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Details stem flow of Ten Mile guidelines Proposed environmental regulations for watershed being debated
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Battles over buffers in the upcounty Ten Mile Creek watershed will likely continue based on comments during a recent hearing in Silver Spring. “Very often the devil’s in the details,” said Anne Cinque of Boyds, speaking at the June 12 hearing attended by a handful of developers and environmentalists. The Planning Board is scheduled to discuss the draft revised guidelines
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Donna Adderly of Germantown, Mary Hite of Frederick and Esther Lyons of Gaithersburg untangle a ball of yarn during a meeting of the “Friday Night Hookers” at the North Potomac home of Jackie Bell on June 6. Below: Bell crochets during a meeting.
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Women’s group creates, donates handmade items
VIRGINIA TERHUNE STAFF WRITER
Clarksburg at one time was the third-largest community in Montgomery County, that is until the railroad bypassed the town that had prospered as a stopping point on the main road between Washington, D.C., and Frederick. Things quieted down for a time, but in recent years, Clarksburg has started booming again, this time with new houses, townhouses, schools and parks.
at it,” Bell said. In a nod to their passion and humor, the group has even created a name for themselves: The Friday Night Hookers. “It’s been a source of laughter,” Bell said. While working together, the group members critique their fellow crocheters on various elements such as technique or choice of color in order to help each other become better at doing what they love, Bell said. In the time between each biweekly meeting, the group members spend a lot of individual time working on their pieces. Bell, a contract specialist for the
Nearly twice a month, the basement of Jackie Bell’s North Potomac home becomes a lively space, overflowing with conversation, laughter and yarn. Bell and about a dozen of her friends — ranging in age from 20 to 75 — come together around 6:30 p.m. every other Friday to crochet. She started hosting the group more than a year ago after discovering that many of her friends shared her same passion for the craft. “Our goal is to have fun, to enjoy what we’re doing, to learn new stitches and to help each other get really good
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Preserving the past, capturing the present
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BY JENN DAVIS STAFF WRITER
in detail at a work session on June 26 in Rockville before making its recommendations to the County Council. The hearing was to accept input about proposed revised environmental guidelines that would require wider stream buffers, new buffers for ephemeral [intermittent] streams and additional environmental protections on sites of an acre or more in the watershed, which drains land east and west of I-270 in Clarksburg and Boyds. The County Council asked for stricter measures after voting April 1 to amend the 1994 Clarksburg Master plan with impervious surface caps on development to protect the relatively clean watershed. Cathy Wiss, speaking for the Audu-
The Clarksburg Historical Society, which has documented the past and wants to involve residents in chronicling the future, is holding a photo contest as part of its annual Clarksburg Heritage Day. The festivities featuring, music, food, exhibits and activities will take place from noon to 4 p.m. in the community’s historic district straddling MD 355 between Clarksburg and Stringtown roads, with exhibits and free parking based at Clarksburg Elementary School at 13530 Redgrave Place. The afternoon event is part of Montgomery County’s annual Heritage Days weekend, which this year
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IF YOU GO n What: Showing of “Community Cornerstones” documentary followed by a panel discussion with the producer and two community members interviewed in the film
SARAH SCULLY STAFF WRITER
n Time: 7 p.m., the film is one hour long
Gwen Hebron Reese was born into the Sugarland community in 1941, in a house built by her great-grandfather, a founder of the black agrarian community in what is now part of Poolesville. She remembers how Sugarland felt like an extended family where everyone worked together. “In the early days the families all got together when they were doing the canning and everything for the winter,” Reese said. Each brought jars
n Location: Germantown Library, 19840 Century Boulevard, Germantown n Cost: Free n More information: http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/library/branches/ germantown.html.
and produce and took away an equal share. The women canned while the men and children tended to pots over a fire. It was a community established by freed slaves, and St. Paul Commu-
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Davion Thornton, 8, Josie Hoffacker, 7, and Regan Sullivan, 4, all of Clarksburg, make Father’s Day cards at the Clarksburg block party on Saturday in the Clarksburg Village Shopping Center. About 400 people attended, and organizers hope to make it an annual event.
nity Church was its centerpiece. St. Paul Church was built as the Sugarland Forest Methodist Episco-
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