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Apartments could replace some stores Police Residents say city needs more affordable housing at Laurel Shopping Center n

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Three vacant storefronts, including the old movie theater at the Laurel Shopping Center, could be razed and replaced with a new apartment complex, but Laurel residents say this proposal still may not address the city’s need for affordable housing. Ofﬁcials from Federal Realty Investment Trust, which owns the Laurel Shopping Center on Fairlawn Avenue, have proposed tearing down 52,000 square feet

of unoccupied retail space and building 180 multifamily rental units in its place, said attorney Ed Gibbs, who represents Federal Realty. “We’re hoping that we can create some vibrancy out there with a substantial investment and just make sure the center continues to be viable,” Gibbs said. Gibbs said his client is also considering developing an additional 50,000 square feet toward the front of the complex based on market demand. Some residents said housing would be a better use for the space than vacant commercial buildings. “This place is booming,” said Ronald Ganoe, 45, of Laurel. “People are going to need a place to live.” But many said the apartments would oversaturate the market and not serve enough low-income resi-

dents. The development would be subject to the city’s Affordable Housing Program because the complex would have 50 or more dwelling units. As part of the program, the complex must offer three percent of its units as work force housing and three percent as moderate priced housing for individuals with reduced or ﬁxed incomes, said Christian Pulley, the city’s senior planner. “There are a lot of apartment buildings around this area,” said Laurel resident Barbara Williams, 79 “Who do they think is going to live there?” Williams said if there is more residential development in Laurel, she would rather see detached homes than apartments, which she called “transient houses.”

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chief charged Edmonston residents worried about transparency n

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Edmonston’s police chief was charged Monday with two counts of official misconduct, a move that emphasizes resident and council member concerns about government accountability in the small town. A summons was issued Monday for Police Chief Stephen Walker for two counts of malfeasance in office, or official misconduct. Walker declined to comment on the charges, but town Mayor Tracy Gant said she believed any allegations against the chief would be proven false. “I have an honest chief. I

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Friends of Dueling Creek take a nature walk Saturday through Colmar Manor Park. The creek is a tributary of the Anacostia River, which passes through the park. Fran Toler (right) of Mount Rainier shares information with hikers as they stand where the creek meets the river.

County residents rally for healthier waterways Dueling Creek part of original Anacostia River

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Denise Hamler of Cottage City has made it a habit to clean up trash where Dueling Creek borders her backyard, but she said that doesn’t mean the whole Anacostia River tributary is getting the help it needs. “It feels like to me each section has been addressed separately, but not as one huge situation,” Hamler said. “I can clean out all the bottles and trash I want,

but unless we address it in a larger, systemic way, the trash will just keep appearing.” Now, Hamler and other like-minded neighbors are formally advocating for the health of the entire waterway as members of the Friends of Dueling Creek. “It’s people on the ground who are actually monitoring, looking out and weighing in when there is a problem and rallying their neighbors to help with clean-ups,” said Dan Smith, advocacy director for Bladensburg-based Anacostia Watershed Society. Dueling Creek ﬂows through Mount Rainier, Cottage City and Colmar Manor, where it enters Colmar Manor Park. Dueling Creek was once known as “The Dark and Bloody Grounds,” as it was the site of more

City offers tips, bins for local composting

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The old nursery rhyme “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary” asks the question, “How does your garden grow?” For some Green-

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belt residents, the answer may be “not very well,” due to hard clay topsoil, but that may change thanks to city efforts to encourage composting. Residents LeeAnn Irwin and Melvin Black said they began composting to help their vegetable garden, because the soil on their property was hard and clay-like. “The clay doesn’t have many nutrients. We’ve been having a vegetable garden for

than 50 duels in the early 19th century, according to the Prince George’s County Department of Parks and Recreation. While the Friends are still forming their goals, Fran Toler, founder of the Friends of Dueling Creek, said she is interested in organizing targeted invasive plant removal and reducing littering by groups using Colmar Manor Park. Currently, the group meets monthly and organizes nature walks. Toler, who founded the Friends in March, said she had been thinking about forming a group for 10 years and was encouraged to get the ball rolling after speaking with

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a few years, but it isn’t as fruitful as we’d like,” Irwin said. A talk hosted by Greenbelt’s Department of Public Works on May 20 aimed to share tips and advice on composting with residents. The Department of Public Works also has a limited number of compost bins for

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TWICE AS NICE Students receive high school diplomas, college degrees on the same day through dual enrollment school. A-7

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Beth McCracken-Harness of Cheverly said that the three years her son spent in and out of school while being treated for a major illness were some of the most difﬁcult experiences in her life. “There was a time when I couldn’t go to the doctor right across the street without getting a call that my son’s heart monitor was going off,” McCrackenHarness recalled. “It was very isolating. Thank God for the Home and Hospitals teachers

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MAY 28 Northern Prince George’s County Republican Club Meeting, 7 p.m., St. Mark’s

Church School Library, 7501 Adelphi Road, Hyattsville. We encourage you to please bring a friend, or family member to the meeting. The Northern Prince George’s County Republican Club meets every fourth Wednesday of the month. Contact 301-422-8648.

MAY 29 Seniors: Larriland Farm, 10 a.m. to 3

p.m., Langley Park Senior Activity Center, 1500 Merrimac Drive, Hyattsville. It’s just about harvest time. Seniors will travel to scenic Woodbine to the renowned Larriland Farm to pick locally sourced inseason produce. Afterward, you’ll take a pumpkin ride through the farm. Trip will depart the Langley Park Senior Activity Center via M-NCPPC vans. Meals will be provided at your own expense. Resident: $10; non-resident: $12. Contact 301-4084343; TTY 301-446-3402. Nature Tots: Silly Goose, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., Patuxent Research Refuge National Wildlife Visitor Center, Powder Mill Road between the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and Route 197, Laurel. Ages 3-4 Introduce your preschooler to the world of Geese through games, stories and crafts in this fun, interactive program. Registration is required. Contact 301-497-5887. Xtreme Teens: Ice Cream Social & Long Ball Contest, 7 to 10 p.m., North

Brentwood Community Center, 4012 Webster St., North Brentwood. Tonight we are making yummy ice cream treats; then afterwards hit the gym for long ball. Test your basketball shooting skills and see who will make the longest shot. Contact 301-864-0756; TTY 301-455-4512.

MAY 30 Bird Walk, 8:15 to 10:15 a.m., Patuxent Research Refuge North Tract, Route 198 between the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and Route 32, Laurel. All Ages Search for birds in several refuge habitats on this guided hike. Field guides and binoculars are recommended. Registration is required. Contact 301-497-5887. Special Olympics Horse Show, 9 a.m., The Show Place Arena, 14900 Pennsylvania Ave., Upper Marlboro. The Prince George’s Equestrian Center will host the Special Olympics Horse Show. Contact 301-952-7900; TTY 301-952-7998. Healthy Me, Healthy Family” Series,

10 to 10:45 a.m., My Care Urgent Care Clinic, 8500 Annapolis Rd, Suite-100, New Carrollton. Want to reduce stress? Want a healthy family relationship? Then join us. Talk to the experts, and get some take home materials. Discuss healthy strategies for managing stress and anger. Contact 240-667-1849 or info@360wholeness. org. Beltway BBQ Showdown, Noon to 7 p.m., Tucker Road Athletic Complex, 1770 Tucker Road, Fort Washington. The competition, scored by certiﬁed Kansas City Barbeque Society judges, will have four categories: chicken, pork, beef and ribs. A Grand Champion will be crowned based on the total score from each category. Ages 13 & up: $3/person Ages 4-12: $2/ person. Contact Jonathan.Jones@pgparks. com. Herp Search, 1 to 2:30 p.m., Patuxent Research Refuge North Tract, Route 198 between the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and Route 32, Laurel. All Ages Join a refuge naturalist on this guided search for reptiles and amphibians. Wear good walking shoes. Registration is required. Contact 301-497-5887. At War with Ourselves — A Visual Art Response Opening Reception, 5 to 8 p.m.,

Brentwood Arts Exchange, 3901 Rhode Island Ave., Brentwood. Contact 301-2772863 or phil.davis@pgparks.com. Night Hike, 8 to 9:30 p.m., Patuxent Research Refuge North Tract, Route 198 between the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and Route 32, Laurel. Ages 5 and up. Discover the nighttime world of the refuge as you look and listen for nocturnal animals on this guided walk. Registration is required. Contact 301-497-5887.

MAY 31 Social for Roosevelt Dems Club, 1:30

to 5:30 p.m., Social for Roosevelt Democratic Club, Greenbelt Arts Center, Greenbelt. Come one, come all for a social event of the Greenbelt Roosevelt Democratic Club. Sunday brunch at the Beijing Restaurant in Roosevelt Center followed by a matinee of Raisin in the Sun at Greenbelt Arts Center. Menu cost for brunch, play tickets $17. Contact 202-321-4207 or nwillliams23@gmail.com.

JUNE 1 Prince George’s County Commission for Veterans Monthly Meeting, 6 p.m.,

the Department of Family Services, 6420 Allentown Road, Camp Springs. The mission of the Commission for Veterans is to

Vansville Elementary Family Fun Run,

8:30 a.m., Laurel Lake, 8300 Mulberry St., Laurel. There will be refreshments, rafﬂe prizes and more. Each participant will receive a Fun Run T-shirt, race bib and race bag. Registration is only $10 per person and $30 for a family of four. Registration cost will increase if you register day of event. Contact 240-391-8711 or vespta08@ gmail.com.

MORE INTERACTIVE CALENDAR ITEMS AT WWW.GAZETTE.NET elevate, develop and promote new and existing programs and services for veterans and their families within Prince George’s County. Meetings are free and open to the public. Contact 301-265-8404 or CLSnowden@co.pg.md.us.

JUNE 2 New Venture Workshop: Ready Set Go, 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Capital Region Training Center, 7100 Baltimore Ave., fourth ﬂoor, College Park. Our consultants will share with you everything to anticipate when starting a new business including, information on the legal and licensing requirements, the business plan, the different ﬁnancing options, preparing a marketing strategy and all the perks and drawbacks that come with the life of an entrepreneur. Contact 301-403-8300, Ext. 22 or sbtdc-training@umd.edu. Seniors: Audiology Seminar, 1 to 2 p.m., John E Howard Senior Activity Center, 4400 Shell St., Capitol Heights. An audiologist from Hearing Professionals will discuss how hearing loss affects your relationships, emotions and overall physical well-being. Information on the latest technology, treatment options and communication strategies will be covered at the conclusion of the presentation. Sign up at the center front desk during operating hours. Contact 301-735-2400; TTY 301-446-3402.

JUNE 3 Foundation Center: Introduction to Finding Grants, 4:30 p.m., Hyattsville Li-

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Greenbelt teenager named Elizabeth Seton valedictorian Bladensburg school staff commend student for achievements, humility n

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Patty Commins, 18, debated between attending Eleanor Roosevelt High School with her identical twin sister, Mary, or splitting off for the ﬁrst time and forging her own path at Elizabeth Seton High School. The Greenbelt resident chose the latter and after four years of success in academics, music and athletics, she was named this year’s valedictorian. “She recognizes her intellect and musical talent as a gift and I think that’s why she’s so willing to share it with other people,” said Vanessa Cooke, dean of guidance at the Bladensburg school. Commins graduated Tuesday at the top of her class with a 4.34 GPA. She earned a perfect 800 on the math section of the SAT and a perfect 5 on the Advanced Placement Calculus BC exam as a junior. “I’ve always just liked math a lot, but also seeing how you can apply it in the real world,” Commins said. Commins is a member of numerous academic societies, including the National Honors Society. As an NHS tutor, Cooke said Commins motivates younger students to excel. “She really helps to build their conﬁdence and has a way of explaining that makes you feel on top of things,” Cooke said. Commins has been part of the school’s track, cross country and swim teams and volunteered with Martha’s Table,

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Patty Commins, 18, of Greenbelt is the 2015 valedictorian at Elizabeth Seton High School in Bladensburg.

strumental music director, praised Commins’ academic accomplishments, they said they were the most impressed by her humility. “She’s just good at everything she does. It would be easy to hate a person like that if she wasn’t so sweet,” Hood said. Cooke said Commins’ natural ability and work ethic are the keys to her success, but her “joy of learning” enables her to achieve. “It seems like such a joy for her and she never seems to be burdened by it,” Cooke said. In her graduation speech, Commins emphasized the importance of service and giving back, but she said the most valuable lesson she learned at Elizabeth Seton was the importance of friendship. “Seton is very close knit and I think it’s good to ﬁnd that in college [but also] keep in touch with everyone,” Commins said.

a nonprofit that addresses hunger and poverty in Washington, D.C., but she said the highlight of her time at Elizabeth Seton was performing with the school’s orchestra. She was the ﬁrst chair violist for all four years, in addition to performing with honors and state-wide ensembles. “It’s nice to be with the same group of girls all four years at Seton,” Commins said. “It’s a nice community orchestra.” When deciding which college to attend, Commins faced a similar crossroads as she did four years ago — she could join her twin at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana or enroll at Carleton College in Minnesota. The comfort of a small school, which attracted her to Elizabeth Seton, also compelled her to choose Carleton. “I liked that Carleton was smaller and everyone there was friendly,” Commins said. “I thought it was a better ﬁt for me.” While Cooke and Debora Hood, Elizabeth Seton’s in-

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Prince George’s County residents can learn about historic African-American communities and listen to oral histories Sunday in North Brentwood. The “Sharing Our Stories” event will be hosted by County Councilwoman Dannielle Glaros (Dist. 3) of Riverdale from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center in North Brentwood. Residents from three communities — Lake-

land in College Park, Lincoln near Glenn Dale and Seabrook Acres — will speak during the event. As she met with many of her constituents in District 3, Glaros said that she discovered residents didn’t know nearby communities as well as they could. “We have such tremendous history in the county,” Glaros said. “I wanted to pull people together from all of the different neighborhoods and hear about their history.” Admission is free. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, call the District 3 ofﬁce at 301-952-3060. kpetersen@gazette.net

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Laurel Elementary School reading specialist Paul Rohde helps fourth-grader Sean Shackelford work on a PowerPoint presentation on May 13.

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Families of Laurel Elementary School students may notice a familiar face is missing when they drop off their children in the fall — reading specialist Paul Rohde, who has greeted pupils outside every morning and has taught at the school for 17 years, will retire this summer. “I think it will be a big change and a big loss for them because he’s been there for so long and he knows the school and the students and teachers so well,” said parent Deborah Yeagley. “I think he loved what he did and had a very positive impact.” Rohde, 66, of Calverton worked exclusively in Prince George’s County Public Schools during his 41-year career. Rohde taught third through sixth grade at Riverdale Elementary School in Riverdale and Lamont Elementary School in New Carrollton. When Rohde arrived at Laurel in 1998, he said he was ready to transition out of the

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classroom and decided to become a reading specialist. “I get to teach more than I’ve ever taught,” Rohde said. Rohde works with struggling readers in intervention groups as well as talented and gifted students who are building their literary skills. For younger readers, Rohde uses incentives, such as prizes from the Dollar Store, to encourage them to meet reading goals. Laurel Elementary School principal Melinda Lee said she is confident Rohde’s teaching has made an impact on struggling readers. Rohde said the most fulfilling part of teaching reading is seeing students make progress and grow in their confidence. Yeagley, whose four daughters all worked with Rohde as talented and gifted students, said enrichment activities he devised and fundraisers he helped organize — such as the annual cookie sale — make her children feel special. “I think he challenged the kids,” Yeagley said. “He didn’t let them off easy [but] that’s why he was there, to push them a little bit.” Rohde said he studied political science in college, but despite his aptitude for law, he

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wasn’t interested in becoming an attorney or working for the government. It wasn’t until a friend encouraged him to try substitute teaching that Rohde said he found his calling. “There are few days that I can think of over the years that I did not want to go into school,” Rohde said. “Some people dread it, want to get out. I never felt that way.” Lee said for more than eight years, she’s spent weekday mornings welcoming students with Rohde when they arrive at school. “We share our school experiences, but also I know his wife, the trips he’s taken,” Lee said. “That sharing time I’ll certainly miss, having him out there with me.” In his retirement, Rohde said he plans to travel with his wife, golf and audit classes at the University of Maryland, College Park. But he said this won’t be the last time students and parents will see him at Laurel — he plans to volunteer once or twice a week at the school. “When I see the kids make progress, that’s a great feeling. It really is,” Rohde said.

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College Park promotes ‘guerrilla art’ to promote city awareness Project intended to create sense of ‘place’ n

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Stick ﬁgures dancing near City Hall; a toilet on a raised platform behind a building; a glass ball seemingly crashed, and more were among temporary art works that have appeared, and disappeared, in College Park in the past few months. “The thing that I think is important ... is that through a temporary art project, you can get a spark of something that starts a conversation,” said Renit Eisenbach, associate professor of architecture at the University of Maryland College Park. “People ‘get’ them in very different

ways.” “Guerrilla art” is a form of street art left in public places by anonymous artists, usually to make a statement or create discussion, according to the guerrilla art website. The city awarded $15,000 to the university’s Partnership for Action Learning in Sustainability, or PALS, program, to have students and professors work on four projects related to improving sustainability. Eisenbach was one of three professors who worked with art, architecture and landscape design students to develop a project designed to increase a sense of place in College Park. In addition to the “Making Place” PALS project, classes conducted a study of the city’s greenhouse gas emissions, developed strategies for improv-

ing solid waste management practices, and developed architectural designs for the construction of a combined City Hall and university ofﬁces building. The results from the projects were presented during the city’s May 19 work session, and full reports are expected to be received by the city in June. The Making Space project consisted of several guerrilla art project scattered throughout the city, mostly along Route 1/Baltimore Avenue. “We focused on the area of Route 1 that was more the ﬂash point between the city and the university areas, where a lot of development is occurring,” Eisenbach said. Architecture graduate student Prakruti Koskere said the students interviewed peers, resi-

dents and business owners, and tried to get a feel for what type of projects should be developed. “We were looking at the current identity of College Park, what the current scenario is and how we could improve it, how we could bring a little spark,” Koskere said. The art projects stayed up for one day each in March. Following the guerrilla art displays, students developed proposals for larger art pieces, and the top ﬁve were selected to go up the week of May 12. These included stick ﬁgures engaged in various activities painted throughout the city, a glass ball sculpture and a ribbon-bedecked outdoor lounge. “Public art is important in making places that people wish to sustain, and live in and steward, which is fundamental

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Several stick ﬁgures engage in various activities in a “guerrilla art” project that went up in March near the College Park Municipal Building. in making places where people want to live in a sustainable manner,” Eisenbach said. College Park Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich (Dist. 3) applauded the group for its efforts. “I think we need to think

about how we could make this a regular thing, a more permanent part of life in College Park,” Stullich said. janfenson-comeau@ gazette.net

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The old BB&T bank building in Hyattsville, sitting vacant and unused for almost five years and costing the city thousands of dollars in maintenance, will be put to use as a new headquarters for the city’s expanding police department in 2018. “I’m very excited about the move,” said Hyattsville Police Chief Doug Holland. The City Council unanimously approved moving the police department, currently located on the second floor of the Hyattsville Municipal Building, 4310 Gallatin St., to the former BB&T Bank office building, 3505 Hamilton St. The department currently leases a lot across the street for parking, paying $9,000 per year. Holland said the new location will allow for more police interaction with the community. “This building was built in the 1990s. It was designed for a police department of 25 people, and now we have 44 officers and 12 civilians, so it’s really cramped,” Holland said. The city acquired the bank building in 2010, but it has sat vacant ever since. While empty, the Hamilton Street building costs the city an average of $65,000 annually to maintain, said city spokesman Jake Rollow. Resident Vicky Turcios said she lives a few blocks away from the bank building. “I’m very happy, I think this is going to make our neighborhood a little safer,” Turcios said. According to city documents, the city is expected to select a firm to renovate the building in November, with project design in 2016 and renovation to take place in 2017, with an anticipated move no later than October 2018. Assistant City Administrator James “Jim” Chandler said additional time will be needed on the project to refit the bank building to accommodate police functions. The city has also approved a request for proposals for the current municipal building, which currently houses the police and city administration. 1931642

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New family wellness care center opens in Colmar Manor Facility will offer health screenings, maternity classes

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Bettye Muwwakkil, executive director of Seabrook-based nonproﬁt Access to Wholistic & Productive Living Institute, Inc., said for eight years, all she was looking for was an ofﬁce suite where she could educate people about infant mortality. After a conversation with Colmar Manor Mayor Sadara Barrow in March, Muwwakkil landed an entire building. “This was really something that was totally unbelievable,” Muwwakkil said. “One day we had a lease. The next day we had a key, and on April 1 we were in.” Now, Muwwakkil has shifted her vision to providing health resources to all Port Towns residents, and on May 15 , she welcomed them to the new Port Towns Family Health and Wellness Center. “It’s always been a dream of mine to work directly with transforming an entire town,” Muwwakkil said. “Now we really have

the opportunity to do that, to bring more pilot activities and initiatives that could make a difference.” The Port Towns Family Health and Wellness Center, located at 3611 43rd Ave. in Colmar Manor, aims to serve all Prince George’s residents but focus on those living in the Port Towns of Bladensburg, Colmar Manor, Cottage City and Edmonston, Muwwakkil said. The center will offer health screenings, mental health workshops, classes for expecting and new mothers and more at no cost or for a small fee between $10 and $50, depending on the class, she said. “We don’t turn away anybody,” Muwwakkil said. “If it’s offered, we provide it.” Barrow said she suggested the building, which formerly housed the Colmar Manor Police Department, to Muwwakkil in March. She said the center “ﬁts right in” with her goal of bringing holistic medicine to low- and moderate-income communities. “We can take people who we can see are in need and offer them an opportunity,” Barrow said. “They can get out of the

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(From left) Deneen Long-White, project director of the Bright Beginnings of Prince George’s home-visit program, with her daughter, Erika White, and granddaughter, Zameena White-Austin, 11 months, visit the Port Towns Family Health and Wellness Center in Colmar Manor on May 12. Erika White will be the receptionist at the Wellness Center; she participated in Bright Beginnings with Zameena. place they’re in and move to a more progressive place in their own lives. I cannot tell you how much I’m excited about this opportunity.” Deneen Long-White, who manages AWPLI’s Bright Beginnings home-visiting program,

County academy makes history Two projects progress to National History Day competition

BY JAMIE ANFENSON-COMEAU STAFF WRITER

A discussion with her parents about her “rights” led Accokeek Academy sixth-grader Lydia Waring to produce a documentary on a leading proponent of child labor laws that has been accepted into a national competition. “My mom and dad don’t let me do any social media, like all my classmates do, and so I said, ‘I have no rights,’” said Lydia, 12. “That led me into looking into the rights of young people in the past, and Mother Jones.” Lydia’s documentary, “‘Mother’ Mary Jones, The Most Dangerous Woman in America,” received ﬁrst place individual documentary in her age group in the Maryland History Day competition, held May 2 at the University of Maryland, Baltimore City. Fellow Accokeek sixthgraders Aaliyah Beckles, 12, and Maya McAfee, 12, won ﬁrst place group exhibits for their project on Helen Keller. The three Accokeek students were the only Prince George’s County students to win top honors in the state competition, which featured projects from 680 Maryland middle and high school students. As a result, Lydia, Aaliyah and Maya will compete in the Kenneth B. Behring National History Day competition, which will be held June 14-18 at the University of Maryland, College Park. The competition draws students from across the United

States, its territories, and international schools in China, Korea and South Asia, according to its website. Accokeek Academy history teacher Nina Huff said it is a ﬁrst for the school to send two winning entries to the national competition in one year. “I’m really excited we have two projects competing in the nationals,” Huff said. “They all worked very hard on their projects.” Jones was a community and labor organizer in the early 20th century who led a march for the rights of children who worked in mills and mines. Lydia said the children’s experiences put things in perspective for her. “It was so sad. They had to work 12 hours a day, six days a week, and they had to work in mines, and they could die from it,” Lydia said. Lydia said filmmaking is one of her hobbies, and so she decided to make a documentary using the iMovie video editor. “I used a ton of pictures, and I used research from the Internet. I got books from the library, and I found a bunch of articles for my project,” Lydia said. Maya said she and Aaliyah decided to focus on Helen Keller after learning about the deaf and blind activist in school. “She was really a leader for deaf and blind people,” Maya said. “We really wanted to learn more about her.” Aaliyah and Maya said they used a number of primary and secondary sources, including her autobiography, her writings, and contemporary film and newspaper articles. They also interviewed an ofﬁcial from the National Association for the Deaf about

Keller’s impact. Aaliyah said the project has sparked her interest in history, and she is looking forward to competing in the national event. “I’m looking forward to meeting people with the same interests as Maya and I, and I want to see all the different projects,” Aaliyah said. janfenson-comeau@ gazette.net

Laurel author offers tips for school success ‘Ascending Limits’ published this month n

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After Laurel resident Joanna Carr Diabe struggled to ﬁnd an affordable tutor for her daughter, she found a solution through Skype. Now, Diabe is sharing what she learned along the way in her new book, “Ascending Limits — How Our Family Overcame Obstacles.” Diabe said tutors in India, France and Argentina educate her daughter about math and language but also teach her about their respective cultures, all at a much lower rate than American tutoring services. “It gives you a higher level of intellectual ability,” Diabe

said. “It gives you a global world view.” “Ascending Limits,” which was published May 8, includes techniques that can improve student achievement and tips for securing academic scholarships. “My book will help others because it will serve as a guide and hope for people... who cannot afford the high tutorial rates in America for their children,” Diabe said. “The goal is to be able to not let the children’s education deteriorate.” The book is available on Diabe’s website, www.jojocarrdiabe.com, and Amazon.com. Physical copies are $15 and ebooks at $8.99. kpetersen@gazette.net

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said the Port Towns have high health disparities compared to other areas of Prince George’s County. For example, the ageadjusted hospitalization rate due to diabetes in Bladensburg and parts of Hyattsville is 34.2 people per 10,000, surpassing

the county average by nearly 20 percent, according to the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission and the Maryland Health Care Commission. “I think it’s important to make individuals aware of the

need and if they need the information, have information and services readily available to them,” Long-White said. “Information isn’t easy to get to. Having a center makes it easier.” Ralph Williams, chief operating ofﬁcer of the center, said he would like to see the center become more than a place for information, but also a “safe haven” for residents. “What we plan on having is an environment that deﬁnitely promotes self-esteem and selfwellness,” Williams said. “It’s going to be a positive environment for all who become clients or actually work here.” Long-White said the center will solicit input from Port Towns residents about what additional services the center should provide. “It makes you feel like it’s a community place, and that’s what we want everyone to feel like,” Long-White said. “This is a place the community can come to, and they can hear their ideas heard and implemented.” kpetersen@gazette.net

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Fairmount Heights Mayor Patricia Waiters was sworn in May 20 while her predecessor, Lillie Thompson Martin, was recognized for her 21 years of service to the Town Council. After Martin decided not to run for reelection, Waiters, who served three terms as a council member before becoming mayor, defeated fellow council member Jacqueline WoodDodson in the race for the top spot May 4. Waiters had unsuccessfully run for mayor in 2011 and said her election this year is a chance to continue what she “deems necessary for the community.” Her priorities include revitalization, economic development and green initiatives. “We’re just trying to move the town forward while considering the historic origin of the town,” Waiters said.

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Fairmount Heights Mayor Patricia Waiters (center) is sworn in during a town meeting May 20. Martin was ﬁrst elected to the Town Council in 1990 and served until 2003. She returned to the council and led the town as mayor from 2003 to 2007 and 2011 to 2015. A reception was held after the town meeting and she was awarded a plaque. During her time on coun-

cil, Martin said her most important accomplishment was filling in “wherever the need was greatest,” especially in the town’s economic development. She encouraged her successor to always keep the interests of Fairmount Heights residents in mind.

“I would deﬁnitely say weigh your decisions, be of good courage and always consider that the community is the person that elected you to the position,” Martin said. kpetersen@gazette.net

Blind swimmer set for bay County resident hopes to best personal record

DEREK JOHNSON STAFF WRITER

Mark Rew, 55, of Bowie said he always has enjoyed challenging himself. Whether it’s running marathons, taking karate courses or swimming, being completely blind hasn’t done much to slow him down or temper his expectations. “I’ve always had this thing in my life where if I start out on a journey, I usually end up where I want to,” Rew said. For the second consecutive year, Rew’s journey will take him to the Great Chesapeake Bay Swim in Baltimore on June 14, where he will swim a mile across the bay along with hundreds of others. In addition to being visually impaired, Rew said his mother was afraid of water, and never taught him to swim. “The first time I saw him swim, he could do the length of the pool and he was all arms and legs everywhere,” said Bowie resident Brian Suddeth, one of Rew’s friends who has helped train him to prepare for the swim the past two years. Last year, Rew said he was content to simply finish the swim. Suddeth and a nearby kayaker stay by Rew’s side at all times to ensure that he’s safe and comfortable. This year, he said he is looking forward to breaking his personal record after a rough start last year. While he completed the event in 47 minutes, he said pre-race nerves and a mistake in form at the very beginning left him panicked and taking in mouthfuls of water. “It was a challenge to me, and sometimes I am still a bit scared of the water,” Rew said. Chuck Nabit, race director for the Great Chesapeake Bay Swim, said he was proud that the event draws a variety of individuals with disabilities who take on the challenge of the swim. “We are gratiﬁed that [Mark] places enough trust and respect in our organizational capabilities to create an event that he feels safe and comfortable participating in,” Nabit said. Suddeth said he has high conﬁdence that Rew will best his time this year, citing the competitive nature that has driven him this far. Rew said he does not take on challenges for notoriety or for public praise; it is the camaraderie of working and training with other athletes that drives him to run in races and swim at public events rather than at home in a pool or on a treadmill. Still, he’s not above taking bragging rights now and then. “You always have the option of going to a dinner party and saying, ‘Hey, you know what I just did?’” Rew said. 158284G

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Dual enrollment school graduates ﬁrst class BY JAMIE ANFENSON-COMEAU STAFF WRITER

For 92 Prince George’s County Public Schools seniors, graduation came twice on May 21. In the morning they received their high school diplomas, and then received their Associates Degree in a second graduation the same day. The Academy of Health Sciences at PGCC in Largo is a “middle college,” meaning students are able to simultaneously complete their high school requirements as well as the requirements to receive a twoyear college degree from Prince George’s Community College. It is the ﬁrst middle college school in the Washington D.C.-Maryland-Virginia region, said Principal Kathleen Richard Andrews. Graduate Brice HurlingSpears, 17, of Upper Marlboro, said he was excited when he heard about the program in the spring of 2011 and wanted to

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(From left) Ashley Bailey, Deiondrea Berry and Ashley Bonney watch a video at the Showplace Arena in Upper Marlboro during graduation May 21 for the Academy of Health Sciences at Prince George’s Community College. attend, even though the school had not yet opened. “I knew I was going to get my high school diploma and my college degree, so I thought, instead of going to private school and paying all that money, I’m getting more out of this program for no cost at all,” Hurling-Brice

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Annually, 100 students are enrolled each year. Andrews said they must take an assess-

ment, but priority is given to students from low income backgrounds and first generation college students. Students take traditional high school classes on the PGCC campus as well as one to two college classes for their first two years, then take a full college course load to meet both their state high school and college graduation requirements. “Our program is based not on the transition from middle school to high school, but on the transition from middle school to college,” Andrews said. Participants receive college identification identical to other PGCC students, and are graded the same as college students, said Janice Cannon, school counselor. “We try not to reveal them to the professors as high school students, but if it comes up, that’s fine,” Cannon said. “Many

of the professors are surprised to find out they’ve been teaching high school students.” Andrews said students rise to the challenge and maturity that is expected of them. “They bring a level of energy and preparedness to the classroom that professors find refreshing,” Andrews said. Graduate David Oriola, 17, of Hyattsville said the school lacks sports or the traditional high school social environment, but they should consider the benefits. “I personally feel that at first it might not seem like something you’d like, for most teenagers, but it’s giving you the experience you’ll need in the future.” janfenson-comeau@ gazette.net

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Continued from Page A-1 Brannon McCoy, 35, of Laurel said more job opportunities should be created that enable residents to afford housing in Laurel. “In my opinion it doesn’t make much sense,” McCoy said. “They don’t build new jobs for you to be able to live there.” City Councilman Michael Leszcz (AtLarge) said he is not opposed to the apartment complex, but is concerned about a proposal to remove the trafﬁc island inside the shopping center that blocks drivers from taking a straight shot from Fourth Street to Route 1.

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Continued from Page A-1 Smith earlier this year. “I’m not the only one who’s had that thought about that creek or park,” Toler said. “I think it’s sort of a neglected stepchild. I’m very fond of it.” Toler said although the Anacostia River was re-routed and dredged by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the lower half of Dueling Creek ﬂows through the original river bed. The creek features mature trees, diverse wildlife and a tidal marsh ecosystem, but it suffers from trash accumulation and invasive plants that choke native species, Toler said. “It’s not just that the trash is ugly,” Toler said. “Trash can also limit wildlife’s ability to be there.” She added that teaching neighbors about the health of the creek is also important. Some residents ﬁsh at Dueling Creek and bring home catch that is not safe to eat, Toler said. “There are no signs. There’s no education being done. That’s

Leszcz said removing the island could worsen speeding issues around the shopping center. “We want to slow down traffic in Laurel,” Leszcz said. “I’m just concerned about the safety aspects of removing that island without giving it a lot of thought.” Gibbs said the proposal to remove the island, which was presented with the plans for the apartment complex and includes the installation of a traffic signal at Fourth Street and Montrose Avenue, would only happen if the developer received tax increment financing from the city. McCoy said the traffic changes may “not necessarily be a bad thing” for the shopping center, especially because resi-

an environmental issue that concerns me,” Toler said. Ten people attended the ﬁrst membership meeting and 25 people cleared trash during the Anacostia Watershed Society’s Earth Day clean-up in April. The Friends of Dueling Creek hosted a nature walk May 23. Hamler said she has enjoyed meeting neighbors who know about the wildlife and plants at Dueling Creek. “It’s just been a really fun group to hang out with because I feel like I’m learning something all the time I don’t know about Dueling Creek,” Hamler said. Smith said events like the walks expose residents to the nature in their own backyard. “By doing that, opening eyes and creating awareness and wonder, people are more invested in supporting and enhancing those features,” Smith said. “It’s just great to have [Toler] step forward and say ‘This is an area where I can help and make a difference.’” kpetersen@gazette.net

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dents use the back roads to access stores since the Towne Centre at Laurel opened. However, ﬁnancing the changes could be a burden for residents, he said. “The people living here are going to be the ones paying for it at the end of the day,” McCoy said. Laurel’s Planning Commission chose to table the revitalization overlay application until further notice due to questions about parking spaces needed for each land use at the development, Pulley said. The commission may review the application in July, she said. kpetersen@gazette.net

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Continued from Page A-1 sale, regularly $70, but available to city residents for $30, said Luisa Robles, Greenbelt recycling coordinator. Robles said that although the tubs are useful in holding composting materials, all one really needs are a small, aerated container or even a few posts and some chicken wire. “Just make sure that it is at least a square yard,” Robles said. “That gives you the volume that you need in order to keep the right humidity and the right temperature for your pile.” Robles said the three big things needed to turn kitchen and yard waste into nutrientrich soil is air, water and food. Compost should have access to fresh air and plenty of moisture. “In order to have good compost, we need to provide a good environment for our friends, the microorganisms and worms and insects,” Robles said. In particular, Robles said

that compost should consist of equal amounts of “brown” and “green” materials, either mixed together or layered like lasagna. “Browns” are high carbon materials, including straw, dead weeds, leaves, wood chips, and paper products, while “greens” are materials rich in nitrogen or protein, including fresh grass clippings, kitchen waste, Robles said. Irwin said she didn’t realize grass clippings were compostable “greens,” since their two-person household doesn’t generate a lot of food scraps. “But we have tons and tons of grass clippings,” added Black, who said he also mows his neighbors’ yards as well as his own. Even human hair can be composted, Robles said. “It’s all organic.” Resident Dan Dorsey said he hadn’t known about the importance of balancing the two types of compostable materials. “Most of the stuff I’ve been putting in is the ‘greens,’” Dorsey said. Robles said compost can not only be used for gardens, but for lawns as well. City and county ordinances permit and encourage composting, Robles said, adding that composting reduces food waste going to the landﬁll and helps prevent watershed contamination by holding water longer and removing some chemicals. “It’s also a really good way to turn your yard waste into something you can use,” Robles said. janfenson-comeau@ gazette.net

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Continued from Page A-1 support my chief. The decisions that he makes are based on years of experience and total professionalism,” Gant said. The charges come about a month after reports revealed Gant failed to pay a parking ticket for almost 410 days. According to an April 20 article, WTOP’s “Ticketbuster” obtained documents showing Gant received a ticket Jan. 20, 2014 at her residence, Elizabeth’s Landing condominiums, for parking a vehicle with a suspended registration. The town charter states a vehicle parked for more than 30 days with an expired registration will be considered unregistered and is subject to a $500 fine, which she did not receive, according to the WTOP report. The $75 fine was not paid until March 6, the day Walker was contacted regarding the ticket, according to the article. Gant confirmed the ticket was issued Jan. 20, 2014, but said although the tags were expired, the ticket was voided because the car was parked at her residence. Gant said she decided to pay the $75 fine this March because “someone was disgruntled” about the ticket. “If it’s that minute, why not pay it?” Gant said. “Little did I know that paying it would cause

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Continued from Page A-1 who came by.” McCracken-Harness worked with another parent of a chronically-ill child, Lisa Brooks-Wilkins of Capitol Heights, to help support other parents going through similar ordeals. “We need to be able to support each other,” McCrackenHarness said. The group, Parents of Students with Health Needs, held a May 16 listening session with parents and county school ofﬁcials. “Through bringing parents together with the school system, we’ll be able to collaborate better, as well as ﬁnding out what

an issue.” The town released a statementApril20explainingthatEdmonston police had permission to enforce parking restrictions at Elizabeth’s Landing starting in 2011, but the agreement ended in August 2014 after tickets were issued to residents who were not parking improperly. Councilwoman Selita Bennett-White (Ward 1) said the situation wasn’t as “cut and dry” as she originally thought and she still has questions for Gant. “I feel the whole thing spiraled out of control,” BennettWhite said. “If you don’t feel there is any wrongdoing then why turn around and pay a ticket you had for over a year?” Resident Donata Bryan said the council should have ﬁred Walker or asked him to resign. Town attorney Suellen Ferguson said the Town Council will consider adopting a ticket review process, which would be completed by an independent reviewer. “I think the system as it is works right now,” said Councilwoman Sophia Layne-Bee (Ward 1). “You get a ticket, you go to court, you address whatever issue you have. I think it’s an unnecessary expense of the town.” kpetersen@gazette.net works within the school system, as a starting point moving forward,” Brooks-Wilkins said. School board member Verjeana Jacobs, said it is important that parents make themselves heard to the school system. According to the PGCPS proposed Fiscal 2016 budget, 600 students receive services through the school system’s Home and Hospitals Teaching program. “We provide instruction for students who are too ill to attend school,” said Udine Frederick, PGCPS Home and Hospitals Teaching coordinator. More information can be found online at www.parentsofstudentswithhealthneeds.org/. janfenson-comeau@ gazette.net

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partment. Gant told The Gazette the ticket had been voided, but she went on and paid the $75 fine this March because “someone was disgruntled.” Clearly, something is amiss. If the ticket was voided, why did Gant pay it? If it wasn’t voided, why weren’t late fees added? And if the allegations are true that Police Chief Stephen Walker voided then reinstated the ticket, why did he do it? And why weren’t penalties included if the ticket was actually warranted? It’s no wonder that fliers seeking Walker’s firing began circulating in the town — nor did it come as a shock when he was charged Monday with two counts of malfeasance in

ofﬁce related to the incident. People want answers and, so far, only questions remain. When reached, Walker told The Gazette he had no comment. As for Gant, she said the allegations are not true and said the ticket was voided for valid reasons. She also defended her decision to pay the $75. “If it’s that minute, why not pay it?” Gant told The Gazette. “Little did I know that paying it would cause an issue.” She’s missing the point. The details of the situation give the appearance that an elected ofﬁcial has received special treatment from the police department. After all, few residents have had a longstanding parking ticket voided and then reinstated — all while avoiding related penalties. It seems that most people who challenge parking tickets

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are told to do so in court. Some Edmonston ofﬁcials have proposed changing the ticket review process to add an independent reviewer; others are simply asking for the current process to be followed, with tickets being handled in court. The latter sounds much more efﬁcient and transparent. It’s possible that Gant and Walker have valid, legal reasons for the actions they have taken. Unfortunately, however, they have left the community with little to no solid rationale for the decisions. In the end, Edmonston residents are the ones left paying the penalty in the form of government trust. With so many questions swirling around a $75 fee, one can only wonder whether other mysterious actions have occurred in Town Hall.

LETTERS TOT HE EDITOR

TRIM is just a ‘cut’ by any other name Every person of conscience possesses a moral obligation to resist laws that propagate injustice. Resistance to such laws is at the heart of the concept of civil disobedience. Any law can be regarded as unjust when it either harms the powerless among us or denies them agency to pursue happiness. Any law that disadvantages children should be considered anathema to our values as a community. COMMENTARY Unjust laws may be KENNETH HAINES popular for a time. We need only recall Prohibition or segregation as historical examples of profoundly unjust law imposed by a tyranny of the majority. Nothing represents more peril to the common good than a misguided majority. The crowd liberated Barrabas. Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany. The majority is capable of imposing injustice just as efficiently as any despot. Flawed law must be modified, if not overturned. The Tax Reform Initiative by Marylanders (TRIM) is one such law. TRIM is a terrible law despite being twice endorsed by the majority. In the eyes of many, the arbitrary and artificial restriction of the tax rate constituted an easy fix to political corruption both real and perceived. However, the lack of

flexibility in the law hinders the ability of elected leaders to cope with perturbations in the market and too frequently hamstrings the delivery of the basic services of local government. Opponents of this ballot initiative correctly pointed out, long ago, that tax caps only work until the inevitable financial crisis occurs. As a result of the real-estate crash that resulted in the Great Recession of 2009, all communities have endured a near-crippling contraction, but Prince George’s County continues to struggle as others recover. Now, the pernicious effects of this law are impeding our ability to deliver competitive educational opportunities to the children of our neighbors, and we wring our hands about why families are not flocking to our market of foreclosed homes. Our communal lack of collective will to fund our public schools into modernity cascades into a failure to attract the commercial development that would eventually rescue us from our depressed property values and high property tax rate. Is it not troublesome to you that we do this year after year, expecting a different result? It is time to seize the day for the future of our schools and the good of the community.

Kenneth B. Haines, Beltsville Haines is the president of the Prince George’s County Educators’ Association.

Raising taxes isn’t the answer For heaven’s sake, please just stop it. To everyone who wants to raise taxes to add more funding to the public schools: There is no proof that more money equals better schools. (Just look at D.C.) Money is absolutely not the issue in P.G. County. One Title 1 school I worked in handed out free lunch to the entire school, however the children threw away much of the food given to them. When I taught high school English in the county, books given to the students were sometimes damaged, lost and unappreciated. The whole system needs an overhaul: Schools are not free day care. Make entry into schools competitive. Stop bussing. Ease certiﬁcation requirements to allow intelligent people from various sectors the ability to teach a subject they

know well. Stop passing students who can’t read and write. Eschew curriculum that hasn’t been proven. Establish book fees. Those who want to learn, teach them to think (not take tests). Those who don’t want to learn, let them go elsewhere. It has long faded from society’s memory, but remember that initially, the concept of a public school system paid for by the taxpayer was championed by [educator and legislator] Horace Mann. He basically saw compulsory school as a way to get immigrant children away from their parents so the schools could indoctrinate and “Americanize” them. That’s the legacy of Horace Mann and our public school systems.

Anne-Marie Hamma, Bowie

An open letter to the county executive You have chosen a path totally contrary to the voters that elected you. You remember TRIM? Voters do not want more taxes. The knee-jerk tax-increase solution to excess spending shows total lack of initiative. You have a bloated $3,000,000,000 budget with all kinds of opportunity to reduce spending. Perform a top-to-bottom audit of all budget line items. Determine which meet the strict deﬁnition of essential government service. Eliminate the non-essential. You will reduce the budget by at least 20 percent. Roll up your sleeves and get going. I am not paying you my hard-earned taxes for you to raise taxes. Voters of this county struggle to pay bills and put food on the table as

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Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker speaks at Capitol Heights Elementary School in April, accompanied by (from left) schools CEO Kevin Maxwell, school board chairman Segun Eubanks and county chief budget ofﬁcer Thomas Himler. it is. A tax increase makes that struggle even more difﬁcult.

Do you get it?

Mark Noblett, Upper Marlboro

School board member: We must ﬁrst ﬁx the system

Let’s be honest, raising property taxes by 15.6 percent will not create a world class school system. While I applaud the intentions of our county executive and respect Dr. Maxwell, we must realize that without accountability and transparency this plan will fail. If we are serious about moving our system from the bottom to the top, we must start by auditing problematic areas. Despite the belief held by many key decision-makers, the issue is not “We must pay more” but that “We must do better.” After all, while we are just a spot or two from the bottom in terms of school system performance in our state, we are second from the top in terms of school system expenditures. Which leads one to wonder, what are we doing wrong? Our issue is about managing our resources, not about our ability to obtain resources. If we are serious about fixing our broken system, we should start with embracing audits, transparency and accountability. For example, we know that our students with special needs are not being well-served. Additional funding alone won’t fix our special education program. We, instead, have to address our leadership and culture problem. We must first figure out what we are doing wrong with the money we do have instead of trying to throw more money at our problems. We also

Edward Burroughs, Temple Hills Burroughs is a Prince George’s County school board member representing District 6.

Improving schools will aid home values Lost in the debate over school funding and property taxes in Prince George’s County is the fundamental relationship between home values and improved public schools. Clearly, there is a direct correlation between public school quality and home values. And this correlation exists for all homeowners. It doesn’t matter if our children attend public, parochial or private schools. All homeowners have a direct stake in the success of our public schools. The value of your home is tied in large measure to the quality of the public schools. County Executive Rushern Baker has proposed a small increase in property taxes to complete the improvements underway in Prince George’s County schools. An analysis of the plan shows tremendous potential results for a relatively small investment. The budget proposes an increase of 15 cents per $100 of a property’s assessed value. The revenue generated would infuse over $130 million directly into Prince George’s County public schools. The additional funding will assist in advancing the public schools from being consistently ranked 23rd out of 24 public school systems in Maryland to being in the top 10 by 2020. The proposal to increase funding for education will allow the school system to make real the commitment found in the system’s Strategic Plan of “outstanding academic achievement for all students.” The Strategic Plan invests in evidence-based programmatic strategies across ﬁve focus areas: Academic Excellence, High Performing Workforce, Safe and Supportive Schools, Family and Community Engagement, and Organizational Effectiveness. For those who argue that Prince George’s taxes are too high, context is critical. First, property values in the county are lower than in surrounding jurisdictions. Second, the county’s commercial tax base is smaller than other jurisdictions, which means that the county must rely more heavily on residential property taxes to fund essential services. Finally, the county has greater service demands

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need to ﬁgure out how to better our programs before we begin to focus on how to amplify them. We can’t ignore the impact that our foreclosure crisis has had on our young people. We’ve had countless students displaced and left in situations where focusing on school work is a privilege when considering all the real-world issues they face. Ironically, hiking taxes to put more money into the school system would only exacerbate these issues, undermining any efforts to increase student outcomes which the school system may undertake. Higher taxes will come at the expense of kids coming to school hungrier, with less resources from home, and at worse starting points than before. Unfortunately, I get the sense that some in our system are more concerned about looking good than actually being good. But until we have the courage to be open and honest about where we are falling short, we won’t earn the public’s conﬁdence. Let’s not take from families who are trying their best to make do with what they have in order to fund a system that has not yet been forced to develop that same discipline.

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than other jurisdictions. A comparison between education spending in the county and Montgomery County provides a useful benchmark. Relative to Montgomery County, Prince George’s is spending $2,000 less on each student per year. Furthermore, Montgomery County funds 61 percent of its $2.5 billion education budget from local funds, while Prince George’s funds only 39 percent of its $1.9 billion education budget from local money. And the stafﬁng ration in the county is 47 teachers per 1,000 students, while it is 63 teachers per 1,000 students in Montgomery County. Not to be overlooked is the importance of public schools in attracting and retaining a growing middle class. Employees (and employers) want to live closer to their places of employment, and avoid long and arduous commutes in search of quality schools. Building a great public education system in Prince George’s County makes sense for all members of the community, parents, students and, especially, homeowners.

H. Patrick Swygert, Mitchellville Swygert is president emeritus of Howard University in Washington, D.C.

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City Hall Bulletin Board MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEETINGS TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 2015 7:30 P.M. MAYOR & COUNCIL WORKSESSION TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2015 7:30 P.M. MAYOR & COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING FOLLOWED BY A WORKSESSION TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015 7:00 P.M. PUBLIC HEARING ON DRAFT 2015-2020 STRATEGIC PLAN 7:30 P.M. MAYOR & COUNCIL WORKSESSION TUESDAY, JULY 14, 2015 7:30 P.M. MAYOR & COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING All meetings take place in the 2nd floor Council Chambers of City Hall, 4500 Knox Road, College Park, MD unless noted. All meetings are open to the public except Executive Sessions. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at 240-487-3501 and describe the assistance that is necessary. All Mayor and Council meetings can be viewed live on Comcast cable channel 71 or Verizon channel 25. Regular Council Meetings and Worksessions are rebroadcast in their entirety at the following times: Wednesdays at 8pm, Thursdays and Fridays at 6pm, and Saturdays at 10am Worksessions and Council meetings may also be viewed live over the internet. Those interested in watching the live meetings from their computer should visit the Mayor and City Council page on the City’s website at www.collegeparkmd.gov, and click on the menu item “Council Meetings Video”. You will be redirected to the Granicus, Inc. web site which will host the web streaming and archiving of Council meetings. Meetings that are streamed will also be archived for future viewing through the City’s website. Meeting Agendas are posted on the City’s website on the Friday afternoon prior to the meetings www.collegeparkmd.gov – and are available at the City Clerk’s office. Meeting back-up materials will be posted to the website on the Monday prior to the meeting. Meeting schedule is subject to change. For current information, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at 240-487-3501.

COUNCIL ACTION

At the regular Council Meeting on May 12, 2015, the College Park City Council took the following actions: • Approved a Field Use Request for use of Duvall Field by Maryland Stinger’s Women’s Rugby Team 04/14/15 thru 05/22/15 from 7:30 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. (Approved with fee if suitable service in lieu of payment is not negotiated with Deputy Director of Public Works.) • Approved a Field Use Request for Duvall Field by Boy Scout Troop 740 for BBQ Fundraiser 05/17/15 or 06/07/15 – 7:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. Approved for either date. • Tabled a request for Duvall Field Restroom Facility Only for a nearby private event on 05/30/15 from 1:00 p.m. until 5 p.m. until the May 19 Worksession. • Approved a letter to the Prince George’s County Council requesting restoration of funding in the M-NCPPC budget for the trail from College Park Woods to Paint Branch. • Appointed Joe Theis to the Ethics Commission.

Around Town!

THE JACK PERRY AWARD

In February 2013, the College Park City Council established an award in recognition of Councilman John Edward “Jack” Perry. Councilman Perry served on the College Park City Council from 1979 to 1983 and from 1989 to 2011, for a total of 26 years. From the time he moved to College Park’s Berwyn neighborhood in 1969, until his death in 2012, Jack was deeply committed to serving his community, which he demonstrated by spending many hours working to improve the quality of life for all who lived and worked in College Park. Through the years, he volunteered on numerous associations, boards, coalitions, task forces and committees at the neighborhood, city, county and state levels. This Award will recognize a member of the community who emulates Councilman Jack Perry’s legacy of public service. Eligibility: To be eligible for the award, a person must be at least 18 years of age and a registered voter or legal resident of College Park. Criteria: The Jack Perry award will recognize a College Park resident who has participated to an extraordinary degree in neighborhood, civic, or municipal affairs within the City in a manner that improves public spaces, fosters community cohesion, eradicates blight, informs discussion of public issues, provides leadership, and/or furthers the best interests of the City as a whole. Nominations: From May 15 to July 15 each year, any resident, neighborhood association or organization in the City may submit a nomination for the Jack Perry Award. Nominations should be submitted in writing to the City Clerk for the City of College Park, 4500 Knox Road, College Park, MD, 20740, or by e-mail to jsmiller@collegeparkmd.gov. Nominations will be reviewed by a Committee that includes a member of the Perry family. This nonmonetary award will be presented by the City Council in the fall.

AGING-IN-PLACE SURVEY

The City of College Park Aging-In-Place Task Force wants to know what can be done to support older residents and allow them to stay in their homes and remain part of our community as they age. If you are an older adult living in College Park, or if you know a College Park older adult please take a minute to answer 10 brief questions. Survey is available online at www.collegeparkmd.gov under latest news. You may also request a paper survey by calling Seniors Program at 301-345-8100. Survey deadline has been extended to June 30, 2015.

DOWNTOWN COLLEGE PARK FARMERS MARKET

SUNDAYS – 10:00 A.M. TO 2:00 P.M. 4500 KNOX ROAD – CITY HALL PARKING LOT The market is open on Sundays from 10:00am to 2:00pm during the season, which runs from April to November each year. In addition to a diverse set of vendors, the market features weekly events such as chef demos, children’s events, and educational booths. Products available this year will include BBQ, beer, bread, cheese, chocolate, crepes, fudge, gluten-free baked goods, meat, pickles, produce, root beer, tea, wine, and much more. Enjoy free parking in Downtown on Sundays on the street or the parking garage across from the market. For more information visit www.downtowncollegeparkmarket.org.

HOLLYWOOD FARMERS MARKET

SATURDAYS – 9:00 A.M. TO 1:00 P.M. 9801 RHODE ISLAND AVENUE – HOLLYWOOD SHOPPING CENTER The market is open for the season next to REI and conveniently located near MOM’s Organic Market. The market features vendors with a range of product including bread, cheese, crepes, flowers, meat, pickles, produce, wine, and much more. Enjoy free parking in the shopping center parking lot. For more information visit www.hollywoodmarket.org.

From The Public Works Dept... 9217 51st Avenue

Have you heard about our new community garden beside the Old Town playground? It’s at the corner of Norwich Road and Columbia Avenue in the Old Town neighborhood. Memberships are available and ALL City residents are eligible to rent a plot for $15/year. Please visit: www.collegeparkmd.gov and click on “Community Garden Announcement”, email: sbeavers@collegeparkmd.gov or call 240-487-3538.

M-NCPPC HOSTS TRAILS MASTER PLAN OPEN HOUSE

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 2015 FROM 6:00-8:00 P.M. PARKS AND RECREATION ADMIN BUILDING 6601 KENILWORTH AVE, RIVERDALE, MD Come join the discussion and help us build the best trails for Prince George’s County. The Trails Master Plan will guide the development of the countywide park trail system that supports recreation opportunities and connectivity while balancing resources (staff/funding) to maintain and expand the system. The open house is an opportunity for you to help develop a long-term plan for creating a diverse and extensive trail system for the residents of Prince George’s County. At the Open House, participants will: • Learn about the trails master plan and what it hopes to achieve. • Show us where you want trails in Prince George’s County. • Tell us what types of trails--paved, unpaved, hiking, biking, fitness, equestrian, etc. • Tell us how trails should be designed, i.e. what amenities are important, how they should connect to neighborhoods and cross arterial roads. Learn about existing trails near you and tell us how we can improve them or create better access to them. For more information visit www.pgparks.com/TrailsMasterPlan.html or call 301-699-2522; TTY 301-699-2544.

FREE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY PARKING IN THE DOWNTOWN PARKING GARAGE

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MAY 30-AUGUST 23, 2014 Come downtown this summer and see what’s happening in College Park! Parking will be free in the downtown parking garage on Saturdays and Sundays from May 30 to August 15, 2015. The parking garage is conveniently located on the corner of Knox Road and Yale Avenue, across from City Hall. Check out one of our new restaurants or visit an old favorite. Grab fresh produce or delicious barbeque at the Sunday Farmers Market located in the City Hall lot. There are plenty of places to suit your taste – explore the options at www.shopcollegepark.org. Get reacquainted with downtown College Park this summer!

Pay City parking tickets online with no additional fees at www.collegeparkmd.gov

PLASTIC BAGS NO LONGER BEING ACCEPTED IN BLUE RECYCLING CART

Effectively immediately, Public Works is asking all residents to refrain from putting plastic bags in the blue recycling cart. This includes loose plastic bags or plastic film, a plastic bag containing other plastic bags/film, or a plastic garbage bag used to contain other recyclables. Shredded paper should now be contained in a paper bag. It can be secured by folding the top and stapling or taping it closed. Residents should place approved recyclables loose in the blue cart. Plastic bags/film can still be recycled by taking them to a local grocery store. MOMs Organic Market, Shoppers, and Giant all have receptacles at the front of the store for these items. Plastic bags/film include: retail bags, plastic wrapping on food, plastic sandwich bags, dry cleaning bags, newspaper bags, shrink wrap (e.g. around toilet paper and bottled water). For more information on what kind of plastic bags and film should be recycled at the grocery store, visit: http://www.plasticfilmrecycling.org/. Prince George’s County has announced they will no longer accept plastic bags in any form at the Materials Recovery Facility where the City’s single-stream recycling is taken. These bags jam the sorting machines, which causes the entire facility to shut down and also increases maintenance costs. Residents can ensure their clean, dry plastic bags and film are recycled by taking them to their local grocery store.

WOOD MULCH IS SOLD OUT – SMARTLEAF® COMPOST STILL AVAILABLE

Wood mulch is now sold out. SMARTLEAF® screened compost is available for sale at the Department of Public Works for $25.00 per cubic yard (includes tax). Compost may be picked up at Public Works Monday through Friday 8:00 – 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 – 3:30 p.m. Deliveries may also be arranged for an additional fee. Delivered material cannot be unloaded in the street or right-of-way. If you would like to be notified by email when wood mulch is again available, please sign up with College Park Connected, which can be accessed from the City website homepage at http://www.collegeparkmd.gov. Click on the green “College Park Connected! Sign Up Now” button. After entering your information, choose “SMARTLEAF compost and wood mulch” right above the Sign Up button. Please call 240-487-3590 or email publicworks@collegeparkmd.gov for more information or to schedule a delivery of SMARTLEAF compost.

KEEP GRASS CLIPPINGS OFF THE STREET!

As you take care of your lawn this season, do not sweep or blow grass and leaves into the street. Lawn clippings and debris that are left in the street wash into storm drains and storm sewers, potentially clogging them, which may result in flooding. Debris that washes into storm sewers is transported through local waterways and eventually to the Chesapeake Bay, threatening aquatic life. What should you do instead? There are several options for your lawn clippings: Place them in paper bags or reusable containers for weekly curbside pickup (on the same day as your trash and recycling collection), leave the cut grass on the lawn to recycle the nutrients, or start a compost pile in your backyard. The Committee for a Better Environment (CBE) has produced brochures titled “Grass Clippings…Let ‘em Lay!” and “Composting in 4 Easy Steps” to give you some ideas on how to manage grass clippings in an environmentally-responsible way. Visit www.collegeparkmd.gov then click on Boards & Commissions, then click on Committee for a Better Environment to download these brochures.

BRUSH & LOG COLLECTION

Brush (branches, shrubs, trees, and bamboo) and logs are collected on Thursday and Friday by appointment. Please call 240-487-3590 or email publicworks@collegeparkmd.gov to schedule an appointment. Please bundle and tie items with string (do not use wire or put in plastic bags). Bundles should be less than 5 feet long and weigh less than 75 pounds.

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CALLING ALL GARDENERS…

May 28, 2015

CURBSIDE DONATION EVENT: OLD TOWN, CALVERT HILLS, BERWYN, LAKELAND, & CRYSTAL SPRINGS

WHEN: FRIDAYS IN MAY & JUNE Are you a student or permanent resident of the Old Town, Calvert Hills (between Albion and Norwich, east of Rt. 1), Berwyn, Lakeland, or Crystal Springs (south of Metzerott Rd., including Acredale Ct. and Patricia Ct.) neighborhoods in College Park? Do you have items around the house you no longer want or cannot take with you when you move out? If they are in good condition, consider participating in our curbside donation event! The City of College Park is partnering with Green Drop to collect these reusable items for donation. Accepting clothes, shoes, household items, kitchenware, games/toys, small appliances, electronics, sporting goods, books, CDs, videos, and baby items. Donated items must be free from defects and in good working order. NO TUBE TVs, MATTRESSES, OR FURNITURE PLEASE! HOW to participate: 1. Call Green Drop at 1-888-944-Drop 2. Reference the code “CPGreenDropIt” 3. Provide your address and description of items for donation. 4. Bag and mark your items “donation” and leave on the curb by 7:00 am on the day of your scheduled pickup. 5. Keep donations separate from bulky trash. The donation truck driver has final discretion on whether to accept the items you wish to donate. Proper disposal of items not accepted for donation will be your responsibility.

MOSQUITO PROGRAM 2015

The Mosquito Control Program for 2015 has begun for the City of College Park. The program consists of larviciding, surveillance, and possible spraying in the areas where mosquitoes occur. Known breeding areas in the community will be checked by Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) personnel for the presence of larvae and may be treated if necessary. Spraying, to control flying adults, also performed by MDA, may occur if count thresholds are met at the time of scheduled applications. Residents are strongly urged to eliminate any standing water on their property or treat it with a larvicide. The Asian Tiger mosquito (ATM) is active during the day and can breed in a very small amount of standing water. Inspect your yard for water-holding containers including tires, buckets, and flower pots and dispose of them or store them upside down. Corrugated drain pipes fitted to gutters are often a perfect place for mosquitoes to breed! Be aware that the spraying conducted by MDA has very little effect on adult ATMs as they are not active during the time of day spraying occurs. The best way to combat the ATM is to remove standing water in your yard, and to ask your neighbors to do the same. Prevent mosquito breeding by changing water weekly in bird baths, wading pools and pet dishes. Gutters should be cleaned at least twice a year. Adult mosquito surveillance by MDA personnel will begin in June, and spraying may occur on Wednesday nights if the spray criteria are met. Report mosquito problems, spray requests, and spray objections to Public Works at 240-487-3590.

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COLLEGE PARK DIRECTORY

City of College Park Main Number...........................240-487-3500 CITY HALL, 4500 Knox Road, College Park, MD 20740 Hours: M-F 8am-7pm; Sat. 1-5pm; Sun - Closed City Hall Departments City Manager/City Clerk...........................................240-487-3501 City FAX Number.....................................................301-699-8029 Finance.....................................................................240-487-3509 Human Resources.....................................................240-487-3533 Parking Enforcement Div. (M-F 8am-10pm/Sat. 1-7pm)......240-487-3520 Planning/Economic Development.............................240-487-3538 Housing Authority (Attick Towers) 9014 R.I. Ave....301-345-3600 Public Services Department, 4601A Calvert Rd.........240-487-3570 Animal Control, Code Enforcement, Public Safety and Recreation. Parking Enforcement is at City Hall.

24 Hour Hotline........................................................240-487-3588 For Urgent Code Enforcement, Noise Control, Animal Control Issues.

Public Works Department, 9217 51st Ave.................240-487-3590 Trash Collection, Recycling and Special Pick-ups.

Senior Program (Attick Towers) 9014 R.I. Ave.........301-345-8100 Youth and Family Services, 4912 Nantucket Rd.........240-487-3550 Drop-In Recreation Center........................................301-345-4425

MAYOR AND COUNCIL

Mayor Andrew M. Fellows 5807 Bryn Mawr Road..............................................301-441-8141 Councilmember Fazlul Kabir (District 1) 9817 53rd Avenue....................................................301-659-6295 Councilmember Patrick L. Wojahn (District 1) 5015 Lackawanna Street...........................................240-988-7763 Councilmember P.J. Brennan (District 2) 4500 Knox Road.......................................................301-220-1640 Councilmember Monroe S. Dennis (District 2) 8117 51st Avenue....................................................301-474-6270 Councilmember Robert W. Day (District 3) 7410 Baylor Avenue.................................................301-741-1962 Councilmember Stephanie Stullich (District 3) 7400 Dartmouth Avenue..........................................301-742-4442 Councilmember Alan Y. Hew (District 4) 9118 Autoville Drive.................................................240-391-8678 Councilmember Denise C. Mitchell (District 4) 3501 Marlbrough Way.............................................240-460-7620

OTHER FREQUENTLY CALLED NUMBERS

EMERGENCY: FIRE-AMBULANCE-POLICE................................911 NON-EMERGENCY POLICE SERVICES Prince George’s Co. Police (Hyattsville Station).........301-699-2630 Prince George’s Co. Police Non-Emergency Svcs......301-352-1200 Prince George’s Co. Park Police................................301-459-9088 State Police (College Park Barrack)............................301-345-3101 University of Maryland Police....................................301-405-3555 College Park Community Center.....................................301-441-2647 5051 Pierce Avenue, College Park Branchville Vol. Fire & Rescue Squad...............................301-474-1550 4905 Branchville Road, College Park www.bvfco11.com College Park Vol. Fire Department...................................301-901-9112 8115 Baltimore Avenue, College Park www.cpvfd.org PEPCO - Power Outages, Lines Down...........................1-877-737-2662 WSSC: Water Mains........................................................301-206-4002 Prince George’s County Storm Drains..............................301-499-8523

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SPORTS

GAMES GAZETTE.NET IS STAFFING

County’s top tennis players fall short at state tournament. B-2

Posted online by 8 a.m. the following day. FOOTBALL: DuVal (led by quarterback Antoine Brooks), Bowie and Suitland are scheduled to play Saturday in the Blair High School passing league. Games start at 8 a.m. BASKETBALL: Girls summer league game between Largo and Paint Branch was scheduled for Wednesday. Check online for the result.

Don’t cry for Roosevelt

The “transfer epidemic” has once again swept across Maryland’s public schools, and as we learned earlier this month, even the best programs are susceptible. Rising senior Kaila Charles, Prince George’s County’s All-Gazette Player of the Year, is the most recent public school star to enroll in a private school. After leading Eleanor Roosevelt High School to its second consecutive Class 4A state title, Charles, a University of Maryland recruit, elected to play her final varsity season with national powerhouse Riverdale Baptist in Upper Marlboro. Charles and other transfers have every right to leave their public schools ERIC GOLDWEIN behind. It’s the SPORTS WRITER system — not the stars — that should be questioned. Roosevelt will be fine, says coach Delton Fuller. And it’s hard not to believe him. Yes, Charles is a two-way superstar. She can dominate inside and on the perimeter. Her departure leaves a 6-foot hole in the lineup. But if any team is equipped to replace her, it’s the Raiders. Roosevelt has plenty of reinforcements, namely sophomore Ashia McCalla and juniors Octavia Wilson and Jaala Henry. Another dominant county run is likely, and a 3-peat on the state level isn’t out of the question. “It has to be a team effort. That’s all I’m really trying to put together,” Fuller said. “I guess that means I gotta do a little coaching this year.” But what about Prince George’s? The county is a girls basketball hotbed, yet because of private school alternatives, it has an ever-shrinking number of competitive public school teams. Will the Charles transfer exacerbate that problem? Or is it merely a symptom of one that already exists? Coaches said that less than half of the county’s top girls basketball players are in public schools. Rod Hairston, a coach at Pallotti (a Laurel private school) and former coach at Roosevelt, said that about 10 to 15 of top-50 county players are in public schools. Bowie coach Chris Ferguson had a similar estimate. “You can probably count those on maybe two hands,” Ferguson said. (He then proceeded to name most of them, one by one). Ferguson, a former McNamara assistant, said that Charles’ situation is unique and that he doesn’t see it as a trend. “The private schools are always going to get the best girls,” he said. But Hairston, who led the Raiders to five straight titles (2005-09), said that Charles might end up influencing others to follow, and transfer to schools such as Pallotti, or Riverdale, or National Christian Academy, or teams in the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference. Yes, there remains several high-caliber players in county public schools, including several at 1A defending champion Forestville. But given the required public schoolheavy schedule and the county’s lack of depth — a problem that worsens when a player such as Charles leaves — it’d be hard to blame the remaining top players if they followed in Charles’ footsteps. “A lot of times they don’t even want to go, but to better their opportunities, they have to go,” Hairston said. Can Roosevelt, winners of seven of the past 11 state titles, remain an exception to the transfer rule? Fuller seems to think so. While he can’t compete with Riverdale’s 40-game, national schedule, Roosevelt has an athletic and academic reputation unmatched by other public, and in some cases, private schools. (Fuller said he has seven non-conference games scheduled next winter). For the most part, that’s convinced the top players to stay at Roosevelt. After all, Charles lasted at the Greenbelt school for three seasons. For students at other public schools, though, the sales pitches might not be as convincing — especially now that they don’t get to plug biannual matchups against a University of Maryland recruit. egoldwein@gazette.net

Basketball teams start improvement projects Bowie, Gwynn Park among once-young squads with critical time in the future

DeMatha beats Avalon in tournament Stags scheduled to play Spalding in state semiﬁnal baseball game

ADAM GUTEKUNST

STAFF WRITER

In his decades of coaching, Gwynn Park High School boys basketball coach Mike Glick has seen almost everything. He’s coached players that headed to the next level and beyond — even the National Basketball Association — and he’s coached players who barely ever saw the court. He’s watched as experienced, coordinated teams, such as his 2013 team, made runs through the county and he’s watched young, unfamiliar players slowly try to piece together cohesiveness,

See BASKETBALL, Page B-2

PRINCE J. GRIMES STAFF WRITER

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Gwynn Park High School coach Mike Glick is ready for another summer league of basketball.

The DeMatha Catholic High School baseball team defeated Avalon 7-3 on Wednesday at Gaithersburg’s Kelley Park in the first round of the Maryland Private Schools State Championship Tournament. DeMatha is scheduled to play Archbishop Spalding in the semifinals 7:30 p.m. on Thursday at Prince George’s County Stadium. Senior pitcher Brad Thaxton bounced back from a rough outing in the final game of the WCAC cham-

See TOURNAMENT, Page B-2

PHOTOS BY BILL RYAN/THE GAZETTE

Fairmont Heights High School’s Michale Reyes won the Class 1A 110-meter hurdles to win the boys state championship in the event at Morgan State University in Baltimore.

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Douglass sprinter wins four gold medals at state championships BY

ADAM GUTEKUNST STAFF WRITER

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Central High School’s Mary Foday won Class 1A state championships in the 100 and 200 on Saturday.

The Bowie boys’ season seemed to be in question three weeks ago, when star senior Antonio Coleman was deemed ineligible for what turned out to be the remainder of the season. That’s when Bulldogs junior Maxwell Willis took over. The Bowie speedster matched his county and regional trifectas, capturing gold in the 100 meters (10.69 seconds), 200 meters (21.27) and the 400 meters (48.18) to help propel Bowie to back-to-back state championships. “It shows the makeup of this team,” Bowie coach Rich Andrulonis said. “… The young kids came through. A lot of young

kids are going to have to take over next year for the seniors. They came through. I’m so proud of them and the coaches. They did what I [thought] we might not be able to do.” Flowers (59 points) finished second in the Class 4A boys competition, followed by Oxon Hill and Northwest (54). In Class 2A, Douglass finished second (75) in boys competition. Flowers (48) placed third in the girls 4A competition. As rare as Willis’ three-gold day was, his accomplishment was one-upped Saturday, as Frederick Douglass standout Rico Gomez earned four gold medals in the 100, 200, 400 and 400-meter relay. Gomez’s day got off to a shaky start in the 2A 100-meter final, when the first attempt was blown dead, negating a sluggish start for the Eagles star.

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Coach said revamped unit a good blend of youth, experience on football ﬁeld BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN STAFF WRITER

There aren’t many players in the 43-team Women’s Football Alliance who risk making a play on Prince George’s County-based D.C. Divas 10th-year

middle linebacker Trigger McNair, the team’s defensive coordinator, Willie Bennett, said. But if they do, she makes them regret it. “The league, itself, fears Trigger McNair, they don’t want to block her,” Bennett said. “When she hits you, it’s not an accident. You know it and you don’t [go near her] again. It’s like she says, ‘Don’t disrespect me by running near me.’” Currently in their 15th season, the Divas, a perennial postseason contender, are undefeated (5-0),

which includes a 32-27 victory over longtime rival Boston earlier this month. With the best start to the season the team could’ve hoped for, McNair, a longtime Laurel resident, said the Divas’ conﬁdence is “on a thousand.” She attributed much of that to continuity, with players and coaches — this is the second year under Bennett’s defensive scheme after “having new defen-

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ERIC GOLDWEIN STAFF WRITER

Nolan Jones sat out the 2014 varsity tennis season in what was his ﬁrst year at Bowie High School. A transfer from DeMatha Catholic, Jones said he just didn’t think of playing that spring. But as this season approached, Jones decided to give tennis one last try. “I said, it’s my last school year. Might as well,” Jones said. Jones’ decision paid dividends for the Bulldogs coed tennis team. The Western Illinois University recruit had an undefeated regular season as the No. 1 singles player, dominating his county competition. But it was a loss — not one of the many wins — that might’ve been his most

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Northwestern High School’s Desire Johnson plays during Friday’s high school tennis state tournament at the University of Maryland, College Park. The sophomore’s undefeated season ended in the ﬁrst round. impressive performance this spring. As a heavy underdog, Jones went up against Poolesville’s Dennis Wang in the ﬁrst round of Friday’s state tennis championships, nearly taking

the ﬁrst set before falling 6-4, 6-2, to the Yale recruit. “I just played my game. Just played my game,” Jones said. Jones was one of several Prince George’s County athletes

competing in the state tournament, held at the University of Maryland, College Park. Though many were competitive, all of the county’s players were eliminated by the end of the quarterﬁnal matches. “If [the county wins] one match here, it’s a good day,” said Brendan O’Connell, a longtime Eleanor Roosevelt coach and current assistant. But the county didn’t leave College Park completely emptyhanded. Roosevelt (Greenbelt), the 11-time defending region champions, brought four doubles teams, two of which made it to the second round of the tournament. Its top boys pair, Lance Jewell and Bruno To, defeated Fallston (6-1, 6-4) in straights sets before falling to River Hill (6-0, 6-2) in the quarterﬁnals. Seniors Jasmine Jack and Kristin Watson beat Liberty (6-2, 6-0) then dropped a three-set match (6-2, 4-6, 6-3) to South Hagerstown. “Saturday would have been

pretty cool but honestly for us, and where our level is — we both play two sports, and so, since we don’t train year round, it’s pretty cool just to make it,” Watson said. “And still, it was such a competitive match. We’re proud of ourselves.” Northwestern sophomore Desire Johnson had his undefeated season come to an end in the first round against Westminster’s Nathan Devereux. The sophomore was up 5-4 in the first set but failed to close it and lost momentum in a 7-5, 6-3 defeat. “I could’ve played better. I could’ve been smarter,” Johnson said. “I could’ve closed out the first set when I had a chance.” Bowie’s mixed doubles team of Neerav Ganjoo and Laura Hyre also lost a competitive match, this one in three sets (6-7, 6-2, 6-4) to J.M. Bennett (Salisbury). Douglass’s mixed doubles team (Ross Olexa/Jamie Hartnett) was defeated by

Easton, 6-3, 6-4. In girls singles, Suitland’s Yasmin Eubanks dropped a twoset match against Kent Island’s Catrina Coyner (6-3, 7-5) while Fairmont Heights’ Eden Gregory, the region champion, lost to Liberty’s Lili Izadi (6-1, 6-2). Many of Montgomery County’s top players advanced to the semiﬁnals and will compete for a state title on Saturday. In boys singles: Poolesville’s Dennis Wang. In girls singles: Wootton’s Miranda Deng. In boys doubles: Whitman’s Jack Welch/Andrew Leung and Bethesda-Chevy Chase’s Luke Blackman/Eric Dubrow. In girls doubles, two Churchill teams advanced: Katie Gauch/Sriya Movva and Molly Halprin/Kaitlyn Heo. In mixed doubles, two Wootton teams advanced: Jake Gordon/Kelly Chen and I-Shiun Kuo/Ruchi Nando. egoldwein@gazette.net

SportsBriefs College Park teen makes Grand Slam debut Seventeen-year-old College Park native Frances Tiafoe made his Grand Slam singles main draw debut in the ﬁrst round of the 2015 French Open Monday at Roland Garros in Paris. Though he fell rather quickly to the world’s No. 36-ranked Martin Klizan of Slovakia in straight sets, Tiafoe jumped to a 3-0 lead in the third set before ultimately succumbing, 2-6, 1-6, 4-6. Tiafoe was the youngest player in the men’s draw and ﬁrst 17-year-old American to compete in the event since Michael Chang in 1989.

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Continued from Page B-1 much like last year’s 10-12 team did toward the end of the season. And while the return of the Yellow Jackets’ top four leading scorers and a year of invaluable experience under their belts certainly carry with it a set of unspoken expectations for next season, Glick’s expectations are unwavering. They were the same last season, when a number of Gwynn Park’s main pieces had never before played together, as they have been every year. “The expectations never change in our program,” Glick said. “Our expectations every year is to try and get to the ﬁnal four and to try to win a state championship.” The path there begins in the offseason, where Glick’s group has already begun to make some noise, following an 8-1 performance in the Riverdale Baptist spring league that included teams such as Douglass, Largo, Riverdale Baptist and Potomac — most of whom will also compete in the Crusaders’ summer league. But Glick said he’s learned not to put too much stock in his team’s performances in spring and summer leagues. Sometimes success in the offseason has translated into regular season success, but it hasn’t just as many times. Instead, the Gwynn Park coach said, offseason play

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DeMatha grad wins D-II lacrosse title Scott Sindall, a DeMatha Catholic High School graduate (Class of 2012), won a second consecutive Division II men’s lacrosse championship as a member of the Limestone College men’s team. The Saints defeated Le Moyne, 9-5, Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. Sindall, a junior, played seven games this season after playing 10 in 2014.

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is more when he looks for his team to develop a togetherness they hadn’t had in seasons before. “It’s all about getting better,” Glick said. “I think everyone realizes that when you play a majority of juniors and the next season they all become seniors, [there’s] unwritten expectations … When kids have a chance to play together, they develop a cohesiveness … During the spring, summer, and fall, we’re trying to mesh those kids playing together and get them all on the same page.” A byproduct of that experience, Glick hopes, is more scoring. The young Yellow Jackets struggled to put points on the board last season, but will have plenty of offensive ﬁrepower returning in 2015-16. Rising junior point guard Justin Jackson will make the jump to varsity after directing a very talented junior varsity team from a year ago. Under Jackson’s orchestration, expect versatile senior Isaiah Miles (13.2 ppg) and long-range threat Marlon White (9.5 ppg) to thrive. Fellow senior Aaron Parker will also return next season for Gwynn Park, but will only do so when football season comes to an end. Still, Glick and company have the pieces in place for a significant turnaround from 2014-15. “I think we’ll be dramatically improved,” Glick said. The offseason will also be a critical time for coach Cedric

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Continued from Page B-1 onship on May 10 to earn the win on Wednesday. He allowed just three hits in six innings pitched, and although Thaxton gave up three earned runs in the first inning, he didn’t allow another run afterwards. Thaxton was perfect from the third through the sixth inning, not allowing a single batter to reach base. “I felt shaky after the first inning, then I let my defense work a little bit. Let some guys make some plays for me,” Thaxton said. He added that the sting of the WCAC loss didn’t linger into this game for him. “You just try to move on to the next day, forget about it. I thought I was able to do that.” The Black Knights jumped on top of DeMatha thanks in large part to four first-inning walks allowed by Thaxton. Third baseman Ian Heffley drove in a run on a single and Brian Shaw Jr. drove in another while grounding out to second. Avalon starting pitcher Erik Janss kept DeMatha off of the scoreboard for two innings, not allowing as much as a hit through three, but DeMatha scored on a third base error in the third. As Thaxton got stronger over the course of the game, so did the DeMatha offense. With Jarrett Faunce on second in the fourth, catcher Robby Napoli lined a single into right field and Faunce scored thanks to an error on the throw. Another third base error allowed Napoli to score. In the fifth, both Thaxton and Napoli drove in runs on singles. Second baseman Moises Aristy

Holbrook and his Bowie Bulldogs to build off their success at the end of last season, which was marked by a March 4 upset of top-seeded rival Eleanor Roosevelt. It’s that toughness and togetherness the Bulldogs showed in that game that Holbrook said he’s looking for the team to adapt throughout their summer league play at DeMatha. “The mental toughness is the part that they’ve got to learn; how to ﬁght through situations as a team,” Holbrook said. “This group on individual talent … they have a ton of individual talent. But mental toughness is about when you’re shots aren’t going, being able to make the right play even when it’s not about you making a play.” Last season, rising junior Quinton Drayton made a number of plays for Bowie, emerging as the Bulldogs leading scorer (14.7 ppg) and a county star in the making. But this summer, the Bowie coach said, he’s looking for Drayton to take the next step in his development. “My biggest thing with Quinton is him improving on some of those other areas, which he really is good at, but sometimes he’s not as conscious of,” Holbrook said. “Like I told him, I said, ‘Man, you’re a really, really good player right now. But the great players are great because they make the players around them look better.’” agutekunst@gazette.net

Jr. drove in two runs on a single. “I’m more of a defensive specialist out there so when I get a chance to hit, I try to make the most of it,” said Napoli who went 2 for 3 at the plate with a walk. Faunce also went 2 for 3 with a walk. Napoli said his bat started heating up during an American Legion league scrimmage last weekend. He also did a good job behind the plate working with Thaxton. “The ﬁrst inning, he was pulling his curveball to his left a little too much. I was just telling him to get his legs under the ball to make sure he’s pushing straight through. So, he was locating his curveball a lot better.” Janss pitched 4 1/3 innings but only two of the six runs charged to him were earned. Avalon coach Patrick Duffy said the team might’ve just run out of gas, but he said he was happy with the season they put together. The Black Knights won the Old Line Conference tournament on May 8. “It was a long season,” Duffy said. “Some ups and downs in there. I think the layoff from our conference championship to now played into it. Just a little bit of rust, but DeMatha’s a great program and they just kept attacking the ball. They executed. These games come down to who’s going to execute, I think they did it better today.” The winner of the DeMatha and Spalding game is scheduled to play the winner of Riverdale Baptist and McNamara for the private school state championship on Friday. Riverdale Baptist and McNamara are scheduled to play 4 p.m. Thursday, prior to DeMatha’s game. pgrimes@gazette.net

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D.C. Divas middle linebacker Trigger McNair (right) is in her 17th season of women’s professional tackle football.

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Continued from Page B-1 sive coordinators every year.” The Divas have made postseason appearances 11 of the past 12 seasons and reached the national title game in 2009 but have not been back since. The only team standing between the Divas and a championship ring this summer, McNair said, is the Divas themselves. “We’re faster this year, we’re stronger and we’re a lot tougher, mentally,” McNair said. “The only reason we wouldn’t get over the hump is if we do it to ourselves, if we deflate ourselves. The only team that can beat the Divas is the Divas.” McNair’s 17 years of women’s tackle football experience exceed that of her teammates and that has been essential to the revitalization of the Divas’ defense this summer. The addition of more youth and speed was a focal point in the offseason and has added a new dimension. McNair might not be as fast as she was a few years ago, Bennett said — though he credited her with fighting to keep her spot on the field this season — but her leadership, her help in directing players into their right positions on the field, is invaluable, he said. “The way I see women’s football is you have players who are brand new to the game just like if they were playing pee wee and then you have some advanced players who are like college players and you jam them all into one team and say make it work,” Bennett said. “...A male pro athlete

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Continued from Page B-1 The restart, as it turned out, was thanks to Gomez’s sliding blocks, explaining his slow start — a slipup he quickly negated with a winning time of 11.01 seconds, which kicked off his historic afternoon. “Coach always told me the last [race] is the best one,” Gomez said. “So, I was really holding nothing back.” Central’s Mary Foday entered the day seeded second in both the 1A 100 meters and 200 meters — a position the Falcons junior said she used as motivation for her pair of wins (12.40/25.31) after nearly completing the sweep at last year’s meet. “Finding out I was in lane five ahead of everybody just motivated me to stay out, keep going and [not] break my form,” Foday said. “… I was waiting for this moment, training hard and trusting my trainer. Performance is easy, but training is hard.’ Other Prince George’s County state champions crowned Saturday included Surrattsville junior Khaalea Collins (100-meter hurdles; 15.65), Bowie senior Taylor Williams (400 meters; 56.17), Flowers’ senior Edward Anderson (300-meter hurdles; 38.66), Parkdale’s Obichi Onwukwe (800 meters; 2:16.67), Oxon Hill’s Elizabeth

couldn’t do it, give 17 years at middle linebacker. The fact that she can do this and a full-time job, she’s here until 10-11 p.m. tonight and has to wake up at 4 a.m. tomorrow, she’s not paid to be here. She’s here because it’s something she loves. It matters to her and it matters to the team. [Younger players] look to her longevity. They say, ‘If Trig can do it....’” This whole football thing happened out of circumstance for McNair, she said. She had actually intended on playing women’s basketball professionally. After ﬁnishing her four-year career at Southwestern State University in Minnesota, she tried out for the state’s Women’s National Basketball Association team, the Lynx in 1999. “There was this guy passing out cards [for women’s football] and I took a card,” McNair said. “I didn’t make the WNBA so I went to try out for the football team.” While McNair started off as a wide receiver — a position that typically garners more attention than linebacker — she always envied the physicality of playing defense. So she made the switch. The Divas have certainly beneﬁtted from that early move. “You have to be aggressive,” McNair said. “There’s no other place I’d rather be than at middle linebacker. We never get the love or the glory, the offense gets it. But that makes us work harder to shut other teams out. We don’t need the love as long as we get a ring.” jbeekman@gazette.net

Shodiya (long jump; 18-10.50), Surrattsville girls 400-meter relay (49.77), Largo girls 400-meter relay (49.81), Douglass boys 400-meter relay (43.18), Central boys 1,600-meter relay (3:28.67), Largo boys 1,600-meter relay (3:24.67) and Oxon Hill boys 1,600-meter relay (3:22.21). Flowers was the only school leaving Morgan State with gold on Friday. Junior Daiysa Burrell far out-threw her seed distance in the discus, winning with a toss of 141-08. The Jaguars boys closed out the night with a win in the 800-meter relay (1:27.28) — a time that ranked as the eighth-best in state history. On Thursday, Douglass High School sophomore Kollin Smith recalled a day last year when he thought he may never jump competitively again. The reigning 2A long jump state champion had just emerged from surgery on his dislocated jumping knee he had injured during football season. Fragments of bone had broken off and required immediate attention and the thought of getting back to jumping was the furthest thing from Smith’s mind, he said. “I didn’t even think I was going to be able to jump or run [competitively] again,” a candid Smith said Thursday. The fact that Smith, only six months removed from his surgery, was at Hughes Stadium in his maroon uniform for the ﬁrst night of the state champion-

ships was impressive. But the Eagles sophomore topped that, jumping 21 feet, 10.25 inches to defend his state title. “This is definitely sweeter,” Smith said, smiling. Smith’s greatest competition in the meet also turned out to be his greatest inspiration in his comeback, as the sophomore credited junior teammate Devin Butler (21-04.25; second place) with not only pushing him in practice, but inspiring him to even give track a try this season. “He kept encouraging me, ‘Come out, you’ll be fine,’” Smith said. “‘Just keep working. When you’re back, we’ll have a spot for you.’ Without him, I probably wouldn’t even be out on the track.” As Thursday winded down and the lights shone across Hughes Stadium, it was Surrattsville sophomore Khaalea Collins taking care of business in the final leg of the 1A 800-meter relay final (1:47.35), capturing a state title for a group that is nearing two years of racing together. “Every year we get stronger and stronger and this year we were trying to break our record,” junior Jasmyne Sanchious said. “… It’s a good feeling. There was a lot of hard work and training at practice. Those hot days and those rainy days, it paid off.” agutekunst@gazette.net

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God. This is what I’m inundated with every day.’” When Round House Artistic Director Ryan Rilette showed McDonough “NSFW,” it struck her as a timely commentary on the exchange between media and audience. “I found it true to what’s happening right now with the way we look at women in this current moment — photoshopping people who are nearly perfect, and the

Alex Gambal has been able to fulfill the dream of living abroad better than most. An ex-Washingtonian who “got the bug” by hanging out in wine stores, (primarily Mayflower Wines and Spirits) in the 1980s, he left his family’s parking lot and real estate business in 1993 to move with his wife and children to Burgundy. BY LOUIS MARMON Gambal initially worked for Becky Wasserman-Hone at her export firm, Les Serbet, for a few years but eventually decided to make his own wines. First he had to complete the rigorous curriculum at Lycee Viticole, the venerable wine school in Beaune. By then, it was time for the family to move back to the U.S. so the children could prepare for college. Undaunted by the long commute between continents, Gambal established his eponymous Maison Alex Gambal in 1997 by purchasing young wines and aging them in an old, unheated building he rented to use as a winery. The next year he made his wines from pressed grape juice and eventually was able to actually buy unpressed grapes. Burgundy has an insular reputation as region not friendly to strangers. Gambal claims that, “Actually it was fairly easy for me but remember I did not come here to ‘make wine.’ I came here to live with my family and because we were here as a family, in the local schools, the kids on the local sports teams, etc., we were not seen as interlopers or carpetbaggers.” He currently lives full-time in Burgundy, has moved into a new winery in Beaune (with a tasting room) and has been slowly increasing his holdings. In 2003, he became one of the few “outsiders” able to purchase Burgundian property and in 2011 he

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James Whalen (Aidan), Laura C. Harris (Charlotte), Danny Gavigan (Rupert) and Brandon McCoy (Sam) rehearse for Round House Theatre’s production of “NSFW.”

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Savvy Internet users can avoid links with NSFW in the title, but the audience of “NSFW” at the Round House Theatre will descend into a world of lies, gray areas, and scandal — whether they’re willing

or not. “It pulls you in and implicates you for being pulled in, which is the true implication for media and advertising today,” said the play’s director Meredith McDonough. “It’s a dark comedy that really makes you think and challenges what you assume every day about image, what you see in print — what is true and what is false.” Lucy Kirkwood, a British playwright and telewriter for “Skins” among others, took the title of her

2012 play from the acronym meaning “Not Safe For Work.” In the play, journalists at a men’s magazine objectify one of their underage sources when they publish a raunchy photo spread of her. Layers of scandal unfold before the audience, who must distinguish truthful characters from crooked ones, including equally unethical journalists at a women’s magazine. “We keep laughing at how badly these people are behaving,” said McDonough, “You think, ‘Oh my

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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. THEATER & STAGE Bowie Community Theatre, “Whose Wives Are They Anyway?” July 17 through Aug. 2, call for prices, times, Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Dr., Bowie, 301-805-0219, bctheatre. com. The Clarice, National Festival Orchestra: Your Classical Favorites, May 30; Artist Faculty Chamber Recital, June 5; National Festival Chamber Orchestra, June 6; Chamber Music Showcases (two shows), June 7; University of Maryland, College Park, theclarice.umd.edu. Hard Bargain Players, “Down the Road,” June 12-June 27, Theater in the Woods, 2001 Bryan Point Road, Accokeek, 240-766-8830, hbplayers. org. Harmony Hall Regional Center, Ssuuna, June 24; Christylez Bacon, July 1; 10701 Livingston Road, Fort Washington, 301-203-6070, arts.pgparks.com. Greenbelt Arts Center, “A Raisin in the Sun,” through June 6; call for prices, times, Greenbelt Arts Center, 123 Centerway, Greenbelt, 301-4418770, greenbeltartscenter.org. Joe’s Movement Emporium, “Dream Island,” June 6 and 7; 3309 Bunker Hill Road, Mount Rainier, 301-699-1819, joesmovement.org. Laurel Mill Playhouse, “The Temptest,” May 29 through June 12; “The Miss Firecracker Contest,” June 26 through July 12, call for ticket prices, times; Laurel Mill Playhouse, 508 Main St., Laurel, 301-452-2557, laurelmillplayhouse.org. Montpelier Arts Center; 9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel, 301-377-7800, arts.pgparks.com. NASA’S Music And Drama club (MAD), Barney & Bea Recreation Center, 10000 Good Luck Road, Bowie. For ticket sales and additional information, call 240-475-8800 or visit madtheater.org. Prince George’s Little Theatre, “Once Upon a Mattress,” Sept. 11 through Sept. 26, call for tickets and show times, Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Drive, Bowie, 301-937-7458, pglt.org. Publick Playhouse, Hardway Connection, June 19; 5445 Landover Road, Cheverly, 301-277-1710, arts.pgparks.com. 2nd Star Productions, “Kiss Me, Kate,” May 29 through June 27; Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Dr., Bowie, call for prices, times, 410757-5700, 301-832-4819, 2ndstarproductions.com. Tantallon Community Players, “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” through June 7; Harmony Hall Regional Center, 10701 Livingston Road, Fort Washington, 301-262-5201, tantallonstage.com. Venus Theatre, “dry bones rising,” through

June 14, 21 C Street, Laurel. venustheatre.org.

NIGHTLIFE New Deal Café, Wild Anacostias, May 29; The

Badger Band, May 30; Schmuck, May 31; Beggar’s Ride, June 3; 113 Centerway Road, 301-474-5642, newdealcafe.com. Old Bowie Town Grill, Wednesday Night Classic Jam, 8 p.m. every Wednesday, sign-ups start at 7:30 p.m., 8604 Chestnut Ave., Bowie, 301-4648800, oldbowietowngrille.com.

DANCING Ballroom dance and lesson with instructor Dave Malek at 7 p.m. every Thursday. A beginner’s lesson precedes the dance, which starts

at 8 p.m. Cost is $10. This dance is located at the Bowie Elks Lodge, 1506 Defense Highway, Gambrills. Contact Dancin’ Dave at 410-370 8438 or email dancindave@loive.com.

OUTDOORS Dinosaur Park, Dinosaur Park programs, noon to 4 p.m. first and third Saturdays, join paleontologists and volunteers in interpreting fossil deposits, 13200 block Mid-Atlantic Blvd., Laurel, 301-627-7755. Mount Rainier Nature Center, Toddler Time: hands-on treasures, crafts, stories and soft play, 11 a.m. to noon Thursdays, age 5 and younger free, 4701 31st Place, Mount Rainier, 301-927-2163. Prince George’s Audubon Society, Bird Walks, 7:30 a.m. first Saturdays, Fran Uhler Natural Area, meets at end of Lemon Bridge Road, north of Bowie State University, option to bird nearby WB&A Trail afterward; 7:30 a.m. third Saturdays, Governor Bridge Natural Area, Governor Bridge Road, Bowie, meet in parking lot; for migrating and resident woodland and field birds, and waterfowl. For beginners and experts. Waterproof footwear and binoculars suggested. Free. 410765-6482.

ET CETERA College Park Aviation Museum, Peter Pan Club, 10:30-11:30 a.m. second and fourth Thursdays of every month, activities for pre-schoolers, $4, $3 seniors, $2 ages 2-18, 1985 Cpl. Frank Scott Drive, College Park, 301-864-6029, collegeparkaviationmuseum.com. Women’s Chamber Choir Auditions, by appointment for the concert season of women’s chamber choir Voix de Femmes, 7:45-9:30 p.m. Thursdays, 402 Compton Ave., Laurel, 301-5208921, annickkanter@gmail.com.

A reception will be held at Franklins Brewery and Restaurant on June 7 for “Kaleidoscope,” the

new exhibit by the Hyattsville Community Arts Alliance. More than 30 works by HCAA artists in a variety of media and technique will be on display. 5123 Baltimore Ave., Hyattsville. Contact Denise at denise76marie@gmail.com, hcaaonline.org, or 301-927-2740.

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way we hold our own identities [as a result],” McDonough said. McDonough shows the audience this relationship by putting them in the middle of it. “You are pretty bombarded with image in the play,” she said. “There’s a lot of pictures of women. It asks you to go, ‘Did I first appreciate the female form of this figure? Or did I question the age of the person pictured first?’” The play also explores issues that resurface again and again in history, such as the pressure to build a meaningful career in a job drought. “Part of what the play is doing is that half of the characters are recent college graduates who are trying to find work in this environment,” McDonough said. Sam, McDonough’s favorite character in “NSFW,” personifies this crisis most in the play. “He’s the everyman who’s just out of college and is trying to do his best,” she said. “You have a warmness in your heart for this kid who can’t get a leg up. There’s this pressure of, ‘I have to hold on to this job,’ when the stakes are so high. That’s what makes the play true.” Truth is another muddled mess that the audience wades through in “NSFW.” Deciphering the characters’ true intentions and balancing truth and lies made “NSFW” a fun outlier from plays McDonough directed in the past. “There’s a version where everyone’s equally evil, and we were not interested in doing that version, and there’s a version where everyone’s equally naive, and we were not interested in doing that version,” said McDonough. “In a play that’s about lies and scandal and versions of the truth, not letting one part take

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Continued from Page B-3 became the ﬁrst foreigner to own a portion of the Grand Cru BâtardMontrachet vineyard. Gambal now owns 30 acres of vineyards via several recent acquisitions including a merger with Domaine Christophe Buisson. His wines are now 80 percent domaine produced with the remaining grapes coming via long-term contracts with small suppliers. The vineyards are all organic and biodynamically farmed. He expects his total 2015 production to be 6,000 cases (75,000 bottles). There is an underlying precision to Gambal’s wines. Each demonstrates a respect for the speciﬁc Burgundian terroir with clarity and grace. The team at

n Where: Round House Theatre, 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda n Tickets: $25-$50 n More Information: roundhousetheatre.org; 240-644-1100

over too much was a careful calibrating act for me.” Interpretation was ever-evolving for McDonough during rehearsal, too. “Even last night watching the run-through, I had a huge realization,” she said. “I thought with one character, ‘Oh, I think he’s lying much earlier in the scene.’ It’s like solving a puzzle, and we’ve laughed a ton.” McDonough changed virtually nothing in her version of Kirkwood’s play for an American audience — save for a hand gesture or two. “The greatest barrier between the U.S. and the U.K. is in fact the English language,” said McDonough, who worked with a dramaturg to fully understand Kirkwood’s English jokes. “We don’t have the right to change the play and there aren’t really U.S. versions of the jokes, so sometimes actors do gestures with certain words, and then you’re like, ‘Oh, that’s what it means.’” McDonough may represent the misrepresented in her “NSFW,” but that didn’t exempt her from scandal. “I emailed back and forth with the set designer for the main image, and we looked at a lot of pictures of naked and scantily clad women,” she said. “He’d send me an email to work with the subject ‘Naked Women Attached,’ so it was like our own version of NSFW.”

Maison Gambal is clearly focused solely on creating the best wines possible from some of the world’s finest sites. As Gambal says, “If I wanted to be making money, I would be parking cars.” Here is a look at a few examples within Gambal’s splendid portfolio: As a longtime fan of this vineyard, it is especially pleasing to taste the Alex Gambal ChambolleMusigny Les Charmes 2012 that shows a lovely, feminine character beginning with red cherry and dark fruit aromas which progress into complex layers of soft, spice accented blackberry, raspberry and earthy flavors with a prolonged, balanced finish. The 2011 version has a notable smokiness and the flavors are a bit sharper, but it still remains an exquisite wine.

More affordable is the very tasty Alex Gambal Chorey-lèsBeaune 2012 with raspberry and cherry flavors in a medium frame and good balance while the 2011 from the same vineyard demonstrates a bit more depth and more noticeable oakiness during the finish. When considering Gambal’s wines, do not ignore the whites, including the Alex Gambal Puligny-Montrachet 2012 with a notable minerality intermingled within the toasty peach, lime, apple and hazelnut notes. Also delightful is the honey and floral scented Alex Gambal ChassagneMontrachet 2012 whose aromas extend into the brioche, peach, grapefruit and spiced apple flavors during the persistent, spice infused finish.

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Laurel Mill Playhouse’s production of “The Tempest” runs through June 12.

“The Tempest” is one of William Shakespeare’s later plays. That doesn’t make it any less interesting, though. The Shakespeare Teen Theatre at Laurel Mill Playhouse is currently in its run of the show through June 12. “The Tempest” follows Prospero, who is on a remote island. As the rightful Duke of Milan, he sets in motion a plan to restore his daughter, Miranda, to her rightful place. Of course, Prospero has to use a bit of illusion and “magic” to make that happen. He ends up luring his brother Antonio, who has usurped Prospero’s position, and Alonso, the king of Naples, to the island. From there, lots of things happen, but you’ll have to go check out the show to find out what occurs. Tickets for the show are $15$20. For more information, visit laurelmillplayhouse.org or call 301-617-9906.

Early racial issues still important today Racial issues are still prevalent, even today. A good look at the news across the country will show you that. It’s worth noting that a play, which debuted on Broadway in 1959, still has a powerful message now involving race, family, and social status. The Greenbelt Arts Center is playing host to the award-winning play “A Raisin in the Sun,” now through June 6. The play follows the story of the Youngers, a black family struggling in 1950s Chicago to hold its spot in a world that hands them steep adversity and the consistent weight of racial prejudice.

The Youngers are living in poverty on the south side of Chicago. After the death of Walter Younger’s father, Mama Younger is expecting a $10,000 life insurance check. Walter has plans for the money, but Mama decides to put some of the money down on a new house in an all-white neighborhood. Tensions within the family ﬂair when Walter squanders the remainder of the money Mama has set aside for her granddaughter’s education. Tickets for the show are $12-$20. For more information, visit greenbeltartscenter.org or call 301-441-8770.

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“A Raisin in the Sun” runs through June 6 at the Greenbelt Arts Center.

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So, you’ve survived the apocalypse. Now what? Venus Theatre delves into that a little in the premiere of Cecelia Raker’s play “dry bones rising.” “dry bones rising” follows the journey of two children who survive a post-apocalyptic event, try to pick up the pieces, learn to get along and ﬁgure things out, with the help and hindrance of a golem they’ve built out of mud and brought to life.

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NOTICE REQUEST FOR BIDS The Town of Berwyn Heights, Maryland is soliciting bids for the purchase and installation of an emergency generator at the Town’s Municipal Building and an emergency generator at the Town’s Community Center. Bids are due prior to the bid opening scheduled for Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 10:00 a.m.

NOTICE REQUEST FOR BIDS The Town of Berwyn Heights, Maryland is soliciting bids for Safe Routes to School sidewalk construction. Bids are due prior to the bid opening scheduled for Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. The pre-bid conference will be held on Thursday, June 4 at 10:00 a.m. at the Town’s Municipal Building located at 5700 Berwyn Road, Berwyn Heights, Maryland 20740. Questions will be accepted through 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, June 11. Any question(s) and response(s) will be emailed to all prospective bidders. Plans, specifications, and bidding documents are available on the Town’s website under "Announcements" at www.berwyn-heights.com. The contact person is Town Administrator Jessica Cowles and she can be reached at jcowles@town.berwyn-heights.md.us or (301) 474-5000. The Town Council of the Town of Berwyn Heights reserves the right to give an offeror the opportunity to cure any deficiency resulting from a minor irregularity in a bid or waive the deficiency, whichever is to the advantage of the Town Council. The decision with respect to whether a defect is a minor irregularity is made at the sole discretion of the Town Council and is not subject to review. The Town Council reserves the right to reject any and all bids. (5-28, 6-4-15)

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The Gazette, a sister company of The Washington Post, has an immediate opening for a Press Technician in our Laurel plant. State-of-theart technology, Mitsubishi printing press. We will train individuals with mechanical aptitude and strong work ethic for a career in the printing technology industry. Individuals must be computer literate, a team player, have good verbal and written skills, printing experience preferred but not required. This position is a labor position which requires repetitive stacking of newspapers and very hands on work with the printing press. After training completion this individual will be assigned to the 2 pm - 10 pm shift. Upward mobility potential for this exciting career opportunity. We offer a benefits package including: medical, dental, 401K and tuition reimbursement. EOE.

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The pre-bid conference will be held on Wednesday, June 3 at 10:00 a.m. at the Town’s Municipal Building located at 5700 Berwyn Road, Berwyn Heights, Maryland 20740. Questions will be accepted through 5:00 p.m. on Friday, June 5. Any question(s) and response(s) will be emailed to all prospective bidders.

The Town Council of the Town of Berwyn Heights reserves the right to give an offeror the opportunity to cure any deficiency resulting from a minor irregularity in a bid or waive the deficiency, whichever is to the advantage of the Town Council. The decision with respect to whether a defect is a minor irregularity is made at the sole discretion of the Town Council and is not subject to review. The Town Council reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

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

2013 Passat SE.......................#V080993A, White, 29,626 Miles...............$17,391 2012 CC.....................................#V820490A, Black, 47,400 Miles...............$17,491

2006 Touareg...........................#V001597A, Black, 78,489 Miles.................$8,991

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

2011 Toyota Prius...................V283821B, Red, 112,390 Miles.................$11,593

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

2013 Passat TDI SE................V033935A, Gray,28,762 Miles...................$19,955

2013 Passat..............................#VPR0138, Maroon, 44,978 Miles..............$14,991

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

2012 Chevrolet Equinox AWD...#V099935A, Blue, 38,419 Miles.................$21,991

2013 VW Beetle.......................V801398, Yellow, 16,020 Miles...................$16,293

2014 Routan SEL.....................VP0130, Blue, 18,268 Miles.......................$25,993

2011 Jetta TDI..........................#V005099A, Black, 71,951 Miles...............$16,991

2013 CC VR6 4Motion............VP0131, Black, 33,105 Miles.....................$25,993

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$7,977

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$12,977

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6,995

#P9279A, Automatic, Clean Inside and Out

13,995

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2010 Camry Hybrid

2012 Acura TSX Wagon

14,995

2013 Hyundai Sonata SE

2014 Chevrolet Sonic LS

21,950

#G0063,ONLY 54K mi, 2.4L 4cyl,Auto

2013 KIA Optima SX Turbo

15,995

2012 Volvo S60 T5 Moonroof

#P9371, 1-OWNER, Heated Front Seats, Bluetooth, Alloys

12,977

16,995

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19,980

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33,750

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2012 Nissan Leaf SL NAV Hatchback

#P9277, 1-Owner, Leather, Moonroof, Bluetooth

#P9327, ONLY 12K MILES!! Certified, Auto, Looks New!

#P9315, CERTIFIED!! Only 30K Miles, Leather, Sunroof, Homelink

2014 Kia Optima LX........................................................... $15,995 2012 Volvo XC60 AWD 3.2 Premier.......$24,980 #E0730, Automatic, Fac Warranty, Leather, Alloys

2011 Mazda CX-7

#547519A, 1-Owner, Beautiful Inside & Out, Well Maintained

15,977

29,980

2012 Hyundai Elantra Limited............................ $14,750 2012 Volvo S60 T5 Turbo......................$19,980 #P9372, Automatic, Low Miles!!, Leather, Sunroof, Alloys

14,977

2008 Mercedes C-300 4Matic.............................. $13,995 2010 Volvo XC60 3.2L...........................$18,950 #526593A, AWD, Nav, Leather, Alloys, Clean-Well Maintained

14,977

23,950 2010 Chevy Equinox LTZ

2008 Nissan Xterra S 4WD

#541214A, 1-OWNER, Only 74K Miles, Well kept!!

#532188C, Nav, Leather, Sunroof, Loaded

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2012 Honda CRV EX-L AWD

2005 Nissan Frontier 4WD SE

2014 Jetta SE

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#526571C, 1-Owner, Leather, HEATED SEATS, Panoramic roof, Alloys, Beautifully Kept!

8,977

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#442078A, Only 5K Miles!!!, Automatic, Why Buy New? #527003A, 1-Owner! Only 27K Miles. Leather, Sunroof, Blue tooth, Alloys

2006 Nissan Sentra 1.8S #541206B, Automatic, Gently driven and clean!

15,977

2010 Mercury Mariner Hybrid

#541161A, Hard-to-Find, 1-Owner, Loaded, Leather, Sunroof

16,777

# P9295, Only 34K Miles! CERTIFIED! Leather, Blind spot, Park Assist,

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MSRP: $14,685 Sale Price: $11,395 Nissan Rebate $400

$ 4

automatic transmission MODEL #11115

AT THIS PRICE

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39 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

16,995

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13,495 OR

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149

/MO 36 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

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AT THIS PRICE

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269/MO

36 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

279

/MO 36 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

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25,995

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26,900

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18,890

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14,590

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13,590

MANUAL, 4 CYL

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NEW 2015 YARIS #577009

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AFTER TOYOTA $750 REBATE

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AFTER TOYOTA $750 REBATE

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2 AVAILABLE: #572183, 572233

$0 DOWN

139/MO**

4 DR., AUTO, 4 CYL