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Hope Hemphill, right, an English teacher at St. Vincent Pallotti High School in Laurel, and her daughter Grace, 10, package rice and dried vegetables Oct. 18 in the school’s gym during an event organized by Florida-based organization Cross Catholic Outreach. During the event, students, teachers and their families made more than 40,000 packages that will be delivered to communities in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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ore than 200 students from St. Vincent Pallotti High School, their families and their friends spent Saturday packing more than 40,000 meals of dried rice and vegetables that will be delivered to poor communities in the Caribbean and Latin America.

“It was a really cool bonding experience... I got to find out how some people work under pressure,” said Jessica Lee, 14, of Laurel, a freshman who attended the fast-paced, music-filled

packing session in the Laurel school’s gym along with others from her class.

“And it actually saves lives,” added freshman Sabrina Alba, 14, of College Park.

The “Youth vs. Hunger” event, which is part of Pallotti’s yearly project to help people in need, was a collaboration with Boca Raton, Fla.-based Catholic organization Cross Catholic Outreach.

Cross Catholic Outreach provides aid to poor communities throughout the world as well as within the United States, and officials said Saturday’s event, arranged through a Pallotti

board member who is a donor to the organization, was the first time the organization collaborated on a hands-on project with a group outside of Florida.

The meals packed by the students will most likely be delivered to schoolchildren in Haiti, Guatemala or Nicaragua through partner organizations in those countries, said Sandy Pino, school and community initiative for Cross Catholic Outreach.

“It’s neat to see, to me, 250 kids on a Saturday doing this,” Pino said. “So many other options and they’re here

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While many of his classmates at Parkdale High School in Riverdale are considering their prom dates and college applications, senior Alonzo Clarke, 16, is weighing if he’s ready to return to the pros.

Clarke, of New Carrollton, who has just returned to Prince George’s County after a year spent playing soccer professionally for Manchester United in England, said he is trying to decide if he will return to one of England’s most prestigious soccer clubs or take one of several scholarship offers he has received to play soccer for a college in the U.S. He is now finishing up credits he needs to earn a diploma at Parkdale while playing soccer on the school’s varsity team and Washington, D.C.’s

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The Prince George’s County Council decided to ”give pizza a chance,” allowing a Mount Rainier arts nonprofit to move forward with plans to partner with a Washington, D.C.-based brick oven pizzeria.

Barbara Johnson, founder and executive director of Mount Rainier art studio Art Works Now, said plans to relocate to Hyattsville along with

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perienced a data breach, Wright said the five-person cybersecurity team now works to ensure the county’s practices are in line with industry standards for safeguarding sensitive information such as credit card payment data and health care records.

While October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, protecting

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a new Pizzeria Paradisio restaurant can move forward, following a County Council decision Monday afternoon.

“No more holding. We’re moving forward, let the hammering begin,” Johnson said following the decision.

The County Council, sitting as the District Council, voted 8-1 to reverse a Historic Preservation Commission decision to list the old Marche Florists building, at 4800 Rhode Island Avenue, as an historic site.

The building was a florist shop from 1951 to 1986, but has sat vacant over the past 10 years, said

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Parkdale High School soccer player Alonzo Clarke at the school in Riverdale Park on October 21.

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Kartik Nayak, 25, of College Park, a doctorate student studying computer science at the University of Maryland, works in the Maryland Cybersecurity Center’s computer lab Tuesday.

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“This is an opportunity that doesn’t come around a lot — to play for one of the better soccer clubs in the world,” Clarke said of Manchester United.

After a scout saw him play during a showcase in New York in the summer of 2013, Clarke said he was invited to a trial in England, and Manchester United offered him a contract to play for their under-18 division last fall. In February, he said the club offered him a contract to play for the reserve division, and he decided he couldn’t pass up the chance.

But when his passport expired in August and he could no longer work legally in England, Clarke and his family decided it would be best for him to put soccer on hold for the moment and return to school.

“After he gets his high school diploma, he can decide — college versus going pro,” said his mother, Deborah Wallace of New Carrollton, who added that she would prefer for Clarke to earn

As more and more national retailers deal with the threats of hacking and security breaches, Prince George’s County officials are doing their best to stay several steps ahead of would-be attackers.

“We actually have a full-time team that is looking for vulnerabilities throughout our infrastructure,” said Vennard Wright, chief information officer for the county. “The threats are always changing.”

Wright said he made cybersecurity his main priority beginning July 1, after discovering the county’s network had certain vulnerabilities that may have made it prone to attacks from hackers.

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Hyattsville is taking a pass on an agreement to allow residents to ride University of Maryland buses, due to a condition that the bus passes be for adults only.

Hyattsville City Administrator Tracey Nicholson asked the City Council to table an agreement with the University of Maryland, College Park to receive passes for residents to ride the university’s buses, due to its insistence that no one under 18 be allowed a pass.

“We recently found out that those under 18 cannot even participate when accompanied by an adult,”

Nicholson said. “So we’d like some time to work with the University of Maryland on this.”

Calls and emails requesting comment from the university’s Department of Transportation Services were not returned as of press time.

Councilman Timothy Hunt (Ward 3) said he objected to the age restriction.

“I certainly don’t want to be complicit in marginalizing a portion of Hyattsville’s residents,” Hunt said.

The agreement with the University of Maryland, which would cost the city up to $5,000 for the first year, covers up to 1,000 passes.

Residents would be able to get a pass for free during the first year by showing proof of residency at the Hyattsville Municipal Building.

The passes will allow users to ride

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OCT. 23 Woman’s Club of Laurel Tampico Grill Fundraiser, 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., Tam-

pico Grill, 42 Washington Blvd., Laurel.

Please support the “Literacy for Little Ones” project. This project is designed to encourage a love of books at an early age.

Donation of a storybook to children ages 3 through kindergarten in Laurel school programs. Contact 301-490-5200.

OCT. 24 Fall Bazaar at St. Nicholas Church, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., 8603 Contee Road, Laurel. Enjoy crafts handmade by parishioners, homemade baked goods, children’s activities, St. Nicholas Boutique, theme baskets to raffle, door prizes and a 50/50 raffle. The food concession will serve breakfast and lunch on both days, and an Oktoberfest dinner on Friday night. Contact 301-776-4645.

OCT. 25 Resource Day for Blind and Low Vision Persons 2014, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.,

Colmar Manor Town Hall, 3701 Lawrence St., Colmar Manor. Do you know you can: Learn to read and write Braille? Take water aerobics or exercise class? Count your own money? There will be answers to these questions and many more. Contact 301-583-8585 or nhcnfb@gmail.com.

Elementary School Enrichment Program, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., Glenarden

Library, 8724 Glenarden Parkway, Glenarden. Students and parents will receive academic support across all subject areas from qualified instructors. Contact 301278-1834 or register@nlestrategies.com.

Everyday is Food Day @ ECO City Farms, Year 3, 2 to 5 p.m., ECO City Farms

at Edmonston, 4913 Crittenden St., Edmonston. Experience our urban farm to understand where food comes from, find out about local, affordable produce, and learn about healthy eating and active living. We’ll have music, food, farm tours, dance, yoga, face-painting and other activities for children. Contact kayla@ ecocityfarms.org.

Laurel Parks and Recreation Spooktacular, 2 p.m., Robert J. DiPietro Community

Center, 7901 Cypress St., Laurel. Do you have the best Halloween costume in Laurel?

Children ages 12 and younger can join us at the Robert J. DiPietro Community Center for the Halloween Spooktacular. With refreshments, entertainment, contests and costume judging, the entire family is bound

to have a spooktacular time. Contact 301725-7800.

Greenbelt’s Pumpkin Walk Festival, 5:30 to 9 p.m., Northway Road extension in Greenbelt. The first hour of the walk is reserved for the youngest children and their families. Later in the evening, the magical creatures of the woods, including the infamous Goat Man, may become a little mischievous. Visit the woods that were saved for the community and future generations of children and their families in Greenbelt. Contact 301-345-1346.

Haunted Hangar, 7 to 9 p.m., College Park Aviation Museum, 1985 Cpl. Frank Scott Drive, College Park. Wear your costume and join in the Halloween fun at the annual Haunted Hangar event.

Arts, crafts, hayrides and spooky fun are waiting for kids and families. Cost is $4 per person. Contact 301-864-6029; TTY 301-699-2544.

OCT. 26 Seasonal Selections: Pumpkins and Candles, Noon to 3:30 p.m., Riversdale

House Museum, 4811 Riverdale Road, Riverdale Park. ‘Tis the season of pumpkins and candles. Kitchen Guild will demonstrate pumpkin recipes and candle making, while telling a few stories about the history of the jack o’ lantern during this free demonstration. Contact 301-8640420; TTY 301-699-2544.

Children’s Halloween Party, 1 to 3 p.m., The American Legion Post 60, 2 Main St., Laurel. Costume contest, refreshments, arts, crafts, games and fun for the entire family. Contact 301-725-2302.

Trunk or Treat, 1 to 3 p.m., Paint Branch Unitarian Universalist Church, 3215 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi. Come one, come all for spooky crafts and goodies, courtesy of the community at Paint Branch Unitarian Universalist Church.

This free, family-friendly event is open to the public. Children can visit craft tables and collect treats from decorated trunks in the parking lot. Costumes welcome.

Contact 301-937-3666 or dre@pbuuc.org.

The Riversdale Chamber Music Society Concert Series, 2:30 p.m., Riversdale

House Museum, 4811 Riverdale Road, Riverdale Park. Enjoy chamber music performed by University of Maryland faculty and students, and area military musicians. Contact 301-864-0420; TTY 301-699-2544.

OCT. 27 N.A.M.I. Meeting, 6:30 to 8 p.m., N.A.M.I. support group, Hyattsville Library, Hyattsville. Support group meeting

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Fall Fair, noon to 4 p.m., Friends Community School in College Park. Student-run old-fashioned games, a moon bounce, a toy and book sale, entertainment and food prepared by local restaurants and school families. Rain or shine.

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MAC: Manga and Anime Club, 7 p.m., Hyattsville Library, 6530 Adelphi Road, Hyattsville. Watch your favorite anime, talk about and preview new manga, create art, comics and costumes and enjoy snacks. Join fellow anime and manga fans at the new Hyattsville Manga and Anime Club. Contact 301-985-4690.

Big Band Halloween Scream, 7:30 p.m., The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center’s Kay Theatre, Stadium Drive and Route 193, College Park. A “spirited” evening of spine-tingling performances by the UMD Jazz Ensemble, UMD Jazz Lab Band and University Jazz Band is the hallmark of this annual favorite. Contact 301405-2787 or tickets.theclarice@umd.edu.

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Theater Project Beltsville wraps three one-act plays into one in “Cold Shoulders.”

OCT. 28 Adult Book Discussion, 6:30 p.m., Glenarden Library, 8724 Glenarden Pkwy., Glenarden. Rebecca Skloot’s “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” Contact 301-772-5477.

The 2014 African History & Culture Lecture Series, 7 p.m., Greenbelt Library,

There are only three weeks left in the high school football regular season, and each game comes closer to settling who the four playoff teams are in each region. This weekend Suitland plays Flowers in a game that may decide which of them advances. Check online for coverage.

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The Northern Prince George’s County Republican Club Meeting, 7 to 9 p.m.,

St. Mark’s School Library, 7501 Adelphi Road, Hyattsville. Come join us for our monthly meetings. Contact 301-422-8648.

Laurel Adult Book Discussion, 7:30 p.m., Laurel Library, 8101 Sandy Spring Road, Laurel. One Maryland One Book: Reyna Grande’s “The Distance Between Us: A Memoir.” Contact 301-776-6790.

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Kenmoor Middle School students John Bridgers, 12; Prosun Das, 13; and Chimwemwe Chinkuyu, 11, compete Tuesday in the Science Bowl at the Bonnie F. Johns Educational Media Center in Landover.

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For the first time since Science Bowl host Dave Zahren can remember, the student quiz show was flung into a “sudden death” round when two arch-rival teams proved to be a perfect match Tuesday.

Kenmoor Middle School of Landover and Walker Mill Middle School of Capitol Heights both produced winning teams during the early seasons of the game’s 29-year history, Zahren said, and their expertise was evidenced during the middle school competition Tuesday when Kenmoor bested Walker Mill in a tie-breaking question about virus mutation.

“I cannot remember the last time we had a tie. It’s very rare,”

Zahren said. “They didn’t give up. To me, that’s evidence of preparation and experience.”

Science Bowl is an annual tournament where Prince George’s County elementary and middle schools compete in teams of three and answer Jeopardy-style questions related to science.

Kenmoor, who holds the most championships in Science Bowl history with nine middle school victories, beat Beltsville Academy by more than 400 points during round one of Tuesday’s competition, while Walker Mill beat Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School of Laurel by nearly 200 points.

Prosun Das, 13, Kenmoor’s team captain who helped clench the 2013-2014 Science Bowl championship title, said he thought the final round of competition was nerve-wracking.

“That was so close,” Prosun said. “I didn’t think we would

make it because they were pretty fast on the buzzer, but we did.”

After tying up the score 225 to 225 at the end of the final round, Zahren announced a rare sudden death match, and that’s when Kenmoor player John Bridgers, 12, said he felt the pressure mount.

“My heart was racing,” he said.

The other players on the Kenmoor team were firsttime contestant Chimwemwe Chinkuyu and alternates Miracle Ephraim and Jared Norris.

Kenmoor will advance to play Nicholas Orem Middle School of Hyattsville at the middle school semi-finals on March 17.

Cheryl Diallo, Kenmoor science teacher and Science Bowl team sponsor, attributes her team’s success to extensive practice and review of previous Science Bowl games.

“They just practice, practice

practice,” Diallo said. “I think they were awesome.”

Quickly buzzing in with answers on topics from planets to viruses, Walker Mill students said they felt they played well.

“I’m so glad that my team did really well. We practiced teamwork,” said Walker Mill team member Paris Smalley, 13.

Lisa Jellison, a first-time judge at Tuesday’s game, said she picked the right day to participate in Science Bowl. Jellison, a science teacher at Robert Goddard Montessori in Seabrook, said some of her students will be competing in Science Bowl for the first time this year, and that she now has a good idea of what they are up against.

“I’m impressed, very impressed,” she said. “I can tell these kids are really motivated and have good teachers. They’re learning science.” eshaughnessy@gazette.net

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About 10 to 12 young skateboarders eager to test out the concrete ramps, steps and railing in Laurel’s first skate park at Centennial Community Park began practicing their jumps

right after the ribbon cutting ceremony on Oct. 18.

The 60-foot by 35-foot fenced-in skate park on Montrose Avenue, which will be accessible via a card reader for a fee, was recently completed as part of a larger playground renovation project in the park, said Mike Lhotsky, the city’s director of Parks and Recreation.

Lhotsky said about 30 to 40 people attended the grand

opening ceremony.

“A couple kids came up and really thanked the mayor and the City Council,” Lhotsky said.

“I got the sense that they were really happy with the city council moving forward with it.”

Lhotsky said that city staff, volunteers and members of Boy Scout Troop 263 participated in a landscape beautification project before the skate park opened, planting five trees and about 15

shrubs in the park. He said two of the trees were dedicated to late former council members Jan Robison and Dick Rice, who both supported a skate park in Laurel during their tenure.

The cost for a one-year membership to the skate park will be $10 for city residents and $30 for non-residents. apopovici@gazette.net

Steven Moore, 43, of Clinton said he has readjusted well since he was released from prison six years ago, but his concern now is for his younger brother, Christopher, who is preparing to return to the workforce after 15 years behind bars.

“In order to get reinstated, you have to work and earn a living,” Moore said. “If you can’t earn a living the honest way, you’ll try to earn a living the dishonest way.”

To help ex-offenders like Christopher Moore gain employment, members of the Largo-based People for Change Coalition are advocating for better re-entry services in Prince George’s County.

Teresa Robinson, the chair of the People for Change Coalition’s re-entry committee, said PFCC members wanted to address employment issues for ex-offenders because they had family members who were previously incarcerated or they had business interactions with ex-offenders.

“What we want to do is encourage others in the community at large to hire people returning to the community,” Robinson said. “Once people get over the initial stigma of the population, it will be easier for them to consider a person coming out of jail.”

Robinson said employers sometimes perceive that any crime committed by an applicant is “heinous.” When an applicant shows they are qualified through trade certifications they earned while incarcerated, Robinson said they should be given a chance.

“If we don’t give them an opportunity, what do they do?” Robinson said.

Robinson said the PFCC re-entry committee will meet with business owners to educate them on employment issues and encourage them to hire ex-offenders.

Robinson said the committee will also push for “ban the box” legislation, which removes a check box about having a criminal record from employment applications, and advocate for a budget line item to fund re-entry services offered by nonprofits.

Moore said banning the box could help ex-offenders get their foot in the door, but

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“If we don’t give them an opportunity, what do they do?”

Teresa Robinson, People for Change Coalition re-entry committee chair it may not get them a job.

“I understand that ‘ban the box’ means I’ll get an interview, but after the interview when I do a background check? Red flag, tossed to the side, back where I started,” Moore said.

Prince George’s County Councilman Obie Patterson (D-Dist. 8) of Fort Washington proposed ban the box legislation.

The bill passed a committee hearing Oct. 16 with an amendment that permitted employers to ask about an applicant’s criminal history only at the end of an interview, Patterson said.

Patterson said this legislation would allow employers to have face-to-face conversations with prospective hires and learn the specifics of their criminal background, information that a check box belies. The council is expected to vote on the measure in November, Patterson said.

“An employer might be willing to give a person a second chance if they’re able to see some strength and commitment from the person,” Patterson said.

In June, County Councilwoman Karen Toles (D-Dist.

7) of Capitol Heights introduced a bill that would establish a re-entry hiring program that would require county agencies, departments and offices give preference to nonviolent ex-offenders when making hiring decisions. The bill failed to move out of committee due to a split vote, Patterson said.

Moore said it’s about who you know when you leave prison that matters the most.

“You’ll get a lot of rejection,” Moore said. “What saved me, somebody knows somebody and got me, and I stayed on the right path from there.” kpetersen@gazette.net

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Clinton Grove Elementary School students learned how dancing, jumping, and running can promote a healthy lifestyle with help from a special guest — Washington Redskins running back Alfred Morris.

Morris visited the school Tuesday for the annual Hometown Huddle, an initiative of United Way of the National

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Capital Area’s Fun, Fly & Fit program and NFL Play 60, which encourages children to be active for at least 60 minutes per day.

“It was an amazing experience, not only for them, but also for me,” Morris said.

During the Hometown Huddle, 200 students watched performances by a hula hoop artist, break dancers and a juggler, and rooted on their teachers as they competed in a dance contest.

“It helped me know that by being fit and active you can become something you wanted to

be for years and be successful,” said fifth-grader Khamani McClelland, 10, of Clinton.

A group of 30 students were selected for a special recess with Morris. Students, teachers, and United Way volunteers raced around a circle with bright balls and jumped hurdles to win team contests.

Clinton Grove principal Jamila Mannie said she was excited that her school was selected to host the Hometown Huddle, which puts on an assembly at a different Washington, D.C., metropolitan area school every year.

The students who attended both activities were chosen based on participation in before and after school programs as well as academic achievement.

“We wanted to use this as an incentive to keep our high scholars motivated,” Mannie said.

All equipment used during the assembly and recess, including hula hoops, cones, balls and hurdles were donated as a gift to Clinton Grove so it could continue the activities introduced during the Hometown Huddle in physical education lessons.

The school received a 2014 National Recognition Award from First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move Active Schools initiative as well as a bronze award in 2013 from the Alliance for a Healthier Generation. kpetersen@gazette.net

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Greenbelt’s Utopia Film Festival is now in its 10th year, and while the theme of the event continues to promote ideals of a better society, the festival hopes to have a little something to interest everyone.

“We have films for everybody — kids, grown-ups, documentary lovers, social activists.

We have several environmental films as well,” said Susan Gervasi of Greenbelt, co-chair of the event, now in its 10th year.

The film festival runs Saturday and Sunday in Greenbelt at the Greenbelt Arts Center, the Greenbelt Community Center and the Greenbelt Municipal Building.

Gervasi said the event began in 2005 as a way to showcase local filmmakers, but as the event’s popularity has grown, it has come to include submissions from around the world.

The event is the first independent film festival in Prince George’s County, said co-chair Chris Haley of Landover.

“The expectations have also risen over the years we have continued, and the filmmakers who have submitted to us have a serious love and appreciation of what filmmaking could and should be, and of Utopia as a valid expression of what a film festival could be,” Haley said.

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A poster for “Heavy Metal Parking Lot,” a 1986 documentary filmed by Bowie native Jeff Krulick at the former Capital Centre in Landover. in the festival have run the gamut of professionals to people who have only just picked up a camera to students, Haley said.

“It’s fairly heartwarming to see the work of kids whose films are very simple in their technical abilities, but are very complex in the messages they are conveying,” Haley said.

Gervasi said the festival receives approximately 150 film submissions a year, and only 30 to 40 make it into the festival.

The film festival this year features local classics such as “Heavy Metal Parking Lot,” a documentary by Bowie native Jeff Krulick of Silver Spring, who filmed interviews with heavy metal fans outside a Judas Priest concert held at the former Capital Centre in Landover in 1986.

“It’s a really funny film and it really captures the spirit of the people who were into heavy metal music at that time,” Gervasi said.

Gervasi said the festival is hosting the U.S. premiere of Swedish independent film “Freak Out!” which tells the story of a commune formed around 1900 in the Swedish mountains and examines its impact on the 1960s counterculture movement.

The festival will also feature a home movie event, beginning at 1 p.m. Saturday, hosted by film scholar Caitlin McGrath of Greenbelt.

“What I want to do is introduce people to the concept of the home movie as archival material,” McGrath said. “We want people to bring and share their home movies. We’re also going to have archivists on hand to talk about preservation.”

Eight- and 16-millimeter film projectors, VHS and DVD players will be on hand for the event, McGrath said.

Haley said one of the goals of the festival is to show that you don’t have to drive to a multiplex to enjoy a good movie.

“There’s a lot of different movies out there that are not big-budget movies, that can still give you joy and entertainment, that run the gamut of known emotions and are still of fine quality,” Haley said.

The full schedule of events can be found online at www. utopiafilmfestival.org. janfenson-comeau@ gazette.net

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Paul Hatheway Terry passed away suddenly at his home in Beltsville, MD on November 18, 2013. Paul was employed as an organic chemist for 25 years at the USDA Agricultural Research Station, Beltsville, MD. For many decades he was an active member of the American Chemical Society, the Chemical Society of Washington, and Toastmasters International. His funeral was held on November 23, 2013 in Fall River, MA. He leaves behind many cousins and friends. Memorial donations can be made in Paul’s name to SOME (So Others Might Eat) or the National Kidney Foundation. A Celebration of Life Service followed by a reception will be held for Paul on Sunday, November 2, 2014, 2-5 pm, at the Banquet Hall of the American Legion Post 136, 6900 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20770 (301-345-0136).

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Decision set for Dec. 15

BY JAMIE ANFENSON-COMEAU STAFF WRITER

Prince George’s County Public Schools is planning to close one under-enrolled elementary school next year, and is considering converting another into a center for preschool students.

The Maryland State Department of Education requested the school system come up with an action plan for Thomas Claggett Elementary School in District Heights due to declining enrollment and lagging performance, said Johndel Jones-Brown, director of pupil accounting and boundaries at a Tuesday meeting at the school.

Claggett is currently enrolled at 236, which is 51 percent of its State Rated Capacity, or SRC, which is the number of students the school can hold without impacting learning. Its scores on the 2013 Maryland State Assessment, or MSA, are some of the lowest in the county, with only 35 percent of students scoring proficient or better in math and 55.1 percent scoring proficient or better in reading.

“The option we’ve chosen in regards to that school is to discontinue its use as an elementary school,” Jones-Brown said.

Approximately two-thirds of the students currently zoned for Claggett would attend John Bayne Elementary School in Walker Mill. The remaining third would attend District Heights Elementary.

John Bayne Elementary is 1.5 miles from Claggett; District Heights Elementary is slightly under one mile. Jones-Brown said both schools could absorb the additional students and remain under capacity.

“I’m very happy about this change,” said Lauren Taylor of District Heights, whose daughter attends the second grade at Claggett. She said she is looking forward to her daughter attending District Heights, which is closer to her home.

Sha-Neeka Gordon of Capitol Heights, mother of a second grade student at Claggett said she wished Claggett would stay

open, and she is concerned her son might be sent to John Bayne, which Gordon said has too many students.

“John Bayne is too overcrowded, and when there are students who do need help, they probably won’t give them the help that they need, because there are too many,” Gordon said.

Bayne officials said Wednesday the school has a capacity of 500 students and has about 450 enrolled.

The school system is also considering converting another under-enrolled school, Kenmoor Elementary School

in Landover, into an Early Childhood Center, or ECC. The county has four ECCs, which serve two-to-four-year olds.

Jones-Brown said two ECCs — Frances Fuchs ECC in Beltsville and H. Winship Wheatley ECC in Capitol Heights — are severely overcrowded, and currently utilize 16 and 14 temporary buildings, respectively.

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which is enrolled at 55 percent capacity, is centrally located to both centers. If Kenmoor is converted to an ECC, its students would be sent to William Paca Elementary in Landover.

Mykl Baylor of Glenarden said his son was looking forward to another year at Kenmoor, and he doesn’t want to see the school close.

“I feel like putting a large

number of kids into classrooms to accommodate these Early Learning Centers is going to hurt the kids in the long run,” Baylor said.

CEO Kevin Maxwell is expected to make his recommendations to the school board Dec. 15. janfenson-comeau@ gazette.net

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POLICE BLOTTER This activity report is provided by the Prince George’s County Police Department as a public service to the community and is not a complete listing of all events and crime reported.

District 1 Headquarters, Hyattsville, 301-699-2630, covering Adelphi, Beltsville, Berwyn Heights, Bladensburg, Brentwood, Calverton, Cheverly, Chillum, College Park, Colmar Manor, Cottage City, Edmonston, Greenbelt, Hyattsville, Landover, Landover Hills, Langley Park, Mount Rainier, New Carrollton, North Brentwood, Riverdale, Riverdale Park, University Park and West Lanham Hills.

OCT. 13 Vehicle stolen, 3300 block Buchanan St., 5:22 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1800 block Metzerott Road, 9:34 a.m.

Theft, 6300 block 63rd Place, 9:55 a.m.

Theft, 7300 block Baltimore Ave, 10:31 a.m.

Theft, 4500 block Hartwick Road, 12:42 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6200 block Westbrook Drive, 1:17 p.m.

Residential break-in, 6200

block 85th Place, 1:18 p.m.

Theft, 3000 block Hospital Drive, 1:20 p.m.

Residential break-in, 2000 block Oglethorpe St., 3:15 p.m.

Theft, 6500 block Annapolis Road, 7:11 p.m.

Residential break-in, 7500 block Columbia Ave, 8:01 p.m.

Theft, 6600 block Annapolis Road, 8:20 p.m.

Residential break-in, 8900 block 34th Ave, 10:36 p.m.

OCT. 14 Theft from vehicle, 6800 block New Hampshire Ave, 8:35 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6800 block New Hampshire Ave, 9:23 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6000 block Eastern Ave, 9:31 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 2200 block Phelps Road, 11:06 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1100 block Chickasaw Drive, 11:45 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, Annapolis Road/Decatur St., 11:52 a.m.

Robbery, 9100 block Baltimore Ave, 1:25 p.m.

Residential break-in, 3300 block Toledo Place, 4:03 p.m.

Residential break-in, 3600 block Dean Drive, 6:53 p.m.

Assault with a weapon, 7600 block Carroll Ave, 8:07 p.m.

ONLINE For additional police blotters, visit www.gazette.net

OCT. 15 Residential break-in, 6900

block Wake Forest Drive, 3:49 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 5400 block 56th Ave, 5:36 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3200 block Kenilworth Ave, 6:47 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8900 block Rhode Island Ave, 7:32 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 4500 block Guilford Road, 9:06 a.m.

Theft, 7200 block 24th Place, 9:25 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6100 block Annapolis Road, 10:18 a.m.

Theft, 3000 block Hospital Drive, 11:28 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 8400 block Annapolis Road, 1:46 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1600 block Keokee St., 2:23 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 3200 block Queens Chapel Road, 2:44 p.m.

Theft, 9000 block Baltimore Ave, 3:26 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 5200 block Wiley St., 3:37 p.m.

Assault, 3100 block Queens Chapel Road, 5:18 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1700 block Keokee St., 5:35 p.m.

Theft, 8500 block Annapolis Road, 5:56 p.m.

Theft, 9500 block Baltimore Ave, 7:36 p.m.

Theft, 8100 block 48th Ave, 7:40 p.m.

OCT. 16 Assault, Eastern Ave/New Hampshire Ave Ne, 12:47 a.m.

Sexual assault, 5400 block Kenilworth Terrace, 2:43 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 5300 block Kilmer Place, 7:36 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 7000 block Barton Road, 9:02 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6200 block Annapolis Road, 9:27 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6600 block 22nd Place, 10:43 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6500 block Landover Road, 2:24 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8100 block Blk Annapolis Road, 3:15 p.m.

Residential break-in, 1800 block Mount Pisgah Lane, 3:23 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 5100 block Frolich Lane, 3:46 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1500 block Ray Road, 6:22 p.m.

Theft, 4900 block Frolich Lane, 11:04 p.m.

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Theft from vehicle, 5300 block Kilmer Place, 8:57 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 5500 block Karen Elaine Drive, 9:48 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 7600 block Riverdale Road, 9:49 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 2400 block Queens Chapel Road, 10:01 a.m.

Residential break-in, 2000 block Beechwood Road, 1:00 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 5300 block Quincy Place, 1:33 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 9900 block Rhode Island Ave, 1:38 p.m.

Theft, 6600 block Annapolis Road, 2:03 p.m.

Theft, 4200 block 74th Place, 3:45 p.m.

Assault, 5800 block Eastern Ave, 4:25 p.m.

Robbery, 5100 block 54th Ave, 6:31 p.m.

Theft, Nb Sargent Road/Eb Chillum Road, 7:59 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3000 block

Hospital Drive, 8:15 p.m.

Theft, 6200 block Annapolis Road, 8:18 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3100 block Queens Chapel Road, 9:11 p.m.

Robbery, 9800 block 53rd Ave, 11:30 p.m.

OCT. 18 Theft from vehicle, 5200 block Kilmer Place, 4:54 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 5700 block Tuxedo Road, 6:12 a.m.

Robbery, 1900 block Amherst Road, 7:01 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 3300 block Buchanan St., 1:04 p.m.

Robbery, 7900 block New Hampshire Ave., 3:14 p.m.

Theft, 4300 block Knox Road, 4:50 p.m.

Residential break-in, 4600 block Cherry Hill Road, 5:25 p.m.

Robbery, 8300 block Annapolis Road, 6:49 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 7900 block 18th Ave, 9:07 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 2000 block Rittenhouse St., 10:02 p.m.

Theft, 5000 block Lakeland Road, 11:54 p.m.

OCT. 19 Theft from vehicle, 1500 block Merrimac Drive, 1:31 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 2000 block University Blvd, 4:29 a.m.

Residential break-in, 7300 block Hopkins Ave, 7:29 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8300 block Blk Baltimore Ave, 1:01 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 8400 block Annapolis Road, 2:06 p.m.

Residential break-in, 8100 block Baltimore Ave, 3:41 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 7900 block 18th Ave, 5:08 p.m.

Robbery on commercial property, 6700 block Annapolis Road,

7:16 p.m.

Robbery, 6800 block Red Top Road, 11:13 p.m.

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OCT. 13 Theft from vehicle, 5100 block

Powder Mill Road, 4:55 a.m.

Commercial property breakin, 8700 block Cherry Lane, 7:25

a.m.

Theft, 14500 block Hampstead Way, 8:14 a.m.

Commercial property breakin, 8700 block Cherry Lane, 9:11

a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3500 block Susquehanna Drive, 10:11 a.m.

Theft, 6800 block Distribution Drive, 10:46 a.m.

Sexual assault, Unknown Address Beltsville, 3:31 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 11400 block Somerset Ave, 4:47 p.m.

Robbery, 11100 block Baltimore Ave, 9:45 p.m.

OCT. 14 Residential break-in, 11300 block Frances Drive, 11:46 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 11900 block Trolley Lane, 8:17 p.m.

OCT. 15 Theft from vehicle, 10200 block Bacon Drive, 7:59 a.m.

Theft, Garret Ave/Powder Mill Road, 10:23 a.m.

Residential break-in, 10000 block Riggs Road, 5:26 p.m.

OCT. 16 Theft from vehicle, 9500 block Muirkirk Road, 6:47 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 4300 block Sellman Road, 3:45 p.m.

Assault, 13600 block Laurel Bowie Road, 7:23 p.m.

OCT. 17 Theft from vehicle, 15400 block Straughn Drive, 8:07 a.m.

Theft, 8800 block Enfield Court, 1:12 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 14200 block Cherry Lane Court, 1:29 p.m.

Robbery, Powder Mill Road/ Evans Trail, 11:28 p.m.

OCT. 18 Residential break-in, 14400 block Bonnet Lane, 11:15 a.m.

Theft, 13400 block Avebury Drive, 1:31 p.m.

Theft, 13300 block Edinburgh Lane, 1:59 p.m.

Vehicle stolen and recovered,

10000 block Green Forest Drive, 3:04 p.m.

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Boy Scouts tune in to ‘ham’ radio Landover school celebrates reading night Cora Rice Elementary School in Landover celebrated its Family Literacy Night on Oct. 16.

Approximately 220 students and their families attended the event, said reading specialist Karen Streeter.

“One of our focuses this year is for literacy to develop, even for the younger kids,” said Cora Rice Principal Mattie Turman. “We want them to see that reading is the baseline for everything they do, in school

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Cadewryn Fletcher, 11, a Boy Scout from Upper Marlboro said he was nervous to step up to the mic Saturday night and talk to a stranger over amateur radio.

But with encouragement from his mother and brother, Cadewryn sat at a picnic table with amateur radio operator Kenneth Greenhouse, 68, of Upper Marlboro and chatted about his favorite color with a Boy Scout in Saskatchewan, Canada.

“I think it’s awesome,” said Cadewryn’s mother, Renea Fletcher, 47, “I guess for so many years you tell them, ‘Don’t talk to strangers,’ and now it’s time to talk to strangers.”

Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts from Prince George’s County gathered at the American Legion Southern Maryland District Youth Camp in Cheltenham on Oct. 18 for the 57th annual Jamboree-on-the-Air, an amateur radio event that connected scouts all over the world.

Amateur radio, also known as “ham” radio, started out as an experimental communication technology that is now used primarily for emergency situations, said Kenny Courtney, 74, of Clinton, a member of the American Legion Post 275 Amateur Radio Team in Glenarden.

“Amateur radio is your last point of communication,” Courtney said. “If you have a catastrophe, the first thing that will go down is phone lines.

Amateur radio still stays up.”

Lenny Wertz, the vice chair of programs for the Prince George’s District of the Boy Scouts of America National Capital Area Council, said scouts could earn a radio merit badge by participating in the Jamboree-on-the-Air because they may need to use the tech-

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of classroom doors, which were decorated based on themes from different books read by the students. The school also held reading activities for students and their families.

“Parents can see how excited the children get about reading,” Turman said. “And it gives parents an opportunity to see how we promote literacy in the classroom.”

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Cub Scout James Weber, 9, of Joint Base Andrews chats Saturday about his favorite football team over amateur radio with help from Kenny Courtney, 74, of Clinton during the Jamboree-on-the-Air, an international amateur radio event for Boy Scouts. nology in the future.

“Scouts sometimes participate in certain emergency response areas,” Wertz said. “It adds to our goal of building our scouts into solid, participating citizens.”

LeRoy Parham, Jr., the Prince George’s District’s commissioner for scouting, said some scouts’ hesitation to talking over amateur radio may be related to the increased use of texting and emailing as ways to communicate.

“Kids are texting, kids are emailing. They don’t talk on the phone as much,” Parham said.

“I think there’s an unfortunate disconnect with something as broad as amateur radio. They’re not used to that direct interaction.”

Cadewryn said he prefers to talk to people face-to-face unless he knows them well already. He said speaking over amateur radio, which involves pushing a button while speaking into the microphone, encourages better communication.

“You don’t type. You actually speak and you can’t talk

over each other because it won’t work well,” Cadewryn said.

James Weber, 9, a Cub Scout from Andrews Air Force Base, talked over amateur radio about his favorite football team, the St. Louis Rams.

“I actually liked it,” James said. “The funny part is you don’t even know who you’re talking to.”

Courtney said he first starting using amateur radio 20 years ago and he hopes events like Jamboree-on-the-Air will inspire young people to become certified operators.

There are more than 700,000 licensed radio operators in the U.S., according to the Prince George’s County Amateur Radio Emergency Service website.

“I like telling people about amateur radio because it’s a lot of fun,” Courtney said. “Most operators are people my age and we get young people involved to keep the service from dying out.” kpetersen@gazette.net

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and in life.”

Katy Kelly, a Washington, D.C., children’s author was the guest of honor. Kelly read excerpts from her “Melonhead” and “Lucy Rose” series, and led a group activity to help students become future authors.

“If you write one page a day, every day, in a year, you’ll have 365 pages. You’ll have written a book,” Kelly said.

The school also gave away over 800 free books to students.

Families were led on a tour

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Continued from Page A-1 Howard Berger, supervisor of historic preservation for the Prince George’s County Planning Department.

“I am extremely grateful that they have put their trust in us, and in Pizzeria Paradisio, and we will absolutely make them very, very glad they made the decision they made today,” said Johnson, surrounded by over 40 supporters at the meeting — many wearing “Give Pizza a Chance” buttons.

Johnson said that when the art studio purchased the Marche building in 2012, they had no knowledge the building had been placed on a list of historic resources, until she attempted to get a permit to do work on the building.

That triggered a hearing before the Historic Preservation Commission, which determined the building should be placed on the county’s historic register.

Johnson said the historic site designation would make it impossible to share the building with the pizzeria, and the corporate partnership is needed to make the move to Hyattsville economically feasible.

“We need Pizzeria Paradisio’s rent money to pay the mortgage,” Johnson said.

The building has been vandalized, and is in a state of dilapidation, said William “Bill” Shipp, attorney for Art Works Now. “During the hearing process that has been going on over the past year, the glass in the greenhouse has continued to be broken out, as you will have in a vacant building,” Shipp said. “We want to get this building fixed up and oc-

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Continued from Page A-1 a college degree because “every mom wants their child to have ‘plan B.’” But she said she would stand behind her son

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sensitive information is a 24-7 task, say county cybersecurity experts.

Through October, the county is offering online cybersecurity training to its approximately 6,000 employees, as well as doing additional training with department heads regarding potential threats, Wright said.

Wright said he is paying particular attention to com-

cupied, to be an anchor for the corridor and to be productive for the community.”

Stuart Eisenberg, director of the Hyattsville Community Development Corp., said the building in its current state is not usable for most businesses, and that the main danger to the building is neglect due to vacancy.

To preserve its historic character, Eisenberg said, the best opportunity would be to not list it as an historic site.

Johnson said the art studio would work to preserve the historic nature of the building, and was amenable to including a plaque detailing its historic significance.

Councilman Will Campos (D-Dist. 2) of Hyattsville said he has fond memories of the Marche florist shop.

“What good is a historic building that cannot contribute to our present other than by existence alone?” Campos asked during the hearing.

Councilwoman Mary Lehman (D-Dist. 1) of Laurel, the sole ‘nay’ vote in the decision, said that while Art Works may preserve the building, overturning the historic site designation will not protect the building in the long run.

“While it sounds as if this current owner will mostly preserve the architectural integrity of this building, lifting the designation does not prevent a future owner from either substantial modifications or ... demolition of this unique structure,” Lehman said. janfenson-comeau@ gazette.net

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Continued from Page A-1 any of the university’s shuttle buses.

The Route #113 shuttle bus runs through Hyattsville, stopping at the Mall at Prince Georges and the Prince George’s Plaza Metro station.

College Park and Greenbelt both have similar agreements with the University of Maryland. Greenbelt charges residents $10 a year for passes. College Park gives its passes for free.

The Greenbelt and College Park programs are not age restricted, according to officials from both cities.

Hunt said it was his understanding the university had no plans to impose age restrictions on College Park or Greenbelt, and said he felt it was unfair to single out Hyattsville youth and families.

“I don’t know of any other bus system that has such a restriction, nor do I know of any public place on [the uni-

versity] campus that has an age restriction,” Hunt said.

“Let’s be reasonable and treat Hyattsville’s children in the same way other municipalities’ children are being treated.” janfenson-comeau@ gazette.net

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Dill Dill Latta, 3, decorates a pumpkin Saturday at the Greenbelt Fall Fest, held at Schrom Hills Park in Greenbelt.

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“100 percent” if he has the opportunity to play professionally again.

Clarke, who comes from a family of soccer players — including his father, older brother and uncle — said he has scholarship offers from about four

schools in the U.S. For now, he is focusing on completing his classes while training and practicing drills for a few hours a day, both before and after school.

“The one thing he brings that none of the other players

bring is accountability,” said Sadak Abukar of Riverdale, who coaches Clarke on the varsity soccer team at Parkdale. “That makes any coach’s job easier.”

Aside from Clarke’s skill in playing the sport, Abukar said he is positive and encouraging

toward other players on the team, as well as a leader that others look up to. And despite the time he spent playing professionally, Abukar said Clarke is always willing to take suggestions and has a positive attitude.

“I’m humble,” said Clarke, who would like to become a sports journalist in the event a soccer career doesn’t pan out.

“Every day is a new time to learn.”

puter viruses containing malicious links, which may be sent to employees via email and can impact an entire network if the employee clicks on the link.

The University of Maryland, College Park, experienced its own cyber attack in February as University president Wallace D. Loh announced that 309,079 Social Security numbers, birth dates, university identification names and numbers were exposed in a data breach.

UM is in the midst of training the next generation of cy-

bersecurity warriors as part of its Advanced Cybersecurity Experience for Students, or ACES, program.

“There’s a lot of applied knowledge of cybersecurity,” said Zhixiang Lin, 20, a UM sophomore, who added he hopes to work in a field that merges software engineering and cybersecurity. “That’s not something that you can get from reading textbooks.”

Lin is among 112 sophomores and freshmen who were invited to participate in the “liv-

ing and learning” ACES program when they applied to the university, said ACES director Michel Cukier.

The students, who plan to major in fields as diverse as computer science, psychology, engineering, criminology and business, will graduate with diplomas in their respective majors and a citation in cybersecurity.

“You have a deficit of people working in cybersecurity, so you need to attract very, very talented people,” Cukier said of the four-year program that launched in 2013 and will continue adding incoming freshmen for the next

two years. “What you do is, you reach out, you bring very different people into the field.”

At UMD’s Maryland Cybersecurity Center, researchers are working to make public networks more secure by studying the behavior of network users.

“I think there’s a great realization that the problems of cybersecurity aren’t only technical ones,” said Jonathan Katz, director the Maryland Cybersecurity Center who will lead the National Science Foundationfunded study along with David Maimon, a criminology professor. “There’s also, for example, understanding user behavior,

understanding why users might take insecure actions.”

Katz said the yearlong study will look at the online behavior of Internet users such as doing banking while connected to a public network, whether they visit news sites mostly or whether they try to download harmful software in coffee shops, libraries and other public places that offer Wi-Fi across Maryland.

Katz said they will record the information without information which would identify the user.

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tion, we wanted to have something where they do some work — hands on.”

In order to pay for the food, the students donated money as well – more than $10,000 – which, combined with about $15,000 raised by the school’s board of directors, gave them more than $27,000 in funds to buy food, said school principal Jeff Palumbo.

Palumbo said students typically get involved in a service project every year — from helping the school host a dental clinic

in 2013 to volunteering in soup kitchens to working on food drives — but none of the past projects have drawn as many volunteers as Saturday’s event.

“I think it probably would’ve gone a couple more hours if there was more food,” Palumbo said, adding that part of the event that was attended by about 250 people included a competition to see which class could pack quickest — which was won by the juniors. “Hopefully this will inspire a lot of other schools to do the same thing.”

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A positive approach to politics The saying goes that you should never discuss religion, sex and politics in polite company — with the latter topic being the most difficult as the general election nears.

With the country struggling to overcome the effects of the recession, many politicians and residents have different views on what the recovery should look like, what spending should be prioritized and what legislative changes should be made. Ideally, discussions on the direction of the country and Prince George’s County should be constructive, but all too often, conflicting views on politics — to include something as minor as party affiliation — lead to personal attacks rather than simply agreeing to disagree.

The Gazette is no newcomer to this. When the editorial board endorses Democrats, it is sometimes criticized for being “afraid” of going against the state’s one-party rule.

When Republicans are endorsed, the board is occasionally denounced for “betraying” residents. Some even attack the ethics of the newspapers and its employees, simply because they disagree with the company’s endorsements.

And that’s fine. Everyone is entitled to their opinion; it’s part of what makes us a great nation.

However, political discussions can be much more productive when we stick to the issues and prioritize finding solutions — and focus less on trying to make everyone think the same way.

At the polls Nov. 4, there are likely to be children in attendance as their parents or other family members cast ballots. It’s a great opportunity for them to learn the importance of voting and being involved in community decisions. The lessons don’t have to start at the polls, however.

Let’s start by having constructive conversations on the topics affecting our communities and understand that differing opinions can be a positive thing — rather than allowing our thoughts on the issues, and the candidates, to divide us.

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has redefined the role of lieutenant governor of Maryland. He is proud that he has worked closely with Gov. Martin O’Malley to advance the Democratic agenda. He says he shares O’Malley’s values and his vision for Maryland. You would expect Brown to take responsibility for his record, but he does not.

Brown dismisses undesirable questions about his two terms as lieutenant governor by saying elections are not about the past, but rather the future. He wants voters to ignore his eight-year record of failure and elect him the next governor of Maryland. Now, would you hire a person who refused to provide a resumé because they considered their work history irrelevant? If you vote for Brown, that is exactly what you will be doing.

Your vote will say you do not care that the campaign promise of O’Malley and Brown to not raise taxes was an outrageous lie. More than 40 new or increased taxes and fees were imposed on Maryland

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low-income families the hardest.

Your vote will say you do not care that Maryland ranked 49th in the nation for economic growth in 2013 and ranks third in the nation for home foreclosures. Your vote will say you do not care that Maryland lost more than 8,000 businesses and 200,000 jobs while the unemployment rate doubled.

Your vote will say you do not care that the Maryland health exchange was an epic failure due to Brown’s gross mismanagement.

More than $200 million in taxpayers’ money was wasted on a website that was never used. The total cost of the abandoned system has yet to be revealed.

Maryland is now at a tipping point where 47 percent of its residents want to leave the state. We need new leadership to turn this around. We cannot afford another four years of the O’Malley/Brown vision and governance.

Janet Beck, Waldorf

Imagine for a moment that some agency, in an attempt to establish the average body mass index for Americans, used players in the NFL as the original “sample.” After carefully establishing the range and the mean for BMI in the entire league, would it be reasonable to look at the rest of the American population and declare that the COMMENTARY human species was KENNETH HAINES shrinking?

The absurdity of the proposal is staggering.

However, this is the scenario that has been played out for years with the Scholastic Achievement Test when newspapers decry our nation’s “plummeting” SAT scores.

I am a longtime Republican conservative and business owner. While I support personal freedoms and individual rights, I do generally support smoking bans.

I also back the Prince George’s college decision to eliminate all tobacco and smoking from the campus. College is an institution where today’s best are being prepared to become tomorrow’s leaders, and tobacco in any form, including chewing tobacco and electronic cigarettes, have no place in such a setting.

Bill Kerschner, Rockford, Ill.

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The validity of this standardized test for anything other than determining the socio-economic status of those sitting for the exam might be the topic of a future article. Cost is listed as one of the major impediments to sitting for the exam.

Today, however, alarmist headlines are inexcusable when, for decades, the SAT was normed against and administered to America’s academic elite, the upper quartile of high school students.

We are moving, albeit at a glacially slow pace, toward a society that discourages the concept of disposable children. As we come closer to furnishing all children the opportunity to compete against their peers, we are inexorably increasing the sample size.

Statisticians will confirm that the “average” score will invariably fall as the sample size increases.

Except in the case of a totally randomized sample, it is foolish to expect other-

wise. The SAT has yet to be normed on a random sample across the spectrum of all American students.

Yet, such realities do not hinder ideologues from using such erroneous data analysis as political fodder to question the effectiveness of our public schools.

Diane Ravitch clearly illustrates in “Reign of Error” that student achievement and academic performance has been steadily improving for decades according to a host of other measures. More students know more about more subjects, and at earlier ages, than ever before in our history.

Moving forward will require that irrelevant sound bites and erroneous headlines not drive the debate around educational egalitarianism.

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

Halloween dirty tricks Larry Hogan, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, has committed the unpardonable sin — he’s closed within striking distance of winning Maryland’s governor’s race. For this he must be punished. No, he must be destroyed.

If you think the Democrats and their press corps allies have resorted to distortions, falsehoods, biased reporting and selective factchecking to date, just wait until you see what happens between now and Election Day. By the time they’ve finished with Larry Hogan, his MY MARYLAND own mother won’t BLAIR LEE recognize him.

So far, Democratic candidate Anthony Brown’s antiHogan ads have been breathtakingly unfair and untrue. For instance, Hogan opposes Maryland’s abortion law, even for rape and incest. The source? A 1980 Hogan statement when he was 28 years old and which he revised in 1992.

And Hogan is responsible for the 40 percent college tuition hikes that occurred during the Bob Ehrlich administration.

Source? Well, says Brown, Hogan was Ehrlich’s patronage chief and some of Ehrlich’s university appointments voted for the tuition hikes. Likewise, Brown holds Hogan responsible for Ehrlich’s “Dream Act” veto. Why? “Larry Hogan was part of that leadership team that vetoed the Dream Act. No governor makes a decision in isolation,” says Brown. Wow, collective culpability!

And Brown’s smear-Hogan campaign is getting plenty of help from the “objective” press corps.

Baltimore Sun reporters pored over 52 state audits until they found a Hogan mistake that they, and Brown, could twist into an attack ad. Hogan cited as “waste and fraud” $450 million of school construction projects that were not fully supervised.

From this, the Sun and Brown extrapolated that Hogan intends slashing school construction funds.

What followed was the usual unscrupulous patty cake between the media and the Dems. The media invents a controversy-creating news story No. 1. Then the Dems use it to attack Hogan, news story No. 2. Then Hogan denies it, news story No. 3. Then come the editorials and columns until the smear is firmly imprinted on the voter’s consciousness.

The same thing with gun control.

Washington Post reporters found some gun advocates who claim Hogan said he’d make getting a state police-approved carry permit easier. Working together, the media and the Dems morphed this into Hogan plotting to repeal gun control.

It doesn’t matter that Hogan swears he won’t repeal Maryland’s abortion and gun laws, or that he won’t reduce school construction. Nor does it matter that the media and Brown fully understand that, even if Hogan wanted to, he couldn’t get such measures through the Dem-controlled legislature and Board of Public Works. The purpose of the smears is to scare voters away from Hogan’s message: too many taxes and a state heading in the wrong direction.

Will it work? Well, it worked like a charm in 1998. A month before the election, Republican Ellen Sauerbrey trailed Gov. Parris Glendening by only two points.

Political consultants observed that if the governor didn’t air ads that people talked about soon, he might not win a second term.

Glendening’s problem was the black vote, which he won by 95 percent in 1994 but was down to 74 percent in 1998 because the state’s top two local AfricanAmerican leaders, Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke and P.G. County Executive Wayne Curry, were not supporting him.

So Glendening fired his long-time media adviser and, at the urging of Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, hired Bob Shrum, a notorious PR hitman.

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College Park is undergoing a major transformation when it comes to pedestrian safety.

In addition to numerous traffic measures, the University of Maryland recently even held a Think-A-Thon focused on brainstorming ways to make the area friendlier for walkers.

The effort is welcomed given the pedestrian deaths that have occurred along U.S. Route 1. With three so far in 2014, it’s clear something had to be done to address the dangers occurring due to the large mix of pedestrian and vehicular traffic.

However, one important piece of the problem seems to be getting overlooked: the congestion.

City and state leaders have debated for years how to alleviate the traffic backups along Route 1, and to this day, traveling on the roadway in College Park continues to be a driver’s nightmare.

Some residents worried whether the new pedestrianactivated traffic signal at the intersection of Route 1 and Hartwick Road would add to the congestion. Pedestrians needing to cross at that intersection can now push a button, which turns the light red in all four directions to allow for safer passage.

Officials say the signal will communicate with other traffic signals to help keep traffic flowing, so traffic congestion shouldn’t get any worse.

Hopefully, they are right — after all, any additional challenges could put Route 1 at a complete standstill at certain times of the day.

We understand there is no quick fix for traffic backups, but officials should continue to make resolving the congestion a top issue to ensure that residents, businesses and visitors aren’t being forced to simply make the most out of a crowded situation.

The city, university and state deserve kudos for their efforts to make the streets safer. It seems they have thought of every possible challenge: adding a fence to prevent jaywalking, reducing the speed limit and promoting a campaign to get pedestrians to “walk smart.”

Now that the roads are friendlier to pedestrians, it’s time to make them friendlier to drivers, too.

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Pedestrians cross U.S. Route 1 at Hartwick Road in College Park after triggering the new traffic signal.

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Together, Shrum and Glendening took three obscure votes Sauerbrey cast in the House of Delegates and distorted them into TV ads falsely claiming she would “turn back the clock” on civil rights.

The ads were lies: the bills in question included measures killed by Dems, including blacks, because they went too far. None were major civil rights bills and one dealt with gender, not race. But they made great ads for scaring blacks into voting for Glendening. Sort of Willie Horton in reverse. “They put her on the defensive on an issue that gave her a David Duketype smell,” chortled one pundit. As soon as the scary ads hit, Sauerbrey’s numbers began to fall.

A few courageous black Dems spoke out. “I will not participate in a campaign to try to persuade people that she (Sauerbrey) is a racist,” said Mayor Schmoke.

Del. Tony Fulton, a black Dem, added, “I’m disappointed, disgusted and dismayed by the methods used in this campaign — it’s race-baiting.”

But the race-baiting worked, a dead heat became a 12-point Glendening victory thanks, largely, to the unusual black voter turnout that swelled from 12 percent in 1994 to 21 percent in 1998. In Baltimore city, Glendening’s campaign manager, Julius Henson, recalls, “When I said Ellen Sauerbrey was against civil rights, black people were lining up at 10 a.m., they were wrapped around the corner. Black people vote in the evening, and when they were wrapped around the corner at 10 a.m., we knew it was over.”

Now, 16 years later, Anthony Brown, like Glendening, desperately needs a big African-American turnout to win a tight race. Will the Dems resort to the same race-baiting that worked in 1998? Count on it.

Blair Lee is chairman of the board of Lee Development Group in Silver Spring and a regular commentator for WBAL radio. His past columns are available at www.gazette.net/blairlee. His email address is blairleeiv@gmail.com.

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FOOTBALL: Suitland at Flowers, 2 p.m. Saturday.

The fourth playoff berth in the 4A South Region could come down to this game. CHF running back Maurice Wright (left) has 500 rushing yards.

FOOTBALL: DeMatha at Gonzaga, 2 p.m. Saturday.

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FOOTBALL: Fairmont at Potomac, 2 p.m. Saturday.

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Prep football court in session On July 7 the Prince George’s County Public Schools athletics office held a hearing to decide if DuVal High School would have to KEN SAIN forfeit its first SPORTS EDITOR football victory of this season.

Nearly four months later, we still don’t know.

What’s taking so long? Short answer: Lawyers got involved. I’m not a patient man, so I’m appointing myself to make the decision.

Giving the Parkdale version of events is Athletic Director Brian Moore: Last spring Parkdale football coach Chuck Pope sent some of his top players to a 7-on-7 combine with other county schools, hoping to give them some exposure with college recruiters who may be in attendance.

Almost immediately after the March combine, rumors spread around campus that four Parkdale football players were leaving the Riverdale Park school and transferring to DuVal. Later as the rumors persisted, they learned that the four students went to the Lanham school for an open gym workout while they were still Parkdale students, a clear violation of county rules. Earl Hawkins, director of athletics for PGCPS, was notified and an investigation launched. Of the four Parkdale football players, only two ended up transferring to DuVal and only one is playing on this year’s Tigers team (he is a key player on what appears to be a playoff team). The other is academically ineligible.

Offering the DuVal view, Franklin Crispi, former athletic director at the school (new AD Jason Mattern just started this month and wasn’t involved in these events): One of the four Parkdale boys has an uncle who is a volunteer assistant coach at DuVal. More than that, he is the male role model in this boy’s life. Three of the boys processed the paperwork to transfer to DuVal and it was approved. The boys showed up to work out at DuVal, according to Crispi, because they were told they were no longer welcome at Parkdale.

DuVal football coach Dameon Powell was not supervising the open gym workout on the day in question. When he heard the Parkdale boys were there, he escorted three of them to the office and had them call family for rides home.

The fourth boy, however, worked out with his uncle on the field while the football team was participating in open gym workouts inside. When the football team went outside, the uncle and his nephew went inside.

At no time, according to Crispi, did the boy work out with the DuVal football team.

That workout, a nephew and his uncle exercising at DuVal’s campus — which is open to the community when not being used for official school business — is the violation, Crispi said. No evidence of recruiting was found.

The aftermath: Hawkins decided that DuVal would have to forfeit its first win of this season (which happened to be a 48-0 victory vs.

Parkdale) for an open gym violation. DuVal appealed that decision.

Hawkins told the Washington Post that the PGCPS Office of Legal Counsel will make a decision on that appeal. He told The Gazette on Tuesday that they are waiting on a reply from Powell’s attorney before issuing a decision.

The verdict: Perception matters.

Let’s say there was no recruiting, just four friends who wanted to play their final year of high school football with a playoff team. Still, until all the Is are dotted and Ts crossed, if you are a part of the coaching staff at DuVal, you have to be mindful of how it looks if you work out at your school with a student from another school, no matter the relationship.

Appeal denied, forfeit stands.

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Parkdale High School’s M’Kaela White competes in an Oct. 6 game against Charles H. Flowers. The junior is playing only her second season in volleyball but quickly emerges as a leader.

Parkdale discovers quick learner

Junior keeps injury-decimated Panthers afloat during difficult season

BY ADAM GUTEKUNST STAFF WRITER

Minutes before an Oct. 6 home game against Charles H. Flowers High School, Parkdale High School volleyball coach Katie McMillan ran her finger up the her team’s roster, filling in the names of a handful of players she was bringing up from junior varsity. Suddenly, her finger stopped next to the No. 5, as the first-year coach looked up from the roster and out onto the court.

“Watch her,” McMillan said, nodding towards her towering middle, M’Kaela White. “You’ll notice her right away.”

So when the 6-foot-3 junior sent the Jaguars’ first shot of the match right back at their feet, McMillan couldn’t help but smile. Just a year before, the bubbly blocker had decided to give the sport a try. Now, she’s the leader of a team that could’ve imploded after losing four starters to injury or academic suspension.

“I think without her it would have been tough to continue going on,” McMillan said of White.

With a 6-foot-5 father and a 5-foot10 mother, White would seem to be a shoo-in for athletic success. But it wasn’t until last year when she found her real calling in sports. She had given

basketball a shot during her preteen years, but White never developed an affinity for the game.

“In middle school, around seventh grade I played basketball,” White said.

“It didn’t suit me and it didn’t fit me. I didn’t like it at all.”

It was shortly after that time that a gym teacher approached White about giving volleyball a shot, something she considered but didn’t act on until her sophomore year, abstaining from extracurricular activities her freshman year so she could focus on her studies.

Right away, White knew she had found her niche.

“I loved it,” said White. “It just fit

me.”

Naturally, the 6-foot-3 sophomore was labeled as a middle and was placed under the tutelage of two-time All-Gazette middle Christina Oyawele, who now plays at Syracuse University.

In Oyawele, White found someone who had been where she was and who understood the frustrations of learning the game and the position.

“I basically shadowed her,” White said of Oyawele. “We’re around the same height, so all of the struggles I was going through and the frustration, she [had been] there. She had climbed

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Flowers does just enough to beat Northwestern

High Point High School’s Elmer Funes practices on Oct. 16 at the Beltsville school. He has scored 18 goals this season to lead the Eagles to their second straight county championship.

Jaguars get outplayed in football game, but make key plays to win 16-13 n

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PRINCE J. GRIMES STAFF WRITER

It’s not often that a football team doubles the amount plays and yards as its opponent records and loses, but that’s what Northwestern High School did Saturday in a 16-13 loss to Charles H. Flowers in Springdale.

The Wildcats ran for more yards (218) than Flowers gained in total (171), but penalties prevented them from crossing the goal line whenever they got close. Northwestern ran 71 plays to just 30 plays run by the Jaguars.

On its first two possessions of the game, Northwestern’s offense reached Flowers’ 15yard line and didn’t score on either drive. Running back Janard Taylor ran for 94 of his 127 yards in the first half, but the Wildcats trailed Flowers 8-0 at halftime.

Flowers’ offense struggled to maintain consistent drives, but scored at the end of the second quarter on a 35-yard pass from quarterback Brian Brown to tight end Kirk Spencer.

“I just [saw Spencer] waving his hands at first,” said Brown, who had to elude a few pass rushers before making the throw. “So, I looked down there and threw the ball across my shoulder. And I looked up, he caught the ball and I was like, ‘Alright.’”

Brown only attempted three passes in the contest as Flowers used a number of different ball-carriers to try to open up the run game they rely on.

The momentum Flowers grabbed at the end of the second quarter carried over to the third

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A scorer steps forward at High Point n

High-powered offense makes Eagles a state title contender in boys soccer

BY ERIC GOLDWEIN STAFF WRITER

Scoring, or a lack thereof, is what plagued last year’s High Point High School boys soccer team. The Eagles’ otherwise successful season was spoiled because the offense went quiet in the postseason; they lost 2-0 to Parkdale following their first-round bye.

But junior Elmer Funes, a former backup winger slated to play defense this fall, had a solution in mind.

So in a practice just before the season opener — the Beltsville school had already played six preseason scrimmages — he approached Eagles coach Michael Holt.

“I was like, ‘Coach, put me in the front,’” Funes said.

Holt listened, moving Funes to forward that practice.

And it worked.

Funes, of Hyattsville, had about three goals that day, then two goals in High Point’s first game — a 5-0 win againstWalterJohnson(Bethesda)—andhasn’tstopped scoring since. He has at least one goal in every game he’s been healthy — and not playing goalkeeper, as he was against Oxon Hill, Holt said. In Tuesday’s 6-1 victory over Central (Capitol Heights), the 5-foot-7 forward tallied another one, his 18th, to help lead the Eagles (12-1) to their second consecutive Prince George’s County title.

“He knows how to score goals,” Holt said. “He’s very calm in front of the goal.”

Funes — 18 years old, and in his final varsity season

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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HOW THEY RANK

STANDINGS

The Gazette sports staff ranks the top 10 high school football teams in Prince George’s County each week during the season.

County 3A/2A/1A League

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Division W-L GB Frederick Douglass 5-0 — Forestville 4-1 1.0 Potomac 4-1 1.0 Fairmont Heights 3-2 2.0 Surrattsville 3-2 2.0 Gwynn Park 3-2 2.0 Friendly 2-3 3.0 Central 1-4 4.0 Largo 1-5 4.5 Crossland 0-6 5.5

Record Points

Douglass DeMatha E. Roosevelt Wise DuVal Potomac Forestville R. Baptist Fairmont Hts. Pallotti

7-0 5-3 7-0 5-2 5-2 6-1 6-1 6-1 5-2 7-2

60 54 48 42 35 31 22 20 12 5

Also receiving votes: Capitol Christian, 1.

COUNTY LEADERS Rushing Player, school Rushes Amaru Major, Surrattsville 118 Davon Julien, Cap. Christian 83 Mike-Ryan Mofor, E. Roosevelt 97 Anthony McFarland, DeMatha 89 Jeremy Fields, Oxon Hill 85 Jordan Washington, Forestville 93 Christian Paylay, Fairmont Hghts 87 Jaret Patterson, Pallotti 86 Antoine Brooks, DuVal 81 Donte Marks, Cap. Christian 55

Yards 1,226 1,135 1,032 994 891 883 866 804 772 700

Passing Player, school Att.-Cmp. Ramar Williams, McNamara 99-163 Reggie Robinson, Cap. Christ. 45-75 Amir Hall, Riverdale Baptist 99-122 Beau English, DeMatha 60-100 Emil Neugent, Potomac 44-69 Mason Clark, Pallotti 38-64 Robert Harris III, Surrattsville 31-65 Michael Hubbard, Laurel 42-96

Yards Int. TDs 1,550 7 14 1,422 11 13 1,376 5 19 1,011 4 9 756 2 11 719 4 4 617 3 9 581 3 6

Avg. TDs 10.4 8 13.7 12 10.6 14 11.2 10 10.4 10 9.4 13 10.0 8 9.3 7 9.5 14 12.7 9

Receiving Player, school Catches Yards Avg. TDs Maurice Lewis Jr., Cap. Christ.

25 783 31.3 8 Camari Murray, McNamara 28 605 21.6 6 Deron Smith, Riverdale Baptist 29 476 16.4 6 Jaison Young, Riverdale Baptist 22 464 21.1 6 Darryl Turner Jr., DeMatha 18 389 21.6 5 Alphonso Banks IV, McNamara 24 373 15.5 5 Demetrius Boyd, Fairmont Hts 23 318 13.8 2

Coaches and team statisticians may email season team statistics to sports@gazette.net before noon on Mondays to be included.

County 4A League

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Charles H. Flowers High School running back Jose Holloway gets past Northwestern’s defenders during Saturday’s game. Holloway scored a touchdown and rushed for 64 yards on 13 attempts.

FEARLESS FORECASTS

Eleanor Roosevelt wins girls county soccer title The Eleanor Roosevelt High School girls’ soccer team earned a second-consecutive county title Tuesday with a 3-0 victory against Frederick Douglass at Prince George’s County Community College.

The Raiders (12-1) controlled the contest from the outset, taking a 1-0 lead on Natalie Hanno’s goal in the seventh minute. Hanno wasn’t the only sophomore to make an impact, as classmates Inonge Kaloustian and Olivia Pettyjohn-Robin also tallied scores.

“I think that the two big standouts tonight were Natalie Hanno — she played some forward and some midfield — and also Olivia Pettyjohn-Robin, another midfielder, who both really shined above and beyond what would be normal,” Roosevelt coach Bob Sowers said. “They really stepped up.”

The Raiders held a 20-4 advantage on shots in the contest, and dominated time of possession despite forwards Emma Thrift and Sheyanne Bonnick sitting out with injuries. Getting those two back for the 4A South Region playoff push is of the utmost importance to Sowers, he said.

— KYLE RUSSELL

DeMatha heads to WCAC cross country meet The DeMatha Catholic High School cross country team enters Saturday’s Washington Catholic Athletic Conference championship meet with its best chance at

FOOTBALL

Continued from Page B-1 quarter, and on its second possession, senior running back Malik Murray broke off a 28yard run.

Four plays later, Jose Holloway scored on a 30-yard run to put the Jaguars ahead 16-0.

The two runs accounted for

Private schools

Ken Sain 207-44 87-12

Season record All games Pr. George’s Co.

Kent Zakour 201-50 80-19

Eric Goldwein 200-51 85-14

Prince J. Grimes 198-55 84-15

Adam Gutekunst 196-55 78-21

Jennifer Beekman 194-57 85-14

The Gazette sports staff picks the winners of this week’s football games involving Montgomery County teams. All games includes picks made in Prince George’s County. Here are this week’s predictions:

This week’s schedule Douglass at Largo Georgetown Prep at Riverdale Baptist St. John’s Catholic Prep at Pallotti Parkdale at Bowie Eleanor Roosevelt at Bladensburg Laurel at Wise Fairmont Heights at Potomac Gwynn Park at Central High Point at Oxon Hill Forestville at Friendly Suitland at Flowers Surrattsville at Crossland DuVal at Northwestern St. John’s College at McNamara National Christian at Eastern Shore DeMatha at Gonzaga Capitol Christian at Fort Hill

KEEPING IT BRIEF a Top 3 finish since 2009. Seniors Joe Graham and Chris Jeletic, who finished 24th and 25th, respectively, a year ago, anchor an overall deeper team with a good balance of experience and strong youth.

Graham (16 minutes, 53 seconds) and Jeletic (17:04) rank 18th and 23rd among Maryland independent school runners, according to athletic.net.

The Stags head to WCACs off some good team results, including a win at the Landon Invitational late last month and the Don Stoner Invitational Oct. 2.

— JENNIFER BEEKMAN

Capitol Christian wins two games 24 hours On Oct. 17, the Capitol Christian Academy football team defeated Virginia Academy 22-20.

The game, which didn’t end until around 9:30 p.m., was just the first scheduled that weekend due to a scheduling error. Without much time to rest for their next game against Moyer Academy — 16 hours later, the Warriors still found a way to win 34-6.

Capitol Christian coach Chuck Thompson said a couple of players are banged up but overall, things went well. He said the team is resting and getting ready for its big game at Fort Hill (7-0), scheduled for 1 p.m.

Saturday.

Fort Hill is the defending Class 1A state champion and will be the biggest test for Capitol Christian since its season opener against a defending state champion in North Carolina.

— PRINCE J. GRIMES

half of Flowers’ total amount of yards on the ground for the entire game, but it was just enough to beat the Wildcats.

“When I caught the ball, [I saw] it open up the middle,” Holloway said about his long touchdown. “I cut up in the middle. It was open. That’s when our receiver sealed off the safety, and I just cut off his butt and just took it to the house,”

Division W-L GB Eleanor Roosevelt 6-0 — DuVal 5-1 1.0 Charles H. Flowers 5-1 1.0 Henry A. Wise 5-1 1.0 Northwestern 3-3 3.0 Suitland 3-3 3.0 Oxon Hill 2-4 4.0 Parkdale 2-4 4.0 Bladensburg 2-4 4.0 Bowie 2-4 4.0 Laurel 1-5 5.0 High Point 0-6 6.0

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Gonzaga Fort Hill

VOLLEYBALL

Continued from Page B-1 through all the struggles before and knew how to ease me out of the struggles or teach me a bit of what she had done … it was really comforting.”

Once White began to understand the position and the fundamentals of the game, her development took off. The middle improved during the offseason, attending numerous camps and clinics during the summer and even playing for Capital City Elite, a club team based out of Washington, D.C. With the progress came a blossoming love for the game.

“Volleyball is fun, it’s enthusiastic,” White said. “You dive on the floor and get things done together.”

For as much as White developed in her first year in volleyball, perhaps her greatest asset

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is her leadership — something she’s had to utilize to keep this year’s injury-decimated team afloat.

“This year she’s been an absolute emotional mainstay,” McMillan said. “She’s definitely someone we can count on to play up every ball and, regardless of what happened on the last ball, continue to play.”

During the match against Flowers, one the Panthers dropped in straight sets, White was consistently the first one in the huddle, patting her teammates on the back and offering words of encouragement to girls with just as much, if not more experience than she had.

“Leading is a natural habitat for me,” White said. “I am an older sister. If my teammate needs help or has a question about anything, they know they can come to me and I’ll be there for the answer.”

White has not only distin-

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Continued from Page B-1 — wasn’t even on the team two years ago.

Then, he played soccer with friends, he said, and only joined in 2013 when some of them convinced him to.

He came off the bench last season, but committed to improving this past summer. He kicked the ball around wherever and whenever he could, practicing with his friends, and with his younger brother Nelson.

The hard work has paid off, Holt said.

“Between last year and this year, big difference,” Holt said. “Huge difference.”

While Funes leads the team in goals, High Point has many skilled players who can finish.

That depth is a strength of this year’s team, Holt said.

Flowers coach Mike Mayo acknowledged that his team made plays when it needed to, but said he wasn’t happy with the blocking up front.

“I wasn’t happy with the production of the offensive line today. But we did it when we had to,” Mayo said. “But we weren’t consistent. And you can’t be inconsistent when you run what we run.”

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*Record includes forfeit victory DuVal has appealed the ruling that it must forfeit its firs win vs. Parkdale. Until appeal is decided, records reflect result on the field.

Friday’s results Riverdale Baptist 28, Avalon 15 Largo 28, Crossland 6 DeMatha 70, McNamara 32 Pallotti 39, Friends School of Baltimore 0 Capitol Christian 22, Virginia Academy 20 Central Virginia 30, National Christian 12 Saturday’s results Capitol Christian 34, Moyer Academy 6 Wise 18, Suitland 6 Flowers 16, Northwestern 13 Gwynn Park 33, Surrattsville 32 Douglass 37, Forestville 12 Bowie 26, Laurel 13 Eleanor Roosevelt 47, Parkdale 6 Fairmont Heights 18, Friendly 14 Potomac 39, Central 0 DuVal 47, Oxon Hill 0 Bladensburg 45, High Point 8

guished herself as the team’s emotional leader, but also as the on-court leader, showing immense improvement in just her second season. With a sound understanding of her movements as a middle, White has been able to wreak havoc at the net, causing countless hitters to send balls sailing into the gym walls instead of the floors; a result of her length – something she’s learned to embrace after a period of insecurity.

“You just realize there’s nothing you can do to control it anyways, so you might as well just love it,” White said of her BILL RYAN/THE GAZETTE frame.

Parkdale High School’s M’Kaela Turns out, White isn’t the White returns the ball during an Oct. only one who loves it.

“She was definitely a find,” 6 game against Charles H. Flowers.

McMillan said of the middle.

“I think it’s really awesome she a 6-foot-3 girls. But she said, committed to this sport as much ‘Nope. Volleyball is my game as she has. As much as we were and I love it.’” excited about her, obviously a lot of sports would love to have agutekunst@gazette.net

Seven Eagles have at least four goals, including Walter Gonzalez (9), Edgar Henriquez (9), Angelo Ridore (6), Marcus Kittlesen (6), Marco Ponce (5) and Edgardo Gonzalez (4).

Ridore has 11 assists, while Funes has seven, Henriquez has six, and Filimon Teklu and Edgardo Gonzalez have five apiece.

“That’s what I love about this team. We’re scoringgoals,”Holtsaid.“Icangointoagame, and even if we start off slow, I have confidence that at some point in the game, these guys are going to do something.”

The defense has been just as strong; with senior Jonathan Claros in net, the Eagles have seven clean sheets and 11 total goals allowed.

High Point, a state semifinalist in 2009 and 2010, is seeking its first 4A title.

The Eagles are scheduled to play Tuesday against the winner of Friday’s game between Parkdale and Northwestern (Hyattsville).

Northwestern responded on the possession following Holloway’s touchdown. The Wildcats overcame several penalties to cap a 72-yard drive with a 2-yard touchdown run by running back Ikechukwu Ogwuegbu. The two-point conversion failed.

Three possessions later, Northwestern drove 70 yards and scored on a 1-yard sneak

Capitol Christian* Riverdale Baptist St. Vincent Pallotti DeMatha Bishop McNamara National Christian

Overall W-L PF 7-0 294 6-1 222 6-1 109 5-2 162 4-3 220 3-4 163 4-3 146 3-4 68 2-5 127 0-7 14

“[We want to] get to states, and win states,” Funes said. “I have to work harder, and keep it up as a team.”

Elsewhere in Prince George’s County 4A High Point may be the favorite, but several schools are capable of coming out of the 4A South Region. That includes Parkdale — the defending champions; Eleanor Roosevelt (Greenbelt) — the top seed in Section II; Bowie — the lone team to defeat High Point; Bladensburg; Laurel; and Northwestern.

“Whoever happens to have the motivation and get on that positive roll and start moving, they have as good a chance as anybody,” Roosevelt coach George Kallas said. egoldwein@gazette.net

by quarterback Eber Medrano to pull within a field goal in the fourth quarter.

Northwestern got another chance when it recovered the ensuing onside kick.

But a sack by Flowers defensive back DeMarco Johnson forced a long Hail Mary attempt

by Medrano that was intercepted by Rahim Soumah.

“When you look at the first

half, I don’t know how many yards of penalties we had, but it had to be close to 100 yards,” Northwestern coach Bryan Pierre said. “So, [if] we can take care of that, than it’s not the situation that we had at the end.

But I love the guys for fighting through because the last two weeks they quit on themselves.” pgrimes@gazette.net

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Winter can be quite a frosty time, but the season brings icy relationships along with the chill and snow in a trio of oneact plays produced by Theater Project Beltsville.

“Cold Shoulders” brings together “The Stronger” by August Strindberg, “Fourteen” by Alice Gerstenberg and “Starman, Wish Me Luck” by playwright and Riverdale Park resident Nicole Burton. The one-act plays, separated by decades, are united through both setting and interactions in relationships.

Each takes place on or near Christmas Eve and features an aspect of rejection — thus, the “cold shoulder.” Though the plays themselves are new to Theater Project Beltsville, the concept is familiar.

The group, which began in Spring 2013, produces its pieces in the sanctuary of Abiding Presence Lutheran Church in Beltsville, a small congregation that holds about 40 people. Franklin Akers proposed the theater group as a means of fun as well as spreading the word about their community.

“We’re here to give a gift to the city of Beltsville from our church as an outreach gesture,” he said, “and to enrich the cultural life of the town.”

Because there’s no budget for the plays and the group is still relatively unknown, Akers often relies on works in the public domain that are suitable for a smaller cast; the roles are often

It’s a bit of a walk down 35th Street to get to the Javits Center after getting off the E train.

When walking with Batmen, Deadpools and an occasional Duffman, however, the stroll is a little jauntier.

More than 151,000 comic book nerds, sci-fi geeks and literary aficionados attended this year’s New York Comic Con earlier this month. That number doesn’t include the vendors, exhibitors, artists and celebrities working the event. NYCC has always played second fiddle to the San Diego Comic Con, which is known as one of the biggest in the world. However, the numbers brought in during the convention in the Big Apple this year are more than then estimated 130,000 that showed up

in San Diego back in July.

In short, there were a LOT of people in a little space over a period of four days.

You wouldn’t hear any complaints, though. People pushed through the crowds in an orderly fashion, stopping to check out the latest offerings from Marvel, DC, Zenescope, LEGO, et al.

Peppered in with all the folks shopping for comic books and action figures were people dressed up as their favorite characters.

Several people donned their best Dark Knight outfits. A handful came as the Man of Steel. A lot of people showed their love for the “Merc with a Mouth.”

Children as young as 3 years old looked like they were ready to go

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Rachel Duda as Contessa and Franklin Akers as Starman appear together in “Starman, Wish Me Luck,” a play by Nicole Burton that appears in the upcoming Theater Project Beltsville production “Cold Shoulders.”

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A life-sized replica of the dragon Smaug from “The Hobbit” is on display, with a blinking eye, at the Javits Center in New York.

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der Room,” Oct. 31 through Nov. 15, call for prices, times, Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Drive, Bowie, 301-8050219, bctheatre.com.

The Clarice, Cantare!, 8 p.m. Oct. 25; Kronos Quartet, 8 p.m. Oct. 25; UMSO Concerto Competition Preliminaries, 1 p.m. Oct. 26; Negotiating Your Future, 5 p.m. Oct. 27; Big Band Halloween Scream, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27; Divergent Perspectives: Art, Graffiti, Society, Oct. 28; The Narrative Elements of War: An Embedded Conversation, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 30; UMSO Concerto Competition Finals, 7 p.m. Oct. 31, University of Maryland, College Park, theclarice.umd.edu.

Hard Bargain Players, “Rebel Yells,” Through Oct. 25, 8 p.m., call for prices, Theater in the Woods, 2001 Bryan Point Road, Accokeek, 240-766-8830, hbplayers. org.

Harmony Hall Regional Center, Kids’

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Continued from Page B-3 filled by congregation members with little to no prior theater experience or by people Akers has met over the years.

One such person was Burton, whose plays made their way into his hands following Theater Project Beltsville’s initial production of three Anton Chekhov plays. Her one act, “Starman, Wish Me Luck,” takes inspiration both from a man she would frequently pass on the street in D.C. and her mother’s experience with homelessness in England late in life.

“It made me realize that none of us are so well-strung together that a few instances of bad luck or bad decisions couldn’t render us on the streets, as well,” she said.

Starman is a homeless person a woman named Contessa frequently encounters in the park. They develop a rapport over time, with Contessa

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COLD SHOULDERS n When: 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday, Nov. 1, 7 and 8; 3 p.m. Sunday and Nov. 2 n Where: Abiding Presence Lutheran Church, 10774 Rhode Island Ave., Beltsville n Tickets: $8 to $10 n More information: frank.akers@ comcast.net; 240-391-6416

— dealing with problems of her own — ending their conversations asking Starman to wish her luck.

“They’ve each been through their own hell, and it’s a beautiful play from that standpoint,” Akers said. “The play is so much about our misperceptions of people different from us. We look at people we would cross the street to avoid and discover they’re human be-

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ings with needs and feelings.”

Though Akers is listed as director for “Cold Shoulders,” his role encompasses so much more, resulting in a balancing act necessary to keep the relatively new theater group up and running.

“I’m playing one of the parts myself, which is insane,” he said. “I’m producing and directing and publicizing and troubleshooting and hanging lights — but that’s what it takes at first. You have a handful of people who are able to do a lot of things and you start from there.”

Even with a space not originally intended for theatrical productions or housing a large audience, Akers manages to create a setting befitting of the plays he chooses. By leaning toward plays with only a few cast members and not many more audience members, he creates an environment conducive to connections between actor and viewer. “’Starman’ plays well when the audience is close to the action, close to the actors,” Burton said, “and it’s such a warm and intimate space over there. I

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COURTESY OF NICOLE BURTON

Riverdale Park resident Nicole Burton’s 1986 one-act play “Starman, Wish Me Luck” will appear in the upcoming Theater Project Beltsville production “Cold Shoulders.”

think having it on the bill with two other plays as well using the same actors with one or two characters in each play create a resonance that’s very appealing.”

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The characters in these three plays have experiences rejection in one form or another — a part of the human experience anyone can relate to, whether through the pair of woman acquaintances in “The Stronger,” the family attempting to host a dinner party in “Fourteen” or the odd couple of Starman and Contessa in “Starman, Wish Me Luck.” Yet, at the same time, the events that unfold through the three plays will likely give rise to a new understanding for a formerly foreign occurrence or feeling.

“Every play that you see, every book that you read, every piece of art you look at, every ballet or opera or concert you go to — watching these events makes the invisible, visible,” Akers said.

“You’re going into the room to experience something about life that’s outside yourself, and that will perhaps increase your ability to understand the human condition.” kgroff@gazette.net

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PHOTOS BY WILL C. FRANKLIN

People begin to file into the Javits Center for the 2014 New York Comic Con.

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to — very polite people on both ends of the spectrum.

And, like a barrel full of kryptonite, it hit me.

There were no skinny Supermen.

There were no fat Wonder Women.

No black Robins or Batmen, no Asian Korras and no Hispanic Green Arrows.

No disabled Deadpools, either. Just Supermen, Wonder Women, Batmen and Robins, Korras, Green Arrows and Deadpools.

Once inside the safety of the building, everyone was the same. No black or white. No thin or fat. No healthy or disabled. No gay or straight.

Take a moment to think about that.

With the conflicts and discrimination that always threaten to drive a wedge into our society, would you believe there was one place where people of all shapes, sizes, colors and creeds were accepted and celebrated? Would you believe that place would be a comic book convention?

For years, people have looked down on those who are into comic books and the like. The stereotype is there: Single guys who live in their parents’ basement and spend all day at the comic

Continued from Page B-3 trick-or-treating. Even the older set had representatives dressed as Gandalf the Grey or others.

I saw a tall, lanky gent dressed as Superman (the costume almost looked too big for him), a black man dressed as Robin, men with goatees dressed as characters from “Sailor Moon” and more than one larger lady dressed as Wonder Woman, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn.

Outside of the Javits Center, people walking by looked at these folks with something more than curiosity. It almost felt like disdain, maybe pity. Why, they seemed to wonder, would you dress up as a comic book character in skin tight outfits and make a fool out of yourself in public?

Inside, that wasn’t the case. People would stop and take pictures of those in costume. The costumed folks would always stop and pose while the photographer would snap pictures and say, “Thanks.” It was the same no matter what corner of the Javits Center I went

book store, when they’re not in front of a computer. Chances are, you probably have the mental image of the Comic Book Guy from the television cartoon “The Simpsons” in your head right now.

Of course, that’s not always the case, considering I spoke with several people who had high-paying jobs in the medical, education and information technology fields.

Why, then, is society so unwilling to accept a culture of folks who are so accepting of others? Perhaps it goes back to the fear of the unknown? People fear what they don’t understand. Maybe they’re afraid they’ll look foolish?

All I know is the people who attended New York Comic Con looked happy because they were happy.

Maybe we should take a chapter out of the “geek” playbook and become more accepting of not only others, but ourselves?

Maybe we should all start dressing up as our favorite superheroes more often. I’ll be Batman and accept folks for who they are, not what they look like.

Who will you be?

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INTO S SAVINGS AVINGS FFALL A L L INTO

2015 COROLLA LE

PRICES AND PAYMENTS INCLUDE ANY APPLICABLE MANUFACTURE’S REBATES AND EXCLUDE MILITARY ($500) AND COLLEGE GRAD ($500) REBATES, TAX, TAGS, DEALER PROCESSING CHARGE ($200) AND FREIGHT: CARS $795 OR $810, TRUCKS, SPORT UTILITY AND SIENNAS $810, $845 AND $995. *0.9% APR & 0% APR FINANCING UP TO 60 MONTHS TO QUALIFIED BUYERS THRU TOYOTA FINANCIAL SERVICES. TOTAL FINANCED CANNOT EXCEED MSRP PLUS OPTIONS, TAX, AND LICENSE FEES. 0% APR 60 MONTHLY PAYMENTS OF $16.67 FOR EACH $1000 BORROWED. 0.9% APR 60 MONTHLY PAYMENTS OF $17.05 FOR EACH $1000 BORROWED. APR OFFERS ARE NOT VALID WITH ANY OTHER CASH BACK OR LEASE OFFER. NOT ALL BUYERS WILL QUALIFY.**LEASE PAYMENTS BASED ON 36 MONTHS, 12,000 MILES PER YEAR WITH $995 DOWN PLUS $650 ACQUISITION FEE, NO SECURITY DEPOSIT REQUIRED. SEE DEALER FOR COMPLETE DETAILS. 2014 COROLLAU & PRIUS PLUG-IN LEASES ARE FOR 24 MONTHS WITH $995 DOWN. EXPIRES 10/31/2014.

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