthropic program,
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while Junior Achievement will own the building and provide the curriculum that accompanies eighth-graders’ visits to Finance Park. The school system will pay an estimated $147,000 yearly for upkeep and utilities for the building, as well as $23 per student for course materials, according to system documents. “I think this is going to be wonderful for our community and for our children,” said schools CEO Kevin Maxwell. “I am thrilled that everyone has come together to make this a reality. A Financial Park was built in Fairfax County, Va., in 2010. Grenier said it has had a “huge” impact on the 42,000 students who have visited it, saying 89 percent of students surveyed said they felt more confident making decisions around money after visiting. Junior Achievement operates 18 other Finance Parks across the country, according to Grenier. Grenier said the Finance Park facility is just one piece of Junior Achievement’s six-week financial literacy program, aimed at giving eighth-graders the tools they will need to make responsible financial decisions. After about five weeks studying Junior Achievement’s
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The Prince George’s County Finance Park, shown here in an artist’s rendering, is being built on land adjacent to G. James Gholson Middle School and Cora L. Rice Elementary School in Landover. financial literacy curriculum in their math and social studies classes, students will arrive at Finance Park for a daylong roleplaying scenario, where they will be given a stipulating occupation, income, marital status and dependents, Grenier said. The students travel to storefronts, making purchasing decisions based on their budget. “It’s really about choices,” Grenier said. “What type of house do you buy? Do you buy one with a two-door garage, or do you settle for a one-door garage so you can budget more money for clothing?” Students may encounter events such as a major car re-
pair or hospital visit, for which they must then budget, he said. “I think having our kids understand how their world works can’t be understated,” Maxwell said. “We’ve come through a tremendously challenging recessionary period, and helping children understand how they interact with the economy, how businesses interact, how different industries affect each other is huge. All of those pieces of financial literacy are very, very important, and this is going to fill a tremendous void for us.” janfenson-comeau @gazette.net
After a cramped decade of sharing with another school, Robert Goddard French Immersion School in Lanham is slated to move into its own building, but parents say they’re confused as to why the school won’t have access to the entire site. “It’s mind boggling,” said June Evans, president of the Robert Goddard French Immersion parent-teacher association. “They’re only giving us just enough to maintain what we have now. One of the reasons we’re moving is so that we can expand.” The school has shared a 133,631-square-foot building with Robert Goddard Montessori School since 2002. French Immersion is on track to move next school year into the old Greenbelt Middle School building, which is undergoing $3.5 million in renovations, said county schools spokesman Max Pugh. The move has been in the works since 2009, but planning and funded issues resulted in multiple delays, said school officials. In 2011, parents formed a Greenbelt Middle School task force to pressure the county to deliver on its promise to move the school and guarantee more space, said Yolanda Rogers, the task force president. When the school board initially voted to relocate the school about a year ago, the space allotted was smaller than what the school already had, Rogers said. Task force members petitioned school board members, who eventually allotted the school more space. Rogers said the group wants the county to give the
school and its 573 K-8 students the entire Greenbelt Middle building, which can hold 1,092 students. French Immersion will share the 141,125-squarefoot Greenbelt building with city of Greenbelt offices and any leftover area will be designated as swing space, Pugh said. Swing space is reserved to temporarily house other schools when needed. French Immersion’s designated swing space is DuVal High School in Lanham, said French Immersion principal Nasser Abi. “We really don’t want to share the building. If we’re leaving one space, what are they going to do with that?” Rogers said. “It doesn’t make sense because they’ll have swing space in both schools.” French Immersion uses six temporary classrooms outside and holds art class in the hallway, which doubles as a classroom, Abi said. “Just go to [French Immersion] and take a walk. We have classrooms in closets there. Just to be able to operate well, you need space,” said former school principal Kona-Facia Nepay. Nepay took over the school in 1992 and resigned in 2012 in part to the continual delay of the school’s move to a bigger building, she said. The actual square footage that French Immersion will occupy will not increase, but because of the way the 75-year-old Greenbelt Middle building is built, the number of classroom seats will, said Segun Eubanks, the county school board chairman. The school will be able to enroll more students and expand its program, he said, but the county hasn’t budgeted for that yet, Eubanks said. “Once they approve the expansion of the program, and if we have the space to expand, we can,” Abi said.
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Kevin Maxwell, CEO of Prince George’s County Public Schools, has been named Maryland Superintendent of the Year by the Public School Superintendents’ Association of Maryland for his work in Anne Arundel County. The award came during the annual Maryland Negotiating Service Awards Banquet on Oct. 31 in Ocean City, according to the school system. He was selected by a committee of his peers, said Carl Roberts, executive director.
Maxwell was superintendent of Anne Arundel County Public Schools for seven years before being selected by Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III (D) to head Prince George’s schools this year. “Dr. Maxwell is a very student-oriented leader, he is a very community-oriented leader, and he is devoted to closing the student subgroup disparency gap,” Roberts said. Maxwell is a candidate for the National Superintendent of the Year from the American Association of School Administrators at its national conference Feb. 14-15 in Nashville, Tenn. janfenson-comeau @gazette.net
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Victorianne Russell Walton of New Carrollton said a strong support system — and inspirational letters from her mother and sister — helped her overcome a five-year battle with breast cancer. Now, as a survivor, she wants other cancer patients to have the same encouragement. Walton, 48, recently founded It’s in The Genes LLC, a nonprofit that partners with other organizations to offer programs and resources for cancer patients. She is also the events coordinator for the Cancer Support Ministry at First Baptist Church of Glenarden in Upper Marlboro. Inspired by the letters from her family when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007, she also launched the Ribbon of Love Project, in which she collects uplifting letters from children and delivers them to cancer patients. “We need to remind them: You’re going to beat this,” Walton said. The ribbon project was created after she took part in an event last school year at Carrollton Elementary School in New Carrollton, when Walton said she was handed an uplifting letter from a student. Walton, who received notes from family members in Virginia during her battle with cancer, approached Carrollton Principal Brian Galbraith about teaming up with the school. Since then, Walton has periodically visited to talk to students about cancer, provide school supplies and collect letters. Carrollton fourth-graders participated in the ribbon project Oct. 30. “I don’t care if you are a kid, man or woman,” fourth-grader Chiemeziem Chukwu’s letter stated. “I just want you to get better and beat cancer.” Carrollton fourth-grader Tyniah Snowden said her friend suffered from cancer and described the experience as “scary.” She said she wants her letters to help improve the health of cancer patients. “I want to reach out for them,” she said. Jen Burdette, a mission delivery specialist for the American Cancer Society Inc., said letters from children can be particularly meaningful for cancer patients lacking a support system. “It gives them a reason to smile when they may be feeling sick, exhausted, disheartened or scared,” Burdette said. Washington Cancer Institute of Washington Hospital Center patients will receive letters from the Ribbon of Love Project this week, said Glenda Cousar, an oncology nurse at the hospital. “They will mean a lot to the patients. It will be a source of hope and encouragement to reinforce that they’re not in this by themselves,” Cousar said. Galbraith said having a cancer survivor in the classroom helps children learn more about the disease. “It gives it real meaning to them,” Galbraith said. Vivian Dixon, assistant director at First Baptist Church of Glenarden’s Cancer Support Ministry, said Walton has helped provide resources for cancer patients and developed creative events that lift their spirits. One time she arranged for the group to get facial spa treatments, Dixon said. “She’s just a fireball. She comes up with some of the darnedest things that you wouldn’t even think about doing,” Dixon said. Walton said she still reads the letters from her mother and sister. To learn more about the Ribbon of Love Project, contact Walton at dosomething@ itsinthegenes.com. egoldwein@gazette.net
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Landover’s Thomas G. Pullen Creative and Performing Arts School Science Bowl team buzzed early and often, scoring a combined 690 points in their Nov. 5 games to qualify for the semifinals of the 28th Science Bowl competition. The Science Bowl is a televised science quiz competition between Prince George’s County public elementary and middle schools. Pullen’s team, comprised of eighth-grade captain Kainoa Sittman, eighth-grader Mya Pierce, seventh-grader Kendall Bryant and seventh-grader Deborah Omotoso, employed a quick-trigger response strategy and defeated Fort Washington’s Oxon Hill Middle School 360-90 before beating Suitland’s Benjamin D. Foulois Creative and Performing Arts, 330-115. “I have a lot of confidence. How fast we were today, I wasn’t expecting that,” Mya said. Host Dave Zahren asks questions worth five to 25 points and the first team to buzz in with the correct answer is awarded the points. “They know the MO here and how important it is to ring in quickly,” Zahren said. Pullen sponsor Roy Manning said he was focused on making sure the team responded to questions without hesitating. “I had confidence in myself. I figured it might be close and I did expect that I might win, but I didn’t realize I was going to beat them by that much,” said Kainoa, an aspiring marine biologist. Pullen students said they prepared by watching YouTube videos of Science Bowl games. “We just watch Science Bowl, so they think like Science Bowl,” Manning said.
Zahren said he was impressed by Kainoa. “He is just amazingly bright. I was impressed with how he’s up on the news and all the cultural references we use in the questions,” Zahren said. “He was right on them.” Benjamin Foulois’ team, comprised of eighth-grader Nasir Phillips, eighth-grader Preston Upchurch and seventh-grader Samuel Merritt, won 230-155 in its first game against Hyattsville’s Nicholas Orem Middle School. Nasir, competing in his fourth Science Bowl, said his past experience helped him gain confidence heading into this year’s event. Oxon Hill’s team included seventh-graders Antonio Sosa, Kamiya McCoy and Enzo Martinez. Elizabeth Tedder, an Oxon Hill sponsor, said the experience will help the students in next year’s Science Bowl. “They know what it’s like to have the lights beaming on them and all the pressure,” Tedder said. Nicholas Orem’s team included eighth-graders Blain Solomon, Mahendra Dudar and Crystal Lazaro. “I was really excited. I was hoping we would do a good job, and we did,” Blain said.
The Thomas G. Pullen school Science Bowl team of seventh-graders Kendall Bryant, 13, of Bowie, Kainoa Sittman, 12, of Greenbelt and Deborah Omotoso, 12, of Bowie consult during their game Tuesday afternoon. (At left) The Oxon Hill Middle School Science Bowl team of seventh-graders Enzo Martinez, Antonio Sosa, and Kamiya McCoy, all 12 and of Oxon Hill, consider an answer during their game against Thomas G. Pullen school. PHOTOS BY RAPHAEL TALISMAN/FOR THE GAZETTE
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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.
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OCT. 28 Theft from vehicle, 900 block
Delran Place, 8:31 a.m. Assault, 1300 block Mccormick Drive, 9:46 a.m. Theft, 4800 block River Valley Way, 9:50 a.m. Theft from vehicle, 3900 block Town Center Blvd, 10:55 a.m. Theft, 9000 block Spring Ave, 11:42 a.m. Break-in, 12800 block Belhurst Lane, 12:29 p.m. Residential break-in, 9000 block Ardwick Ardmore Road,
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Assault, 1200 block Mercan-
tile Lane, 1:31 p.m.
Vehicle stolen, 4300 block Lord Fairfax Court, 3:16 p.m. Theft from vehicle, Nb Laurel Bowie Road/Lemons Bridge Road, 5:56 p.m. Theft from vehicle, 9100 block Flemming Road, 6:26 p.m. Residential break-in, 12000 block Daisy Lane, 7:54 p.m. Theft from vehicle, 7000 block Old Chapel Drive, 8:21 p.m. Robbery on commercial property, 9100 block Annapolis Road,
9:21 p.m.
OCT. 29 Theft, 800 block Largo Center
Drive, 2:19 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 8900 block Brae Brooke Drive, 5:24 a.m. Theft from vehicle, Brae Brooke Drive/Cipriano Road, 7:10 a.m. Theft from vehicle, 6700 block Glenn Dale Road, 7:23 a.m. Theft from vehicle, 12600 block Blackwell Lane, 7:59 a.m.
ONLINE For additional police blotters, visit www.gazette.net Theft from vehicle, 7200 block
Glen Pine St., 8:47 a.m. Theft from vehicle, 7100 block Glen Pine St., 8:50 a.m. Vehicle stolen, 8500 block Greenbelt Road, 9:04 a.m. Theft from vehicle, 1000 block Largo Center Drive, 10:07 a.m. Theft from vehicle, 9900 block Good Luck Road, 10:39 a.m. Theft from vehicle, 9700 block Woodberry St., 1:13 p.m. Vehicle stolen and recovered,
8300 block Race Track Road, 1:43 p.m. Theft, 9000 block Annapolis Road, 1:45 p.m. Theft, 16000 block Pond Meadow Lane, 2:22 p.m. Residential break-in, 10100 block Dubarry St., 2:40 p.m. Theft, 9300 block Annapolis Road, 2:55 p.m. Theft, 16500 block Ballpark
Road, 9:12 p.m. Theft, 15900 block Annapolis Road, 9:52 p.m.
OCT. 30 Theft from vehicle, 9800 block Good Luck Road, 8:59 a.m. Theft, 17400 block Central Ave, 11:10 a.m. Theft, 14000 block Farnsworth Lane, 11:24 a.m. Theft, 800 block St. Michaels Drive, 11:42 a.m. Residential break-in, 12000 block Cleaver Drive, 2:39 p.m. Robbery, Ladova Way/Utica Place, 3:48 p.m. Theft from vehicle, 9900 block Good Luck Road, 6:39 p.m. Assault, 13700 block Central Ave, 7:57 p.m. Theft from vehicle, 200 block Harry S Truman Drive, 8:42 p.m.
OCT. 31 Commercial property breakin, 9400 block Lanham Severn
Road, 6:14 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 12100
block Open View Lane, 6:25 a.m. Theft, 9500 block Chestnut Park St., 9:48 a.m. Vehicle stolen, 2200 block Durbin Court, 10:56 a.m. Theft, 12500 block Kemmerton Lane, 1:01 p.m. Theft, 15400 block Annapolis Road, 1:15 p.m. Theft, 10400 block Campus Way S, 1:29 p.m. Theft, 10200 block Martin Luther King Highway, 1:34 p.m. Residential break-in, 3100 block Trinity Drive, 2:59 p.m. Theft, 9400 block Annapolis Road, 4:51 p.m. Theft, 9300 block Tuckerman St., 7:18 p.m.
NOV. 1 Assault with a weapon, 5600
block Whitfield Chapel Road, 1:51 a.m. Theft from vehicle, 9700 block Cleary Lane, 2:37 a.m. Commercial property breakin, 800 block Capital Center
Blvd, 5:33 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 9500 block Underwood St., 6:29 a.m. Theft from vehicle, 2300 block St. Josephs Drive, 6:49 a.m. Theft from vehicle, 9900 block Glenkirk Way, 8:54 a.m. Theft from vehicle, 9600 block Underwood St., 10:31 a.m. Theft, 9700 block Apollo Drive, 11:16 a.m.
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NOV. 2 Theft from vehicle, 4900 block Whitfield Chapel Road, 12:36 p.m. Theft, 9900 block Greenbelt Road, 1:44 p.m. Theft from vehicle, 800 block Largo Center Drive, 2:15 p.m. Theft from vehicle, 9600 block Lottsford Court, 2:25 p.m. Theft from vehicle, 9400 block Largo Drive W, 2:54 p.m. Theft from vehicle, 1200 block Capital Center Blvd, 3:18 p.m. Theft from vehicle, 9600 block Lottsford Court, 3:44 p.m. Theft from vehicle, 9600 block Lottsford Court, 3:49 p.m.
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Continued from Page A-1 years ago, My Little Angel Toy Drive, which has served about 2,500 families on social services lists and at the Prince George’s County Family Crisis Center’s Domestic Violence shelter. His toy drive is coming up again this year, Dec. 7, and Harrison said showing children love just by getting them a gift for Christmas can make all the difference. “If you can still remember that [opening-gifts] feeling as a grown man, and you never forget that feeling, you can gift that to somebody else that is less fortunate or is facing adversity,” Harrison said. “I take great pride in helping children and helping and serving in my community.” Harrison said he was adopted at 4 years old by John and Iona Harrison, who still are active in the Prince George’s County real estate scene. His parents raised
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Continued from Page A-1 Previously, the annex building at Belair Drive was used to house Bladensburg High School while its new building was being constructed. Over the last two years, Bowie High has reported the lowest rates of repeat ninthgraders in Prince George’s, Bey said. Last year, 87.3 percent of Bowie High’s freshmen class advanced, according to Maryland Department of Education data. Countywide 73.3 percent of freshmen were promoted. “They’re not competing with the upperclassmen, not trying to prove themselves to anyone, and we believe that helps them focus a little bit more,” Bew said. John Quinn, a senior at Bowie High, said he used to be shy, but by the end of his freshman year at the school he successfully ran for president of the student government association. “[Being at the annex] kind of built up my confidence to be able to go and run for president. Being only with my ninth-
Upper Marlboro resident Sydney Harrison wrote the book “Soul Searcher: One Man’s Quest to Discover his True Identity.” Through November, all proceeds of his book sales will be donated to the My Little Angel Toy Drive.
him in a loving home, but Sydney Harrison said the family faced prejudice from people in the community, who knew that he was living with a family that didn’t match his Italian/black ethnicity. Harrison said he struggled with identity issues and how he fit into society, but the love of his family helped him overcome that. Eric Bowman, an Upper Marlboro resident and retired Prince George’s County police captain who has done charity work with Harrison, said Harrison’s early life provided a catalyst for his charity work today. “I think his humble beginnings have provided him with a base and foundation [and] he has grown a lot as a person,” Bowman said. “He has been through so much in his lifetime.” W.H.A.L.E.R.’s Creation Foster/Adopted Youth Arts and Media Training, a Clinton organization that works with 17- to 21-year-old foster youth who soon will age out of foster care,
is a common partner with Harrison, who was a board member for the organization until he unsuccessfully ran for the District 9 County Council seat in 2010. “Sydney is a true and strong and dedicated and passionate advocate and supporter and sponsor for adopted and foster youth,” said LaToria HickmonKern, founder and executive director of W.H.A.L.E.R’s Creation.
grade peers, you just kind of have a sense that it’s us, that I’m around people who are at the same level as me,” Quinn, 17, said. “If you’re around seniors and juniors, you think, ‘They’re much bigger than me. They’re superior because they’re upperclassmen.’” Mary Nusser of Bowie, a volunteer at the school for 20 years, said within months of the annex’s opening, she saw the positive effects. The number of fights between students dropped as well as the number of freshmen suspensions, she said. “Freshmen get a little bit crazy with their new independence,” Nusser said. “By segregating them, you stand a better chance at helping with their transition from a school that treats them like babies into a setting that is approaching adulthood.” The year the annex was introduced, the main school building housed 2,769 students, with enrollment peaking at 3,007 in 2010, according to data provided by the Maryland Department of Education. Enrollment needs to drop from its current 2,600 students
to 1,900 to fall within the main building’s capacity, said Johndel Jones-Brown, director of pupil accounting and school boundaries for Prince George’s public schools. But with 623 freshmen at the annex, about 2,000 students remain on the main campus and overcrowding has been alleviated. He said even if enrollment were to drop drastically, which he said isn’t expected, the annex will likely become a permanent part of Bowie High. “We’ve projected for the foreseeable next 10-plus years capacity will require continued use of the facility,” he said. School board member Verjeana M. Jacobs (Dist. 5), whose district includes Bowie High, said she hopes the annex’s success will encourage officials to move away from looking at just numbers when making decisions about schools. “While we’re so busy looking at capacity, we should concentrate on how to take buildings that are not at capacity and create programs and services,” Jacobs said, adding she’s encouraged officials to permanently keep the annex a part of Bowie High.
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his work in the community anytime soon. In April, he finished his book, “Soul Searcher: One Man’s Quest to Discover his
True Identity,” which chronicles his life and hardships. Through November, which is National Adoption Month, all proceeds of his book sales will be donated to the My Little Angel Toy Drive. Donations for the toy drive will be accepted from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Dec. 7 at Graces in Lanham. “We have got to create the environment where we are empowering people and uplifting people,” Harrison said. “I’m going to do great things in my community, and nothing is going to stop me from doing it. When you’ve been ignited, nothing can stop you.” ccook@gazette.net
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Authorities say Temple Hills resident had two homicide cases BY CHASE COOK STAFF WRITER
A Temple Hills man was sentenced to life without parole plus 120 years Friday for his part in the murder of Alexandria, Va., resident Lenny Harris, whose body was pulled out of a well on a Fort Washington property. Tyrone Lewis, 28, of Temple Hills was convicted in September and faced a possible sentence of up to life without parole plus 140 years, but that sentence was reduced to life without parole plus 120 years after a judge combined a few charges, said John Erzen, Prince George’s County state’s attorney spokesman. Lewis was convicted on nine different counts including kidnapping, first-degree murder
SALES Continued from Page A-1 has been hesitant to open a Bowie store without promise of a liquor license, said city manager David Deutsch. “It’s a store that we believe a number of Bowie residents travel to Annapolis and frequent. And we’ve had a couple of grocery stores close down,” Deutsch said, adding officials hope to fill a gap left by Giant at Pointer Ridge Plaza that’s been vacant for five years. Last year’s bill applied to stores up to 25,000 square feet, Deutsch said, which excluded large grocery chains such as Giant and Safeway that are at least 35,000 square feet. Mike Gaeta, store manager of the Trader Joe’s store in Annapolis, said liquor licenses are irrelevant in deciding where the company opens stores. The company has eight stores in Maryland, all of which are prohibited under state law from selling beer and wine, he said.
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and robbery with a dangerous weapon, Erzen said. In September 2011, Harris, an activist, was kidnapped, taken to Fort Washington, robbed of his ATM card, shot in the head and left on an abandoned property, Erzen said. Lewis and other suspects returned to Harris’ body the next day and threw him into a well, and the body wasn’t discovered until January 2012. Lewis has had 19 different contacts with the justice system, including two different homicide cases, so the sentencing Friday was a victory in maintaining public safety, Erzen said. “This was someone who was clearly a threat to our society,” Erzen said. “And he needed to be removed from our society to insure the safety of our citizens.” Harry Trainor, Lewis’ attorney, said he wouldn’t comment on the sentencing, but did say Monday that an appeal will be filed.
Lewis was one of three suspects arrested in the case and is the first to receive an official sentencing, according to a state’s attorney news release. Linwood Johnson, 51, of Oxon Hill, who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, will be sentenced in March. Paul Batchelor, Johnson’s attorney, declined to comment. Ivan Newman, 21, of Waldorf was scheduled to plead guilty to second-degree murder as well, but on the date of his hearing, Newman declared he was not satisfied with his representation from his attorney, according to the news release. Newman was assigned a new attorney and the same plea deal is still being offered, according to the news release. Michael Lawlor, Newman’s new attorney, did not immediately return a call for comment.
“That’s not a contributing factor,” Gaeta said, adding the company has no plans to open a store in Bowie. “Bowie’s only 10 to 15 minutes from [Annapolis] and our store in Columbia and there’s another store opening in [Washington, D.C.], so there’s going to be three Trader Joe’s within 20 minutes of Bowie.” Deutsch said regardless if Trader Joe’s opens a store in Bowie, the fact that some stores in Prince George’s hold licenses while most don’t doesn’t make sense. Under state law, grocery store chains cannot hold licenses to sell alcohol, according to officials at the Prince George’s County Board of License Commissioners. However, three county grocery stores — a Food Lion in Mitchellville, a Giant in Lanham and a Shoppers in College Park — have licenses they inherited before the 1996 state law banning them was enacted. “It’s not just about Bowie,” said John H. King, Bowie’s head of economic development, add-
ing beer and wine are becoming part of grocers’ standard products. “It’s an archaic regulation of the liquor industry.” Deutsch said officials are open to adjusting the bill to include all of Prince George’s. “Our goal is just to be inclusive, not exclusive,” he said. Opponents to the legislation are mainly independent local liquor store owners, who say passing the bill would be detrimental to their businesses. “Once you give the right to small grocery stores, then everyone will say, ‘Why don’t we get it?’ Then the lost leaders are the small business owners,” said Shawn Reddy, owner of Crescent Beer and Wine in Bowie that sells only beer and wine. Deutsch said he doesn’t know when a 2014 version of the bill will be drafted or whether next year holds a different future for the bill. “We’re taking one general assembly session at a time,” he said.
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One of the most telling quotes from Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler, as his gubernatorial candidacy became mired in controversy recently, was: “I’m a big boy.” Gansler was declaring that he can admit when he’s wrong. But the line works equally well in summarizing his decision-making, as shown in two examples recently discovered by area newspapers. A few weeks ago, The Washington Post reported on complaints by Maryland State Police troopers assigned to drive him around. The troopers alleged that Gansler directed them to use lights and sirens so he could get places CONTROVERSIES quickly. Sometimes, Gansler got antsy and flipped on the HAVE DETRACTED lights and sirens himself — FROM or he’d take the wheel, the GUBERNATORIAL Post reported. More recently, The BaltiISSUES more Sun published a story and photo showing Gansler standing among a roomful of teenagers at a party at a Delaware beach house. Instead of focusing on whether he’s qualified to govern Maryland, voters have been sucked into dissecting his inclinations for driving fast and permissive parenting. Gansler has denied the driving allegations, claiming a state police “henchman” is generating political fodder. (Wouldn’t that require a conspiracy among troopers filing false statements?) But Gansler couldn’t refute a picture of what looked like a raucous party, possibly with alcohol. Never mind that Gansler, 50, sounds like a teen trying to talk himself out of a grounding by his parents. The questions that accompany these controversies are real and worth debate. Should the attorney general initiate and condone potentially illegal behavior? Gansler might dismiss the driving controversy as dirty politics, but he should pledge unequivocally to obeying the laws of the road and not interfering as troopers do the same as part of their jobs. As for the teen party, even outside of his jurisdiction, the attorney general should be a legal and moral model. It’s hard to fathom him knowingly participating in a plan to give teenagers free rein — likely with beer — at a rented house. This is questionable behavior as a parent, but unthinkable as the state’s top legal officer. Gansler, commendably, has spoken out in the past against underage drinking, but he loses credibility with his regrettable permissiveness. We look forward to returning to the issues of the gubernatorial campaign, of which there are many. First, Gansler has soul-searching and explaining to do.
Don’t let deer ruin the day It’s fall, and that means love is in the air — for deer. The Maryland State Highway Administration has been reminding drivers that in the coming weeks, deer will be entering “rutting” season, where deer are looking to mate. Around this time, SHA notes there tend to be more vehicle collisions with enamored deer as they carelessly cross roadways, lured by doe eyes or a set of impressive antlers. Also, hunting season has begun, which means deer have another reason to be on the move. While the SHA notes that collisions with deer increase around this time of year, it is urging motorists to “never veer for deer.” In a statement, the SHA says veering, or making sharp turns to avoid hitting a deer, is dangerous, “as it could place a driver in the path of oncoming traffic or cause the vehicle to strike a fixed object such as a tree or a utility pole.” SHA offers several tips to lessen chances of colliding with a deer including: •Slow down in known deer areas; •Be aware or your surroundings. Deer feed primarily between sunset and sunrise and often live in forested areas or rural regions near watersheds; •Be familiar with deer behavior. Deer travel in herds. If you see one, the chances are good that there will be more; •Stay alert. When traveling through a known deer crossing area, keep both hands on the wheel and eyes on the road; •Drive carefully at night. Use your high beams where possible and when there is no oncoming traffic. High beams illuminate a wider area and often reflect the eyes of deer standing along the road; •Use peripheral vision. Scan the entire area around the road for movement that would indicate the approach of animals. The SHA further cautions that should you strike a deer, do not approach it; pull over to a safe location, turn on hazard lights and call the police. These tips are common sense approaches to avoid colliding with a several-hundred-pound animal. Deer are a problem for various reasons year-round, but drivers should keep in mind they are on the move more during this time of the year.
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Renewing a promise to our veterans tunity to reflect and re-commit ourselves to making good on our promise. At the end of October, the House of Representatives passed, and I supported, a set of four measures designed to improve veterans’ benefits. The Department of Veterans Affairs has a backlog of over 400,000 claims that have been pending for more than 125 days. Ending this backlog must be a top priority. HR 2189 establishes a commission or task force to evaluate the VA’s backlog in processing disability claims. The commission would then recommend improvements to the VA to either implement the recommendations or to justify to Congress the refusal to implement them. Many veterans, especially our newest veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, need assistance in the transition from their military service to civilian life. HR 2481 creates a new Veterans Economic Opportunity Administration to oversee the VA’s vocational rehabilitation, educational assistance, housing loan and small busi-
Each year on Veterans Day, we give thanks to the brave men and women who have served in the nation’s armed forces. They are heroes, in peace time and in times of conflict, who protect our freedom and our liberty. Many bear physical and psychological scars from their service. We owe each and every one a solemn debt of gratitude. Observing Veterans Day to honor our veterans is incomplete if we do not provide the services and support they have earned. For the almost 450,000 veterans living in Maryland and millions more across the country, the repayment of this debt is our promise to support them at the highest standard. No veteran should be on the street because he was unable to find a job or continue his education upon returning home. No veteran should be addicted to drugs or alcohol because she did not have access to a treatment program. No veteran should be left to struggle alone with posttraumatic stress disorder because they did not know where to get help. On Veterans Day, we have an oppor-
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ness programs. This new entity will help ensure that the VA is doing everything it can to ease the transition. Other legislation would ensure that veterans receive an appeals form with any denial of benefits, and create an advisory committee tasked with improving veteran education and job training. Having grown up in a military family, I am committed to supporting our veterans at every opportunity and to telling their stories of service and sacrifice. I know firsthand the challenges and struggles that military families face and hope future generations will learn from our veterans’ service, through such programs as the Veterans History Project. Despite this era of partisanship, I trust that Congress will build on these important steps and continue to unite around helping our service men and women, our veterans and their families by passing this important legislation.
U.S. Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Dist. 4) of Fort Washington
Uncertain future for the teaching profession In an old behavioral psychology study that remains relevant today, scientists placed a canine in a 30-by-30-foot room. The floor was covered by 3-foot square electrified panels. They delivered small electrical charges at random intervals to each of the 30 panels, and for six hours, man’s best friend dutifully rose and moved to another panel after each shock. Merely six hours later, the “subject” recognized the inevitability of the punishment and realized the futility of moving to avoid the discomfort. The old dog learned a new trick, lay still and passively accept the random charges. In 1986, a professor of cognitive psychology asked a room
full of soon-to-be-teachers what this study meant to us. The consensus in the room was that the dog represented children in the classroom, and that teachers need to avoid “pain” as a behavior modifier or children would eventually just shut down and accept the shocks. Most of us resolved to work on providing positive and dignifying feedback for children during instruction as frequently as possible. Teachers need children to be willing to “move” with them toward cognition. The end of my teaching career is approaching at blinding speed. Perspectives do change with time. Today, for me, professional educators have become the test subjects, and
burnout, although still relatively infrequent, is the logical extension of a prolonged negative feedback loop. Simply to survive in the modern classroom entails some coping mechanism for all the thousand different shocks to which teachers are heir. Teachers are subjected to unforgivably long hours, marginal compensation and lack of professional respect, inadequate facilities, scarce material resources and scant parental support. All of these, together, often fail to drive teachers to complacency. However, throw in business-model accountability standards, top-down policymaking, negative portrayal in the media, attacks on collec-
tive bargaining from the far right, the occasional bullying supervisor in the workplace, too many students held to too few behavioral standards, and yes, that new passing fancy of an instructional model barely arouses a yawn at the biweekly faculty meeting. Are there any hopeful signs on the horizon? It appears that many of the 20-something Teach for America candidates are starting to grouse about their exploitation as a labor force after just a few years in the classroom. Much to the chagrin, we can be sure, of the “No Excuses” sect … . Kenneth B. Haines is the president of the Prince George’s County Educators’ Association.
The Gansler beat down For gubernatorial candiate Doug Gansler, name recognition is no longer a problem. Recently, his name and photo got widespread national attention including NBC’s “Today Show,” ABC’s “World News With Diane Sawyer,” MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” CNN, FOX, Jay Leno’s “Tonight Show,” every Maryland and D.C. television news broadcast, every Maryland and D.C. newspaper, multiple editorials and op-ed columns, endless radio talk shows and all the political blogs. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the widespread photo is of Gansler standing in the middle of a teenage beach party that looks like a Roman orgy. What followed was a public free-for-all MY MARYLAND over Gansler’s duty BLAIR LEE to stop the underage drinking made worse by Gansler’s lame attempt to talk his way out of it. “Beachpartygate” followed on the heels of “Ticketgate” (Gansler’s failure to pay a D.C. speed camera ticket) which followed on the heels of “Troopergate” (allegations that Gansler pressured his state trooper drivers to bypass traffic jams by going off-road with emergency lights), which followed on the heels of “Videogate” (a spy secretly recorded Gansler telling campaign supporters that his opponent, Anthony Brown, was counting on his race to get elected). The media is having a field day with Gansler’s misdeeds but you don’t need to be a Doug Gansler fan to wonder if there isn’t something just a little bit fishy about all this. First, there’s the timing. The “Troopergate” allegations date back to December 2011 but only become “newsworthy” on Oct. 13, this year. Why the 23-month delay? And how come it appeared on The Washington Post’s front page the day before Gansler’s big news conference announcing his running mate? Clearly “Troopergate” was held back and rolled out to
overshadow and ruin Gansler’s campaign event. Likewise, “Ticketgate” stems from a June 12, 2012, traffic ticket that didn’t get media attention until Oct. 23 of this year. Why the 16-month delay? Even “Beachpartygate” dates back to June, a four-month pause until the infamous Instagram made its way onto the front pages. My grandfather once told me that “politicians shouldn’t do anything they don’t want to read about in tomorrow’s newspapers.” He was right about the conduct part, but he was wrong about the “tomorrow’s newspaper” part. What he should have said was “politicians shouldn’t do anything they don’t want their political enemies saving up and feeding to the media during the next election.” Look, the news reporters aren’t digging up those damaging Gansler revelations. They’re being fed to the reporters by people who don’t want Gansler elected. You have to be criminally naive to believe otherwise. Second, there’s the overkill. As a result of “Beachpartygate,” The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza gave Gansler his “Worst Week in Washington” award. Wow, even worse than the Obamacare roll-out or NSA’s latest spy scandals? Chancellor Angela Merkel might disagree. A Frederick News-Post editorial demanded that Gansler quit the governor’s race and The Baltimore Sun ran a front page, over-the-top story comparing Gansler to criminally convicted Marvin Mandel, Marion Barry and Dale Anderson. Then there were the letters-to-theeditor blaming Gansler for everything short of the Kennedy assassination (“it was a Landon School student who murdered [Yeardley Love] and allegedly spent many days in a drunken state”). Welcome to the Doug Gansler beat down, anyone can play. I don’t blame the media for running with the juicy “tips” being dropped on them. But I blame them for not asking, who is dropping these dimes? Why? And are we complicit in a “dirty tricks” effort at voter manipulation? Ironically, Gansler, a Democrat, is getting the politics of personal destruc-
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tion usually reserved for Republicans and the tea party. Remember how the media dredged up Mitt Romney’s high school haircut hazing caper? Or George Bush’s ancient DUI? Or Virginia candidate Bob McDonnell’s 35-year-old college thesis? Or the great fun the media had speculating whether Sarah Palin’s grandchild was really her own child? It’s always open season on Republicans, and no blow is too low. Teenage drinking? That tragedy struck the O’Malley household, but I don’t recall any front-page stories or media smear campaigns. Likewise, Anthony Brown has had some personal problems that the media properly chose to ignore. Poor Doug Gansler isn’t used to brass knuckles politics because he’s a product of Montgomery County’s pillow-fight politics, where a “dirty trick” is putting-up your lawn signs a week early or starting a whisper campaign that your opponent is a global warming denier. Over the years, no one has been more critical of Doug Gansler than me. When he was state’s attorney, I went after him for grandstanding and improper conduct. I even wrote that he was a “hot dog” (that’s when he stopped talking to me). And I’ve criticized his attorney general’s opinions on free speech and gay marriage because I thought he was demagoguing. But just because I was born at night doesn’t mean I was born last night. I know a political smear campaign when I see one. In politics, “when you’re explaining, you’re losing,” and Gansler’s enemies want this election to become a referendum on Gansler’s conduct instead of a referendum on the real issues facing Maryland. That’s a huge diservice which the media should resist even if the beat down sells newspapers. Meanwhile, Gansler’s enemies have accomplished the impossible: they’ve actually made me feel sorry for Doug Gansler. 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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Changing course
HOW THEY RANK Football
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 6. 8. 9. 10.
DeMatha Stags Gwynn Park Yellow Jackets Suitland Rams DuVal Tigers Bowie Bulldogs Wise Pumas Surrattsville Hornets Flowers Jaguars Douglass Eagles Forestville Knights
9-1 60 pts 9-0 52 pts 9-0 50 pts 8-1 42 pts 5-4 35 pts 6-3 31 pts 8-1 22 pts 7-2 18 pts 7-2 12 pts 7-2 6 pts
Also receiving votes: Riverdale Baptist 2.
STANDINGS Prince George’s 3A/2A/1A League
Team
All Div.
Gwynn Park Surrattsville Douglass Forestville Potomac Friendly Largo Central Crossland Fairmont Hghts
9-0 8-1 7-2 7-2 5-4 4-5 2-7 2-7 1-8 0-9
7-0 6-1 6-1 5-2 5-2 3-4 2-6 1-6 1-7 0-7
Prince George’s 4A League Team
All Div.
Suitland DuVal Flowers* Wise Bowie* E. Roosevelt Oxon Hill Northwestern Laurel Parkdale Bladensburg High Point
9-0 8-1 7-2 6-3 5-4 5-4 4-5 3-6 2-7 2-7 2-7 2-7
Private schools Team
Riverdale Baptist Capitol Christian DeMatha Pallotti McNamara National Christian
PF PA
360 81 279 147 301 116 321 114 283 162 270 244 88 266 110 317 76 337 92 384
PF PA
8-0 7-1 6-2 5-3 5-3 5-3 3-5 3-5 2-6 2-6 1-7 1-7
315 81 236 93 287 95 205 83 230 152 293 104 176 202 97 236 157 398 124 262 116 307 100 245
All
PF
10-0 6-0 9-1 6-4 5-5 2-6
336 202 320 205 293 134
PA
105 71 170 190 301 240
Last week’s scores
Surrattsville 38, Friendly 28 Forestville 43, Largo 0 DuVal 40, Flowers 19 Riverdale Baptist 20, Chavez 0 Pallotti 20, AA Christian 14 OT Cap. Christian 60, Wright (D.C.) 0 Silver Oak 29, National Christian 6 Suitland 49, Parkdale 6 DeMatha 27, Carroll 6 O’Connell 61, McNamara 36 Eleanor Roosevelt 60, Laurel 20 Bowie 42, Oxon Hill 24 Wise 44, High Point 0 N’western 27, Bladensburg 26 OT Gwynn Park 38, Fairmont Heights 6 Douglass 44, Central 0 Potomac 53, Crossland 0
BEST BET Flowers at Wise, 2 p.m. Saturday. Wise would make the playoffs with a win. Flowers is trying to avoid entering the playoffs on a three-game losing skid. Bowie will be watching closely, since the Bulldogs need a Flowers victory just to have a chance at the playoffs.
LEADERS Top rushers A. Major, Surratts. J. Baynes, R. Bapt. K. Strong, Potom. T. Deal, DeM. M. Sesay, Bowie A. Gillis, Wise R. Williams, McN.
Carries 154 113 80 132 121 106 128
Yards Avg. TDs 1526 9.9 16 1202 10.6 14 1184 14.8 21 966 7.3 12 801 6.6 7 791 7.5 13 778 6.1 10
Top passers
Cmp-Att. Yards Int. TDs R. Wllms, McN. 157-262 2654 10 24 J. Green, Bowie 96-203 1689 6 14 M. Duckett, Lau. 100-222 1672 11 19 W. Wolfolk, Suit. 74-122 1600 5 17 A. Brooks, DuVal 67-116 1180 2 11 J. Adams, G.Park 49-92 1112 4 8 J. Lovett, DeM. 69-116 1036 0 11
Top receivers J. Crockett, McN. C. Murray, McN. C. Phillips, DeM. M. Roberts, Bowie C. Walker, Lau. C. Brenden, Lau. M. Phillips, Bowie
Rec. 55 63 37 27 29 21 17
Yards 1213 872 678 658 495 483 430
Avg. 22.1 13.8 18.3 24.4 17.1 23.0 25.3
TDs 17 9 10 5 6 6 2
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Parkdale High School teammates pile on each other after their double overtime victory against Bowie in the boys’ soccer 4A South Region title game held Tuesday at Walker Mill Park in Distirct Heights.
New arrival
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Bowie High School’s Josh Wilkins won the Prince George’s County Cross Country Championship at Fort Washington Park and is the county’s top contender at this week’s state championship.
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Parker was chaotic. Fans poured out of the metal bleachers and sprinted onto the turf to form a jumping circle of jubilation with Parkdale’s players. After shaking hands with Bowie, Parkdale’s players and supporters again circled up to sing, over and over, “campeones” and posed for pictures with the region champions plaque. The Panthers will have a chance to make more history Saturday when they face 4A North champion James H. Blake at Richard Montgomery in Rockville for a trip the state championship game. “We lost nine seniors last year,”
Widely regarded as one of the more difficult cross country courses in the nation, the layout at Hereford High School serves as the ultimate test annually for athletes competing Maryland’s state championship meets. Rolling backhills, the infamous “Dip,” and twists and turns through woods and cornfields always seem to dominate the day’s discussion as runners from across the state push themselves to the limit in the final race of their high school season. This year, however, for only the third time since 1980, Hereford will not play host to the championship race because parts of the school are under construction. That honor belongs to McDaniel College in Westminster. “I’m going to anticipate fast times because it’s basically a flat course,” said longtime Bowie coach Rich Andrulonis. “I’m sure there are a number of coaches that are probably glad that we’re running it at McDaniel. Some teams that ran at Hereford nearby might be disappointed to see it, but I anticipate everybody might have some fast times.” Andrulonis and other county coaches have been forced to speculate, however, on just how different the three-mile stretch, which winds through the golf course at McDaniel, is from Hereford. The Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association, as specified on their website, is not permitting any to access the course prior to Saturday’s championships, so all walk-throughs will be done the day of the event. There is, however, a link to a course video posted on the MPSSAA website. “No one knows what the course is going to be like,” said Central coach Malcolm Walker. “It looks like there might be inclines here and there, but it’s an even playing field because no one’s able to practice on the course ahead of time. You can’t strategize days before.” During the 4A South Region championship meet a week ago, Bowie High’s Josh Wilkins finished in first, as he has all season against county competition, in pacing the boys’ team victory. Wilkins has a shot to win a state title if the course treats him well. “Josh Wilkins is our best shot to have a chance in the top five and might have a chance to challenge for the state championship depending on
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As Parkdale High School junior Daniel Rojas described his gamewinning double overtime goal in great detail — a goal that etched this Panthers in the history books as the first from the Riverdale Park school to reach the Maryland state semifinals — he stumbled toward the beginning. Not with the events that unfolded during the 95th minute of Tuesday night’s thrilling match against Bowie, but with the name of one of his teammates. So new to receiving minutes on Parkdale’s varsity side is sophomore Celio Gracias that a majority of the Panthers only know him by his nickname, Rojas included. Chances are they’ll remember his full name from now on. Gracias played an integral part in Parkdale’s 2-1 double overtime victory Tuesday night at Walker Mill Park in the 4A South Region final against a club with as vast a soccer history as any in Maryland. The Bulldogs have 21 appearances in the state semifinals and finals to their name and have won nine state championships, most recently in 2011. For Parkdale? This was a memorable first. “The kid who assisted the game-winner and scored the equalizer, he’s from the [junior varsity] team. He was called up three games ago,” Parkdale coach Sadak Abukar said. “Those long balls we
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Parkdale High School’s Denis Lopez finds space to move the ball as Bowie’s Oluwatoby Motajo trails during the second half of Tuesday’s 4A South Region championship game. need? He supplies them.” Gracias’ wonderfully-placed a free kick from roughly 40 yards out sprung Rojas for the golden goal and his equally-majestic free kick from 45 yards away helped the Panthers tie the match in the 68th minute. “I knew [Gracias] was going to put it in the middle, so I just had to run through, run past the other defender and put a head on it,” said Rojas, who called the goal the biggest of his high school tenure. “It feels great.” The scene immediately after the moment Rojas’ header landed in the goal beyond the outstretched arms of Bowie goalkeeper Niles
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DAN FELDMAN STAFF WRITER
Capitol Christian Academy football coach Terry White wanted to test his players’ strength before fall practices got too far underway, but the team had no weight room. So, coaches set up weight benches and weights outside Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Beltsville, where Capitol Christian had been practicing. They set up two stations, a 135-pound bench press for underclassmen and a 185-pound bench press for upperclassmen. Jaylen Harris waited quietly as his teammates went through their lifts. When his turn came, he informed his coaches 185 pounds
would be too light for him. They’d already exhausted their weights to set up these makeshift lifts, so Harris had to wait until the underclassmen finished to combine weights. With everyone watching, Harris did 27 reps, as he recalled. (White pegged it at 34.) “That’s college already,” White said. “In fact, that’s borderline NFL right there. He’s a very powerful young man. “Everybody that was out there was just in absolute awe,” White said. “And his mannerism and his attitude about it was so nonchalant, like, ‘OK, why is everybody looking at me?’” Now, Harris is one of several talented Capitol Christian players trying to get looked at — by college coaches. Harris, a fifth-year senior, played junior varsity at Friendship Collegiate Academy
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Capitol Christian Academy football player Jaylen Harris practices with teammates on the Jericho City of Praise campus in Landover last week.
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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:
Prince George’s County record All games
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Prince George’s Community College basketball standout Shanice Warren practices her free throws during practice on Monday.
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KENT ZAKOUR STAFF WRITER
Prince George’s Community College women’s basketball coach Tiona Harris is interested to see how the 2013-14 season unfolds throughout the National Junior College Athletic Associations’ ranks. A new rule, which could drastically impact her sport, was approved by the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel in June. Women’s college basketball now has a 10-second time limit in the backcourt for the first time since the NCAA began administering women’s championships during the 1981-82 season. Previously, teams had no time threshold — they could take the entire 30-second shot clock — to cross the mid-court line. In turn, the five-second closely guarded rule in the backcourt was also eliminated. But the five-second closely guarded rule in the frontcourt remains with an alteration. Closely guarded is now defined as within six feet of the offensive player instead of three. “For me, I like it because of our style of play,” Harris said. “I think it will be beneficial for everyone eventually, but for the women’s game — particularly at [the Division III junior college level] — some teams may really struggle until they adapt and get good ball handlers. Ask me at the end of the season.” Harris’ Owls, who finished last season 7-20 and lost 70-49 in the opening round of the Region XX tournament to Montgomery College, will implement their usual up-tempo style of play. Harris says her small, guardheavy and athletic team, which is off to a 2-1 start this winter, is deeper and more talented than in recent memory. Harris expects 5-foot-8
sophomore forward Porchia Smith (Northwestern graduate), freshman 5-foot-7 guard Sabriena Shubert (Bowie), 5-foot-7 sophomore guard Tashiana Hill (Suitland) and 5-foot-7 sophomore guard Shanice Warren (Frederick Douglass), who transferred from St. Francis (Pa.) University, to form the Owls core. Freshmen Tanisha Cardwell (Gwynn Park) and Jaida Jenkins (Charles H. Flowers) are also expected to contribute. “For me, I like the run, score, press and go,” Harris said. “We are a pretty quick unit and a tight-knit group.”
Men PGCC finished last year’s 1811 campaign, which featured a late-season 11-game win streak, with a loss to the Community College of Allegheny County in the Region XX semifinals. And coach Xavier Joyner believes this edition of the Owls (1-0) has many reasons for optimism despite just two veteran players. “I feel really good about this group this year,” he said. “We’ve worked really hard in the offseason to prepare and the kids have meshed really well.” Returning sophomore guards JaSahn Johnson (6-3, Douglass) and Gabriel McCray (6-6, Woodstream Christian Academy) are expected to contribute along with several newcomers. Joyner says freshman 5-foot-9 guard Donnell Diggs (Takoma Academy), Community College of Baltimore CountyCatonsville transfer sophomore guard Che’Von Giles (5-9, Largo), freshman forward Lerenzo Foote (6-4, Roosevelt), freshman guard Robert Tyler II (6-2, Riverdale Baptist) and Coppin State sophomore transfer Niiwayo Adjei (60, Springbrook) will likely be key pieces as well. “You’ll experience the same style of pressing and running,” Joyner said. “Hopefully we can force some turnovers and score with our speed and quickness.” kzakour@gazette.net
Capitol Christian at McDonough Forestville at Potomac Laurel at DuVal High Point at Suitland Bowie at Bladensburg Fairmont Heights at Crossland Eleanor Roosevelt at Northwestern Flowers at Wise Parkdale at Oxon Hill Friendly at Gwynn Park Largo at Central Douglass at Surrattsville St. Vincent Pallotti vs. St. John’s Catholic Prep Richard Wright at National Christian Perry Street Prep at Riverdale Baptist DeMatha vs. Good Counsel
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Continued from Page A-10 Abukar said. “It was a challenge getting this team together and disciplined and ready to play but we did it.” Parkdale dominated a majority of the match, especially in the first half. Junior midfielder Denis Lopez nearly converted multiple opportunities resulting from scrambles in front of the goal or on runs down the flank. His speed and technical ability in the midfield presented problems for the Bulldogs all night but, as has been the case all season, Bowie’s backline held and helped the teams into the half tied at 0-0. Everything changed, however, on one free kick in the 43rd minute. Bowie defender
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Continued from Page A-10 then transferred to Surrattsville where he sat out his sophomore year and then played two varsity seasons. As a senior, he was rated as the state’s strongest player at the coaches’ association combine, according to Surrattsville coach Robert Harris. Jaylen Harris had interest from Middle Tennessee State, Howard, Towson, Bowie State, Virginia State and Virginia Military Institute and made the All-Gazette second team. Six-foot-5 and 340 pounds, he also has athleticism reminiscent of his late uncle, Len Bias, the Maryland basketball player who died two days after the Boston Celtics drafted him No. 2 overall. Yet, knowing he’d need to spend another year elsewhere to get his grades up, Harris disenrolled from Surrattsville last school year. It seems everyone on the Warriors’ rag-tag team — including breakout juniors, quar-
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Capitol Christ. Potomac DuVal Suitland Bowie Crossland E. Roosevelt Wise Oxon Hill Gwynn Park Largo Douglass SJCP Nat. Christ. R. Baptist DeMatha
Capitol Christ. Potomac DuVal Suitland Bowie Crossland E. Roosevelt Wise Oxon Hill Gwynn Park Largo Douglass SJCP Nat. Christ. R. Baptist DeMatha
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Capitol Christ. Forestville DuVal Suitland Bowie Crossland E. Roosevelt Wise Oxon Hill Gwynn Park Largo Douglass SJCP R. Wright R. Baptist DeMatha
Capitol Christ. Forestville DuVal Suitland Bowie Crossland E. Roosevelt Flowers Oxon Hill Gwynn Park Largo Douglass SJCP Nat. Christ. R. Baptist DeMatha
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Peter Dean blasted a shot on target from well outside the area that bounced off the near post and rolled into the goal to give the Bulldogs a 1-0 lead. “When they scored, it really did put us down,” Rojas said. “But we had to get back at it. That’s all we had to do.” The Panthers were noticeably deflated after Dean’s strike, which held up for nearly 25 minutes. Then, in a near mirror-image of Dean’s goal and following a scrum near midfield, Gracias lined up over the ball from 45 yards out. His kick sailed toward Parker, who was filling in for regular Bulldogs starter Brenden LeMaster (concussion), tipped off the crossbar, off Parker’s hands and in. Eight minutes later, Bowie forward Kingsley Nwosu found terback Reggie Robinson and running back Davon Julian, and senior Marcus Byrd, who transferred mid-season from Mount Saint Joseph — has a story for why Capitol Christian offers the opportunity they needed. But they’ve come together to go 6-0 and hope to preserve their undefeated record when they close their season Friday at McDonough. “We’re like the Bad News Bears,” White said. “I’m not surprised one day if (Capitol Christian founder and headmaster Van Whitfield) writes a book about this team. Most teams start a football program from the ground. We started under the ground. We didn’t have any equipment. We had no field. We had no schoolhouse. We had no locker room. We had no footballs. We had nothing.” For his part, Harris said the school’s SAT-prep courses have helped him. Described as “a great kid” by Robert Harris, Jaylen Harris spent the summer interning with the Upper Marlboro Courthouse’s court
4A SOUTH MPSSAA PLAYOFFS Region Final at Walker Mill Park Parkdale 2, Bowie 1 (2OT) Parkdale (9-5-1) 0 1 0 1 — 2 Bowie (8-4-2) 0 1 0 0 — 1 n Goals: B — Peter Dean (43’) P — Celio Gracias (68’), Daniel Rojas (95’)
himself barreling in on goal with only Parkdale ’keeper Angel Maza to beat. Once the two reached one another in a full sprint, they collided in the box. While unclear whether Maza touched the ball before
Harris reporters, working 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. five days per week. “I have a lot of friends at Surrattsville right in my neighborhood, so I thought it was more of a distraction,” Harris said. “It was a lot of people that weren’t really focused on academics.” Byrd was another player who needed a fresh start. Claiming offers from Massachusetts, Marshall, Towson, Stony Brook, Old Dominion, Eastern Michigan and Boston College and interest from Maryland, North Carolina State, Byrd became Capitol Christian’s highest-profile re-
the collision, no penalty was awarded to Bowie as both players remained on the ground in pain for two minutes. It was the Bulldogs’ last pure scoring opportunity of the match as the Panthers largely controlled the overtime before Rojas’ winner. “They did a good job. Parkdale’s always been tough for us,” Bowie coach Rich Kirkland said. “The season’s over. That’s going to take some getting used to.” Lopez, who dazzled all evening in the midfield and maintained an impressive work rate, summed things up about as casually as one could in the face of such an historic night for Parkdale. “I think we played a good game,” he said. “We did a good job. That’s all. I’m tired.” ncammarota@gazette.net cruit when he transferred. He said he didn’t worry about going to a fledgling program and having his recruiting fall off. “By me coming here and putting the school on the map, being already a kid with a couple offers, I thought that would help the school,” Byrd said. “It didn’t really affect it. Coaches know where I’m at.” Byrd even said Julian was invited by Maryland coaches to attend a game with him earlier this season, the type of attention Capitol Christian is trying to get for its players. “It’s on the rise,” Byrd said. “There’s going to be some red flags about it for people who don’t even know, but you’ve got coaches that care, who are going to do their best for you, who’s going to bring you up as a football player and teach you the game, just overall coach you up, father-son-type feeling. It’s a good program, up and coming, and I would expect it to be on the radar the next couple years.” dfeldman@gazette.net
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Continued from Page A-10 what type of day he has,” Andrulonis said. “He has his mindset right and works hard.” Whereas at Hereford the steep hills presented a problem for Prince George’s County runners because they simply don’t encounter those types of courses during the regular season, McDaniel could provide an opportunity for improved times on the biggest stage for the county’s better performers. Charles H. Flowers girls’ distance runners Imani Matthews and Alexis Baynes finished first and second, respectively, at the regional meet and appear to be in position to make some noise at states. In the 1A North region, Forestville Military Academy’s boys’ team and Central’s girls’ both did well. Forestville came in second, nine points behind Pikesville, and featured the second-, third- and fourth-place runners. Meanwhile, Central senior Mercedes Stokes won the girls’ race with a time of 21:50. “She works hard at it and I knew she was capable of doing it,” Walker said. “She’s really expecting a lot out of the state meet. For the whole team, really, it’s such a great accomplishment to make it to the state championship. We’re all excited.” ncammarota@gazette.net
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Nicholas Hanni plays Irish terrorist and cat lover Padraic in a rehearsal from Laurel Mill Playhouse’s “The Lieutenant of Inishmore.” The black comedy opens Friday and runs to Nov. 24.
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ife magazine was a popular publication in the United States from 1936 until its demise in 2000. Featuring beautiful photos that told the story just as much as the actual words, journalists and photographers alike knew they had made it when their stories and photos graced the cover of Life. In 1996, R.T. Robinson wrote the play “The Cover of Life,” which centers around the lives of three brides in Louisiana whose husbands were off fighting in World War II. Bowie Community Theatre will present “The Cover of Life,” starting Nov. 8 at the Bowie Playhouse. “It is just a wonderful piece of writing,” said director Bob Sams. “I like that and I like that this is a rather unusual play in that there are no bad parts. It is really, really nicely done. The more I’ve gotten into it, the more interesting it has become. The themes that are touched on I find to be remarkably relevant to what’s going on today in our society. … People being off to war, not only are they changed but the people who are left behind are changed often in
THE COVER OF LIFE n When: 8 p.m. Nov 8-9, 15-16, 22-23; 2 p.m. Nov. 10, 17, 24 n Where: Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Drive, Bowie n Tickets: $10-$20 n For information: 301-805-0219, bctheatre.com
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Stage director Josh McKerrow once worked in a Halloween fun house, where his job was to scare people. “There’s a little bit of the haunted house, where the monsters jump out at THE LIEUTENANT you,” he said about his latest directorial efOF INISHMORE fort, Martin McDonagh’s “The Lieutenant of Inishmore.” The black comedy opens n When: 8 p.m. Fridays Friday at the Laurel Mill Playhouse and and Saturdays, Nov. runs to Nov. 24. 8-24 Featuring a cast of eight, the play is n Where: Laurel Mill about a deranged Irish militant who torPlayhouse, 508 Main tures drug dealers, robs fish-and-chip St., Laurel shops and seeks revenge when his beloved black cat, Wee Thomas, is killed. n Tickets: $12-$15 “It has modern cinematic sensibilities, n For information: like a Quentin Tarantino movie,” said McK301-617-9906, errow. “It’s been fun to block — we’ve got laurelmillplayhouse.org characters pointing pistols at each other.” McKerrow said it’s been a challenge to find just the right tone for the mix of comedy and violence. “If it’s too serious, it’s disturbing, and if it’s too light, you’re not taking the subject [or playwright] seriously,” he said.
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Erin Wagner, playing aspiring Irish terrorist Mairead, brandishes an air rifle in a rehearsal from Laurel Mill Playhouse’s “The Lieutenant of Inishmore.” The black comedy opens Friday and runs to Nov. 24.
ways they don’t expect and may not even like. There are changes that occur. “When the warriors return, sometimes it’s difficult for relationships to be restored.” Caity Brown, who plays the youngest bride Tood, said that one of the things she’s learned about the show is the history and said that’s thanks to Sams and his wife. “They know so much about everything,” Brown said. “It’s opened up my eyes to the experiences … obviously, I don’t have a lot of experience being someone waiting for their husband to come home from war and I’m not from the rural South, so it’s really kind of opened up my eyes that way. What I like about this play is that it has a lot of really great roles in it.” The show, which Variety magazine said had “the kind of roles actresses dream of,” features six roles for women. “There’s so many women’s roles that are just the wife of the mother, the sister, something that’s not really developed,” Brown said. “These characters are all developed. They’re all clear people who have multiple layers to them and that’s really exciting to be able to do that.” “There are parts in here that people al-
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PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY’S ENTERTAINMENT CALENDAR For a free listing, please submit complete information to noravec@gazette.net at least 10 days in advance of desired publication date. High-resolution color images (500KB minimum) in jpeg format should be submitted when available. THEATER & STAGE Bowie Community Theatre, “The Cover of Life,” 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. Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, 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, 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, Silk Road Dance Festival, 8 p.m. Nov. 9, 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,” Fridays through Sundays, 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, “Aesop’s Fables,” 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Nov. 7; “Junie B. Jones - Jingle Bells, Batman Smells,” 10:15 a.m. and noon, Nov. 14, 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.
VISUAL ARTS Brentwood Arts Exchange,
“My Haiku: Paintings of Cianne Fragione,” to Dec. 28, opening reception from 5-8 p.m. Nov. 9; Front Window Featured Artist: Ellyn Weiss, Nov. 4-28, 3901 Rhode Island Ave., Brentwood, 301-2772863, arts.pgparks.com.
Harmony Hall Regional Center,
“It Happened One Night,” Paper Collage by Ronnie Spiewak, 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
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INTO THE WIND The University of Maryland Wind Orchestra will perform “Fairy Tales and Legends” at 8 p.m. Friday at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. For more information, visit http://claricesmithcenter.umd.edu. 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,” 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
OUTDOORS
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, Nov. 7; open mic with Paige Powell, 7 p.m. Nov. 7; John Guernsey, 6:30 p.m. Nov. 8-9; 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.
Dinosaur Park, Dinosaur Park programs, noon-4 p.m. first and third Saturdays, join paleontologists and volunteers in interpreting fossil deposits, 13200 block Mid-Atlantic Blvd., Laurel, 301-627-7755. Mount Rainier Nature Center, Toddler Time: hands-on treasures, crafts, stories and soft play, 10:30 a.m.-noon Thursdays, age 5 and younger free, 4701 31st Place, Mount Rainier, 301-927-2163. Prince George’s Audubon Society, Bird Walks, 7:30 a.m. first Sat-
urdays, Fran Uhler Natural Area, meets at end of Lemon Bridge Road, north of Bowie State University, option to bird nearby WB&A Trail afterward; 7:30 a.m. third Saturdays, Governor Bridge Natural Area, Governor Bridge Road, Bowie, meet in parking lot; for migrating and resident woodland and field birds, and waterfowl. For beginners and experts. Waterproof footwear and binoculars suggested. Free. 410-765-6482.
REC CENTERS Prince George’s Sports & Learning Complex, SeniorDaysat
theSportsplex,8a.m.-noonMondays, WednesdaysandFridays,seniorsallowedfreeuseofthefitnesscenterand pool,age60andup,8001SheriffRoad, 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 preschoolers, $4, $3 seniors, $2 ages 2-18; Afternoon Aviators, 2-4:30 p.m. Fridays, hands-on aviationthemed 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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2013 Excellence in Business Awards Gala Small Business of the Year
Green Business of the Year
• Corenic Construction Group
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Business of the Year
Business Woman of the Year
• Six Flags America
Business Leader of the Year
• Dr. Madeline Anne Lewis, Executive Women’s Success Institute
• Deborah Scott Thomas, Data Solutions & Technology Incorporated
Veteran Business of the Year
Entrepreneur of the Year
• Mentoring to Manhood
• Shameeka Price, Capital Structure Real Estate LLC
• The Ravens Group
Community Service Award
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF THE WINNERS!
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Funny then, funny now 17th century playwright still wrings laughs from audiences, actors
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Director Matthew R. Wilson holds a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University, a master’s degree from the Academy for Classical Acting and is currently working on his PhD in Renaissance theatre history at the University of Maryland. But ask him what makes the work of famous 17th century French playwright Moliére’s work so enjoyable, and his answer is quite simple. “It’s funny,” Wilson said. “The bottom line is, Moliére’s work was funny then and it’s funny now.” Wilson will direct his first play at the University of Maryland, “Moliére Impromptu,” presented by the university’s School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies and opening Friday at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Translated and adapted by American playwright Rinne Groff, “Moliére Impromptu” is based on three of Moliére’s pieces: “The Doctor in Spite of Himself,” “The Forced Marriage” and “Impromptu Versailles.” The premise of the slapstick comedy is a director’s nightmare as he tries to rein in an ill-prepared cast for an important performance. The concept is based on actual events in the 1660s when Moliére’s
n Where: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Stadium Dr. and Rt. 193, College Park n Tickets: $10-$25 n For information: 301-4052787, claricesmithcenter. umd.edu
theater company performed for the King of France. They were eventually selected as the King’s Players. Considered a master of comedy, Moliére was one of the pioneers of slapstick and farcical comedy. “It’s your basic confusing, ‘I thought you were this person, I thought you were this person, now we’re married and it all works out,’” said actress Rebecca Ballinger. A senior theater major, Ballinger plays Mademoisells DeBrie, the star actress in the play within a play, who often has the role of the “charming ingénue character.” “She recognizes that she’s ... the celebrity of the cast,” Ballinger said. Over the summer, Ballinger and her cast mates spent time watching classic comedy films to prepare them for their roles in “Moliére Impromptu.” “I gave them a lot of homework over the summer of things to watch,” Wilson said. “The
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Nadia Mohebban as Thibaut (in mask) and Natalie Carlyle as Perrin.
Katerina Klavon as Martine and Sam Stenecker as Sganarelle.
Marx Brothers or Steve Martin or Buster Keaton. All different forms of comedy that are now classics of TV ... We came in thinking about the nuts and bolts of comedy ... Why does this still work? What did you find funny and what made it dated or cheesy?” Ballinger and her castmates said they returned from their summer vacation with the notion that the simplicity of Moliére’s humor is one of the reasons his work is timeless. “I think what it is, is it’s just such a classic form of comedy,” Ballinger said. “It just takes us back to the roots of what makes something funny. The humor is so basic anybody can laugh at it. Anybody can get the joke.”
designer for the show. Waala is working on her masters degree in costume design at the university. “[The masks] allow the actors to say things they normally couldn’t have said ... [They] kind of let the actors be free ... lowbrow people have the chance to poke fun at the highbrow comedy.” His ability to poke fun is another reason Wilson said Moliére has remained relevant over time. “One of the reasons Moliére
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In addition to his academic pursuits at the University of Maryland, Wilson is also a professional actor (he has a role in an episode of the second season of Netflix’s “House of Cards”), director, playwright and the artistic director of Faction of Fools Theatre Company based in Washington, D.C. The group specializes in Commedia dell’Arte, a style that began in Italy in the early 16th century and has influenced opera, vaudeville, television sitcoms, Shakespeare and Moliére himself. The style is characterized by its use of masks, physical comedy and archetypes. “The masks would represent different stock characters,” said Kara Waala, a mask and makeup
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has stayed contemporary and still speaks to us today is that he had this great knack for mocking high society and mocking the standards of culture that existed in Paris while still obviously wanting to be part of the society ...” Wilson said.”He had a real strong sense of irony, self-depreciation and a humorous point of view on how human beings create culture and create status.” chedgepeth@gazette.net
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AT THE MOVIES
Playing to save the world in ‘Ender’s Game’ BY
MICHAEL PHILLIPS CHICAGO TRIBUNE
In step with its sensitive, tactically brilliant 12-year-old hero, “Ender’s Game” is a bit of a tweener, neither triumph nor disaster, a war-games fantasy with a use-by date of Nov. 22, when the new “Hunger Games” movie comes out. Its central action scenes unfold in a vast zero-gravity battle-simulation arena, on a space station readying for an alien attack of enormous skittery bugs called Formics. The preteens and young teenagers being trained to save the world play dangerous rounds of laser tag and try to impress the authority figures played by Harrison Ford (a long way from Han Solo), Viola Davis and Sir Ben Kingsley. Asa Butterfield of
ENDER’S GAME n 2 1/2 stars n PG-13; 114 minutes n Cast: Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley n Directed by Gavin Hood
“Hugo” is Ender Wiggins, the relentlessly bullied boy with the Hobbitty-sounding name who becomes “Earth’s ultimate military leader,” in the words of the film’s promotional materials. Hailee Steinfeld of “True Grit” is Petra, his sympathetic best friend and training mentor. They’re sweet together, these kids. Already, Butterfield and Steinfeld are learning the virtue of behaving on camera, as op-
posed to acting each tense encounter into the ground. When a best-seller such as Orson Scott Card’s “Ender’s Game” takes a generation or more to find its way to the screen, the result can acquire an unwanted aura of retro-nostalgia, whatever the story’s setting or the director’s approach. The look of this project, reflected by the film’s poster, settles for futuristic industrialism made generic. Still, while writer and director Gavin Hood may not be Mr. Style or a science-fiction visionary, he gets the story told, with appealing actors at the center. Across nearly three decades, many young readers have devoured Card’s books (the original, the four sequels, plus two spinoff adventures) as expressions of rebellious outsiders with a cause. Ender is a freak by definition simply by being a “third,” the third-born child in a nearfuture world ruled by a strict two-child policy. The violence in Ender’s life is nearly always justified since he’s dealing with dead-eyed sociopaths his own age who wish to do him harm. Then comes the not-so-twisty twist near the climax of the story, which asks the audience to grieve and question a different scale of violence. (Spoiler issues here, so we’ll keep mum.) Hood’s adaptation streamlines the novel and its concerns, only occasionally lapsing into trailer-speak, as when Ford’s commander speaks to his recruits in the language of movietrailer-ese (“and in the middle of the battle, a legendary hero emerged”). At heart, “Ender’s Game” relays a simple story of a little guy caught in a web not of his own making, learning to stand up for his beliefs. The target audience could do worse.
(From left) Ben Kingsley, Harrison Ford and Asa Butterfield star in “Ender’s Game.”
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Reggie (Owen Wilson) in “Free Birds.” The old folk, meantime, can focus on the film’s most intense stare-down contest: Though I
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Here’s more proof that Hollywood has almost killed the animated goose that laid the golden egg. No matter that in this case the goose is a turkey. The voice cast includes Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Amy Poehler and George Takei -- funny folks, one and all. Yet there’s barely a laugh in it. Wilson voices Reggie, a scrawny turkey who figures out why his flock is being fattened up. The demented Jake (Harrelson) shows up to enlist Reggie in his mission: to steal a secret time machine, travel back to early America and change Thanksgiving history to get turkey off the menu. ROGER MOORE, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
don’t believe they ever share a scene, it’s astonishing nonetheless how Kingsley and the main
Formic handle close-ups in exactly the same way, never, ever, ever, ever blinking. Ever.
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Continued from Page B-1 First presented in 2001 in London, the play was written by IrishEnglish playwright and filmmaker McDonagh, who also wrote and directed the movies “In Bruges” and “Seven Psychopaths,” both featuring Colin Farrell. McDonagh also wrote “The Pillowman,” a 2003 play about investigators in a totalitarian state who begin to suspect a man who writes stories about murdered children, believing him to be guilty of the actual crime. (“The Pillowman” is currently running to Nov. 23 at the Silver Spring Stage in Montgomery County.) McDonagh sets“The Lieutenant of Inishmore” in 1993 during the start of peace negotiations in Ireland. It tells the story of Padraic, a psychotic gunman who has been kicked out of the Irish Republican Army for being too crazy. “As an actor, it really challenges you to show the true emotions while also [keeping] the comedic timing,” said Nicholas Hanni who plays Padraic. “You’re being funny and being serious and getting the audience to laugh, and be completely horrified by what’s happening.” Hanni, 22, a Harpers Ferry resident who recently graduated from West Virginia University, studied “The Lieutenant of Inishmore” in college and sees parallels to McDonagh’s “Seven Psychopaths.” “Both take you to the heights of comedy, and then dash you down to the pits of tragedy, horror and disgust,” he said. McDonagh draws you into the characters — you begin to get to know them and laugh — and then all of a sudden, something brutal and violent happens. “It’s very much a roller coaster ride,” said Hanni. “What just happened? You get emotionally thrown off.” Like McKerrow, he said the play makes him think of Tarantino but with a difference. “It’s the same kind of violence, but more on the comedy,” he said. “The high level of comedy is what makes the low all the lower,” said Hanni. As the play begins, Padraic is busy torturing drug dealer James (Jeffrey Gangwisch), who sells marijuana to Catholic school girls in Dublin, when his father, Donny (Stephen Deininger), calls to say that Wee Thomas is feeling poorly and that Padraic better come home to Inishmore island. Unknown to Padraic, Donny’s long-haired teenage neighbor, Davey (Matthew Purpora), found a black cat with a crushed skull on the side of the road and takes it to Donny, thinking it’s his. Both terrified of Padraic’s murderous temper, Davey and Donny try to create a substitute for Wee Thomas by painting an orange cat called Sir Roger with black shoe polish. Sir Roger, however, belongs to Davey’s younger sister, Mairead (Erin Wagner), a 16-year-old who shoots out the eyes of cows with an air rifle to protest the meat industry and, like Padraic, loves her cat, Mad about Padraic and glad he’s back on the island, she sings “The Patriot Game” with him, a song sung by the real IRA in the 1950s. “She seems to have real feelings about freeing Northern Ireland,” said Wagner about her character, who also sings “The Dying Rebel,” a song about losing a son in the 1916 Easter Rising revolt in Dublin.
about two weeks to put together what a director normally does in two or three months. During auditions, Sams was thrilled to have “a wonderful set of actresses come out for the show.” Meanwhile, Brown said she hopes audiences see the characters are real people and not caricatures of Southerners. “One thing I kind of find about a lot of plays set in the South is that ... as soon as someone opens their mouth and they have a thick, Southern accent, we immediately think that they’re less intelligent,” Brown said. “I hope what people would take out of this show is they can see it and realize these are real people just like me. It might be a totally different setting and surrounding, but they’re facing similar issues that kind of everyone faces. I hope people will see the kind of humanity of it. “I hope in some ways people realize‘OK,womenhavecomefartherinthepast70years,butmaybe we have a little farther to go.” wfranklin@gazette.net The young lovers decide to make a life together and start their own splinter group, Wee Thomas’ Army. When three men from Ulster come to town in search of James, the stage begins to pile up with blood, gore and body parts. Wagner, 24, who lives in Washington, D.C., earned a bachelor’s degree in theater at Cornell University and also studied Shakespeare in London for a year. She’s seen two of McDonagh’s plays and likes what he’s doing in “The Lieutenant of Inishmore.” “He has some very clever lines, and I love the language,” she said. “[He’s created] a very musical way of talking, and the characters enjoy saying the words.” Actors speak with Irishsounding accents, she said. “I’m definitely a fan,” she said. “I think he writes very absurdly, which I like.” She also said McDonagh’s “sheer overblown violence” is a form of black comedy that he writes very well. But she also notes that the play is about “a real issue that happened.” “When you step back and think about it in real terms, you [realize] the cost of all these issues,” she said. McKerrow agreed with Wagner that the play can be seen as a way of coming at serious issues through the method of black comedy. “He’s writing about terrorists but underneath they’re psychopaths. … They’re using the political situation to act out their madness on the world,” he said. Hanni said for him, the play is fundamentally about human nature, which everyone can relate to. “A lot of the characters are driven by emotions” he said. “They go with their gut feelings instead of using logic, which is what causes [all] the drama.”
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NOV. 8 A Concert in “Total Praise,” 7
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NOV. 9 Bazaar/Community Event, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Redeemer Lutheran Church, 3799 East West Highway, Hyattsville. Open to the public. Outdoors features a community yard sale, moon bounce and playground, local police squad car and possible visit by the K-9 unit, and tentatively a medical/dental bus. Indoors there are seasonal crafts, bake sale, thrift store, books and cards and informational booths. Contact 301-277-2302 or gpmwyoung@hotmail.com.
St. Mary of the Mills Christmas Bazaar, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., 114
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The 2013 Winter Coat Giveaway for families, 1 to 5 p.m.,
Upper Room Church, 78 Ritchie Road, Capitol Heights. Pick up winter coats for the entire family. Men, women, children. All sizes. Free hot dogs, chips. sodas. Contact 240-274-2279. Community Spaghetti Dinner, 4 to 6 p.m., Christ Episcopal Church, 8710 Old Branch Ave., Clinton. Contact 301-868-1330 or christchurchclinton@verizon.net. Glenn Dale UMC’s annual Smorgasbord, 4 to 6:30 p.m.,
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NOV. 12 Same Sex Marriage and the Faith Community: A Conversation about Equal Rights, 7:30 p.m., Cla-
rice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park. Join Derrick Harkins, one of the leaders of the Democratic Party’s faith outreach efforts; Cedric Harmon of Many Voices, a black church movement for gay and transgender justice; Delman Coates from Mount Ennon Baptist Church and All Souls Church Unitarian’s Susan Newman, along with choreographer David Rousséve as they answer questions and converse about Maryland’s marriage equality law and its effect on the faith community. Contact 301405-2787 or tickets.claricesmith@ umd.edu.
Mount Rainier Christian Church will conduct Praisercise, a Chris-
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OURISMAN VW WORLD AUTO CERTIFIED PRE OWNED 35 Available...Rates Starting at 2.64% up to 72 months
2007 Jetta 2.5...............................#M13504B, Gray, 84,875 mi...............$8,991 2010 New Bettle Convt............#P6135, Blue, 58,995 mi.................$13,991 2010 Jetta Sportwagen S......#V131209A, Red, 59,805 mi............$13,991 2009 Jetta Sedan........................#V109044A, Red, 106,036 mi..........$13,999 2012 Beetle PZEV........................#P7659, White, 32,147 mi...............$14,991 2013 Passat S...............................#P7653, Silver, 25,391 mi................$15,792 2012 Jetta SE................................#VPR6113, Silver, 34,537 mi............$16,495 2012 Jetta SE................................#VPR6112, Blue, 38,430 mi.............$16,495
2012 Passat S...............................#VPR6111, Gray, 35,959 mi.............$16,495 2011 Jetta SE................................#VP0002, Gold, 42,558 mi...............$16,795 2010 CC.............................................#V557658A, Black, 26,599 mi.........$16,995 2013 Jetta SE................................#V508047A, Gray, 14,150 mi...........$17,999 2011 Routan SE............................#VP6065, Blue, 37,524 mi...............$20,495 2010 Tiguan....................................#VP6060, White, 31,538 mi.............$20,995 2012 Jetta Sedan........................#V045374A, Black, 21,468 mi.........$20,995 2012 Passat TDI...........................#V071353A, Gray, 42,223 mi...........$22,995
All prices exclude tax, tags, title, freight and $200 processing fee. Cannot be combined with any previous advertised or internet special. Pictures are for illustrative purposes only. See dealer for details. 0% APR Up To 60 Months on all models. See dealer for details. Ourisman VW World Auto Certified Pre Owned financing for 60 months based on credit approval thru VW. Excludes Title, Tax, Options & Dealer Fees. Special APR financing cannot be combined with sale prices. Ends 12/02/13.
Ourisman VW of Laurel Ourisman VW of Rockville 3371 Fort Meade Road, Laurel
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