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In the search for a college athletic scholarship, parents have endless opportunities to spend money, including youth teams, camps run by college coaches, top equipment, and online recruiting sites that market athletes. The trend has led to children specializing in sports at earlier ages, which has led to more serious injuries, youth giving up free time to chase their athletic ambitions, and in some cases burnout. Another trend is that many top athletes are being forced to choose between their club and high school teams.
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Anthony Mazzei and his son Brady both played goalkeeper for Bowie High School’s boys soccer team. They both won a state championship (the elder won two, in fact, in 1982-83), both served as the Bulldogs’ captain for two seasons. With Brady, who just finished his senior year, recently committing to play for Liberty University, soon the Mazzeis will be able to say they’ve both played Division I soccer as well.
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oth Taylor Bloom and his mother, Lisa, used the word “exhausting” when describing the summer of 2012. Bloom, a homeschooled rising senior and pitcher at Riverdale Baptist School in Upper Marlboro, and his mother said they were advised by various sources that the summer between his sophomore and junior seasons — when Taylor was 16 years old — was a crucial period if the standout right-hander hoped to earn a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college scholarship. So the Blooms traveled to Nebraska, Oklahoma, Tennessee and nearly every state along the East Coast. Taylor pitched for the Evoshield Canes, a tournament team that recruits from Maryland, Virginia, North and
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South Carolina that was created specifically to allow players to be seen by as many college coaches and professional scouts as possible. He also participated in showcases that provide an opportunity for players to be evaluated by Major League Baseball scouts and college coaches. “Driving all over the place trying to get colleges to watch me, it has definitely been a struggle with our schedule,” Taylor said. The quest for athletic scholarships is becoming increasingly difficult, parents and coaches said, often requiring efforts outside of the high school season. With the recruiting culture rapidly changing, parents with a lim-
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Prince George’s County elementary school math and reading scores are down compared to last year, ending a positive four-year streak on state tests, and officials say next year may not be much better. A change in how special education students are tested on the Maryland State Assessment, which tests the reading and math abilities of public school students in grades 3 through 8, and the transition to Common Core State Standards, a national education initiative to bring school systems in line with a common curriculum, is believed to have contributed to the county’s decline on test scores — which mirrored an overall statewide decline. Overall, county elementary schools saw a decline in both elementary and math scores; 79.4 percent of elementary students scored proficient or advanced in reading, a drop of 2.5 percentage points over last year, while 75.5 percent scored proficient or advanced in math, a drop of 3.6 percentage points over last year.
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By a unanimous vote, the Laurel City Council decided Monday to scrap an ordinance to regulate donation bins within the city, following concerns by various nonprofit and for-profit organizations that depend on the bins. Mayor Craig Moe said the council voted to table the ordinance indefinitely, but said he and staff would work to craft a new version of the ordinance. “We’re going to go back to the drawing board. This is not about putting businesses out of business. It’s about working with the community and businesses,” Moe said. “We’re prepared to sit back down and come up with a bill that everybody can live with.” The proposed Ordinance 1772 — introduced in May — would have banned for-profit agencies from placing donation bins in the city, and would have required nonprofit organizations to present proof of 501(c)3 nonprofit status, pay a yearly license, and display a certificate on the bin. Councilman Michael Leszcz (at-large) said the city was unaware of any municipality with a similar law.
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Peter Pan Club, 10:30 a.m., College Park Aviation Museum, 1985 Cpl. Frank Scott Drive, College Park. Ideal for learners up to 5 years old; includes story time and craft activities. For a group larger than 10, call the museum to make a reservation. Contact 301-8646029; TTY 301-699-2544.
Seasonal Selections: Cold Meats and Salads, noon, Rivers-
dale House Museum, 4811 Riverdale Road, Riverdale Park. Using produce from the garden and orchard, Kitchen Guild members demonstrate food ways in the dependency kitchen. Selections are inspired by the seasonal cycles of a 19th century farm. View the free demonstrations. Contact 301-8640420; TTY 301-699-2544.
Health Seminar: Managing Hypertension, 1 to 2 p.m., Forest
Heights Municipal Building, 5508 Arapahoe Drive, Forest Heights. The Forest Heights Healthy Living Program presents a seminar on managing high blood pressure. Contact 301-839-1030 or turnerkchar@aol.com.
JULY 26 Montpelier Summer Concert Series, 7:30 p.m., Montpelier Man-
sion Grounds, 9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel. The Winstons, Motown and Soul. Bring some friends, a picnic, a blanket and/or a chair. Free public and handicapped parking available at the Montpelier Drive and Muirkirk Road entrances. Contact 301-776-2805. “Seussical the Musical,” 8 p.m., Laurel Mill Playhouse, 508 Main St., Laurel. “Seussical” tells the story of Horton, an elephant who discovers a speck of dust containing Whos, including Jojo, a Who child sent off to military school for thinking too many “thinks.” Horton faces a double challenge — not only must he protect the Whos from a world of naysayers and dangers, but he must guard an abandoned egg. Contact 301617-9906. Movies in the Park: “Wreck-it Ralph,” 8 p.m., Granville Gude
Park in Laurel. Wreck-It Ralph longs to be as beloved as his game’s perfect Good Guy, Fix-It Felix. Problem is, nobody loves a Bad Guy. Ralph’s only hope? A young troublemaking “glitch” from a candy-coated cart racing game might just be the one to teach Ralph what it means to be a Good Guy. Contact 301-725-7800.
MORE INTERACTIVE CALENDAR ITEMS AT WWW.GAZETTE.NET Safe Summer: Open Mic, 10 p.m. to midnight, Good Luck Community Center, 8601 Good Luck Road, Lanham. We’ll supply the sound system, house band and headliner, you provide the talent. Contact 301-552-1093; TTY 301445-4512. Safe Summer: Good Luck CC, Jeopardy and Family Feud, 10 p.m. to midnight, Kentland Community Center, 2411 Pinebrook Ave., Landover. Come to Kentland Community Center and travel with us to Good Luck Community Center to play basketball. Later, play Jeopardy and Family Feud. Contact 301-386-2278; TTY 301445-4512.
JULY 27 ProtoStars Youth Program, 9 a.m. to noon, Laurel Mill Playhouse, 508 Main St., Laurel. An exciting youth theater program targeted at ages 6 to 16. The program is designed to foster the various talents of the community’s young people to develop the Stars of LMP, today and forward. The ProtoStars program kicks off with an open audition for all ages.
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Contact 301-452-2557 or maureencrogers@gmail.com. Read to Rover, 1:30 p.m., Laurel Library, 507 7th St., Laurel. Build your child’s confidence in reading. Bring a favorite book or choose one from the library and Read to Rover. Specially trained therapy dogs will be glad to listen. Each child will read for 15 minutes. Registration required. Call branch for details. Contact 301776-6790. Jazz Under the Stars Summer Concert Series, 7 p.m., Beltsville
Community Center, 3900 Sellman Road, Beltsville. Bring a picnic basket, blanket or chair. This event will be held rain or shine and is free to the public. Note: Alcoholic beverages are not permitted on park property. This performance is by David Bach. Contact 301-9376613; TTY 301-445-4512.
JULY 28 Bird Walk, 8 to 10 a.m., Patuxent Research Refuge, National Wildlife Visitor Center, Laurel. Identify birds by sight and sound on this guided tour with short walks through several refuge habi-
One Act Auditions at Laurel Mill Playhouse, 7 p.m., Laurel Mill
Playhouse, 508 Main St., Laurel. Actors and actresses (18 and older) should bring resume, head shot (if available) and conflicts. There will be cold readings from scripts. The One Act Festival will run Sept. 6 through Sept. 22. Contact 301-4522557 or maureencrogers@gmail. com.
Slimy and Scaly, 10 to 11:30 a.m., Patuxent Research Refuge, National Wildlife Visitor Center, Laurel. Are snakes really slimy? Are fish the only animals with scales? Find out in this interactive program. Be ready to search for slimy and scaly creatures outside. Registration required. Ages 6 and older. Contact 301-497-5887.
Jazz on the Lawn: Bruce Ewan: “The Red Harmonica King,” 7
p.m., Riversdale House Museum, 4811 Riverdale Road, Riverdale Park. Enjoy summer concerts on Wednesdays. Pack a picnic or purchase dinner before the show. Bring a blanket or lawn chair. In the event of rain, concerts will be moved inside the mansion. Tonight’s performance features: Bruce Ewan: “The Red Harmonica King” featuring Steve Jacobs. Contact 301-864-0420; TTY 301699-2544.
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Mount Rainier collector honored by Video Game Hall of Fame Joe Brewer of Mount Rainier is being honored for his contributions the International Video Game Hall of Fame. Brewer, a vintage arcade machine collector, donated a restored Deluxe Space Invaders Unit in 2010. He will receive a plaque on Aug. 10 at the Icon Art Gallery in Fairfield, Iowa. Brewer said he is eager to visit the Hall of Fame. “I’m excited just to see the different machines and photographs and all the history that’s on display at the art gallery,” Brewer said. Brewer’s vintage arcade machine collection has been featured in the Gateway Arts District Open Studio Tour. Brewer said he started collecting machines in 2008, when he restored a broken Ms. Pac-Man game he found outside a Laundromat. Brewer said he enjoys finding and restoring the machines more than playing them. “A good half of it is the thrill of the hunt,” he said.
Supply drive benefits Cheverly school The Cheverly Parents Resource Center is accepting school supply donations Saturday benefiting Gladys Noon Spellman Elementary School in Cheverly. The group is collecting donations through PayPal and will also accept cash. Supplies will be collected starting at 9 a.m. at the Cheverly Community Market.
neighborhood watch programs that exist in the community. There will be demonstrations from Laurel police, the Laurel Volunteer Fire Department and the Laurel Volunteer Rescue Squad, as well as various activities for children, including a rock climbing wall, said Pfc. Theresa Kelliher of the Laurel police. “It’s a great night. It’s a lot of fun, and you may meet people you didn’t even know lived in the city,” Kelliher said.
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Six-year-old Evynn Langston of Beltsville has fun making bubbles at Community Day 2013 Sunday at Beltsville’s Vansville Park. “Last year we collected every single supply that was on the wish list,” said Chase O’Brien, co-chair of Cheverly Parents Resource Center. “The school has been very appreciative.” O’Brien said the center will give free books to those who donate and another collection event will be held Aug. 10.
More information on the drive can be found online at www.cheverlyparent.org.
Laurel celebrates National Night Out on Aug. 6 The city of Laurel and the Laurel Police Department is in-
viting residents and businesses to meet city police officers to celebrate National Night Out from 6 to 9 p.m. Aug. 6 at Granville Gude Park. National Night Out was established to inform the public about various police and community programs such as drug prevention initiatives and
The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, or WSSC, announced that two Prince George’s County residents were among nine children of Commission employees awarded $9,000 in scholarships through the Robert G. Berger Memorial Scholarship Fund. The scholarship recipients were recognized during the WSSC’s June 19 monthly Commission meeting at its Laurel headquarters, according to a WSSC release. The recipients and the colleges they are attending are Christine Long of Laurel (Towson University) and De’anee Love of New Carrolton (Lincoln University). Theresa Russell of Clarksville and Carolina Garcia of Edgewater will be attending the University of Maryland, College Park. “This scholarship represents four years of work I’ve put
into high school and a reminder to keep working hard through college,” Garcia said in the release. Garcia will be majoring in studio art and graphic design. The scholarship, founded in 1996, is funded through contributions from WSSC employees and retirees and the family of Berger, a WSSC commissioner. The fund has awarded $125,000 in scholarships to over 120 students over its history, the release stated. According to the release, all recipients are children of current WSSC employees or retirees who contribute to the fund.
Another meet-and-greet with county schools CEO A third and final meet-andgreet session with the new CEO of Prince George’s County Public Schools, Kevin Maxwell, is scheduled for 6 to 8 p.m. Aug. 8 at DuVal High School, 9880 Good Luck Road in Lanham. The event will provide an opportunity for parents, business leaders and other community members to speak with the new school system leader, who officially takes office Aug. 1. Light refreshments will be served, according to a news release from the school system. The first meet-and-greet was held at Crossland High School in Temple Hills on July 10 and was attended by more than 300 people. A second meet-and-greet was scheduled for July 23 at G. James Gholson Middle School in Landover.
Obituary William Monroe, 83, of
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Stink bugs soon may have company in county homes Kudzu bug, which destroys crops and spends cold months indoors, found in Prince George’s n
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Prince George’s County farmers and homeowners are bracing themselves for the arrival of a small insect known to cause a lot of crop destruction — and take up residence in homes during the winter. The kudzu bug, an insect native to Southeast Asia, was first detected in 2009 in the United States in Georgia on fast-growing kudzu vines. In 2011, the insect — described as a small, brownspotted flying bug with a short, wide rear end — destroyed 47 percent of soybean crops at a Georgia research center, when only two bugs had been seen at the center the prior year, according
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to the Maryland Department of Agriculture. The bug has crept up the East Coast and has been found in Prince George’s County, as well as St. Mary’s, Charles and Calvert counties, according to the department. Soybean farmer Roger Chappelear
of Aquasco said it would be devastating if the kudzu bugs got to the 600 acres of soybeans on his 900-acre family farm. “It’d be like your employer taking half your paycheck away,” Chappelear said of what would happen if kudzu bugs ate his crops. Chappelear said he is on the lookout for the insect, but is waiting to see one before he does anything more. Kudzu bugs migrated from kudzu vines to soybean plants, which trailed corn and hay as the county’s top crop acreage in the county at 2,758 acres, according to the 2007 Agricultural Census for Prince George’s County. Adam Leslie, a doctoral candidate studying entomology at the University of Maryland, College Park, made the first Maryland finding of the bug on kudzu vines early this summer. “In Prince George’s County, we’ve only found it in southern Prince George’s County — in Fort Washington
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To prevent abandoned homes from marring the streets of Edmonston with unkempt yards, town officials want to require property owners to register vacant buildings or pay a hefty fine. An ordinance, introduced to council members July 9, would make it easier for town officials to maintain lawns and bill those responsible for them, said Edmonston Police Chief Stephen Walker. Out-of-control lawns aren’t just unattractive as they also affect property values and jeopardize public safety by attracting rodents and conveying a rundown image, officials said. “The cleaner your town is, the better it looks, the safer it will be,” said Mayor Robert Kerns. “Our crime is down because we have police and we have a clean town ... . That’s what keeps your town safe.” Rather than target individual property owners, the ordinance focuses on banks that fail to maintain foreclosed homes, forcing the town to pay for grass cutting and then spend months tracking down the owner to pay it back, Walker said. It can cost Edmonston up to $800, depending on the equipment used and the magnitude of the work, to cut a neglected lawn just once, said town clerk Michelle Rodriguez. If the council passes the ordinance in September — the council’s next meeting — owners of vacant properties will have to pay $75 per year to register each vacant property. If they don’t, they would be fined $500 for every day the property remains unregistered. Currently, vacant properties are only identified when their lawns are already a problem and expensive to fix, said town administrator Guy Tiberio. With so many places constantly changing hands, it can take months, even years, to find the owners, he said.
The owners of vacant properties, mainly banks, are billed for any maintenance costs, which are also registered with the state, Tiberio said. “We’re pure lenders, not real estate owners,” said Kathleen Murphy, president and CEO of the Maryland Bankers Association. “Banks step in to do maintenance once they become the owners of the property. They are concerned with maintaining the collateral value of the home and selling it quickly.” Maryland has a foreclosed home registry, the first in the U.S., for local government officials to access information on every property purchased in foreclosure and whether locations have someone providing maintenance, Maureen O’Connor said, director of communications and media relations for the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation. The fee to register a property is $50, or $100 if late. While officials said they discussed an ordinance for a while, area banks began asking whether Edmonston registered foreclosures and billed for maintenance. “That’s what they’re expecting now,” Walker said. Foreclosures have been on the rise in Edmonston since the housing crisis hit in 2007 and are just now gently declining, he said. About eight percent of Edmonston’s housing units were vacant in 2010, according to Census data. About half of the town’s 483 total housing units are owned and the other half rented. The council will review the ordinance and start publicizing it in the next few weeks, making any amendments before September when the community will have a chance to provide input. Officials said they don’t expect much backlash from residents since fines will fall mostly on banks. Although Walker said he does worry about “the single guy who falls on hard times, loses his house and forgets or doesn’t know to register.” If that happens, a resident can always appeal to the council, which would most likely grant an extension, he said.
and Brandywine,” Leslie said. Leslie is part of a UM group studying to find a native species that will keep the kudzu insect under control, such as a parasitic wasp. Leslie said the only other solution was pesticides, adding that Georgia has a pesticide regimen where if entomologists find a single nymph, they will spray the area. Leslie and other UM entomologist students looked for the bug in northern areas of Prince George’s, including College Park, but haven’t seen it there. Leslie said the most kudzu insects he found in one area was three, and that the bugs were limited to the kudzu vine, so he doesn’t think they have grown to large numbers in Southern Maryland yet. In Georgia, entomologists sweep a net in a field of soybeans and get hundreds of kudzu bugs in one sweep, he said. Kudzu bugs will eat crops other than soybeans, but kudzu nymphs can’t mature to be adults on other plants.
Kimberly Rice, an entomologist for the Maryland Department of Agriculture, said farmers who find the insect on their crops can contact the integrated pest management program, which is run through the University of Maryland Extension office, and get pesticides to combat the insect. “It may be more of an issue for organic soy farmers,” Rice said because organic farms have restrictions on pesticide use. Homeowners should be aware of the kudzu insect as well, as it can emit a stink bug smell when disturbed and often goes into people’s houses in winter, Rice said. The Maryland Department of Agriculture has been warning Maryland soybean farmers to be on the lookout for the insect, so they have time to spray for the bugs before they multiply and become destructive. alarkins@gazette.net
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Prince George’s County police remove police cadets, playing students, from High Point High School in Beltsville on Friday during a mock school shooting. The Prince George’s County Police Department, other public safety agencies and the county school system took part in the simulated emergency.
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First responders drilled for a scenario at High Point High School that they hope never actually occurs. Four Prince George’s Police Department officers, posing as “bad guys” armed with rifles, smoke grenades and in one case, a bullet-proof vest, entered the Beltsville school Friday morning as part of an active shooter simulation. The scenario was developed based on research regarding prior school shootings and taken to a worst-case scenario, said Maj. Mark Person, commander of the PGPD Training and Education Division. The shooters entered the school and began firing paint
pellets at about 40 county police cadets, posing as students, who either fled from the scene or became victims of the shooters. Within 17 minutes, all four had been killed or captured by those participating in the training exercise, Person said. “It went very well. I am extremely happy with what I witnessed these officers do,” Person said. “I’m sure there are things we need to work on, but overall, I am extremely happy about the response.” Lt. Bill Alexander, assistant commander of the PGPD media relations division, said there was no set time to complete the scenario at the 36,000-square-foot, four-floor school. “Their mindset is as quickly as possible to engage the shooters and neutralize the threat,” he said. PGPD and other agencies began holding annual active shooter drills following the 1999 mass school shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado, Alexander said.
Friday morning’s scenario marked the first time emergency responders collaborated on a joint communications system, Person said. PGPD, the Prince George’s County Fire Department, Maryland State Police, Montgomery County Police, Greenbelt Police Department, Laurel Police Department, Prince George’s County Public Schools and other agencies all took part in the drill. Prince George’s County Fire Chief Marc Bashoor said Saturday marks the one-year anniversary of the Century movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colo. that left 12 dead and 70 injured. Bashoor said during past disasters such as the Columbine shooting and the Sept. 11, 2001 World Trade Center attack, agencies operated with little cooperation, but now are more closely integrated. “We now share tactical radio channels, we now have EMTs embedded with our SWAT teams, and the county police have investigators imbedded
with our fire marshal,” he said. “That level of cooperation has never existed before.” High Point Principal Sandy Jimenez watched PGPD cadets covered in fake blood being brought out of the school on stretchers. “I’m just glad it’s not my own kids, even if it is just a drill,” she said. Jimenez watched the proceedings with other school and public safety officials, and said it was a great opportunity for her to learn what an emergency response would look like. “The more you understand how the process works, the better prepared you are to work in coordination and to fulfill the safety of the students, because the response is the same whether it’s a tornado, an earthquake, a hurricane or whether its an active threat scenario,” Jimenez said. janfenson-comeau@ gazette.net
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Special needs school comes to county to meet demand Move from Silver Spring also allows for better classrooms, officials say
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After 36 years in Silver Spring, a well-known school for children with learning disabilities has moved to Hyattsville, a change officials said allows the school to be located where demand has been the greatest: Prince George’s County. Chelsea School, a nonpublic school that serves grades 5 through 12, consists mostly of publicly funded students — children whose tuition is paid by their local school system because they need more specialized help than a public school can provide, according to Head of School Kate Fedalen. Nonpublic schools, which are approved by the Maryland State Department of Education, are independent from the school system, but provide some publicly funded services. Enrollment at the school has declined over the years — the school has about 70 students now compared to 100 about a decade ago — and the students are now predominantly from Prince George’s County, Chelsea officials said. Prince George’s funded tuition for 33 students at the school last year, while Montgomery funded three, according to school data. “The move will enable the school system to work closely with the Chelsea School to align curriculum demands and foster efforts to return students to their neighborhood schools, as ready,” said ShaVon McConnell, a Prince George’s County schools spokeswoman. The shift coincides with the expansion of special education programs in Montgomery and
“We’re using this as an opportunity to make upgrades to what has been a pretty archaic wireless and technology system.” Frank Mills, Chelsea School’s director of education Prince George’s County public schools. Montgomery increased its special education budget from $182 million in 2004 to $279 million in 2013, according to Brian Edwards, chief of communications for the Montgomery County school system. Last year, Montgomery funded 513 nonpublic students — down from 657 in 2004. “We’ve become much better over the last 10 years in being able to meet a broader array of needs of our students,” he said, explaining the decrease in the number of students who get funding for private schools. Similarly, Prince George’s has increased its special education budget while reducing nonpublic enrollment by about 300 students in the last five years, to approximately 900 students, said Mary Bell, a coordinating supervisor of special education for Prince George’s public schools. “We try to build and sustain as many students as we can in their neighborhood schools,” she said. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act requires
schools to provide specialeducation students a free and appropriate education. Under Maryland law, parents must prove the school system cannot provide an appropriate education in order to receive county funding for use at a private school. Parents in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties said getting county funding can be challenging. Nancy Doumchick of Greenbelt, who has a son with a language-based learning disorder at Chelsea School, said her child was underserved in the Prince George’s school system, but the county would not provide reimbursement. “It’s a very frustrating process, and I understand why some people don’t want to through with it,” Doumchick said. Montgomery County resident Sherry Lamper enrolled her daughter in Chelsea School, but will send her to public school in the fall after trying for three years to get Montgomery County to provide private school funding. “You’re not entitled to the best education. You’re entitled to a free and appropriate education,” Lamper said. “But what parent is going to say they don’t want the best for their child?” Chelsea School’s new building is located at 2970 Belcrest Center Drive, adjacent to the Prince George’s Plaza Metro station. The facility will feature state-of-the-art classrooms and a student lounge, Fedalen said. “We’re using this as an opportunity to make upgrades to what has been a pretty archaic wireless and technology system,” said Frank Mills, director of education. egoldwein@gazette.net
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Lindsey Baker, Laurel Historical Society executive director, helps participants in a county parks and recreation playground camp July 15 at James Harrison Elementary discern interesting facts found in a 19th-century family photo.
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Children participating in Prince George’s County Parks and Recreation’s day camps in Laurel won’t have to go far to see photographs and artifacts, thanks to a traveling Laurel Museum exhibition. “Our real goal is that they will come away with some piece of Laurel history in their minds,” said Lindsay Baker, executive director of the Laurel Historical Society. “We’re trying to reach everyone in the community, and this is one way for us to do so.” Carla Benavides, a Prince George’s County Department of Parks and Recreation specialist for the northern part of the county, said the county tries to get different guest presenters for each week of its six-week playground camp sites, which run
Monday through Friday from June 24 to Aug. 2. “We definitely jumped at the chance of having them visit,” Benavides said. “We’ve heard nothing but positive feedback about the program.” A trial exhibit was held last year with visits at a few locations, but this year, it kicked off July 15 with a tour of seven playground camps in and around Laurel. It began at James Harrison Elementary School in Laurel, then visited Calverton Elementary in Beltsville on July 16 and Montpelier Elementary in Laurel on July 18. Baker told campers ranging in age from five to 12 that 150 years ago, children their age could not have enjoyed their summers at camp and instead would have been working in the mill for 11 hours. Gabrielle Aiyegbusi, 8, of Bowie, who attended the Montpelier playground camp, said she enjoyed the visit and is glad she’s not living in the 19th century, when children her age of-
ten worked dangerous jobs for as little as 4 cents an hour. “If I had to work back then, I’d get paid less, and I would want to get paid more than the adults,” said Gabrielle, a thirdgrader at Heather Hills Elementary in Bowie. Baker, assisted by LHS board member Abram Fox and museum docent Amy Junewick, shared artifacts from 1863, including a candle maker, a chamber pot and photos from the Laurel cotton mill factory. Fox said the program isn’t so much about teaching history, but letting children discover it for themselves. “Hopefully, it will give them something to do that empowers them — giving them pictures and having them come up with interesting facts about those pictures,” Fox said. “They’re the ones doing the action, rather than having us tell them what’s going on.” janfenson-comeau@ gazette.net
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City Hall Bulletin Board MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEETINGS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2013 7:30 PM MAYOR AND COUNCIL WORKSESSION TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2013 7:00 PM ORAL ARGUMENT ON CPV-2013-04, 4810 NANTUCKET 7:30 PM MAYOR AND COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING All meetings take place in the 2nd floor Council Chambers of City Hall, 4500 Knox Road, College Park, MD unless noted. All meetings are open to the public except Executive Sessions. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at 240487-3501 and describe the assistance that is necessary. All Mayor and Council meetings can be viewed live on Comcast cable channel 71 or Verizon channel 25. Regular Council Meetings and Worksessions are rebroadcast in their entirety at the following times: Wednesdays at 8pm, Thursdays and Fridays at 6pm, and Saturdays at 10am Worksessions and Council meetings may also be viewed live over the internet. Those interested in watching the live meetings from their computer should visit the City’s website at www.collegeparkmd.gov, and click on the menu item “Council Meetings Video”. You will be redirected to the Granicus, Inc. web site which will host the web streaming and archiving of Council meetings. Meetings that are streamed will also be archived for future viewing through the City’s website. Meeting Agendas are posted on the City’s website on the Friday afternoon prior to the meetings www.collegeparkmd.gov – and are available at the City Clerk’s office. Meeting back-up materials will be posted to the website on the Monday prior to the meeting. Meeting schedule is subject to change. For current information, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at 240-487-3501.
COUNCIL ACTION
At their regular meeting on July 16, 2013, the College Park City Council took the following actions (negative votes are noted): Ratified a Memorandum of Understanding with Prince George’s County for the Installation of Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacon (RRFB) signals along Rhode Island Avenue (a County Right-of-Way). Approved a request by the Downtown College Park Management Authority for free evening parking in the Downtown Parking Garage during restaurant week (August 12 – 16, 2013). Adopted the Recommendations of the Advisory Planning Commission Regarding Variance Application Number CPV-2013-03, 8705 48th Place, College Park, Maryland, Recommending Denial of a Variance from Section 27442 (E) Table IV of the Prince George’s County Zoning Ordinance for Sideyard Setback for Construction of a Deck and Recommending Approval of a Variance from Front and Sideyard Setbacks for the Existing House. Awarded a contract to M. T. Laney Company, Inc., in an amount not to exceed $150,000 for milling and paving the remainder of those streets they are restoring for WSSC. Approved a Declaration of Covenants and Agreement Regarding Land Use between The City of College Park and PPC/CHP Maryland Limited Partnership, Mazza Family College Park, LLC, for maintenance of pedestrian streetlights on the property. Adopted 13-R-13, a Resolution of the Mayor and City Council of the City of College Park, Maryland, to Authorize the City to Join the State Retirement And Pension System Of Maryland (Catlin, Wojahn and Kabir opposed). Approved a one-time Grant Application to SHA for participation in the Highway User Revenue appropriation, and certifying that the City agrees to expend the funds only for permitted uses. Approved a letter to Prince George’s County in support of CB-48-2013 – Convenience Stores and Gas Stations – Public Safety. Introduced 13-O-09, An Ordinance Of The Mayor And Council Of The City Of College Park, Maryland, Amending Chapter 125 “Housing Regulations” By Repealing And Reenacting §125-8 “Maintenance Of Dwellings” To Require That Roofs Be Covered With Materials Designed For Use As A Permanent Roofing Surface. The Public Hearing will be held September 10 at 7:15 p.m. Adopted a Resolution reaffirming the City’s opposition to the University of Maryland I-95 Connector Road. Appointed Janet Evander to the Board of Election Supervisors, and reappointed Alan Bradford to the Ethics Commission.
Around Town! FREE CONCERT
SATURDAY, JULY 27, 2013 6:00-8:00 PM SOUTH GATE PARK COLD HARD CASH – COUNTRY The remaining outdoor concert will be held Saturday at South Gate Park on the University of Maryland’s campus, located at Route 1 between Lehigh Road and Regents Drive (across from Marathon Deli and Krazi Kebob). Free parking will be available all day on Saturday in the Downtown parking garage located at the corner of Knox Road and Yale Avenue, which is a short walk from the concert venue. Handicapped parking is available directly next to the venue. Visit Shop College Park at www.shopcollegepark.org for more details on the bands. Alcohol is prohibited on the University of Maryland campus.
NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2013 Tuesday, August 6th, 2013 is National Night Out (NNO) to take a stand against crime. Please save the date on your calendars and plan to participate in your neighborhood observance of this event as follows: • Meet your neighbors and exchange contact information. • Leave your porch light or lamp post ON from dusk to midnight that evening to signal your support for Neighborhood Watch.
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COLLEGE PARK RESTAURANT WEEK
AUGUST 11-17, 2013 Mark your calendars for the tastiest week of the year, as the inaugural College Park Restaurant Week is set to take place from Sunday, August 11th through Saturday, August 17th. Over 15 of the City’s restaurants are participating in the event with specials including a variety of three-course meals and other discounts. Check out the list of specials at www.shopcollegepark.org/cprw and make plans to return to an old standby or find yourself a new favorite. While each restaurant will offer a special for the week, the regular menus will also be available. All listed prices are exclusive of sales tax and gratuity. Restaurant Week specials are not valid with any other discount. If you’re visiting a restaurant in Downtown free parking in the garage at Knox Road/Yale Avenue will be available all day on Saturday/Sunday and after 5:00pm Monday through Friday. • Aroy Thai • Asian Fusion Restaurant • Azteca Restaurant and Cantina • The Barking Dog • Big Play Sports Grill • Calvert House Inn (Riverdale Park) • The Common (Marriott Inn and Conference Center) • Cornerstone Grill & Loft • Fishnet • Hanami Japanese Restaurant • The Jerk Pit • Ledo Restaurant • Looney’s Pub • The Maryland Smokehouse • Ovo Simply Veggie • Pho D’Lite • RJ Bentley’s
SHOP MARYLAND TAX-FREE
SUNDAY, AUGUST 11 THROUGH SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 2013 The second Sunday of August to the following Saturday is designated as Shop Maryland tax-free Week each year. That means qualifying apparel and footwear $100 or less, per item, are exempt from the state sales tax. Accessory items are not included. Additionally, there is a tax-free three-day weekend during which the state sales tax will not apply to the sale of any Energy Star Product listed on our website, or solar water heater. Energy Star Product means an air conditioner, clothes washer or dryer, furnace, heat pump, standard size refrigerator, compact fluorescent light bulb, dehumidifier, or programmable thermostat that has been designated as meeting or exceeding the applicable Energy Star Efficiency requirements developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy. For more information: Call (800) MD-TAXES or (410) 260-7980 from central Maryland, or on the website: http://comptroller.marylandtaxes.com
FREE WEEKEND PARKING
IN THE DOWNTOWN PARKING GARAGE MAY 25-AUGUST 17, 2013 Come downtown this summer and see what’s happening in College Park! Parking will be free in the downtown parking garage on Saturdays and Sundays from May 25 to August 17, 2013. The parking garage is conveniently located on the corner of Knox Road and Yale Avenue, across from City Hall. Check out one of our new restaurants or visit an old favorite. Grab fresh produce or delicious barbeque at the Sunday Farmers Market located in the City Hall lot. There are plenty of places to suit your taste – explore the options at www.shopcollegepark.org. Get reacquainted with downtown College Park this summer!
SHOP LOCAL! SHOP FRESH! DOWNTOWN COLLEGE PARK FARMERS MARKET SUNDAYS, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM PARKING LOT OF CITY HALL, 4500 KNOX ROAD The market is open through November 17, 2013. WIC & SNAP accepted. Parking is free on Sundays. For more information go to our webpage at: downtowncollegeparkmarket.org HOLLYWOOD FARMERS MARKET SATURDAYS, 8:00 AM TO 12:00 PM HOLLYWOOD SHOPPING CENTER The market is open through October 26, 2013 at the Hollywood Shopping Center, next to REI, 9801 Rhode Island Avenue.
COLLEGE PARK MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2013 The City of College Park will hold elections for the offices of Mayor and eight district Council Members, two from each of the four Council districts, on Tuesday, November 5, 2013. In order to be eligible to vote in the November 5th City Election, you MUST be registered to vote with Prince George’s County Board of Elections at your current address in College Park by 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 8, 2013. To check your registration status with the County, call the Board of Elections at 301-430-8020. Voter Registration Forms are available by calling 301-4308020 or you may pick up a form at any City building or any Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration office. You may also download a form from the State Board of Elections: www.elections.state.md.us. If you have moved since the last time you voted, you must change your address with the Prince George’s County Board of Elections. If you wish to run for office, candidacy packets may be obtained, after August 1, 2013, from our website at www.collegeparkmd.gov or the City Clerk’s Office at 4500 Knox Road, College Park, MD 20740. The following guidelines apply to candidacy: At the time of taking office, the Mayor shall have attained the age of 25 years, and each member of the Council shall have attained the age of 21 years. Each elective officer must be a citizen of the United States, a resident of the State of Maryland and a registered voter of College Park. Each elective officer of the City of College Park shall have continuously resided in the City for at least one year immediately preceding the date of election, been a registered voter in the City for at least one year immediately preceding the date of election, and shall continuously reside in the City during his/her term of office; each district Council member must reside in the district from which he/she is elected; and each officer shall retain throughout his/her respective term of office all the qualifications necessary for his/her election, and failure to retain all of such qualifications shall cause forfeiture of office. For more information on running for office, please contact the City Clerk’s Office, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. through 5:00 p.m. at 240-487-3501. Chief of Elections: John Robson. College Park Election Supervisors: Janet Evander, Maxine Gross, Charles Smolka and Terri Wertz.
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July 25, 2013 Youth, Family and Senior Services…
Senior Services 301-345-8100 Youth and Family Services 301-487-3550
AVAILABLE CITY SENIOR SERVICES
Do You Know about College Park’s • Quarterly Senior Socials? • Wonderful Day Trips? • Transportation to nearby medical appointments? Did You Know College Park’s Senior Services Also Offer: • Advocacy with Other Agencies and Doctors Offices? • Information and Referral? • Liaison to Other Community Resources? TO LEARN MORE and to get on City Seniors mailing list, contact the City Seniors Program office 301-345-8100.
AVAILABLE CITY COUNSELING PROGRAM FOR FAMILIES
College Park Youth and Family Services offers counseling help to families who are having difficulties with everyday living. All counseling services are personalized to the unique needs of each individual family. Professional staff holds advanced degrees. For more information, call 240-487-3550.
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CONTROLLING ASIAN TIGER MOSQUITOES
Have you met the Asian tiger mosquito? If you have been bitten during daytime hours, chances are, you have. The Asian tiger mosquito is easily identified by the white stripes on its legs and body. This mosquito is very aggressive and breeds in containerized standing water. Example of containers that can hold enough water for mosquitoes to breed: clogged gutters, tires (and tire swings!), buckets, rain barrels, landscaping pipes (e.g. corrugated drain pipes), toys, bird baths, wading pools, wheelbarrows, boats, canoes, kayaks, sagging tarps, pet dishes, and flower pots. What can you do? Getting rid of Asian tiger mosquito breeding habitat (containerized standing water) is the only effective way to eliminate the problem. It is up to YOU to eliminate their breeding habitats. Inspect your yard for water-holding containers. Dispose of these items, flush them with water regularly, or store them in a way that prevents standing water. Clean your gutters at least twice yearly to eliminate mosquito breeding habitat. College Park residents may pick up free mosquito dunks from Public Works Monday-Friday, 8:00 am – 3:30 pm, to treat areas of standing water. The Mosquito Control Program for 2013 has begun. The Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) applies larvicide in known breeding areas, and conducts survey counts to determine if spray threshold levels are met prior to spraying to control adult mosquitoes. Mosquito spraying occurs on Wednesday nights in College Park if the spray criteria are met. Report mosquito problems, spray requests, and spray objections to Public Works at 240-487-3590.
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City of College Park Main Number...........................240-487-3500 CITY HALL, 4500 Knox Road, College Park, MD 20740 Hours: M-F 8am-7pm; Sat. 1-5pm; Sun - Closed City Hall Departments City Manager/City Clerk...........................................240-487-3501 City FAX Number.....................................................301-699-8029 Finance.....................................................................240-487-3509 Human Resources.....................................................240-487-3533 Parking Enforcement Div. (M-F 8am-10pm/Sat. 1-7pm)......240-487-3520 Planning/Economic Development.............................240-487-3538 Housing Authority (Attick Towers) 9014 R.I. Ave....301-345-3600 Public Services Department, 4601A Calvert Rd.........240-487-3570 Animal Control, Code Enforcement, Public Safety and Recreation. Parking Enforcement is at City Hall.
24 Hour Hotline........................................................240-487-3588 For Urgent Code Enforcement, Noise Control, Animal Control Issues.
Public Works Department, 9217 51st Ave.................240-487-3590 Trash Collection, Recycling and Special Pick-ups.
Senior Program (Attick Towers) 9014 R.I. Ave.........301-345-8100 Youth and Family Services, 4912 Nantucket Rd.........240-487-3550 Drop-In Recreation Center........................................301-345-4425
MAYOR AND COUNCIL
Mayor Andrew M. Fellows 5807 Bryn Mawr Road..............................................301-441-8141 Councilmember Fazlul Kabir (District 1) 9817 53rd Avenue....................................................301-659-6295 Councilmember Patrick L. Wojahn (District 1) 5015 Lackawanna Street...........................................240-988-7763 Councilmember Robert T. Catlin (District 2) 8604 49th Avenue....................................................301-345-0742 Councilmember Monroe S. Dennis (District 2) 8117 51st Avenue....................................................301-474-6270 Councilmember Robert W. Day (District 3) 7410 Baylor Avenue.................................................301-741-1962 Councilmember Stephanie Stullich (District 3) 7400 Dartmouth Avenue..........................................301-742-4442 Councilmember Marcus Afzali (District 4) 9238 Limestone Place...............................................240-391-8241 Councilmember Denise C. Mitchell (District 4) 3501 Marlbrough Way.............................................240-460-7620
OTHER FREQUENTLY CALLED NUMBERS
EMERGENCY: FIRE-AMBULANCE-POLICE................................911 NON-EMERGENCY POLICE SERVICES Prince George’s Co. Police (Hyattsville Station).........301-699-2630 Prince George’s Co. Police Non-Emergency Svcs......301-352-1200 Prince George’s Co. Park Police................................301-459-9088 State Police (College Park Barrack)............................301-345-3101 University of Maryland Police....................................301-405-3555 College Park Community Center.....................................301-441-2647 5051 Pierce Avenue, College Park Branchville Vol. Fire & Rescue Squad...............................301-474-1550 4905 Branchville Road, College Park www.bvfco11.com College Park Vol. Fire Department...................................301-901-9112 8115 Baltimore Avenue, College Park www.cpvfd.org PEPCO - Power Outages, Lines Down...........................1-877-737-2662 WSSC: Water Mains........................................................301-206-4002 Prince George’s County Storm Drains..............................301-499-8520
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Laurel High School students soon might experience some of Turkey’s most historic sites — the excavation site at Troy, the ruins of the Temple of Aphrodite and the dome of Hagia Sophia — through the lessons of the school’s art director, Kevin Holder. Holder was one of 54 teachers nationwide — and the only representative from Prince George’s County — selected to participate in a twoweek tour of Turkey from June 28 to July 11. It is an annual trip sponsored by the Turkish Cultural Foundation, a nonprofit organization promoting Turkish culture, and the World Affairs Councils of America, a nonprofit promoting cultural exchanges. Both are based in Washington, D.C. “Turkey has always fascinated
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Continued from Page A-1 County middle schools saw a 2.4 percentage point improvement in reading compared to last year, with 75.7 percent of students scoring proficient or advanced, but declined 2.6 percentage points in math, with only 60.1percent scoring proficient or advanced. Similarly, statewide, only middle school reading scores showed improvement, with 83.4 percent of students scoring proficient or advanced, a 1.3 percentage point increase over 2012. Statewide, 86.4 percent of students scored at least proficient in elementary reading, and 83.9 percent scored at least proficient in elementary math, a drop of 1.8 and 3.8 percentage points respectively. Statewide middle school math scores also declined, with only 72.2 percent scoring at least proficient, a 4 percentage point drop over last year. Based on the MSA results, Prince George’s ranks 22nd out
me with its history and its culture,” said Holder, 51, of Columbia. Teachers were selected from a pool of more than 300 applicants Holder through the local World Affairs Councils, said Althea Georgantas, WACA program manager. Applicants had to be full-time teachers with at least three years’ experience. Priority was given to art and history teachers. Despite having a population of about 73 million people, Turkey is not widely known in America, said Guler Koknar, executive director of the Turkish Cultural Foundation. “Turkey receives almost no or passing reference in the American school system,” Koknar said. “What we hope the teachers take home ... [is] that Turkey played a key role in history and is poised to play a key role in
of Maryland’s 24 school districts, outperforming only Dorchester County Public Schools and Baltimore City Public Schools, for elementary school math and reading, and middle school reading. In middle school math scores, Prince George’s lags more than 12 percentage points below the state average and ranks next to last, followed only by Baltimore city. The drop in Prince George’s scores are most significant in fifth-grade math proficiency, which dropped from 75.5 percent in 2012 to 68.2 percent in 2013, and sixth-grade math, which dropped from 76.4 percent in 2012 to 71.1 percent in 2013. Prior to the 2013 results, math scores in fifth and sixth grades had been on a steady rise for four years. The biggest gains were in seventh grade reading, which increased from 71.0 percent in 2012 to 77.1 in 2013. Eighth grade reading scores increased 1.8 percentage points and eighth grade math increased 1.4 percentage points between 2012
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its region and the world today.” The trip was paid through a grant from the Turkish Cultural Foundation, Koknar said. “It was absolutely fascinating,” Holder said of visiting ruins of the 2,000-year-old Temple of Aphrodite in western Turkey. “It was really remarkable to actually be there, see the ruins, the elaborate carvings on the structure. It was just fantastic.” Holder said he was warmly welcomed by the Turkish people. Some were curious about America and his work, and wanted to have their pictures taken with him. Laurel High Principal Dwayne Jones said having instructors travel overseas is a great benefit to students. “Sometimes, our kids, the only world they experience is Laurel or the greater D.C. metro area,” Jones said. “The more they become exposed to the wider world out there, the more marketable their skills become.” janfenson-comeau@gazette.net
and 2013. “We have been really focusing on our middle schools,” said A. Duane Arbogast, chief academic officer for Prince George’s County Public Schools. “We’ve been getting better at analyzing the data and implementing the appropriate instructional response.” Arbogast said the drop in reading and math scores is likely due to changes in the way the test is administered to special education students. “Several years ago, the state decided to create a modified MSA for special education students, attempting to mitigate
Moe said the city received numerous complaints from residents regarding donation bins, which he estimated were over 100 inside the city, but had no firm numbers because they were not regulated. The ordinance would also have regulated bin height and placement, required proof of permission from the property owner and limited each nonprofit to only one bin per property. Robert Goode, president and CEO of the Owings Mills-based Fab-Tech Company, which buys and sells used clothing, said the ordinance was unfair towards for-profit businesses such as his, which employs 30 Maryland residents. “I am greatly concerned that this ordinance singles out for-profit recyclers, preventing their gaining access to permits in the city of Laurel, effectively banning them,” Goode said. Goode said that nationally, for-profit recyclers keep nearly four billion pounds of used clothing from going into landfills annually. Audrey Traff, general manager of MidAtlantic Clothing Recycling, a for-profit clothing recycling company also based in Owings Mills, also spoke to voice her opposi-
the effects on the MSA results,” Arbogast said, referring to tests that accounted for students’ special needs. “In 2013, the administrators got rid of the Mod MSA.” Arbogast said another reason for the drop could be the transition to Common Core State Standards. Maryland public schools began implementing the standards last year, Arbogast said, but the assessment based on Common Core standards will not be fully implemented until the 2014-15 school year. “This misalignment will certainly affect our scores this year and next,” Maryland State Su-
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perintendent of Schools Lillian Lowery said in a news release. “Even though we did not see those gains this year, we believe we have systems in place to encourage higher student achievement through quality teacher development, student support programs and a systemic commitment to providing an excellent education,” Alvin L. Crawley, interim superinten-
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tion to the ordinance. Neither company owns recycling bins in Laurel, but Goode said he and Traff spoke out because the ordinance represented a “dangerous precedent.” No company with donation bins in Laurel spoke Monday, but when the ordinance was brought for a second reading at the council’s May 29 meeting, representatives from the Elkridge-based nonprofit Planet Aid, which operates 33 bins in Laurel, urged the council to reconsider provisions of the measure as it put an undue burden on nonprofits. Councilman H. Edward Ricks (Ward 1) said there were many aspects he felt uncomfortable with, including the dividing line between for profit and nonprofit companies. “I was concerned about some of these 501(c)3’s that seemed to be more for profit and less for charity,” Ricks said. “It seems to me we need to go back to the drawing board and take a closer look at what we’re getting into.” Leszcz said he brought the issue to the council because he’d received several complaints from residents regarding the “visual blight” of the donation bins, and he was concerned that money being raised by these organizations was not coming back into the community.
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laying for the Charles H. Flowers girls summer league basketball team, Diamond Douglas tried to avoid a collision with one of her teammates. Instead, Douglas fell on top of her and limped off the court when she stood up. She went to the bench and wanted to re-enter, but assistant coach Makia Staves told her to stay put. It could be serious. Staves was right. Douglas had a torn anterior cruciate ligament, putting her on the sideline for at least six months. “In the end, everything will be OK,” Douglas said. “I’ll be back on the court as soon as everything is good.” According to a 2008 study by the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine, around 150,000 ACL injuries occur nationwide per year. Girls are two to eight times more likely to suffer the injury. Dr. Paul Davis of KURE Pain Management said the injuries are the result of repeated trauma to the same joints. If an athlete specializes in one
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Continued from Page A-1 How they reached that point, however, is substantially different. “When my dad was in high school, he talked about All-Met and All-State and how that was such a huge part of being recruited,” said Brady, who plays club soccer for the Annandale Knights. “He talked about how big the game you play in when you make All-State was in how he got recruited for college. Nowadays, I feel like college coaches pay way more attention to the club level. They still attend the high school stuff, but it’s not as important as club.” The club soccer scene (which fields teams across the country where players can pay to receive additional coaching and play additional matches in a competitive environment), as well as the U.S. Soccer Development Academy — the top tier of youth soccer in the United States which features youth clubs from Major League Soccer, North American Soccer League and the United Soccer Leagues — are quickly changing the landscape of soccer in America. Similar opportunities are available in nearly every other sport, too, whether it’s the United States Tennis Association, basketball’s Amateur
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sport, playing it all year round and only putting pressure on a certain group of muscles, they are more likely to have an injury. Playing multiple sports helps avoid such injuries, Davis said. “It means you’re going to develop different physical and mental skill sets, and you’re avoiding repetitive trauma,” he said. Davis centers his studies around joint and spine damage. He said he rarely sees children younger than 12 come in the for treatment, but after 13 they can start having serious injuries. He said the sports vary, but the two most common in his office are wrestling and football. “I think some of it is genetics, that can cause a tendency towards some of the problem they have,” Davis said. “Then of course whatever sport they’re doing. Some of it is repetitive trauma.” When looking at athletes younger than 18, more than 5 million suffer sports-related injuries every year and about half of these cases are from
Athletic Union, Junior Golf tournaments and lacrosse and baseball showcases. As these various organizations continue to attract top-level players, athletes could potentially be faced with a difficult decision: play for a club team or play for their high school. “I heard somebody say this, and it’s not something I believe because it’s the worst of the worst, but I could see every sport at the high school level except football going away,” said DeMatha Catholic baseball coach Sean O’Connor. “Look at the cost of the public schools. They’re charging kids to play anyway. If a kid has a choice to pay $50 to play high school basketball or pay $200 and play club basketball and they travel all around the country, what are they going to choose?” While the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association allows studentathletes to play the same sport outside of the school while that sport is in season, they forbid those commitments to conflict with high school practices and competitions. According to Mazzei, the demands of abiding by those rules were very taxing physically and required some adept scheduling. One notable exemption to that rule is the soccer Academy. Founded in 2007, last year the Academy mandated that
overuse, according to the Center for Disease Control. Around 3.5 million children younger than 14 receive medical treatment for sports injuries each year, according the Sports Trauma and Overuse Prevention website, which was started by the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine. Children ages 5 to 14 suffer nearly 40 percent of sports-related injuries treated in hospitals. For baseball and softball players, the amount of serious shoulder and elbow injuries in young athletes has increased fivefold. Dr. James Kunec of Orthopedic Solutions LLP in Laurel said the majority of cases he sees are for pulled muscles, sprained ankles and, more recently, for arthritis as athletes he was treating 30 years ago return for treatment. He has noticed an increase in more serious injuries and said it’s because players don’t look like they did in the past. “The players are bigger these days
than they were 30, 40 years ago when I was in high school and college,” he said. “And I think with bigger players, there’s sometimes more force absorbed when these guys hit each other, so I think torn ACLs have become more prevalent.” Kunec said varying sports isn’t essential, but is most important for baseball pitchers. Still, Kunec said many prevention methods for injuries haven’t changed. “I think some of the things we learned in high school are still valid: stretching, good warmup techniques, and then in the summer, hydration,” Kunec said. When Douglas was 10, she started playing basketball, and has done so year-round since eighth grade. It’s her only sport and she doesn’t plan on missing out on any games. In early July, she accompanied her AAU team, Team Takeover, to Florida for the AAU Super Showcase. She isn’t planning on letting this setback put her behind. “As long as I learn from other people’s mistakes, and just learn the game, when I come back I’ll be prepared,” she said. cstevens@gazette.net
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Bowie High School’s Bonoventure Akinlosotu (left) encourages teammate Brady Mazzei during the first day of boys soccer practice last year at Foxhill Park in Bowie. Academy players could not also play for their high school team. Bowie lost players to the rule, as did Eleanor Roosevelt, High Point and even national soccer powerhouse DeMatha Catholic. Longtime Eleanor Roosevelt soccer coach George Kallas has watched the culture shift firsthand. One of the school’s better players is enrolled with D.C. United’s Academy program, which costs $1,500 per player, and doesn’t play for the Raiders. Kallas said another of his former students, who played at Stevenson University, received the opportunity because Stevenson dealt directly with his
At the age of 7, Matt Daronco began swimming on a quest to acquire a trophy as big as his older sister’s highpoint award. Gifted with a natural talent and a thirst for competition, he found his niche (and trophy) the next summer at Glenwood Recreation Club. During his sophomore year at DeMatha High School, Daronco became overwhelmed by a combined eight practices a week regiment for his club and school teams, and said he quickly fell out of love with the sport. “I lost sight of the fact that it was a sport, and it got to the point where it felt like a chore,” he said. His junior year, Daronco decided not to send his times to colleges, although his coach, Tom Krawczewicz, was sure he was fast enough to compete at the next level. He also decided to stop swimming for his winter club team. “Once I stopped, I had a lot of energy to do other things,” he said. “It was the best decision of my life.” This recent trend of young, talented athletes burning out and quitting is caused by earlier specialization, according to Robert Price, a sports psychologist and owner of Elite Minds LLC. “Athletes are choosing one sport to focus on at a much earlier age,” he said. “When you do that, either you start to lose the love of just playing or it being fun much earlier.” Price, who has been in practice for 13 years, noted that a decade ago, most children wouldn’t be soccer specific, for instance, until the age of 13 or 14 right at the beginning of high school. But now, that same specialization is occurring at the age of 7 or 8. “It’s become a big challenge for athletes to keep it fresh and to find things about [their sport] that they do love,” he said. “It’s become more of a job.” Henry A. Wise football coach DaLawn Parrish, who played collegiately at Wake Forest University, said he embeds in his players the notion that a collegiate athletic career dominates all aspects of your life, social and academic, and truly does become a job. “I have a lot of players who like it, but not to the extent that they can control my life,” he said. “You have to really love it.” Daronco reached his peak early on and knew he couldn’t dedicate his life to such a rigorous schedule. “[Swimmers aren’t] as talkative or outgoing because they leave all their energy in the pool,” he said. “I realized that wasn’t the type of life I want to live.” Before taking an athletic career to the next level, it is crucial that athletes remind themselves why they are committing the better part of their time to their sport, Price said. “If you’re not really doing it for you, you need to take a good look at it,” he said.
club coach, not Kallas. “If you’re going to get seen, you get seen by club because that’s when the college coaches can see you,” Kallas said. “I very seldom have had a college coach come to a high school game because our teams play at the same time.” Avinash Chandran, the boys soccer coach at Bladensburg High School, previously worked for D.C. United’s youth Academy program and said he believes kids are feeling less and less happy with their return on investment. “None of my kids can afford to play Academy,” Chandran
said. “They can’t afford to shell out $2,000 a year when their parents can barely put food on the table. The fact that [my top player] Michael [Johnson] can’t afford that, then it makes him a lesser player in the eyes of college coaches.” So, is that the case? With so many kids participating in club sports and paying for the opportunity to be noticed by college coaches, are the college coaches really paying that much more attention to club competition? “I think one of our major missions is to try and get the best local players. The best thing about local players is you know the kids and the parents and everything,” Loyola University assistant men’s soccer coach Matt Dwyer said. “We’ve got good relationships with the high school coaches. A lot of times we’ll see them more than the club coaches because sometimes club coaches become agents for these kids and push them everywhere. The high school coaches, a lot of times, will tell you what kind of character they have and they’re not getting paid by the parents.” Dwyer also explained that when he and his staff go out to watch high school games, it’s because they know the coach and they’ve made contact ahead of time. He hasn’t seen the passion for high school sports wane as much as one might be led to
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believe. “Some of the better players at the moment are still wanting to play high school because of the Academy rule,” Dwyer said. “So you might find them on a club team. And that’s like finding a diamond in the rough.” As players such as Mazzei continue to find value in club sports — especially if they believe it helps them to play Division I — the future of how top athletes participate in high school sports should be interesting to watch. “We’re an immediate gratification society,” O’Connor said. “And in the high school environment, as opposed to the showcase world, there might be a senior in front of you and you might have to wait your turn. You’ve taken away all the arguments that the [high school] coach used to have about why this is more important than summer ball. “And the only argument we have standing is tradition. That you’re going to remember these games for the rest of your life. That the college coach still wants to hear from the high school coach about your work ethic and they’re close to you and know you well. They’re all the things we know are right and good, but it’s getting harder and harder to sell.” ncammarota@gazette.net
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When Tommy Park was a senior at DeMatha Catholic High School in 2003, there was little he didn’t participate in, and rarely was there a day after school that he strayed far from the Hyattsville campus. A current Stags’ varsity soccer assistant, Parks was a three-sport varsity athlete, participating in soccer, wresting and lacrosse. If that didn’t keep him busy enough, playing euphonium in the wind ensemble would have pushed him over the edge. He also participated in the school government. Such a busy schedule kept him from focusing all his time on one sport, or one instrument. But Park still played soccer and lacrosse at the University of Mary Washington, despite not focusing all his time specializing in one field. “I sympathize with parents and players because they’re told that there’s only one way to do it,” Park said. “They hear if he or she doesn’t practice three days a week and go to eight tournaments a year, they’re not going to have opportunities in high school, or have opportunities after high school. And that’s not true.” Pressure for athletes to commit to a sport and work towards a college athletic scholarship seem to be increasing. Students as young as 13 are verbally committing to colleges. In 2010 13-year-old David Sills of Bear, Del., committed to the University of Southern California. But area coaches say that students, and parents, don’t have to go to great lengths to specialize in one sport at an early age for an athletic scholarship to come. When Charles H. Flowers point guard Diamond Douglas was 10 years old, her mother signed her up for the local boys and girls club basketball league. Basketball wasn’t necessarily her choice, it just ended up being the sport to play that season. Since then, Douglas hasn’t played another sport, focusing her efforts year-round on basketball. In eighth grade, she started playing Amateur Athletic Union basketball with the Lady Clippers of Southern Maryland and her sophomore year she joined Team Takeover. Playing on the AAU circuit introduced her to other area players from schools such as St. Vincent Pallotti, Elizabeth Seton and St. John’s Catholic High, which makes seeing them on the other side during other league games more interesting. Douglas said her only break is in August right before school starts. She’s working towards a college scholarship and feels the time is worth it. “If you love the game, you’ll play as much as you can,” said Douglas, who tore her anterior cruciate ligament this summer. With the heavy load her athletes take on, Flowers coach Patrice Frazier-Watson said she makes sure they don’t lose sight of their purpose at Flowers: to get an education. The 13th-year coach won’t let players on the floor if their grades aren’t right. She also helped organize a ceremony at Flow-
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DeMatha Catholic High School graduate Tommy Park has been heavily involved in soccer from a young age, through his college days playing for the University of Mary Washington and now as an adult, running youth soccer programs. ers recognizing student-athletes’ academic achievements. “The one thing you have control over is academics,” Frazier-Watson said. “The whole thing is the athletic things you’ve done will pay off in the end, but you can’t guarantee it. The piece you can guarantee is having the course work done and really having an idea of what you want to study when you get to school. Then you make yourself more marketable to a coach when they’re comparing you with other kids.” Brendan O’Connell, coach of Class 4A boys basketball state champion Eleanor Roosevelt, sang the same tune as Frazier-Watson. He said most of his incoming players don’t enter with much experience outside of local boys and girls clubs. Players with work ethic and talent can overcome a steep learning curve. “Ninth and 10th graders, in my opinion, the kids should just be developing as basketball players, making sure they get better and taking care of their grades,” he said. “They shouldn’t be marketing themselves to college when they’re in ninth grade. We also haven’t had any players getting that attention that early.” But he’s had players go on to Division-1 scholarships. From last year’s team, Malachi Alexander and Emanuel Matey signed with Holy Cross and Morgan State, respectively. O’Connell said when Alexander came to Roosevelt, he played on junior varsity team his first two seasons and was moved up to varsity during his sophomore season. His senior year, he averaged 12 points per game while leading the Raiders to the state title. “The kids that do the best with us are just the kids that come in in ninth grade
with a work ethic and are just willing to be coached with a good attitude,” O’Connell said. Rising senior Brendan Burke, captain goalkeeper of DeMatha’s soccer team, grew up playing soccer, baseball and basketball but started focusing solely on soccer when he joined a U-10 team. His focus on soccer earned him a spot on the Naval Academy’s team next fall. Despite playing 10 months a year and devoting so much time to the sport, Burke said he wouldn’t change anything. “I mean there are some days, especially now during the summer when I think about hanging out with friends or going to the beach. But all the stuff I do, it makes winning possible and playing in all these tournaments — I definitely don’t regret anything,” Burke said. Burke will be joining fellow DeMatha graduate Michael Parker on the Naval Academy’s soccer team. At DeMatha, Parker also played varsity lacrosse for three seasons and still managed to play college soccer. Tommy Park also said several Stag soccer players play for the wind ensemble and take part in other school events, yet still earn scholarships. Park, who is the executive and technical director of the Alexandria Soccer Association, said while it may seem like kids have to focus all their efforts toward athletics to get a scholarship, they can still have a well-rounded high school experience without losing their childhood, and still earn the chance to play in college. “I sympathize with parents, but there’s not one way to skin a cat,” Park said. cstevens@gazette.net
As high school athletes gear up to battle the long and trying recruitment period, their strongest allies tend to be their coaches. “[My parents] participated on the emotional end … but as for traveling and stuff, my coaches handled all of that,” said Northwestern High School football player John Johnson, who just graduated. Johnson is committed to play for Boston College next year as a safety. His high school coach, Brian Pierre, is adamant about ensuring all of his players receive exposure online and on the field. “The best way to get your kids seen is to take them to the colleges … ” he said. “The process is really changing with technology.” During his recruitment regiment, Pierre consistently uses Hudl.com, a website that allows coaches to break down film and create highlight clips for each player. Although this particular website saves him both time and money, when compared to previous methods of mailing out DVDs, he is not fond of all recruitment websites, especially those such as Rivals.com, which rank players on a five star scale. “Most of the people that work at these websites didn’t actually see the kids playing,” Pierre said. “Those websites are a little unfair and a little biased sometimes.” Another website, BeRecruited.com, hosts pages for each team where players can create profiles. Although all of the information on these pages is correct, Pierre finds it vague and invaluable. Jovany Joya, one of Pierre’s rising seniors, created a profile, but realizes that page alone won’t secure him a scholarship. “Anytime, any coach can come look at you and look at what you’ve done,” he said. “But it really depends on how a player does in a game.” University of Tulsa women’s rowing coach Kevin Harris says that for well over half of the athletes on his team, Tulsa recruiters used BeRecruited to reach them. “It’s really important for us to use these services because getting people to pay attention to a rowing school in Oklahoma is tough,” Harris said. “Truthfully, everybody uses it, I just don’t know if they use it as much as we do.” Salisbury University softball
Jacob Bogage contributed to this story. jcoyne@gazette.net
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Continued from Page A-1 -ited budget are increasingly unable to send their children to premiere events that showcase their talents. The major colleges compete in Division I. Division II schools, such as Bowie State University, offer fewer athletic scholarships than the Division I schools (That varies by sport). Division III schools do not offer athletic scholarships. Taylor, who has received a full scholarship from the University of Maryland, College Park, attended nearly 25 events while also maintaining his high school schedule. “We like to joke that for all the money we’ve spent, it would have paid for maybe a year or two of tuition,” Lisa said. “But it was definitely worth it.” The Blooms paid a $2,000 signup fee for Taylor to join the Canes. Individual showcases can run up to $500 per player. None of that includes equipment (highend gloves and bats are roughly $300 each), hotel, gas, airfare or food. “It’s basically making baseball a country club sport where you’re forcing out people that don’t have money,” said Sean O’Connor, baseball coach at DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville. “Every time a kid wants exposure to a specific school, he’s got to outlay cash. Whereas, I don’t think it’s changed a lot that if a kid is talented, he’s going to be found no matter where he plays.” According to the NCAA, 2 percent of high school athletes receive athletic scholarships and the average scholarship is worth less than $11,000 per year. In lieu of full athletics scholarships, colleges will offer academic scholarships and needbased aid, such as federal Pell Grants, to entice students. The NCAA places a cap on the number of athletic scholarships available per sport, but there is no limit on academic scholarships. Colleges’ preference for academic
coach Margie Knight says she fears too many student-athletes are using recruiting websites to do the work for them. Marketing is a two-way street, she says, and just as athletes like the personal touches coaches put on recruiting tips, coaches like it too. “A student-athlete sill has to be the one to market themselves,” Knight said. “If I’m just getting blasts from BeRecruited, I delete them. It’s not the student-athlete who’s interested, it’s the corporation.” This summer, Joya, along with other players from Northwestern, attended one-day recruitment camps at colleges all over the country. Similarly, Isiah Martin, a rising senior at Gwynn Park, has been attending basketball camps along the East Coast. His coach, Mike Glick, aids his team by blasting out emails and game tapes. He also helps mentally prepare them for their July season on their summer teams, which is the peak of the basketball recruitment period. Members of his team will play anywhere from 20 to 30 games during July, and will be seen by hundreds of college scouts. “For a lot of these players, basketball is what’s going to get them into college,” Glick said during the first week of July. “The next three weeks will make or break them.” Glick shares similar sentiments as Pierre in regards to recruitment websites, saying this: “They’re meaningless, the only thing they will do is garner interest from colleges. I have not had a person in my 21 years of coaching get a scholarship without being seen by a coach.” Both Glick and Pierre are firm believers in developing strong professional relationships with other coaches in order to boost exposure for their players. “I’m very proud of our coaches’ association, we do a lot to support each others kids,” Pierre said. At their monthly meetings, he said they often set aside time to discuss each school’s top players so that when a college scout should stop by and ask about local competition, they can legitimately vouch for each other’s kids. “The NCAA has rules about talking to kids, but that doesn’t apply to coaches,” Pierre said. “Prince George’s County doesn’t have spring football … so we rely on high school coaches to talk with them and show footage.”
Cost of buying youth sports equipment adds up quickly
FIELD HOCKEY n Sticks: $50 to $350 n Goggles: $40 to $80 n Gloves: $15 to $30 n Balls: $6 to $10 n Shin guards: $20 to $50 n Bags: $30 to $80 n Total: $161 to $600 for field players n Goalie sticks: $50 to $110 n Goalie protection: $500 to $565 (includes mask, body guard, leg guards, foam hand protectors, girdle, throat protector)
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates about 30 million United States children participate in youth sports each year, costing parents an estimated $5 billion annually. For some, it’s the start of what might lead to a college athletic scholarship. scholarships adds another dimension to the complicated recruiting puzzle: the student’s performance in school. J.C. Pinkney, football coach at Frederick Douglass High School in Upper Marlboro, said he has noticed a rise in the number of showcases and camps available to his players, but he said college coaches still like to visit schools and find out how athletes are doing overall, including academically. “College coaches are old-school. They come out to the building, evaluating kids and film,” Pinkney said. “They’re not concerned as much with the showcases and how they perform there. They want to make sure the grades, the SAT scores and how the kids do in school are all good. I just wish that the kids and the parents put a little more emphasis on the academic scene. The reason a kid might not get to go to the school he wants isn’t because he can’t play football, but be-
cause of academics.” Pinkney also noted that a showcase event or camp at a college campus sometimes can prove detrimental to an athlete’s scholarship chances. “If you go there and don’t perform well, you’re taken off their radar,” Pinkney said. Riverdale Baptist basketball coach Lou Wilson has observed an increasing number of college coaches lurking outside the high school environment, though plenty still reach out to him. “During the live period, you’ll have just about every college coach in America at a camp or at some type of AAU [Amateur Athletic Union] event observing and monitoring the students they’d like to recruit,” Wilson said. At Eleanor Roosevelt High School, basketball coach Brendan O’Connell brings select players to the Hoop Group Elite showcase in Pennsylvania after the
season, where the entrance fee is $595 per player. That’s another expense. “I think finances are the biggest obstacle,” O’Connell said, “It’s something that I start telling our kids about in the middle of the season. ‘Hey, if you want to do that this summer, you’ve got to start telling your parents now because you’re not going to be able to tell them a week ahead of time that I need $600.’ And some kids just can’t do it.” While many debate whether showcase events bring results, most agree that the desire for scholarships is likely to keep people paying to participate in hopes of increasing their odds. “It works for some people. It doesn’t work for others,” O’Connor said. “And unfortunately, in the process, it’s costing a lot of people a lot of money to figure it out.” ncammarota@gazette.net
n Goalie total: $550 to $675
ICE HOCKEY n Helmets: $50 to $250 n Gloves: $35 to $190 n Shoulder pads: $40 to $170 n Hockey pants: $50 to $170 n Shin guards: $30 to $150 n Cup and supporter: $30 to $80 n Neck guard: $13 to $20 n Mouth guards: $10 to $30 n Total: $258 to $1,060 n Basketball: $18 to $70 n Baseball: $5 to $15 individually n Football: $20 to $100 n Tennis racquet: $40 to $200 n Golf clubs: $200 to $500 SOURCE: DICK’S SPORTING GOODS
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When the latest smartphone is released, it’s not that surprising to see a long line of customers waiting to be among the first to get their hands on the newest technology. For many, the price of having the most up-to-date features is worth paying whatever price is asked. Chances are not too many Prince George’s County residents were as eager to find that the county spent HALF MILLION nearly half a million dollars upgrading the county’s WOULD HAVE website, however. After BEEN BETTER all, spending personal savSPENT ON OTHER ings on a luxury item can PRIORITIES be justified, but spending taxpayers’ money on an extravagance during tough economic times simply doesn’t make sense. Granted, the $448,827 upgrade resulted in a much more colorful website. The county’s old site looked outdated compared to other jurisdictions’ websites, said Vennard Wright, the county’s chief information officer and director of the county’s Office of Information Technology. In addition to the new look of the site, officials said the setup is easier to navigate and they will add searchable databases on items such as service requests made to the county government’s non-emergency call system and county police. The site hadn’t undergone any massive upgrades since a 2006 revamp that cost $1.5 million, and the upgrade should be completed by the end of the month, according to county officials. While the motives behind the upgrade are commendable, the timing is horrific. At the peak of budget season in March, the county faced an anticipated $152 million budget deficit for fiscal 2014. In County Executive Rushern L. Baker’s budget proposal, he called for offering early retirement packages to about 500 of the county’s 6,000 employees and up to five days of unpaid leave. Baker staff members said they expected 250 of the eligible employees to take the buyouts and only 197 did, which will require additional adjustments in September. Fortunately, the County Council approved a plan that made other cuts — such as a $2 million school board request to hire additional staff members — to avoid the furloughs. The budget also reduced the size of two police classes. While overall crime dropped by seven percent last year, surely the website money would have been better spent aiding public safety to help maintain the progress. County libraries have long struggled with budget cuts, as well. For fiscal 2014, the library management structure was changed by having most libraries share a floating manager who splits time between multiple branches. Fortunately, $500,000 was used to restore Sunday hours at three county libraries — but with 18 libraries in the county and residents stressing the need for increased access to look for jobs and do research, there is clearly more to be done. In the county’s defense, a fresher, easier-to-use website with improved functionality due to department leaders being able to constantly update their agency’s information allows for better customer service and increased government transparency, and provides a more modern impression of the county for outsiders and prospective businesses that visit the site. However, there are other, more cost-efficient ways to go about achieving some of those goals, such as simply adding databases to the old format. From January to July, the county site had 5,022,486 page views compared to 18,447,115 in Montgomery County in January to July and 16,301,882 from January to June in Baltimore County. Given the significantly lower web traffic in Prince George’s, it’s clear something wasn’t right — but it’s worth finding out what drives residents to visit government sites rather than jumping to the conclusion that the site needs to be overhualed. Wright said the soft launch of the website has received mostly positive remarks, although users are still learning where to find information and some portions of the site are still being changed. Wright said the site would be updated constantly to address technical issues. Commendably, county officials did keep the money within the county by partnering with Greenbelt-based Ingenium Corp. to develop the site. Overall, half a million dollars may not seem like much in a $1.6 billion county budget. However, in a county fighting to make gains while dealing with limited resources, it’s clear the county missed an opportunity to better benefit residents.
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Latino leadership gap due to school system’s lack of effort I have to agree with the “Failing grade on Latino leadership in schools” [editorial] in the July 11 Forum. I am a Latina in the PGCPS system that graduated from Bowie High School in 1975, and a teacher in the county for the last 20 years. I have been an involved parent for my son who attended county schools and graduated from Bowie High School in 2012. I disagree with the conclusion, however, when it comes to the solutions. Translating at school meetings or sharing information about important events is only a superficial fix. “School leaders should also make a point of identifying education issues that directly impact the Latino community, such as funding for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes, which may help get residents more engaged.” You failed to identify that the ESOL department’s leadership is also non-Latino. A little investigative reporting would have uncovered the fact that there are no Latinos in the cen-
tral office of the ESOL department in our county. This is also not due to the fact that there are no qualified Latinos in our county, but because of the lack of willingness of the county to hire Latinos in those positions. One of the statistics you fail to address is the exodus of Latino talent to other neighboring counties. Two percent of teachers in the county are Latino, but you failed to mention that this is a figure that has decreased in the last 15 years at the same time that our Latino student population has increased to 23 percent. I am, you can say, part of the 2 percent of Hispanic teachers in the county who has refused to leave when opportunities to advance have found a culture of self-promotion among the African-American leadership in the county. The lack of Latino leadership in county schools is not due to the lack of Latino parental involvement. It is due to lack of an effort of our school system to nurture and promote
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Del. Joseline Peña-Melnyk (D-Dist. 21) of College Park speaks June 21 at a news conference calling for an increase in Latino leaders in the Prince George’s County school system. “We shouldn’t be an afterthought,” PeñaMelnyk said. those that it already has. Unless things change at various levels in our school system, we may see that 2 percent decrease further. I am looking forward to
changes under the leadership of Kevin Maxwell, our new CEO. I don’t think he will fumble the ball.
Cela Gomez-Showell, Bowie
Make a clean sweep of Congress I awakened one recent morning at about 3. I could not sleep because of a picture that I saw in a major Sunday paper of a little boy from the hills of Tennessee. He was eating a slice of dry bread. The little fellow was enjoying it to his heart’s content. It was all he had to eat. This sight brought tears to my eyes. And when I opened the paper to read the continuation of the story, I was ap-
palled at the many boys and girls, as well as some elderly people, who were in the same plight. Thank God that some people or an organization had bought four used school buses for about $4,000 apiece to travel the more than 66-mile route in the hills of Neville, Tenn., to bring some meals for the children in the hills and valleys of Tennessee. Folks, we live in the richest
country in the Western world, and this should not be happening in our country. We have a Congress up on Capitol Hill doing nothing but playing games with amendments and other foolishness rather than taking care of the business of the people. They would rather see the little people and the old people starve than see an African-American president resolve the problems. Presi-
dent Obama has the answer, for it is so simple, but they do not care. Their days are coming, but we don’t have to worry about them. God will take care of them. We will live to see a clean sweep of Congress. Someone had to write the truth, so at my age, 93, I can afford it.
Lemon H. Moses Jr., Waldorf
The Laura Neuman Story Last week’s column pointed out that, despite its ultra-liberal impulses, Maryland has yet to elect a woman governor. Twenty-six other states, including unenlightened Alabama, Arizona, Utah, South Carolina and Louisiana, have done so, and the nation may elect a woman president long before Maryland elects a woman governor. Maryland Republicans should take note. In order to win a statewide race in Maryland the GOP needs a pair of lightning strikes. First, the Democrats need to screw up and, second, the Republicans need a legitimate “crossover” candidate who can attract dissident Democratic voters. Next year’s governor’s race could well see a Democratic train wreck. Anthony Brown wants to be Maryland’s first MY MARYLAND black governor, BLAIR LEE Doug Gansler wants to be Maryland’s first governor elected from Montgomery County and Heather Mizeur wants to be Maryland’s first lesbian governor. And none of them is from Baltimore. In its wake, the Democratic primary is bound to leave hard feelings and disappointed followers. But how can the GOP exploit such a possibility? How about running a woman reform candidate from Baltimore who has a compelling life story? Looks good on paper; does one exist? Yes, she’s Anne Arundel’s new reform county executive, Laura Neuman, whose predecessor went to prison for misconduct in office. Neuman was born poor in east Baltimore to a troubled household. She survived the city’s 1968 race riots and walked to school with a nickel in one hand and a quarter in the other, hoping to surrender only the nickel to the neighborhood hoodlums. Here’s the rest of her story: “My first job was helping my older brother with his paper route. I eventually
took over the route and I still remember a man giving me a fifty-cent coin, my first real money.” Next she worked as a lifeguard, a waitress and a cashier. At 17, she dropped out of high school and then left home. “I moved out the day I turned 18, staying on the floor of a friend’s house for a couple of months. I was always the kid taken in by friends, from Pikesville to Edgewood. I was like a nomad trying to find a safe place to land. Finally I rented an apartment in Baltimore with a co-worker. I was working at Chi-Chi’s.” When the state raised the drinking age to 21, Neuman lost her Chi-Chi’s waitress job because she was too young to serve liquor. “The night I lost my job, I came home crying. In my sleep I remember hearing a shuffling sound and muffled noises, but assumed I was dreaming. I was awakened with a pillow over my face and a gun touching my right temple. I was raped; the details of the crime are still vivid.” Neither the police nor her family believed her. Later, at age 23, she roomed with a successful businesswoman who inspired her to apply herself. Responding to a want ad, she landed a customer service job answering phones at T. Rowe Price for $7 an hour, no benefits. Thanks to her knack for business, she moved up at Price, while working other jobs, got her GED and bought her first new car. After a romantic disappointment, she moved to Annapolis, where a friend advised her to go into high tech. “I applied to hundreds of companies. In 1996 I secured my first technology position in sales with Digex. It was modest but it was a start.” Encouraged to apply to Loyola’s Executive MBA program despite no college degree, she was admitted and graduated. Meanwhile, she moved up to an Internet company where, as head of sales, she helped put together a billion-dollar IPO. Another tech company offered her a $450,000 salary that Neuman rejected because the offer included no ownership. Instead she went with a struggling startup company, Matrics, which offered her eq-
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uity. “I decided to bet on myself. I cashed in my savings and my 401(k) so I could survive until I raised enough money to get paid. I built the company, hiring smart people, building a product and negotiating deals.” Meanwhile, she attended Stanford Business School, commuting coast-tocoast. Then, thanks to her financial positioning, Matrics sold for $230 million, cash, making Neuman financially secure for life. “After Matrics, I went on a personal mission. I wanted my rape case investigated. I called anyone and everyone related to the Baltimore Police Department. Finally, Bernie Holthaus took my case. After 19 years, my rape case was solved in three days.” The investigation revealed that the defendant was guilty of multiple unsolved rapes. Neuman’s case became a 48 Hours TV episode and she started a foundation for rape victims. Married with two young kids, Neuman next was asked to become Howard County’s economic development chief. Then, when Anne Arundel County Executive John Leopold went to jail, Neuman quietly but furiously lobbied to fill the vacancy. “I called each councilman and asked for a meeting. My entire effort was focused on them getting to know me and me getting to know them. I laid low with the press.” It worked. And now Neuman wants to continue by running for a full term next year. True, it’s a safer option than running for governor. But history is littered with failed politicians whom time passed by as they “waited their turn.” Laura Neuman’s life story is one of courageous risk-taking and betting on herself. Perhaps she should do so one more time. Blair Lee is chairman of the board of Lee Development Group in Silver Spring and a regular commentator for WBAL radio. His column appears Fridays in the Business Gazette. His past columns are available at www.gazette.net/blairlee. His email address is blair@leedg.com.
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County rugby players find their niche Despite a small availability at the youth level, sport still has an intimate following
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Driving down the curvy, tree-lined Brock Bridge Road in Laurel, it can be easy miss Maryland City Park, where for two hours, two nights a week, one of the Rocky Gorge Rugby Club, speeds around the outfield of an overgrown baseball field. Rugby players say it’s the best sport out there. The physicality mirrors football, but the absence of pads gives it a throwback feel. With little foundation at the youth and high school levels, the sport can often be a hidden gem until college, where the sport has a rabid following, according to several players. That was the case for Kevin Jackson. Jackson, a 2005 Parkdale High School graduate, played football, wrestled and ran track prior to college and said he had never heard of rugby. That changed when he arrived at Penn State, Erie. “I saw this sport that was like football without equipment — we always played football out in the park when we were young — so the contact was cool,” Jackson said. “If you like to hit, you like to run and you like physicality, it’s a good sport to play. It’s a good challenge.” Will Miller had the same experience when he was at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He found
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Frederick Douglass High School football coach J.C. Pinkney gives directions to his team during the 2011 Class 2A state championship game at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore.
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ooking at Henry A. Wise High School’s football program, which has established itself as a perennial state championship contender and won its first Class 4A state title last season, it can be easy to forget that 10 years ago the Upper Marlboro school didn’t exist. When coach DaLawn Parrish was hired eight years ago, there were no seniors, students were coming from various other high schools, and the product on the field was hardly a semblance of the unit that has played in three of the past four state title games. Parrish said he knows being located in the football hotbed of Upper Marlboro has helped the program grow from obscurity to dominance quickly. But while competing with other private schools for talent, consistently producing winning seasons sells the program by itself. Now, kids want to come to Wise, evident by at least eight transfers students scheduled to enroll this fall.
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Henry A. Wise High School football coach DaLawn Parrish says his first goal is to help as many of his players get into college as possible.
“We’re in a good area, and of course, the more you win — it’s the same for [Frederick] Douglass — you get more kids,” Parrish said. “The privates are doing their jobs getting kids to play for them, but more kids are deciding to
stay in public school and play for their home audience.” When J.C. Pinkney took over the Douglass program 12 years ago, he was a mere 27 years old and in charge of a team with an established history of success after reaching the state quarterfinals or better six times in the 1990s. He wasn’t afraid to make changes, though, including mandatory offseason workouts and demanding more accountability. The approach rubbed some players the wrong way and Pinkney said he was forced to cut some talented kids from the program. But he says the approach created long-term success. The Eagles have played in the Class 2A state finals the past two years, losing both times, and haven’t missed the playoffs in 10 years. Last year’s team featured Paul Harris and Demory Monroe, two DeMatha Catholic transfers, and Tre’ Gibbons Hall, who came from Archbishop Carroll (D.C.). While he welcomes the transfers, Pinkney said his main goal is getting kids to come in as freshmen to play their full tenure at one school. A prime example would be promising
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Charles H. Flowers High School rising sophomore Alexis Braswell was ecstatic when her sister Ashley, also a rising sophomore, became the first Jaguar in school history to win a regional swim title last winter with a first-place finish in the 100yard backstroke during February’s Class 4A/3A South Region championship meet. Then Prince George’s County’s champion in the 200- and 500-yard freestyle events made a decision. “Oh, yeah, I’m going to win a region title next year. It was really cool [when Ashley] won because Flowers
never had a regional champion. But I was like, ‘Wow, my sister is doing big things.’ It motivated me,” Alexis, 15, said. That’s pretty much how these two sisters work, they agreed. They are happy when the other succeeds, but also serve as each other’s biggest competition. That dynamic, and the versatility beCharles H. Flowers tween the two, High School’s Ashley was at the core Braswell. of Flowers’ best season in school history. There are 12 girls events at a high school championship swim meet, nine of them individual races
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Charles H. Flowers High School swimmer Alexis Braswell swims the girls 200-yard freestyle during last winter’s Prince George’s County Championships at Fairland Aquatics Complex in Laurel.
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Parkdale High School 2005 graduate and current New Carrollton resident Kevin Jackson kicks the ball on July 18 during the Rocky Gorge Rugby Club’s practice at Maryland City Park in Laurel.
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After Dennis Murphy was named the new boys basketball coach at St. Vincent Pallotti High School, he scheduled a meeting with U.S. Naval Academy men’s basketball coach Ed DeChellis. And among the many meetings that Murphy has attended in the previous few weeks — with parents, players, school administration and potential staff members — his chat with DeChellis sticks out the most to him. “He said, ‘Don’t take shortcuts. When you’re driving and you go a different way that appears to be shorter, you get lost and it takes you twice as long to get there,’” Murphy said. “I agree with that, I believe that and I think getting a good staff, getting students that are on board with your vision and working hard, that’s, to me, as simple as it is.” Murphy takes over for Shae Johnson, who resigned after seven seasons with the school. The Panthers won the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association Conference B title last year and likely will depend on returning seniors Tariq Owens and Marquise Reed this winter. Murphy was selected among 45 applicants for his first head coaching job by Principal Jeff Palumbo and Athletic Director Rick Diggs. “You want to surround yourself with people that share your vision,” Murphy said. “With people that are hungry, that are passionate and that are going to do thing the right way.” After moving to Washington, D.C., in 1999, Murphy, 48, has served as an assistant coach at St. John’s College High School, Catholic University and Bishop O’Connell. He grew up in Philadelphia and attended West Catholic High School. He said his background in
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Continued from Page A-11 and three relays. Finding swimmers capable of scoring in each event can be a challengingtaskformanycoaches —freestyletendstobeacommon strength among swimmers. But between Ashley, 14, and Alexis, Jaguars coach Jeff Ware was covered in nearly event last winter. Ashley is strong in the backstroke and breaststroke while Alexis excels at the distance freestyle events. There is a third Braswell sister, but Amber attends the high school program at Prince George’s Community College. The three, however, said they relish the opportunity to swim together over the summer as teammates on the Kingfish Swim Club team that competes in the Prince-Mont Swim League. It’s where they
be a part of our program. Our talent in the Upper Marlboro area, we just want those kids to stay, rather than go to privates or any other options they may have.” In establishing the Wise program, Parrish describes a progression. His primary focus is sending his players to college. After that, he said he wants wins with the third goal being a state championship. “I’ve always felt as though,
if kids go to college, kids recognize that,” Parrish said. “The more kids you send to college, the more people recognize that, and you win more. Then, if you get lucky, you win a state title. If you win a state title, more kids want to stay at home.” And plenty of kids want to play for the Pumas. Nearly 60 kids have been attending varsity offseason workouts, with an additional 35 working with the junior varsity.
As far as the transfers, Parrish said more players not only adds depth but fosters more competition. “I’m excited about the additions, but I’m excited about what we already had,” Parrish said. “Hopefully things work themselves out and the cream will rise tothetop,andeveryonewillwork toward the same goal and that’s winning a state championship.”
club team, which has a boys’ and a girls’ program, in 2006. Eisenberg said he consistently has around 30 kids come out for the boys’ team. He said the biggest stigma with the sport is that it is viewed as violent because of the lack of padding. “You know how people view football, that seems to be the American sports. They get onto a false misconception that football is safe and rugby is dangerous,” said Eisenberg, who played at Frostburg State and for Rocky Gorge. “You don’t wear pads, but you teach proper technique. Most people
don’t realize that helmets don’t stop concussions. If you want to eliminate concussions, you need to teach technique.” There are two styles of rugby: Rugby union (15 players) and rugby sevens (seven players). Rugby sevens, a faster version of the game suited to smaller and quicker players, will make its Olympic debut in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. “Sevens is higher scoring, a lot faster pace and a lot more fun to watch, and to be a part of,” Rocky Gorge’s Sam Ausden said. The Rocky Gorge Rugby
Club plays sevens during the summer and union during the fall and spring. In 2012, Rocky Gorge won the USA Rugby Division II National Championship in union play. This past spring, it reached the quarterfinals of the national tournament. As a firmly entrenched organization in the rugby landscape, Rocky Gorge coach Chuck Moore hopes that the sport continues to grow in the area. “You just fall in love with it immediately,” Moore said. “This is a fantastic sport. Even if you’re not good at it.“
got their start in the sport. The Braswell sisters’ 2012 KSC team record in the girls 18-and-under age group 200-meter medley relay was nearly two seconds faster than the winning time at Saturday’s Prince-Mont Swim League Division A championship meet. Two-time defending division champion Theresa Banks won the meet. Kingfish finished fourth in the six-team field, behind Takoma Park, D.C. Swim Club and the host Whitehall Pool & Tennis. During the winter high school season Alexis, who picked up two top five finishes Saturday as one of the youngest in the girls 15-18s, and Ashley combined to win five of the six events they contested at the 2013 Prince George’s County championships. Alexis won the 200- and 500-yard freestyle, Ashley won the 100-yard backstroke and the two joined
forces for wins in the 200- and 400-yard freestyle relays. Flowers posted a second-place finish behind 13-time defending champion Eleanor Roosevelt. This past winter marked the first time in 13 years that perennial runner-up Bowie didn’t finish in second place. The Jaguars followed that up with a third-place finish at the region meet, up three places from a sixth-place result in 2012. “I don’t think people were expecting [Flowers] to have the kind of accomplishments we had. I think we do have a chance of winning [counties]. It will just take a bunch of hard work and determination — swimmers who want to win and have goals for the future,” Ashley said. The future is indeed bright for Flowers. The Braswell sisters, who accounted for 25 percent of Flowers’ overall scoring at counties and regionals, were
part of an influx of talented young year-round swimmers who Ware said helped bolster the Jaguars’ lineup. Alexis, who tied for first place in individual scoring at the county championships, and Ashley (sixth) were the team’s topscorers,butseveraladditional teammates also finished in the top 30, including rising sophomores (Daiysa Burrell, Kelcey Coleman), rising junior Deloris Jackson and rising seniors Amira Abadir and Jordan Wilcher. Flowers finished 58 points behind Roosevelt at counties last winter. The Jaguars have quite a bit of ground to make up, but they are returning all of their top swimmers while the Raiders will lose a few of their best. “It’s definitely been cool to be part of [Flowers’] rise, just knowing we can make a difference,” Alexis said.
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Henry A. Wise High School rising senior Paris Vaughn said he desperately needed a getaway in the spring of 2011. He said he could not bear to run one more 1,600-meter race, the monotony of circling around the track for a race he didn’t enjoy. The hurdles, he said he remembered thinking one day, looked fun. So he gave it a try. “I had no form, I had no experience whatsoever,” he said. Even with his legs flying all over, arms doing likewise, he still crossed the finish line first in that first practice race. “I figured, if I really worked at it, I could be pretty good and my coaches thought the same thing.” Thus far, pretty good has proven an understatement. Vaughn recently returned from Illinois, site of the World Youth Track & Field Trials, where he finished seventh in the 110 and 300 hurdles. Earlier in the year, during the high school season, he swept the county and region championships in each, claimed silver in the 300 at the Class 4A state championships and bronze in the 110. In an event hyper-focused on technique, where a centimeter too low into a hurdle can send the runner crashing to the ground but an inch too high can mean the split-second difference between first and fourth, that is improvement of alarming levels. “He’s stronger,” Wise coach Fardan Carter said. “He was thrown into the fire as a freshman — I said ‘Hey, you’re going to get thrown into the fire a little bit.’ That was a lot of pressure. He was just coming in as a freshman, bright-eyed, didn’t really know what was going on, and he responded. And now he’s one of the leaders on the team.” Vaughn is one of the few who returned from the Pumas’ 2012 outdoor state championship run. He could compete in everything from the long and short hurdles, pole vault — the only one in the county to do so — any number of relays ranging from the 800 to the 3,200, and any open race from the 1,600 and down, though with his strong distaste for distance, Vaughn argued his case to remain in the shorter events. “He could do every event,” Carter said. “If we wanted to put him in the shot put, he’d
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Continued from Page A-11 Catholic education was one of his motivating factors in applying for the position. “Spending 22 years in the Marine Corps growing up in Philly, you know I’m competitive,” Murphy said. “I’m not going to be somebody’s homecoming game every year where they can blow us out. But it’s a process. You’ve got to get the foundation going.” Murphy hasn’t yet picked his coaching staff, but did have a chance to hold a brief meeting with his returning players. “The initial thing is there’s no pressure to win this year other than the pressure I’m going to put on myself to win,” he said. “I think we can win as long as we have kids who are willing to be part of something bigger than themselves.” Pallotti also made a hire on the girls’ side, tabbing Rod Hairston as their new coach. Hairston spent last season at Bullis in Montgomery County before stepping down to accept a position with the Panthers. It will be Hairston’s sixth school in as many seasons after he spent a dominant five-year run at Eleanor Roosevelt, where his teams won five consecutive Class 4A state championships. He takes over for Josh Pratt, who spent four years as Pallotti’s coach. “I’m definitely excited for the opportunity to take over at Pallotti. I think it’s a special opportunity that at this stage in my career I couldn’t pass up,” Hairston said. “Coming from
probably finish top eight in the county.” Carter is also well aware that “his bread and butter is the hurdles,” he said. “Paris is very capable of pulling off 14 feet [in the pole vault] if he just worked to concentrate on that one event. It’s always just making sure he does every single event to make sure he has a mark so the college coaches can see it.” At the moment, his marks in the hurdles, namely the 300, his stronger suit, are the main attraction for the college suitors. Miami of Ohio, Bucknell, Rider, Morgan State, Howard and a few others have all expressed interest in Vaughn, and many more can be expected to be calling before next indoor season is out. His somewhat upstart success his junior year even caught Vaughn a little aback. Coming off a hip injury he suffered during the 2012 state championships after tripping up on a hurdle, Vaughn couldn’t walk on his own for two weeks. His summer track circuit obviously cut short, Vaughn focused solely on getting back to the speed that he was running before the injury, not necessarily improving it. Before long, he was breaking 15 seconds in the 110 hurdles, going sub 39 seconds in the 300 hurdles, and falling just .02 seconds shy of his first individual state gold medal. “I was very surprised,” he said. “I didn’t think I could do that well coming off an injury.” Now with a full plate of summer track ahead of him, nixing football for the first time in his life to concentrate on track in the fall, and two more seasons of high school track ahead, both coach and pupil are understandably eager to see what he can do when he’s not coming off an injury. “With him, I get the leadership you’d expect out of a kid that’s been in the program for four years,” Carter said. “You get that fire. He’s definitely a character kid. We don’t have to worry about his character, we don’t have to worry about him doing what he needs to be doing, whether I’m there or not there.” For now, Vaughn is just happy Carter has given up assigning him distance events, though curiosity sometimes gets the better of him. “I like the fact that I made that decision, but sometimes I think about what would have happened if I didn’t try the hurdles,” Vaughn said. “Would I be a distance runner? Would I be good at it?” tmewhirter@gazette.net
Bullis, it was difficult, but I feel like Pallotti just met more of my personal career goals and aspirations.” As the athletics landscape at Pallotti continues to evolve, Hairston noted his excitement to work with Palumbo and Diggs as a motivating factor, as well as the shorter driving distance to Pallotti from his house as compared to Bullis. Despite winning a conference championship with Bullis last season and leading a team that went 21-5, Hairston said yet another move was the right one for him. “I feel like they have the confidence in my abilities to build a program and they can give me the administrative support necessary to try to build a winning program at Pallotti,” Hairston said. In addition to Roosevelt, Bullis and Pallotti, he’s also coached at Bishop McNamara, Northwestern, and Henry A. Wise (assistant coach) in the previous six seasons. The Panthers went 19-16 last year in the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland’s A Division. “It’s a senior-laden team. I think that they have the talent and skill athletically to be able to compete for a championship this year. I just hope I don’t screw it up,” Hairston said with a laugh. “I think there’s a lot of room to grow. The players that come in this season and the next season will have an immediate impact on the program. I think it’s a good opportunity for everyone.” ncammarota@gazette.net
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Thomas DiSalvo, Dillon DiSalvo, Marian Donahue and Patrick Gorirossi in The Parlor Room Theater Company’s 2011 production of “The Ghost Train.”
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fter Frank DiSalvo, his brothers, Thomas and Dillon, and some of their high school friends produced the murder mystery parody, “The Butler Did It,” in 2006, they thought that was a wrap. “We didn’t plan to do it forever,” said Frank. “And then the next year we were like, ‘Let’s do it again.’” Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap,” opening Thursday at the Bishop McNamara High School
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THE MOUSETRAP Thomas DiSalvo, Jackie Schiff and Nick Arbin in “On the Lam,” an original play by Frank DiSalvo Jr.
n When: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays, July 25 to Aug. 3; 2 p.m. Sunday; 7:30 p.m. Aug. 4 n Where: Bishop McNamara High School Fine Arts Theater, 6800 Marlboro Pike, Forestville n Tickets: $10 n For information: 202-340-8623, parlorroomtheater.com
Fine Arts Theater, will be the eighth show from DiSalvo and his team, now known as the Parlor Room Theater. DiSalvo, a graduate of Bishop McNamara, said the idea for the theater company came to him during his freshman year at The Catholic University of America in an introduction to playwriting class. “I thought how cool it would be to be able to do one of the plays [the class] was reading about,” DiSalvo said. “Then I thought, ‘Why can’t I do it?’” In the summer of 2006, with the help of his brothers and former classmates, DiSalvo produced “The Butler Did It,” Parlor Room’s first play. “The cast we had together was basically all the people who had done plays together in high school,” said DiSalvo, who is directing the “The Mousetrap.” “The majority of the people over the years have been alumni of McNamara.”
Dillon DiSalvo, Chris Hogue (in background), Frank DiSalvo, Steven Barroga, Daniel Barroga, Sean Poppert, Lonnie Simmons and Marian Donahue in The Parlor Room Theater Company’s 2011 production of “The Ghost Train.”
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Keyboardist and composer David Bach kicks off Beltsville’s Jazz Under the Stars Summer Concert Series Saturday at the Beltsville Community Center. The series’ second and final concert on Aug. 10 will feature Project Natale, a jazz quartet that performs throughout the Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia area. The outdoor concert will feature Bach and his band, The David Bach Consort, a group of Washington, D.C., and Baltimorebased musicians. “I’ve gone through many incarnations with the band, Bach said. “We have numerous people at every position because the good players, they stay busy.” For Saturday’s concert, the band will be a five-piece ensemble. According to Bach, the band’s rotating cast of musicians means the music The David Bach Consort plays is always fresh. “The band changes, but for the audience, and for me, it’s refreshing because I can play the same thing and it can sound completely different,” Bach said. Because the Jazz Under the Stars series is typically widely attended by families, Bach said the performance will feature more covers and less of the musician’s original music. “For outdoor events, I’ll sort of look at the crowd,” Bach said. “They really re-
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JAZZ UNDER THE STARS SUMMER CONCERT SERIES n When: 7 p.m. Saturday and Aug. 10 n Where: Beltsville Community Center, 3900 Sellman Rd., Beltsville n Tickets: Free n For information: 301-937-6613, pgparks.com
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The amalgam of Dr. Seuss stories and characters from the Broadway musical “Seussical” were already familiar to the young Laurel Mill Playhouse cast, but mastering the music was more of a challenge, said director Jocelyn Knazk. “There are some complex harmonies and some strange vocal parts,” said Knazk. “[But] I don’t think you give up on something just because they’re children.“ “They’re capable of getting it. It just takes a little more time,” she said about Laurel Mill’s summer youth production, which begins Friday and
SEUSSICAL n When: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays (except 2 p.m. Aug. 17) , 2 p.m. Sundays, July 26 to Aug. 17; 8 p.m. Thursdays, Aug. 1, 8, 15 n Where: 508 Main St., Laurel n Tickets: $15-$18 n For information: 301-617-9906, press 2, laurelmillplayhouse.org
runs to Aug. 17. “They’re excited to see it come to life on the stage,” said Knazk, who, like her cast, grew up reading about Horton the elephant and the Cat and the Hat in the children’s books written and illustrated by Theodor Seuss Geisel, who died in 1991.
The musical “Seussical” is about Horton, an elephant who hears sounds coming from a speck of dust and discovers that living on the speck are the microscopic Whos. Horton spirits the tiny creatures out of harm’s way by putting the speck on a clover and then becomes friends with Jo Jo, a Who child who is sent military school for thinking too many “thinks” that distract from his school work and annoy his teachers. The kind-hearted Horton also takes on the job of guarding an egg abandoned by Mayzie La Bird, who flies off and leaves him with her unhatched progeny. In the meantime, Gertrude McFuzz, a shy bird with only one tail feather, falls for Horton because of
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The Laurel Mill Playhouse presents “Seussical the Musical” with a young adult cast, July 26 to Aug. 17. From left are Elizabeth Steele, Allison Thompson and Alexis Thompson as The Birdgirls.
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THEATER & STAGE Bowie Community Theatre, “Tale of the Allergist’s Wife,” to July 27, Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Drive, Bowie, 301-805-0219, www.bctheatre. com. Bowie State University, TBA, Fine and Performing Arts Center, Bowie State University, 14000 Jericho Park Road, Bowie, 301-8603717, www.bowiestate.edu. Busboys & Poets, Hyattsville, TBA, 5331 Baltimore Avenue, Hyattsville, 301-779-2787 (ARTS), www.busboysandpoets.com. Harmony Hall Regional Center, TBA, call for prices, 10701 Livingston Road, Fort Washington, 301203-6070, arts.pgparks.com. Greenbelt Arts Center, “Tis Pity
She’s a Whore,” Aug. 16-31, call for prices, times, Greenbelt Arts Center, 123 Centerway, Greenbelt, 301-441-8770, www.greenbeltartscenter.org. Hard Bargain Players, “Blackbird,” to Aug. 3, 2001 Bryan Point Road, Accokeek, www.hbplayers. org. Joe’s Movement Emporium, Thad Wilson in Concert, 7 p..m July 25, “Carolina,” 10 a.m., 1 p.m. and 8 p.m. Aug. 2, 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Aug. 3-4, 3309 Bunker Hill Road, Mount Rainier, 301-6991819, www.joesmovement.org. Laurel Mill Playhouse, “Seussical,” July 26 to Aug. 18, call for ticket prices, Laurel Mill Playhouse, 508 Main St., Laurel, 301-452-2557, www.laurelmillplayhouse.org. Montpelier Arts Center, TBA, 9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel, 301377-7800, arts.pgparks.com. Prince George’s Little Theatre, TBA, Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Drive, Bowie, 301-957-7458, www.pglt.org. Publick Playhouse, TBA, 5445 Landover Road, Cheverly, 301277-1710, arts.pgparks.com.
2nd Star Productions, “Little Shop of Horrors,” coming in September, Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Drive, Bowie, call for prices, times, 410-757-5700, 301-832-4819, www.2ndstarproductions.com.
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Mount Rainier Nature Center, Toddler Time: hands-on treasures, crafts, stories and soft play, 10:30 a.m.-noon Thursdays, age 5 and younger free, 4701 31st Place, Mount Rainier, 301-927-2163.
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Tantallon Community Players, “Quartet,” coming in September, Harmony Hall Regional Center, 10701 Livingston Road, Fort Washington, 301-262-5201, www.tantallonstage.com.
Prince George’s Audubon Society, Bird Walks, 7:30 a.m. first Sat-
urdays, Fran Uhler Natural Area, meets at end of Lemon Bridge Road, north of Bowie State University, option to bird nearby WB&A Trail afterward; 7:30 a.m. third Saturdays, Governor Bridge Natural Area, Governor Bridge Road, Bowie, meet in parking lot; for migrating and resident woodland and field birds, and waterfowl. For beginners and experts. Waterproof footwear and binoculars suggested. Free. 410-765-6482.
VISUAL ARTS Brentwood Arts Exchange, “Nostalgia Structures,” to Aug. 24, opening reception from 5-8 p.m. July 20, 3901 Rhode Island Ave., Brentwood, 301-277-2863, arts. pgparks.com.
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TBA, gallery hours from 8:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10701 Livingston Road, Fort Washington, 301-203-6070. arts. pgparks.com. Montpelier Arts Center, Jonathan West, installation/sculpture, to Aug. 18, Library Gallery, gallery open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, 9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel, 301-3777800, arts.pgparks.com.
Prince George’s Sports & Learning Complex, Senior Days at
the Sportsplex, 8 a.m.-noon Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, seniors allowed free use of the fitness center and pool, age 60 and up, 8001 Sheriff Road, Landover, 301-583-2400.
Seat Pleasant Activity Center, Line Dancing, 6:30-8 p.m.
University of Maryland University College, TBA, call for prices
Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays, $40 series, $6 drop-ins, age 18 and up, 5720 Addison Road, Seat Pleasant, 301-773-6685.
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‘BLACKBIRD’ ON STAGE Heather James and Neil Twohig in a scene from the Hard Bargain Players’ production of “Blackbird.” For more information, visit www.hbplayers.org. 28; An Acoustic Evening with the Scrub Pines, 7 p.m. July 30; Mark Glass and Joe Harris, 7 p.m. July 31, 113 Centerway Road, 301-474-5642, www.newdealcafe.com. Old Bowie Town Grill, Wednesday Night Classic Jam, 8 p.m. every Wednesday, sign-ups start at 7:30 p.m., 8604 Chestnut Ave., Bowie, 301-464-8800, www.oldbowi-
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Spooky film ‘The Conjuring’ is haunting in all the best ways BY
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Haunted house movies only work if the people in the house are worth scaring. Sounds stupid, but it’s true, although let’s be honest: Real estate is inherently frightening. You put all that money in and only Satan knows if it’ll turn out to be a decent investment, or if you’ll be able to afford what it takes to repair any undisclosed matters of basement seepage. The quirks and creaks of an old house are always good for gallows humor or a cold shot of dread. As I write this the fridge in our new/old residence is softly moaning like a distant foghorn. Is it the way the appliance sits on a slightly askew kitchen floor? Is it demonic? When a really good new horror film comes out — something more about creative intelligence than executing the next grisly kill shot — it’s something of a miracle in this eviscerating post-“Saw” era. Old-school and supremely confident in its attack, “The Conjuring” is this year’s miracle — an “Amityville Horror” for a new century (and a far better movie than that 1979 hit), yet firmly rooted, without being slavish or self-conscious, in the visual language of 1970s filmmaking. Also like “The Amityville Horror,” “The Conjuring” derives from an alleged true-life haunting, this one in rural Rhode Island, at an old house where terrible things happened and are happening still. The relative restraint of “The Conjuring” is a surprise given that the director, James Wan, made the first of the “Saw” films. A more apt reference point is Wan’s re-
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Continued from Page B-1 Patrick Gorirossi graduated from Bishop McNamara in 2012. His first show with Parlor Room was 2010’s “Frankenstein.” “I had been in probably five or six shows before ‘Frankenstein,’” Gorirossi said. “A good friend of mine had been involved with Parlor Room before and he kind of [brought] me along to the audition.” A Bowie resident, Gorirossi is now studying theater at Anne Arundel Community College and is active in many community theaters in the Washington, D.C., area. He said Parlor Room’s style is an ideal one for an actor. “My first impression of the whole thing was how relaxed and free it was,” Gorirossi said. “I love the environment they’ve created. It’s a very comfortable environment to try new things ... I much prefer this style because it’s much more free for an actor.” In “The Mousetrap,” a murder mystery about a group of strangers snowed in together at Monkswell Manor, Gorirossi plays Christopher, a 22-year-old running away from his past and bringing a lot of baggage along with him. “The Mousetrap” is a change of pace from the Parlor Room’s 2012 production, “On the Lam,” a comedy thriller about the Waler family, whose house is invaded by three escaped prisoners. The show was written by DiSalvo. “We like to put on plays that
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A scene from New Line Cinema’s supernatural thriller “The Conjuring.” cent, slow-simmer horror outing “Insidious,” which, like “The Conjuring,” took its time in establishing the ground rules. The script by Chad Hayes and Carey W. Hayes blends the tales of two families under extreme duress. Demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren, the reallife ghost hunters played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, investigate the strange goingson in the riverside farmhouse owned by a family of seven (two parents, five daughters) headed by Roger (Ron Livingston) and Carolyn (Lili Taylor). Warning signs and troubling details abound, but subtly, in the opening sequences. The family dog won’t go inside. The clocks stop every night at 3:07 a.m. Unexplained bruises appear on the mother’s body, and one of the daughters complains of someone tugging at her feet in bed. Then the ghost of a long-dead child appears to one of the girls in a mirror. The miserably outof-tune piano found in the cellar
plays … itself. Before all that, though, “The Conjuring” begins with a bait-and-switch and an entirely different story set three years earlier, that of a devil doll in 1968 (the year of “Rosemary’s Baby”!) terrorizing nurses in Manhattan. The doll ends up in the possession of the paranormal investigators played by Wilson and Farmiga. They have a young daughter of their own, who’s no less vulnerable to demons and such than the Rhode Island girls living by the river. Shooting digitally but with great attention to practical and
postproduction lighting and color effects, Wan and his cinematographer, John R. Leonetti, keep the “gotchas!” coming. Near the end, when the full-on possession is underway, “The Conjuring” starts to feel more familiar, and there’s less downtime between thrills. (Wan’s technique grows more obviously hysterical as the characters do.) Wilson, a solid actor, brings to the material a stalwart leading-
man aura that’s more serviceable than compelling on its own. But the movie belongs to the women, for once, and “The Conjuring” doesn’t exploit or mangle the female characters in the usual ways. Farmiga, playing a true believer, makes every spectral sighting and human response matter; Taylor is equally fine, and when she’s playing a “hide-and-clap” blindfold game with her girls, she’s like a kid
herself, about to get the jolt of her life. Wan shoots “The Conjuring” like a Robert Altman film, slipsliding around the interior or the exterior of the old dark house in a series of slow zooms and gratifyingly complex extended takes. Might this movie actually be too good, in a slightly square way, to find the audience it deserves among under-20-somethings? Maybe. Maybe not. I hope not.
appeal to a wide range of people,” DiSalvo said. Though DiSalvo and friends started the theater company when they were just students, Parlor Room is not intended to be an amateur group. “It’s for people who want to do theater for a living,” said DiSalvo, who works as a freelance theater artist doing sound design and working to get his own plays produced. “Many of
the people in our company have started to work professionally in local theaters.” Gorirossi said Parlor Room’s loose structure is great for young actors looking to break into the local theater scene. “You’re able to have equal say in what you think your character would do,” Gorirossi said. “Which is excellent, especially for new actors. They have free range to explore.”
Now, Parlor Room produces one show a year, but DiSalvo said the company is looking to expand and establish itself as a prominent theater company in Prince George’s County. “What we’re trying to do, there is not a lot of theater in Prince George’s County,” DiSalvo said. “When you hear about theater in the area, it’s in Bowie, so we’re trying to keep
this area more of a theater-going area.” Part of Parlor Room’s expansion plan includes auditioning actors from other places besides Bishop McNamara. “Our aim is to work with people that we don’t know,” DiSalvo said. “We have grown over the last few years although most of our actors come from the high school; all are alumni ... except for a few people.”
According to Gorirossi, if DiSalvo continues to balance efficiency and creativity, Parlor Room will have no trouble recruiting other actors. “It’s the same level of seriousness and professionalism [as other companies].” Gorirossi said. “But at the same time, I feel like I’m much more a part of Parlor Room.”
THE CONJURING n 3 ½ stars n R; 112 minutes n Cast: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Lily Taylor, Ron Livingston n Directed by James Wan
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(From left) John Brotherton as Brad, Vera Farmiga as Lorraine Warren, Patrick Wilson as Ed Warren and Ron Livingston as Roger Perron in New Line Cinema’s supernatural thriller “The Conjuring,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.
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RELIGION CALENDAR Movie Night: “An Incredible Diet: Healthy from the Inside Out,
Part 5” 6:30 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Hyattsville Seventh-day Adventist Church, 4807 42nd Place, Hyattsville. Find out about radiation that you can’t live without. Should sunlight be embraced or avoided? Discover the answer in this lecture by Jeanie Davis. Contact 240-6876006 or TheChiDoctor@aol.com. Healing Hearts & Homes, 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Hillandale Baptist Church, 2601 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi. Church revival with guest speaker, Ron Herrod of Herrod Evangelism Ministries Association. Herrod’s ministry has included national television, crusades and mission projects in more than 30 countries throughout the world, an international tape/CD ministry, and the writing of seven books. A dynamic speaker and a strong Christian believer. Contact 301434-6033 or siwilli@yahoo.com. “HOPE” Support Group, 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday at St. John’s Parish Education Center, 8912 Old Branch Ave., Clinton. For people
suffering from depressive illnesses. Contact 301-868-6180. Annual Ministry of Evangelism day of Celebration, 3 p.m. Sunday,
First Baptist Church of College Park, 5018 Lakeland Road, College Park. Pastor James Terrell of Second Baptist Church of Washington, D.C., will be our guest speaker. There will be gospel singing provided by the choir of Second Baptist Church of Washington, D.C. There will also be a free will offering. Contact 301-474-3995.
ONGOING Women’s Bible Study, 9 to
11 a.m. every Thursday, Berwyn Baptist Church, 4720 Cherokee St., College Park. Come and study the book of Romans. Women of all ages are invited. Cost of $6.50 is the textbook fee. Contact 301-4747117 or secretary @berwynbaptist. org.
Mount Rainier Christian Church will conduct Praisercise,
a Christian exercise group meeting at 10:30 a.m. Saturdays at the church, 4001 33rd St., Mount
Rainier. The exercise group will have exercise education about nutrition and more. Professional instruction from the University Of Maryland kinesiology students and the program. Open to people of all ages and fitness levels. Free. Call 301-864-3869 or visit www.facebook.com/groups/ praisercise/ or email brianpadamusus @yahoo.com.
Largo Community Church is revising its fitness program, Mon-
days and Wednesdays, to include Latin-infused dance. Classes start at 7 p.m. and the fee is $5. The church is at 1701 Enterprise Road in Mitchellville. E-mail justfit4life @yahoo.com.
Body and Soul Fitness presents “I’m All In,” Bethany Community
Church, 15720 Riding Stable Road in Laurel. Sessions start with cardio/strength classes from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday with a co-ed session from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. For more information, call Abby Dixson at 301-5491877, email abbyfitness@aol.com or visit www.bodyandsoul.org.
Touch of Love Bible Church, conducts weekly support group meetings for people who are separated or divorced, 11 a.m. every Saturday at the church, 13503 Baltimore Ave. in Laurel. Call 301210-3170.
Ladies Bible Study Class on the book of Esther, Maryland City
Baptist Church, 1:45 p.m. Tuesday afternoons at the church, 326 Brock Bridge Road in Laurel. Free nursery. Call Tammie Marshall at 301-498-3224 or visit mdcitybaptist @yahoo.com.
Free First Place 4 Health series, 7 p.m. Tuesdays at Berwyn
Baptist Church, 4720 Cherokee St. in College Park. Call 240-601-1640.
Anti-domestic violence and stalking support group meetings,
11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. every Saturday. Abigail Ministries offers the meetings in Hyattsville. Call 301277-3775 for exact location.
Maryland Family Christian Center’s Praise Dance Ministry, 7
p.m. Tuesdays at North Forestville Elementary School, 2311 Ritchie Road in Forestville. Ministry
teaches people to dance. Call 240392-2633.
New Creation Church Bible study meetings, 7 p.m. Wednes-
days at the Bladensburg High School auditorium, 4200 57th Ave. in Bladensburg. Sunday services are at 10 and 11 a.m. New Broken Vessels Ministry Women’s Bible Study and Discussions, 9 a.m. every Friday at It’s
God’s Choice Christian Bookstore, 1454 Addison Road South in Capitol Heights. Call 301-499-5799 for information.
Vocalists/singers needed to harmonize “Inspirational Music,”
every Saturday at 8221 Cryden Way in Forestville. Call 301-5990932 or 301-219-4350. Baha’i devotions, 10 to 11:30 a.m., first and third Sunday of every month. Breakfast served at 10 a.m. All are welcome. The devotions are at 14200 Livingston Road in Clinton. Call 703-380-7267. Urgent call for 50 prayer warriors, noon to 1 p.m. Monday
through Friday. Christian Outreach International Center calls
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The David Bach Consort will perform at the Beltsville Summer Concert Series on Saturday.
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Continued from Page B-1 spond when I play more wellknown stuff ... I’m known for playing The Beatles, U2, Lady Gaga — a lot of contemporary pop a-la jazzy.” Growing up, Bach’s father was in the Air Force, meaning the family moved around frequently. Bach said the constant relocation helped expose him to different styles of music. “It was great to be able to hear different music,” Bach said. “It gave me different sounds and music to draw from.” By virtue of his last name, Bach said the first genre he ever played was classical music. He eventually transitioned to jazz, and in 2001, Bach submitted a video to Black Entertainment Television for their Jazz Discovery Showcase. Bach’s video was selected as the winner and still runs occasionally in syndication. Bach has released four albums: “LIVE at Baker Park,” A Deep Breath,” “5thousand Words” and “Window on the West.” His latest album, “Other Words,” will be released in the
next month. Though Bach and his band play both public concert and private events in the area regularly, this will be the groups first time playing in Beltsville.
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Hidden Strengths Support Ministry Inc. Phone Line Prayer Ministry, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. every
Wednesday. E-mail requests to hssministryinc@aol.com. Call 202372-7716.
Victory Church International prayer services, 6 to 8 a.m. daily at
the church, 9308 Allentown Road in Fort Washington. Call 301-4497706.
Heavens Best Healing and Deliverance Baptist Church revival services, 8 p.m. Monday through
Friday and at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sundays at the church, 8311 Old Branch Ave. in Clinton. Call 301877-7702.
Church on the Hill “School of Healing,” 3 to 5 p.m. the first and
third Sunday of each month at the A.D. Headen Chapel, Refreshing Spring Church, 6200 Riverdale Road in Riverdale. For registration information, call 301-333-0499.
The Laurel Mill Playhouse presents “Seussical the Musical” with a young adult cast starting Friday and running to Aug. 17. Actor Noah Wright plays the Cat in the Hat.
Continued from Page B-1 his kindness and sticks with him through adventures and dangers, including his capture by hunters for the Circus McGurkus. “It’s a fun show,” said Knazk. “It’s about imagination and about being a kid.” Playing the character of Horton is Dexter Warren, 18, of Bowie, who graduated in June from the Bullis School in Potomac. Warren will be going to New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development in the fall to pursue his interest in theater, movies and TV. “This has been very fun, because I always enjoyed the Dr. Seuss books as a child, but I hadn’t read about Horton,” Warren said. “I got to explore a new character.” On stage since elementary school, Warren has performed in shows such as “The Children of Eden,” “A Funny Thing
for prayer warriors in intercessory prayer with Bishop Janie Carr at the church, 3709 Hamilton St. in Hyattsville. Call 301-927-1684.
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Happened on the Way to the Forum” and Laurel Mills’ production of “Les Miserables” in 2011. New for him in “Seussical” was performing what little dialogue he speaks in rhythmic patterns. “I was talking in rhythm, saying it in time,” he said. Warren also sings a duet with Jo Jo called “Alone in the Universe,” which he first heard when he auditioned for “Les Mis” at Laurel Mill. “I fell in love with the song,”
he said, glad to now be singing it himself. Warren said the complexity of the harmonies in “Seussical,” some of them four-part, was a challenge for everyone. “You expect it to be a kids’ show, simple, like a child’s understanding of the book,” he said. “[But] the music for this requires more work and focus from the cast and requires that everyone be on their game at all times.” vterhune@gazette.net
“It’s always great to play for a new audience,” Bach said. “You see how people, they just honestly react to the music.” chedgepeth@gazette.net
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Notice is hereby given by the Council of the Town of Bladensburg, a municipal corporation of the State of Maryland, that the Council passed Charter Amendment Resolution 3-2013 (the "Resolution") on July 8, 2013. The title of which constitutes a fairs summary of the amendment to the Town Charter is as follows:
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For sale Nr Metro/Shops. Call tiles, Paintings, Prints below appraisal. almost anything old 934-5107 The Council of the Town of Bladensburg deems it important to al- Needed in our Laurel, MD office. MS or equiv. in Esplendid 2br, 2ba 410-414-2559 Evergreen Auctions condo next to Vienna 973-818-1100. Email metro station. 2 DIRECTV - Over 140 low voters to express their opinions in elections on issues which Comp. Sci., Engg., Math, or related field + 1yr reserved prkg spaces. evergreenauction@hot channels only $29.99 are being considered by the Council. relevant IT work exp. reqd. Duties incl: Analyze, $345K. 703-217-1531 mail.com a month. Call Now! review, and alter software, data processing, & The Resolution will become effective on August 27, 2013 subject Triple savings! hardware requirements. 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2011 Golf 4DR.....................#340987A, Blue, 42,929 mi............$12,592 2012 Jetta SE.....................#409462A, Black, 38,888 mi..........$12,694 2010 Jetta Sedan.............#V13930A, Gray, 35,704 mi............$14,500 2010 Jetta Sedan.............#V13814A, Silver, 26,866 mi...........$14,894 2009 GTI HB.........................#135568A, Red, 50,283 mi............$15,094 2010 CC.................................#P7601, Blue, 45,327 mi................$17,000 2012 Jetta SE.....................#P5091, Black, 25,598 mi..............$17,491 2012 Beetle.........................#V13847A, Gray, 9,187 mi..............$17,500
2013 Golf HB Conv........#094406A, Red, 3,943 mi...............$19,494 2010 Tiguan Wolfsburg. #614718A, Gray, 46,795 mi............$19,991 2013 Passat S....................#PR5083, Gray, 3,140 mi................$21,591 2013 Passat.........................#PR5082, Silver, 3,140 mi...............$21,699 2010 Tiguan SE..................#P6505, Black, 40,938 mi..............$21,995 2013 Beetle Conv.............#P5094, Black, 4,184 mi................$22,991 2011 Tiguan SE..................#P6004 Gray, 20,118 mi.................$26,591 2012 Golf R Nav.................#819675A, Black, 21,246 mi..........$31,491
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13,985
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15,985
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$17,985 $11,985 2012 Scion TC.................. $17,985 2005 Toyota Sienna LE........ $11,985 #35109A, 6 SpeedAuto, 23.6K miles #360283A, 5 SpeedAuto, 2WD, Blue $19,955 $14,985 2012 Toyota Corolla SE........ $19,955 2010 Toyota Corolla LE........ $14,985 #372351A, 6 SpeedAuto, 26.6K mi, Gray #364236A, 4 SpeedAuto, Black
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1999 MERCEDEZ BENZ ML320 3.2L.
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#11214 2 At This Price: VINS: 815560, 813881
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2013 ALTIMA 2.5 S $23,200
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15,995
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11,977
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24,995
13,977
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15,977
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17,977
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#25013 2 At This Price: VIN: 688245, 686586
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14,977
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17,477
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19,977
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18,495
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#364177B, Auto, Cruise, Excellent Condition
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