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Gaithersburg plans trial quiet zone

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Trafﬁc control markers to be installed at railroad crossing

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Gaithersburg is trying out a new plan that could have train conductors blowing their horns less often at night. The city plans to conduct a trial run at using a median barrier to create a quiet zone near the train tracks where they intersect with Metropolitan Grove Road. Called channelization, the trial involves the placement of plastic trafﬁc control stakes on the median of the road to keep vehicles from swerving around the warning gates, reducing the probability that the train engineer has to sound the horn. Tomasello said the test project will cost less than $1,000. The location was chosen because of its low trafﬁc volume. If the median proves to make a difference, the city then could propose that the Federal Railroad Administration declare the area a quiet zone, meaning conductors should limit the use of train horns from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. Tomasello estimated that his office has received a “couple dozen” complaints from residents, all from members of the Parklands community saying that the train horns were waking them up at night. The neighborhood, which is partially complete, comprises about 400 residential units near Watkins Mill Road, between the CSX tracks and Interstate 270. At a meeting Monday night, the mayor

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Middle schoolers to be measured by progress test n District using test until academic targets developed BY

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Middle school students’ performance will be tracked by the Measures of Academic Progress test as the county’s schools await data from new state assessments. Kimberly Statham — deputy superintendent of teaching, learning and programs for the school system — said in a presentation to the school board Monday that the school system eventually will develop academic targets based on the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness of College and Careers. PARCC will be fully implemented in the school system next school year. “In the meantime, however, we need a high-quality instrument to assess the health of the school system,” she said. “We believe that that instrument is MAP.” The computer-based progress test that assesses math and reading performance already is in use in the school system. This year, however, will mark the ﬁrst time the

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Rock Rowland of Gaithersburg crosses the ﬁnish line after his 50-mile ride in the MoCo Epic Mountain Bike Festival on Sunday at South Germantown Recreational Park. The two-day event featured supported bike rides of varying lengths that took cyclists along trails throughout the county. The event was organized by the Mid-Atlantic Off-Road Enthusiasts. It was originally scheduled for Oct. 12 and Oct. 13, but was postponed due to rain.

Smokers could soon face tougher restrictions in Gaithersburg when choosing to light a cigarette or puff a cigar in outdoor areas of city-owned property. Michele Potter, director of Gaithersburg’s parks and recreation department, presented possible policy options at a City Council meeting Monday night that would put limitations on outdoor spaces where people can smoke when they are on city land. The ban would cover all tobacco products including chewing tobacco, and would potentially exempt city-owned residences like Wells-Robertson House. “The purpose in drafting such a policy honors the right for all employees and visitors to breathe cleaner air and to protect against the adverse effects of second-hand tobacco smoke or environmental tobacco smoke,” Potter said. Current city law only prohibits smoking indoors at city-owned facilities. If the city chooses to pursue the path to legislation, it will have to decide on either a total or partial smoking ban. A total ban would eliminate the right to smoke on all property owned or leased by the city, excluding rights of way. A partial ban would prohibit smoking within 50 feet of any entrance or exit including doors, windows, air ducts or other openings, and at all recreational amenities and facilities, like parks, swimming pools, common areas and city-sponsored functions and festivals. Potter said that while a total ban is clear and sends a positive health message, it excludes the preferences of smokers. Conversely, a partial ban manages to include smokers and protect children, but it

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Character Counts! changes in Gaithersburg Celebration will last throughout October

BY JENN DAVIS STAFF WRITER

The city of Gaithersburg has been celebrating Character Counts! in October since 1996, but this year the program’s subcommittee has introduced a few changes in an effort to keep the community engaged and enthusiastic about the program. “It has been 17 years, so everyone looks forward to a little change in everything,” said Shanthi Srinivasachar, Character Counts! staff liaison. A national ethics program, the Character Counts! coalition has built its foundation upon the

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six pillars of character, which are: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship. On Saturday, volunteers from Wells-Robertson House will be at Lakeforest mall for its Mall-oween event from noon to 3 p.m., handing out Character Counts! candy bags, bookmarks and information. While the program will be nationally recognized Oct. 20-26, Gaithersburg will extend its celebration this year to stretch out over the entire month of October, Srinivasachar said. Thirteen Gaithersburg schools have already committed to participating. Essay and photo contest deadlines were also moved to the beginning of January, a change from mid-September in previous years,

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giving students several months to complete their submissions, instead of only a few weeks. The annual awards reception will be held in February 2014 to accommodate the new deadlines. “It’s always been a challenge for those schools to meet their deadlines right when they start school in September,” said Britta Monaco, a city staff member who presented the new information about the program to the City Council Sept. 16. Christie Meuer, a counselor and leader of the Character Counts! program at Summit Hall Elementary School in Gaithersburg, said she supported contest deadline extensions. “I think it’s deﬁnitely a good

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Reagan Ambrose puts her hand on the pillar of character at Rachel Carson Elementary School during a recent Character Counts! awards ceremony.

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City and Audubon partner to plant trees and clean a stream More than 120 students, volunteers and city staff members trudged through thick mud to plant 165 new trees Friday at a community tree planting behind Casey Community Center in Gaithersburg. The event was just part of a larger project stemming from a $71,628 grant from the Governor’s Stream Restoration Challenge that was awarded to Gaithersburg and the Audubon Naturalist Society. Five acres of trees at 11 different sites within the Muddy Branch Watershed will be planted by next fall to improve the stream’s water quality. “The roots of the tree help to absorb water sitting in the ground and ﬁlter it, and it gets back into the stream much cleaner than if it were to just run right off into the stream,” said Adam Newhart, the city’s public works operations administrator. Volunteers were divided into small groups and assigned a section of trees. To save time, Newhart said, the Department of Public Works prepared for the planting by digging the holes, setting the trees and removing their wire netting. He was pleased with the turnout. “To expose this number of people on one site and one day is

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beneﬁcial for everybody,” he said. Muddy Branch Alliance President Paul Hlavinka said the stream’s water quality has deteriorated since 2008, a problem he attributed to an increase in development. He said he hoped the planting would encourage others to join the cause and plant new tree in their yards and other communal spaces. “This is kind of a shining light in the community of something that could happen elsewhere,” Hlavinka said. “So involving the community and show people how to do it, what the beneﬁts are ... Hopefully, that expands out in to the community.” Gaithersburg staff already have planned a second community tree planting, Nov. 1 at Malcolm King Park.

Free medical screenings offered The All Day Medical Care Clinic in Gaithersburg will provide free medical screenings for local artists during November. The clinic’s Docs for Arts, Caring for the Creative program will sponsor free blood pressure and sugar evaluations for artists who

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Jen Wolfe of the Audubon Naturalist Society of Chevy Chase holds a tree while volunteers ﬁll in dirt during a community tree planting Friday behind the Casey Community Center in Gaithersburg. live in Gaithersburg. Artists should bring a current membership card that shows they belong to an art society or association. Screenings will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays through November, except Thanksgiving, at the All Day Medical Care Clinic, 8945 N. Westland Drive.

Jewish council needs volunteers Seniors looking for volunteer opportunities and those with computer skills to share are needed by the Jewish Council for the Aging to teach computer classes. Classes are designed to help seniors refresh or advance computer skills and learn to use social media. Courses offered are beginner and

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FRIDAY, OCT. 25 Open Mic Night, 5:30 p.m., Whole Foods Market, 316 Kentlands Blvd., Gaithersburg. Free. candace.child@ wholefoods.com.

Meaningful Movies Olney: Gasland, Part 1, 7:30-10 p.m., Bufﬁngton/

REMAX Building Community Room, 3300 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. A look at “fracking” (hydraulic fracturing), a natural-gas pursuit practice that has swept across the United States. Free. 301-570-0923. Celtic Music with Julie Fowlis, 8 p.m., BlackRock Center for the Arts, 12901 Town Commons Drive, Germantown. $32. 240-912-1058.

Indoor yard sale, 8 a.m., Barnesville School of Arts and Sciences, 21830 Peach Tree Road, Dickerson, also 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 27. 301-972-0341. Save Our Streams Workshop, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Lois Green-Sligo Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America, 8721 Snouffer School Road, Gaithersburg. Classroom training in the chapter meeting room will be followed by ﬁeld training in a nearby stream. $25. www.sosworkshop.eventbrite.com. WUMCO Walk and Fall Festival, noon-4 p.m., Whalen Commons, 19701 Fisher Ave., Poolesville. A fundraiser for WUMCO Help, a local organization serving low-income residents. $25 for adults, $15 for youth. www. wumcohelp.org. Love Your Pet Day, noon-5 p.m., Kunzang Palyul Choling Buddhist Temple, 18400 River Road, Poolesville. Enjoy a day of compassionate, joyful, and healthy interaction with pets and the community. $10 per adult, $5 per child. 301-710-6259. Forest Explorer, 1-2 p.m., Black Hill Visitor Center, 20926 Lake Ridge Drive,

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intermediate Windows 7, Microsoft Excel, creating photo books and videos, iPad and more. They are held in Rockville, Gaithersburg and Northern Virginia. Rockville classes are held at the council’s Bronfman Center, 12320 Parklawn Drive, and the Gaithersburg classes are offered at Asbury Methodist Village, 409 Russell Ave. For more information contact Robin Blackman, 240-396-0916, or seniortech@accessjca.org or visit www.AccessJCA.org. The council also is seeking volunteers for its Career Gateway program, which helps people 50 and older enter or return to the workforce. Mentors are needed to help graduates prepare for interviews and offer suggestions. Resume reviewers who can spend two to three hours in a classroom once a month editing resumes also are needed. naturalist for a leisurely kayak or canoe tour of Little Seneca Lake. $30. Register at www.parkpass.org. The Love Ball, 6:30 p.m., Hilton Washington, D.C./Rockville, 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville. Cocktail reception with silent auction followed by threecourse dinner, live auction and music beneﬁting the county Humane Society. $160-230. rsabath@mchumane.org.

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Visitor Center, 20926 Lake Ridge Drive, Boyds. Wear a costume and board the pontoon boat for a spirited ride. $5. Register at www.parkpass.org. Salon Series: Beyond Folk, 3 p.m., Kentlands Mansion, 320 Kent Square Road, Gaithersburg. A fusion of classical, contemporary and experimental chamber music in an intimate salon setting. $23 resident, $25 nonresident. 301-258-6394.

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LOCAL Police arrest teens, others on ﬁrearms, drug charges

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Quince Orchard High School cheerleaders welcomed the JOY cheerleading squad of the Special Olympics of Maryland, Montgomery County Chapter, at a home football game Friday in Gaithersburg. This was the second year of the partnership. Here, Quince Orchard cheerleader Bailey Desroche, 17, (right) of Gaithersburg encourages JOY cheerleader Lexi Tippett, 21, of Damascus before the start of the game. Quince Orchard High School cheerleaders invited the JOY cheerleading squad of the Special Olympics of Maryland, Montgomery County Chapter, to a dinner and a night of cheering at a home football game in Gaithersburg on Friday. The JOY squad, led by head coach Meaghan Smith,

cheered on the sidelines for the ﬁrst half of the game. The county chapter offers 23 sports and leadership programs over four seasons to adults and children with developmental disabilities. — JENN DAVIS

Gaithersburg adding new speed camera location Speed camera will be on Md. 355 southbound near Gaithersburg High School

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Drivers will have to monitor their speed on one more stretch of road in Gaithersburg if they want to avoid getting a ticket. On Monday night, the Gaithersburg mayor and city council voted unanimously to approve a resolution that will allow the city’s police department to place a speed camera in the 500 block of South Frederick Avenue in Gaithersburg, just outside of Gaithersburg High School where the highway intersects with Education Boulevard. The location on Md. 355, which has a speed limit of 35 mph, sees an average of 360 vehicles per hour. According to a

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of Cedar Avenue, which is less than a half-mile from the new location. Scarff said the road needs a second camera because many drivers are slowing down for the first camera and then speeding up once they pass through the zone. “It’s human nature,” he said. “You get past the first speed camera, that slows you down. You’re in a hurry and you want to make up the time you’ve missed from that first speed camera.” Traditional enforcement methods in the area, according to city documents, have had little impact on speeds or collisions because the high traffic volume and road characteristics make it difficult to perform hand-held radar or laser speed enforcement. Lane said the new speed camera will be placed at the location sometime next week, and violators will be issued warnings only for the first 15 days, with all violators after that period receiving a $40 fine.

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speed study in May, an average of 169 vehicles traveled 47 mph or faster during a 24-hour period. “We believe that the placement of a speed camera in this location will help us to better ensure the safety of everyone throughout the corridor,” said Gaithersburg Police Sgt. Scott Scarff. The police department has received complaints about speeding from walkers crossing at the intersection, bicyclists riding along the roadway and students, according to police spokesman Officer Dan Lane. Speed cameras are already located at various places throughout the city. The police department uses five portable cameras that can be deployed at various pre-approved spots, two fixed cameras and two speed camera vans. Tens locations have already been identified for speed-camera use in Gaithersburg, including South Frederick Avenue. A speed camera already sits on southbound Md. 355 at the intersection

When police arrested a Gaithersburg man, his son, and four others in North Potomac on drug and ﬁrearm charges this month, they alleged they had plenty of evidence: more than 600 Instagram photos of drugs and weapons. Police report in charging documents that the arrests came after learning of a “problem house” which was the site of frequent parties, and where teens bought drugs from Ethan Gettier, the 16-year-old son of the home’s owner, Darel Gettier. Both Gettiers were arrested on Oct. 11, along with 18-yearolds Anand M. Javeri, Khaliq R. Thomas, and Devon Rubenstein and 20-year-old Connor Fellows. Javeri, Thomas and Rubenstein live in Germantown, and Fellows lives in Gaithersburg. According to his charging documents, police had believed that Ethan Gettier, a Quince Orchard High School student, was selling drugs to high school students from his home during school hours, with tacit permission from his father. Just after the arrests, police searched the Gettiers’ home which police say smelled of marijuana and contained items used to consume the drug “in plain view” in Ethan’s room, along with a .22 handgun. “There is no way” that Darel Gettier did not know his son and friends were smoking marijuana in house, an ofﬁcer wrote in Darel Gettier’s charging documents. But Howard Cheris, who represents Gettier, said that assumption was “overbroad” and “speculative.” Cheris said his client isn’t guilty of any of the charges, adding that Gettier legitimately owned the guns that police recovered in his house. When asked why Gettier had so many guns, Cheris said, “He’s an NRA member, and because he’s allowed to.” After learning of the photos that Ethan Gettier had posted to his Instagram — a social photo-sharing platform — and Facebook pages, police spent weeks surveilling Gettier’s house, watching teen drivers pull into the house’s driveway, stay for a few minutes, and drive away: typical behavior, they said, of a drug buy. On Oct. 11, police watched one such car pull away from the house, and found Javeri and Thomas inside, along with some marijuana. Police arrested the two after learn-

ing the two had just sold Ethan Gettier marijuana, according to Javeri’s charging documents. When police and a SWAT team arrived at the Gettier home to serve Gettier with a search warrant, they found him armed with two handguns, according to a press release about the arrest. Police found seven people inside smoking marijuana, and after searching the house, 45 guns. Among them was an M-16 that Ethan Gettier had posted to his Instagram account “DatLife420,” according to his arresting documents. He had also posted photos of Tupperware full of marijuana and other ﬁrearms. Steven Kupferberg, who represents Ethan Gettier, said he had only recently Gettier become Gettier’s attorney and could not yet speak about the case in detail. He said that considering Gettier was only 16 and did not have a criminal Javeri record, he believed Gettier had been overcharged. Fellows was arrested in a trafﬁc stop shortly after he left the Gettier home. Thomas Reached by phone at his home on Monday, Darel Gettier said, “It’s all being blown out of proportion,” and referred questions to Cheris, his lawyer. As part of the ongoing investigation, a second search warrant was issued at Thomas’ home on Cottage Garden Drive in Germantown. Police found six bags of marijuana there, baggies, and scales, according to his charging documents. Police charged Ethan Gettier, Javeri and Thomas with possession or distribution charges. Darel Gettier was charged with allowing a minor to have access to a handgun and other charges. Rubenstein and Fellows received criminal citations for possessing marijuana. All six suspects were released on bail. Attorney information for Javeri and Thomas was not listed online.

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During Montgomery County’s tribute to “everyday heroes” Tuesday in Rockville, Army 2nd Lt. Wells Weymouth (right) and Navy Ensign John Hunt, both medical students at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, were recognized for helping save the life of a Potomac man who was hit by a car July 23 inside the Sam’s Club store in Gaithersburg. Also recognized Tuesday were two security guards from Montgomery College who performed CPR and saved the life of a student, and a man who came to the rescue of a woman trapped in her car that had been crushed by a fallen tree during the June 2012 derecho.

Three Gaithersburg police officers were awarded for their performance in the department’s second annual Chief’s Pistol Competition on Oct. 14. Rico Thompson, Mark McGinnis and Larbi Dakkouni won trophies after edging out 16 others in a combat course competition designed by the department’s firearms instructors. The event, sponsored by the Gaithersburg Police Foundation, provides an opportunity for the city’s police officers to demonstrate proficiency in the use of a firearm.

Orthodontists to buy back Halloween candy In honor of National Orthodontic Health Month, Village Orthodontics in Gaithersburg will buy back Halloween candy from community members and donate it to a charity. Dr. Gordon S. Grossier, along with his office staff, is paying each participant one or two “Gordo Bucks” — the office’s fake currency that can be traded in for prizes — for every pound of Halloween candy turned in. All collected candy, along with toothbrushes and toothpaste, will be sent to Operation Gratitude in California, where it will be sent to military troops overseas. Operation Gratitude is a volunteer nonprofit that annually sends more than 100,000 care packages to U.S. service members. The office will be accepting new, unwrapped Halloween candy from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 1 and 4 at 555 Quince Orchard Road, Suite 230. For more information, visit drgbraces.com.

Chamber holds mixer in Rockville The Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce will hold a mixer from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Nov. 6 at Johns Hopkins University, 9605 Medical Center Drive, Rockville. It’s free for chamber members and ﬁrst-time nonmembers, and $40 for returning nonmembers. Register at ggchamber.org.

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Brothers charged with attempted murder Brothers, 18 and 20, targeted two victims, police say

BY ST. JOHN BARNED-SMITH STAFF WRITER

Two Germantown brothers are behind bars facing attempted murder charges in a Gaithersburg shooting last weekend. On Monday, police an-

nounced that they had arrested Abdelrahman Abdou, 18, and his 20-year-old brother, Abdullah, both of Panthers Ridge Drive. The shooting took place on Saturday at around 10:30 p.m. Responding ofﬁcers found one victim on the 7700 block of Prince Hall Court, and another in a the parking lot of the Giant grocery store on Flower Hill Way. Rescue personnel took the

victims - two men, according to police - to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. According to a statement issued by Montgomery County Police Capt. Jim Daly, police believe the shooting took place near Washington Grove Lane and Mineral Springs Drive. Police have not yet disclosed what they believe prompted the shooting. The brothers have each been charged with two counts of at-

tempted first-degree murder, two counts of attempted second-degree murder, two counts of assault, use of a ﬁrearm in a crime of violence, and reckless endangerment. The maximum penalties for the crimes is life in prison. Both men are being held without bond. Lawyers for the brothers were not listed online. sjbsmith@gazette.net

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Montgomery County residents are invited to ﬂex their do-good muscles this week by volunteering to make their community a better place. Oct. 20 through 27 is the county’s Community Service Week, a time for nonproﬁts, business, religious, service and social groups to host volunteer service projects. Many have registered online with the Montgomery County Volunteer Center www.montgomeryserve.org, a website to connect individuals and groups with service opportunities. “We do these days of service to celebrate service and get people engaged,” said Katie Sayago, Days of Service coordinator for the volunteer center. “We hope people really connect with an organization and have the feeling of working together.” Sayago said there are more than 50 projects listed on the volunteer website and many of them require a number of people. “There are lots of ways to still get involved,” she said. Some opportunities include are a diaper distribution project with the D.C. Diaper Bank that is taking place in the Bank’s Silver Spring warehouse; a sandwich-making day at the International Cultural Center in Montgomery Village and collecting acorns with the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, she said. “We give [the acorns] to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources state tree nursery to plant,” said Kimberly Knox, spokeswoman for the commission. DNR then distributes the seedlings for planting throughout the state, she said. Acorn collecting will take place from 9 a.m. to noon at the Triadelphia Recreation Area in Brookeville on Saturday and at Browns Bridge Recreation Area in Silver Spring on Sunday. The D.C. Diaper Bank will be sorting and bundling diapers from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Oct. 23 and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.

Nonprofit hosts Fall Arts Showcase Community Support Services will hold its fourth annual Fall Arts Showcase fundraiser from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, with all proceeds benefiting the organization’s recreational program. One part of the fundraiser is a musical and theatrical performance, “Sweet Success: Celebrating Individual Achievements in the Arts,” featuring adults with autism and other developmental disabilities. The performance will begin at 2:30 p.m. There also will be an art sale, bake sale and raffle at the event, which is free and open to the public. The agency is at 9075 Comprint Court, Gaithersburg. For more information, visit css-md.org.

Muslim foundation launches food pantry Montgomery County Muslim Foundation debuted a new ofﬁce and mobile food pantry Oct. 5. The 3,100-square-foot space at 811 Russell Ave., Suite G, Gaithersburg, will become house a senior center where elderly Muslim community members can socialize, eat and play games. A mobile food pantry has been opened at the facility, allowing needy residents and families to request their food orders by phone and have them delivered to their doorstep. The foundation is a nonproﬁt that strives to promote involvement and engagement of the Muslim community in Montgomery County. To learn more, visit mcmfusa.org.

POLICE BLOTTER

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

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Volunteers from The Foundation School worked to clean up outside the offices of On Our Own in Gaithersburg on Monday as part of Montgomery County’s Community Service Week. “It’s a great family affair, even little kids can do it,” Heather Foley, chairwoman of the board of D.C. Diapers, said. “It involves counting and coloring labels and we have a play area for when they get tired of working.” The group, she said, distributes approximately 50,000 diapers a month to social service agencies across the D.C. area. The diapers come from donations and the group purchases many with money from grants and “the general good will of the community,” she said. Community Service Week kicked off this year with the World of Montgomery festival at Westfield Wheaton Plaza Mall which had a community service area for children and adults to show their commitment to the community by participating in on-site projects. Among the hands-on opportunities at the World of Montgomery were: sandwichmaking sponsored by So What Else, a nonprofit that provides services to at risk youth in the D.C. Metropolitan area; letter-writing

to U.S. troops abroad sponsored by Mover Moms of Bethesda and a demonstration from Bikes for the World. Many of the week’s volunteer activities are scheduled for Saturday, the 27th Day of Service in the county, which aligns with National Make a Difference Day, Sayago said. Last year, about 2,000 people participated in projects during the week leading up to the Day of Service, Sayago said in an email. “The Volunteer Center engaged residents in volunteer projects throughout Montgomery County for Community Service Day with projects available the week of Oct. 22-28 [2012], 75 organizations were involved in 85 projects to engage new and ongoing volunteers to make an impact in our county and 1,959 residents volunteered 6,167.5 hours for Community Service Day. Also 32,000 lbs. of food was collected over Community Service Day weekend at Giant Grocery Stores for Manna Food Center,” she wrote.

Aggravated assault • On Oct. 1 at 6:40 p.m. in the 300 block of Saybrooke View Drive, Gaithersburg. Known subject and victim were involved in a verbal dispute that escalated into a physical altercation. Known subject stabbed the victim, causing non-life-threatening injuries. The subject was located, placed under arrest and charged accordingly. • On Oct. 5 at 12:10 a.m. at Quincy’s Bar and Grill, 616 Quince Orchard Road, Gaithersburg. Known subjects and victim were involved in a verbal dispute that escalated into a physical altercation. Armed robbery • On Oct. 2 at 8:08 p.m. at CVS, 19100 Montgomery Village Ave., Gaithersburg. The subjects threatened the victim with a weapon and took property. Commercial burglary • On Sept. 30 at 9:55 a.m. at DVA Architects, 400 Professional Drive, Gaithersburg. Unknown subject(s) attempted to enter the business through a window. • On Oct. 1 at 4:19 a.m. at Patton Electronics, 7622 Rickenbacker Drive, Gaithersburg. Forced entry, took property. • On Oct. 3 at 6:13 a.m. in the 9600 block of Medical Center Drive, Gaithersburg. No further information provided. • On Oct. 7 at 3:10 a.m. at Verizon Wireless, 18320 Contour Road, Montgomery Village. Forced entry, took property. Residential burglary • 7700 block of Suthard Drive, Derwood, between 6 p.m. Oct. 1 and 6 p.m. Oct. 5. Forced entry, took nothing. • 200 block of Lee Street, Gaithersburg, between 10 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Oct. 2. Attempted forced entry, took nothing. • Unit block of Water Street, Gaithersburg, between 8:05 a.m. and 4 p.m. Oct. 3. Forced entry, took property. • 100 block of Brighton Drive, Gaithersburg, between 10:30 a.m. Oct. 3 and noon Oct. 5. Attempted forced entry, took nothing. • 100 block of Maple Road,Washington Grove, between 11 p.m. Oct. 3 and 10:30 p.m. Oct. 6. Attempted forced entry, took nothing. • 7800 block of Suthard Drive, Derwood, at 3 a.m. Oct. 4. Attempted forced entry, took nothing. • 300 block of Inspiration Lane, Gaithersburg, at 5:34 p.m. Oct. 4. Unknown subject(s) entered the garage and damaged property.

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Woman on trial for soliciting murder of Gaithersburg man Lawyers trade versions, victim testiﬁes about ordeal

BY ST. JOHN BARNED-SMITH STAFF WRITER

To hear Montgomery County prosecutors tell it, Luisa Paiz wanted her son’s father dead, and she was willing to pay to make it happen. Last year, they say, Paiz paid $5,000 to a man she met while the two were serving in the Army in Afghanistan to kill Santiago Perez, her high school sweetheart and the father of her son. In opening statements Tuesday, prosecutors said the testimony of Khiry Blue, Paiz’s co-defendant in the June 2012 assault, would prove their case. According to prosecutors, Blue traveled from Texas, waited for Perez outside his Gaithersburg home and forced him into a wooded area behind his house, where he tried to choke him to death in the predawn hours of June 25, 2012. Blue, 22, pleaded guilty in August to attempted first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, first-degree assault and conspiracy to commit assault. He is scheduled to be sentenced in November. “The version he tells is the only one that fits,” Assistant State’s Attorney Mark Anderson told jurors Tuesday. Paiz, 33, is on trial this week for attempted murder, solicitation of murder and conspiracy to commit murder, along with related crimes. Paul Kemp, one of the lawyers representing Paiz, said the case had been over-charged and that she was innocent of the attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder charges. Paiz, Kemp said, had confided to Blue about domestic issues she was having with Perez

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— from whom she separated more than 10 years ago — regarding their son. Kemp said that Blue told her he could help, but that Paiz had never intended for him to try to commit murder. “This, ladies and gents, is a second-degree assault case — and she’s guilty of that,” Kemp told a Montgomery County Circuit Court jury Tuesday, arguing that the prosecution’s case hinged on the testimony of Blue, whom he called a “manipulator and admitted liar.” Perez, Kemp said, suffered no broken bones, had no finger marks on his neck and had only minor cuts which did not need stitches. They were the wounds of a fight, he said, not an attempted murder, adding that Blue hadn’t taken any weapons with him — even the tire iron in the car he was driving — when he confronted Perez. Blue also told investigators that he never intended to kill his victim, Kemp said. According to Paiz’s charging documents, Perez told police that a man — whom police later identified as Blue through DNA, phone records and other evidence — accosted him in the early morning as he left his home on Stedwick Drive to go to work. According to Perez’s testimony in court, he and Paiz had met in high school in the 1990s and dated for five years, living

together at one point and having a child. They broke up, he said, because their work schedules didn’t match. From there, the relationship between the two became more acrimonious, he said, after a custody arrangement between them changed. Paiz called him and told him, he said, “I would be sorry for everything I had done, and I would pay for everything I had done.” In the call, Paiz also threatened several of his relatives, he said. Paiz initially had custody of their son, he said. Later, after Paiz joined the Army and began serving in Texas and Afghanistan, he took care of the boy.

‘I was ﬁghting for my life’ In court Tuesday, Perez described the ordeal he went through that June morning. He woke up after receiving a blocked phone call at about 4 a.m. An electrician, he worked early hours, so he got up, brushed his teeth and made his lunch, took out the trash, grabbed some coffee and headed out the door. As he was walking to his car, he turned around and saw a man, masked and gloved, and wearing a black V-neck T-shirt standing just a few feet away. And he had something in his right hand; Perez thought it was a gun. “I was scared. I didn’t know what was going on,” he said.

The attacker forced him to put down his belongings, then forced him into a wooded area near his house. Eventually, the man told him, “Right here’s good,” and ordered him to put his hands behind his back. That’s when the man assaulted him, he said. The man put a rag over his mouth and also tried to choke him, he said. Perez fought back. “He was really strong, really fast,” he said in court, remembering the man trying to stifle his screams with the rag and the man’s hands on his neck. “I thought he was going to snap my neck. ... I was fighting for my life. I felt horrible. I was really scared,” he said. He started screaming for help when he realized he couldn’t fight anymore, he said. In that moment, he said, “I thought I was going to die.” According to charging documents for Paiz, the screams alerted a neighbor, who turned on a light and called 911. Police found Perez, bloodied with bite marks and cuts, and recovered gloves and other evidence in a wooded area behind his house. Rescue personnel treated him at the scene, but he declined to go to the hospital. Hours later, after the convincing of his wife, he checked himself into a local hospital emergency room, he said.

The police investigation led detectives to Fort Hood, Texas, where both Blue and Paiz were stationed. Blue is scheduled to testify this week.

If convicted, Paiz could spend the rest of her life in prison. sjbsmith@gazette.net

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The next members of the Montgomery County Council will get a 17 percent pay raise, but it will take four years before they will get the full amount. The current council voted 8-1 to approve the increase Tuesday, but agreed to an amendment by Council President Nancy Navarro (D-Dist. 4) of Silver Spring to phase in the increase rather than have a 17 percent increase in one year. Councilman Philip M. Andrews (D-Dist. 3) of Gaithersburg opposed the increase. The agreement will increase the council’s salary by 6.5 percent in each of the next three fiscal years, with a 6.02 percent increase in fiscal 2017, bringing the total salary at the end of four years to $136,258 per year. The final amount matches the one recently recommended by a committee appointed by the council every four years to study compensation by elected

officials, but changes the committee’s suggestion. The committee’s suggestion would have set the council’s salary at $125,000 starting in December 2014, with cost of living increases each year, bringing it to $136,258 by the end of the four-year term. In proposing the change, Navarro said the council needs to be mindful of the financial issues facing many county residents as the country continues to recover from the economic recession. Navarro called phasing in the increases a “reasonable and responsible approach.” The first phase, increasing the salaries to $113,310 a year, won’t take effect until Dec. 1, 2014, after the next election. Lawmakers are legally prohibited in Maryland from giving themselves a raise. The bill the council passed Tuesday also increases the next county executive’s salary from $180,250 a year to $190,000 per year, and ties the salaries of the county’s sheriff and state’s attorney to a consumer price index. Andrews said he thought Navarro’s amendment was

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an improvement, but he still thought the increase was too large. Andrews said he’s afraid the increase will make it harder for the county executive to negotiate labor contracts and would lower the chances the council would reject negotiations proposing an increase of the same level they approved for themselves. Councilwoman Valerie Ervin (D-Dist. 5) of Silver Spring opposed Navarro’s amendment and said she would have supported the increase as proposed by the committee, but ultimately supported the final proposal. Council Vice President Craig Rice (D-Dist. 2) of Germantown said a majority of people who expressed their disapproval of the increase to him said the council didn’t deserve a raise. Rice said even though the council works hard to improve life in the county, it needs to pay more attention to how its actions are perceived by residents. But Rice said he supported the increase in order to make sure qualified candidates continued to seek public office in the future. “We need to be sure that we put the best people forward to represent one of the best counties in this nation,” Rice said. Somerset Mayor Jeffrey Slavin, who served on the compensation committee and emphasized Tuesday that he was speaking on his own behalf rather than as a public official, touched on a similar note during a public hearing held before the vote. The impact on the county’s budget is minimal compared to the importance of getting a council that’s most representative of the county, he said. “So, please have the courage to vote for a salary that will result in more candidates to run for your positions and give the voters more options when they go to the polls,” Slavin said. rmarshall@gazette.net

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Law requires training, doesn’t force ranges to accommodate

KATE S. ALEXANDER STAFF WRITER

Maryland might require applicants for a new handgun license to shoot a gun first, but it does not require the many private ranges in the state to open their doors to those applicants. Maryland’s new law that went into effect Oct. 1 mandates those who apply for a handgun qualification license to complete a training course. Part of that course must include firing one live round. Where applicants will be able to meet that requirement in many parts of the state remains a mostly unanswered question. Of the 23 counties in Maryland, only 19 have ranges, according to a list published by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Baltimore city and Dorchester, Calvert, Howard and Somerset counties do not have a range. Nothing in the new law or regulations requires private ranges to open their facilities to nonmembers, said Shannon Alford, Maryland state liaison with the National Rifle Association. “Offering a firearms range is a wonderful thing to allow people to enjoy the sport of shooting, but it includes a lot of responsibility and a lot of liability,” Alford said. “It is to be expected that a number of them will not allow their facilities to be used by just anyone.” Montgomery County is home to only four gun ranges, all private. Currently, use of those ranges is limited. There are few parts of the county to fire a gun outside of a range. At the Bethesda-Chevy Chase chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America, only members and their guests can use the range, said James Hubbard, the chapter’s legislative

chair. The organization has no plans to offer training for the handgun qualification license, he said. Lee Hays said the Izaak Walton League’s Rockville chapter, where he is president, likely will offer its members training courses that meet the mandate, but whether it will open those courses to nonmembers remains to be seen. In Damascus, the Wildlife Achievement Chapter of the Izaak Walton League is considering offering a training course for members, then, possibly, a course for nonmembers, President Chuck Crooks said. “We’re still trying to assess the law and what the training encompasses,” he said. Crooks said the organization has not seen the final requirements for the course and is concerned about liability. Maryland State Police was not required to map out the course for instructors, spokesman Greg Shipley said. The course requirements were set forth in the law, he said. The law requires the course to be four hours and include instruction on state firearm laws, home firearm safety, and handgun mechanics and operation. Applicants also must fire a live round, proving they can safely operate the firearm. “However, we have gone above and beyond and put a draft training curriculum together for qualified firearms instructors,” Shipley said. Maryland’s hunter safety courses also would meet the requirements of the law, he said. Crooks said the hunter safety courses are the only ones his chapter of the Izaak Walton League currently offers that satisfy the new law. Unfortunately, hunter safety courses only happen around hunting season, and seats are limited, Alford said. The courses are so limited, Alford said she had to go to Pennsylvania to take her hunter’s safety course. Crooks said his chapter

hosts about four hunter safety courses each year and attendance has reached record highs for 2013. He did not have exact figures available. Hays said the Rockville chapter offers about four hunter safety courses each year, as well as NRA handgun courses. According to the Department of Natural Resources’ website, there is only one more hunter safety course for the year offered in Montgomery County, and it is at the Rockville Izaak Walton chapter. And it is full. Questions remain as to where applicants will be able to go to take a course that meets the requirement outside of a hunter safety course. State police have published a list of qualified handgun instructors. Rockville-based Gilbert Indoor Range’s website says it offers a pistol course that meets the requirements of the law. A representative of the range declined to comment. According to the website, the course will be held twice in October and November and is limited to 16 people. The cost is $125 for premier members and $165 for everyone else, and only covers classroom and instruction materials. Comparatively, a hunter safety course costs $5. John Josselyn, legislative vice president of the Associated Gun Clubs of Baltimore, would not comment when asked if ranges in the Baltimore area were offering courses or opening their doors to nonmembers. In addition to a training requirement, Maryland’s new gun law requires background checks, fingerprinting and a licensing fee for everyone purchasing regulated firearms — a category that includes handguns but not shotguns or hunting rifles. The law also bans about 40 semiautomatic rifles deemed to be “assault weapons” and magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. It also restricts gun ownership by certain people with a history of mental illness.

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Father-son duo running for Maryland Senate and House in 2014

Fraser-Hidalgo makes second Dist. 15 bid Boyds resident plans to run for delegate in 2014

Boyds resident David Fraser-Hidalgo is working to anchor a spot in Annapolis with a run for political ofﬁce in 2014. Fraser-Hidalgo, 43, was appointed by Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) after being nominated by the Montgomery County’s Democratic Central Committee to ﬁll the Dist. 15 delegate seat vacated by Sen. Brian J. Feldman (D-Dist. 15). Fraser-Hidalgo was sworn in on Monday. Fraser-Hidalgo will be an incumbent candidate when he

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runs for the Dist. 15 delegate seat in 2014. Fellow incumbents Del. Kathleen Dumais (D-Dist. 15) of Rockville and Del. Aruna Miller (D-Dist 15) will also run. FraserHidalgo said he wants to tackle “a lot of different Fraser-Hidalgo things” in Annapolis. The candidate is in favor of raising the minimum wage, and making sure public services are well-funded. Fraser-Hidalgo worked as a Montgomery County police ofﬁcer for three and a half years.

Much of the necessary funding for public safety and education “comes from having a vibrant business community,” Fraser-Hidalgo said. The candidate said he’d like to get to know Dist. 15 better. He lived in Wheaton before he moved to Boyds, where he has lived for the past six years. Fraser-Hidalgo also said he “would like to work on immigration issues,” but has not determined which those will be. Fraser-Hidalgo ran for the delegate seat in Dist. 15 in 2010 but was unsuccessful. He is planning to raise $30,000 to $40,000 through private events for his 2014 campaign. The general election will be held in November 2014.

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Robin Ficker (left) and his son Flynn are running for state ofﬁce in District 15. Robin is running for senator, Flynn for delegate. idea; it should never have come to that. I’ve put 20 questions on the ballot that have gotten over 2 million votes,” Robin said, referring to referendums he has initiated. “There’s various ways to peacefully change government.” Both Robin, an attorney, and Flynn, an engineer, live on their 27-acre family farm in Boyds, where they have horses, dogs, sunﬂowers and fruit trees. Between the two, the Fickers hold six college and graduate degrees. Robin is no stranger to politics. He represented District 15 in the House from 1978 to 1982. He has run for several state and

federal positions. He also has campaigned and put 20 questions on the ballot for voters to decide — most notably the 2008 question to cap Montgomery County property tax increases at the rate of inﬂation, which passed and many now know as the Ficker Amendment. Unlike the Democratic candidates for the district, the Fickers are focused on November, not June, when party primaries will be held. “We are running for the general election,” Robin said. kalexander@gazette.net

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The woman at the center of an Internal Revenue Service investigations controversy wants to help Montgomery County award grants, and local Republicans are objecting. Lois G. Lerner, past director of exempt organizations for the IRS, applied for a volunteer post on the county’s Grants Advisory Group, a council-appointed panel that screens grant applications and gives advice on proposals from nonproﬁts. Lerner, of Bethesda, made headlines this year when she and her agency were accused of targeting political groups that applied for tax-exempt status for additional scrutiny.

Because of that connection, Mark Uncapher, chairman of the Montgomery County Republican Central Committee, has asked the County Council to reject Lerner’s application to volunteer. “In light of the continuing inquiry into whether Lerner used her ofﬁcial position at the IRS for partisan ends, she should not be involved in screening Montgomery County nonproﬁt grant applications,” Uncapher said in a statement. “Appointing Lerner would raise questions about the county’s grant program.” Lerner could not be reached Monday afternoon at a phone number listed on her application to the county. What the council will do remains to be seen. Action to appoint the group is scheduled for December. Asked how she plans to deal with the situation, Council President Nancy Navarro said in

a statement that Council Grants Manager Joan Schaffer will interview all of those who apply and will recommend applicants to the council. “All applicants are vetted by the Council Grants Manager to ensure they are knowledgeable about our local nonprofit community,” said Navarro (D-Dist. 4) of Silver Spring. In her Oct. 9 letter of application, Lerner cited her experience with the IRS, where she spent 12 years working with nonprofits, as qualifications for the ad hoc group. “During that process, I learned a lot about the qualities that make an organization effective and efficient,” she wrote. “I believe that knowledge would be useful to the team determining where the county should expend its limited grant funds.” The council is accepting applications to serve on the grants advisory group through 4 p.m. on Nov. 6.

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Sitting side-by-side at the Saphire Cafe in Bethesda, Robin Ficker and his son Flynn Ficker seem anything but exhausted. Yet since May, the fatherson duo has spent nearly every spare moment trekking District 15, in heat and rain, knocking on doors as they campaign to represent the district in Annapolis. District 15 covers the western portions of Montgomery County, from Potomac to Poolesville, including parts of Clarksburg. Together, the Fickers say they have knocked on 20,000 doors and expect to knock on that many more before the Nov. 4, 2014, general election. Robin, 70, and his son Flynn, 31, have formed a slate, Fickers for 15. Robin seeks to be a state senator; Flynn, a delegate. The Fickers are running as Republicans, but campaigning with everyone in District 15 regardless of party, Robin said. What drew the duo into the race was a feeling that the views of their diverse district were not being represented in Annapolis or among the Montgomery delegation, which has only Democrats. State election figures from October 2012 show District 15 having about 44,000 Democrats and 23,000 Republicans, with 24,000 registered voters who are unaffiliated. “Once people are in Annapolis, some even before that, the special interests grab hold, and their self-interests grab hold, and the viewpoint of the citizens isn’t represented,” Robin said. “When we knock on a door, we ask, ‘What can we do for you in the legislature?’” As they talk with voters, Flynn said, he and his father make an honest effort to listen to voter interests. And they take notes. “It’s the best grass-roots way to find out what voters really want, to get them involved and to create a healthy democracy,” Flynn said. Voters in the district are opposed to the transfer of teacher pensions from the state to the county, Robin said. He said voters also oppose the partisan politics that led to the federal government shutdown; favor getting more of their tax dollars returned to the county; and favor strong education and job growth along the Interstate 270 corridor. The Fickers also favor a vibrant education program and tax fairness. “I think we want to show some defense against the onslaught of tax increases, to promote economic growth to increase jobs,” Flynn added. Politically, Robin said, the Fickers are more centrist, but “thrifty.” Both favor raising the minimum wage. Neither is aligned with the tea party politics that shut down the federal government. “Shutdown was a very bad

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Communities prepare for county’s boom in seniors ICC trafﬁc volume Population to double has grown 75 percent by 2030 since opening to I-95 n

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Studies: Highway saves travel time between Prince George’s and Montgomery counties

BY SAMANTHA SCHMIEDER SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE

The traffic volume on the Intercounty Connector has increased by 75 percent since opening to Interstate 95 almost two years ago, according to new data from the Maryland Transportation Authority. Kelly Melhem, a spokeswoman for the transportation authority, explained that this fairly new addition to the state’s highway system is still in its “ramp-up period” as its popularity increases and more motorists “identify the beneﬁts of using the ICC.” The transportation authority’s annual financial statement reports that more than 17.2 million trips were made on the ICC between July 2012 and June 2013 and the total revenue reached $39.59 million, which was slightly higher than the projected amount of $39.56 million. Bruce Gartner, the authority’s acting executive secretary, said in a press release that traffic on the road approached 40,000 vehicles daily during the month of September adding that drivers are making

Shirley Mallory takes yoga classes every Monday and Wednesday, sings in a choir, walks to her local gym and recently learned to ballroom dance. She volunteers at Church of the Redeemer and the Wilson Health Care Center and still ﬁnds time for high-intensity interval training classes and family get-togethers. Shirley Mallory is 68 years old. She lives at Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg, one of the county’s largest communities for seniors. Mallory said her neighbors, who tend to be older than her, are also active. A few friends of hers who are more than 90 years old attend her weekly yoga class. One paints watercolors and another plays piano. “I tell them, ‘I want to be like you when I grow up!’” she said. Mallory and her neighbors are part of a growing group of Montgomery County residents age 60 and older. According to county data, the senior population will double by 2030. As of 2010 census numbers, there were about 173,000 seniors in the county’s 970,000 residents; the county hit 1 million residents in 2012. The county predicts more than 215,000 residents will live here by 2030. LeisureWorld, a senior community in Silver Spring for people 55 and older, has about 8,000 residents. LeisureWorld General Manager Kevin B. Flannery said he expects the community’s population to stay relatively constant in the next few years, though LeisureWorld’s rental

longer trips on the ICC than the authority had originally estimated. Though the speed limit was originally set at 55 mph, studies and crash analysis conﬁrmed that the speed limit could be safely raised to 60 mph and with that increase in March, the transportation authority believes that drivers could potentially further decrease their travel time from end to end by a minute and a half. A traffic study released this year by the transportation authority and Maryland State Highway Administration found that drivers on the ICC have cut their travel time in half when compared to travelers on local east-west routes. It also found that drivers on other local routes during peak hours have experienced a travel-time reduction of 5 to 11 percent compared to before the ICC. “The study had very positive conclusions,” Melhem said. “It is not just helping ICC motorists, but also helping trafﬁc on local roads.” Melhem said that the next step towards helping congestion on Maryland roads is to continue the construction that will extend the ICC from Interstate 370 and its current ending at I-95 to U.S. 1. The segment is projected to open next spring. sschmieder@gazette.net

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Shirley Mallory holds a pose during a yoga class Monday at Asbury Methodist Village. properties may be in higher demand. The growing community has necessitated additions to LeisureWorld facilities. Flannery said he has seen more participation in the community’s selfgoverned ﬁtness programs. “We’re contemplating putting an addition on the building to accommodate that growth,” he said. They are also considering adding space to their foodservice operations, with a facility enhancement plan on the way. “Although there might be some pressure [from the community’s needs], we’re in a pretty good position to update,” he said. At the Ingleside community in King Farm in Rockville, staff are accepting housing deposits

for the waiting list. The seniororiented retirement community has been open since 2009.

It takes a village Leslie Marks, who works with the county government on aging issues, said most seniors don’t want to move into assisted living communities or senior complexes — they want to live at home. Marks wrote the county book on senior “villages,” or grassroots-led communities of existing neighbors who support one another. They provide dinners if someone is sick, have social events and exercise together. “That’s a major thing that we have to start thinking about,”

Marks said. “How do we keep seniors safe at home, where they want to be?” Marks’ 2011 “Village Blueprint,” available in the county’s public libraries, provides a stepby-step guide for seniors who want to start their own local support community. There are 15 villages in the county that have either been established or are on their way, Marks said. They include communities in Silver Spring, Chevy Chase, Olney, Takoma Park and Potomac. The first Montgomery County senior village, Burning Tree, started in 2010 around Burning Tree Elementary School in Bethesda. The community helps coordinate volunteer opportunities and takes requests for grocery runs and trips to doctor’s appointments. Since the highest density of seniors is downcounty, Marks said, more villages are concentrated in that area. But upcounty, where neighbors are spread out over more land, it may be more difficult to start or maintain a village. Marks said the communities are mainly raised through grassroots efforts, but the county is considering hiring a physician to help provide health services at established senior villages. “The county recognizes that there needs to be transportation and activities, and a sense of creating a community,” Marks said. With a growing senior population, Marks said the county only needs to coordinate its health services, transportation and public facilities for seniors to be adequately served. “If we could get an entity to harness those services ... I think we could go a long way down the road,” she said. Montgomery County’s Commission on Aging made recommendations for the fiscal year 2014 budget that included funding for a senior villages coordinator and a senior transportation coordinator to bring together public transit and private resources. scarignan@gazette.net

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Boy Scouts master disaster response in Germantown scenarios Public safety officials and volunteers met with more than 160 Boy Scouts in Germantown to teach emergency management skills and have some friendly competition on Saturday. The Boy Scouts of the Seneca District staged mock emergencies at Button Farm in Germantown to test other scouts from around the county. The event was coordinated with the help of about 60 volunteers from the Gaithersburg-Washington Grove and Germantown volunteer fire departments, Montgomery County’s Community Emergency Response Teams, Disaster Aid USA, the county’s Emergency Operations Office and Explorer Post 521, a county first aid unit. First aid scenarios including car accidents and soccer field injuries were simulated at the event. Maryland State Police also brought a rescue helicopter to teach Scouts about its use and role in emergency response, according to Gaithersburg resident John Hanson, assistant vice president of the Montgomery County area for the National Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. — SYLVIA CARIGNAN

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The planning process for Pike & Rose, one of the region’s largest mixed-use development projects that is replacing MidPike Plaza in North Bethesda, started in 2005 when developer Federal Realty Investment Trust requested a revision of the White Flint Policy Area boundaries to include the shopping center on Rockville Pike near Montrose Road. About five years later, the county approved the amended master plan, and the site plan for the massive 3.4 millionsquare-foot transit-oriented project was approved another two years later. Federal Realty broke ground on the first phase — which includes some 170,000 square feet of retail, 80,000 square feet of commercial office and 493 residential units — in July 2012. While seven years from planning to ground breaking may seem like an abnormally long time, it’s really about right for projects of Pike & Rose’s scale, said Evan Goldman, vice president for development of Rockville-based Federal Realty. The project was placed on the state’s FastTrack program, designed to streamline and speed up the permitting and planning process. “County and state officials have been great to work with,” Goldman said. “They have been doing everything they can to help us keep going. ... After all, we are building what is essentially a new city here.” For others, the county permitting process is still costly and frustrating. Adam Greenberg, president and founder of Restaurant Zone, a company that manages several Potomac Pizza restaurants in Montgomery County, said he thought he was following regulations to obtain a permit for a project but had to resubmit plans, costing him tens of thousands of dollars. “I love Montgomery County. ... But it’s very hard to do business here,” said Greenberg, also president of the Potomac Chamber of Commerce. The record plat approval and permitting process in Frederick County and Northern Virginia is less expensive and time consuming than in Montgomery County, said Robert Kaufman, vice president for government affairs with the Maryland National Capital Building Industry Association. The average number of days that the Montgomery County Department of Permitting Services took to issue a commercial permit for new construction was 163 days in fiscal 2012, according to the

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county’s fiscal 2014 budget. That was up from 160 days in fiscal 2011, but still below the average of 177 days in fiscal 2010 and 296 days in 2009. Commercial additions were approved faster, an average of 61 days in fiscal 2012, down from 78 days in 2011. Residential projects were also approved faster in fiscal 2012 than 2011. The county has been making efficiency improvements that include allowing online permit applications in some areas and is working to reduce the time taken for the cross-agency approval process, according to the budget report. The county also has a small business navigator, Judy Stephenson, who helps businesses through the permitting process, among other programs and aid, said Steven A. Silverman, director of the Montgomery County Department of Economic Development. Still, he admitted, “We have to do a much better job in permitting.”

Apartment units to open in May The apartment units at Pike & Rose likely will be the first part of the project to be completed, with a planned opening in May, Goldman said during an on-site tour. An iPic movie theater, 32,000-square-foot Sport & Health fitness club, a park, offices and restaurants such as Del Frisco’s Grille, Roti and ShopHouse Southeast Asian Kitchen are planned to follow by next fall. The first phase also includes underground parking and a music venue offering rooftop jazz in an enclosed patio operated by Strathmore. “Our goal is to bring in unique attractions,” Goldman said, stepping between plumbing pipes and mud-filled puddles on the upper floor of a structure where the music center will be. The land was once part of a large Toys R Us store. “That’s what we did in Bethesda when we opened the Landmark Theatre, which was that area’s first theater to feature independent films.” Federal Realty recently received approval from the Montgomery County Planning Board for the second phase, which will include tearing down the rest of Mid-Pike Plaza to make room for six new city blocks, Rose Park with outdoor sculptures and retail kiosks, and more retail, office and residential units. Eventually, Pike & Rose hopes to have 450,000 square feet of retail, more than 1 million square feet of office, 1,500 residential units and a 300-room luxury hotel all less than a quarter mile from the White Flint Metro station. Some tenants of Mid-Pike Plaza, including La Madeleine and Chipotle, have signed on to move into the new development, and Goldman hopes to announce the hotel project soon. Plans for others such as Toys R Us are still being negotiated. A.C. Moore moved to the Montrose Crossing Shopping Center, while Silver Diner transferred to Federal Plaza. A little north of that project at 1775 Rockville Pike, InterContinental Hotels Group recently announced plans for a 167-room Even Hotel to open in early 2014. The hotel brand focuses on health and wellness with a gym, fitness classes and healthy food options. In Gaithersburg, the Crown mixed-use project — another massive town center-type development in the planning stages for years that broke ground about a year ago — recently opened its first retailer, Starbucks. A Harris Teeter grocery store and LA Fitness, along with restaurants and other stores, are expected in the next few months. Numerous families have closed on new homes, while the Cadence at Crown, an apartment community in the downtown Crown neighborhood, will open its leasing office in January. The community plans about 320,000 square feet of retail and commercial space with more than 2,000 residential units. kshay@gazette.net

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Continued from Page A-1 is harder for people to know where the restricted areas are and it is more difﬁcult for the city to enforce. The council agreed to hold a public hearing on the topic in the near future to hear the opinions of residents on both sides of the issue and have time to do further research. “I want to see documentation that we really have an actual problem in the city of Gaithersburg,” Councilman Jud Ashman said. Montgomery County laws prohibits smoking on property owned or leased by the county, including bus stops and county parks, and within 25 feet of a playground area on private property. Other cities and towns have already enacted legislation to limit smoking in outdoor areas. Takoma Park adopted the same

policy as the county. Rockville banned any smoking within 40 feet of playground sites at all city parks and facilities and the Montgomery Village Foundation halted smoking at seven different swimming pools. Challenges of enacting such legislation include ﬁguring out who will respond to complaints and how repeat offenders will be handled, according to Potter. At the county level, enforcement is 100 percent based on voluntary compliance, meaning it relies on smokers to refrain from smoking in areas they know are restricted or on nonsmokers to inform the smoker of the rule and request that they stop or move away. Because the success of the ban highly depends on community enforcement, sufﬁcient signage is important to educate the public, Potter said. The council said it was hesitant to move forward with legislation that would prohibit smoking. One concern for Council-

woman Cathy Drzyzgula was the idea of passing legislation the city could not enforce. “I have a general principal,” she said. “I don’t think we should pass laws we don’t intend to enforce and ask other people to enforce them.” Ashman and Councilman Henry Marraffa both agreed that even though they personally dislike smoking, a total ban on smoking would infringe on an individual’s freedoms. They recommended that any future legislation would only restrict certain areas, like playgrounds. “I think we should ban it on playgrounds and where we have kids playing,” Marraffa said. “I think we need to do this with the idea of our own partial ban, something that makes sense for the city, that doesn’t tread on people’s personal freedoms and rights.” jedavis@gazette.net

Continued from Page A-1 thing,” she said. “It gives us more time to get the information out to the students and them more time to submit their materials.” This year’s celebration will also introduce a new photography contest for high school students in place of the former Foundations for Life essay competition, encouraging students to visually show how character matters. Participants are required to electronically submit one photo with a brief caption and a 200word description that outlines the act of character shown by Jan. 6, 2014. Five winners, to receive $100 in cash each, and ﬁve honorable mentions, to each win $25 in cash, will be announced Jan. 27, 2014. “With all the technology, we thought it would be great to do something that would attract that interest,” Srinivasachar said. Other past activities, like the poster and “adult hero” essay contests for elementary and middle school students, will run again this year with the same deadline as the photo competition. Last year, 1,025 students from ten area schools submitted poster and essay contest entries. College scholarships will also be awarded to several high school seniors who embody the six pillars of character. Awards have previously ranged from $1,500 to $3,000. Sixteen scholarships were awarded last year. Ultimately, Srinivasachar hopes the changes to the program will ensure its successful future in Gaithersburg. “I want to see this growing. I want to see it sustain itself,” she said. “We want to keep this going in the city.”

Continued from Page A-1 and council agreed to move forward with the proposal. The barriers would be installed on the southwestern side of the railroad crossing to test the method and see if it will work. Under the federal organization’s Train Horn Rule, a channelization project or median barrier must extend 100 feet back from the crossing or at least 60 feet if a street or driveway is nearby. One big challenge has resulted from the administration’s rule regarding the positioning of the median barrier, Tomasello said. The location of the State Highway Administration maintenance shop’s secondary driveway at the back of the complex opens out onto Metropolitan Grove Road, slightly less than 60 feet

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Children participate in the pumpkin painting activity at Oktoberfest at the Kentlands in Gaithersbug on Oct. 13. The activity was hosted by Gaithersburg High School Student Union members. A portion of the proceeds from the activity will beneﬁt the Character Counts! high school scholarship fund.

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from the crossing. This means that when trucks and other vehicles have to make a left from the driveway onto Metropolitan Grove Road in the opposite direction of the crossing, there might not be enough room to make the turn. “The 60-foot marker is almost in the middle of the left-hand turning movement,” Tomasello said, adding that the highway administration has agreed to let the city try the channelization ﬁrst. “However, this has the truck making fairly sudden movement leftbound. Not sure that that’s going to work.” Because the median barrier will not meet the 60-foot clearance, the city cannot declare the quiet zone on its own and will be forced to gain approval by the Federal Railroad Administration through a public authority application. “We’re working hard to

keep this moving,” he said. “As much as we’d like to just roll this out, there are federal rules involved.” Should the trial project succeed, the city will install a sturdier, permanent barrier that will cost between $7,500 to $10,000, Tomasello said. If channelization does not work, city staff will have to go back to the drawing board to determine which types of infrastructure solutions could work, such as widening the road. Following the update Monday, Mayor Sidney Katz reassured concerned residents in the audience that the city is still dedicated to pursuing a solution to the noise problem. “We’re still working on this,” he said. “We’re going as quickly as we can. It is not a fast process.” jedavis@gazette.net

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A man who police say broke into a Gaithersburg home in June and forced a woman to have sex with him by threatening to harm her 4-year-old son has been charged with rape. Kadeer Malik Mack, 21, of Honeybrook Circle in Gaithersburg faces ﬁrst-degree rape and sex offense charges, both of which carry a maximum penalty of life in prison. He was being held without bail Thursday in the Montgomery County Detention Center. Police said the rape took place early on June 12. The victim told police that at around

2:30 a.m., she woke up to ﬁnd a gloved, masked man rubbing her leg. He had gotten into the apartment through a window she left open, according to charging documents that were made public this week. T h e man sexually asMack saulted her, threatening to hurt her child if she did not cooperate. Finally, he ﬂed through the apartment’s front door, leaving a razor blade behind, according to the charging documents. Police took the victim to a

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test is used to assess student progress systemwide, Statham said. Superintendent Joshua P. Starr said these measures are not the same as the “milestone” targets described in the strategic planning framework he announced in June. Starr said that Monday evening’s conversation marked the ﬁrst of four the school board will have regarding the school system’s milestones. According to the strategic plan, students will be tracked through five milestones at grades three, ﬁve, eight and nine and graduation. The data from the progress test, Starr said, will rather serve as a placeholder of sorts. “Until we have PARCC, we don’t have targets,” he said. Using the test to create temporary progress measures will help schools understand how to improve their instruction, Starr said. “It makes sense for measuring our progress without imposing a whole new test or using tests that are going away,” he said. Students will continue to take the Maryland School Assessments. Because the MAP test recently underwent significant change, the 2013-14 school year will mark the school system’s baseline year for data, Starr said. The school system will determine baseline data based on the PARCC assessments during the 2014-15 school year, according to Statham’s presentation. At the high school level, Starr said, the school system can look at factors such as AP test scores, SAT scores, algebra grades and graduation data until PARCC data is available. “It is a struggle to find

Christopher S. Barclay, school board president equally solid measures of success at the lower grades without having a stable test,” he said. Board President Christopher S. Barclay raised the issue that the school system would be testing a different group of kids next year, making it more difﬁcult when it comes to determining changes in student performance. Starr responded that the test results will help form an approximate idea of the school’s overall ability to teach the students. School board member Shirley Brandman emphasized that she wished to see the test data presented in a way that makes it clear how students are performing compared with their past results, as well as compared with

Staff Writer Krista Brick contributed to this report. national scores. In the presentation to the board, Statham reviewed recent math and reading test data from fifth and eighth graders. The spring 2013 data showed eighth-grade reading scores generally dropped as a school’s student body had a higher percentage of certain student groups, including Hispanic, low-income and English for Speakers of Other Languages students. “I wonder and want to figure out how we can really understand the performance of these schools that are above both the system mean and the national mean that have a very small Latino population,” Barclay said. Starr said the presentation data showed gaps known to exist in the school system but offered an incomplete view of student performance that will require further analysis. As it faces these performance gaps and generally seeks to improve school performance, school system staff said the school system will continue to use the Malcolm Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence, which outline a way for schools to approach these issues. Larry Bowers, chief operating officer for the school system, described the Baldrige system as an “important framework and tool for not only understanding performance but guiding planning work that we’re doing.” The criteria, he said, involve digging deeper into issues — such as achievement gaps and varying performance among schools — and are used to help schools develop their strategic plans. lpowers@gazette.net

On Tuesday, October 15th, 2013 Kathleen Denise Kilmer passed away surrounded by family at her home in Gaithersburg, MD at the age of 64. She was the beloved wife of 44 years to Roger Kilmer; devoted mother of Brian Kilmer and Todd Kilmer; sister of Susan Stine, Marianne Gaydos, and Anthony Golka. She is also survived by four beautiful grandchildren who knew her as Mamaw.

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Ramona Dove Yost, 93, of Gaithersburg, MD passed away on October 19, 2013. Daughter of the late Ara Roper Dove. Wife of the late Tommy Lee Yost. Survived by two children, Darryl Yost of Keedysville, MD, and Cheryl Yost of Gaithersburg, MD. Also survived by four grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren. Relatives and friends may visit on Wednesday, October 23, 2013 from 11 am to 12 pm at the Roy W. Barber Funeral Home (21525 Layonsville Rd. Laytonsville, MD 20882), where a funeral service will be held at 12 pm. Interment will be in Laytonsville Cemetery. Donations may be made to Montgomery Hospice (1355 Piccard Dr. Suite 100 Rockville, MD 20850) Online Condolences at www.barberfhlaytonsville.com

nearby hospital to be examined and to collect a DNA sample. Major Crimes’ detectives learned Oct. 11 that the DNA matched Mack’s. His DNA was in a database, according to his charging documents. According to charging documents, Mack, who was born in Las Vegas, had been working at a Chipotle restaurant in Rockville. Police arrested Mack on Tuesday, during a trafﬁc stop by the Rockville City Police Department, according to a statement from Montgomery County police. A call to a phone listed for Mack in court records was not answered.

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While Montgomery County has created jobs at a slightly faster pace than key competitors in Northern Virginia in recent years, there continues to be a glut of available office space, according to figures released Monday. The county’s top economic development official does not foresee that changing much in the next few years. “There is nothing from a program aspect that will change these numbers right away,” Steven A. Silverman, director of the Montgomery County Department of Economic Development, said Monday during a meeting with a council committee. Montgomery has about 4.8 million square feet of its Class A office space vacant, or 13.7 percent of its total, and 4.3 million square feet of Class B space available, or 14.6 percent, according to figures presented in the meeting of the council’s Planning, Housing and Economic Development Committee. That’s up from about 8 percent available in late 2006. Montgomery needs large companies to move in from outside the county and take up several hundred thousand square feet of office space at a time to make a significant dent, Silverman said. But with an even higher glut of office space seen in places such as Fairfax County, Va., and Prince George’s County, prospective companies are difficult to find, he said. “The same challenges are seen in other counties in our region,” Silverman said. Fairfax’s Class A vacancy rate is almost 17 percent, while Prince George’s is 20.5 percent. Besides the regionwide office glut, many employers are in costcutting mode and significantly reducing the space they consume, he said. “Several years ago, an em-

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ployer with 200 employees might take 50,000 square feet,” Silverman said. “Today, they are more likely to be asking only for 25,000 or 30,000 square feet.” County officials will continue to work with the private sector to find out better what to do to help fill office space, he said. The latest figures from private firm Economic Modeling Specialists International showed that Montgomery added about 28,000 jobs since 2010, the low point of the recession for the county in terms of jobs. That 4.5 percent growth rate in the past three years is slightly more than Fairfax County and City’s combined 4.3 percent rise and Arlington County’s 3.8 percent gain, according to EMSI. Silverman and former county Councilman Michael Knapp, CEO of Germantown consulting firm Orion Ventures, also discussed a proposal to get the county’s incubator network more focused on sectors. The county-financed incubators help startups and young companies grow by providing space and services at rates lower than the private market. The proposal is in the initial planning stages and would require increased funds and likely help from an outside firm with the realignment process, Silverman said. Also Monday, County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) announced that a program formed last year to pump more funds into local community banks to invest in small businesses would receive $25 million more than the $10 million it got last year. The Small Business Plus program has succeeded in helping boost loans made to small businesses, so it made sense to increase the investment, Leggett said. Banks have to be headquartered in Montgomery County, have assets greater than $200 million and less than $5 billion, and meet certain financial soundness standards. Among the banks in the program are Capital Bank, Congressional Bank, EagleBank and OBA Bank. kshay@gazette.net

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Lilah Katz, 11, stands on a path she thinks should be repaired. She’s holding a petition with nearly 400 signatures of people who agree with her.

Bethesda girl ﬁghts for path to improvement Youth started petition to get county to help with renovations

BY AGNES BLUM STAFF WRITER

Tucked away in the South Bradley Hills neighborhood in Bethesda is a rustic path with a burbling brook that looks like it belongs in an English village. For Lilah Katz, 11, who lives nearby and uses the path regularly, it is a little too rustic. So the Pyle Middle School student started a campaign to get the county to help renovate the path, which is in a public right of way, to make it safer. “This path is a very important part of my everyday life,” Lilah wrote in a letter to the County Council last June. “It is poorly lit, it’s zig-zagged, has very sharp turns, is made out of jagged rocks, and is slippery and muddy a long time after every precipitation event.” Lilah received no response, but she did not give up. Instead she started a petition and by staking out the path

regularly, she has collected almost 400 signatures to support her case. The path, which has narrow concrete slabs — set with stones — placed in a zig-zag pattern, begins where Cornish Road ends at Burling Road and then ends at Glenbrook Road. From there, walkers can jog left and continue east on Elm Street into downtown Bethesda. It’s a route Lilah knows well; she takes it to the library, friends’ houses and camp. She’s even measured it — the walk is 0.8 mile. Without the path, the trip is 1.4 miles by car. And while she loves the path, she doesn’t love coming home in the pitch dark of a winter afternoon, especially if it’s been raining or snowing. “It’s really easy to slip after any type of rain or snow,” Lilah said. Neighbors such as Agnes Dufey agreed the path was essential to the neighborhood as she walked along with a friend and their children. “We use it to walk to downtown Bethesda and join up with the Capital Crescent Trail,” Dufey said. This isn’t the ﬁrst time a Katz has gone to the county over this issue. In

2007, Lilah’s father, Michael Katz, wrote a letter expressing many of the same concerns as his daughter. “The path is deemed navigable,” wrote R. Keith Compton, chief of the highway maintenance section of the county’s department of transportation. “I appreciate your concern and regret that we cannot provide additional assistance.” County spokeswoman Esther Bowring said Tuesday the county needs to do more research on the issue before commenting. But Lilah is determined that three times will be the charm, and she plans to write a letter to the council and enclose her petition once she gets 400 signatures. She wants a path that is straighter, smoother, better lit and has better drainage. “I think it’s really important to help if you can,” Lilah said, even though campaigning for her cause has become tougher to combine with homework. “Whoever has the time and is willing to do it, should.” ablum@gazette.net

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Montgomery County will continue to pay the water bills of approximately 100 Laytonsville homeowners whose wells were contaminated by the Oaks Landﬁll, as long as they own their homes. Robert G. Hoyt, director of the county’s Department of Environmental Protection, said that a letter was expected to go out this week to affected homeowners, announcing the county’s decision. “As you know, the county installed public water to properties near the now-closed Oaks landﬁll in the late 1990s and agreed to pay the potable water bills for 15 years,” Hoyt wrote in the letter. “Upon further review, I have decided that the county should continue to pay these water bills in accordance with the terms of existing contracts for as long as each property is owned by the person (or persons) who executed the applicable contract.” In March, County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) sent a memorandum to the County Council, stating that he believed the obligation for the county to pay the water bills should be extended. The council did not have any objections and therefore was not required to take action on the issue. It was forwarded on to the Department of Environmental Protection. “As the county executive said, no conditions have changed,” said Hoyt. “Everyone just felt this was the right thing to do.” Miller Poppleton, president of the Stanbrook Lane Homeowners Association, represents 19 homes, 10 of which are affected. “We are very pleased and appreciate the county’s largesse,” he said. “While it

was the appropriate action, I am not sure that all counties would have done it. The county has again shown itself to be concerned regarding the welfare of its citizens.” Poppleton said that residents incurred additional expenses associated with the well infrastructure. When they purchased their homes with wells, most homeowners installed filtration systems to remove impurities, such as iron which would discolor laundry. These systems, which cost up to $6,000, were shut off once public water was connected, and the tanks remain empty in their basements. “The filtration systems became obsolete, but the investment did not go away,” he said. The Oaks Landfill, at 6001 Olney-Laytonsville Road in Laytonsville, operated from 1982 until 1997. During that time, the landfill received 7 million tons of waste. Homeowners in the area filed a lawsuit against the county, alleging that the construction and operation of the landfill would create a public nuisance that would harm their property, specifically by causing water contamination. As part of the settlement, water testing was conducted and revealed low levels of groundwater contamination. As a result, the county originally agreed to provide public water for each of the 144 designated property owners, and agreed to pay the water bills for 15 years or until the property was sold. Of those original 144 properties, 43 have been sold, leaving 101 eligible. The 15-year payment period ended for some residents in May, and was staggered, depending on when each resident began to receive public water. The payments are expected to cost the county $37,000 annually, although the amount will decline as property turnover occurs. thogan@gazette.net

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When it comes to America’s 401 national park sites, Chris Calvert now can say he’s seen them all. On Saturday, Calvert set out from his home in Wheaton for a 12-mile walk to his final site — the Carter G. Woodson Home in northwest Washington, D.C. At age 10, Calvert itched to visit the national parks, begging his parents for a trip to Yellowstone. But they never got to Yellowstone after Calvert heard about Disney World opening in Florida. Growing up in Silver Spring, he often visited parkland in Washington, D.C. But his first purposeful trip came in 1980, when Calvert, then 17, and his parents traveled west. They began with Olympic National Park in Washington state. Starting at a visitor center at sea-level, Calvert and his parents drove up a winding road toward the Olympic Mountains, through thick fog lingering in the ancient fir forest. As they gained elevation, the clouds dissipated. By the time they reached Hurricane Ridge, Calvert looked over a clear sky, past forest and meadows, to the peaks of the glimmering snow-capped mountains. “I decided, if this is what the national parks are about, I have to see them all,” he said. “It was amazing. I still remember that, 33 years later.” He was determined to visit at least two new national parks a year to reach his goal — at the time, there were 49 national parks. Between trips to the Grand Canyon, Hawaii, American Samoa, Alaska and other destinations, by 1993, Calvert had visited every official U.S. national park, ending with Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska. He wanted to keep going, so he expanded his goal to sites maintained by the National Park Service, of which there are currently 401. Many people commonly refer to them all as national parks.

Actually, there are 58 official national parks among the 401 sites that fall under the National Park Service, including national historic sites, preserves, battlefields, memorials, and other public land designations. These areas encompass land ranging from the White House to the Hawai’i Volcanoes. To achieve his goal, Calvert often made stops along the way, spending time at up to 36 sites in one year, in 1998. But, he said, it’s always about the experience, not just getting his park stamp and checking off a list. He keeps notes on a tape recorder of what he wants to do when he returns to a park, and puts extensive planning into each endeavor. But in the end, “33 years of memories is what it amounts to,” he said. He has been shocked by the checklist approach others have taken. He found one such man in Alaska when both were chartering planes to reach remote wilderness areas. The man was essentially puddle-jumping the Alaskan parks, exiting the plane for just a toe touch in each. It was then that Calvert realized the goal meant different things to different people. His approach wasn’t just to see each park, but to learn about and experience them. Seeing every one just added a fun challenge. Calvert has chartered planes to drop him off for a week or two at a time in the Alaskan wilderness. He remembers the first time he watched the small plane disappear in the sky, leaving him hundreds of miles from another living soul. It’s something he has done several times since. “It feels wonderful,” he said, “I’m usually kind of laughing with joy.” He recalls the comparison between his first time in the Alaskan wilderness to where he had been two days before, also on parkland, but with thousands of others. It was the Fourth of July, on the crowded National Mall. Calvert always asks himself: What is signiﬁcant about a site?

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Chris Calvert of Wheaton speaks to friends as he stands in front of the Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site in Washington, D.C. That was the only national park he had not visited, until Saturday afternoon. What warrants its designation? How does it contribute to, or mark, our national identity? Some are obvious American landmarks; others take more investigation. He was skeptical of one — the Johnstown Flood National Memorial in Pennsylvania. Was this flood more significant than other natural disasters, he wondered. He learned that the flood, caused by a dam failure, killed 2,209 people. It prompted modern standards to prevent future disasters, marking a moment in American history in safety and engineering. Over the years, Calvert has amassed hundreds of books, pamphlets, and magazines about park sites. He has filled binders with his transcribed notes, park stamps, and tens of thousands of slides. In neat rows, they line walls of a library Calvert and his partner, archaeologist Jeff Splitstoser, built onto the back of their kitchen several years ago. Calvert’s collection is on one side, and Splitstoser’s on the other. Calvert saved the Carter G. Woodson Historical Site in Washington, D.C., for his final trek, hoping to highlight the site’s dire need for funding for renovation. Carter G. Woodson, often called the father of AfricanAmerican history, lived in the

Shaw rowhouse from 1915 until his death in 1950. Woodson became the second black American to graduate from Harvard University in 1912 and went on to direct the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, working largely from that home. Since it became a national historic site in 2005, the dilapidated site has not been open to the public — steel beams hold up the facade, and the site is almost completely blocked off. Calvert had hoped to make the walk a fundraiser, but bureaucracy and politics in the National Park Service delayed that. Calvert said the fundraiser might happen in the future, but for now, he was eager to accomplish his goal. Thirteen friends, many of whom had accompanied Calvert on other trips, joined him for the walk on Saturday. His journey to visit every park started as a child in Washington D.C., with the zoo, the monuments and Rock Creek Park, and Calvert was glad to end it there, and to raise awareness for a need in the park system. “After 33 years of having gotten so much from the National Park Service, I wanted to give a little bit back,” he said. sscully@gazette.net

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The deadline to comment on the Purple Line’s environmental impact study was Monday, and opponents of the $2.2 billion light-rail project have come out swinging. The town of Chevy Chase has called for not just a new environmental impact study, but a completely new design. The Friends of the Capital Crescent Trail submitted a 23-page document detailing the flaws of the study and also proposing alternative routes. It also amassed more than 5,500 signatures on a petition to save the Georgetown Branch section of the trail. And in Silver Spring, residents of Park Hills and Seven Oaks Evanswood filed a joint response, detailing concerns about noise, the impact of runoff on Sligo Creek, pedestrian and traffic safety and the loss of trees. They asked the Maryland Transit Administration to “do more to significantly reduce impacts on residents.” The Maryland Transit Administration and the Federal Transit Administration have not yet counted up the number of comments they have received, said Paul Shepard, spokesman for the Purple Line. The study, conducted by the Maryland Transit Administration, is available online at www. purplelinemd.com/en/studiesreports/feis-document and goes into great detail about the effects of construction of the light-rail line. The train will travel 16.2 miles east-west across Montgomery and Prince George’s counties and construction is slated to begin in 2015. One of the issues the Chevy Chase report raised was the cost of the project, described as “skyrocketing.” In 2007, the MTA estimated cost of the project would cost $1 billion. Today, the price tag is $2.2 billion, and according to the Chevy Chase report, that means that an alternative route might be financially feasible. Ajay Bhatt also wants the state to look into an alternative route. The president of the nonprofit Friends of Capital Crescent Trail emphasized that his group is not opposed to the Purple Line in general, and certainly not to mass transit. The group is opposed to the destruction and clear-cutting of about 20 acres of what is essentially parkland, the Capital Crescent Trail, to accommodate such a project. “It’s about the trees,” said

Bhatt, who lives in Chevy Chase with his wife and 4-month-old son. “If you don’t have these trees it’s not a park anymore— no shade, no birds, no hawks, owls or blue jays.” H i s group imagines the trail as a “worldclass linear park, stretching from Bhatt Georgetown through Bethesda into downtown Silver Spring, preserving and enhancing green space when it is in critically short supply.” By his estimate, the section of the trail that is in danger of being lost is home to about 200 specimen trees such as oaks, maples and tulip poplars that provide shade in the summer and a patchwork of gold and red in the fall. Finding a way to preserve this green oasis should not be too difficult, Bhatt said, as only a small portion — 3 miles — of the 16-mile light-rail route is on the trail. “We strongly urge the MTA and FTA to reconsider the Purple Line in its current form,” he wrote in the comments that were submitted. The full response is available on the group’s wesbite: www.savethetrail.org. Both the Chevy Chase report and the Friends of the Capital Crescent Trail comments challenge the state’s analysis on noise and vibrations, saying the numbers are inaccurate. Other county residents sent in individual comments to the environmental study. Tom Armstrong, a Silver Spring resident who has been following the Purple Line project for several years, stated in his comments that Wayne Avenue is the most affected part of the Purple Line, and it would “become significantly wider.” He also said the additional width “comes at the expense of trees and green lawns.” Residents from Sligo-Branview Community Association suggested changes regarding rerouting or reducing bus routes from Wayne to Flower avenues to accommodate the Purple Line, and adding traffic calming measures such as “right-turn only” signs or speed bumps to moderate speeds on main roads. There are no upcoming meetings or public hearings about the Purple Line, Shepard said, but the MTA plans to review the comments once they have all been collected. ablum@gazette.net Staff Writer Aline Barros contributed to this report.

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For the first time, 16-yearolds will be able to vote on Nov. 5 in Takoma Park city elections. The idea behind the change, which passed in May as an amendment to the city charter, is that involving teenagers in voting early on will encourage voting and political participation as they get older. Many people vote for the first time while are away at college, in a new place where they are likely unaware of local issues. But if teens first vote in the community they grew up in, they’ll have a better understanding of local issues, the argument goes. Some studies show that the earlier people vote, the more likely they are to make voting a lifelong habit. As of Monday, 90 16- and 17-year-olds had registered to vote with the city. Based on 2010 census data, Councilman Tim Male estimated that there are about 350 16- and 17-year-olds living in Takoma Park. Some, like Fred Schultz, the sole council member to oppose the amendment, call the effort nominal, saying that simply lowering the voting age is not the best way to increase political participation. It broadens the pool of voters, but won’t necessarily draw them to polls or make anyone more aware of community issues — that takes outreach. Sara Shonkwiler, 17, of Takoma Park, said she received a Takoma Park registration form in the mail after registering to vote with the county when she got her driver’s license. She sent in her registration form and said she would likely vote, admitting that she will be more excited when she can vote in state and national elections. Although the election in her ward — Ward 1 — is uncontested, she said, “I think it’d be cool to try it.” The first time Shonkwiler heard about the move to let 16and 17-year-olds vote was when a friend posted on Facebook about a council hearing last

spring. But the outreach she’s seen has been limited to the letter she got in the mail. Most city residents have little motivation to vote because Mayor Bruce Williams and five council members are running unopposed. Ward 4 has the only contested election, with incumbent Terry Seamens facing challenger Eric Mendoza. Mendoza said he’s involved in the youth community in Ward 4 and knows many teens who are excited about him running for City Council. But there’s a gap between their enthusiasm and their knowledge of what the City Council is or how to vote. He said he plans to educate teenagers about the system, but he’s skeptical about how many youth will actually vote. He thinks it will take time for younger voters to get involved. Seamens said he started out skeptical about lowering the voting age, but came to be in favor of it when he saw how enthused and knowledgeable young people were. A city Task Force on Voting made recommendations about how to increase voter participation, including public service announcements, signs, targeted Facebook ads, organized rides to the polls and ways to generally encourage a culture of voting. It suggested a “friendly competition” among wards for the highest voter turnout and making voting a family event. Task force member Tim Anderegg said the group has used public service announcements and passed out fliers with information on voting and expanded voting rights at local businesses, apartment buildings and community organizations. But although many 16- and 17-year-olds are aware of the new law, many do not know how to register and vote. Lily Durkee, 17, had heard about the change when it passed, but had not heard much else, until a teacher made an announcement about it a couple of weeks ago. “It’s definitely cool to be able to make an impact on the community,” she said. Durkee lives in Ward 3, which also is uncontested, but said she planned to register and vote, if she could fit it into her schedule.

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Lily Durkee (right), 17, will be able to vote in the upcoming Takoma Park city election. She and her friend Emily Guthrie, 16, of Silver Spring are excited about the city’s focus on young voters. Both are students at Montgomery Blair High School. She was surprised she hadn’t heard anything about how to actually go about voting — she didn’t know how to register nor did she realize she could vote early. Classmate Michelle McGhee, 17, also had seen little information about the election, but planned to register and vote. Schultz said teenagers are more concerned with being teenagers than engaging in community issues. Emily Guthrie, 16, and Max Foley-Keene, 15, president and vice president of the Young Democrats Club at Montgomery Blair High School, said that might be true for some teens. “There are people in every age group who aren’t as politically aware,” Guthrie said. Both live in Silver Spring, so they can’t vote in any elections yet, but they’re excited about the move toward youth voting. Many 16- and 17-year-olds care about politics and should have the opportunity to vote on issues that affect them, Guthrie and Foley-Keene argue. “I know so many youths who do care passionately about climate change, the death penalty, drone strikes, fracking — there are so many issues out there that youth care about,” Guthrie said.

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The club organized a voter registration drive recently, but focused on Montgomery County registration and met little success; most students didn’t know their Social Security number. As for Takoma Park, students and teachers estimated that one-fifth to one-fourth of Montgomery Blair students are Takoma Park residents. The first trick was to find those students. Club members found that many already had registered. Abby Kiesa, youth coordinator and researcher at the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, or CIRCLE, an organization based at Tufts University that focuses on youth voting and political engagement, said 15-, 18- and 21-year-olds score similarly in research assessing their political knowledge, and come close to the average score for all adults. High school, she said, is a critical time to teach teenagers about civic engagement and a place to disseminate information effectively about voting, from how to register to understanding how government works. “Voting is a habitual activity,” she said. “Learning about voting in high school predicts actual voting once people reach 18.”

Montgomery County needs a concierge service that will help business development and promote positive customer service. That was one of the ﬁnal recommendations presented Monday by the Nighttime Economy Task Force to the County Council for a more attractive nightlife. The task force also called for later bar-closing times, looser liquor restrictions and changes to noise ordinances. Appointed by County Executive Isiah Leggett (D), the task force worked for more than six months to develop ideas to create a more appealing urban area. “What we are trying to do is provide a more vibrant dining entertainment night life in the community, so that when people want to gather with their friends and family they will have a wide array of choices,” Councilman Hans Riemer said. Much of the discussion was around food-to-alcohol ratio, but also covered public safety, food trucks to operate in designated areas, parking options and guidelines to potential activities in public parks. Thirtytwo recommendations aim to make Silver Spring, Bethesda, Wheaton, Rockville and Germantown more competitive outing options. To enact the proposals, county and state laws and regulations need to change, said Riemer (D-At large) of Takoma Park. The task force recommended that a restaurant’s alcohol sales, now limited by law at 50 percent of proﬁts, be increased to 60 percent while

also creating a “social venue license” that will cost more money to obtain but would not include a ratio limitation. “We are not keeping up with our urban centers. ... We are losing a lot of smart people, young workers, the new urban community,” Riemer said. Officials believe millennials — ages 20 to 34 — need to be attracted to Montgomery County. But Riemer said the proposals are not just for “young people.” “Everybody likes to go out,” he said adding the point is to offer options to county residents and people of all ages. “This is whether you can go out to the jazz club or to a theater,” Riemer said. The task force’s co-chairman, Henriot St. Gerard, told the Silver Spring Advisory Board meeting on Oct. 14 that a nightime economy also contributes to the county’s economy health. “We are trying to have people in Montgomery County stay here. ... Young people live, work, party within walking distance,” St. Gerard said. Other officials said these recommendations affirm “what works” to maximize the benefits of an economic activity beyond the work-day. Reemberto Rodriguez, director of the Silver Spring Regional Center, thinks it opens the dialogue for practical and pragmatic approaches that will benefit the night life economy in the region. St. Gerard said there are no specific amounts of how much the county will spend or gain in revenue. These numbers will come after further analyses, he said. The group will also continue to explain these proposals to various groups in the county. On Monday, the county executive will receive the official document, but St. Gerard was unsure if Leggett will make any changes to the proposed recommendations.

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SCHOOL LIFE For young collectors, it’s in the cards Students involved in Cards2Kids focused on helping others

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Andrew Berube’s sports card collection got so big, his mother said he needed to do something about it. His answer was to do something charitable. Andrew, 10, and his friend Ben LeBlanc, 13, formed DC Ambassador for Cards2Kids, a local afﬁliate of an Illinois nonproﬁt started to share sports cards with young people in need. The boys and Ben’s 8-year-old brother, Graham, collect, sort, package and donate cards to charities around the region to distribute to other children. “We donate them to places like the Boys and Girls Club in Germantown, the Ronald McDonald House in Washington, and to children at Walter Reed, through the Red Cross,” said Andrew, a fourth-grader at Wyngate Elementary School in Bethesda. “We have 110,000 [cards] in our basement.” Cards2Kids was started in 2011 by John Makowiec, a Chicago-area teenager who wanted to share his passion for collecting with others, especially kids who were ill or did not have the means to buy cards.

There are now four affiliates in the Midwest, one in New Jersey and Bethesda’s DC Ambassadors, according to the Cards2Kids website. Ben is an eighth-grader at Westland Middle School in Bethesda. Graham is a third-grader at Bethesda Elementary School. In less than a year, Andrew, Ben and Graham have become masters of sorting cards into two categories — “A,” the most popular sports ﬁgures, and “B,” who are less popular, but still in demand. “It’s baseball, basketball and football cards that we do,” Graham said. “And hockey, but not so many.” The most tedious part of the job, the boys said, is packing 15 sports cards plus a Cards2Kids card into each plastic bag that eventually will be delivered to another child. “We give them out to patients in the hospital,” said Marin Reynes, senior station manager for the American Red Cross at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda. “A piece of entertainment to keep your mind off of why you are here is appreciated.” Ofﬁcially, the boys meet monthly to sort and package, but they get together at other times too, and work at home whenever they have extra time, Andrew’s mother, Anne Berube, said. And they are still personal collectors. They separate the two collections, never keeping a card, no matter how appealing, that was donated to Card-

s2Kids, said Leslie LeBlanc, Ben and Graham’s mother. “Like the encased 24-carat gold, signed Nolan Ryan card,” Andrew said. “We are going to donate it.” The boys and their mothers agreed that they have learned a lot about the ethics of being ambassadors, receiving cards for a purpose and being honest to their mission. “When we put on our [Cards2Kids] shirts, it’s all about Cards2Kids,” Ben said. In addition to the day-to-day work with the cards, the boys also have to contact charities about accepting their cards and conduct card drives to get new offerings. They are doing drives at their schools and have collection boxes at two local card stores — House of Cards in Silver Spring and Hall of Fame Cards in Potomac. “We are just beginning to work with them,” Chuck Bortnick, the store manager at House of Cards, said. “It sounds like a good group and a good cause.” Once, Andrew said, they put out a collection box at a card show and got 7,500 cards. They also get them from friends and neighbors who know about the work. “Some people are really faithful donators,” Anne Berube said. “They send good cards because they know they are going to kids.” Good cards for kids in this case are

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From left, Graham and Ben LeBlanc and Andrew Berube sort cards, looking for the best selections to package and donate to local children through the nonproﬁt Cards2Kids. current, no earlier than 2007, Ben said, because they want the kids to know the players. They also encourage people to donate unopened packs of cards. “For [the] Children’s Inn at [the National Institutes of Health], they have to be unopened packs because they are concerned about germs,” Andrew said. “We are hoping to get unopened packs to give to [them].” The DC Ambassadors do not accept money — only cards. “We don’t need much money to run it — basically, just for boxes [to store] the cards and bags for the cards,” Anne

Berube said. “Both families knew there would be a certain amount of expense.” Andrew said he has learned a lot sorting cards. “I’ve learned a lot about older players,” he said. “I’ve also learned that people really like this.” Ben said he had to learn to manage his time better to keep up with school, sports, his own card collection and Cards2Kids. “I’ve learned a lot about caring and helping other kids,” Ben said.

Two-for-one open house at Rockville schools

montgomerycountymd.gov/mcvaccineclinic/. For more information or other ﬂu shot locations and times visit www. montgomerycountymd.gov/ﬂu or call 311.

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EDUCATION NOTEBOOK Bethesda-Chevy Chase teens celebrate Day of the Girl Members of the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School chapter of School

Girls Unite celebrated the Day of the Girl on Oct. 11 with a Day of the Girl Arts and Actions Night in the school cafeteria. The event, designed to celebrate girls’ rights and recognize the struggles that still exist, featured performances by local teen artists and information booths where participants could learn about and engage in dialogue on speciﬁc issues affecting girls. Guest speakers included Donna Wilkinson, wide receiver of the D.C Divas football team, who discussed pursuing her passion, and Gary Barker, international director of Promundo, a nonproﬁt that works with men to eliminate violence against women. About 250 people attended the event, said Emily Kuttner, co-president with Julia Fine of the chapter. “It was so great so see a variety of people from the school and the community, all the ages,” Kuttner said. “The best part was the energy. It was so exciting to see so many people dedicated to changing the status quo when it comes to women.” School Girls Unite is a “...100 percent youth-led movement committed to promoting the International Day of the Girl Child on Oct. 11 as a platform for change in the U.S.,” according to its website, www.schoolgirlsunite.org. In December 2011, the U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring Oct. 11 the International Day of the Girl Child. Its purpose is “to recognize girls’ rights and the unique challenges girls face around the world,” according to the U.N.’s website. The focus of this year’s day was “Innovating for Girls’ Education.” “Two years ago, the School Girls

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Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School seniors Michelle Budin (left) and Vivian Vazquez, and junior Nathan Kaye pose by their booths at the school’s School Girls Unite Day of the Girl Arts and Actions Night on Oct. 11. Unite Club at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School led the successful campaign to gain U.S. support for the recently recognized U.N. International Day of the Girl,” Kuttner wrote in an email. “This year, the movement against gender injustices continues as the School Girls Unite Club reaches out to involve the community in the Day of the Girl.”

Language study scholarships available About 600 scholarships are available for the 2014-15 academic year for U.S. high school students to study language through the National Security Language Initiative for Youth. The program is funded by the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. It seeks to increase Americans’ capacity to engage with native speakers of critical

languages by providing formal and informal language learning through a study abroad experience, which includes language classes and living in a local community abroad, often with a host family. Scholarships to participate in summer or academic year programs are available for the study of Arabic, Mandarin, Hindi, Korean, Tajiki, Russian and Turkish. The merit-based scholarships cover domestic and international travel, tuition and related academic expenses, daily language classes, supporting cultural activities, room and board, and secondary health beneﬁts for travel abroad. To be eligible, applicants must be U.S. citizens, high school students with a grade point average of at least 2.5, and 15 to 18 years old at the start of the program. The application deadline is Nov. 5. More eligibility criteria and applications are at nsliforyouth.org.

Marine Band in concert at Montgomery Blair High The President’s Own Marine Band will perform a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Montgomery Blair High School, 52 University Blvd. East, Silver Spring. Selections will include Sousa marches, an orchestral transcription of Aaron Copland’s “El Salón México” and John Williams’ original fanfare written for the band. Other highlights include clarinet soloist John Norton performing Eric Richards’ “A Klezmer Tribute” and baritone Gunnery Sgt. Kevin Bennear singing Stephen Bulla’s arrangement “Pride of a People.” The concert will conclude with an armed forces salute honoring all veterans. The public is invited; no tickets are required. For more information visit ﬁnearts. mbhs.edu or call 301-649-2839.

St. Raphael School and St. Raphael Nursery School will hold an open

house doubleheader Monday. The school, which serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade, will be open from 9:15 to 10:15 a.m. and the nursery school from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. The nursery school has programs for 3- and 4-year-olds and pre-kindergarten, plus extended-day offerings. Each open house starts with a presentation, followed by a tour of the facilities. Child care is available during the open house. The schools are at 1513 Dunster Road, Rockville. For more information call 301-762-2143 or visit www.straphaelschoolmd.org.

County to offer flu vaccine clinics in November The Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services will conduct free, nasal spray flu vaccine clinics in November for children 18 and younger at a number of public schools. The first will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Nov. 1, at John F. Kennedy High School, 1901 Randolph Road, Silver Spring; Richard Montgomery High School, 250 Richard Montgomery Drive, Rockville; and Seneca Valley High School, 19401 Crystal Rock Drive, Germantown. No classes will be held that day because it is a professional day for teachers. The clinics are open to any schoolage child. All public elementary schools will host a flu clinic either Nov. 11 or Nov. 12, following early dismissal of students those days. The clinics are free, but registration is required due to limited vaccine supplies. To register visit www2.

WSSC calendar contest for students is underway The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission is accepting entries for its fourth annual calendar contest. Students in second through ﬁfth grades in schools in Prince George’s and Montgomery counties are eligible to enter artwork promoting the theme “Why I ‘Can the Grease.’” “Can the Grease” is the utility’s ongoing effort to urge residents to pour fats, oils and grease into a can and then dispose of them in the trash rather than pour the clogging materials down the drain. When too much of these materials get into the sewer system, backups occur, which can be costly to repair and can harm the environment. Entries must be no larger than 8½ by 11 inches and no smaller than 5½ by 11 inches. Students may use any medium, such as oil, watercolor, pastels, pencil, pen and ink, and crayon, but three-dimensional work will not be accepted. Mounted and framed entries will not be judged. Entries must have the artist’s name, grade, school, school address, teacher’s name and teacher’s email address on their back. Only one entry can be submitted per student. The deadline for entries is 5 p.m. Nov. 1. Entries may be sent or delivered to WSSC, Attn: Community Outreach Group, 14501 Sweitzer Lane, Laurel, MD 20707. Twelve winners will be chosen for the 2014 calendar. Each winner will receive $100 and six copies of the calendar. For more information, contact the utility at 301-206-7019.

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CELEBRATIONS

HEALTH CALENDAR WEDNESDAY, OCT. 23 Healthy Cooking Series: Gluten Free Foods, from 6-8

p.m. at Suburban Hospital, 8600 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda. By demonstrating delicious, ﬂavorful recipes, you will learn helpful tips on how to stock a gluten-free pantry and recipes sure to inspire your palette. Call for prices. 301-896-3939. www.suburbanhospital.org.

Health Fair for Older Adults at MedStar Montgomery, from

Boarman, Jagoda Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Boarman of Olney announce the engagement of their daughter, Ashley Michelle Boarman, to Douglas Andrew Jagoda, son of Mrs. Elaine Jagoda Adornetto and stepson of Mr. Thomas Adornetto of Derwood. The bride-to-be graduated from Sherwood High School in Sandy Spring in 2004 and went on to graduate magna cum laude from East Carolina University in 2008, receiving a bachelor’s degree in communication. Ashley is employed by MGH of Owings Mills as a public relations senior account executive. The prospective groom graduated from Col. Zadok A. Magruder High School in Derwood in 2004 and went on to receive his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2008. Douglas is employed by Clark Construction of Bethesda as an assistant superintendent. A June 2014 wedding is planned in Baltimore.

10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, 18101 Prince Philip Drive, Olney. Make plans to attend MedStar Montgomery Medical Center’s ﬁrst health fair for older adults, Thriving as You Age. During this event, you will have the opportunity to speak directly with medical experts and learn about health topics on aging. www.montgomerygeneral.org.

Donoho, Constantine Stephen Donoho of Geneseo, Ill., and William and Kathy Blackburn of Silver Creek, Ga., announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Stephenie Ann Donoho, to James V. Constantine, son of Ted and Sharon Constantine of Bethesda. The bride-to-be graduated with honors from Denbigh High School in Newport News, Va., and is a 2002 graduate of Virginia Tech. She is currently employed as a government contracts manager at Wesco Distribution Inc. The prospective groom is a graduate of Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda and graduated from York College in York, Pa., in 2004. He is currently employed at Comprint Military Publications as an advertising consultant. The couple resides in Clarksburg. A ceremony and reception is planned for September 2014.

THURSDAY, OCT. 24 Food Day Lunch and Learn at MedStar Montgomery,

from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, 18101 Prince Philip Drive, Olney. Learn how you

UPCOMING the church’s Fellowship Hall, 20701 Frederick Road, Germantown. The church will also observe Orphan Sunday that day. All are welcome. Services are held at 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sunday mornings. Sunday School for all ages at 9:40 a.m. www.Neelsville.org

ONGOING Damascus United Methodist Church, 9700 New Church

Lynch, Foster Madison Booth and Wilma Harmon Dunlap celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on Oct. 10, 2013. Wed on Oct. 10, 1953, at Tacoma Park Baptist Church, they’ve enjoyed a wonderful and stimulating life together, all spent in the Silver Spring area. After starting their honeymoon sharing the Hershey Hotel with Dwight Eisenhower’s birthday party, they visited the Finger Lakes region, including Niagara falls, the Thousand Islands region and Quebec. The couple’s children and their spouses are Tom and Linda Dunlap of Winston-Salem, N.C., Susan and Steve Kline of Olney and Cynthia and Ken Gwynn of Raleigh, N.C. They also enjoy their eight grandchildren: Jack, Pete and his wife Cameron, Sally, Michael, Laura, Amy, David and Matthew.

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SATURDAY, OCT. 26 Safe Sitter, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Suburban Hospital, 8600 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda. Comprehensive training course teaching 11- to 13-year-olds the essentials of babysitting. Course includes tactics in handling emergencies basic ﬁrst aid and childcare skills. $95. Registration required. If you are interested in becoming a Safe Sitter instructor, please call 301-8962999. www.suburbanhospital. org.

MONDAY, OCT. 28 Learn to Understand Your Anger, from 7-9 p.m. at

Suburban Hospital, 8600 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda. Understand your anger style, its triggers and the impact on your health. Discover healthy and practical techniques for managing your anger in everyday situations. Not appropriate for court referrals. $20. www.suburbanhospital.org.

RELIGION CALENDAR Neelsville’s Alternative Gift Market will be held Nov. 3 in

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can reduce your risk of certain diseases by making healthy food choices. www.montgomerygeneral.org.

Gerard and Marla Lynch of Gaithersburg announce the engagement of their daughter, Christina Leigh Lynch, to Sean Richard Foster, son of Richard and Barbara Anne Foster of Germantown. Christina is the granddaughter of Henry and Kay Shenton of Apopka, Fla., and the late Kevin and Mary Pat Lynch of Timonium. Sean is the grandson of Elizabeth Kondraki and the late Anthony Kondraki of Upland, Pa. He is also the grandson of the late Charles and Margaret Foster of Farmingdale, N.Y., and Lake Worth, Fla. The bride-to-be, who resides in Frederick, attended Colonel Zadok Magruder High School. She received her undergraduate degree and master’s degree from the University of Maryland, College Park. The prospective groom, who also resides in Frederick, attended Seneca Valley High School. He received his undergraduate degree from Salisbury University and his master’s degree from the University of Maryland, College Park. The couple met while teaching middle school in Germantown. A September 2014 wedding is planned in Frederick.

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

Liberty Grove United Methodist Church, 15225 Old

Columbia Pike, Burtonsville, conducts Sunday morning worship services at 8:30, 9:30 and 11 a.m. Sunday school, nursery through adult, is at 9:30 a.m. 301-421-9166. For a schedule of events, visit www. libertygrovechurch.org. “MOPS,” a faith-based support group for mothers of children, birth through kindergarten, meets from 9-11:30 a.m. the ﬁrst and third Wednesdays of the month at the Frederick Church of the Brethren, 201 Fairview Drive, Frederick. Childcare is

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

Neelsville Presbyterian Church, 20701 Frederick Road,

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

Providence United Methodist Church, 3716 Kemptown

Church Road, Monrovia, conducts a contemporary service at 8 a.m. followed by a traditional service at 9:30 a.m. Sunday mornings, with children’s Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. and adult Sunday school at 11 a.m. For more information, call 301-253-1768. Visit www. kemptownumc.org. Trinity Lutheran Church, 11200 Old Georgetown Road, North Bethesda, conducts services every Sunday, with child care from 8 a.m. to noon and fellowship and a coffee hour following each service. 301-8817275. For a schedule of events, visit www.TrinityELCA.org. Chancel choir auditions and rehearsals, 7:30 p.m.

Thursdays at Liberty Grove Methodist Church, 15225 Old Columbia Pike, Burtonsville. Call 301-421-9166 or visit www.libertygrovechurch.org.

The Gazette prints engagement and wedding announcements, with color photographs, at no charge, as a community service. Copy should be limited to 150 words and submitted in paragraph form. Announcements are subject to editing for space. Please include contact information, including a daytime telephone number. Photos should be professional quality. If emailing photos, ﬁle size should be a minimum of 500 KB. Wedding announcements should be submitted no later than 12 months after the wedding. Send to: The Gazette, 9030 Comprint Court, Gaithersburg, MD 20877, or email kgroff@gazette.net. Montgomery County celebrations are inserted into all Montgomery County editions.

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Deciding the right of fright

In Silver Spring, some people love Donna Kerr’s elaborately spooky “Haunted Garden” for the fun it adds to Halloween. But some who live near her decked-out Worth Avenue home are wholly annoyed, fed up with the incoming wave of vehicles and spectators. Nineteen of Kerr’s neighbors signed a petition protesting the Haunted Garden. This is more than a nuisance issue. More than once, Montgomery County has explicitly told Kerr, a real estate agent, that she was violating an ordinance on limits for home COUNTY WAS businesses. CORRECT TO The county tried in two CITE MARKETING previous years to get Kerr to OF HALLOWEEN stop. This year, the county got DISPLAY a temporary restraining order, saying the display did not comply with the residential zoning code, was expanding each year and was a potential safety hazard. Kerr has a single-family home on a 15,000-square-foot lot in a dense residential neighborhood, according to the county’s petition. On Oct. 15, Montgomery County District Judge Patricia Mitchell settled the matter, for now, by letting Kerr hold her Haunted Garden for two days instead of the five days she had advertised. Diane Schwartz Jones, the director of the county’s Department of Permitting Services, was baffled by the ruling, and so are we. “The real issue is a public safety issue,” Schwartz Jones said. “If it is a public safety issue for five nights, it is a public safety issue for two nights.” This was hardly a Solomonic split down the middle. If the central question were how long a neighborhood should be inconvenienced, then tapering back the number of days might be a reasonable middle ground. But there’s a grander fundamental issue here — whether Kerr should use business channels to boost an event at her home. The county amassed plenty of evidence of how much she entangled her Halloween display with her commercial enterprise, Pure Energy Real Estate. The company’s website and Facebook page and a flier that went to about 12,000 households mixed publicity about the event with listings of homes for sale. Kerr paid her employees to work on the display. Approximately 2,000 people attended the 2011 event, the company’s Facebook page said, urging even more visitors this year. But with such large crowds, Montgomery County’s transportation and police departments have had to get involved. Montgomery County’s law on home-based businesses allows two visitors at a time. The county’s website says home-based businesses are permitted “by right” if they have: “up to five vehicles visits per week, excluding deliveries;” “no nonresident employee;” and “no discernible impact on the surroundings.” Owners must get a home occupation registration certificate if their business has a “maximum of twenty vehicles visits per week with no more than five per day, excluding deliveries” and “one nonresident employee.” Anything beyond those limits requires a special exception. A home-based business must follow two overarching principles. It must be “conducted entirely within the house.” And it “does not change the residential character of the neighborhood such as by creating noise, odors, or vibrations at the property line.” Kerr did not have a permit for a home occupation on the property. Perhaps she wasn’t selling homes to people as they were spooked by goblins, but there’s no question her business was an integral part of the operation and marketing of the event. It’s hard to imagine this case reaching the judicial system if Kerr had left her business name and resources out of it. That’s how the display started, when Kerr decorated her yard for a 2010 humane society fundraiser. The following year, she started spreading the word through her business, prompting the county to cite her. Mitchell’s ruling lets the Haunted Garden proceed. Kerr will have public showings for four hours apiece on Friday and Saturday. If Mitchell’s ruling was based on a belief that Kerr’s Haunted Garden marketing is incidental to her business, then Montgomery County will have to add new zoning language prohibiting business activities like this one. We’d rather not see another battle testing the limits of the law and the peace of a neighborhood. We encourage Kerr to instead consider an alternate way to hold her impressive Halloween display, perhaps in a public space. Maybe the county or the Montgomery County Fairgrounds could host it, with support from Kerr and her business. Sell tickets and find a worthwhile beneficiary. Kerr deserves credit for the time, work and spirit that she pours into her display. By stripping away the nuisance and legal issues, it could become a perfect treat.

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LETTERS TOT HE EDITOR

As the holidays approach, food drives and other hungerrelief efforts seem to be everywhere ... except your local Costco. Although this retailer is the current darling of the “socially responsible” ﬁnancial set and has been praised by President Obama and patronized by Vice President Biden, a closer look at Costco’s record in helping the hungry shows it to be more Scrooge than saint. In an email, Arthur D. Jackson Jr., Costco’s vice president of general administration, said the company would not likely have a food drive at any of its locations. “There are just too many worthy causes that would love to have that access, we would never be

Cold-hearted Costco able to accommodate them all. Once we allow one we’d be hard pressed to deny it to others,” he said. But what happens to all the food in stores that isn’t purchased before its sell-by date? Most large retailers, including BJ’s Wholesale and Sam’s Club, Costco’s direct competitors, have robust programs for collecting and donating products to food banks and soup kitchens. But not Costco. It composts that food and sells it for use as fertilizer and livestock feed. Just how much food does Costco dispose of in this way? According to ﬁgures in Costco’s own 2009 Sustainability Report, each Costco location produces an average

of 3.7 tons of food waste each week. The number of Costco locations in the U.S. is 448 and growing. That means each year Costco composts or throws away more than 172 million pounds of food, about 7 pounds for each of its more than 25 million U.S. members. So why doesn’t Costco donate this food to some of the “many worthy causes” mentioned by Mr. Jackson? After all, the same economies of scale in selling only large-sized packages of food that help make Costco so proﬁtable would also apply to food donations. The answer, unfortunately, appears to be proﬁt. Donating food would require Costco to pay employees

Councilman Rice has his work cut out for him — and so do we We are lucky that our elected County Council representative Craig Rice is young, energetic and thoughtful. We need to give him and our issues strong support. Last week, Rice hosted a town meeting in Damascus [“Rice set to tackle traffic,” Sept. 25]. Without fanfare, and almost without any notes, he, along with several members of the police department, covered an amazing array of issues facing both the upcounty, which Rice represents, and Montgomery County as a whole. We heard about transportation, Clarksburg and drug enforcement programs. It was good to hear facts, plans and issues presented in honest, thoughtful terms. It was reassuring to see residents listening, asking thoughtful questions and voicing their own concerns. The evening represented the best of our demo-

cratic process. Now the responsibility for the next steps in our local democracy rest with us. Will we call the Board of Elections to support having an early voting site at the Damascus Community Recreation Center, which was the excellent site for the meeting? Will we keep a close eye on decisions affecting the headwaters of Ten Mile Creek, the last and only clean water source that backs up water for our region’s 4.2 million people? We know backup systems have been used in the past. We know it is only a matter of time that these backup systems will be called into full primary service. Who among us will speak for our natural resources, clear air and clean water? Will we go to the public library or go online and review the county’s next six-year planning document — the CIP — to

check for what is and is not included for our area, the largest geographic and population area of Montgomery County? And if the roads, the buildings, the needs are not reﬂected there, will we write letters, attend hearings and testify? What about transportation? A real town center with the promised public library for Clarksburg? The list goes on and on. Rice has his work cut out for him and so do we as we watch him weigh the issues, the facts and the needs of the people who elected him. We are also lucky to have The Gazette send reporters to cover local events and local issues. This is another major support for our democracy. So in spite of the somber news all around us, we still have a great deal to be thankful for.

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

Dennis Wilston, Corporate Advertising Director Doug Baum, Corporate Classiﬁeds Director Mona Bass, Inside Classiﬁeds Director

County should match state in aid to working poor

Is this why Mr. O’Malley raised the gas taxes? To waste our money on unnecessary projects? My son pointed out to me that this has been going on for a while along other roads. I would like to know who the people are that set priorities at MDOT? Shame on them all!

Antonio Corsini, Rockville

Linda Anderson, Silver Spring

Maria Pedak-Kari, Damascus

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Timothy F. Reynolds, Silver Spring

The Montgomery County Council has the chance to greatly ease the burden of making ends meet for thousands of households living below the poverty level. By passing Expedited Bill 8-13, the council would restore the county’s match with Maryland’s Earned Income Tax Credit funding to 100 percent, as it was from 2000 through 2010. A “hand up,” not a “hand out” from the EITC has proven successful for 40 years since President Ford signed it into law in 1974. It helps the working poor — most of whom are single adults with two children — survive while earning at or near the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. That comes to a shamefully insufﬁcient $15,000 a year full time for those fortunate enough to secure full-time work in these challenging times. Fully restoring the county’s match means more than 30,000 residents will get a modest tax credit of over $500. That’s not a complete solution, but enough for many to fully cover their medical expenses or most of their monthly food bills. Such assistance not only eases some of the pressure on low-income families, but is a wise public investment in the long-term strength of our region’s economy, children and future.

Sidewalk projects are wasting money In the article of Oct. 2 [“Raised bricks on Georgia Avenue sidewalks called a possible hazard”], a project is referred to “sidewalk restoration.” I call it “sidewalk robbery.” Over the past several months I observed miles of perfectly sound sidewalks been pulled up and replaced along Georgia Avenue from Aspen Hill to Olney. Miles of these sidewalks had been built only a couple of years ago.

to sort the food, and somebody would have to bear the cost of transporting it to hunger-relief agencies. It’s apparently more proﬁtable for Costco to sell the food for pig slop than give it to hungry people. Costco derives most of its proﬁts from the annual membership fee it charges. And Costco is not reticent about taking from the communities where it operates, such as the $4 million subsidy Montgomery County taxpayers gave to help bring a new Costco to Wheaton. When Costco solicits you for a membership, ask why Costco doesn’t do more for hungry people.

Jean Casey, Director of Marketing and Circulation Anna Joyce, Creative Director, Special Pubs/Internet Ellen Pankake, Director of Creative Services

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Maryland’s historic governor’s race

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Maryland voters can make history next year by electing either the state’s first black governor (Anthony Brown or Charles Lollar) the first governor from Montgomery County (Doug Gansler) or the first woman/lesbian governor (Heather Mizeur). But history is already being made not for who’s running, but for who’s not running. When Gansler this week picked Joline Ivey, a P.G. county delegate, as his running mate, both parties’ major gubernatorial tickets became finalized without a single candidate from Baltimore. So, MY MARYLAND barring a highly BLAIR LEE unlikely, lastminute Baltimorean’s entry into the governor’s race, this is the first time in more than a century that no one from Baltimore will appear on the gubernatorial ballot. Gansler (Montgomery) is running with Ivey (P.G.); Republican David Craig (Harford) is running with Jeannie Haddaway (Talbot); and Anthony Brown (P.G.) is running with Ken Ulman (Howard). Ulman is peddling himself as a Baltimorean but no matter how many Ravens jerseys he dons, he was raised in Columbia and schooled in P.G. and D.C. The disappearance of Baltimore candidates is a stunning development given that seven of our last eight governors were from either Baltimore city or Baltimore County (Agnew, Mandel, Hughes, Schaefer, Ehrlich and O’Malley). Only Parris Glendening (P.G.) interrupted Baltimore’s 48-year control of the governor’s mansion. And at least he had a Baltimore-area lieutenant governor, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. I had to go back to the 1911 election (they were odd years back then) to find a governor’s race without a Baltimorean. The incumbent, Austin Crothers (Cecil) a progressive-era reformer, couldn’t seek re-election because his liberal policies split the Democratic party. So, two Democratic state senators battled for the nomination; the machine candidate, Arthur Pue Gorman Jr. (Howard) vs. the reform liberal, Blair Lee (Montgomery). In one of state history’s most bitter elections, Gorman defeated great-granddad,

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but the resulting acrimony split the party allowing Philip Goldsborough (Dorchester) to become Maryland’s governor, only the second Republican since the Civil War. In politics, demographics is destiny and Baltimore city’s demographics stink. Since World War II, when it accounted for nearly half the state’s population, the city has lost a third of its residents. More people lived in Baltimore city during World War I than today when Baltimore is merely 11 percent of Maryland’s population and, even worse, cast only 8.5 percent of the statewide vote in the last two gubernatorial elections. With the loss of population has gone the loss of state and federal legislative seats, bad news for a city that survives on state and federal aid. And now it appears that Baltimore is losing control of the governor’s office, one of the most powerful in the nation. How much money will the city get when a non-Baltimore governor writes the 2015 budget? Baltimore congressman Dutch Ruppersburger coyly hints that he might fill the vacuum. But it’s unlikely that Dutch wants to go down in history as the man who destroyed Maryland’s Democratic party by defeating Anthony Brown, its first African-American gubernatorial hopeful. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake attempts salvaging some face by warning that, “I don’t think there’s a way to win the governor’s race without the Baltimore vote.” That might be true for the Democratic nomination, but Bob Ehrlich won the 2002 general election without carrying the city. The age-old axiom “the road to the governor’s mansion leads through Baltimore” is becoming increasingly obsolete. Instead, Maryland’s political center of gravity has shifted to the D.C. suburbs, 30 miles and one media market distant from Baltimore. If Gansler, Brian Frosh (or Bill Frick) and Peter Franchot all win, Maryland’s governor, attorney general and comptroller will all be Montgomery Countians. How weird is that? Hail to the Redskins and please pass the tofu and bean sprouts.

Get Gansler Doug Gansler and Anthony Brown have both spent the last eight years preparing for the 2014 governor’s contest. During that time, Gansler skillfully outmaneuvered Brown by becoming Maryland’s ﬁrst white poli-

tician to back Barack Obama in 2008 (Brown tagged along with O’Malley’s support of Hillary Clinton) and by being the first major elected official to back gay marriage long before it was popular. Gansler, as attorney general, has also compiled a long list of court victories and ran his office, generally, without incident or scandal. Meanwhile, Brown’s signature accomplishments were BRAC (preparing for the influx of new military personnel), Maryland’s Obamacare roll-out (so far an embarrassing flub), and garnering the support of most Democratic elected officials. Stuck with the Obamacare fiasco and facing Gansler’s bulletproof record, the Brown campaign is exploiting Gansler’s only weakness — his brash intemperance, reckless arrogance, oversized ego and big mouth. First, it was the tape of Gansler telling supporters that Brown was mainly running on being black. Somehow the secret tape mysteriously fell into the hands of the Washington Post reporter, John Wagner, a notorious O’Malley administration shill, who dutifully ran it on the paper’s front page. Now, two months later it’s “Troopergate,” allegations that Gansler hectored his state trooper drivers into bypassing traffic jams by driving on the shoulders with emergency lights flashing. Again, it was John Wagner and, again, it was on the Post’s front page. The “Troopergate” allegations stem from a 2011 internal state police memo that, we are supposed to believe, suddenly appeared in John Wagner’s sleep, causing him to file a freedom of information request. Wagner’s miraculous “investigative journalism” became a damaging front page scandal on the day before Gansler announced his running mate. A coincidence? I’m no Gansler fan, but I hate political “hit jobs” by so-called journalists and news desks who hold themselves out as objective truthseekers and reliable fact messengers. Do the voters of Maryland realize that they’re being unscrupulously manipulated? That’s the greater scandal of “Troopergate.” Blair Lee is chairman of the board of Lee Development Group in Silver Spring and a regular commentator for WBAL radio. His column appears Fridays in the Business Gazette. His past columns are available at www.gazette.net/blairlee. His email address is blairleeiv@gmail.com.

I read Matthew D. Taylor’s letter (“Another Wegmans Lament,” Oct. 9) with great amusement, certain until the very end that it was an elaborate joke, perhaps an homage to Robin Williams’ coffee-induced panic in “Moscow on the Hudson.” But, as I read his conclusion, it dawned on me that he was serious: He really does believe that their fresh produce section is “unnecessarily vast” and

that their convenient and high-quality assortment of grocery and non-grocery items is “excessive.” I suggest that if more local residents visit Wegmans, they will see that they’re being denied a product selection superior to Giant and Safeway in both quality and quantity. My only Wegmans lament? That’s it’s so far away!

David Edelstein, Bethesda

Is Maryland going over the cliff? The Oct. 2 Letter from Dan Bongino [“Texas has nothing on Maryland, except opportunity”] should be read by every Marylander. His letter was obviously motivated by the recent overtures by Gov. Rick Perry of Texas touting the advantages of Marylanders moving to Texas. It is refreshing and inspiring to have a candidate for Congress speak the truth when he identifies the current advantages of Maryland over Texas and warns that these advantages will fade away if the state continues on its current course. His objective is obvious — to wake up Marylanders to a growing problem that needs resolution. He states Maryland does not provide motivation to succeed, to make something of oneself. This is the process that strengthens the economic fiber of a state. It gives one state an advantage over another that fails to understand this concept. As he says, we are in the process of losing these advantages because of an unfavorable business climate and an ever-increasing tax burden causing the flight of taxpayers to other states. He makes his case by pointing out that over 66,000 Marylanders have fled the

state to avoid increasing taxes and regulations. Why is all this happening? Why is this governor and this legislature raising taxes in almost every category, e.g. sales, income, property, gasoline tax, seeking additional sources of revenue like the nefarious rain tax, and over regulating businesses? Why is this state unleashing the very factors that inhibit growth and opportunity? Are higher order factors motivating all this? Is one factor the political climate in which Maryland has become a one-party state forcing its will on all? Doesn’t a one-party system of government resemble failed similar one-party systems like socialism, communism, dictatorships and kingships? Is the other factor the sometimes-heard charge that Maryland has become a sanctuary state? If so, is this imposing ﬁnancial burdens on the state that can be met only through increased taxes? Regardless of political afﬁliation, elected state (and national) officials have an obligation to evaluate cause and effect before taking any action that might impose a burden on its citizenry and prevent progress.

Warren Manison, Potomac

Whose morals will they use? In their letter, [“Organizations: Council must help those on brink of poverty,” Oct. 16] ofﬁcers from 11 local organizations “demand just and fair laws that reﬂect our moral teachings.” Really? That sounds suspiciously like the approach the Taliban uses. Just what are the moral teachings that they demand be codified into Maryland law? Are their moral teachings expressed in the Sermon on the Mount, or the Koran, or the Hindu Ve-

das, or the Communist Manifesto? Who knows? This group goes on to say that they pledge to work with the Montgomery County Council to advance the health and well-being “of all county residents.” I’m unclear how their moral teachings will necessarily advance my health and well-being, although they would likely increase my taxes.

Bill Fallon, Gaithersburg

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Quince Orchard High School defensive back Kyle Gregory and a few teammates, having played the night before, watched Gaithersburg defeat Sherwood 32-7 during the ﬁrst Saturday of the high school football season. Gregory, to say the least, was impressed. “I knew they had a chance to go undefeated, because they had a lot of talent,” Gregory said. So far, Gregory’s assessment has proven correct. No. 4 Gaithersburg (7-0) and No. 2 Quince Orchard (7-0) are Montgomery County’s only undefeated teams, though one will lose its perfect record this week. The teams are scheduled to play 6:30 p.m. Friday at Richard Montgomery. Surely, Gregory was referring to talent such as running back Solomon Vault, a Northwestern recruit who had 200 yards of offense and four touchdowns in that opener. But Vault has missed three of the last four games with a leg injury and is questionable for this week, according to Gaithersburg coach Kreg Kephart, potentially wiping away one of Gaithersburg’s advantages. “It’s not just Solomon,” Gregory said. “They have a whole bunch of players around him that are able to make plays that they don’t really talk about but should get a lot more credit than they do.”

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Our Lady of Good Counsel High School’s Jesse Aniebonam pursues the ball against Gonzaga in the Falcons’ loss to the Eagles on Sept. 20.

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Jesse Aniebonam, considering joining the Our Lady of Good Counsel High School football program, visited the school in eighth grade and met defensive line coach Kevin McFadden. McFadden saw Aniebonam’s long arms, big feet and even his big nose and thought, “He just looked different. There was some-

thing about him.” The coach, wanting to see whether Aniebonam’s athleticism matched his physique, took him to the gym, positioned him underneath the basketball hoop and told him to jump. “His elbow touched the rim,” McFadden said. “I told him, I said, ‘You do everything I tell you to do, you’ll be one of the best defensive ends. You’ll be top three in the country if you do everything I tell you to do.’ And he did ev-

erything I told him to do.” The U.S. Army All-American Bowl announced its selection of Aniebonam last week, the latest honor for the Silver Spring resident who committed to Maryland and has the pedigree of a star defensive end. Aniebonam’s 38 first cousins include National Football League defensive end Osi

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Boys’ race wide open; B-CC girls the team to beat BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN STAFF WRITER

This year’s Montgomery County boys’ soccer season has been so unpredictable Walt Whitman High School boys’ soccer coach Dave Green said he half considered running a

March Madness-type bracket pool for the upcoming postseason, which begins with Thursday and Friday’s region tournament ﬁrst-round games. Popularity in high-level club soccer’s expansion from its original nucleus in the Bethesda, Potomac and Rockville areas has lead to increased parity among Montgomery County teams and that equity among teams has reached new heights in 2013, coaches agreed.

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powers out of Bethesda and Potomac in one section, competing with each other just to get to a region final. The split likely affects the girls more than the boys this year, coaches agreed, but the truth of the matter is any team that is going to get through the region is going to have to beat the best teams to get there whether it’s in the first round or the region final.

Fourteen-year-old Andrew Christianson may not have graduated from high school — much less middle school — yet, but he is already a college athlete. On Friday, in front of his family, friends, teammates and fans, the Olney-resident signed a National Letter of Intent with the Montgomery College men’s soccer program. While the eighth-grade student at Rose Parks Middle School is an ofﬁcial member — he attends the Raptors’ practices, games and even has his own set of purple, black, white and silver jerseys — of the junior college program, Christianson will have to wait a little less than ﬁve years to actually play in a collegiate contest. “This is pretty cool,” Christianson, an avid soccer player and fanatic, said with a grin on his face. “Everyone has been so nice.” Christianson, who appears to be mature for his age, isn’t a typical 14-year-old boy.

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Sherwood volleyball’s streak ends Warriors lose to Damascus for ﬁrst time in a ﬁve-set match in 1,441 days

Not that anybody could have known it at the time, but what looked like an innocuous, run-of-the-mill win over Watkins Mill High School for Sherwood on Sept. 3, 2010 actually served as the launching pad for one of the most venerated winning streaks in high school volleyball. After that win, 67 teams tried their hand

PREP NOTEBOOK to best Sherwood and zero succeeded. Three state titles were earned, wins piled up and statistics verged on the absurd. Finally, however, the streak was undone. A deep and talented Damascus went into Olney on Thursday and did what no team had done since Thomas S. Wootton on Nov. 6, 2009: it defeated the Warriors. It may have taken ﬁve sets, and it may have taken every last swing Annika Schwartz’s right shoulder had in it, but the Swarmin’ Hornets stole away with a 3-2 victory. “This has been my and our goal since freshman year,” said Schwartz, who recorded a match-high 21 kills. “We wanted this. We are a small 3A school and we proved we can beat a great big 4A school and one of the best programs.” Predictably, Sherwood shrugged it off as a loss, nothing more. Coach Brian McCarty has been preaching all year long that the gaudy streak was just a nice little resumé booster. After all, there’s a more important streak still intact: three consecutive state championships. Winston Churchill defeated Damascus on Monday.

Continued from Page B-1 Umenyiora, who plays for the Atlanta Falcons and made two Pro Bowls with the New York Giants. Aniebonam said he regrets not seeking mentorship from Umenyiora sooner, and he hopes they’ll train together this winter. For now, they exchange texts, and Aniebonam said his cousin’s advice often centers around two themes. One — keep a level head — comes easy to Aniebonam. Whenever he feels stressed, Aniebonam sings to himself. Sometimes, he hums during class to the point his peers tell

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Continued from Page B-1 Gaithersburg, which went 3-7 last season, views this game as a potential turning point. “It’s a good chance for us to try and maybe play well and get some respect,” Kephart said. “We don’t think people think so highly of us.” Quince Orchard, on the other hand, is 24-0 against 4A West Region teams since moving into the region in 2011, winning by an average score of 43-5. Though Quince Orchard defensive coordinator John Kelley said it appears Gaithersburg would be the toughest foe in that span, it still seems Quince Orchard is still a clear favorite.

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Damascus High School’s Madison Wyatt returns a serve during a girls’ volleyball game on Monday against Winston Churchill. The Swarmin’ Hornets ended Sherwood’s 68-winning match streak last week. “The whole team had a good time with it.”

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Another Sherwood streak ends

A new look for Hillard Winston Churchill’s Kaitlyn Hillard established early on that she was one of the county’s more talented hitters with 144 kills in 15 matches. Standing 6-foot-1, the position is a natural ﬁt. So imagine the surprise John F. Kennedy had on Oct. 16 when Hillard suited up in a black libero uniform for a fun little change of pace for the Bulldogs. Apparently being 6-foot-1 didn’t mean she couldn’t get the job done, as “even the ref said what a good libero she was,” coach Cindy Hillard said. “They were all like ‘take a picture, take a picture!’” Cindy Hillard wrote in an email.

Not that it’s of any comparison to its volleyball counterparts, but the Sherwood field hockey team’s winning streak was also put to a close on Oct. 16. The Warriors were vying for their second consecutive undefeated regular season — last year was the first such in school history — recording 28 straight regular season wins in the last two seasons. Walter Johnson won, 2-1, on goals from Mackenzie Johnson and Catherine Royston. The loss is of little concern to the Warriors, though. They still received a first round bye in the playoffs and will host Paint Branch on Thursday night. tmewhirter@gazette.net

him to shut up. “That’s how I focus,” he replies. That method, coupled with his family’s support, has helped him navigate a high-proﬁle recruitment. “All the buzz with the media and all the offers coming in and everything, that can really get somebody who doesn’t have a level head and the right roots and the right base and the right family structure,” Aniebonam said. On the football ﬁeld, though, Aniebonam doesn’t need any tricks to clear his mind. “Going to practice, that’s kind of like my humming, that’s kind of like my singing,” Aniebonam said.

But Umenyiora’s other tip — use outside criticism and doubt as motivation — doesn’t come as naturally to Aniebonam. Describing himself as “kindhearted and kind-spirited,” Aniebonam said he typically just ignores negativity. He’s working on it, though. Sometimes, Aniebonam, now 6-foot-4 and 240 pounds, thinks back to all the middle schoolers who teased him for being so tall. But he still hopes he can learn from Umenyiora how to better motivate himself. Unknowingly, Umenyiora has at least already helped Aniebonam receive an Auburn scholarship offer. Umenyiora grew up in the same city as the Southeastern Conference school, but

Quince Orchard has won at least seven straight over Gaithersburg, including 35-point victories each of the past two years. As impressive as Gaithersburg’s average score has been this season, 25-6, Quince Orchard has posted an even better mark, 40-3. Plus, Quince Orchard has beaten all four of its common opponents with Gaithersburg by a larger margin than Gaithersburg did: Clarksburg (Quince Orchard won by 28, Gaithersburg by 17), Magruder (56, 34), Churchill (52, 3) and (Sherwood 35, 25) “We’ve got to make sure they don’t put that steamroll on us,” Kephart said. “That’s tough. They’ve got some great ballplayers. They’re bigger than we are. They’re a lot faster than we are, a

lot stronger than we are. We can hopefully get a little karma somewhere. I don’t know.” Up for grabs is a chance at an undefeated, state championship season (what could be Quince Orchard’s first since 2007 or Gaithersburg’s ﬁrst since 2000), the inside track at the No. 1 seed in the 4A West Region and clear recognition as the county’s best public-school team. “The kids know the importance of the ball game,” Kelley said. “I think you’ve got to just go on about it, just prepare like you prepare any other week. If you make it too big, that’s when I think kids are prone to mistakes, if you go out there and are ﬂying sky high.”

it didn’t offer him a scholarship. To avoid repeating the mistake, Auburn quickly offered Aniebonam a scholarship, McFadden said. That was one of more than 20 offers Aniebonam received including Alabama, Florida, Florida State, Notre Dame, Ohio State and his other two finalists besides Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia Tech. McFadden is confident Aniebonam will find success at Maryland — and beyond. “If he stays healthy, he’ll be an NFL draft pick,” McFadden said. “Yes, he will. He’ll go in the top five.” dfeldman@gazette.net

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Continued from Page B-1 Two years ago, in September 2011, Christianson was diagnosed with Pre-B Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Following a year of aggressive chemotherapy treatment and hospital stays at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, he entered a maintenance phase (oral chemotherapy doses and steroids) last October and is improving. As a side effect of the medication, Christianson developed osteonecrosis, a disease caused by reduced blood ﬂow to bones in the joints, in his knee and liver damage. Once he is cancer-free, he is expected make a full recov-

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Girls B-CC will permanently be the favorite in the 4A West until someone proves it’s not. The Barons have annually proven they will find a way to win the big games whether or not they’re the best team. The top seed in the region’s top section lost to an MCPS opponent in the postseason in five years. The Barons boast some of the county’s best playmakers and though scoring hasn’t come easy, opponents haven’t been able to do much against B-CC’s backline. Walt Whitman poses the biggest threat to B-CC. The Vikings are arguably the state’s fastest and most technical team, top to bottom. Whitman possesses a unique kind of versatility that is difficult to defend against. But if either of those teams is going to get to the final they’re going to have to go through Winston Churchill, Walter Johnson and Montgomery Blair, which all have records above .500. Quince Orchard is the bottom section’s top seed and on paper, an overwhelming favorite to advance. But coach Peg Keiller said the Cougars do not expect an easy path. Second-seeded Gaithersburg, resurgent Wootton and Northwest are all capable sides. Defending 4A North champion Sherwood (7-3-1) came as close as penalty kicks to taking B-CC out in last year’s state semifinal. The Warriors have all the tools necessary to win a second straight region title. Damascus remains the county’s only undefeated team and that includes wins over B-CC and Sherwood. The Swarmin’ Hornets are heavy favorites to get out of their section, which includes county opponents that are .500 or less, but will face a tough test should they get to the final to face a Frederick County team. This could be Damascus’ year to break through for the first time since 2000s, though.

Might as well pick favorites for the 4A West out of a hat. Montgomery Blair, Churchill and Clarksburg have been the region’s most consistent performers, record wise, but in a fairly low-scoring region that is sure to be decided by defensive prowess, Churchill’s JJ Van Der Merwe (10 goals) might be an additional X factor as one of the Washington metropolitan area’s top ﬁnishers. Blair is extremely skilled

and Clarksburg is propelled by a veteran lineup. With nine goals against, Walter Johnson boasts the stingiest defense but has struggled to produce on the other end. Defending state champion Wootton has only given up 10 goals and goalie Jeremy Yeager could be the most important piece of the Patriots’ puzzle, coach Douglas Schuessler said. Whitman just lost its starting goalkeeper to a broken wrist, just another injury to add to the Vikings’ already lengthy list. But this is a team that should not be held to its mediocre record. The Vikings are, technically, the most talented bunch overall in the county and playoffs bring a different intensity. With the right combination of players in the right positions, this is a team no one wants to face, Churchill coach Arnold Tarzy said. “I haven’t had my starting 11 on the field since our first scrimmage against [James H. Blake] in August,” Greene said. “I’ve not been able to play anyone, basically, where I want to play them. But I’m pretty sure no one feels sorry for us, and we wouldn’t want them to. I think if anyone underestimates us, they’re making a big mistake.” Fresh off its first division title in program history, Blake’s physicality allows it to match up well with anyone, giving the Bengals a good chance in the 4A North. Ten players have scored at least one goal for Blake, with five of them scoring four or more. The 2011 state champion, Watkins Mill and Wheaton, which is led by the region’s top scorer in Juan Castellon (10), are likely the favorites to come out of the county’s section of the 3A West but Damascus could be a dangerous floater. “I think we’re seeing parity at a level we’ve not seen before and it makes every game exciting,” Schuessler said. “I think every school is going into the state playoffs thinking they have as good a shot as anybody.”

ery. Christianson has not been admitted to the hospital since April 2012 and has since been able to return to the soccer ﬁeld. “He just wasn’t himself,” said his mother, Mardith Christianson. “Andrew had never been sick. It is one of the most traumatic things you can go through as a mother and parent. It’s been tough, but he’s been so positive about it and I don’t think I could be as calm if he didn’t handle it as well as he has.” Added Andrew: “I just wasn’t feeling good — mainly just being tired — before [getting diagnosed]. The doctors did tests for other things before they ﬁgured it out.” Christianson, who says his favorite professional team is D.C.

United, began playing the sport in early elementary school. He then joined his first organized team with Montgomery Soccer, Inc. (MSI) and after sitting out most of the past two seasons to ﬁght leukemia, he currently plays with the Olney Boys’ and Girls’ Club. “I never really got depressed or sad about being sick. It was a new challenge to overcome and something I didn’t really worry about, but it was tough not playing,” Christianson said. “Friends would ask to hang out and I just didn’t feel like it.” During Friday’s ceremony, Christianson, who celebrated his birthday on Oct. 13, ran through a tunnel of players as he was introduced prior to the Raptors’ game against Allegany.

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TOWN OF POOLESVILLE BOARD OF APPEALS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING SPECIAL EXCEPTION 003-13

Notice is hereby given that a Public Hearing will be held on November 5, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Poolesville Town Hall, 19721 Beall Street, Poolesville, Maryland for the purpose of receiving evidence concerning Special Exception 003-13 submitted by Verizon Wireless for the Town’s water tower located on Wootton Avenue, Poolesville, Maryland. This special exception is to request approval to remove six (6) of the existing panel antennas and add nine (9) new panel antennas, adding six (6) remote radio heads, one (1) proposed and one (1) reserved per sector and three (3) sector boxes, one (1) per sector, that will also be mounted to the existing antenna mounts. This application is made pursuant to the Poolesville Zoning Code, Appendix B, Section 10.D.3. to authorize a special exception from Section 3 “Development Standards Chart” in the (P-1/2) Poolesville One-Half Acre zone. Copies of this application are available at Town Hall. 1890797

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Damascus players take on extra duty

HOW THEY RANK The 10 best football teams in Montgomery County this week as ranked by The Gazette’s sports staff.

Rank

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

School

Swarmin’ Hornets’ players tag plays on tape before Friday’s game

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Quince Orchard Cougars Good Counsel Falcons Bullis Bulldogs Gaithersburg Trojans Damascus Swarmin’ Hornets Northwest Jaguars Paint Branch Panthers Sherwood Warriors Seneca Valley Screaming Eagles Walt Whitman Vikings

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Jalen Christian, Stephon Jacob and Andrew Bausch have a busy week. As aides for Damascus High School football coach Eric Wallich, those three tag video of opponents’ games

FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK BY DAN FELDMAN with identifiers like down, distance, yard line, play type and formation to ease the scouting process. Though they’re required to trade just two weeks worth of video, Wallich and Seneca Valley coach Fred Kim agreed to trade all their games each season. So, that means extra work for Wallich’s aides. But Wallich said the experience can be valuable, saying his aides are “kind of like a [graduate assistant] in college — in high school.” They’re not

Also receiving votes: Clarksburg, 3.

LEADERS Top rushers Khalil Wilson, Einstein Isaac Boyd, Avalon Dage Davis, Geo. Prep Zac Morton, Whitman Charles Lyles, Poolesville Devonte Williams, Bullis Chris Dawson, G. Counsel E. Spottswood, Sherwood Kevin Joppy, Q. Orchard D. Sims, Wheaton

Carries 115 110 120 153 156 118 120 109 80 101

Top passers

Yards 1262 1126 1119 1094 1070 950 747 742 621 599

Cmp-Att. Chuck Reese, Rockville 186-295 Sam Ellis, Wootton 142-271 G. Cooper, P. Branch 102-181 Mike Murtaugh, Q. Orch. 69-112 Renzo Farfan, R. Mont. 105-188 Nick DeCarlo, G’burg 52-83 Evan Smith, Whitman 56-116 C. Hennessey, N’wood 71-152 S. Morningstar, Pooles. 54-103 Raymond Burtnick, Blair 44-102

Top receivers

Catches Jibri Woods, Wootton 50 Trevon Diggs, Wootton 55 Joey Cornwell, Rockville 51 Javonn Curry, P. Branch 36 Ryan Stango, P. Branch 30 Anthony Albert, Rockville 37 Michael Scott, Kennedy 29 Steven Kelly, B-CC 19 Louison Biama, Rockville 27 Phil Osborn, R. Mont. 32

Avg. 11.0 10.2 9.3 7.2 6.9 8.1 6.2 6.8 7.8 5.9

Yards 1985 1898 1383 1180 1158 906 742 728 643 619 Yards 684 646 608 544 489 447 444 420 393 386

Int. 9 9 5 4 5 4 8 8 7 5

Rivalry renewed

Record Points

TDs 11 22 15 11 8 15 10 9 12 6

Bullis, ranked in The Gazette’s top 5, can clinch at least a share of the Interstate Athletic Conference title with a win over unranked Landon his week. Sound familiar? That was also the case last year, when Landon upset Bullis 12-7 to clinch a share of the IAC title itself. Again, one of the county’s biggest rivalries carries championship implications for both teams. If Bullis (6-1 overall, 2-0 IAC) wins at 2 p.m. Saturday, it would clinch the title outTOM FEDOR/THE GAZETTE right if it beats Espiscopal in two weeks or Episcopal loses Seneca Valley High School football coach Fred Kim talks to his team. to St. Stephen’s/St. Agnes this week. just tagging plays, but getting “I watch a lot of ﬁlm, and If Landon (2-4, 1-1) wins, in extra ﬁlm work in the pro- I study the little things that cess, especially because they people don’t notice to help it would clinch a share of the often must watch the same my teammates be successful,” title by beating St. Albans in two weeks and Episcopal losplay multiple times in order Christian said. “... I just mainly ing to either St. Stephen’s/St. to get every detail. Christian said his extra watch the pass plays, because Agnes this week or Bullis in responsibility to Wallich leads I’m a defensive back, and I try two weeks. to an extra responsibility to give our other defensive backs keys of what to look for.” his teammates. dfeldman@gazette.net

FEARLESS FORECASTS The Gazette sports staff picks the winners for this week’s games involving Montgomery football teams. Here are this week’s selections:

Montgomery County record All games

TDs 25 15 19 13 13 7 6 4 9 5

Poolesville vs. Wheaton Blair at Einstein Damascus at Seneca Valley Richard Montgomery at Wootton Walter Johnson at Whitman Springbrook at Churchill Paint Branch at Bethesda-Chevy Chase Clarksburg at Northwest Rockville at Magruder Quince Orchard vs. Gaithersburg Blake at Sherwood Spalding at Georgetown Prep Watkins Mill at South Hagerstown KIPP vs. Avalon Good Counsel at Bishop O’Connell Northwood at Kennedy Bullis at Landon

Avg. TDs 13.7 5 11.7 8 11.9 7 15.1 10 16.3 7 12.1 6 15.3 1 22.1 4 14.5 4 12.1 8

Bengals win North Division, 11 games for ﬁrst time in school history The James H. Blake’s boys’ soccer team accomplished two things it never had before, doing so against a bitter rival in Montgomery Blair, and in a game that featured of two of the better

SOCCER NOTEBOOK BY NICK CAMMAROTA AND JENNIFER BEEKMAN teams in Montgomery County. With Blake’s 2-1 double overtime victory against the Blazers, coach David Edlow’s club secured the 4A North Division title for the first time in school history and also eclipsed the 10-win mark, something Bengals teams of the past have never done. “It was just a special night all around,” Edlow said. “Our guys just go out every night and fight for one another. They want to do it as a team. It just shows how much hard work and discipline can do for the overall results.” Edlow — who has been at Blake for three years and won 30 games (10, 9, 11) — and his team now will receive a first-round bye in the 4A state playoffs and hold an 11-2-0 record. Their two losses came vs. Churchill and Wheaton. Against Blair, which had won eight in a row prior to Thursday night’s clash, Blake’s Tanner Williams scored both goals to cap a four-goal week after he returned from a four-week absence with an ankle injury. “We had that breaking point against Wheaton early which really turned our season around where we realized that no one person is too important to the team and if we all fight for each other, we’re going to get the results,” Edlow said.

HOW THEY RANK Boys n 1. Georgetown Prep n 2. James H. Blake n 3. Winston Churchill n 4. Montgomery Blair n 5. Clarksburg

Girls n 1. Good Counsel n 2. Bethesda-Chevy Chase n 3. Walt Whitman n 4. Damascus n 5. Holy Cross

As of Sunday night, the Bengals lead all of Montgomery County in scoring with 32 goals. The ﬁnishing has been balanced as six players have scored three or more times. Darien Waters is the leader with six, while Williams and Emmanuel Oppong both have ﬁve. Playmaker Raul Escobar has been key in the middle, assisting 12 goals and scoring four.

B-CC earns top seed Fresh off its Montgomery 4A South Division title, the BethesdaChevy Chase High School girls’ soccer team earned the No. 1 seed in its section of the Class 4A West Region bracket, released Monday. The Barons’ reward for a stellar run? A second-round matchup against either Winston Churchill or Walter Johnson, whose combined record is 13-8. This year’s reclassification came with a new region tournament structure in which each of the state’s four regions were divided into sections based on geography. When the ruling was announced last school year, Maryland Public Second-

Montgomery 4A South Division Team

Wootton* Whitman R. Montgomery B-Chevy Chase Walter Johnson* Churchill

All Div.

3-4 4-3 2-5 2-5 1-6 1-6

3-1 2-1 2-1 1-2 1-2 1-3

PF PA

183 119 141 132 158 173 92 181 40 199 39 212

Montgomery 4A East Division Team

Paint Branch Sherwood Springbrook* Blair Kennedy Blake

All Div.

6-1 5-2 3-4 3-4 2-5 1-6

4-0 2-0 2-2 1-3 1-2 0-3

PF PA

270 63 167 124 124 84 115 115 84 116 20 190

Montgomery 4A West Division Team

Gaithersburg Quince Orchard Northwest Clarksburg* Magruder

All Div.

7-0 7-0 6-1 4-3 1-6

3-0 2-0 1-1 0-2 0-3

PF PA

176 43 283 20 261 99 125 91 48 273

Montgomery 3A Division Team

Damascus Seneca Valley Einstein Rockville Watkins Mill Wheaton Northwood

All Div.

6-1 5-2 4-2 4-3 2-4 1-6 1-6

4-0 4-0 3-1 3-3 1-3 0-4 0-4

Montgomery 2A Independent Team

Poolesville

All

5-2 158 102

Private schools Team

PF PA

224 68 219 69 160 171 232 205 84 196 84 248 47 264

Bullis 6-1 231 88 Good Counsel 5-4 226 111 Georgetown Prep 4-3 208 162 Avalon 4-4 217 158 Landon 2-4 142 130 * Includes forfeit result

Last week’s scores

Ken Sain

Dan Feldman

Nick Cammarota

Travis Mewhirter

Jennifer Beekman

Kent Zakour

106-21 207-43

105-22 206-44

103-24 204-46

99-28 201-49

102-25 200-50

98-29 193-57

Poolesville Poolesville Poolesville Einstein Einstein Blair Damascus Damascus Damascus Wootton Wootton Wootton Whitman Whitman Whitman Springbrook Springbrook Springbrook Paint Branch Paint Branch Paint Branch Northwest Northwest Northwest Rockville Rockville Rockville Q. Orchard Q. Orchard Q. Orchard Sherwood Sherwood Sherwood Spalding Spalding Spalding S. Hagerstown S. Hagerstown S. Hagerstown Avalon Avalon Avalon Good Counsel Good Counsel Good Counsel Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy Bullis Bullis Bullis

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ary Schools Athletic Association executive director Ned Sparks admitted it was mostly geared toward more rural areas of the state where schools within the same region are 160-plus miles apart rather than more self-contained areas like the all-Montgomery County 4A West. While coaches agree most any team within the 4A West is capable of beating another, there’s no denying one section is a good bit stronger, at least on paper. The realignment pits the majority of the perennial powers, which tend to hail from Bethesda and Potomac, together in the top section. The winner of that section, which will only land it in the region final, will have to weather a seven-team field that consists of four teams above .500 and an additional team at the .500 mark. The odd number in the bracket means that secondseeded Walt Whitman, fresh off its 3-0 victory against nationallyranked and Washington Catholic Athletic Conference favorite Our Lady of Good Counsel, does not get a first-round bye. B-CC and the top two seeds in the bottom section — Quince Orchard and Gaithersburg — will all have an extra day of rest. That, Whitman coach Greg Herbert said, could be a major factor in the later rounds. Though Quince Orchard (10-1-1) certainly isn’t a guaranteed region finalist — Northwest, Gaithersburg, Clarksburg and Thomas S. Wootton can all be dangerous floaters — Gaithersburg has four less wins. This isn’t the first year perennial powers will face off in the first round but in the previous structure, Churchill likely would’ve gotten the fourth seed and teams wouldn’t be so condensed. The best way to ensure the truly best team wins, Walter Johnson coach Liz Friedman said, would be to seed the brackets, top to bottom and craft the draw accordingly.

Poolesville Poolesville Einstein Einstein Damascus Damascus Wootton Wootton Whitman Whitman Springbrook Springbrook Paint Branch Paint Branch Northwest Northwest Rockville Rockville Q. Orchard Q. Orchard Sherwood Sherwood Spalding Spalding S. Hagerstown S. Hagerstown Avalon Avalon Good Counsel Good Counsel Kennedy Kennedy Bullis Bullis

Poolesville Einstein Damascus Wootton Whitman Springbrook Paint Branch Northwest Rockville Q. Orchard Sherwood Geo. Prep S. Hagerstown KIPP Good Counsel Kennedy Bullis

Seneca Valley 37, Watkins Mill 0 Northwood 14, Walter Johnson 7 Poolesville 34, Brunswick 6 Einstein 22, Wheaton 15 Damascus 43, Rockville 8 R. Montgomery 34, Churchill 0 Quince Orchard 42, Sherwood 7 Northwest 39, Wootton 17 Gaithersburg 40, Magruder 6 Clarksburg 21, B.-Chevy Chase 19 Whitman 28, Springbrook 13 Paint Branch 35, Blair 0 Kennedy 13, Blake 0 Good Counsel 49, Carroll 0 Bullis 47, St. Albans 0 Georgetown Prep 42, Anacostia 8 Landon 41, St. Ste. & St. Agnes 21 Avalon 48, Options 6

BEST BET No. 2 Quince Orchard vs. No. 4 Gaithersburg, 6:30 p.m.

Friday at Richard Montgomery. In one of a maximum of just four regular-season matchups between undefeated Maryland public-school teams this deep into the season, the inside track for the 4A West’s No. 1 seed is on the line.

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Clarksburg tailback turns a corner Quarterback proud to play for Seneca Valley

Coyotes’ Holland has attracted interest from several top Division I college programs

BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN STAFF WRITER

Junior running back Tavis Holland. Just saying it brings a smile to Clarksburg High School football coach Larry Hurd’s face. “Every time I think about that [he’s a junior] I smile,” Hurd said. “He’s going to get bigger, stronger and faster and he’s going to be even better [than he already is] next year.” Of course neither Holland, who has already received interest from several top Division I college programs, nor Hurd are thinking about next year just yet. The Coyotes’ mantra for the remaining weeks of the 2013 regular season is to go 1-0 each week as it comes. But it’s impossible not to take note of the tremendous stride Clarksburg’s rising star takes each week. Holland turned a big corner in Friday’s 21-19, come-from-behind win over visiting Bethesda-Chevy Chase in a game that was vital to Clarksburg’s Class 4A West Region tournament hopes. The Coyotes haven’t made the postseason since back-to-back appearances in 2007-08 when they were a 2A program. The first 24 minutes of Friday night’s game were not Holland’s finest. Through two quarters, the Coyotes’ leading rusher mustered only 8 yards of offense and had two passes to literally slip through his finger tips. The Holland of old — or even just a couple weeks ago — probably would’ve let that eat way at him for the remainder of the night, Hurd said. But he’s not that guy anymore and the multifaceted athlete sure picked a good game to prove it. With Clarksburg trailing 19-0 at halftime Friday and its playoff chances in danger of being completely thwarted, there was no time for Holland to dwell on the past. In a quick turnaround, he put forth a rather impressive display of versatility to rush for 107 yards and a touchdown on 11 carries, catch two passes and score on a 79-yard punt return. Clarksburg (3-3) is in a four-way tie for the fourth and final spot in the Class 4A West Region alongside Thomas S. Wootton, Walt Whitman and Montgomery Blair, but faces a tough test against third-place Northwest in Week 7. “At times in the past when things didn’t go his way [Holland] sometimes he had the tendency to shut down, but that’s not Tavis anymore,” Hurd said. “His maturity level picked up. If things aren’t going his way, he showed in the

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Clarskburg High School’s Tavis Holland skips past Bethesda Chevy Chase returning a punt to inside the Barons’ 10-yard line during Friday’s football game in Clarksburg. second half [Friday] that he’s a warrior and he’ll come back out to play.” Holland’s speed — forget about catching him once he gets around the outside — can present some challenges, for instance, much less time for decision making. Holland graciously credited his offensive line for creating the gaps through which he scurries and for making the blocks that allow him to keep going, but there’s something to be said for his incredible ﬁeld vision and overall football instincts. On Holland’s second touchdown of the night, which gave Clarksburg the lead, he very easily could’ve settled for a 69-yard punt return that would have given the Coyotes the ball inside the B-CC 10-yard line. After weaving his way through a cluster of B-CC players to the

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Seneca Valley High School quarterback Calvin Reighard practices with teammates on Oct. 16.

“Pretty much scripted the way you normally see it,” Kim said. Reighard hopes the epilogue includes playing college football — Monmouth, Georgetown, Shepherd, Towson, Delaware and Stony Brook have shown interest. But for now, he’s just cherishing playing for Seneca Valley. One of Reighard’s favorite aspects of Seneca Valley football is the long walk to the ﬁeld before home games. The team exits the weight room and passes the girls’ locker room, where the opponents suit up. Reighard always tries to listen through the wall to what they’re saying. Once he heard someone say, “These guys aren’t as good as they think they are.” Seneca Valley won that game in a blowout. The players continue by a display case with Seneca Valley’s state record 12 state-championship trophies, through a door outside and past cheering junior varsity players to the ﬁeld. It’s a trek Reighard will make again this Friday, when No. 9 Seneca Valley hosts No. 5 Damascus. In a loss to Damascus last season, Reighard threw a crucial interception that was returned for a touchdown, so he’s especially looking forward to this game. “I want to redeem myself for that and redeem Seneca Valley,” Reighard said. dfeldman@gazette.net

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right sideline he was met by two defenders just short of the end zone. Without missing a beat Holland managed to stop on a dime, plant his right foot and juke left, right around the obstacle, and surge ahead the ﬁnal 10 yards. Holland has the moves, the passion and the smarts, Hurd said. And the most exciting part is he’s a junior, just tapping into his potential. “Isn’t that a wonderful thing?” Hurd said. “He can run, he can catch, he can do it all. There are going to be some times when you might see him in the backﬁeld. He can throw too, people better watch out for that. He’s going to be at the next level. He’s going to play on Saturdays and he’s going to be on TV.”

Calvin Reighard ran around his grandparents’ basement screaming. As long as Reighard can remember, his family holds a table-tennis tournament on Thanksgiving and a Madden tournament on Christmas. Reighard said he always wins the Madden tournament, calling the football video game “my thing.” But the ping-pong tournament really tapped into his competitive nature. “Ever since I was little, I always wanted to win everything,” Reighard said. Reighard ﬁrst played in the tournament, held in his grandparents’ basement in Frederick and typically comprised of about 12 participants, when he was about 6. He didn’t win a single match until he was about 10. “Probably, I beat my mom,” Reighard said. Reighard eventually got better and developed a rivalry with his older cousin, Zack Sheahin, but always lost to him when they met in the tournament. Finally, Reighard bested Sheahin last year and celebrated so loudly, his family upstairs worried about what was happening in the basement. Then, everyone calmed down to eat and watch the NFL, combining two of Reighard’s favorite things: his Seneca Valley-loving family and football. Reighard’s parents were classmates at Seneca Valley, and many of his other family members also attended the school, where he’s now the starting quarterback. “He was pretty much born and bred to be a Screaming Eagle,” Seneca Valley coach Fred Kim said. Reighard played one varsity game as a freshman (and loved that), spending most of the season as the junior varsity starter, and then spent his entire sophomore year as the varsity backup (and hated that). Those seasons prepared him for his junior year, when he broke multiple program records. This season, he’s helped Seneca Valley to a 5-2 record. In many ways, Reighard is the prototypical high school quarterback. He’s a good leader, strongarmed and the homecoming king.

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Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart’s Samantha Taskey swings at the ball against Holy Child on Friday.

Stone Ridge on the rise Gators are challenging for Independent School League supremacy

BY TRAVIS MEWHIRTER STAFF WRITER

There’s a change going on at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart and it doesn’t have to do with an Olympic swimmer named Katie Ledecky. This is on grass, where the Gators are making a convincing case to be the top field hockey team in the Independent School League. It would be a seismic shift in a conference that has handed St. Stephen’s/St. Agnes 10 of its past 11 tournament titles, but one that, given Stone Ridge’s upstart success, should hardly be considered a surprise. This fall, Stone Ridge has tied Walter Johnson, one of the top public school teams in Montgomery County boasting the most prized player in the area. It took the Gators until just Oct. 8 to match last season’s win total (six), and two weeks prior to that they topped five-time defending Washington Catholic Athletic Conference champion Academy of the Holy Cross for the first time in quite a while, according to coach Apitchaya Pimpawathin. “That was awesome,” said speedy right wing Samantha Taskey, who is fourth on the team in goals scored (three). “We went into that game so pumped and we were like, ‘We just got to beat them, we can do it. Let’s just go into it.’ We had nothing to lose and I think that made a lot of teams afraid to play us. That was big.” Holy Cross is just one of a few teams that has had Stone Ridge’s number for awhile prior to this season before the Gators suddenly flipped the script. National Cathedral was no different than the Tartans, and Stone Ridge dealt the Eagles a 2-1 loss for its first win of the season. “I think it’s about building a serious program here at Stone Ridge,”Pimpawathinsaid.“Ithink our reputation is changing in the league. I think that people know that we are serious and a very strong program now.” There are many things that can be attributed to the uptick in tallies on the left side of the ledger for Stone Ridge. The most notable, however, is the absence of change at all. Despite graduating a pretty

heavy senior class last year, Stone Ridge added just two new faces to the roster, keeping a tight knit group that needed no early-season introductions. This has led to a senior-laden back line, anchored by sophomore goalie Mary Feller, that’s allowing less than one goal per game and has let up just eight goals all season. On the flip side, center midfielder Kallie Drewyer has quarterbacked three games with at least four goals in the past six contests, themostrecentbeingadominant, 4-0 victory at Holy Child on Friday afternoon, the fourth-ranked Gators’ sixth win in their last seven games. “We’ve kind of built up our program,” Taskey said. “Sticking with [coach Pimpawathin] really helped, we really learned her coaching style and we’ve been playing together for a while. We have a lot of determination to beat everyone because we know we can.” It’s not that Stone Ridge has necessarily been bad the past few seasons, but it would have been a mighty surprise had it posed a legitimate challenge to the Saints or Bullis. The Gators went 6-4-2 in 2012 but lost by a combined 5-0 in two meetings with St. Stephen’s. This season, it would be equally surprising if the Oct. 24 clash between the two isn’t decided by one goal, as five other games have been for Stone Ridge. “I think that over the years, Stone Ridge has really made an effort to build a stronger program and I think that this is — this season really showcased that,” Pimpawathin said. “I’ve had most of the girls now for three or four years and I think this is where we’re finally putting all of our fundamental skills and building on that into fruition.” ISL playoffs are scheduled to begin on Oct. 30, just two days after Stone Ridge expects to host Bullis on senior night. Drewyer couldn’t recall the last time the tournament trophy was hoisted by a Gator. Neither could Taskey nor Nora Gosselin, who posted a hat trick against Holy Child. Given St. Stephen’s impeccable track record, all three of them settled on the Saints as the favorites heading into the conference tournament. “We definitely have our work cut out for us,” Drewyer said.

There is a running joke among the elite golfers in Montgomery County: “Back it up, Delaney Shah, to where the big boys play.” While the boys in the county blast away with driver from the middle tees, Thomas S. Wootton High School’s sophomore can smooth over a hybrid club or a 3-wood from the closer red tee boxes — where women traditionally tee it up from — and still carry it well past all of their balls, oftentimes no more than a gloriﬁed chip away from the green. Sometimes she can appreciate the advantage. Most of the time she actually does wish she could step back and take it to them on a neutral playing ﬁeld. “A lot of guys joke around with me about it,” said Shah, who won both the girls’ and co-ed individual district titles, shooting 68 in each. “I hit it a lot further than girls hit it and they’ll say, ‘Oh, this isn’t fair,’ but they got to realize that I’m not a normal girl. I’m a little bigger and stronger and I can hit it a lot further. It’s kind of an inside joke now.” It might be a joke to the ones who see Shah on a regular basis. They’re all used to it. They know she can’t help it — rules are rules. But put her — and two other girls — on a team that upends a three-time defending state champion (Urbana), which boasts a lineup of four boys who are very proud

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Wootton High School sophomore Delaney Shah practices last August. of the tradition they built, and sometimes things get downright nasty. “When Urbana was going for four in a row, they called it a handicapped tournament,” Wootton coach Paul Williams said. “We don’t make the rules, you know. We play within them. The hole’s the same size. You still got to chip, you still got to putt. She’s the exception to the rule when it comes to girls and hitting those distances.” And that is the thing with Shah: she’s not normal. She doesn’t just hit her driver out into the fairway and still have a long distance into the hole. She hits it somewhere around 270 yards. In fact, because she openly concedes to being less conﬁdent with her wedges than a full iron, most of the time she’ll hit her 3-wood or hybrid off the tee to emphasize control, also ensuring she’s leaving herself with a full swing into the green rather than a half or three-quarter swing where touch gets extremely difﬁcult. “The thing about my golf

game — I’m not a good wedge player,” she said. “I’m better from 120 yards.” Shah is also working on pretty relative terms. Most would covet her ability with her wedges. Sixty-eights don’t just magically appear on scorecards out of sheer luck. This is a game she has been honing since her eighth birthday, when the present she wanted most was a trip to the driving range with dad. “I really just fell in love with the game,” she said. Apparently, the game wasn’t quite as smitten with her at the time. “She couldn’t break an egg,” said Keith Robertson, Shah’s swing coach for seven years who saw her take her very first cut at the Germantown Soccerplex driving range back on her birthday trip. “She had no idea what she was doing.” Of course she didn’t. She was 8 and had never touched a golf club. But she was as passionate as she was green. By the time she was 9 or 10 — her father can’t remember exactly — she broke 40 at Poolesville Golf

course and beat dad for the first time. “By the time she was 12, 13 she was pretty much destroying everybody,” Robertson said. “I told her, ‘Golf is a game where, as a junior, if you’re dominating, that doesn’t mean anything. Girls are going to catch up with you if you don’t stay after it.’” But Shah’s domination continued. Last October, she shot 72, 74 at the Maryland Women’s Open to tie for fourth. The only players to beat her were professionals, and she even topped 13 of them. A few weeks later, Shah led Wootton to its first team title in 15 years by a landslide margin and nearly took the individual girls crown. “As far as physical ability and talent, she’s got all the tools,” Robertson said. “To see where she started to where she is now, she came a long way. It took a lot of work. She put in a lot of work. She ran away with it. She got good fast.” And the thing with Shah is she’s only getting better. This past April, after she felt she had hit a plateau with Robertson, she switched to Jim Kardash, who teaches at Arundel Golf Park. The improvements have been subtle in nature, enormous on the scorecard. “They pretty much teach the same swing,” she said. “But he just gave me a lot of confidence. I hit a lot more cuts and draws, and he showed me when to hit them. By the middle of July I was playing lights out.” tmewhirter@gazette.net

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BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN STAFF WRITER

Soccer is in second-year Connelly School of the Holy Child soccer coach Gary Burke’s blood. A Newcastle (United Kingdom) native, he didn’t really have much of a choice growing up. His passion and true appreciation for the intricacies and history of one of his country’s national sports has helped cultivate a new culture within the Tigers’ soccer program as they try to put Holy Child on the Independent School League map and ultimately make it a destination for high-level soccer players in the Washington, D.C.-area. “I deﬁnitely have a bit of an infused approach between the American game and the English game,” Burke said. “The passion and will to win come from the English side, the culture of the game, I try to educate my players about that. I’m trying to build a broader understanding.” The coaches Burke said he most respected growing up — he played in Europe’s academy system and represented England at the U-16 and U-18 levels — were those who oozed passion. It’s something that cannot be articulated or taught, he added, but can be depicted in the way a coach carries himself. “Maybe it’s how they walk or carry themselves, I was always drawn to those people,” Burke said. “It’s something you have to have inside, something the kids

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Laney Sellinger (right) of the Connelly School of the Holy Child girls’ soccer team gets to a ball during practice Monday at the school in Potomac. pick up on and that’s what keeps them listening to you when it’s 55 degrees and raining.” The Tigers certainly have picked up on it, junior goalkeeper Caitlyn O’Berry and sophomore assists leader Laney Sellinger agreed. “He’s deﬁnitely passionate,” Sellinger said. “He will always talk about his experience playing in England and we watch YouTube videos of teams in England and he teaches us the

passion they have to learn.” With enrollment for ninth grade through 12th less than 300 students, Holy Child faces an uphill battle as the talent pool to draw from is smaller — soccer also has to contend with four other fall sports attempting to draw interest as well. But the Tigers are already headed in the right direction. After a winless 2011, Holy Child ﬁnished above .500 in Burke’s ﬁrst season as coach a year ago and is currently

3-3-3 overall (3-2-2 in the ISL A Division). The program might not boast the same level of elite club-level talent as Montgomery County’s ﬁnest, but that doesn’t mean Burke’s expectations are any lower, he said. In fact, he has rather high expectations and encourages his players to set high goals for themselves, something O’Berry and Sellinger agreed the teams is motivated and encouraged.

“It’s a new program. We don’t want to be seen as a joke,” O’Berry said. “[Burke] brings a new level of intensity to practice. No one wants to disappoint their coach in any way, we’re deﬁnitely willing to put in the work to get the results.” And while winning conference games is certainly the intention — Burke, O’Berry and Sellinger agreed the Tigers could compete for a division title within the next year or

two — that is not the only way Holy Child measures success. In building a program Burke said it is extremely important to develop young players as soon as they come in, ensuring they are technically sound and play soccer the “right” way. It’s easy to kick a ball and run after it in an unorganized manner. That’s not Holy Child soccer. “You see it a lot with the freshman, they come in and think they have to go 100 miles per hour,” Burke said. “I give them the confidence to slow down and think about what they’re going to do and not just kick it. I teach them technical ability to be able to play [the way I learned in England], trying to build from the back, play through the midﬁeld and play that style of soccer.” And soccer in general has a learning curve. It’s a game of freedom. Burke gives his players a general game plan but once they’re on the pitch, there’s little he can do. But he said he doesn’t want to control them. The best way to learn is to make mistakes and he encourages them to take chances. Though the Tigers will lose seven players to graduation, the leadership that’s helped keep the team glued together, Burke intentionally kept a young team — four freshmen and sophomores — to help ensure the program’s upward trajectory. “Holy Child soccer has never been a main sport but it’s getting more popular and people are coming out to our games and supporting us,” Sellinger said. “[Burke] has made us bigger at Holy Child.” jbeekman@gazette.net

Bethesda-Chevy Chase wins county XC championships Cross country: Barons sweep both races; Weaverling, McUmber dominate the ﬁeld

BY NICK CAMMAROTA STAFF WRITER

Looking purely at the names and their places on the results sheet, this year’s Montgomery County Cross Country Championships went a lot like last year’s. Bethesda Chevy-Chase High School’s Nora McUmber took home the county title on the girls’ side and Poolesville’s Chase Weaverling won the boys’ crown. In reality, what last year were races that came down to the last second were literal runaways this year as McUmber and Weaverling defended their titles in grand fashion on an overcast Saturday morning at Bohrer Park next to Gaithersburg High. Bethesda-Chevy Chase captured both the girls’ and boys’ team titles as well — the girls’ side winning for the third straight year and by posting an impressive team score of 48 points. All ﬁve of B-CC’s scored runners (McUmber, Abby Fry, Helen Webster, Kat

McNeill and Abigail Levine) finished in the top 16. “The girls stuck to their own personal strategies and it worked out really well today,” said Barons coach Chad Young. “It’s a lot of fun. When we’ve won a couple times, we’ve realized that a lot of teams are hoping they can take us down. It’s a little bit stressful to be in that position, but I think these girls handle it so well. They’re very poised and they don’t panic.” In 2012’s meet, McUmber beat her teammate, Caroline Beakes, for the first time by a little less than seven seconds. And while Beakes didn’t race on Saturday, she let McUmber know she was pulling for her. “She pushed me over the edge and helped me know that I could do this because she wrote everyone these little yellow notes,” McUmber said. “Mine said, ‘I’m with you there today.’ I read it and I knew I needed to stop being nervous and think about the team.” With thick-rimmed glasses and a shy laugh, McUmber is as unassuming as they come, but her performance on the course was anything but. The standout junior finished in 18 minutes, 9 seconds, a little more than 16 seconds faster than her 2012 time. She said she

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The varsity boys’ division at the start of the Montgomery County Cross Country Championships, held at Bohrer Park adjacent to Gaithersburg High School. was extra nervous before the race because more than 10 of her family members were in attendance. They’re in town to celebrate her grandmother Marcy’s 75th birthday. The party started a bit early when McUmber crossed the ﬁnish line. “I hate to be like one of those people who is like, ‘Running is my life,’ but now it really is,” McUm-

ber said with a laugh. For Weaverling, he came into the day hoping to eclipse the 15-minute mark or possibly break the county meet record of 15:06, but he said a slightly soft course slowed him down a bit. That is, if a time of 15:31 can be considered slow. “I just usually try to run my own race, hit my splits and run

against the clock,” Weaverling said. “It’s lonely sometimes, but I’ve gotten used to it.” Last year, the Poolesville senior ﬁnished a mere 34 milliseconds in front of Clarksburg’s Will Bertrand. Saturday he won by 28 seconds. “Last year there was a lot of pressure. It was me and Bertrand and we were that close. I was ner-

vous as anything last year,” said Weaverling, who now has his sights set on a regional and state title. “This year there was pressure also. I’ve been wanting to break 15 [minutes] all season.” Initially, it appeared that Walt Whitman won the boys’ team title thanks to top-10 performances by Evan Woods and Alex Roederer, but a scoring error didn’t count B-CC senior Peter Horton’s 19thplace ﬁnish, which put the Barons at 109 points, 26 ahead of the Vikings. Alex Riishojgaard placed fourth to lead all Barons boys’ runners on the day. “We’ve had a good pack all year long. I kept telling the kids, even though we lost dual meets I always felt like we would come up big in bigger races,” said Whitman coach Steve Hays. Clarksburg’s Lucie Noall (18:55)ﬁnishedsecondinthegirls’ race while Richard Montgomery’s Sophie El Masry (19:11) placed third for the second straight year. On the boys’ side, Thomas S. Wootton’sUrgyEadocameinsecond (15:59) while Gaithersburg’s Danniel Belay (16:00) secured third on his home course. ncammarota@gazette.net

NOTICE OF ELECTION Pursuant to the provisions of Section 26 of the Gaithersburg City Charter, notice is hereby given that the Board of Supervisors of Elections for the City of Gaithersburg will hold an election for the purpose of electing the Mayor and two City Council Members on Tuesday, November 5, 2013, from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. The election will be conducted at six polling sites: Gaithersburg City Hall, 31 South Summit Avenue; Izaak Walton League, 707 Conservation Lane; Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, 16 Kent Gardens Circle; Villa Ridge Community Room, 414 Girard Street; Potomac Oaks Condominium Clubhouse, 780 Quince Orchard Boulevard; Asbury Methodist Village, 417 Russell Avenue, all locations being within the City of Gaithersburg, Maryland. In the event of a tie, a run-off election will be held for the remaining seats to be filled on Tuesday, November 19, 2013, at the same hours and polling sites as above. Joan A. More Chair Board of Supervisors of Elections AVISO DE ELECCION De acuerdo con las provisiones de la Sección 26 de la Carta de la Ciudad de Gaithersburg, se comunica por este medio que la Junta de Supervisores de Elecciones de la Ciudad de Gaithersburg llevará a cabo Elecciones con el propósito de elegir Alcalde y dos Miembros para el Concejo de la Ciudad el martes, 5 de noviembre del 2013, desde las 7 a.m. hasta las 8 p.m. Las elecciones se llevarán a cabo en seis lugares de votación: la Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Gaithersburg, 31 South Summit Avenue; la Liga Izaak Walton, 707 Conservation Lane; la Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Ultimos Días, 16 Kent Gardens Circle; el Salón de la Comunidad de Villa Ridge, 414 Girard Street; el Salón de los Condominios de Potomac Oaks, 780 Quince Orchard Boulevard; la Villa Metodista de Asbury, 417 Russell Avenue, todas las localidades están ubicadas en la Ciudad de Gaithersburg, Maryland. En caso de empate se realizará una segunda vuelta para los escaños pendientes el martes, 19 de noviembre del 2013 en los mismos lugares y horas mencionados anteriormente. Joan A. More Jefa Junta de Supervisores de Elecciones 1890798

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WE CAME AS ROMANS

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Metal band We Came As Romans is set to play the Fillmore Silver Spring on Tuesday.

Young metal band celebrates release of new CD with nationwide tour

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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

WILL C. FRANKLIN STAFF WRITER

Bands created in high school rarely stay together. Sometimes life gets in the way and friendships tend to dissolve over time. For the metal band We Came As Romans, things are only getting better. Fresh off the release of their latest album, “Tracing Back Roots,”

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which peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 chart, We Came As Romans is set to play on Tuesday at the Fillmore Silver Spring. “It was a whole different process than what we’re used to,” said Joshua Moore, the band’s lyricist and lead guitarist, about putting the new album together. “We went with a different producer and we recorded in a different state. It was like a breath of fresh air for us.” “Tracing Back Roots,” is the band’s third studio album. Their

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WE CAME AS ROMANS n When: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday

n Where: Fillmore Silver Spring, 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring

n Tickets: $20 n For information: 301-960-9999; ﬁllmoresilverspring.com

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VIRGINIA TERHUNE STAFF WRITER

Singer Julie Fowlis sang two songs in English — “Touch the Sky” and “Into the Open Air” — for the 2012 Disney/Pixar animated movie “Brave” about a heroine in 10th century Scotland. But her primary language is Scottish Gaelic, the language she will perform in her “Music of the Scottish Isles” concerts on Friday and Saturday at the BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown. “It’s the ﬁrst language of my children and my mother — to us it’s very much a major language,” she said.

Scottish singer Julie Fowlis will perform traditional Gaelic songs accompanied by instruments on Friday and Saturday at the BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown. Fowlis sang two songs in English for the Disney/ Pixar animated movie “Brave.” PHOTO BY MICHELLE FOWLIS

Last year, Thile was one of the recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship, or “Genius Grant.”

Fowlis and her band will host a onehour workshop about traditional Scottish songs before the Saturday concert. Preceding the concert Friday, BlackRock will host its ﬁrst-ever tasting event, a sampling of ﬁve Scotch whiskies not sold

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Genre-hopping n

Punch Brothers frontman readies for solo show in North Bethesda BY

CARA HEDGEPETH STAFF WRITER

Ask Grammy Award-winning musician Chris Thile about classifying music and he’ll tell you there are two genres: “good music and bad music.” “And I would love to be a part

of making music that falls into the former,” he said. At 32, the musical prodigy has seen more success than most musicians can hope for in a career. In 2003, Thile’s ﬁrst band, Nickel Creek, won the Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album for their record, “This Side.” In 2006, he founded his current band, Punch Brothers. One of the band’s latest projects includes recording the soundtrack for “In-

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CHRIS THILE n When: 8 p.m. Oct. 30 n Where: The Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda n Tickets: $26$36 n For information: 301-581-5100, strathmore.org

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Montgomery College’s Department of Visual Arts and Design will present “Rainforest/Christmas

Tree: Frank Hallam Day” in the King Street Gallery, from Thursday to Nov. 28. The exhibit opens with

a reception from 6–8 p.m. Thursday. An artist talk will follow from noon to 1 p.m. Oct. 30. Both will be held at the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center, where the gallery is located. The exhibit includes new works from the Washington, D.C., artist and photographer’s travels to Sudan, Ethiopia, and Ghana in 2012 and 2013, expanding on his interest in history and culture and examining the adaptation, appropriation, and resiliency of indigenous cultures through their contact with inﬂuPHOTO BY FRANK HALLAM DAY ences of globalization. Day has “Flag Shack, Assin Foso, 2003.” taught photography at the Washington Center for Photography and at the Smithsonian Institution. The exhibit is free and open to the public. For more information, visit cms.montgomerycollege.edu/arts-tpss/exhibitions.

Classic jazz The Conservatory Classic Jazz Band will perform at 4 p.m. Sunday at the Chevy Chase Prebysterian Church,

One Chevy Chase Circle, NW, bringing audiences their blend of small group swing and New Orleans and Chicago style. Featuring six instrumentalists, the band’s repertoire includes Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, JOEL ALBERT Benny Goodman, George The Conservatory Classic Jazz Band will perform Sunday at Chevy Gershwin, Cole Porter and Chase Presbyterian Church. Hoagy Carmichael, among many others. A free will offering will be accepted, and a reception will follow the concert. For more information, visit www.chevychasepc.org. Visit www.ccjazzband.com.

Dead and loving it

Classical guitarist Jason Vieaux.

JOHN E. MARLOW GUITAR SERIES

The John E. Marlow Guitar Series will present classical guitarist Jason Vieaux in concert at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Westmoreland Congregational Church, Westmoreland Circle, Bethesda. A preconcert lecture is scheduled for 7:15 p.m. Vieaux has performed around the world, playing works from the standard repertoire including Johann Sebastian Bach but also embracing the music of Duke Ellington and Pat Metheny. Tickets are $35 for adults, $17.50 for ages 18-22, and free for those younger than 18. For more information, visit www.marlowguitar.org.

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A screening of “The Return of the Living Dead” at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center will coincide with the return of the Silver Spring Zombie Walk on Saturday.

A screening of Dan O’Bannon’s animated corpse classic, “The Return of the Living Dead,” will cap off the Silver Spring Zombie Walk on Saturday at the event’s destination point, the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center. Because of ongoing sidewalk construction on Georgia Avenue, this year’s route will use the sidewalk on Fenton Street to head north to downtown (instead of Georgia Avenue). Gathering occurs at 8 p.m., with the walk beginning at Sligo Avenue and Georgia Avenue at 9 p.m. O’Bannon’s 1985 horror flick finds a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally releasing a deadly gas into the air, which causes the dead to rise and rampage through Louisville, Ky. The film begins at 10:15 p.m., followed by a midnight screening of “Shaun of the Dead.” For more information, visit www.afi.com/ silver. Visit www.silverspringzombiewalk. com.

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‘Barnstorming,’ ‘Choc’late Soldiers’ to screen at ﬁlm festival BY

VIRGINIA TERHUNE STAFF WRITER

Independent filmmaker Bryan Reichhardt of Silver Spring wasn’t sure what to expect when he hopped in a car with friend Paul Glenshaw in 2009 and headed to rural Ohio to catch up with some antique airplane pilots. But he’s glad he did. The trip turned into the 49-minute feature documentary “Barnstorming,” which will screen on Sunday at the Bow Tie Cinemas in Reston, Va. “Barnstorming” is one of 41 films included in the third annual Washington West Film Festival running today to Sunday at several venues in Northern Virginia. “Barnstorming” follows two antique airplane pilots on their way back from a big air show in Oshkosh, Wis., who spotted an alfalfa field and decided to land to take pictures. The Dirksen family who owned the farm invited them in — and also invited them back — for what has become a yearly tradition to entertain enthralled children and visit with local families that have become good friends. “They come back year after year — it’s a big event,” said Reichhardt’s wife, singer/songwriter Suzanne Brindamour, who wrote the music for the film. The filmmakers will attend the screening for a Q&A session. Showing at the Washington West Film Festival on Saturday is a documentary by College Heights filmmaker Noel “Sonny” Izon about 140,000 black American soldiers stationed in Britain in preparation for the D-Day landings, where

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“Barnstorming” by independent ﬁlmmakers Bryan Reichhardt and Paul Glenshaw of Silver Spring screens Sunday at the Washington West Film Festival in Reston, Va.

WASHINGTON WEST FILM FESTIVAL

Check schedule for times and locations.

n When: Today through Sunday

n Tickets: $5 to $50 depending on event.

n Where: Venues in Reston, Fairfax and Rosslyn, Va.

n For a complete listing of ﬁlms and events: wwﬁlmfest.com

they were welcomed by English citizens. The 58-minute “Choc’late Soldiers from the USA,” will screen at the Angelika Film Center & Café in Fairfax, Va. One million African-Americans served during World War II, but many newsreels of the day showed only Caucasian faces, said Izon. “The iconic images of the stories of World War II are pretty much white,” he said. African-Americans liberated towns and concentration camps, but when they got home, they were still treated like second-class citizens, said Izon. “Choc’late Soldiers from the USA” screened at the GI Film Festival in Arlington in May and will show at a festival in Bakersfield, Calif., on Nov. 8, he said. “We’re showing it at a dozen film festivals to refine it and give us the time to raise the completion funds,” said Izon, who plans

to add music performed by an orchestra. Izon has partnered with actor Joe Mantegna from the TV show “Criminal Minds” to look for a distributor. They hope to show the film on a cable TV channel and ultimately PBS. An earlier ﬁlm directed by Izon, “An Untold Triumph,” about the contributions of the 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment during World War II, debuted nationally on PBS in 2005 and ran for four years, reaching millions of viewers. “I like to deal with history, the untold stories that have been left out of our historical narrative,” said Izon. “I want to complete our national narrative.” Also scheduled for Saturday is a visit by Emmy-award winner Ed Asner, who will speak about a 12-minute short, “Good Men,” in which he appears with a longtime friend, director Mark Rydell.

Pilot Andrew King of Vienna, Va., flies over an Indiana field in “Barnstorming.” In the film, the two get into a heated discussion about the Holocaust, conspiracy theories and the Sept. 11 attacks on New York City. Following the movie, Asner and Rydell will also do a reading of “Oxymorons,” a short play by Brian Connors, who also wrote and directed “Good Men.” Also screening are fulllength movies, including “Just a Sigh” starring Gabriel Byrne, and a 10th anniversary screening of “Bruce Almighty” starring Jim Carrey and Jennifer Aniston. Tom Shadyac, director of “Bruce Almighty,” will be present for a Q&A session. There are also two collections of shorts screening on Friday and again Saturday, and, for the first time, films made by students at George Mason University in Fairfax. This year also marks the first year for films from a specific foreign country. This year the focus is on Lithuania. Released in 2010, “Barnstorming” has appeared on PBS

stations around the country but Sunday is the first time it has appeared on screen in the Washington, D.C., area, said Reichhardt, who edited the film and co-produced it with Glenshaw. They had heard about the annual fly-in at the farm in Indiand had been encouraged to do a film about it. “We almost didn’t go, because there was no funding for it,” said Reichhardt, who decided to go anyway. “We were shooting every-

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thing we saw,” said Reichhardt, who also brought along his nephew, Mark Betancourt, who also shot footage. “We quickly knew we had something,” said Reichhardt. “We knew we had something special.” Three years later, the memory of the annual ﬂy-in sticks with him. “Just being a part of it is so peaceful, friendly and fun,” he said. vterhune@gazette.net

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Annual literary festival honors ‘Great Gatsby’ author BY

CARA HEDGEPETH STAFF WRITER

On Saturday, Montgomery College will host the 17th annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival. The oneday event featuring writing workshops, literary discussions and the presentation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Outstanding Achievement in American Literature Award is sponsored by the college, the city of Rockville and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference Inc. “I don’t know that when we started we thought it would be going 17 years,” said Jackson Bryer, president of the conference. The city of Rockville started the event in 1996 to honor what would have been the author’s 100th birthday. Fitzgerald, best known for his 1925 novel “The Great Gatsby,” had roots in Montgomery County and is buried at Saint Mary’s Church Cemetery in Rockville. This year’s recipient of the Outstanding Achievement in American Literature Award is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler. Butler has written 14 novels and six books of

short stories. His first volume of short stories, “A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain,” won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This year’s festival will also feature the annual presentation of the short story contest winner as well as a screening of the 1949 and 1974 film versions of “The Great Gatsby,” followed by a panel discussion about the films in comparison to the 2013 Buz Lurhmann version. Other authors will be in attendance Saturday, including R. Clifton Spargo who spent part of his childhood in Rockville and recently released the novel “Beautiful Fools: The Last Affair of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald.” Spargo is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, a cultural critic for the Huffington Post and serves as the Provosts’ Postgraduate visiting writer in fiction in the department of English at the University of Iowa. “Beautiful Fools” is the fictional account of Fitzgerald and Zelda’s real life trip to Cuba toward the end of their lives. “The true part of the novel is the two take a trip to Cuba and not a lot is known about the trip,” Spargo said. “It was the last time they would see each other but there’s no way they would know that. It was the last chance at a great love.”

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R. Clifton Spargo, a Rockville native, is one of the featured speakers at the festival and the author of “Beautiful Fools,” a 2013 novel about the Fitzgeralds.

A Fitzgerald expert who’s taught the author’s work on the undergraduate and graduate level, Spargo counts the author as one of his ﬁrst literary loves. He said as his interest in Fitzgerald grew

Hollywood Ballroom, Oct. 25,

drop-in lessons from 7:30-9 p.m., West Coast Swing Dancing with Dance Jam Productions at 9 p.m. ($15); Oct. 26, Latin Night with Mr. Mambo, workshops from 8-10 p.m., dance from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. ($18 for workshop and dance; $15 for dance only); Oct. 27, free Waltz lesson at 7 p.m., Social Ballroom at 8 p.m. ($16); Oct. 30, free International Quickstep Routine lesson at 7:30 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8:15 p.m., ($16); Tea Dance from 12:30–3:30 p.m. ($6); 2126 Industrial Highway, Silver Spring, 301-326-1181, www.hollywoodballroomdc.com Glen Echo Park is at 7300 MacArthur Blvd. Blues, Capital Blues: Thurs-

days, 8:15 p.m. beginner lesson, 9-11:30 p.m. dancing to DJs, Glen Echo Park’s Spanish Ballroom Annex, $8, www.capitalblues.org. Contra, Oct. 25, Will Mentor with Perpetual Emotion, 7:30 p.m. lesson, 8:30 p.m. dance, Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $10, www.fridaynightdance.org. Contra & Square, Oct. 27, Costume Dance with Perpetual eMotion, Will Mentor calling, 7:30 p.m., Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $12 for general, $9 for members, $5 for students, www. fsgw.org. English Country, Oct. 23, Special Guest Jacqueline Schwab on piano; Oct. 30, Caller: Marth Siegel, 8 p.m., Glen Echo Town Hall (upstairs), www.fsgw.org. Now and Then Dance Stu-

dio, Saturday Ballroom dances,

second and fourth Saturdays, beginner group lesson at 8 p.m., open dancing at 9 p.m., $10 cash at door (all men admitted at half price throughout October), 10111 Darnestown Road, Rockville. 301424-0007, www.nowandthendancestudios.com. Scottish Country Dancing, 8-10 p.m. Mondays, steps and

formations taught. No experience, partner necessary, T-39 Building on NIH campus, Wisconsin Avenue and South Drive, Bethesda, 240-505-0339. Swing, Nov. 9, WWII Canteen Dance with the Eric Felten Jazz Orchestra; Dec. 14, Daryl Davis, lesson at 8 p.m., dancing at 9 p.m., Glen Echo Park, $15, www. ﬂyingfeet.org. Waltz, Nov. 3, Cabaret Sauvignon, 2:45-3:30 p.m. lesson, 3:30-6 p.m., dance, $10, www. waltztimedances.org.

MUSIC & DANCE Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club, Gotta Swing Dance with

Shannon Gunn & The Bullettes, 8 p.m. Oct. 23 (beginner lesson at 7:30 p.m.); Elikeh Afropop Band wtih Djesben, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24; Art Sherrod Jr. with special guest Ann Nesby, 8 p.m. Oct. 25; Marcus Johnson, 8 p.m. Oct. 26; Trio Caliente, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27; First Annual Grand Masquerade with Doc Scantlin, 8 p.m. Oct. 31; Eddie Palmieri’s Latin Jazz Septet, 8:30 p.m. Nov. 1-2; Avon Lucas, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 3; Emmanuel Triﬁlio Tango Trio, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 6; Familiar Faces, 8 p.m. Nov. 8, call for prices, 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. 240-330-4500, www. bethesdabluesjazz.com. BlackRock Center for the Arts, Julie Fowlis, 8 p.m. Oct.

25-26, Della Mae, 8 p.m. Nov. 2; Thomas Pandolﬁ, 3 p.m. Nov. 3; District Comedy, 8 p.m. Nov. 8; call for tickets, 12901 Town Commons Drive, Germantown. 301528-2260, www.blackrockcenter. org. Fillmore Silver Spring, Austin Mahone, 7 p.m. Oct. 23; Journey’s Noise Tour Featuring 3OH!3, 7 p.m. Oct. 24; Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, 8 p.m. Oct. 25; Ben Rector, The Walking In Between Tour, with Tyrone Wells, 8:30 p.m. Oct. 26; Chance the Rapper, 7 p.m. Oct. 27; We Came as Romans, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 29; Cristian Castro

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD LITERARY FESTIVAL n When: Saturday, see website for speciﬁc event times n Where: Montgomery College, 51 Manakee St., Rockville n Tickets: See website for speciﬁc event prices n For information: 301-309-9461, cms.montgomerycollege.edu

“The average person knows a few things about Scott and Zelda so you’re writing to an audience that isn’t specialized in the knowledge,” Spargo said. “At the festival, there will be a mix, historians ... For the Fitzgerald experts, there’s all sorts of ways the book plays on things in [Fitzgerald and Zelda’s] lives and how they might have been remembering them.” More than just Fitzgerald aﬁcionados, Bryer said the festival is an opportunity for literature fans to gather. “I think it brings literary ﬁgures to Rockville,” he said. “... It gives the citizens at all levels an opportunity to avail themselves of the expertise.” chedgepeth@gazette.net

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over the years, so did his fascination with the woman in his life. “As I grew in my love of Scott, I became just enthralled by Zelda,” Spargo said. “It had always struck me that there was this gaping hole at the end of their lives. This was an opportunity to tell that story that no one really knew ...” Before writing the novel, Spargo read and re-read about 20 books on the Fitzgeralds. And although the author said he knows “their lives in and out as a biographer,” Spargo said it’s important to recognize the distinction between a biographer and his role as a novelist. “A biography is an imperfect art,” Spargo said. “A biography captures famous scenes but it’s not really capturing what it’s like to be Scott or Zelda.” In fact, according to Spargo, Fitzgerald himself wasn’t a fan of biographies, especially for writers because “[writers] are too many people.” “I would like to think he would have more appreciation for the novel because it’s trying to capture the lived life,” Spargo said. “Beautiful Fools,” which was released in May, is intended for the average reader with a surface knowledge of Fitzgerald’s life. Spargo said he’s interested in the reaction from the literary festival audience, many of whom are Fitzgerald experts.

with special guests Lazaro, 8 p.m. Oct. 30; Jessie Ware — Fall Tour 2013 with special guest Mikky Ekko, 8 p.m. Oct. 31; House of Blues 20th Anniversary Presents Third Eye Blind, 8 p.m. Nov. 1, 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, 301-960-9999, FillmoreSilverSpring.com, www.livenation.com.

Institute of Musical Traditions — Takoma Park, A Civil War

Scrapbook: CD Release with Hesperus & Maggies Music, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 13; Takoma Park Community Center, call for prices, times, Takoma Park Community Center, 7500 Maple Ave., Takoma Park, 301-960-3655, www.imtfolk.org.

Institute of Musical Traditions — Rockville, Rafe & Clelia Stefa-

nini CD Release, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 4; Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8, Saint Mark Presbyterian Church, 10701 Old Georgetown Road, Rockville, call for prices, www.imtfolk.org. Strathmore, Afternoon Tea, 1 p.m. Oct. 23, 29-30; The Mancuso-Suzda Project, avant garde jazz duo, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 23; BSO: Brahms’ Third Symphony, 8 p.m. Oct. 24; Maurice Steger Trio, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 25; WPAS: Yuja Wang, piano, 8 p.m. Oct. 25; Mandolin Workshop: Crossover Techniques for Bach, Bluegrass and Beyond, 10 a.m. Oct. 26; Ikebana: Japanese Flower Power Workshop, noon, Oct. 26; National Philharmonic: Mostly Schumann - Zuill Bailey Cello Recital, 3:30 p.m. Oct. 26; National Philharmonic: Romantic Sentiments, 8 p.m. Oct. 26; National Philharmonic: Romantic Sentiments, 3 p.m. Oct. 27; Voice, 7 p.m. Oct. 30-31; Chris Thile, 8 p.m. Oct. 30; Voice; Bootsy Collins, 8 p.m. Oct. 31, call for venue, Locations: Mansion, 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda; Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, 301-581-5100, www.strathmore.org.

‘Carrie’ has big, bloody footprints to ﬁll BY

MICHAEL PHILLIPS CHICAGO TRIBUNE

With her wide-eyed glare of grave intensity, the actress Chloe Grace Moretz appears destined for her share of artfully crafted, slightly unnecessary horror remakes. She starred in “Let Me In,” the American version of the terrific Swedish vampire picture “Let the Right One In.” And now she takes on director Kimberly Peirce’s remake of “Carrie,” a work of smooth confidence and a humane, dimensionally human brand of horror. You’d expect this from Peirce, who made “Boys Don’t Cry,” among others. The director puts Moretz in the sad, fierce role of Carrie White, the putupon telekinetic high school student introduced in the 1974 Stephen King novel. Carrie’s psychotically fundamentalist mother, played in the new film by Julianne Moore, goes beyond the usual notions of “helicopter” parenting, and makes the concept of Bible-thumping literal. Moore seizes the day without going crazy with excess; like the rest of the film, her portrayal takes care to humanize the demonic cruelty on screen. Those with little or no personal relationship to the 1976 Brian De Palma-directed “Carrie” will find themselves in a different situation than I am on this one. I admit it. If I didn’t love Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie quite so madly in that movie — a film representing drive-in schlock elevated to Himalayan heights, with two of the great 1970s performances leading the way — I might’ve fallen further into the world of the remake. With all movies, really, we bring the baggage we bring. Some things are different, others are the same. Peirce delivers none of the voyeuristic nudity of the ‘76 edition. Even with the various killings in the promnight climax, when Carrie, slathered in pig’s blood poured by her enemies, takes revenge, Peirce stages and shoots the action tastefully by R-rated horror standards. Even this remake’s

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Consumers ﬁnd wine labels to be a sticky situation worldwide Wine labels are funny things. With the hundreds of unique winemaking varietals, numerous different methods and an entire world of unique regions, you would think that wine labels would be designed to be models of clarity in order to assist a consumer in making an educated purchase. If only that were true.

GRAPELINES LOUIS MARMON It is unusual to see European wine labeled with the name of the grapes in the bottle, despite the fact that many in the American market would like to know that information. Instead a Bordeaux or Burgundy label notes the name of the property (“Chateau” or

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Continued from Page B-7 side Llewyn Davis,” a Coen Brothers film about fictional folk singer Llewyn Davis, due out next month. Thile has contributed vocals and instrumentals to some of the biggest names in country including Keith Urban and Eric Church. Now, Thile is out on a solo tour promoting his latest album, “Bach: Sonatas and Partitas Vol. 1.” The album features 16 tracks — all pieces written for solo violin and played by Thile on his mandolin. The tour kicked off Oct. 1 and Thile will play at Strathmore on Oct. 30, a venue he’s played in the past with Punch Brothers. “The overall vibe I got from the [Strathmore] crowd was that they were there to listen and to enjoy,” Thile said. “Sometimes you get a crowd that’s only there to listen and you feel like a zoo exhibit. Or you get a crowd that’s only there to enjoy and you feel like a deejay or something ... As a performing musician, I want to feel like I’m performing with people and not for them, especially in a solo position, it gets lonely up there.” Though he’s best known as a bluegrass or folk musician, due in large part to his expertise on the mandolin, Thile said releasing a record of classical music didn’t feel like a stretch. “For me, playing Bach is far less about dipping my toe into the classical music genre and more about wanting to interact with great music,” Thile said. “It’s important to note that because the mandolin is toned exactly like the violin, it’s exactly the same ... It’s not quite the leap of faith it might first appear.” Leap of faith or not, Thile’s latest feat is impressive, especially for someone who didn’t grow up playing classical music. “At a certain point along the way, my grandmothers

“Domaine”) and has a smattering of French that tells such fundamentally useless stuff to the average consumer like where the wine was bottled. Italian and Spanish wines mostly follow this pattern. And don’t even get me started about German wine labeling which require an advanced language degree to comprehend. The casual wine drinker may not be aware that Chablis and other white Burgundies are made from Chardonnay, Beaujolais from Gamay, Nebbiolo is the principle grape in Barolo and Barbaresco, Tempranillo dominates in Rioja, and wines from Bordeaux are most commonly a blend of up to ﬁve varietals, while the southern Rhone region of Châteauneuf-du-Pape permits the blending of up to 13 different grapes. And that is just the beginning of

both introduced me to Bach and the world of written-down music,” Thile said. “I taught myself how to read music and realized written-down music didn’t have to be stuffy. That was huge.” Growing up in Kentucky, Thile was inﬂuenced by folk and bluegrass music, though again, he’s hesitant to differentiate. “When you say bluegrass, one person could think of music started by Bill Monroe ... you say bluegrass to someone else and they think of the old TV show ‘Hee Haw.’” Call it whatever you want, but Thile grew up listening to mostly folk music on radio programs like “A Prairie Home Companion.” His mother played violin and piano as a hobby while his father played the bass and worked as a piano technician. “Listening to music was our family pastime,” Thile said. By the age of 5, Thile was learning the mandolin from renowned mandolinist, guitarist and vocalist John Moore. He also counts bassist and composer Edgar Meyer as a major inﬂuence who Thile said “took [him] under [his] wing.” Last year, Thile was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, also known as the “Genius Grant.” It’s given annually to between 20 and 40 people in any field who show “exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work.” Oddly enough, Thile, who’s been touring tirelessly for the last several years, said the prestigious grant will actually allow for some down time. “What I’m really looking forward to is the opportunity to take six months off and do some thinking,” Thile said. “I’ve been on output mode for the last seven or eight years. I’m ready to go back to input mode and the MacArthur Fellowship will certainly help me do that.” chedgepeth@gazette.net

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Chris Thile of the Punch Brothers will perform at Strathmore on Oct. 30

a long and confusing list. American origin wine labels are better but still can be incomplete and misleading. US Department of Treasury regulations permit the use of a single varietal name, such as Cabernet Sauvignon, on the label as long as at least 75 percent of the wine is made from that varietal and it all originates from a single location (appellation). What composes the other 25 percent is left to the imagination or a search on the winery’s website. And the wine’s alcohol content can be equally as vague since the number on the label and the actual alcohol by content (ABV) may vary by law. So a wine listed as 13.3 percent ABV may really range from 11.8 to 14 percent, while those stated as 14 percent may truly be 15 percent. Doesn’t look like much but alcohol content is important to many

consumers since it implies a certain style of winemaking and knowing the ABV may inﬂuence purchasing decisions. Another issue is the use of undeﬁned terms on the label such as “reserve” and “barrel select.” What exactly does “old vines” mean? 25 years? 50 years? Older than the winemaker? And how much of the wine needs to originate from these vines to achieve this designation? The Treasury Department has been considering tightening the use of such terms since 2010 and are scheduled to make a decision sometime next year. Until any new regulations are implemented, we will still see nebulous jargon including “estate bottled” and “old clones” on the front of bottles The label on the back of the bottle can be more helpful by providing fur-

ther information about the grapes, location and winemaking approach. But sometimes they are just meaningless marketing stories matching the misinformation seen elsewhere on the bottle. Many labels are creative and entertaining, adorned with artwork, animal illustrations, and even braille or “scratch and sniff” stickers that may entice a purchase of an unfamiliar bottle. Some wineries haven’t ever changed their labels while others replace their designs annually. Clearly front labels are critical to wine marketing, but is there any reason why they cannot be more accurate and informative? We all would beneﬁt from a bit more clarity regarding the varietals, ABV and the terms on the front label, which could only enhance consumer’s comfort and facilitate sales.

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Continued from Page B-7 previous album, “Understanding What We’ve Grown to Be,” peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard 200 chart. Moore said he wasn’t surprised the album did so well. “I don’t mean that to sound cocky or full of myself,” Moore said. “When the CD is done and John Feldmann [who produced the album] is telling me how great of a record it is and I’m listening to it over and over while it’s going through the mixing phase — I guess I just really believed in the CD. So when we had a really good ﬁrst week, it wasn’t like, ‘Oh yeah, that’s what I expected,’ but it wasn’t like this massive shock to me. I was really happy that our fans really enjoyed it the way that I do.” We Came As Romans formed when ﬁve high school guys from Troy, Mich., decided they wanted to play music together. The lineup has changed over the past few years, but Moore said being able to go out and do their own thing has really helped the band stay together. “Everyone has their different techniques or habits on the road,” Moore said. “Like today we have an off day, and I’m the only one sitting on the bus. Kyle [Pavone] is out visiting some extended family, Eric [Choi] stayed with some friends last night, Andy [Glass] is in our hotel room … I think he’s doing some T-shirt designs, and I just saw Dave [Stephens] walk back from somewhere. I mean, everyone just kind of keeps themselves occupied on days off. It’s just a really good day to refresh and recharge yourself. After touring

Metal band We Came As Romans is set to play the Fillmore Silver Spring on Tuesday. for six years now, we’ve all found the things that help us replenish that energy lost throughout the week of playing shows.” Moore didn’t grow up with heavy metal music. In fact, it wasn’t until he joined the band that he started listening to the kind of music We Came As Romans plays. “When I ﬁrst joined the band eight years ago, I did not listen to any heavy music at all,” Moore said. “If there was music with screaming in it, I would fast forward the screaming part. It was OK that my band was doing it — it was cool because it was my band — but I didn’t like it when any other band did it. I don’t

know why. The ﬁrst few months of being in my band, back when I was 16, it was weird because I got exposed to all these heavy bands at once. “The typical band that every musician and everyone in a band that plays heavy music likes and loves was inﬂuenced by Montrose.” Montrose was a heavy metal band based in California in the late 1970s with former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar as the lead singer. “I honestly think it’s just that they did it better than every single band I listened to and every single band that guys in other bands have listened to. They

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were a huge, huge inﬂuence to my band.” Moore said he hopes audiences and fans really pick up on the message behind the band’s songs. “It’s different from what a lot of bands are doing,” Moore said. “When we ﬁrst started with it, it was different than what pretty much any other band was doing. The heavy music scene wasn’t near as developed as it is now, but when we started, there weren’t a lot of bands at all trying to put out the message that we had. And that’s just been our thing ever since.” wfranklin@gazette.net

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Continued from Page B-7 in retail stores. The event is sponsored by the Scotch Malt Whiskey Society of America. “My father is a connoisseur of whiskey — I’ll be reporting back to him,” Fowlis laughed. Fowlis grew up in the Outer Hebrides, a string of islands that buffer the Scottish mainland from the North Atlantic. The islands have been producing Harris tweed for hundreds of years. “It’s become incredibly fashionable,” said Fowlis about the fortunes of the old and durable material. “You can see it on the cover of ‘Vogue.’” The islands are the last place in the world where people speak Scottish Gaelic as their first language, said Fowlis, who grew up hearing it around the house along with English. But it wasn’t until she began studying classical music at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow that she began singing and researching traditional Scottish music. Clans, she said, used to engage poets to write elegies for chiefs who had died and songs of praise for their successors. “They had a really strong oral tradition, and many of the songs were never written down,” said Fowlis, who also sings work songs about fishing, churning butter and milking cows. Traveling with her and her band to BlackRock is her husband, Eamonn Doorley, who speaks Irish Gaelic and performs with the traditional Irish band Danú. A Celtic language, Gaelic diverged over time in Scotland and Ireland but today the two still share many of the same words. Fowlis said she and her husband speak both versions at home with their children. “We all understand each other,” Fowlis said. The BlackRock concerts will feature traditional songs, some of them hundreds of years old, accompanied by guitars, fiddles, bagpipes and the bouzouki, a lute-like instrument from Greece that became popular in Ireland in the 1970s. “It works well with our scales and moods, it fits into our melodic structure,” she said.

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Fowlis will talk about some songs from the stage, but also let the sounds and rhythms of other songs speak for them-

selves. “Some people don’t want to know [what the words mean],” she said. “They just want to let the music to wash over them.” In the same way that Harris tweed is enjoying a renewed popularity, so is Scottish Gaelic, in part due to the Fowlis’ broadcasts on the BBC and her touring in the United Kingdom and overseas. In 2008, she was named Scotland’s ﬁrst Gaelic Ambassador by the Scottish Parliament, an honor she treasures. “There’s been a resurgence in the last few years,” she said. “It’s ﬁnding its place in the modern world.” Fowlis’ singing helps preserve her culture and she’s glad it also entertains audiences. “We love what we do,” she said. “I hope everyone enjoys [the concerts] and has a laugh, and experiences something of Scotland on their night out.” vterhune@gazette.net

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(possibly 2 BR); prvt 10/26/13 only. 10+/patio, W/D, Walk to Acres only $44,900. Shops, Nr Metro/Bus, Mix of hardwoods & HOC. 240-383-1000 meadows, 50 mile D E R W O O D / mountain views, 2 OLNEY: Mechanics GAITH: 2bd,2ba LAKESIDE APTS hours DC Beltway. dream home 2br/1ba GERM: SFH 3Br 2Ba SIL SPRING: 3 LVL renovated,patio, near GAITHERS: 1BR in Near riverfront park. brk www.gazette.net newly paint, & hard- TH; 3BR, 2BA, Deck, GAITHERSBURG costco,bus,mall,I270 SFH unfurn. $650 utils 18 hole golf course, wood flrs, nr shopping W/D, walkout bsmt, Nr Half Month Free 202-262-6652 $1300/mo + utils incl. Male NS/NP, 1 National Forest. Good ctr & bus $1,790/mo Briggs Chaney/RT 29 Large 1 or 2 BR Apts CALL(301)678-9182 mile frm I-270. Avail road frontage, utilities. GAITH/AMBERFLD 202-299-4901 Short/long term leases $1450. 240-780-1770 PAY NO CLOSING GAITHER: 3Br, + Immed 240-372-1168 Utilities Included Lux 3lvl EU/TH, Gar COSTS - up to $1,000 2MBR, 2.5BA, LR DR, MONT VIL: Nice 3lvl SS: 4BR,2.5BA,SFH den, 2 Ba, renovated, Great Prices TH 4br 3.5ba walk out Fin Bsmnt, two car with purchase during Sec 8 welcome, G A I T H E R S B U R G FR, FP,EIK, Deck 301-830-0046 bsmt new carpet new garage, deck, Jacuzzi, sale. Excellent financ- $1800. 301-792-9538 $1800/mo inc util 1Br in an Apartment paint $1650 + utils call FP $3200 near metro ing. Call now 800Call: 410-800-5005 $600/ mo util included & shops 301-330-1177 888-1262 GAITHER: 4Br, 301-760-8525 GERM: 2BR, 2BA, Ns/Np, Nr Metro, Bus 3.5Ba, TH, HOC H/W N.POTOMAC: 2br N . P O T O M A C balc, w/d, Nr 270, Shops. 240-603-3960 floors, nr I270, MC, & 1.5ba 2lvl end unit TH ROCKVILLE: 1 BR shops/Buses, newly Metro/Bus, $1800 + huge back yrd, Lg liv Apt. $1250 incl util, renov, $1350 + SD GAITHERSBURG: util 202-215-8888 rm, dinrm, eat-in-kit, CATV, Free Parking HOC 301-633-6857 1 furn room $400 & 1 wood fpl, new carpet Avail now. NS/NP rm $500 util incl. nr K E N S I N G T O N : GAITHERSBURG: paint/Appl.Wootton HS HYATTSVILLE HYATTS/COLL. PK: Metro. Male. 240-305BEAUTIFUL HOME IN CALL: 301-424-9205 Store for Lease TH, convenient & nice, $1,550 301-221-0697 High Rise 2BR condo 2776 or 240-602-3943 NICE CUL DE SAC Commercial space, 3Br, 2 BA (Full & 2 w/ lrg bal $1400 all NEIGHBERHOOD 4 4BR, N. POTOMAC: 2000 square feet haft Bath) 301-919util. incl. 240-447GAITHERSBURG: in Kensington Mary- 2287 or 301-919-7097 3BA, Wootton district, BD, 3 BA, NEW CAR- SILVER SPRING : 5072/ 301-528-1011 Fully furnished 1BD, Quite cul-de sac, PET & FLOOR, FIN- Dwntwn Flower Ave. land, Ideal business BSMT, Unfurn 2br 1ba Apt. ROCKVILLE: spa- 1BA in Apt. $550 incl location, Please call: GAITH Extra Large $2190+utils 301-222- ISHED FENCED BACKYARD, HOC Welcome $1250 cious 1 br condo near util. Near Marc Train. 301-620-2468 OR Like New Thruout! 7236 / 301-320-6088 202-246-1977 N E A R metro Monroe St, 301-204-6081 240-463-9415, $2200 3BR, 3.5BA 3 Fin. OLNEY: TH, 2Br, S H O P S , S C H O O L , $1000 +fee 579, uncl Kensington. Levels $1800/mo. 1.5BA, Excellent con- UMCP AND BELTparking, util, wash/dry, GAITHERSBURG: Russ 301-370-6005. dition EU w/fpl, Pool, WAY $2200/MON pool sauna, security, Lg Bsmt w/BA, $650 some furn 301-315- utils incld, 1 room Ok Tennis NS/NP. Avail UTIL NOT INCLD 1 G A I T H : HOC 8075 2404184333 Renov 5br 2fb 2hb, Oct 15 $1550/mnth MONTH SEC DEP 2 $495 . Call 240-848YEAR LEASE JOHN new paint & carpet, 301-570-4467 4483 or 301-977-6069 Unfurn Bsmt BOWIE: (301)384-0067 Nr Public Transp FRED: 4 bd 3.5 ba POTOMAC: lrg 3 br, Apt in SFH $850/mo $2150 301-254-4878 fenced on 1/3 acres. 2.5 ba, SFH, finished GAITHERSBURG: utils incl Free Cable. Tour.PicturePerfectllc. HILL: 1 looking for fem tenants basement, living rm, Available NOW!!!! ASPEN SFH 4Br 3.5 GAITH: com/73570 $2195 + tenant, 1Br w/BA, for 2 BD w/shared BA. dining rm, den w/fp, Call: 301-509-3050 Ba w/new Kitch/appl deck, carport, comutil 301-797-8201 shared kit & living rm, Close to 270/355. finsh w/o bsmt. Nr pletely NS/NP, $600/mnth $500 & $550 utils incl. remodeled, metro/school $2400 + clse to 270, $2800/ Conv. 301-962-5778 & inter access. utils 301-956-0897 I Buy Houses mnth, One wk free. Parking 240-418-8785 : 1 Lrg BELTSVILLE 240-372-8050 CASH! rm w/2 closets in 4BR GERM: Credit Check BETH: beautiful 1400 & 2BA SFH. $550 + GAITHERSBURG B E T H E S D A : 3BD, & SD req’d, Updated P O O L E S V I L L E : Quick Sale sqft,3br,2fba/den/offic utils, dep req. NS.M Lrg rm in TH, nr Ride 2.5BA+ den SFH. TH 3Br, 1.5Ba $1400 Cottage on horsefarm, $2100+elec 301-452- pref. Nr Public Trans. On, $650 Sec Dep. Fair Price Deck, car port, carpe- + utils no smoking/no Liv Rm, 1 BR, Kit, BA 3636 bethesdagirl@ ted rec rm. $2000/mo pets Nr Metro/Shops. $1000/mo includes 703-940-5530 juno.com nr Mont Mall W/D. Rmmates ages Deck/fp. Avail 11/1 CALL: 301-440-4189 Call: 301-530-1009 utils 301-407-2226 Call: 410-414-2559 22-28. 301-448-9064

GAITHERSBURG:

Male, 1Br $299, master BR w BA $399. Nr Metro/Shop . NS. Avail Now. 301-219-1066

GAITH: finished bsmt with 1 room half ba near mall avail now $550 + utils dep pets ok call (301)340-0409 GAITH: Male. 1 BR

in TH. $500. NP, NS, near Bus, shops. Call 240-418-9237 or 240912-5284

GAITH:M BRs $430+ 440+475+555+ Maid Ns/Np, nr 270/370/Bus shops, quiet, conv.Sec Dep 301-983-3210 GAITH: Rm w/pvt BA

in SFH $550 Plus Utils 1st and Last Month in Advance Deposit Req. Call 240-606-7259 GERM: 1BR in basement with private bath N/S, N/P. $600 incl utils. Nr Shops & Schls. 240-778-7764

GE RMA NT OWN :

1BR, BA, Shrd Kit., close to bus & stores, $450/month incl utils. 301-366-8689

GERMANTOWN

2 BR in TH, $485 & $525 both incl utils. N/S, N/P. Avail immed CALL: 240-361-3391

GE RMA NT OWN :

Furnished 1 Br & Ba in 2Br 2Ba apt, modern kit & Ba, W/D, nr MC, $595 util inc Call: 240-654-3797

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Classifieds Call 301-670-7100 or email class@gazette.net

GERM: Male only 2

Room for Rent. $425 utils incl. Male. Avail Now! Call 240-3618655

BRs $400 each + utils in TH NS/ND. Near bus & shops. Sec Dep Req. 240-476-6224

GE RMA NT OWN :

GERM:

TH, Lg MBR, priv Ba, near bus/I270, NS/NP $600 inc util/int + SD W/D/kit 301-580-6833

GERM: Furn Br in End

unit TH close to twn cntr DOE/MC $500 inc util NS Tina 240-9127900/ 240-481-1900

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October 26 & 27,

8am-4pm Montgomery County Fairgrounds 16 Chestnut St. Gaithersburg, MD 301-649-1915 * johnsonshows.com

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HUNT AUCTION

Sunday, Oct 27th,10:00 AM At Hunts Place

PASADENA, MD: WATERFRONT HOMESITE

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CHEVY

CHASE:

Multi-family Yard Sale. Sat., 10/26, 8-2pm. HH items, glassware, china, clothing, linens, tvs. 2201 Ross Road (off East West Hwy, Grubb and Spencer)

N. POTOMAC: Lrg

furn basement room, BA, Comcast, gym. Storage, kit and laundry privileges. $875 incl util. 301-529-8632

D E R W O O D : 7209 Needswood RD Oct 26th 8-5pm furn, clothes, kitch items, living & dining rm set, tools 301-219-7203

D E R W O O D :

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ROCKVILLE: Male

1br in SFH $485 util incl, NS/NP, convenient location. Avail Now. 301-704-6300

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FURNITURE: A FURNITURE & HOME DECOR WAREHOUSE BLOWOUT SALE! INTERIOR DESIGN FIRM HAVING FIRST EVER SAVE ON CABLE WAREHOUSE SALE!. TV-INTERNETAll furnishings DIGITAL PHONEare brand new and SATELLITE. selling at cost. Come You’ve Got A Choice! eary for the best se- Options from ALL malection. Great time to jor service providers. do holiday shop- Call us to learn more! ping. Items will in- CALL Today. 877clude: furniture, table 884-1191 top accessories, window treatments, artwork, accent pillows, bedding and many other home decor items. We are also selling designer clothing, jewelry, shoes and hand bags from our online fasion company! Sale will run every Thursday, Friday and Saturday from October 24th until Novemeber 23rd. Hours of operation are 10am-4pm. Environments By Design LLC 4507 Metropolitan Court, Suite N, Frederick, Maryland 21704 Call: 301-874-4308. Take 270 north toward Frederick, exit 31B then merge onto Maryland MD-85 S/ Buckeystown Pike toward Buckeystown. Turn left onto English Muffin Way which will run into Metropolitan Court. Suite N is on the back side of the building 4507.

to advertise call 301.670.7100 or email class@gazette.net

On Oct 26th 8-3 & Oct 27th 10-3, check out the great finds at the Barnesville School of Arts & Sciences annual community indoor yard sale. Sale includes: a huge 100 % GUARANselection of items in TEED OMAHA categories such as - STEAKS - SAVE books, children and 69% on The Grilling adult sized clothing Collection. NOW ONand shoes, house LY $49.99 Plus 2 wares, toys, furniture, FREE GIFTS & rightbaby equipment, to-the-door delivery in a reusable cooler. sporting goods, ORDER Today 1- 888electronics, music, luxury items and much 697-3965 use code more! 21830 Peach 45102ETA or www.OmahaSteaks.co Tree Road 20842 m/offergc05

180 a Cord

Delivered & Stacked

SILVER

SPRING:

large Room for rent $525 in bsmt shared kit, Ba, W/D, & Utils avail now call 301404-2681

S.S: Lrg BR in SFH,

shr Ba, kit, w/d, cable Avl 11/01 $480/mo + utils. nr Bus, female NS/NP 301-254-0160

S.SPRING: Down-

$225/cord $150 per 1/2 cord µ Includes Delivery µ Stacking Extra Charge Ask for Jose 301-417-0753 301-370-7008

NOW HIRING!!! $28/HOUR. Under-

Chair-$650; Fridge $200, Lrg Freezer $250; TV 65"-$580 OBO 301-916-2010

$175 a Cord Split & Delivered 240-315-1871

Solid Cherry oak headboard. Very good condition. $250. 301-433-3121

EARN $500 ADAY: Insurance

PREMIUM ALL SEASONED HARDWOODS Mostly Oak

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FIREWOOD FOR SALE

SS: Spacious/Bright Bsmt w/prvt Ent in SFH. BA, Kit, W/D. $1200 + utils. Nr Metro /Shops 301-593-8898 RMs $650 ea inc Wifi and Bsmt w/priv Ba $800 NS/NP nr Bus & Metro 301-221-7348

na Cabinet $100. OBO Call 301-585-5234 lv name & phone #

Call “Joe the Pro” 301-538-5470

SS: SFH, 1br in Bsmt w/prvt entr., shr Ba & Kitch. $600 incl util. Security Deposit Req’d Call 240-643-4674

town, furn/unfur shrd apt, priv Ba, nr metro $875 utils incl + SD Call: 240-604-5815

NEW DINING TABLE walnut-$50; Chi-

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

Room for MONT VILL: Rm for rent in SFH, Private rent in condo, prvt ba, Ent & BA; NS/NP. shrd kit, nr shops/bus. $650/mo utils incld. $600 all utils incl 301-370-0295 NP/NS. 301-602-0040 OLNEY:1br pvt bath entr in Bsmt ot TH GERM: Wlk out pvt MT. AIRY: Rooms $700 + utils, F. Ns/Np entr Bsmt. $700 uti For Rent $500/mo + nr Bus. 240-277-5963 ncl + 1 mon Sec Dep. Sec Dep Req, share or 301-370-0916 No Smoking/No Pets utils pets ok call 301301-540-1967 639-6777

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MONT VILL: 1 Br, 1

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GE RMA NT OWN :

cover Shoppers Needed To Judge Retail and Dining Establishments. Genuine Opportunity PT/FT. Experience not required. If You can Shop - You Are Qualified!! www.AmericanShoppe rJobs.com

WHEATON 1 Large

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

WHEATON:

Bsmt Apt w/1Br 1.5ba pvt entr/kit $1100 util inc. N/s/N/p, 240-398-1337 301-649-3905 Lv Msg

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to advertise call 301.670.7100 or email class@gazette.net

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4-H Youth Development Program with University of Maryland Extension, Montgomery County. HS diploma required, 1 year post high school training preferred, three years experience working with youth and adults. This is a full-time (40 hours/week) position focused on supporting 4-H educators who provide educational activities related to 4-H Youth Development. This position also involves coordination of enrollment and may require evening and weekend hours. Background check required. Apply at https://jobs.umd.edu/. Call 301-590-2804 for more information. Closing date 11/01/2013 or until filled. AA/EOE

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ELECTRICIAN

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Sidwell Friends, a coeducational Quaker day school, seeks a Manager for its Tenleytown campus coffee shop/retail store.The successful candidate will have a minimum of 3-5 years experience in the management of a coffee shop, restaurant or café. For details and to apply go to www.gazette.net.

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Seasonal

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The Salvation Army is now hiring Bell Ringers in Montgomery County for this Christmas Season. $8.25 per hour. Apply in person on M-F from 10am - 12pm and 1pm 3pm at 20021 Aircraft Drive, Germantown, MD 20874

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EOE

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New branch in Hyattsville, MD for L&W Supply Co. Must have a valid CDL license, the ability to lift 50+ lbs., and operate a multi-story boom crane. We offer a competitive salary, incentive program & complete benefit package. No overnight travel. OT available. Please call: 312-436-6258 or apply via www.usg.com (About USGCareers-USG Current Opportunitiesthen search Hyattsville)

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2013 Passat S...............................#P7630, Silver, 4,428 mi..................$19,500 2011 CC.............................................#FR7183, White, 32,893 mi.............$19,991 2013 Jetta Sedan........................#MR0013, Blue, 4,964 mi................$20,392 2011 Routan...................................#VP6055, Blue, 37,524 mi...............$20,495 2012 Jetta Sportwagen TDI. .#100859A, Black, 60,262 mi...........$21,999 2012 Golf TDI..................................#691809A, Black, 17,478 mi...........$22,995 2013 Passat....................................#VPR6026, Gray, 4,502 mi...............$23,995 2012 CC.............................................#V13212A, Silver, 23,692 mi............$27,691

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21,985

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