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Clarksburg development ball is in county council’s court

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Montgomery County is restoring a tax break for low-income working families.

The Montgomery County Council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a bill requiring an increase in the county’s Working Families Income Supplement, which provides money to taxpayers working at or near the poverty level.

The increase could help people make a car payment they otherwise might have missed, which could have jeopardized their ability to get to work and put their job at risk, said Councilman Hans Riemer (D-At

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Clarksburg High School’s Tyler Fenslau finds room to run in the fourth quarter of the visiting Coyotes’ game Friday against rival Northwest High School of Germantown. Clarksburg won, 14-13, on a late 2-point conversion. See high school football coverage, Page B-3.

The controversy over the future of major new housing and retail projects in the ClarksburgBoyds area has landed in the lap of the nine-member Montgomery County Council.

A council public hearing has been scheduled for Dec. 3 to accept comment on the planning board’s final recommendations for future development in the area.

Chief among them are zoning recommendations to allow Pulte Homes to build up to 656 housing units on rural land in Boyds and the Peterson Cos. to build a mixed-use fashion outlet center in Clarksburg.

Both projects are in the Ten Mile Creek watershed that drains southwest from Clarks-

burg across Boyds into the Little Seneca Lake reservoir.

The planning board recommendations would amend the 1994 Clarksburg Master Plan, which called for housing and services to complete the buildout of Clarksburg. It also called for a review of projects to ensure that the final phase of growth in Clarksburg does not result in irrevocable damage to Ten Mile Creek.

After the Dec. 3 hearing, the council — which has ultimate control over zoning — will hold public work sessions before taking a final vote on the master plan amendment in early 2014.

Elections for all nine council seats, held every four years, are set for November 2014.

“We’ll find out whether the council represents the citizens of Montgomery County or developer interests,” Caroline Taylor, executive director of the

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Starr: $1.55B needed for school projects Mother honors late daughter by trying “The schools built in the ’60s and ’70s, the ones to save teens’ lives we’re replacing now, Superintendent proposes 14 new classroom addition projects in capital improvements budget n

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LINDSAY A. POWERS STAFF WRITER

Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Joshua P. Starr said he prioritized adding classroom space in his newly proposed $1.55 billion Capital Improvements Program for fiscal years 2015 to 2020.

“We are bursting at the seams,” he said Monday at Highland Elementary School in Silver Spring, which is at maximum capacity.

Starr said the school system needs $2.2 billion to cover all of its capital improvement needs for the six-year period. He is proposing a $1.55 billion program, he said, because the county is currently facing “fiscal restraints” and the school system is not getting the funding it deserves from the state.

The proposed program is about $184 million higher than the current program, which covers fiscal years 2013 to 2018.

Starr said the program addresses the school system’s ongoing, significant enrollment growth with a recommendation for 14 new classroom addition projects. The plan also maintains schedules for other, previously approved capacity projects, including five new schools.

Since 2007, he said, the school system has grown by 14,000 students; another

were not built to last.”

County school Superintendent Joshua P. Starr

11,000 are expected over the next six years.

Even if the program were fully funded, Starr said, 13 school clusters are expected to be over capacity in fiscal 2020. Fifteen school clusters in the system are over capacity this fiscal year.

Most of the school system’s growth has occurred in elementary schools, he said.

Of the 14 classroom addition projects, 12 are proposed for elementary schools.

Starr recommended five addition projects at elementary schools in the Downcounty Consortium, an area that he said has faced the county’s largest growth in the last six years.

“While the growth is most dramatic in the DCC, we’re also seeing enormous elementary enrollment growth across the district,” he said.

The downcounty elementary schools with planned addition projects include: Brookhaven, Glen Haven, Kemp Mill, Sargent Shriver and Highland.

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The other schools where addition projects are planned include Ashburton, Lucy V. Barnsley, Burtonsville, Diamond, Kensington-Parkwood, Christa McAuliffe and Judith Resnik elementary schools; North Bethesda Middle School; and BethesdaChevy Chase High School.

Other previously approved elementaryand secondary-school capacity projects are scheduled to stay on target in the program.

The projects include classroom additions; new elementary schools to serve the Clarksburg, Northwest and Richard Montgomery clusters; and new middle schools to serve the Clarksburg/Damascus and BethesdaChevy Chase clusters.

About $725 million — or about 47 percent — is recommended for “revitalizations/expansions.”

“The schools built in the ’60s and ’70s, the ones we’re replacing now, were not built to last,” Starr said. “We see that across the county and renovating them is not cost efficient.”

Starr said the recommended plan includes more than two dozen such projects, adding about 118 classrooms throughout the system.

The plan, however, pushes back the timeline of 20 of those projects.

Elementary school projects would see a one-year delay. Middle and high school projects would see a two-year delay.

“We know that so many of our school communities are impacted by the delay,” Starr said. “They’ve been waiting for many

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PEGGY MCEWAN STAFF WRITER

There are no markers, no cross, flowers or stuffed teddy bears along Md. 118 in Germantown where Christina Morris-

Ward, 15, died a year ago after being struck by a car. But part of her mother’s heart is there.

Gwen Ward is working for pedestrian safety so no other parent will go through what she has.

Ward has partnered with the Montgomery County Department of Transportation and with Safe Kids Worldwide

See TEENS, Page A-16 Gwen Ward pauses at the spot on Md. 118 in Germantown where her daughter Christina MorrisWard, 15, was struck by a car and killed last Halloween on her way to school. Ward is speaking out to encourage young people to avoid distracted walking.

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Ex-Clarksburg woman volunteers in Peru When thinking of global volunteerism, longterm programs such as the Peace Corps may immediately come to mind, but one former resident made her mark in just one week.

Lissette Valencia, 31, took a weeklong trip to Cusco, Peru, with her sister to volunteer in the International Volunteer HQ Peru Cusco Childcare volunteer program. The sisters were away Oct. 5-15, working with 55 young girls in a school run by Catholic missionaries.

She lived with her family in Colombia before nearly seven years in Clarksburg and before that with her parents in Germantown. Her South American past helped her decide on volunteering there.

“I always wanted to go back and getting to see countries in Latin America, especially,” Valencia said. “The one in Peru was special since I was able to work with children, which I hoped to do, and was close to Machu Picchu.”

Valencia was no stranger to volunteering before her trip; she worked through her high school in Colombia with poor children around the city and more recently with Hands On DC, a nonprofit that helps fix up public schools in Washington. A trip out of the country, however, was something she had “wanted to do for years and years.”

As a former Colombian, Valencia was familiar with Spanish, though many fellow volunteers were not. She was called on to help with translations and other projects: She helped lead dental hygiene presentations as part of a local campaign, teaching young girls how to floss and brush their teeth.

“It was pretty exhausting, at the end of the day — 55 girls, so much energy,” she said. “But it was fun. I loved it. They were so nice, so loving.

They will throw themselves at you and were just happy to see you. I did find myself doing a lot of translating and helping the other volunteers understand. If you don’t happen to know anything, then you’re going to feel completely lost.”

While her one-week stint in Peru was shorter than those of many volunteers — the average stay in the program is two weeks to a month, with some staying as long as six months — it was long enough to make her mark. Valencia plans to volunteer abroad again next year, either in Asia or back in Latin America, for as long as she can take off from work.

“A lot of people have misconceptions that you have to stay there for a year. I thought, ‘Oh, if I volunteer it will have to be like the Peace Corps, something that will ask you to volunteer for years and place you,’” Valencia said. “Volun-

Lissette Valencia leads a dental hygiene demonstration for a group of children while volunteering for a week in Cusco, Peru.

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teering this way gives you a little more control in regards of where you want to go and how long if you can save some money for a while. It’s definitely a worthwhile experience, very rewarding. I would definitely do it again.”

Holiday craft show at Rockwell school

Bohrer Park in Gaithersburg will host the third annual Homeless Resource Day on Nov. 7, assisting individuals and families experiencing difficulties from homelessness.

Labeled a “one-day, one-stop” opportunity for homeless people, the fair will help provide access needed benefits, medical care, counseling and other services that promote self-sufficiency and resolve housing crises.

The event, co-sponsored by Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) and Gaithersburg Mayor Sidney Katz, will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the park’s activity center, 506 S. Frederick Ave. For information, call Gloria Huggins at 240777-4565 or hhshrd@montgomerycountymd. gov.

Rockwell Elementary School will hold its annual Holiday Craft Show and Kids Craft Make and Take from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dec. 7.

With more than 20 spots for local crafters and vendors, parents can shop while children create holiday gifts and explore model train displays.

Those interested in becoming a vendor may contact Shannon Fleischer at smfplus3@verizon. net for details and an application. Rockwell Elementary is at 24555 Cutsail Drive in Damascus.

Churches launch new food pantry

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Several Clarksburg churches have come together to form the Clarksburg Community Assistance Network.

Joining the ranks of Germantown Help and Damascus Help, the new network, which calls itself Clarksburg CAN, aims to reduce hunger in the community by providing food assistance to

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Singer Songwriter Concert Series, 7:30-10 p.m., The Arts Barn, 311 Kent Square Road, Gaithersburg. $25 per concert, admission for each concert and workshop combined is $45. 301258-6394.

Meaningful Movies Olney: Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives: The Environmental Footprint of War, 7:30-10

p.m., Buffington/REMAX Building Community Room, 3300 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. Free. 301-5700923.

Guys and Dolls, 8-10:15 p.m., F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, 603 Edmonston Drive, Rockville. $22; $20 for seniors and students. 240-314-8690.

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EVENTS p.m., Maryland Soccerplex, 18031 Central Park Circle, Boyds. $5 per child. www.church-redeemer.org/ events/2013/10/harvest-festival.

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Women’s JOY Fellowship, 9:3011:30 a.m., Neelsville Presbyterian Church, 20701 Frederick Road, Germantown. Please bring a nonperishable food item to donate to the Germantown Food Bank. Free. office@ neelsville.org.

Holiday Marketplace and Silent Auction, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Covenant

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Bizarre Bazaar, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Mill Creek Parish United Methodist Church, 7101 Horizon Terrace, Derwood. Free. mcpbazaar@gmail.com.

Resident Artists Open House, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Sandy Spring Museum, 17901 Bentley Road, Sandy Spring.

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Famous Beef Brisket BBQ, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Mt. Carmel United Methodist Church, 22222 Georgia Ave., Sunshine. $14 per adult, $6 for children younger than 10. 301-330-0539.

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Community Alternative Gift Market, 9 a.m.-noon, Neelsville Presbyterian Church, 20701 Frederick Road, Germantown. Gifts are purchased for

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Ross Boddy Empty Bowl Supper, 4-7 p.m., Ross Boddy Community Recreation Center, 18529 Brooke Road, Sandy Spring. $20 for adults, $10 for children 16 and under. 240-777-8050.

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TUESDAY, NOV. 5 Power Tools for Power Struggles, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Renaissance Art Center, 9250 Gaither Road, Gaithersburg.

For parents of children age 4-14. $30. www.pepparent.org.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 6 Morning Women Business Owners Breakfast, 8:15-9:30 a.m., Silver Diner,

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Blanket-Making, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Extension Office, 18410 Muncaster Road, Derwood. Volunteers needed; donations of acrylic yarn accepted.

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DEATHS Angelo Mangano Angelo Mangano, 60, died Oct. 7, 2013. A memorial service will take place at 2 p.m. Nov. 1 at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Aspen Hill. A celebration of life will follow from 1 to 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 2 at Lincoln Park Community Center, 357 Frederick Ave., Rockville.

Richard Darnell Young Richard Darnell Young, 51, of Germantown, died Oct. 23, 2013. Snowden Funeral Home in Rockville handled the arrangements.

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County draft board ready for call from Congress ‘It’s part of our defense structure’ n

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SARAH SCULLY STAFF WRITER

William Hill of Germantown wanted a way to support the military, but as a civilian. He found it in September by joining the Montgomery County Draft Board.

Although the draft has been inactive since the Vietnam War, Hill is one of about 11,000 volunteers who make up local, district and national boards in case Congress calls for a draft.

Montgomery County board member Don Libes said the pri-

mary function of the draft board today is to visit post offices to ensure that they have proper materials and posters to help men fulfill their requirement of registering with the Selective Service System upon turning 18.

“It’s part of our defense structure,” said Matthew Tittmann, public affairs specialist with the Selective Service System. “To maintain this complex system and ensure equity, we need to register men. You can’t start the system on day one and expect it to be operational shortly after that.”

Hill saw an ad for the position and decided to apply.

He has served as detachment

commander for the Sons of the American Legion, and now is the organization’s National Sergeantat-Arms.

Many members of Hill’s family have served in the military, including his father in World War II. Recently, Hill said, he also was appointed to the board of directors of the Maryland Center for Veterans Education and Training, a Baltimore-based organization that helps homeless veterans and other veterans with training and services.

Men ages 18 through 25 who are U.S. citizens or immigrants living in the United States are required to register with Selec-

Butler’s celebrates 33 years of pumpkins

tive Service, according to the agency’s website.

Maryland has 273,861 men who have registered for the draft, according to the Selective Service System 2012 report to Congress. Nationwide, that number is nearly 15.7 million men.

In the case of a draft, the board is charged with deciding who would be exempt. Part of the board’s work includes training sessions in which they practice various scenarios, Libes said.

Exemptions from military service include men who are hospitalized, incarcerated or disabled; those who have a de-

First of four forums held Monday at Paint Branch High BY

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Thousands turn out for orchard fest Butler’s Orchard in Germantown saw thousands of local residents at its 33rd annual Pumpkin Festival, held on weekends in September and October.

The final weekend of the festival was Saturday and Sunday. Children pedaled toy tractors and played on a giant slide, and families walked through the corn maze and played corn hole. Attendees also picked their own pumpkins during the festival.

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with the Selective Service System. In World War I, the military was responsible for the draft. After the conflict, the government sought a third party to organize the draft because “they wanted an honest broker between the civilians and the military.”

Margaret Stilke, a Selective Service program analyst, said that when recruiting new board volunteers, the Selective Service looks for “community-minded people, free of bias, with good leadership skills.”

Freelance writer Stacy Skiavo contributed to this report. sscully@gazette.net

Parents, students weigh in on proposed changes to school start and end times n

Cousins Samary Morales (left), 10, and Abigail Bermudez, 10, both of Gaithersburg, gather pumpkins from the field Friday afternoon during the 33rd annual Pumpkin Festival at Butler’s Orchard in Germantown. The seasonal celebration is held on weekends every October.

pendency status; and those who are conscientious objectors.

Conscientious objectors must oppose all war, rather than have political opposition to particular military actions.

To qualify, draft board volunteers must be U.S. citizens; registered with the Selective Service, if male; 18 years or older; not be employed with any law enforcement occupation; not be an active or retired member of the armed forces; and not have a criminal record.

Current and former members of the military cannot serve on the boards, said Dick Flahavan, associate director for public and intergovernmental affairs

More than 150 people attendedthefirstoffourcommunity forums about changes to school start and end times held Monday at Paint Branch High School in Silver Spring.

Parents, students, and teachers were given the opportunity to share their opinions about Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Joshua P. Starr’s recommendations to move the start time for the school system’s high schools back 50 minutes, from 7:25 a.m. to 8:15 a.m.; move the middle school first bell from 7:55 a.m. to 7:45 a.m., and keep elementary school start times the same, but extend the day by 30 minutes.

“We can’t charge up and make changes without hearing people’s opinion and how it impacts them,” said John Matthews, chairman of the 2013 Bell Times Work Group. The group, formed in December 2012, studied the bell times’ impact on students’ sleep habits.

“Firstwewanttofindoutwhat they think. Then next, we want to

find out what is the impact on them,”Matthewssaid,addingthat thegoalistofindoutiftheimpacts are going to be significant enough to “make us want to do something different or supportive enough to make us want to continue with a plan like this.”

During the meeting, some of the challenges mentioned by the community were the impact on parents who rely on older children to take care of their siblings before they come home from work; loss of family quality time for very young children; parents of high school children who will have to stay home for an additional hour, and safety issues with more adolescents driving later in the afternoon during rush hour.

Suzanne Paholski, who has two kids in high school, said she is “not in favor of it.”

“By pushing back the start time you push back everything in the day. Not just school, but afterschool activities, family time, and bed time,” Paholski said, adding that her children go to sleep at 10:30 p.m. and get up at 6:30 a.m.

“I don’t have problems getting them up in the morning,” she added.

Gabriel Coxson, 14, who goes to Sherwood High School in Sandy Spring, said that starting school later will not help students, especially high school students.

“The only benefit is going

to be for people who actually go home, and actually get right to homework, and go to sleep...I am not one of those people.”

But not everyone was completely against the proposal.

Dorothy Gardner, a Montgomery County Public School ESOL teacher and parent, said she asked her students to speak with their parents about bell times and came representing them.

“I did have one class where parents were really for the time change because it is dark [in the morning], and it is really early,” Gardner said.

Gardner’s older high school class spoke about a completely different issue.

“They have to pick up their brothers and sisters,” the teacher said, adding that she sees the benefits on both sides.

Schools officials said a final decision won’t be made until all the community input has been gathered on the recommendations, and full cost and operational impacts have been determined.

“We don’t want ignore anybody,” said Matthews.

The next community forum is scheduled to take place on Dec. 16 in Rockville at Richard Montgomery High School, located at 250 Richard Montgomery Drive.

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From bog to woods, Audubon’s new director digs in Alexander follows natural path to lead society n

The Montgomery County Department of Recreation and Interfaith Works are collecting gently worn children and adult coats of all sizes through Friday to support the county’s and Gaithersburg’s Homeless Resource Day. The goal is to collect more than 500 winter coats, especially in adult sizes from XL to 3XL. Here are some of the drop-off locations: • Germantown Indoor Swim Center, 18000 Central Park Circle, Boyds.

• Olney Indoor Swim Center, 16605 Georgia Ave. • Upper County Community Recreation Center, 8201 Emory Grove Road, Gaithersburg.

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Lisa Alexander, Audubon Naturalist Society executive director, at the Woodend Sanctuary in Chevy Chase. ful leader, very easy to talk to. She’s our biggest cheerleader.”

For Alexander, 51, the new job is akin to coming home. When she graduated from Cornell University, where she studied forest ecology, she got a job at Audubon teaching children and reviewing children’s science books. She lived on the third floor of Audubon’s Woodend Mansion, an example of Georgian Revival architecture built in the 1920s by John Russell Pope, architect of the Jefferson Memorial and National Gallery of Art, for Captain Chester Wells and his wife Marion Leigh. The mansion, on the National Register of Historic Places and the Montgomery County Master Plan for Historic Preservation, houses the nonprofit’s offices and also is the setting for many weddings and parties.

Without a car, she got to know the 40 acres of the Woodend Sanctuary well. The property is one of the few remaining old estates in Chevy Chase and dates back to 1699. The Wells Family donated the Woodend Mansion and property to the Audubon Naturalist Society in 1968.

Kathryn Mitchell, the development director, said she was ecstatic to learn Alexander had been

chosen to the leadership post.

“I see Lisa’s leadership as by example. She doesn’t ask for others to give unless she has done so herself,” Mitchell said. That doesn’t just go for financial contributions either, she said.

“Unless she has physically put boots on the ground or in the creek, she won’t ask you to do it yourself.”

This past weekend, Alexander was part of a team restoring a meadow by planting 1,000 native plants. And when she’s not digging at work, she’s likely to be found fussing around in her own garden at her Chevy Chase home, where she lives with her husband and son. Another son is in college.

During her tenure as director, Alexander hopes to help spread the word about Woodend, which she calls a jewel inside the beltway.

“We have so much going on here,” Alexander said in her office at Woodend. “We have a lot of stories to tell. We tend to hide our light under a bushel.” ablum@gazette.net

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SYLVIA CARIGNAN STAFF WRITER

Boyds resident Flynn Ficker is drawing on his local experience for his campaign as the only Republican candidate for District 15 delegate.

Ficker, 31, describes himself as a “full-time politician” with political expertise from working with his father at his law office and in his District 15 campaigns. His father, Robin Ficker, is running for state senator in 2014. Robin and Flynn have formed a slate and are campaigning as Republicans for District 15.

The district stretches along the western edge of the county, from Clarksburg to North Potomac. Del.

Kathleen Dumais (D) of Rockville, Del. David Fraser-Hidalgo (D) of Boyds and Del. Aruna Miller (D) of Darnestown currently represent District 15.

Robin represented District 15 in the House from 1978 to 1982. Flynn is making his first run for elected office.

Flynn said he is watching the battle over Ten Mile Creek Ficker in Clarksburg, where environmental groups, developers and the county planning board are debating the number of residential units that should be built in the creek’s watershed. The creek flows into Little Seneca Reservoir, a back-up drinking water supply for the Washington, D.C., region.

“If there is development, I want it to be smart development, not something that would damage the environment,” Flynn said.

Flynn said he is also concerned about possible delays to school improvements, as proposed by schools Superintendent Joshua Starr on Monday. He agrees with Starr that expansion is needed, but he is concerned that older schools like Poolesville High School, which is in District 15, will have to wait longer for their planned revitalization project.

Flynn said he’s also concerned about taxes on small businesses, based on what he’s heard from constituents. He wants to create a tax-friendly environment for small businesses, especially those in the Interstate 270 corridor.

“I wouldn’t vote for any tax increases,” he said.

Flynn, who is not married, has been an assistant wrestling coach at DeMatha Catholic High School

in Hyattsville and a camp counselor at Valley Mill Summer Camp in Germantown. He also has worked as a salesperson at the produce stand for his family’s farm and as a deliveryman for a local restaurant, he said.

Flynn is currently accepting donations for his campaign, but said he has not planned any fundraiser events yet. He plans to file with the state to become a District 15 delegate candidate early next year.

Dumais, Miller and former delegate Saqib Ali have filed for the 2014 race. Fraser-Hidalgo is serving the remainder of former Del. Brian J. Feldman’s term. Feldman, a Potomac resident, left his delegate seat and became the district’s senator after former Sen. Robert Garagiola (DDist. 15) resigned.

Primaries will be held in June and the general election will be in November 2014. scarignan@gazette.net

Gaithersburg defendant absent as sex abuse trial proceeds Rivas fled south after being released on bail, prosecutors say

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ST. JOHN BARNED-SMITH STAFF WRITER

A Gaithersburg man accused of paying a Germantown woman to have sex with her teenage daughter is on trial this week.

The defendant, Bejarni Rivas, isn’t there, but prosecutors are bringing their case against him anyway.

After his arrest in March, authorities charged Rivas, 45, of Irish Court in Gaithersburg, with 13 crimes including conspiracy to commit child abuse, human trafficking, rape, sex offense and other crimes.

Bail for Rivas was originally set at $500,000, but reduced at a later hearing to $100,000, online court

InBrief Coat drive for homeless is underway

BY AGNES BLUM STAFF WRITER

Growing up in the Chicago suburbs, Lisa Alexander would follow her mother into nearby bogs to hunt for pitcher plants.

It was there in those peatlands, hunting the carnivorous Sarracenia purpurea at her mother’s side, that she developed a love of nature that has guided her career.

“My mom was my first naturalist,” Alexander said. “Everything was a nature hike with my mom.”

Throughout her career, Alexander has honored her mother’s tradition of teaching about nature, culminating on Oct. 21 in her appointment as executive director of the Audubon Naturalist Society, one of the area’s leading environmental educational nonprofits.

Founded in 1897, the Audubon Naturalist Society in Chevy Chase is a membership-based nonprofit that provides environmental education for all ages and advocates on behalf of clean water, rural lands and smart transportation in the Washington, D.C., area.

In September, Neal Fitzpatrick, who had served as executive director since 1991, retired, and Alexander beat out about 40 other candidates for the job.

In her new position, Alexander will oversee 53 employees and more than 575 volunteers.

Alexander brought to Audubon her passion for connecting young people to nature, coworkers say, launching in 2005 the Green Kids program, a grant-funded outreach program that partners with local public schools to foster environmental literacy. Alexander became the director of Environmental Education and then deputy director of the society in 2011.

“Lisa has such a huge vision,” said Diane Lill, who now runs the Green Kids program, which has raised more than $1 million to support environmental science at local schools. “She’s a wonder-

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records show.

In April, he was released on bail, court records show.

After Rivas failed to show up for trial in early October, Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Cheryl A. McCally issued a warrant for his arrest.

Prosecutors said in those proceedings that they learned that Rivas told his wife he was going on a church retreat in late September, days before his trial was to begin, and never returned home.

Investigators tracked his cellphone to Texas, prosecutors said after he first disappeared.

“We’ll do everything we can to track him down,” Montgomery County Sheriff Darren Popkin told The Gazette after Rivas’s initial disappearance.

Esteban Gergely, Rivas’s attorney, did not return calls for comment. The Gazette was unable to reach Stephen Kupferberg, another lawyer representing Rivas, on Tues-

day evening.

When she decided to hold the trial, McCally said Rivas had known the date the trial was supposed to begin and voluntarily waived his right to be there.

Trials in absentia are rare because one of the main rights that a person accused of a crime has is the right to participate in his or her own defense, lawyers say.

In Montgomery County, Lebon Bruce Walker and Annette Lee were convicted of theft and related charges in January 1993. In that case, a Montgomery County judge ordered the trial to proceed — despite Lee’s and Walker’s absence — because of the number of witnesses prosecutors had lined up to testify and the difficulty in tracking down Lee and Walker quickly. Authorities apprehended the two nine months later in Zambia, and extradited them to the U.S. In the crimes for which Rivas was accused, his co-defendant

stood trial in September. The Gazette is not naming that person to protect the identity of the victim, who is her daughter.

In that trial, jurors learned that there were two instances of alleged abuse. The first took place in December at a clubhouse at the Georgian Colonies in Silver Spring. Rivas allegedly molested the woman’s 14-year-old daughter. In the second, which took place in January, the girl’s mother told her that she had to have sex with him, according to the victim’s testimony.

The mother, who is 41 years old, was found guilty on Sept. 19 of 10 crimes, including child sex abuse, conspiracy to commit sex abuse, rape and human trafficking.

Prosecutors said the woman could receive more than 100 years in prison for the charges when she is sentenced in November. sjbsmith@gazette.net

Scouts launch food drive this week It’s time for Scouting for Food.

Starting Saturday, Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts across the county will deliver empty plastic bags in their neighborhoods, along with a flier explaining the Scouting for Food campaign.

A week later, on Nov. 9, the Scouts will collect filled bags and deliver them to one of several collection points, where they will be loaded into trucks for Manna Food Center in Gaithersburg, the main food bank in Montgomery County.

Residents participating in the collection are asked to place filled bags outside their doors the morning of Nov. 9.

Soroptimist accepting award applications Soroptimist International of Upper Montgomery County is accepting applications for two awards.

The organization supports projects that help women and girls locally and internationally.

The $1,000 Women’s Opportunity Award is open to women who are their family’s primary earner and need financial assistance to attend college or a professional trade school. The deadline for applications is Dec. 15.

The Violet Richardson Award is open to high school girls ages 13 through 17. One winner will be recognized for superior volunteer efforts in a community service project. The winner will receive $500, plus a $250 donation will be made to the community service program where the student worked. The application deadline is Dec. 1.

Applications are available at si-umc.com.

Students interested in the Violet Richardson Award also may obtain applications at the following high schools: Clarksburg, Damascus, Gaithersburg, Poolesville, Quince Orchard, Seneca Valley and Watkins Mill.

POLICE BLOTTER

Complete report at www.gazette.net The following is a summary of incidents in the Damascus area to which Montgomery County police responded recently. The words “arrested” and “charged” do not imply guilt. This information was provided by the county.

Aggravated assault • On Oct. 13 at 12:45 a.m. in the 18600 block of Nutmeg Place, Germantown. The subject is known to the victim.

• On Oct. 14 at 10:30 p.m. at Holiday Inn, 20260 Golden Rod Lane, Germantown. The subject is known to the victim.

Armed robbery • On Oct. 10 at 7:50 p.m. behind Ledo’s Pizza, 12619 Wisteria Drive, Germantown. The subjects threatened the victims and took property.

• On Oct. 11 at 5 p.m. near Frederick and Gunners Branch roads, Germantown. The subjects threatened the victim with a weapon and took property.

• On Oct. 14 at 10:10 p.m. at S.N. Beer and Wine, 12839 Wisteria Drive, Germantown. The subjects threatened the victim and took property.

• On Oct. 15 at 9:20 a.m. at TD Bank, 19501 Frederick Road, Germantown. The subject threatened the victim and took property.

Auto theft • On Oct. 11 at 7:50 a.m. in the 19500 block of Crystal Rock Drive, Germantown. No further information provided.

• On Oct. 11 in the 19200 block of Circle Gate Drive, Germantown. No further information provided.

• On Oct. 11 in the 12600 block of Grey Eagle Court, Germantown. No further information provided.

Sexual assault • On Oct. 14 on Rhinestone Drive, Germantown.

The subject is known to the victim.

Commercial burglary • On Oct. 7 between midnight and 4:45 a.m. at The Cellular Connection-Verizon, 19828 Century Blvd., Germantown. Forced entry, took nothing.

• On Oct. 15 at the Edward Taylor Center, 19501 White Grounds Road, Boyds. No further information provided.

Residential burglary • 21100 block of Kaul Lane, Germantown, between Oct. 8 and Oct. 14. Forced entry, took property.

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Lee Nelson (right) and Nancy McElhinney check out one of the entries in the scarecrow contest during the fall festival Saturday at Whalen Commons in Poolesville. The event also featured costume contests for children and pets, and a fundraiser walk for the charity Western Upper Montgomery County Help, which provides financial assistance to needy residents.

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About 300 residents and several scarecrows attended a fall festival held Saturday at Poolesville’s Whalen Commons.

The scarecrows were part of a community contest, where the straw men were set up by families, churches and businesses in the area and judged at the festival.

The winner of the scarecrow contest’s community group category was “The

Sermonator,” created by the Poolesville Presbyterian Church. The winner in the family group category was “Edgar Allen Crow,” created by the Stone family.

Children’s costumes were also judged in multiple categories, with an owl, she-devil

and mouse in a trap winning top honors.

The event also featured a charity walk for Western Upper Montgomery County Help, which helps upcounty individuals and families gain access to basic needs.

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Delaney infrastructure bill gains support in House BY

RYAN MARSHALL STAFF WRITER

One of Rep. John Delaney’s first major pieces of legislation, aimed at funding improvements to America’s infrastructure, continues to move along through the legislative process, gathering support from members of both parties in the House of Representatives and coming close to a similar achievement in the Senate.

Delaney’s bill would create new infrastructure bonds and try to attract corporate investments by allowing companies to repatriate some overseas earnings without taxes if they buy bonds.

Delaney believes the bill would result in a way to fund infrastructure projects without any federal appropriations.

The bill has attracted cosponsors in the House from both parties, Delaney said on Advertisement

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According to a Library of Congress database, the bill had gained 22 Democratic cosponsors and 24 Republican cosponsors.

Delaney (D-Dist. 6) of Potomac said it was also close to getting bipartisan support in the Senate.

It’s also gotten support from

chambers of commerce, labor groups and more than 30 transportation groups, Delaney said.

The bill was recently discussed at a forum Delaney attended that was sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute and Third Way, which promotes moderate policy ideas through “pragmatic solutions and principled compromise.”

The bill has been assigned to the House’s Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

The committee process for the bill was slowed by the 16day government shutdown, but he’s pleased with the progress it’s made, Delaney said.

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State Del. Luiz R.S. Simmons believes politics is driving an ethics complaint about his sending state Department of Transportation maps to constituents.

Simmons (D-Dist. 17) of Rockville said he obtained the maps from the state and paid for envelopes and postage to send them, something he’s done throughout his 12 years in the General Assembly.

The state Department of Transportation prints the maps and makes them available to legislators who ask for them, according to Simmons.

“This is apparently the beginning of the political season,” he said.

Gaithersburg resident Dan Campos, who ran unsuccessfully as a Republican in the 2010 District 17 House of Delegates race, sent a complaint on Oct. 13 to a cocounsel for the General Assembly’s Joint Committee on Legislative Ethics.

He said he’s since changed his party affiliation to Democrat, and has no plans to run again for any political office.

Campos complained that Simmons was sending residents maps with his name, title, district office telephone number and House email address, using state government materials to promote his political career.

Campos said he’s gotten a letter saying his complaint would be considered at a future ethics committee meeting, which hasn’t been scheduled.

Deadra Daly, an ethics

counsel for the General Assembly, said Thursday that she wasn’t able to comment on whether a complaint had been received.

Simmons said he could understand the complaint if he were directing the state to print the maps so he could use them, but he didn’t do that.

He said he hands maps out when he goes canvassing door-to-door or at various events. “I see nothing wrong with it,” he said Thursday.

Simmons said he often spends his own money on various constituent services, such as a separate phone line and a legal research database. He estimated he’s spent about $75,000 during his legislative career.

In an email on Friday morning, Simmons wrote that he spent $603.95 in postage and $1,300 for special window envelopes — all of it his own money.

Campos said the complaint wasn’t politically motivated, and candidates should be free to send out whatever information they like.

“Just not courtesy of the taxpayers,” Campos said.

Simmons said he’s considering a run for the state Senate, and is “inching toward” announcing whether he’ll run for the Senate or for re-election to his House seat.

The District 17 Senate seat currently is held by Jennie M. Forehand (D), who said this month that she is “seriously thinking” of running again.

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Halloween display back in court for ruling on whether it must shut down forever BY

ALINE BARROS STAFF WRITER

The nearly 2,000 people who squealed, jumped or gasped at the Haunted Garden in Silver Spring this year might be the last group to ever tour the Halloween display if a judge’s decision puts the nail in the display’s coffin.

An estimated 700 people visited the garden on Worth Avenue on Friday and 1,000 to 1,500 on Saturday, according to county officials.

On Oct. 15, Montgomery County District Court Judge Patricia Mitchell ruled that Silver Spring real estate agent Donna Kerr, the organizer of the Halloween extravaganza, could open her 9215 Worth Ave. backyard for visitors only on Oct. 25 and 26, from 6 to 10 p.m., instead of five days, as Kerr had planned.

The ruling came after 19 of Kerr’s neighbors signed a petition asking the county to shut down the display because the narrow roads in their Seven Oaks Evanswood community couldn’t handle the thousands of visitors Kerr expected to visit her free display.

On Nov. 5, Mitchell is scheduled to hear a request to close the display permanently.

At issue is whether the home-based Halloween display on Worth Avenue was simply a fun way to celebrate the holiday or a real estate marketing effort in disguise.

“I’m feeling good. It is a great night,” Kerr said Friday.

Outside, two people controlled how many visitors could enter the garden at a time and two were in the back of the garden helping people leave the garden. More Haunted Garden staff were on the street directing

One of the scary attractions — a skeleton crew — at the Haunted Garden in Silver Spring. traffic.

Volunteers also were spread around the backyard to help visitors during their tour.

A police officer, paid for by Kerr, was at the corner of Worth and Franklin avenues, helping pedestrians cross the street.

“We have our guys out there.

People are doing their jobs. It is organized,” said Rania Peet, the artist behind the garden’s creations.

Julia Horton, 7, visited the display with friends and said her favorite part was “the guy in the electric chair” because “it was creepy and cool.”

The garden had a kids’ corner with a haunted playground.

A 12-year-old actress portraying a dead child welcomed little ones, asking if they wanted to play with her.

Visitors also saw a werewolf coming from behind the trees, a witch looking for “extra special” children’s hair for her magic potion, and a man just out of an electric chair.

At the end of the experience, guests could stop to have their

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A display of jack-o’-lanterns at the Halloween attraction.

Jordan Love, 7, of Silver Spring, poses for the camera Friday evening with one of the creatures. picture taken.

The Haunted Garden has been the subject of a battle between neighbors in recent weeks.

“Thanks to the county and

judge’s ruling, and the county’s efforts including fire [marshal] and police, there was a large county effort to make this a safe event,” Jean Cavanaugh, the president of the Seven Oaks-

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Evanswood Citizens’ Association, which is not involved in the court case, wrote in an email to The Gazette.

Cavanaugh added that on Saturday, there was a line of 150 people, and she “witnessed a few children darting into the street from behind parked cars.”

“Again, we have no quarrel with Halloween decorations or neighborhood parties,” Cavanaugh wrote. “The haunted garden is fun, people like it, kids like it.

Public events of this magnitude and duration, however, do not belong in a residential neighborhood.”

County officials had shut down the display with a temporary restraining order issued Oct. 4, saying the display violated the county’s residential zoning code and caused a public safety hazard.

Mitchell’s ruling allowed the event to continue, but with limited days and hours.

James Savage, an assistant

county attorney, said in court that Kerr sent fliers to an estimated 12,000 households promoting the Haunted Garden.

But Mitchell did not consider the event to be commercial.

Diane Schwartz Jones, director of the Montgomery County Department of Permitting Services, said she received complaints about traffic, cars parked on lawns, and children darting out on the street this year.

“It is a fun activity ... but it is not a good location for this activity,” said Schwartz Jones.

She said she sent an inspector for each night, and they reported more than 250 vehicles crossing the intersection between 6:30 and 9 p.m., plus a lot of pedestrian traffic. “The fact that no one was hurt is a good thing but the right thing is to correctly apply the law,” Schwartz Jones said. abarros@gazette.net

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Scholarship funds on the rise Officials at Universities at Shady Grove say growing interest fueling bigger donations

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LINDSAY A. POWERS STAFF WRITER

Stories similar to Kyle Hoes’ can be found around the country.

The 21-year-old student works a part-time job and took out student loans to help put himself through college.

In Hoes’ case, the goal is a degree in hotel and restaurant management from the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore program at the Universities at Shady Grove center in Rockville, which offers graduate and degree programs from nine Maryland universities.

Recently, however, Hoes got a financial boost from a Hilton Worldwide Scholarship that put $1,000 toward his tuition costs each semester of the 2013-2014 academic year.

Hoes is among the several hundred students who benefited this fall from the Shady Grove center’s largest-ever pool of scholarship funds following a significant increase from last year’s pool.

This fall, the center has provided about $640,000 in scholarships compared to about $445,000 last fall — a jump of about 44 percent, according to Robyn Dinicola-Wagle, the center’s chief student affairs officer.

Dinicola-Wagle said the center, which will also award scholarships for just the spring semester, is expected to award at least $1 million dollars in scholarships by the end of the academic year.

Stewart Edelstein, executive director of The Universities at Shady Grove, attributed the rise in scholarship funds to the center’s “aggressive” scholarship campaign and a growing

awareness and interest in the institution as more of its students work in the community.

“We’re training the next generation of the workforce in Montgomery County,” he said.

The institution’s donors includes graduates, community members, corporations and foundations.

This fall’s increase follows a trend in recent years of rising scholarship funds awarded to students.

The center awarded about $252,000 in the fall of 2010 — up from about $128,000 in 2009 — and about $440,000 in fall 2011.

The scholarships this fall run the gamut, Dinicola-Wagle said, from smaller ones toward book costs to those that cover a student’s entire tuition and fees. They are also supplemental to other scholarships a student can receive from the university from which he or she is getting a degree.

The average amount awarded this fall was about $2,000, and 20 students received the full scholarship, she said.

Of the roughly 634 students who applied for a scholarship this fall, about 316 received one.

“We still have work to be done,” Dinicola-Wagle said.

The Shady Grove officials said the institution hears most often from scholarship recipients that the extra funds allowed them to work less, cut back on student loans, and gain some emotional support.

Taking out a loan is a risk for students, Edelstein said, and many at Shady Grove are “risk averse” for a variety of reasons, including life circumstances and the economy.

Edelstein said the institution sees a high level of degree completion but wants the scholarships to help keep students at school and full-time members.

“We know that we can increase the degree completion,”

“If I didn’t get the scholarship opportunity, I definitely would have had to apply for more loans because of my tuition and to pay for my books.”

Kyle Hoes, a 21-year-old student at the Universities at Shady Grove in Rockville who is pursuing a degree in hotel and restaurant management from the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore he said.

For Hoes and other students, the scholarships have made an impact.

Hoes said that, before he received the Hilton scholarship, he was working every other Sunday and some Saturdays to help support himself and his mom. One of his friends helped him purchase textbooks.

“It was really hard trying to, you know, pull the money together and pay the bills,” said Hoes, a junior in the management program.

Hoes said that because he received the scholarship he has not had to work in the past month and doesn’t have to worry about taking out an additional student loan.

“If I didn’t get the scholarship opportunity, I definitely would have had to apply for more loans because of my tuition and to pay for my books,” he said.

For Tony Franks, 23, his Camille & Clifford Kendall Endowed Scholarship — which covers the entire year’s tuition and fees — allowed him to con-

tinue school this semester during a time when finances are tight. As a scholarship recipient, he said, he will also participate in a program in which he will work with a business mentor.

Franks — who will graduate in May with a communication degree from the University of Maryland, College Park — said he has worked a number of jobs throughout his college career.

“I’m the sixth of seven children so my whole school career I’ve been paying the majority of my tuition,” said Franks, who is the Shady Grove center’s primary representative on the University System of Maryland Student Council.

This semester, however, marked a big change in his financial situation, Franks said.

He moved out of his parents’ house and is now responsible for expenses, including those for rent and food, that he didn’t face before.

Scholarship in hand, he said, he has been able to cut down on his work schedule.

“Life is a breeze now,” he said.

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RYAN MARSHALL STAFF WRITER

Workers at Gaithersburg’s Potomac Disposal were set to return to work Oct. 30 after reaching an agreement with the company’s management to end a strike that lasted 10 days.

Potomac owner Lee Levine said the company was “thrilled” to have the issue resolved.

The strike was hard on the workers and the company, but both sides worked hard and were able to come to a mutual agreement, Levine said.

Nicole Duarte, a spokeswoman for Laborers International Union of North America Mid-Atlantic Regional Organizing Coalition, called Tuesday’s agreement “a very fair compromise.” The company agreed to pay raises for workers, one paid holiday and sick and vacation days for workers, but weren’t able to agree on a plan to provide affordable health insurance, according to a release from the union.

In the release, LiUNA Vice President and Regional Manager Dennis Martire said the agreement was a good example of what can happen when workers stand together to reach a fair compromise with an employer.

But he said he was disappointed that Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett wouldn’t support a plan to offer the workers affordable health insurance.

County spokesman Patrick Lacefield said the county had been very supportive, holding

meetings with Potomac and auditing the company to ensure it pays workers a living wage required by the county.

“We have never been asked, by either side, to give more money,” Lacefield said.

If the county adds more money to the contract to provide for health care, it could face issues with companies who had bid for the contract, claiming the county had changed the rules in the middle of the game, Lacefield said.

He noted that the sevenyear contract had only been bid two years ago.

The county has hundreds of contractors, many of whom would probably like money added to their contracts, Lacefield said.

“If you do for one, are you going to have to do for all?” he asked.

Workers at Laurel’s Unity Disposal and Recycling, which also provided trash service for the county, also were scheduled to report to work Wednesday, after an 11-day strike when dozens were terminated after protesting the firing of an employee who had helped advocate for a union, Duarte said.

The majority of Unity workers have expressed an interest in being part of a union, but management hasn’t responded to their request, she said.

The company has expressed a willingness to allow the workers back, and they have decided to return to work while continuing to work toward union representation, Duarte said. rmarshall@gazette.net

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While earning a business management degree at Frostburg State University in Western Maryland, Jordan Fazenbaker entered a manager training program that included an internship with the restaurant chain Red Lobster.

He found his calling.

“I immediately was drawn to the business,” said Fazenbaker, 27, who recently became general manager of the Red Lobster on Shady Grove Road in Gaithersburg.

“I enjoy the stability of being in the restaurant industry because people have to eat,” he said.

Before joining the Hagerstown Red Lobster as a server in 2008, Fazenbaker worked at The Plum, a Hagerstown eatery frequented by judges, attorneys and others in the downtown area.

And he not only found a career at Red Lobster but met his future wife, Stephanie, at the Hagerstown location.

“She worked for the company for 10 years before she recently resigned to stay at home,” said Fazenbaker, a native of Hagerstown. “She actually trained me as a server.”

Work romances can be tricky, and Fazenbaker said he was careful to keep things

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professional on the job. “You never want to bring your personal life into the work place,” he said.

Fazenbaker is a natural, professional leader “who thrives on developing people and achieving high standards,” said Billy Rudd, director of operations for Red Lobster, which is owned by parent company Darden Restaurants, based in Orlando, Fla. “He is loyal to his team and his guests.”

In Hagerstown, Fazenbaker soon was promoted to service professional and management positions, and most recently was staffing and training manager. He helped train more than 50 employees there.

In Gaithersburg, Fazenbaker oversees all aspects of restaurant operations, including managing more than 85 employees.

It can be a daunting task in the fast-paced food industry, but he has found the work rewarding.

“I like to see the smiles on my customers’ faces when they enjoy the food and have a good time,” he said.

Restaurants employ more people than construction, banking Restaurants and bars are a key employer in the area, accounting for some 39,000 jobs in Montgomery and Frederick counties, according to state labor department figures. That’s

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more than the construction, manufacturing, banking and insurance segments.

Issues such as a potential minimum wage hike in Montgomery County should not be a major deal, Fazenbaker said.

“I’m a big believer in taking care of my people,” he said.

The federal government shutdown did not affect business much at the Gaithersburg Red Lobster, said Fazenbaker, who started as general manager in September.

“It’s still booming here.

Our goal is to provide a great service,” he said.

Customers have requested broader menu options beyond seafood. Red Lobster transformed its menu two years ago to provide more

dishes and greater value, Fazenbaker said.

The restaurant gets its seafood from all over the world, with many of the lobster tails coming from Maine, Fazenbaker said. “We get the best catch from each ship,” he said. “These are top-quality, assured vendors who keep in mind the safety of our customers.”

Through the Darden Harvest program, Fazenbaker and fellow employees support the John C. Tracey Boys’ Group Home in Rockville. The program provides fresh, wholesome food donations on a regular basis to organizations that need them.

“We only donate the unused food, not leftovers,” Fazenbaker said. “We try to make sure it goes to a great place.”

Darden Restaurants, which is publicly traded, has been named to Fortune magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list for three consecutive years. It saw its revenue rise by 7 percent, to $8.6 billion, in fiscal 2013 from 2012.

Red Lobster, which has more than 700 locations across North America, showed a sales decline of 2 percent in fiscal 2013 to $2.6 billion.

Darden’s other brands include Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Bahama Breeze, Seasons 52 and The Capital Grille. kshay@gazette.net

Montgomery County police say new cameras on some county school buses will be installed and ready for action by early January to catch drivers who illegally pass the buses.

The cameras will automatically record drivers who pass a stopped bus while its stop arm is extended with flashing red lights. Violators will have to pay a $125 fine, according to an Oct. 22 memo from County Council staff.

Cameras will be installed on 25 school buses that run routes with the highest number of passing incidents. Wiring for the cameras will be installed on another 75 buses so the cameras can be swapped among the buses. County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger said the cameras will be active by Jan. 3.

The county also has the ability to purchase up to 75 additional cameras during its contract, according to the memo.

The County Council enacted a law in March 2012 that enabled police to install and operate cameras on school buses to catch drivers who pass the vehicles when they are stopped and operating their flashing red lights.

Speaking on Thursday at a joint meeting of the County Council’s education and public safety committees, Manger said a vendor contract was in the works and the police department had signed a memorandum of understanding with Montgomery County Public Schools.

As of the Thursday meeting, the county attorney was still reviewing the police and school system’s agreement before approving it, said county spokesman Patrick Lacefield.

Manger attributed the delay in getting the program up and running to the police department’s unsuccessful attempt to bridge a contract with another jurisdiction. The department eventually turned to a request for proposal process.

The police department also had a difficult time finding similar programs in the country to analyze, he said. Manger said the issue was related to the police department’s efforts to analyze other bus camera programs.

“Make no mistake, we were trying to look at what other

jurisdictions were doing,” he said. “Much of the delay for this had nothing to do with the procurement process.”

Manger said he thinks the cameras coupled with county police’s public education campaign scheduled to start in December will mean more drivers will be aware of the law.

According to the Oct. 22 memo, revenue from the cameras will depend on variables including the “structure of the contract” and the violations that occur.

Manger said the cameras are not about making money.

“It’s about the fact it makes the roadways safer,” he said.

County Councilman Philip M. Andrews (D-Dist. 3) of Gaithersburg said he thinks it’s important the cameras are publicized.

“This is a crucial public safety measure the public needs to be aware of,” Andrews said.

Andrews said police should cast “a large shadow” to help minimize violations around the county, while focusing the cameras on the routes where the most violations happen.

County Council Vice President Craig Rice (D-Dist. 2) of Germantown said his daughter was recently almost hit by a vehicle that illegally passed a bus and that he had chased down the driver.

“I’ve seen it firsthand,” Rice said, describing some drivers who “disregard” buses signalling for them to stop.

County Councilwoman Valerie Ervin (D-Dist. 5) of Silver Spring — who voiced her frustration at the program’s delay in August — said it was “astounding” to her how many drivers don’t know the rules.

“I see it happening all the time,” she said.

Todd Watkins, director of transportation for the school system, said in a previous interview that the new cameras will automatically detect a violation and send the evidence, which will be confirmed by both a contractor and the police before a ticket is sent out.

Of about 1,270 total buses in the school system, roughly 400 currently have cameras that run continuously, he said. If a bus driver believes they were illegally passed, the school system is able to go back and examine the footage and pass it on to police who can send out a warning notice. lpowers@gazette.net

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In talking with Memuna Mansaray McShane, a junior at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Potomac with a bright smile and a positive outlook on the world, no one would immediately guess what she’s been through.

Though you might be able to tell by looking at her.

On Sept. 18, standing in the front of an auditorium with her teachers and classmates listening carefully, she finally revealed the answers to so many questions about her life.

Why was she adopted? Where is she from? And what happened to her arm?

Memuna’s story began 17 years prior in Sierra Leone.

In 1996, Memuna was born amid a civil war between the government and anti-government rebels had already been violently tearing the nation apart for five years. At age 2, she and her family were hiding in a mosque in Freetown, the nation’s capital, when members of a rebel militia came in with guns and the intent to kill. The militants fatally shot Memuna’s mother and grandmother while she was in her grandmother’s arms. Bullets also shattered Memuna’s right arm, which doctors were later forced to amputate.

Little did Memuna know that this would be the turning point in her life.

She was placed into a refugee camp, but not for long. Little Memuna fit the description that the president of Sierra Leone was looking for — young, cute and an amputee — to try to bring international attention to the violence of the war. She was quickly removed from the camp, and soon became the worldwide poster child for the peace movement—taking photos with then-U.S. Secretary of

Sandy Spring player Kate Horning (left) competes with Memuna Mansaray McShane, a varsity athlete at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Potomac, during an Oct. 19 game. McShane was born in Sierra Leone and her arm was amputated after an attack during that country’s civil war.

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State Madeleine Albright and former President Bill Clinton, being showcased at peace talks and protesting in the streets of New York City all around the age of 3.

Then, Memuna made her way into the United States permanently when the New York Rotary Club brought her, along with seven other refugees, to the country for treatment. She spent the next two and a half years living in foster care before she finally found a place she could call home in 2002, when Kelly and Kevin McShane permanently adopted 6-year-old Memuna into their Washington, D.C., home, along with their two children Molly and Michael — a transition that Kevin

McShanecalled“prettyseamless.”

Memuna said she doesn’t remember much about her life before living with her adopted family. She doesn’t remember Sierra Leone or Madeleine Albright, and she certainly doesn’t remember being a monumental factor in ending the civil war that savaged her own home and family. In her mind, the war isn’t her story at all; so to Memuna, despite everything she’s been through, being adopted has had the largest impact on her life.

“I don’t use the war to guide me through my life,” she said. “I don’t worry about the past, just the here and now and the future.”

And for Memuna, the “here

and now” is pretty typical of a high school teen: school, friends and sports, including soccer and basketball — arm or no arm. “[Her experiences have] made heralovingandcaringperson,but other than that she’s just a normal 17-year-old girl,” said Kristin Butler, a soccer teammate and close friend to Memuna.

By the time Memuna tried out for the St. Andrew’s soccer team as a freshman, she had been playing the sport ever since she began living with the McShanes — and it certainly showed; she made the varsity team during her first tryout.

“She made an athletic and emotional impact from day one,” said head coach Glenn Whitman.

“Beyond where she’s been and what she’s been through, I’ve been truly amazed by what she can do on the field.”

But despite her confidence and ability to adapt, Memuna still had to deal with the emotional stress that inevitably comes with only having one arm. When she began playing soccer at St. An-

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drew’s, Whitman almost immediately noticed that she constantly wore fleece jackets during training to hide her arm, even in the summertime. But in time, the fear dissipated and Memuna finally became confident and comfortable enough to stop hiding.

“One thing I’ve been proud of both Memuna and the team for is she no longer trains with a coat on,” Whitman said. “The girls have always treated her like a full person.”

Memuna attributes her ability to be comfortable about the things that have happened to her throughout her life and to the welcoming nature of her teammates.

“I had a hard past but the soccer team has made me feel welcomed and not like an outcast,” she said. “I would probably be completely different person if it wasn’t for them.”

According to Kristin, 17, Memuna made it easy for the team to accept her into the group. “She thinks we were welcoming toward her, but she was welcoming toward everyone else. She’s part of

the team family,” she said.

And Kevin McShane, who is also the team’s assistant coach, attributes Memuna’s success to the entire St. Andrew’s community, not just the team.

“A big part of Memuna opening up about all this is being part of the community,” he said.

“She feels very safe here to open up about her story, wear short sleeves, all of that stuff.”

Although Memuna gives her friends, family and teammates the credit for her perpetual smile, she isn’t the only one benefitting from the experience.

“We always say she’s given us so much more than we could ever give her,” Kevin McShane said.

And according to Whitman, despite the team’s competitive nature and constant strive to win, the lasting memory for them all probably won’t have much to do with soccer.

“What we’ll remember most is what she taught us about adversity and never giving up,” he said.

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For six years, green energy business Clean Currents made the Rockville Innovation Center above the downtown Rockville library its home.

The company enjoyed reduced costs for spaces and certain services than it would have had in the general private market. It had access to shared conference rooms, administrative help, a kitchen and copy machine, all pretty much financed

by Montgomery County.

When Clean Currents “graduated” last year to reside in larger commercial space near the Silver Spring Metro station, it had grown from two employees in 2007 to about 20.

Officials praised the company as exemplifying the intent of the Business Innovation Network program to see startups blossom into thriving businesses, but they admitted this week that the ideal goal is to get such companies out faster, preferably in three years, rather than six.

Thus, the county has been working on a plan to reorganize its five innovation centers — once called incubators in reference to their role of hatching young businesses — to better focus them and provide more intensive services that can make them grow faster.

“We want to rethink the system,” Steven A. Silverman, director of the county’s Department of Economic Devel-

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Proposal would refocus centers, close Wheaton One proposal from Silverman’s department calls for focusing the two Rockville centers on data analytics. Those include the 23,000-squarefoot downtown one and the 60,000-square-foot Shady Grove center that is the oldest, having opened in 1999. The latter has mostly life sciences companies such as NeoDiagnostix, a cancer diagnostics company with an emphasis in women’s health.

The former has a mix of information technology, life sciences and professional services.

The 32,000-square-foot Germantown center, the newest one that opened in 2008 with 45

offices and 11 wet labs, would retain its life sciences focus.

The 20,000-square-foot Silver Spring center, which formed in 2004 and is in the only building owned outright by the county, would become an accelerator, which provides more intensive programs, including access to funding, in a fixed, reduced time frame. The 12,000-square-foot Wheaton facility, the smallest one which opened in 2006, would close once its lease is up in 2016.

While there would be savings in lease costs, the changes would likely necessitate increased funding for operating costs and possibly additional staff, said former County Councilman Michael Knapp, CEO of Germantown consulting firm Orion Ventures, who is working with the DED on its proposal.

The five centers now have an

annual budget of about $4.5 million, with about $2.5 million recovered in rent, licensing fees and other income.

The current program was designed more to meet real estate space needs of startups, while the current best practice among incubators and accelerators is provide more targeted programs that include investment from venture capital firms and more intensive mentoring, Knapp said. “The idea is to get away from real estate management to partnership management,” he said.

Transitioning the Silver Spring center into an accelerator may result in a steeper learning curve than thought, said Jacob Sesker, a senior legislative analyst for the county who generally supported the plan. Closing the Wheaton facility could also prove more difficult and costly in trying to move current tenants into surrounding private space, he said.

County Councilman Marc Elrich said he would like to see what innovation center models have been most successful and how to replicate that success.

The program has graduated more than 100 companies into private space since forming in 1999. Over the past three years, about 50 have graduated, with 40 of those such as Clean Currents operating within the county, said Ruth Semple, a county business development specialist who oversees the Rockville centers.

The proposal is in the initial planning stages and the DED would likely need help from an outside firm with the realignment process, Silverman said. kshay@gazette.net

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For about two months, Brad Pabian has been getting to know the 120 students at Northwood High School in Silver Spring he will help coach toward a common goal — college.

Pabian is one of ten academic coaches working in a new program that ties county high schools and college institutions together to give underserved students the support that could land them a college acceptance letter and a degree.

The Northwood students are among hundreds across ten Montgomery County Public Schools participating in the first year of the Achieving College Excellence and Success (ACES) program, the product of a partnership between Montgomery College, the county school system and The Universities at Shady Grove.

So far, Pabian said, the enthusiastic juniors and seniors at Northwood have been telling him the areas where they could use some help, whether it’s a senior in the midst of college applications or a junior “hungry” for more information about college.

“They’re making me want to dostuffbecausethey’rejusthappy that I’m there giving them these resources,” said Pabian, who previously worked as a school counselor.

Karen Callender, the program’s director, described it as

“the first continuous partnership” between the three academic institutions.

Callendersaidthepartnership aims to provide resources to students who are underrepresented in higher education.

The program — similar to one at Northern Virginia Community College — will provide students with the resources they need on a case-by-case basis, Callender said.

The vast majority of students who applied to the program were accepted, she said. Each school has an average of 90 students in the program, though there were enough spots for about 120.

The ten high schools involved this year include: Clarksburg, Seneca Valley, Watkins Mill, Gaithersburg, Rockville, Wheaton, Blair, Kennedy, Einstein and Northwood.

Many students are expected to continue on to Montgomery College for the first two years of college and then Shady Grove for the final semesters of a four-year degree.

“It’s a natural pathway for students that live in Montgomery County,” Callender said.

Yet even if a student decides to go to another college, Callender said, they stay in the program until they can frame a degree.

Stewart Edelstein, executive director of The Universities at Shady Grove, said the program aims to provide “a support system” for students facing obstacles to a college education, a good part of which are financial.

“They may not be thinking college is possible for them,” he said.

Many of the students currently in the program — about 60 percent, according to Callender — would be first-generation college students who might need extra support to navigate the opportunities available to them.

Montgomery College has also seen students arrive on campus who are not prepared for higher education and who don’t complete their degrees, Callender said.

Edelstein said the program also provides an adult mentor for students who might not otherwise have one.

In addition to their time with an academic coach in high school, the students will also find support from a counselor at Montgomery College and an advisor at Shady Grove.

Students will be identified in 9th grade as potential program candidates and, as such, will receive extra support during their freshmen and sophomore high school years, Callender said.

If accepted into the program, they will start working with an academic coach like Pabian in the 11th grade through graduation during both one-on-one meetings — usually weekly — and group workshops that focus on topics such as financial aid, college essays and study skills.

The program also includes summer components for the students during their high-school years and during their time at Montgomery College and Shady Grove if they choose that route, Callender said.

Edelstein said Shady Grove willreachouttothestudentswhile

they’re still in high school and provide them with academic and career information.

Dinecia Pierre-Louis is also among the academic coaches who will meet their high school students before and after school andduringlunchandfreeperiods.

Pierre-Louis — who previously worked with at-risk students and then as a college academic advisor — said recently that she was also still learning about the 121 Watkins Mill High students under her charge.

The students are “so excited” to be in the program and eager for help — a sign that it is needed, she said.

The limit was supposed to be 120 students at each school, but she accepted one more.

“It’s so hard when a student comes in and you see their enthusiasm,” she said. “How could I say no?”

Pierre-Louis said that, as someone who moved from Haiti to the U.S. as a teenager, she can relate to the students who come from different backgrounds and cultures.

Callender said there are plans to expand the program in the school system.

While funding hasn’t been secured, she said she has developed a budget for adding eight high schools to the program next year.

“The goal and the hope is it would be as many Montgomery County schools that can utilize the services,” she said.

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Melvin M. Gienau, 97, Germantown, MD, and a native of Deshler, Nebraska, passed away on September 25, 2013, at his home. Born April 3, 1916, the son of the late Milton M. Gienau and Elenora Schwanz Gienau. His wife, Ophelia H. Gienau, preceded him in death. His daughter, Avis Ann Gienau, of California, Maryland, survives him.

He worked for the Coast & Geodetic Survey at the U.S. Commerce Department, where he was instrumental in mapmaking for the war effort during World War II. He later retired from the Federal government. He was a member of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Gaithersburg, MD, where services were held on Saturday, October 26th, 2013.

Memorial contributions may be directed to Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 16420 S. Westland Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20877.

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Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler said he should have investigated whether teens were drinking alcohol at a party his son attended in June.

“I didn’t go over and stick my nose in [the cups] and see, but maybe I should have,” Gansler told about a dozen reporters at a Silver Spring press conference Thursday.

Gansler, a Democrat who is running for governor in Maryland, called the press conference to address a Baltimore Sun story about the party.

According to The Sun, Gansler’s son and other students from the Landon School in Bethesda attended a party in South Bethany, Del., on June 13 to celebrate their graduation. A few of the students’ parents paid for a weeklong vacation at a beach house where the party was held.

In The Sun’s photo, Gansler is shown holding up his cellphone in the center of a large group of dancing teens.

Gansler said he dropped by the party to tell his son when they would leave Delaware to drive to Pennsylvania in the morning, but he did not pay attention what his son’s friends were drinking.

The Sun reported that two party chaperones, parents of the students, were at the event to enforce the house rules: bedroom doors must stay open and teens may not drink hard liquor or drive.

Gansler told The Sun that he was concerned about his own son, and not necessarily the contents of the teens’ red plastic cups. But at the press conference, he said that was a mistake.

Gansler is aware there was beer at the party, but he said investigating underage drinking was not his priority that night.

“I didn’t buy the beer,” he

said. “I showed up, talked to my son and left.”

At the press conference, Gansler also addressed questions about his use of his cell phone, which he appears to be holding at an arm’s length. He verified that he was in the photos, and said he was not taking pictures, but was walking through the party while trying to read a text message.

The gubernatorial candidate said he did not see anyone in immediate danger, using drugs or getting hurt, and his main concern was to talk to his son. Gansler noted he was not one of the chaperones, and did not take part in the lease for the beach house.

“What I could have done is investigate whether there was drinking going on, and take action,” he said. “I probably should have done that.”

Gansler said he has strong relationships with his son and his son’s friends, many of whom he has coached since they were children.

“I’m a very, very involved parent,” he said.

This is the second time this month Gansler has been forced to answer questions about his conduct after a news story. The Washington Post reported that police assigned to drive Gansler around have alleged that he directs them to drive aggressively and unnecessarily use lights and sirens.

Gansler has disputed the allegation.

Gansler is one three Democrats seeking the gubernatorial nomination next year. The others are Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown and Del. Heather R. Mizeur.

Gansler was first sworn in as Maryland’s attorney general in 2007. He was re-elected in 2010. The Democratic candidate for governor hit the campaign trail in September, and is now working on a county-bycounty campaign to share his vision for Maryland, The Gazette previously reported. scarignan@gazette.net

Obituary Wendy Elayna Bounds (1964-2013), 49, passed away at home, following a brief illness, on October 9, 2013 in Salisbury, MD. She was born in Oxford, Mississippi on September 23, 1964, daughter to Kathleen Wickes and Thomas F. Jones, III.

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Wendy graduated from Seneca Valley High School in Germantown, MD in 1982 and earned a B.A. in Psychology from Salisbury University in 1987. She served as the manager of the Casual Corner and Petite Sophisticate at the Centre at Salisbury for over 10 years, where she enjoyed helping customers and friends dress to impress. Wendy loved spending time with her friends, family, and pets, and especially loved spending that time at the beach in Corolla, NC and Assateague Island, MD. She is survived by the two shining stars of her life, her son William Bounds of Delmar, MD and daughter Rebecca Mir of New York City; her sister Jessica Dry and her nephews Riley, Robby, and Joey Helliwell of Ijamsville, MD; her mother Kathleen Wickes of Gaithersburg, MD; her father Thomas F. Jones, III of Manila, Philippines; and many aunts, uncles, and cousins. Her family is grateful to those who loved, cared for, and brought joy to Wendy over the years.

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Faris, Coles Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Faris of Gaithersburg announce the engagement of their daughter, Victoria Lee Faris, to Mr. Daniel Edward Coles, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coles of Burlington, N.C. The bride-to-be was born in Gaithersburg and is a 2003 graduate of Quince Orchard High School in Gaithersburg. She graduated from the University of Mississippi in 2008 with a degree in special education. She is employed at the Kilmer Center in Fairfax County, Va. She is also currently enrolled in George Mason University for a master’s degree in special education.

The prospective groom was born in Burlington, N.C., and is a 2006 graduate of the University of North Carolina with a degree in political science. He is currently an assistant vice president in the legal department of the Bank of America. His next focus will be an MBA. A March 2014 wedding is planned at the Audubon Naturalist Society in Chevy Chase.

Figert, Dudley Mr. and Mrs. Karl D. Figert of Silver Spring announce the engagement of their daughter, Lynmarie I. Figert, to Michael C. Dudley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dudley of Chevy Chase.

The bride-to-be graduated from University of Maryland, College Park, in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in community health and from Howard Community College with a degree in nursing in 2010. She is currently employed as a registered nurse at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.

The prospective groom graduated from Salisbury University in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and in 2007 with a Master of Business Administration degree. He is currently a development accountant for StonebridgeCarras in Bethesda.

A June 2014 wedding is planned in Washington, D.C.

MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, 18101 Prince Philip Drive, Olney. Six-week complete childbirth preparation program prepares couples for a positive birthing experience.

The program is designed to help expectant couples plan for labor, delivery and how to care for a newborn. $150. www.montgomerygeneral.org.

ONGOING New Mothers Postpartum Support Group, 10-11:30 a.m.

RELIGION CALENDAR UPCOMING Neelsville’s Alternative Gift Market, Nov. 3 in the church’s

Fellowship Hall, 20701 Frederick Road, Germantown.

The church will also observe Orphan Sunday that day. All are welcome. Services are held at 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sunday mornings. Sunday School for all ages at 9:40 a.m. www.

Neelsville.org

A new and prospective member Shabbat, 9:30 a.m.

Nov. 16 at Torah Synagogue, 10 Ridge Road, Greenbelt.

Shabbat will feature services, kiddush lunch and an opportunity to meet rabbi, education director and members. RSVP appreciated but not required to membership@MishkanTorah.org. Free. 301-474-4223.

ONGOING Damascus United Methodist Church, 9700 New Church

Fisher, Abbamonte Bill and Ginger Fisher of Silver Spring announce the engagement of their daughter, Ashley E. Fisher, to Drew B. Abbamonte, son of Tom and Debi Abbamonte of Damascus.

The bride-to-be graduated from Blake High School in 2004. She attended Coastal Carolina University and received a degree in nursing from Howard Community College. She currently is employed by Sheppard Pratt in Ellicott City.

The prospective groom graduated from Damascus High School in 2003. He graduated from McDaniel College in 2006 and earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology. He currently is employed by the Montgomery County Police Department.

They will be married in Spring of 2014.

PLACING AN ANNOUNCEMENT

South, Massullo Gail and Steve South of Derwood announce the engagement of their daughter, Danielle Vincenza South, to Matthew Thomas Massullo of Morgantown, W.Va. Danielle is currently working on her master’s degree in Spanish at West Virginia University and expects to receive her degree in May 2014. She is also provisionally certified as a sign language interpreter.

Matthew holds his bachelor’s degree from WVU and is currently a specialist in the U.S. Army, getting ready to enter Special Forces training.

A late 2014 wedding is planned. The couple plan to reside in North Carolina, or wherever the Army tells them to live.

Mondays at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, 18101 Prince Philip Drive, Olney.

Ever wonder if you are the only one feeling stressed and alone now that a baby has joined your family? Wasn’t it supposed to be easier? If you are finding yourself feeling sad, anxious, angry or irritable, group support can help. Group led by two therapists who specialize in the postpartum period. Babies are welcome.

Free; registration required.

301-774-8881, www.montgomerygeneral.org.

Senior Fit, meets from 9-9:45 a.m. once a week at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, 18101 Prince Philip Drive, Olney. Free 45-minute exercise program designed for seniors age 55 and older. Senior Fit focuses on increasing strength, flexibility, balance, coordination, and cardiovascular endurance. Exercise is an important factor in preventing falls, managing chronic illnesses and improving quality of life. Classes are ongoing and a physician’s consent form is required to participate. Free for people over the age of 55.

301-774-8881, www.montgomerygeneral.org.

A Diabetes Support Group, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. the first Saturday of every month at Suburban Hospital, 8600 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda.

St., Damascus, offers traditional Sunday morning worship services at 8:15 a.m., a youth contemporary worship service at 9:30 a.m. and a service of liturgy and the word at 11 a.m. with Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. for all ages during the school year.

Liberty Grove United Methodist Church, 15225 Old

Columbia Pike, Burtonsville, conducts Sunday morning worship services at 8:30, 9:30 and 11 a.m. Sunday school, nursery through adult, is at 9:30 a.m. 301-421-9166. For a schedule of events, visit www. libertygrovechurch.org.

“MOPS,” a faith-based support group for mothers of children, birth through kindergarten, meets from 9-11:30 a.m. the first and third Wednesdays of the month at the Frederick Church of the Brethren, 201 Fairview Drive, Frederick.

Childcare is provided. This year’s theme, “A Beautiful Mess: Embracing Your Story,” focuses on remembering that beauty can come out of chaos and that your past, present and future can be used for good with God’s love. For more information call 301-662-1819. Email mops@ fcob.net.

Neelsville Presbyterian Church, 20701 Frederick Road,

Germantown, has returned to its Fall worship schedule, with services at 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sundays. Sunday School for all ages at 9:40 a.m. www.

Neelsville.org.

Providence United Methodist Church, 3716 Kemptown

Church Road, Monrovia, conducts a contemporary service at 8 a.m. followed by a traditional service at 9:30 a.m. Sunday mornings, with children’s Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. and adult Sunday school at 11 a.m. For more information, call 301-253-1768. Visit www. kemptownumc.org.

Trinity Lutheran Church, 11200 Old Georgetown Road, North Bethesda, conducts services every Sunday, with child care from 8 a.m. to noon and fellowship and a coffee hour following each service.

301-881-7275. For a schedule of events, visit www.TrinityELCA.org.

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Announcements are subject to editing for space. Please include contact information, including a daytime telephone number. Photos should be professional quality. If emailing photos, file size should be a minimum of 500 KB. Wedding announcements should be submitted no later than 12 months after the wedding. Send to: The Gazette, 9030 Comprint Court, Gaithersburg, MD 20877, or email kgroff@gazette.net. Montgomery County celebrations are inserted into all Montgomery County editions.

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SCHOOL LIFE For a half-century, sixth-graders have taken to the great outdoors School district celebrates program’s 50th anniversary n

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PEGGY MCEWAN STAFF WRITER

Looking for a better way to reach some of his students, Joe Howard, then principal of Four Corners Elementary School in Silver Spring, launched a program that still touches the lives of thousands of students every year.

That was 50 years ago. Howard is retired now and Four Corners Elementary no longer exists.

But his idea, outdoor education, is still going strong.

Montgomery County Public Schools celebrated the 50th anniversary of its outdoor education program Saturday with an open house at the Lathrop E. Smith Environmental Education Center in Rockville.

“The motivation came when we were building an out-

door trail at [Four Corners] and found that the ‘problem’ kids were not problems when working outdoors,” Howard said.

“So we tried to find things in the curriculum that we could teach outdoors — things like studying the ecosystem, the forest community, ponds and streams and meadows.”

Howard took the very first class of outdoor education students, fifth-graders from Four Corners, to Camp Greentop in Thurmont in 1962. About 20 of those students attended Saturday’s open house for a minireunion. A photo of them hangs in the meeting hall of the Smith Center.

“It was just one class, a pilot program,” said Kathleen Cochran of Chevy Chase, who was part of the pilot program.

“The next year Mr. Howard took about 90 kids, the very first class to do outdoor ed.”

Howard eventually became the school district’s first supervisor of outdoor education programs, he said, serving in that position from the mid-1970s

until he retired in 1988.

“To me it was a more effective way of teaching, learning by doing,” Howard said. “We didn’t just tell them what was going on in a pond, we showed them.”

The school district opened the Smith Environmental Education Center on 10 acres in Rockville in 1974, built to accommodate all the district’s sixth-graders as they attended the five-day residential program.

Smith, who lived from 1902 to 1971, was a Montgomery County Council president, board of education president, farmer and conservationist. “[He was the] driving force for the preservation of the Rock Creek valley to save it from mass development of residential communities,” Laurie Jenkins, current supervisor of the program, wrote in an email.

Over the years, with budget cuts and population growth, Howard said, the residential program has been cut from five to three days. And the program needs to rent other facilities to handle all the sixth-graders, Jen-

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Chris Jansson, a physical education teacher at Cedar Grove Elementary School in Germantown, shows his son C.J., 4, a solar-powered plastic bug at an open house Saturday at the Lathrop E. Smith Environmental Education Center in Rockville. kins said.

“We can get about 40 to 45 percent of our sixth-grade schools in but we also use two other sites, Summit Lake [Camp] in Emmitsburg and Skycroft

[Conference Center] in Middletown,” Jenkins said.

According to the Smith Center website, the Outdoor Environmental Education Program “serves over 20,000 students

each year in two major programs: the Residential Program in which every Grade 6 student participates and the Day Program in which [pre-K]-12 students explore and investigate the natural environment. At all programs students participate in curriculum-based environmental investigations.”

The staff also provides professional development in environmental education to more than 500 teachers annually.

Outdoor education was celebrated Saturday by more than 300 people, Jenkins said. The day included a formal news conference, a birthday cake and hands-on activities at 24 learning stations.

Brandon Hebert, 8, a thirdgrader at Lois P. Rockwell Elementary School in Damascus, said his favorite activity was the confidence course.

“It makes you stronger and you have to think before you use it,” Brandon said. pmcewan@gazette.net

EDUCATION NOTEBOOK Willing to weed: Students clean school courtyard About a dozen sixth-graders, 10 volunteers from Home Depot and a few staff and faculty members worked to clean up a courtyard at Montgomery Village Middle School on Oct. 22.

“I think the outside should be pretty. When we are walking through the hall, we should be able to see flowers and all,” said Tamyiah Starnes, 11. “And if there are bugs, they need a home.”

The group pulled weeds, cut back overgrown shrubs and picked up trash, collecting 12 large bags of waste for the dump. Then, they planted new plants, spread mulch and swept the walkways.

In less than two hours, the courtyard was transformed with plants that would last through the winter, including burning bush shrubs, named for their brilliant fall foliage, and variegated liriope, an ornamental grass showing green and white against the dark brown mulch.

“I think it is really cool because this is helping the school, we get [student service learning] hours and it’s helping nature,” said Jade Pinkowitz, 11.

Along the way, the students learned about planting, pruning, mulching and even how to use a push broom.

“As we go along, we teach them how to plant and what’s a weed,” said John Roberts, man-

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Sixth-graders at Montgomery Village Middle School work with volunteers from Home Depot to clean up one of the school’s courtyards Oct. 22. ager of the Germantown Home Depot store.

Roberts spearheaded the project, a repeat of a cleanup at the school two years ago.

“The Home Depot Foundation is all about giving back to the community,” Roberts said.

“We volunteer because it’s important to us.”

Christian Bergman, 11, said he has helped with yard work at home and enjoys it because it keeps the environment clean.

“It’s fun getting all the weeds out of the dirt,” he said.

“It’s making it look nice.”

Richard Montgomery student wins green award Jessica Li, a senior at Richard Montgomery High School

in Rockville, won the inaugural

Next Generation Award, one of the 2013 Maryland Clean Energy Awards, at the Maryland Clean Energy Summit on Oct. 15 and 16.

As president of the school’s Environmental Awareness Club, Li organized Friday afternoon energy shutdowns during which students go around the school turning off lights, printers, computers and monitors. She has organized presentations during first-period classes on energy conservation and alternative energy, coordinated a T-shirt design contest, an energyfocused “Jeopardy!” game, a “Watt’s Up” poster contest and a “Why Use Alternative Energy” essay contest to boost awareness of energy issues.

For the past two years, Li has given presentations at

Rockville Science Day on the benefits of energy conservation at home. She also was invited to present her research on wood batteries at the 2012 USA Science and Engineering Fair and has worked with the county’s School Energy and Recycling Team program to advance effective, local strategies that schools can use to reduce energy consumption.

The Clean Energy Awards recognize individuals, companies and organizations that have demonstrated leadership, partnership, advocacy and entrepreneurism in a distinct commitment to advancing clean energy, energy efficiency and job creation, Kathy Magruder, executive drector of the Maryland Clean Energy Center, said in a statement.

“When I read the nomination for Jessica Li, I felt as though there is hope for the planet with remarkable young people like her coming up in the world,” Magruder wrote.

Takoma Park, Sadie Isakower of Bethesda and Ivan Reimers of Silver Spring.

Each year, the program honors about 5,000 of the highest-scoring students from more than 250,000 Latino juniors who take the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The students are from the U.S., including its territories, plus Americans attending schools abroad.

“I feel honored to have received this award,” Isakower said in a statement. “Being part of the Blair Magnet has been an awesome experience, and I will never forget the wonderful teachers and friends I’ve met at Blair. The Magnet has totally changed how I think about real world problems, and I feel that because of this, my peers and I are at a definite advantage as we enter college.”

Blair High seniors honored

by Hispanic program

Montgomery County’s inaugural school food forum, “Creating a Vision of Fresh, Real Food in Montgomery County Public Schools,” will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Lutheran Church of St. Andrew, 15300 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring.

The forum will feature regional and national experts on nutrition and diet, food education, and sourcing fresh, local food for school systems.

Four seniors at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver

Spring were selected Sept. 25 to be honored in the 2014 National Hispanic Recognition Program, which recognizes academically outstanding Latino high school students.

The seniors are Sabrina Bradford and Jared Collina of

School food forum is Saturday in Silver Spring

Keynote speaker Tony Geraci is a nationally known school

food reformer, former food director for Baltimore City Public Schools, current director of nutrition services in the Shelby County Schools in Memphis, Tenn., and subject of the film “Cafeteria Man.” Presenters include Marla Caplon, director of the Montgomery County Public Schools Division of Food and Nutrition Services; Lisa Y. Lefferts, senior scientist with the Center for Science in the Public Interest; endocrinologist Shivani Narasimhan of Annapolis; Kathy Lawrence, director of strategic development, School Food Focus; Jill Coutts, science resource and horticulture teacher, Sherwood High School in Sandy Spring; Karla Kratovil, PTA vice president and school garden coordinator at Flower Hill Elementary School in Gaithersburg; and county Councilman George L. Leventhal (D-At large) of Takoma Park.

There will be a nutritious, locally sourced lunch, with a talk by Ype Von Hengst, COO and executive chef of Silver Diner.

The forum is co-hosted by Real Food for Kids-Montgomery and Montgomery Victory Gardens.

Registration, including lunch, is $25. For more information and to register, visit realfoodforkidsmontgomery. org.

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CLASSIC CURTIS

Gansler’s soul searching

One of the most telling quotes from Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler, as his gubernatorial candidacy became mired in controversy last week, 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 quickly. Sometimes, Gansler got antsy and flipped on the lights and sirens himself — or he’d take the wheel, the Post reported.

More recently, The Baltimore 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.

Rec center blues About 30 years ago, many radio stations adopted the “classic rock” format, a term that entered the public lexicon without much recognition that it’s an oxymoron.

As a style of music, rock ’n’ roll is rooted in rebellion and rejecting the status quo. Would Jerry Lee Lewis want to be called “classic”?

A debate in Wheaton could take oxymoronic musical genres to new heights with the creation of “historic rock.” A number of people think the Wheaton Recreation Center should receive a historic PRESERVING designation, in part, because WHEATON in 1969, before anyone knew SITE WOULD who they were, Led Zeppelin NOT HONOR played there. Maybe that’s true, or maybe that’s an urban legITS TIES TO end. Many people believe the ROCK assertion though there’s little evidence to support the band actually played there.

But since when has rock ’n’ roll been about bricks and mortar? Elvis Presley shook his hips to outrage middle America. Long after hip-shaking became passé, rock found other ways to shock, including Led Zep’s everincreasing volume and sensuality on stage.

If indeed the band played in Wheaton — and even if the assertion is false, who doesn’t want to believe it? — preserving the rec center is no way to honor that event.

The building has a leaky roof and mold. A kitchen stove has only two burners that work. There’s a lump on the basketball court that defies attempts at repair.

Beyond the tenuous connection to popular culture, others want the building preserved because of its Asianinfluenced modern design architecture. Even so, there’s not much to preserve. To most people, the building would be a universally endorsed candidate for demolition.

The community desperately needs the new rec center-library that’s planned to be constructed in its place.

The Planning Board should approve the request to raze the building.

And if there are people who want to honor one of the band’s first performances, a music festival might be more appropriate. Or possibly a plaque on the new building: “Robert Plant might have slept here.”

The Gazette Karen Acton, President/Publisher

LETTERS TOT HE EDITOR

We can’t eliminate all vehicles

David Hauk’s Oct. 16 letter urges “a robust bus rapid transit network” because “the way to solve gridlock is to move people, not cars.” [“Bus plan looks to the future, not an auto-centric past”] I grew up in Cleveland when it had an exceptional streetcar/bus system. That was fine to get to and from work. It was improbable to use when going shopping, going to a dress-up event, etc. Also, public transpor-

tation presents problems for people with physical impairments, despite special devices to help passengers getting on and off.

The White Flint development planners allege area residents will be able to walk to all kinds of stores, office buildings, entertainment venues, restaurants, etc. They fail to take into account the hordes of “outsiders” who will also want to take advantage of those stores, office buildings, entertainment ven-

David H. Brown, North Bethesda

He who pays the piper The budget of the Montgomery County Public Schools for FY 2015 is in the early stages of formulation. This budget of over $2 billion is close to 50 percent of the tax-supported budget of Montgomery County. So who are the players who will influence this budget at this critical stage?

It is the Budget Steering Committee. The members of this committee are the deputy superintendents, the employee union leaders representing the Montgomery County Association of Administrators and Principals, the Montgomery County Education Association (teachers), the Service Employees International Union Local 500, and the Montgomery County Council of Parent Teachers Associations.

These are all undoubtedly important players and represent important sectors of the Montgomery County Public Schools.

Every member of this committee has a vested interest in increasing the budget for many and various reasons.

Why is the school board not

represented? It is true that they will eventually get the budget for approval but they do not have the analytical capability at that late stage to ask the hard questions. Also a little known fact: The charter of the board allows only those questions to be asked of the school administration if all members have an interest. Individual questions from individual board members are not entertained — and this for a $2 billion budget.

Now that the maintenance of effort law has stripped the County Council of its operating budget oversight role, virtually turning the council into a spectator with power of the purse only over capital spending, there is even greater need for outside representation. Matching MCPS resource requirements with other county priorities no longer takes place in public. In effect the formulation of the MCPS budget is left to folks with an inherent conflict of interest.

Would the committee gain from the inclusion of other members such as those who might

question the long-range implications of Budget Steering Committee decisions, who might inquire about the effective and efficient use of current dollars, who might ask about the crosswalk between strategies and funding and between funding and performance?

Could the MCPS budget process be improved with more citizen-group participation?

Could an independent study of the MCPS budget, as we proposed to the superintendent last Spring, be beneficial?

We suggest that the committee be expanded to include representatives from the County Council, the office of the county executive and even, perhaps, from a civic group. Because what is missing from the equation are the interests of the Montgomery County taxpayer. It is telling that he who pays the MCPS piper does not call the tune.

Metro isn’t going to accept the county’s fix unless we (Montgomery County taxpayers) agree to pay the costs for subsequent repairs in the years to come!

The fix oughta be: 1. Fire all the county engineers who placed their P.Eng stamp on the flawed structural drawings.

2. Redesign the weak ramps and parking slabs.

3. Foulger-Pratt uses a different concrete placement company, and Facchina pays the costs for concrete replacement.

The county needs to do this project right! The time it takes to rebuild the flawed areas is not the issue.

Steve Cullen, Silver Spring

Robert J. Riker, Chevy Chase

Joan Fidler, Bethesda The writer is the president of the Montgomery County Taxpayers League.

Latex-modified concrete isn’t the answer The remediation plan to use a latex-modified concrete (LMC) overlay being adopted by Montgomery County’s Building, Design, Construction & the Division of General Services and the “ad hoc working group,” according to Foulger-Pratt is “illadvised and ill-conceived.”

Way back when, Ike Leggett secretly hired KCE Structural Engineers (Ike didn’t inform the County Council) to study and report back on Transit Center’s flawed construction. KCE reported serious issues with the Transit Center’s design, construction, concrete strength & testing, etc.

And now, we have Earnest Lunsford Jr., the administrator

of the county’s building design and construction division, and David Dise, the director the county’s General Services Division (who were both involved with this project in its initial stages) suggesting that Byrant Foulger hire a contractor to do a Band-Aid fix using the LMC method — instead of demolishing and replacing the flawed concrete ramps and areas that are not on spec for this project.

The gentlemen from the county are consulting with Wagman for using the LMC method, but there isn’t any proof that this latex-modified concrete will hold up over the long term that taxpayers will need to guarantee — because we all know that

Robert Rand, Managing Editor Ken Sain, Sports Editor Andrew Schotz, Assistant Managing Editor Dan Gross, Photo Editor Jessica Loder, Web Editor

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Purple Line will not get enough riders

Among the numbers MDOT most often uses to define the Purple Line are 70 trains per day and 51,200 passengers per day in the opening year, 2020. They say it will grow to 74,160 riders per day on the same 70 trains 20 years later. Thus the starting average load carried by each two-car train calculates to 731 passengers/train and grows to 1,059 in a couple of decades.

Nearby property owners who dread the passing of 70 trains a day in each direction need not fear an increase in that figure.

MDOT is fond of pointing out that trains will travel the length of the Purple line in barely over an hour.

They emphasize that traveling between Bethesda and New Carrollton by bus today takes more than an hour and a half. (You have to travel into downtown Washington, D.C., and back out).

Not too long ago, private bus companies sought routes which might attract a very profitable 50 passengers per mile per day. If there were even 800 daily riders, a bus route would have been established long ago.

The Purple Line is not replacing a Bethesda-New Carrollton bus route because bus operators never could find sufficient riders.

How will MDOT support an exclusive right of way (designed to handle 200 trains per day) with a daily ridership that might be closer to 800 than 51,200?

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ues, restaurants, etc. Also, there are service people and their small trucks who are vital to any community.

Then, there is the weather — whether it be rain, intense heat, snow, etc. Using public transportation is a challenge then.

The reality is there will always be a need for vehicular traffic. At least, keep that in mind in development plans.

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Intel from Gonzales

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

Such polls should be taken with large grains of salt.

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

Last week Gonzales released its poll taken during the first two weeks of October surveying a cross section of voters demographically weighted to reflect who shows up on MY MARYLAND Election Day. Here are the BLAIR LEE highlights: M o s t people are not yet paying attention to a primary election that’s still eight months away. When asked to judge the two Democratic frontrunners for governor, 56 percent of Democratic voters were either “neutral” or didn’t recognize Anthony Brown and 72 percent were the same about Doug Gansler. A third candidate, Heather Mizeur, was unknown to 79 percent of Maryland Democrats.

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

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

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

Only 19 percent of Mary-

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No, because only Democratic voters will decide the Brown vs.

Gansler primary and, among Dems, O’Malley remains popular (favorable 67 percent, unfavorable 29 percent). True, among Demo-

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

Things might be different for Brown in the general election against an attractive Republican.

But this is where Brown’s race — African American — becomes such a huge factor.

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

Like KKT, Brown is battling voter fatigue, his boss’s declining popularity and, in addition, a strong primary opponent. But running as Maryland’s first African-American governor in a state that’s 30 percent African American is Brown’s ace in the hole. Or, put it this way; if Brown was white, his prospects would look a whole lot more like KKT’s.

One possible game changer in this nascent governor’s race is Obamacare. O’Malley put Brown in charge of designing and masterminding Maryland’s Obamacare program. It’s Brown’s signature accomplishment as lieutenant governor, and if it implodes, so does Brown.

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

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

Blair Lee is chairman of the board of Lee Development Group in Silver Spring and a regular commentator for WBAL radio. His column appears Fridays in the Business Gazette.

His past columns are available at www.gazette.net/blairlee. His email address is blairleeiv@gmail. com.

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A pledge to recuse I am grateful for the endorsement of my candidacy for the Rockville City Council by The Gazette [“For Team Rockville,” editorial, Oct. 23]. The endorsement noted that there could be concerns regarding my effectiveness as a county government senior manager and a Rockville City elected official.

There are very few occasions when my work with the county will overlap with the business of the city. In those rare instances when there could be a concern, I pledge to recuse myself from any vote that may be perceived as a source of conflict. It should be noted

that I am no longer with the county’s Office of Management and Budget where resource allocation recommendations are made to the county executive. More importantly, it is precisely my long-standing professional relationships with county elected officials, county government appointed and merit leaders which will permit me to build bridges for improved dialog and decision-making to reach consensus ... while advocating for city interests.

I believe that my 24 years of service with Montgomery County Government as well as my experience as a member of

Other letters on the Rockville City Council election appear on www.gazette.net/opinions the Rockville City Board of Supervisors of Elections, a graduate of Leadership Montgomery and Rockville University as well as my current chairmanship of Montgomery Hospice will be an excellent foundation for serving as a member of the Rockville City Council.

Beryl L. Feinberg, Rockville The writer is a candidate for the Rockville City Council.

Historic Pink Bank set to be demolished At the Oct. 14, mayor and council meeting, Rockville’s representatives voted 3-2 to allow the demolition of the historic “Pink Bank” at 255 N. Washington St. This vote was accomplished through the use of a flaw in Rockville’s historic designation process, which allows the mayor and council to cut short the normal public hearing process, preventing public hearings before both the Planning Commission and the mayor and council.

I urge the citizens of Rockville to review the meeting’s discussion and ultimate decision online as I believe the decision made that evening has implications for how the public’s voice will be heard in Rockville in the future.

However, this is only a symptom of a larger issue: the misuse of historic preservation in Rockville.

Several council members claim to be in favor of historic preservation, yet their actions indicate not an interest in preservation of history, but rather, preser-

vation of specific architectural styles that meet their own tastes.

This is a devastating way to view historic preservation, as we should have learned during the gutting of our town center through urban renewal in the 1960s.

By eliminating one of the last physical reminders of that era, we are also engaging in a whitewashing of our history, and as we all should know by now, to forget past mistakes is to be doomed to repeat them.

Furthermore, the city will miss out on a key economic development opportunity. In 30 years, I expect we will be gutting our town center again, when the current architectural and planning trends fade.

The Pink Bank represents something unique in our community that could set the city apart for years to come.

In fact, the Maryland Economic Development Association’s fall conference this year focused on placemaking. According to MDBIZ News, a publication of

the Maryland Department of Business & Economic Development that covered the conference, two takeaways from this gathering of the region’s top economic developers were that “a community’s uniqueness fuels growth because ‘the more your community looks like everyone else’s, the less people will want to go there’ (Ed McMahon, Urban Land Institute)” and “investing in historic preservation yields lasting long-term results in fostering place, but it needs to follow a long-term plan.”

Rockville’s Historic Resources Management Plan states as its goal: identify and protect the Historic Resources as visual and physical reminders of the themes and periods in the city’s development.

Therefore, I ask Rockville’s citizens to consider these important issues, and make their voices heard.

Jessica Reynolds, Rockville The writer is a Rockville Historic District Commissioner, and an economic development professional.

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Continued from Page A-1 in a campaign against distracted walking, which Christina was doing before she was hit.

The campaign is called “Moment of Silence.” Students are urged to put down or turn off their electronic devices as they are about to cross a street.

During school lunch breaks and after school, Ward has stood on the same corner where Christina died to remind students to take that moment of silence and be aware of their surroundings when they cross the street.

She has passed out reflectors for them to clip onto their jackets or backpacks.

“It’s been difficult, but it’s been therapeutic,” Ward said. “[I’m involved] to help prevent this from happening again.”

Ward said she was at work on the morning of Oct. 31 when her son called to say Christina had been in an accident and he was going to the hospital. That was

HELP Continued from Page A-1 Large) of Silver Spring, who sponsored the bill.

Many community groups in the county strongly supported the bill, Riemer said.

A county memorandum on the issue reported that representatives of Catholic Charities, the Justice and Advocacy Council of Montgomery County, Progressive Maryland and Maryland Hunger Solutions, among other groups, supported the bill at a July public hearing.

Councilwoman Nancy Floreen (D-At Large) of Garrett Park said she’s always voted for a full match by the county, and she hopes the county will be able to do more in the future in other areas.

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all she knew when she arrived at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville. It was not long before she heard the bad news that her daughter had died.

“Our kids are precious, and to lose someone that young is really devastating,” Ward said.

“I never expected my daughter would not come home.”

Ward said that after putting stories together from witnesses and the police, she learned that Christina was wearing dark clothes. It was early morning, not quite daylight, when she was walking to school.

Christina was looking down at her cellphone and had earphones on. She was not in a crosswalk as she crossed the eight-lane road.

Those conditions and actions increase the chance of pedestrian collisions, said Jeff Dunckel, pedestrian safety coordinator for the Montgomery County Department of Transportation.

“Sadly, she paid the ultimate price,” he said.

Dunckel said vigilance by drivers and pedestrians is “a twoway street.”

“We are trying to get drivers to be aware that pedestrians may not be where they expect to see them,” he said.

Kate Carr, president of Safe Kids Worldwide, a global organization dedicated to preventing injuries to children, said she heard about Ward’s work with Montgomery County’s transportation department and asked if she was willing to help students nationwide by sharing her story.

“She’s been really willing to get involved. We developed our Moment of Silence campaign with her in honor of Christina,” said Gary Karton, director of communications for Safe Kids Worldwide.

The need is great, Carr said.

Safe Kids conducted an observational study in 17 states during the 2012-13 school year involving 34,325 students walking to school.

“One in five high schools students was distracted by an

electronic device and one in eight middle schoolers,” she said.

“There are a lot of campaigns against distracted driving. [We need one] for distracted walking.”

In Montgomery County, Dunckel said, information from 2010 to 2012 shows 172 pedestrian collisions within a half-mile of Montgomery County high schools, 30 of them involving high school-age kids.

“This is the time of year that we have an increase in pedestrian collisions,” he said. “We think it’s because more people are out when it’s dark.”

Pedestrians will stand out more near traffic if they wear light-colored clothing or have on something reflective. That is why Ward stood on the corner giving out reflectors and talking to students.

“I want them to be safe,” she said. “I just want to get this message out.”

“I’m fine with this solution, but I’m hopeful we can do better in the coming years depending on the resources available,” Floreen said.

Council Vice President Craig Rice (D-Dist. 2) of Germantown said he’d like to see the county take a more comprehensive approach.

The income supplement itself won’t lift anyone out of poverty, and with many federal programs facing cuts, the county will have to do more, Rice said.

Maryland residents can claim a credit for up to half of their federal earned income tax credit, and a refund of up to one quarter of the federal credit, according to a county release.

In 2000, Montgomery started matching 100 percent of the Maryland refund to help

residents afford the high costof-living in the county. But a bill passed in 2010 allowed the council to set the county income supplement at less than 100 percent of the state refundable credit by passing a resolution each year.

In fiscal 2011, the county supplement was set at 72.5 percent, 68.9 percent in fiscal 2012 and 75.5 percent in fiscal 2013.

In May, the council approved an increase in the supplement to 85 percent of the state refundable credit for fiscal 2014.

The bill passed Tuesday requires the county supplement to increase to 90 percent in fiscal 2015, 95 percent in fiscal 2016 and 100 percent in fiscal 2017 and beyond.

According to an analysis by the county’s Finance Office, the

funding increase in fiscal 2015 will cost the county an additional $1.016 million.

In fiscal 2011, 33,840 Montgomery residents qualified for the supplement, receiving an average of $381.81, according to the county. Restoring the county match to 100 percent would provide an extra $124 per person.

To qualify for the earned income tax credit for the tax year 2013, a resident with three or more qualifying children must make less than $46,227, or $51,567 if filing jointly with a spouse.

A taxpayer with no qualifying children must make less than $14,340 or $19,680 if filing jointly.

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The plan proposes that six revitalization/expansion projects continue with their current completion dates. They include Bel Pre, Candlewood and Rock Creed Forest elementary schools; Wheaton and Seneca Valley high schools; and the Thomas Edison High School of Technology.

If the state provides more funding, Starr said, it may be possible for some projects to return to their original schedule.

The recommended program also directs about $283 million toward systemic projects that include security upgrades and HVAC, roof and door replacements.

Starr said it’s “starting to show” that the school system has not put budgeted enough in recent years for infrastructure needs.

“We’ve been skimping on that because we’ve had to fund so many other things,” he said.

Starr said he is asking for an increase of $28 million in both fiscal 2015 and fiscal 2016 to put toward the school system’s backlog of HVAC replacement projects. He added that further investments will need to be made “down the road.”

About $155 million was recommended for technology modernization projects such as new computers.

The county school board is scheduled hold a work session on the plan Nov. 7 and two public hearings on Nov. 11 and 14 before it is expected to approve Starr’s request Nov. 18.

The program request then moves to County Executive Isiah

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“This single decision, affecting the long-term integrity of our regional water supply, will provide an excellent barometer,” she wrote.

Montgomery County Council Vice President Craig Rice (D-Dist.

2) of Germantown, who represents the Clarksburg and Boyds areas, was not available for comment Tuesday.

A message left with the office of Councilman Roger Berliner (DDist. 1) of Bethesda, who represents the Poolesville area, was not returned Tuesday.

However, Councilman Marc Elrich (D-At Large) of Takoma Park was clear about his position at this point in the Council’s review. “[The planning board] is obviously not trying to protect the stream. ... I’m totally baffled,” he said on Tuesday.

“There’s no scientific basis [for the decision],” said Elrich.

“Giving the developers something is not planning. ... It’s a fundamental truth that compromise is not always the answer.”

Elrich also questioned the wisdom of enabling The Peterson Companies to build a fashion outlet center on 100 acres east of Interstate 270 on land that includes the headwaters of Ten Mile Creek.

“It’s offensive,” he said about the recommendations.

The Peterson Companies says it believes developing the land and protecting the environment can occur concurrently.

“We are pleased that the planning board recognized the balance between development and environmental stewardship — a balance we have worked hard to achieve through our extensive work with the county staff,” Taylor Chess, president of Peterson’s retail division, wrote in an email Tuesday.

“We look forward to presenting our vision for Streamside at Clarksburg to the Council on Dec. 3, outlining our plan to deliver the great community-building project that Clarksburg and Montgomery County’s Master Plan are looking for in the next 24-30 months.”

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Concern for the reservoir motivated environmentalists to invite County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) on a Sept. 11 tour of the watershed. It included a stop at the Little Seneca Lake reservoir, which is south and outside of the Ten Mile Creek area reviewed by the planning board.

Little Seneca Lake can be tapped to raise the water level of the Potomac River in the event

Leggett (D) and the County Council.

School board President Christopher S. Barclay said the work session will mark a chance for the board to start asking questions.

“Capacity is the biggest issue that we have,” Barclay said. “We have got to figure out how to address this.”

Highland Elementary Principal Scott Steffan said the addition planned for his school in the proposed program hopefully will enable the school to accommodate its students without needing to add portable classrooms.

“I don’t have an open space anywhere. We’ve really felt the impact (of enrollment growth) this year,” he said. “For us to have the addition is tremendous.”

Lynne Harris — vice president for legislation for the Montgomery County Council of Parent-Teacher Associations — said her son attends Highland View Elementary School in Silver Spring, which is scheduled to undergo an expansion project but at an undetermined time.

While she is disappointed as a Highland View parent that her school will not see construction soon, she said, she sees that there are needs at every school and the school system’s capital budget requires “tough choices.”

Harris said the school system needs state funds more proportionate to the number of students it serves.

Montgomery County students are getting a good education, Harris said, but the school system has to figure out where to put the growing number of students.

“What are we going to do?” she said. “Put them on the roof?” lpowers@gazette.net drought reduces the river’s level below the intake pipes that feed the Potomac Water Filtration Plant, which supplies much of the county’s drinking water.

Leggett said he wanted more information about the condition of the reservoir, because Ten Mile Creek drains into it. In response, former County Councilman Scott Fosler has proposed a study to assess the effect of existing and proposed developments on the reservoir.

Fosler sent the proposal to Leggett on Oct. 10. It is currently being reviewed by the county’s Department of Environmental Protection. Foster also sent a copy to the planning board on Oct. 23.

In his outline, Fosler estimated that a study would take at least four months and could take more than a year, depending on the scope. He estimated it could cost from $200,000 to $1 million, but that the expense could be spread among agencies in the region served by the Potomac River drinking water supply.

Development projects Pulte Homes’ plan called for 1,000 housing units on high ground within 538 rural acres west of I-270 in Boyds.

Initially, three of the five planning board members supported up to 215 homes based on county planning recommendations that future development should instead be concentrated east of I-270 in central Clarksburg.

However, the final recommendation for cluster zoning on the Pulte site would allow up to 656 units and cap impervious surfaces to 10 percent, which means building some townhouses to reduce paved and built areas.

“Our original plan for 1,000 homes uses a lot layout that is clustered. ... It is the 10 percent impervious cap that is driving the conversion to more townhomes, which we are opposed to,” Stephen Collins, head of development programs for Pulte Homes, wrote in an email Tuesday. “We don’t think a higher percentage of townhomes in this area of Clarksburg is the best choice for the community.”

“We don’t feel this downzoning is warranted,” Collins wrote.

“We feel strongly that we can develop 1,000 homes with a comprehensive environmental plan that protects the watershed.”

East of I-270, which is closer to the planned town center of Clarksburg and the town’s historic district, the planning board is recommending an imperviousness cap of 25 percent.

That is lower than the 33 percent cap that the Peterson Cos. wanted, but it would still allow it to build a mixed-use development on the 100-acre Miles-Coppola site on the northeast corner of I-270 and Clarksburg Road (Md. 121).

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Annika Schwartz did not begin with the spike that snapped Sherwood High School’s 68 consecutive five-match victories on a volleyball court. She didn’t even begin with her senior year. Instead, her volleyball tenure began about five years ago, when she was 13-years-old.

Coached by current Academy of the Holy Cross coach Dave Geiser for the Montgomery Village Sports Association, Schwartz lined up alongside Autumn Jenkins, a Damascus graduate now playing at the University of Delaware, former Walter Johnson setter Stephanie Paul, now at William and Mary, current Walter Johnson hitter Brigid Morris, Win-

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Paint Branch High School football coach Mike Nesmith and senior receiver Javonn Curry said they have a similar exchange whenever they pass each other in the hallway.

“Are you going to make any big plays at all this year?” Nesmith asks.

“I got you, coach,” Curry says after laughing. “It’s going to come.”

“I hope so,” Nesmith says. “The year’s almost over. Make a play.”

Of course, Nesmith is just taking advantage of one of his favorite Curry attributes, his ability to take a joke.

Curry has 41 catches for 600 yards and 11 touchdowns entering No. 6 Paint Branch’s game against No. 8 Sherwood on Friday.

Really, Nesmith expected this type of production last season from Curry. But caught on a team with internal issues, Curry was limited.

The year before, Curry led Paint PHOTOS BY GREG DOHLER/THE GAZETTE Branch to a championship in the Paint Branch High School wide Freaks in Cleats 7-on-7 tournament receiver Javonn Curry. at Towson when several top older players were out with injuries. Ever since, Nesmith was sky high on the player who’d already impressed him as a freshman on junior varsity.

“We’ve seen those flashes that, when he was on — in that passing league tournament, he was on — no one would stop him,” Nesmith said. “He’s got great size. You’re not going to have a lot of defensive

ston Churchill hitter Kaitlyn Hillard and teammates Carly Marella and Madison Wyatt.

“I was looking at All-Gazette last year and I realized I had coached 60 percent of the girls,” Geiser said. “Almost all of those girls came in as a freshman and made varsity and played.”

“That was a great year,” Schwartz added. Great enough that she decided to drop all of her other various sports to concentrate on volleyball, same as Marella did with swimming that season. Now, Schwartz is the best hitter on arguably the most talented team in the state — Damascus earned the top seed in the 3A West Region for the start of this week’s playoffs — while the duo has developed into one of the most potent setter-hitter combinations in the area.

“She knows where I want it and I know where she’s going to put it,” said Schwartz, who leads

Paint Branch High School wide receiver Javonn Curry (right) catches a pass during team practice Thursday at the school in Burtonsville.

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Three months ago, Gabriel Ndiaye was not in the United States. He was back home, in Gambia, a West African country, getting ready to move across the Atlantic Ocean for college.

Now, he is the most prolific goal-scorer in the country for the second-ranked National Junior College Athletic Association Division III men’s soccer team heading into postseason play. Ndiaye’s Montgomery College (19-1) squad earned a first-round bye in the Region XX tournament (hosted by Prince George’s Community College) and is scheduled to play in the semifinal round Thursday. The national tournament is scheduled for Nov. 14-17 at Herkimer County Community College in New York.

“This is why we play

this game,” Raptors secondyear coach Pedro Braz said. “We play to go to the postseason and make a run. Last year was a surprise, but this year we have a target on us being the No. 2 team in the country. Opponents expect us to be good; we expect it and [Ndiaye] is one of the reasons why.”

Ndiaye came to Montgomery College, admittedly, very raw on the soccer field. He grew up playing unorganized soccer from a very young age. So, after enrolling at Montgomery College, he attended the Raptors’ open tryout sessions and immediately impressed the coaching staff.

“The first thing we noticed is he was a very talented natural goal scorer,” Braz said. “But he just didn’t have a lot of experience playing in an organized setting. He played a lot of street soccer back home and he struggled at the beginning and was a reserve, but now that he understands, he’s just doing what he is

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Montgomery County’s 25 public high school girls’ soccer teams have collectively scored an average of 27 goals apiece in 2013. Up until recently, that likely would’ve been the handy work of just one player.

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freshman by the name of Noelle Keselica scored an unprecedented 35 goals and averaged 25 a year over a four-year tenure. Walter Johnson’s all-time leading scorer, Caroline Miller, graduated in 2009 with a 22-per-year goal scoring average and Bethesda-Chevy Chase’s recent string of four consecutive state titles was propelled by go-to scorers such as Hannah Cooper (Class of 2009, four straight 18-plus goal seasons) and Vic Gersh (20 goals scored in 2009-10).

Gone are the days, for the most part it seems, of such dominant scorers. But the trend is in no way a sign of trouble for the county’s soccer teams. In fact,

coaches agree it’s symptomatic of increased talent county-wide. As more and more elite level clubs have popped up all over the region and attracted younger and younger athletes, experienced players are filling out teams’ depth charts in all areas of the county, not just the traditionally strong Bethesda and Potomac areas, Walt Whitman coach Greg Herbert said. Case in point, Gaithersburg’s recent ascent into the county’s upper echelon.

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“The trend [of more balanced scoring] is definitely there,” said Churchill coach Haroot Hakopian, who has been coaching in the county for two decades. In those times you had solid players and one outstanding player take it upon themselves to score. Now

you have several teams across the county with girls with six to 10 scorers. That means when they get the opportunity to finish, they’re finishing.”

The county is in no shortage of star power capable of peppering the stat sheet. If Whitman midfielder Aliza Wolfe played in the front field and put more emphasis just on scoring, Herbert and Hakopian agreed, her numbers could sky rocket. Though more comfortable in the set-up role, Hakopian said B-CC senior and Colgate University recruit Eliza Doll has the ability to take over games in a similar manner.

The recent trend has also been boosted by the type of player being developed at a young age, Hakopian said, and the brand of soccer it enables high school teams to employ. Players are more versatilethesedaysthantheywere 10 to 15 years ago, Hakopian said, and can play various roles on the field depending on where they’re

needed. Teams are generally able to efficiently execute a prettier, more possession style of soccer that lends itself to more balance among scoring options, coaches agreed.

Kurtz joked after the Barons’ 2-1 win over Whitman earlier this month that he would pay to have the high-scoring numbers he was accustomed to in the mid-2000s — one-goal decisions can be stressful — but the recent lack of dominant scoring signifies a new level of competition in Montgomery County girls’ soccer.

“You don’t see those players anymore who are ripping home 25 goals,” Kurtz said. “Hannah Cooper scored 18 goals for us four years in a row, I’d be paying her if she did that for us now. But the good thing is we’re getting it from a lot of different players.” jbeekman@gazette.net

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Ndiaye, who appeared softspoken and thoughtful during Monday’s practice, deflected the praise to his teammates. He’s made 15 starts and appeared in 19 games this fall.

“I owe it all to them and coach because they make sure I’m in the right place and their skills are amazing. I mean, Nick Castro has assisted on half of my goals,” Ndiaye said. “The atmosphere is just amazing here and we have a lot of diverse cultures, but we all hang out, call each other and stay together as a team.”

The 20-year-old freshman, who lives in Silver Spring, has been enjoying his time immersing himself in American culture.

His favorite thing is all of the fast food establishments.

“The food is the best here,” Ndiaye said. “McDonalds, Chipotle, Burger King — I try everything.”

Ndiaye, who is studying business and economics, moved to the United States primarily for education, but said he couldn’t give up his favorite sport.

“It was a little tough to move, but the education system is so much better here than back

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We have chemistry.”

The two have played together since they both picked up a volleyball for the first time at the age of 9. Even then, Marella impressed coaches with her soft hands and touch around the net.

Schwartz did the same with her ability to put it down from wherever the setter dished it out. It’s only become better from there.

“I’ve been her setter for forever,” Marella said. “Annika always likes it really ... quicker, not too high. A lot of hitters like it off the net to give them a little more room to work around the block.”

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Our Lady of Good Council High School’s field hockey team raises the championship trophy after beating Holy Cross. 2-1 in overtime, to win the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference championship Thursday at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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Gabriel Ndiaye (right) practices with the Montgomery College men’s soccer team Monday at the campus in Rockville. home,” he said. “I’ve loved playing soccer since I was little — you ask for soccer balls for Christmas every year back home — but the education is my first goal.

Montgomery College is averaging 6.2 goals per game with a .729 shot percentage while allowing just 0.9 goals per game. The Raptors, who don’t feature much height, are extremely technical, focused on ball control and make quick passes and swift movements.

“We don’t like the ball in the air a lot,” Braz said with a laugh and smile.

Sophomore center back and Sherwood graduate Sergio Navarrete agreed.

“It’s a lot of team play. The line between starters and the reserves is becoming more and more blurred,” he said. “The level of play is great.”

ing. Schwartz logged at least 20 kills in four of the last six regular season matches, and the two she didn’t were against struggling teams in which her services weren’t needed in their entirety.

“She’s on fire,” coach Becky Ronquillo said. “I’m telling you, she’s been on fire pretty much the whole season so good for her.”

Schwartz’s numbers are both boosted and recessed by the platoon of hitters she is surrounded by in Wyatt and Alex Nelligan.

Marella has more options to divvy it out to, but teams can’t load a block to shut down Schwartz when there are hitters abound.

Being a left-handed player, Wyatt provides a different look for blockers to worry about while Nelligan would be a No. 1 hitter on most teams in the county with the exception of a few. Together, the trio has combined for nearly 400 kills, an average of 27.3 per match, more than a full game’s worth of points.

“We just got to think, ‘Where

do we want to be? Where do we want to be?’” Schwartz said.

“Becky always says, ‘You don’t want to get to Ritchie [Coliseum, site of the state championships], you want to win at Ritchie.’ We just got to keep moving, keep going.”

The senior’s hitting has caught the attention of a number of college coaches, namely that of Stevenson’s Dave Trumbo, who called Schwartz “the prototype of all the kids we want to recruit at Stevenson.”

“We’re not particularly tall but we’re very athletic,” said Trumbo, who is currently overseeing a 30-1 Mustangs team ranked No. 20 in the country. “And Annika, being [5-foot-8], 5-9 (Schwartz is listed at 5-7), with a 27-inch vertical, she fits right in.”

Beginning Thursday, the state will see how well Damascus fits in with this year’s playoff picture.

“We want [to win a state title] so bad,” Marella said.

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“Everybody has to try just a little bit harder, do just a little bit better, think just a little deeper, work just a little longer,” she said.

It’s former gymnast Mary Lou Retton’s quote, and from thelooksofhowthegameturned out, with Good Counsel shedding the runner-up moniker that has haunted it for the past half decade, it did just the trick.

When the Tartans tied it up 1-1 in the second half, they dug just a little deeper, holding on to extend the game to overtime.

When Holy Cross fired in 12 shots on goalie Caroline Campbell, the keeper tried just a little bit harder. And when Elaine McCabe deked Holy Cross goalie Kathleen Mauck with 2 minutes, 58 seconds remaining in overtime, Good Counsel rose just one notch higher.

“I told them, I said, ‘Every single time you feel one ounce of pulling back, think I have to work a little harder, I have to think a little deeper,’” Bagdon said. “The chemistry and the heart of this team, and the undying support for each other, there’s no girl — it’s awesome. There’s no division.”

The victory has been a long time coming for Good Counsel.

Bagdon watched her team relinquish a 2-0 second-half lead last year to lose 3-2 in overtime, and a player was sent off during the extra period, making it seven on six.

The 2009 championship went to extra minutes as well, and that one ended in a 1-0 overtime victory in Holy Cross’s favor. Two years later, the title was decided by another one-goal margin, a 2-1 Tartans victory.

“I am so happy right now,”

Campbell said. “We have been to so many championships and we have worked so hard in the off-season and regular season and this team is so close and we wanted it so badly. We put it all on the field and we’re so happy.”

Just down the road at James H. Blake there was another postseason tilt providing some free field hockey. The Bengals, hosting Springbrook, went to overtime before knocking in the game-winner. They advanced to top-seeded Sherwood on Monday night (results came in after deadline). In the round previous, in which Col. Zadok Magruder and Gaithersburg were the lone game in the 4A West, the Trojans took two additional frames to finally top the Colonels. No. 1 seeded Quince Orchard proceeded to knock them out in the ensuing round, 5-0.

While Stone Ridge’s 2-1 victory over St. Stephen’s/St. Agnes onThursdaywasn’tquitethewatershed win being had by Good Counsel, it was similar in nature.

The Saints are the owners of 10 of the past 11 Independent School League titles, and though it was only a regular season matchup, the win certainly raised an eyebrowortwo,especiallywithplayoffs just a week away.

Cross country A pair of Good Counsel runners had a banner day Saturday in the WCAC cross country championships at Lake Fairfax Park in Reston, Va. Sophomore Megan Crilly took home the girls’ individual championship by running the course in a time of 20:55.06, while senior Collin Crilly won the boys’ race with a time of 16:27.57. Overall, Good Counsel’s girls finished second at the meet with 47 points, seven behind Bishop O’Connell as Cosette Riley (21:13) finished fourth and Cassidy Burke (21:15) placed fifth, The Falcons boys won the team title by two points over Gonzaga, as they had five runners finish in the top 12 (Crilly, Jack Wavering, Tyler Richards, Matt Lopez, Kevin McGivern).

Even the two runners who didn’t scoreperformedremarkablywell as Miguel Alonso and Jeff Moxley finished 16th and 17th, respectively.

Tennis Holton-Arms School junior No. 1 singles player Lilly Lynham might not have physically won her match against Bullis’ Ines Vias in Thursday’s season-ending Independent School League “AA” Division tournament final but her just being on the court at Madeira (Virginia) was vital to Holton’s ninth title in 10 years.

Lynham was rather sick Thursday but this year’s ISL tournament took on a new structure — dual matches rather than separate brackets per position. If Lynham sat out Thursday’s final, everyone down the Panthers’ ladder would have to move up a spot. Holton, which defeated St. Stephen’s/St. Agnes (6-1) and National Cathedral School (4-3) in the first and second rounds won the final, 5-2 Thursday.

“I was very tempted not to play [Lynham] because she was in pain but she asked me to play in the last match so she played at her request, not mine,” Holton coach Yann Auzoux said.

“In this particular format, that makes a big difference. Last year it wouldn’t have made a big difference because we probably would’ve been in good position in every other position.”

Bullis won the top two singles courts — last year’s ISL No. 1 singles champion Vias avenged a regular-season loss to Lynham with a win Thursday — but Holton won third and fourth singles and swept the doubles.

Maya Das’ win at No. 3 singles Thursday capped an undefeated 2013. Jillian Lawler won at No. 4. Holton’s No. 1 doubles team consisted of Karsyn Lawler and Elise Lovett and Susan Darvishi and Sophie Gary won on the second doubles court. The team’s only two seniors, Lauren Di Franco and Lauren Ahn won the third doubles match.

Auzoux credits Holton’s dominance of the league the past decade with the programs that have been implemented for younger athletes at the school, helping prepare them to feed into the varsity squad.

“Ithinkwhatwe’vemanaged to do is establish a good system for the girls to go through,” Auzoux said.

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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HOW THEY RANK The 10 best football teams in Montgomery County this week as ranked by The Gazette’s sports staff.

Rank

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

8.

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School

Record Points

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

Quince Orchard Cougars Good Counsel Falcons Bullis Bulldogs Damascus Swarmin’ Hornets Gaithersburg Trojans Paint Branch Panthers Clarksburg Coyotes Sherwood Warriors Northwest Jaguars Seneca Valley Screaming Eagles

60 54 48 42 36 28 22 17 17 5

Also receiving votes: Whitman 1.

LEADERS Top rushers Khalil Wilson, Einstein Dage Davis, Geo. Prep Zac Morton, Whitman Charles Lyles, Poolesville Isaac Boyd, Avalon Devonte Williams, Bullis Chris Dawson, G. Counsel E. Spottswood, Sherwood Kevin Joppy, Q. Orchard D. Sims, Wheaton

Carries 140 159 186 171 110 147 157 112 94 116

Yards 1412 1285 1224 1145 1126 1122 978 803 671 649

Top passers

Cmp-Att. Chuck Reese, Rockville 216-343 Sam Ellis, Wootton 159-304 G. Cooper, P. Branch 128-217 Renzo Farfan, R. Mont. 118-217 Mike Murtaugh, QO 73-118 Marvin Galdamez, Ken. 82-137 C. Reighard, Seneca 81-146 Nick DeCarlo, G’burg 59-104 Evan Smith, Whitman 63-127 Raymond Burtnick, Blair 53-115

Top receivers Jibri Woods, Wootton Trevon Diggs, Wootton Joey Cornwell, Rockville Ryan Stango, P. Branch Louison Biama, Rockville Javonn Curry, P. Branch Michael Scott, Kennedy Anthony Albert, Rockville Steven Kelly, B-CC Phil Osborn, R. Mont.

Catches 55 62 53 39 33 41 41 46 21 39

Avg. 10.1 8.1 6.6 6.7 10.2 7.6 6.2 7.2 7.1 5.6

Yards 2465 2221 1751 1324 1275 1027 1015 977 819 770 Yards 791 762 655 625 623 600 581 524 486 465

Int. 11 12 5 6 4 5 5 5 9 5

TDs 13 17 11 9 22 17 12 11 13 6 TDs 33 18 24 14 15 5 11 7 7 7

Avg. TDs 14.4 5 12.3 9 12.4 7 16.0 8 18.9 6 14.6 11 14.2 1 11.4 8 23.1 5 11.9 8

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Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association determines the four teams that advance to the postseason in football through a points

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BY DAN FELDMAN system that rewards schools for defeating good teams. Here’s a look at the race for playoff berths with two regular-season games to be played:

4A West Quince Orchard High School has clinched a playoff berth and controls its own destiny for the No. 1 seed. It’s possible Quince Orchard clinches the No. 1 seed this weekend.

Gaithersburg has also clinched a playoff berth and controls its destiny.

Northwest controls its destiny for a top-three seed and would clinch a playoff berth by winning either of its last two games (Quince Orchard or Springbrook).

Clarksburg controls its destiny for making the playoffs.

Whitman must win at least one of its remaining two games (Churchill and Blair) to have a chance of qualifying.

If Wootton loses to Rockville and Clarksburg beats Magruder this week, Wootton would be eliminated. If Wootton beats Rockville, Wootton will enter Week 10 with a chance to make the playoffs, but even a final-week victory over Quince Orchard wouldn’t guarantee a postseason berth.

Blair can possibly remain in contention with a loss to Blake this week. But Blair cannot overcome a loss to Whitman the following week.

4A North Paint Branch controls its own destiny for receiving a top-two seed. Paint Branch would clinch a playoff berth with any one of the following outcomes in the next two weeks: Paint Branch over Sherwood, Paint Branch over Gaithersburg, Woodlawn over Kenwood, Parkville over Kenwood, Bethesda-Chevy Chase over Richard Montgomery, Churchill over Whitman,

The Gazette sports staff picks the winners for this week’s games involving Montgomery football teams.

Here are this week’s selections:

BIG PLAY

Continued from Page B-1 backs that can cover a 6-[foot]-3 wide receiver in high school that’s got very good speed and is going up to catch balls with his hands.

We knew that, if he played to his potential, that he could be what he’s become.”

Curry never played organized football before high school, though he said he was pretty good in pick-up games with his friends. As he learned to wear

2A West

Montgomery County record All games

Northwood at Watkins Mill Einstein at Seneca Valley Wootton at Rockville Wheaton at Damascus Churchill at Whitman Gaithersburg at Walter Johnson Bethesda-Chevy Chase at R. Montgomery Northwest at Quince Orchard Magruder at Clarksburg Kennedy at Springbrook Sherwood at Paint Branch Blake at Blair Boonesboro at Poolesville Georgetown Prep at Landon Bullis at Episcopal

Team

Wootton* Whitman R. Montgomery B-Chevy Chase Churchill Walter Johnson*

All Div.

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

4-1 3-1 2-2 1-2 1-3 1-3

PF PA

207 139 169 135 178 196 106 235 46 247 43 227

Montgomery 4A East Division Team

Paint Branch Sherwood Springbrook* Blair Kennedy Blake

All Div.

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

4-0 3-0 2-2 1-3 1-2 0-4

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PF PA

324 79 199 140 159 91 149 133 133 129 36 222

Montgomery 4A West Division Team

Quince Orchard Gaithersburg Northwest Clarksburg* Magruder

All Div.

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

3-0 3-1 1-2 1-2 0-3

PF PA

324 26 182 84 274 113 139 104 89 337

Montgomery 3A Division

Poolesville, currently ranked third, controls its own destiny for making the playoffs. If Poolesville beats Boonsboro and one or both of the two teams directly behind Poolesvile (Catoctin and Oakdale) lose this weekend, that alone would not guarantee Poolesville a playoff berth.

With wins in both its final games, Poolesville could finish with the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 or No. 4 seed.

Ken Sain

Dan Feldman

Nick Cammarota

Travis Mewhirter

Jennifer Beekman

Kent Zakour

121-23 236-45

121-23 235-46

118-26 233-48

114-30 230-51

117-27 228-53

111-33 219-62

Watkins Mill Seneca Valley Wootton Damascus Whitman Gaithersburg R. Mont.

Q. Orchard Clarksburg Springbrook Paint Branch Blair Boonesboro Geo. Prep Bullis

Watkins Mill Seneca Valley Wootton Damascus Whitman Gaithersburg B-CC Q. Orchard Clarksburg Springbrook Paint Branch Blair Poolesville Geo. Prep Bullis

Watkins Mill Seneca Valley Wootton Damascus Whitman Gaithersburg R. Mont.

Q. Orchard Clarksburg Springbrook Paint Branch Blair Boonesboro Geo. Prep Bullis

Watkins Mill Seneca Valley Wootton Damascus Whitman Gaithersburg R. Mont.

Q. Orchard Clarksburg Springbrook Paint Branch Blair Boonesboro Geo. Prep Bullis

Watkins Mill Seneca Valley Wootton Damascus Whitman Gaithersburg R. Mont.

Q. Orchard Clarksburg Springbrook Paint Branch Blair Boonesboro Geo. Prep Bullis

Watkins Mill Seneca Valley Wootton Damascus Whitman Gaithersburg B-CC Q. Orchard Clarksburg Springbrook Sherwood Blair Boonesboro Geo. Prep Bullis

Rockville QB tosses for state-best 480 yards, 8 touchdowns vs. Magruder

One month after being named 2013 USA Swimming Athlete of the Year, Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart junior Katie Ledecky was honored as United States Olympic Committee SportsWoman of the Year at an awards ceremony in New York Tuesday that was part of the 100 Days Out Celebration, counting down to this winter’s Olympic Games in Sochi.

A year after winning her first Olympic gold medal in the

Damascus has clinched a playoff berth. If it wins its final two games, Damascus could finish with the No. 1, No. 2 or No. 3 seed.

The loser of Friday’s Seneca Valley-Einstein game will be eliminated. Both teams will be eliminated if South Hagerstown wins a game.

Rockville must win its final two games (Wootton and Poolesville) and South Hagerstown must lose its final two games (Williamsport and North Hagerstown).

Montgomery 4A South Division

Team

Damascus Seneca Valley Einstein Rockville Watkins Mill Wheaton Northwood

All Div.

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

5-0 4-1 3-1 3-3 1-3 0-4 0-4

Montgomery 2A Independent Team

Poolesville

All

PF

PA

All

PF

PA

6-2 181 122

Private schools Team

PF PA

240 82 233 85 178 205 296 246 84 238 104 271 60 313

Bullis 7-1 255 88 Good Counsel 6-4 226 121 Avalon 5-4 252 158 Georgetown Prep 4-4 232 190 Landon 2-5 142 154 * Includes forfeit result

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3A West

FEARLESS FORECASTS

KEEPING IT BRIEF

Rockville High School quarterback Chuck Reese threw for 480 yards and eight touchdowns — marks that best Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association single-game records — in Rockville’s 64-41 win Friday against Col. Zadok Magruder.

Rockville fell behind 35-8 in the first quarter as Magruder read Rockville’s signals. After changing signals during halftime, Reese found immediate success to begin the third quarter.

“Then, his confidence was through the roof,” Rockville offensive coordinator Jason Lomax said.

“After that, they couldn’t even slow him down.”

Einstein over Seneca Valley, Franklin over Dundalk, Patapsco over Landsowne, Bethesda Chevy-Chase over Walter Johnson, Blair over Whitman, Blake over Seneca Valley, Churchill over Damascus, Einstein over Watkins Mill, Kennedy over Sherwood, Springbrook over Northwest, Franklin over Catonsville, Towson over Dulaney, Perry Hall over Dundalk or Milford Mill over Woodlawn.

Sherwood would guarantee a playoff berth by winning either of its final two games (Paint Branch or Kennedy).

Springbrook must win its final two games (Kennedy and Northwest) to have a chance of reaching the playoffs. If Springbrook beats Kennedy, either of two sets of outcomes would eliminate Springbrook this week: First, Howard over River Hill and Sherwood over Paint Branch; second, Howard over River Hill, Whitman over Churchill, Northwood over Watkins Mill, Quince Orchard over Northwest, Magruder over Clarksburg, Richard Montgomery over Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Seneca Valley over Einstein and Springbrook over Kennedy.

STANDINGS

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Rockville High School quarterback Chuck Reese throws against Watkins Mill during a football game earlier this season. Reese threw for 480 yards and eight touchdowns last week against Col. Zadok Magruder.

800-meter freestyle in London, Ledecky claimed four gold medals — 1,500-meter freestyle, 800-meter freestyle, 400-meter freestyle, 800-meter freestyle relay — at this summer’s 2013 FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. Ledecky’s time of 15 minutes, 36.53 seconds crushed the previous 1,500-meter freestyle world record by more than six seconds; she set another world mark in the 800-meter freestyle and an American record in the 400-meter

freestyle. With her time of 3:59.82, Ledecky became the first American woman to eclipse the 4-minute mark in the event and first U.S. woman, second overall, to sweep the three individual distance freestyle events at a single World Championships.

Ledecky, who follows in the footsteps of such athletes as Janet Evans and Natalie Coughlin, became the first women’s swimmer to be named USOC SportsWoman of the Year since 2008.

pads and run plays, he was still at least somewhat unsure of himself for his first couple seasons.

He wasn’t unconfident. He just wasn’t confident.

“I didn’t really have any,” Curry said of expectations when he joined Paint Branch’s football program. “I knew I could catch, and I was pretty fast. I was just going out and trying to see if I actually could be good.”

He is. Still, Curry has no scholarship offers, though Towson has shown interest ever since that 7-on-7 tournament in the

summer of 2011. Since, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Robert Morris and Stony Brook have expressed interest.

Discussing Curry’s prospects of landing a scholarship offer, Nesmith uses the knowledge he feigns lacking in the Paint Branch hallways.

“It’s going to pick up for him,” Nesmith said. “I really think, as the year goes on and if we’re able to have success in the playoffs, once people start looking at his film, they’re going to realize this kid is a pretty special talent.”

Poolesville 23, Wheaton 20 Blair 34, Einstein 18 Damascus 16, Seneca Valley 14 Wootton 24, R. Montgomery 20 Whitman 28, Walter Johnson 3 Springbrook 35, Churchill 7 P. Branch 54, B.-Chevy Chase 14 Clarksburg 14, Northwest 13 Rockville 64, Magruder 41 Q. Orchard 41, Gaithersburg 6 Sherwood 32, Blake 16 Spalding 28, Georgetown Prep 24 S. Hagerstown 42, Watkins Mill 0 Avalon 60, KIPP 14 Good Counsel 35, O’Connell 10 Kennedy 49, Northwood 13 Bullis 24, Landon 0

BEST BET Sherwood at Paint Branch,

6:30 p.m. Friday. Both teams will likely make the playoffs in the 4A North Region, but only the winner is guaranteed a berth. Sherwood has won eight the past nine games in the rivalry, including a 35-0 victory last season. Quarterback Gaston Cooper leads the Paint Branch offense.

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Year of unpredicatable results continues in boys’ soccer

If it seemed like the Thomas S. Wootton High School girls’ soccer team didn’t know what it was doing, or what kind of team it wanted to be, early this season, it didn’t. During a 2-6 start first-year Pa-

SOCCER NOTEBOOK

BY NICK CAMMAROTA AND JENNIFER BEEKMAN triots coach Andrew Ratti, a 1989 Wootton graduate, said it’s possible the team implemented a different formation in every game.

“The first part of the season, they were figuring me out, I was figuring out our personnel,” Ratti said. “We played almost every formation trying to figure out what works best for us.”

The Patriots found it in an offensiveminded 3-4-3 rooted in a possession style soccer and have turned a corner in the last month, just in time to position themselves as a dangerous floater in the Class 4A West Region tournament that started a week ago. Wootton is undefeated in its last seven games, including a 3-2, first-round win over Col. Zadok Magruder. The Patriots faced the region’s bottom section’s second seed, Gaithersburg, Tuesday night but the game ended too late to be included in this edition of The Gazette.

Whatever the result, Ratti said, the positive strides taken this fall will only continue to benefit the program next year as the 1998 state champion Wootton tries to regain its spot in the county’s elite.

“One of the things, I look back at what Dave Greene did with the program, we were a powerhouse when I played and after I left and I want to try and get

the girls back to where we’re not losing in the first or second round of playoffs and a better record than what we’ve had [recently],” Ratti said. “It’s not a one-year process. We’re on our way.”

Boys’ soccer In what likely was a surprise to nobody, there were upsets in the opening round of the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association boys’ soccer tournament across all classifications.

One result, however, was particularly surprising, even when one takes into account how unpredictable this season has been.

On Saturday afternoon, Richard Montgomery beat Winston Churchill in a 4A West first-round match, 3-2.

Now, the context. Churchill, which featured one of the deeper rosters in the county, is bolstered by dynamic

goal-scorers in J.J. Van Der Merwe and Nathan Ferdowski and finished first in the 4A South Division during the regular season. The Bulldogs went 10-3-1 (4-1-0 in division) and scored 32 goals while allowing 12. The Rockets, on the other hand, were last in the 4A South.

Plagued by an inability to score all season, Richard Montgomery only found the back of the net nine times and allowed 22 goals. They went 3-10-1 (1-4-0 in division) and lost to Churchill, 2-0, on October 17.

Oddly enough, that was the score at halftime of Saturday’s match. But somehow, as if county coaches needed a reminder as to the volatile parity in the league this year, the Rockets rallied to score three goals — one third of their previous total on the season — to upend the Bulldogs.

“I’ve been at RM 10 years now and this has been the most parity I’ve ever seen,” said Rockets coach Chamy Wi-

jeratne. “We’ve had some bad luck this year and we haven’t scored as many goals as we needed to, but the guys kept believing and none of the players gave up.”

Of the Montgomery County games that were played in the 4A bracket in the first round, four went into overtime.

One such game was between Walter Johnson and Bethesda-Chevy Chase where Nicholas Montes scored the winner in the first overtime.

“I cannot recall a season where it was so open,” Wildcats coach Hector Morales said. “I feel like the first playoff game is like the first game of the regular season, you’ve just got to get that first one under you.”

The other matches that took extra time to decide: Walt Whitman edged Kennedy in penalty kicks, Sherwood beat Springbrook also in PKs and Wootton downed Northwest in overtime.

Poolesville’s libero helps make Falcons a state contender BY

TRAVIS MEWHIRTER STAFF WRITER

During a match against Damascus High School earlier this year, Sarah Kenneweg hit the floor to save a Madison Wyatt kill attempt. Later, the Poolesville senior stuck an arm out to turn an Annika Schwartz spike into a deftly placed pass for teammate and setter Allyson Convers to divvy out to her own hitters.

Kenneweg is everywhere — her libero-distinguished jersey allows her to be — thinking ahead of hitters, getting to spots that looked open just seconds ago are now taken up by a diving, sliding or perfectly-positioned Kenneweg, frustrating the county’s best and most powerful hitters over and over again.

“That is the worst feeling,” Schwartz said. “That’s a feeling I always feel when we play Poolesville. I’ve played club with her and she’s always there and I hate her for it. That’s the feeling and she obviously loves it and it’s so frustrating.”

There isn’t much glory about being a libero, aside from the in-

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Poolesville High School’s Sarah Kenneweg goes on to the court against Springbrook on Oct. 23. trinsic satisfaction of trumping an outside hitters’ best shot. Being a hitter is glamorous, crowd-

fense and will pick up everything and has a fantastic attitude on and off the court.”

It’s no accident Kenneweg has garnered such rave reviews from around the county. Her big sister, Megan, who is now an assistant coach, was slotted at hitter for Poolesville, but Sarah has forever been a defensive specialist.

Falcons coach Fran DuVall first saw the future Seton Hall University recruit when Sarah was just eight years old, small for her age even then, and the bright-eyed girl approached the coach with a request: “‘Hey coach Fran, show me what to do with a volleyball,’” she said.

From then on, DuVall recalled, “every time she came up to me, she had always asked me for something to do and the amazing thing was, every time I’d see her, she was doing the thing I showed her last time I saw her.”

When Kenneweg didn’t have a partner to pepper with, she always had a wall that would return it every time. And then something happened: she fell in love with passing a volleyball, not hitting it as many youths would. It didn’t take long for her to be a digging machine. But the best part for DuVall is that Kenneweg doesn’t just get a hand on a hit, she deadens it into an easily settable pass for Convers, who can turn around

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“For whatever reason, we’ve never really had size at Poolesville,” DuVall said. “So ball control is huge, it’s absolutely huge.

And she frustrates hitters. When you’re used to getting the ball down — when she’s back there, you’re not going to get one swing and be done. I just think she frustrates people. She covers a lot of the court.”

Now in her senior season, Kenneweg is the core to an undefeatedPoolesvilleteam,onewhich has dropped a set only to Damascus, a group that recently snapped Sherwood’s 68-match winning streak. As far as their record goes, there’s no improving that. But there’s still one demon remaining that Kenneweg is determined to exorcise before she graduates: matching her sister with a state title of her own. The Falcons last won in 2008 and reached the semifinals when Kenneweg was a freshman, but that’s the closest they’ve been in the libero’s fouryear starting career. “[Megan] would always tease me about not winning my freshman year because I’ve made it to semis,” she said. “But it would be awesome, for both of us to have won a state title.” tmewhirter@gazette.net

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pleasing and fun. Being a libero is arduous and stressful, a test of any forearm’s durability to with-

stand hit after hit. Naturally, the position wasn’t Kenneweg’s first choice — it was her only one.

She’s small enough where, when asked for her height, she argued for quarters of an inch — “I’m like 5-[foot]-and a half, maybe 5-and-three quarters, 5-foot-1 with shoes on!” she said.

This, along with a tremendous knack for passing a volleyball, adds up to one perfectly packaged libero.

“I was kind of put into this position because of my height,” she said. “I didn’t really have a choice.”

Had she been presented an option, there’s no telling what position she would have chosen.

But she’s made the most out of what she’s been given. She may be the one libero in the county who has found a way to catch the eye of every single coach who has played Poolesville this season, more-so than the vast majority of the hitters.

Col. Zadok Magruder coach Scott Zanni said in an email: “There shouldn’t be any debate — she is the best libero in the county. Only libero who is going to play D1 vball next year (Seton Hall) and is far and away the best skilled of all the liberos.”

Damascus coach Becky Ronquillo: “Not sure of stats — but one heck of a player! So fast in de-

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HEAVEN ON EARTH British rock band prefers life on the road

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

Heaven’s Basement — made up of vocalist Aaron

BY

CARA HEDGEPETH STAFF WRITER

Buchanan, guitarist Sid Glover, bass player Rob Ellershaw and drummer Chris Rivers — recently wrapped a headlining tour of the U.K. Once their U.S. run ends in December, Heaven’s Basement will

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head right back out on the road in 2014 with stops in Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

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

But while many bands tour, Heaven’s Basement has

BY

VIRGINIA TERHUNE STAFF WRITER

Classical pianist Finghin Collins from Dublin will perform works

by Mozart, Debussy, Brahms and Schubert on Saturday at the Westmoreland Congregational UCC Church in Bethesda. He will teach a masterclass on Sunday in Glen Echo.

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British Rock band Heaven’s Basement will perform at the Fillmore Silver Spring on Sunday.

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Through rose-colored glasses

L Mozart, Irish pianist Finghin ColLike llins started playing the piano at the age a of 3. And, like Mozart, he has an older o sister who also plays.

Unlike Mozart, Collins did not have musical parents. They grew up h in rural Ireland, met at the university in Cork and became scientists — his father, an agricultural scientist, and his mother, a chemist.

Nor were there musicians in the family, making the sudden emergence of musical talent surprising.

However, Collins’ eldest sister, 10 years his senior, started piano lessons at age 7 and loved it.

She passed along her enthusiasm to her siblings including Collins, the youngest of four children.

“We all took to it like fish to water,” said Collins.

“It just seems to have sprung from nowhere,” he said. “They love what we do, but they never had a lesson, never played a note.”

Now in his 30s, Collins travels the world playing the works of Mozart and other classical composers as part of a solo career that also includes directing two music festivals in Ireland.

Collins will be performing pieces by Mozart, Debussy, Brahms and Schubert on Saturday at the Westmoreland Congregational UCC Church in Bethesda.

He will also be holding a masterclass open to the public on Sunday for three students with the Washington Conservatory of Music in Glen Echo Park.

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PIANIST FINGHIN COLLINS n Concert and Master Class CHRISTINE ALEXANDER

(From left) Frank Vince, Christian Sullivan, Steve LaRocque, Ted Schneider, Genevieve James, Carolyn Kashner, Frank Britton, Tiffany Garfinkle, Manolo Santalla, Ken Lechter and Steve Beall rehearse for “The Iceman Cometh.”

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CARA HEDGEPETH STAFF WRITER

Through November, audiences will

have a rare opportunity to see the scarcely performed “The Iceman Cometh,” by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Eugene O’Neill presented by Quotidian Theatre in Bethesda.

“It’s considered a masterpiece of theater but is very rarely performed,” said “Iceman” director Michael Avolio.

With a reputation for staging the understated, “Iceman” falls in line with Quotidian’s repertoire.

“I enjoy the fact that they do realistic pieces,” said actress Carolyn Kashner. “They really engage you emotionally.”

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n Concert: 8 p.m. Saturday n Master class: 3 p.m. Sunday. Open to the public. n Where: Concert at Westmoreland Congregational UCC Church, 1 Westmoreland Circle, Bethesda; Masterclass at Washington Conservatory at Glen Echo Park, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo n Tickets: Free, donations accepted. n For information: 301-320-2770, washingtonconservatory.org

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‘wonders’never cease JACK ROSENBERG

Jack Rosenberg’s “Angry Sea.”

Awe inspiring “Inspired by Nature,” featuring turned wood bowls by Phil Brown of Silver Spring, ceramics by Bethesda artist Rebecca Ravenal, photographs by Jack Rosenberg of Potomac, watercolors by Silver Spring artist Madeline Wikler and collages by Patricia Zannie of Silver Spring, opens with a reception from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at Gallery Har Shalom, 11510 Falls Road, Potomac. Although each participating artist has a personal artistic vision, each is inspired by nature. The exhibit is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www. harshalom.org.

The juried exhibit “small wonders” opens Friday at the Capitol Arts Network Gallery in Rockville, showcasing works measuring 12 inches by 12 inches or smaller from regional artists. As part of the exhibit, “A Stitch in Time Saves Nine” will spotlight 21 miniature assemblage sculptures by Roanoke, Va., artist Page Turner, utilizing women’s dress forms and garments hand-sewn from antique sugar, flour and salt sacks, personal objects, and domestic tools housed under bell jars and glass domes. Growing up in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia in a devout Mormon household, Turner was taught domestic traditions and skills from women in the family and community. Each of her sculptures is a totem of a specific woman who helped to forge Turner’s identity. An opening reception is set for 6-9 p.m. Friday.

The exhibition runs to Nov. 25. Also opening Friday will be the Washington School of Photography’s “Ethiopia From the Heart,” featuring guest photographer Andarge Asfaw of Washington, D.C., and “I Will Win — The War,” a presentation of a painting about love and peace by internationally renown Dutch artist Erik Van Loon. The painting is Loon’s ninth in his “I Will Win” series for the New York City Marathon. For more information, visit www.capitolartsnetwork.com.

‘Superstar’ The AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center will celebrate

the 40th anniversary of Norman Jewison’s hit film, “Jesus Christ Superstar,”

with an exclusive Washington, D.C.area screening of the rock opera at 2:15 p.m. Saturday at the Silver Spring theater.

Jewison’s 1973 adaptation of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Broadway smash tells the story of Christ’s final weeks told entirely in a series of dazzling songs, images and music. Star Ted Neeley will be present to participate in a Q&A before the film, and will sign merchandise in the lobby following the screening. For more information, visit www.neeleytour. com. Visit www.afi. com/silver.

STRATHMORE

Country music icon Travis Tritt is set to play at the Music Center at Strathmore at 8 p.m. on Friday.

Nashville star Country music legend Travis Tritt is set to perform at 8 p.m. on Friday at the Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda.

Famous for songs such as “Here’s A Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares),” “Help Me Hold On,” and “T-R-O-U-B-L-E,” Tritt will perform many of his platinum-selling hits.

Lyndsey Highlander is slated to open for the country crooner. For more information, visit www.strathmore.org.

AFI SILVER THEATRE AND CULTURAL CENTER

“Jesus Christ Superstar” will screen Saturday at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring. Lead actor Ted Neely will be present to help celebrate the film’s 40th anniversary.

Artist Page Turner’s “Headmistress Harpie.”

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THE PILLOWMAN

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WILL C. FRANKLIN STAFF WRITER

In 2003, “The Pillowman”

by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh was staged in London for the first time. Within 10 years, the show would premiere in eight other countries and win a slew of awards, including the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play and multiple Tony Awards.

Silver Spring Stage will stage its production of “The Pillowman” with opening night slated for Friday.

“This show is unlike anything that I’ve ever seen on a stage,” said Chad Fornwalt, who plays Katurian in the show. “It’s just a really interesting combination of topics … it takes you on an emotional roller coaster.

Just when you think you’re go-

ing to understand where we’re going with the story, it takes another little turn and sends you in a completely different direction.”

The play revolves around the killings of children. Katurian is arrested by the police because his stories closely resemble the atrocities committed against the children. What follows is a series of questions and stories.

Lars Klores, who plays detective Tupolski, said this isn’t a show for everybody.

“There’s lots of heavy language and some disturbing images there,” Klores said. “People who ask me what the show’s about, I have a little line for them that I think pretty much sums it up — It’s like a nightmarish Kafka-esque episode of ‘Law & Order’ written by the Brothers Grimm and directed by Quentin Tarantino. That pretty much has everything in it.”

Although the subject matter is fairly dark, neither Fornwalt

n When: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, Nov. 1-23 n Where: Silver Spring Stage, 10145 Colesville Road, Silver Spring n Tickets: $18-$20 n For information: 301-5936036; ssstage.org

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Chad Fornwalt plays writer Katurian in the upcoming Silver Spring Stage production of “The Pillowman.” nor Klores said they were uncomfortable doing the show.

“What I’ve felt uncomfortable about is me trying to put myself in other people’s shoes,” Fornwalt said. “… I definitely do think about what other people might think. I really hope that when people come in, that they come in with a completely open mind and to not look at things the way maybe they always have.

On face value, it would be easy to say ‘Oh, there’s something wrong with this show. It’s too violent, it’s too dark.’ But if they can just give us a chance and go with us, there’s a lot more to this story than what is on the cover.”

Klores, meanwhile, said that while there really is no message for the audience to take away from the show, the play itself is about storytelling and the re-

sponsibility, or lack thereof, of the storyteller.

“There’s no message, per se, or at least I don’t think it can be distilled into a single message, but I will say like all great pieces of art, I do think ‘The Pillowman,’ is a great piece of art,” Klores said. “It leaves you with a lot of questions and it leaves you with a lot of things about art and about life that aren’t immedi-

ately apparent, but become apparent in your head as you start thinking about the play and it balloons for you. What I want to make sure audiences know is that, despite there being violence and despite there being horror … this is a play that gives you a lot to think about and discuss.”

Fornwalt believes that all of the characters in the show are relatable, no matter what someone has dealt with personally.

Overall, he said, the play isn’t about the violence or the dark material.

“There’s just so much more to it,” Fornwalt said. “I just want people to come into it with an open mind and really understand what this piece is about.” wfranklin@gazette.net

Write what you know: Author explores fiction based on career Architecture serves as basis for World War II suspense novel n

BY

ELLYN WEXLER

SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE

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

“Most books are written by literary types, people with MFAs. It’s intimidating,” the 59-year-old architectauthor acknowledged. “But even late in life, people who don’t necessarily have training in writing can apply their backgrounds to telling stories.

If [it turns out] they have a knack for writing, it may open up a whole new avenue.”

Belfoure speaks from experience.

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

Despite his background, Belfoure’s debut novel, “The Paris Architect,” a World War II story about an architect hired to design spaces in which Jews

could hide from the Gestapo, was released Oct. 8. The author co-opted the idea of priest holes, hiding places built into manor houses so clerics could celebrate Mass during the 16th century when English law persecuted Catholics.

Architecture was Belfoure’s second career choice. He started off studying illustration, but switched gears as a result of a visit to a modern architecture exhibit fortuitously titled “Transformations” at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. “I hadn’t given much thought to architecture before. I paid no attention to it [while growing up] in Baltimore, but at MOMA, I was struck by the wonderful forms,” he recalled.

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

During the ensuing years, Belfoure developed a practice focused on historic preservation, and now works as an architect as well as a historic preservation consultant with a specialty in historic tax credit consulting. The Westminster resident has several current projects in Baltimore.

CHARLES BELFOURE

Charles Belfoure, author of “The Paris Architect.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The economics of selling and marketing are far more daunting,” Belfoure said. “There’s the hard reality of finding an agent, and a publisher who has to re-

ally like the book.”

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

Belfoure said that the book has been sold in Italy, Israel and Brazil.

Random House bought the audio rights and film companies have initiated contact.

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

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

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

IN THE ARTS DANCES Hollywood Ballroom, Oct. 30, free International Quickstep Routine lesson at 7:30 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8:15 p.m., ($16); Tea Dance from 12:30–3:30 p.m. ($6); Nov. 8, drop-in lessons from 7:30-9 p.m., West Coast Swing Dancing with Dance Jam Productions at 9 p.m. ($15 cover); Nov. 9, Latin Night with Mr. Mambo, workshops from 8-10 p.m., dancing from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. ($18 for workshop and dance; $15 for dance only); Nov. 10, free Hustle lesson at 7 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8 p.m. ($16); Nov. 13, free International Waltz Routine lesson at 7:30 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8:15 p.m. ($16); Nov. 14, Tea Dance from 12:30–3:30 p.m. ($6), 2126 Industrial Highway, Silver Spring, 301-326-1181, www. hollywoodballroomdc.com Glen Echo Park is at 7300 MacArthur Blvd.

Blues, Capital Blues: Thurs-

days, 8:15 p.m. beginner lesson, 9-11:30 p.m. dancing to DJs, Glen Echo Park’s Spanish Ballroom Annex, $8, www.capitalblues.org.

Contra, Nov. 1, Anna Rain calls to Nor’easter; Nov. 8, Dave Colestock with the fabulous Glen Echo Open Band; Nov. 15, Greg Frock calls to The Avant Gardeners; Nov. 22, Eric Black with Gallimaufry; Nov. 29, Nils Fredland calls to Elixir, 7:30 p.m. lesson, 8:30 p.m. dance, Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $10, www.fridaynightdance.org.

Contra & Square, Nov. 3, April Blum calls with Cabaret Sauvignon; Nov. 10, Valerie Helbert calls with Ari & Mia; Nov. 17, Ted Hodapp calls with Dance du Jour; Nov. 24, Eric Black calls with Dead Sea Squirrels, 7:30 p.m., Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $12 for general, $9 for members, $5 for students, www.fsgw.org.

English Country, Oct. 30, Caller: Marth Siegel; Nov. 6, Caller: Carol Marsh; Nov. 13; Caller: Tom Spilsbury; Nov. 20, Caller: Stephanie Smith; Nov. 27, Caller: Bob Farrall, 8 p.m., Glen Echo Town Hall (upstairs), www.fsgw.org.

Now and Then Dance Studio, Saturday Ballroom dances,

second and fourth Saturdays, beginner group lesson at 8 p.m., open dancing at 9 p.m., $10 cash at door (all men admitted at half price throughout October), 10111 Darnestown Road, Rockville. 301424-0007, www.nowandthendancestudios.com.

Scottish Country Dancing, 8-10 p.m. Mondays, steps and formations taught. No experience, partner necessary, T-39 Building on NIH campus, Wisconsin Avenue and South Drive, Bethesda, 240505-0339.

Swing, Nov. 9, WWII Canteen Dance with the Eric Felten Jazz Orchestra; Dec. 14, Daryl Davis, lesson at 8 p.m., dancing at 9 p.m., Glen Echo Park, $15, www.flyingfeet.org.

Waltz, Nov. 3, Cabaret Sauvignon; Nov. 17, Rhapsody, 2:453:30 p.m. lesson, 3:30-6 p.m., dance, $10, www.waltztimed-

ances.org.

MUSIC & DANCE Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club, First Annual Grand Mas-

querade with Doc Scantlin, 8 p.m.

Oct. 31; Eddie Palmieri’s Latin Jazz Septet, 8:30 p.m. Nov. 1-2; Avon Lucas, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 3; Emmanuel Trifilio Tango Trio, 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 6; Familiar Faces, 8 p.m. Nov. 8, call for prices, 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. 240-330-4500, www.bethesdabluesjazz.com.

BlackRock Center for the Arts, Della Mae, 8 p.m. Nov. 2; Thomas Pandolfi, 3 p.m. Nov. 3; District Comedy, 8 p.m. Nov. 8; call for tickets, 12901 Town Commons Drive, Germantown. 301-5282260, www.blackrockcenter.org.

Fillmore Silver Spring, Cristian Castro with special guests Lazaro,

8 p.m. Oct. 30; Jessie Ware — Fall Tour 2013 with special guest Mikky Ekko, 8 p.m. Oct. 31; House of Blues 20th Anniversary Presents Third Eye Blind, 8 p.m. Nov. 1; The Pretty Reckless, 7 p.m. Nov. 3; Reel Big Fish, Five Iron Frenzy, Beautiful Bodies, Beebs & Her Money Makers, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 6; New Found Glory/Alkaline Trio with H20, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7; Jake Miller, 7 p.m. Nov. 8; Timeflies: The Warning Signs Tour, 8 p.m.

Nov. 10; Tori Kelly, 8 p.m. Nov. 14; Saved By the 90s A Party with The Bayside Tigers, 8:30 p.m. Nov. 16; David Nail With Special Guest Brothers Osborne, 7 p.m. Nov. 17; Slayer, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 19; Hoodie Allen, 8 p.m. Nov. 22; Mazzy Star with special guests Psychic Ills, 8 p.m. Nov. 23; Lamb of God & Killswitch Engage, 7 p.m. Nov. 26; K. Michelle w/ Sevyn Streeter, 8 p.m.

Nov. 27; Giving Thanks, 11 a.m.

Nov. 28; The Smokers Club Tour Featuring Joey Bada$$, 8 p.m. Nov. 29; MiMOSA, 8 p.m. Nov. 30, 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, 301960-9999, FillmoreSilverSpring. com, www.livenation.com.

Institute of Musical Traditions — Takoma Park, A Civil War

Scrapbook: CD Release with Hesperus & Maggies Music, 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 13; Takoma Park Community Center, call for prices, times, Takoma Park Community Center, 7500 Maple Ave., Takoma Park, 301-960-3655, www.imtfolk.org.

Institute of Musical Traditions — Rockville, Rafe & Clelia

Stefanini CD Release, 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 4; Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8, Saint Mark Presbyterian Church, 10701 Old Georgetown Road, Rockville, call for prices, www.imtfolk.org.

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Prejudice on ‘Parade’ n Songs heighten emotions in Leo Frank murder trial of 1913 BY

PARADE n When: 8:15 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays, Nov. 1-3, 8-10, 15-16.

VIRGINIA TERHUNE STAFF WRITER

The musical “Parade” is based on an ugly anti-Semitic incident in American history, but the songs and the way they express emotion are anything but ugly.

“For a very dark [story], it’s got beautiful music,” said Craig Pettinati, director of the show for the Kensington Arts Theatre (KAT).

With a cast of 15 actors and a 10-piece orchestra, the musical is running to Nov. 16 at the Kensington Town Center.

“Parade” is based on the true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish-American man with a degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell who married a Jewish woman from Atlanta whose family owned a pencil factory.

In 1913, police accused Frank of murdering Mary Phagan, a 13-yearold employee of the factory. Frank was convicted and spent years appealing, eventually reaching the Supreme Court.

Directed by Hal Prince, “Parade” debuted on Broadway in 1998. Librettist Alfred Uhry, who grew up in Atlanta and wrote “Driving Miss Daisy,” won a Tony award for Best Book of a Musical.

Jason Robert Brown, who wrote the music and lyrics, won a Tony for Best Original Music Score. KAT has also performed two of Brown’s other shows, “The Last Five Years” and “Songs for a New World.”

“I see it as a story about pride,” said Bobby Libby, who plays the part of Frank. “There’s the pride that the Southerners have, and he has his own

n Where: Kensington Town Center (formerly the Armory), 3710 Mitchell Street, Kensington n Tickets: $13-$20 n For information: 206-888-6642, katonline.org

sense of pride. They sense that and turn on him.”

The musical opens with a young soldier heading off to fight for the South during the Civil War, singing goodbye to the girl he loves.

“It’s so beautiful, you can’t help but be moved,” Libby said.

The scene then shifts five decades ahead to 1913, where the people of Atlanta continue to take great pride in their history and culture, participating in a parade to honor Confederate soldiers who died in the war.

Frank, who doesn’t understand the event, is viewed as an outsider, and the animosity is mutual.

“As a protagonist, he’s kind of unsympathetic,” said Libby. “He doesn’t like where he lives. He doesn’t like the people or the community.”

Frank’s wife, Lucille (Emily Zickler), tries to help him fit in, but “their relationship is strained,” said Libby, and Lucille wonders if she married the right man.

Frank, meanwhile, can’t understand how his wife can be both Jewish and culturally a Southerner.

“He’s been living in the South a few years, and he’s reacting badly to all of it,” Libby said. “He loses sight of how

ERNIE ACHENBACH

A mob mentality begins to form in the musical “Parade” presented by the Kensington Arts Theatre to Nov. 16. The show is based on the true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish-American man who was accused of murdering a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta in 1913. Holding the Bible is Brad Carnes-Stine as journalist Tom Watson. much he loves this woman.”

After Phagan is murdered, prosecutor Hugh Dorsey (Michael Nansel) is told by the Georgia governor to get to the bottom of the sensational case.

Initial suspicion is cast on Newt Lee, the black night watchman (Ian Anthony Coleman), but Lee is released.

Eager to get his name in the headlines, Dorsey decides to go after Frank, tapping into the community’s distrust of him.

Dorsey makes a deal with the factory janitor, Jim Conley (also played by Coleman), who testifies against Frank at the trial.

Mary’s boyfriend, Frankie Epps (Harrison Smith), also testifies, claiming that Frank had an eye for the female workers. Three factory girls testify under coercion from the prosecutor, performing a seductive dance with Frank in a fantasy sequence.

Also among the characters is Tom Watson (Brad Carnes-Stine), who writes for a right-wing newspaper, and Britt Craig (Patrick McMahan), a reporter who sees the trial as a way to make a name for himself and who promises to support Dorsey if Dorsey runs for governor.

“You see in the show how Frank was

set up,” said Pettinati. “In the courtroom scene, you see the corruption and the ordeal that he went through.”

The only thing that keeps the show from descending into the depths of despair is Lucille, said Libby. The deepening connection between she and Frank is the focus of the musical.

“It’s his wife and her strength and the beauty of that relationship,” he said.

“They find a deep well of love, a love which they always had.”

“It’s a very beautiful piece of theater,” Libby said. vterhune@gazette.net

HEAVEN

MOZART

had the unique opportunity to cover multiple continents in the span of just a few months.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The events are free but donations are welcome, said Kathy Judd, executive and artistic director of the conservatory.

In 1999 as a teenager, Collins won first prize at the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Switzerland. He also studied with Irish pianist John O’Conor at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin.

O’Conor presently teaches at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Va. Judd is one of his friends, which is how she came to invite Collins to perform for the Washington Conservatory.

Collins also studied at the Geneva Conservatory and served a three-year residency as the first-ever associate artist of the RTE National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin.

During the residency with the orchestra, he performed all of Mozart’s 23 concertos live over the radio. In May, four of them were released on a double CD. For the past decade, Collins has been branching out in some new directions, doing more conducting and also serving as director of two

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Continued from Page B-5 Kashner returns to Quotidian after her debut with the company in last year’s production of James Joyce’s “The Dead.”

“Iceman” is set in 1912 New York in the barroom of a hotel. Here, a group of drunks exchange stories as they await the arrival of charismatic salesman Hickey (Steve LaRocque), who typically provides much-needed levity with his dirty jokes and free drinks. However, when Hickey arrives, he brings with him a sad truth that makes his friends closely examine their own failings.

“At face value I thought, ‘OK, this is about a bunch of alcoholics,’” said Kashner, who plays a “tart” named Margie. “But it’s about failed pipe dreams, being confronted with your

British Rock band Heaven’s Basement will perform at the Fillmore Silver Spring on Sunday.

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

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

“We’re touring all of next year as well, through 2015,” Rivers said. “It’s going to be

own morality.”

Pipe dreams, Kashner said, are people’s “self-delusions.”

“People have either had a glorious past or aspire to a glorious future,” she said. “They’re all in denial of their alcoholism and their feelings ... People might not want to reflect on that in real life.”

While Quotidian audiences may not identify with the “Iceman” characters’ drinking habits, Avolio said they will be able to find common ground. “[O’Neill] views them with such humanity that it’s easy to relate to them even though they’re so different from us,” Avolio said. “ ... He is unafraid of looking at the darker side of humanity and probing deeper into the human soul.”

“The major events in your life, if you look back at them and when you try to explain them, you come up with

music festivals in Ireland, the New Ross Festival and Music for Galway.

“I enjoy creating the season and choosing the artists,” he said.

For the concert in Bethesda, Collins will be performing Mozart‘s “Sonata in D major K. 284” and Debussy’s “Estampes” with its three movements — “Pagodas,” “The Evening in Granada” and “Gardens in the Rain.”

“It’s a little collection of three evocative pieces, very atmospheric,” said Collins.

For the second half of the program, he will perform Brahms’ “Rhapsodies Op. 79,” which Brahms composed toward the end of his life, and Schubert‘s “Drei Klavierstücke D. 946.”

“They’re two of the great composers for the piano,” said Collins. “[These pieces] go very well together.”

Collins said he is also looking forward to the masterclass on Sunday in Glen Echo.

“It’s nice to be meeting people and to maybe give them something different to think about,” said Collins.

“I remember from my own youth, it was nice to play for someone different.” vterhune@gazette.net

Classical pianist Finghin Collins from Dublin will perform works by Mozart, Debussy, Brahms and Schubert on Saturday at the Westmoreland Congregational UCC Church in Bethesda

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a while before we do the next album.”

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

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

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different stories,” added actor Steve Beall, who plays Larry Slade. “As they go through their lives, they look at it from a different perspective.”

Like other O’Neill pieces, “Iceman” touches on some heavy subject matter.

But Avolio and his cast insist the show is not all darkness and gloom.

“To me, there is this beautiful balance of showing this makeshift community of kindness and civility of a certain kind and then what happens to it when this guy Hickey shows up,” Beall said.

It’s a balance, Beall added, that’s been missing in other productions of “Iceman” he’s seen.

“I had seen a couple performances of it and ... those productions all seemed to focus so much on the dark part of this play and it became imbalanced,” he said.

Conversely, Beall said Avolio has

been able to extract the lighter moments and even some of the humor from the “Iceman” script.

“Michael has this ability to see what’s funny and use it as a way to play up the humanity of the character,” Beall said. “They’re not just bums. They’re people with hopes and dreams and memories.”

Avolio said it was actually his sense of humor that helped him approach some of the play’s darkest moments.

“There’s a lot of raucous comedy in the play and I think that’s a way people have of dealing with situations when they’re down and out,” Avolio said.

“There’s often a gallows humor you have about things.”

While Kashner, who has appeared in two other O’Neill plays, acknowledges the playwright’s style is not for everyone, she said he had a unique ability to urge audiences to look intro-

THE ICEMAN COMETH n When: To Nov. 24; 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays with an additional matinee performance on Nov. 23 n Where: The Writer’s Center, 4508 Walsh St., Bethesda n Tickets: $25-$30 n For information: 301-816-1023

spectively.

“I think Eugene O’Neill forces us to look at aspects of our lives that we don’t necessarily want to deal with,” Kashner said. “It’s something we all should be doing but I understand why we might not want to.” chedgepeth@gazette.net

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Careers 301-670-2500

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Seeking Full-Time Psychologist - 40 - Hours per week, M- F. Possession of Maryland Licensure, 3years experience treating children and adolescents. Member of multidisciplinary team in community based adolescent day/residential treatment program in Montgomery County. Must be able to supervise trainees; perform clinical treatment for individuals, families and groups.

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Careers 301-670-2500 Healthcare

FRONT DESK

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Excellent salary & benefits. Fax resume: 301424-8337

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Busy salon and spa in Olney looking for a fun, energetic, experienced hairstylist to join our team. Full time only, please.

Must have a valid Maryland license. Following is a plus, but not a must. Benefits and sales commission offered. Email resume to salonh2o@gmail.com.

House Cleaning

Rockville. Looking for 1 Full Time (30-40 hrs per week) House Maid to join our Company for Residential Cleaning. Mon-Fri. 8 am-5 pm. Must have Drivers License, excellent cleaning experience, must speak some English and be legal to work in U.S. Pay $10.00 p/hr.

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ACCOUNTING/BILLING CLERK

Part-Time

Leisure World of Maryland, has an immediate need for a Part Time Accounting Clerk and Billing Clerk with 1 year related experience.

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SALES

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