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Donna Adderly of Germantown, Mary Hite of Frederick and Esther Lyons,of Gaithersburg untangle a ball of yarn during a meeting of the “Friday Night Hookers” at the North Potomac home of Jackie Bell on June 6. Below, Bell crochets during a meeting.

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Corey Settles and his wife, Christina Settles, and their two little boys spent their ﬁrst night in a Silver Spring bus shelter after being evicted on June 9 from their apartment in the Cider Mill complex in Montgomery Village. They were getting ready to spend their second night at the Rockville Metro station when Nancy Piatt, Settles’ teacher at Medtech College in Silver Spring where he is taking a medical billing class, offered to pick them up at the Rockville station at 11 p.m. June 10. Piatt called around and found them a room on her dime at the Travelodge motel in Silver Spring, where they stayed until Friday morning, when the county’s Health and Human Services Department gave them a voucher to stay temporarily at the Comfort Inn in Gaithersburg. “I feel good, because at least I know

North Potomac woman’s group creates, donates handmade items Nearly twice a month, the basement of Jackie Bell’s North Potomac home becomes a lively space, overﬂowing with conversation, laughter and yarn. Bell and about a dozen of her friends — ranging in age from 20 to 75 — come together around 6:30 p.m. every other Friday to crochet. She started hosting the group more than a year ago after discovering that many of her friends shared her same passion for the craft. “Our goal is to have fun, to enjoy what we’re doing, to learn new stitches and to help each other get really good

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where we’re going to be until the end of the month,” said Settles, 44, who grew up in Washington, D.C., and has worked at various jobs in hospitals in years past. But the future is uncertain now for him and his family. Settles, who is diabetic with a history of depression, recently lost his job with Walgreen’s where he worked as a cashier. His own family has told him he cannot stay with them, and Christina’s family is in Seattle. The boys are 19 months and 5 1/2 months old. “Hopefully we can ﬁnd a permanent place to go,” said Settles, whose family situation is not unique. When the county’s three shelters for families and one shelter for victims of domestic violence are full, the county gives families vouchers for one of the three motels it contracts with to handle the overﬂow, said Sara Black, administrator of the Housing Stabilization Services section of the Montgomery County Department of Health & Human Services. The four shelters can accommodate

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at it,” Bell said. In a nod to their passion and humor, the group has even created a name for themselves: The Friday Night Hookers. “It’s been a source of laughter,” Bell said. While working together, the group members critique their fellow crocheters on various elements such as technique or choice of color in order to help each other become better at doing what they love, Bell said. In the time between each biweekly meeting, the group members spend a lot of individual time working on their pieces. Bell, a contract specialist for

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Since issuing a request for proposals for planned renovations at the Gaithersburg Upcounty Senior Center in late April, the city has received a total of nine bid submissions. The bids range in price, with Therrien Waddell Inc. of Gaithersburg offer-

ing the lowest at just over $562,000 and Hakanson Anderson Associates Inc. of Anoka, Minn., giving the highest at $860,000. Other bidding companies include Bob Porter Co. of Woodbine, Md., Warner Construction of Rockville, Gardiner & Gardiner Contracting of Crofton, Md., Biscayne Contractors of Alexandria, Va., HBW Group of Rockville, Garcete Construction of Bladensburg, Md., and KANE Construction Inc. of Gaithersburg. The solicitation period began April

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A work group that looked into why a large number of public school students failed high school math ﬁnals said in a report it thinks the school system should take a variety of measures to help improve teachers’ instruction and students’ motivation. Montgomery County Public Schools should look into possible “alternative supports” for students who

didn’t do well in their middle school math classes or who struggle in the high school Algebra 1 class, according to one recommendation. Another recommendation calls for the school system to gather teachers’ best practices for helping students study for the exams as well as during the rest of a semester. The workgroup was formed in June 2013 to study the issue and consisted of parents, principals, teachers and community members. The Montgomery County Board of Education discussed in its Tuesday meeting the work groups’ ﬁndings and recommendations for the school sys-

tem’s next steps. One recommendation says that teachers whose students have done well can help develop professional development for teachers and administrators. Among other potential professional development opportunities suggested, the work group also said that the school system could offer some that would help teachers improve their use of assessments during the semester to determine how they teach their students. The work group’s review covered

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Diamond Elementary School students, alumni, and their parents say farewell to longtime Principal Carol Lange during a PTA celebration on Thursday afternoon at the Gaithersburg school. Lange has had a career in education for 45 years; 25 years in Montgomery County and 16 of those years at Diamond.

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“Patches” represents reassembly of lives BY BRITTANY CHENG

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Kate F. said no — at ﬁrst. She had been attending weekly knitting lessons through the Wilkins Avenue Women’s Assessment Center in April when Theresa Ford, the center’s assistant volunteer coordinator, approached the shelter’s residents to gauge interest in decorating a bike for a contest. But a month later, as the project went underway, Kate reconsidered. “I thought it would be fun,” she said. Kate, who declined to be identiﬁed, and six other women from center — the only all-women emergency homeless shelter in the county — spent the past few weeks covering a donated bike with their knitting and crocheting in a process called “yarn bombing.” Then they entered it into an art bikes contest at the 32nd annual Celebrate! Gaithersburg in Olde Towne, a street festival featuring art, food and live music, on June 8. They call the bike “Patches,” a name Kate came up with. She said she chose the name because she sees Patches as symbolic of both the shelter’s women and their world. “We have a lot of different women here,” said Kate, who just moved out of the shelter this past week. “And I guess we’re all trying to put our lives back together, in a more beautiful way.” Patches is a amalgamation of yellows, blues, pinks, greens, purples, reds and oranges, but it hadn’t always been that way. The group initially thought the soft pastel colors of the donated yarn reminded them of children. “There had been a few women who have had babies and gone onto someplace else. So we thought we’d do a baby bike in celebration

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Seven women from the Wilkins Avenue shelter spent 20 hours per week for about two months to create “Patches,” the yarn-bombed art bike which tied for first place in the art bikes contest at the annual Celebrate! Gaithersburg in Olde Town festival on June 8. of that,” said Julie R., a shelter resident who declined to be identified. But as they looked into the other colors, they considered patchwork, to reflect the diversity of the shelter’s residents instead of a subset. “We wanted to bring it all together to incorporate all the women here,” Julie said. At the festival, the public was asked to vote for their favorite entry, and Patches tied for first with local a cappella group Clear Harmonies, the City of Gaithersburg announced Wednesday. The festival committee also recognized Patches for the “most skillful use of yarn,” according to the press release. Other honors include Clear Harmonies (best use of color); Headbands of Hope (most whimsical); Positive Energy Art Studio (best use of shape and design) and Victor Litz (most unique and musical concept). Patches and the 11 other entries were on display through June 16 at the Bohrer Park Activity Cen-

ter in Gaithersburg. The women are hoping to ﬁnd a permanent home for the bike, said Diana Bernhardt, the Wilkins Avenue center’s program director. “We’re still looking for a place to put it, but it will be here at the shelter,” she said. They plan to display the bike with a framed copy of the contest results, she said. This is the ﬁrst year the center entered the bike contest. And because many of the women were novice knitters, the group spent about 20 hours a week for about two months on the bike, Kate said. Their daily lives also kept them from working full time on the bike, shelter resident Danielle Frisby said. “We’re normally busy throughout the day with what we have to do personally and for business purposes, so when we have leisure time, we take the time out,” she said. And though there were seven women who primarily worked on the bike’s knitting and crocheting — including Melissa Cress, Faith Jonas, Celestine L. and Deborah M. — the rest of the shelter chipped in by

writing down one wish and one goal they were working on — all anonymous, Julie added. Dreams such as “prosperity,” “college degree” and “sobriety” were then transferred onto painted glittery cardboard stars, which were later placed inside the bike’s basket. “I feel like bike is a work of art,” said Frisby, who Julie dubbed “painting expert” and decorated the bike’s spokes in alternating rainbow colors. Others were equally pleased with the outcome. “It’s been really rewarding because people have really liked it. I’ve had people say they sneaked in at night to see how it’s progressing,” Kate said. The bike project is part of a larger set of programming that the center — which serves about 300 women per year — offers to its residents. Other activities include the MoverMoms’ “Cupcakes and Conversations,” a self-awareness group; “Master Gardeners,” which teaches residents to plant; a weekly peer-topeer group; free yoga lessons; and NIH health briefings, Bernhardt said. “When I go to [the peer-to-peer group], if I’m upside down, I always walk out with a smile on my face,” Frisby said. The women’s shelter also hosts a party each month to celebrate residents’ birthdays, Bernhardt said. For some, it’s the ﬁrst time they’ve celebrated their birthday, she said. These activities together enhance the community experience at the shelter, said Charlotte Garvey, spokeswoman for Interfaith Works, the shelter’s parent nonproﬁt organization that works to support and counsel the homeless in Montgomery County. “It’s shelter and it’s food, but it’s more than that. It’s an opportunity to engage in community activities like the one on Sunday,” she said. “It’s to build on the foundation of people’s needs, to get them to a different place.”

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Felines can be taken home for special $5 fee BY JENN DAVIS STAFF WRITER

Furry four-legged felines will be on display this weekend when the Montgomery County Animal Services and Adoption Center in Derwood holds its “Meow Cats on the Block” event to encourage cat adoptions. In celebration of National Adopt a Cat Month and the new shelter’s recent March opening, the facility will present “Five Dollar Felines” at the event, which will be held from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Attendees who want to add a cat to their family can do so by paying a special $5 adoption fee. “The purpose of the event is to bring attention to the wonderful cats

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that we have who are here awaiting adoption,” said Shari Kalina, the center’s adoption manager. “We thought having a fun theme might catch people’s attention and bring them in.” Kalina said at least 50 cats will sport a “Five Dollar Feline” ticket on their cage to alert visitors of their availability. A variety of cats will be featured, including those with different colors, ages and other factors.

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“We’re going to choose a wide selection but we encourage people to adopt some of our cats that have been waiting a little longer,” she said. Visitors who choose to take home a cat must only complete a “very simple process,” Kalina said. Adopters have to pay the $5 adoption fee and purchase a $12 county pet license. The shelter’s typical cat adoption fee is $100, she said. All available cats have been spayed or neutered, have their necessary vaccinations and have a microchip inside them so they can be quickly returned to their owner if they go missing. Except in unusual cases, the shelter no longer conducts home visits before releasing an animal to an adopter, Kalina said. “People are actually able to take their new pet home the same day that they adopt,” she said.

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The timing of the event also coincides with a challenging part of the year for cat adoption at the shelter, Kalina said. Dubbed “kitten season,” the warmer months result in many new kittens being born to cats who have not been spayed or neutered, which means a much higher intake for the shelter, Kalina said. Because many families go on vacation and travel in the summer time, there are fewer people available to adopt the surplus of cats. “We’re trying to get some more people coming in to consider taking home their best friend,” she said. Since the new $20 million county facility opened its doors in March, more than 200 cats already have been adopted, Kalina said. The 49,160-square-foot building also shelters dogs, livestock, birds and reptiles. jedavis@gazette.net

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Local church appoints new pastor R. Lorraine Brown will begin serving as the newly appointed pastor of Mt. Zion United Methodist Church in Gaithersburg on July 1. Worship services at the church are held every Sunday at 11 a.m., where all members of the community are welcome to attend. Brown will also be performing pastoral services at St. Luke United Methodist Church in Sykesville. Brown graduated from Methodist Theological School in Ohio in May 2014 with a Master of Divinity degree, specializing in spirituality. She currently lives in Gaithersburg with her husband, Craig. The Gaithersburg church, at 5000 Brookeville Road, is part of the Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church.

Campus congrats • Alexander Greenfest of North Potomac, and Judith Rupp and Rachel Spirer of Gaithersburg have recently graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans, La. Greenfest earned a bachelor’s degree in management and Rupp earned a master’s degree in public health. Spirer earned both a bachelor’s degree in management and a master’s degree in accounting.

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

Robbery • On June 2 at 11:34 p.m. in the 19100 block ofWatkins Mill Road, MontgomeryVillage. The subjects assaulted the victim and unsuccessfully attempted to obtain property. Strong-Arm Robbery • On May 28 at 9:20 p.m. in the 18400 block of Lost Knife Circle, Montgomery Village. The subjects assaulted the victim and took property. • On June 2 at 6:12 p.m. in the 19500 block of Clubhouse Road, Montgomery Village. The subjects assaulted the victim and took property. Aggravated Assault • On May 27 at 4:20 p.m. at Malcolm King Park, 1200 West Side Drive, Gaithersburg. The subject assaulted the victim with a weapon and fled. • On May 28 between noon and 4 p.m. in the unit block of Mirrasou Lane, Gaithersburg. The subject is known to the victim. • On May 31 at 9 p.m. in the area of Woodfield Road and Midcounty Highway, Gaithersburg. The subject threatened the victim with a weapon and was arrested. Commercial Burglary • Five incidents between 5 p.m. June 2 and 7:45 a.m. June 3 in offices at 9420 Key West Ave., Rockville. Forced entry, took property. Residential Burglary • 9900 block of Shelburne Terrace, Gaithersburg, between midnight and 8 a.m. May 31. No forced entry, took nothing. • 18600 block of Kingfisher Terrace, Gaithersburg, between 6:30 and 11:10 p.m. May 31. No forced entry, took property. • 9600 block of Horizon Run Road, Montgomery Village, at 9:10 p.m. May 31. Vehicle Larceny • Three incidents in Gaithersburg between May 26 and June 3. Took cash, a wallet, an ID and credit cards. Affected streets include Strawberry Knoll Road, Royal Bonnet Circle and Lost Knife Circle. • Two incidents in Gaithersburg between May 26 and June 3. Took cash and earphones. Affected streets include Cactus Court and Emory Grove Road. • 800 block of Clopper Road, Gaithersburg, between 11:25 p.m. May 27 and 11:25 a.m. May 28. No signs of forced entry, took purse. • 12000 block of Cheyenne Road, Darnestown, between 11:25 p.m. May 27 and 11:25 a.m. May 28. No signs of forced entry, took purse.

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New book recounts childhood in rural Mississippi

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Of all the farm chores a boy growing up in southeast Mississippi in the 1940s and ’50s had to do, harvesting okra “was the most dreadful of all.” J. Bennett Easterling of Rockville, whose childhood stories are the subject of his new book, remembers wearing long sleeves and gloves despite the heat and humidity to protect himself from the sticky, prickly okra plants as he worked his way across acres of them growing on his family’s farm. “Then the bugs and the mosquitoes and gnats and all kids of insects descend on you,” he said. “... Pretty soon you’re just one big welt.” Easterling’s childhood wasn’t just picking okra, and

his book, “Of God, Rattlesnakes & Okra,” isn’t about only those three things, either. Post-war America was also the age of heroes such as Jackie Robinson, Roy Rogers and Batman. “Coming out of World War II, the country was optimistic again, people were working again,” Easterling said. “For a boy, it was a great time for heroes. ... You could pay a dime and go to the movie and eat popcorn and just enjoy your idols.” His father, a preacher, grew cotton and raised a wide variety of animals on his farm in Perry County, not too far from Hattiesburg. “He could have supplied Noah’s ark,” Easterling said. “Our farm was often more like a zoo than a farm, but I loved the animals.” Easterling, now retired, has lived in the Washington, D.C., area since 1966. He started his federal government career at Oak Ridge, Tenn., after graduate school and then moved to Mary-

“[I was] just a boy growing up in the out of doors. It doesn’t get any better than that.” J. Bennett Easterling, Rockville resident, author

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J. Bennett Easterling, a lay leader at the Church of the Redeemer in Gaithersburg, pictured at his Derwood home. He has written a memoir of his childhood in Mississippi. The plush opossum is a reminder for Easterling of rural life in Mississippi. land for what he thought was going to be a short time at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He stayed, working at the Department of Energy — where he looked for places to dispose of high-level nuclear waste — and on Capitol Hill, and now his

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children and grandchildren also live in Montgomery County. “Our roots became Montgomery County,” said Easterling, who, with his wife, Dot, is a lay leader at the Church of the Redeemer in Gaithersburg. The couple makes an an-

nual “pilgrimage” to visit family in the South. Easterling said he comes from a family of storytellers, and retelling family stories is one of the highlights of family reunions. “It’s a good way to pass along traditions and values, and I inherited that, I suppose, from my father and grandfather,” Easterling said. He, in turn, told stories to his children and grandchildren, who encouraged him to write them down. About 2½ years ago, he took their advice

and started making notes for a book. The result, published this year, is Easterling’s collected memories of the eccentric, “grits-eating characters” of his childhood. “I thoroughly enjoyed reliving these,” Easterling said. “It gave me an opportunity to relive and revisit my childhood. I had such a wonderful childhood. Hard work, yes; but in between the hard work I was surrounded by family and friends, and [I was] just a boy growing up in the out of doors. It doesn’t get any better than that.” Easterling said writing his book was a heartwarming experience. “I like to say it’s like turning a light on in a dark room — one ﬂick of a switch, and grandma’s sitting over her churn, churning butter, or a long-lost sibling is playing with you again,” he said. “It was an emotional thing at times.” “Of God, Rattlesnakes & Okra: a preacher’s boy tells his growing-up story,” is published by MSI Press. ewaibel@gazette.net

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Primary voting underway Voting for the 2014 Maryland primary elections began on Thursday. After ﬁve days, 9,672 people in Montgomery County and more than 71,000 people across the state had voted early. The early-voting period will continue through Thursday. On June 24 — Primary Day — polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Election information, including a list of polling places, is available at www.montgomerycountymd. gov/elections/index2.html. For stories about candidates for county, state and federal ofﬁce, visit The Gazette’s voters’ guide at www.gazette.net/section/ vg2014.

Manner of death was ruled undetermined BY JENN DAVIS STAFF WRITER

The death of a 22-year-old Germantown man, whose body was discovered in a Gaithersburg pond in May, was caused by drowning, according to findings from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Maurice Darnell Munford Jr.’s body was pulled from a pond used to capture runoff from the Lakeforest mall parking lot on May 20. The pond is situated at the busy intersection of Russell and Montgomery Village avenues. Authorities were alerted to Munford’s body at about 10 a.m. Bruce Goldfarb, a spokesman for the medical examiner’s office, said the cause of death was “drowning complicated by PCP intoxication.” The manner of death, he said, has been ruled undetermined. Montgomery County Police Cpl. Rebecca Innocenti said the death investigation concerning Munford was closed after receiving the medical examiner’s report. “No foul play was suspected,” she said. According to police, Munford was last seen near Lakeforest mall at around 2 p.m. May 16. His family reported him missing later that day.

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Incident is believed to be domestic-related BY JENN DAVIS STAFF WRITER

Police are investigating a domestic-related murder-suicide incident that left two Gaithersburg residents dead in a nearby parking garage. Michelle Rena Reid, 39, of Spectrum Avenue, is believed to have fatally shot David Lee Reid Jr., 38, of Allied Place, before killing herself Sunday night. At around 11:20 p.m., officers patrolling near Girard Street and Allied Place heard gunshots, according to a police news release. The officers entered the garage in the 500 block of Raven Avenue and found David Lee Reid Jr. suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. Fire and rescue personnel took him to a local hospital where he died from his injuries. While police and paramedics tried to save him in the garage, other officers noticed a woman hiding between parked cars in the structure, the release said. The woman, Michelle Rena Reid, then shot herself with a handgun. She was also taken to a nearby hospital where she died. Police believe the two were married but may have been separated. Anyone with information relating to the event or the two victims is asked to call the Major Crimes Division at 240-773-5070.

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Marijuana measure failed to take paraphernalia into account

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The Montgomery County Council is calling on the General Assembly to close a loophole in the state’s new marijuana decriminalization law, and lawmakers say the state is likely to take up the effort. The council asked the legislature Tuesday to include marijuana paraphernalia under the same law that lowered penalties for possession of small amounts of marijuana. In April, the General As-

sembly passed a law that allowed people 21 and older who are caught with up to 10 grams of marijuana — about one-third of an ounce — to pay a $100 civil fine rather than be charged with a criminal offense. The law takes effect Oct. 1. But in the flurry of debate over the idea of decriminalization, no one thought of what to do about paraphernalia, said Sen. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Dist. 20) of Takoma Park, a member of the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee. It was an oversight rather than a conscious decision by lawmakers, simply a case of “legislative omission,” he said. The council wants the state to make possession of paraphernalia by an adult a

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In 2010, blacks made up 18 percent of the county’s population but 46 percent of arrests for marijuana possession, the resolution said. Everyone believes that children using alcohol or other drugs is unacceptable, Councilwoman Nancy Navarro said. But the county has a history of highlighting areas that legislators believe need to be addressed, and the disparity in marijuana arrests among adults and the paraphernalia loophole are such areas, said Navarro (D-Dist. 4) of Silver Spring. Navarro sponsored the resolution, along with Council President Craig L. Rice (D-Dist. 2) of Germantown, Councilwomen Nancy Floreen (D-At Large) of Garrett Park and Cherri Branson (DDist. 5) of Silver Spring, and Councilmen Roger Berliner (D-Dist. 1) of Bethesda, Marc Elrich (D-At Large) of Takoma Park and Hans Riemer (D-At Large) of Takoma Park. It’s more important to find the root causes of why people feel the need to use substances than to arrest them for possessing them, Branson said Tuesday. “We serve our public best when we get to where their

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25-year lease agreement allows use of park’s Schaeffer Farm Area BY

SARAH SCULLY STAFF WRITER

Cpl. Justin Bunce doesn’t like doing his physical therapy exercises for his arm. In fact, he sometimes refuses. But hand him a brush and tell him Breeze, a yellow lab, needs to be groomed, and he’s happy to help out. Brushing uses the same motion as the exercises that are supposed to help him regain mobility in his left side after being injured in service by an improvised explosive device while deployed as a Marine in Iraq. Breeze spends most of her time at the NeuroRestorative house in Germantown where Bunce lives, spending time with him and the ﬁve other military service members living there on their way to recovery from brain injuries. She is being trained as a service dog and once she graduates from training, Warrior Canine Connection will pair her with a veteran. Warrior Canine Connection uses dogs for therapy and teaches service members to train service dogs that will assist veterans. The organization recently came to an agreement with the state to use part of Seneca Creek State Park in Germantown to expand its program. NeuroRestorative is a nationwide rehabilitation company for people recovering from brain injuries. The company’s Germantown residence hosts military service members as a midway point between the hospital and moving home. Since the company began working with Warrior Canine Connection in the summer of 2012, “we noticed immediately” the changes in the veterans interacting with dogs, said lead Life Skills Trainer Katie Gorman. “There’s just a certain therapy that dogs can provide that people can’t,” Gorman said. Founded three years ago by Rick Yount, Warrior Canine Connection works with veter-

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Cheryl Tipton (right) of the Warrior Canine Connection, an organization that trains service dogs for wounded veterans, introduces a puppy named Lily to Jonathon Kohl (left) as Kohl’s wife, Aileen Kohl, looks on at the headquarters of the WCC in Brookeville on June 12. Kohl sustained brain and spinal cord injuries in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan in 2013 while serving in the Army, and he was looking to adopt a service dog. ans at facilities including Walter Reed in Bethesda, Fort Belvoir in Virginia, and several in California. On Thursday visitors from NeuroRestorative spent time with the dogs at Warrior Canine Connection’s Brookeville headquarters. While none are trainers yet, Army Sgt. Edward Wade, who returned from Iraq in 2004 after being injured by an IED, said he would like to become one. One of the puppies, Lily, sat on Army 1st. Lt. Jonathon Kohl’s lap. Lily takes the Metro every day so she can learn to assist a veteran with the commuting process, though the program hasn’t paired her with anyone yet. Jonathon’s wife, Aileen Kohl, sat next to him, reminding him of things when his memory failed him and translating his whispered mumbles when needed. Following a helicopter crash in Afghanistan in March 2013, Jonathon was in a coma for 140 days, she said. On Thursday he sat in a wheelchair petting Lily and talking to his wife and

puppy program manager Cheryl Tipton. Aileen said Jonathon has relearned how to talk, eat and move in the last several months. He’s working on being able to walk again and his memory is coming back slowly. But he has a good sense of humor about it, laughing when he confuses cats with dogs or asks the same questions repeatedly. With the new land at Seneca Creek Park, Warrior Canine Connection will be able to expand its programs and veterans will have a larger space where they can come for therapy, to train dogs, or just relax in a quiet place outdoors. The 25-year lease agreement allows the organization to use the Schaeffer Farm Area of the park, where it will build new facilities for apprentice service dog training, art and music therapy, acupuncture, equine therapy, and farming and gardening. According to Maryland Park Service Superintendent Nita Settina, in exchange for over $700,000 in investments Warrior Canine Connection plans to put into the site, the ﬁrst

10 years of rent will be forgiven. After 10 years, the organization will pay $1,500 per month, with a rent increase of $500 every ﬁve years. Gorman said she has a hard time putting into words the impact Warrior Canine Connection has had on the veterans she works with. Having the

Obituary Long time Washington Grove, MD resident, Naomi B. Whetzel, 91, died on June 4, 2014 in Allegan, MI, where she was residing, under the watchful eye of her daughter-inlaw, Ethel Whetzel, in the Allegan County Medical Care Community. Naomi, moved to Michigan to be with her son in 1996. Her son, Barry C. Whetzel preceded her in death in January 2014. While living in the Grove, Naomi sang in the Washington Grove Methodist Church choir and worked in day care. After moving to Michigan she was very active in helping to get much needed services for Senior Citizens. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Wilson Whetzel in 1986 and 7 of her nine siblings, 4 brothers and 3 sisters. Her daughter, Donna W. Dagnon resides in Monrovia, MD. Burial in Forest Oak Cemetery Gaithersburg, MD was private

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dogs around the NeuroRestorative house, the patients start getting more sleep, have fewer outbursts and their outlooks become more positive. She remembers one veteran who no one could get through to until a dog did. He was “in a dark, dark place,” she said. With one of the dogs, “you could see from afar him smiling, him laughing, and that’s all he wanted was someone to hang out with, someone to listen,” she said. Training dogs is a healing process for many service members, and a way for them to help other veterans. “They have to be coached to teach the dogs that the world is a safe place,” Yount explained. “They have to convince themselves the same.” It also allows the veterans to focus on the dogs instead of themselves in interactions. One woman who lived at the NeuroRestorative house had such severe post-traumatic stress disorder that leaving the house was unthinkable. But when Gorman asked her to take a dog to the store as training, she didn’t think twice about it. With the focus on the dog, she hardly

realized what she had accomplished until after she returned. “Training them to be out in public is at the same time training for us,” Marine Sgt. Jon Gordon said. “Teaching the dog that a car backﬁre is OK, that people on the subway are OK.” Gordon, 28, trained dogs through the program, including Birdie, the black lab that now lives with him. Before he connected with Birdie, Gordon got a few hours of sleep a night at best and didn’t want to interact with anyone. “Being able to interact with people in general, I couldn’t do that before,” he said. “I pretty much isolated myself.” Now Gordon lives in Michigan and hopes to extend canine therapy to other veterans through the Department of Veterans Affairs. He has taught several classes sharing his work and experience. “It was a complete 180. I went from being just quiet, didn’t want to be with anybody, didn’t want to talk with anybody to, ‘I actually have purpose again,’” he said. sscully@gazette.net

Obituary Roy Allen Flowers, 56 of Gaithersburg, MD passed away, Monday, June 9, 2014. Roy was Senior Partner for Technology at Excel Technologies in McLean, VA. He was also Associate Pastor of the Rockville Church of the Nazarene in Rockville, MD. His greatest joy was spending time with his family and preaching the Word of God. He is survived by his loving wife of 37 years Nancy (Kean) Flowers, children Royanna (Flowers) Herbert and husband Jess, Ryan Flowers and wife Amanda, and Heather (Flowers) Hobbs and husband Benjamin, as well as his four grandsons and four granddaughters; Chad, Micah, Crew, and Elijah and Samantha, Alexis, Charis, and Rebekah. His family will miss him more than words can express. A memorial service to celebrate his life was held on Friday, June 13 at Gaithersburg Church of the Nazarene at noon.

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Silver Spring mecca of music to close after 64 years in business Dale Music going out of business after 64 years

BY ALINE BARROS STAFF WRITER

There comes a time when the music must turn off. For Dale Music, store in Silver Spring, the farewell will be June 30. Owner Carol Warden is selling everything: sheet music for Mozart, Broadway selections, wedding collections, top 40 artists and anything else on display — even the empty ﬁle cabinets. The store is best known for its

collection of sheet music, but also sells or rent musical instruments. “One of the things that makes us so unusual in this store is the vast quantity of sheet music that we’ve carried. ... The other thing is the museum collection of musical instruments that is in the store,” Warden said. Her parents, David and Rhoda Burchuk, opened Dale Music in 1950. David was a music educator, conductor and musicologist who moved to Maryland from Philadelphia. Warden recalled: “My mother one day said, ‘Why don’t you start your music store?’ Kind of

as a joke. And six months later, he said, ‘Were you serious about starting a music store?’” Diamondback Investors LLC, a Bethesda company, bought the property from Warden for $1.7 million. Warden hopes to be out by the end of July. Until then, all music is 20 to 50 percent off. There also are discounts on instruments. The store also will be open the next two Sundays — June 15 and 22 — for special sales. She said the Internet changed everything. She has tried to hire people to help her, but an attempt at becoming an Internet

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Dale Music owner Carol Warden at her Silver Spring store with 41-year employee Ed Hardy of Hyattsville. music store hasn’t worked. Warden said there are few stores like Dale Music left in the country.

She said most people want to buy their music over the Internet. “I don’t think there will ever be another Dale Music. People

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don’t shop like that anymore,” she said. Stepping into the store is like being immersed in a library or museum. There are cabinets filled with sheet music of all kinds — country, folk, classic, pop. In the back, customers navigate through other sheet-music departments — such as band and orchestra, choral and organ — or visit the private lesson studios upstairs. Behind a glass door, in one of the store’s cabinets, sits a collection of clarinets. Some date to the 1800s. Warden said they are not “playable,” but could be great for a collection. Across from the clarinets is a wall filled with African, Australian, Chinese and European instruments. Warden hopes to sell everything. She said the store has 12 employees, including some who work part-time. In the past, there has been as many as 24. Until the closing date, Ed Hardy, 73, is still working at the front of the store, helping people find what they are looking for — even if all they can do is hum the melody. “It is the ear,” said Hardy, who has been working in the store for 41 years. Most of all, he and his colleagues will miss the people who walk in every day. “They are a lot of fun coming in and trying to figure out what they want. They never know what they want,” Hardy said. When he is retired, he won’t stay home and lounge. “I have to do something,” he said. Some customers were visiting the store for the final time this week. “This is my last trip,” said Cora Bruner, a pianist who came to buy sheet music for a friend. “I just like the ambience, the people, getting what you need, finding things,” she said. Warden is looking forward to retirement. During an interview, a few people walked in the store and asked what she’s planning to do next. Warden enthusiastically spoke about the places she hoped to visit, such as Antarctica, Argentina, Brazil, Australia, China and Japan. “And that’s just the beginning,” she said. abarros@gazette.net

City hosts pet photo contest BY JENN DAVIS STAFF WRITER

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Report: No deﬁnitive cause for higher water bills Analysis faults WSSC technology, dispute resolution procedures

RYAN MARSHALL STAFF WRITER

The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission uses “antiquated” technology for reading customers’ meters and lacks an independent means to deal with complaints of excessive water bills, according to a report from Montgomery County’s Office of Consumer Protection. The report released Monday found that further independent review might be necessary to find out more about issues that caused an unprecedented number of complaints to the county about water bills that seemed excessive. Since April, about 50 residents have complained that they’ve received bills that were much higher than normal, according to the report. But the report notes that the amount of individual bills can’t be used to determine whether there’s a problem, because billing periods vary and rates sometimes change. “While there is no ‘one size fits all’ explanation for each consumer’s allegations, there appear to be a limited number of possible explanations,” for why some bills might be higher than others, including a customer using more water, a leak or an improperly read or malfunctioning meter, according to the report. In some cases, usage could spike by as much as 400 percent or a meter could show a drop in usage, after which readings would return to normal. According to the report,

WSSC uses a variety of internal methods to address billing complaints, including groups to help resolve disputes and waiving fees to have staff check for leaks or test meters to make sure they’re working properly. “All of the current avenues of redress for consumers with regard to billing disputes are administered within WSSC and without requiring WSSC to report to any independent review body,” the report said. Although the county councils for Montgomery and Prince George’s counties have some say over rates, they don’t seem to have any jurisdiction when it comes to complaints such as billing disputes, it said. The report also faulted the commission’s outdated technology as a potential cause of the billing problems. WSSC maintains about 475,000 residential water meters in Montgomery County, according to the report. About 161,000 of those are located outside a home, while more than 313,000 are inside a home — of which about 19,000 can only be read by a WSSC employee going into the home. The commission maintains 386 residential meters that are able to be read electronically using “drive-by” technology. While it’s not clear that inaccurate readings were behind the complaints, “the lack of more sophisticated ‘drive-by’ electronic meter reading technology as employed by other local water jurisdictions gives the appearance that WSSC’s meter reading infrastructure and capabilities are antiquated by comparison and therefore potentially subject to inaccurate readings,” the report said.

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About a year before the Watergate burglary, a small group of antiwar activists who called themselves the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI broke into a tiny FBI office near Philadelphia. The group confiscated about 1,000 files of documents and an autographed photo of former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in the 1971 burglary, which resulted in exposing the agency’s Cointelpro program. The FBI’s covert and sometimes illegal program of spying on and intimidating antiwar and other mostly left-wing political organizations, which also targeted civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., was shelved soon after many of the documents were published in the media. The FBI closed its investigation into the burglary in 1976 without identifying those involved, following a massive investigation. The group’s identity largely remained a secret until this year, when a book by

AFI DOCS 2014 n When: Wednesday-Sunday n Where: AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Rd., Silver Spring. Other venues in Washington, D.C., including the Naval Heritage Center, National Portrait Gallery and Goethe-Institut. n Schedule and more information: aﬁ.com/aﬁdocs

John and Bonnie Raines are shown with their children in the ﬁlm “1971,” one of the features playing in the AFI Docs festival.

Play the Hits,” about the 2011 farewell concert of alternative band LCD Soundsystem, at 9 p.m. Friday at the downtown Silver Spring Plaza. The free Guggenheim Sympsium, which will honor Academy Award-winning documentarian Alex Gibney, is at 6 p.m. Friday at the National Archives. Tickets for screenings are $14 after 6 p.m. on weekdays and all day Saturday and Sunday. They are $11 before 6 p.m. on Thursday and Friday. Many screenings sell out. If tickets are sold out, patrons can wait in a standby line to buy tickets for seats that are unoccupied 15 minutes before the show starts. Tickets to the opening-night screening of a film on actor Hal Holbrook and a reception, which includes Holbrook, at the Newseum are $75. Some “catalyst” screenings, including ones on homeless

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Betty Medsger, the first journalist to report on the stolen documents when she wrote for The Washington Post, was released. The perpetrators included the late math and physics professor William C. Davidon, religious studies professor John Raines and his wife, Bonnie, a day-care director. That burglary is the subject of “1971,” one of the documentaries playing in the 12th annual AFI Docs, the international film festival formerly known as AFI Silverdocs. Some 84 feature and short films will be shown between Wednesday and Sunday

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at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, along with some venues in Washington, D.C., including the National Portrait Gallery and the Newseum. Johanna Hamilton, director of “1971,” said in a statement on the film’s website that she learned about the story from Medsger five years ago, and they kept the identities of the subjects quiet as they worked on their projects. “Back in 1971, my film’s protagonists were hunted in one of the largest criminal investigations in FBI history,” Hamilton

said. “I have been immensely gratified that they have been celebrated as courageous whistle-blowers.” Although not directly analogous, there are similarities between the actions of NSA document leaker Edward Snowden and the burglars, she added. The film will show at 11:15 a.m. on Saturday at AFI and at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday at the Portrait Gallery. This year’s version has 50 feature films — five more than last year. There are also more short films, as well as a free outdoor screening of “Shut Up and

youth, the Internet and skyrocketing college tuition, will include detailed panel discussions with filmmakers and experts afterwards. There were almost 2,000 films submitted this year, said Christine O’Malley, interim festival director. “While there are serious thought-provoking issues presented artfully in the films, there are equal amounts of whimsical and entertaining experiences,” O’Malley said. “What they all do, however, is inform and hopefully inspire different types of change.” AT&T is the new presenting sponsor. Other new sponsors this year include Downtown Silver Spring, HBO Documentary Films, The Wall Street Journal and WTOP. kshay@gazette.net

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Continued from Page A-1 30 and ended at 11 a.m. June 11. The goals of the project are to construct an exercise room, expand the lecture room, provide a dedicated computer lab, provide a waiting area for patrons, improve front desk operations, replace the existing ﬂoor ﬁnish and paint the cen-

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ter, according to city solicitation documents. For the renovations, the city has budgeted $770,000 in its ﬁscal 2015 budget. Grace Whipple, the community facility manager of the center, said research shows the growing population of seniors from the baby boomer generation is attracted to ﬁtness programs and computer technology. As a result, she said the

biggest projects will be creating the exercise room and the computer lab. The ﬁtness room will hold up to 14 pieces of strength training and cardiovascular machines, including treadmills, recumbent bikes and steppers, she said. Personal training programs also will be available. With the addition of eight computer stations, the com-

puter lab will be large enough to hold classes, Whipple said. When the classes are not in session, the computers will be open for private use. Sunil Prithviraj, Gaithersburg’s capital projects program manger, said the city now will review the companies and their bids. “We check their references, their qualiﬁcations and their business status with the

State [of] Maryland,” he wrote in an email to The Gazette. He added that if multiple bidders meet the city’s requirements, the lowest responsive, responsible and most qualiﬁed bidder will be selected. Serving residents 55 years of age and older, the Upcounty Senior Center offers a variety of classes, trips, special events, activities and a lunch

program. The city facility is housed in a building that is shared with the Diamond Square Apartments, and is located at 80A Bureau Drive in Gaithersburg. The city is expected to choose the winning bid in mid July. Construction is slated to begin on Aug. 18, and estimated to last about 100 days.

wouldn’t believe,” she said. Over time, group members have crocheted handmade hats, scarves, blankets and other goods. While some of the items are kept for personal uses or gifts, others have been donated to nearby shelters and the armed forces.

Donna Adderly, a group member from Germantown, said she enjoyed working as a team to design and create hats that were previously donated to Dorothy Day Place, a transitional shelter for women in Rockville. “I made most of the hats,

someone else made the ﬂowers for the hats...” Adderly said. “We worked together.” Phyllis Johnson, another crocheter who lives in Montgomery Village, said she revels in the camaraderie and the company of the group. “I look forward to it. It’s re-

laxing,” Johnson said. “We sit around and we talk, we laugh, we joke and we really have a good time.” The group’s next donation project is going to be an afghan, Bell said, although they haven’t determined who the recipient will be yet. She added that new

people are always welcome to join in on the fun. “It’s just a wonderful fellowship,” she said. “We invite anybody who can crochet or wants to learn to come on and join us.”

Meanwhile, the federal Housing Choice (formerly known as Section 8) voucher program, has been closed down in the county since December 2008 “due to the sheer number of people who applied at the time,” said Stacy L. Spann, executive director of the county’s Housing Opportunities Commission, in an email. “Right now, there are 15,590 households on the voucher list, consisting of all types of families, with and without children, including seniors, veterans and people with disabilities,” Spann said in the email. “We simply don’t have the

funding to serve all of those in need,” he said in the email. “Though the waiting list is still very long, we are evaluating the possibility of opening the waiting list again before the end of the year.” Piatt said she had no idea that the demand for temporary and permanent housing was so great, especially among families. “The lack of housing is shocking,” she said. “I’m overwhelmed by this. I have grandchildren, and this keeps me awake at night.”

possibility of exempting students from a final semester exam and to use other standardized test scores instead, said Erick Lang, associate superintendent for curriculum and instructional programs. Surveys included in the work group’s report asked students about a series of factors and whether the students thought they inﬂuenced their exam performances. About 37 percent of the surveyed high school students agreed with the statement “I needed more help to prepare for the exam.” About 35 percent of

high school students said “I did not adequately prepare.” Teacher surveys showed that about 27 percent of middle and high school teachers think that “Students choose not to adequately prepare for the semester exam.” About 61.7 percent of the surveyed high school students and about 55.3 percent of middle school students said they thought their exam performance would improve if they had more time to review with their teachers, according to the report.

programs to help people avoid eviction and to provide cash and rental subsidies in an emergency. But the programs do little to meet the enormous need for more affordable housing in Montgomery County and the Washington, D.C., region. Settles said he was paying $1,050 a month for a onebedroom apartment when he started falling behind in his rent last year. When the lease ran out in November, management switched him to month-tomonth lease and increased the rent to $1,359, he said.

Corey and Christina Settles are pictured with their two children, Macyah, 5 months old, and Korrye, 19 months old, on Friday at a Gaithersburg hotel after being evicted from a Montgomery Village apartment.

Starr said in a June 17 memo to county school board members. In his plan, Starr includes a call to focus resources at the elementary school level. He said in the Tuesday memo that a group of county elementary schools have beneﬁted from “math content coaches” — staff members he wants to see placed at more elementary schools over the next several budget cycles. Another part of Starr’s plan would also focus on interventions for students struggling in math that would help improve their understanding as well as skills. In the memo, he references

two possible methods, including a partnership — still being explored — that would allow the school system to introduce “game-based visual learning” to help struggling students. Starr pointed in his memo to aspects of the ﬁscal 2015 operating budget that he says will help the school system address the issue, including expanded professional development for middle and high school math teachers and 15 new positions aimed at reducing English and math class sizes at the school system’s most affected high schools. Marty Creel, director of en-

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richedandinnovativeprogramsfor the school system, said in a Tuesday presentation to board members that students surveyed as part of the work group’s efforts pointed to a lack of preparation and motivation as their main concerns regarding exam performance. The “number one issue” for teachers as portrayed in their surveys, Creel said, was student motivation. “Students are aware that how they do on the exam isn’t necessarily all that important if it’s not goingtoaffecttheirgrade,”hesaid. One suggestion from the work group is to look into the

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A Montgomery County school board committee has developed a series of recommendations for changes to how the board members can use their school system-issued credit cards and which expenses can be reimbursed. The ad hoc committee consisting of school board president Philip Kauffman, vice president Patricia O’Neill and board member Michael Durso met for the second time on Thursday is expected to pass along its recommendations for policy and procedure changes to the full school board in July. Kauffman created the committee after it came to light that school board member Christopher S. Barclay, who is running for a County Council seat, used his credit card to make personal purchases totaling nearly $1,500 and later had to reimburse the school system. According to current school system policy, school board members are given the credit cards to use for business-related expenses. The recommendations include one saying board members should use their credit cards only for expenses related to travel outside the county. Those travel costs, which a board member might face while attending a conference or workshop, would have to be preapproved, according to

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the recommendations. Some school board members have used their credit cards to purchase meals, among other items, which would no longer be allowed. Other committee recommendations outlined what expenses board members could get reimbursed. One such recommendation would stop the practice of the school system paying for the meals of the people board members meet with, such as a county official or constituent. “I just don’t see that these are expenditures that we should be paying for,” Kauffman said during the Thursday meeting. The recommendations would also place limitations on when board members could receive reimbursements for their own meals and how much they could spend on such meals. Kauffman said during the meeting it is often easiest for a board member to meet with someone at a restaurant and that he thinks such meal expenses can be legitimate for reimbursement in certain circumstances. He added that he supported setting an expense cap on the meals. Describing a recent scenario, Kauffman said he had to grab a meal between two graduation ceremonies. He said he’s not seeking reimbursement for that meal but didn’t know if it would be wrong to do so. Durso said he doesn’t currently use his credit card to

A top Montgomery County Public Schools official said she will reimburse the school system for two bags costing about $486 that she purchased with a systemissued credit card. Kimberly A. Statham — who was recently named the next deputy superintendent for school support and improvement — said in the statement provided Monday that the bags she bought in May 2013 were for work purposes. “The purpose of the purchase was specifically to transport my work laptop, power cords, work files, and other work-related items to meetings as well as from work to my home where I continue working during evening hours,” she said in the statement. Statham — currently the school system’s deputy superintendent of teaching, learning and programs — said in the statement she decided to pay back the money because “this expenditure has been questioned by some.” Her decision comes amid scrutiny of expense records for Montgomery County school board members and other school officials. The issue of school board members’ credit card usage arose after it came to light

that school board member Christopher S. Barclay, who is also running for a Montgomery County Council seat, used his school system-issued credit card to make multiple personal purchases totaling nearly $1,500. Barclay had to reimburse for the school system for the charges. An ad-hoc committee consisting of school board President Philip Kauffman, Vice President Patricia O’Neill and school board member Michael Durso has held two meetings so far to discuss the credit cards and reimbursable expenses for board members. The committee has developed a series of recommendations to pass on to the full school board, including one that would allow board members to use their cards only for expenses related to travel outside the county. Dana Tofig, a county school system spokesman, said that senior staff’s past expenses also will be examined. “Dr. [Superintendent Joshua P.] Starr has asked for a review of the expenses of senior staff as well as the policies and practices that govern the expenses of senior staff,” Tofig said in an email. “Based on the findings of that review, appropriate action will be taken.” Tofig said he didn’t have an exact time line for the review, but that there is “a desire to do so quickly.” Statham said in her statement that she thinks the review will help provide more clarity to staff.

Philip Kauffman created the committee after it came to light that school board member Christopher S. Barclay, who is running for a County Council seat, used his credit card to make personal purchases totaling nearly $1,500 and later had to reimburse the school system. pay for his meals. “That’s the danger area,” he said. O’Neill said the language school system attorneys create for the board’s guidelines should show a meal is reimbursable only if the board

member needed to buy one for him or herself when they had a tight schedule. Based on another recommendation, the school system would pay for a board member to stay at a hotel overnight only if they were attending a

According to school system expense reports, Statham entered the purchases of the two bags in a card transaction log and dated them May 15, 2013. The records show a receipt for the bag costing $244.17 but indicate a missing receipt for the bag costing $241.72. Card holders are required to turn in itemized receipts for purchases, according to school system policy. Records of Starr’s expenses from the last few years show that he used his credit card to pay for several upgrade charges for US Airways flights. The records do not include the reasons for the upgraded charges. School system policy says the cards can be used for travel expenses. According to the records, Starr put a $62 upgrade charge on his school system credit card on April 12, 2013. He made two flight upgrade charges on June 15, 2013, one costing $15 and another costing $49. Addressing the April 2013 charge, Tofig said that sometimes Starr will ask for an exit row seat, especially on long flights, for the extra leg room because he is tall (about 6 feet, 5 inches). Some airlines charge for those seats, he said. The April flight was to a National School Boards Association conference in San Diego, he said. Starr also marked in a transaction log that he charged a $19 upgrade fee to his credit card around April

preapproved event more than 50 miles from the school system’s Carver Educational Services Center in Rockville. School system records show that some board members in recent years have stayed overnight at a hotel in Washington, D.C., while attending a conference. The committee also wants to improve the requirements board members have to meet when turning in receipts and other information related to an expense they would like reimbursed. The current policy includes a requirement for itemized receipts and, in the case of a meeting involving a meal, the names of the people met with and the purpose of the meeting. “I think, in general, receipts are a must,” Durso said, later adding he thinks the re-

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30, 2013 for an Amtrak trip from New York to Washington, D.C. According to a Sept. 17, 2013 confirmation letter from the Clarion Resort Fontainebleau Hotel in Ocean City included in the records, Starr’s card was used to book two nights in an “Oceanview Studio King” room for one adult at $175 a night. Records show Starr stayed at the hotel while attending the 2013 Maryland Association of Boards of Education conference, and school system policy allows cards to be used for travel lodgings. The state association holds its conference meetings at the hotel. That room type, however, ranks among the hotel’s more expensive options, according to hotel staff. Such a room costs about $30 more per night than the standard ocean-view room, hotel staff said. The hotel also has nonocean-view rooms that cost less. Tofig said that Starr’s assistant reserves a room for him, and that the conference or the hotel decides which room he will stay in. “Dr. Starr did not request any specific room and we did not pay extra for his room,” he said in an email. “He paid the rate that other people at the conference pay to stay at the hotel.” lpowers@gazette.net

ceipts need to be itemized. Other recommendations from the committee include: • Tickets to attend local events would have to be preapproved to be eligible for reimbursement. • Mileage costs from board members’ travel outside the county would require preapproval for reimbursement. • Quarterly reports on board members’ expenses. • An annual external audit of board members’ expenses. • Annual training for school board members on the board’s expense guidelines. The committee will have at least one more meeting before makings its recommendations to the full board, Kauffman said. lpowers@gazette.net

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There’s no excuse not to vote

Tomorrow will be the last day of early voting. After Thursday, you have one more chance to choose your party’s nominee on a host of elective positions, and that’s Tuesday, June 24, the official primary election day. Montgomery County voters have a number of important decisions to make. Who should be the nominee for governor? For attorney general? For county executive? Who will represent Rockville and Gaithersburg on the County Council? Who will be the council’s voice of Silver Spring and Takoma Park? These are not decisions that should be left to the few. These are decisions that should include as many voters as possible walking into a polling place and casting ballots. And yet, primary elections generally get lower voter turnout, and without a presidential candidate helping to bring voters to the polls, the primary could have a ridiculously low response. That’s a big reason to be concerned. A low turnout could lead to strange outcomes. Virginia Republicans are reeling from Eric Cantor’s loss from last week. Political columnist Barry Rascovar recently pointed out a similarly shocking election outcome in 1992. In the 6th District (which once covered most of northern Montgomery County) influential congresswoman Beverly Byron was upended in the primary. Forty-nine percent of the 6th District’s Democrats turned out for that election, which included a contested presidential primary. Less than half the registered Democrats decided that race. In some elections, that would be considered a high turnout. Our bar for high is very low. If that doesn’t motivate you to vote, think of Afghanistan. The Associated Press is reporting that in their elections last week, about 60 percent of eligible voters cast ballots, some in defiance of rocket attacks by the Taliban. If you don’t vote, you can’t complain about the result.

For whom the school bell tolls School Superintendent Joshua P. Starr decided to stick with the status quo and recommended that the start time for Montgomery County’s high schools remain unchanged. It’s a blow to students and parents who think a 7:25 a.m. start time is too early. Studies have shown that sleep is linked with students’ well-being, so the earlier starts could be detrimental. In October, Starr cited those studies in his proposal to start classes a bit later in the morning. And let’s face it, that point is hard to argue. Back then, Starr had proposed starting high school 50 minutes later, and middle schools 10 minutes earlier. The elementary-school day would run 30 minutes longer. Every parent looks at those changes and thinks how their families lives’ would be uprooted as rides to after-school activities would need to be rescheduled. Will a child get to a job? Will day care adjust? Even if those issues can be solved, school system finances stepped in. In a memo to the county board of education, Starr said a new schedule would cost Montgomery County Public Schools at least $21.6 million per year, particularly because of buses. The curious thing about the memo is that $21.6 million is too much to pay for highschoolers’ well-being, but $17 million isn’t too much of an addition for taxpayers to pay – his last budget proposal came in that much over state funding minimums. Besides finances, Starr’s proposal did not win overwhelming support. A majority of parents and about half of high-school students supported the change. Although at the elementary-school level, parents and staff – 65 percent and 70 percent, respectively, disagreed with his plan. Like the superintendent, we think there’s ample evidence to suggest high school students would benefit from a later start time. And like the superintendent, we think there could be more important ways to spend $21.6 million. And finally, like Starr, we think the issue could be resolved in other ways. “I think the door is not totally closed,” he said in an interview with our education reporter, Lindsay Powers. Could the school system partner with Ride On? Instead of taking a bright yellow school bus filled with classmates, the students would have to take a bus filled with blearyeyed commuters. What if high schools, at least in the senior year, operated a schedule like a college? If students want an early morning class — and free transportation to school — it’s their prerogative. Other students could sleep in; they’d just need to find alternative ways to school. The school system has lots of intelligent people. We think they can solve this issue.

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The AG race; where are the scandals? Now that the Washington ment help destroy Cardin on Post has declared Maryland’s Frosh’s behalf. Don’t get me gubernatorial primary over, wrong, I’m voting for Brian we can look at the down-ballot Frosh on June 24. I’ve known races. Reporting on its poll rehim since we worked together sults last week, the Post’s subon Capital Hill 47 years ago and headline read, “Survey shows he’s by far, the best person for no path to victory for (Anthony the job. Brown’s) Democratic rivals.” But that’s not what I’m talkGuess there’s no reason ing about, I’m condemning the to vote, now. Can you be any establishment’s last-minute MY MARYLAND smear campaign waged by homore in the tank for Brown than the Post? And thanks, lier-than-thou progressives who BLAIR LEE Post, for compounding what pretend they don’t play dirty. looks like a record-low voter Here are the smears: turnout next week. 1. “Cardin is shamelessly trying to Other races? Comptroller Peter Francash in on the regard and admiration that chot is unopposed but there’s a hot race Maryland Democrats have for his uncle, for attorney general, an office most voters Senator Ben Cardin. ... if his name was Jon don’t understand. The AG isn’t a crimiSmith (he) would never have considered nal prosecutor; the AG is the state’s legal getting into the race,” writes political colcounsel advising the governor, the legislaumnist Laslo Boyd. ture and every state agency. Think of the What hypocrisy. At least Jon Cardin AG as the head of the state’s law firm, not served a couple of terms in the state legisa cop. lature. Back in 2006 a young man with no The office is open because the current elected background, whatsoever, decided AG, Doug Gansler, is running for governor. that he should be Maryland’s 3rd District Three Democrats are vying to replace him, Congressman. The seat was open because Delegate Jon Cardin (Baltimore County), Congressman Ben Cardin was running for Senator Brian Frosh (Montgomery) and the seat of retiring U.S. Sen. Paul Sarbanes, Delegate Aisha Braveboy (PG). the young man’s father. Interestingly, the AG’s race is the exSo, young John Sarbanes cruised to act reverse of the governor’s race. In the victory largely on his father’s name with governor’s race Anthony Brown is the no media or establishment complaints. establishment’s candidate; he’s got the If his name was John Sardines, instead of politicians, the labor unions, the special Sarbanes, he’d still be a private citizen. interests, the media and the money beNor did it hurt young Brian Frosh, hind him. And he’s running far ahead of when he first ran for the legislature in his opponents. 1986, that he shared a last name with reIn the A.G. race Brian Frosh is the spected judge Stan Frosh, his dad. When establishment’s candidate; almost all the Sarbanes and Frosh “shamelessly cashed same folks backing Brown are backing in” on their family names there was no Frosh. But Frosh is trailing Cardin by 6 outrage because they were the establishto 10 points just days before the election ment’s candidates. That’s the only differso the establishment is pulling out all the ence between now and then. stops to boost Frosh by slandering Cardin 2. Jon Cardin missed 75 percent of his The Frosh campaign is in attack mode committee votes in this year’s legislative lambasting Cardin on TV, radio and in disession. Shocking, until you understand rect mail. It’s the ugly, desperate stuff you that these were meaningless, pro-forma get from a losing candidate in the last days votes that Cardin’s vote wouldn’t have of a campaign. changed. Even the committee chairBut, that, I’m used to. What’s sickening woman, a Frosh supporter, admits that. is watching the media and the establish3. Jon Cardin filed for his full daily leg-

islative food allowance ($2,688) this year. Big deal, Frosh filed for $1,470 and Braveboy for $2,604. Where’s the scandal? 4. Jon Cardin is linked to sex-trafficking and prostitution. It’s true, this month a hip-hop rapper named Ski (pronounced “Sky”) Money gave Cardin $100 and posed in a photo that the Cardin campaign posted. Turns out Ski Money, whom Cardin never met before, faces two dozen sex trafficking charges. Cardin immediately returned the $100 and renounced Ski Money’s endorsement after the media blew it up into a guilt-byassociation “scandal” that would have made the infamous Senator Joe McCarthy proud. I guess Cardin should have said, “Ski you’re a black rapper, I can’t let you endorse me until I run a background check.” Of course, that would have been a racial discrimination scandal. Meanwhile, Brian Frosh is struggling to explain why $34,000 of in-kind contributions, a clear violation of the $4,000 limit, keeps showing up on his campaign reports. But you’ll never read about that because Frosh is the establishment candidate. Instead we get Ski Money. But here’s the real AG’s race scandal, the media/establishment is so busy tearing down Jon Cardin that they’ve completely ignored the third candidate, Aisha Braveboy, an under-funded AfricanAmerican woman who’s chairwoman of the legislative black caucus. That’s right, the self-righteuous, morally superior establishment types who pride themselves on uplifting women and minorities are too busy playing dirty politics to give a respectable black woman a fair shot. I hope Brian Frosh wins, but I hate the way it’s being done. 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.

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Green roofs can be dangerous

Reading the article concerning the Bethesda Green promotion of green roofs on existing buildings [“Bethesda group taking green to new heights,” May 27], raised immediate concern. Placing any additional loads on existing roof structures that are not designed to support the additional load, is dangerous and could possibly cause roof collapse and loss of life, not to mention property. The promotion as stated in the article is irresponsible and reckless. A recent example occurred in Riga, Latvia, where a green roof was being installed on a supermarket, which precipitated a collapse and killed 54 people. Soils and plants, even installed on geotextile matting, have considerable weight,

which is increased significantly when saturated with water. A cubic foot of soil weighs 75-100 pounds and a cubic foot of water weighs 62.4 pounds, snow can weigh any where from 7 to 20 or more pounds per cubic foot. Any of the above could exceed the structural capacity of an existing roof. Just snow in sufficient amounts collapses roofs each winter, the combined weight could be lethal. Plants and trees handled well can mitigate pollutants and stormwater runoff. Installing plants on the ground is usually the safest course, unless a building is specifically designed to support the additional loads and detailed to prevent leaks. When done properly, green roof in-

stallations are costly. Improper installations should not be countenanced, despite how “attractive” or inexpensive they appear to be, as the cost of a life is not measurable. Bethesda Green should caution any building owner or tenant to consult an architect and/or a structural engineer before considering placing any additional load on a roof, even a jardini?re or geotextile matting. No added item is insigniﬁcant for a roof structure and its waterproof membrane. Even a person walking on a roof, could accidently puncture the roof membrane.

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Gaithersburg girls’ basketball coach Adrian McDaniel encourages his players Saturday during the 4A state title game at UMBC in Catonsville.

REBUILD

Trojans are returning just three players from last season’s team transformed from an experienced STAFF WRITER group of seniors to a young group of junior varsity recruits. Only a couple years after winning The Trojans are playing in what back-to-back state championships, McDaniel called a “tough” Montthe Gaithersburg High School girls’ gomery County Department of basketball team is in a very different Recreation Summer League but he place this summer. added that his team will learn to play “I’m going to take a lot of bumps together in the process. and bruises this summer,” said “It’s a rebuild process,” McDaniel Adrian McDaniel, coach of the girls’ said. “It’s the ﬁrst time I’ve ever had basketball team at Gaithersburg High School. “I have two players returning. to go through where I’ve lost seven Well, actually three players returning seniors. And starting next [season] I’ll have about two seniors — one junior, — one who really played.” and about eight sophomores.” The coach said he doesn’t anticiSee GIRLS’ BASKETBALL, Page B-2 pate an easy summer for a team that BY

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MCSL serves as starting point for area’s top swimmers n

Coaches credit 56-year league with laying foundation for high-level swimming BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN STAFF WRITER

The top ﬁnishers in events from the 12-and-under and younger age divisions at the 2008 Montgomery County Swim League season-ending individual all-star meet read like a who’s who of current high school standouts, including one Olympic gold medalist. As 11-year-olds, rising Stone Ridge School of

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the Sacred Heart senior and multiple world record holder Katie Ledecky and rising Holton-Arms senior and Olympic Trials qualiﬁer Caroline McTaggart were the youngest Top 5 ﬁnishers in their 12-under all-star races by far; top 2014 Washington Metropolitan Interscholastic Swimming and Diving scorers like rising Winston Churchill senior Elaina Gu peppered the Top 10 results of the 9-10 divisions. For 56 years the league, which currently consists of 91 neighborhood pool teams divided into 15 divisions, has provided children starting at ages 5, 6, 7 and 8 a non-intimidating introduction to competi-

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A trip to the 4A West Region championship game last winter was a missed tip-in basket away for the boys’ basketball team of Gaithersburg High School. Instead, the last second tip was made by Clarksburg in March, sending the game into overtime, where Gaithersburg’s season would ultimately come to an end. This summer, the Trojans are playing in the St. Andrew’s Episcopal School Summer League in Potomac and starting guard Tyrik Etheridge said that the loss is still fresh in their memories as they prepare for a new season. “We could’ve won that game,”

Etheridge said following a summer league game on Wednesday against Walt Whitman that was cancelled due to a leak in the gym. “We just missed free throws down the stretch. And then we didn’t execute at all down the stretch. Everyone was for himself at that point in time.” So it shouldn’t be a surprise that the team is working on execution this summer, according to Etheridge. But both he and coach Tom Sheahin agreed that defense is the main focus for the team. Sheahin said that individual skills are also a point of emphasis. “We’re not really focused on team stuff right now,” Sheahin said. “Just working on ball-handling — learning how to play the game, trying to do moves in two or three dribbles, move and setting screens. And then deﬁnitely, the only team thing we’re working on is defense.”

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Tiger’s golf tournament to draw fans to county Host Woods will not play in annual golf event due to injury n

TIM O’DONNELL STAFF WRITER

The Quicken Loans National Tournament, golfer Tiger Woods’ annual event in Bethesda, has a new name and a new date, coming over week after the U.S. Open. It also falls on primary election day in Maryland. The tournament moves to Virginia’s Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville next year, but returns to Congressional Country Club in 2016, 2018 and 2020. “I’d like to keep it in the D.C. community,” Woods said during a news conference in March. “That’s where we started and where we’d like to keep it.” Attendance at the tournament ﬂuctuates depending on if its host,

Woods, plays. In 2009 with him playing, 194,000 fans went to Congressional during the week, setting a record high. Last year, with Woods unable to play because of an injury, 147,000 people attended during the week. The tournament starts Monday at Congressional with a Pro-Am round scheduled from 6:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Practice rounds are Tuesday and Wednesday. Gates open at 6 a.m. Despite coming between two major touranments, the U.S. and British Opens (July 17), many notable golfers still committed to the tournament, including Retief Goosen, Lee Westwood and Keegan Bradley. The ﬁnal list of golfers is scheduled to be released Friday. Tickets are now on sale. The daily gallery pass provides access for one individual to the tournament grounds on Tuesday for $10, on Wednesday or Thursday for $25 and

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Rockville’s Elaina Gu competes in Saturday’s girls’ 15-18 100-meter freestyle in the Montgomery County Swim League meet at the Woodcliffe Swim Club in Boyds. BILL RYAN/THE GAZETTE

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Etheridge is among a returning group of players that made huge contributions to last season’s 21-3 team. He said that he’s ready to be the vocal leader that he should have been last year as a captain. The rising senior is an all-around player that Sheahin said can be used at any

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That one junior will be Celina Herndon who is at the heart of this rebuilding process. She is expected to be a key contributor this summer going into next season, and then hopefully the following year as a senior with a team that should be coming of age. “I’m pretty excited about it,” said the starting point guard about her expanded role this summer. “The things I have to

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Continued from Page B-1 tive swimming and coaches agreed it has helped lay the foundation for what is considered a hotbed for national- and international-caliber swimmers. As the 2014 season kicked off Saturday — ﬁve weeks of dual meets followed by division championships and culminating with the individual all-star meet July 27 — a new crop of young swimmers presented themselves as possible future stars. “I’ve been with MCSL for 16 years now and it’s nice to be able to watch these 7-yearold super stars turn into people that are going to Olympic trials,” said Chevy Chase Rec Association coach and 2009 Walt Whitman High School graduate

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Continued from Page B-1 Friday or Saturday for $30. Tickets for all six days can be purchased for $125. Tickets for children 17 and under are $10 per day and children 12 and under are free with a paid adult. There is a limit of two children per adult. General admission parking will not be available in the immediate vicinity of the golf course. There is a VIP Preferred parking lot adjacent to the main entrance of the tournament, operating from Tuesday to June 27. Single day passes are also available for speciﬁc days, ranging from $30 to $50 dollars, depending on the day of the week.

position. “He does everything. He can play ﬁve. He can get a rebound and bring the ball up. And that’s just really nice to have,” Sheahin said. “[In the half played against Whitman] he had three offensive rebounds, two defensive rebounds and three assists. And he’s 2 for 3 [shooting] inside. He can do a lot of things. That’s Tyrik Etheridge. It’s fun to coach

when your guy can play ﬁve positions on the court.” Last season’s leading scorer Anthony Tarke is another player returning for the Trojans. He was suspended for the ﬁrst portion of summer league game’s due to grades but Sheahin said that he did what he was supposed to do, and he should be returning to the court soon. “He could play Division I

and that’s what we’re trying to do,” Sheahin said. “Trying to look out for his future to get his grades up so he will qualify to play at a D-I level. He’s phenomenal. He can play at all ﬁve positions, too. So you get all ﬁve guys out there that can play, run the court ... and that can jump and rebound. We’re in good shape.” Sheahin added that this team could potentially be more

talented than the one from last season, and although matching the win total could be difﬁcult, he said that this team could go further. Etheridge agreed that this team has some great individual talent. “Everybody has their role to play,” Etheridge said. “Anthony scores at will, whenever he wants to. Geron [Brathwaite]

will score whenever he wants too. Everybody else will score whenever they want to. [DeJuan Smith] will score whenever he wants to.” Sheahin said the Trojans just need to put all of that talent together and mesh as a team, saying that the outlook is “very good.”

really think about doing is running the ﬂoor more and being able to direct where people go and stuff.” Herndon said there will be a lot of pressure on this young team. She was impressed with their ability to keep up with Bullis for most of their first game this summer. She also liked how they didn’t quit against Our Lady of Good Counsel. “Hopefully, during the summer league they’ll learn to play a faster pace game,” Herndon said about her new team-

mates. “What we really need to work on more is being more aggressive, especially being younger. We have to be able to ﬁght with all the girls.” McDaniel agreed, and although he acknowledged that next season may be his most challenging as a coach, he hinted that it’s a welcomed challenge. “This will be a good challenge for me. It’ll make me really have to coach this year,” McDaniel said. “I always had to coach but now that I have a lot of young girls who just — trying

to get them into varsity mode, because it’s a different game coming from JV to varsity. It’s a quicker game, stronger game. So just getting those girls mentally prepared and physically prepared is going to be the biggest challenge.” Last season, the Trojans went 16-8 and bowed out in the 4A West section II ﬁnal with a loss to Col. Zadok Magruder. Rising sophomores Julianne Maveras and Javanna Jones were moved up to the varsity roster during the second half of the season and showed

some good signs. “Julianne and Javanna is who I’m really looking forward to playing with,” Herndon said. “I’m looking forward to playing with everybody but they got moved up at the end of the season and they showed me that they’re able to keep up with the pace too.” McDaniel said his philosophy is unchanged and that Jones and Maveras know what he expects from them. “They know we’re going to press. We’re going to attack. They know they’re young. We

just got to learn the system and keep rolling,” McDaniel said. He said that he wants to see the entire team work on getting his system down pact this summer, in addition to gaining chemistry. And as far as his veterans go, “I’m looking for [Herndon] to do a lot and the seniors to be the senior leadership, and the young girls to just step in and play their roles,” McDaniel said.

coaches, public and private, surely keep tabs on that progression, Emr said. Athletes themselves can also use the summer season to check in with what their peers and younger incoming talent are doing and size up the competition for the upcoming high school season, coaches agreed. “My coach [Geoff Schaefer] at Whitman would be like, ‘Who is that?’ And it would be some 9- or 10-year-old, he was always looking way down at the younger kids to see who was coming up,” Sullivan said. “It deﬁnitely gives high school coaches something to see what’s coming up.” But perhaps the best part of MCSL season, Sullivan and Emr agreed, is the camaraderie between teammates, ages 8-under to 18. Athletes do not drop out of summer swimming once they reach the national

level, rather they cherish the opportunity to come back and rekindle friendly neighborhood rivalries and take a break from the intensity of club swimming. Their excitement for the sport and their achievements resonate with their younger teammates and it’s been an endless cycle for nearly six decades. “I think you can credit the MCSL with a lot of the area’s success, mainly because it’s so fun to be on a summer team and keeps kids interested,” Sullivan said. “At CCRA we have a program where we have junior coaches, they’re kids on the team who are 14-up that coach and from when the kids ﬁrst start on the team I already get questions, ‘When can I be a junior coach?’ They love it and the little kids really look up to them and the older kids feel a responsibility for their team.”

Emma Sullivan. “You can kind of track how they’re doing from when they’re 5 or 6 until they’re 18 and through college and it’s cool to see that.” It’s easy to detect natural talent early on — like when 5-year-olds jump in the water and somehow make it across the pool before their ﬁrst lesson, Sullivan said — and coaches certainly make an effort to encourage year-round swimming right away. It’s common, however, for other more mainstream sports to grab some of those athletes’ attention, said Westleigh coach Jacqueline Emr, who coaches at Thomas S. Wootton High during the school year. But by the 11-12 and 13-14 age groups those athletes who stood out in the 8-under division and are still around or those who might not have displayed immediate natural abilities but excelled

Public parking should be available at the Rock Spring Lot from Tuesday to June 29. Single-day passes for $15 and weekly passes for $55 are available. Public parking will be available at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds June 26 and June 27 only. Single day passes are available for $7. Shuttle buses will depart from both lots approximately every 15 minutes to take passengers to the golf course. Security checks will be conducted on all passengers prior to boarding the bus. More information regarding the Quicken Loans National can be found online at www.tigerwoodsfoundation.org. todonnell@gazette.net

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Ky Morisette of Woodcliffe, wins the girls 9-10 50 meter freestyle, in the Montgomery County swim meet at the Woodcliffe Swim Club in Boyds, on Saturday June 14, 2014. through the internal drive and work ethic that separates highlevel swimmers from other

athletes, really start to distance themselves, coaches agreed. And many area high school

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Bill Haas (left) holds the AT&T National championship trophy after winning the 2013 event at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda. The event has since been renamed the Quicken Loans Invitational and host Tiger Woods will not play in the tournament due to injury.

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BASEBALL

SOFTBALL

Nick DeCarlo

Matt Chanin

Joe Feldman

Kelly Bouma

Bailey Boyd

Meggie Dejter

Pitcher was 9-0 on the mound for the 4A West champion Trojans.

Batted .304 with 6 doubles, 2 homers and 15 RBI for runner-up Warriors.

Batted .429 (33 for 77) with 13 doubles, four homers and was 4-1 pitching.

Errorless in center ﬁeld with .947 slugging percentage.

Batted .634 with 37 runs scored, county-high 10 home runs.

Led team to state title with 149 strikeouts and 1.06 ERA.

Gaithersburg Senior Pitcher

Robbie Metz

Poolesville Senior Shortstop/Pitcher

PLAYER OF THE YEAR

First Team

PLAYER OF THE YEAR

Sherwood Senior First baseman

B-CC Senior Catcher

Sherwood Sophomore Outﬁeld

James H. Blake Junior Inﬁeld

Sherwood Senior Pitcher

Chris Convers

Drew Aherne

Neil Gahart

Fiona Johnson

Krista Kelly

Laurie Kostecka

Batted .460 with six doubles, three homers, two triples and had 32 RBI.

Lafayette recruit batted .400 (20 for 50) with 11 RBI and 17 runs scored.

Batted .383 with 4 doubles and two homers, had 24 RBI and scored 16 runs.

Majorly clutch with .552 batting average and 31 runs scored, 145 strikeouts.

Longwood recruit is playmaker, didn’t strike out once (.507 average).

Speed led to range in outﬁeld, led team with 27 RBIs.

Poolesville Senior Outﬁelder

Walt Whitman Senior Outﬁelder

Montgomery Blair Senior Third baseman

Magruder Junior Pitcher/inﬁeld

Good Counsel Senior Inﬁeld

COACH OF THE YEAR

Clarksburg Senior Outﬁeld

Steve Orsini

Louie Hoelman

Poolesville

In his second season, guided the Falcons to a 20-1 mark and 2A West Region title. Went undefeated in league play against tough Montgomery County schedule that included many of the top Class 4A teams, including Gaithersburg and Sherwood.

Sherwood Junior Shortstop

With most attention paid to pitchers, stalwart shortstop caught coaches’ attention with defensive play — no errors; was county’s most feared batter with .678 average, 35 runs scored and 29 RBIs in Warriors’ third straight state title run.

George Washington recruit did it all for the Falcons this spring. Batted .438 with six doubles and three triples and also went 8-0 on the mound with a 0.16 ERA for the 2A West champs.

COACH OF THE YEAR

Nicole Stockinger

Montgomery Blair 14th year

Quentin Bubb

Brady Adam

Billy Lennox

Tia Mitchell

Annie Pietanza

Jordan Sheppard

Lafayette recruit played nearly every position; ﬁrst team All-IAC selection.

Batted .348 with 7 doubles, 3 triples, 1 home run and was 4-1 on the mound.

Enjoyed a superb season to earn MVP of the Old Line Conference.

UVA recruit impresses with defense, versatile leadoff batter.

Salisbury recruit vital to team’s state semiﬁnal run with 1.42 ERA.

Batted .642 and ﬁlled big shoes well with no errors behind plate.

Georgetown Prep Senior Inﬁelder

Sherwood Senior Pitcher/Outﬁelder

Avalon Senior Designated hitter

Clarksburg Junior Outﬁeld

Montgomery Blair Senior Pitcher

Northwest Senior Catcher

Student of the game perennially gets best out of his players, guided Blazers to ﬁrst region title since 2011.

Second Team and Honorable Mention is online at Gazette.net

KEEPING IT BRIEF Gaithersburg Giants win three of four It was a busy and successful week for the Gaithersburg Giants of the Cal Ripken Collegiate League as the local squad won three of four games and got production from youthful and veteran players alike. Although the week ended with a 6-0 setback to the D.C. Grays, the Giants had earlier forged a win against the Baltimore Dodgers in six innings on June 11 and a 2-1 tally over the Bethesda Big Train on June 10 after opening the week wityh an 8-0 triumph over the River Dogs on June 8. In the 2-1 win over the Big Train, a pair of freshmen took center

stage. Recent Sherwood High graduate and rising Florence-Darlington Tech freshman, Brady Adam, tossed ﬁve scorless innings in his seasonal debut and recent Riverdale Baptist graduate and rising University of Maryland freshman Taylor Bloom pitched two scoreless innings of relief. Neither factored in the decision, however, as the Giants scored the game-winner in the bottom of the ninth on a single by Texas sophomore Connor Macalla that drove in LaSalle University junior Colin McGowan with the winning run.

— TED BLACK

Third Montgomery County player drafted Silver Spring native and St.

John’s College High School graduate and West Virginia University junior Bobby Boyd was selected with the ﬁrst pick of the eighth round (226th overall) by the Houston Astros in the Major League Baseball draft. Boyd signed with the Astros on Thursday and will play for Single-A Tri-City in the Penn-New York (PONY) league beginning this weekend. Boyd, who batted .356 [79 for 222] and scored 24 runs and collected 46 runs batted in for West Virginia last spring, was an All-Big 12 conference selection for the Mountaineers as a junior. He was one of six WVU players selected in the draft. Boyd was an All-Big 12 Honorable Mention.

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Northwest grad helps Maryland beat Pennsylvania in double overtimes n

Local stars shine at the Big 33 Football Classic BY

ERIC GOLDWEIN STAFF WRITER

Team Maryland’s Rasheed Gillis dropped back, inching toward his own goal line, then zeroing in on the football as Pennsylvania’s quarterback floated a pass toward the end zone. This was uncharted territory for the Northwest High School linebacker, known more for his blitzing than his coverage, but it was exactly what he’d been preparing for in the days leading up to the 57th Big 33 Football Classic. And so, in what would be the final play of Saturday’s doubleovertime thriller, Gillis timed his jump perfectly and came down with the game-ending interception, helping Maryland escape Hersheypark Stadium with a 3124 victory. “The ball was up in the air, so I just went for it,” said Gillis, one of nine Montgomery County players representing Team Maryland. “... I’m usually a blitz guy but I’ve been working on it all week and I got it down now. I just wanted to make that play to secure the win for my teammates.” It’s an historic victory for Maryland, its first since 1991. The

team returned to the Big 33 last summer after a 21-year hiatus, only to lose 58-27. If not for Gillis’ interception — and the go-ahead 25-yard touchdown pass from Antwaine Carter (Westlake) to Reggie White Jr. (Milford Mill) in the preceding double-overtime possession — this one could have turned out worse for Maryland, which blew a 24-0 ﬁrst-half lead. But behind its defense, the road team regrouped in overtime and staved off Pennsylvania’s comeback bid. “It means a lot. Everybody was against us basically. We were the underdogs,” said defensive back Anthony Chesley (Gwynn Park), who broke up ﬁve passes. “Everybody thought they were going to win because of past years but the team stepped up and made history.” Maryland moves to 3-7 against Pennsylvania in the Big 33. “This is really what we needed in Maryland,” said Maryland coach Brian Van Deusen (River Hill) “A lot of these guys when they were invited to play, they didn’t know what it was, because Pennsylvania played Ohio for so many years. For us to win a game like this, I think it’ll be a lot easier to get top guys. The kids are going to want to play in this.” Marquel Dickerson (North

Point) opened up the scoring with a 72-yard touchdown run and Maryland went ahead 10-0 after Alex Potocko’s (River Hill) 39yard ﬁeld goal. Chesley broke up a pass on Pennsylvania’s ensuing possession, forcing a turnover on downs, and Maryland added to its lead with Jalen Jones’ 14-yard touchdown pass to Kevin Joppy (Quince Orchard). Later in the second quarter, Josh Woods (McDonogh), the Player of the Game, returned an interception for a touchdown that put Maryland ahead 24-0. Pennsylvania slowly trimmed the lead, eventually tying the game on a 29-yard ﬁeld goal from Joe Julius (Lower Dauphin) late in the fourth quarter. “Everybody was falling apart but during the [overtime] break we had to bring everybody together and tell them we got to lock it down,” Gillis said. And that they did, holding Pennsylvania scoreless in both overtime periods and ending the 23-year drought. “I don’t think I could [think of a better way to end high school football,] said Gillis, who won the 2013 Class 4A state championship with Northwest. “This was like the best experience of my life.” egoldwein@gazette.net

Blair wraps up summer football league The Montgomery Blair High School Summer Passing League wrapped up its season Sunday with an overtime-ﬁlled playoffs,

ending with the Our Lady of Good Counsel football team winning the championship. Good Counsel defeated Paint Branch 27-26 (OT) in Sunday’s title game, advancing to the ﬁnals after an overtime victory against Sherwood in the semiﬁnals. The

Panthers needed a close victory against Walter Johnson in the semiﬁnals. Blair went 5-5 in the summer league season and just missed out on the playoffs. But it wasn’t about winning or losing, Blair coach Andrew Fields said.

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Trying for the Olympics Northwest High graduate earns spot on U.S. national team

BY KENT ZAKOUR STAFF WRITER

Bianca Dalal may have discovered rugby by accident. As a freshman at Penn State University she was in search of a way to get into and stay in shape for the club soccer team. So, the 2010 Northwest High School graduate sent emails to the various club sport coaches on campus. But since it was in the middle of the academic year, only two coaches responded to her inquiries: the fencing women’s rugby coach, Pete Steinberg. The rest, as the adage goes, is history. Dalal left the area on June 8 and is currently training at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif., as a member of the USA Women’s Eagles Sevens national team that hopes to qualify and compete in the 2016 summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Northwest High School and Penn State University graduate Bianca Dalal has been selected to USA Rugby’s Sevens national team. She expects to be on the roster for the 2016 Summer Olympics Brazil. The International Olympic Committee announced in 2009 the sport was returning to competition; rugby was last contested in the 1924 Olympics. Dalal, however, might not have become one of about 20 contracted Olympic hopefuls if not for

a conversation she had with Steinberg early in her rugby career. “My coach told me freshman year when I ﬁrst started that making the Olympics — being on the USAEaglesSevensteam—should be my goal,” Dalal, who graduated in May with a degree in econom-

ics, said during a June 7 phone interview. “I was just blown away — having never played rugby before — that someone thought that should be a goal of mine. ... I’ve just worked toward that since and honestly this is a dream, I didn’t think it would actually come true and I am still partly in shock.” At Penn State, Dalal played on the Lady Ruggers seven-players-a-side and more traditional 15-a-side teams. The sport, at University Park, is considered a member of Penn State’s athletic department as a Team Sport. The program, which is supported primarily by alumni donors, does not offer scholarships or have varsity status, but competes nationally and the time commitment is often compared to that of a traditional NCAA Division I sport. Dalal, who has played wing, fullback and scrum-half, was a key component in helping the programwinthreeconsecutive(201214) Women’s Division I National Championship tournaments. In May, they defeated Stanford 38-0 to cap a dominant tournament run in which they outscored four opponents 293-15.

But it was her performance at last fall’s sevens national championships that got the attention of USA Rugby. She then received an email in November inviting her to try out for the team. Dalal attended a few more camps before earning her spot in April; right before college ﬁnal exams were set to begin. “Bianca is a very quick natural athlete and has a very good side step,” said Steinberg, who added that of the 60 girls in his program about one-third of them, like Dalal, start without any previous rugby experience. “She’s always been good with the ball in her hands, but where she’s really improved and really developed is in the contact area. Her biggest challenge was tackling and taking contact with the ball. And over the past 18 months or two years, she’s really come along as one of our best players.” Added Dalal: “Coach really helped me with the process. The bonds that I’ve created with my teammates are so strong and I’ll never forget them. I played many sports and I’ve never experienced such strong bonds. My team

at Penn State is my family; the coaching staff at Penn State is unbelievable.” At Northwest, Dalal played several sports, including soccer, basketball, softball, lacrosse and diving. And she credits all of her high school coaches for her success. “Every coach taught me something different that I still carry with me today,” she said. “... I really want to thank all of them because they are a big reason [for her rugby accomplishments]. Until the 2016 Olympics Dalal hopes to be focusing on rugby every day. Following that, she is unsure of her career path. After all, she did turn down an economicsrelated job in Hawaii to represent the U.S. “I guess we will see, it’s to be continued,” Dalal said. “I want to have a career and transition into that, but right now, I love rugby and that’s all I am focused on. ... I’m really looking forward to wearing a USA jersey.” kzakour@gazette.net

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Screaming Eagles bring in new quarterback BY

ERIC GOLDWEIN STAFF WRITER

Coming off a 7-3 season, the Seneca Valley High School football team returns with an offense laden with underclassmen. But though it’s a young offense on paper — only one senior played in the 7-on-7 passing league — the players aren’t equating youth with inexperience. “All those young guys that I’m with on the skill positions, they all got their playing time last year,” rising senior receiver Andrew Magnuson said.

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Seneca Valley High School rising sophomore running back Adrian Feliz-Platt is expected to be one of the team’s key offensive contributors in the fall. “They’re young but they’ve had the varsity experience in

tough games and close games. So they know what it’s like.”

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Sophomore tailback Adrian Feliz-Platt and fellow sophomore quarterback Zack Robinson — the replacement for outgoing senior Calvin Reighard — are expected to lead the offense, which averaged 34 points per game last season. “[The inexperience] doesn’t really show,” FelizPlatt said. “Last year our senior class helped us out a lot, they let us know what to do.” Robinson has big shoes to fill; Reighard, a two-year starter was an All-Gazette honorable mention last season. But the dual-threat quarterback has the talent and athleticism to step in to the starting spot, Seneca Valley coach Fred Kim said. “He’s very quick, tremendous athlete, tremendous

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arm,” Kim said. He’ll be aided by a seniorladen offensive line and a talented backﬁeld, with FelizPlatt expected to shoulder a heavier load and take some of the pressure off of the new quarterback. The speedy running back had 14 rushing touchdowns as a freshman last season. “[He] certainly has the ability to take it to the house at any moment,” Kim said. The Screaming Eagles and their revamped offense struggled at times during the Seneca Valley High School Summer Passing League but also showed flashes of their potential. Though Robinson wasn’t mistake-free, he progressed during the 7-on-7 games and handled the pressure well, Magnuson said.

“You can tell he’s young when sometimes the pass isn’t open and he’ll try to make the play happen,” Magnuson said. “… But he doesn’t make the same mistakes twice. He deﬁnitely learns from them so that’s why I think he’ll be able to step up.” Added Kim: “He’s eager to learn, he wants to get better. He listens well and he’s coachable. He makes a few mistakes from time to time but he gets better every game. We see that progression.” Seneca Valley’s Week 1 game is scheduled for Sept. 5 at Wheaton. In the months leading up to the season-opener the young offense is focused on developing chemistry, Feliz-Platt said. “Basically just trusting in each other,” Feliz-Platt said. “If everyone has each other’s trust you can just look to the player next to you, and know he’s going to do his job and you’ll be ﬁne.” egoldwein@gazette.net

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Return of the ‘docs’

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Filmmakers Justin Weinstein and Tyler Measom come to the 2014 AFI DOCS Festival with “An Honest Liar,” a ﬁlm following James “The Amazing” Randi’s mission to expose illusionists using their skills at deception to fool, not amaze.

AFI documentaries will be shown in Silver Spring BY

KIRSTY GROFF STAFF WRITER

When filmmaker Tyler Measom attended the American Film Institute’s 2011 Silverdocs film festival in Silver Spring, he arrived hoping to garner support for his latest film pitch — and walked away with a new production partner. Measom and Justin Weinstein co-directed “An Honest Liar,” one of dozens of entries in the same local documentary festival this year, now known as AFI Docs, taking place from June 1822. “Film festivals are wonderful, they’re fantastic,” Measom said. “You run into so many like-minded individuals, people who are in the same boat as you making films. This project, the reason it’s so good is that I met [Weinstein] at this festival.” Connecting with others, whether fellow producers or policymakers, is one of the main goals of the festival, particularly in recent years. The annual event began in 2003 as Silverdocs, and screenings took place in Silver Spring. AFI

increased the festival’s scope and added Washington, D.C., venues in 2013, renaming it to reflect the expanded range. Though many of this year’s festival screenings occur at the AFI Silver Theatre in downtown Silver Spring, films will also appear at the National Portrait Gallery, Goethe-Institut, and The Naval Heritage Center Theatre. AFI Docs accepts submissions from across the globe. Volunteer screeners take on the nearly 2,000 submissions and narrow them down for a screening committee that watches the contenders from start to finish. “We are looking for phenomenal films that are representative of the world — different issues, different topics, different tones,” said Head Programmer Andrea Passafiume, who has worked with the festival for five years. “Sometimes it’s a slam dunk, you want to call them right away, and other times they generate a bit more controversy and divide people more, which is interesting and we debate about the

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These aren’t your parents’ puppets! Olney Theatre Center presents the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical that became a phenomenon in “Avenue Q.” The show, which satirizes popular children’s programs, features songs such as “The Internet is for Porn,” and “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist.” 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.

STAN BAROUH SAM LUDWIG STARS AS PRINCETON IN OLNEY THEATRE CENTER’S PRODUCTION OF “AVENUE Q.”

The Devil You Know

Singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones, a twotime Grammy Award winner, is set to play at the Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club in Bethesda on Sunday, June 22. Jones deﬁes convention with her sometimes

brazen sexuality and the mixed bag of jazz, rock and ‘confessional’ songwriter performances. Her latest album “The Devil You Know” is produced by Ben Harper. For information, visit bethesdabluesjazz.com.

All-Inclusive Artstream’s eighth season wraps up with two original productions, “The Super and the Mundane,” and “Hotel Times.” The family-

friendly show begins on Thursday at the Round House Silver Spring. For more information, visit art-stream.org.

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18, “step of the evening” Tango mini-lesson at 8:15 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8:30 p.m. ($16); June 19, Tea Dance from 12:303:30 p.m. ($6); June 27, West Coast Swing Dancing with Dance Jam Productions at 9 p.m. Drop in lessons 7:30 p.m. until 9 pm. ($15); June 28, Latin Night with Mr. Mambo, 8 p.m. until 10 p.m. workshops, 10 p.m. until 2 a.m. dance ($18 for workshop and dance; $15 for dance only after 10 p.m.); June 29, Social Ballroom Dance at 8 p.m., free Tango lesson at 7 p.m. ($16); July 2, Social Ballroom Dance at 8:30 p.m., “step of the evening” Salsa mini-lesson at 8:15 p.m. ($16); July 3; Tea Dance from 12:30 p.m. until 3:30 p.m. ($6); 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 20, Brian Hamshar calls to Ken & Brad Kolodner with Brad Kolodner on banjo and fiddle, Ken Kolodner on hammered dulcimer and fiddle and Alex Lacquement on bass, 7:30 p.m. lesson, 8:30 p.m. dance, Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $10, www.fridaynightdance.org. Contra & Square, 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 18, Caller: Bob Farrell; June 25; Special Newcomers Evening led by caller Susan Taylor 8 p.m., Glen Echo Town Hall (upstairs), www.fsgw. org. Swing, July 12, Boilermaker Jazz Band, lesson at 8 p.m., dancing at 9 p.m., Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $15, www.flyingfeet.org. Waltz, June 29, Addison Bleufonte, lesson from 2:45-3:30 p.m., dancing to live music from 3:30-6

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film.” Because of the festival’s proximity to the nation’s capital, many attendees are involved in politics or policy, and possess the power to work on issues raised by the featured documentaries. However, that doesn’t mean AFI Docs ignores films such as character pieces or music genre studies. “Bronx Obama,” about a single father who became a professional impersonator of the commander in chief, plays at the same time as “1971,” highlighting a break-in at an FBI field office in Philadelphia. The story of artistic director for Christian Dior Raf Simons preparing for his first haute couture collection in “Dior and I” is followed by “Virunga,” a film about Africa’s oldest national park that has the last natural habitat for mountain gorillas. Where does “An Honest Liar,” a film following illusionist James “The Amazing” Randi in his attempts to quash the work of con artists using the same tricks, fall along the spectrum? Though the film focuses on Randi and his work, the larger message comes with a potential lesson for audience members. The film’s overall theme of deception and the varying ways human beings deceive others or are tricked comes in part from Measom’s upbringing in the Mormon faith, which he has since left. “I feel there’s a part of me that spent my whole life being deceived, and it pisses me off a little bit,” he said. “I kind of went into this film, about a man who does everything he can to stop or expose deception, with the hope that people come out and think, ‘Is there a part of my life where I am being lied to,’ or doing the lying.” Films such as “An Honest Liar” highlight people and places that the casual viewer may have never heard of; Measom himself felt lucky that no one else had covered Randi in a film before. Filmmakers strive to bring their subjects

p.m., $10, www.waltztimedances. org.

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Opening Act, Andy Poxon Band, 7:30 p.m. June 18; Bria Skonberg, 8 p.m. June 19; JR Cline & The Recliners with special guest Julia Nixon, 8 p.m. June 20; Sunday Brunch with Joan Crowe & The Charlie Banett Trio, 10 a.m. until 1 p.m., June 22; Rickie Lee Jones, 8:30 p.m., June 22; Cooper Sloan Band, 8 p.m., June 23; Rick Estrin & The Nightcats featuring Cathy Ponton King, 7:30 p.m., June 24, call for prices,7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. 240-330-4500, www. bethesdabluesjazz.com. BlackRock Center for the Arts, The Crawdaddies – Free Summer Concert, 8 p.m. June 28, 12901 Town Commons Drive, Germantown. 301-528-2260, www.blackrockcenter.org. Fillmore Silver Spring, Yandel US Tour, June 20, 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. www.ﬁllmoresilverspring.com. Strathmore, Afternoon Tea, 1 p.m., June 18; AIR Series - Amadou Kouyate, 7:30 p.m., June 18; Specialty Tea: Authors Tea, 1 p.m., June 24, 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,” to July 6, call for prices, times, 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney, 301-924-3400, www. olneytheatre.org. The Puppet Co., “The Wizard of Oz,” 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.

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Round House Theatre, Bethesda, “Ordinary Days,” to June 29, 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. 240-644-1100, www. roundhousetheatre.org. Round House Theatre, Silver Spring, “Fool for Love,” Sept. 3–27, 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, 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 Birch, to June 29, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, second ﬂoor, 8230 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, www.washingtonprintmakers. com.

AFI DOCS n When: June 18-22, varying times n Where: AFI Silver Theatre, Naval Heritage Center’s Burke Theater, National Portrait Gallery’s Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium, GoetheInstitut, National Archives and Records Administration n Tickets: $14 each for screenings on Saturday, Sunday and after 6 p.m. on weekdays; $11 each Thursday and Friday before 6 p.m.; order online n For information: aﬁ.com/aﬁdocs

PHOTO BY ORLANDO VON EINSIEDEL

Orlando von Einsiedel explores Africa’s oldest national park and effects on the local gorillas of oil company attempts to drill in “Virunga” at the 2014 AFI DOCS Festival. to light, no matter their overall significance in the grand scheme of life. “A good teacher can make absolutely any subject interesting, while a bad teacher can make any boring and painful — and I think it’s the same with filmmaking,” said Passafiume. “Audiences are looking to be engrossed in an incredible story — if the storytelling is good, anything can be enthralling.” Through AFI Docs, producers and directors can connect their audiences with global issues while making connections to others who can further their own goal, whether it’s a new project or assistance with a previous film subject. Even if the format of AFI Docs feels different to community members familiar

with Silverdocs procedure, the overall mission remains. “It will always be a balanced, eclectic program from all over the world,” said Passafiume, “one where issues get heard and discussed and hopefully generate some meaningful relationships that continue beyond the festival.” “It is unquestionably one of the most important documentary ﬁlm festivals in the world,” Measom added. “That’s where the engagement happens, that’s where the outreach happens between ﬁlmmakers and commissioning editors but also politicians and people who affect change. And that’s ultimately why we make documentaries.” kgroff@gazette.net

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There is nothing fake about UltraFaux Baltimore-based band plays music inspired by gypsy jazz great

KIRSTY GROFF STAFF WRITER

Not every band less than six months old can release a fulllength album and plan several regional tours. UltraFaux, however, is not like every band — or any band, for that matter. The Baltimore-based gypsy jazz trio formed in January 2014 and didn’t let age get in the way of putting out their selftitled debut on April 1, weeks after laying down the tracks. UltraFaux consists of Michael Joseph Harris and Sami Arefin on guitar and Eddie Hrybyk playing upright bass. The group has played several shows in the area and will bring their unique jazz sound to New Deal Cafe on June 24. Gypsy jazz, or jazz manouche, was made popular through the early 20th century work of guitarist Django Reinhardt, whose use of the Selmer guitar in his swing-meets-Mediterranean created a sound and style brand new while entirely familiar to the listener. “This music allows people to re-experience what swing and jazz are and all the ways these styles work together in this really raw way,” Harris said. Though Arefin and Hrybyk both attended music school, Harris went professional after playing in his high school jazz band. Though he attended school for philosophy at George Mason University and studied with musician Jack Petersen in Texas, Harris spent most of his time performing at different clubs and bars in the metropolitan area and later Baltimore. It was only a year and a half ago that he got into the gypsy jazz style. Harris filled in for Arefin — who he had not yet met — at a local gig for Brooklyn-based Mary Alouette. Once the Selmer was placed in his hands, he was hooked. He con-

Instrumental gypsy funk group UltraFaux formed in January 2014 and is currently made up of (from left) Sami Areﬁn on guitar, Eddie Hrybyk on upright bass and Michael Joseph Harris on guitar. MICHAEL JOSEPH HARRIS

DESIGN BY MANDY STAFFORD

The gypsy funk trip UltraFaux held a contest where a fan could design their ﬁrst album cover. Winner Mandy Stafford received $100 and the privilege of having her art become used on the band’s debut, available on CD, vinyl and digitally.

ULTRAFAUX PERFORMANCE n When: 7 p.m., Tuesday n Where: New Deal Cafe, 113 Centerway, Roosevelt Center, Greenbelt n Tickets: Free admission

tinued practicing, eventually meeting the man he subbed for, his eventual collaborator. “Finally I met Sami and he schooled me — I finally met someone who knew more than I did, and he was able to educate me in it,” Harris said. “I think he got a lot from my approach to improvisation and confidence and we fed off of each other.” Prior to organizing UltraFaux, the duo performed in a Django tribute band Hot Club of Baltimore, meeting other musicians along the way. In January, Harris got a rush of inspiration and wrote some original pieces. Those songs would become the tracks for their first CD as UltraFaux. The group launched a Kickstarter to drum up support and funds. Although they originally

set a $5,000 fundraising target, the group later decreased their goal to $3,000. Whether it went well or not would remain to be seen for several weeks, but that didn’t stop Harris’ plans. “I had already scheduled the studio time at Negative Space Studios,” he admitted. “I gambled, just started the process anyway not knowing if the Kickstarter worked.” As it turned out, the band not only met but surpassed their goal, raising $4,200 for the CD’s, vinyl LPs and digital downloads of the self-titled album, as well as a limited run of T-shirts. They recorded the album in March and released it to the public less than a month later. In addition to shows around Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and the surrounding areas, UltraFaux hopes to tour North and

South Carolina as well as New York City, and they hope to one day take their act internationally. Wherever they play, their audience seems to dig their unique sound. “What’s weird is it’s almost familiar, but the audience doesn’t necessarily know where it comes from,” he said. “Young people show up and have no idea what this music is at all, but they like it.” Throughout it all, Harris and his bandmates keep Django’s work in mind as inspiration for performances and future songs. Harris and Arefin will attend Django in June, a festival in Amherst, Mass., which will allow the two to come together with other

n More information: facebook.com/UltraFaux; 301-474-5642

musicians around the country inspired by the guitarist’s work. Their love for Django, they hope, comes through in their sound and performances. “I hope the audience experiences a little of what Django achieved,” said Harris, “which was miraculous in the sense that he brought together gypsy folk, drawing on a ton of styles like Roma culture and musette, and all of that Mediterranean inﬂuence, with jazz. He noodled around and fused east and west together in this style. He changed guitar and jazz forever.”

Potentially, the group can bridge the gap in modern jazz appreciation, in an age where some younger listeners associate jazz with old-fashioned music and can’t connect with the genre, much like Django brought the east to the west. “A lot of jazz has been watered down and made to be a high art, which it is in some ways, but it’s not always meant to be played on a stuffy stage,” he said. “It’s social music, bottom line, and gypsy jazz brings it more into that realm.” kgroff@gazette.net

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CMMS of Germantown/ Rockville is looking for qualified: * Directors * Montessori Certified Teachers * Assistant Teachers 90 hours certification and Bachelors Degree Preferred.

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Responsible for hiring, firing, training, scheduling, financial reporting, client satisfaction, inventory. Great communicator and driving record, background check must be completed, salary, bonus, auto allowance, health insurance, etc.Join the areas best janitorial management team. Please send resumes to apply4jobs@pmmcompanies.com

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Perform yr-rnd accting & tax support for businesses. Prep monthly/quarterly/annual multistate sales & used tax rtrns, payroll w/holding tax rtrns & related payroll tax reconciliation. Assist & prep Fed & State Income tax rtrns for indiv & corp clients. Prep & adj accting journal entries & trial balance, acct & bank reconciliation. Prep various tax scheds & analysis of significant acct balance. Research tax compliances & apply GAAP. MS in Business & Mngmt. Knwldg of &/or exp w/accting SW incl Intuit QuickBooks, MS Excel & Access. Able to read, speak & write Mandarin Chinese. Resumes to job loc.: Sung & Company LLC DBA H&R Block, Attn: T. Sung, 451 Hungerford Dr, Ste 518, Rockville, MD 20850.

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Exp/Entry Biller Needed.Charge posting, A/R, Charge and payment posting for a Large Cardiology Practice in Mont. Co. FT/Benefits offered.

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CARPENTERS

CWC Remodeling, Inc. looking for carpenters, w/a min of 5 yrs exp. Send resume and salary requirements to cwc.inc@comcast.net

COLLECTOR AND CLERK

Gaithersburg collection law firm seeking an experienced collector with a solid academic and employment background with good communication skills and an entry level clerical assistant proficient in Excel and Word. As a condition of employment, the applicant must successfully pass a criminal background and drug screening. Please submit resumes to jjohnson@randclegal.com.

Graphic Designer, FT

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. Three years of experience is preferred, and familiarity with newspaper layout is a plus. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills and demonstrate a high level of customer service. Must work efficiently in a deadline-driven environment, both independently and as part of a team, taking direction and feedback from multiple sources. An advanced sense of typography, the ability to create compelling info-graphics and color correct images, as well as a thorough knowledge of print production are required. Must be highly proficient in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator. This person will also be responsible for posting daily to the web. Comprint Military Publications offers excellent benefits, including medical and dental coverage, life insurance, 401(k) and tuition reimbursement. Salary commensurate with experience.

Dental/ Medical Assistant Trainees Needed Now Dental/Medical Offices now hiring. No experience? Job Training & Placement Assistance Available 1-888-818-7802

HVAC SERVICE TECH/INSTALLER

3 yrs exp in the field, apprentice license & CFC license.Service area located the DC Metro region, Montgomery, Frederick, & Carroll counties. Call us @ (301) 831-0300. More information visit gazette/careers.

F/T position. Duties will include scheduling, registration of patients, handling payments, contacting patients, handling phone calls, etc.Office hours are Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm.Fax your resume to 410-761-5484. More info visit gazette/careers.

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Beautiful, NAEYC accredited childcare center in downtown Bethesda seeks experienced, qualified Infant and Toddler teachers. Applicant must have 90 hour course and experience working in a licensed childcare center. Please call us at 301656-5056 or send your resume to eastwest@thechildrenintheshoe.com.

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Nine attorney AV Rated Rockville law firm seeks detail-oriented, responsible person with a willingness to learn for this entry level position. Health, vacation, sick leave & matching 401(k). Email resume to: jobs@andersonquinn.com

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. Responsibilities include working with and supervising a crew of 5, routine maintenance for 8 apartment complexes in MD and VA, maintaining equipment and coordinating purchases of all materials needed to complete jobs on schedule and within budget. Applicant must have knowledge of plant, flower and tree installation, have a clean driving record, and be highly organized and flexible. Benefits include a vehicle, life insurance, health insurance, and a 401-K plan. Please contact Anne at 301-509-8656 for more information.

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. We offer a competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, pension, 401(k) and tuition reimbursement. If interested, please email resume, 3 writing samples that have not been edited and salary requirements to: jrives@dcmilitary.com . Position Location: Pentagram Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall 204 Lee Avenue Building 59, Room 116 Fort Myer, VA 22211-1199 EOE

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Press Technician

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. We offer a competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, pension, 401(k) and tuition reimbursement. 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

To reserve space call: 800-448-9110 ext. 150 OR email: cindy@pennline.com EOE/AA/D/M/F/H/V

Frederick based import company is seeking an energetic person to assist the marketing department. Responsibilities include Power Point presentations, sending/receiving product samples, processing dot com orders and other duties as assigned. Must be computer savvy including Power Point, Word and Excel. QuickBooks experience desirable. Some travel may be required. Hours MF, 8:30-5:30. Great salary and benefits including health insurance & vacation. Please email resume to: hrdeptt@chesapeakemerch.com

Seeking Full Time cleaners for Mont. Co. Mon-Fri Only. No Weekends! PAID weekly Plus Bonuses Paid vacations & Holidays! MUST Have car & valid DL. Bi-Lingual a Plus! Will Train. 301-740-8101 or email name & Number to TCACLEAN@aol.com

Be trained individually by one of the area’s top offices & one of the area’s best salesman with over 34 years. New & experienced salespeople welcomed.

Holiday Inn 5400 Holiday Drive, Frederick, MD 21703 Tuesday, June 24th; 5-8pm

Marketing Assistant

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Guiderail & Heavy Highway Work On-site Interviews for Exp. Foremen, Pounder Operators and CDL "A" Drivers

Send resume, three recent design samples and salary requirements to: mminar@dcmilitary.com

HOUSE CLEANERS

Stone Shooters, Inc. (Woodbine) is a leader in the aggregate placing industry. We are seeking a CDL Class B dump/slinger truck driver. Qualified applicant will possess a clean CDL driving record, exp. w/ a dump truck, and be self motivated. If interested, contact Jason at 410-5524383.

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REGISTERED NURSE/ CHARGE-PSYCH

Full-Time - Day/Evening Rotating Shift - 2:30-11 p.m., with some weekends; part of multi-disciplinary team working w/ emotionally disturbed adolescents. Nurses work closely with other members of a treatment team (counselors, psychiatrists, therapists and educators.) Psychiatric experience w/adolescents required. Current active MD nursing license required. Generous Paid leave & other excellent MD State benefits. Salary negotiable pursuant to experience from $55,000 + shift differential. Send resume w/cover memo to: John L. Gildner RICA, Human Resources, 15000 Broschart Road, Rockville, MD 20850 - Fax: 301-251-6815 (through June 25th) Or e-mail to demetra.swarr@maryland.gov EEO

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Avoid high down payments

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Purchase gap insurance

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Buy extra miles in advance

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19,149 1.9% Financing Available

09 Honda Accord LX #433072B, $$ Automatic 47K Miles

14,990

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24,455

Manual Transmision

1.9% Financing Available

07 Nissan Maxima SL #449598B, $$ Automatic,

14,990

41K Miles

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08LincolnMRX #472317B, $$ 99k Miles, Automatic

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2014 JETTA S

2014 GOLF 2.5L 4 DOOR

2014 BEETLE 2.5L

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02 Toyota Sequoia SR5 $$ #477504D,

11 Honda Civic LX #464008A, $$ Automatic

13 Hyundai Sonata LTD #470517A, 20K $ $

13 Toyota Sienna L #460097A, $ Certified, 11K Miles, $

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12,998

19,990

14,990

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24,990

2010 Toyota Tacoma............. $14,990 $14,990 #467142A, 4X2, 49K Miles, Automatic

13 Toyota Corolla #E0340, $$ Certified 34k Miles

15,990

11 Toyota Camry SE #R1806, Ato, 8K Miles

17,490

2011 Subaru Forester 2.5X Ltd.. $19,990 $19,990 #467110A, 69K Miles, Automatic

2011 Honda Civic LX............. $14,990 $14,990 #464008A,Auto, 32K Miles

$22,990 2011 Nissan Murano........... $22,990 #477422A, 55K Miles, CVT Transmission

2013 Kia Soul.................... $16,990 $16,990 #467126B, 19K Miles, Automatic

2013 Toyota Tacoma........... $24,900 $24,900 #R1784, 4WD, Xtra Cab,Automatic Transmission, 10K Miles

2013 Toyota Corolla.............. $15,990 $15,990 #E0339, 32K Miles, Automatic 2012 MiniCooper Hardtop....... $17,990 $17,990 #477449A, 26K Miles, Automatic 2011 Hyundai Santa Fe GLS..... $17,990 $17,990 #453027A, 29K Miles

2013 Honda Odyssey EXL..... $28,990 $28,990 #460117A,Auto, 19K Miles, 1 Owner 2014 Toyota Tundra SR5......... $30,990 $30,990 #460155A, Dbl Cab, 4x4, 621 Miles, Automatic

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2014 JETTA SEDAN TDI 2014 BEETLE CONVERTIBLE

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MSRP 24,715 $

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21,299

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23,829

OURISMAN VW WORLD AUTO CERTIFIED PRE OWNED 22 Available...Rates Starting at 2.64% up to 72 months

1999 Golf HB......#V207101A, Red, 89,501 Miles........................$5,991 2004 Saturn ION CPE......#V239376B, Silver, 107,624 Miles.......$5,994 2005 Golf TDI.............#V284611A, Silver, 165,405 Miles...........$7,992 2011 Jetta S....#V250705A, Black, 67,998 Miles................$11,491 2008 Ford Mustang....#V088075A, Black, 82,755 Miles....$13,991 2010 Jetta...............#VP0061, Silver, 48,370 Miles............$14,491 2011 Jetta SE.....#9106430A, Black, 54,780 Miles..................$14,591 2012 Honda Civic LX.....#V535112A, Blue, 43,615 Miles........$14,591 2012 Honda Civic CPE.....#V290663A, Black, 37,609 Miles....$14,991 2013 Passat CPO. ....#VPR0053, Maroon, 46,478 Miles...........$15,992 2012 Beetle CPE........#V230683A, Black, 19,974 Miles..............$16,492

2013 Beetle MT/CPO.....#V063133A, Black, 7,112 Miles...........$16,994 2013 Beetle CPO.......#V000536A, Black, 10,333 Miles.............$17,492 2010 CC Sedan........#V043167A, Island Gray, 65,572 Miles..........$17,991 2012 Jeep Liberty 4WD.....#V6113A, White, 26,187 Miles.........$17,496 2011 Tiguan SE............#VP0062, Red, 30,864 Miles.................$18,991 2011 Jetta TDI.............#VP0059, Black, 41,750 Miles................$18,992 2012 Jetta TDI MT......#V273915A, Red, 40,603 Miles...............$18,992 2009 BMW 3-Series. .#V070130A, Gray, 41,804 Miles..............$19,491 2013 Passat SE...........#VPR0060, White, 6,093 Miles...............$21,912 2013 GTI HB..................#V010407A, Red, 8,460 Miles............$24,991 2012 Honda CR-V EX-L.....#V274812A, Silver, 34,278 Miles.......$25,995

All prices exclude tax, tags, title, freight and $200 processing fee. Cannot be combined with any previous advertised or internet special. Pictures are for illustrative purposes only. See dealer for details. 0% APR Up To 60 Months on all models. See dealer for details. Ourisman VW World Auto Certified Pre Owned financing for 60 months based on credit approval thru VW. Excludes Title, Tax, Options & Dealer Fees. Special APR financing cannot be combined with sale prices. Ends 06/30/14.

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2011 Nissan Altima

18,977

#P8983, Automatic, Leather, 1-Owner

2011 Lexus CT

24,977

2013 Mini Cooper S

22,977

#P8951, Only 3,800 $ Miles, Pano Roof, Turbocharged, 1-Owner

2011 Nissan Maxima 3.5SV

24,977

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2013 Audi A4 Premium #E0341, Sunroof, Automatic, 1-Owner

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2014 NISSAN PATHFINDER S 4X4

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2009 Pontiac G6 Sedan #340192A, Automatic, LTD Avail, Nuance Leather

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DARCARS VOLVO OF ROCKVILLE 2002 Volvo S60 Sedan

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#P9012, Manual, 13k Miles, 1-Owner

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#E0312, 43k Miles

#426069A, FWD, Auto, 1-Owner

2012 Fiat 500 M/T Crossover

2012 Honda Civic LX

#E0309, 43k Miles, 1-Owner

2012 Toyota Camry LE

#426046A, Auto, 25K miles, Silver, 1-Owner

18,980

2011 Honda CRV EX-L

22,480

#422001A, 22k Miles

12,980

2012 Chevy Captiva

14,580

2013 Hyundai Genesis

20,980

#E0307, 29k Miles, 1-Owner

2005 Ford Thunderbird

23,980

#526016A, 50th Anniversary Coupe, V8, 30k Miles, 3.9L DOHC

2010 Jeep Compass

#460053C,SportSUV, Auto,BrightSilver,2.4L

13,990

2010 Ford Escape

15,980

#526902A, 61k Miles

2011 Infiniti G25 Sedan

#P9028, 1-Owner, Auto, 42K miles, Blue Slate

21,980

2012 Volvo S60 Sedan

#P9029, Auto, T5, Moonroof, 28K miles, Certified, 1-Owner

24,680

2012 Mazda I Touring.........................................................$13,980 2013 Subaru Outback.......................................................$23,980 #E0313, 39k Miles

#E0318, Premium Wagon, Twilight Blue, 1-Owner, 28k Miles

2011 Volvo V50 T5 Wagon...........................................$21,480 2012 Volvo S60 T5 Sedan............................................$24,998 #P8994, Auto, Certified, 1-Owner, Titanium Grey

#P9037, Silver, 1-Owner, Auto, 2.5L 5-Cyl Turbocharged

2008 BMW 3 Series...............................................................$23,452 2011 Land Rover LR2........................................................$25,480

#526632C, Titanium Silver, 48K Miles, Manual

#P8964, Auto, HSE SUV

2010 Volvo S80 Turbo Sedan.................................$23,980 2012 Mercedes Benz C250.......................................$25,480 #426014A, I6, Auto, 46K Miles, 1-Owner, Certified

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2014 NEW COROLLA LE

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15,890

AFTER $500 REBATE

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169/mo.**

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NEW 2014.5 CAMRY LE

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PRICES AND PAYMENTS INCLUDE ANY APPLICABLE MANUFACTURE’S REBATES AND EXCLUDE MILITARY ($500) AND COLLEGE GRAD ($500) REBATES, TAX, TAGS, DEALER PROCESSING CHARGE ($200) AND FREIGHT: CARS $795 OR $810, TRUCKS, SPORT UTILITY AND SIENNAS $810, $845 AND $995. *0.9% APR & 0% APR FINANCING UP TO 60 MONTHS TO QUALIFIED BUYERS THRU TOYOTA FINANCIAL SERVICES. TOTAL FINANCED CANNOT EXCEED MSRP PLUS OPTIONS, TAX, AND LICENSE FEES. 0% APR 60 MONTHLY PAYMENTS OF $16.67 FOR EACH $1000 BORROWED. 0.9% APR 60 MONTHLY PAYMENTS OF $17.05 FOR EACH $1000 BORROWED. APR OFFERS ARE NOT VALID WITH ANY OTHER CASH BACK OR LEASE OFFER. NOT ALL BUYERS WILL QUALIFY.**LEASE PAYMENTS BASED ON 36 MONTHS, 12,000 MILES PER YEAR WITH $995 DOWN PLUS $650 ACQUISITION FEE, NO SECURITY DEPOSIT REQUIRED. SEE DEALER FOR COMPLETE DETAILS. 2014 COROLLAU & PRIUS PLUG-IN LEASES ARE FOR 24 MONTHS WITH $995 DOWN. EXPIRES 06/30/2014.

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