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Graduates huddle together doing a freestyle “HMMMM” rap prior to the Clarksburg High School commencement on Friday morning at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Emmitsburg. Clarksburg graduated 457 students.

A judge sentenced a Gaithersburg man on Friday to serve ﬁve years in prison for sexually touching two girls in county middle schools in 2004 and in 2014. The sentence satisfies the terms of a plea agreement reached in April between defendant Jose Pineda, 50, of Gaithersburg, a former substitute teacher, and the county’s state’s attorney’s ofﬁce. The plea means that Pineda will not go to trial on charges of third-degree sex offense and sex abuse of a child, sparing the victims from having to testify. “I’m thankful they will not have to relive [the experience],”

the mother of a girl who was molested last year said in court. The Gazette does not usually identify by name the victims of sex offenses. The mother is not being named to protect the identity of her daughter. Pineda, who taught math and other middle school subjects, repeatedly brushed his arm or hand across the victims’ buttocks, in one case squeezing them, according to charging documents. In another case, he stuck his hand up a victim’s shorts and touched her buttock, charging documents said. Members of Pineda’s family spoke at the sentencing hearing, saying he has a good character. His son, Jose Pineda Jr., said he believed his father could change. But Assistant State’s Attorney Timothy Hagan said Pineda violated the trust students put

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Khadija Barkley has been principal of Clemente Middle School in Germantown since 2009, but she will leave that post

kids the opportunity to appreciate multiple perspectives,” Barkley said. But, she said, the opportunity to help lead the Saturday School, as the Learning Academy is called, dropped in her lap and she took it. “It’s now because the opportunity presented itself,” she said. “The [current] executive director is retiring.” The George B. Thomas Sr. Learning Academy Inc. is a nonproﬁt tutoring and

mentoring program in reading and language arts, math and test-taking skills for students in grades 1 through 12. It meets from 8:30 to 11 a.m. on Saturday mornings from late September through May. “[It] was established in 1986 as the Olney Saturday School by members of the Mu Nu Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. Recognizing a growing need in the community, these individuals fo-

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Germantown Alliance can mark May 28 as the date for a new beginning, More than 40 people attended a meeting that Thursday evening at BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown to recreate the community organization and share current needs and issues. The original Germantown Alliance began in 1975-76 to discuss the needs of the growing community and advocate for those needs before the County Council. Since Germantown is

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“Tonight, we had twice as many people as we expected. I’m really elated about it, [for] a town this size we need to have a robust civic association.” Marilyn Balcombe, president, Gaithersburg Germantown Chamber of Commerce not a city or town, the community had to be united to make county and state agencies aware of its needs, according to Susan Soderberg, president of the Germantown Historical Society. Somehow the group “fizzled out” in 2002, according to Soderberg, though Marilyn Bal-

combe, president of the Gaithersburg Germantown Chamber of Commerce, said she thinks it was around until 2008 or 2009. Either way, Germantown has not had a uniﬁed voice for a number of years. Soderberg said the Alliance

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Jacob Max Migdall, one of 295 graduates, proceeds into the Poolesville High School commencement on Thursday morning at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Emmitsburg.

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cused on helping youngsters who needed additional academic support in order to be successful in school. The ﬁrst learning academy began with 21 children and 19 volunteers who met on Saturday mornings at the day care center at the Housing Opportunities Commission in Olney, Maryland,” according to the Learning

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June 30 to become executive director of the George B. Thomas Sr. Learning Academy, based in Silver Spring. Barkley said she has loved her time at Clemente and the work she and her staff have done toward bringing the Middle Years International Baccalaureate Program to the school. “I’m excited about the Middle Years program coming here because it gives

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ing, 6:30-7:30 p.m., American Red Cross, Jerome H. Holland Laboratory, Seminar Room C-106, Derwood. Improve communication and leadership skills. Free for ﬁrst-time visitors. contact-614319@toastmastersclubs.org.

Ninth Annual Jubilation Day Gospel Concert, the Chosen Vessels from Pleas-

ant Grove Christian Community Church of Damascus, 4-8 p.m., Concert Pavilion, Gaithersburg City Hall, 31 S. Summit Ave. Free. Limited chairs; bring chair or blanket.

THURSDAY, JUNE 4 Thursday Evenings in Olde Towne Concert Series, Diamond Alley, 6 p.m., Gaith-

ersburg City Hall Concert Pavilion, 31 S. Summit Ave. Free. Bring chair or blanket. gaithersburgmd.gov or 301-258-6350. Thursday Morning Kids Concerts, storyteller Noa Baum, 10:30 a.m., Gaithersburg City Hall Concert Pavilion, 31. S. Summit Ave. gaithersburgmd.gov or 301258-6350. Thursday Night Summer Concert Series, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Rockville Town

Square, 200 East Middle Lane, Rockville. Free. jpowell@federalrealty.com. Lake Life Hike, 10-11 a.m., 11950 Clopper Road, Gaithersburg. Meet at the boat center to learn about wildlife in and around Clopper Lake. Wear comfortable shoes. Free. 301-924-2127 or scspnaturalist@gmail.com. Reptile Encounter, 6-6:30 p.m., Nature Shack, 11950 Clopper Road, Gaithersburg. 30-minute program for children. Free. 301924-2127 or scspnaturalist@gmail.com.

Ted’s 355 Diner, back room, 895 Rockville Pike, Rockville. The speakers will be: Frank Gaffney, assistant secretary of defense under President Ronald Reagan and founder and president of the Center of Security Policy in Washington, D.C.; and Noah Silverman, the congressional affairs director for the Republican Jewish Coalition. $5. 301-417-9256 or katmcgop@gmail.com.

FRIDAY, JUNE 5 Evening Pontoon Tour, 7-8 p.m., 11950 Clopper Road, Gaithersburg. A 45-minute tour of the 90-acre Clopper Lake. Meet at the boat center. $2 per person. Limited to 20 people. Registration required. 301-9242127 or scspnaturalist@gmail.com.

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Arts on the Green World Music Series, “Kora and Percussion” by Amadou Kouyate 8 p.m., Gaithersburg Arts Barn, 311 Kent Square Road. $25, $12 for 18 and under. Tickets: gaithersburgmd.gov or 301-258-6394. Montgomery Village Farmers’ Market, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Christ the Servant Lutheran Church, 9801 Centerway Road. Opening day. Seventeen vendors with produce, juices, sweets, meats, cheeses and wine. Free. 240-243-2367 or awatkins@mvf.org. Bazaar and car wash, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., First African Methodist Episcopal Church, 17620 Washington Grove Lane, Gaithersburg. 240-632-9760. ﬁrstamegaithersburg. org. Saybrooke Community Yard Sale, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., Saybrooke Oaks Boulevard at Mid-County Highway, Gaithersburg. 301519-9263 or rickriley@mris.com.

A Celebration of Life-Cancer Survivor Day 2015, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Montgomery

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School of Photography, 12276 Wilkins Ave., Rockville. Camera club members will showcase where they have traveled and the transportation they used. Free. 202489-8784 or arwphw@verizon.net.

Little Tots: Kidsinger Jim, 10:30 a.m., Rio Atrium at Rio Washington Center, 209 Boardwalk Place, Gaithersburg. Summer series is every other Wednesday. lyankowski@petersoncos.com.

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County Conference Center, 5701 Marinelli Road, North Bethesda. Educational workshops, beauty tips, health expo. Free transportation and child care. Registration required: cancersurvivorday.org/registration/register. 301-816-7160 or cancersurvivorday@kp.org. MoCo Youth Pride Open Mic, 2-5 p.m., Elwood Smith Recreation Center, 601 Harrington Road, Rockville. LGBTQ audience members are invited to perform. Snacks and beverages provided. Free. lgbtq.youth. forum@gmail.com. Hike it Mama Outdoor Event, 8:4511:30 a.m., Sugarloaf Mountain, 7901 Comus Road, Dickerson. Sponsored by Fro Fit Moms, an online community of busy mothers. $6. naturallyme35@gmail.com. Invasive Plant Hike, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Seneca Creek State Park, 11950 Clopper Road, Gaithersburg. Meet at Kingﬁsher Overlook. Wear comfortable shoes. 301924-2127 or scspnaturalist@gmail.com.

Germantown Recreational Park, Heart Trail Parking Lot, 14501 Schaeffer Road, Germantown. To support Germantown HELP. Bring non-perishable food for the pantry. 301-540-4300 or trinityumc@starpower.net.

SUNDAY, JUNE 7 Critter Scene Investigation, 5-6 p.m., Seneca Creek State Park, 11950 Clopper Road, Gaithersburg. Learn how to identify animal tracks left by various critters. Meet at the nature shack by the recycled tire playground. 301-924-2127 or scspnaturalist@gmail.com. Maryland Community Band Day, noon-8 p.m., Dr. Gordon W. Bowie Pavilion, South Valley Park, 19003 Watkins Mill Road, Montgomery Village. Eight bands from around the state will perform. Food vendors. Rain or shine. Free. 301-948-0110 or jserlo@mvf.org. Summer/Fall Open House, noon-3 p.m., Metropolitan Ballet Theatre & Academy, 220 Perry Parkway, Gaithersburg. Free sample classes, prize drawings, light refreshments. 301-762-1757 or contact@ mbtdance.org.

MONDAY, JUNE 8 Birding for Beginners, 6-7 p.m., Seneca Creek State Park, 11950 Clopper Road, Gaithersburg. Bring binoculars and comfortable shoes. Free. 301-924-2127 or scspnaturalist@gmail.com.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 9 Germantown Town Center Talkers Toastmasters, 7:30-9 p.m., room 226,

Northwest High School, 13501 Richter Farm Road, Germantown. Build public speaking and leadership skills. Free. Guests welcome. 4153@toastmastersclubs.org. Tuesday Topics After Hours, actress Leigh Jameson portrays Blanche Fulks Severance, 7-8:30 p.m., Gaithersburg Community Museum, restored train station, Summit and Diamond avenues. $5. 301-258-6160 or gaithersburgmd.gov.

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10 40th Anniversary Celebration, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Fox Chapel Elementary School, 19315 Archdale Road, Germantown. For all current and former students. Free. 301-353-8055 or FoxChapel40@gmail.com.

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Two county student athletes receive scholarships Two Montgomery County high school seniors were among 14 recipients of the 2015 Minds In Motion Scholarships provided by The Allstate Foundation Thursday at the Raven’s Locker Room at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. Paula Kleyman from Winston Churchill High School in Potomac and Diego Alejandro Zarate from Northwest High School in Germantown were selected from more than 500 applicants nominated for excellence on the playing ﬁeld and in the classroom, according to a press release. Each recipient received a $1,000 scholarship. “The Allstate Foundation is proud to recognize these outstanding students for their stellar performance in the classroom along with their extracurricular activities,” Kyla O’Brien, spokesperson for The Allstate Foundation said in a press release. “Clearly these young leaders are the future and it is an honor to support them in their future endeavors for higher education.” Applicants must have a minimum 3.25 unweighted overall GPA and have participated in interscholastic athletic activities sponsored by the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association during their high school careers. Kleyman’s academic honors include membership in Churchill’s Math, Science, & Engineering National Honor Society. She is a National Merit Scholar Finalist and a member of the school Key Club where she was

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involved in volunteer service projects, according to a press release. She is a 12-season athlete who participated in Cross Country and Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field. She earned 11 varsity letters. Zarate is a member of the National Science Honor Society, an AP Scholar with Honor and an Hispanic Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC Region, Silver Youth Award recipient. He is a four year, 12-season athlete who participated in Cross Country, Indoor Track and Field and Outdoor Track and Field, according to the release. He won state 4A titles in the 1600m run the past two seasons of indoor track and in the 2014 outdoor season. He also won the state 4A title in the 800m run this past indoor season. This spring, he placed third in the Boys Championship Mile at the Penn Relays.

Damascus senior selected for Boys State Isaac Avon, a rising senior at Damascus High School, will represent Damascus American Legion Post 171 at the 2015 Boys State at McDaniel College in Westminster during the week of June 21-27, according to a press release. At Damascus, Isaac serves as president of the Young Conservatives Club and is a member of the varsity lacrosse and golf teams in addition to being an honor student. He is the son of Bridgit and Patrick Avon. American Legion Boys State is an educational program of government instruction for high school students. During the week, each participant becomes a part of the operation of his local, county and state government. “At American Legion Boys State, participants are exposed to the rights and privileges, the duties and the responsibilities of a franchised citizen,” according to the Boys State website.

POLICE BLOTTER The following is a summary of incidents in the Germantown area to which Montgomery County police responded recently. The words “arrested” and “charged” do not imply guilt. This information was provided by the county.

Vehicle larceny • Five thefts from vehicles occurred in the Gunners Lake area in the early morning hours of May 13. Affected streets included Flag Harbour Drive, Island View

Circle and Sky Blue Court. No forced entry, took property. • Seven thefts from vehicles occurred in the Little Seneca Creek area in the early morning hours of May 17. Affected streets included Timber Oak Lane and Lavender Place. No forced entry, took property. • Five thefts from vehicles occurred in the early morning hours of May 18. Affected streets included Hamlet Square Court, Autumn Mist Circle, Metz Court and Sky Blue Drive. Forced entry, took property.

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Matt Johnson, Watkins Mill special education paraeducator, leaps for the ball with Sandy Young, an AP U.S. history and IB teacher, backing him up. Clarksburg’s Sean Kelly, a special education specialist stands safe on the bag.

Steve Whiting, Clarksburg Principal, tries to tag Tom Sneddon, a Watkins Mill social studies teacher at second base. Faculty, staff and administrators from Watkins Mill and Clarksburg High Schools gathered for a kickball game on Thursday afternoon at the Montgomery Village campus. Watkins Mill won 3-1.

Montgomery County Civic Federation to host banquet standing civic activism over the course of many years, according to a press release. They are the Takoma Park Young Activist Club, the MCCF Planning and Land Use Committee and Save Our Seminary at Forest Glen. To make reservations for the banquet, visit www.montgomerycivic. org. — GAZETTE STAFF

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’Tis the season for fresh vegetables, ripe new fruit and being outside. Clarksburg Farmers Market, opening Sunday, is just to place to fulﬁll all those summertime requirements. The market will celebrate opening day from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the parking lot behind Bennigan’s Restaurant, 23315 Frederick Road. Sunday’s opening will be the ﬁrst of the market’s Super Sundays, Taty Franklin, co-president of the market’s steering committee, said. “One Sunday a month we have a Super Sunday,” Franklin said. “We have a band and we include community partners, like booths about recycling, the Soccerplex and Whole Foods.

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Clarksburg Farmers Market will open for the season on Sunday. Local fruits, vegetables, ﬂowers, baked goods and other items will be on sale Sundays through the end of October. We try to bring awareness to the market.” Additional Super Sunday’s this season are scheduled for July 19, Aug. 23, Sept. 27 and Oct. 25, the market’s closing Sunday for this season.

Regular vendors provide locally grown fruits and vegetables plus baked goods, herbs, honey, jellies and jams, fresh ﬂowers, jewelry and crafts. Holly Morgan, also on the steering committee, sells jewelry and crafts. “That’s how I got involved in the market,” she said. “I went from being a vendor to being on the committee.” The Clarksburg market does more than just provide a place for vendors and buyers to meet,

Franklin said. “The main mission of the market is to give back,” she said. “We have a program call ‘Fresh Give’ that allows us to purchase produce from the [vendors] at the close of the day and it is picked up by Manna Food Center.” Diane McDade, co-president of the market with Franklin, said the Fresh Give program allows Manna’s clients to enjoy

fresh local produce. “The produce is out of the ground Sunday morning and on somebody’s plate Monday night,” she said. Manna Food Center, a nonproﬁt organization, is the main food source in Montgomery County for people in need, according to the group’s website. Manna partners with five farmers markets in the area, including Clarksburg, through the

Fresh Give program, Jenna Umbriac, director of Manna’s nutrition programs, wrote in an email. “Through grant funds and individual donations, Manna provides the market manager with a small weekly stipend to ‘purchase’ unsold produce and seconds from farm market vendors at the end of each market day. In exchange for this small amount of money, our participating vendors pass off large [amounts of] produce that we can distribute to families who receive food support from Manna over the course of the next week,” Umbriac wrote in the email. “The Clarksburg Farmers Market has been a champion of this program allowing us to set up donation tables at different weekends of the year (even staffing the table themselves) and instituting an annual ‘Chopped’ food demo competition between our nutrition education staff and Chef Charlie of Whole Foods Market to raise awareness and funds,” Umbriac wrote. “Last year, Clarksburg market vendors provided 8,815 pounds of fresh, regional product to Montgomery County families through this program. Across all of our market partners we collected about 110,000 pounds.” pmcewan@gazette.net

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Fox Chapel Elementary School will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a Sweet Celebration from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. June 10 at the school, 19315 Archdale Road, Germantown. The evening celebration will feature a dessert bar and entertainment including live music, juggling, a photo booth and face painting, according to a release. All former staff and students

are invited to the event and are encouraged to bring old photos and other memorabilia to share. There will be free shuttle bus service to Fox Chapel from Seneca Valley High School, 19401 Crystal Rock Road, Germantown. Reservations are requested at foxchapel40@gmail.com. — GAZETTE STAFF

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Center will help children prepare for kindergarten

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When the new Silver Spring Library opens June 20, it will feature a special section designed to foster pre-literacy skills in children. A $100,000 earmark, or bond bill, from the state will help the library with the project. A section of the new library will be known as the Early Literacy Center. It will feature interactive installations, or modules, that target skills children need before entering kindergarten. It will be the first of its kind in a county library. Kathlin Smith, a volunteer with the Friends of the Library Silver Spring Chapter, said the goal was to raise about $220,000 to create the Early Literacy Center. Roughly half of that will come from the state, thanks to the bond bill introduced by Sen. Jamie B. Raskin and Del. Sheila E. Hixson, who both represent District 20, including Silver Spring. The rest of the money to create the center was raised by the nonprofit Friends of the Library chapter. “We are very grateful for the funding we’ve gotten,” Smith said. Money raised from the community will allow the library to open June 20 with some of the Early Literacy Center in place. The state funding will allow the library to complete the center, Smith said. State Department of Education data from 2014-2015 Kindergarten Readiness Assessment Report show that about 44 percent of Montgomery County children were fully ready in the areas of language and literacy to enter kindergarten. However, the report found children from certain subgroups — English language learners, children with disabilities and children from low-income families — consistently begin school without the skills and behaviors needed to succeed in kindergarten. The differences are part of what is often referred to as the achievement gap. Only 21 percent of children with disabilities were prepared with the skills and behaviors needed to succeed in kindergarten, compared to 50 percent of children without a disability, the report found. Among English language learners, only 25 percent entered kindergarten with the skills and behaviors needed to succeed, compared to 60 percent of their English-speaking peers. Thirty percent of children from low-income families enter kindergarten with the skills and behaviors needed to succeed, compared to 60 percent of children from mid- to high-income families, according to the report. The Early Literacy Center will be a place where children can foster the critical skills to prepare for kindergarten, Smith said. The center will be open to everyone during normal library hours. It will encompass about 2,000 square feet of the new library’s children’s floor. The Early Literacy Center was one of 18 Montgomery County capital projects the state budget supported this session. The Writer’s Center in Glen Echo was granted $310,000 to add another floor to its Walsh Street location. Cornerstone Montgomery and Interfaith Works were given $350,000 to buy, renovate and equip an outpatient mental health clinic in Rockville.

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A student representing Montgomery County at the Scripps National Spelling Bee spelled his words correctly on stage in two rounds on May 27, but did not advance to the semifinals. Raffae Chowdhury, 11, of Clarksburg was sponsored by The Meakem Group of Bethesda. Raffae’s spelling journey took him through a written preliminary test, which included spelling and vocabulary, and two rounds of on-stage oral spelling. Competitors, including Raffae, who successfully spelled their oral words correctly then had the score of their written test calculated into a total score to determine the semifinalists. That round was limited to 50 according to the National Spelling Bee website. This year, 49 made the final cut. Vanya Shivashankar, 13, of Kansas, and Gokul Venkatachalam, 14, of Missouri, were declared co-winners during Thursday’s finals, the second year in a row that the bee has resulted in a tie. The competition is single elimination. Competitors are

eliminated for spelling a word incorrectly. In the ﬁrst two rounds of the preliminaries, Raffae correctly spelled “aggregate” and “kokopu.” Kokopu are various New Zealand ﬁshes of the genus Galaxias, that resemble trout, according to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary. Raffae, a Rocky Hill Middle School sixth-grader, was among 285 students age 9 to 15 competing in the National Spelling Bee at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md. National Spelling Bee competitors include students from the United States, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Department of Defense Schools in Europe. It also included students from the Bahamas, Canada, China, Ghana, Jamaica, Japan and South Korea. Raffae won the Rocky Hill Spelling Bee on Jan. 30 by spelling “granulation” correctly. In March, he won the Montgomery County regional bee, competing against 37 elementary and middle school students. His victory came after 12 rounds when he correctly spelled “pantheistic,” a doctrine that equates God with the forces and laws of the universe, according to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary. pmcewan@gazette.net

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A parent and some state legislators want Montgomery County Public Schools to publish test data so the community can see how students perform and, in some cases, do worse than their peers. A school system official said the district doesn’t plan to change what data it publishes. However, a task force is looking at how the district might change county quizzes to be a better fit for ESOL students and certain students with disabilities. Katie Spurlock, a school system parent who taught English in New York, is calling for public access to data from countywide tests given to middle or high school students. Some are formative tests, or quizzes, and others are summative tests, such as semester and final exams. As the district takes on an

effort to review all testing in its schools, Spurlock said discussion should include public examination of the summative and formative results. Spurlock said her request stems from concern about the district’s English tests for middle school students, speciﬁcally how ESOL and special education students perform compared to peers. She said some of those students take the tests that measure reading and language ability and fail them multiple times a year — “more or less because of who you are and not what you did” in class. “I think we need the data to understand how the students are experiencing the test,” she said. In response to a Maryland Public Information Act request from Spurlock, the school system provided data from 2013-14 for formative and summative tests across a number of English courses in different grades and class levels. Data shows that ESOL and special education students, compared to other student groups, consistently earned mean scores that were the lowest or among the lowest.

“To me, it’s not a minor thing that a student with a disability or a student who’s an English language learner can look forward to failing all of these uniform tests,” Spurlock said of the English tests. Publishing data for all summative and formative tests would help the public understand performance trends and ensure that school officials are examining the information and are held accountable for the tests, Spurlock said. She said others support her position.

Maria V. Navarro, the district’s chief academic ofﬁcer, said performance gaps are clear in other data the district does put out. The district is not considering publishing formative test results, Navarro said, because quizzes are meant to provide information for staff to ﬁgure out instruction and gauge how students are doing at a given time. That data is not “a done deal,” she said. Summative test results, she said, are only a portion of students’ grades. The district would need to pull data from hundreds of courses, she said.

Navarro pointed to gaps apparent in a presentation to the county school board on high school milestones — certain targets the district uses to assess students at several points in their education. The board will hear about elementary and middle school milestone data in June, she said. Milestone information, she said, demonstrates not just whether students passed or failed, but if they reached a threshold, such as a grade of C or higher. The district’s School Support and Improvement Framework also provides the public with data about schools and student performance, she said. While the data she asked for won’t be published, Spurlock’s advocacy on the issue spurred the district to create a task force looking at formative tests in middle and high schools, Navarro said. The group will make recommendations about how the district can develop and teachers can use formative tests in different ways for ESOL students and certain students with disabilities. Spurlock said she sees student performance gaps in currently published data, but there’s a need to see “the trees instead of just the big-picture forest” to help determine where students are doing poorly. State Del. Eric Luedtke (DDist. 14), a county school system teacher, said formative test results don’t portray how much a student ends up achieving. However, he supports publishing summative test data broken down by student groups. That information can help gauge how the district is serving students with special needs and

ESOL students, he said. There’s also a need for broader community discussion, he said. “I think people often draw the wrong assumptions from data, simplistic assumptions from data,” he said. In December 2014, State Sen. Richard S. Madaleno Jr. (D-Dist. 18) wrote to former Superintendent Joshua P. Starr and school board President Patricia O’Neill on behalf of eight other state current and incoming legislators that publishing formative and summative test data would, among other things, let the public “participate more fruitfully” in talks about the achievement gaps. He said in a recent interview he still hopes the school system will publish the data. Test results could help improve classroom instruction and let parents and others understand how students are doing and if there has been progress, he said. He said he hopes district ofﬁcials understand that consistent poor performance on such tests has an effect on how students feel about tests, school and themselves. “You want a challenging curriculum that’s going to push students to be creative, successful adults,” he said. “But, on the other hand, you don’t want to create an assessment system that sucks the optimism out of them.” For Diego Uriburu, executive director of Identity Inc. — an organization focused on Latino youths — more speciﬁc data would be good to have. He doubted, however, that his organization would have the time to delve into information beyond what the district currently puts

MCPS TEST DATA The following data are examples of summative (such as midterms or ﬁnal exams) test results for Montgomery County Public Schools students in 2013-14. Katie Spurlock, a school system parent and former English teacher, obtained these results and others through a Maryland Public Information Act request. English 6 Semester B exam mean scores All students White Asian IEP* ESOL**

81.15 85.45 86.14 66.54 61.45

English 9B ﬁnal exam mean scores (June) All students White Asian IEP* ESOL**

68.3 74.23 73.35 61.99 53.77

English 12A ﬁnal exam mean scores All students White Asian IEP* ESOL**

70.54 76.63 73.97 65.28 62.75

*individualized education program for special education students **English for speakers of other languages

SOURCE: MCPS

out. The “macro level” data available is “worrisome enough,” he said. lpowers@gazette.net

Moving on Edward Dana of Silver Spring was one of 17 students who graduated Thursday from Montgomery County’s Regional Institute for Children & Adolescents in Rockville. The school serves students in grades 4 through 12 with special needs, such as emotional or learning disabilities, autism and other health impairments. PHOTO BY SAMANTHA FOLEY

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MCPS students to take shorter state tests next year n

School board president says ofﬁcials ‘relieved’ BY

LINDSAY A. POWERS STAFF WRITER

Montgomery County students will have a lighter state test load next school year. After recent changes, students will take the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness of College and Careers tests during one period in the spring, rather than two. Overall testing time also was cut, as was the number of test portions. The PARCC consortium voted May 20 to make the changes, according to a release from the Maryland State Department of Education. The consortium involves multiple states, including Maryland, as well as the District of Columbia. “The changes were made in response to feedback from parents, students and educators during the ﬁrst year of testing

and a careful review of test design,” the release said. “Transition is always difficult, but I think this is going to be a very beneficial transition,” said Suzanne Woertz, supervisor of the county school system’s testing unit. “I think [the changes are] going to be better for schools, for students, for anybody who’s involved in administering or taking the PARCC.” The county school district fully implemented the tests for the first time this school year. Students in third through eighth grades take math and English language arts tests. High school students studying Algebra 1, Algebra 2 and English 10 take corresponding tests. Woertz said the district now will determine a single 30-day testing period within a larger window the consortium provided from around early April to early June. A district group tasked with deciding that period is trying to find a time when students will have gone through as much of the curriculum as possible, she

said. This year, the PARCC tests were divided into two groups. The “performance-based assessments,” which students took in March, were longer and more complicated than the “end-of-year assessments” taken in April and May. Next year, all students will take three English language arts units and math will involve either three or four units, depending on the grade, Woertz said. Students will take between one and three fewer units compared to this year, also based on grade, according to a PARCC document describing the changes. Testing time will be cut by roughly 90 minutes for all grades. Woertz said school ofﬁcials heard from teachers, administrators and parents that the tests took too much time away from classroom instruction. Not only will students now spend less time with the tests, so will school testing coordinators, she said. District staff will spend less time on tasks such as setting

Suspension rates fall in county schools Board ofﬁcials describe ‘misinformation,’ ‘urban legends’ about discipline

LINDSAY A. POWERS STAFF WRITER

Suspension rates in Montgomery County Public Schools fell this year as the district continues work tied to a code of conduct meant to guide disciplinary decisions. As the district nears the end of its first school year using the code, some school officials say that some staff and others don’t understand the new approach to student discipline. Data presented May 26 at a school board meeting showed that, with the new code in place, the district reduced suspensions overall and within student groups based on race from the 2013-14 school year to the current year. The system created its code of conduct in response to regulations the state school board adopted last year. The regulations are aimed in part at reducing suspensions and expulsions and giving administrators greater discretion to determine discipline. The regulations require the county district to include a range of consequences in its code and use suspensions as a last resort. From 2009-10 to the current school year, the rate of students suspended or expelled dropped 47 percent at high schools, 42 percent at middle schools and 50 percent at elementary schools, according to information presented at the board meeting. For each year, the measurement period was the first day of school to March. From last school year to this

year, the system decreased suspensions across student groups of different races, though the percentages of black and Hispanic students who were suspended remained higher than the percentages of white and Asian students, according to a May 26 memo to the school board. As of March, the suspension rate for special education students also went down, but was nearly three times as high as the rate for students overall. “We’ve seen the gap closing, but it’s still there,” said Debra Berner, director of special education and student services, referring to disproportionate suspensions and discipline for black, Hispanic and special education students. The May 26 presentation also highlighted reduced suspensions by category. For example, the number of suspensions tied to a physical attack on a student fell from 447 as of March 2014 to 346 as of March this year. Mildred Charley-Greene, principal of Northwood High School in Silver Spring, told the board May 26 that she and her staff have focused on reducing referrals to administrators for possible discipline, bringing the number down from about 758 last year to about 258 this year. The school also created a peer jury, which allows a student facing discipline to have fellow students help determine an appropriate response to the behavior. During the next school year, Berner said, the system plans to make sure students understand what’s in the code of conduct. Ofﬁcials have heard that some students were throwing away the book without reading it, she said. Dahlia Huh, the board’s student member, said a one-page

summary of the code that student government members created seeks to clarify the code, which can be confusing for students to navigate. Berner said the district also has heard that staff training is needed in areas such as conﬂict resolution and alternatives to suspension. “[Teachers] wanted better ways of being able to work with their kids in the classrooms and to help engage them more into ... what they were doing in their classrooms,” she said. Training for staff is essential because some don’t feel like they know how to deal with certain issues, board member Judith Docca said. Board President Patricia O’Neill said there are “urban legends” and an “undercurrent” of concern in the community about the district’s discipline practices. There are “pretty loud rumblings” that students can’t be suspended, O’Neill said, and that “schools are running amok.” She said board members heard “loud and clear concerns” at a fall meeting with the executive board of the Montgomery County Association of Administrators and Principals. Maria V. Navarro, the district’s chief academic ofﬁcer, said the district needs models to help dispel rumors. Board member Jill OrtmanFouse said the school system needs to combat “misinformation” because some teachers and principals don’t have “a complete understanding” of the district’s efforts to change discipline in schools. “There are still consequences,” she said. lpowers@gazette.net

up the online test sessions and preparing information the district sends to education company Pearson, which offers services connected to PARCC tests. School board President Patricia O’Neill said school ofﬁcials are “relieved” the PARCC consortium and state schools Superintendent Lillian M. Lowery listened to concerns about the tests, such as the amount of time they involved. “We heard a lot of complaints, not just from parents and [students], but from teachers and administrators about the disruptive nature and the impact on schools and instruction,” she said. Doug Prouty, president of the Montgomery County Education Association, said the changes are welcome among teachers who, at all school levels, expressed concern about the loss of instructional time. Students did not have enough time to learn the material they needed to know for either the ﬁrst or second testing windows, Prouty said.

The recent changes address one major issue, he said, but others remain. Montgomery County Councilman Marc B. Elrich said that if the consortium decided the tests could be shortened and still be meaningful, he doesn’t have much conﬁdence that it knows what it’s doing. “I think it says a lot ... about how meaningless the tests are,” said Elrich, adding the PARCC tests are part of a larger overemphasis on testing in schools. Mauro Gonzalez, a fifth-grader at Stedwick Elementary School in Montgomery Village, said he thinks one testing window is an improvement, but he saw other problems speciﬁcally with the PARCC reading test. During a few experiences with the test, he said, he and his classmates ran into bugs such as different log-in screens. The tests need to be examined again to prevent further bugs, which left teachers and students frustrated, he said. lpowers@gazette.net

Berliner seeks Frosh’s advice on alternative to pesticide ban Leventhal said he doesn’t agree with other proposals n

KATE S. ALEXANDER STAFF WRITER

Following a Maryland attorney general’s ofﬁce opinion that a proposed pesticide ban in Montgomery County could be preempted by state law if challenged in court, a councilman is seeking additional advice from the state. Councilman Roger Berliner, chairman of the Transportation Infrastructure Energy and Environment Committee, wrote Thursday to Attorney General Brian E. Frosh (D) asking for further guidance on the issue — speciﬁcally if the county has the authority to take alternative actions. Council President George L. Leventhal proposed the ban, which would prohibit the use of “non-essential” pesticides on lawns, with some exceptions, such as for golf courses and farms. The ban has broad support among many environmental groups, but the county Farm Bureau is vehemently opposed and sought the attorney general’s office opinion through Del. Kirill Reznik (D-Dist. 39) of Germantown. Assistant Attorney General Kathryn M. Rowe issued an opinion in April that found that a proposed ban on the cosmetic use of pesticide could be preempted by state law because

the state already has the power to regulate the sale, distribution and use of pesticides. County attorneys do not agree. “Our legal staff believes we have authority,” Leventhal said. “My hope is that we can proceed with my bill.” In light of the opinion, Berliner (D-Dist. 1) of Bethesda wrote in his letter to Frosh: “I believe it is appropriate and proper for our council to explore the full range of otherwise available legal options that could result in significantly reducing the use of pesticides.” Currently, the bill sits in Berliner’s committee. Specifically, Berliner asked Frosh to consider four alternative approaches and tell the county if any would not be preempted by state law. The alternatives he outlined were: • Require those pesticides applicators to report to the county the amount of pesticides they apply each year, for the purpose of establishing a pesticide-reduction goal • Require residents to sign a document that identifies the health risks associated with pesticides, acknowledges organic alternatives exist and directs a lawn-care provider to use integrated pest manage-

ment practices, which call for using pesticides as a last resort • Require condo and homeowner associations to obtain an afﬁrmative vote of their membership to apply pesticides • Require additional reporting for properties frequented by children, such as playgrounds and day cares. “As our council considers this signiﬁcant issue, it is obviously important to know the scope of our authority,” Berliner wrote. “Your guidance in this regard is tremendously appreciated.” Berliner was out of the country and not available for comment Thursday, according to his staff. Leventhal said he does not agree with any proposals in Berliner’s letter. “It certainly appears that Chairman Berliner and I are not on the same page on this,” he said. Leventhal (D-At large) of Takoma Park said he expects the environmental community will not care for the proposals either. Leventhal said he is open to compromises, but he cannot agree to any of the alternatives for which Berliner is seeking guidance. kalexander@gazette.net

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Police arrest Hagerstown man after upcounty car chase BY

VIRGINIA TERHUNE STAFF WRITER

County police arrested a Hagerstown man in the fatal shooting of his ex-girlfriend in the parking lot of a Target store located in the Milestone Center in Germantown on Monday evening.

Police said they plan to charge Donald Wayne Bricker Jr., 27, with ﬁrstdegree murder, according to a police department news release. Bricker remained in a hospital Tuesday morning with non-life-threatening injuries after he lost control of his truck during a police pursuit after the shooting. The victim was identiﬁed as Mariam Folashade Adebayo, 24, of Germantown, according to the release. Adebayo was taken to a hospital, where she died.

Based on police interviews with Adebayo’s friends and family, Adebayo had been dating Bricker for about six months, but the relationship recently ended, according to police. Bricker and Adebayo had agreed to meet and were talking in Bricker’s pickup truck in the parking lot about 7:30 p.m. when an altercation began, according to police. Adebayo got out of the truck to get away from Bricker, and he followed holding a handgun, according to po-

lice. Bricker shot Adebayo, who fell to the ground, and shot her again, before ﬂeeing the scene in his truck, according to police. Police broadcast a description of the white Ford Ranger pickup driven by Bricker, and at about 7:45 p.m. an ofﬁcer spotted the vehicle in the area of Comus Road and Old Hundred Road west of Interstate 270 and northwest of Clarksburg. Bricker failed to stop and additional cruisers joined the pursuit, which came

to an end when Bricker lost control of the truck in the rural 15800 block of Md. 28 (Darnestown Road) about 8:10 p.m. Police arrested Bricker and recovered a handgun at the scene, according to the release. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call Montgomery County police at 301-279-8000. Callers may remain anonymous. vterhune@gazette.net

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Academy website. It now meets in 12 Montgomery County Public Schools high schools and serves more than 3,000 students, Barkley said. “The Learning Academy is expanding towards enrichment, to meet the needs of more students,” she said. “There is a Young Scholars Program to prepare students to enter magnet school programs.” Part of her new job will be to promote the program and answer the “why” of the Saturday School, Barkley said. “There is a need because students enter school with varying levels of exposure,” she said. “The opportunity on Saturday mornings is to get added enrichment, extra support.” Barkley said the student-teacher ratio in Saturday School can range from three to one to 11 to one, based on the site. Teachers are MCPS educators who are paid to teach in the program. “The Saturday School program attempts to support the child and also the family,” she said. “There are [mandatory] parent programs throughout the year.” As a nonproﬁt, the program is funded in part by the county government, by private donations and by in-kind contributions for MCPS. Barkley said fundraising for the program will be part of her new job. “I have done fundraising,” she said. “But never been paid to be a fundraiser.” In a letter to the Clemente school community on May 9, Barkley said it has been an honor to serve at the school. “The relationships I have formed in our efforts to create an instructional program that meets the needs of such a diverse population have been fulﬁlling,” she wrote. She said she will miss Clemente and her work in the upcounty area, but is excited about the new opportunity to enlarge her sphere to the entire county.

had a long list of accomplishments, small and large. The group advocated for the fire station, post office, roads, schools and parks, she said. They also began the annual Oktoberfest and donated money to Seneca Valley High School which was used to fund a senior picnic, construction material for a mechanical engineering class and the press box at the football stadium, according to records from Soderberg. Contributions were not limited to Seneca Valley, as the Alliance helped other schools over the years. “In a nutshell, the benefit of Alliance was the opportunity for organizations to share what was going on and what they were up to,” Jim Hyatt, the last president of the Alliance, said. “But the biggest benefit was being an advocate. We knew we had the backing of the community so when we had an issue to vote on

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Khadija Barkley, principal of Clemente Middle School in Germantown, will leave the school June 30 to become executive director of the George B. Thomas Sr. Learning Academy.

in their teachers. He said Pineda had been reprimanded by administrators at two schools for inappropriate sexual conduct. “He kept putting himself in that situation all day long. ... He betrayed that trust for his own sexual pleasure,” said Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Joseph Dugan Jr., who sentenced Pineda.

we got a [number] of votes.” A group of community activists planned last week’s meeting, hoping to restart the group. Balcombe, dubbed it “Germantown Alliance 2.0.” She was excited about the number of people who attended the meeting. “Tonight, we had twice as many people as we expected,” she said. “I’m really elated about it, [for] a town this size we need to have a robust civic association.” Balcombe and Susan Burkinshaw, who chaired the meeting, said they would send a survey to those at the meeting to ﬁnd out what the community wanted from a new Alliance and what they were willing to do to help. “This is going to have to be member driven,” Balcombe said. “Us all deciding together what the organization is going to be.” pmcewan@gazette.net

The victim who was molested in 2004 said she and her mother had reported the incident to school officials, but Pineda was allowed to continue teaching. “I’m just happy that it’s all taken care of,” the victim, now an adult, said in an interview after the sentencing hearing. “It’s been 10 years. I’m just happy something was done.” vterhune@gazette.net

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Roaster keeps local coffee business percolating Quartermaine Coffee serves beans roasted in Rockville, brewed in Bethesda n

RYAN MARSHALL STAFF WRITER

Quartermaine Coffee’s head roaster, Calvin Dove, at work in the Rockville roasting facility.

Irish restaurant coming to Rockville Town Square Finnegan’s Wake Irish Pub will open its first location at Rockville Town Square this summer, according to developer Federal Realty Investment Trust of Rockville. The 2,411-square-foot pub, owned by Terry and Vanessa Laurin, will feature traditional Irish cuisine. Construction will begin this month at 100-F Gibbs St. Finnegan’s is the newest restaurant at Rockville Town Square. Miso Café and Samovar are also expected to open this year, and Peter Chang recently opened.

Va., is opening a new medical center Wednesday at 726 Rockville Pike, Rockville. The center will be open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. Its physicians and support staff will provide urgent care; work, school, camp, sports and travel physicals; occupational health services; and primary care for patients who do not have a primary care physician, according to a news release. It also will offer digital X-ray and on-site lab services, along with some prescriptions. The center accepts most insurance plans. The Rockville facility is the chain’s 57th medical center. Its phone number is 240-238-0411.

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Bethesda software company sells for $1.2 billion

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Plenty of people start off their day with a cup or two of coffee, but for Carolyn Weinberg and Calvin Dove their whole day revolves around the brew. Weinberg is the CEO and Dove the head roaster for Quartermaine Coffee Roasters, which has two stores in Bethesda and a roasting facility on Wyaconda Road in Rockville. As you pull into the parking lot of the low, squat building in the industrial park that holds the roasting plant, the rich smell of roasting coffee wafts through the air. Inside, the temperature rises as Dove keeps an eye on a batch of French roast in the company’s roaster. A batch of French roast will reach more than 400 degrees, Weinberg said. Each type of roast requires a different time and heat process to create a different ﬂavor, body and acidity that affect its taste, said Dove, who’s been roasting with Quartermaine for about 15 years. Roasters have to carefully gauge the time for each batch, Weinberg said. Too long and the beans are too dark. After they’re roasted, the beans are dumped out into a large, circular cooling tray, where they’re brought from piping hot to room temperature in a matter of minutes. Quartermaine was started by Jerry Baldwin, Gordon Bowker and Zev Seigel, who originally founded the Starbucks chain in the 1970s.

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of Bethesda has agreed to be acquired by publicly held EMC of Hopkinton, Mass., for $1.2 billion in cash. The deal is expected to close this summer, according to a news release. Virtustream, founded in 2009 by Rodney Rogers and President and Chief Technology Officer Kevin Reid, will form EMC’s new managed cloud services business. The software company will operate as a separate EMC business, with Rogers reporting to CEO Joe Tucci. Virtustream’s customers include Coca-Cola, Domino Sugar, Heinz, Hess Corp., Kawasaki, Lexmark and Scotts Miracle-Gro.

HMSHost names VP for business development HMSHost of Bethesda named Kent Vanden Oever vice president of business development. Previously, Vanden Oever was a consultant at AirProjects and manVanden Oever ager of airport business services for HNTB Corp. He holds a bachelor’s in

After looking around the country for a place to locate a new company, they settled on the Washington suburbs. The company’s first store was in Washington’s Cleveland Park neighborhood, but its two stores are now on Bethesda Avenue and Old Georgetown Road. Weinberg was working in sales in New York, but was ready for a change in 1991. She took a vacation to Italy, what she calls “the coffee capital of the world.” Weinberg’s mother is French, and coffee has been part of Weinberg’s life for a long time. “I grew up drinking café au lait out of a bowl,” she said. When Weinberg was hired as the company’s second employee, her first job was putting together the roasting facility in Rockville. The first employee hired was the company’s president, Roger Scheumann. For all her years in the coffee business, Weinberg has a friendlier outlook than one might expect on the giant that dominates the U.S. coffee industry. Starbucks has actually done smaller companies a favor by educating the market and changing the industry, she said. It’s created a base of customers who know their café mocha from their macchiato. While the Cleveland Park store closed because of competition from Starbucks and other chains — and they do have the two Bethesda stores — much of Quartermaine’s focus is selling coffee for people to brew at home, Weinberg said, with 40 percent of sales coming from bean sales. rmarshall@gazette.net

business from Miami University and an MBA in ﬁnance and real estate from the University of Cincinnati.

Smith communities names new COO Charles E. Smith Life Communities of Rockville named Bruce J. Lederman senior vice president, COO. Previously, Lederman was chief strategy officer of Midwest Administrative Services. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a law degree from DePaul University.

Italian eatery marks 25th year with donations Il Pizzico, an Italian restaurant in Rockville, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this week by

donating a portion of its sales to Manna Food Center in Gaithersburg. In addition, it’s rafﬂing off tickets for a trip for two to Italy, with proceeds benefiting the Literacy Council of Montgomery County, according to a news release. And on Thursday, all customers get a 25 percent discount. The restaurant is at 15209 N. Frederick Road.

Steben & Co. names marketing chief Steben & Co. of Gaithersburg named Peter Weinberg head of investor relations and marketing. Previously, Weinberg was head of investor relations at SkyBridge Capital. He holds a bachelor’s in economics from Boston University.

NOTICE Notice is hereby given that application has been made by: Marilyn Balcomb Stephanie Weishaar Susan Berkinshaw on behalf of Germantown Cultural Arts Center, Inc., for a Beer, Wine & Liquor License, Community Performing Arts Facility License, On Sale Only, for the premises known as Black Rock Center for the Arts, which premises are located at: 12901 Town Commons Drive Germantown, Maryland 20874 A hearing on the application will be held in the Montgomery County Government Rockville Library, First Floor Meeting Room 21 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 20850, on: Thursday: At:

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The Planning Commission of the City of Gaithersburg, Maryland, will conduct a public hearing on amendment to Schematic Development Plan ASDP-6950-2015, filed by Ken Miller of Beatty Management Company, on WEDNESDAY JUNE 17, 2015 AT 7:30 P.M.

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or as soon thereafter as this matter can be heard in the Council Chambers at 31 South Summit Avenue, Gaithersburg, Maryland.

A hearing on the application will be held in the Montgomery County Government Rockville Library, First Floor Meeting Room 21 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 20850, on: Thursday: At:

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Application ASDP-6950-2015 has been filed requesting an amendment to schematic development plan approval for a change in use for Kentlands Market Square to allow for up to ten (10) percent of the approved commercial space to be used for office and/or education uses, and the conversion of two (2) standard parking spaces along Market Street into a single handicap space. The Subject Property is located within the Kentlands subdivision and is bordered by Kentlands Boulevard to the north. Contact the Planning and Code Administration City Planner (listed below) at (301) 258-6330, if you should have any questions and/or to learn more about this process and your ability to offer testimony and input. Further information may be obtained from the Planning and Code Administration Department at City Hall, 31 South Summit Avenue, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, or visit the City’s website at www.gaithersburgmd.gov. Gregory Mann, Planner Planning and Code Administration gmann@gaithersburgmd.gov 1931219

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Henson home expansion project gets $100K earmark Property would become a historic and cultural park; house would be a museum

KATE S. ALEXANDER STAFF WRITER

The historic North Bethesda home of 19th-century abolitionist Josiah Henson soon will be open more regularly as a historic park, with a museum and interpretative program focusing on Henson’s life and slavery in Montgomery County. State funding is helping that expansion. Maryland lawmakers awarded the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Montgomery County Department of Parks, a $100,000 earmark, or bond bill, this past session to help complete the Josiah Henson Park project. According to documents submitted for the bond bill, the project is estimated to cost about $9.85 million. Plans call for converting the site into a historic and cultural park and turning the historic house on the property into a museum. The park and museum will have indoor, outdoor and multimedia exhibits; a ﬁlm; and a research library. The park features the Riley/Bolton House, where Henson spent most of his youth and was held as a slave. According to the Department of Parks, after years of enslavement, Henson escaped to freedom in Canada on the Underground Railroad. He later published his autobiography, “The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave,” which is credited with inspiring Harriet Beecher

Stowe’s novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Montgomery’s parks department has owned the house since 2006. The house is listed on the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places. It’s also a stop on the National Park Service’s National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program. In 2010, Montgomery’s parks department adopted a master plan for updating the park. Currently, the park is open for guided group tours as well as for special events, such as the upcoming Montgomery County Heritage Days in June. For Heritage Days this year, the park will be open June 28. Museum Manager Shirl Spicer said the project will allow the park to be open on a regular schedule and offer a more interactive learning experience. She said the project is expected to take several years to complete, but the park will open for tours and special events as the work progresses. To help fund the project, the Montgomery Parks Foundation is running a capital campaign. Nina Aplebaum, the grants manager for the foundation, said the goal is to raise $2 million. The state funds will go toward the overall project costs for planning, design, construction, repair and renovation and capital equipping of the park, she said. While the park’s department sought $275,000 from the state, it received only $100,000. Aplebaum said there are plans to seek additional bond-bill funding in future years.

Obituary Carolyn Ann Britton Rodman, 69, of Saint Simons Island, GA passed away Sunday, May 24, 2015 at her residence, with her children and grandchildren at her bedside. Carolyn Rodman was born March 13, 1946 in Du Quoin, Illinois, the daughter of the Warren Britton and Dorothy Nell Duncan Britton. She married John Rodman on June 19, 1965. Carolyn received her Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Special Education from Southern Illinois University- Edwardsville. She was awarded a graduate fellowship and maintained an A average while caring for two young children while going to school full-time. She taught Special Education in High Schools for over 30 years (15 years in Plano, TX and 17 years in Montgomery County MD). Her distinguished teaching career included several awards, and she served as department chairman, at Plano Senior High TX and Seneca Valley, MD. In her last several years she ran a career program at Quince Orchard H. S. for special needs students assisting them in finding jobs and managing their work at local companies. Mrs. Rodman is preceded in death by her parents. She is survived by her husband, John A. Rodman, one son, Paul Rodman, one daughter, Kimberly Rodman, five grandchildren, Nicholas, Sam, Jake, Kate, and Jack, seven nieces and nephews and many other loved ones and extended family. Funeral Mass will be held Thursday, May 28, 2015, at St. William Catholic Church, 2300 Frederica Rd., St. Simons Island, Ga., at 11:00 AM with MSGR John Kenneally officiating. Family will be receiving friends an hour prior to the service, 1011:00AM. A luncheon will follow the service at the St. William’s parish hall. There will also be a memorial service on June 3, in her home town of Du Quoin, Illinois. Memorial contributions may be made in Carolyn’s name to The American Cancer Society and The Prader-Willi Syndrome Association (USA) 8588 Potter Park Drive, Suite 500 Sarasota, Florida 34238 Edo Miller and Sons Funeral Home is arrangements. www.edomillerandsons.com

Josiah Henson Park in North Bethesda is among 18 projects in Montgomery County that the state is funding through bond bills.

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A Bethesda church and the nonproﬁt Graceful Growing Together will use state money to help build an integrated church and community center in Woodmont Triangle. Maryland lawmakers approved a $150,000 earmark, known as a bond bill, for the project, which is expected to cost about $24 million to $26 million,

according to Barry Lemley, president and executive director of Graceful Growing Together . Since 1938, Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church has owned the downtown Bethesda property where the community center will be built, Lemley said. Graceful Growing Together is a nonproﬁt whose sole member is the church, Lemley said. The nonproﬁt has a 25-year lease to manage the center once it is built. The church will own the building and land. Currently, the church has several buildings on its property. The buildings not only provide worship space, but have also housed community programs, a

Obituary Mary Alice Kemp, 88, of Bedford, PA, passed away Sunday, May 24, 2015, at the Lions Center for Rehabilitation and Extended Care surrounded by her loving family. Friends will be received at the Adams Family Funeral Home, P.A., 404 Decatur Street, Cumberland, MD, (www.AdamsFamilyFuneralHome.com) on Thursday, May 28, 2015, from 2:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. and from 7:00 P.M., to 9:00 P.M. A funeral service will be conducted at the funeral home on Friday, May 29, 2015, at 11:00 A.M., with Pastor Jenny Barnes, Yeager Lutheran Church, officiating. Interment will be at the Maryland Veterans’ Cemetery at Rocky Gap.

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culinary arts incubator and community programs such as some Bethesda Cares’ services. In total, Lemley said, the church has about 14,000 square feet there. “We’ve always been a congregation that shared its facilities as they were available,” he said. Roughly eight years ago, the church decided to not just share its facilities, but construct a new building that would “really embrace the needs of the community,” Lemley said. What it envisioned was a larger building that could house the church and also function as a community center with space for meetings, recreation, senior activities and a day care center, plus a theater and room for the programs that currently share its space. Bethesda has no community center downtown that will provide what the Graceful Growing Together project would offer, Del. Marc A. Korman said. Korman (D-Dist. 16) of Bethesda sponsored the bill to fund the project, with support from the entire District 16 delegation. In the Senate, Susan C. Lee (D-Dist. 16) of Bethesda was a sponsor. “We want to grow around Metro stations, and I think that is great, but we need to make sure we are providing all types of infrastructure — not just school and roads, but community centers

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like this,” Korman said. The Graceful Growing Together project hits all of the marks for state support through a bond bill, Korman said. To fund the lion’s share of the project, the church plans to sell about half of its roughly 2-acre site to a developer to build 107 condos, Lemley said. As part of the deal, the developer also will build the new community center at cost, with no markup. The parcel hasn’t been sold, but is under contract, he said. The church and Graceful Growing Together hope to break ground on the project in 2016 and be open by mid-2018, Lemley said. During construction, the church has an agreement with Imagination Stage to use space several blocks away, he said. Once built, he said, the community center will have seven levels and 64,000 square feet. Lemley said that in the next few weeks, the church and Graceful Growing Together will hold public hearings with adjacent homeowners and other neighbors. Lemley said his organization is considering asking the state in future years for more money through bond bills. The group asked for $400,000 toward the project and received $150,000. kalexander@gazette.net

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Garrett Park’s poet laureate, Barbara Shidler, signs books at a May 17 reading and reception to celebrate her ﬁrst book, “Caught Moon,” a poetic memoir of her 54 years living in the town.

The Gazette is a local paper, whose focus was and should be on daily life in Montgomery County. When I pick up The Gazette, I want to read more about Barbara Shidler of Garrett Park who published her ﬁrst book of poetry at 88 (“The bard of Garrett Park,” May 20). I would have enjoyed a full-length article about her life in Garrett Park and its changes since 1961, and wished for a glimpse of her poems. Instead, the columns next to her photo were allocated to a Washington Post reporter covering (again) a sensational crime in the county, which no doubt already got its excessive coverage in the Post. I’m at least grateful that the crime story was moved to the inside pages, as opposed to recent headlines on the front of The Gazette about violence. I would rather not see that in our local paper. Publishing Deborah Vollmer’s letter to the editor, however, is just the right Gazette touch. Where else could you read about income inequality leading to unequal treatment in the town of Chevy Chase? That is truly priceless. Anne Murray sang it, and I challenge The Gazette to follow through: “We sure could use a little good news today.” Angie Loomis, Chevy Chase

Not the ﬁnest moments for school board

Two articles on the front page of The Gazette on May 20 (“Foes: school plan flawed” and “Board to name interim school superintendent”) raise serious questions about how well the Montgomery County Board of Education is functioning (or not functioning). First, the board apparently approved the construction of a $48 million middle school on a site in Kensington that does not conform to its own standards. As one county official put it, the board is trying to fit “10 pounds

of sugar in a 5-pound sack.” Not only does this sound like a poorly conceived plan, it also seems like a gross waste of taxpayer funds. But this is not the only questionable decision the board has made. On the same front page of The Gazette is an article chronicling the latest saga in the sad story of the superintendent of schools. For some vague reason, the board felt compelled not to retain the services of Joshua Starr and thought it could hire a new

superintendent easily. Now we ﬁnd that after meeting with the board, its chosen candidate has lost interest in the job. It is not too difﬁcult to understand why. So, the board is going to name an interim superintendent for a year. Do the taxpayers of Montgomery County really deserve a temporary caretaker of the highly prized school system? Something is rotten in the county of Montgomery. Michael Hoxie, Kensington

Beneﬁts of CCT are exaggerated Honestly, to read the May 20 letter to the editor in The Gazette by Shane Robinson, Nancy J. King and Marilyn Balcombe (“Corridor Cities Transitway could be boon for region”), one might think that building the CCT will be the economic boon to Maryland that the completion of the Union Paciﬁc Railroad in 1869 was to the nation. What nonsense. Or more to the point, what are their vested interests? They crow about 100,000 new jobs, billions in annual goods and millions in state tax revenues. Based on what? Oh, they don’t mention that. It’s kind of a “Trust

us — we’re from the government and the chamber of commerce” argument. Remember the promised trafﬁc beneﬁts of the ICC? Whoops. It remains sorely underused. Sorry about that, taxpayers and convulsed residents. What is certain is that building the CCT will convulse and forever divide long-established Gaithersburg communities, just as building the Whitehurst Expressway convulsed and forever divided Georgetown. Do we really need to take a cleaver to Gaithersburg to accommodate the expansionist dreams of Johns Hopkins, Adven-

tist Hospital, multiple chambers of commerce and politicians? I hope not. Bill Fallon, Gaithersburg

Editor’s note: When they submitted their letter, Robinson, King and Balcombe provided, as a source for their facts, a copy of a PowerPoint presentation on the Great Seneca Science Corridor. In the presentation, the figures on jobs, annual goods and services and state tax revenues are attributed to a Sage Policy Group Draft Vision 2030 Economic Impact Analysis from June 2008. The PowerPoint slide can be found on page 12 at tinyurl.com/lkqf2py.

For development and job creation, why wait for transit project? Del. Robinson, Sen. King and Ms. Balcombe ask “How do we increase access to affordable transit and create jobs?” (“Corridor Cities Transitway could be boon for region,” May 20). The answer is not to wait for the Corridor Cities Transitway (CCT) as though it, somehow, will answer the question. The answer, as demonstrated by the Crown Farm development and its job creations, is to build the science centers and related facilities now,

while at the same time improving the existing transit systems. Why are we waiting? Suppose the developers of Crown Farm — a planned CCT station — had waited for the CCT. Think of how many current and future jobs would have been lost. Currently, there is a Ride-On bus route from all the projected CCT stations that accomplishes the same basic objectives as the CCT. Build on what we have — that is the answer.

What we need to do is take the current $100,000,000 for the CCT design and use it to improve what already exists. Waiting for the CCT, which is years away — if it is ever built — is missing great opportunities to achieve the aims outlined in their letter. We should build on what we have, not hope that a future project will give us all the answers. Dr. Alan S. Kaplan, Rockville

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Many reasons to disagree with football reclassiﬁcation

I have just read the May 13 article “Two football stars want extra year” by Prince J. Grimes. I found it well written and I assume (often a mistake) factually correct. For those who may not wish to read further, my position is: I totally disagree with the concept of an extra year of eligibility for certain students who are reclassified eligible to play a fifth season. There are many reasons for my position, but I will focus on the most obvious reasons against reclassification. I will limit my comments to these young men’s situations. I will try to be brief: 1. The player “didn’t get the college recognition that his accolades would suggest.” The fact that Blake Dove was “named the 4A Defensive Player of the Year by Montgomery County coaches” nullifies this argument. 2. It is not a Maryland high school’s responsibility to provide a venue for school athletes to accumulate “sports accolades” over any number of seasons before or after grades 9 through 12. 3. The Maryland Public Secondary School Athletic Association provides guidelines schools must follow. “High school team members may participate in interscholastic athletic contests in a maximum of four seasons in one sport within the 9th through 12th grades.” He has completed this rule. 4. Riverdale Baptist High School football Coach Caesar Nettles notes that players who may need or want an additional year of eligibility can attend junior colleges and prep schools. 5. Having attended and taught at both prep school and the community college, I was of the belief that the mission of those educational institutions is not to provide facilities and coaches to further develop individual or team athletic skills and/or accolades. 6. Northwest High School football Coach Mike Neubeiser said it well: “It’s not fair, because we’re playing with different rules.” A year older, a year more experienced, a year more mature, etc., “is not fair.” 7. I probably should have listed the following reason as number 1, but I assume that the young man has graduated or completed high school. If so, case closed. If not, it brings up another set of issues which need to be addressed separately. John Pisarra, Gaithersburg

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Cleaning up the PIA

A battle over public information in the town of Chevy Chase could be a good test of progress when it comes to the public’s right to know in Maryland. Action Committee for Transit, a group in favor of the Purple Line light-rail project, is pressing the town for records of its anti-Purple Line advocacy. In multiple requests, the group and activist Benjamin Ross of Bethesda have asked for documents showing how the town has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on lawyers, lobbyists and public relations firms to stop the project. The town has replied by saying LEGISLATURE the work of fulfilling the requests HAS IMPROVED PUBLIC RECORDS “has been very time and LAW, BUT THERE’S consuming expensive.” MORE TO FIX In some responses, the town has said it will charge the hourly cost of staff time at $75 for the town manager, $25 for the town clerk and $215 for a town attorney. The tension exemplified here is nothing new. Public information must be made available when it’s requested. But gathering extensive records takes time and costs money. This battle has reached court. ACT and Ross have sued, alleging “unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination” and seeking free copies of records. Both sides are relying on Maryland’s Public Information Act, which is sprinkled with vague, subjective language — although some was improved this year. State and local governments have been allowed to charge a “reasonable fee” to reproduce public records. But that’s a murky standard, and some government bodies have inflated those fees. There’s no sound reason why a photocopy that costs 6 cents at a business store should cost 50 cents (Chevy Chase’s rate) or $10 (from some police agencies), even adjusting for scales of efficiency. The Maryland General Assembly, in this year’s session, made an important improvement by altering the language. For a noncommercial request, the new standard for a fee is to recoup actual costs, rather than a “reasonable fee.” The PIA also has a hazy reference to fee waivers, which may be granted if they’re “in the public interest.” The Maryland Public Information Act Manual says factors can include ability to pay or if the information is for a public purpose. By definition, though, if the public asks for information, it’s “in the public interest.” Ross argued: “[M]y status as a member of the media supports a fee waiver. I frequently write books and articles on issues impacting the public.” Ross also is on ACT’s board. Chevy Chase pounced on this in a rejection letter: “We do not believe this request is being made in your capacity as a member of the media.” Having government decide who is a journalist is problematic. Press organizations resist Congress’ attempts to define a journalist for a possible national shield law, which would let reporters protect confidential sources. Rather, the act of journalism — gathering and presenting information — should be protected, no matter who does it. We got a kick out of Chevy Chase filing its own PIA request to the Maryland Transit Administration for its communications with ACT and other advocacy groups — and asking for a fee waiver. We look forward to another recent PIA change to help sort out disputes like this one in Chevy Chase and all over Maryland. Maryland soon will have a Public Information Act Compliance Board to rule on complaints that a government might have unreasonably charged more than $350. The new law also provides for a public access ombudsman, who can mediate public-records disputes — a lawyer serving a four-year term. As we’ve said before, government is a custodian of records that belong to the public. The goal — sometimes achieved through negotiation — should be how to provide as much information as possible to whoever asks for it, rather than how to put up financial and logistical barriers to keep records hidden away. Rethink the process of retreat and redact. Make records open and accessible as soon as they are created. However the ACT lawsuit turns out, we urge Chevy Chase to post online all of the information it ends up releasing, and much more. It’s in the public interest.

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Posted online by 8 a.m. the following day. SUMMER FOOTBALL: Northwest plays two games Thursday afternoon in the Seneca Valley summer passing league against Seneca Valley and Clarksburg. Games start at 3 p.m. at Seneca Valley High School. BASKETBALL: Paint Branch vs. Sherwood, 6:40 p.m., Wednesday at Jewish Day.

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Goodbye, 3A West Seneca Valley High School’s football team went 15-5 the past two seasons and didn’t make the playoffs. The losses came against three schools: Two-time defending state champion Northwest, Class 3A state finalist Damascus (twice) and Sherwood (once), a program that has won three state titles. Despite tough schedules, 7-3 in 2013 and 8-2 in 2014 wasn’t good enough for the Screaming Eagles to KEN SAIN make the playoffs. Such SPORTS EDITOR is life in the 3A West Region, the state’s toughest to earn a postseason berth. No help is coming for Seneca this year, despite reclassification shuffling up the regions. The Eagles are still grouped with 3A powerhouse programs Damascus, Linganore, Urbana and South Hagerstown — the four teams that made the playoffs last year. But for another group of Montgomery County high schools, this fall represents new life. Teams that have struggled can now see a path to the playoffs that doesn’t require a 9-1 record. Five Montgomery County schools are now part of the 3A South Region. “See you, I’m out,” Watkins Mill coach Kevin Watson said to the 3A West Region with a smile. While Damascus, Seneca Valley and Poolesville are in the 3A West with all those powerhouses from the Frederick area — including Oakdale, which moves up after earning a top seed in 2A last fall — Watkins Mill, Rockville, Wheaton, Blake and Magruder are five of the 11 schools in the 3A South. Joining them are Prince George’s County’s Potomac (9-1 last year) and Oxon Hill (5-5); and four schools from southern Maryland, Huntingtown (7-4), Northern Calvert (4-6), St. Charles (0-10) and Great Mills (2-8). Rockville, which was 7-3 in 2014, makes the playoffs if that would have been the region pairing. In the old 3A West, the Rams weren’t in the conversation. Watkins Mill was one of the surprise teams on Saturday at the passing league tournament held at Blair High School in Silver Spring. The Wolverines went 3-1 in the round-robin portion, defeating Springbrook, Wheaton and Bowie. The loss came to Clarksburg, which entered Saturday undefeated. In the tournament playoffs, the Montgomery Village school defeated Rockville before being eliminated by eventual tournament champion Paint Branch. One reason for the 4-2 day was rising sophomore quarterback Markel Grant. “I’ve seen my game improve a whole bunch in the past year,” Grant said. “If I just keep doing the hard work, stay on top of my things, stay focused ... it should be a good year.” In the Bowie game, the Wolverines trailed when the referee announced there was 30 seconds left to play. Grant went back, looked downfield, then tossed a tight spiral 25-plus yards to Gedeon Elenga to give Watkins Mill a 22-21 victory. He had to deliver the ball in traffic, while a referee was counting down the seconds remaining and knowing the game was on the line. That was a lot of poise to see from a quarterback just finishing his freshman year. “He was like that last year, very poised for a freshman,” Watson said. “He doesn’t seem like he gets rattled, For a freshman, wow, to be able to do something like that.” He is 6-foot-4 — and might still be growing — so colleges are already taking notice. Grant said he’s being invited to college camps, where the true recruiting evaluations take place. Elenga, a rising senior, is one of two receivers who are 6-3 or taller, which is going to make slowing Watkins Mill’s offense a tall order. “Obviously, this is just passing league, you still have to have the big guys up front, they determine everything,” Watson said. “Being in the 3A South, I don’t have to look up at those 3A West teams.” ksain@gazette.net

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Seneca Valley High School football coach Fred Kim said he was happy with the offensive playmakers the team was expecting to return next season. Receivers Antonio Fox and Donovan BeckettSimms and running backs Adrian Feliz-Platt and Darius Golston are all three-year starters, each with different attributes. Kim also said he expected cur-

rent sophomore Dawayne Kelley Jr. to take on a more prominent role. “We already had five guys that we feel very strongly and confident that can definitely be great wideouts,” Kim said. So, when former Gaithersburg receiver Cortez Ervin transferred to the Germantown school this spring, Kim said the addition was just a bonus. “Bringing Cortez in, obviously the guy is big. He’s strong, extremely difficult to defend,” Kim said. “He can play multiple positions. The guy has incredible hands. Great football moxie, so he understands the game. And he just knows how to get to the football. So you bring a guy like that in, on

top of all our guys, we’ll take it.” Ervin, a 6-foot-3-inch, 200-pound mismatch for most defensive backs led the Trojans in touchdown receptions last season. While he doesn’t exactly bring a brand new dimension to Seneca’s offense — Fox is a 6-2 receiver with excellent ball skills — he certainly adds another option that can either catch or serve as a decoy. If teams choose to focus too much attention on any of Seneca’s threats, the expectation is that another player will beneﬁt, Kim said. “[Ervin] brings a good distraction,” said Fox,

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On Thursday, the Damascus Post 171 American Legion baseball team opened its season against Wheaton Post 268 in a game that represented the

best and worst of Montgomery County teams in terms of last season’s win-loss. Nothing over the course of that game changed the perception of either team’s fate as Damascus won, 9-0, but the Post 171 team fell short of its goal last season despite a dominant regular season. In the county championship, playing for a chance to compete in the state tournament, Damascus lost to Laurel Post 60. Coming back this summer, Damascus has a good blend of new,

returning and college players hoping to push it toward a championship. The team, which pulls from Clarksburg, Damascus, Sherwood and some private schools, ﬁnished a division-best 25-5 last season. “Motivating factor for this team is we want to go out and try to win every game. Leave it all out on the ﬁeld,” Post 171 coach Jimmy Stone said.

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State may introduce team tennis championship Players can currently only compete for individual titles

BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN STAFF WRITER

As it has every year, Memorial Day Weekend served as the culmination of the spring sports season for high school athletes in Maryland with conclusion of the Maryland Public State Secondary Athletic Association tournaments. Some of Montgomery County’s best — Sherwood softball, Gaithersburg baseball and Clarksburg girls track and ﬁeld — celebrated what coaches say is the pinnacle of the high school athletics — winning a team state championship. That’s not the case for tennis teams.

Boys and girls tennis are the only two varsity sports offered statewide in which a team is not crowned champion. And this spring, for the ﬁrst time since the tournament’s ﬁrst installment in 1975, the winning region — allMontgomery County Region II for the 15th consecutive year — didn’t get a trophy, either. “All season long, we play as a team and then for regionals/states, it becomes individual,” said former longtime Northwest tennis coach Jeff Barnes, who stepped down before the start of this season for family reasons. “I preached to my teams, it’s not only representing yourself, but the school you play for and that they play for each other. This was the reason I played high school tennis. I asked my team in 25 years when you come back for a reunion, are you going to remember at [U.S.

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Continued from Page B-1 who isn’t as heavy as Ervin. “Especially at the slot, because he’s a big body and he’s hard to hit in the slot. That’ll get the safety to come up on him and leave the deep ball open.” Seneca is still adjusting to a new coordinator but received tremendous results from its new-look offense in the Battle of the Beltway passing league tournament Saturday at Blair High School, reaching the semiﬁnals. As if talent wasn’t enough to drive Ervin and his new team next season, he received taunts of being called a traitor for opting to spend his senior year at another school after three years at Gaithersburg. He said he transferred because his mom moved closer to Seneca, but he hasn’t forgotten the grief he was given and said it will be used as motivation. “Got to do what you got to do sometimes,” Ervin said. “I al-

ready played with some of these guys from little league. I’m excited. As soon as I came, they accepted me like I was already a part of their family. It’s good vibes here.” Ervin and Fox should also make for an imposing cornerback tandem for the Eagles, as Kim said he expects them to be defensive starters as well. And with rising junior Zach Robinson returning for his second season as the starting quarterback, optimism is high at Seneca this summer. “We’re working on chemistry, ... everybody getting the ball,” Fox said. “Make sure Zach takes his right reads, make sure our routes are crisp. We got Cortez. He’s a big asset. We’ve got new coaches, so the offense is better than last year. He knows how to use more of our weapons. We get everybody the ball, make sure everybody eats. We still got Adrian. So, we’re going to be pretty good this year. I’m pretty excited.” pgrimes@gazette.net

Continued from Page B-1 “Last year, we tried to win every game, left it all out on the ﬁeld, we just lost that one time — at the bad time. That’s it. It just so happens that one time was the worst time to have that one loss.” Wheaton, which pulls from consortium schools and Bethesda-Chevy Chase, doesn’t return a single player from a team that ﬁnished winless last season. Second-year Post 268 coach Gabe Medina said he didn’t feel as though players took the opportunity to play Legion baseball seriously enough last summer and sought to change the culture of the team. “My idea behind it is, this might not be the winning season that I’d like to have, but it’s

The biggest obstacle, Sullivan said, is logistics. The state relies on coaches and athletic directors to run the season-ending tournament and that takes a lot of manpower, he said. Court time is also major consideration, he added. Then there is also the matter of format, a variety of which could work. Cresham said the easiest way would likely be the way counties are run. Athletes are divided into position-based brackets — No. 1 singles, No. 2 singles and so on — and each individual match win earns a point toward the team’s total. Sullivan said perhaps it would be wise to split the state’s teams into two regions,

a growing system. Next year, I’ll have the same guys come back. They’re ready for this level because they played it this year,” Medina said. “I have a really young team, so as far as being aggressive at the plate, that’s something they need to work up to.” With new players, Wheaton could struggle to ﬁnd wins as the team comes together and gains trust, but it wouldn’t take much to show a marked improvement over last summer’s team and join the ranks of Laurel, Cissel Saxon Post 41 and Sandy Spring Post 68 in the middle of the division. “Everybody can play,” Laurel coach Doug Drewyer said. “The target has always been Damascus because they’re a program. They are consistent year in and year out. Cissel

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champion Gaithersburg, which coach Matthew Cangas is excited about. The team will look to secure wins around a solid pitching staff which includes Magruder’s Kyle Cassidy and Churchill’s Ryan O’Carroll. “To take that next step, we just got to get out there and play ball together as a team,” Cangas said. “I think last year, we were in the mix. We were just short on players. This year, we have a pretty decent-sized team.” Even though Damascus swept Post 68 last season, Cangas said the target isn’t on any one particular team. “We look at every team as a competitor,” Cangas said. “We’re going to go in and do our best to beat every single team day in and day out.” pgrimes@gazette.net

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Tennis Association] Mid-Atlantic [Section] ranking or the state championship you won with your teammates?” For this reason, among others, Montgomery County Public Schools Athletics Specialist Jeff Sullivan said a team championship might be on the horizon. A state committee, led by Supervisor of Athletics for Carroll County Public Schools, Jim Rodriguez, will spend next season looking at how the state might implement a team tennis championship, Sullivan said. “The kids would love that, no question about it,” Wootton boys and girls tennis coach Nia Cresham said. “The closest thing they have is counties. Most of my kids add up their points at states and they like to say, if we win two or three [individual titles at states], that we won states. That’s the closest they can come in terms of a team championship.” As it stands, each region sends only two representatives in each of ﬁve categories — boys and girls singles, boys and girls doubles and mixed doubles — to the state tournament. Therefore, the majority of the athletes on each team are done after counties, just about nine weeks after the ﬁrst day of practice on March 1. Winning an individual title is a special moment, Whitman boys and girls coach Jasen Gohn said, but ideally the tournament could involve both individual and team champions. Cresham said any opportunity to increase kids’ participation is a good move. “I wish we did have a team state thing, a team championship,” Gohn said. “I know Pennsylvania does and other states do. It’s weird that it comes down to just an individual thing when it comes to the state level. The county tournament, that’s the end of the team aspect. I think it would be fun.”

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GOLF

GOLFER OF THE YEAR Morgan Egloff Landon Senior

Loyola University recruit headed what coach Jack Duquette called his “best team in 27 years.” Won the IAC tournament with a 67 at Columbia Country Club and set the Bears’ all-time lowest nine-hole scoring average (36.4).

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Twins Peter and Michael James, 10, of Rockville work out during swim practice Friday at the Tilden Woods Swim Club in Rockville.

Ledecky inspires new generation Montgomery County Swim League kicks off its 57th season next week n

BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN STAFF WRITER

In a motivational message to fans on his foundation website last fall, LeBron James, who has made a convincing case for himself as one of the greatest basketball players ever, wrote: “I believe in all of you and all of your dreams and your promise of never giving up, no matter what. You all can be anything you want to be...” Top athletes across the world in all sports often preach to their young fans the importance of aiming high, reaching for the stars and never backing down from a dream. And that is a great message for role models to send the next generation — every elitelevel athlete did start somewhere. But it’s one thing for the inspiration to come from some seemingly untouchable figure and another to hear it from someone who grew up in the neighborhood. To hear if from someone who got their start in the very same place. Say, perhaps, 2012 Olympic gold medalist and the world’s best distance freestyle swimmer, Katie Ledecky. On June 13, the Montgomery County Swim League, which consists of 91 neighborhood pool teams in 15 divisions, is scheduled to kick off its 57th summer with the ﬁrst of ﬁve dual meets — the season also includes a

long course invitational, division championships and individual and relay all-star meets. The historic league encompasses swimmers of all ages, 8-under to 18, and levels — and provides a special opportunity for interaction between the older and younger age groups. “I remember being in the 8-unders and thinking, ‘Wow, I really want to grow up to be like the 15-18 [age group],’” said Elena Spak, Tilden Woods coach and former Walter Johnson standout. “I had a talk with the 15-18s this week telling them about how special they can make the summer for the little ones. They’re kind of like celebrities to the little guys.” The MCSL, which is geared toward friendly competition, can be a time for serious nationalcaliber swimmers to let loose, Bethesda coach Malka Ostchega said, just the same as it is a competitive outlet for seasonal swimmers. There is no denying the MCSL has served as the starting point for some of the country’s and world’s top talent and coaches said there is no question Ledecky’s rise to the top of international swimming has had a positive impact on a new generation. Ledecky began swimming for the MCSL’s Palisades Swim Club when she was 6. “[Ledecky] came back for a meet last year, and it got leaked,” Palisades coach Gerri Diamond said. “Kids on both our team and the other team ... she was never alone on deck. But she is

so grounded, and she’s so passionate about the sport, she just wants to give back to the community. ... Especially after [she won Olympic gold in] 2012, there was much more interest in the sport and an increase in year-round swimmers [from our team]. Kids were inspired.” That seems to be the general consensus among all MCSL coaches. While Diamond said it’s unlikely Ledecky will be around MCSL pool decks much this summer with the FINA World Championships scheduled for July 24 to Aug. 9 in Russia — not to mention the fast approaching 2016 Olympics in Brazil — she and fellow MCSL coaches commended Ledecky’s accessibility whenever she is. Her relatability — the fact that she got her start in the same league in which they compete — makes reaching for Olympic dreams seem more tangible to young swimmers, coaches said. “I think no matter what, any Olympic year, you’re going to build a dream,” Ostchega said. “It gives that opportunity to get that one kid, even if it’s just one kid, who’s like, ‘I’m going to do that, and that’s what I’m going to be.’ I think having someone locally be a part of it has made huge changes. It’s a huge, big deal to have the hometown hero. There is always going to be someone who is looking up to [Ledecky], actively watching every race she swims and wanting to become that.” jbeekman@gazette.net

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Only Maryland, Texas still separate public, private schools

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Imagine if two-time defending state champion Northwest High School football team, or any other public program in Maryland, had to go through national-caliber private school teams such as Good Counsel, DeMatha or McDonogh to claim a state title. On one hand, it makes sense for a champion to have to win a tournament that included all the top teams in the state, not just from the public schools. And that’s the way it works for most of the states in the country. Virginia private schools are the latest to be given that chance, joining the Virginia High School League, after private school Liberty Christian Academy brought an antitrust lawsuit against the VHSL for not allowing the Lynchburg school to join its league. On May 20, the VHSL reached a settlement to allow Liberty Christian and all nonboarding state private schools to apply for membership. Maryland and Texas are the only states remaining that don’t allow private schools into the public school leagues, and most coaches say they would prefer to keep it that way. The differences in rules and restrictions between public and private schools would give the privates an unfair advantage, coaches said. “We’re not playing with the same rules,” Clarksburg coach Larry Hurd, Jr. said. “How do you make a private school and public schools play each other for a state championship when pri-

vate schools can go around and recruit the best players all over the place. I don’t know what it is in Virginia. We get players from Clarksburg. Good Counsel gets players from out of state. How in the world would that be a fair situation?” In a joint statement released by the VHSL and Liberty Christian, the VHSL said, “Any private school that joins the VHSL must meet the same individual participant eligibility requirements and regulations as public school students currently meet with minor changes and adjustments.” The statement also said, “Member private schools have the option of adopting the public school attendance zone where their campus is located or adding one additional contiguous attendance zone and being subject to a multiplier for the playoffs.” The multiplier would be toward enrollment for classiﬁcation purposes. The only way it would work in Maryland, Seneca Valley coach Fred Kim said, is if the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association took similar steps in forcing the private schools to play within the same restrictions of the public schools, or lifted some of the restrictions on the latter. “If they played within the same rules as we do, then I don’t think I’d have a problem with that,” Kim said. “We’re not allowed to recruit players. They’re allowed to recruit players. Within their league, they can do different things as far as coaching out of season, facilities, that sort of thing. The programs that put their emphasis into the football program, the schools that do that have a decided advantage in my opinion. For example, a DeMatha or Good Counsel, where they travel beyond and they’re

playing some of these bigger name teams.” It would probably take a lawsuit to force a change in Maryland, but there’s one factor that may discourage that. Many of the private schools compete in leagues that cross state borders. The Interstate Athletic Conference and its classic rivalries between Georgetown Prep, Landon and Bullis has lots of history and tradition. The Washington Catholic Athletic Conference and the almost annual conference championship clashes between DeMatha and Good Counsel, amongst others, would be threatened. “The IAC means a lot to all the schools in the IAC. The WCAC means a lot to them. And same thing with the [Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association],” said Bullis coach Pat Cilento. “There’s a lot of history in all those conferences, so I think it’s going to be difficult. Not saying it can’t be done, there’s beneﬁts to it. It’ll be interesting to see, with this new law in Virginia, what the teams like St. Stephens in the IAC and the schools in the WCAC like Paul VI and O’Connell do. If they stay with the WCAC or follow the Virginia state rules, and play in those tournaments. I think the next few years will tell a lot.” Liberty Christian’s situation is unique in that it’s a private school that was relatively isolated from the other schools in the conference it competed in. Scheduling games within a reasonable distance was difficult and the school found it to be easier if it could play the local public schools. The VSHL denied Liberty Christian membership three times before ﬁnally succumbing to the lawsuit. pgrimes@gazette.net

Guided an ultratalented team, which included three sophomores and one freshman, to a dominant, undefeated regular season. The Bears captured the team Interstate Athletic Conference title and brought home their ﬁrst Metros title in 15 years.

Michael Blasey

Graham Hutchinson

Delaney Shah

Metros individual winner was the only player in the 24-person ﬁeld to shoot under par (-2, 70) at P.B. Dye. A Davidson University recruit.

Cruised to state championship with a 141, the only sub70 round posted; tied for third in county with 9-hole average of 35.50 strokes.

The girls state champion (148) had the county’s second-lowest scoring average (35.25 strokes/nine holes). No. 2 female scorer at districts.

Whitman, Soph.

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Second Team and Honorable Mentions are online at Gazette.net

SportsBriefs Holy Cross alum earns national honor Rhamat Alhassan, a rising sophomore volleyball player at the University of Florida, was named to the Women’s Junior National Team last week. Alhassan, a 2014 graduate of Academy of the Holy Cross in Kensington, was named the Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Year in her ﬁrst season with the Gators.

— ADAM GUTEKUNST

Gaithersburg signing day On May 29, Gaithersburg High School held a signing day for its 16 graduating seniors who plan to play sports in college. From the baseball team, Brendan Deyo signed to McDaniel College and Trey Martinez signed to Towson. For football, Kamonte Carter signed to Penn State, Henry-Emmanuel Yoboue to Marist College, Tyrik Etheridge to West Virginia State University, Zavae Johnson to Reedley College, and Othniel Kpodar to Bethany College. For girls lacrosse, Morgan Price signed to Lynchburg College, and Bethany Scott to Longwood University. For girls soccer, Jaime Montgomery signed to Palm Beach Atlantic, Shannen DeLeon to Shenadoah University, Melissa Krofcheck to Frostburg, and from the boys Christian Reyes signed to Hood College, Tyler Beaudoin to Loyola, and Luc

Durand-Zara to Millersville. Basketball player Anthony Tarke signed with University of Charleston.

— PRINCE J. GRIMES

Paint Branch coach earns top honor Paint Branch High School baseball coach Tommy Rey was named the 2015 Coach of the Year by the Montgomery County High School Baseball Coaches Association. The Panthers went 20-3 this season and won the 4A North Section II ﬁnal against Sherwood before losing in region championship game.

— PRINCE J. GRIMES

Springbrook grad getting pro interest Zaid Hearst, a former Montgomery County high school basketball standout and NBA prospect, had a workout with the Philadelphia 76ers last week in preparation of the June 25 NBA Draft. The 6-foot-4 guard played four seasons for Quinnipiac and was named to the MAAC All-Conference team this past season after averaging 18.3 points. Hearst, of Bethesda, played for Bethesda-Chevy Chase then transferred to Springbrook, where he was part of the 2009 Class 4A state championship team. Hearst graduated from Salisbury School in Connecticut in 2011.

— ERIC GOLDWEIN

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An aspiring novelist is likely to listen to sage advice from the author of 17 bestsellers. As such, when Sharon Allen Gilder asked the late Tom Clancy about dealing with procrastination and writer’s block, he told her, “Just write the damn book.” Gilder did just that, and it was about time. For about two decades, she had saved a scrap of paper on which she had scribbled some thoughts. With Clancy’s kick-start and just a few alterations, those words evolved into the ﬁrst page of “The Rose Beyond,” Gilder the historical romance she published with Amazon’s CreateSpace in 2014. From start to ﬁnish, the process of researching, writing and editing the book took 14 years. Historical romance has delighted Gilder since she read Kathleen Woodiwiss’ “Ashes in the Wind” at age 22. She believes that the genre keeps “the words and telling of the past from fading” and makes “a connection to the past through the characters — to imagine the voices that came before me and let them be heard.” “The Rose Beyond” focuses on a privileged family, whose lives are disrupted by a letter that

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Mitchell Brunings takes on the role of Bob Marley in Center Stage’s production of “Marley.”

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Two local residents have scored ﬁrst-run ensemble spots in what’s being touted as one of the most anticipated musical premieres this year. Jeff Kirkman III of Beltsville and Bill Hurlbut of Silver Spring are a part of the 10-person ensemble of “Marley,” the ﬁrst theatrical depiction of the late Jamaican reggae artist Bob Marley — played by Internet star Mitchell Brunings. The musical, which will run at Center Stage’s Pearlstone Theatre in Balti-

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more until June 14, has been highlighted as one with potential for success on Broadway in the future. Though a signiﬁcant amount of the hype comes from the musical’s subject matter itself, it would be a mistake to consider this

production a gimmick. The director and writer, Kwame Kwei-Armah, has inspired a top-notch disciplined and creative dynamic, according to both Kirkman and Hurlbut. Both noted their excitement of being a part of it. “Kwame ... is just a tremendous person to work with, and right from the start he kind of instilled a feeling in the cast that [the environment] was open and loving and friendly,” Hurlbut said. “I had never been hugged by so many people I’d only just gotten to know in my life — it’s been one of those kinds of things. It’s very personal for all of us, to be involved in this.”

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IN THE ARTS For a free listing, please submit complete information to wfranklin@gazette.net at least 10 days in advance of desired publication date. High-resolution color images (500KB minimum) in jpg format should be submitted when available. MUSIC Arts Barn, Amadou Kouyate Kora and Percussion, June 6, 311 Kent Square Road, 301-258-6394. AMP by Strathmore, Raul Midon, June 6; The Hillbenders, June 11; The Chuck Brown Band, June 12; Active Child with Low Roar, June 13; Beggar’s Tomb, June 19; Brubeck Brothers, June 21; WCP Summer Music Showcase, June 24; Chatham County Line, June 25; Robin and Linda Williams, June 27; call for times, 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda, ampbystrathmore.com, 301-5815100. Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club, Mary Wilson of the

Supremes, June 5; The Michael Jackson Project, June 6; The Michael Jackson Project Unplugged and Brunch Buffet, June 7; The Spampinato Brothers, June 7; Huggy Lowdown and Chris Paul Comedy Show, June 11; Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, June 12; Joe Clair; June 13; Bill Haley’s Comets, June 16; Gregory Porter, June 17; call for prices, times, 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. 240330-4500, bethesdabluesjazz.com. BlackRock Center for the Arts, Red Baraat, June 27; 12901 Town Commons Drive, Germantown. 301-528-2260, blackrockcenter. org. Hershey’s At The Grove, Sean Collins and the Backbeats, June 5; Bill Mulroney, June 6; John Zahn, June 12; Dangerous Curves, June 13; call for times, 17030 Oakmont Ave., Gaithersburg. 301-948-9893; hersheysatthegrove.com. Fillmore Silver Spring, Michael Franti & Spearhead, June 4; Kidz Bop Kids, June 5; Chronixx, June 9; Franco de Vita, June 10; Rakim and DJ Zu; June 12; Juicy J, June 17; AWOLNATION, June 18; Tori Kelly, June 19; Against Me!; June 21; 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. ﬁllmoresilverspring.com. Strathmore, BSO: Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, June 6; BSO: Bernstein’s Candide, June 11; CityDance: Conservatory Concert, June 13; AIR: Rochelle Rice, June 17; Art and Wine Night, June 18; Landau Eugene Murphy Jr., June 20; Mormon Tabernacle Choir, June 25; 5301 Tuckerman Lane,

MARLEY Continued from Page B-4 Some would say that “Marley” comes at an opportune time for a Baltimore community still staggering after the death of Freddie Gray. In theory — but not necessarily in reality — the theme of peace that’s ever present in Marley’s music could have redemptive qualities for a city that’s seen more than 40 homicides in the past 30 days. Along these lines, “Marley” found itself at an unusual juncture in late April. Its content, which revolves around a Marley desperately seeking peace in Jamaica at a time at which his country was in deadly turmoil — in the mid-to-late 1970s — was drawing increasingly more similarities to recent unrest in this country. The cast and crew have not shied away from this. On May 2, at the end of a week in Baltimore that will almost certainly hold a place in history, they played a free concert of Marley’s music at

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ON STAGE Adventure Theatre-MTC, “Garﬁeld the Musical,” June 19 through Aug. 23, call for prices, times, Adventure Theatre MTC, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo, 301-6342270, adventuretheatre-mtc.org. F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, 603 Edmonston Drive, Rockville. 240314-8681 Imagination Stage, “Double Trouble (aka The Parent Trap),” June 24 through Aug. 14, call for prices, times, Imagination Stage, 4908 Auburn Ave., Bethesda, imaginationstage.org. Olney Theatre Center, “The Price,” through June 21, call for prices, times, 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney, 301-924-3400, olneytheatre.org. The Puppet Co., “Cinderella,” through June 21; Tiny Tots @ 10, select Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, call for shows and show times, Puppet Co. Playhouse, Glen Echo Park’s North Arcade Building, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., $5, 301-6345380, thepuppetco.org. Rockville Musical Theatre, “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,” July 10 through July 26, Arts Barn, 311 Kent Square Road, 301-2586394, r-m-t.org. Round House Theatre, “NSFW,” through June 21, call for show times, 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. Tickets range in price from $10 to $45 and seating is reserved. 240-644-1100, roundhousetheatre.org. Lumina Studio Theatre, Silver Spring Black Box Theatre, 8641 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, 301588-8277, luminastudio.org; theatreconsortiumss@gmail.com. Silver Spring Stage, “On The Razzle,” through June 20, Woodmoor Shopping Center, 10145 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, see Web site for show times, ssstage. org. Randolph Road Theater, 4010 Randolph Road, Silver Spring, belcantanti.com, Cafe Muse, Friendship Heights Village Center, 4433 South Park Ave., Chevy Chase; 301-656-2797.

VISUAL ART Adah Rose Gallery, Carte Blanche: Alicia, Hannah, Olivia, Nora and Asia: The Interns of Adah Rose Gallery Curate the Summer Show,” June 3 through Aug. 23, 3766 Howard Ave., Kensington, 301-922-0162, adahrosegallery.com Glenview Mansion, Juliya Ivanilova, Nighat Ahmed, Jo Levine; Rockville Civic Center Park, 503 Edmonston Drive, Rockville. rockvillemd.gov.

North and Pennsylvania avenues. “You get a sense you’re looking at a portrait of somebody that wanted to help change the world for the better,” Kirkman said of Marley’s story. “So it’s almost like ... a rubric that people can experience and say, ‘What can I pull from this that will help my community?’ “‘What can I do to help change the world?’” Perhaps the main power of “Marley,” Kirkman said, is its ability to put the past in perspective with the present, especially in regards to police brutality issues. Parallels greater than nominal ones have been noted between Trenchtown, where Marley grew up in Kingston, and Sandtown, where Gray grew up in Baltimore. “The things that people were going through at this time in the ’70s aren’t that much different than what we’re going through now in 2015,” he said. “If you’re a person who’s aware of what is going on in the world ... you say, ‘Oh, I know exactly what this is.’” Hurlbut, who is white, said

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that working on the production has been an enriching experience in his life due to the varying viewpoints he’s been exposed to. Because the majority of the cast and crew is black — some of whom have Jamaican lineages — the process has felt like a rejuvenated one, he said, with fresh perspectives fueling the conversation. “Usually, in plays, it’s the other way around,” Hurlbut noted. The coming weeks will likely prove crucial for the future of “Marley,” as potential backers evaluate its marketability as a Broadway production. But the actors don’t seem to be worrying about that. They’re taking it one show at a time. “I really don’t have any idea where it’s going to go,” Kirkman said. “I’m really just trying to make sure this is solid, and we ﬁgure out what the show is. And if it goes somewhere it does, but right now we’re just focusing on Center Stage.” Tickets range from $19 to $84 for the remaining shows.

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Continued from Page B-4 parlor — in the language.” The title came from A.L. Fink’s poem, “The Rose Still Grows Beyond the Wall,” which Gilder heard a minister read at a funeral. “The poem spoke to me because there is love, loss, mystery and beautiful gardens in ‘The Rose Beyond,” and the poem made me feel more hopeful about the mystery of life after death,” she said. “I thought the message was a good tie-in to my storyline.” In the novel, a character dies in childbirth, and her friend says, “We know it does not end at the grave.” According to Gilder, “[that] is essentially the message in the poem. … There’s also a double meaning in [the] statement because the book is about inevitability ... ultimately, the

truth will be told.” Gilder, who graduated from Wheaton High School and studied home economics education at the University of Maryland, taught child development and gourmet foods at Woodward High School for eight years, and then worked as a teacher and administrator at a private preschool for more than 30. Her propensity for writing stems from early childhood when she produced bound books she still has “somewhere,” often with an “adventurous Pippi Longstocking-type” heroine. Later, as an educator, Gilder wrote food, child development and sexual assault curricula for the Montgomery County Public Schools. A freelance journalist since late 2006, she has written for local media including The Gazette, the Potomac Almanac and The Town Courier. Her subject matter varies, but occasionally

features the Brem Foundation to Defeat Breast Cancer and Friends of Montgomery Animals, organizations on whose boards she sits. Gilder writes at her dining room table, without an outline, often out of order; she allows the characters to “take me to places I didn’t know I was going.” She is not sure writing is the solitary pursuit it is “often characterized as … Although I might be alone in a room with my fingers on the keyboard waiting for the next words to flow upon my computer’s screen, the confluence of people, places and events from my past keep me in wonderful company.” A sequel to “The Rose Beyond” is on that table now. Gilder is pleased that there is no need for Clancy’s kick-start this time. “It is moving faster than my debut novel, and hopefully won’t take 14 years to complete!”

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The legend of kora and percussion SAM FREEDENBERG

NIH PHILHARMONIA

The NIH Philharmonia presents their season ﬁnale “National Pride” on Saturday.

Playing off the stage

As the spring winds down and the summer begins, some area venues begin their transitions — either they’re just starting up for the summer, or they’re putting a bow on their seasons. The NIH Philharmonia in Rockville is that latter,

wrapping up their season with “National Pride,” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church in Rockville. Under the baton of Nancia D’Alimonte, the NIH Philharmonia will take on “Russian Easter Overture” by

Rimsky-Korsakov, “Billy the Kid Suite” by Copland, and “Symphony No. 9 (from the New World)” from Dvorak. Tickets for the concert are free and the even is open to the public. For more information, visit nihphil.org or call 240-888-6781.

Party in the streets The 21st annual Imagination Bethesda, a children’s street festival celebrating children and the arts, is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Musical performances and professional children’s entertainers will light up the stage, while hands-on art & craft activities will line the streets along Elm Street and Woodmont Avenue in downtown Bethesda. Organized and managed by the Bethesda Urban Partnership, the festival will host 25 local businesses and arts organizations that will provide a variety of hands-on art and craft activities to entertain and energize the 12-andunder crowd. Additionally, the festival will feature face painters, balloonists, a stilt-walker, free giveaways and more. Imagination Bethesda is a free event. For more information, visit bethesda.org.

For more information on our programs for the 2015-16 school year, Contact Leah Bradley 301-949-3551 or lbradley@AccessJCA.org or visit us online at www.AccessJCA.org/interages

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The 21st annual Imagination Bethesda, a childrenís street festival celebrating children and the arts, is scheduled for Saturday in downtown Bethesda.

Pianist Grace Cho, left, of the New Orchestra of Washington practices with Cantor Rochelle Helzner in advance of a chamber music concert on Sunday at Tikvat Israel Congregation in Rockville.

A living culture

Cantor Rochelle Helzner will be joined by members of the New Orchestra of Washington for “Chai Culture,” a concert of Jewish themes in classical music, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, at Tikvat Israel Congregation in Rockville. This marks the orchestra’s ﬁrst performance with a cantor, although the New Orchestra of Washington has presented a Jewish-themed program at various venues, including the Strathmore Center for the Performing Arts. The concert program will include the “Divertimento From Gimpel the Fool” for clarinet, violin, cello and piano by David Schiff, and the trio for clarinet, violin and piano by Paul Schoenﬁeld. Tickets are available for $25 in advance, $30 at the door. Teenagers and younger children will be admitted at no charge. To purchase, contact 301-762-7338, concert@tikvatisrael.org or visit tikvatisrael.org/ concert.

Arts on the Green concludes its World Music Series for the season with the concert “Amadou Kouyate: Kora and Percussion,” at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Arts Barn in Gaithersburg. As an ambassador of African culture, Kouyate’s main instrument is the kora, a 21-string harp. Born in Washington, D.C., Kouyate is the 150th generation of the Kouyate lineage and has studied and performed Manding traditional West African music since the age of 3. Besides playing the kora, Kouyate is a dynamic djembe and koutiro drummer and is passionate about reconnecting those of the African Diasporas to one another. His repertoire ranges from traditional songs from the 13th century to contemporary original compositions incorporating blues and jazz riffs. Kouyate has received the

Maryland Start Arts Council Governor’s Citation and other artistic awards from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Special Talents and Musical Theatre Scholarships at Howard University and Levine School of Music. He has studied in Mali, Senegal, Guinea and Cote d’Ivoire with master musicians of the Diali tradition including Djimo Kouyate and Toumani Diabate. Prior to pursuing his career as a professional solo artist and collaborator full time, Kouyate served as an Adjunct Lecturer of African Music and Ethnomusicology at the University of Maryland and as Artist-In-Residence at Montgomery College. Admission is $25 ($12 for youth 18 and under). For more information, visit gaithersburgmd.gov or call 301-258-6394.

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Arts on the Green concludes its World Music Series for the season with the concert “Amadou Kouyate: Kora and Percussion” on Saturday.

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2007 Rabbit...............................#V033452A, Black, 117,967 Miles..............$5,991

2013 Passat SE.......................#V080993A, White, 29,626 Miles...............$17,391

2008 Dodge Caliber...............#V293674A, Silver, 130,404 Miles................$5,999

2012 CC.....................................#V820490A, Black, 47,400 Miles...............$17,491

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2013 Jetta TDI..........................V320148A, Black, 31,444 Miles.................$17,492

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2013 GTI Conv..........................V297056A, White, 31,734 Miles.................$17,993

2011 Nissan Sentra...............#V298174B, Silver, 83,127 Miles................$11,791

2014 Jeep Patriot...................VP0134, Black, 9,454 Miles........................$18,692

2011 Toyota Camry SE..........V0125A, Black, 61,476 Miles.....................$11,995

2013 Beetle..............................#V591026A, Black, 35,857 Miles...............$18,791

2014 Nissan Versa.................V309714A, Gray, 7,485 Miles.....................$13,772

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2004 Honda S2000 Roadster..V255772A, Gray, 36,661 Miles...................$19,792

2014 Chrysler 200 LX............#VPR0139, Grey, 33,534 Miles...................$14,991

2013 Jetta Sportswagen TDI..V055283A, Black, 30,101 Miles.................$20,992

2013 Nissan Altima...............V303606A, Silver, 49,926 Miles..................$15,871

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NEW2 2015 AVALON XLS AVAILABLE: #578023, 578024

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V6, AUTO, 4 DR

AFTER $1500 REBATE

NEW22015 RAV4 4X2 LE AVAILABLE: #564445, 564460

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