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LINDSAY A. POWERS STAFF WRITER

Montgomery County students won’t be changing their alarm clock settings after all.

Superintendent Joshua P. Starr announced Tuesday that, following school system analysis and community feedback, he is stepping away from the recommendation he had made in October to change school start times.

Starr said in a Tuesday school system release that implementing

the proposed changes would be too expensive and that community feedback on the plan was “mixed.”

He initially recommended that high schools start 50 mintues later, middle schools start 10 minutes earlier and elementary schools end their day 30 minutes later.

The proposal centered around starting high schools at 8:15 a.m. instead of 7:25 a.m. to allow high school students to get more sleep. Starr said in October that there’s “a clear link” between sleep and students’ health and well-being.

The proposed shifts at the middle school and elementary school level were made in part to ensure that the

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Gaithersburg park to get a makeover City is accepting bid proposals for project

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A dinosaur actor has fun with Daniel Padavong, 8, of Gaithersburg at the Dinosauria Experience, held at the Maryland SoccerPlex in Germantown on Sunday. An estimated 7,000 people came to the dinosaur-themed event.

Gaithersburg man facing charges in murder-for-hire case Suspect offered undercover police officer $1,000 to have ex-wife killed

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A Gaithersburg man has been charged with trying to hire a hitman to kill his ex-wife, according to a Mont-

gomery County Police news release.

Ndokey Peter Enow, 37, of Swan Stream Court, was taken into custody Friday after meeting with an undercover police officer posing as a hitman Enow in Silver Spring and offering $1,000 to kill Enow’s ex-

A rundown park in Olde Towne Gaithersburg is on track to receive a much-needed makeover.

The city of Gaithersburg is in the process of accepting bid proposals from companies looking to perform renovations on the one-acre parcel known as Constitution Gardens Park

at 112 Brookes Ave. In their proposals, companies are expected to include a playground, rose garden, new entry way feature, park signage, lighting, landscaping, a water feature, and an educational rain garden, according to online city documents.

A shrub garden, with plants, benches, fencing, furnishings, a new gazebo and a new sidewalk, should also be incorporated, documents show.

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On to the next adventure

wife, the release said. During the sting, Enow gave the officer partial payment, showed the officer where the victim lived and provided photos of her.

Police first learned of Enow’s plans three days earlier when they discovered that he offered a different person $1,000 to execute the killing, and provided photos of the victim and the victim’s address, the release said.

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Early voting starts Thursday BY

ANDREW SCHOTZ STAFF WRITER

There will be nine early-voting sites in Montgomery County, open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily from Thursday

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2014 Learn more about the candidates running in the June 24 primary.

Check out our online voters guide at www. gazette.net/voters guide2014.

through June 19. County, state and federal races will be on the ballot. More information is at montgomerycountymd.gov/elections/index2.html. The Gazette’s online voters guide, with candidate profiles and more, is at gazette.

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The Gaithersburg early-voting site

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Marlyn Mejia, 18, (right) helps fellow graduate Josselyn Marroquin, 17, with her cap prior to the Gaithersburg High School commencement at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., on Friday.

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PEOPLE& PLACES Music center hosts guitar decorating contest

Guitars are not only utilitarian musical instruments. They can also be viewed as pieces of art.

That’s why the Victor Litz Music Center in Gaithersburg and Stagg, a worldwide instrument manufacturer, recently sponsored a guitar decorating contest for the local community.

Victor Litz Music gave out ten guitars — donated for free by Stagg — to residents for them to decorate. The guitars were brought back to the music center by Saturday and first revealed at the Celebrate!

Gaithersburg festival in Olde Towne on Sunday.

There was no charge to enter the competition.

Michael Litz, manager of the music center on East Diamond Avenue, said the company was inspired to create the contest after seeing a decorated guitar.

“The whole idea originated from when we came across a guitar at an auction that had been decorated with The Beatles,” he said.

The guitars will be on display at the music center through Sunday.

Residents have until that date to vote for their favorite decorated Stagg guitar by visiting the Victor Litz Music Center’s Facebook page and hitting “like” on the post.

The winning contestant will be able to keep the guitar for free if they like, or have the music center auction off the guitar and donate all of the proceeds to a charity of the winner’s choice.

“It’s a good way for our customers to show their artistic expression,” Litz said. “It’s a different way to look at the instrument. They do not need to be playable at the end.

They can totally be abstract.”

Campus congrats • Kristin Elise Larson of North Potomac recently graduated from Loyola University New Orleans with a master’s degree in nursing from the school’s College of Social

Sciences.

• Alyssa Warrick and Andrew Zerby, both of Gaithersburg, recently graduated from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. Warrick earned a bachelor’s degree in bioengineering and Zerby earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering.

Two Lakelands Park staff members garner awards Deborah Higdon, principal of Lakelands Park Middle School in Gaithersburg, has been awarded the Nancy C. Walker Award for outstanding support to a library media program for the 2013-2014 school year.

The award is given annually by the Montgomery County Educational Media Specialists Association to raise awareness of the key role administrative leaders play in supporting library media centers.

Karen E. Luensman, a resource counselor at the school, was a recipient of the 2014 Montgomery County Public Schools Counselor of the Year Award.

The award highlights the important contribution of school counselors and the essential role they play in the social, emotional and educational development of students. One counselor from each school level is selected for the award.

Company employees donate service to Gaithersburg store GENBAND, an international developer of multimedia and cloud communications solutions, held its fourth annual Global Day of Service on May 30 at various location in more than 30 countries, including Gaithersburg.

On that day, GENBAND employees from a regional office volunteered at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Gaithersburg.

The nonprofit retail outlet, at 9100 Gaither Road, specializes in the resale of quality new and gently used furniture, antiques, appliances and

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GENBAND employees helped with receiving donations, testing appliances, making minor repairs and processing items.

Montgomery Village student wins national scholarship Sarah Crews, a senior at Watkins Mill High School in Montgomery Village, has been named a winner in the 45th annual national Washington Crossing Foundation Scholarship Competition.

The awards are granted to select high school seniors around the country who are planning careers in government service.

Montgomery Village Farmers’ Market opens for the season The Montgomery Village Farmers’ Market began its fourth season

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Tony Litz holds one of the 10 guitars decorated for a contest at Victor Litz Music Center in Gaithersburg on Tuesday.

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Great-grandmother fulfills a dream County teachers

union withdraws support for Barclay

91-year-old woman pilots a plane for the first time BY

BRITTANY CHENG

SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE

While Mary Hamilton Moe was growing up in suburban Philadelphia, her father would teach her to drive at the local cemetery, where she couldn’t “hurt anyone,” she said. But teenage Moe wasn’t interested in driving at all, she said.

She wanted to fly.

Life, however, always got in the way, said the 91-year-old great-grandmother of two.

“Well, there were two children to raise and all sorts of things like that,” said Moe, a Chevy Chase, D.C., resident.

After years of waiting, she finally saw her dream come true Wednesday afternoon at the Montgomery County Airpark in Gaithersburg.

Her flight was emotional, said Carole Drake, Moe’s daughter who lives in Potomac.

“My daughter even said, ‘look at grandmom go!’— just seeing her behind there,” Drake said. “Kind of fearless.”

Moe co-piloted a plane for the first time, thanks to the help of Wish of a Lifetime, a Colorado-based organization that grants the wishes of deserving senior citizens, and the sponsorship of TAD Relocation, a Gaithersburg business that helps senior citizens downsize and transition into new homes across the country.

“We partnered with Wish of a Lifetime to find seniors and honor them for their wonderful lives,” said Susie Danick, founder of TAD Relocation.

“We just wanted to find a way to honor them and provide the funds to help them with a wish that they haven’t been able to do.”

Moe’s interest in flight developed at age 10 after the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped.

“I thought that was the most interesting thing in the world, and that got me into Lindbergh’s history,” she said. “And my sister, I remember, that Christmas gave me the book, ‘We,’ written

by Charles Lindbergh, about his flight across the Atlantic. So that just fascinated me.”

The 1930s were still some of the early years in aviation history. The first flight school had only opened two decades prior, and commercial airports only began surfacing in the 1920s. The first prototype of what would become known as a modern-day commercial jetliner wasn’t invented until 1952.

But when aviator Amelia Earhart made the news— first for being the first female to fly solo across the Atlantic and later

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Joel Danick and Susie Danick, owners of TAD Relocation, wait with Mary Hamilton Moe before she takes off on her first flying lesson at the Montgomery County Airpark in Gaithersburg. for her disappearance in the Pacific— Moe discovered her penchant for travel.

“We lived in England for a while,” Drake said. “And ever since then, she would go a couple times a year across the Atlantic, and she would always count the number of times she had been.”

But Moe didn’t think she would ever get to fly. She kept busy, juggling her work in advertising and raising her family, Drake said, and soon the dream got put on the backburner.

It all changed when, in her early 30s, Moe was diagnosed with breast cancer.

“At that time, I wished I would be a flying grandmother and that my children would be grown up and I would take off someday,” said Moe, who beat the cancer at 34. “So [today’s flight] is fulfilling that wish.”

But before the booked limousine could pick up Moe at her home at the Knollwood Military Retirement Community in Chevy Chase, on Wednesday, months of preparation had to take place.

Moe had initially heard about Wish of a Lifetime through Knollwood and brought up the idea to Drake, who helped submit the application.

The concept of the wish fulfillment program is simple. All eligible senior citizens can apply for the chance to have their wish granted, and recipients are chosen based on the purpose of their wish and whether they have a compelling story, according to Wish of a Lifetime’s website.

Meanwhile, around the same time, Danick and her

husband, Joel, were inspired to give back to the community.

They liked Wish of a Lifetime’s mission because the foundation honors seniors, who are TAD Relocation’s core business, Danick said.

“There aren’t a lot of organizations that focus on seniors from that aspect,” said Joel Danick, who joined the company 10 years ago. “There are a lot of senior support agencies … but nothing that really focused on fulfilling [wishes].”

They fundraised $5,000 through community efforts and sent the donation under one main condition: It would serve a senior citizen in the Washington Metropolitan area. Since then, the company has raised another $5,000, and the next recipient from the area will be announced in July, Susie Danick said.

After receiving the donation, Wish of a Lifetime paired TAD Relocation with Moe and announced the surprise at a Knollwood anniversary celebration just after Christmas this past year.

“She was really, really shocked,” Drake said. A few months later, Moe’s dream was ready to take off.

The sleek black limousine picked up Moe at 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday and brought Moe, her daughter, granddaughter, two great-granddaughters and three friends to the airpark.

There she met Batelle Rachmian, general manager at the flight school and Moe’s instructor for the day. In the classroom, they reviewed the area, what to expect while in the air and taking off, plane controls and the flight plan, Rachmian said.

Moe said she just felt “a couple of thumps” in her heart before the flight and was eager to get aboard.

They took off in a singleengine Cessna 172 and went 15 miles north and returned within the hour. Rachmian said that although Moe is the oldest student she’s ever taught, Moe performed better than other beginners on their first lesson.

“She really knew what was going on. If it’s other airplanes talking, she knew that there was someone telling us they’re coming, and she knew when she was doing something wrong, she could figure it out,” said Rachmian, who has been an instructor for eight years. “And there was one time that I held the [control] yoke, and she noticed.

She could potentially do solo.”

The Federal Aviation Administration mandates a minimum of 40 hours of practice, including five solo, for a private pilot’s license, according to the administration’s website. But the average is closer to 70, based on how often they fly, Rachmian said. Moe has about four more hours paid for by the wish.

For now, Moe is just enjoying the experience— she even jokingly brought along a Neiman Marcus shopping bag for a barf bag— after plans derailed last month when she caught pneumonia, and she wasn’t sure if Wednesday work in her favor either.

“I thought today, ‘Oh, it’s going to be rainy and stormy, or it’s going to be hot and sultry,’” Moe said. “But it’s a beautiful day, and I couldn’t wish for more.”

Board of Education member Christopher S. Barclay (D), who is running for a Montgomery County Council seat, has lost endorsements from two unions representing county teachers and education employees.

The Montgomery County Education Association, which represents about 12,000 teachers and other educators, announced Wednesday that members of the union’s Representative Assembly voted to withdraw a recommendation for Barclay in the Council’s District 5 race.

“We believe Chris can have a good future in public service in the county,” union president Doug Prouty said in a Wednesday statement. “But in light of the recent news and financial disclosures, we cannot recommend him in this race at this time.”

The union has not endorsed another candidate for the District 5 seat.

Barclay has recently come under fire for using a school system-issued credit card to make multiple personal purchases totalling nearly $1,500, charges he was required to reimburse.

SEIU Local 500 — which represents bus drivers, maintenance workers and other school system service employees — withdrew its support Wednesday.

The union said it now backs Del. Tom Hucker (D) for the open seat, according to the union’s website.

Union president Merle Cuttitta said in a statement Wednesday that Hucker is “a steadfast supporter of our schools, our children and our community.”

“He is an experienced leader on progressive issues and he has a track record of getting things done,” Cuttitta said in the statement. “We have no reservations about endorsing him for the Montgomery County Council.”

SEIU initially backed Barclay in the race, saying he was someone who “earned our support over the course of many years and will be a

“...in light of the recent news and financial disclosures, we cannot recommend him in this race at this time.”

Doug Prouty, Union president

strong voice for schools and education — from cradle to college! — on the County Council.”

Tom Israel, executive director of the county teachers union, said in March that Barclay has stood up as an advocate for county schools in difficult budget times despite facing “abuse” for his decisions.

In his Wednesday statement, Prouty said the teachers union members “look forward to continuing to work with Chris as a member of the Board of Education.”

Among Barclay’s backers, County Council President Craig L. Rice said he stands behind Barclay.

Rice (D-Dist. 2) of Germantown said he believes that people should make amends for their bad decisions.

But unless some Barclay’s actions were found to be criminal, “it’s not going to change my support,” he said.

“I think Chris is a dedicated person who certainly had a strong voice on the school board and [made] sure every single child was ready to receive a quality education,” Rice said. “Those qualities that led me to support him, those kinds of things haven’t changed.” lpowers@gazette.net kalexander@gazette.net

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Two area lawmakers, one city volunteer and a countywide program were recognized with the city’s citizenship awards Sunday at the

32nd annual Celebrate! Gaithersburg festival in Olde Towne.

Gail Norris, an active resident who has most recently served as the public relations co-chairwoman of the Gaithersburg Book Festival, was the recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Citizen Award.

Sen. Jennie Forehand (D-Dist.

17) of Rockville and Del. Kirill Reznik (D-Dist. 39) of Germantown both received the Distinguished

Friend Award, which is presented to individuals who make significant contributions to Gaithersburg but who do not reside within city limits.

Forehand was praised for her efforts to help secure funding for various city facilities and championing the protection of Program Open Space funding. Reznik was recognized for his advocacy of the Watkins Mill Interchange on Interstate 270.

Linkages to Learning, a program run by the county and its public school system, was given the Outstanding Organization award. The program provides supports to at-risk students and their families, helping them to adjust to and improve performance in school, at home and in the community. jedavis@gazette.net

Bluegrass and barbecue Lou Reid, of North Carolina, and Dudley Connell, of Gaithersburg, playing with the Seldom Scene Band during the Celebrate Gaithersburg Festival in Olde Towne on Sunday.

Cold brews and flavorful wines are flowing at the new Downtown Crown Wine and Beer, which opened Saturday at the mixed-use community of Crown in Gaithersburg.

The shop, at 303 Copley Place, offers a wide selection of craft beer and wine for sale. A tasting bar gives customers the opportunity to try a portion of the wine and beer options as well.

It is one of only two liquor stores in Montgomery County, according to a Crown press release, that offers the Pegas CraftTap system for filling foamfree growlers that stay fresh for weeks unopened.

Arash Tafakor, the store owner and operator, also owns with his family Georgetown Square Wine and Beer in Bethesda, and Dominion Wine and Beer in Falls Church, Va.

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An ad-hoc committee examining credit cards given to Montgomery school board members will hold open meetings going forward after one meeting behind closed doors.

The committee — consisting of school board president Philip Kauffman, board vice president Patricia O’Neill and board member Michael Durso — met for the first time in early May in a closed meeting.

Kauffman formed the group in April after it was brought to light that school board member Christopher S. Barclay used his school systemissued credit card to make personal purchases totaling nearly $1,500 and later had to reimburse the school system for them.

The committee will hold its next meeting on Thursday.

Dana Tofig, a county school system spokesman, said in a Tuesday

email that the meeting will be open and the committee members are scheduled to meet with the attorneys before the meeting.

Kauffman had said in an interview earlier on Tuesday that the meeting would be closed because it would involve committee members’ discussions with school system attorneys.

The school board has come under fire for the decision to closing some of its meetings as its reviewed the issue.

The committee’s first meeting was closed because the members were following normal procedures for the board’s ad-hoc committees, which typically focus on school board operations rather than school system policy, Kauffman said.

In the past, he said, the committees have not been required to comply with the Maryland Open Meetings Act. The current ad-hoc committee, Kauffman said, does not involve a quorum of board members and was formed by the board president rather than the full board.

David Paulson, communications director for the state Attorney Gener-

al’s Office, said he could not comment on the specific situation of the Montgomery board’s committee. Speaking generally, he said that — based on the state law and opinion from the state Open Meetings Compliance Board — it is OK for an ad-hoc committee or subcommittee to hold a closed meeting if the group does not constitute a quorum of the full body and was not formed by a rule, resolution or bylaw.

The Montgomery school board consists of seven members plus a student member. A quorum is at least four members.

Kauffman said public interest spurred the decision to open up the committee’s meetings.

Danuta Wilson, a member of the Parents’ Coalition, filed a complaint dated May 31 with the Maryland Attorney General’s Office that raises “an apparent violation” by the county school board of the state Open Meetings Act. The complaint cites the committee’s closed meeting in early May. Paulson said the state Attorney General’s Office will reply to the complaint within about 30 days.

The committee members will

meet on Thursday with school system attorneys who have been going through expense records from the past several years, Kauffman said.

He said he’s “not sure where that review will lead us.”

Kauffman said the committee members’ discussion during the early May meeting included the processes and guidelines associated with the cards.

The minutes of that first meeting will be posted, he said.

After its review, the Montgomery ad-hoc committee will make recommendations to the full school board.

Kauffman said he anticipates recommendations related to the school board’s handbook, how the credit card expenses are processed and the requirements for expense approvals.

“There were issues that have come up where we’ve determined that we needed clarification of our expense guidelines,” he said.

Their discussion also will cover whether board members should have the cards at all, he said. lpowers@gazette.net

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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 14 at 5 a.m. at Marriott Residence Inn, 9721 Washingtonian Blvd., Gaithersburg.

The subject threatened the victims with a weapon and took property.

Aggravated Assault • On May 17 at 1:57 a.m. in front of Village Café, 19200 Montgomery Village Ave., Montgomery Village. The subjects assaulted the victim and were arrested.

• On May 17at 3:28 a.m. in the 20100 block of Torrey Pond Place, Gaithersburg. The subject is known to the victim.

• On May 17 at 4:18 p.m. in the 200 block of Kentlands Boulevard, Gaithersburg. The subject threatened the victim with a weapon and was arrested.

Residential Burglary • 200 block of Park Avenue, Gaithersburg, between 8:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. May 15. Forced entry, took property.

• 200 block of Park Avenue, Gaithersburg, at 10:37 a.m. May 17.

Graduates Alexia Guidry, 17, and Precios Cooper, 18, pose for a picture together prior to the Watkins Mill High School commencement at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.

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The Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District Bethesda Painting Awards.

Ryan Carr Johnson of Gaithersburg was awareded third place in the contest and $1,000 in prize money on June 4 during the exhibition’s opening at Gallery B. Kyle Hackett of Baltimore was awarded “Best in Show” with $10,000; Philip Hinge of Richmond, Va. was named second place and was given $2,000; and Ali Miller of Baltimore was given the “Young Artist” award and received $1,000.

The Bethesda Painting Awards was established by Carol Trawick in 2005. Trawick has served as a community activist for more than 25 years in downtown Bethesda. She is past chair of the Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District, past chair of the Bethesda Urban Partnership, Inc. and founder of The Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards.

For more information, visit www. bethesda.org.

Vehicle Larceny • Eight incidents in Gaithersburg between May 12 and 20. Took credit cards, cell phones, cameras, jewelry, cash, tools, video games and a laptop. Affected streets include Key West Avenue, Mahogany Circle, Copley Place, Washingtonian Boulevard and Research Boulevard.

• Three incidents in Gaithersburg between May 12 and 20. No forced entry, took property.

Affected streets include Chevy Chase Street, Market Street and Kent Oaks Way. • Three incidents in Gaithersburg between May 12 and 20. No forced entry, took vehicle parts and a GPS unit. Affected streets include Garth and Greenside terraces.

• Two incidents in the area on May 18 or 19.

Took a laptop, wallets, IDs, credit and debit cards and computer accessories. Affected streets include Dew Wood Court in Derwood and Muncaster Mill Road in Gaithersburg.

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Duncan looks to move back into top county slot County executive hopeful focuses on past accomplishments, goals n

BY

RYAN MARSHALL STAFF WRITER

Douglas M. Duncan has a long history in Montgomery County politics.

The fifth of 13 children, Duncan, 58, grew up accompanying his mother as she got involved in Rockville politics and county Democratic politics.

His mother always told him that religious service was the highest calling, followed by political service, he said.

He worked on Charlie Gilchrist’s campaign for county executive in 1978, and four years later earned a spot on the Rockville City Council on a plat-

form of getting more until 2006. affordable housing in Now he’s trying the city. to reclaim the execuHe became mayor tive’s office against in 1987, and immecurrent Executive Isiah diately found that Leggett and challenger people looked at him Councilman Philip M. differently.

Andrews (Dist. 3) of They wanted to Gaithersburg in the know what he had acJune 24 Democratic Duncan complished and what primary. he planned to do, and held him Early voting in the primary ultimately responsible for get- begins Thursday. ting things done, he said.

The winner will face RepubBeing an official in Rockville lican James Shalleck in the Nov. allowed him to give back to a 4 general election. community that had such an Duncan said it’s gratifying impact on him and his family, to see how many people are fahe said. miliar with his time in office and And his time in office had an what he accomplished during added benefit. that time.

“It was perfect training to be Among his higher-profile county executive,” he said. achievements, he lists MontDuncan turned that training gomery’s establishment as a into three terms in the execu- global biotechnology center, tive’s office, serving from 1994 the revitalization of downtown

Silver Spring and construction of the AFI Silver Theatre and the construction of the Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda.

But one of the accomplishments he’s proudest of was his ability to push through Montgomery government’s tendency to study and debate problems rather than act to solve them, with “paralysis by analysis” a recurring phrase at Duncan’s appearances at campaign events and candidate forums.

It’s one of the areas in which he’s been most critical of Leggett, particularly on projects such as the Silver Spring Transit Center, the long-delayed transportation hub that has been the subject of construction flaws and cost overruns.

The full rebirth of Silver Spring has been stalled by the transit center delays, and

Leggett and the County Council have no credibility remaining on the project, he said.

The county needs a handson executive to make economic development, transportation and streamlining the county’s permitting process priorities in the next term, Duncan said.

Despite his longtime presence in Montgomery politics, Duncan said he’s running as a challenger to the county’s current leadership.

Leggett and Andrews have both been in office for a long time, Duncan said.

Before serving two fouryear terms as county executive, Leggett was on the County Council from 1986 until 2002.

Andrews has been on the council since 1998.

“They are the status quo,” Duncan said.

Duncan left the execu-

tive’s office in 2006 to challenge then-Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley in Maryland’s Democratic primary, before dropping out of the race to deal with depression.

Depression is a horrible illness, but his illness made him more patient and understanding, Duncan said.

His experience also opened his eyes to the needs of Montgomery’s special needs community.

It’s also allowed him to serve as a model for some people by showing them that you can get better, he said, and he ends many of his appearances with a plea for others to get help for themselves or someone they know who is suffering from depression. rmarshall@gazette.net

Andrews hopes to use council record in bid for executive spot Candidate bases campaign on personal outreach to voters n

BY

RYAN MARSHALL STAFF WRITER

On tables in the back room of Philip M. Andrews’ Rockville campaign headquarters are thousands and thousands of letters, about 30,000 in all. They are each written by campaign volunteers to their friends, family and neighbors asking them to support Andrews in his run for county executive.

The attempt to contact Montgomery County voters is an outgrowth of Andrews’ campaign, which has been partially based on personal contact with residents.

Since January 2013, Andrews said he has knocked on about 20,000 doors around the county,

talking with thousands starts Thursday. of Montgomery resiAndrews said the dents about their conmost common concerns for the county. cern he heard while Andrews said he talking to voters was was very aware that he that it’s too expensive was on the voter’s time to live in Montgomery when he came to their County. home, that he might Many retirees told Andrews be interrupting dinner him they’re thinking or some other part of of leaving the county, the daily routine. other people told him their chilBut his experience has been dren can’t afford to come back overwhelmingly positive. to Montgomery, and working “Almost everybody’s polite,” families are being stretched thin, he said.

Andrews said.

Andrews will try to use the If he’s elected, Andrews said recognition his visits have gen- he would try to increase the erated in the June 24 Demo- county’s effectiveness in Ancratic primary against current napolis and get back a higher County Executive Isiah Leggett percentage of the taxes that and former executive Douglas Montgomery residents and M. Duncan. businesses pay to the state.

The primary winner will face “We can’t afford to not be Republican James Shalleck in more involved in Annapolis,” the Nov. 4 general election.

Andrews said.

Early voting in the primary He also strongly supports

increasing library hours, infrastructure repair and the number of school resource officers, police officers who are stationed in the county’s schools.

Andrews would also like to increase the staff of the county Inspector General’s office, whose current staff he said isn’t big enough to sufficiently monitor the county’s government.

As a member of the County Council for 16 years, Andrews has been a consistent critic of the labor contracts the county signs with unions representing its workers.

He criticized Leggett and Duncan for labor decisions made when each was executive, and said that as executive, he would work to keep the contracts more reasonable.

Andrews also does not take campaign contributions from unions and other interest groups.

Andrews’ parents grew up during the Great Depression, and taught him the value of being careful with money.

“Fiscal responsibility and progressive values go hand-inhand,” he said.

Andrews grew up in Kensington, graduating from Einstein High School in 1977.

Recruited to Bucknell University to play tennis, Andrews moved to Philadelphia after graduation to work for the League of Conservation Voters.

He moved back to Maryland in 1988 and spent six years as the executive director of Common Cause Maryland.

After a failed bid for the council in 1994, he worked as the county’s Americorps director until running again in 1998, when he was elected.

Andrews said he’s accomplished much of what he set out

to do on the council.

He led the effort on a bill to ban smoking in restaurants in the county, as well as one to require county contractors to pay employees a living wage.

The council is currently considering a bill by Andrews to allow public financing of future county executive and council candidates’ campaigns.

His time on the council has given him good understanding of how the county’s government works, he said.

It’s a trait he acknowledges that he shares with his two primary opponents, and hopes voters will compare their respective times in office.

“We all have experience, we all have records that people can examine,” Andrews said. rmarshall@gazette.net

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Challenger in sheriff’s race says department is spread too thin Says staffing levels are pushing some duties onto Montgomery County police n

BY

TIFFANY ARNOLD STAFF WRITER

As Thomas R. Falcinelli Jr. sees it, the biggest problem in the Montgomery County sheriff’s office is staffing.

“Numbers, working bodies, that’s your first priority,” said Falcinelli, who’s challenging incumbent and fellow Demo-

Outside of policcrat Darren Popkin ing, he is the director in this year’s sheriff’s of officials for the Inrace. door Football League In the June 24 priand is a former refmary, voters will deeree for the National cide who to advance Football League. to the general elecFalcinelli accused tion in November, the current leaderwhen there will be Falcinelli Jr. ship of creating topno Republican chalheavy staffing at managerial lenger.

Falcinelli, 54, of Silver levels while leaving other asSpring, has a 29-year career in pects of the department unlaw enforcement. He’s a Mont- derstaffed. The effect, he said, gomery County police sergeant is a sheriff’s department that’s spread too thin, causing some and an attorney.

of the sheriff department’s responsibilities — such as the late-night transport of inmates — to be shifted to Montgomery County police.

If elected sheriff, Falcinelli said, he would refocus the department’s priorities back on its core duties — serving orders, transporting inmates and protecting the court. Officers would be pulled from temporary assignments that didn’t involve the department’s core functions until staffing numbers improved, he said.

Falcinelli said he would preserve the sheriff department’s commitment to help staff the Family Justice Center, a one-stop program that works with a range of agencies to help victims of domestic violence find shelter and other resources to protect themselves and their children from abusive partners.

But Falcinelli said that even the Family Justice Center has had bloated staffing from the sheriff’s department, a situation he described as “overkill.”

“That’s an important,

worthwhile effort,” Falcinelli said of the Family Justice Center. “But there has to be balance.”

Falcinelli unsuccessful ran for sheriff in 2010, the year Popkin was elected.

He said he hadn’t considered running during this election until he was approached by deputies who said they wanted change.

Falcinelli said he wants to “provide these guys an option.” tarnold@gazette.net

Silver Spring dad running for Montgomery County school board seat n

Seeks to better inform, involve parents

BY

LINDSAY A. POWERS STAFF WRITER

Larry Edmonds took his first step into a parent-teacher association when the principal at his daughter’s elementary school asked him and another man to help lead the dad-less group.

“I heard all the nightmare stories about PTAs,” he said, but he accepted the offer.

Since that first PTA vice president role, Edmonds has continued his involvement all the way to the county level. He has served in the past as the vice president of legislation for the Montgomery County Council of Parent-Teacher Associations and as a member of its delegates assembly that helps link the countywide council and local PTA groups. He currently serves as the county PTA’s legislative committee chair and the area vice president of the Northeast Consortium.

Edmonds is now looking to make the move from PTA leader to Board of Education member.

The Silver Spring resident is seeking the board’s District 5 seat currently held by Michael Durso, who is running for a second term.

parents who say the Edmonds — a board has made decicommercial developsions in the past that ment director for a parents had not been pest control company aware were on the — said he is running table. for the school board A solution, Edseat because he thinks monds said, is for he can provide some the school system to needed change.

Edmonds ramp up efforts to In addition to his reach out to parents PTA roles, Edmonds was also one of the original and the county organizations members of the school system’s in which they are members.

“Parents give you pretty Parent Advisory Council.

One of his priorities should good insight” on how things he be elected, Edmonds said, in- can be best accomplished, he volves better informing parents said. “They’re in the trenches about the opportunities avail- every day.”

Edmonds said he thinks the able to help their children succeed, whether the goal is college school board did not handle the latest capital improvements or a vocation.

Students need to hear more program budget well.

School officials waited too at home about the value of their education and informed parents long to talk to members of the can help pass that lesson along, Maryland General Assembly about the funds they needed he said.

Edmonds said he sees ar- for the school system’s overeas of the county where parents crowded, aging buildings, he could be engaged more and en- said. The county should have couraged to participate more in also asked for money by itself, schools, especially parents of rather than partnering with African American and Hispanic Prince George’s and Baltimore counties, he said. students.

Edmonds said he thinks the “We’re not getting into those zones and saying, ‘Look, this is school system should have diverted more money in the past what’s important,’” he said.

The school board should to capacity-building construcalso be more “open,” Edmonds tion projects rather than to portables. said.

“Our long-range planning He said he has heard from

was way out of whack,” he said.

Edmonds also said he wants the school system to add healthier food options in school cafeterias.

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what they’re eating and make good decisions for their meals, he said.

Edmonds gave the current school board a B minus for its work.

The board members needs to “speak up more,” he said,

and come up with more ideas for change. Now, he said, he sees board members more often consider changes that others propose. lpowers@gazette.net

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Police say man slid iPad under door BY

LINDSAY A. POWERS STAFF WRITER

A Potomac teacher faces charges of secretly videotaping a foreign exchange student staying in his home by sliding an iPad under the bathroom door.

Darrien Lamont Tucker, 39, of the 10800 block of Deborah Drive in Potomac, is a physical education teacher at the McLean School of Maryland in Potomac, according to Montgomery County police.

H e was also a volunteer assistant Tucker coach for the football team at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda but decided before his arrest not to return next year because of “another opportunity,” said Dana Tofig, a spokesman for Montgomery County Public Schools.

Tucker was arrested Tuesday and charged with five counts of visual surveillance with prurient intent.

Five times from May 27 to May 31, Tucker slid an iPad under the bathroom door while the 18-year-old female foreign exchange student was inside, according to police. The student first noticed the iPad on May 27 when she was in the bathroom showering.

County police were notified about the incidents on Sunday.

The student used her phone to film the iPad being slid under the door. She also placed a video camera in the hallway to film Tucker in the act.

“The camera outside in the hallway showed him, the suspect, approach the door and place the iPad under the door,” said Cpl. Rebecca Innocenti, a spokeswoman for county police.

There was no phone directory listing for Tucker. Online court records did not show an attorney for him.

Police are not releasing the student’s name or where she attends school.

She has lived with Tucker and his family since the fall of last year, Innocenti said.

Tucker is due in court on July 15, according to online court records.

He was released on bail.

A statement from the McLean School of Maryland said police confirmed that the student involved in the incidents does not attend the school.

“The employee has been placed on a leave of absence and instructed not to return to campus, participate in or attend school functions or activities, or to make contact with any McLean student,” the statement said. “While employed at McLean, the School received no complaints of misconduct of this nature against the employee.”

The statement also said that Tucker passed the school’s “comprehensive vetting process” before he was hired.

According to the school’s website, Tucker teaches physical education and coaches cross-country, girls basketball, and track and field. He is also co-captain of the Frederick Outlaws, a semi-professional football team, the website says.

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County executive candidates faced off in debate Saturday Candidates address business climate, Silver Spring Transit Center n

BY

DOUGLAS TALLMAN STAFF WRITER

The three men trying to unseat County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) zeroed in on the county’s business climate and the debacle over the Silver Spring Transit Center in a Sat-

urday debate televised by Montgomery Community Media.

Jim Shalleck, the only Republican seeking the position, called for a federal criminal grand jury investigating the project, which is years overdue and its cost has swollen to $120 million.

“We need answers, and we’re not going to get it from the Democrats in this county,” Shalleck said. A grand jury could subpoena witnesses and records

to look for kickbacks, or whether political contributors won contracts.

County Councilman Phil Andrews (D-Dist. 3) of Gaithersburg and former county executive Doug Duncan (D) both criticized the project. Duncan focused on the Leggett administration and the County Council for changing its story the cost, who will pay for it and when the center will open.

Leggett, however, deflected

the criticism. He said he rejected the transit center because he wasn’t satisfied.

“I wouldn’t think this is a failure of county government.

It’s a failure of the contractors,” he said.

Each of the challengers said Montgomery wasn’t business friendly. Duncan faulted the county’s permitting services department and called for the economic development depart-

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ment to revamped. Andrews attacked the county’s tax rates, particularly the energy tax, which Leggett doubled in 2010.

Andrews promised to phase out that increase by the end of his first term.

Shalleck, too, faulted county tax rates, particularly the county’s bag tax.

Each candidate said they opposed the M-83, a 5.7-mile highway from Montgomery Vil-

lage Avenue to Ridge Road east of Interstate 270.

Casey Aiken moderated the debate. The debate can be seen at www.mymcmedia.org/debate.

The primary is Tuesday, June 24. Early voting begins June 12. dtallman@gazette.net Teddy Amenabar contributed to this report.

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Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett speaks at a news conference Friday at the Rockville home of Selma Nootenboom, who was the victim of a scam by an unlicensed tree cutter. Nootenboom and her nephew Eric Barr (left) listen to Leggett.

RYAN MARSHALL STAFF WRITER

Jim Crutchfield thought he was doing everything right when he hired a roofer to work on his Cabin John home.

The roofer provided references who gave good reports of his work when Crutchfield called them.

The contractor said he had a license to do roofing jobs, but Crutchfield didn’t ask to see the license before the work began in December 2012.

Crutchfield said the man made plenty of promises to finish the work but failed to do so, ultimately even removing part of the work that had been done and saying he didn’t have enough money to finish.

Crutchfield said the experience that ultimately cost him about $8,000 was frustrating, but he learned a valuable lesson.

Crutchfield’s lesson was the same that all homeowners should learn before letting anyone do work on or around their house, said Eric Friedman, director of Montgomery County’s Office of Consumer Protection.

“You really need to make sure they’ve got their license,” Friedman said.

On Friday, Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) announced a renewed effort by police and county departments to crack down on “rip-off artists” who target residents with fraudulent offers to do projects such as roof or driveway repair or tree work or removal.

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Leggett said.

Leggett appeared with representatives from the Montgomery County Police Department, Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office, Montgomery’s Office of Consumer Protection, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the state Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation and police from other jurisdictions.

They spoke at the Rockville home of Selma Nootenboom, an elderly woman who was charged $2,000 for tree work despite agreeing to pay only $700.

Nootenboom is legally blind and hard of hearing, her nephew Eric Barr said Friday.

The man took one branch off, filled a small hole with cement and charged her $2,000, Barr said.

The county was eventually able to get the money back, he said.

According to county police, a victim in Chevy Chase paid four contractors a total of $80,000 to perform the same job, while another resident in the southern part of the county paid $160,000 for three different roof jobs, plus trimming and cutting of various trees.

An elderly county resident paid $240,000 for work at his home with few results, according to police.

Unsolicited contractors, or “woodchucks,” often provide a low estimate for how much work will cost, said county police Lt. Michael Hartnett.

The problem is not just one for Montgomery County, but for the Washington region, costing from $2 million to $3 million regionally each year,

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Selma Nootenboom and her nephew Eric Barr in front of her Rockville home.

Nootenboom was the victim of a scam by an unlicensed tree cutter who charged her thousands of dollars to trim the large tree behind them. he said.

Deputy State’s Attorney

John Maloney said his office welcomes the increased focus on the issue as his office goes after anyone who preys on the county’s most vulnerable residents.

“We will prosecute you, and we will prosecute to the full extent of the law,” Maloney said. rmarshall@gazette.net

Laytonsville couple faces prison time for scheme, tax evasion FROM STAFF REPORTS A Laytonsville couple has pleaded guilty to charges connected to a fraudulent advance fee scheme and tax evasion, the FBI said in a news release.

Shannon Johnson, 50, pleaded guilty on Friday.

His wife, Yvette Johnson, 52, pleaded guilty on June 2.

The FBI said Shannon Johnson admitted that he ran a fraudulent advance fee scheme from 2006 to 2009.

He “held himself out as a wealthy international investment banker who could provide millions of dollars and euros in financing to businesses and individuals,” the news release says.

In return, the Johnsons promised money that they said was in an overseas bank account.

The FBI said the plea agreement indicates that Shannon Johnson received about $3.7 million in advance fees, but didn’t provide the promised financing.

Instead, the Johnsons used the money to buy Bentley, Mercedes-Benz and BMW automobiles; travel on private jets; and fund the mortgage on their Laytonsville home.

At least 11 individuals and businesses were victimized, the FBI said.

Plea agreements also indicated that the Johnsons evaded taxes on income earned in the scheme and attempted to conceal their income and assets.

If the court accepts Shannon Johnson’s plea agreement, he will be sentenced to four to six years in prison. He is due to be sentenced on Sept. 8.

Yvettte Johnson faces a maximum of five years in prison when she is sentenced on Sept. 29.

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Continued from Page A-1 school system’s buses could continue to be used for multiple routes each morning and afternoon.

Changing the bell times, however, would translate to significant added costs estimated to be at least $21.6 million per year, Starr said in a memo to county school board members.

The school system faces other priorities that need to be funded, including hiring more school counselors and psychologists and expanding technology use, he said.

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The purpose of these renovations, according to documents, is to make the space an active space that provides fun for all ages, bolster the park’s safety and security, and is to have “sustainable amenities to emphasize horticulture, environment and education,” The park property was originally home to the Gaithersburg Library, which was built in early 1960 and destroyed by a fire in 1981, according to city documents. In 1987, the city acquired the property, then known as Lee Street Park.

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When Enow was questioned following his arrest, police say he confessed to the crime.

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Starr said in a Tuesday interview that he was not surprised by the mixed feedback on his proposal because it matched informal conversations he has had over the last 18 months or so with students, parents and teachers about the possibility of different bell times.

The school system used several avenues to determine public opinion, including community forums, surveys, discussion groups and emails.

“We got extensive community feedback that is not conclusive at all,” Starr said.

The surveys garnered input from about 15,307 parents, 45,691 students and 14,943 staff members.

About 78 percent of parent survey respondents supported

formally dedicated as Constitution Gardens by the city.

The property is currently a passive space with flowers, landscaping and a gazebo.

When the fiscal 2015 budget was first introduced in mid April with this project proposed, City Councilwoman Cathy Drzyzgula said she was particularly happy to see money dedicated to the city park, which has become prone to trash and graffiti.

“It really needs to be modified so it better suits the needs of the neighborhood,” she said at the time.

Bid proposals can be submitted to the city up until 1 p.m. July 27. jedavis@gazette.net

ing the victim.

Enow has been charged with solicitation to commit first-degree murder and attempt firstdegree murder, the release said.

He is being held without bond.

“The judge agreed with our prosecutor that past instances involving the court system merited that [Enow] be kept behind bars,” said Ramon Korionoff, a

Starr’s proposal, according to the June report.

When asked how the proposal would affect them and their children, about 62 percent of parents said the changes would have a positive effect on students’ energy levels and about 60 percent said they would have a positive effect on students’ readiness to learn, the report said.

High school students and teachers were split nearly exactly down the middle about the proposal.

About 86 percent of high school students who responded to the survey said the shift would mean they would get more sleep, the report said. About 52 percent said it would be harder to participate in after-school activities.

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level, survey results showed that about 65 percent of students and about 70 percent of staff disagreed with the proposal.

About 700 people overall attended the four community forums, held at Paint Branch, Richard Montgomery, Seneca Valley and Montgomery Blair high schools.

Some forum participants shared concerns about potential effects, including that the later high school start time would mean less time for after-school activities and that the longer elementary school day would prove too much for the young students.

Others supported the change, saying high school students would grab more shuteye.

Starr said he is interested in what a future state study of

school start times will reveal and whether the state might decide to provide resources to local systems seeking later bell times.

The county school system might still return to the issue “in a different way,” Starr said in the interview.

“I think the door is not totally closed,” he said.

The county school board is scheduled to discuss the issue at its June 17 meeting.

Mandi Mader — a member of the school system’s original Bell Times Work Group, a psychotherapist and a parent advocate for later start times — said she doesn’t think Starr was creative enough in trying to develop a plan. Mader said the later high school start time would have helped the sleepdeprived teenagers she comes across in her work.

Mader pointed to the report statistic that 78 percent of parents supported the initital proposal.

“They’re the ones who know the best, the immediate effects, the health, the safety issues, and he’s just kind of snubbing them,” she said.

Mader started a MoveOn.org petition calling for a later Montgomery County high school start time that has accumulated about 11,700 signatures.

She said she thinks the estimated cost is inaccurate but that even as is, constitutes only a small percentage of the school system’s overall budget.

“I think it may cost $20 million but the children are going to pay the price right now for this delay,” she said. lpowers@gazette.net

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Constitution Garden at 112 Brookes Ave. in Gaithersburg on Tuesday.

spokesman for the state’s attorney’s office.

A knock on Enow’s front door Tuesday went unanswered.

No attorney information was listed in online court records.

A preliminary hearing is scheduled to be held July 3. jedavis@gazette.net

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The annual 300-mile bike trip between Pittsburgh and Gaithersburg may be more than three months away, but local bicyclists are already starting to train for the Ride Allegheny fundraiser for wounded veterans.

Based in Gaithersburg, Ride Allegheny is hosting training rides near Dickerson on Saturday followed by a free lunch, music and wine tastings at Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard in hopes of boosting the number of participants this year.

The group is also hosting a ride on June 22 along the C&O Canal towpath between Potomac and Arlington National Cemetery and back, with a cruiser bike auction and Moab beer specials at the Wine Harvest store in Potomac afterward. “[We’re] trying to get folks excited about our event and get them signed up to do the ride in October,” said organizer Clark Wagner of the Kentlands in Gaithersburg.

Bicyclist Dennet Oregon of Rockville, who lost both legs in Afghanistan, participates in Ride Allegheny, a bike trip from Pittsburgh, Pa. through Cumberland to Gaithersburg. Ride Allegheny raises money for Operation Second Chance, a nonprofit founded and run by Cindy McGrew of Clarksburg, that helps wounded veterans transition back to civilian life.

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This year the ride runs from Oct. 2 through 5, with the option to join halfway through in Cumberland.

Since 2005, the group has donated all the proceeds from the fall ride to Operation Second Chance, a nonprofit founded by Cindy McGrew of Clarksburg that helps wounded veterans make the transition back to civil-

ian life by offering financial help, organized retreats and family activities.

Operation Second chance, which also offers counseling on Fridays, recently moved into first-floor office space on Century Boulevard in Germantown donated by the building manager, Matan real estate company.

Last year, riders making

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Mildred Mandel (Millie) Sirotkin, beloved wife of Paul Sirotkin, passed away peacefully on May 23, 2014 at the age of 96 years in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Millie is survived by her husband, Paul, and two of their three children, Karl Marvin Sirotkin of Germantown, Maryland and Deborah Sirotkin Butler, of Arlington Massachusetts. Her other daughter, Joan Beth Sirotkin Austin predeceased her in 2013. She is also survived by her four grandchildren Samuel Butler, Sarah Butler Nabbit, Daniel Sirotkin and Leela Sirotkin. Millie was also predeceased by her brother Emmanuel (Manny) Mandel, who volunteered to fight against fascism and General Franco in Spain in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Manny was killed in 1936 in the Battle of Sur Los Banos, as part of a valiant rear guard action. Millie and Paul were married in 1936 in Detroit, Michigan where they spent the early years of their marriage. They were married in 1936 and lived together 78 love-filled years. While Paul founded a dental tech firm, Millie enrolled in Wayne State University, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with both undergraduate and graduate degrees in education.

Millie taught in the Detroit Schools for many years. She was so well loved that the students she taught in elementary school often returned to visit her during their junior high school and high school years. She was devoted to her beloved husband Paul, as well as a talented cook, needlewoman and seamstress. Millie was warm and welcoming to all, often opening her home to friends and family alike and sharing her wonderful cooking with them. After her retirement, she and Paul to live full time in the Pleasant Lake Community, in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan. Millie was a docent at Cranbrook Nature Center.

There she received local notoriety for her work piecing together fossil turtles, as well as teaching and demonstrating to the classes that visited Cranbrook Nature Center. Memorial arrangements are TBA. It is anticipated there will be a memorial service in Michigan at a future date.

To receive future notice, contact her daughter Deborah by email at AmberPaw@aol.com, or at her office 781-641-9939 to be contacted when plans are finalized. To make a donation in Millie’s name to the Alzheimers Foundation, donations may be made online: www.alz.org.

Christopher Lee Thompson of Monrovia, MD passed away on Tuesday, May 27th at his home with his wife of 24 years, Erica, and two daughters, Jessica and Chasie. He was 51 years old, born on July 22, 1962 in Bethesda, MD. Chris’ greatest joy was raising his family and spending time with them. He is survived by his parents, Charlie and Libbi Thompson, his 3 brothers, Mike, Brian, Steve, and his best friend Pat Hannon, as well as many loving aunts, uncles, and cousins. His family will miss him more than they can express. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Patty Pollatos Fund in Memory of Chris Thompson at www.ppfinc.org/recipientspage/chris-thompson.

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the full trip from Pittsburgh to Gaithersburg spent the first night in Confluence, Pa. This year they will be staying in the Pennsylvania white water rafting town of Ohiopyle, a name derived from the Native American word for “ohiopehhla,” which means white frothy water.

Last year Ride Allegheny raised $300,000, and this year the goal is $350,000, he said.

Bicyclists also have the option of joining the group in Cumberland for a two-day ride, with everyone ending up for dinner at Smokey Glen Farm Barbequers in Gaithersburg.

The two-day ride at 159 miles is slightly longer,than the first leg, but it is flatter, as Cumberland is east of the Divide.

The cost is $225 to participate in the four-day ride and $150 for the two-day trip. The cost includes some meals but does not include rooms.

Most of the bicyclists each year are civilians but some veterans also ride, including Army veteran Dennet Oregon of Rockville, who lost his legs serving in Afghanistan in 2005.

Oregon, who plans to participate again this year, said he met McGrew at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda while recovering from injuries caused by an IUD explosion. “[Her] organization’s whole purpose of being is to help vets,” Oregon said. “She cares.”

McGrew had been was working at Legg Mason in Gaithersburg in 2004, when she started volunteering her time at Walter Reed.

When the Ride Allegheny group heard through a member’s wife who worked with McGrew in 2005 that McGrew was forming a nonprofit, they offered to help.

Also involved in the fundraising is Just Riding Along Bicycle Shop (JRABS) on Md. 108 in Laytonsville, which is offering discounts on bikes purchased for Ride Allegheny, Wagner said.

For more information and photos from the trip, visit operationsecondchance.org and ridealleghency.org.

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The son of a foreign service officer, Rep. Christopher Van Hollen Jr. spent much of his childhood abroad, growing up in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India and Turkey.

Living abroad developed in Van Hollen an interest in foreign affairs and national security, issues that he said would eventually lead him to run for Congress in 2002.

During his six terms in the House of Representatives, Van Hollen (D-Dist. 8) of Kensington has played a key role in legislation such as the Affordable Care Act, the Farm Bill — which established a grant program to help farmers reduce agricultural runoff into the Chesapeake Bay — and the Conquer Childhood Cancer Act. As ranking Democratic member of the Budget Committee, he was deeply involved in ending the government shutdown in 2013 and in passing the bipartisan budget compromise last year. The budget compromise deferred sequestration cuts and should avoid future furloughs and shutdowns, he said.

“That was a low point for Congress, it should never have happened,” he said of the “unnecessary, unproductive and shameful” shutdown last summer.

Van Hollen also helped pass legislation that reduced student loan rates and that protected whistleblowers.

Van Hollen is running for his seventh, two-year term in the House.

In the June 24 primary, he faces George English of Kensington and Lih Young. The winner of the Democratic primary faces Republican Dave Wallace — who is running unopposed — Independent Steven Haddox and unaffiliated candidate Andrew Jaye Wildman in the November general election.

“I am somebody who is just trying to make this community and this country and this world a little better place,” Van Hollen said.

As he campaigns for re-election, creating jobs tops Van Hollen’s platform.

“The biggest issues remain moving the economy forward and trying to encourage job creation,” he said.

Investing in infrastructure and providing low-cost financing to spur growth of clean energy companies are just two of the ways Van Hollen said Con-

gress can help create jobs.

To pay for those investments, he said the federal government can close Van Hollen Jr. tax loopholes that encourage American companies to send jobs overseas and that allow companies to take tax deductions on international investments before profits are returned.

“We want to create jobs,” he said. “Period.”

In connection with creating jobs, he also supports the current push to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 per hour and index the wage to inflation. He said he also supports ongoing negotiations with Iran to avoid it developing nuclear weapons and U.S. involvement in trying to bring a peace agreement between Israel and Palestine.

Van Hollen is also an advocate for campaign finance reform. He has proposed The Disclose Act, a bill that would prevent secret donations. No limits would be placed on how much could be contributed but contributors would be required to disclose who they are and how much they are spending, he said.

“I just think the public has a right to know who’s bank-rolling these political campaigns,” he said.

Van Hollen is also working on efforts to require universal background checks for gun purchases and to bring troops back from Afghanistan.

Congressional gridlock is a sore point with voters.

While Van Hollen said he sympathizes, he also said voters can use election day to get Congress moving again.

“The way you move forward on big issues is to make sure the Speaker of the House allows democracy to work its will,” he said. From the inside, he and his colleagues are looking for areas of common ground, he said.

Van Hollen is a graduate of Swarthmore College, where he earned his bachelor of arts in philosophy, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government where he earned his Masters of Public Policy and Georgetown University School of Law where he earned his law degree.

He lives in Kensington with is wife Katherine and their three children. kalexander@gazette.net

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Developers looking to build housing for working middleclass Montgomery County residents could get a little help from the County Council.

Council President Craig L. Rice said Monday that the council is considering possible legislation to lower fees and expedite the development approval pro-

cess for workforce housing projects.

Work force housing is housing available for rent or purchase by those whose incomes are too high to qualify for “affordable housing,” which the county calls moderately priced dwelling units.

Montgomery County faces an ongoing need for work force housing opportunities.

“We should not have many of our public safety folks as well as our teachers that cannot afford to live here in Montgomery County,” Rice (D-Dist. 2) of Germantown said.

Rice said he met Monday

“We should not have many of our public safety folks as well as our teachers that cannot afford to live here in Montgomery County.”

Craig L. Rice, County Council President with a developer looking to build workforce housing. Other developers are eyeing similar projects, primarily in areas around transit and transportation hubs,

Rice said.

“I was just meeting with a developer this morning that was looking at affordable housing options here in Montgomery

County and was frustrated with the time that it took to provide something that is so important,” Rice said. “We’ve got to fix those policies, we’ve got to fix those rates that are assigned to things that are a core priority for us here in Montgomery County.”

Lowering the fees and the time associated with the development approval process would help developers get the units built more quickly, he said.

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“I look forward to working with our county executive over these next coming months to make sure we can change the way in which we do business, especially when it comes to creating affordable housing opportunities and when it comes to making sure that we’re growing jobs and economic development opportunities here in Montgomery County,” he said. kalexander@gazette.net

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Poolesville’s solar future Poolesville took a forward-thinking step recently by installing a solar array to provide the power necessary for its wastewater treatment plant.

“We’re big enough and small enough to take on a project like this and bring it to fruition,” town commissioners president Jim Brown said.

The project cost about $2.7 million, and Standard Solar of Rockville built it. Footing the bill was an energy company, UGI Corp. of King of Prussia, Pa., which then gets payments on the energy as well as renewable energy credits from the state.

By powering the treatment plant with solar energy, the town has prevented nearly 600,000 pounds of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere since the array went online in February, the town says.

The project also helps to show other communities what is possible. At a news conference announcing the completion of the project last week, former Poolesville commissioners president Eddie Kuhlman said he had wanted solar power to serve all of Poolesville’s public utility needs, but state laws limited how much power the town could produce, reserving large projects for utility companies.

State Sen. Brian Feldman said he wanted to look at what prohibitions to solar power the state could remove.

The General Assembly should scale back those restrictions, if for no other reason than Montgomery municipalities are ready to take significant steps forward in solar energy.

Expanding the vote in Rockville A group of teenagers is hoping Rockville allows 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in the city’s 2015 elections.

Members of the Maryland Youth Legislative Councils have met with Mayor Bridget Donnell Newton and several council members seeking the change. The Rockville students are collecting signatures and spreading the word via social media.

Their efforts follow Takoma Park’s decision in May 2013 to lower the voting age in city elections. Although it’s only one election, it’s hard to say that expanding the franchise was anything other than successful. According to the election report from Takoma Park’s election last November, 44 percent of the registered 16- and 17-year-olds voted compared with 10.7 percent of all voters.

Many 18-year-olds have left home before they get a chance to vote in their first election. By granting 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote, they can start the habit of voting at a young age, or as we said before Takoma Park made its decision, it can be a “learner’s permit for democracy.” We hope Rockville follows suit.

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construction funds. We can’t Stop! Don’t throw away keep up with our exploding enthat political flier you just got rollments, 2,000 new students in the mail. Instead, carefully read it because it tells you what a year. When this year’s march the candidates think of you. Or, on Annapolis for more school more precisely, what the candiconstruction money ended in dates think you want to hear. utter failure, County Executive Political platforms and Ike Leggett raided $41 million promises have a single purfrom other county projects pose, getting your vote. So, while further delaying more here’s what most Montgomery school construction projects.

MY MARYLAND We’re burning the candle at candidates are promising this election: both ends.

BLAIR LEE They’re for: jobs, universal Montgomery’s politicians pre-K, raising the minimum wage (again), have known for years that the county’s “betrenewable energy, smaller class sizes, mass ter to be a donor” credo is fiscally unsustransit, taxing businesses and the rich, tainable, but they hoped the voters would closing the “achievement gap”, the Bay, never catch on. Yet, the school construction abortion, LGBT rights, diversity, seniors crisis is only the tip of the iceberg: MoCo’s and labor unions. statehouse delegation has capitulated on They’re against: climate change, inso many financial fronts (shifting the state’s come inequality, fracking, traffic congesteacher pension costs to the counties, tion, tax cuts, growth, estate tax reform, “equalizing” billions in classroom aid, cutbusiness and telling you how they’re going ting local highway, police and community to pay for all their promises. college funds) that the county’s long-term But a handful of MoCo candidates financial viability is in danger. sense a new, emerging voter concern: These long-term time bombs together getting short-changed in Annapolis. Norwith a stagnant federal spending economy, mally, MoCo’s fat, happy, disinterested ongoing tax-base flight and the governvoters don’t care how much tax revenue mental needs of MoCo’s new immigrant is exported to the rest of the state. So what population are a perfect storm. if MoCo gets $882 per capita in state aid American politics is the last free while Baltimore gets $2,033 and Prince market, anyone who correctly senses the George’s gets $1,341? We’re rich, we can public pulse and offers a new direction can afford to help other jurisdictions and, if win. Right now the way to win in Montthe state won’t help us, we’ll just pay for gomery is to appease the labor unions, the it ourselves. Or, as MoCo senator Rich environmentalists, the minority groups Madaleno puts it, “It’s better to be a donor and the gay lobby. In its recent statehouse than a recipient”. endorsements, the Washington Post But, now, all those decades of neglect mumbled that MoCo’s delegation “doesn’t are beginning to haunt Montgomery. The always exercise clout commensurate with wake-up call is school construction where its weight” and, then, endorsed all the inMoCo, with 17 percent of the state’s stucumbents except two. dents, gets 11 percent of the state school So change must come from outside,

not from within the establishment. Enter a breed of fiscally responsible, socially liberal Democratic challengers like Rick Kessler, who’s running for the House of Delegates in the Kensington, Wheaton, Garrett Park, Silver Spring district. He’s as liberal as they come: pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, pro-Dream Act, Save the Bay, tax corporations and so on. Plus, Kessler spent 20 years working for Capital Hill liberal lawmakers and his wife is the former director of the League of Conservation Voters.

But Kessler is blowing the whistle on the delegation he hopes to join. “Rick Kessler is tired of Annapolis treating Montgomery County like an ATM, we can do better,” his ads say. He would have voted against the 2012 state pension shift and the income tax hike that came, 40 percent, from MoCo. And he’ll vote against any future budgets that penalize MoCo. Another whistleblower is County Executive candidate Phil Andrews, a fellow good-governent, social liberal courageous enough to take on the public employee unions and MoCo’s dysfunctional statehouse delegation.

The political establishment is closing ranks against agitators like Kessler and Andrews because the incumbents don’t want to be accountable for the county’s looming fiscal crisis. It’s their futures, not the county’s that most concerns them.

So, once again, the county’s fate is in the hands of its voters. Are they paying attention? Do they understand that nothing is going to change until the establishment starts losing elections?

Blair Lee is chairman of the board of Lee Development Group in Silver Spring and a regular commentator for WBAL radio. His past columns are available at www.gazette.net/blairlee. His email address is blairleeiv@gmail.com.

LETTERS TOT HE EDITOR

Speaking of voting ... early voting starts Thursday.

Judging solely by the sheer tonnage of candidates, voters are facing a hefty election, and early voting offers citizens a chance to cast ballots at their convenience.

The Early Voting Centers will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. until June 19. Primary election day is June 24.

According to the county, any registered voter may cast a ballot at any one of these sites on the same voting equipment used on Election Day. The early voting centers are: • Activity Center at Bohrer Park, 506 S. Frederick Ave., Gaithersburg • Damascus Community Recreation Center, 25520 Oak Drive, Damascus • Executive Office Building, 101 Monroe St., Rockville • Germantown Recreation Center, 18905 Kingsview Road, Germantown • Jane E. Lawton Community Recreation Center, 4301 Willow Lane, Chevy Chase • Marilyn J. Praisner Community Recreation Center, 14906 Old Columbia Pike, Burtonsville • Mid-County Community Recreation Center, 2004 Queensguard Road, Silver Spring • Silver Spring Civic Building, One Veteran’s Plaza, Silver Spring • Wheaton Community Recreation Center, 11711 Georgia Ave., Wheaton

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Supporting Evan Glass I am writing in support of Evan Glass in the June 24 Democratic Primary for District 5 Councilmember.

Evan is a no-nonsense, responsive community activist who has been working hard on our behalf for years and has made a difference in our community.

Evan is progressive and understands

the need to support small businesses and bring jobs to District 5.

Evan understands the need for the 11 high-poverty high schools identified in the County Council OLO Report (many of which are in District 5) to have the financial and human resources they need to help close the achievement gap.

Salley Shannon, Derwood

Tom Moore was the only District 3 County Council candidate to testify in support of Councilman Phil Andrews’ innovative bill on public campaign financing.

“Keeping corrupting money out of politics is why I led the fight on the Rockville City Council to ensure that elected officials follow the highest standards when disclosing financial interests,” he said.

In his conclusion, Moore told the

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Supporting Tom Moore

Vanilla Andrews Your endorsement of Phil Andrews for County Executive [“Andrews for county executive,” May 28] does not serve the citizens of Montgomery County. Mr. Andrews has had 16 years on the Council to reach out to any of our active and growing communities — Chinese, Indian, Hispanic, Ethiopian, African — who together now constitute a majority in our county. Yet he’s been missing in action, staying just in his comfort zone. A leader who’s only at ease with plain vanilla, when we have an all-spice county? Bite your tongue!

Evan is a man of integrity and a doer who will work collaboratively to solve identified problems not just give lip service. It will not be politics as usual with him. He has earned our votes and this opportunity to serve the people of District 5.

Anna Joyce, Creative Director, Special Pubs/Internet Ellen Pankake, Director of Creative Services Leah Arnold, Information Technology Manager David Varndell, Digital Media Manager

council, “This bill will allow those with deep roots but shallow pockets to compete effectively. ... This bill will allow those with the best ideas, and not the best Rolodexes, to guide Montgomery County into the future.”

Such practical idealism is one reason I support Tom Moore in this important election for County Council.

Ellen Ryan, Rockville

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Complete the M-83 study Opponents of the MidCounty Highway (M-83) project are trying to politicize and terminate the Midcounty Corridor Study, which after 12 years is finally nearing completion. This is wrong. The upcounty residents deserve the opportunity to see which alternative emerges as the best option that will meet their transportation needs.

The unbuilt section of the Mid-County Highway is now being debated to run between Montgomery Village Avenue and Ridge Road. This would be a four-lane, median-divided roadway that has been part of county master plans for over 50 years and it’s southern end include a short connection tying MidCounty Highway to the ICC, designed to relieve local/regional congestion and connect residents in Damascus, Clarksburg, Germantown, Montgomery Village, Gaithersburg and Shady Grove to jobs up and down the corridor, and to the Shady Grove Metro Station, White Oak, University Of Maryland, BWI Airport, etc. — without forcing people onto MD 355 or I-270.

Think of M-83 as the “Great Seneca Highway” of the eastern side I-270. Without it and regardless of additional transit services, traffic in this part of our

county goes from bad to horrific, and that’s not in dispute.

After comprehensive reviews, completion of M-83 as it appears in local master plans was recently supported by the Montgomery County Planning Board, the City of Gaithersburg, and the Upcounty Citizens Advisory Board. Completion of M-83 is also supported by thousands of residents who purchased homes in the expectation that their master-planned communities will have access to the planned transportation system.

This is the only realistic option for many upcounty residents to get where they need to go: local schools, stores, regional jobs, or mass-transit.

We encourage all upcounty residents to learn about the planned Mid-County Highway and other major Upcounty transportation projects, and support the online petition for M-83 Alternative 9A at www.Coalition4U.org

Charles Tilford, President, Greater Goshen Civic Association, Barry Fantle, President, Clarksburg Civic Association, Cherian Eapen, Coalition for Upcounty

Supporting Brian Frosh I was pleased to read your editorial supporting Brian Frosh’s candidacy for Attorney General in the Democratic primary. Since your most recent issue went to press, Gov. O’Malley has added his endorsement to yours and the Washington Post’s.

I have followed Brian Frosh’s public service from the time he first entered the legislature representing the district in which I have lived for the last 17 years. He has consistently provided intelligent, informed and ethical leadership in bringing into being much of the legisla-

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His knowledge is broad and his legal skills are well honed.

But we voters must do more than nod our heads in agreement. In this election in which turnout is projected to be low, voters must take advantage of all the opportunities provided to make voting convenient and vote. The right to vote is precious. Exercise it, and be sure to vote for Brian Frosh for Attorney General.

David S. Davidson, Bethesda

Not supporting Cheryl Kagan Regarding Cheryl Kagan’s campaign for state senator.

When the Washington Council of Governments held public hearings on the sale/privatization of the WSSC (late 1990’s), I asked Ms. Kagan’s staff for the minutes of the meetings I had attended, I never got the requested information, but did have one of her staff leave me a voice mail, telling me to call her IMMEDIATELY. I did, and was told that I would not get the assistance I requested.

I recall reading of Ms. Kagan being a part of a play parodying medical patients who smoked marijuana, and I complained to her staff. At

that time my sister was terminally ill, and I objected to making light of anyone in that situation. One of her staff, told me that Ms. Kagan was only kidding.

Ms. Kagans office, once responded to a letter I sent to her, telling me that “she had never heard of anything so mean spirited” (not a thank you for your comment etc).

In contrast, I once met with Del. Simmons at his office, and his staff is to be commended for their professional and friendly manner.

I feel Ms. Kagan would be a very poor choice to hold elected office in this state or any other

Bob Brewer, Gaithersburg

Services to children need financial boost Many of your readers are unfamiliar with the array of free services in the county available to parents of young children, to help them with these very important years of growth and change. The most important number in this constellation is for Child Link, at (240) 777-4769. This county government initiative offers a live expert to listen to each particular parenting concern and help find the best way to meet it.

Unfortunately some of these services for young children are not up to par, because the county and state governments still do not adequately fund them at the level of quality the young children need and deserve to be able to succeed in life and in school. State child

care subsidies are the worstfunded of these services, but most of the other services have suffered because of unrestored cuts made during the recent recession.

Now is the time that candidates for political office are beginning to contemplate next fiscal year’s government and Montgomery County Public Schools budgets. I hope that they will step up to the plate with the additional resources we need to help Montgomery County’s youngest citizens thrive. The young children are going to be of working age when we are old and needing their help, so now is the time to build their capacity to help us when we need it.

John Surr, Bethesda

When you vote, remember the farms Montgomery County once was one of the most beautiful counties in the country. To take a ride from the district line up to Sugarloaf Mountain was an enjoyable, picturesque, even exciting, experience. As you’d enter each town, distinct in its own charm and uniqueness, it was like visiting an old friend.

The county then gracefully transitioned to beautiful farms approaching Derwood, and on into Gaithersburg, a great agricultural country town. From there north, you’d drive through such beautiful farmland that to know it, brings tears to your eyes today.

This was not 100 years ago.

I’m talking as recent as 1990 — when far superior decisions should have been made on behalf of Montgomery County.

Do you like the way your towns now look and function?

Silver Spring, Rockville, Olney, Derwood, Gaithersburg, covered in incalculable tonnage of concrete, paved over, gone. Do you like living in a surveillancecamera police state; government implying you’re a criminal who must be watched? That’s Montgomery County today.

Politicians, worshipping their god of developers, have ruined fully half of our oncebeautiful county.

Voters, remember this as politicians now slither around you flicking their tongues, making hollow promises for your most-precious vote.

Remember, too, Montgomery County men, women and children forced out of their homes by these same politicians hell-bent on forcing the barelyused Intercounty Connector.

Voters must insist that county government legislate that needed population control, increased acreage zoning, and farmland preservation are not mutually exclusive of each other.

Montgomery County doesn’t have a fiduciary duty to destroy itself to provide housing to millions of people. That isn’t in any county or state charter.

Yet, this is exactly what developers have gotten politicians to tell you.

Take your sorrow over the loss of our once-beautiful county into the voting booth.

Research voting records. Consider voting only for politicians who fought against the ICC. At least that way you’ll have some indication that they do have a beating heart, a sense of right and wrong, and serve something other than the god of money.

Tess Foley Kochowicz, Derwood

WRITE TO US The Gazette welcomes letters on subjects of local interest.

Please limit them to 200 words. All articles are subject to editing. No anonymous letters are printed. Letters are printed as space permits. Include your name, address and daytime telephone number. Send submissions to: The Gazette, attention Commentary Editor, 9030 Comprint Court, Gaithersburg, MD 20877; fax to 301-670-7183; or email to opinions@gazette.net.

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Connor Macalla (front) and teammate Brady Acker of the Gaithersburg Giants take practice swings as they wait to bat.

Four Giants pitchers combine to shut out Silver SpringTakoma

BY TED BLACK STAFF WRITER

In the official season opener for both teams in the Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League, the Gaithersburg Giants produced single runs in three innings while a quartet of pitchers combined on a shutout in a 3-0 victory against the Silver SpringTakoma Thunderbolts Wednesday at Kelley Park.

Gaithersburg (1-0) hurler Jesse Frawley, a rising senior at Central Connecticut State University and Silver Spring starter Brandon Holsworth, a rising senior at Gallaudet University, were in a scoreless duel through three innings. But the Giants finally pushed a run across in the fourth and one more in each of the sixth and seventh innings to vault Frawley to the victory.

“It was good just to be back out

there pitching,” said Frawley, who has been nursing minor elbow soreness for the past month. “If I had been pitching more recently, I think I could have gone two more innings. But it was my first game back in a month and I just wanted to get some work in. My sinker was working well today, that’s how I was able to get so many groundouts.”

Frawley tossed five scoreless innings to get the win on Wednesday, while recent Riverdale Baptist graduate Taylor Bloom, a University of Maryland recruit, tossed two scoreless innings then Kyle Colgain and Kyle Hamby each tossed one shutout inning.

Hamby, a rising senior at Salisbury University, fanned all three batters he faced in the ninth to get the save.

“Jesse went out there and gave us five really good innings,” Gaithersburg coach Jeff Rabberman said. “He did a nice job keeping the ball down in the zone. Taylor was good for two innings and then [Colgain and Hamby} came

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BY TED BLACK STAFF WRITER

Like most of the teams competing in the Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League, the Gaithersburg Giants’ roster is comprised of players from several states. Coach Jeff Rabberman always enjoys watching the “melting pot” form a cohesive group.

In fact, last week’s exhibition games for the Giants and subsequent season opener against the cross-county rival Silver Spring-Takoma Thunderbolts, gave Rabberman and his players ample opportunity to begin the blending process. Granted, the Giants’ 3-0 win over the

T-Bolts was a more enjoyable lesson than their 15-1 setback against the Bethesda Big Train in a preseason scrimmage, but both are part of the process.

“I really enjoy having all of these college kids come together and play together from all over the country,” Rabberman said. “It gives everyone a good sense of what people are like from different parts of the country. They all come here with the same goal in mind — they want to keep playing and keep getting better. It’s enjoyable for me and for the host families and for the local players.”

The Giants’ roster consists of players from six different states, with most of them (16) being Maryland residents. This summer the Giants also have six players from Texas, three from New York, two from Connecticut, one from New Jersey and one from California. Not

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Activists hope all schools will follow to reduce concussion risks BY

ERIC GOLDWEIN STAFF WRITER

Last month, The Shipley School in Pennsylvania instituted a “no heading” policy that prohibits middle school players (sixth through eighth grade) from heading full-size balls during practices and discourages them from heading in games.

Though Shipley’s stance is a unique one, the Bryn Mawr private school may soon be followed by other schools and youth teams across the country, according to Chris Nowinski, a concussion activist and co-director of Boston University’s Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy.

“It’s a very simple way to dramatically decrease the risk of concussions

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Damascus High School’s Annika Leiby gets up for a header during the first half of the girls’ state soccer semifinals against River Hill at CCBC-Essex last year.

for young athletes when their brains are most vulnerable,” said Nowinski, who helped Shipley develop its new policy.

Research has shown that youth soccer players — girls, more than boys

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ERIC GOLDWEIN STAFF WRITER

As a senior, Northwest High School’s Samer Manna was a key component of a defense that helped the Jaguars win the 2013 Class 4A football state championship.

But as good as he was at linebacker, that’s not what made him stand out during tryouts for the 57th Big 33 Football Classic. Instead, it was his versatility — specifically, his long snapping — that set him apart from the other recent high

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school graduates and earned him a spot on Team Maryland, he said.

“Honestly, I was really surprised because nothing has really happened like this,” said Manna, a second team All-Gazette linebacker.

A Wesley College recruit, Manna is one of nine Montgomery County athletes in the all-star game between Maryland and Pennsylvania, scheduled for 7:06 p.m. Saturday at Hersheypark Stadium in Pennsylvania.

“I’ve talked to a lot of the alumni [who] actually played in that game.

They’re telling me to go up there and take it all in because it’s a once in a lifetime chance,” said Manna, who will be joined by Northwest teammates Josh

Gills (Duquesne) and Rasheed Gillis (Shepherd).

Maryland returned to the Big 33 Football Classic last June after a 21-year hiatus, giving up the first 28 points and losing 58-27. Pennsylvania holds a 7-2 advantage in the series, but Maryland players said they are expecting a different result this time.

“We got a lot of talent, we got a lot more packages than we had last year,” said Seneca Valley defensive end Daniel Appouh, an Old Dominion recruit.

“We’ll have a head start and it should be a closer game.”

Other Montgomery County athletes

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Northwest High School’s Rasheed Gillis (left), Caleb Gills (back) and Samer Manna (right) tackle Gaithersburg’s Max Anderson during a Sept.

28, 2013 game in Rockville.

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Continued from Page B-1 and did their job. Kyle [Hamby] was our closer last year and he’s going to be our closer again this year. He went out and attacked the hitters.”

Gaithersburg looked poised for a big inning in the fourth, but Holsworth nearly escaped un-

BASEBALL

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harmed. After the first two batters reached, Holsworth enticed Ryan Thomas to ground into a double play. But with two outs and Brady Pollicelli on third, Brady Acker, a recent Atholton High graduate and George Mason University recruit, smacked a double to left center to break the deadlock.

“I didn’t want to leave my teammate stranded at third,” Acker said. “I wanted to be ag-

gressive and I was looking for something good to hit early in the count.”

Acker would contribute to the Giants’ second run two innings later. With one out, Thomas beat out an infield single then Acker followed with a single to right.

Connor Mascalla, a rising sophomore at the University of TexasAustin, followed with a single to right center that scored Thomas

to give the Giants a 2-0 lead.

One inning later the Giants added an insurance run off reliever Nick Moylan, a Silver Spring native and rising sophomore at the University of Delaware. With one out, Derek Jenkins, a rising junior at Seton Hall University, beat out an infield single then stole second and Pollicelli followed with a single to left that scored Jenkins for the

game’s final run.

“Right now it’s all about making the right adjustments,” said Silver Spring-Takoma coach Doug Remer, a Springbrook High teacher who spent the spring as a roving assistant coach for the Bowie Baysox. “They made a few more plays than we did today and that was the difference. But it’s just one game and we played one of the best teams in this league, so

getting beat 3-0 is not a bad outcome.”

Silver Spring-Takoma left fielder Tyler Coleman, a 2013 Richard Montgomery graduate and rising sophomore at Montgomery College-Germantown, made the game’s best defensive play when he robbed Mason Hesse of certain extra bases by making a running catch on the warning track in left field.

play with guys from across the country,” said Brady Acker, a recent Atholton High graduate who is heading to George Mason University this fall. “It gives you a chance to see how the game is played in other parts of the country. It seems like a great group of guys. We’re all here to learn and to compete and get better.”

The Giants’ opening day starter and winner, Jesse Frawley, a rising senior at Central Connecticut State and longtime Connecticut resident, said he is eager for the chance to spend another summer with the team and its myriad of players from across the land.

“It not only gives you a chance to play with a lot of really

good players, but it gives you a chance to learn about players from other states,” Frawley said.

“It’s fun learning about how players do things differently in other states. But it’s always a good way to spend the summer.

You meet a lot of guys that have the same goals as you do.”

Likewise, the T-Bolts’ opening day roster consists of play-

ers from 10 different states and Rabberman said he appreciates what their second-year coach, Doug Remer, is learning about the players on his squad.

“We really don’t get to go out and actually recruit guys, we get them assigned by college coaches,” Rabberman said.

“But they wouldn’t keep sending them to us if they didn’t en-

joy the experience. It’s always fun molding the team into one group. You coach your high school kids for four years and then you get a bunch of college guys together from all over the country. It’s a great learning experience, for me and for them.”

cer players (ages 11 to 14), about 30 percent of soccer concussions come from header attempts.

The “no heading” policy would not only reduces collisions, but it would also lessen exposure to sub-concussive impacts caused by heading the ball; research has linked repetitive head trauma with Chronic Trau-

matic Encephalopathy (CTE), a progressive degenerative disease of the brain.

“It’s a fine line to know what’s appropriate and what’s not,” Nowinski said. “But in this case, specifically for soccer and the header issue, there’s a lot of folks starting to think about getting rid of it altogether.”

Montgomery County Public Schools adopts standards from the National Federation of High Schools and the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association, neither of which recommend a “no heading” policy, according to William “Duke” Beattie, the school system’s director of systemwide athletics. MCPS

has taken other steps in preventing and managing concussions; for instance, for the first time last summer, student-athletes were required to undergo baseline concussion testing.

“I have confidence that the rules that we follow are the safest available,” Beattie wrote in an email to The Gazette. “And

when enough evidence supports that there is a ‘safer’ way of doing something, then the aforementioned bodies institute change, and in turn we do as well.”

Shipley worked with various medical experts, including Robert Cantu, a neurosurgeon and concussion expert at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, before finalizing its policy. Though headers are banned in practice, the middle school athletes will be able to use lighter balls toworkontheirheadertechnique.

Shipley Athletic Director Mark Duncan said the school intends to equip its athletes with a training tool that monitors head impact called Triax. “[The “no heading” policy] was based on research and evidence, and the feedback came from the experts,” Duncan said. “… We’re going to be keeping track of this stuff. We’re trying to stay ahead of the technology, and what’s going on for the safety of the kids.”

Bethesda-Chevy Chase and Westland Middle School coach Rob Kurtz said that headers are a very minor part of the girls’ game, particularly for teams like his that play a technical game. “[We spend] .2 percent of our practices on headers,” Kurtz said. “The reality in girls’ soccer is, most girls don’t head the ball.”

Regarding the “no heading” policy, he said, “As everything is, you got to take things in stride and try to make sure it makes sense.”

Our Lady of Good Counsel girls’ coach Jim Bruno, a longtime director of the Montgomery Soccer Academy, said that headers have always been excluded from his U12 girls’ camp curriculum, adding that today there’s more awareness regarding brain injuries than there was a decade ago.

“This doesn’t surprise me,” Bruno said. “The amount of concussions is [increasing] even at a younger age. I can see things being changed in the future.”

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Continued from Page B-1 include Gaithersburg running back Solomon Vault (Northwestern), Gaithersburg defensive end Avery Taylor (Merrimack), Damascus linebacker Stephon Jacob (Richmond), Paint Branch wide receiver Javonn Curry (James Madison) and Quince Orchard running back Kevin Joppy (Shepherd).

“We have a lot of speed in the backfield and with our wide receivers, our defensive linemen are big, our defense is looking nice. I think we have a good shot,” Joppy said.

Gaithersburg coach Kreg Kephart, a Montgomery County Committee chair for Team Maryland, said the Big 33 Classic isn’t as prestigious as other all-star games, such as the Under Armour All-AmericanGame,theMaryland Crab Bowl and the Chesapeake Bowl. This year, though, he said there is growing interest among local players and coaches.

“I see it as a chance for Maryland High School football to show everybody else on the region the quality of the football we have,” Kephart said.

The athletes traveled to Hershey Sunday and are staying with host families for the remainder of the week. The event also includes a service element, where participants are paired with special needs children as part of the Buddy program.

“I just want to get in the game and help the team win,” Manna said. “I’ve heard we haven’t won in a while. I just want to contribute to the win.”

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TENNIS

Girls’ First Team Singles

PLAYER OF YEAR

Miranda Deng

Wootton Freshman

Kamilla w

Lilly Lynham

Ines Vias

Steady ground game led to region title, reached county and state finals.

Finished 13-1 to help lead the Panthers to the ISL championship.

Her only loss was first match coming off monthlong injury.

Walt Whitman Senior

Powerful southpaw won county No. 1 and state singles titles; led Patriots to county title.

COACH OF YEAR

Holton-Arms Junior

Lee Ingham

Good Counsel

Bullis Junior

Falcons moved from seventh to third in WCAC, only second time they finished that high in a decade.

Boys’ First Team Singles

PLAYER OF YEAR

Aries Wong

Walt Whitman Senior

Titas Bera

Kasey Countee

Dennis Wang

Adam Atwell

Reached county, region and state final matches.

East Carolina University recruit completed undefeated season.

Undefeated regular season included win over Wong.

Led Bears to sole possession of IAC title for first time in more than a decade.

Wootton Senior

Naval Academy recruit swept championship season with county, region and state titles.

Girls’ First Team Doubles

Kelly Chen

Wootton Junior

Katharine Kim Wootton Junior

No. 1 doubles county champion lost just one set all year.

Stephanie Grodecki

Good Counsel Junior

Megan Keller

Good Counsel Freshman

Won No. 1 doubles gold at WCAC tournament as third seed.

COACH OF YEAR

Bullis Senior

Poolesville Junior

Landon

Boys’ First Team Doubles

Karsyn Lawler

Holton-Arms Junior

Elise Lovett

Holton-Arms Sophomore

Only lost once in team’s ISL title run.

Tyler Jacobson

Walt Whitman Junior

Nathaniel Sherman

Walt Whitman Senior

Claimed No. 1 doubles county title and was undefeated.

Joseph Deng

Wootton Junior

Jason Liao

Wootton Senior

Second only to Whitman’s No. 1 doubles in county.

Joey Gumataotao

Walt Whitman Senior

Simon Amat

Walt Whitman Senior

No. 2 doubles county win was important for team title.

Second Team is online at Gazette.net

KEEPING IT BRIEF Four Gaithersburg players selected All-District Gaithersburg High School senior pitcher Nick DeCarlo, junior catcher Trey Martinez, sophomore pitcher Anthony Felitti and second baseman Nick Pantos were all recently selected to the Maryland State Association of Baseball Coaches 2014 All-State District 2 Baseball Team. DeCarlo was the All-Gazette Montgomery County player of the year in 2013 as a junior for the Trojans.

— TED BLACK

Two county baseball players drafted Olney native, St. John’s College High School graduate and current University of Virginia junior pitcher Nick Howard was selected in the

second round of the Major League Baseball amatuer draft and 45th overall by the Chicago Cubs. Howard, who was 2-1 this season with a 2.15 earned run average and 11-5 in his career with a 2.92 era, is currently competing in the NCAA Super Regional Tournament against the University of Maryland. His father, Dale Howard, played baseball for Canisius College.

Rockville native Garrett Pearson, a recent St. John’s graduate and rising freshman at Virginia Commonwealth University, was chosen by the Baltimore Orioles in the 34th round and 1,021st overall. Pearson, who is playing this summer for the Silver Spring-Takoma Thunderbolts in the Cal Ripken Collegiate baseball league, was an All-WCAC honorable mention selection in 2014. He was 7-2 with 99 strikeouts and a 2.43 ERA in 72 innings for the Cadets during his career.

— TED BLACK

County boys’ lacrosse players recognized The Montgomery County Lacrosse Coaches’ Association (MCLCA) announced its AllCounty first and second teams last month, featuring 30 players representing 11 Montgomery County public schools.

The following athletes were selected for the first team.

Louis Dubick, Winston Churchill; Austin Schoenfeld, Thomas S. Wootton; Jake Christensen, Quince Orchard; Jordan Cooper, Walter Johnson; Matt Moshyedi, Churchill; Myles Romm, Wootton; Michael Crooks, Sherwood; Max Vanegas, Walter Johnson; Tatah Ndeh, Springbrook; Ben Vayer, Rockville; Cole Abid, Wootton; Joey Salisbury, Damascus; Chase Keller, Walter Johnson; Sam Hartzoge, Sherwood;

Patrick Cornelius, Wootton.

For the second team and AllDivision teams, visit www.montgomerymdboyslacrosse.org.

— ERIC GOLDWEIN

Northwest grad earns Team USA spot Northwest High School graduate Bianca Dalal was recently selected to USA Rugby’s sevens team. The recent Penn State University graduate flew out to the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif. on Sunday to train with the team for the 2016 Olym-

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pics in Brazil.

She began playing rugby midway through her freshman year at Penn State and went on to be a key member of the three-time defending national championship program.

“It is a dream come true,” Dalal said.

— KENT ZAKOUR

Silver Spring native plays soccer in France After a tremendous freshman season with the Harvard University women’s soccer team during

which 2013 Our Lady of Good Counsel High School graduate and Silver Spring native Midge Purce became the first rookie to be named Ivy League Player of the Year in league history — she was also named Rookie of the Year — the Falcons’ all-time leading scorer with career 101 goals headed to France last week with the U.S. U-20 Women’s National Team.

Purce, who led Harvard and the Ivy League with 11 goals, was one of six forwards named to coach Michelle French’s 20-person squad that will play two international matches.

— JENNIFER BEEKMAN

MOVIES

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NOW SHOWING

Looking for a way to beat the heat? Summer blockbusters “Maleficent” and “Edge of Tomorrow” are in theaters now.

The Gazette’s Guide to

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Springtime for ‘The Producers’

BY WILL C. FRANKLIN STAFF WRITER

For more than 60 years, professional funnyman Mel Brooks has provided the world with wit, wisdom and a look into the future. He’s also provided jokes about flatulence, racism, and hedonism.

Nothing has ever really been off limits for the talented movie-

Director Kristofer Kauff said his homage to Brooks focuses more on his movie and less on the Broadway production.

“When I think of ‘The Producers,’ the Broadway version that I saw, I don’t want to direct that version,” Kauff said. “…

When I go back to the 1968 Mel Brooks movie, that’s something I’m interested in. I’m interested in characters and the comedy and relationships and why ‘The Producers’ is funny, not just a big spectacle of it.”

Kauff said molding the show

around the movie version lends itself well to the small space they’re working in at the Arts Barn.

“You really can’t do those big musical numbers without the audience feeling overwhelmed,” Kauff said. “… I think the audience is really going to feel that intimacy with the characters that they wouldn’t feel in the original Broadway version.”

Matt Kopp has double his workload for this show. He

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Event celebrating its 10th year

CLAUDIA ROUSSEAU ON VIEW

Once again, the Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District has sponsored the Bethesda Painting Awards competition and exhibit of finalists at the Gallery B. The event, now in its 10th year, features four cash prizes totaling $14,000 donated by Carol Trawick, a community activist and supporter of the arts in the

region for more than 25 years. Mrs. Trawick’s generosity supports contemporary visual artists, but her inclination toward painting led her to establish this competition in addition to the Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards that is also an annual event with similar prize monies.

From a submission pool of nearly 300, the jurors selected Kyle Hackett for first place, a prize of $10,000. At 24 years old, Hackett is the youngest winner of the top prize. The artist is represented in the exhibit with a large (80” x 47”)

oil on panel, “Approbation Portrait,” that realistically portrays him in a suit looking down at the viewer with something of a sneer.

The figure is painted in grayscale, like a black and white photograph, with only the wooden floor painted in color. This eliminates the artist’s skin color, if not his features as an African-American. There’s a deep irony here, which informs the work with a narrative about racial and personal identities. In his short presentation, Hackett mentioned

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Silver Spring writer’s life focuses on literature

Rachel Zampelli as Lucy the Slut and Stephen Gregory Smith as Trekkie Monster in Olney Theatre Center’s “Avenue Q.”

maker, who has directed films such as “Blazing Saddles,” “History of the World, Part 1,” and “Young Frankenstein.”

“The Producers,” Brooks’ little film about two guys who try to swindle money from investors by producing a huge Broadway bomb, turned out to be a major musical hit on Broadway starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick.

Sandy Spring Theatre Group will present the area premiere of “The Producers” starting Friday at the Arts Barn in Gaithersburg.

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Puppets get personal when Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx and Jeff Whitty’s uproarious, adults only “Avenue Q” opens tonight at the Olney Theatre Center.

Featuring Tony Award-winning tunes such as “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist,” and “The Internet Is For Porn,” the felt and funny-business phenomenon became one of the longest-running Broadway shows by satirizing the best of children’s television. Directed by Jason Loewith, with music direction by Christopher Youstra, “Avenue Q” continues to July 6 and is recommended for audiences 16 and older, with parental advisement due to language and themes. For show times and information, visit olneytheatre.org.

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Summertime and the livin’ is easy for many a school system professional. Not so for veteran Prince George’s County Public Schools media specialist Eve Ottenberg.

Instead of lazing around the pool and regrouping, the 61-year-old Silver Spring resident chooses to devote many of her vacation hours to writing fiction.

“Two months is a good chunk of time to get started on a novel,” she said. “I maintain as regular a schedule as I can, getting to work early

(C) LIFETOUCH INC

Silver Spring Author Eve Ottenberg.

in the morning and going till evening.”

The method seems to work well for Ottenberg, who

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BY SAMANTHA SCHMIEDER SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE

Anthony Anastasi, 78, of Rockville honored his friend in the best way any author ever could; by writing a book for him.

“The Last Personal Letter: Pranks for the Memories” was released in April and is Anastasi’s first book. It stands as a tribute to his good friend John Stoneburner, who passed away and is dedicated to Stoneburner’s family and uncle, featuring many pictures of the boys growing up.

“Well my friend who died of diabetes, probably about 10 years ago, asked me to write

something about our lives and I didn’t,” Anastasi said. “Then I finally got around to it.”

Though it took him a while to start the book, Anastasi looks at it with a “better late than never” mentality hoping that it would have made his friend happy.

Anastasi and Stoneburner knew each other since they were children growing up in Silver Spring.

“We grew up together, right across the street from each other. We played sports together, we went on double dates together, I blame him for my first marriage,” he said with a laugh.

The author explained that one day Stoneburner had a date, but he had a bit too much to drink that day so he called Anastasi up and asked

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Kyle Hackett’s “Unmanned” shows the artist’s technical precision and surrealist feeling. His work often explores themes of identity and self-worth.

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Blues, brother Harmonica master Curtis Salgado will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday at the Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club, sharing songs from his Alligator debut, “Soul Shot.” Salgado was awarded the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Award, as well as being named the Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year for the second consecutive year during the 2013 Blues Music Awards. “Soul Shot” was awarded Soul Blues Album of the Year. Salgado has toured as a vocalist for Santana and The Robert Cray Band. Tickets are $15. For more information, visit bethesdabluesjazz.com.

Dorothy sings to her friends of her home in Kansas in The Puppet Co.’s “The Wizard of Oz.”

Singer-songwriter Curtis Salgado will perform on Wednesday, June 18 at the Bethesda Blues & Jazz Club.

THE PUPPET CO.

Off to see ‘The Wizard’

Follow the yellow brick road to Glen Echo Park this Friday, where talented puppeteers will bring L. Frank Baum’s immortal classic “The Wizard of Oz” to life at The Puppet Co. playhouse. Featuring additional original dialogue not seen in the film, with a slightly scaled-back and less frightening version of the Wicked Witch, the 45-minute production is tailor-made for children in grades PreK through 6. Show times are 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Thursdays and Fridays, and 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. For more information, visit thepuppetco.org.

Meeting Matsuev Acclaimed pianist Denis Matsuev will perform works

by Haydn, Schumann, Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda.

Matsuev, who was a featured performer during the closing ceremony for the 2014 Sochi Olympics, was originally scheduled to perform a recital at Strathmore in January, but had STRATHMORE to cancel due to illness. He Acclaimed pianist Denis Matsuev will perform Tuesday at the Music returns to North America Center at Strathmore. following a successful tour as a soloist with the Mariinsky Orchestra in the fall of 2013, as well as being named a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in April 2014. For information, visit strathmore.org.

CURTIS SALGADO

‘Garden’ variety “The Life of the Garden,” mixed media works by Lisa Rosinni Johnson, is now on view to July 27 at the Sandy Spring Museum in Sandy Spring. Johnson, who received her first camera at the age of 12, uses photography to LISA JOHNSON explore questions Lisa Johnson’s “Aquatic Wonderland,” from her current exhibit, “The Life of the such as “What is a Garden” at the Sandy Spring Museum. garden?” “What, and even who thrives there?” Also a painter, many of her works resemble watercolors, as the artist utilizes various forms of media in her non-traditional creations. Many of her pieces feature fairies, portrayed by members of the Washington Ballet, as well as local dancers from the Sandy Spring-based Studio of Ballet Arts. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. For more information, visit sandyspringmuseum. org.

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AT THE MOVIES

Now showing

Angelina Jolie as “Maleficent,” which, in its second weekend at the box office, managed to outperform the debut of Tom Cruise’s “Edge of Tomorrow” with $33.5 million.

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Emily Blunt stars as Rita in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Village Roadshow Pictures’ sci-fi thriller “Edge of Tomorrow,” which, despite its star-power, opened in third place over the weekend with $29.1 million.

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Elle Fanning stars as Aurora in Disney’s “Maleficent.”

Tom Cruise (center) as Cage in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Village Roadshow Pictures’ sci-fi thriller “Edge of Tomorrow,” distributed worldwide

by Warner Bros. Pictures and in select territories by Village Roadshow Pictures.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT DANCES Hollywood Ballroom, June 11, “step of the evening” Samba mini-lesson at 8:15 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8:30 p.m. ($16); June 12, 19, Tea Dance from 12:303:30 p.m. ($6); June 13, drop-in lessons from 7:30-9 p.m., West Coast Swing Dancing with Dance Jam Productions at 9 p.m. ($15); June 14, Tango lesson at 8 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 9 p.m.; June 15, free Quickstep lesson at 7 p.m.,

Social Ballroom Dance at 8 p.m.; June 18, “step of the evening” Tango mini-lesson at 8:15 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8:30 p.m. ($16), 2126 Industrial Highway, Silver Spring, 301-326-1181, 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, June 13, Woody Lane and the Glen Echo Open Band, 7:30 p.m. lesson, 8:30 p.m. dance, Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $10, www.fridaynightdance.org.

Contra & Square, June 15, George Marshall with Maivish; June 22, Evo Bluestein with New Hip Trio; June 29, Bob Isaacs with Last Exit, 7:30 p.m., Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $12 for general, $9 for members, $5 for students, www.fsgw.org.

English Country, June 11, Caller: Tom Spilsbury; June 18, Caller: Bob Farrell; June 25; Special Newcomers Evening led by caller Susan Taylor 8 p.m., Glen Echo Town Hall (upstairs), www.fsgw.

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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, Billy Thompson Band with

Ron Holloway, Silver Spring Blues Festival Event, 7:30 p.m. June 11; Desean Jackson: Comedy Show for an Anti-Bullying Cause, 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. June 12; Father’s Day Brunch with Karen Gray, 10 a.m.

June 15; The Nowhere Men, 7:30 p.m. June 16; Curtis Salgado with Opening Act, Andy Poxon Band, 7:30 p.m. June 18; Bria Skonberg, 8 p.m. June 19, call for prices, 7719

Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. 240330-4500, 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, Meshuggah - 25 Years of Musical Deviance with Between the Buried and Me, 8 p.m. June 17, 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. www.fillmoresilverspring.com.

Strathmore, Afternoon Tea, 1 p.m. June 11, 14; Historic Home Tour, 11 a.m. June 13; John Prine, 8 p.m. June 13; BSO: Casablanca - Movie and Music, 8 p.m. June 14, 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.

Olney Theatre Center, “Avenue Q,” June 11 to July 6, call for prices, times, 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney, 301-924-3400, www. olneytheatre.org.

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The Puppet Co., “The Wizard of Oz,” June 13 to July 20; 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, 301-634-5380, www. thepuppetco.org.

Round House Theatre, Bethesda, “Ordinary Days,” 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, 244-6441100, www.roundhousetheatre. org.

Silver Spring Stage, “Good People,” June 27 to July 20, Woodmoor Shopping Center, 10145 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, see website for show times, www. ssstage.org.

The Writer’s Center, Healing Through Writing: Shirley Brewer and Tom Glenn, 2 p.m. June 15; Poem|Poema|Poème|Gedicht: An Evening of Performance Poetry, 7:30 p.m. June 20, 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 Glenview Mansion, Pierre Ruffieux sculpture, “Trolls”, to June 20; Ray Jubela, Photography, to June 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, Light Switch Dance Theatre: Negotiated Space, to June 22, Gibbs Street Gallery; RIPPLE: Cloth, Community and Connectivity, June 13 to Aug. 17, opening reception from 7-9 p.m. June 20; Bobbi Shulman: Pipe Dreams in Black and White, June 13 to July 13, opening reception from 7-9 p.m. June 20, 155 Gibbs St., Rockville, 301-315-8200, www.visartsatrockville.org.

Washington Printmakers Gallery, “A Wonder Filled Life,” Neena

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AUTHOR

Continued from Page B-4 has published a dozen books — 11 novels and a short story collection — since 2004, when her first “Glum and Mighty Pagans,” a comic novel about real estate in Manhattan, came out.

Ottenberg does not restrict herself to a single genre. Four of her books are comedies; three are political, two, murder-dramas, and two, science fictionfantasy.

“The most natural and enjoyable to write were the comedies. I was laughing out loud as I wrote them,” she said. “But now I’m embroiled in this scifi fantasy series, ‘The Human Struggle,’ which owes a lot to, of all people, [John] Milton.”

Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” she noted, “was part of the inspiration for this series as were the novels of Philip K. Dick. Go figure.”

“Realm of Shadows” (2013, 696 pages), the first in “The Human Struggle” series, is about the struggle to survive a war of the worlds, and “Zone of Illu-

PAINTING

Continued from Page B-4 that he had a group of photographs which he wanted to recycle, and found that crumpled up they made interesting and arresting compositions. One of the resulting paintings, “Unmanned” is much smaller scale (20” x 16”) but is perhaps even more compelling. Precisely rendered, with a strongly surrealist feeling, the folded and wrinkled paper reveals a face, probably that of the artist, peering out from its dark center. The crumpled photo lays on a set of keys and an envelope, again apparently exploring themes of identity and self-worth. As an already successful emerging artist, who has won other prizes since recently completing his MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Hackett definitely looks like someone to watch.

Nevertheless, to my mind Dan Perkins, another young finalist, is at least as strong a painter, but did not win any of the prizes. A recent graduate of the MFA program at American University, Perkins’ large oil on canvas “X Marks the Spot” (90” x 92”) is a luminous composition with a complex iconography. A fantasy landscape, replete with rays recalling the aurora borealis, opens under a tent-like structure that glistens in perspective. The pictorial space in this work, and its scale lure the viewer into what seems at once like a meditation on the

sion” (2014, 569 pages), the second, is about the effort to avert the collapse of an alternate reality.

Ottenberg’s influences reflect her education; her bachelor’s and master’s degrees are in general studies in the humanities, with a focus on philosophy and literature, from the University of Chicago. As a media specialist, with a second master’s degree in library science from the University of Maryland, she introduces young children to literature.

During her Philadelphia childhood, Ottenberg’s affinity for writing stories and Charles Dickens were evident early.

Both her parents, a musician and a psychoanalyst, she said, “were always very intellectually curious, and this had a big effect on me.”

When she started writing “in earnest” during high school, her attempt at a modernist novel was a “fiasco.” In college, she wrote short stories and more realistic fiction, and favored reading European writers.

Post-college, Ottenberg

Romantic theme of the sublime in nature, or a surrealist dreamscape. Perkins was represented in the show with two other very small works that did not have the same punch as the large one, but they do show that the artist is fascinated by the juxtaposition of architectonic forms and landscape, as well as the natural with the improbable.

Second place was won by Philip Hinge, another young painter whose crudely painted expressionist canvases with disco and pinball iconography have been featured in three issues of the “New American Paintings” publication, and is already represented by an important gallery in Washington, D.C. Ryan Carr Johnson took third place with works that exist in an equivocal status between painting and sculpture. Carr deconstructed an apparently large number of paintings he deemed unsuccessful, and re-used the wood of the stretchers to create the series he calls “Vector-ViceVersa.” Looking something like corrugated cardboard, the wood is glued together to form vshaped reliefs to which the artist applies up to 300 layers of latex paint, sanding each one before applying the next. The result is a mottled but smooth surface that looks something like faux marble in different colors. In his presentation, the artist referred to them as “the blue one, the purple one, the green one,” etc., suggesting, quite rightly, that their repetitive minimalist objecthood is the only thing of in-

Silver Spring author Eve Ottenberg’s “Zone of Illusion.”

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Dan Perkins’ “X Marks the Spot” lures the viewer with its Romantic imagery.

Perkins attempts to reinterpret the sublime in nature with surrealist and symbolist additions. terest about them despite their layered surfaces. Johnson’s is certainly an unusual technique, and the works are provocative in this setting because of their challenge to the definition of a “painting” — something that might be seen to have been answered some time ago with the appearance of shaped canvasses

portrays Carmen Ghia — an assistant to the director — on stage while playing the role of an actual producer off stage.

This is the first time both Kopp and Kauff have worked with the Sandy Spring Theatre Group.

“I’ve produced a number of shows in the past with other theater companies,” Kopp said.

“When I get involved in anything, whether it’s theatrical or otherwise, I like to get involved as much as I possibly can.”

Although it’s been difficult at time getting everything just right for “The Producers” at the Arts Barn, Kopp said working with everyone associated with the show and Sandy Spring Theatre Group has been a great experience.

“Everyone works very, very hard,” Kopp said. “We work as a team to try to solve some problems, like putting a big show like ‘The Producers’ on a smaller stage … which, creatively, is a lot of fun to do.

I love the concept of taking a giant show and trying to scale it down.”

Kauff said he hopes audiences take away a better appreciation for Brooks and his works.

Continued from Page B-4 him to take his place. Like any good friend, he did and ended up marrying the girl sometime later.

The book tells this and many other stories about Anas-

tasi’s time growing up in Maryland. He explained that he had wanted to write the book because he and John had so many “fun experiences together.”

“I would write a little bit and then I would remember something else and go back and add a little more,” Anastasi said.

studies languages — excelling in Spanish, Russian and French, and dipping into four others.

Ottenberg chose to self-publish her books because breaking into commercial publishing was so difficult.

“PublishAmerica, now America Star Books,” she said, “is a step or two up from selfpublishing. True, they use printon-demand technology and they do not put any money into advertising or promotion, but … they do not charge authors to publish them.”

Ottenberg wouldn’t divulge what she is working on now.

“Somehow that saps the creativity,” she explained.

But for the future, she hopes her books will “gain some modest recognition. Ideally they’d do so well that I could retire on them, but I’m not holding my breath for that. There are so many of us novelists out there!”

Eve Ottenberg’s books are available on amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com.

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reviewer, criminal justice reporter. She wrote features about local politics and covered the

Housing Court, which led to a regular column titled “Hard Times,” about the politics of housing in New York City.

Subsequently, Ottenberg wrote book reviews for The New York Times and Vanity Fair, and served as an editor at The Soho News, Standard & Poor’s and The New Jersey Law Journal.

When she and her family — her journalist husband and two of their three children — moved to Maryland in 1990, she worked on the copy desk at Congressional Quarterly.

Ottenberg’s credentials as a journalist gave her credibility as a fiction writer.

“Since I never took creative writing courses, I didn’t have a support system, or people to encourage me. It wasn’t until I was a known journalist that people began responding to my fiction,” she said.

Working as a media specialist and writing fiction in “a very serious way” have complemented each other. She writes in the summer, and edits and rewrites through the school year. In the rare spare time, she

“Vector-Vice-Versa Pu1” is a three-dimensional painted relief by Ryan Carr Johnson, winner of third. The “Pu1” in the title refers to the color purple that dominates this piece in the series.

PRODUCERS

Mara Bayewitz stars as Shirley Markowitz in Mel Brooks’ “The Producers” at the Arts Barn in Gaithersburg this weekend At Right: Bill Spitz plays one of his many characters in the play.

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The title is a reference to letter writing, but also to Anastasi’s proclivity to pulling pranks on anyone and everyone while attending the all-boys Gonzaga College High School and eventually the University of Maryland.

Anastasi majored in English

in the early 1960s.

The Young Artist award, for an emerging artist under 30, was given to Ali Miller, the winner of the top “Best-in-Show” prize in this competition in 2012. Miller is also a narrative painter, with a complex sense of iconography that often seems to border on the surreal. She is also rep“Just the appreciation and brilliance of what was written there,” Kauff said. “His ability to not be [politically correct]. The ability to laugh at things that seem rough… anything that Mel Brooks has touched, nothing is PC. And that’s how I live my life. You can make fun of anything.”

For Kopp, any opportunity to attract a younger audience is great. Teenagers and college students who are used to going to see shows such as “Bye, Bye Birdie,” and “Oklahoma,” with their parents might walk away from “The Producers” realizing how much fun it is to do musical theater. “[I hope they see] it’s fun, it’s edgy, it’s humorous, and that we on stage and everyone associated with Sandy Spring Theatre Group and the Arts Barn is having a good time,” Kopp said. “My hope for this show is to try to get more people involved. Community theater is a wonderful thing. It’s the most time-consuming extracurricular activity you can have, but it’s by far the most rewarding.

“It’s like a never-ending softball league.” wfranklin@gazette.net

at the University of Maryland and went on to become a sports writer covering boxing and everything in between. When the paper he wrote for went out of business he went to work for the government writing speeches and press releases among other things.

Although he said he’s not

resented with one very big (6’ x 8’) panel and two very small accompanying works. Also a graduate of MICA, Miller’s technique is a fascinating combination of smooth representative areas and bold active brushwork that results in a dizzying, hallucinatory effect in the large work (“To Help You See”), but achieves a darker, dreamlike feeling in the more abstract and much smaller “It Can’t All Fit” — a work that recalls the surrealist landscapes of Giorgio di Chirico and Salvador Dalí.

Si Jae Byun is another finalist who deserves mention although she did not win a prize. A native of Korea, Byun earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her works

are a combination of extremely delicate ink drawings and acrylic colors on cut silk. The flowing graphic of these paintings, with long looping strokes of the pen, combine with the colors to suggest plant forms or even landscapes that allude to the traditions of Asian art while remaining abstract compositions.

Bethesda Painting Awards, to June 28, Gallery B, 7700 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. Gallery hours are noon to 6 p.m.

Wednesday through Saturday; opening reception from 6-9 p.m.

Friday, June 13. For more information, call 301-215-6660.

THE PRODUCERS n When: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, June 13-29 n Where: Gaithersburg Arts Barn, 311 Kent Square Rd., Gaithersburg n Tickets: $16, $18 non-residents n For information: 301-258-6394; sandyspringtheatregroup.org

sure whether or not he’ll write anymore books he did jokingly entertain the idea of a sequel entitled “P.S.” “I remember I would write to my friend John and I loved that,” Anastasi said. “The title of the book is ‘The Last Personal Letter,’ because everything is emails now

there are no personal letters. You used to have letters written by famous authors, we don’t have that anymore, you get junk mail and you get emails.”

“The Last Personal Letter: Pranks for the Memories” is available on amazon.com.

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Comprint Military Publications seeks a graphic designer to produce the Pentagram, the weekly newspaper of Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Virginia, which will be the main work base.

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HVAC TECHNICIAN

For Hughes Network Systems in Germantown, MD. Qualified candidate would work on a team of three, responsible for the facility’s HVAC systems at our corporate offices. (headquarters as well as two other facilities in Gaithersburg) Perform trade work such as maintenance, repair, installation of equip., troubleshoot problems and fix & repair accordingly. Please apply at www.careers.hughes.com, refer to requisition # 4995BR.

Landscape Foreman

Property Management Company seeks an experienced bilingual, English/Spanish; individual for a full time year round position that requires 23 years of experience in the field and 1 year of management or supervisory experience.

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Comprint Printing, a division of Post Community Media, LLC, has immediate openings for Press Technicians in our Laurel plant. Stateof-the-art technology, Mitsubishi printing press. We will train individuals with mechanical aptitude and strong work ethic for a career in the printing technology industry. Individuals must be computer literate, team player, good verbal and written skills, printing experience preferred but not required. This position is a labor position which requires repetitive stacking of newspapers and very hands on work on the printing press. After training period individuals would be assigned to one of our 3 shifts: 6 am-2 pm, 2 pm - 10 pm, 10 pm - 6 am.

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Upward mobility potential for this exciting career opportunity.

Please email, fax or mail resume to: Comprint Printing 13501 Virginia Manor Rd Laurel, MD 20707 ATTN: Press Tech Fax: (301) 670-7138 HrJobs@gazette.net EOE

Reporter/Photojournalist

Comprint Military Publications has an immediate opening for a full-time reporter/photojournalist in its Joint Base MyerHenderson Hall, Virginia office. News writing background, interviewing individuals for stories, and AP Style knowledge, & digital camera familiarity important.

College degree in journalism preferred. Familiarity with military a plus.

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2010 Toyota Tacoma............. $14,990 $14,990 #467142A, 4X2, 49K Miles, Automatic 2011 Honda Civic LX............. $14,990 $14,990 #464008A,Auto, 32K Miles 2013 Toyota Corolla.............. $15,990 $15,990 #E0339, 32K Miles, Automatic 2013 Kia Soul.................... $16,990 $16,990 #467126B, 19K Miles, Automatic 2012 MiniCooper Hardtop....... $17,990 $17,990 #477449A, 26K Miles, Automatic 2013 Hyundai Sonata GLS....... $17,990 $17,990 #477449A, 53K Miles, Automatic

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$24,990 2013 Toyota Prius Plug-in..... $24,990 #478000A, 18K Miles, CVT Automatic Transmission $26,990 2013 Toyota Tacoma........... $26,990 #R1784, 4WD, Xtra Cab,Automatic Transmission, 10K Miles 2012 Toyota Avalon............ $27,990 $27,990 #464105A,Automatic, 23K Miles, 1 Owner

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2010 CC Sedan........#V043167A, Island Gray, 65,572 Miles..........$17,991 2012 Jetta SEL....#V075452A, Black, 39,128 Miles....................$17,991 2012 Jeep Liberty 4WD.....#V6113A, White, 26,187 Miles.........$18,494 2013 Passat SE.........#V532044A, Blue, 26,414 Miles..............$19,991 2011 Jetta TDI.............#VP0059, Black, 41,750 Miles................$19,991 2012 Jetta TDI MT......#V273915A, Red, 40,603 Miles...............$19,991 2013 Passat SE...........#VPR0060, White, 6,093 Miles...............$21,911 2013 GTI HB..................#V010407A, Red, 8,460 Miles............$25,491 2012 Honda CR-V EX-L.....#V274812A, Silver, 34,278 Miles.......$25,991

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