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BY JENN DAVIS STAFF WRITER

Four Gaithersburg teenagers are working hard to keep alive the memory of their beloved friend — who passed away suddenly last January — by organizing a benefit walk in her honor.

Abigail Vigil, Alex Winn, and Anna and Laura Falcione, all of Gaithersburg, have spent many weeks this spring putting together “The Sweet T 5K Benefit Walk” to pay tribute to their close friend, Teressa French. The event will also serve as a fundraiser for the Teressa French Scholarship Fund, created by Covenant Life School.

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Sonia Ventura of Centerville, Va, works cleaning the carousel that is being set up next to the lake at the Rio Washingtonian Center in Gaithersburg on Friday.

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Take a ride on the new carousel when it spins into Rio Washingtonian Center in Gaithersburg on May 31.

A grand opening celebration will be held on the nearby grounds beginning at 11 a.m., according to a news release. It will feature carnival games, giveaways and prizes, music from a DJ, face painting, and balloon animals. A whimsical key and key stand will also be used to symbolize the opening of

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GRAND OPENING OF THE CAROUSEL AT RIO WASHINGTONIAN CENTER n When: 11 a.m. May 31

BY JENN DAVIS STAFF WRITER

n Where: Waterfront area near Rio Boulevard in Gaithersburg n Cost: Event is free; $3 per carousel ride

Following years of financial troubles and low membership, the Montgomery Village Golf Club will be closing down for good on Nov. 30.

Monument Realty, the owner and developer of the 147-acre golf course, made the announcement

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the amusement ride.

There also will be a strolling Dixieland band.

The cost for each ride is $3 per

person.

Gaithersburg-based Adventist

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ClickMedix allows doctors to diagnose and treat patients remotely

BY JENN DAVIS STAFF WRITER

In her quest to help doctors more efficiently and effectively care for patients, one woman has turned a college class assignment into a successful business.

In 2007, Ting Shih, then a gradu-

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WATER RESCUE Nearby golfers help family from SUV that crashed into a Gaithersburg pond.

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ate student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was given a project prompt by a professor to create a business plan for a social enterprise that would impact more than one billion people.

“We thought, everyone has a mobile phone. Why not use a mobile phone to deliver health care?” she said.

That’s when the idea for ClickMedix was born.

Based in Gaithersburg, ClickMedix is a telemedicine application sys-

tem that expands the reach of doctors and health organizations by allowing them to serve four to 10 times more patients, said Shih, who founded the business in November 2010 and also serves as its CEO. It gives doctors the ability to diagnose patients remotely, and includes tools such as patient record tracking, streamlined workflow, diagnosis protocols and medical equipment integration.

The application can be used on

DRIVING TO THE HOOP St. Andrew’s hopes to increase exposure by launching boys basketball summer league.

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Jasmine Ascencio, 10 and her brother Andres, 6 of Gaithersburg slide into the Bohrer Park pool on Saturday evening in Gaithersburg.

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Thursday evening at a Montgomery Village Foundation Board of Director’s meeting.

In March, the The Washington D.C.-based company received approval from the village board for a redevelopment concept plan that focuses on reviving the land at 19550 Montgomery Village Ave. The plan includes a mix of up to 600 townhomes, duplexes, multifamily units and single-family homes.

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Montgomery Village Golf Club to close

Rio Washingtonian Center carousel turns on the fun starting Saturday

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more at the school, was killed Jan. 24 after a car that had been involved in a crash veered onto the sidewalk and struck her as she was walking along Muncaster Mill Road with a friend.

The event is scheduled to be held at 2 p.m. Sunday on the back lawn of Covenant Life Church, 7501 Muncaster Mill Road, Gaithersburg. It will feature a walk on the school’s cross country course, concessions and music from Teressa’s own playlist. Tshirts will also be given to registrants.

“We want people to know how amazing Teressa was,” Abigail said.

Registration is still open, and walk-ins on the day of the event are welcome and encouraged. The cost is $5 for students, $10 for adults and $40 for families. Those interested in registering before the event can do so at covenantlifeschool.org.

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Gaithersburg Cheer squad competes in world competition Eternity, a youth cheer team at Dream Allstars Cheer in Gaithersburg, had the opportunity to showcase its talents on a global stage when it competed in The Cheerleading and Dance World Championship in late April in Orlando, Fla. The 19-member coed group made it to the semifinals round of the event, which was hosted by the United States All Star Federation, before being eliminated. It was the first time a team from the Gaithersburg gym advanced to that level of the competition, according to owner Andrea Needle.

The team, which comprises teenage athletes from Montgomery and surrounding counties, earned its bid to the world event when it performed at the Battle at the Capitol cheer competition at the National Harbor earlier this year, Needle said.

“We’ve worked with these kids for a number of years,” Needle said. “They’ve grown up within our walls. You really strive for years to get to this level of ability.”

More than 60 cheer teams competed in the preliminary rounds of the competition, Needle said. Thirty teams, including Eternity, were put into one group, where only the top ten teams would move on. Eternity placed eighth.

“It was just the best moment ever,” Needle said.

The team’s accomplishment, however, was not earned without challenges. Needle said it was a “rough year” for the team, which lost several participants throughout the year due to injuries and other reasons.

“For them to pull of this routine, get a bid to the competition and make it to the semifinals, it was amazing,” she said.

In the service Navy Seaman Recruit Kyle E. Moore recently completed basic training at Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Ill. During the eight-week program, Moore completed a variety of training components including classroom study, practical instruction on naval customs, first aid, firefighting, water safety and survival, and shipboard and aircraft safety. An emphasis was also placed on physical fitness.

Moore is a 2005 graduate of Gaithersburg High School. He is the son of William A. and Donnel K. Moore of Philadelphia, Pa.

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Eternity, a youth cheer team at Dream Allstars Cheer in Gaithersburg, competed in the semifinals round of The Cheerleading and Dance World Championship in Orlando, Fla., in late April. Here, they are competing at the Battle at the Capitol cheer competition at National Harbor.

Campus congrats

Business donates food to area nonprofit

Heather Brock of Montgomery Village has received the Lucy Moore Grave Marine Biology Award at Earlham College in Richmond, Ind. The award is given to students who exhibit devotion to the advancement of science, stability of character and originality. It can be used for a year of graduate study in zoology, biology, geology or chemistry.

Brock, a junior, is the daughter of Dena Brotman and Donald Brock.

Town & Country Movers, a moving and storage business based in Gaithersburg, has collected and donated more than 800 pounds of food to Gaithersburg HELP. On May 10, the business visited the Giant grocery store at 18250 Flower Hill Way in Gaithersburg and collected the food from shoppers over a five-hour period. It also raised $300.

The second annual food drive benefitted Gaithersburg HELP, a nonprofit that provides families short-term emergency assistance.

Gaithersburg festival to be held June 8

City solicits input on watershed study

Returning for its 32nd year, the Celebrate!

Gaithersburg street festival in Olde Towne will take place from noon to 5 p.m. June 8.

The festival, situated near Summit and Diamond avenues, will kick off the summer season by spotlighting bluegrass bands and a barbecue showdown. Bands appearing include The Seldom Scene, Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen and Grand Ole’ Ditch. The showdown will feature local barbecue food trucks, vendors and restaurants.

Admission and parking are free. Shuttle service will also be provided from the Lakeforest mall.

The city is hosting a public meeting to discuss and receive input on the Muddy Branch Watershed study at 7:30 p.m. June 5.

The meeting will be at Robertson Park Youth Center, 801 Rabbit Road in Gaithersburg.

The city contracted with URS Corporation to complete a study on the condition of the city’s streams and stormwater management facilities within the watershed, and compare the results with the 2001-2002 stream assessment completed

by Versar.

For more information, contact Dyan Backe, an environmental planner for the city, at 301-2586330 or dbacke@gaithersburgmd.gov.

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THURSDAY, MAY 29 College Safety Tips Presentation, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Twinbrook Community Recreation Center, 12920 Twinbrook Parkway, Rockville. Free.

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Montgomery County Transportation Forum, 7-9 p.m., Silver Spring

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Vince Lewis and Barbara Martin Concert, 7:30-8:30 p.m., Friendship

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ter, 400 Hurley Ave., Rockville. $25 for general admission, $15 for students, free for ages 16 and younger. 301 8141080.

SATURDAY, MAY 31 Flower Valley Community Yard Sale, 9 a.m.-noon, Off Norbeck Road

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Huge Community Yard Sale, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Rose Hill Falls, at Rt. 28 and Great Falls Road next to Julius West Middle School, Rockville. aileenjaye@verizon.net.

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Kindergarten Orientation Registration, 8:30 a.m.-4:40 p.m., Germantown

Elementary School, 19110 Liberty Mill Road, Germantown. 301-353-8050 to set up an appointment.

The Latvian Organizations of Washington, D.C., Presents Youth Choir Balsis in Concert, 8 p.m., Latvian Cen-

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Community Day and Spring Used Book Sale, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Da-

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a.m. June 1, Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus, 9601 Medical Center Drive, Rockville. www.RelayForLife. org/RockvilleMD.

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Hope Garden Children’s Ballet Theatre Presents “The Little Mermaid,”

1:30 p.m., Poolesville High School, 17501 W. Willard Road, Poolesville. $14 for general admission, $11 for youth and seniors. 301-466-1906.

Make It and Take It: Kites, 1:303:30 p.m., Black Hill Visitor Center, 20926 Lake Ridge Drive, Boyds. $2.

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SUNDAY, JUNE 1 Glenview Mansion Art Opening

MONDAY, JUNE 2 Burtonsville Lions Charity Fondation Golf Classic, 8 a.m., Montgomery

Country Club, 6550 Laytonsville Road, Laytonsville. 301-452-3353.

STEM Mini-Makers, 3 p.m., Damascus Library, 9701 Main St., Damascus.

Free. 240-773-9444.

TUESDAY, JUNE 3 Preschool Film Fest, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Damascus Library, 9701 Main St., Damascus. Free. 240-773-9444.

Eat Right, Live Well, 1 p.m., Ingleside at King Farm, 701 King Farm Blvd., Rockville. 240-499-9019.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4 Wednesday Farmers Market, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Rockville Town Square, 225 N. Washington St., Rockville, through Sept. 24. www.rockvillemd. gov/events.

District 3 County Council Candidates Forum, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Aspen

Hill Library, 4407 Aspen Hill Road, Rockville. 301-871-1113.

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CORRECTIONS A May 21 headline on a story about the county’s electricity tax said that the average monthly bill would drop by $11 in fiscal 2015.

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Gaithersburg man pleads guilty to robbing Kentlands Five Guys Authorities say heist came after his girlfriend was fired n

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A Gaithersburg man has pleaded guilty to robbing a Five Guys restaurant in Kentlands after his girlfriend got fired.

On Friday, a Montgomery County circuit judge accepted Alvin Compres’ guilty plea to two counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon. In accepting his plea, the judge has agreed to cap his sentence at 8 1/2 years in prison.

“We’re hopeful the judge will give him less than that,” Compres’ attorney, Andrew Jezic, said after the hearing.

The maximum penalty for the charge is 20 years. Sentencing is scheduled for August.

Montgomery County police said in court filings that Compres, 18, was a regular at the Five Guys at 653 Center Point Way, where his girlfriend, Brenda Marisol Cortez, was a manager.

But Cortez, 20, of Gaithersburg, was fired for stealing money, police said in court filings.

On Sept. 29, 2013, according to police, Compres and another person robbed the restaurant.

Compres ordered workers into the back of the restaurant, ripped the phone lines from beneath the counter and took employees’ cellphones before making off with $1,500 in cash, police said in court filings.

Meanwhile, the girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter were waiting in the getaway car, police said in court filings. She pleaded guilty May 20 to being an accessory after the fact. Her sentencing was scheduled for August.

Two other men were charged in the robbery.

Police alleged that Dennis Rivas-Membreno, 30, was the other robber. Rivas-Membreno was indicted in December on a charge of conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon. A hearing on that charge and a separate conspiracy charge tied to a Germantown liquor store robbery in October is scheduled for Thursday in Circuit Court.

The lookout man during the robbery, Esau Melara-Santos, 30, of no fixed address, was also charged for his role in the Kentlands robbery and for the Germantown liquor store robbery.

On May 19, he received concurrent sentences of 18 months in jail for those offenses. tarnold@gazette.net

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Flags pay tribute to heroes Eric Jorgensen of Gaithersburg hangs a nametag of a hero on one of more than 500 American flags displayed at Bohrer Park for the Flags for Our Heroes Memorial Day display.

People could name a personal hero and sponsor a flag with that name for $50.

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Body pulled from Gaithersburg pond ID’ed Family was concerned about his ‘emotional well-being’ n

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TIFFANY ARNOLD STAFF WRITER

The body discovered in a pond near Lakeforest mall May 20 belonged to a 22-year-old Germantown man reported missing by family days earlier, accord-

ing to Montgomery County police.

Maurice Darnell Munford Jr.’s body was pulled from a pond used to capture runoff from a mall parking lot at the busy intersection of Russell and Montgomery Village avenues in Gaithersburg.

Family members helped police identify the body.

Montgomery County police Cpl. Rebecca Innocenti couldn’t comment on specifics but said his family reported him missing May 16 out of concern for

his “emotional well-being.”

Innocenti said it’s still unclear how he ended up in the pond and what may have caused his death. Munford was last seen near Lakeforest mall at around 2 p.m. May 15. His body was reported to police about 10 a.m. May 20.

Findings from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner have not yet been released as of Tuesday afternoon. tarnold@gazette.net

Montgomery Village Foundation appoints new member to fill unexpired term Ricardo Camacho will take over Sharon Cranford’s seat n

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The Montgomery Village Foundation Board of Directors

has selected a resident to finish out the unexpired term of a board member who resigned earlier this year.

Ricardo Camacho, a 24-year resident of the village, was chosen to become the board’s newest member at a meeting May 22.

At that meeting, the five candidates were given five minutes

each to address the board, noting their reasons for applying and what they hoped to accomplish in the position, according to a news release. The board immediately voted via secret ballot and unanimously chose Camacho.

Camacho will officially join the board at the June 26 meeting.

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Gaithersburg man struck by police car Police say victim was in critical condition; officer is on paid leave n

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TIFFANY ARNOLD STAFF WRITER

A police officer responding to a domestic violence call in Gaithersburg struck a man with his patrol

car on May 20, police said.

The man who was hit — Otto Reed, 61, of the unit block of Water Street in Gaithersburg — was in critical condition after the accident, Montgomery County police spokeswoman Janelle Smith said last week. Police spokeswoman Blanca Kling said Tuesday that Reed was still in critical condition.

Reed was hit on Chestnut Street, near East Diamond Avenue.

Police received the call at around 11 p.m., police said in a news release.

Police said the driver, Officer Drew Soldano, was answering a domestic violence call. He immediately stopped, made notifications over the radio and provided aid.

Other Montgomery County and Gaithersburg police officers, as well as Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service, responded to the

scene, Montgomery County police said in a news release.

As part of protocol, Soldano was placed on paid administrative leave.

Soldano has been a Montgomery County police officer for seven years and is assigned to the Sixth District, which covers Gaithersburg, police said. tarnold@gazette.net

Montgomery College graduates class of 2014 Ervin: ‘Be your true and authentic self’

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Members of Montgomery College’s 2014 graduating class donned caps and gowns and shared stories of struggle and success Friday for the commencement ceremony at its Rockville campus.

Hundreds of family members, friends and others joined graduates from the college’s Rockville, Germantown and Takoma Park/Silver Spring campuses and its Workforce Development & Continuing Education programs.

Of the 3,000 students who received degrees or certificates this year, about 800 students participated in the ceremony. Montgomery College President DeRionne P. Pollard said in her address that the students are part of the college’s largest class.

“Wherever your inner compass takes you, it will always lead you back in some way to your home here at Montgomery College,” she told the graduates.

Pollard asked students to stand and say “I am MC” — for Montgomery College — if certain statements applied to them. A large number of graduates responded when she asked for students who graduated from a county high school, worked while attending the college and who planned to transfer to another school.

Former Montgomery County Councilwoman Valerie Ervin, the commencement speaker, shared her life story with the students, telling them she had to overcome a variety of challenges.

She described how she didn’t graduate from college the first two times she sought a degree and how she rose from a position as a grocery store clerk to become a union organizer. She went on to get a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Baltimore, according to her campaign website.

Ervin — currently the executive director of the nonprofit Center for Working Families — also shared advice she received from her dad to “be nice” and consider laughter “a powerful tool.”

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Montgomery College President DeRionne P. Pollard (left) greets Yi Liu of Silver Spring as she crosses the stage to receive her diploma during the Montgomery College graduation ceremony on Friday. Liu graduated with honors from the honors program and was a member of the Phi Theta Kappa honor society. Below: Graduates wait to receive their diplomas during a commencement at Montgomery College on Friday.

“Be your true and authentic self. Open yourself to the universe and all the marvelous things that are waiting for you,” she said. “You are a bright light. Shine it.”

Other speakers included three students who received Board of Trustees Scholar Awards and one student who received an Apprenticeship Trustee Scholar Award.

Samuel Damesa, who earned an international studies degree, was one recipient of a Board of Trustees Scholar Award.

Damesa, who immigrated to the U.S. in 2010 and now lives in Silver Spring, said he learned the values of a strong work ethic, discipline, responsibility and “a fighting spirit” in his home country of Ethiopia.

“America is truly the land of opportunity for people with a fighting spirit, people with determination and people who are willing to work hard — people like you, graduates,” he said.

Lacey Hornkohl, another scholar award recipient, described how her life and career goals were

Bystanders rescue mother, teens after SUV crashes into lake Heroes were playing golf when they saw the accident n

BY Clarence Williams THE WASHINGTON POST

When two vehicles crashed in Gaithersburg on Thursday, one hit a tree and then other careened down an embankment and into a nearby lake. That’s when a pair of men playing golf nearby dropped their clubs and leapt to action.

The men, along with staffers from a nearby community center, rescued a mother and two teenagers from the submerged vehicle.

The incident happened in the 8800 block of East Village Avenue about 6 p.m., near the Lake Marion Community Center, where Montgomery County rescue crews arrived to find an SUV in the water, but three occupants safely on dry land — thanks to the bystanders.

“We think their actions were life-saving,” said Pete Piringer, a county fire department spokesman.

Medics evaluated the mother who was driving the SUV and took her to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Authorities also took the driver of the car that hit a tree to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

changed by a group of nurses who worked with her dad while he battled cancer.

“It was watching [a nurse practitioner] and that team of nurses at the cancer center that inspired me to quit acting and go to nursing school,” she said.

A graduate of the college’s nursing program, she said Montgomery College helped make her dream a reality.

Lisa Baughman told her fellow

graduates she decided to attend Montgomery College after a difficult period in her life and 25 years out of a classroom to become a paralegal studies major.

“Whether you’re a late bloomer like me, or you’re just starting out, arm yourself for whatever opportunities you can make for yourself in life,” she said. lpowers@gazette.net

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InBrief Rockville business hosts food drive for Manna Food Center Scheer Partners, a Rockville business that provides commercial real estate services, recently held a food drive that raised more than $1,500 in donations for Manna Food Center in Gaithersburg.

The food center is the main food bank in Montgomery County.

Gaithersburg among fastest growing cities in U.S.

New Census Bureau estimates puts the city at number eight The City of Gaithersburg ranked among the top 15 fastest growing cities in the United States with populations in excess of 50,000, according to U.S. Census Bureau population estimates released Thursday.

Gaithersburg’s population estimate stands at 65,690, up 4.4 percent since 2012, putting it at 8th on the Top 15 list.

The fastest growing city in the country is San Marcos, Texas, which saw an 8 percent increase in population from July 2012 to July 2013, according to the data.

“It’s exciting to be on this list,” said Gaithersburg City Manager Tony Tomasello in a city press release. “There has been a tremendous surge in residential development in Gaithersburg in recent years, led by new communities at Crown, Spectrum and the Parklands. There’s a level of energy and excitement that we haven’t seen in quite a while.”

For information on the Census Population Report visit http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/population/cb14-89. html?intcmp=sldr1.

Volunteer Fire Department motorcycle run The Germantown Volunteer Fire Department is hosting a motorcycle run in honor of National Fallen Firefighter Memorial Day on May 31st, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Participants are asked to arrive by 9 a.m. for registration at Battley Cycles at 7830 Airpark Road in Gaithersburg. The ride will begin at 10 a.m. and end at 1 p.m. at the Upper Montgomery Volunteer Fire Station at 19801 Beallsville Road in Beallsville.

At the fire station The Bobby Lewis Blue Band will play live music where the party also includes snacks, refreshments and a chili cook-off.

Registration costs $30 per driver and $15 per passenger ahead of time, or $40 per driver and $20 per passenger the day of. Participants can register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gvfdmotorcycle-run-benefits-the-natl-fallen-firefighters-foundation-tickets-10694311975.

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POLICE BLOTTER

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

Armed Robbery • On May 9 at 9:40 p.m. in the parking garage of Rio Mall, 221 Rio Blvd., Gaithersburg. The subject threatened the victim with a weapon and took property.

Strong-Arm Robbery • On May 9 at 4:47 p.m. in the 400 block of West Diamond Avenue, Gaithersburg. The subject assaulted the victim and took property.

• On May 11 at 7:40 p.m. in the area of Bohrer Park, 221 Summit Hall Road, Gaithersburg. The subjects assaulted the victim and took property.

Commercial Burglary • On May 5 at 1:41 a.m. at Sterling Autobody, 8221 Snouffer School Road, Gaithersburg. Took vehicle parts.

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The American Legion Post 86 “Miss Poppy” Inessa Campbell, 9 years old, who attends Darnestown Elementary School, with Poppy Unit Members Carolyn Davis, President of the Ladies Auxiliary, and Marrilyn Rykoskey, Past President lay a wreath at the 70th Annual Rockville Memorial Day Ceremony on Monday.

Vehicle Larceny • Six incidents in Gaithersburg on May 5 or 6. Unlocked vehicles, took a video game, cellphone, clothing, wallet, video camera, iPod, gift cards, greeting cards, a pocket knife, sunglasses, a flashlight and paperwork.

Affected streets include East Diamond Avenue, Hutton Street, Blue Violet Court and Calypso Lane.

• Four incidents in the Gaithersburg/Rockville area between May 5 and 7. Took an Xbox, a radar detector, clothing and an iPad. Affected streets include Washingtonian Boulevard and Key West Avenue.

• Four incidents in Montgomery Village and Gaithersburg between May 6 and 9. Unlocked cars, took credentials, an iPod, headphones, a laptop and vehicle parts. Affected streets include Kinglet Place, Farmingham Drive and Carlsbad Drive.

• Three incidents in Gaithersburg between May 9 and 12. Took a GPS unit, an MP3 player and vehicle parts. Affected streets include Watkins Station Circle and Welbeck Way.

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Montgomery County police are searching for a 24-year-old convicted felon who allegedly abducted a county judge with whom he was romantically involved by forcing her into her BMW, yanking on her hair and screaming at her to drive him to Gaithersburg, according to court and police records.

The judge escaped by jumping out of the car, fending off the suspect and running into a grocery store to call 911, according to police. The suspect got back into the car, took off and drove one mile before crossing into oncoming traffic and crashing into another car, injuring two occupants and himself. He was taken to Suburban Hospital in Bethesda.

On Tuesday, the day after the incident, Circuit Court Judge Audrey Creighton, 53, sought a protective order against the alleged assailant, Rickley Joshua Senning, whom she said had lived in her home for three weeks in May and three months last year.

Senning has convictions for assault, burglary, auto theft and a firearms violation. In 2008, he was sentenced to five years for punching a handcuffed inmate at the Montgomery County jail and assaulting two corrections officers, according to court records.

That same year, Creighton had represented Senning in a separate case when she was a county public defender.

Creighton has been a Circuit Court judge for a month, ascending to the position from the county’s District Court bench in April.

She was not on the bench Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, having already scheduled personal leave, court officials said.

She has since been granted two additional weeks of leave, Judge John W. Debelius III, the chief administrativejudgeinMontgomery

said Tuesday. He declined to comment on the events of this week.

Creighton, who was scraped on her right hand during the incident, did not return telephone calls and an email Tuesday seeking comment. Since Monday night, she has spoken with patrol officers, detectives and court officials — at one point saying her relationship with Senning was platonic and at another stating they were intimate partners, according to the police and court records.

For police, the case began about 9:40 p.m. Monday, when they were called for a reported assault outside the Harris Teeter grocery store along Darnestown Road,westofGaithersburg.There, they met Creighton. According to an incident report written by patrol officer John Gloss, she told them the following: Senning had been temporarily staying in the basement of her home in the Dickerson area.

About 9:20 p.m., she came home to find him in the driveway, yelling at her. “Take me to Gaithersburg!’ hesaid,continuingtopressureher to do so. Creighton said “it was obvious to her that Senning was very intoxicated,” Gloss wrote.

Creighton began driving him to Gaithersburg. Senning yelled at her to go “Faster! Faster Faster!” and at one point reached down to try to push the accelerator with his hand. He began to grab and pull her hair.

When Creighton reached the Harris Teeter, she bailed out. Senning followed her and tried to drag her back into the car, but Creighton broke free.

At some point that night, according to police, Senning left Suburban Hospital, but it is unclear how. On Tuesday, Creighton applied for a Temporary Protective Order, stating that she and Stenning were intimate partners.

In her application, she wrote that Senning had also lived in her home in June, July and August of 2013. A judge granted the order and set a court hearing for May 27, according to court records.

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Swim safety Learn how to stay safe while swimming this summer at Water Safety Day from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Friday at the Gaithersburg Water Park, 512 S. Frederick Ave. Thefreeeventwillincludeinformation on a variety of topics, including swim level testing, the importance of personal flotation devices, how to safely reach and assist someone struggling in the water and the importance of using sunscreen to prevent serious skin damage. Water Safety Day is co-sponsored by the city of Rockville, the city of Gaithersburg and Montgomery County.

Visitors to Water Safety Day who stop by the various information booths are welcome to stay and enjoy a free swim at the water park. Anyone under the age of 14 must be accompanied by an adult. Food will be available for purchase.

For more information about the event, call the Rockville Swim and Fitness Center at 240-3148750 or the Gaithersburg Aquatics Division at 301-258-6445.

Plan a local tour with the help of a new app Steaming tours, GPS navigation and points of interest in county on your smartphone Heritage Montgomery has a new tool to make it easy to find the county’s historic treasures and activities: the new Heritage Montgomery App for the smartphone.

The Heritage Montgomery

smartphone App, available free for both Android and iPhone, will allow you to stream or download tours throughout the county.

Interactive GPS maps that include your current location and all points of interest on the tours allow for easy navigation.

Descriptions, as well as contact information including websites and phone numbers, deliver all the information you need for each tour stop.

Additionally, in “Things to Do” for each regional listing you’ll find all the special program information to explore the more than 40 sites participating in Heritage Days Weekend, June 28 & 29.

Visit the Android Market or App Store and search: Heritage Montgomery, Maryland.

For information on the Heritage Montgomery App, as well as Heritage Days Weekend, visit HeritageMontgomery.org.

County seeks applicants for Board of Appeals The Montgomery County Council is accepting applications to fill a vacancy on the Board of Appeals when Catherine Titus’ second term ends in September.

Board duties include reviewing special exceptions applications and variance from developmentstandardsrequests, and hearing appeals of certain county administrative decisions.

The board typically holds hearings all day on Wednesdays and work sessions every other week. Members work about 15

to 25 hours a week, and are paid $15,032.30 annually. Applications are due at 5 p.m. July 16.

Interviews will be scheduled in September.

Applications, with a letter of interest, resume and contact information, should be sent to County Council President Craig Rice, County Council Office, 100 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, or emailed to county. council@montgomerycountymd.gov.

Voter registration deadline is Tuesday MontgomeryCountycitizens planning to vote in the June 24 primary elections must submit a voter registration application by 9 p.m. Tuesday. That is also the deadline for changing political party affiliation or making other registration changes.

To register, residents must be aU.S.citizen,liveinMontgomery County and be at least 18 by Nov. 4.

Applications can be downloaded at 777vote.org. To verify voter registration using the automated phone system, call 240-777-8683. Registration can be done in person at 18753 N. Frederick Ave., Suite 210, Gaithersburg. The office is open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. The office will be open until 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Applications also are available at county libraries, regional service centers, all county health

offices, Department of Motor Vehicles offices and post offices.

Register now for library summer reading program Registration for county county libraries’ summer reading programs begins Sunday.

Children are invited to participate in this year’s program. The theme for children through grade 6 is “Fizz, Boom, Read” and the theme for teens is “Spark a Reaction.”

Participants can sign up for the programs and keep track of the books read using a designated computer in the library, or a home computer. To register, visit montgomerycountymd. gov/library, beginning Sunday.

Recommended reading lists also will be available on the website.

“Summer is a time of fun and relaxation. Reading is both, with the added bonus of keeping reading skills sharp,” said Parker Hamilton, the county’s library director, in a news release.

Magicians, musicians and storytellers are among the entertainers who will perform for children at all library branches this summer. Science, technology, engineering and math events will be featured, complementing the program’s theme. Program schedules are on the library website.

For more information call 240-777-0020 or visit montgomerycountymd.libguides.com/ summerreading.

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KATE S. ALEXANDER STAFF WRITER

Search for Montgomery County Executive Candidate Douglas M. Duncan (D) on Google and you will get a brief but accurate bio of the former county executive.

But it is not his face next to it.

The ubiquitous search engine has mistakenly linked Duncan’s name and info to the image of Douglas G. Duncan — Fannie Mae’s senior vice president and chief economist responsible for providing all forecasts and analyses on the economy, housing, and mortgage markets for Fannie Mae, according to the bio page.

Whoops.

Searching for “Doug Duncan” proved no better, however, it did bring up the names and actual faces of his two opponents in the race this June, current County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) and Councilman Philip M. Andrews (D).

Ouch.

With a laugh, Duncan’s campaign manager Kurt

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KATE S. ALEXANDER STAFF WRITER

SCREENSHOT

When someone googles “Doug Duncan,” the search engine provides the biography of the Montgomery County executive candidate but the image of a Fannie Mae executive.

The search engine has mistakenly linked Duncan’s name and info to the image of Douglas G. Duncan — Fannie Mae’s senior vice president and chief economist.

Staiger said they were aware of the picture.

“We’ve contacted Google a couple of times and they

have not responded,” he said.

The good news is that Wikipedia does have the right Doug with the right Duncan.

And as of yet, Maryland is not including pictures on its ballots. kalexander@gazette.net

Montgomery County passed a nearly $5 billion spending plan Thursday that increases pay to employees, funding for programs as well as fully funds the county’s school system budget request.

The $4.99 billion operating budget grows 3.8 percent or about $18 million over the fiscal 2014 budget, which ends June 30.

While the total budget passed unanimously, the county government portion of the spending plan met with opposition from one member of the council.

Councilman Philip M. Andrews (D-Dist. 3) of Gaithersburg, voted against the county government’s budget, he said, because of the salary increases it included for government employees.

Eligible firefighters will see a 9.75 percent increase in pay in fiscal 2015. Eligible police will see a 7.35 increase in pay while eligible general employees who are part of the union will see a 6.75 percent bump in

pay.

“I think that, as I said last week, the pay raises are excessive and extraordinarily expensive and will make it harder for us to balance budgets in the future in an equitable and a reasonable way,” Andrews said.

Andrews is running against Leggett in June for county executive.

“A budget is a policy and a priority document that takes political rhetoric and turns it into what’s real for people,” said Councilwoman Cherri Branson (D-Dist. 5) of Silver Spring. “And I think what’s real for people is leadership.”

Leadership, she said, is not only being responsible, but responsive to the needs of the people, and what she said the budget does.

Montgomery will spend more to educate children next year, growing its school expenditure by $51.4 million over the current year, however, the county’s state-required funding base, known as maintenance of effort, will not increase.

Pulling from other funds, the council was able to meet Montgomery County Public Schools’ total $2.28 billion request while keeping its funding requirement at the current level of $1.47 billion.

Funding for Montgomery College and the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission will also increase. The county will provide the college a total of $296.8 million, which is an increase of $15.7 million or 7.2 percent from the current year and will provide park and planning with $148.1 million, a 5.9 percent or $7.8 million bump.

Council President Craig L. Rice said the budget also boosts county services that were cut during the recession, including libraries, police, fire and rescue, corrections, safety net services and transportation.

“We were also able to provide additional support to our nonprofit partners whom we rely on to provide many services and programs that enhance the lives of our residents,” Rice (DDist. 2) of Germantown said.

The council approved $2.47 million to fund 82 community grants to nonprofits.

Among the expansion of social safety net services, Councilman George L. Leventhal, chairman of the Health and Human Services Committee, said the council added more than $1 million to Leggett’s proposed budget for the community health clinics, and added funds for an additional 15 housing placements for county homeless.

“It’s a very good day today.

We’ve added a great deal for initiatives that we care a lot about,” Leventhal (D-At Large) of Takoma Park said.

To fund the budget, property taxes will remain at the charter level, going up only the rate of inflation from last year.

However, the council continued reducing the energy tax, this year by about 7 percent, a revenue drop of about $11.5 million. For the average residential electric customer, the cut will result in an $11 yearly reduction. The average commercial customer will see their bill will go down about $111, according to the county.

The council also reduced payments for pre-funding benefits for its retirees, thanks to a provision in the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

Because the county can now use a Medicare Part D program to provide prescription drug coverage for eligible retirees and survivors, it was able to reduce it’s pre-payment for retiree health benefits to $100.6, about $81.8 million or 44 percent less than it had expected to pay.

In addition to the operating budget, the council passed a $4.45 billion capital budget for fiscal years 2015-2020. kalexander@gazette.net

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In 12 years on the Montgomery County Council, George Leventhal said his favorite part is being able to help constituents deal with problems they’re confronted with.

In his first term, Leventhal said he was probably too anxious to associate himself with specific issues.

Since then, he’s learned that although it’s a cliche, you really can get a lot more done if you don’t care who gets the credit, he said.

“I just get great satisfaction out of helping people,” he said.

Leventhal (D-At Large) of Takoma Park is one of six Democrats vying in the June 24 primary for four atLeventhal large spots on the ballot for the Nov. 4 general election. There are also four Republicans running, along with one Green Party member.

The son of two doctors who worked at the National Institutes of Health, Leventhal said he grew up familiar with the idea of service to others.

He counts the creation of the Montgomery Cares network of community health clinics as one of his most important successes on the council.

The clinics will provide access to health care to more than 31,000 county residents without insurance this year, he said.

Leventhal has been active in trying to lower homelessness in Montgomery, and initiated the county’s involvement in the 100,000 Homes campaign.

He also cofounded the Bethesda Green nonprofit, which he said was the first green jobs incubator in Maryland and promotes community sustainability and reducing carbon emissions.

He was also a cofounder of the Purple Line Now! coalition, which worked to keep the issue of

the Purple Line project alive when support for it was not as strong as it has been in recent years. The 16-mile light-rail project running between Bethesda and New Carrollton is scheduled to start construction in 2015.

Along with public service, another early influence as Leventhal grew up outside the nation’s capital getting the Washington Post delivered each morning at the height of the Watergate scandal, was politics.

He participated in his first campaign as a college student at the University of California at Berkeley, and worked as an aide to a Berkeley city councilman while still in school.

He worked on Capitol Hill as a staff member for a U.S. Senate committee, then for Maryland

Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D) for five years.

Later, while working for the Association of American Universities, Leventhal served as the chairman of the Montgomery County Democratic Central Committee from 1996 through 2001.

Despite his partisan affiliations, Leventhal said he’s been sad to see the decline of Republicans in the county.

“I don’t think the absence of Republicans is healthy for Democrats,” he said.

Registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans in Montgomery by a nearly threeto-one margin.

Leventhal said if he’s reelected, he’ll continue to hold county staff accountable for spending taxpayers’ money.

He’s never been afraid to ask questions on spending, and residents deserve to have their questions answered, he said.

He’salsoconcernedthecounty’s school system.

There are essentially two school systems in the county, with high-performing and low-performing schools, he said. Education is a great social equalizer, and the county needs to make sure all studentshavethesamechancefor success, he said.

That involves studying analytics and finding what works and what doesn’t.

“Greatness requires being honest about where we can do better,” he said. rmarshall@gazette.net

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BY KATE S. ALEXANDER STAFF WRITER

As an attorney in private practice and a state representative, Del. Jon S. Cardin said he has spent the last 15 years working to help people who have been harmed become whole again.

“And now I want to do that for the state of Maryland and for each and every citizen of the state of Maryland as the next attorney general,” he said.

Cardin, who represents District 11 in Baltimore County, is one of three Democrats running this June for attorney general.

Sen. Brian E. Frosh (Dist. 16) and Del. Aisha N. Braveboy (Dist. 25) also are in the race.

The winner in the June 24 primary will face Republican Jeffrey N. Pritzker and Libertarian Leo Wayne Dymowski in the general election.

Cardin said he got into politics to focus on environmental protection.

But as a father of a 2-yearold daughter and a private practice attorney, issuesofpublic safety, civil Cardin rights and the safety of children also became priorities for him.

Cardin, his wife Megan — who is expecting their second child — and their 2-yearold daughter live in Baltimore County.

Cardin has been a delegate for 12 years. As a member of the Ways and Means Committee, Cardin said, his legislative career has focused on taxes, gaming, education and election law — the subcommittee of which he chairs.

Through his work, Cardin said, he became skilled at bringing people together to solve problems before they become crises.

The nephew of U.S. Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin (D), Jon Cardin said he has enjoyed early polling leads based on name recogni-

tion. But as the primary nears, he said, the polls show his message is catching on with voters.

“While of course I am very, very appreciative of the advice, the counsel my uncle has given to me and the reputation that he has given to me, I believe that, not only, has my campaigning resulted in improved interests in my candidacy, but my goals of creating a safer Maryland [have] really been resonating,” he said.

Cardin, 44, said he has a unique, demonstrated ability to understand the issues that will matter in coming years.

“Everybody deserves a voice, everybody deserves a safe place to live but also safe air to breathe and also a safe environment to purchase things, be it on the Internet or in person,” he said.

Cyber security, he said, will be a top public safety issue for the next generation, while for consumers, identity theft is the biggest issue.

As a delegate, Cardin sponsored the law that criminalized cyber sexual harassment. He also

Cardin said it is his personal vision that every single Marylander can vote as conveniently and safely as possible.

He said he is not afraid to take on what he calls the “good ‘ole boys.”

As an attorney, he said, he went after school systems that

didn’t take bullying seriously and fought energy companies trying to install explosive gas pipelines under houses.

“I’m not afraid to say, ‘You know what? The safety of every individual and the dignity of every individual far exceeds political gamesmanship,” he said.

“I’ve grown up in a family of public service where I’ve been taught that I want to leave my corner of the world in a better place than I find it,” he said. “I believe this is the best way for me to do it.” kalexander@gazette.net

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A trail of prom-goers jumped off their music-blaring party bus, swapped their heels, dress shoes, lengthy prom dresses, and rented tuxedo’s for a pair of loaned bowling shoes, Nike shorts, and senior class T-shirt’s to start the night off comfortably at Wootton High School’s Project post prom event, held recently at Bowl America in Gaithersburg.

Bowling wasn’t the only thing to participate in that night, Black Jack and Texas Hold ‘em tables were a main source of entertainment, along with a money grab machine and an assortment of pizza’s and cookies to snack on.

“I went home with an extra $17 and some free Slurpee coupons so that was a plus in my book,” senior Amanda Hamouda said about the May 17 event.

In part to help decrease drunk driving behavior and the number of students out on the roads on prom nights, Montgomery County Project Prom/ Graduation organizers Meg Baker and Karen Bashir have worked for nearly two decades to get their mission, Project

Prom on the map with high school PTAs, and students.

The idea behind Project Prom was to create an event where teens could go with friends after prom, to keep them off the roads and engage in activities such as bowling, faux gambling, moon bounces, and more.

Bashir, Baker, and additional Project Prom board members work as an group to provide the basic information needed for parent coordinators and volunteers to successfully plan a post prom event for their specific school.

“The meetings we hold offer lots of information as to where to look for vendors if certain schools need them, or help with fun activities to plan,” copresident of Project Prom Karen Bashir said. “Some first year coordinators don’t know where to look for everything so we try to pack our meetings with information for all,” she said.

A staple in the community for nearly 22 years, the program was inspired by the Washington Regional Alcohol Program (WRAP), a partnership that aims to lower underage drinking in the Washington-Metropolitan area through educational programs.

The coalition has grown from just four schools to a membership of 30 schools, six private and 24 public which

Obituary Lloyd E. Adkins, 74, of York, formerly of Gettysburg, passed away at 7:17 p.m., Wednesday, May 14, 2014 at his home. He was the fiance of Theda Decker of York.

Lloyd was born April 18, 1940 in Tad, West Virginia and was the son of the late Charlie and Madeline (Moore) Adkins.

He worked as a mechanic for Metro Transit Authority in Maryland. Lloyd was a member of St. Paul United Methodist Church in Manchester.

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Thomas S. Wootton High School student Max Greenblatt, 18, prepares for his turn to bowl during team games formed by he and his friends at the post prom event May 17 at Bowl Mor Lanes in Gaithersburg. work through the program by planning after prom celebratory events within their school PTA. An estimated 250,000 students have attended Post Prom sponsored events.

“You can never pin point how much you are making a difference in others lives, but I feel as if we are impacting many students and they are leaning toward making better decisions on nights like these especially,” Bashir said. “We just want to give kids an alcohol-free, drugfree place they can turn to and still have a really enjoyable time.”

The accomplishments of the post prom group is not only credited to the leading organizers, the Montgomery County

Police Department; vendors, such as The Green Turtle, WingStop, and Domino’s Pizza also donate their services to the program and certain schools regularly. Barwood Taxi Company participates in the Safe Ride Home program, which offers complimentary rides to teens on prom. Coordinators or volunteer parents are the only authorized callers to request a cab for a student, and relate the pick up and drop off addresses.

Some schools even request for Montgomery County Police officers to speak with students before the start of prom season, to discuss the dangers and consequences of bad decisions on one night.

Although Project Prom as

Lloyd is survived by three sons, Lloyd E. Adkins, Jr. and his wife, Lynda of Germantown, MD, Charles Adkins, and John Adkins and his companion, Debbie Schroeder of Gaithersburg, MD; his two daughters, Janet Adkins of Romney, WV, and Pamela Adkins Hungerford and her husband, Todd of Gaithersburg, MD; 11 Grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren; his brother, Douglas of Columbia, TN, and his four sisters, Garnet Wilkes of Muscle Schoals, AL, Wilma Jones of Mableton,GA, Patsy Baum of Canton, NC, and Joyce Walker of Richmond, VA. Lloyd was preceded in death by 5 sisters and 4 brothers.

Gene Lowery of the Upper Montgomery Athletic Club baseball league operates the concession stand during games on May 22 on the Edward U. Taylor Science Materials Center grounds in Boyds.

His funeral service began at 11:00 a.m., Friday, May 23, 2014 at St. Paul United Methodist Church, 4360 Board Road, Manchester, PA. His viewing was from 10:00 to 11;00 a.m., Friday at the church.

Burial in Manchester Union Cemetery. Officiating at the service, his pastor, The Reverend Charles Sprenkle from St. Paul United Methodist Church. Arrangements were entrusted to The Diehl Funeral Home & Cremation Center of Mount Wolf.

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Obituary Mrs. Charlotte Marie (Sellner) Richards, 88, of Damascus, Md. died Tuesday, May 20, 2014 at Westminster Ridge Assisted Living, Westminster. She was the beloved wife of the late James A. Richards.

When he passed away in 2003 they had been married 58 years.

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Surviving her are four children: James D. Richards, of Sneads Ferry, N.C.; Dianne M. Reeves of Westminster; Darlene L. Tollestrup, of Sugarland, Texas, and Donna S. Keen of Hagerstown. Twelve grandchildren, five great grandchildren; two brothers George Sellner and Charles Sellner and two sisters Marion Garber and Pauline Rutter; many dear friends and neighbors.

Friends may call on Saturday, May 24, at Molesworth-Williams P.A., Funeral Home, 26401 Ridge Road, Damascus, Md. 20872, from 10:00 a.m. until funeral services begin at 11:00 a.m. Interment will follow in Resthaven Memorial Gardens, Frederick.

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a group receives a Highway Safety Grant, which serves as an reimbursement toward the schools food budget for the event, schools are required to separately raise further funds to cover the remainder of costs.

Which can be up to $2,000 or more.

A few schools’ events are supplemented by the Under 21 Activity Fund Grant hosted by the Collaboration Council at the Department of Health and Human Services, a grant awarded to individual schools that apply and are accepted. If accepted the applicant school can be awarded up to $1,000. The grant helps compensate the schools for the funds spent on activities held at the event.

“Surprisingly, the schools who have a lower budget to work with, end up having the most students in attendance,” Bashir said. “It just goes to show that our parents and volunteers really try their best to make it work.”

Ticket sales raise a good deal of money for the schools that do charge for entry, some pre-sale prices are $10, and $20 at the door. However, coordinators often start arrangements in September to assist with fundraising for the event, methods like faculty basketball games where all proceeds made benefit post prom are ways to raise funds, as well as bake sales, bingo night, and silent auctions.

Funds usually go toward decorations, entertainment activities, DJ costs, and prizes distributed throughout the night of the event such as Beats headphones and Keurig coffee makers.

“Fundraising has definitely gotten harder but the tactics we used worked. For example, events like restaurant night and car washes helped us raise extra money needed,” said Lisa Hedgepath, head parent coordinator at James Hubert Blake High School in Silver Spring.

Hedgepath, a post prom coordinator for three years said she is happy to help because, “Project Prom allows for a way for parents to be involved and assured their kids are in a safe environment.”

Project Prom ensures safety by providing two police officers at each event location to help make sure plans run smoothly.

Blake’s post prom which was held on May 10 at Dave and Buster’s in Kensington had about 540 students who attended. Coinciding with their prom theme, masquerade designed T-shirts made by students were given out at the end of the night as gifts, along with various other prizes. Arcade games like Temple Run were a big hit, along with billiards and shuffleboards.

“I’ve usually seen an upward of about 500 students attend since I’ve started with the planning process,” Hedgepath said.

“The kids seem to enjoy themselves and the night, I think our location at Dave and Busters offers so many things for the kids to do the whole night.”

At high schools like Damascus, and Paint Branch after prom events are set to be held at the Damascus Fire Activity Center, and Church of the Resurrection, facilities that work hand-in-hand with the organization.

Bethesda’s Winston Churchill’s after prom event was located at Bowl More Lanes in Bethesda, which featured activities like a green screen room, unlimited bowling and a variety of sweets for the students.

“My friends and I had a pretty good time for the amount of time we stayed,” senior Sabine Hawthorne- Codato said.

“We got excited about bowling once we made teams, and some of us even won prizes through the night.”

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Gene Lowery has run the Upper Montgomery Athletic Club baseball league in Boyds for nearly 40 years. He’s the league’s president, but he’s best known around the fields for the cheeseburgers and egg sandwiches he sells from the snack shack at least six days a week.

On top of the contracting company he runs with his son Brad Lowery — Lowery Construction — he puts in about 60 hours a week to keep the league running and feed hungry players, parents and siblings.

“He’s the guy who does everything out here, the father of the league so to speak,” Coach Ike Brenner said.

Lowery, 73, joined the league in 1975, coaching then 9-yearold Brad’s team. Within a few years, he became president of the league. At the time, it used one field behind the old Edward U. Taylor School on White Ground Road.

Ten years ago, the school closed. Lowery said he negotiated a deal with the county school system to let the league build four more fields and maintain them without paying to use the fields.

Since then, he and Brad have built a pavilion and dug-out covers there. They built the snack shack about 20 years ago.

Boys run up to the red shack, $3 in hand, to grab a Diet Coke for Mom and a packet of Big League Chew. Their sisters pick out Skittles and take them to the playground to gossip. Pings of bats hitting balls ring across the fields around the shack.

Lowery waits behind the counter in his red league shirt, white-grey hair combed back, beard trimmed, while one player after another is stumped by which flavor of Gatorade to

choose.

The menu, handwritten in marker on the side of a white refrigerator, offers pickles for 50 cents, hot dogs for $2 and Super Bubble for 5 cents a piece. It’s one of five refrigerators jammed in the wooden structure next to an oven and stove.

Lowery estimates he makes about 1,000 burgers during the 40 or so games each week. Trophies from Cal Ripken tournaments stand prominently beside the counter.

“He’s a giver, that’s for sure,” said Chris McKee, who has coached his four sons’ teams the past seven years. “He’s just tireless around here.”

Typically, Lowery rises at 3 or 4 a.m., depending on what time he went to sleep. He sleeps for exactly five hours and wakes up without an alarm clock every day to have breakfast and maybe scrub pans from the snack shack that he didn’t get to the night before. He gets to work around 7 a.m.

By 3 p.m., he’s on his way to the fields, stopping at Costco a few days a week to restock burgers, Gatorade and candy. Then, there are fields to be mowed, dirt diamonds to be smoothed, and last-minute fill-in umpires to be called.

On Friday and Saturday nights, the teams play under lights, a big hit, Lowery said.

Around 9 p.m., he’s wrapping up to head home.

Lowery insists he keeps doing the job because there’s no one else to take over. Indeed, his shoes would be big ones to fill.

But the community he has created here knows the effort he puts in so kids can play baseball. It’s a sport he has loved since he listened to Pittsburgh Pirate games over the radio in the 1940s and 1950s, while growing up in Western Maryland.

Lowery loves seeing the kids play; the league is a ministry to him, he said.

“I think I’m doing God’s work. I hope God likes baseball,” he said.

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Montgomery County’s teachers union named five incumbents May 21 in its second and final round of endorsements for the upcoming Montgomery County Council races.

The union, which represents more than 12,000 Montgomery County Public Schools teachers, endorsed County Councilman Roger Berliner of Bethesda for the District 1 seat; Council President Craig L. Rice of Germantown for the District 2 seat; Councilwoman Nancy Navarro of Silver Spring for the District 4 seat and Marc Elrich of Takoma Park and Hans Riemer of Takoma Park for at-large seats.

The union endorsed only two candidates running for at-large positions, though the County Council includes four at-large seats.

The recommendations leave out two incumbents seeking reelection: Council Vice President George L. Leventhal of Takoma Park and Councilwoman Nancy Floreen of Garrett Park, who each hold an at-large seat.

The union announced in March its endorsements of Gaithersburg City Councilman Ryan Spiegel for the council’s District 3 seat and county school board member Christopher S. Barclay for the District 5 seat.

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Health officials are warning that some people were in Bethesda on May 11 could have been exposed to measles.

According to the Virginia Department of Health, two people have been diagnosed with measles in Virginia since late April. Because the disease is highly contagious, health officials are trying to identify people who may have been exposed.

People who have never been vaccinated against measles could be at risk of getting the disease, according to a Virginia Department of Health news release.

In Bethesda, people at the Fine Arts Festival, the Prep Matters waiting room and a farmers market, all on Cordell Avenue, on May 11 could have been exposed, according to the department. A full list of times and places of possible exposure, most of them in Virginia, is on the department’s website.

Symptoms of measles, which is caused by a virus, typically include a fever, runny nose, watery red eyes and a cough, followed by a rash several days later. Anyone exposed to the measles May 11 through 15 could develop symptoms as late as June 5, according to Virginia health officials.

People who have received a measles or measles, mumps and rubella vaccine are at a very low risk of infection, the department says, but those who have not should call a physician if they develop symptoms.

People who may have been exposed can call 877275-8343 with questions.

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Councilman Philip M. Andrews of Gaithersburg, who currently holds the council’s District 3 seat, is running for Montgomery County Executive.

Councilwoman Cherri Branson of Silver Spring was appointed to the District 5 seat and is not seeking election.

The primary election falls on June 24 and the general election on Nov. 4.

A May 21 union statement said that multiple factors were considered in the endorsement process, including “the temperament of each candidate and how she/he interacted with the interview teams and with school system leaders during the recent Montgomery County budget discussions.”

The Washington Post reported on Thursday

that the union did not like that, during a budget discussion with school officials, Leventhal brought up a February incident in which a young student was dropped off at the wrong bus stop.

Doug Prouty, the union’s president, would not comment on Leventhal’s comments during budget discussions. He rather echoed part of the union’s May 21 statement, saying that interactions between school officials and council members was a factor in the endorsement process.

Prouty also said the union committee that interviewed the candidates “did not put his name forward.”

Leventhal — whom the union endorsed in 2002, 2006 and 2010 — said he does not “regret asking questions of [Superintendent Joshua P. Starr] if that’s what triggered the [union’s] decisions.”

“I don’t think we should just usher the school budget through the council in five seconds or without asking any questions about it,” he said.

Floreen said she has never received a teachers union endorsement and that she has “no idea why.”

“I assume they think I don’t cozy up to them sufficiently,” she said.

She said she “couldn’t identify any differences” between herself and the candidates the union does support.

“I’ve always been respectful and supported their initiatives,” she said.

Prouty said in an interview that among the challengers to the County Council incumbents, candidate Beth Daly — who is seeking an at-large seat — “received the most serious consideration.”

The incumbents the union endorsed “have a history of recognizing the key role MCPS [Montgomery County Public Schools] plays in the quality of life for Montgomery County residents, both those who have students in our schools and those who do not,” he said in the union statement. lpowers@gazette.net

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KATE S. ALEXANDER STAFF WRITER

A year ago, Sen. Brian E. Frosh did not expect to run for Maryland attorney general.

Rather, he was ready to support his colleague, Sen. Jamie B. Raskin, who was planning to run for the office. But when Raskin decided against running and urged Frosh to run instead, it got Frosh thinking.

“I’m very satisfied with career I’ve had in the General Assembly,” said Frosh (D-Dist.

16) of Somerset. “While I love the Senate — and that was a concern; I loved doing that job — the fact that I could have an even greater impact as attorney general outweighed that.”

Frosh, who has held public office for 28 years, said this was a good time to run. His two daughters are grown and gone, leaving him and his wife of almost 30 years, Marcy, as empty nesters.

As he reflected on his career as a lawmaker and an attorney, he said he is well suited for the job.

It was the presidential election of Ronald Reagan, who Frosh felt was unqualified for the job, that made him want to hold office.

“When I saw Reagan get elected in 1980, I was just galvanized,” he said.

In the General Assembly, Frosh has been a catalyst for many state laws, including the new Firearms Safety Act, the Maryland Recycling Act, a law that stopped drilling for oil and gas in the Chesapeake Bay, and one that overturned the effects of a controversial court ruling on pit bulls.

As chair of the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee, Frosh was a key figure in the legalization of gay marriage, the repeal of the death penalty and protections for victims of domestic violence, among other laws.

For 35 years, Frosh, an attorney, has been with his private practice, Karp Frosh Wigodsky and Norwind, PA. He has worked on international antitrust issues, real estate and business litigation.

Frosh was named one of the best lawyers in America by Best Lawyers, a peer-reviewed

publication, and was elected to the American Law Institute, which produces scholarly Frosh work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law.

Frosh is one of three Democrats running this June for attorney general. Del. Jon L. Cardin (Dist. 11) and Del. Aisha N. Braveboy (Dist. 25) also are in the race. The winner in the June 24 primary will face Republican Jeffrey N. Pritzker and Libertarian Leo Wayne Dymowski in the general election.

An attorney general needs not just knowledge of government, but an understanding of how people in government work and how to work with them, Frosh said.

As he campaigns across the state, he said, he is hearing the same issues raised by voters: consumer protection, environmental protection and public safety.

“People want to feel safe in their neighborhoods; they want clean air to breathe; they want clean water to drink; and they want equal opportunity, a fair shot at the American dream,” he said. “They don’t want to be victims either in the sense of violent crime or scams, frauds and rip-offs.”

If elected, Frosh said, he wants to make sure environmental polluters get punished.

And he wants to go after those who prey on victims of credit card debt, the way outgoing Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler (D) pursued mortgage lenders for foreclosures.

Frosh said lenders can sell consumer debt for pennies on the dollar. Often, it means honest borrowers can end up in court for money they may or may not owe.

“People get put in jail for debt in the United States as result of this,” he said. “The attorney general can play an important role in fixing this.” kalexander@gazette.net

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There were several factors behind the decision to close the course, namely the recent decision by county leaders to complete a Montgomery Village Master Plan and the decline in membership at the golf club, according to Monument Realty President Russell Hines.

The master plan process, which is expected to begin in October and potentially wrap up in June 2016, will indefinitely lengthen the timeline for development of the golf course, Hines said. The master plan could also affect and change elements of the concept plan.

“It creates a lot more uncertainty because you have to start over, start fresh,” he said.

“We’re looking at the whole community again. I’m hopeful that we end up in the same place.”

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760,000-square-foot shopping center.

In anticipation of the carousel’s opening, the Rio Washingtonian Center Facebook page is hosting its “Carousel Animal Naming Contest,” giving residents the opportunity to name seven of the carousel’s animals.

So far, four of the animals have

been named. They are Penelope the Ostrich, Reginald the Rooster, Zany the Zebra and Cedric the Dragon.

The Peterson Cos. of Fairfax, Va., announced in February that a 36-foot classic carousel would be opening this spring near the waterfront area.

Featuring 30 jumping

horses, whimsical creatures and two chariots, the carousel has space for up to 38 adult and 30 child passengers, with wheelchair access, according to the release. It overlooks the lake, with a seating area, tables and shade trees nearby.

Chance Rides, an amusement ride manufacturer in

more than a year ago, the business has continued to lose money and members, Hines said. Membership was around 150 in March 2013, and has dwindled to 113 today. “[Monument] is losing hundreds of thousands of dollars every year keeping this club open,” he said.

Monument will continue to maintain the grounds of the vacant property after it closes.

Existing club members will be credited for the three remaining winter months that they have already paid for within their annual fee, according to Monument spokeswoman Pam Zandy.

While it has long been known that the golf club would close down at some point, several residents said they’re still holding out hope that it can stay an open space.

Sue Fierston said she felt the Montgomery Village board didn’t do enough to ensure that the golf course would remain a parcel of open space.

“I think that fear trumped

reason on the part of the Montgomery Village Foundation board,” she said. “They did not view the golf course as an open space aspect and were too cheap to try and find any solution to keep the golf course.”

Despite the decision to close the course, Fierston said the work of Village Citizens, a grass-roots organization focused on working with Monument and the Foundation to make sure future redevelopment benefits the entire vil-

lage, will continue. She said the group is currently trying to collect 3,000 to 4,000 petition signatures to show the Montgomery County Council and Planning Board that many residents want to keep more open space in the village.

more patients in a time period.”

The uniqueness and innovation of ClickMedix caught the eye of judges at this year’s InvestMaryland Challenge, a state business competition which offered nearly $1 million in cash and in-kind awards for startups to showcase themselves to potential investors.

The company took home first place in the Information Tech-

nology category, garnering a $100,000 grand prize.

Shih said the prize money will be used to launch a health training program that would enable homevisit nurses and caregivers to conduct mental health assessments in the Washington metropolitan area.

The business that Shih initially created in graduate school — the first-generation

company of ClickMedix — was actually called Click Diagnostics Inc. Even though it failed shortly thereafter, its mission led to the formation of ClickMedix in 2010. It was founded

by Shih, with the help of other students and faculty from MIT and Carnegie Mellon University.

ClickMedix was launched in June 2011 with its first sale to

the dermatology department of Harvard Medical School. The company now has 16 clients throughout the world, reaching the fingertips of hundreds of doctors.

After earning recognition in last year’s InvestMaryland Challenge as a finalist, Shih said she and her team returned with an improved presentation that demonstrated the compa-

signs that include facts about Teressa to post on several spots of the course.

“So when you walk the course, you can learn more about Teressa if you didn’t know her too well,” Anna said.

Teressa moved to Washington, D.C. a few years ago and lived there with her family. Heavily involved in sports, Teressa became close to the girls while playing with them on various school teams. Abigail attends Covenant Life School,

while Alex, Anna and Laura are homeschooled through the Covenant Life Family Schools Program.

Robert Vigil, Abigail’s father, said he believes preparing for the event has been a therapeutic experience for the girls.

“To watch as a parent, we’re very proud of all four girls because they are doing this together as a group,” he said.

“They were each very close to Teressa. It’s been a difficult process moving forward.”

Monika French, Teressa’s mother, called the school a “blessing” and the four girls “gifts from God.” “With the loss of our daughter, Teressa, we could not have been more loved and cared for by her friends and Covenant Life School,” she wrote in an email.

“Our family is truly humbled by the students’ display of love for Teressa and by them honoring her with this walk.”

Robert Stohlman of Montgomery Village works his way out of a sand trap on the first hole at the Montgomery Village Golf Course on Tuesday.

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Wichita, Kan., originally built the carousel.

The ride has authentic details, including Americana-style scenery, an antique-style lighted ceiling, spiral brass pole sleeves, glass mirrors, crown lighting and music. jedavis@gazette.net Neighbor Ben Burman said he was “shocked” to hear that the golf course was closing so soon, and hopes that Monument won’t allow the property to become unkempt.

“I feel like [Monument] has already taken my property value, since we live right on the golf course, and now, if they don’t keep up with it, they’ll take the enjoyment of our property away, too,” he said.

The realty company bought the failing golf course for $5 million in March 2013, though the estimated value of the site was about $1.6 million, according to state records. Former owner, Jack Doser, a professional golfer, ran the golf club for 34 years before declaring the multimillion-dollar business unprofitable at Montgomery Village Foundation meetings in 2011. jedavis@gazette.net

ny’s growth and success. Shih offered a bit of advice for fellow entrepreneurs looking to participate in the competition in the future.

“Sometimes it’s not about the business itself, but more about articulating it to the right audience,” she said. jedavis@gazette.net

Teressa French, a Gaithersburg student seen here juggling a soccer ball, was killed after being struck by a car in January. A benefit walk in her honor will be on June 1.

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The teens have spent much of their time trying to spread the word about the event, including setting up a registration table each week at the church’s Sunday services and posting flyers on community boards throughout the city.

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Unit will officially “open” the carousel. Ticket proceeds from opening day will benefit the hospital’s NICU. “The whole property is going to be a party celebrating the waterfront,” said Laurie Yankowski, the regional marketing director for The Peterson Cos., which is one of the developers of the

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Ellsworth Park dog park proposal lacking evidence I recently attended and testified in a county Planning Board public hearing (April 24th) for a dog park proposal for Ellsworth Park in Silver Spring. The entire experience was eye-opening as I learned that park users and neighboring residences are not important in Parks Department studies and the Planning Board is not interested in evidencebased proposals.

The proposal is for the installation of a 21,000-squarefoot dog park (four times larger than the children’s playground space) in the park’s only open, green space used throughout the year. During the entire year that the proposal study was underway, there was one public

meeting (approximately 50 attendees) held on a weeknight in the fall, one visit to a neighborhood group (approximately 25 attendees) and a public website with the dog park design buried deep in a lengthy presentation and an email address to send in comments.

There were no documented visits to the park by the department to observe park space use, no known input from active park users or neighboring residents on the current park use or the proposed dog park design, and no information posted in the park to raise awareness about the design or to seek input.

Even the recent public hearing was not communi-

Council makes right move on M-83 Hooray for the County Council for adopting a “transit-first” mentality and opposing M-83 [“Council leaning toward transit options instead of M-83,” May 7].

As an upcounty resident, I have seen first-hand that more highways just mean

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more gridlock. To really improve mobility in the upcounty, we need to invest in rapid, convenient transit, not waste hundreds of millions of dollars on an obsolete, environmentally destructive highway.

Miriam Schoenbaum, Boyds

that myself apparently it takes more than 57 million bags for the “pools” to come to life.

Wake up Montgomery County! It’s just another tax that produces income from those not wanting to use germ-laden recyclable bags that are supposed to be washed after every use — sure. P.S. You can get a box of plastic bags at Sams Club for under 2 cents each, but be responsible and make sure they reach the trash can.

Gene Taylor, Brookeville

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ask about park user/neighbor input into the study. Despite all of the public testimony questioning the site selection, timing, landscape materials, lack of user/neighbor input, child safety concerns, and counterevidence on current space utilization, the Board approved the proposal.

As county residents, we should demand that Parks Department proposals are based on evidence of park use and input from those affected the most, and that the Planning Board represents us by seeking evidence for claims made in proposals.

Steve Peck, Silver Spring

Other issues in Chevy Chase elections

The bag tax is just another tax The May 14 Gazette letters to the editor carried two pro letters for the bag tax [“Bag fee helps reduce litter” and “Bag fee cuts retailers’ costs’]. According to Montgomery County Department of Finance, Division of Treasury for the year 2012 (latest I could find) 57,684,003 bags were sold for an income of $2,307,360.

If the bag fee worked why did we sell so many bags? According to last week’s writers we no longer have “ugly pools of polyethylene.” While I never witnessed anything like

cated well, with hearing notices posted in the park where dog owners congregate, rather than the front park entrance where most park users would see it.

During the Planning Board hearing, the Board primarily focused only on the park design — not on the dog park site location study. The board also did not allow time for those testifying to rebut Parks Department claims. With the public library (bordering Ellsworth Park) closing soon and no decisions on the use of that space after closure, why would the county select this site for development?

The Planning Board did not inquire about the Parks Department’s evidence that the space is “underutilized” and failed to

I would like to thank the Gazette for covering the Town Council elections in the Town of Chevy Chase [“Metro, parks major concerns for candidates in Chevy Chase,” April 30].

But I would also like to note that there were issues raised in the election campaign, besides the issue of the Purple Line, and the issue of what to do with the reserves, that The Gazette did not cover.

As a candidate, I raised for discussion and debate several issues. These are issues faced not only within our town, but also within other local municipalities.

One issue that I raised was the devastating effects that real estate development is having within our town; in my view, too many of our older, modest-sized, well-built homes are being sacrificed to make way for a building boom of huge houses, which take away trees and green space, all to satisfy the greed of builder/developers and

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Andrews for county executive The three Montgomery County executive candidates seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination on June 24 each offer admirable qualities.

Incumbent Isiah Leggett led the county through difficult fiscal times. He made hard budget decisions, and for that, residents should be thankful for his leadership. In our interview with him, Leggett compared the county to a ship that looked fine, except there were many repairs needed below the waterline. The past eight years have been spent making those repairs, and now — taking the metaphor further — he wants to chart the ship to new ports.

Former county executive Douglas Duncan’s time in office, 1994 through 2006, was a remarkable era, with a host of accomplishments including the Silver Spring revitalization, the construction of Strathmore and the expansion of the life sciences along Interstate 270. He has built his campaign around rekindling the kind of bold action that marked those years.

County Councilman Phil Andrews has painted a slightly different picture of the two. He criticized his colleagues, Leggett and Duncan, when he was in office, targeting extravagant union contracts for government employees. On a council full of Democrats, Andrews often can sound like a Republican railing against no-restraint taxing and profligate spending.

We pondered long on whom to endorse, because each provides a set of skills that could be useful over the next four years. Ultimately, we decided Andrews offers a better prescription as the county emerges from our economic hardships.

For one, Andrews promises to be tight with our money.

As we’re in the middle of a sputtering recovery, Montgomery County needs four years of that. In a March op-ed piece in The Gazette, he showed where he would trim $40 million from the recently passed budget, and where he would redirect the money: tax relief, infrastructure maintenance, expanded library hours and increased school resource officers. These are all tangible services, showing Andrews would be a wise steward of the taxes we pay.

The plan includes holding Montgomery County Public Schools to the state’s mandatory minimum levels. Politicians have won support by showering schools with excess cash, but Maryland law insists that shower must continue year after year. An extra million this year is an extra million for every year on out. Until the law is changed, we need leaders willing to wisely monitor the education budget.

Andrews also would expand the inspector general’s office. With a $5 billion budget, the county needs more than four people to ferret out waste.

He’s not afraid to take on controversial topics, either.

He fought for a county smoking ban and resisted as restaurants insisted they’d go out of business because of it. Now, smoke-filled rooms almost seem to be from a bygone age.

Andrews was often the lone voice opposing the Intercounty Connector. Now that it’s built, he’s part of a small but vocal group calling for lower tolls on the highway.

He also remained skeptical that Montgomery needed an ambulance fee. We shared his skepticism then, and we still do.

The smart money in this race might lean toward Leggett, the incumbent, or Duncan, who still enjoys broad name recognition. As much as we appreciate Leggett’s fiscal management over the worst of the past eight years, he must take responsibility for the debacle over the Silver Spring Transit Center. Yes, there will be many people who should shoulder the blame, including whole companies, but ultimately it was a project the Leggett administration should have watched more closely. For that, we cannot endorse the incumbent.

Second, we admire what Duncan accomplished during his 12 years in office; it was a fantastic example of what government with vision can achieve. But he was also known for offering excessive salaries to county workers. (And when times have been flush, Leggett has done the same thing.)

For that reason, we fear runaway government spending and cannot endorse Duncan.

We believe Andrews offers what Montgomery needs, and he earns The Gazette’s endorsement in the Democratic primary.

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Realtors out to make profit.

In the campaign, I advocated a moratorium on building in our town, to enable the Town Council to take a look at the town’s building code, and revise it to provide further protections for our neighborhood character, the tree canopy, green space, and neighbor privacy.

I also set forth a proposal to hold our Town Manager, who is the public face of the town on a dayto-day basis, and essentially the CEO of the town, more accountable to the residents through the electoral process. Neither of these campaign issues was covered by The Gazette.

I was not elected to the Town Council, but I intend to continue my activism within the town. And I thank those town residents who voted for me in the election.

Deborah A. Vollmer, Chevy Chase

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Vote for Jill Ortman-Fouse I attended the League of Women Voters’ forum on May 19, for the candidates for the AtLarge seat of the Board of Education. I came away shocked by the lack of preparation by the MCEA teachers’ union’s anointed candidate, Shebra Evans.

She arrived late, seemed to be stalling at the beginning of her answer to every question, never came close to using her allotted time for any answer, and

provided absolutely no details or concrete ideas for the children of our county.

It was one vague platitude after another. My 12-year-old son, sitting next to me, whispered, “It’s like a beauty pageant and she keeps answering ‘world peace.’” It really was that bad.

How could a candidate for such an important office be so unprepared and come off as an empty vessel? I can only think

that, now that she has sworn her allegiance to MCEA, she is taking her win for granted. I hope the voters don’t make it that easy.

Fortunately, voters have a better choice. Jill OrtmanFouse, a past PTA president, civic leader, and longtime activist for MCPS students, is running for the At-Large seat and was the clear winner of the forum, not only giving answers

that contained hard data and real numbers but also explaining MCPS jargon in everyday terms so that voters could understand what was being discussed.

She delineated her differences with current MCPS policies and acknowledged that she did not receive MCEA’s endorsement because she was not willing to “vote the MCEA contract” 100 percent of the time

as a board of education member. But, above all, she articulated her willingness to pursue collaboration and, a rarity for board of education members, her commitment to have an open door for her constituents’ concerns.

I appreciate Jill OrtmanFouse’s respect for the voters of Montgomery County. I appreciate that she cared enough to be prepared for this forum. For

too long, members of the board of education have been coopted by the MCPS establishment, which, in turn, has been co-opted by MCEA. Montgomery County does not need an empty vessel like Shebra Evans acting as a puppet for MCEA. We need an independent voice putting the best interests of the students above all else.

for his City and County. He does not mealy-mouth and is not in Annapolis to be liked for his outgoing personality — rather he is an effective legislator who works with and fights for his constituency. It will be a great change to be taken seriously, for once, in the Maryland political arena.

I have known him for nearly

40 years — personal popularity is not his raison d’etre — he is an elected official who cares, who is a fighter and, most importantly, who has no hidden agenda and always truly represents his home turf. We may not always agree on issues, but he knows what he is doing, and he is right-on.

Gabriel Gonzalez, Silver Spring

Congeniality is overrated The Rev. John CooperMartin [“Support for Kagan”] and Les Francis [“Support for Simmons”] express their differences between the candidates for Maryland Senate Seat, District 17 [letters, May 14]. What is amazing to me that congeniality for legislative office is all of a sudden receiving such unusual

emphasis.

As a more than 50-year resident of Rockville, and having spent 20 years on Senate staff and as the first lobbyist for Rockville, I can assure you that congeniality may be the norm, but, in Annapolis, congeniality is not effectiveness. Rather, the latter is demonstrated by standing up

for one’s turf and making one’s presence felt not only by positive legislation but, if you will, by “bringing home the bacon.”

Nice guys do finish last.

Frank Shore and Jennie Forehand were our senators for more years than I care to remember, they were generally liked, but I really can’t recall how

they lessened our tax bite, if they ever, in fact, fought the most effective Baltimore “machine” nor if they ever stood up for Montgomery County and City of Rockville needs. And that is for more than 50 years of elected office combined.

Luiz Simmons will fight for what is right and he will stand up

John Moser, Rockville

Why I’m voting for Phil Andrews Since joining Common Cause over 30 years ago, eliminating special interest influence in political campaigns has been important to me. Public financing of campaigns helps overcome

special interest influence and costs taxpayers less in the long run since our elected officials are less beholden to specific groups.

I’m voting for Phil Andrews as County Executive because he’s

breaking step with other candidates by not accepting funds from unions, developers, corporations or PACs. Would that all candidates for County positions did this.

I’ll also vote for Phil Andrews because of his straightforward responses to an array of questions affecting this county — responses that are far more strategic and timely than those of his competi-

tors.

Phil Andrews appreciates county workers and businesses and he includes them, along with all the rest of us, in his compelling vision for the future. If you

haven’t picked a candidate for the June 24 primary yet, I suggest you check his agenda to see how thoughtful and comprehensive it is.

Kathleen Holmay, Kensington

If Hixson isn’t re-elected, it would be huge loss for county It’s hard to believe that you neglected to endorse Sheila Hixson, Montgomery County’s chairwoman of the Ways and Means Committee,

Montgomery County’s only committee chairman in the House of Delegates, for lack of passion. Give me a break. Sheila Hixson has been a strong voice for

the county and has more authority in that chamber than most of her colleagues which benefits her constituents and all residents of Montgomery County. If the vot-

ers were to choose not to re-elect Sheila, it would be a huge loss for the county.

There are two open seats in District 20 and I wish those seek-

Laurence Levitan, Bethesda

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The writer is a former state senator and chairman of the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee.

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Wootton comes up short of team championship, but Eado and Banks finish on top

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Chesapeake High School’s John Drexel is tagged out at third base by Gaithersburg’s Evan Colon during a May 20 4A state semifinal game in College Park.

Uncharacteristic play dooms Gaithersburg Several errors cost Trojans in 6-0 4A state semifinal loss to Chesapeake

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In the moments after his team had been shut out 6-0 by Chesapeake High School in the 4A state semifinals at the University of Maryland’s Shipley Field, Gaithersburg senior Nick DeCarlo was so emotionally spent that he didn’t want to remove his sunglasses.

And despite the outcome of his final high school game, Gaithersburg (20-3) had earned a spot in the May 20 contest by riding DeCarlo’s talented right pitching arm, particularly in the 4A West Region final when he

was able to shake off four first-inning runs and hold visiting Walt Whitman scoreless the rest of the way, as the Trojans rallied for a 5-4 victory.

When DeCarlo, a Mount St. Mary’s recruit who finished the season hitting .306, led off the bottom of the first inning against Chesapeake, it proved to be the only time the Trojans would start an inning with a hit. Gaithersburg managed only one other hit against Chris Ruszin, a one-out single by Peter Galvin in the second inning.

Not only did Gaithersburg fail to score, the Trojans proved to be uncharacteristically generous on defense, committing five errors of their seven errors in the sixth inning.

Chesapeake scored four unearned runs in the sixth and two more unearned runs in the seventh against a usually reliable Gaithersburg de-

fense (.949 fielding percentage).

“I think we committed more errors today than we had all season coming into this game,” said DeCarlo, who was 9-0 on the mound with 57 strikeouts and a 1.19 earnedrun average in 53 innings of work this spring. “It was a rough way to finish. I know we probably could have been OK down one run. But when you look up [at the scoreboard] and you’re down five or six runs in the seventh, you know it’s going to be tough to come back.”

Gaithersburg sophomore lefthanded pitcher Anthony Felitti, who has verbally committed to the University of Virginia, shut out the Cougars through five innings in the semifinals. But several errors in the sixth changed the direction of the

See BASEBALL, Page B-2

One of the things that makes track and field unique from other team sports is that there’s an individual accomplishment at stake at every single meet, whether your team wins or loses.

In football, basketball and even baseball, at the end of a game, you’re either a winner or a loser.

In track and field, a team may fall short of a championship, but an individual can still be the champion of his or her individual event.

That was the case on Saturday for two seniors of Thomas S. Wootton High School at the state championship meet at Morgan State University.

Wootton didn’t exactly have a day to be ashamed of as it finished second to an excellent Bowie team.

Urgy Eado and Alan Banks will end their tenure in high school as champions.

Eado finally won the 800 meters after placing sixth at last year’s championships and third at the indoor finals earlier this year.

This season he swept the event, winning at the county meet and the 4A West Region meet.

Wootton has a tradition of strong 800 runners and Eado said he was happy to be able to keep that tradition alive.

“It feels amazing,” Eado said. “It feels really good because our school has a good history of the [3,200 re-

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Boys’ and girls’ basketball teams to compete in the offseason BY

ERIC GOLDWEIN STAFF WRITER

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Sherwood High School’s Bryse Thornwell is expected to be one of the top returning players for the Warriors.

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The Montgomery County boys’ basketball landscape will have a different look this summer, thanks to a new league launched by St. Andrew’s Episcopal School.

The St. Andrew’s League will include 16 teams with many, like St. Andrew’s, that played in the Montgomery County Summer League in previous summers.

Lions boys’ coach Kevin Jones, who helped launch the league, said he

hopes it will help the players gain additional exposure to college coaches. The league is in the process of adding a website that includes schedules, standings, rosters and statistics, Jones said.

“We just thought it would be a good opportunity to run a league the way that we wanted,” Jones said.

Walt Whitman, the Class 4A state finalists, is one of the 12 Montgomery County public school teams participating in the league, hosted at the Potomac private school. “[We wanted] to do something different,” Vikings coach Chris Lun said. “... For us, its’ right in Potomac. It’s close for a lot of our kids.”

Other participants include Clarksburg, Winston Churchill, Albert Ein-

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lay] which is the 800 for individuals, so I’m really happy to win that. Just keep the history going. Hopefully someone will step it up next year.”

Not only did he win the 800, he set a personal record of 1 minute, 54.88 seconds in the process — and he did it on legs that were tired from running a third-place finish in the 1,600 earlier in the day and running the 3,200 relay on the previous day. “[In the 3,200 relay], we did pretty good and that gave me a huge confidence,” Eado said. “This morning, I [set a personal record] in the 1,600 (4:17.31). I was feeling exhausted, but I had a confidence.”

Banks earned his championship in the 300 hurdles. Like Eado, he came up short at last year’s championship with a fifth-place finish. And also like Eado, he won the

See TRACK, Page B-2

Starting fresh with unknown talent BY

St. Andrew’s launches its summer league

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Thomas S. Wootton’s Urgy Eado, (right) won the 800 meters state title Saturday.

In his more than 30 years of coaching, Gaithersburg High School football coach Kreg Kephart has never been in a situation quite like this; not a single skill position starter — quarterback, running back, wide receiver — is returning next season.

So with nearly the entire seniorladen offense expected to graduate, the search for the replacements is already underway, and it will continue during one of the county’s annual summer football passing leagues, scheduled to begin Sunday at Seneca Valley.

The 7-on-7 non-contact competition gives teams like Gaithersburg a head start in evaluating their players before the upcoming season.

“It’s time to assess talent, to assess guys that are rising seniors that were backups last year, time to assess kids coming off of junior varsity,” Kephart said. “... Try and teach them our offense.”

The Trojans went 8-3 last season, losing to eventual Class 4A state champion Northwest in the playoffs.

Kephart said he expects rising junior Lee Ervin to make an impact at re-

ceiver after playing on junior varsity last season. The replacement for senior quarterback Nick DeCarlo, an All-Gazette honorable mention, has yet to be determined, but part of the offensive line is expected to return, he said.

“We got to find a quarterback, a running back and four wide receivers,” Kephart said. “... We got some guys in mind, we just obviously have to see where they are, what they know and how they perform.”

Seneca Valley coach Fred Kim, whose team went 7-3 last season, said that summer league gives athletes the opportunity to run plays during live competition. These reps will be especially important for players like rising sophomore Zack Robinson, who is expected to replace outgoing senior Calvin Reighard under center.

“There’s some competition where he’s simulating our offense in a passing situation,” Kim said. “The more repetitions he gets, the better he gets.”

First-year Col. Zadok Magruder coach Ray Fowle said he is more concerned about developing players than winning during the summer league games. Fowle, an assistant last season, takes over a 1-9 team that has made the postseason once (2007) since reaching the 1989 state finals.

“It’s a blank slate, we’re starting

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Gaithersburg High School senior Nick DeCarlo was one of the best baseball players in the state this spring.

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“We probably should have gotten out of the [sixth] inning only down 1-0,” Gaithersburg coach Jeff Rabberman said.

“We just had way too many mistakes. It was a tough way for my seniors to go out. They meant a lot to me and to this

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Continued from Page B-1 county and regional meets this season, to go on and set a personal record of 38.57 at the state meet.

“I just knew that the last stretch is where I really [had to] push it,” Banks said. “It feels great. I was working for this and I’m glad I finally got it. ... I’ll be running at [Bowdoin College], as far as track. This is a good prep for college track.”

Coach Kellie Redmond said she was happy to see her

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St. Andrew’s rising senior guard Marcus Adkison is expected to be one of the top players in the county. ing to do in this offseason,” Conley said.

Sherwood coach Chris Campbell, who led his team to a 10-13 season in his first season, said summer league is the best time for the players to work on their weaknesses. “[Summer is] when you work on adding to your skill set,” Campbell said. “During the season you play to your strength.”

Walter Johnson girls’ coach Lindsey Zegowitz said the county summer league is

All-Division and for the senior all-star game. Third baseman Evan Colon, who batted .350 with two doubles and two triples, was named first team AllDivision and selected to the senior all-star game and Battle of the Counties. Catcher Trey Martinez was named first team All-Division and to the MSABC All-District 2 team.

until August when we start in pads will we know who’s taking what spot.”

Magruder is part of the Montgomery Blair League, which includes Blair, James H.

Blake, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, Our Lady of Good Counsel, Walter Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Northwood, Paint Branch, Rockville and Sherwood.

Gaithersburg and Seneca Valley participate in the Upper Montgomery County League, which also includes Bullis, Clarksburg, Damascus, Richard Montgomery, Northwest, Paint

Branch, Quince Orchard, Watkins Mill, Walt Whitman and Thomas S. Wootton.

“Our guys are kind of tired of banging the weights around and running around the track,”

Kim said. “It’s going to be good to get some competition out there. The spirit of competition is always a great thing.”

team’s hardwork pay off.

“They’ve worked really hard this season and we had lofty goals,” Redmond said.

“It’s just great to see it all come together, I’m really proud of them.”

In contrast to Wootton’s relative experience, the girls of Col. Zadok Magruder tied with Henry A. Wise to become costate champions with just one senior, Bethany White, and a collection of freshmen and sophomores.

White has competed at state championships each year

since being in high school and even won the indoor 55 earlier this year, so it’s safe to assume that she impacted the underclassmen on her team.

Freshman Stephanie Davis won the 100 and 200 races, with White placing sixth in each. And the two teamed up to win the 800 relay with freshman Ayanna Lynn and sophomore Shelby Trout, and the 400 relay with Lynn and sophomore Keila Robertson.

Although White will be graduating, Magruder coach Lubin Hernandez Palomino

knows that the team’s youth leaves it in good shape.

“We knew that she was leaving, so we had to bring in kids to fill that gap,” Palomino said. “We have huge potential at Magruder. Believe me, huge potential. They don’t know it yet, but they are very, very good at running. It’ll be a matter of sharpening their skills, and getting healthy and strong and not be another Bethany, but a good competitor, and a good, strong leader.”

Other notable state champios include Chase

Weaverling (Poolesville, 2A 3,200), Michael Scott (John F. Kennedy, 4A long jump), Ozioma Edokobi (Richard Montgomery, 4A discus), Kara Huie (Wootton, 4A triple jump), Devonte Johnson (Paint Branch, 4A shot put), Autin Castleberry (Northwest, 4A high jump), Katriane Kirsch, Melanie Cirillo, Emily Murphy, and Kiernan Keller (Walter Johnson, 4A 3,200 relay), Stephen Alexander, Emmanuel Porquin, Matt Agboola and Adam Jung (Richard Montgomery, 4A 3,200 relay), Nora McUmber (Bethesda-Chevy

Chase, 4A 1,600, 3,200), Matthew Adedeji (Clarksburg, 4A triple jump), Claudia Ababio (Clarksburg, 4A shot put), Kendra Meredith (Northwest, 4A long jump), Alexus Pyles (Clarksburg, 4A 100 hurdles), Diego Zarate (Northwest, 4A 1,600), Martha Sam (James H. Blake 4A 400), Laila Ismail (B-CC, 4A 300 hurdles), Clare Severe (Walt Whitman, 4A 800), Kaela Jones, Sarah Moore, Martha Sam and Elizabeth Adesanya (Blake, 1,600 relay).

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valuable for offseason training because it gives athletes the opportunity to compete with one another in live game situations.

“For me, I just want the girls to be playing together,” said Zegowitz, whose team graduated five seniors. “We don’t worry about too many plays or that sort of thing. I just like that they’re together over the summer, that they’re playing basketball.”

program.”

In the days leading up to the state semifinals, DeCarlo was named to the Montgomery County All-Division first team, the division’s most outstanding pitcher, the MSABC All-District 2 team, the senior all-star game and the Battle of the Counties. Classmate Jake Thomas, who was 3-0 with a 1.50 ERA in 18 2/3 innings, was also chosen first-team

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stein, Gaithersburg, The Heights, Landon, Col. Zadok Magruder, River Hill (Howard), Rockville, Richard Montgomery, Poolesville, Quince Orchard, Watkins Mill and Thomas S. Wootton.

The Lions return three starters, including rising senior Marcus Adkison, from last season’s 18-7 team.

“It’s going to allow an opportunity for some young guys to get some minutes at the varsity level,” Jones said.

While participation declined in the boys’ county league, about 50 public and private schools are participating in the girls’ league, according to Brad Roos, a senior sports specialist with the Montgomery County Department of Recreation.

“The real thing is for the kids to play additional games against the best competition they can play against, and quite honestly to keep them busy, to keep them involved,” Roos said.

“I think it’s really important.”

Montgomery Blair girls’ coach Erin Conley said that the league helps younger players gain in-game experience. That could be particularly helpful for the Blazers, who went 15-8 last season with five seniors and four in the starting lineup.

“For us particularly, we have definitely a lot of rebuild-

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VOLLEYBALL

GOLF

GOLFER OF THE YEAR

FIRST TEAM

PLAYER OF THE YEAR

Brendan Peel

Georgetown Prep Senior Little Hoyas star won or tied for second in 12 of 13 events this season, including a victory IAC s. The consistent golfer’s scores ranged from 35-37 for nine-hole matches and 70-74 for 18-hole tournaments. He also tied for second at Metros to help Prep repeat as champions.

Paul Malinauskas

Thomas S. Wootton Senior, outside hitter Repeat Player of the Year led Patriots to their second straight county title over Clarksburg. He displayed a powerful left-handed swing and equally impressive jump serve.

Noel Camello

Wheaton Sophomore, libero Defensive specialist with tricky serves was key to division title.

Vedo Evantanto

Magruder Junior, setter Second-year captain led team in assists (341) and aces (33).

Jon Nguyen

Clarksburg Senior, setter Instrumental in leading Coyotes to an appearance in county title match.

COACH OF THE YEAR

FIRST TEAM

COACH OF THE YEAR

Bob Barry

Georgetown Prep Veteran helmsman guided a deep and talented Little Hoyas squad to the IAC regular-season title, a second place finish at the IAC tournament and a second consecutive Metros championship.

Second Team and Honorable Mentions can be found online at www.Gazette.net

John Hartranft

Thomas S. Wootton Guided the Patriots to their second straight county championship and undefeated season despite graduating five starters from the 2013 title team.

Felix Tolentino

Ceril Venegas

Kevin Yates

Provided Rams offense with strong attack swings and a stellar jump serve.

Proved to be valuable to the Rockets on both sides of the net this spring.

Two-year starter led team in kills and was leader on and off the court.

Rockville Senior, OH

R. Montgomery Senior, MH

Sherwood Senior, OH

Second Team and Honorable Mentions are online at Gazette.net

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BY TED BLACK STAFF WRITER

For the first time in school history, the Avalon School baseball team won both the Maryland State Private School B tournament and the Old Line Conference title in the same season.

Less than two weeks after it defeated NoVa to win the Old Line Conference title game at Kelley Park in Gaithersburg, Avalon defeated longtime league rival The Heights, 5-3, in the

private school tournament’s championship game at the same venue. The Black Knights prevailed with a combination of seasoned veterans and talented underclassmen who are scheduled to return for two more seasons.

“All season long our two senior captains, Billy Lennox and Tommy Sanchez, have both set out their goals of going out with two titles this year,” said Avalon coach Patrick Duffy. “I think the younger kids on the team realized how much it meant to them and they didn’t want to let them down.”

Lennox and Sanchez, who verbally committed to Towson

University over the weekend, were both Old Line Conference first-team selections. Lennox was named the league’s Most Valuable Player. Sophomore Pearce Howard also was named to the first team.

Howard and fellow sophomore Paul Jackson should be two of the Black Knights’ key players the next two seasons. Jackson, who won four games for Avalon this spring, could develop into the ace of the staff.

Avalon scored two runs in the first. After The Heights tied the game in the top of the third, the Black Knights responded with three runs in the home half of the frame.

Morgan Egloff

G. Hutchinson

Delaney Shah

All-IAC selection for third straight year averaged 36 strokes per nine.

Rookie was public school’s regularseason scoring champ (35.5).

First person in county history to win co-ed and girls’ districts.

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Walt Whitman Freshman

Wootton Sophomore

T-bolts hope to clean up past mistakes Silver Spring, along with Bethesda, Gaithersburg and Rockville, set to begin CRCBL season n

BY ERIC GOLDWEIN STAFF WRITER

Late-game errors, two-out walks, bloopers and balls in the dirt — these were the types of plays that cost the Silver SpringTakoma Park Thunderbolts games last summer and led to a 13-31 season.

“The type of plays a lot of inexperienced guys make,” Thunderbolts second-year manager Doug Remer said. “... We missed out on a lot of opportunities.”

With the Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League set to begin next week, Remer is hoping that an extra year of experience can help the Thunderbolts cut down on those

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mistakes and improve on last season’s record. The team returns five players and is building around that core, Remer said.

“We competed last year. We lost a lot of games in the last two innings,” he said.

One of the returning players is Jake Taylor, an Our Lady of Good Counsel High School graduate (Class of 2010) and rising senior at Flagler College.

“We just need to focus on it a little bit more and come out prepared,” said Taylor, who had three home runs and a team-high 16 RBIs last summer.

Remer said that baserunning will be one of the Thunderbolts’ strengths. Catcher Robert Lucido Jr. stole a team-high 15 bases last season and is expected to be an impact player again, Remer said.

The Thunderbolts join the Bethesda Big Train, the Rockville Express and the Gaithersburg Giants as the four Montgomery

County teams competing in the competitive college wood bat league, founded in 2005.

Bethesda consistently finishes at the top of the CRCBL standings; the Big Train went 30-14 last season before falling to the Baltimore Redbirds in the championship game for the second straight year, and won three consecutive titles from 2009 to 2011.

“We’re going to have a lot of blue-collar guys that come in and play hard,” said 16th-year manager Sal Colangelo.

Gaithersburg went 26-18 last summer in its first season in the CRCBL under manager Jeff Rabberman.

TheExpresswent25-19before falling to Bethesda in the postseason. Rick Price, Rockville’s thirdyear manager, said the team has multiple players that are coming straight out of high school, including University of Maryland recruit Jamal Wade (St. Paul’s).

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A life

less ordinary

‘Ordinary Days’ follows lives of four New Yorkers BY

WILL C. FRANKLIN

ORDINARY DAYS

STAFF WRITER

What’s an ordinary day like for you?

You get up, have a cup of coffee, head into the office for eight hours, go home and do something unproductive for a few hours before heading to bed?

What if there was more to it than that?

What if within your ordinary day, one small thing happens that sets off a chain of events that will impact not only your life, but people around you?

That’s the premise behind the aptly-named musical “Ordinary Days,” opening Wednesday at the Round House Theatre in Bethesda.

“It’s a chamber musical of sorts,” said director Matthew Gardiner. “It’s about four people who live in New York City on what, seemingly, is … a series of ordinary days. It ends up being completely extraordinary.”

The show, written by Adam Gwon, features Claire and Jason, a couple in their mid-30s looking for different things, along with Deb, a cynical grad student, and Warren, a struggling artist who finds Deb’s thesis notes in the street.

The show premiered off-Broadway in 2009 and has since been performed in several venues around the world, according to Gardiner.

Although it’s not unheard of to have a musical with four or fewer people – “The Last Five Years,” for example, has a cast of two – it is rather uncommon. Gardiner said it wasn’t weird for him to direct a musical with such a small cast, but it was different.

“This piece is about creating the relationship between the four actors,” Gardiner said.

“Your mind is focused on different things than it would be if you were directing a musical that’s much larger.”

A few years ago, Gwon was commissioned to write a musical for Signature Theatre in Arlington, Va., called “The Boy Detective Fails.”

Gardiner, who co-starred in the show, worked

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Pictured (left to right): Janine DiVita, Erin Weaver, and Samuel Edgerly star in Round House Theatre’s production of “Ordinary Days.”

At top: Pictured (left to right): Samuel Edgerly, Janine DiVita, Will Gartshore, and Erin Weaver.

extensively with Gwon.

“During that time, he was talking a lot about ‘Ordinary Days,’ which he was developing for Roundabout [Theatre Company in New York],” Gardiner said. “With just him talking about it and hearing from people who saw it in New York, it was just something that was really intriguing to me and it seems like a good fit for Round House.”

There are times, especially when directing a musical, when exchanges between actors, directors and others can become heated.

Things happen, stuff breaks – it’s par for the course for most shows. Gardiner said they have been fortunate in that things have gone rather smoothly.

“It’s been a wonderful experience,” Gardiner said. “There’s been a lot of laughter in the room. I think the challenge for us has been continually discovering new things about the piece over our rehearsal process because it is only an hour and 15 minute-long show and we’ve been in rehearsal for two weeks. The challenge is just … making sure it’s fresh in the room.

“With an hour and 15 minute-long show, you reach a point where you’re just ready for the theater.”

Gardiner said he’ll be taking away one important theme from the show and he hopes audiences will as well.

“The show has a very simple message to it,” Gardiner said. “And, to me, the message I take away from it is happiness is now. Happiness is not some point later down the road and happiness is not the past. Happiness is the moment that you’re in.” wfranklin@gazette.net

An almost 6-year-old North Bethesda shih tzu is dealing with disappointment. Despite being described as “the best dog ever” by her owner, Piper was left out of his book about dogs. Author Tom Cohen, 43, attributed his decision not to include his first-ever canine companion in “Dogs with Old Man Faces: Portraits of Crotchety Canines” to her femininity.

“She ended up looking like an old lady instead of an old man” in her photographs, he said.

Cohen The idea for the 6-by-6 inch, 144-page hardcover volume of black-andwhite photographs accompanied by humorous captions came to Cohen while he was living in New York City.

“I started noticing all these old-faced dogs on the street. They had so much personality and such interesting faces, and I thought ‘I wonder why no one’s ever done a book about dogs that look just like old men,” he recalled.

His empathy for aging dogs provided additional motivation.

“There are so many older, senior dogs that need homes, that have just as much love to give as puppies, and I’m hoping that this book will inspire people to adopt senior dogs, to think about older dogs when they go to the shelter or rescue facility, as opposed to just looking at younger dogs,” Cohen said. “Older dogs need love too!”

Cohen proceeded to take pictures of dogs in Manhattan, even using his iPhone “if I’d see the perfect dog outside a coffee shop or on the street.”

Cohen and his wife Amanda, along with their pets Piper and Po the cat, opted to “take a break from New York City” in 2012. While acknowledging

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The 10th annual Bethesda Painting Awards, a juried exhibit hosted by the Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District, has announced eight finalists. Almost 300 artists from throughout Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., submitted entries to the competition, which was created to honor the work of regional painters. The finalists are Si Jae Byun of ViURBAN PARTNERSHIP enna, Va.; Ryan Carr Johnson of The work of eight finalists for the BethesdaBETHESDA Painting Awards, Gaithersburg, Md.; Kyle Hack- including Ali Miller (pictured), will be on display from June 4-28 at Gallery B. ett, Ali Miller and Bill Schmidt of Baltimore, Md.; Philip Hinge of Richmond, Va.; Dan Perkins of Washington, D.C. and Kendra Wadsworth of Manakin Sabot, Va. Their work will be on view at Gallery B from June 4-28, with top prize winners being announced at 7 p.m. Wednesday during a private event. The Best in Show winner will be awarded $10,000, with $2,000 and $1,000 prizes for second and third place, respectively. An opening reception is scheduled to follow from 6-9 p.m. June 13, in conjunction with the Bethesda Art Walk. Entries were juried by Carrie Patterson, associate professor of art at St. Mary’s College of Maryland; Paul Ryan, professor of art in the Department of Art and Art History at Mary Baldwin College and Judy Southerland, artist and adjunct faculty at the Corcoran College of Art & Design.

For more information, visit bethesda.org.

The Highwood Theatre will present “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown” at 7:30 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday, and a small-cast production of “Damn Yankees” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday. Performed, designed and created by home-schooled, musical theater students, shows will be held at 914 Silver Spring Ave.,

Silver Spring. Based in Silver Spring and harboring the belief that “anyone can do theatre,” The Highwood Theatre is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promotion of the performing arts via communityproduced theater. Tickets are $15 for general admission and $12 for students. For more information, visit thehighwoodtheatre.org.

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Jacqueline Chenault (center) stars as Scheherezade in Silver Spring Stage’s production of “Arabian Nights.”

“The Arabian Nights” continues to June 7 at the Silver Spring Stage, spinning a magical new take on Scheherazade’s life-sparing tales.

Playwright Mary Zimmerman penned the adaptation, based on “The Book of the Thousand Nights One Night.” Show times are 8 p.m.

Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m.

Sunday, June 1. For more information, visit ssstage.org.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT DANCES Hollywood Ballroom, May 28, “step of the evening” Viennese Waltz mini-lesson at 8:15 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8:30 p.m. ($16); May 29, June 5, Tea Dance from 12:30-3:30 p.m. ($6); May 30, drop-in lessons from 7:30-9 p.m., West Coast Swing Dancing with Dance Jam Productions at 9 p.m. ($15); May 31, Oracle Band from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. ($15); June 1, free Cha Cha lesson at 7 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8 p.m. ($16); June 4, “step of the evening” Argentine Tango mini-lesson at 8:15 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8:30 p.m. ($16), 2126 Industrial Highway, Silver Spring, 301-3261181, www.hollywoodballroomdc. 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.

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, May 30, Susan Taylor with Raise The Roof, 7:30 p.m. lesson, 8:30 p.m. dance, Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $10, www. fridaynightdance.org.

Contra & Square, June 1, Susan Taylor with Raise the Roof, 7:30 p.m., Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $12 for general, $9 for members, $5 for students, www. fsgw.org.

English Country, May 28, Caller: Anna Rain, 8 p.m., Glen Echo Town Hall (upstairs), www. fsgw.org.

Swing, July 12, Boilermaker Jazz Band, lesson at 8 p.m., dancing at 9 p.m., Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $15, www.flyingfeet.org.

Waltz, June 15, Maivish, lesson from 2:45-3:30 p.m., dancing to live music from 3:30-6 p.m., $10, www.waltztimedances.org.

MUSIC & DANCE Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club, Peter & Will Anderson Trio,

featuring Alex Wintz, 7:30 p.m.

May 28, Band Burrage, 7:30 p.m.

May 29; A Taste of Divas DC with Special Guest Secret Society, 8 p.m.

May 30; The Tom Principato Band with Horns, 8 p.m. May 31; Sunday Brunch with Women of Triumph,

11 a.m. and 1 p.m. June 1; The Flamingos, 7:30 p.m. June 1; Pablo Cruise, 8 p.m. June 3; Zoe, 7:30 p.m.

June 4, call for prices, 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. 240-330-4500, www.bethesdabluesjazz.com.

BlackRock Center for the Arts, The Crawdaddies – Free Summer Concert, 8 p.m. June 28, 12901 Town Commons Drive, Germantown. 301-528-2260, www.blackrockcenter.org.

Fillmore Silver Spring, Ballyhoo! with Kill Lincoln, Knolly Moles and Wise Eyes, 8 p.m. May 30; Danity Kane - No Filter Tour, with GoGo Morrow, 8 p.m. May 31; Tree House School of Music, 1:30 p.m. June 1; Micro Wrestling Federation, 7:30 p.m. June 3; Fifth Harmony with Before You Exit and Jackson Harris, 8 p.m. June 4, , 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. www.fillmoresilverspring. com.

Strathmore, Afternoon Tea, 1 p.m. May 28; AIR: Elijah Jamal Balbed, jazz saxophone, 7:30 p.m. May 28; BSO: A Midsummer Night’s Dream - A Concert, 8 p.m. May 29; Jazz Samba Project - Quiet Nights: Ron Kearns Quartet with special guest Michael Thomas, 7:30 p.m. May 30; Jazz Vocal Intensive: Using Improvisation to Create Song-

Interpretation, 10 a.m. May 31; call for venue, Locations: Mansion, 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda; Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, 301-581-5100, www.strathmore.org.

ON STAGE Adventure Theatre, “Pinkalicious,” June 20 to Aug. 31, call for prices, times, Adventure Theatre MTC, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo, 301-634-2270, www. adventuretheatre-mtc.org.

Imagination Stage, “The BFG,” June 25 to Aug. 10, call for prices, times, Imagination Stage, 4908 Auburn Ave., Bethesda, www. imaginationstage.org.

Montgomery College, Film Series: “The 400 Blows,” 7 p.m. June 2, Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center, Montgomery College, 51 Mannakee Street, Rockville, contact theater for ticket prices, montgomerycollege.edu/ PAC. Olney Theatre Center, August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson,” to June 1, call for prices, times, 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney, 301-924-3400, www.olneytheatre. org.

The Puppet Co., “Pinocchio,”

to June 8; Tiny Tots @ 10, select Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, call for shows and show times, Puppet Co. Playhouse, Glen Echo Park’s North Arcade Building, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., $5, 301634-5380, www.thepuppetco.org.

Round House Theatre, Bethesda, “Ordinary Days,” May 28 to June 22, 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. 240-644-1100, www. roundhousetheatre.org.

Round House Theatre, Silver Spring, “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot,” to June 14, call for show times, 8641 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, $15 for general admission, $10 for subscribers, patrons 30 and younger and seniors, 244-644-1100, www.roundhousetheatre.org.

Silver Spring Stage, “The Arabian Knights,” to June 7, Woodmoor Shopping Center, 10145 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, see website for show times, www. ssstage.org.

The Writer’s Center, Janice Gary and Marion Winik, 2 p.m. June 1, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, 301-654-8664, www. writer.org.

VISUAL ART Adah Rose Gallery, “Contemplating the Sweetness of Grass

and Startling Brevity of Life,” to June 18, 3766 Howard Ave., Kensington, 301-922-0162, www. adahrosegallery.com Gallery B, “72 Grams Per Pixel,” to May 24; gallery hours are noon to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, 7700 Wisconsin Ave., Suite E. www.bethesda.org.

Glenview Mansion, Pierre Ruffieux sculpture, “Trolls”, June 1-20; Ray Jubela, Photography, June 1-20, Rockville Civic Center Park, 503 Edmonston Drive, Rockville. www.rockvillemd.gov.

Marin-Price Galleries, Donny Finley, to June 18, 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, 7022 Wisconsin Ave., 301-718-0622.

VisArts, Xiaosheng Bi, Liz Lescault and Alison Sigethy: “Fathom Full Five: Going Deeper,” to June 1, Gibbs Street Gallery; TARNISH: Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA), to June 1, 155 Gibbs St., Rockville, 301-315-8200, www.visartsatrockville.org.

Washington Printmakers Gallery, “A Wonder Filled Life,”

Neena Birch, May 28 to June 29, opening reception from 1-4 p.m.

June 7, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, second floor, 8230 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, www.washingtonprintmakers.com.

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This ‘Future’ is bright for the X-Men Bryan Singer’s mutants find the humanity and the fun in a genre n

BY CHRISTOPHER BORRELLI CHICAGO TRIBUNE

About midway into the latest X-Men flick, Bryan Singer’s generous, delightfully convoluted “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” there is a prison break so exuberant and uncharacteristic of superhero movies that you sit up a bit in your seat. You feel the audience around you snapping to. Not because Singer’s return to the 14-year-old film franchise feels undernourished (it doesn’t). Or what comes before seems perfunctory (it’s not). But because the sequence — Wolverine, the Pentagon and “Sanford & Son” — is so eccentric you’re reminded that a little charm has been in the contract between audiences and superheroes all along: Oh, right, it’s supposed to be fun.

For more than 50 years, the Marvel Universe’s innovation, grounding its characters with relatable, everyday problems, has been its calling card. But in 2014 that back and forth between metaphorical angst and CGI spectacle, played out several times a year in 3-D and heralded with ongoing marketing maelstroms, lapses into an insistent, schematic ho-hum-ity. The superhero genre, like the Western before it, is in serious danger of becoming too familiar. Peter Parker has love troubles (but first another throwdown in Times Square), Iron Man is full of hubris (but the suit is cool), Hulk prefers to smash (but Hulk depressed).

I enjoy many of these films, but like soap operas without end, over-determinism settles in and air gets sucked out.

That prison break, though.

It features Jim Croce. Also a coffee tasting. And duct tape, steely Michael Fassbender, avia-

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tor goggles, some slapstick and the fastest, most cheerfully annoying man alive, Quicksilver (an excellent Evan Peters, from TV’s “American Horror Story”).

As much as a pricey, box-officesavvy international franchise can indulge in fun anymore, it does here. And the audience, perhaps more obligated to than elated over superhero movies lately, brightens. Because Singer’s own innovation, while not straying so far from Marvel’s playbook, is subtle: Stay light without being frivolous, remain emotionally committed without lapsing into imaginary gravitas.

In a genre in which cities are flattened and worlds destroyed with offhanded frequency, “Days of Future Past” — despite, yes, flattening our world — walks a rare line between casual and urgent. Since the outcome for the bad guys is not promising, and the audience instinctively understands this, Singer looks for curlicues, gags, expressions, always keeping the drama between the X-Men themselves.

Which is wise.

There is so much plot in “Days of Future Past” that slavish reverence for the material (or the grander Marvel game plan) would verge on the morbid; the film is adapted from a beloved, deeply confusing early 1980s X-Men storyline by Chris Claremont. Indeed, when the lights came up in the theater and the credits rolled, the person beside me leaned over: “I didn’t know the Fantastic Four were going to be in this.” This person was

North Bethesda. Resuming work on the book there, Cohen hired a photographer who accompanied him to D.C.-area dog parks “to look for just the right faces.”

The number of qualified canines surprised him.

“Once I started working on

Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender) wields his powers in “X-Men: Days of Future Past.” serious. I assured her that the Fantastic Four were not in the XMen. But I sympathized: There have been so many X-Men, spread over seven movies now, so many alliances and machinations, a moviegoer should receive flashcards at the door.

There are approximately 5,621 X-Men in this film: There is the guy with black eyeballs, the guy who shoots tattoos, the guy with a toad tongue, the woman who can rip the fabric of the universe.

There’s a character named Warpath whose power is staring off meaningfully into misty canyons; a character who is his own toboggan; a character who transforms into a campfire and another who generates fire balls.

There’s a lot of redundancy in the X-Men locker room. And those are just the secondary characters.

You can almost understand why Dr. Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage, with a B-movie flair for villainy) is so eager to thin the herd.

Problem is, when the film opens, he’s thinned the herd a lot: It’s

the future, and mutantkind (and mankind) are endangered because Trask created killer robots to seek out the mutant gene that allows fireballing and such. The war got away from everyone.

Trask is nominally the bad guy but mostly the plot motivation.

After an opening salvo of quasiHolocaust imagery — a nod to Singer’s first X-Men film, which established Ian McKellen’s antivillain Magneto as an Auschwitz survivor — the remaining X-Men retreat into a temple at the top of a mountain in China. There, a patient Professor X (Patrick Stewart) and ornery Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) — and Halle Berry’s Storm, and Ellen Page’s Kitty Pryde, and several others (seriously, no flash cards?) — decide (stay with me now) to send Wolverine back to 1973 and the origin point of their extinction.

Can they change history?

And if so, dear God, the ramifications … The Captain might never meet Tennille.

As for that plan: Kitty, whose powers include an ability to send

the book, I started seeing ideal dog faces everywhere,” he said, and the result was “an embarrassment of riches.”

Much to Piper’s chagrin, no doubt, a shaggy dog named Dakota is the cover canine.

“Dakota has the cutest face of all the dogs. We wanted to put a dog on the cover that made people say ‘aw’ rather than one of the more crotchety-looking dogs,” Cohen said. “Sure, the more crotchety dogs are cute, but Dakota’s face just seemed right for the cover. What’s better than a dog with a snow-covered snout?”

Cohen, whose family moved from Connecticut to McLean, Va., when he was 18 months old, grew up with two cats.

“We were an animal-loving family, and we all loved dogs, but I don’t think my parents wanted the work it took to have dogs…,” he said. “If I knew then what I know now, I would have insisted we adopt a dog.”

Animal causes, not only for dogs, have been a constant for Cohen. He has volunteered for the Non Human Rights Project, a group that seeks to secure legal personhood for chimps and other intelligent species, and

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a consciousness back in time, must place her hands on the side of Wolverine’s head and work her magic. She does this seemingly for days — hands on a hard body, indeed. Once safely, metaphysically, in 1973, Wolverine, in his younger self, has to find the younger Professor X (James McAvoy) and younger Magneto (Fassbender) and convince them to work together to locate well-meaning, blue-skinned shape-shifter Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence). If she succeeds in assassinating Trask, the U.S. government and Richard Nixon, not about to be pushed around by some hippie freaks, will weaponize her cells and initiate Trask’s plan to hunt, capture and destroy the X-Men. Whew.

A lot of plot. The film brings together the cast of the original X-Men films and the upstarts of the clever 2011 reboot “X-Men: First Class” — effectively teaming up several generations of X-Men (and ensuring that someone seated behind you will be

asking, “Wait, OK, who is that again?”). And yet Singer keeps what matters clear and snappy enough. And what matters here, aside from a handful of impressive (albeit warily inevitable) special-effects smack-downs, are merely four actors: McAvoy, Fassbender and Lawrence, with Jackman serving more or less as the connector between casts and time periods. The core of the movie is a triangle of strong wills, and the fragile alliance between Magneto and Professor X plays out with poignancy, particularly between their older selves, who wonder why they spent those years bickering. Fassbender seems to retreat a bit too coldly into Magneto (the playful warmth of McKellen barely registers), and Lawrence, a cog in a gigantic pastiche, struggles to work up her usual spunk and urgency.

Strutting through an airport in a floppy suede hat and Joni Mitchell garb, she’s relegated to Instagram J-Law. The film belongs to McAvoy.

Aside from the funny use of Wolverine’s leather bomber, a lava lamp and a water bed, Singer doesn’t have as much fun with the ’70s setting as, say, Lawrence did in “American Hustle.” That “Days of Future Past” barely acknowledges here the civil rights subtext of early X-Men comics is an especially lost opportunity.

But McAvoy, who plays Professor X as a ’60s washout in the first half, charts a convincing, archetypal ’60s-’70s path. He goes from early idealism to burnout and disillusionment, then back again. He lives isolated in a castle, taking a special drug to numb the pain of being able to listen in on the thoughts of the entire world.

When he shoots up (tying off his arm in a soft ’70s light), the drug allows him to regain the use of his legs. But the drug also dulls his powers, including his ability to read thoughts, to sympathize.

It’s a remarkable invention, a superhero whose directive is empathy first, butt-kicking second. The needle and the damage done, indeed.

TOM COHEN

Gus is just one of the “crotchety canines” featured in “Dogs with Old Man Faces.” spent a few days helping socialize animals at Best Friends Animal Society in Kanab, Utah.

And he joined the crusade to ban carriage horses in New York City, because, he said, “The busy streets of Manhattan are no place for horses.”

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hen said, have long been his bent. Within two years of his 1992 graduation from the University of Michigan with a degree in English and psychology, he was writing and performing comedy in New York City. Comedy Central and MTV hired him to write, perform and produce comedy for television; he proceeded to produce and write series and specials for Nickelodeon, the History Channel and NBC. His 2,000-plus hours of television producing, programming and writing credentials included Discovery Channel’s seven-year series “Cash Cab,” for which he won three Daytime Emmy Awards and MTV’s Ace Award-winning series “Idiot Savants,” as well as work for VH1, Spike and ABC Family.

Now, Cohen is working on television series for National Geographic Wild and the Game Show Network, and pitching a few others. He also is in the “very beginning stages” of a second book about dogs.

“The future,” he promised, “will involve much more creativity.” Hot dog!

“Dogs with Old Man Faces” (Running Press, 2013) is available from amazon.com and barnesand noble.com.

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Cottage on 5 acres 1bd/1ba $895 per month N/P Avail Now call 301-845-1234

NORTH POTOMAC

GAITH: prvt ent., nr

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GERM: 2

SILVER

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Ba, $1400 +util HOC/ Sect 8 Welcome.

Ns/Np Call (240)4764109

BRs, shared BA $400 each + utils in TH NS/ND. Near bus/shops. Sec Dep Req. 240-4766224

SS/BEL PRE: 3Br, 2

GE RMA NT OWN :

4BR, 2.5BA, 2 car gar SFH Avail 07/01/14 NP, Nr Schools, Shops $2495/mo.

Call: 301-620-4302

Ba, Condo, conv nr metro/bus, $1900 incl utils, HOC Welc Avail now! Please Call 301-785-1662

Bsmt $450 posit male

OLNEY- Luxury TH 3BR 2.5BA, Finished bsmnt $2300, Great schools! Pool incl, 06/01 240-565-1933

SS: Leisure

Female only. 1 BD w/priv BA. $700 incl utils. Near publ transp.

240-723-0502

POOLESVL:

3 lvl

TH. 3Br 2.5Ba. LR, EIK, FR. NP. W/D patio shed $1425 + util Sec dep301-407-0656

R O C K V I L L E : TH 3br, 2.5ba w/W/D nr 270 & metro, new app & upgrades, pvt yard, safe location $1900 Call: 301-869-1504 SILVER

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Walk to metro. $2400.

Call 240-437-6841

OLNEY: Want House /Townhouse to rent in Olney/Brookville area.

Good credit. 301-5705420

World newly decor. Condo 55+ Adult gated comm 2BR, 2BA, eat-in-kit, DR, LR $1250/mo utils cbl incl. 301-325-4859

BOWIE:

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GAITH: 1br w/prvt bath, in TH, $600/mo utils incl. + Cable & prv fridge. N/S, N/D. Call 301-208-2520 G A I T H : 1Br w/pvt bath shr kitchen $650 util catv incl N/S, nr Mall, Metro, Bus Avail now! 301-963-4050 GAITH

- 1 RM w/priv bath avail in chic 2 bd/2ba apt located b/w Rio & Kentlands close to 270 $875 240-388-1476

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301-299-4546 SILVER SPRING : Dwntwn Flower Ave. Unfurn 2br 1ba Apt. HOC Welcome $1250 202-246-1977

1Br, 1Ba, Shr Kit, cable/int free, N/S N/P, $550/month + util & SD, 240-643-4122

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w/enclosed patio incl util, sec dereq, NS/NP Fe240-477-6745.

GE RMA NT OWN :

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Mature Male, Furn BRs. Util incl. Near 61 & 98 Bus Line. Maria 301-916-8158

GE RMA NT OWN :

Walkout Basement For Rent(one bedroom and full bathroom & kitchen privilege $950 Basement in new townhouse with one bedroom, full bath-room,privilege kitchen, cabale and high speed internet, including utilities also walkout. located at Germantown near to Kingsview shopping center (Clopper road and Germantown road) very close to 270 and Montgomery college.

Call: 301-466-2487

GERM: Room in TH,

quiet neigh, prvt BA, Kit privls. $650/mo.

Cls to 270 & metro.

Call 240-406-0210

Upr 2 lvls split lvl, 3 Br, 1Ba, shrd kit/laundry, 1K/mth+1/2 util, background check Pls text 240-483-8328

G E R M : TH, 1 Lg

GAITH:Lg Unfur bsmt

GERM: Wlk out pvt

room w/pvt BA $600/mo, inc util & int.

Nr Walmart & 270/355 CALL: 240-744-2421

rm w/pvt ent, ba, kit $595+ uti & 1mon dep near buses N/S N/P call 301-785-2703

entr, Bsmt. $700 uti ncl + 1 mon Sec Dep. NP/NS, good for 1 person 301-540-1967

Ground lvl,, 2Ba, 1 Ba, LR & DR, kit , W/D, $1385 inc util Pls Call: 301-972-5129 or 301-370-4153

GAITH:M BRs $435+ 440+475+555+ Maid Ns/Np, nr 270/370/Bus shops, quiet, conv.Sec Dep 301-983-3210

KENSINGTON/SS:

GERMANTOWN - GAITHERSBURG/ TH to rent, 3bd/1.5 ba LILAC GARDEN

GAITH Muddy Branch lrg Furn BR. $550.

Unf room in Basement $500 utils incl, shar kit,. 240-533-1132

MONT VILL: 1 Br, 1 Ba, shrd kit, very quiet neighborhood $600 per mo. incl util Pls Call: 240-423-0633

GERMANTOWN

3BR, 1.5BA, TH, just renovated, nr schs, shop & bus $1550 + utils Available now call 301-384-4360

EU, close to shops and bus $1350, Avail now 301-926-1435

G A I T H E R :

1 Br, $995 + elec Available immed.

301-717-7425 - Joe

Basement 2BR, Sep entr., kit & BA. $1100.

Off Con Ave. 301933-2790

BD w/BA. 1 2 room suite.

Prof. pref.

NS/NP. $800-$1000 incl. util. 301-861-9981 Room $475, Shrd Util, Kit & Ba. W/D, Cable Please Call: 301-4042681

room for rent, close to schools. $550 incl util.

301-547-9290

WHEATON 1 Large

BR, Female, 5min to Metro On Veirs Mill Rd $650 uti incl. NS/NP Call: 240-447-6476

WHEATON: 3 BD in

SFH Share Bath, NP, NS. $400, $500, $600, Util incl . Call 240271-3901

OC: 107th St, Quay

Condo on ocean 2bd/2ba W/D, kitch, 2 pools, sleeps 8 weeks only! 301-252-0200

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(5-28-14) WSSC ADOPTS REG-LGS-GC-2014-002, WHICH MAKES CHANGES TO WSSC REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO PROCEDURES FOR ADJUDICATORY HEARINGS On May 21, 2014, the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission ("Commission" or "WSSC") adopted REG-LGS-GC-2014-002 entitled "Procedure for Adjudicatory Hearings." This regulation replaces and supersedes WSSC Standard Procedure L-07-02 and was enacted to: (1) reclassify contract disputes and bid protests as matters that are resolved in accordance with procedures in WSSC’s Procurement Regulations; (2) update citations to revised WSSC Standard Procedures and to the Public Utilities Article, Md. Code Ann.; and (3) make clarifying changes to the text. REGLGS-GC-2014-002 may be obtained by contacting the Corporate Secretary to the Commission at 301-206-8200. In addition, REGLGS-GC-2014-002 may be viewed on WSSC’s web site at www.wsscwater.com.

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BOOKKEEPER Rockville

Immediate opening for bookkeeper, part time, flexible hours for independent worker with QuickBooks experience.

Duties include reconciliation of daily deposits, accounts payable, payroll knowledge, bank reconciliation and monthly reporting. Please send resume and references to tcpa.direct@gmail.com.

CODE SUPERVISOR

For the Town of Berwyn Heights; Code Enforcement Program; Assoc. Degree in architecture & 2 yrs supervisory exp. preferred; proficiency in MS Office Suite a must.

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Child Care Director

Before and After Elementary School . Our Directors are each responsible for the planning and carrying out of Homework Time, Science, Reading, Writing, Games, Sports, Arts and Crafts and much more. They are also responsible for supervising counselors, paperwork, decorating, keeping track of finances associated with a before and after school program. Reqirements: 4 yr Degree in Education, Child Development or a related field.

MUST be a positive role model for kids!!

We Are Hiring For:

• Full Time Sous Chef for our Independent Living Community (Monday through Friday 11:30am to 7pm) • Life Enrichment (Activities) Associates, various hours and days • Cook positions, various hours and days

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Please Call 301-924-2811, option 3 Apply in person to: Brook Grove Retirement Village 18100 Slade School Road Sandy Spring, MD 20860

Brooke Grove Retirement Village is an Equal Opportunity Employer

CONSTRUCTION Effective immediately, M.T. Laney Co., Inc. a site/paving contractor will be accepting applications for the following positions: ∂ Tack Truck Operator ∂ Bobcat Operators ∂ Heavy Equipment Operators û Must have experience Top wages and a great working environment. EOE. Please email resume to info@mtlaney.com OR fax to 410-795-9546

Floorman Needed in Scaggsville, MD Mon. - Fri. 2pm - 10 pm and Sat. - Sun. 8 am- 4pm

Apply in Person Monday - Friday 10 am - 2 pm 15940 Derwood Rd, Rockville, MD 20855

Food Service

FOOD SERVICE ∂ Chef or Experienced Cook - Some weekends, experience with & knowledge of production systems essential, food safety certified & computer preferred. ∂ Utility/Dishwasher - Part time Reliable transportation is essential. Apply in person, M-F @ 2pm, Sandy Spring Friends School, 16923 Norwood Rd. Sandy Spring, MD 20860, 301-7747455 ext. 128, michael.ackerson@ssfs.org EOE Foster Parents

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Recruitment Event

The Aspen Group. Tues May 27th 1 0 a m - 3 p m , The Residence Inn Arundel Mills 7035 Arundel Mills Blvd Hanover, MD 21076. Hiring Cage Reps & Main Bankers!! Req: FT, HS diploma or GED, 21 yrs old & over, 6mo-2yrs exp w/cashier, banking and cust. service.

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Compute basic math, use of basic banking equip. & Microsoft XP Prof.

CDL A Driver

Local moving company looking for experienced CDL A Driver with clean driving record. For local and long distance. Flexible hours.

Moving experience preferred.

Please call 301-738-9020

HVAC

Experienced commercial and residential service technicians needed. Send resume to diane@harveyhottel.com

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• Bartender • F&B Supervisor • Servers/Banquet Servers • Housekeeping/House Person • Guest Service Representatives • Catering Manager • Conference Service Manager • Chief Engineer/Bldg Maint.

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bill.hennessy@longfoster.com • Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc. EOE

Busy Orthopaedic practice in Kensington has an immediate full time opening for a Medical Assistant/Ortho Tech. We are looking for a caring, energetic customer service driven individual to join our team. One year experience in orthopedics preferred.We offer competitive salary and benefits package. Please send resume to: ehl959@yahoo.com or via fa to 301-9627450.

Marketing - Lead Generator

Kitchen saver, the premier kitchen cabinet renewal company is looking for Lead Generators who are friendly, energetic and professional to work events in the Maryland, DC and Northern, VA area. If you would like to earn an hourly wage plus bonus without selling call Tish at 443-789-6956.

VETERINARY TECHNICIAN

AAHA Hospital is seeking a caring, compassionate, responsible, Veterinary Technician. Experience preferred. Apply in person at:

Montgomery Village Animal Hospital.

19222 Montgomery Village Ave. or Fax resume to 301-926-6528

To apply, go to www.westat.com/jobs and enter the Job ID 7952BR in the space provided. EOE www.westat.com Skilled Trade

Plumbing Service Dispatcher

Coordinate service calls, invoices, job materials, etc. Quickbooks exp pref. Must be reliable! $13-15/hr M-F 8:00am-4:30pm

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Wood Flooring

Floor helper needed in Gaithersburg area to assist Floor Mechanic.Own vehicle needed.

Contact Weyer’s Floor Service, Inc. at 301-912-2700.

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Post Community Media, LLC is looking for an exceptional senior accountant. Ideal candidate will have 4-year accounting degree, 2 to 3 years of accounting experience, knowledge of GAAP principles, MS Office, ability to create and work with complex Excel spreadsheets, and experience with an automated accounting system. Budgeting an cost accounting experience also helpful.

In addition, performs various accounting duties including but not limited to, posting journal entries, monthly closings, reconciliations, financial statement preparation, analytical review. Help in preparation of operating budgets and other special projects as assigned.

Skills/Qualifications: Accounting, SFAS Rules, Excel skills, Research Skills, Analyzing Information , Attention to Detail, DeadlineOriented, Confidentiality, Thoroughness, Corporate Finance, Financial Software, General Math Skills Post Community Media offers a competitive compensation & comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, pension, 401(k) & tuition reimbursement.

Position is located in Gaithersburg, MD. Send resume and salary requirements to lwang@gazette.net. EOE.

RECEPTIONIST/ASST For Germantown, Optometrist office.

20-30 hours per week.

Call 301-540-1555

Mobile Application Developers Westat in Rockville, MD is seeking full time Mobile Application Developers (multiple positions) to work in a collaborative environment in which knowledge is shared within and between teams. Develop mobile applications to support self-administered data collection activities from study respondents using mobile web applications, as well as interviewer led data collection activities using native mobile apps. Applications to be developed are for Apple iOS and/or Android mobile devices. Work on other projects as assigned. A bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field followed by two (2) years of experience developing mobile platform applications for Apple iOS and/or Android devices. Experience should include requisite mobile App development skills such as native device development experience, App store deployment experience, HTML5 and CSS experience. Any offer of employment will be contingent upon receipt of acceptable results from a background screening based on the specific position which will include, at a minimum, criminal records history.

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Evening Counselor

City of Gaithersburg has an immediate opening for a PT Evening Counselor at the Wells/Robertson House; Monday through Friday, 6:30 p.m. to 12 midnight. Must have some experience in substance abuse/chemical dependency counseling, treatment, and rehabilitation, have a valid Maryland driver’s license, and be able to drive a 15-passenger van.

Supervised Counselor-Alcohol and Drugs (CSC-AD) certification preferred. $13.50 to $15.75 per hour DOQ/DOE. Apply online by June 10, 2014, and view current job opportunities at www.gaithersburgmd.gov/government/jobopportunities or call 301.258.6327 for more information. EOE/M/F

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General office support, supply maintenance, phones, shipping and other duties as needed for Bioresearch office in Rockville MD. Very close to 270. Word and Excel needed.

To apply fax resume to: 301-838-9022 Attn: Linda

Part-Time

Work From Home

National Children’s Center Making calls. For more info please call Weekdays between 9a-4p No selling! Sal + bonus + benes.

Call 301-333-1900

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From left to right: Jack Fitzgerald, CEO and founder, Fitzgerald Auto Malls, Megan Mullally (45,000th Child Seat Installation), Mike Subin, Director of the Criminal Justice Coordinating Commission, Maryland State Attorney General Douglas Gansler, Rob Molloy, National Transportation Safety Board, Chief Charles Bailey, Montgomery County Fire and Rescue

NORTH BETHESDA, MD – May 15, 2014. Today marks a special milestone at Fitzgerald Auto Malls. At today’s monthly Child Seat Inspection, Fitzgerald Auto Malls will install and inspect their 45,000th child safety seat. No other local volunteer program in the United States has ever achieved this many child safety seat inspections within a single program.

Jack Fitzgerald, CEO and founder of Fitzgerald Auto Malls, started the Fitzgerald Child Car Seat Inspection Program in 1999 after learning the dangers of improperly installed child safety seats. Since then, Fitzgerald Auto Malls, in partnership with national and local government agencies, has been committed to injury prevention and increasing the number of lives saved through properly installed child safety seats.

“As a local business owner, I am proud to have the opportunity to work with the great government and state organizations to promote public safety,” said Jack Fitzgerald. “For 15 years now, Montgomery County Police and Fire & Rescue Services have been actively involved at our child safety seat events and I thank them for their support.”

The Fitzgerald Child Car Seat Inspection Program has been a wonderful example of public-private partnership success. The local Montgomery County police and fire rescue volunteers have been integral in helping to organize and staff the events.

“Today we celebrate a unique public-private partnership that has helped 45,000 children travel safer and given at least as many families greater peace of mind,” said Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler. “Congratulations to all of our state and local law enforcement and fire and rescue professionals who’ve teamed with Jack Fitzgerald and his staff, for their hard work and dedication to protecting the most vulnerable passengers in any vehicle.”

From 1975 through 2008, NHTSA estimates that almost 9,000 children were saved in crashes because they were restrained in car seats or seat belts. The misuse of car seats remains a big problem and motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among children ages 3 to 14. The latest numbers show that every day in the United States, an average of 4 children younger than 14 were killed and 529 were injured in motor vehicle crashes. In 1999, the first year of the Fitzgerald Child Safety Seat Program, the misuse rate was 97%. The numbers have dropped to 50% year to date.

Monthly events are held at the White Flint Rockville dealership on Nicholson Lane, on the third Thursday of every month. Visit www.FitzMall.com for details or to make an appointment.

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Prices include all rebates and incentives. NMAC Bonus Cash requires financing through NMAC with approved credit. Prices exclude tax, tags, freight (cars $810, trucks $845-$995), and $200 processing charge. Sentra Conquest Bonus requires proof of current ownership of any Toyota, Honda, or Hyundai vehicle. Prices valid only on listed VINS. See dealer for details. Offer expires 06/02/2014.

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PRICES AND PAYMENTS INCLUDE ANY APPLICABLE MANUFACTURE’S REBATES AND EXCLUDE MILITARY ($500) AND COLLEGE GRAD ($500) REBATES, TAX, TAGS, DEALER PROCESSING CHARGE ($200) AND FREIGHT: CARS $795 OR $810, TRUCKS, SPORT UTILITY AND SIENNAS $810, $845 AND $995. *0.9% APR & 0% APR FINANCING UP TO 60 MONTHS TO QUALIFIED BUYERS THRU TOYOTA FINANCIAL SERVICES. TOTAL FINANCED CANNOT EXCEED MSRP PLUS OPTIONS, TAX, AND LICENSE FEES. 0% APR 60 MONTHLY PAYMENTS OF $16.67 FOR EACH $1000 BORROWED. 0.9% APR 60 MONTHLY PAYMENTS OF $17.05 FOR EACH $1000 BORROWED. APR OFFERS ARE NOT VALID WITH ANY OTHER CASH BACK OR LEASE OFFER. NOT ALL BUYERS WILL QUALIFY.**LEASE PAYMENTS BASED ON 36 MONTHS, 12,000 MILES PER YEAR WITH $995 DOWN PLUS $650 ACQUISITION FEE, NO SECURITY DEPOSIT REQUIRED. SEE DEALER FOR COMPLETE DETAILS. 2014 COROLLAU & PRIUS PLUG-IN LEASES ARE FOR 24 MONTHS WITH $995 DOWN. EXPIRES 05/31/2014.

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