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Nearly 600 votes were cast as of 11 a.m. BY JENN DAVIS STAFF WRITER
Gaithersburg residents woke up Wednesday morning already knowing the names and faces of their city elected officials who faced no opposition to earning their seats back in Tuesday’s election. Mayor Sidney Katz and councilmen Mike Sesma and Henry Marraffa ran for re-election without any challengers. A final vote count was not yet available by Tuesday evening. As of 11 a.m. on Tuesday,
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Food stamp cuts hit county’s needy hard
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The proposed construction of a new Summit Hall Elementary School building in Gaithersburg may be pushed back by the county school district. The school’s multipurpose room is full during lunch times.
Summit Hall upgrades may be tardy
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As federal stimulus money dries up, thousands of hungry Montgomery County residents are scrambling to make ends meet. An expansion of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program meant to cover individuals and families during the recession expired Friday. In 2009, President Barack Obama’s stimulus package included a temporary increase in funding for food stamps. All households that receive federal food stamps will now see about a 5 percent cut this month. The maximum amount of
BY JENN DAVIS STAFF WRITER
Summit Hall Elementary School is already bursting at the seams, and now it’s possible the school will have to wait even longer than it had originally planned for needed renovations. Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Joshua P. Starr recently proposed a $1.55 billion Capital Improvements Program that places projects for some crowded schools ahead of already scheduled renovations and expansions. Summit Hall is on a lengthy list of schools that are waiting for new buildings to replace their current ones. The Gaithersburg school was built in 1971, and renovated in 1980 and 1986. Construction on the new school was scheduled to be completed in January 2021, but if the County Council approves Starr’s proposal, the date would be pushed to January 2022. Space deficits are the highest at Summit Hall, and are projected to stay that way in the future, compared to all other schools in the Gaithersburg cluster, according to documents in
557 Gaithersburg voters had cast their ballot, according to city attorney Lynn Board. The number includes voters who participated in either of the city’s two early voting sessions. An additional 48 votes were collected from absentee ballots. The city designated six different polling sites for the election: City Hall, Izaak Walton League, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the Kentlands, Villa Ridge community room, Potomac Oaks clubhouse and Asbury Methodist Village. Eric Kellner, chief election judge at the Kentlands polling site, said the voting process was run-
Summit Hall Elementary School in Gaithersburg is over its capacity. the plan. The building’s current capacity is 459 students, but it is serving 603 students in kindergarten through fifth grade this year. Growth is expected to exceed capacity by nearly 200 students during the 2014-15 school year, the plan said.
SNAP funding an individual could receive per month was $200. But as of Nov. 1, that maximum is $189. For a household of two people, the maximum funding level, $367, fell by $20. And for a family of eight, $65 is cut, leaving them with a maximum allowance of $1,137, according to Brian Schleter, spokesman for the state’s Department of Human Resources. Jenna Umbriac, a nutrition educator at Manna Food Center, said the cuts in SNAP funding mean participants will have to make difficult decisions about their food budget. Since protein is often the most expensive food item on a shopping list, meats like chicken and beef are going to be the first items cash-strapped resi-
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Health insurance bill for contractors on table n
Plan would apply to new contracts and renewals in Montgomery County BY
RYAN MARSHALL STAFF WRITER
After talking with workers during recent strikes at two garbage-collection companies, Montgomery County Council President Nancy Navarro is preparing a bill requiring many county contractors to provide affordable health insurance to their employees. Navarro (D-Dist. 4) of Silver Spring sent a memorandum to other council members on Oct. 30 asking them to consider signing on as co-sponsors. The bill would amend the county’s liv-
ing wage law that requires companies that have contracts with the county to pay at least $13.95 an hour. The change would require county contractors to provide affordable health insurance for employees who work on county contracts for more than 30 hours per week and who make less than twice the living wage. Navarro is also looking at possible legislation to grant preferences to companies bidding on a county contract if they already provide affordable benefits to their employees. Both bills would apply to new contracts, as well as existing contracts that are renewed, according to the letter. Workers at Potomac Disposal in Gaithersburg reached an agreement with the company on Oct. 28 after a 10-day
strike. The agreement provides a pay increase, one holiday, and paid sick and vacation days for workers. The two sides weren’t able to agree on a plan for affordable health insurance. Workers at Unity Disposal, based in Laurel, also returned to work after an 11-day strike that began after about 70 workers were terminated. The employees had refused to go to work to protest the firing of a coworker who criticized management’s attempts to stop workers from joining a union. Even the county’s living wage doesn’t provide enough money to buy affordable health care, Navarro said. Navarro said Thursday that the bill
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Fundraiser’s play highlights living with autism The stage came alive Oct. 27 at Community Support Services’ fourth annual Fine Arts Showcase, when adults with autism displayed their artistic talents to raise money for the organization’s recreation department. While admission was free, money was raised from a bake sale, raffle and art sale, which featured hundreds of drawings, paintings, 3-D paper art and pottery creations made by the Gaithersburg nonprofit’s clients. The recreation department, which includes sports teams, cooking classes and yoga, does not receive state funding. Twenty-one performers took part in an original production, “The Taming of Spectrum the Bull,” which used a bull-taming plot as a metaphor for living with autism. According to Ashley Chatneuff, the communications coordinator at Community Support Services, the adults with disabilities portrayed groups of festive Spanish villagers who were disrupted when a bull named Spectrum, representing autism, came barreling in. Volunteers and staff members played the role of matadors who come to tame the bull, allowing the villagers to happily return to their lives. “The idea is that autism spectrum disabilities can prevent people from pursuing activities that they want,” Chatneuff said. “But through CSS, we work with each person’s individual disabilities and make sure that the spectrum does not prevent them from doing those
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good activities.” Chatneuff said the event, which drew more than 100 attendees, was less about the money and more about the opportunity for clients to refine their motor and social skills, and have fun showing off their talents. “It’s a great chance for the individuals to show their family and friends what they’ve accomplished,” she said.
Walk your dog under the holiday lights Families and their four-legged friends alike can walk under the holiday lights Nov. 17 at the Leashes ‘n’ Lights event in Gaithersburg. Walkers take a 3-mile stroll through a park filled with more than 380 light displays. The festivities will run from 5 to 8 p.m. at Seneca Creek State Park, 11950 Clopper Road. The cost is $8 for residents and $10 for nonresidents for those who prepay and register online via RecXpress. On the day of the event, the cost will be $10 per person. Children younger than 4 and dogs walk free. A rain date is scheduled for Dec. 2. For more information or to register, visit gaithersburgmd.gov/ winterlights.
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In the service Air Force Airmen Alexis M. Eaton and Daniel V. Lalawng have
graduated from basic military training from at Joint Base San AntonioLackland. The airmen completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills. By completing basic training, both have earned four credits toward an associate degree in applied science through the Community College of the Air Force. Eaton is a 2009 graduate of Quince Orchard High School in Gaithersburg and Lalawng is a 2011 graduate of Col. Zadok Magruder High School in Rockville. If you have an interesting note or photo to share about the people or an event in the community, please send it to Staff Writer Jenn
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CORRECTIONS An Oct. 30 article about Forrester Construction of Rockville’s award to increase burial space at Arlington National Cemetery incorrectly described what will happen with a stream on the site. The stream is going to be restored. An Oct. 30 article on Xiangfei Cheng, who is running for the House of Delegates in District 39, misspelled Nanchang University, the university he attended in China.
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Sidney Katz, mayor of Gaithersburg and owner of Wolfson’s in Olde Towne Gaithersburg, has decided to close the store, which has been around for almost a century.
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Nearly a century of commerce at Wolfson’s Department Store in Olde Towne Gaithersburg came to a close on Oct. 26, when the business shut down. The store opened in 1918. Gaithersburg Mayor Sidney Katz has owned it since 1971, continuing to run the family business that his grandparents, Jacob and Rose Wolfson, started. Filled with toys, clothing, and fabric in its early years, the space was transformed by Katz in the 1980s into more of a men’s clothing and shoe shop. Katz owned the business on his own, but he and his two older brothers own the entire building. Katz, 63, said he decided to close down the 5,200-square-foot storefront on East Diamond Avenue when he realized he lost the drive to run the business. Recalling an incident several months earlier, Katz said a salesman visited the store to show him a new line of menswear that would have been a good fit with his other merchandise. After feeling uncharacteristically hesitant about making the deal, Katz saw the situation as a turning point for the business. “As a small-business man, you work right on your impulse and you sort of jump at the attraction,” he said. “But I said, ‘Let me think about it,’ which was
not my usual. I got to thinking, there’s a time where I would have had that spark and I didn’t.” At that point, the lifelong Gaithersburg resident slowly started to think about shutting down. After talking with his family, he decided it was the right choice for him. Katz said he would have had to invest more time at the establishment and spend money on remodeling the interior if he stayed on as owner, efforts he did not want to make since no one in his family was interested in eventually taking over. “I would have to spend more time in here, rather than less,” he said. “I thought, ‘If the kids don’t want it, I don’t know that I want to make the investment.’”
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Katz said he will spend the rest of the year packing up decades worth of documents and personal possessions. He and his brothers will retain ownership of the building and are open to leasing to new tenants, although there is no planned idea for the space, he said. Steve Lehr, a manager at McCormick Paints, another local staple, a block west of Wolfson’s, said he was sad to see the store go. “It’s sad, in my opinion, to see another small business go,” he said. “It’s been one of the mainstays of Olde Towne Gaithersburg for years.” Gaithersburg Economic Development Director Tom Lonergan said that while the local store will be missed, the closing represents a new opportunity for another business owner. “Obviously, Wolfson’s was around for a very long time,” he said. “But we are fortunate that the property is still going to be owned by the mayor and his family and a space is becoming available on the block.” Lonergan said he thought a “quality restaurant or eclectic boutique” would function well in the space. Katz said he hopes to have more flexible time for other activities in his life. “If something would come along that I have great interest in, and give me flexible hours that I could do what I want to do on the mayor side of my life and do something in addition to that, I would consider it,” he said. jedavis@gazette.net
Montgomery Village residents still say there is too much development planned for the former golf club in their neighborhood, even though the most recent plans include a reduction in the number of residential units and the preservation of more open space. Monument Realty, the owner of the property, held its third workshop with about 130 Montgomery Village residents on Oct. 29 evening, asking them to share their suggestions and concerns related to a draft concept plan for development. Torti Gallas and Partners Inc., is the architectural and planning firm for the project. The plan showed a decrease in the number of residential units, moving the estimate from 661 to 608, and the addition of a large park to allow for more open space. Residents, however, were still hesitant. During the meeting, attendees were broken up into three groups to air their concerns regarding the newest plan. Increased traffic and crowded schools were the most prominent issues. Montgomery Village resident Dave Lechner said he recognized the efforts being made by Monument and Torti Gallas to use resident feedback to craft the plans. “The development team has made some changes,” he said. “I think they’re listening to some of the community.” Despite the changes though, Lechner said he still thought the development plans were not suitable for the area. He cited traffic as a major problem. “We can’t handle what we have now, let alone another 2,000 people,” he said. Adam DeBaugh, another village resident, said he worried about traffic and the impact on the already crowded school system. “Schools are at capacity here,” he said. “There’s no space for schools here, and the village and the county don’t have additional space for schools right now. They
[the developer] want to attract young professionals, but young professionals have kids.” Montgomery Village Foundation President Bob Hydorn said he believed the meeting went well overall. “I think they [the developer] have come a long way, and they’ve got a ways to go,” he said. “They’re listening to the community.” Torti Gallas and Monument have proposed adding a variety of residential units to the property, including multi-family homes, duplexes, townhomes and mid-sized single-family homes. Each unit, with the exception of the multifamily units, would include two parking spaces. A new feature of the proposal involves the creation of Central Park, which would be on the west side of Montgomery Village Avenue, just south of Fairway Islands. It would have a picnic pavilion, dog park, children’s playground, community gardens and open lawn space. Monument bought the failing golf course for $5 million in March, though the estimated value of the site was about $1.6 million, according to state records. Former owner Jack Doser, a professional golfer, ran the golf club for 34 years before declaring the multi-million dollar business unprofitable at Montgomery Village Foundation meetings in 2011. Russell Hines, president of Monument Realty, said he thought the Oct. 29 meeting was successful and that more people are starting to warm up to the plans. “I think we’re headed in a pretty good direction,” he said. “We continue to have some issues that we need to keep working on. There’s still a core group of people who are entirely opposed to this, but we are trying to convince them that this is the best path forward.” Torti Gallas plans on coming back to residents on Nov. 21 at the Gaithersburg Hilton to present a revised concept plan based on the feedback from the meeting. Monument, the property owner, is currently keeping the Montgomery Village Golf Club 18hole course open. jedavis@gazette.net
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Adventist unveils Rockville cancer center Comprehensive outpatient facility is on Shady Grove hospital campus
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Cancer patients in Montgomery County have a new option come Thursday, as Adventist HealthCare opens its Aquilino Cancer Center in Rockville. The 50,000-square-foot center on the Shady Grove Adventist Hospital campus is the county’s first free-standing, comprehensive outpatient facility, according to Adventist officials. Patients will have access to an array of independent specialists, such as medical and radiation oncologists, plus counselors and dieticians. Physicians also will be able to closely collaborate with researchers, and patients will be given the opportunity to participate in clinical trials. A navigation team comprising nurses, social workers and dieticians will work with patients’ specific needs and lead them through every step of the treatment and recovery process, officials said. While the radiation oncology department and the cancer care navigation team began seeing patients at the building on Sept. 23, the rest of the departments will start to provide care in the coming weeks. Thursday will mark the center’s opening, with an informational program, self-guided tours, a building dedication and ribbon-cutting, and refreshments. The center also will offer fitness activities such as yoga and meditation, cooking demonstrations and support groups for patients to transition into “survivorship” after their diagnosis.
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The CT Simulation Scanner room has illuminated cosmic scenes mounted in the ceiling for patients to look at while lying on their backs at the Aquilino Cancer Center at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital.
“It’s not that you can’t get these services on other hospital campuses in the county, but you can’t get them all under one roof,” said Jane Peck, executive director for cancer services for Adven-
tist HealthCare of Gaithersburg. “For a cancer patient that is compromised and weak, traveling is a big deal to them and being able to come to one location is important.” State-of-the-art equipment is used throughout the center, including a high dose rate instrument that administers powerful dosages of radiation but can reduce the number of sessions a patient has to endure. The building is certified under the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program. For example, a rooftop garden absorbs rainwater and reduces runoff. “We focus on the health of our patients, but also the health of the community is important to us, too,” Peck said. To make the space warm and inviting, a neutral color palette and serene art were incorporated into the decor. The building features large windows for natural light. Several of the radiation treatment rooms have illuminated nature scenes mounted in the ceiling for patients to look at while lying on their backs. “We want it to feel like home,” said Don Bridges, a radiation oncologist at the center. “We want patients to be in a very comfortable environment and feel relaxed.” Grace Lee, a two-year cancer survivor from Frederick and the infection control coordinator at the hospital, called the facility “phenomenal” and said it will make the process easier for patients. “I look back when I had [cancer]. I didn’t have everything in one location, so this is wonderful,” Lee said. “It will help make what others are going through a lot easier.” jedavis@gazette.net
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Tallilah Ortiz (right), 7, of Montgomery Village chases Parker Booth, 7, of North Potomac with her feather fan between events during the American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month Social Powwow on Saturday at Bohrer Park in Gaithersburg. Tallilah’s family is from Oklahoma and also of Acoma Pueblo heritage, while Parker is from Alaska and is also called Sha Meek Ushk. Both were dressed for the social dancing.
Police are trying to figure out who vandalized three speed cameras in Gaithersburg and one in Potomac on Oct. 29 and 30. According to police, the three cameras in Gaithersburg are along Quince Orchard Road between Route 28 and Great Seneca Highway. Two of those cameras pertain to Montgomery County and the third is owned by Gaithersburg. According to Montgomery County police spokeswoman Angela Cruz, vandals sprayed the lenses of the cameras in Gaithersburg with black paint and drew swastikas on the back of two of them sometime on Oct. 30. Cruz said that the damage would not cost the county anything because they were leased from Xerox, which is responsible for maintaining them. The camera on River Road in Potomac was vandalized sometime on Oct. 29, Cruz said. On Monday, she said she had no new information. — KRISTA BRICK
Manna Food Center celebrates 30 years distributing food Executive director: ‘If we’re going to eliminate hunger we’ve got to have a lot of the community at the table’ n
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The volunteers search the industrial shelves packed with canned foods, diapers, infant formulas, they reach into the immense cardboard box overflowing with cabbage heads and they count apples. It’s all part of the process of packing about 200 boxes with food a day — about 16,000 pounds of food total — that the Manna Food Center gives to Montgomery County residents each day. It’s a labor of love that has been going on for 30 years. On Monday, the Gaithersburg nonprofit celebrated its 30th birthday. What started as a small operation in Hungerford Park Elementary School has moved into a large warehouse on Gaither Road, supplemented by six other food distribution sites in Silver Spring, Germantown, Gaithersburg and Wheaton. In a county where the median household income is $92,000 it can be easy to forget that some people are going hungry, but Manna helps people remember, said Jackie De Carlo, execu-
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“It’s tied into the larger issue of poverty,” Foraker said. That’s why the nonprofit works so closely with the county government and other local groups, De Carlo said. Over the next few years, she would like to see Manna Food Center work with the community even more. “If we’re going to eliminate hunger we’ve got to have a lot of the community at the table,” she said. Back inside the warehouse, 10 volunteers FILE PHOTO Wegmans employees (from left) Krystal Register, Ken Cortez and one staff member were busy sorting cans and packing up boxes of food. Trucks would be and Rob Griffin load food boxes at the Manna warehouse. coming in with what they had picked up at local tive director of the food center. supermarkets, farms and farmer markets. Com“There’s a perception that we’re very affluent,” bined with the food donated by the community De Carlo said. “But the reality is that there are a lot it adds up to about 4 million pounds of food a of working families that need food support.” year. Then, they would turn around and deliver Manna distributes food to about 43,000 boxes of food in the afternoon. households each year, serving more than 194,000 One of those volunteers was Keith Feeney, who county residents a year. The program could not is a healthcare recruitment consultant. Feeney, of run without the help of volunteers, DeCarlo said, Germantown, has been coming every Tuesday who donate more than 64,000 hours a year. The morning to help sort food for about four years. nonprofit has a staff of 20 people. “We’re coming in to the busiest time of the The increase in need spiked during the re- year,” Feeney said. “I leave here around 12 o’clock cession, said Mark Foraker, director of develop- every day and you see the families and people lined ment at Manna, and has not receded. up — it puts a face to what we’re doing here. And In 2008, about 24,000 households received those lines aren’t getting any shorter.” food. In 2012, that number had jumped to almost 43,000. ablum@gazette.net
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Gaithersburg home business creates certified wildlife habitat The National Wildlife Federation has recognized Zosimos Botanicals in Gaithersburg for its creation of an official Certified Wildlife Habitat site. Linda Stein, owner of Zosimos Botanicals, created the space at her Gaithersburg home by planting new gardens to improve the habitat for birds, butterflies, frogs and other wildlife. The site provides wildlife with natural food sources, clean water, cover and places to raise offspring. Her business, which she started in 2004, specializes producing mineral cosmetics and natural skin care products. The new certified habitat joins the federation’s list of more than 150,000 certified habitats nationwide.
Heritage Montgomery doles out mini-grants The Heritage Tourism Alliance of Montgomery County, also known as Heritage Montgomery, awarded more than $18,000 in mini-grants this year to local organizations. Among the recipients: • The town of Brookeville, $2,500 to develop a website for its War of 1812 Bicentennial Celebration. • The Montgomery County Historical Society in Rockville, $2,500 for an annual history conference. • The National Capital Trolley Museum in Colesville, $1,800 for signage and materials. • Preservation group Peerless Rockville, $2,500 to produce a brochure to find historic Rockville landmarks. • The Sandy Spring Museum, $2,500 for its “Extreme Exhibit Makeover.” Historic Montgomery’s grant award program has awarded more than $142,000 in the past 10 years. Programs supported by grant funding are designed to contribute to the interpretation, promotion, preservation or research of historical resources in the area.
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Complete report at www.gazette.net The following is a summary of incidents in the Gaithersburg area to which Montgomery County police 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.
Aggravated assault • On Oct. 18 at 5:30 p.m. at Wyndham Gardens Hotel, 805 Russell Ave., Gaithersburg. The subject is known to the victim. • On Oct. 19 at 10:23 p.m. in the area of Washington Grove Lane and Mineral Springs Drive, Gaithersburg. No further information provided. Carjacking • On Oct. 19 at 2:30 a.m. in the 10000 block of Ridgeline Drive, Gaithersburg. The subjects threatened the victim with a weapon and took the victim’s vehicle. Commercial burglary • On Oct. 21 at 4:08 a.m. at Jewelry Exchange, 501 North Frederick Ave., Gaithersburg. Forced entry, took property. Indecent exposure • On Oct. 22 at 3:10 p.m. at Ridgeview Middle School, 16600 Raven Rock Drive, Gaithersburg. The subject exposed himself and was arrested. Sexual offense • On Oct. 18 at 4 p.m. at Goodwill Industries, 619 South Frederick Ave., Gaithersburg. The subject planted a camera phone under a fitting room door and fled. Residential burglary • 100 block of Duvall Lane, Gaithersburg, at 3:03 p.m. Oct. 15. Unknown subject(s) attempted to enter the residence through a window but was unsuccessful. • 19800 block of Helmond Way, Gaithersburg, at 1:30 am. Oct. 17. Attempted forced entry, took nothing. • Two incidents in the 200 block of Lee Street, Gaithersburg, on Oct. 19. No forced entry, took property. • 200 block of Park Avenue, Gaithersburg, on Oct. 19. No forced entry, took property.
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Prosecutors take second try in voice coach sex-abuse case Ballard in court again after prior mistrial
BY ST. JOHN BARNED-SMITH STAFF WRITER
Montgomery County prosecutors are trying a 48-yearold Gaithersburg voice coach charged with sex abuse — again. The second trial of Timothy M. Ballard of Goodport Lane started Tuesday. He stood trial on one count of sex abuse in April, but the jury deadlocked and Montgomery County Circuit Judge Michael D. Mason declared a mistrial. According to court records, the alleged abuse occurred in the spring and summer of 2008 in the basement studio of the house Ballard lived in on Ramsdell Terrace. The victim, then an eighthgrade boy, came forward in June 2012. Authorities learned of the abuse after the boy told a parent of another Ballard student. In the first trial, jurors learned that Ballard had a close relationship with his accuser and the boy’s family, and that the boy would sometimes sleep at his house after Friday voice sessions and then have class on Saturday mornings. The victim confided to Ballard that he was unsure whether he was bisexual, according to the documents, and Ballard told the victim that he could help
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Forum explores recipes for change Participants say school cafeterias should offer more healthful meals
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A forum focusing on healthful food in Montgomery County Public Schools drew a mixed group of participants to the table on Saturday. The issue is an ongoing one, said Lindsey Parsons, cofounder of Real Food for KidsMontgomery, and the goal of the forum was to “move the conversation forward” and see why and how the food should be made more healthful. Parents, advocates, and school and county officials, among others, gathered at the Lutheran Church of St. Andrew
in Silver Spring for the forum hosted by Real Food for KidsMontgomery and Montgomery Victory Gardens. Gordon Clark, project director of Montgomery Victory Gardens, said the event is a unique one in the county and that he thinks interest and passion in the community on the issue is coming together. “I think the overall goal is to start a conversation, a very public conversation a lot of people — parents and nonparents alike — want to have and that’s how do we make our school food better,” he said. The forum gained the support of “honorary hosts,” including Gov. Martin O’Malley (D), Rep. Christopher Van Hollen Jr. (D-Dist. 8) of Kensington and state Sen. Jamie Raskin (D-Dist. 20) of Silver Spring. Speakers covered topics
from food-related health issues to school efforts to improve food options to the importance of nutrition in education. Marla Caplon, director of food and nutrition services for the school system, described several ways the school system is working to make its food more healthful. Caplon said the school system is continually reformulating recipes to lower amounts of ingredients such as fat and sodium, has made the vast majority of cafeteria grains whole grain, and has been removing fryers and replacing them with ovens. The most important part of the school system’s menu development, she said, is “student acceptability.” “We have to make sure we’re providing food items these kids will eat,” Caplon said.
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Marla Caplon, the school district’s food services director, and Tony Geraci, a chef and food service consultant, take part in Saturday’s forum on school food. Speakers from two schools shared their experiences working with students to grow food and other plants. Karla Kratovil — vice president of the parent teacher association and school garden coordinator at Flower Hill Elementary School in Gaithersburg — said her school garden gave some of the students their first chance to “get into the dirt” and plant. “You’ve never seen kids so enthusiastically eating vegetables,” she said. Lisa Lefferts, senior scientist at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, focused her talk on the adverse health effects of artificial food colorings and caffeine. Lefferts said that, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, food dyes can exacerbate hyperactivity disorders in some children. Several food dyes, such as Red 3, are carcinogenic but still appear in food, she said. Lefferts also spoke on the growing number of products that contain caffeine, including chips, popcorn and waffles. “You could find caffeine in just about anything these days,” she said. Tony Geraci, a chef and food service consultant and the subject of the documentary “Cafe-
teria Man,” shared what he had learned in his experiences leading and changing school food programs. Nutrition is an important part of students’ ability to learn, he said, and it’s unrealistic to expect a student who is “jacked up on sugar” or hungry to absorb a lesson. Geraci said he bases his work on the principles that food “has to look good, has to taste good, and has to be good.” County Councilman George Leventhal (D-At large) of Takoma Park, who also spoke at the event, said in an interview he doesn’t think food quality in the school system’s cafeterias has been a “front-of-mind priority” for the county school board or superintendent. The school system is making good efforts, he said, “but it’s not at the front of the pack nationally.” Aura Triana, the parent of an eighth-grader at Rosa Parks Middle School and a member of Real Food for Kids, said she is disappointed in the food quality found in the school system. The school system should not only provide more healthful food, she said, but educate its students on the importance of good eating. “I think we are sending a contradictory message to our
Karen Devitt, co-founder of Real Food for Kids-Montgomery, gives the opening remarks at the forum on school food. students by not providing decent meals to them alongside the education that we are proud to consider so good,” she said. School board Vice President Phil Kauffman said it’s clear the community is concerned about food served to students and that the school system wants to hear what those concerns are. “We’re all about improvement, and to the extent that we can improve, we’d like to improve,” he said. lpowers@gazette.net
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Del. Sam Arora has chosen to not run for re-election to the Maryland House of Delegates. Arora (D-Dist. 19) of Silver Spring made his decision public Friday, saying in an interview with The Gazette that he will spend his time working in the private sector and focusing on his family. Arora was first elected in 2010. His decision opens a seat in District 19 for the 2014 election, where at least two challengers and two incumbents have filed to run for the House. More than a month ago, the three other District 19 lawmakers — Sen. Robert Manno and Dels. Bonnie L. Cullison and Benjamin F. Kramer — disclosed plans to campaign for re-election as a slate, without Arora. Kramer said the slate disagreed with Arora’s vote against same-sex marriage after he initially supported it. Arora said the backlash from his vote on same-sex marriage did “not really” play a part in his decision not to run again. “At end of day, as a legislator, you are going to vote the way you think is wisest,” Arora said of the criticism he has faced for that vote. “You will always have critics, particularly if you
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do things that are a bit more independent. That is part of the job and part of what happens.” As he mulled another term, Arora said, he questioned if he could continue to commit fully to his obligations as a lawmaker, a businessman and a husband. Arora, 32, said he and his wife are in the “season of life” where they are looking to start a family, and his family’s health care business, The Arora Group, continues to grow, he said. “As I thought about it, I asked: ‘Can I put in the amount of time and effort it takes to be good delegate?’” he said. “Can all things be balanced? I want to do Arora what I am committing to well, and that means, in this season of my life, stepping back from serving in this capacity.” With only one legislative session left in his term, Arora said he is approaching it with excitement, considering carefully what legislation he will introduce in his final year. Among the bills he has in the works are efforts to ease restrictions on microbreweries in Montgomery County, to close a loophole surrounding sexual abuse of students and making state regulations more predictable for small businesses.
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In a move that caught members of the Montgomery County Council off-guard, County Executive Isiah Leggett won’t sign a bill the council passed that would provide pay increases for the next council and executive, but Leggett will allow the bill to become law without his signature. Leggett’s lack of action means the bill automatically became law on Monday and will go into effect in December 2014. The bill would increase the pay for council members by about $32,000 over the next four years, from the current salary of $104,291 a year to $136,258 on Dec. 4, 2017. It would also provide an increase of about $10,000 for the next county executive, to a salary of $190,000 a year from $180,250, and ties the salaries of the sheriff and state’s attorney to a consumer price index. The bill won’t apply to the current council or executive, who are legally prohibited from giving themselves raises while in office. The fact that the bill passed the council by an 8-1 vote factored into Leggett’s decision not to veto the measure, county spokesman Patrick Lacefield said Thursday. Councilman Philip M. Andrews (D-Dist. 3) of Gaithersburg voted no. Six votes are needed for the council to negate an executive veto. “It’s pretty clear any veto would be overridden,” Lacefield said Thursday. The Washington Post reported on Oct. 29 that Leggett might not sign the bill. That came as news to several council members. Council President Nancy Navarro (D-Dist. 4) of Silver Spring said Thursday that Leggett never conveyed any hesitations about the bill during the legislative process that led up to the council’s vote on Oct. 22. “It’s unfortunate that this is being raised all over again,” Navarro said Thursday. Council Vice President Craig Rice (D-Dist. 2) of Germantown said he and Leggett discussed the issue on Oct. 30, but that was the first he’d heard of the executive’s misgivings. “I wish that we had known about it ahead of time,” Rice said. Councilman Marc Elrich (DAt Large) of Takoma Park said Thursday he speaks to Leggett regularly, and Leggett never told him about any concerns about
the bill. “People do things I don’t understand sometimes,” Elrich said. In July, Leggett told members of the committee in charge of making a recommendation to the council that he believed a cost of living adjustment would be enough, Lacefield said Thursday. “We hear the recession is over, but things are still tough for a lot of people,” he said. Leggett had assumed the committee would pass on his reservations, Lacefield said. Leggett should have shared his concerns with the council in a more timely manner, said Councilman Roger Berliner (DDist. 1) of Bethesda. There was a time and place for the executive to weigh in on the compensation issue, and it shouldn’t have been after the fact, Berliner said. rmarshall@gazette.net
Obituary Eddie Michael Demory, 46, of Germantown, passed away on October 28, 2013. Born November 24, 1966, on Thanksgiving Day, in Gaithersburg, MD. He had a career in food service in the Gaithersburg area for over twenty-five years with his last job being with Casey Management. He also took great pleasure in the company of friends. He enjoyed the great outdoors, specifically hiking, kayaking and photography. He leaves behind his parents Barbara Moore Dougherty, Germantown, and Larry Demory, Ranson, WV; his brother Aaron & wife Holly and two nieces, Amber & Paige of Boonsboro; his sister Nancy Bolhoff & husband Robert and two nephews, Michael & Nathan of Frederick; a daughter, Madison Boyle of Germantown; his cousins and many friends. A graveside service was held at Bestgate Memorial Park in Annapolis, MD where a green burial took place. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Chesapeake Climate Action Network, P.O. Box 1138 Takoma Park, MD 20913 or Greenpeace, greenpeace.org
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County Executive Isiah Leggett thinks scaling back the county’s bag tax would be “premature,” as the policy needs more time before its effectiveness in limiting litter in waterways can be evaluated, a staff member told members of a Montgomery County Council committee Monday. Leggett (D) believes the law that requires retailers to charge a 5-cent fee for each plastic bag is proving effective in limiting the number of bags used by customers, Assistant Chief Administrative Officer Kathleen Boucher told the council’s Transportation, Infrastructure, Energy and Environment Committee. The law should be given
at least two years to allow for data to be collected before any changes are considered, according to Leggett. In January 2012, the county began charging a nickel tax on most carryout bags, with a few exemptions such as paper “doggy bags” at restaurants. The new bill would exempt plastic “doggy bags” as well as paper ones. The new bill now being considered would apply the tax only to businesses that make more than 2 percent of their sales from food. That would exempt retailers such as many department stores. The county collected about $2.2 million from the tax in its first 12 months, double what was expected. The money pays for stormwater management projects through the Water Quality Protection Fund. Evidence shows that the tax is keeping more bags out of streams, but the ones that are found aren’t all grocery bags,
county spokesman Patrick Lacefield said Monday. Robert G. Hoyt, director of the county’s Department of Environmental Protection, said stations used by the county are collecting data. But he said there is strong anecdotal evidence that fewer bags are showing up in streams. Making changes now could undermine the environmental improvements the county has already seen, Lacefield said. The committee voted 2-1 to send the bill for consideration by the full council, with an amendment that would categorize alcohol sales as food for the purposes of determining the 2 percent threshold. Councilman Roger Berliner (D-Dist. 1) of Bethesda, who sponsored the bill, and Councilwoman Nancy M. Floreen (D-At large) of Garrett Park, a co-sponsor, voted to send the bill on. Councilman Hans Riemer (D-At large) of Takoma Park op-
posed it, saying he believed the bill should look at other ways to tighten the number of exemptions. Berliner said he supported the original bag tax proposal, but has since come to question its breadth and believes the county “overreached” when it passed the law. He said he thinks a tax can change people’s behavior to the extent of bringing reusable bags to the grocery store, but he doesn’t think it’s reasonable to expect people to bring them to department stores or other retailers. Limiting the tax to stores that sell food would still go a long way toward cutting down
on litter, Berliner said. “They are not Macy’s bags that we find in our streams, for the most part,” he said. Riemer said he thinks most people are OK with paying a fee that will reduce litter and help clean up streams, and he’s afraid any changes will “blow the policy open” and damage the county’s efforts. Floreen said she thinks customers’ reactions aren’t as negative as they were when the tax took effect, and people have gotten used to paying it. Berliner argued that even with the exemptions, the largest issuers of bags — such as Giant Food, Safeway, Target, Whole
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Obituary Mr. Lloyd Winfield Geiser, 84, of Ocala, FL and formerly of New Market, MD, passed from this life to be with Jesus his Savior, surrounded by his loving family and his beloved dog “Peaches”, on Oct. 29, 2013. He was the husband of Carol Newbury Geiser, his wife of 58 years. Born June 4, 1929 in Washington, DC, he was the son of the late George A. and Edna May Geiser, and graduated from McKinley High School. Mr. Geiser received his Bachelor’s degree Commercial Science from Benjamin Franklin University and served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army in Korea during the Korean War. He worked for 40 years as an account manager with Steuart Motor Company and Steuart Investment Company. He enjoyed singing in the Church choir, tropical fish, and bowling. Lloyd and Carol were charter members of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Gaithersburg, and longtime members of Redeemer Lutheran Church in Damascus. In addition to his loving wife, Carol, Lloyd is survived by his son, Gregory Geiser, daughters Susan Geiser, Gail Peron & husband Wayne; grandson Ted Gladden & wife Heather; granddaughters, Jeannette Gladden, Sara Peron, and Taylor Peron; five great-grandchildren, Kara Gladden, Daphne Gladden, Katelynn Lewis, Casey Lewis, and Ava Bond; and numerous cousins from the Swab and Newbury families. The family will receive friends from 6 – 8 PM on Thursday, Nov. 7th at the Chapel Mausoleum of Resthaven Memorial Gardens, 9501 U.S. Route 15 N in Frederick; where a funeral service will begin at 1:00 PM on Friday, Nov. 8th. Interment with military honors will follow in Resthaven Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Hospice of West Team Marion County, 3231 SW 34th Ave., Ocala, FL 34474 (www.hospiceofmarion.com) . Arrangements in Frederick are with Resthaven Funeral Services, Skkot Cody P.A. 1913015
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Montgomery County Police are looking to expand a program that places its officers in schools, but some County Council members have concerns about the program’s cost and the necessity of its growth. County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger said during a Oct. 24 joint meeting of the County Council’s Education and Public Safety committees that
he aims to continue building up the county’s school resource officer program to its status before budget cuts in recent years. “My intention is to get the program back to where it was,” Manger said. “We’re well on our way doing that.” But County Councilman Marc Elrich said he is not sure the officer program is the best place to put the county’s limited resources. “I continue to have some heartburn over this program,” said Elrich (D-At large) of Takoma Park. “This is an extraordinary amount of money we’re talking about.” Bruce R. Meier of the county’s
office of management and budget said in March that the recent addition of six officers to the program cost about $952,900. County Councilwoman Valerie Ervin said the county has recently cut youth programs “substantially,” while directing more money to the officer program. “I don’t think this is a panacea,” Ervin said of the officer program. “I don’t think everything is going to come to the attention of the [officer].” The county could help kids through the youth programs that keep them “safe and engaged” and help address problems “where they start,” Elrich said.
Ervin (D-Dist. 5) of Silver Spring also said she hasn’t seen many incidents reported at schools that would necessitate more officers. “Until we see data that backs up the need for [officers], I’m going to continue to be a pit bull on this thing,” she said. In the 2009-10 school year, the program included 33 budgeted resource officer positions, according to the program’s coordinator, Sgt. Suzanne Harrell. The program, however, was slashed in July 2010 to nine officers and later to six officers. It grew slightly when the council approved six new officer positions for fiscal 2014, re-
sulting in the current total of 12 officer positions in the county police department. Another eight officers participate who are not in budgeted positions, including five assisting police officers, a Gaithersburg city police officer, a Rockville city police officer and a deputy sheriff. “We have 25 high schools right now and only 20 [officers], so really, to reach that effectiveness, you want that one-onone,” Harrell said. “We’re not quite there yet.” Some council members did express support for the program’s current work and for increasing the officers’ presence in
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middle schools. County Council Vice President Craig L. Rice (D-Dist. 2) of Germantown said he thinks the officers help stave off violent incidents and are doing work that is difficult to quantify. Their work also often won’t be heard about, he said. “That’s the beauty of it,” Rice said. Councilman Roger Berliner (D-Dist. 1) of Bethesda said he was concerned that schools underreport incidents, but that he appreciated Ervin’s frustration. Berliner asked county school board member Michael Durso to take back to the board the idea of splitting the cost evenly with the county. Durso, a former principal, said he has seen firsthand the positive impact of the officers who were able to develop relationships with students. “I really can’t say enough of the importance of the growth of the [officer] program,” Durso said. Susan Burkinshaw — health and safety committee cochairwoman of the Montgomery County Council of Parent Teacher Associations — said she sees the council “between a rock and a hard place” when it comes to deciding how to use limited funds for the officer program and youth programs. However, she said, she thinks school safety has to come first and that students are safer when the officers are present. “I believe that when there’s an officer in the building, incidents are diffused,” she said. The parent teacher associations council ultimately wants to see an officer in each high school and middle school, Burkinshaw said, but recognizes the county’s financial restraints. Doug Steel, supervisor of school safety and security for the school system, said after the meeting that he agreed that the county’s youth programs are important places to commit resources. “The safety and security of kids is also critically important,” he said. “For the parents, this is the most precious commodity.”
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Montgomery County and its state representatives will mount a “very hard and vigorous fight” for money to increase school capacity for an influx of students, said County Executive Isiah Leggett. From 2000 to 2012, Montgomery public school enrollment grew by 14,599 students — more than Anne Arundel, Howard, Frederick and Balti-
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let the county issue about $750 million in bonds to fund 56 construction projects at severely affected schools over the next five years, according to a county release. “We’re bursting at the seams,” said Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendant Joshua Starr. He said schools hold classes on auditorium stages and work with students in hallways. The county also uses 379 portable classrooms. The county’s public schools are part of the attraction for many new residents, said County Council President Nancy Navarro (D-Dist. 4) of Sil-
ver Spring. But the schools can’t sustain their performance without additional resources, she said. Montgomery has been “a victim of our own success” in pursuing policies that supported growth and development the past several decades, said Sen. Richard S. Madaleno Jr. (D-Dist. 18) of Kensington. If there’s no additional money for school expansions this year, it will impede growth in Montgomery and beyond, he said. “Slowing Montgomery slows the growth of Maryland,” Madaleno said. Solving the capacity crisis will be the county’s top priority
in Annapolis for the next General Assembly session, which begins in January. Del. Sheila Hixson (D-Dist. 20) of Silver Spring, who chairs the House Ways and Means Committee, said getting the increase might not be easy, but she believes that, ultimately, many large jurisdictions in the state will support it. Madaleno, who serves on the Senate’s Budget and Taxation Committee and chairs the Education, Business and Administration Subcommittee, said it’s always a challenge to get something new and innovative approved. While the Baltimore bill
might be a template, he thinks everyone is “keeping an open mind” on how the issue can be addressed. Everyone needs to stay focused on what the challenges to the school system could mean for the county, and the larger repercussions for the state if Montgomery’s economy starts to decline, he said. But getting approval might be a heavy lift, even for one of the most powerful county delegations in the state. “This will be a challenge, there’s no question,” Madaleno said. rmarshall@gazette.net
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As food stamp recipients adjust to recent cuts in their benefits, they face losing even more. A bill before Congress, known as the farm bill, threatens to cut as much as $39 billion more from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, over the next 10 years. On Friday, recipients lost about 5 percent of their benefits when temporary funding for food stamps from the 2009 stimulus expired. “It’s like a perfect storm,” Montgomery County Councilwoman Valerie Ervin said of the potentially double cuts. About 70,000 Montgomery County residents rely on the benefits from the $79 billion annual federal program to feed themselves and their families. More cuts could mean even less money for food each month and that has local leaders like Ervin concerned. “We are very concerned about this because, on average these SNAP benefits, which aren’t very big anyway, really supplement what you already have to buy food,” she said. The maximum benefit an individual can receive per month is $189. For a household of two people, the maximum benefit is $347, and for a family of eight it is $1,137, according to Brian Schleter, spokesman for the state’s Department of Human Resources. Ervin (D-Dist. 5) of Silver Spring was active in establishing the county’s new Food Recovery Network, a program that works to provide the excess food from restaurants and grocery stores to local organization and families who need it.
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But significant cuts in SNAP benefits could force the county to have to consider providing emergency food to SNAP participants, she said. Exactly how much, if any, the federal farm bill will trim from the program remains to be seen. Congressional lawmakers began negotiations on the measure last week. Versions passed by both the House and the Senate cut the nutrition program, but the two chambers differ vastly on the depth of those cuts. The farm bill passed by House Republicans would cut $39 billion over 10 years, while the bill passed by the Democratically controlled Senate would cut one-tenth that amount, according to a report from the Congressional Budget Office. Rep. Christopher Van Hollen Jr. (D-Dist. 8) of Kensington, the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee, is among House Democrats hoping to protect the safety net from Republicans who have targeted the program as part of spending reductions. “With the expiration of the extra SNAP benefits provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, I urge my colleagues negotiating on the farm bill to protect the program from additional deep cuts in any conference agreement,” Van Hollen said in a statement provided to The Gazette. “This vital food assistance program provides a safety-net for millions of Americans working hard at low wage jobs, children, seniors, and veterans, including over 780,000 Marylanders.” Among the cuts in both bills are changes to how a household’s LowIncome Home Energy Assistance Program benefits would affect its SNAP benefit calculation by setting a threshold, and changes that would end broad-based eligibility. Van Hollen said the House bill
The principal said he was disappointed with the decision not to move forward with the addition, but that he understood the financial restraints the district is facing and realized it was better to wait. “It wouldn’t probably be financially sound to do an addition and then the full-scale renovation,” he said. “Now it looks like it’s just going to be a full-scale renovation.” PTA President Sam Owens said the school community was not pleased to hear about the elimination of the addition and the delay of the renovation. “We are not happy about it,” he said. “Portables are manageable, but they are not the best things a school should have.” Aside from crowding, Jones said the school is facing a laundry list of other problems. When the HVAC system converted from cool air to heat a few weeks ago, pipes burst in two locations inside the school. Several small sites with mold have also been detected and remedied, he said. Dana Tofig, spokesman for Montgomery County Pub-
would also eliminate benefits for 4 million Americans. “It’s time to work together on a responsible, long-term farm bill that supports families and farmers, and promotes conservation in areas like the Chesapeake Bay,” he said. While the farm bill looks to cut the nutrition programs, the House version would significantly increase funding for the Emergency Food Assistance Program, a federal program that supplements the diets of low-income needy persons, including elderly people, by providing them with emergency food and nutrition assistance. The funds pay to purchase and ship food to the states, which is then distributed to individuals through local organizations, like Manna Food Center in Gaithersburg. Over 10 years, the House bill would inject $333 million into the program, but the Senate bill would only provide $54 million more, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Jenna Umbriac, nutritional educator for Manna, said her organization is able to buy most of its frozen meats because of money it receives through the Emergency Food Assistance Program. However, both bills would limit eligibility for the Commodity Supplement Food Program to just the elderly, who made up 97 percent of those served in fiscal 2011. Currently the program, which provides food and administrative funds to states, also provides food to lowincome pregnant and postpartum women, infants and children. With declining federal aid, Ervin said the obligation to feed those in need is falling onto on the shoulders of local government and the community. She expects local organizations will see more people turning to them for food.
lic Schools, said the decision to make certain projects a priority over others in the plan was not easy. “Our growing enrollment and crowding across the district required Dr. Starr to put an emphasis on projects that will build capacity quickly,” he said in an email to The Gazette. Other Gaithersburg area schools, including Brown Station and Dufief elementary schools, are likely to see renovation delays, too. Both schools will see a one-year delay, with construction now set to be completed in August 2017 and August 2020, respectively. There is still a possibility, according to Tofig, that money could become available for the county’s school projects like the one at Summit Hall. “Dr. Starr is hoping that county and state leaders can work together to find additional revenue to meet the district’s facility needs,” he said. “If that occurs, we may be able to put some of our [revitalization and expansion] projects back on schedule.” jedavis@gazette.net
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Continued from Page A-1 dents will cut out of their diet. “It just means a bigger pot of rice and beans on the stove, or something else that lasts longer,” Umbriac said. Individuals and families tend to show up at Manna for food assistance toward the end of the month as their SNAP funding and other resources begin to run dry. About 70,500 people are participating in the SNAP program in Montgomery County as of September, Schleter said. In 2007, that number was less than 25,000. SNAP participants must meet income and deduction requirements to be eligible for the program. Across the state, 795,795 Maryland residents have enrolled in the food stamp program as of September, said Kate Sam, Maryland Food Bank spokeswoman. “This is going to be devastating for people on SNAP,” Umbriac said. For Silver Spring resident Byron Kelly, losing $11 in monthly food stamp benefits is more than a couple of meals. “It’s probably three days worth of food,” he said. Kelly, who cares for his mother at home, lost his job in February. His mother held a part-time job but suffered a stroke over the summer, leaving both of them unable to work. The only source of income for their household of two comes from his mother’s Social Security payments, Kelly said. “As soon as I get the [food stamp] benefits, I have to run to the store because we’ve usually used up what we have,” he said. Kelly visits Manna Food once a month to supplement what they can get with food stamps, but he said he’s not sure how long their smaller food stamp benefit will last. Households of one or two people who receive the minimum SNAP benefit, which was $16 before Nov. 1, will now receive $15. Households may receive varying amounts of federal assistance based on their income and other
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factors. Damascus resident Lynne Bowser supported herself and her husband with the $16 SNAP benefits for three years, but recently decided not to continue with the program. “For the time, effort and gasoline, my $16 a month wasn’t worth it anymore,” she said. At $4 a week for a household of two, she still had to supplement her food with donations from Manna. C. Marie Henderson, director of The Community Foundation for Montgomery County, said she and her staff took the “SNAP Challenge” last year when she headed Interfaith Works, a coalition of congregations that works to meet the needs of the county’s poor and homeless. For five weekdays, she and her staff members limited their food budget to a $25 allowance, similar to what an individual in the SNAP program would allocate for one week. Henderson’s diet mostly consisted of beans, chicken, grits and frozen vegetables. “I was hungry all week,” she said. “The staff was hungry.” Local soup kitchens, help organizations and food banks may initially be able to help SNAP participants make up the difference, Henderson noted, but the organizations themselves are already strained. “They’re tapped, almost to the max, right now,” Henderson said. For now, local organizations are doing their part by educating SNAP participants and potential donors about the cuts to the program. The Maryland Food Bank, which serves the state of Maryland except Montgomery and Prince George’s counties, directs SNAP outreach workers to needy communities. If the cuts to SNAP benefits are permanent, Sam said, she’s concerned that more people will rely on food banks, creating an influx of new clients. “Neither source,” meaning SNAP benefits or food pantries, “is designed to meet all their needs,” she said.
home from work. With 11 voting booths at the site for the uncontested seats, there has been no wait line. “You’re guaranteed to be in and out of here in five minutes,” he said. During each Gaithersburg election, city staff expect between nine and 14 percent of the 32,148 registered voters in Gaithersburg to cast a ballot, according to board. In 2011, 2,895 residents cast their votes, comprising 9.3 percent of all 31,137 registered voters for that election. Gaithersburg city municipal elections do not currently have a write-in option for candidates.
However, Councilwoman Cathy Drzyzgula said she is in favor of allowing write-in candidates and she has suggested adding the option at times when the City Council has reviewed election law. “I always think that people should have the choice to specify any candidate they want,” she said. Kentlands resident Fred Thoms said he came out to vote simply to perform his civic duty. “I can’t complain if I don’t vote,” he said jokingly. “But really, it’s just what you’re supposed to do.”
“Obviously, it’s a worthy goal,” Lacefield said. Ellen Valentino, state director of the National Federation of Independent Businesses, hadn’t seen the bill, but said it likely would eliminate the ability of small businesses to compete for county contracts. That would create a more exclusive environment for bigger businesses, and less competition usually means higher contract costs, Valentino said. “When you inhibit competi-
tion like that, generally, it drives up costs,” she said. Montgomery has been aggressive in trying to create a competitive environment for small businesses to get county contracts, but maintaining that competitiveness is a fine line, she said. “It’s easy to lose businesses overnight,” she said. Navarro said she didn’t think the bill would hurt small businesses, since they would build the costs of health insurance into their bids.
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Maryland’s top company on the Inc. jobs list was Bethesda-based Digital Management Inc., a provider of mobile enterprise and big data solutions and services that created 1,009 jobs in the 18-month period. About 200 of those jobs were formed in Maryland, with many in Montgomery County, said Jay Fiore, vice president of marketing at DMI. DMI, which also has made Inc.’s list of the fastest-growing businesses for revenue the past six years, now has more than 1,500 employees companywide, with about 200 at the 44,000-square-foot Bethesda headquarters. The company, founded by CEO Jay Sunny Bajaj in 2002, has offices in Washington, D.C., Reston, Va., Linthicum and other cities. Fiore attributed the big workforce jump to demand for the use of mobile devices in the workplace. The rise has occurred among both government and private commercial clients such as Ford, Honda and The Gap, he said. Chevy Chase-based WeddingWire, an online wedding planning resource serving both couples and wedding professionals, was rated second in Maryland on the Inc. list. Of the 143 jobs created in the 18-month period, 141 of those were at the Chevy Chase headquarters, said Kamari Guthrie, a company spokeswoman.
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Inc. magazine recently released its second annual list of leading privately held job creators, in which six of the top 10 in Maryland reside in Montgomery County and one in Frederick County. But before anyone starts trumpeting Montgomery as the epicenter of job creation in Maryland, like most surveys, there are a few qualifications. The list is based on the companies that submitted verification and an application to Inc. swearing to how many jobs they have added in the 18-month period from Jan. 1, 2012, to June 30, 2013. It’s also limited to privately held companies. So a public company like Wal-Mart or a private company that did not apply to Inc. could have created more jobs in the 18 months. So is there a way to figure out which companies are definitely creating the most jobs? County and state economic development officials say tracking that would be too wieldy given the fact that researchers would have to know how many jobs every single company or employer created. “The data we get on job creation are not available by individual establishment,” said Karen Glenn Hood, a spokeswoman with the Maryland Department of Business and
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Jay Sunny Bajaj is founder and CEO of the Bethesda digital management consulting firm DMI. Economic Development. DBED does publish a list of the largest employers researchers know of by the number of jobs they have in Maryland, updating the figures late each year through personal surveys. From late 2011 to late 2012, Fort Meade in central Maryland was the top jobs creator in the state among large employers at about 12,000, while the U.S. Food and Drug Administration added almost 3,000 jobs in that period. The state agency also compiles a report each month on new and expanding businesses that lists ones that have added jobs recently, as well as looks at federal labor reports. The Montgomery County Department of Economic Development lists on its website “leading employers” without getting into how many jobs they have in the county, taken from the latest federal labor reports.
The Frederick County Business Development and Retention Division lists major employers with job figures in a survey similar to that of the state. The latest state Labor Department job report that breaks down county employment shows Montgomery growing jobs by 0.5 percent between the first quarter of 2013 and first quarter of 2012. Frederick County has a job growth rate of 3.0 percent in the same period. The Montgomery DED also uses jobs data from private firm Economic Modeling Specialists International that show job creation to be a little more robust in the county, putting the county growth rate in the past year at 1.6 percent. “More counties are starting to use the EMSI data to supplement the [Department of Labor] data,” said Steven A. Silverman, director of Montgomery DED.
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Olney has The Look What woman isn’t looking for new clothes? The Look Boutique, owned and operated by Donna Johnson, is a new store in the Fair Hill shopping center in Olney selling moderate to upscale clothing and accessories for women. The 1,600-square-foot shop at 18119 Town Center Drive is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays. The venture is a new career for Johnson, who had a 25-year career in Montgomery and Howard counties’ public schools, where she taught at the elementary, middle and high school levels. “Our goal is to deliver a distinctive shopping experience for the professional woman seeking individual style, exceptional quality, value, convenience, and unparalleled customer service. We will provide a total fashion look for our customers,” Johnson said in a news release.
Give me a sign What’s your sign? Whatever it is, chances are Greg Utterback can make it. Utterback just opened a Signarama store at 19532 Amaranth Drive, Germantown. This is the second Signarama store for Utterback, who has been a franchisee since 1994. His
other location is at 4200 Wisconsin Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. “I hope to maximize the potential of this new service area while maintaining my existing client base in Washington, D.C.,” Utterback said in a news release. Signarama provides sign and graphic services to the business community. The Germantown location’s hours are 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information, call Utterback at 202-244-9171.
Smashburger opens Germantown’s got a new burger joint. Smashburger opened at The Shops at Seneca Meadows in Germantown on Oct. 23. It’s the first location for this national chain to hit the Maryland market, following Dupont Circle last month and Fairfax, Va. last fall, according to a company press release. Smashburger Seneca Meadows has 64 seats inside the restaurant with an additional 16 on its outdoor patio. The name comes from the way the burgers are made, fresh Angus Beef smashed on a 400 degree flat grill to sear in the flavor, according to the release. Smashburger’s hours of operation are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. To learn more, visit www. smashburger.com.
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Mygenet Tesfaye Harris n Age: 39 n Job title: Art teacher, Visual Art Center, Albert Einstein High School, Kensington. n Hometown: Rockville.
Mygenet Harris is a teacher in the county’s Visual Art Center at Albert Einstein High School, Kensington. She was interviewed Friday at the school. Her colleague, Jane Walsh, who also teaches in the center, participated in the conversation. Tell me about the Visual Art Center.
It is a magnet art program. Students must submit a portfolio of their work to be considered for admission. I’m actually an alumni [sic] of the V.A.C. Tell me about that.
n Education Data: I did a dual program for five years with a bachelor’s of fine art in fibers/fine arts and a master’s in Art Education all from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. n Family: My parents were both educators for county schools. I was adopted at the age of 11 by my parents, Sandi and Ed Harris. I was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I have two beautiful blessings: my girls, Grace, 7, and Bethelehem, 10. n Hobby/Favorite vacation spot: I love reading a good book any time of the day… in addition [to] traveling, everything involving creativity is my hobby and way of life! My most peaceful vacation place was Kampen, Holland. My most spiritual vacation spot was Lalibela, Ethiopia. n Lesson to live by: Every day is a gift. Living in the moment is the only way to be.
I remember coming to the V.A.C. with my parents with a set of drawings and Mr. Barnes [Oroon E. Barnes] said I was accepted after reviewing my work. I was intimidated by him but really worked hard. He wanted only your best and there was not any room for nonsense. He really saw something in me and challenged me very hard. I kept going and going and he had me doing eight [8-foottall] paintings by the time I graduated. When I graduated high school in 1993 I was a Presidential Scholar in the Arts and received a medal from President [Bill] Clinton for my paintings and drawings. I got a full scholarship to Maryland Institute College of Art because of the V.A.C. My path was paved by Mr. Barnes. My parents were just teachers and could have never afforded to send me to a school like MICA. Now I am teaching in the same program that made me.
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Jane Walsh (left) and Mygenet Harris teach in the Visual Art Center at Albert Einstein High School in Kensington.
Did you always want to be an art teacher?
Even when I was little in Ethiopia I always played the role of a teacher with my friends. I was always told I was good with people and later with kids. The irony of it all is that when I graduated from V.A.C., Mr. Barnes gave me a copy of his curriculum and told me I might need it one day. I guess he knew it was in the cards for me. I chose MICA partly because they had a master’s of teaching program. I knew that it was my calling. My dad and mom, who have dedicated their life to teaching, always said to me that teaching is the most rewarding career of all. When I finished my master’s in teaching I had two opportunities to go to New York and work with European traveling artists as a sculptor with Socrates (Sculpture) Park. I also had an offer to work with a curator for Baltimore Museum of Art. I made a decision to teach first and knew that was my path. Deep inside I wished
for my destination to be the V.A.C. but knew that was a long hard path. Like a great dream I could not believe it when I received this position last year after 12 years with [county schools]. It was really like coming home and Mr. Barnes also knew somewhere inside of him that I would come back. I also know in the future I will begin the first artist residency between Ethiopia and U.S./ European artists in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. I am working on the plans and hope for it to happen in the next six years. How many students are in the program and how does it work? Walsh: There are 90 students,
from all four grade levels. About 85 percent are full time at Einstein, they can transfer [here] since they are in a magnet program. Fifteen percent come from five other schools. Harris: We are a small learning community. It’s not just the visual arts, we are teaching students to be problem solvers. Walsh: We’ve developed a fouryear curriculum that builds on [their] skills. We are a traditional drawing and painting program because we can’t predict the jobs of the future. Eighty percent of our students go to university art programs, only 20 percent go to art school because they are too expensive. Harris: A lot of our students are balanced, they are student scholars. We mentor them. It’s all about guiding them for the future. We are our own little career center.
Are most of your students planning on art as a career?
A lot will probably have art in their careers but the world is changing. I see that they will have at least three careers in their lifetimes.
Can you teach a person to be an artist?
The honest truth is the spark, the absolute talent, the energy can’t be taught. I could teach you to draw an object, there is a formula, but it would lack energy.
Can you tell me about the Rendering Project the students are working on?
Students at George Washington University who served in the military wrote essays about their experiences. We got 22 of the essays, called testimonials. The students read them and selected one to represent in a drawing. They are mostly pencil and charcoal. We guided them through the project but the work is theirs — that’s problem solving. They will be on display with the testimonials at GW and the students will meet the writers. That is from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at 2013 H St. N.W., Washington, D.C. “Voices in Education” is a twicemonthly feature that highlights the men and women who are involved with the education of Montgomery County’s children. To suggest someone you would like to see featured, email Peggy McEwan at pmcewan@ gazette.net.
EDUCATION NOTEBOOK A different kind of school photo When Peggy Salazar, principal of Oak View Elementary School in Silver Spring, was looking for a collaborative project the whole school could work on, she found the work of Daniel Dancer, a conceptual artist from Hood River, Ore. Dancer was at Oak View Oct. 29-30 to work with the students and staff to create a Peace Dragon photo, a picture that included all of the school’s 350 students and staff. Dancer’s canvas was the school playground and his medium was the staff and students, all dressed in black, who filled in the body of a dragon, the school’s mascot, that Dancer had outlined using black mulch and turf paint. The dragon embraced a peace symbol created by laying out 200 pairs of blue jeans collected by the students. With everyone in place, Dancer rode 80 feet into the air in the bucket of a Montgomery County fire truck and photographed the scene. For added effect, some students had red shirts under their black ones and, on cue, ran to the mouth of the dragon to simulate fire breathing. There was one other detail, Dancer said: The number 350 is one he tries to work into each of his aerial photos. “It’s the maximum parts of carbon we can have in the air and continue life as we know it,” Dancer said. “Its a big wakeup call to all the participants to change the way they view the world ... to see through the eyes of future generations.” During his three days at the school, Dancer met with all the students and staff, explaining his mission to get them to have a new perspective on life by looking up and thinking about the importance of combating
award presented by the county executive and The Gazette as part of the countywide King celebration Jan. 20 at the Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda. For more information, contact James Stowe, director of the Montgomery County Office of Human Rights, at 240-7778491 or email human-rights. commission@montgomerycountymd.gov.
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Staff and students at Oak View Elementary School in Silver Spring are part of a living work of art created by Daniel Dancer, an Oregon artist who spent three days at the school. Dancer took the photo from the platform of a Montgomery County Fire Department truck ladder high above the school’s playground air pollution. “He’s been a lot of fun to work with: watching the process and talking to him about what he does. There is a lot of math involved; he works it all out on a grid,” art teacher Sarah McCarron said. Carolyn Scalera, whose daughter Amelie is in fourth grade, was one of many parents who were at the school to see the final photos taken. “What is exciting about it is the art and the collaboration,” she said. “[It] is a metaphor for working together to save the planet.”
Martin Luther King contest underway Montgomery County’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Committee is seeking entries for its literary arts contest and visual arts show in observance of King’s life. The writing contest and visual arts show is open to all county elementary, middle and high schools students. Essay entries must be 150 words or
less, and must be in poetry or essay format. Entries will be judged on understanding and appreciation of King’s ideals; clarity and originality of expression; and adherence to the 2014 theme, “Honoring the Legacy: Celebrate, Serve, Remember.” Entries for the visual arts show may include prints, posters, collages, murals, photographs and all other twodimensional visual art forms. Entries also should portray the 2014 theme. There is no limit on the number of visual arts entries from each school. All visual arts submissions will be exhibited at the program, and at the Executive Office Building during Black History Month in February. The submission deadline is Dec. 6. Participating schools should submit a maximum of three essay entries per school to the MLK Essay Contest, c/o Montgomery County Office of Human Rights, 21 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850. The top three winners from all entries will be invited to read their essays and receive an
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Clarksburg students collect food for needy Students at Clarksburg Elementary School are hold-
ing a Thanksgiving food drive through Nov. 22. Nonperishable foods will be collected in each homeroom and community members are invited to send food with students or drop it off at the school, at 13530 Redgrave Place. Food will be donated to the Clarksburg Community Assistance Network, a free supplemental food pantry for residents of the 20871 ZIP code who need assistance. For more information, call 301-353-8060.
Einstein students to exhibit artwork Students from the Montgomery County Public Schools Visual Art Center at Albert Einstein High School in Kensington will have their work displayed this month at the Student Veterans Center at George Washington University. “The Rendering Project” takes stories of life in and out of the military uniform and puts a visual representation to them through the arts and minds of today’s youth. Visual Art Center students were given testimonials and asked to render the experiences with charcoal and pencil.
The project was a joint venture of the George Washington University Institute for Middle East Studies and Office of Military and Veteran Student Service in partnership with the Visual Arts Center. There will be an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at 2013 H St. N.W., Washington.
Careers seminar and college fair are Nov. 16 Xi Sigma Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and Omicron Lambda Alpha Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity are co-sponsoring the seventh annual Traditional and Non-Traditional Careers Seminar and College Fair from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Nov. 16 at Watkins Mill High School, 10301 Apple Ridge Road, Gaithersburg. All students in sixth through 12th grade are invited to attend this free seminar featuring panelists and exhibitors in more than 25 career fields to help students prepare for college. College admissions information also will be available. Reservations are due Nov. 15 by email to jacquelynallyce@ gmail.com or by calling 202550-9376 In addition, the joint planning committee is seeking professionals to serve as panelists or exhibitors, and colleges and universities to participate. For more information, call 240-7784043 or 301-526-4377 or email pearlsandivy9@yahoo.com or repitoire@gmail.com. Established in 2006 as part of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority’s Economic Security Initiative, the On Top of the Game Partnership Signature Program is a coalition of members of Xi Sigma Omega Chapter, Sisters in Success and the administration of Watkins Mill High School. It’s designed to help students recognize the value of
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a college education while providing them with financial, entrepreneurial, and economical life skills. The seminar and college fair are held in conjunction with Xi Sigma Omega’s Emerging Young Leaders, Economic Security and Social Justice and Human Rights Initiatives, plus Xi Sigma Omega’s JacksonBudd Signature Program. Xi Sigma Omega, established in 1983, contributes yearly to scholarships and implements a variety of programs focused on issues relating to youth leadership, health, social justice, global poverty, economics, social justice and human rights. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, founded in 1908 at Howard University, is the oldest Greek-letter organization established by black college-trained women.
Clarksburg High sells ornaments to support music Clarksburg High School’s instrumental music department, in cooperation with the Organization of Musical Parents and Helpers, is selling 2013 commemorative White House holiday ornaments to help support instrumental music at the school. The ornament honors peace represented by an image of the American elm tree planted just before Christmas by President Woodrow Wilson on the north lawn of the White House in 1913. The snowy scene comprises elm leaves, a wreath of olives branches and holly leaves. Two white doves of peace perch on the olive branches and hold the 2013 banner. The ornaments cost $25 and come in a gift box with a descriptive booklet. To order, contact instrumental music director Charles Orifici at Charles_A_Orifici@ mcpsmd.org.
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County high schools’ four-year graduation rate inched up in 2012 BY
LINDSAY A. POWERS STAFF WRITER
Montgomery County Public Schools’ four-year graduation rate rose slightly from the class of 2011 to the class of 2012, according to Maryland State Department of Education data released Oct. 30. About 87.4 percent of students in the class of 2012 graduated after four years of high school, which is 3.8 percentage points higher than the 2012 state graduation rate. The school system saw a
similar increase from the class of 2010 to the class of 2011. The school system’s fiveyear graduation rate increased 0.8 percentage points to 90.2 percent, while its dropout rate decreased slightly, from 7.4 percent to 6.8 percent. Four-year graduation rates rose to varying degrees across the school system’s major student groups. Black students’ rate rose about 1 percentage point, to 82.3 percent, and Hispanic students’ rate rose about 1.4 percentage points. With white students’ graduation rate staying about the same, the gaps between black students and white students and
between Hispanic students and white students closed slightly. Over the past two years, the gap between black and white students decreased by about 3.9 percentage points; the gap between Hispanic and white students decreased by about 2.1 percentage points. Superintendent Joshua P. Starr said in a school system news release that more black and Hispanic students are “graduating on time.” “While there are still significant gaps in performance, it is encouraging to see that those gaps have narrowed in the past couple of years,” Starr said in the release. “We must focus on meeting the individual needs
of our students if we are going to continue to see this type of progress in the years to come.” Among the other changes: The graduation rate of students who receive free and reducedprice meals rose about 1.4 percentage points, to 76.7 percent. Limited English proficient students’ rate rose about 3.9 percentage points, to 53.1 percent. Special education students’ rate stayed about the same. Of the school system’s 25 high schools, 12 schools’ graduation rates increased from the class of 2011 to the class of 2012 and 17 schools’ rates increased from the class of 2010 to the class of 2012. The top five graduation
“While there are still significant gaps in performance, it is encouraging to see that those gaps have narrowed in the past couple of years.” Joshua P. Starr, school superintendent rate increases from 2011 to 2012 were at Bethesda’s Walter Johnson, Rockville, Rockville’s Col. Zadok Magruder, German-
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Political football
Some boys in Olney are the big losers in a parentagainst-parent brouhaha over football. If you aren’t familiar with the story, the Mid-Maryland Youth Football and Cheer League divides teams in multiple divisions based on player ability. The lowerdivision team trounced its competitors and the upper division-team “wasn’t competitive at all,” according to a league board member. That led to the allegation that Olney was “stacking” better players in the lower division to beat the lesser players on other teams. BOYS BIG LOSERS Because of the allegaAS ADULTS tion, the league eliminated the Olney teams PUT WINNING from the postseason. AHEAD OF The Olney teams apSPORTSMANSHIP pealed the matter to the league’s board, where the decision was upheld after a 29-2 vote. Youths learn a lot playing team sports: sportsmanship, working toward a goal, personal responsibility, to name a few. What these boys have learned is that some parents have a warped view of what’s right and wrong. If you believe the charges, the Olney organizers did a disservice to the boys. By creating a team of ringers, the organizers allowed their desire for victory to overwhelm their sense of fair play. If you think the charges are trumped up, league officials relied on circumstantial evidence. As the playoffs proceed, the winning team will know it won only because one of the best teams in the league didn’t participate. We have far too many examples of youth sports ruined by overcompetitive adults. We all have tales of parents crossing the lines of good sense, shouting from the sidelines at coaches and officials. We all know kids who are missing out on childhood because they’re being pushed into athletics early, hoping they eventually score a college scholarship. Here, we have a youth football league in which either the local parents or the league officials are placing winning over the life lessons they owe these boys. Adults, somewhere, should be ashamed.
Hazardous isolation
When Timothy Leary implored, “Turn on, tune in, drop out” a generation ago, he wasn’t talking about iPods, smartphones and ear buds. But here we are, in a time of increasing technologically driven isolation, and the mantra fits. People walk around in their normal time and space, but with their minds and attention elsewhere. When we lost the umbilical cord of the rotary phone, we became free to socialize and carry on business talks wherever we went — and thus grew the phenomenon of Constant Connection. But we can’t blame FOR SAFE Apple or AT&T or Nokia TRAVEL, DON’T for creating a distracted BE A PRISONER culture. Walk-around enOF YOUR OWN tertainment was well estabDEVICES lished before that. The Sony Walkman was born in 1979. A tragic tale of fatal distraction — the death of Gwendolyn Ward’s 15-year-old daughter, Christina Morris-Ward — made us stop and think. On Oct. 31, 2012, Tina, as she was known, was on her way to Seneca Valley High School in Germantown, where she was a sophomore. She was doing what many people do. As Tina walked that dark morning, she was wearing headphones and looking down at her cellphone. She wore dark clothes as she crossed eight-lane Md. 118. A few blocks from the school, a car traveling legally under a green light struck her. Sad but determined, Gwendolyn Ward is doing her utmost to prevent similar heart-wrenching, avoidable deaths. She’s working with the Montgomery County Department of Transportation and Safe Kids Worldwide. She also spoke recently before local officials from Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia as the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments and the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board kicked off a Street Smart campaign. It’s a series of common-sense tips: for driving (be alert when passing stopped vehicles), for walking (look left, right, left before crossing) and for biking (ride with traffic, at least a car door away from parked vehicles). But for safety, so much hinges on awareness of and connection to the human and mechanical forces around us. Motor vehicles are large, powerful, potentially destructive forces. Whether you’re operating them or co-existing with them, please use the full extent of your senses while you get around. Know your surroundings, like a police officer would. Turn off, look around, tune in.
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We need to expand our road network In response to “Bus plan looks to future, not an auto-centric past” [letters, Oct. 16], the reader needs only to look at one thing in David Houck’s letter to understand where he stands — he is from Takoma Park. For years, any time I’ve raised traffic issues with anyone living inside the Beltway, I’ve heard the same tired refrain: “We don’t need more roads, we need more transit.” Guess what? If you live where I’ve lived for the last 15-plus years, and where most of the development has been for far longer than that — outside the Beltway — this is a nonstarter (full disclosure: I grew up in very closein Bethesda). While the rest of the state has invested in road improvements, we’ve really only seen the addition of the Intercounty Connector (40 years late). In the meantime, the Beltway drops to two through-lanes on the Inner Loop at Old Georgetown Road and Interstate 270 drops to two unrestricted through-lanes northbound at Md. 118 in Germantown. And, despite a major expansion of several miles of the road, I-270 has not seen any added unrestricted lanes on the spurs in at least 30 years! These places create major bottlenecks for auto traffic every day and must be addressed. Anyone who argues that we have constructed enough new roads or adequately expanded what we have in Maryland (specifically Montgomery County) is simply wrong. Our population and employment levels have exploded, but the road network has been effectively left behind or only half-baked. Even in my neighborhood, we built the first part of the Montrose Pkwy (on the books for many years), but the other half (into Wheaton) remains unfunded and unplanned.
As “auto-centric” road networks have failed to grow with development, and the vast majority of folks outside the Beltway are suffering because of this, addition to and expansion of the road network absolutely must be a primary objective of any transportation plan. Most cities have at least one good “beltway” (well planned and multi-lane, which does not describe the section in Montgomery County), and many have two (outer and inner). Most have more than one bridge crossing a major river between jurisdictions. Most have multiple highways that connect the city center with these beltways. There is nothing inbound in Maryland from Interstate 295/U.S. 50 to the George Washington Parkway in Virginia that serves this purpose and really only one way to get from Montgomery County to Northern Virginia via highway. We are woefully underserved from a road network perspective, and well behind the growth curve from any transportation perspective. I fully support the need for public transportation networks, as most of us do, but that will never serve a huge segment of the county’s population. I’d love it if I could walk to work, the grocery store and the gym. But I don’t live in downtown Bethesda/Silver Spring/Takoma. I live in Rockville, where I need to drive. There is no future in a transit-only approach, and no future that does not address all of this in the very near future. Folks who live in their urban cocoons, like Mr. Hauck, need to open their eyes to the rest of the county and state when they argue for transit as a priority.
as Ms. Bellis suggests, a dedicated bus lane.) There would be no need to build multiple buildings, i.e. Metro stations. There would be no need to use the massive amounts of electricity that the stations and the train would use. The bus lane could be adjusted easily for the intensity of traffic and parts of it could even include a dedicated bicycle portion. The bus lane could also be used for other, recreational purposes, such as foot races and bicycle races. We need to ask: Why are our representatives so interested in pursuing a seemingly unnecessary, but huge, expense?
I have really liked the handsome and personable Doug Gansler ever since he stopped by our house during his campaign for attorney general as my kids held a yard sale to sell some of their old toys. He was friendly to my children, and he bought a few books for his own family. Every time he made the news, I would point out to my kids: Remember him? That is Doug Gansler, that nice guy who came to your yard sale. I was sorry to read about his recent faux pas concerning underage drinking. The incident has helped me determine how to choose a Democrat to support in the primary, but not for the reasons you might think. I honestly don’t care that Gansler allowed his son to drink beer at age 18. (After all, my generation did it. Drinking was legal for 18-year-olds in those days, and we felt more like adults than today’s 18-year-olds.) Sure, it was hypocritical and irresponsible of Gansler to look the other way, but we all live with our own hypocrisies. What the incident underlines to me, though, is this: He and other parents rented a house at Bethany Beach for their children — who were graduating from an expensive private school — to enjoy Beach Week! How can this guy possibly understand middle-class Marylanders? My kids both went to Beach Week when they graduated from Rockville High School. And each of them had saved money from their part-time jobs to pay for it. Mr. Gansler’s son had a house handed to him! What must it be like to grow up with that sense of entitlement? I am glad that Mr. Gansler is a Democrat, and I am sure that he has done a lot for those of us who live more modest lives. But can he really understand us? That is my question. And that is the lens through which I will now examine the candidacy of Anthony Brown.
John J. O’Neill Jr., Rockville
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A bus lane makes more sense Jennifer Bellis pointed out that the Purple Line should be proposed as a bus lane [“Make the Purple Line a bus lane,” letter, Oct. 16]. I am in total agreement with her views for the following reasons: 1. The toll highway, Interounty Connector/Md. 200, was built as a highway designed to handle traffic between Prince George’s County and Montgomery County, as is the intent of the Purple Line. That highway, by my observation, is barely used and must be losing quite a bit of money. Its tolls are expensive and that is one factor of its non-use. This would be the same for the expense of using a subway connecting those two counties.
Supposedly it is designed for use by lower-income persons for access to jobs, but they could not afford to use it. 2. A portion of the Purple Line would eradicate or constrict the Capital Crescent Trail. That is one of the most used, if not the most used, parks in the state of Maryland in terms of daily numbers. In these days of constant promotion for a “green” ecology, the Purple Line seems to be an extreme oxymoron. 3. If such a transportation route between the counties is actually needed, a bus lane using cross-country streets already built, such as East-West Highway, would cost a fraction of the Purple Line. (Even with,
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For gubernatorial candiate Doug Gansler, name recognition is no longer a problem. Last week his name and photo got widespread national attention including NBC’s “Today Show,” ABC’s “World News With Diane Sawyer,” MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” CNN, FOX, Jay Leno’s “Tonight Show,” every Maryland and D.C. television news broadcast, every Maryland and D.C. newspaper, multiple editorials and op-ed columns, endless radio talk shows and all the political blogs. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the widespread photo is of Gansler standing in the middle of a teenage beach party that looks like a Roman orgy. What followed was MY MARYLAND a public freeBLAIR LEE for-all over Gansler’s duty to stop the underage drinking made worse by Gansler’s lame attempt to talk his way out of it. “Beachpartygate” followed on the heels of “Ticketgate” (Gansler’s failure to pay a D.C. speed camera ticket) which followed on the heels of “Troopergate” (allegations that Gansler pressured his state trooper drivers to bypass traffic jams by going off-road with emergency lights), which followed on the heels of “Videogate” (a spy secretly recorded Gansler telling campaign supporters that his opponent, Anthony Brown, was counting on his race to get elected). The media is having a field day with Gansler’s misdeeds but you don’t need to be a Doug Gansler fan to wonder if there isn’t something just a little bit fishy about all this. First, there’s the timing. The “Troopergate” allegations date back to December 2011 but only become “newsworthy” on Oct. 13, this year. Why the 23-month delay? And how come it appeared on The Washington Post’s front page the day before Gansler’s big news conference announcing his running mate? Clearly “Troopergate” was held back and rolled out to overshadow and ruin
Gansler’s campaign event. Likewise, “Ticketgate” stems from a June 12, 2012, traffic ticket that didn’t get media attention until Oct. 23 of this year. Why the 16-month delay? Even “Beachpartygate” dates back to June, a fourmonth pause until the infamous Instagram made its way onto the front pages. My grandfather once told me that “politicians shouldn’t do anything they don’t want to read about in tomorrow’s newspapers.” He was right about the conduct part, but he was wrong about the “tomorrow’s newspaper” part. What he should have said was “politicians shouldn’t do anything they don’t want their political enemies saving up and feeding to the media during the next election.” Look, the news reporters aren’t digging up those damaging Gansler revelations. They’re being fed to the reporters by people who don’t want Gansler elected. You have to be criminally naive to believe otherwise. Second, there’s the overkill. As a result of “Beachpartygate,” The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza gave Gansler his “Worst Week in Washington” award. Wow, even worse than the Obamacare roll-out or NSA’s latest spy scandals? Chancellor Angela Merkel might disagree. A Frederick News-Post editorial demanded that Gansler quit the governor’s race and The Baltimore Sun ran a front page, over-the-top story comparing Gansler to criminally convicted Marvin Mandel, Marion Barry and Dale Anderson. Then there were the letters-tothe-editor blaming Gansler for everything short of the Kennedy assassination (“it was a Landon School student who murdered [Yeardley Love] and allegedly spent many days in a drunken state”). Welcome to the Doug Gansler beat down, anyone can play. I don’t blame the media for running with the juicy “tips” being dropped on them. But I blame them for not asking, who is dropping these dimes? Why? And are we complicit in a “dirty tricks” effort at voter manipulation? Ironically, Gansler, a Democrat, is getting the politics of personal destruction usually reserved for Republicans and the tea party. Re-
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member how the media dredged up Mitt Romney’s high school haircut hazing caper? Or George Bush’s ancient DUI? Or Virginia candidate Bob McDonnell’s 35-year-old college thesis? Or the great fun the media had speculating whether Sarah Palin’s grandchild was really her own child? It’s always open season on Republicans, and no blow is too low. Teenage drinking? That tragedy struck the O’Malley household, but I don’t recall any front-page stories or media smear campaigns. Likewise, Anthony Brown has had some personal problems that the media properly chose to ignore. Poor Doug Gansler isn’t used to brass knuckles politics because he’s a product of Montgomery County’s pillow-fight politics, where a “dirty trick” is putting-up your lawn signs a week early or starting a whisper campaign that your opponent is a global warming denier. Over the years, no one has been more critical of Doug Gansler than me. When he was state’s attorney, I went after him for grandstanding and improper conduct. I even wrote that he was a “hot dog” (that’s when he stopped talking to me). And I’ve criticized his attorney general’s opinions on free speech and gay marriage because I thought he was demagoguing. But just because I was born at night doesn’t mean I was born last night. I know a political smear campaign when I see one. In politics, “when you’re explaining, you’re losing,” and Gansler’s enemies want this election to become a referendum on Gansler’s conduct instead of a referendum on the real issues facing Maryland. That’s a huge diservice which the media should resist even if the beat down sells newspapers. Meanwhile, Gansler’s enemies have accomplished the impossible: they’ve actually made me feel sorry for Doug Gansler.
Blair Lee is chairman of the board of Lee Development Group in Silver Spring and a regular commentator for WBAL radio. His column appears Fridays in the Business Gazette. His past columns are available at www.gazette. net/blairlee. His email address is blairleeiv@gmail.com.
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Takoma Park officials ignored opponents to teen voting
Expanded democracy? Or hypocrisy? The Gazette story about teen voting in Takoma Park [“Takoma teens excited to vote,” Oct. 23] ignores that this change was very controversial. In the few weeks following the council action, 523 registered voters, more than 90 percent of those presented with the petition, requested that this proposal be put on the ballot for all the voters to decide. These voters believed that such a big
change should be discussed and decided by the whole community, not just six City Council members. But the City Council ignored this request. Apparently they believed they knew better than the electorate. Thus, this action, which the council claimed they took to increase voter participation, had the opposite effect — the council clearly told voters that their views do not matter.
Catherine Tunis, Takoma Park
Study doesn’t support Lee’s position My primary complaint about Blair Lee’s first column on why people move out of Maryland [“Taxpayers exiting Maryland,” Aug. 28] was that he blatantly misrepresented the Tax Foundation study when he said the study looked at why people moved. It did not, and the Tax Foundation states very clearly that their study should not be taken to imply that people move because of taxes. And now here comes Blair Lee with a follow-up column [“Why are they leaving?” Sept. 18] where he again refers to some data that actually do nothing to support his argument about why people move. To be clear, I have no quibble with the Tax Foundation study or the underlying IRS data upon which it is based. Nor do I doubt that some people move out of Maryland because of high taxes. But there is just no way of knowing how many of the 1.4 million Marylanders who left the state between 2000 and 2010 did so because of taxes, or even, necessarily, that taxes “are at the top of the list” as is asserted again in Mr. Lee’s latest column. It seems that Mr. Lee has fallen into the classic pitfall of assuming that correlation is causation. People move to states with lower taxes, but they also move to states with warmer weather. People leave Maryland, but people also move to Maryland (in search of higher taxes?). People move to Pennsylvania, Virginia, Delaware and West Virginia and I agree with Mr. Lee that such moves are probably not for the weather. While they could be related to taxes, they could
also be for jobs, less traffic, more open space, cheaper housing or a host of other reasons. In search of additional support in his latest column, Lee directs the reader to a story [“Fight or flight,” Aug. 30] that followed up on his original column. The article was rather interesting in that it refers to an actual study, this one by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, that found that “tax flight is a myth” and “a large body of scholarly evidence” shows that people move to a different state primarily for new jobs, cheaper housing or better weather. Yet these basic, common-sense, alternative explanations get only a passing mention in both of Mr. Lee’s columns. Instead we get a set of letters to lend anecdotal support for his tax theory, but two of the 10 letters included in the most recent column don’t even mention taxes as a reason for a move. In any case, a handful of letters is rather thin gruel to sustain any single assertion about the complex decision making of over one million people. I don’t begrudge any individual their decision to move out of the state, and if they believe they are, or would be, better off leaving then by all means they should do so. But let’s at least assume people who move out of state are something more than low-tax seeking automatons, and let’s not confuse opinion, assertion, and anecdote with relevant data that actually demonstrates causation.
Bill Nickerson, Silver Spring
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The two-time Maryland state champion Quince Orchard High School girls’ soccer team has solidified its place among
Montgomery County’s best over the past decade. But competing in a Class 4A West Region with a Bethesda-Chevy Chase team that suffered its first postseason loss to a county foe in 12 years this fall, the Cougars have entered the playoffs as a relative underdog in recent years. And the Cougars liked playing that part, junior midfielder Stephi Shin said.
The restructuring of the regions into two geographic sections this year presented Quince Orchard with a different scenario as the favorite. The top seed in the region’s bottom section, the Cougars had already beaten the teams in their half of the bracket once this fall en route to their fifth straight division title. Coaches constantly point out that it’s hard to beat
the same team twice in on year, and the pressure to live up to expectations — many had all but penned Quince Orchard into the region final — is a lot different than elevating the level of play in the hopes of recording the upset. Friday it was the underdog, resurgent Thomas S. Wootton that ended Quince Orchard’s season prematurely, 3-2, in the Section II final.
“Yeah, we’ve always kind of been the underdog and it made us strive to do better and exceed expectation,” Shin said. “This put a little different kind of expectation on us.” Despite the immediate disappointment of Friday’s defeat, it’s hard to look past the remarkable consistency the Quince Orchard program has maintained the past 10 to 15 years and the
bright future that lies ahead in 2014. Friday’s section final marked 12 straight years that Quince Orchard has made it to the region semifinals or better. Though the Cougars will graduate eight seniors, including stalwart midfielders Krista Pitts and Mary McMeekin, they will return a
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Poolesville High School’s Chase Weaverling runs at Hereford High School during the 2011 state championship meet. This year’s event will be held at McDaniel College.
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idely regarded as one of the more difficult cross country courses in the nation, the layout at Hereford High School serves as the ultimate test annually for athletes competing in Maryland’s state championship meets. Rolling backhills, the infamous “Dip,” and twists and turns through woods and cornfields always seem to dominate the day’s discussion as
runners from across the state push themselves to the limit in the final race of their high school season. This year, however, for only the third time since 1980, Hereford will not play host to the championship race because parts of the school are under construction. That honor belongs to McDaniel College in Westminster. “I’m a little bit happy about the change in course because now the story of the day will be less about the hills at Hereford and more about the athletes and the competition, to be honest,” said Bethesda-Chevy Chase coach Chad Young. “I’m excited about that.” Young and other county coaches have been
forced to speculate, however, on just how different the three-mile stretch, which winds through the golf course at McDaniel, is from Hereford. The Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association, as specified on its website, is not permitting any access the course prior to Saturday’s championships, so all walk-throughs will be done the day of the event. There is, however, a link to a course video posted on the MPSSAA website. “From what I hear, there are rolling hills, it’s somewhat hilly, but they don’t have the intense hills that Hereford has,” Young said of McDaniel, which was the site of the Carroll County cham-
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Walt Whitman High School’s Kamilla Beisenova hits the ball against Thomas S. Wootton’s Miranda Deng Oct. 2.
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As a standout basketball player at Clarksburg High School, Nicole Cunningham was moving toward her dream of playing the sport professionally in the WNBA. She was
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a dominant player for the Coyotes and was being recruited by several NCAA Division I schools. But near the end of her high school tenure, the Germantown resident’s life drastically changed. On July 11, 2010, Cunningham had a daughter and her pursuit of a college basketball scholarship had to be put on hold. Later that year — around Christmas of Cunningham’s senior season — she transferred from Clarksburg to Seneca
Valley, where she graduated. Then, aboout 11 months after the birth of Harmony, Cunningham had a son, DeSean, on June 16, 2011. “It’s been pretty tough, but I’m managing everything,” said Cunningham, who added that she probably would have committed to Duke. “I was disappointed in myself because I was getting scouted and looked at by some pretty big D-I schools, but at the
Beisenova earns chance to become first Viking to win girls singles state title since 1984 BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN
same time it was life. ... Down the road, I knew I’d get back to the basketball court.” Now, with her life balanced, the 6-foot-2 forward/center, is reviving her basketball career as a freshman at Montgomery College. “Basketball keeps everything together,” said Cunningham, who brings her children to practice several times a week. “I love it and
Walt Whitman High School senior No. 1 singles player Kamilla Beisenova used to have a hard time finding someone willing to warm up with her, and it had nothing to do with the fact that she was the “new girl.” Beisenova was handed her first tennis racquet — a broken, triangle-shaped frame — when she was 3-years-old. By age 7, it was hard to separate her from what was probably a rac-
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Northwest cornerback backs up his prediction Sophomore starter said he would be one of program’s best players as a freshman
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Martin Foray wanted to play soccer when he enrolled at Northwest High School as a freshman last year. That was the sport he’d played growing up in Liberia, and he says he’s pretty good. But he didn’t have a physical on record in time for tryouts. TOM FEDOR/THE GAZETTE So, he sought to play football, a sport Northwest High School sophomore defensive back he’d known only distantly as “Giant Ball” Martin Foray runs at practice on Oct. 30. while living in Africa. At least Foray, who moved the United States in 2006, had played ers,” Foray said. pickup football games with friends, so it Once Foray was out of earshot, Blank wasn’t a bad alternative. told the assistant, “Oh, we’ve got another For a while, though, it was unclear Foray one of those kids who thinks he can do more would get a chance at football. He’d already than he can.” missed summer workouts, and it took a few “As a coach, I work with a ton of young more days for his paperwork to process. If kids that think that they’re way better than Northwest didn’t have enough properly fit- they really are,” Blank says now. “They have ted equipment for each player, those who an inflated sense of what they can do.” participated in the offseason would get prefIt turned out Foray was wrong. He erence. wasn’t one of Blank’s best players, because One day while waiting to suit up, Foray he didn’t spend much time on the JV team. talked with junior varsity coach Matt Blank One of several junior varsity players to and one of Blank’s assistants. practice with varsity during a JV bye week, “I’m going to be one of your best play- Foray impressed so much that Northwest
coach Mike Neubeiser kept him on the upper squad the rest of the season. “It was a little bit scary,” Foray said. “It was a lot scary, actually. The players are a lot bigger, more physical than on JV. “I was less a confident, a heck of a lot less confident. I started paying a lot more attention to what the coaches were saying, focusing more, instead of just talking.” Foray played special teams that year and learned well. This year, he’s a starting cornerback and will help lead Northwest into its final regular-season game, Friday at Springbrook. “He never backs down. Never,” Neubeiser said. “He’ll go against the toughest kid or the biggest kid on the team. He doesn’t care. He’s very tough-minded. He’s also not as arrogant as he seemed during that early conversation with Blank. Blank taught Foray in school and learned his true character over a full school year. “He was a great kid during class, just a yes-sir, no-sir type of kid, never a distraction, always a very, very polite kid, always saying hello and things in the hallway,” Blank said. “To his credit, it’s easy for a kid like that that’s really good at football — he got moved up so quickly — it’s really easy for a kid like that to not be humble and kind of be full of himself. But you never get that sense from Martin.” dfeldman@gazette.net
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KEEPING IT BRIEF GC, Prep fall short in soccer playoffs In the Interstate Athletic Conference boys’ soccer championship, the Georgetown Prep Hoyas saw their successful 2013 season come to an end in a 4-1 loss against St. Stephen’s/St. Agnes in Alexandria, Va. It was the Hoyas’ third loss to the Saints this season as Georgetown Prep finished the year with an 11-4-1 record. In the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference playoffs, Our Lady of Good Counsel’s boys’ soccer team reached the semifinals before bowing out to eventual WCAC champion DeMatha Catholic. The Falcons lost to the Stags, 2-0, after downing St. John College High School in the quarterfinals, 5-0. Under coach Dylan Dempsey, in his second year, Good Counsel finished with a 10-5-2 record.
Good Counsel defends WCAC title Good Counsel sophomore Nia Dorsey’s goal in the 25th minute of Saturday’s WCAC
final was all the Falcons needed in a 1-0 win over rival Bishop O’Connell for their second straight championship and third in four years. The meeting marked the 10th time Good Counsel and O’Connell played for the WCAC title. The win evened the headto-head at five games apiece but the Falcons have won the last two.
Holton-Arms wins ISL soccer The Holton-Arms School girls’ soccer team won the season-ending Independent School League “A” Division championship with a 2-1 win over crosstown rival Stone Ridge of School of the Sacred Heart Sunday. Panthers goals were scored by Megan Saunders and Katie Taylor. Saunders also assisted on Taylor’s goal.
Wootton QB throws for 541 yards in a game Thomas S. Wootton quarterback Sam Ellis threw for 541 yards — which would set a Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association single-game record if verified — in a 58-40 win over Rockville on Friday. Ellis completed 22-of-36 passes with six touchdowns and one interception. Rockville’s Chuck Reese threw for 480 yards in a win over Col. Zadok Magruder earlier this season, but that was also under review by the state.
Holy Cross wins second WCAC title Rhamat Alhassan has been playing volleyball for only three years, but when she graduates from the Academy of the Holy Cross this spring, she’ll have a pair of WCAC titles in tow. On Friday, a day after sweeping Good Counsel in the semifinals, Alhassan recorded a career-high 26 kills in leading the Tartans to a 3-1 win over Paul VI in a rematch of last year’s title match, which was Holy Cross’ first championship in program history. “I think I did pretty good,” said a laughing Alhassan, who finished her final high school season with 289 kills, 154 more than her next closest teammate. “I guess it was just me really wanting to win.”
Good Counsel tennis wins two medals Junior Stephanie Grodecki’s runner-up finish in the No. 1 singles slot and gold medal with freshman Megan Keller in the No. 1 doubles bracket helped the Good Counsel girls’ tennis team to a third-place finish at the season-ending WCAC championship Monday. It was a drastic improvement from last year’s seventhplace performance. Every point in such a tournament format counts, and coach Lee Ingham said in an email that she was extremely pleased with her charges’ record in the first round. The Falcons were victorious in six of nine opening round matches, the most in recent history. The Falcons should only be stronger next year with a good portion of its top six slated to return.
Wootton doubles players win region titles Wootton seniors Aishu Iyer and Katarina Sherman won the girls’ doubles region tennis title over Churchill’s Hayley Keats and Sriya Movva. After regular season and county final losses to Wootton’s Miranda Deng, Whitman senior No. 1 singles player Kamilla Beisenova defeated the freshman star in straight sets to win last Wednesday’s all-Montgomery County Region II girls’ singles title. Maryland public high school tennis is divided into eight regions. The top two finishers in each bracket — boys’ and girls’ singles, boys’ and girls’ doubles and mixed doubles — earn a spot in the state championship played each May at the University of Maryland, College Park. Last Wednesday’s region finals featured the girls’ singles and doubles; boys and mixed doubles regionals will be played following the boys’ spring season.
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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HOW THEY RANK The 10 best football teams in Montgomery County this week as ranked by The Gazette’s sports staff.
Rank
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
School
Record Points
6-4 8-1 8-1 8-1 7-2 8-1 8-1 6-3 6-3 6-3
Good Counsel Falcons Quince Orchard Cougars Bullis Bulldogs Damascus Swarmin’ Hornets Northwest Jaguars Paint Branch Panthers Gaithersburg Trojans Sherwood Warriors Seneca Valley Screaming Eagles Clarksburg Coyotes
59 54 48 40 35 31 27 15 13 8
Also receiving votes: None.
LEADERS Top rushers Isaac Boyd, Avalon Khalil Wilson, Einstein Charles Lyles, Poolesville Zac Morton, Whitman Dage Davis, Geo. Prep Devonte Williams, Bullis Chris Dawson, G. Counsel Amankwah-Ayeh, B-CC E. Spottswood, Sherwood Kevin Joppy, Q. Orchard
Top passers Sam Ellis, Wootton Chuck Reese, Rockville G. Cooper, P. Branch Mike Murtaugh, QO Renzo Farfan, R. Mont. C. Reighard, Seneca Marvin Galdamez, Ken. Nick DeCarlo, G’burg C. Hennessey, N’wood Dwayne Haskins, Bullis
Carries 142 161 200 216 159 167 157 155 132 110
Yards 1673 1473 1470 1383 1285 1279 978 903 870 766
Cmp-Att. 181-340 242-384 139-237 88-148 118-217 88-163 91-161 63-111 99-204 62-112
Top receivers
Avg. 11.8 9.1 7.4 6.4 8.1 7.7 6.2 5.8 6.6 7.0
Yards 2762 2688 1993 1476 1324 1153 1108 1101 1099 974
Catches Yards Trevon Diggs, Wootton 72 1055 Jibri Woods, Wootton 60 946 Javonn Curry, P. Branch 45 742 Joey Cornwell, Rockville 57 700 Louison Biama, Rockville 41 682 Ryan Stango, P. Branch 40 640 Phil Osborn, R. Mont. 50 638 Michael Scott, Kennedy 44 622 Steven Kelly, B-CC 26 594 Anthony Albert, Rockville 51 549
TDs 29 14 14 16 17 21 12 10 12 14
Int. 13 13 6 4 6 6 7 5 10 4
TDs 24 36 25 17 14 13 5 8 6 11
Avg. 14.7 15.8 16.5 12.3 16.6 16.0 12.8 14.1 22.8 10.8
TDs 11 7 12 7 6 8 11 1 6 9
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As high school football teams enter the final week of the regular season, 11 of the 25 public schools in Montgomery County are still battling for playoff berths. Five,
FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK BY DAN FELDMAN Quince Orchard, Gaithersburg, Northwest, Paint Branch and Damascus, have clinched postseason games. Here’s a breakdown on what the others have to do to keep playing:
4A West Region Quince Orchard, Gaithersburg and Northwest have clinched the top three seeds. If Clarksburg defeats Richard Montgomery, Clarksburg earns the No. 4 seed. If Blair defeats Whitman and Quince Orchard beats Wootton, Clarksburg
will be the No. 4 seed. If Whitman beats Blair and Richard Montgomery beats Clarksburg, Whitman would finish ahead of Clarksburg. However, Wootton would pass a winning Whitman if Wootton beats Quince Orchard and at least five of six games go as listed (if a game appears twice, it counts twice): Bethesda-Chevy Chase over Walter Johnson, Churchill over Damascus, Churchill over Damascus, Rockville over Poolesville, Seneca Valley over Blake, Northwest over Springbrook. If Richard Montgomery beats Clarksburg and Blair beats Whitman, Wootton would make the playoffs if it beats Quince Orchard and at least two of four games go as listed: Churchill over Damascus, Rockville over Poolesville, Seneca Valley over Blake, Randallstown over Magruder.
4A North Region Paint Branch is guaranteed a top-two seed. If Sherwood beats Kennedy, Sherwood will make the playoffs as either the No. 3 or
If Springbrook defeats Northwest and Parkville beats Kenwood, Springbrook would finish ahead of Kenwood.
3A West Region Damascus will receive the No. 2, No. 3 or No. 4 seed. The Linganore-Urbana winner will receive the No. 1 seed.
2A West Region Poolesville would claim the No. 3 seed by finishing ahead of Oakdale and Catoctin. Poolesville would claim the No. 4 seed by finishing ahead of only one of Oakdale or Catoctin. If Rockville beats Poolesville, Poolesville will miss the playoffs. If Poolesville beats Rockville and Brunswick beats Catoctin, Poolesville would finish ahead of Catoctin. Poolesville would finish ahead of Oakdale only if Poolesville beats Rockville and Middletown beats Oakdale. This story was cut for space. See full version online.
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
Poolesville at Rockville Wheaton at Northwood Watkins Mill at Einstein Quince Orchard at Wootton Bethesda-Chevy Chase at Walter Johnson Clarksburg at Richard Montgomery Damascus at Churchill Northwest at Springbrook Sherwood at Kennedy Seneca Valley at Blake Whitman at Blair Bullis at Georgetown Prep Paint Branch vs. Gaithersburg Landon at St. Albans Magruder at Randallstown DeMatha vs. Good Counsel
Ken Sain
Dan Feldman
Nick Cammarota
Jennifer Beekman
Travis Mewhirter
Kent Zakour
135-25 266-48
135-25 264-50
132-28 260-54
131-29 258-56
128-32 257-57
126-34 248-66
Poolesville Wheaton Einstein Q. Orchard B-CC Clarksburg Damascus Northwest Sherwood Seneca Valley Whitman Bullis Paint Branch Landon Randallstown DeMatha
Rockville Wheaton Einstein Q. Orchard B-CC Clarksburg Damascus Northwest Sherwood Seneca Valley Whitman Bullis Gaithersburg Landon Randallstown DeMatha
Poolesville Wheaton Einstein Q. Orchard B-CC Clarksburg Damascus Northwest Sherwood Seneca Valley Whitman Bullis Gaithersburg Landon Randallstown DeMatha
Poolesville Northwood Einstein Q. Orchard B-CC Clarksburg Damascus Northwest Sherwood Seneca Valley Whitman Bullis Paint Branch Landon Randallstown DeMatha
Rockville Wheaton Einstein Q. Orchard B-CC Clarksburg Damascus Northwest Sherwood Seneca Valley Whitman Bullis Paint Branch Landon Randallstown DeMatha
Poolesville Wheaton Einstein Q. Orchard B-CC Clarksburg Damascus Northwest Sherwood Seneca Valley Whitman Bullis Gaithersburg Landon Randallstown DeMatha
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Quince Orchard High School’s Sam Sullenger dribbles the ball during Thursday’s practice at the school in Gaithersburg. cally have a goal within five to 10 minutes, Keiller said. “Jamie is just a natural scorer. She just puts her head down and goes to goal, she has that little bit of good selfishness a forward needs to have,” Keiller said. “With Stephi, she has incredible ball control. She doesn’t give the ball up very much and she makes it possible for Sam and Jamie to make runs and create havoc. Sam has a little bit of everything, it’s touch, it’s athleticism, it’s just knowing what to do with the ball.” This fall might not have ended up the way Quince Orchard envisioned but Shin said the team is already look-
Montgomery 4A South Division Team
Wootton* Whitman B-Chevy Chase R. Montgomery Walter Johnson* Churchill
All Div.
5-4 6-3 3-6 2-7 1-8 1-8
4-1 4-1 2-2 2-3 1-3 1-4
PF PA
265 179 197 142 140 268 211 230 43 270 53 275
Montgomery 4A East Division Team
Paint Branch Sherwood Springbrook* Blair Kennedy Blake
All Div.
8-1 6-3 5-4 5-4 3-6 1-8
5-0 3-1 3-2 2-3 1-3 0-5
PF PA
379 100 220 195 186 94 177 147 136 156 50 250
Montgomery 4A West Division Team
Gaithersburg Quince Orchard Northwest Clarksburg* Magruder
All Div.
8-1 8-1 7-2 6-3 1-8
3-1 3-1 2-2 2-2 0-4
PF PA
225 84 345 61 309 134 174 104 89 372
Montgomery 3A Division Team
Damascus Seneca Valley Einstein Rockville Watkins Mill Wheaton Northwood
All Div.
8-1 6-3 4-4 5-4 3-6 1-8 1-8
6-0 5-1 3-2 3-3 2-3 0-5 0-5
Montgomery 2A Independent Team
Poolesville
All
PF
PA
All
PF
PA
6-3 215 162
Private schools Team
PF PA
295 88 282 97 190 254 336 304 127 244 110 326 66 356
Bullis 8-1 309 110 Good Counsel 6-4 226 121 Avalon 5-5 272 212 Georgetown Prep 4-5 239 203 Landon 3-5 155 161 * Includes forfeit result
Last week’s scores
LOSS
fielders Krista Pitts and Mary McMeekin, they will return a core of primary playmakers in all areas of the field. Atop that list is the scoring triangle of Shin in the middle and classmate Sam Sullenger and freshman Jamie Fink up top. They will be supported by an almost entirely returning backline that includes talented goalkeeper Ricki Shultz. Having players year after year who have experience playing together is a luxury, Keiller said, and has certainly played a role in Quince Orchard’s ability to remain stable through graduation cycles. Freshmen are expected to be timid and hesitant to step on the toes of their older, more experienced teammates, but that theory doesn’t seem to apply to Quince Orchard. Two years ago, Shin and Sullenger presented themselves as a marquee combination. Sullenger was the second leading scorer as a freshman and led the team offensively a year ago; Shin was often at the start of those runs. It was the arrival of Fink, whom Keiller deemed a true goal scorer, that enabled Sullenger, who plays outside back for her Bethesda club team, to move back and help bolster a Quince Orchard defense that had some questions to answer early in 2013. The Sullengerled defense shut out nine opponents but the dynamic athlete wasn’t pinned to the backfield. Her two scores against Wootton tied her with Fink for the lead in scoring with 11 goals; Shin finished second with 10. Whenever necessary, like after falling behind in Friday’s section final, Keiller could push Sullenger back up to the front field and she would typi-
No. 4 seed. If Parkville beats Kenwood and Northwest beats Springbrook, Sherwood will make the playoffs as either the No. 3 or No. 4 seed. If Kennedy beats Sherwood and Kenwood defeats Parkville, Sherwood would finish ahead of Kenwood only if at least seven of eight games go as listed: Blair over Whitman, Magruder over Randallstown, Richard Montgomery over Clarksburg, Springbrook over Northwest, Franklin over Catonsville, Towson over Dulaney, Perry Hall over Dundalk, Milford Mill over Woodlawn To reach the playoffs, the No. 4 seed being the top possible outcome, Springbrook must finish ahead of Sherwood and Kenwood. For Springbrook to finish ahead of Sherwood, Springbrook must beat Northwest, Kennedy must beat Sherwood and at least four of five games must go as listed: Blake over Seneca Valley, Churchill over Damascus, Watkins Mill over Einstein, Randallstown over Magruder, Clarksburg over Richard Montgomery.
STANDINGS
ing forward to the possibilities that lie ahead and the lessons they will take away from Friday’s loss. “We take pride in staying in the [upper echelon], we always talk about how Coach Peg always wins the division and we kind of put pressure on ourselves to not be the team that doesn’t win. I think we always have the talent [to win the region]. ... [Friday] you could tell Wootton wanted it more. But we’re excited for next year. We’re losing a lot of seniors but we still have a lot of core players.” jbeekman@gazette.net
Watkins Mill 43, Northwood 6 Seneca Valley 49, Einstein 12 Wootton 58, Rockville 40 Damascus 55, Wheaton 6 Whitman 28, Churchill 7 Gaithersburg 43, Walter Johnson 0 B-CC 34, R. Montgomery 33 Northwest 35, Quince Orchard 21 Clarksburg 35, Magruder 0 Springbrook 27, Kennedy 3 Paint Branch 55, Sherwood 21 Blair 28, Blake 14 Boonsboro 35, Poolesville 34 Perry Street Prep 50, Avalon 20 Landon 13, Georgetown Prep 7 Bullis 54, Episcopal 22
BEST BET Paint Branch vs. Gaithersburg, noon Saturday at WJ.
Both teams are in contention for the No. 1 seed in their regions. It’s a great matchup of Paint Branch’s passing offense against Gaithersburg’s secondary. Both teams will want to enter the playoffs with a victory against high-quality opponent, but may see each other again so may hold something back.
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Continued from Page B-1 pionships. “But we’re not going to stress too much about the course.” During the 4A West Region championship meet on Thursday at High Point Farm in Clarksburg, the Barons’ girls finished in second place as they were upended by Walter Johnson. “They’ve let it be known that they’re a serious contender for the state championship,” Young said of the Wildcats. B-CC’s standout junior, Nora McUmber, still won the region comfortably, however, while the Wildcats placed five runners in the top 20 (three in the top 10) to score the upset. On the boys’ side, Walt Whitman junior Evan
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Continued from Page B-1 quet ball racquet. But Beisenova grew up in Kazakhstan, where tennis isn’t exactly the national sport. “Back there the coaching style is definitely different, here (the United States) they know a lot more about tennis,” Beisenova said. “When I was learning, I was taught to hit with huge swings, hit flat and I never put any spin on the ball. I thought that was the only way to play. “When I got here, the first time I went to a clinic and we [warmed up] short court, I would just hit it hard and flat
Woods paced the pack and helped the Vikings lock up a firstplace finish with WJ coming in second. “It’s all about momentum. We feel like we’re peaking at the right time. We’ve done all the work and now it’s time to have a great race and see what happens,” Whitman coach Steve Hays said. Hays, like many in the county, expressed mixed sentiments when discussing the course change. “We like the hills [at Hereford],” he said. “I just think it helps you become stronger. Everyone runs the same course. We’re just disappointed that we didn’t get the chance to go up there and look at it ahead of time.” In the 4A North Region
championship, Sherwood’s girls finished second to Dulaney and Paint Branch’s boys did the same.
Meanwhile, Albert Einstein (third girls, fourth boys) was the highest county finisher at the 3A West Re-
gion championship. Poolesville finished first (girls) and second (boys) in the 2A West with senior
and they were like, ‘Whoa, slow down.’ I feel like no one wanted to warm up with me, I was not a good partner.” Beisenova certainly has a lot more control over her shots these days and used it Oct. 30 to become the first girl from Whitman to win an all-Montgomery County Region II singles title in recent history. Just by making the final, Beisenova earned a spot in the girls’ singles draw at next spring’s state championship — she won the girls’ doubles title in 2012. A straight-sets win over Thomas S. Wootton’s Miranda Deng, who defeated Beisenova during the regular season and a few days before the region tournament in a three-set county final, will likely set Whitman’s No. 1 up with a top seed
next spring. The Vikings have not had a girls’ singles winner at states since Lee Shelburne in 1984. “I’m excited, it’s my senior year and I wanted to finish it off on a good note,” Beisenova said. “I feel like [the region final win] will be a confidence booster as well and will transfer into matches.” While Beisenova, whose game is also predicated on court speed and her ability to retrieve just about everything thrown at her, has certainly shortened her backswing and added a bit of topspin on her groundstrokes, she has not completely abandoned her once solely flat ground game. Upon the advice of her mother, Beisenova said, she’s learned to absorb
input from a variety of sources and utilize what she needs. She drives her forehand through the court nicely and can counter opponents’ more loopy, topspin shots, but has found a good medium; the addition of some margin for error allows her to hit with depth, consistently. She also has a reliable backhand, can mix in some slice off both wings and is an overall cerebral player. “I like Kamilla’s forehand because she does drive it,” Whitman coach Jasen Gohn said. “I think she probably has the biggest groundstrokes [in the county] other than Miranda.” Beisenova arrived in Bethesda too late to join the team as a freshman. In 2011, she won the No. 3 singles county title but missed last season
while she focused on improving her U.S. Tennis Association national ranking in preparation for the college search process. Beisenova, who said rejoining the team and representing Whitman on the courts was extremely important to her, is currently No. 336 of 1,841 in the USTA girls 18s national rankings. Her addition to the top of Whitman’s lineup this fall was integral in keeping the Vikings among the top three teams — they lost only to county champion Wootton and Winston Churchill (4-3). Gohn said Beisenova’s ability to connect with everyone, from freshmen to seniors, was invaluable to the team’s cohesion and younger players’ motivation, and will
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Continued from Page B-1 it’s really helped me manage time with the kids, work and school. I just had to wait until the kids were a certain age.” Raptors coach Tarlouh Gasque agrees. “Nicole’s done something that I can really applaud her for,” Gasque said. “Not necessarily from the basketball standpoint. ... but she’s come back to school. Raising children, working, school and playing ball are not easy. But I do know she wants to do well for her kids.” Cunningham, who hopes to transfer to a four-year program and still play in the WNBA, will provide a much needed post presence on both ends of the court for the Raptors, which began their season Friday at the Roxbury (Mass.) Tour-
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Poolesville High School’s Chase Weaverling won the Montgomery County Cross Country Championship boys’ race this fall at Bohrer Park.
nament, this winter. Gasque said her team, which has perennially advanced to the national tournament in recent years, has more talent and depth this season. The 16-woman roster features a good mix and deep rotation of players in the frontcourt and backcourt. “You can’t coach height and I’m really blessed this year,” she said. “If I can play everyone, I’m going to play everyone, but they are going to have to be disciplined and play my style of ball.” Gasque says the team will implement — as usual — a fast-paced style of play focused on pushing the ball up the court. She also believes the Raptors will be able to consistently score from all areas of the floor with legitimate threats from the post to accompany their usual shooters. Joining Cunningham in the starting lineup will likely be freshman point
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guard Jebria Smith (Washington Latin, 5-5), sophomore shooting guard Angelica Ceccone (Walt Whitman, 5-8) and freshman 6-foot forward Kierra McKellery (Arundel). Either sophomore guard/ forward Meghann Tilghman (Rockville) or freshman guard/forward Kiana Daley (O’Bryant School of Math and Science) are expected to round out the starters. Audrey Rankin (Quince Orchard), Trystan Sparks (Gaithersburg), Aimee Hart (John F. Kennedy), Jimica Mozie (Clarksburg) and Caprice Harvey (Shenandoah Valley) should all be key contributors off the bench. “Some of the press we’ve got has helped us because people are more aware of us,” Gasque said. “I think I have a pretty good team here.”
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WILL C. FRANKLIN STAFF WRITER
Never underestimate the power of the Internet. Social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have helped artists all over the world share their talents. That’s important for hip-hop artist Jake Miller, who has turned Internet success into a full-fledged career. Miller, who released his debut full-length album, “Us Against Them” on Tuesday is out on a 43-date tour across the country to promote the CD. He will be making a stop on Friday at the Fillmore Silver Spring. “This is definitely my proudest project to date,” Miller said. “Eleven brand new songs — the production is just better, the lyrics are better, it sounds fuller … it’s just a really fun and different album from anything I’ve ever put out. I put EDM [electronic dance music], kind of house songs on there, I have acoustic songs, really happy songs and songs that let you know what I’m really stressing about.” These days, the soon-to-be 21 year old doesn’t have too much to
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Hip-hop artist Jake Miller will bring his “Us Against Them” tour to the Fillmore Silver Spring on Friday. EDGAR ESTEVEZ
Judy Kang was a member of Lady Gaga’s band during her Monsters Ball Tour in 2010 and 2011.
JAKE MILLER n When: 7 p.m. Friday
n Tickets: $25
n Where: Fillmore Silver Spring, 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring
n For information: 301-9609999; fillmoresilverspring.com
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‘Lady at the O.K. Corral’ takes new look at American West BY
CARA HEDGEPETH STAFF WRITER
The Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington will hold its 44th annual Lessans Family Book Festival starting Friday and running to Nov. 17. The festival features book signings, children’s programming and more than 20 author events. Author and media mogul Ann Kirschner will hold two talks on Nov. 14, one at the JCC in Rockville and the other at Leisure World in Silver Spring, about her book “The Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp.” Kirschner is the university dean of Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York. She earned a bachelor’s in English from the University of Buffalo, a master’s in English
from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. She’s also an entrepreneur in the media and technology world, having launched NFL.com for the National Football League and Fathom, Columbia University’s online education company. In 2006, Kirschner published “Sala’s Gift,” the story of her mother, a Holocaust survivor, and her rescue of letters from Nazi labor camps. The book is available in multiple languages including Polish, German, French and Chinese. Kirschner has continued her
See WEST, Page B-9 Ann Kirschner, author of “Sala’s Gift” and “Lady at the O.K. Corral,” will speak at the Annual Book Festival at the JCC of Greater Washington on Nov. 14. She’ll hold a second talk the same day at Leisure World in Silver Spring. DAVID H. SNYDER.
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he story behind how a small Washington, D.C., violin studio landed a classical music star is truly one for the modern age. Horman Violin Studio founder Amy Beth Horman was checking her Twitter account one evening when she noticed she had a new follower. “I was kind of new to Twitter and I had a new follower, Judy Kang,” Horman remembered. “And my brain went, ‘Oh my gosh, that’s Judy Kang. Isn’t that Lady Gaga’s violinist?’” Now based in New York city, Kang is a Canadian violinist and the youngest person ever accepted to the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. She was just 11 years old when she was accepted. Kang, who would not reveal her age, graduated at 17 with a bachelor’s degree in music and at 19 was granted the Lily Foldes Scholarship for the Juilliard School where she earned a master’s degree. She’s performed with major orchestras across six continents and from January 2010 to May 2011, she toured as a member of Lady Gaga’s Monster Ball Tour. Pleasantly surprised and admittedly shocked with her newest follower, Horman decided to take a chance and send
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ART LEAGUE OF GERMANTOWN
The Art League of Germantown will host an exhibit through Sunday at the Black Rock Center for the Arts. Pictured: Georgia MacDonald’s watercolor painting “Yesterday today” is a scene from Sheperdstown, W.Va. WASHINGTON DUNHUANG GUZHENG ACADEMY
The Washington Dunhuang Guzheng Academy and Washington Qinqiang Club will host a concert on Saturday at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington in Rockville.
The Washington Dunhuang Guzheng Academy and Washington Qinqiang Club will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Kreeger Auditorium, Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, 6125 Montrose Road, Rockville. The Guzheng, also simply called zheng, is a Chinese plucked zither with 18 or more strings and movable bridges. It is the ancestor of several Asian zither instruments, such as the Japanese koto and the Korean gayageum. Qinqiang is a Chinese folk music opera popular mainly in China’s Northwest, particularly Shaanxi and Gansu Provinces. One of the major Chinese operas, it is believed to be the ancestor of all other Chinese operas, including Peking opera. The performance will be subtitled in English. Admission is free. Donations are welcome. For more information, call 301-610-6592. Artist Cathy Abramson’s work will be on view at Gallery B through November as part of a joint exhibit with Nancy Abeles, Elaine Lozier and Jan Rowland — together known as The Figurative Four. The exhibit will be on view as part of the Bethesda Art Walk, which returns to the area Friday. BETHESDA ART WALK
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Urban expressions The Bethesda Art Walk returns this Friday, showcasing the works from several
members of the downtown gallery community, with exhibits spanning painting, sculpture, photography, pottery and mixed media. Participating galleries and studios include Artworks, Consider It Done, Gallery B, Interiors of Washington, Upstairs Art Studios, the Waverly Street Gallery and the public art exhibition “Tunnel Vision” at the Bethesda Metro Station. The Bethesda Art Walk began in 2002 to welcome arts patrons, residents and visitors into the city’s art galleries, studio spaces and frame shops all featuring original artwork by local, regional and national artists. For more information, visit www.bethesda.org.
A seat in the ‘League’ The Art League of Germantown will present the 31st Winterglow Art show and sale through Sunday at the Black Rock Center for the Arts. More than 50 artists will showcase their paintings, drawings, photography, ceramic and fiber arts and jewelry. An opening reception today will feature the presentation “Finding your Place in the Arts” by guest speaker and professional artist Judith HeartSong, executive director of the Capitol Arts Network. An artist’s reception is scheduled for Sunday, allowing the public to meet and greet participating artists. A quartet, composed of members of the Montgomery County Youth Orchestra, also will perform. For a complete schedule, visit www.alog.org. Visit www.blackrockcenter. org.
Showcasing ‘Simple Needs’ Conceptual artist Ellen Sherfey will be the featured artist for November at the Montgomery Art Association MAA Gallery at the Westfield Wheaton Mall. Sherfey’s oil paintings and multimedia sculptures utilize expressionistic realism to convey discerning yet unassuming inner truths, like her image of white china plates on a rainy pavement, “The Complexities of Simple Needs.” That work was accepted into the collection of Her Majesty Queen Sonja of Norway. An opening reception is scheduled for 1-5 p.m. Sunday at the gallery. The exhibit runs to Dec. 1. For more information, visit www.PeaceFireStudio.com
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Ellen Sherfey’s “The Complexities of Simple Needs” will be on view to Dec. 1 at the Montgomery Art Association MAA Gallery at Westfield Wheaton Mall in Wheaton.
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AT THE MOVIES
Playing to save the world in ‘Ender’s Game’ BY
MICHAEL PHILLIPS CHICAGO TRIBUNE
In step with its sensitive, tactically brilliant 12-year-old hero, “Ender’s Game” is a bit of a tweener, neither triumph nor disaster, a war-games fantasy with a use-by date of Nov. 22, when the new “Hunger Games” movie comes out. Its central action scenes unfold in a vast zero-gravity battle-simulation arena, on a space station readying for an alien attack of enormous skittery bugs called Formics. The preteens and young teenagers being trained to save the world play dangerous rounds of laser tag and try to impress the authority figures played by Harrison Ford (a long way from Han Solo), Viola Davis and Sir Ben Kingsley. Asa Butterfield of “Hugo” is Ender Wiggins, the relentlessly bullied boy with the Hobbitty-sounding name who becomes “Earth’s ultimate military leader,” in the words of the film’s promotional materials. Hailee Steinfeld of “True Grit” is Petra, his sympathetic best friend and training mentor. They’re sweet together, these kids. Already, Butterfield and Steinfeld are learning the virtue of behaving on camera, as opposed to acting each tense encounter into the ground. When a best-seller such as Orson Scott Card’s “Ender’s Game” takes a generation or more to find its way to the screen, the result can acquire an unwanted aura of retro-nostalgia, whatever the story’s setting or the director’s approach. The look of this project, reflected by the film’s poster, settles for futuristic industrialism made
(From left) Ben Kingsley, Harrison Ford and Asa Butterfield star in “Ender’s Game.”
ENDER’S GAME n 2 1/2 stars n PG-13; 114 minutes n Cast: Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley n Directed by Gavin Hood
generic. Still, while writer and director Gavin Hood may not be Mr. Style or a science-fiction visionary, he gets the story told, with appealing actors at the center. Across nearly three decades, many young readers have devoured Card’s books (the origi-
nal, the four sequels, plus two spinoff adventures) as expressions of rebellious outsiders with a cause. Ender is a freak by definition simply by being a “third,” the third-born child in a nearfuture world ruled by a strict two-child policy. The violence in Ender’s life is nearly always justified since he’s dealing with dead-eyed sociopaths his own age who wish to do him harm. Then comes the not-so-twisty twist near the climax of the story, which asks the audience to grieve and question a different scale of violence. (Spoiler issues here, so we’ll keep mum.) Hood’s adaptation streamlines the novel and its concerns, only occasionally lapsing into
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trailer-speak, as when Ford’s commander speaks to his recruits in the language of movietrailer-ese (“and in the middle of the battle, a legendary hero emerged”). At heart, “Ender’s Game” relays a simple story of a little guy caught in a web not of his own making, learning to stand up for his beliefs. The target audience could do worse. The old folk, meantime, can focus on the film’s most intense stare-down contest: Though I don’t believe they ever share a scene, it’s astonishing nonetheless how Kingsley and the main Formic handle close-ups in exactly the same way, never, ever, ever, ever blinking. Ever.
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Burdens to bear: National Philharmonic to perform ‘Lost Childhood’ Legacies of Holocaust wear heavy for Jew and German in new musical work
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VIRGINIA TERHUNE STAFF WRITER
Two psychiatrists attending a conference in Manhattan in 1993 meet for a drink in a hotel bar and begin talking, forming the basis for an opera called “Lost Childhood.” Judah is a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust in Poland, and the younger Manfred, born after the war, is the German son of Nazi sympathizers. “This is probably the first opera to address post-Holocaust issues,” said Janice Hamer of Philadelphia, who composed the work with poet and librettist Mary Azrael of Baltimore. The opera is based on a memoir called “The Lost Childhood” by New York psychiatrist Yehuda Nir and talks with Gottfried Wagner, great-grandson of the composer Richard Wagner, who served as a consultant. The first fully orchestrated version of the two-act opera will be performed Saturday at the Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda. Performing will be 12 professional soloists along with the National Philharmonic and the National Philharmonic Chorale conducted by Maestro Piotr Gajewski of Rockville. Associate conductor Victoria Gau will give a pre-concert lecture that Hamer, Azrael and Wagner are expected to attend. A music historian, Wagner was disowned by his family for criticizing his great-grandfather’s anti-Semitic views and for criticizing his family’s later support of Hitler. He has devoted much of his adult life to facilitating talks between Holocaust survivors and
n Tickets: $28-$84; free for children 17 and younger, but not recommended for ages 11 and younger.
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Librettist Mary Azrael (left) of Baltimore, and composer Janice Hamer of Philadelphia discuss the score of their opera, “Lost Childhood,” during a rehearsal for its performance on Saturday at the Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda. their families and post-war Germans like himself. On view in the Strathmore lobby will be monoprints by Silver Spring artist Miriam Morsel Nathan, whose parents survived the Holocaust but who lost other members of her family. Nathan said she used photographs of her relatives to evoke the sense of absence, memory and loss that Hamer was looking for in the prints to complement the performance. “They were made with the idea that they would accompany the opera,” Nathan said. “Lost Childhood” takes place on the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, an orchestrated attack on Jews and Jewish property on Nov. 9-10, 1938, in Germany and Austria. The night of violence killed at least 91 Jews and led to the arrest and jailing of 30,000 others as Hitler moved closer to World War II and his “final solution.”
Family in hiding As the discussion between the two psychiatrists unfolds
in “Lost Childhood,” Manfred (baritone Chris Pedro) asks Judah (tenor Michael Hendrick) to talk about his experience in the war. Judah, who has not spoken about it for 50 years, is at first reluctant to reveal his childhood, especially to a German. But Manfred’s question unlocks his memories, and through a series of flashbacks on stage, he reveals that in 1941 when he was 11 and called Julek (Tyler Young), his father was arrested and murdered. Knowing that Julek and his mother (Rosa Lamoreaux) and older sister Lala (Danielle Talamantes) must hide or die, Lala’s boyfriend Ludwig (Matthew Loyal Smith) provides the family with forged papers and new identities as Polish Catholics. The granddaughter of rabbis, the mother is indignant, angry and also worried about assuming a Polish name and Catholic identity. “A stranger’s name, a stolen name; how can I carry it off?” she sings. But she does, going to work as a maid for a German family,
n For information: 301-5815100, nationalphilharmonic. org, operaprojects. org/lostchild.htm, miriammorselnathan.com, click on commissioned work
where she is able to secretly see her children. Lala finds work in a Nazi dentist’s office and brings Julek to live with her and to work as an assistant in the office. Julek is nearly discovered several times, and in one scene, is found out to be Jewish, but he manages to bargain his way out of it, surviving with his family in Warsaw and later in a German work camp. During the conversation on stage, an angry Judah, enraged and grief-stricken, says he cannot ever forgive what happened and scares off Manfred, who feels ashamed, guilty and unable to face the legacy of his forefathers. “Born into silence and blinding denials,” Manfred sings about seeing a documentary as a boy showing “mountains of dead and dying people” with Richard Wagner’s music playing in the background. “You must understand, I wasn’t born, I wasn’t there,” sings Manfred. “I’m not the enemy. I’m on your side. I have my nightmares, too.”
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laborated on a choral work before, but neither had ever worked on an opera. Composing music to a libretto was definitely something new. “We had to learn a basic fact — it’s not a play, it has to be much shorter,” said Hamer, noting that singing a syllable in an opera takes a lot longer than speaking it. Hamer said most of the music is “very lyrical, very accessible,” touched with some modernist moments. There is a duet between Julek’s parents and two love duets between Lala and Ludwig, she said. She also includes subtle musical references in the score, including fragments of Gregorian chant, Maimonides’ “Thirteen Principles” of the Jewish faith, an opera composed in the Terezin concentration camp in what is now the Czech Republic, Richard Wagner’s “Lohengrin” and a song that Eli Wiesel sang as a boy. Hamer and Azrael said one atypical scene in the opera had upset audiences during workshops. It takes place in a Nazi dentist’s office where Lala works. The SS dentist, Adolf Schmoll (Robert Baker) and his staff are joking and laughing about how they can smell a Jew. Schmool also deliberately terrifies the patient in the chair by pretending to suspect he’s Jewish. Hamer said she wove into the score a simultaneous mix of vocal cabaret-like singing, with the strings playing a polka and the brass section evoking the Nazi anthem, “Horst Wessel Lied.” Some said the scene was offensive, but librettist Azrael said she argued to keep it in. “This is one of the ways people get caught up in horrible behavior,” she said. “It made me nervous, but I felt I had to dig in, for better or worse.” There is also a scene in the dentist office in which an older dental assistant (Andrew McLaughlin) starts humming a Yiddish tune, “Oyfn Pripetchik,” which was widely sung in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. It is about a rabbi teaching young children the alphabet. Julek tentatively hums in response, and the two briefly and joyfully recognize each other as Jewish, but the moment quickly passes for fear of being discovered. Azrael said her biggest challenge was finding a way to channel all the information she had gathered from Nir’s memoir and talks with Wagner into the characters of Judah and Manfred, and the characters in Judah’s flashbacks. “I had to imagine their conversations ... and how to interweave the scenes from the memoir,” said Azrael. “There is no forgiveness, but they begin to understand each other,” she about Judah and Manfred. “To feel the other as a human being, that was a start.” vterhune@gazette.net
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FRUITFUL COLLABORATIONS Years ago, composer Janice Hamer and cousin-in-law, poet and librettist Mary Azrael collaborated on an award-winning choral work, “On Paper Bridges,” based on a Yiddish legend. Excited about their success, they started thinking about creating an opera, possibly about the Jews hiding during the Holocaust based on books Azrael had been reading, such as “The Diary of Anne Frank.” Hamer then happened to hear German music historian Gottfried Wagner on National Public Radio, and “Lost Childhood” began to take shape. Great-grandson of composer Richard Wagner, Gottfried had written a book called “Twilight of the Wagners: The Unveiling of a Family Legacy,” published in English in 1999. A native of Bayreuth who now lives in Milan, Wagner had been living for most of his life with the legacy of not only his great-grandfather’s anti-Semitism celebrated by the Third Reich but also with that of his immediate family, some of whom were friends of Hitler and supported him during World War II. Struck by his openness and a shared interest in conflict resolution, Hamer wrote to Wagner, and when he came to Princeton University to speak at a conference about the Holocaust, he invited her to attend. There they met psychiatrist Yehuda Nir, a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, who had written about his boyhood during the war disguised as a Polish Catholic in his memoir, “The Lost Childhood.” Nir and the younger Wagner became friends and began speaking at conferences about their own conversations and other efforts by Wagner to set up dialogues between Germans and Holocaust survivors and their families. Using Nir’s memoir and her conversations with Wagner, Azrael decided to structure the opera as a 1993 conversation between a Jewish survivor and a German born after the war that would share a stage with Nir’s flashbacks from Poland. Hamer and Azrael were able to develop the opera with support from American Opera Projects in New York. It was later performed as a piano and vocal work in workshops in New York and in Tel Aviv. Then came the time to find an orchestra to perform it. Hamer’s parents, Joe and Mickey Hamer, live at the Ingleside at King Farm retirement community in Rockville. They happened to be friends with fellow Ingleside resident Richard Gajewski, of Poland, father of Piotr Gajewski, who conducts the National Philharmonic based at Strathmore. “I emailed [Piotr] and asked him if he wanted to test drive my orchestration,” said Hamer. “He was very interested, we met at Ingleside for two hours, and I sent him the material.” Both Hamer and Azrael said they hope that an opera company will now take an interest in the work and perform it. “We’d love it to be fully staged,” said Azrael.
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Legal eagle: Alan Dershowitz at JCCGW book fair n
Celebrity attorney-writercommentator to speak at Rockville book fair BY
ALAN DERSHOWITZ n When: Reception at 6:30 p.m., lecture at 7:30 p.m., Sunday
ELLYN WEXLER
n Where: JCC of Greater Washington, 6125 Montrose Road, Rockville
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Like many celebrities, Alan Dershowitz has a split personality. How does the “real Alan” see his public persona — what his son refers to as “the Dersh character”? “He can be a bit obnoxious at times, too opinionated, sometimes rude, but never boring,” said the 75-year-old high-profile attorney, Harvard Law School professor (since age 28), prolific writer (30 books plus more than 1,000 magazine, newspaper and journal articles) and outspoken commentator (especially in defense of Israel). From humble beginnings, born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Brooklyn, Dershowitz went on to Yale Law School, graduating first in his class. As a criminal lawyer, he has defended clients including Patty Hearst, Harry Reems, Angela Davis, Leona Helmsley and O.J. Simpson. Dershowitz, whose most recent book, “Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law,” was released Oct. 15, is coming to Rockville on Sunday evening for a Patrons Reception and Book Talk at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington’s Annual Book Fair. In anticipation of the event, he took some time to answer some questions. A&E: What was your career aspiration as
a child?
Dershowitz: To finish high school without getting expelled. I was a terrible student. I didn’t think much about college. But everybody I knew told me I would have to be a lawyer because I had a big mouth and a small brain. A&E: Who were the most influential people in your decision to become a lawyer, a teacher, a writer, a commentator? Were these actual decisions or evolutionary? Dershowitz: Everything I did was happenstance. I was never strategic about my career. Once I started to do well in college and law school, I wanted to do everything. I have a terminal case of FOMS — fear of missing something — so I never wanted to choose. My role model for not having to choose was General Telford Taylor, who was my professor at law school. He was an eminent appellate lawyer, a great teacher, a wonderful writer and a public intellectual. I tried to model my career after his. Fortunately, I was able to work with him on freeing Soviet Jews for a decade towards the end of his life. It was one of the great privileges of my life. A&E: Why do you do so many things? Do they nurture each other or do they dilute
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Irwin Cotler, we used every tactic available to keep Natan alive and to free him both from the gulag and from the Soviet Union. It took too long, but when we first undertook the case, there was real doubt as to whether he would survive the sentence. He is now a proud grandfather and one of the most important and influential spokespersons for the Jewish people. A&E: What authors do you read for plea-
sure? MICHAEL WESCHLER
your attention or effectiveness? Dershowitz: I do only one thing, but I do it in different ways and for different audiences. I am a teacher. I teach and learn in the classroom. I teach and learn in the courtroom. I teach and learn from my writing and on television. My teaching makes me a better practitioner and my practice makes me a better teacher. I live an integrated professional life, and so far I’ve managed to miss very little. A&E: How long did it take you to write
this book? Did you have a routine of writing daily? Do you write in a particular place? Dershowitz: In one sense, this book took me my entire life to write. In a more direct sense, it took me a couple of years. I write every day and wherever I happen to be: on airplanes, on trains, in waiting rooms, on Martha’s Vineyard, in Florida. I have no particular routine. I am an opportunistic writer. I write everything in long hand, with a ballpoint pen on legal pads. I don’t know how to type or use a computer. Fortunately, I have a great assistant who can read my handwriting. A&E: Which of your books are your fa-
vorites?
Dershowitz: Among my favorite books
are “Taking the Stand,” “The Genesis of Justice,” “Preemption,” “Just Revenge” and “Chutzpah.” The book I wish I didn’t have to write is “The Case for Israel,” but the outrageous charges leveled against Israel required a defense of the Jewish state. I hope I provided an adequate defense. A&E: Which of your cases are you proud-
est of?
Dershowitz: The case I am most proud of
is my defense of Natan Sharansky. Along with
Dershowitz: I have two categories. The first is classical literature: Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Costa. The second is contemporary fiction by authors such as Richard North Patterson and Linda Fairstein. There is a third category falling somewhere in between: Phillip Roth and Saul Bellow.
A&E: Is there something you regret not having accomplished? Dershowitz: If I did, I would try to still accomplish it. A&E: Are any of your children or grandchildren following in your footsteps? Dershowitz: The last thing I would ever want is for any child to follow in anyone’s footsteps. My three children and two grandchildren are incredibly individualistic, each following their own path. If I have had any influence on them, it is to encourage them to be individuals and not to follow into the footsteps of others. A&E: What do you do to relax? Dershowitz: For relaxation, I love sports.
At my age, it is now more watching them than participating in them. I spend a lot of time at Fenway Park and the Boston Garden. I also love long walks on the beach with my wife, Carolyn.
A&E: What do you see as your future? Do you have more books planned? Are you writing one now? Dershowitz: Yogi Berra once said that “prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” I have no idea what life holds in store for me. I plan to spend more time in Florida, also a bit more in New York and on Martha’s Vineyard. I am already working on my next book, which is tentatively entitled “Abraham: the world’s first (but certainly not last) Jewish lawyer.”
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Continued from Page B-5 theme of the impact of Jewish women in history with her latest book, “The Lady at the O.K. Corral,” available now. “I realized that’s a theme that really intrigued me, so when I heard about Wyatt Earp being married to a Jewish woman and buried in a Jewish cemetery and [that] all the myths that I grew up with about the American West were basically turned on their head, I was enormously drawn to it,” Kirschner said. After receiving an email from a friend about Earp’s burial in a Jewish cemetery in California, Kirschner said she was immediately intrigued. “I had that sense of glorious obsession when you’re on fire to understand something,” she said. “I wanted to learn how she ended up in Tombstone and how she ended up with Wyatt for 50 years.” Earp was a deputy sheriff known for the infamous 30-second gunfight in Tombstone, Ariz., the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, in which he and his two brothers killed two outlaws. Earp was married twice before meeting Marcus Earp. The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral has become a cultural touchstone in American history, often used as a metaphor for standoffs in contemporary America, most recently in regards to the federal government shutdown earlier this month. “We would love things to be black and white; simple solutions to really thorny situations,” Kirschner said. “We’re going to end this once and for all. The heroes are going to kill the villains.” For Kirschner, who grew up in the 1950s watching shows about the American West, her favorite of which was “The Life and Legend of
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Kang a message to see if she would be interested in leading a masterclass for Horman’s students. And again, to her pleasant surprise, Kang agreed. “We had a number of 140-character conversations where I felt like I was 14 and I was having to abbreviate things,” Horman laughed. “On the fourth one I thought, ‘I’m really sounding like a fool here,’ and asked her to move it to email.” Kang will hold an improv masterclass Monday at The Mansion at Strathmore. The event is co-sponsored by Strathmore Education and the Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra. Horman also received funding from the Walt Whitman High School Booster Club Fund. Four of Horman’s students along with two students from the Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra will take part in the class which culminates when the students accompany Kang on a showpiece. “When I told them, they went berserk,” Horman said of her students’ reaction to the news of Kang’s visit. “I don’t think I’ve ever been cool until I made that announcement.” A Montgomery County native, Horman founded her studio in 1991. She began playing the violin at age 5 and is a graduate of the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in Paris where she won the highly-coveted Premier Prix Solo Violin. Now an adjunct professor at the Catholic University of America, Horman teaches violin to students of all ages out of her home in Washington, D.C. “I have one student who is 32 who has been here since he was 12,” Horman said. “I’ve watched them go from beginners to startling young soloists.” Horman has worked tirelessly over the last 20 years to help the studio gain recognition. She’s organized masterclasses with concertmasters including Ricardo Cyncynates of the National Symphony Orchestra and Jonathan Carney with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. The Horman Violin Studio was also the only studio to team up with the National Symphony Orchestra for “NSO in Your Neighborhood” in D.C. in January. Horman credits the studio’s success with her willingness to ask for help, even in what is considered the “cutthroat” world of classical music. “People really want to help when it comes to the kids,” she said. “ ... That really warms my heart.” Working with violin students is something Kang said she’s made a priority
stress over. Born in Washington, D.C., Miller was raised in Florida and started putting videos of himself singing and rapping on YouTube when he was in high school. “I always just loved music, Miller said. “I always had music in my blood. My dad was in a band and my mom used to sing at tournaments and basketball games. I kind of grew up around music and, ever since I was little, I’ve enjoyed every kind of music – whether it was ’N Sync when I was really little and then John Mayer, Eminem, even the Beatles. I’m just a music lover in general. I don’t think it hit me that I wanted it to be my career path until probably ninth or 10th grade. I started like most kids just putting videos on YouTube just to see where it would get me and to see what kind of reaction I would get.” The reaction has been massive. Miller already has more than 221,000 YouTube subscribers with 25 million views, 319,000 Twitter followers and 220,000 likes on Facebook. What Miller described as starting out as a hobby quickly turned into the opportunity of a lifetime. “I don’t know where I’d be without [social media],” Miller said. “I always would talk to my parents about it and I honestly don’t know how people back in the day, like the Beatles ... blew up without social media. Obviously, nowadays social media is a very important tool. YouTube was the start of everything, so if I didn’t have an outlet to put my music, I’d probably be writing in my room still, singing to my family. Twitter and Facebook and Instagram are just another way to share to my fans and show them what I’m doing and what I’ve been up to. I literally live on social media. I owe a lot of my career to Twitter and Instagram and all that stuff because that’s where the fans discover me.” In 2011, in his first ever live performance, Miller opened for Snoop Dogg in Florida. Since then, he’s performed alongside R&B and hip-hop artists Flo Rida,
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Judy Kang will hold a masterclass Monday for students of the Horman Violin Studio and the Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra.
JUDY KANG n When: 7 p.m. Monday n Where: The Mansion at Strathmore, 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda n Tickets: Free and open to the public. Seating is limited. n For information: To reserve a seat, email Betty Scott at bscott@stratmore. org
throughout the course of her career. “Since I started performing, I definitely incorporate the opportunity to visit schools ...” Kang said. “I wanted to have the opportunity to work with [Horman’s students] and also be a part of something together.” Ultimately, Kang said she hopes stu-
dents at the Monday masterclass walk away with confidence not just in the technical aspects of the instruments but in terms of their own musical identity as well. “I want each of them to take away this confidence and trust themselves to see what they want to improve on,” Kang said. “They’re each their own individual artist with unique personalities ...” Not surprisingly, embracing her own unique personality is something Kang said was greatly encouraged during the Lady Gaga tour. “She trusted us to do our own thing,” Kang said. “The thing I appreciated about Gaga ... was the openness to allow each individual in the band to really just kind of bring ourselves to the music.” chedgepeth@gazette.net
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Wyatt Earp,” Earp became the face of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. But it was his common law wife of 50 years who later fascinated Kirschner. “The Jewish dimension of this story of a frontier woman really grabbed me,” Kirschner said. “If you read the histories of the West, you would think that there were no women there ... if you leave women out of the picture, you’re not really understanding the true history of the time. My motivation was to put the women back in the picture.” Beyond Marcus Earp, Kirschner said she was also intrigued by the Jewish communities that settled in the American West. “I was fascinated by early Jewish communities in places like Tombstone and Nome, Alaska,” Kirschner said. “It struck me as fascinating; these untold stories of the settling of the U.S. Who knew they were celebrating the Jewish New Year in Tombstone?” Marcus Earp’s Jewish identity will be a major focus of Kirschner’s talks on Nov. 14. “[She] raises interesting questions about Jewish identity and when it’s easy to have a Jewish identity and when it’s difficult,” Kirschner said. “Some people think Josephine was a negative role model because she was so indifferent.” The author said she hopes readers and listeners will also consider their own identity in reading “The Lady at the O.K. Corral.” “We think about the Jewish community we grew up in and I’d be interested in having a conversation about when it’s difficult to be Jewish, how are you Jewish?” Kirschner said. “It’s a very important time to think about how we define being Jewish and ... how do we pass it on to the next generation.”
Sean Kingston, Mac Miller, Ne-Yo and Cee Lo Green. “We perform with huge celebrities and my musical heroes, to be honest,” Miller said. “Even to this day, I still get starstruck when I see them and I’m still blown away how I’m sharing the stage with the person I listened to growing up. It’s crazy.” Miller released an EP in 2012 called “The Road Less Traveled.” It debuted at No. 1 on the iTunes Hip Hop Chart. The song “A Million Lives” off that EP cracked the top-10 on SiriusXM. The video for the song has more than 3.5 million views on YouTube. The song chronicles the lives of people going through hardships. “‘A Million Lives’ is a song I put out about a year ago that’s basically a song I wrote for my fans,” Miller said. “It’s kind of like a tribute to my fans because they always tell me how much I inspire them and how my music inspires them, but really they inspire me just as much. This song is just a story about fans who write me fan mail and they’re telling me how my music has gotten them through [a tough] situation, whether it’s being bullied or fighting cancer or losing someone that they know. Not only has it launched my career … more importantly it’s kind of opened my eyes to how important it is to put out music that has a positive message instead of music without any real lyrical depth. I’ve always said music with no message was just sound.” Miller said he hopes his music is enjoyed by everyone, no matter how old they are. “I hope people take away from my music that it’s just positive and it makes them feel good,” Miller said. “I want my music to be the music parents can listen to in the car with their kids. It’s on the line of edgy and cool, but it’s not too cool where families can’t listen to it together because I’m talking about bad stuff. I want it to be that perfect line where guys can listen to it, girls can listen to it, kids can listen to it, adults … everybody can just relate to it and feel good listening to it.” wfranklin@gazette.net
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Part-Time/20-hrs p/Week - Overnight Shift - 10:45 p.m. - 7:15 a.m., Fridays & Saturdays & alternating Sundays to fill shift rotation. Part of multi-disciplinary team working w/ emotionally disturbed adolescents. Nurses work closely with other members of a treatment team (counselors, psychiatrists, therapists and educators.) Psychiatric experience w/adolescents required. Current Maryland Nursing License required. Generous paid leave & other MD State benefits. Salary negotiable pursuant to experience + shift differential. Send resume w/cover memo to: John L. Gildner RICA, HR, 15000 Broschart Road, Rockville, MD 20850 - Fax : 301-251-6815 Or e-mail to: demetra.swarr@maryland.gov EEO
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Gaithersburg, MD Part Time grounds / porter needed for busy apartment community. You will assist in maintaining the grounds, outdoor facilities & interior common areas. Duties include, but are not limited to picking up trash, delivering notices to residents, shoveling snow, assisting in the turnover of apartments, cleaning halls, painting, etc. Most work is outdoors. Walk-ins are welcome during normal business hours. Send resume to: Corrigan Square - Part Time Grounds 8511 Snouffer School Road, #11 Gaithersburg, MD 20879 Email: Corrigan-Square@GradyMgt.com EEO M/F/D www.gradymgt.com
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2000 TOYOTA AVALON XLS 172K + miles, loaded, excel cond, $6595 3019721435 HONDA FIT 2007 5 DR 5 speed manual PW/AC 2 5 K miles, MD inspected, 1 owner $8999 301-340-3984 MERCEDES 2001 C240 4 DR, 6 spd manual, MD inspect only 73K miles $7000 301-3403984
V.W GOLF 2001 GTI 80K MIL 5 sp VR 6 MD inspect, $4999 301-3403984
NEW 2013 PRIUS PLUG-IN
$
219/mo.**
4 DR., 4 CYL., AUTO
NEW 2013 HIGHLANDER 4X2 2 AVAILABLE: #363400, 363401
24,690
$
AFTER TOYOTA $1,500 REBATE
4x4, 61k, PW, PL, CD...................$8,950
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2007 Nissan Sentra
6 Spd, AC, PW, PL, CD..........$8,950
2002 BMW 330ci Conv
Leather, Hardtop...................$11,950
2009 Pontiac Vibe
AWD, PW, PL, CD...............$12,950
2007 Pontiac Torrent
AWD,57k,NewTires,PW,PL,CD. $13,450
2008 Chevy Equinox LT
AWD,PW,PL,CD,XM,RemoteStart.......$13,925
2012 Jeep Liberty 4x4
39k, PW, PL, CD.....................$18,750
2013 Dodge Grand Caravan
20K, PW, PL, 7 Pass............$18,950
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10 Miles South of Frederick www.burdettebrothers.com
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NEW 2014 COROLLA L
3 AVAILABLE: #377702, 377701, 377725
36
4x4, Leather, Sunroof.............$8,495
2004 Chevy Blazer
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VOLVO 2004 SUV XC90 T6 awd 7 pass, MD inspect, 1 owner $5999 301340-3984
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2003 GMC Envoy SLT
2 AVAILABLE: #470207, 470125
$
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NEW 2014 SCION XD 2 AVAILABLE: #453004, 453003
$
4 CYL., AUTO
15,690
4 DR., AUTO, 4 CYL., INCL.
169/mo.**
4 CYL., 4 DR., AUTO
NEW 2013 RAV4 LE 4X2 BASE 2 AVAILABLE: #364450, 364496
NEW 2014 CAMRY LE 2 AVAILABLE: #472051, 472014
36 Month Lease $
149/mo.**
$
4 DR., 4 CYL., AUTO
AFTER $500 REBATE
17,590
$
AFTER $750 REBATE
4 DR., AUTO, 4 CYL.,
4 CYL., AUTOMATIC
NEW 2014 CAMRY LE
NEW 2013 PRIUS C II
2 AVAILABLE: #377729, 377616
20,890
3 AVAILABLE: #472086, 472021, 472071
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19,890
AUTO, 4 CYL., 4 DR
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15625 Frederick Rd (Rte 355) • Rockville, MD n OPEN SUNDAY n VISIT US ON THE WEB AT www.355Toyota.com
PRICES AND PAYMENTS INCLUDE ANY APPLICABLE MANUFACTURE’S REBATES AND EXCLUDE MILITARY ($500) AND COLLEGE GRAD ($500) REBATES, TAX, TAGS, DEALER PROCESSING CHARGE ($200) AND FREIGHT: CARS $795 OR $810, TRUCKS, SPORT UTILITY AND SIENNAS $810, $845 AND $995. *0.9% APR & 0% APR FINANCING UP TO 60 MONTHS TO QUALIFIED BUYERS THRU TOYOTA FINANCIAL SERVICES. TOTAL FINANCED CANNOT EXCEED MSRP PLUS OPTIONS, TAX, AND LICENSE FEES. 0% APR 60 MONTHLY PAYMENTS OF $16.67 FOR EACH $1000 BORROWED. 0.9% APR 60 MONTHLY PAYMENTS OF $17.05 FOR EACH $1000 BORROWED. APR OFFERS ARE NOT VALID WITH ANY OTHER CASH BACK OR LEASE OFFER. NOT ALL BUYERS WILL QUALIFY.**LEASE PAYMENTS BASED ON 36 MONTHS, 12,000 MILES PER YEAR WITH $995 DOWN PLUS $650 ACQUISITION FEE, NO SECURITY DEPOSIT REQUIRED. SEE DEALER FOR COMPLETE DETAILS. OFFERS EXPIRES 11-30-13.
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