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Jenae Warrick, 24, makes minimum wage — $7.25 per hour — as a part-time cashier at a Family Dollar store in Laurel. Even with government assistance, she said she barely makes enough to pay for food and her one-bedroom apartment she shares with her unemployed mother in Laurel.

“I have to piece check to check together. I have a Section 8 housing voucher, so my rent is only $172 a month, and my [weekly] check

Thomas Stone Elementary School sixth-graders Karla Prudencio (left) and Jessia Quintanilla, both 11, share a laugh as they participate in an At School After School program Sept. 26 at the Mount Rainier school.

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What started as informal field trips for free art programs is growing into a multi-elementary school initiative: At School After School.

The after-school program shares the creative talents of a Mount Rainier art school with public schools across Prince George’s County.

Abigail Lafertte teaches English as a second language and sponsors the after-school Creative and Performing Arts Club at Thomas Stone Elementary School in Mount Rainier.

She said she used to take club members to the Art Works Studio School to take part in the classes. The nonprofit art school regularly provides free art

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programs, which were just what the students needed, she said.

Barbara Johnson, founder of the art school, said she noticed a significant influx of students during a January 2012 open house and discussed opportunities with Lafertte.

From that discussion, the two women said, At School After School was born.

Since September 2012, studio teachers have provided art lessons at selected schools.

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doesn’t even cover that. It takes me like two checks to make $172,” said Warrick, adding she works 35 hours or less per week.

Warrick said her life could change for the better if the Prince George’s County Council passes a bill that would raise the minimum wage to $11.50 per hour, a measure officials are hoping will also pass in Montgomery County and Washington, D.C. County Council Chairwoman Andrea Harrison introduced CB94-2013 on Oct. 1, which would gradually increase minimum wage to $11.50 over a three-year period.

According to the bill, minimum wage would rise to $8.75 in July, then $10.25 in July 2015 and $11.50

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Bladensburg Mayor Walter Lee James Jr. was elected for a fifth consecutive term, defeating Selwyn “Donnie” Bridgeman for the lone contested seat in Monday’s Town Council election.

James, 38, received 295 votes while Bridgeman, 36, received 142.

“This was a good opportunity for the community to come out and make decisions of how they want the government to run, and who they want to run it,” said Town Administrator John Moss.

While James has served as mayor since 2005, this was his first time facing a challenger.

“It was nice having someone to run against, because it keeps you

“We are dedicated to helping build the need for arts education in our schools,” Johnson said.

At School After School is run through fundraisers, grants and volunteers. It offers free weekly visual arts classes at Thomas Stone.

Lafertte said Johnson’s program has provided much-needed help to Thomas Stone’s after-school arts club, which has reached full capacity at around 100 students. During classes, which are held once or twice per week, the children split time between Lafertte’s lesson and one provided by Art Works Studio

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on your toes,” said James, who received 170 votes in the 2011 and 90 votes in 2009.

The town of about 9,400 residents holds elections every two years, with the mayor and council members serving four-year terms.

Willie Barnes, 78, said he voted for James because of his approachability.

“Mr. James has been very cooperative and very helpful to the seniors in Bladensburg,” Barnes said.

Tony King, 36, said James has helped lead environmental initiatives, like the stormwater runoff system in the Town Hall’s parking lot.

“He has a clear vision for Bladensburg. Ever since he’s taken over, you just see the economic prosperity,” King said.

In spite of rainy conditions throughout the day, voter participation was up from previous years.

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A Mount Rainier proposal allowing parking permits for city residents is facing heavy criticism from those it is intended to help and from a neighboring municipality, whose drivers would be restricted under the plan.

“If Mount Rainier residents can [get permits], then so should Brentwood residents,” said Brentwood Councilwoman Jennifer Murphy, claiming Mount Rainier’s proposed permit system discriminates against Brentwood residents who live nearby.

In March, homeowners on the 3200 block of Upshur Street in Mount Rainier complained that drivers from nearby Brentwood were taking up much of the street parking on their block. Upshur Street intersects with 34th Street, the

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roadway separating Brentwood and Mount Rainier. Since parking is largely prohibited on 34th Street, many Brentwood residents park on nearby Upshur.

In response, the Mount Rainier council introduced a proposal Oct. 3 that would allow residents to petition for a parking permit requirement on their block if they receive signatures from at least 60 percent of the block’s homeowners. The council would then hold a public hearing and decide whether to approve, deny or modify the

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If approved, the annual parking permit would cost $50, which isn’t sitting well with Upshur residents who were upset that it had taken months for a plan to be crafted.

“My overarching issue is the amount of time it has taken,” said Lynne Zaris, an Upshur Street homeowner, adding that she believes the permit cost is too high.

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“I think something is better than nothing,” Lilly said.

The proposal also was not welcomed in neighboring Brentwood, since only Mount Rainier residents

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Publick Playhouse welcomes Brazilian dance of Balé Folclórico da Bahia.

will host the city’s first Oktoberfest. This family affair event will feature pumpkin decorations, hay rides, a mini farmers’ market, a scarecrow-making contest and more. Community service hours available. Contact 301-336-1402 or archibalds@districtheights.org.

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Prince George’s County Planning Board Budget Forum, 7 to 9

p.m., Southern Regional Technology and Recreation Complex, Multipurpose Room, 7007 Bock Road, Fort Washington. A public forum to solicit comments on the commission’s budget for planning, parks and recreation for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1. Contact 301-952-4584, TTY 301952-4366.

SPORTS It’s a big weekend of high school football with undefeated Forestville playing at undefeated Surrattsville; Wise and Eleanor Roosevelt playing for their playoff lives; and Bowie trying to knock off its third straight playoff contender in a game against DuVal. Check online for coverage of the games.

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OCT. 13 Joyful Journey, 6 p.m., Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 7607 Sandy Spring Road, Laurel. The concert will be an intergalactic festival featuring music composed

by Dr. Monkres. There will be a wide range of musical and dramatic offerings. Special guests from a galaxy far away will share their musical talent. It is rumored the Purple People Eater will make an appearance, along with space friends. Contact 301-725-1666.

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The Historic Preservation Commission monthly meeting, 6:30

p.m., Fourth Floor Board Room, County Administration Building, 14741 Governor Oden Bowie Drive, Upper Marlboro. Contact 301-952-3520.

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Princeton, played by Stephen Backus, meets Kate Monster, played by Melissa Berkowitz, in the Greenbelt Arts Center’s presentation of the ribald puppet comedy “Avenue Q,” running through Oct. 26 at the theater. For more information, visit www.greenbeltartscenter.org.

MORE INTERACTIVE CALENDAR ITEMS AT WWW.GAZETTE.NET OCT. 11 Star Stories and Stellar Science, 7:30 p.m., Howard B. Owens

Science Center, 9601 Greenbelt Road, Lanham. The stars of autumn offer a wealth of mythology from different world cultures. We will cover several examples. Learn to identify these stars and others in our autumn night sky, listen to their stories, then discover the intriguing science behind the stars.

Contact 301-918-8750 or russell. waugh@pgcps.org.

UMD Symphony Orchestra: ‘Foreign Bodies,’ 8 p.m., Clarice

Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, College Park. The orchestra’s opening concert of the season features faculty artist Evelyn Elsing performing Schumann’s Cello Concerto.

Cost: $25 general admission, $10 students. Contact 301-405-ARTS (2787) or tickets.claricesmith@ umd.edu.

OCT. 12 Indoor Yard Sale, 8 a.m. to 1

p.m., Laurel Police Department’s Partnership Hall, 811 5th St., Lau-

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rel. Hosted by the Laurel Fourth of July Committee. All proceeds will go to help fund the Independence Day celebration. Contact 301-6048149.

Community Yard Sale/Flea Market, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., 2 Main

St., Laurel. Rain or shine (indoor facility available). Sponsored by American Legion Auxiliary Unit 60. Contact 301-922-5327 or VLKunde@gmail.com.

Shatter the Silence 5K Run/ Walk, 8 a.m., Plateau Area-

National Harbor, 192 National Harbor Blvd., Oxon Hill. The Maryland-National Capital Park Police and The Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Center (DVSAC) at Dimensions Healthcare System will host the first 5K Run/Walk to “Shatter the Silence of Domestic & Sexual Violence, One Step at a Time.” The DVSAC provides free services to victims of rape or sexual assault. Cost: $30 per person. Contact 301-459-9088; TTY 301-459-3051.

Free flu shots, 9 a.m. to noon, Northwestern High School, 7000 Adelphi Road, Hyattsville. The Prince George’s County Health Department will host a free walk-

in flu clinic. Contact 301-883-7879.

Annual Open House and Fire Safety Day, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.,

Hyattsville Volunteer Fire Department, 6200 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville. Fire apparatus displays, children’s fire safety course, fire station tours, vehicle extrication and fire extinguisher demos, music, moon bounce, face painting, concessions, raffles and more.

Contact 301-883-7701.

Fire Prevention and Life Safety Day, noon to 4 p.m., Capitol

Heights Volunteer Fire Company, 6061 Central Ave., Capitol Heights.

Live demonstrations, health and safety information, learning activities, food and giveaways, fun for all ages. Contact 301-883-7705.

Free mammogram registration, noon to 7 p.m., 820 Capital

Centre Blvd., 101B, Largo. Free mammogram registration, free swag bags to those who qualify.

Contact 240-242-7422 or dosomething@itsinthegenes.com.

OktoberFest 2013, noon to 4 p.m., District Heights Community Garden, Fiesta Place, District Heights. The District Heights Community Garden Program and the District Heights Garden Club

Breast Cancer Support Group, 7 to 9 p.m., Doctors Community Hospital, 8100 Good Luck Road, Lanham. Join women who are newly diagnosed with or recovering from breast cancer. Contact 301-552-8209.

Prince George’s County Planning Board budget forums, 7 to

9 p.m., Southern Regional Technology and Recreation Complex, Multipurpose Room, 7007 Bock Road, Fort Washington. The Prince George’s County Planning Board of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission will hold the second of two public forums this fall to solicit comments on the commission’s budget for planning, parks and recreation in Prince George’s County for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1. Contact 301952-4584, TTY 301-952-4366.

OCT. 16 Sign language class, 6:30 to

8:30 p.m., Davies Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church, 7400 Temple Hill Road, Camp Springs.

Students will learn more than 3,500 signs in sentence order to make it easier to learn. Course includes finger spelling, numbers, and practicing receiving for comprehension. Learn about deafness, different kinds of sign language and things to do to remember the language. Contact 301-782-9922.

UPCOMING EVENT Regina High School Class of 1978 Reunion, 6 to 10 p.m. Nov.

9, at Regina High School in Bowie.

Contact regina1978reunion@ gmail.com.

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Landover Hills seeks volunteers for annual Fall Clean Up Day Landover Hills is seeking volunteer for the town’s fourth annual Fall Clean Up Day, scheduled from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Middle school and high school students can receive community service credit by helping the town’s cleanup efforts, said Mike Thompson, Landover Hills code enforcement officer.

Thompson said there were about 20 volunteers for last year’s event.

“People do seem to get into it. Hopefully, it carries over past the one afternoon,” he said.

Residents can also participate by bringing unwanted items to the two large trash bins by the Landover Hills Town Hall, located at 6904 Taylor St. Paint, car parts and other household chemicals will not be accepted. Tires can be dropped off but are not to be thrown in the trash bins.

For additional information, contact Thompson at 301-5032011 or Town Hall at 301-7736401.

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Blood drives planned in Prince George’s

Columbus Day holiday spurs some closings Most of Prince George’s County’s government operations will be closed Oct. 14 for Columbus Day, but some public transportation and trash services will continue.

The county’s waste management and collection services will operate on a normal schedule, with the exception of bulky trash pickup, which will not occur on Columbus Day, according to a county news release.

The county’s public transportation service, TheBus, also will operate on its normal schedule, except for routes 51, 51-extended and 52, which serve county government buildings, according to the release.

The county’s Para-Transit Service, Call-A-Bus, will not operate Columbus Day, but the county’s Call-A-Cab service — a curb service program targeted to seniors and people with disabilities — will operate as normal, according to the release.

Most state government services will be closed as well, such as the Motor Vehicle Association, with only emergency per-

said Cheverly Councilman R.J. Eldridge (Ward 3), who helped organize the event.

Gladys Noon Spellman’s Bike to School Day was part of a program run through the National Center for Safe Routes to School. The federal initiative is designed to enable children to walk and bike to school, while reducing traffic and pollution.

Approximately 50 Gladys Noon Spellman students walk and bike to school each day, Eldridge said.

“This is one little event that’s part of that bigger thing,” he said.

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Loril Hawk of Bowie, the pastor of Riverdale Presbyterian Church, blesses Juneau, a 10-year-old Husky on Saturday during the Blessing of the Animals outside of the University Park church Saturday. sonnel and toll booth employees working Columbus Day, said Jennifer Hine, director of management and personnel services for Maryland’s Department of Budget and Management.

“No services that are not safety or security related will be available,” Hine said.

Plant a free tree in Cheverly Cheverly residents are encouraged to order a tree, for free, as part of the Private Property Tree Planting Program. Cheverly’s Public Works Department will provide and plant the trees for residents participating in the initiative.

“It’s the right thing to do for future generations, for the environment and for the beauty of your property,” said Town Administrator David Warrington.

“Where’s the downside?”

Warrington said the town is specifically looking to replenish the tree canopy, which has been affected over the years by storms, age, disease and utility upgrades.

Residents who order canopy trees will receive a $5 gift certificate to the Cheverly Community Market.

To order a tree, contact the public works department at 301-773-2666.

Halloween fun at Bladensburg center The Bladensburg Community Center is hosting a free Halloween Fun Fest at the center located on 4500 57th Avenue.

The free event, held from 2 to 6 p.m. Oct. 26, will feature Halloween activities, video games, hula hooping, trick-ortreating and a magic show.

Valerie Lewis-Taylor, pro-

gram specialist at the center, said she expects up to 75 people to attend. Residents of all ages are encouraged to dress in their Halloween costumes.

“We want to welcome everybody to the center,” LewisTaylor said.

For additional information, call 301-277-2124.

Spellman students take part in Bike to School Day Students from Gladys Noon Spellman Elementary School in Cheverly participated Oct. 4 in the fourth annual Fall Bike to School Day. The children, escorted by police vehicles, gathered at the Legion Park in Cheverly and commuted to the school in a group of about 90.

“It’s to encourage children, and promote walking and biking to school and healthy lifestyles,”

Prince George’s County residents are urged to donate blood this month, said Steve Mavica, a spokesman for the American Red Cross, the international nonprofit hosting several upcoming blood drives in the county.

“Every two seconds, someone in the United States needs blood, and the only source is from a generous blood donor,” Mavica said in a statement announcing the following drives: • 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 10 at the Prince George’s County Association of Realtors, 9200 Basil Court in Largo.

• 12:30 to 6 p.m. Oct. 11 at the Greenbelt Community Center, 15 Crescent Road in Greenbelt.

• 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Oct. 12 at the Bowie Senior Center, 14900 Health Center Drive in Bowie.

• 2 to 8 p.m. Oct. 14 at the Bowie Knights of Columbus Hall, 6111 Columbian Way in Bowie.

Health Department offers free flu shots The Prince George’s County Health Department will host a number of free walk-in flu clinics this month to ensure that all residents who want a flu shot can get one.

Flu vaccinations will be administered at the following locations and dates: • 9 a.m. to noon Oct. 12 at Northwestern High School, 7000

Adelphi Road, Hyattsville.

• 9 a.m. to noon Oct. 19 at Largo High School, 505 Largo Road, Largo.

• 9 a.m. to noon Oct. 26 at Friendly High School, 10000 Allentown Road, Fort Washington.

• 1 to 7 p.m. Oct. 28 at Springhill Lake Recreation Center, 6101 Cherrywood Lane, Greenbelt.

There also will be onsite Health Department Flu Clinics from Oct. 16 until vaccine supplies are exhausted from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Wednesdays at the D. Leonard Dyer Regional Health Center, 9314 Piscataway Road, Clinton.

Also, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Wednesdays at the Cheverly Health Center, 3003 Hospital Drive, Cheverly, and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursdays at the Cheverly Health Center.

For more information, contact the county Health Department at 301-883-7879.

Boxing in the Park takes aim Oct. 12 The Laurel Boys and Girls Club and community boxing gym Crawford Training and Fitness, a local martial arts and boxing training business, will hold their first free Boxing in the Park event at 3 p.m. Oct. 12 at the Alice B. McCullough Field at Eighth and Montgomery streets in Laurel.

The event will feature 15 amateur boxing matches sanctioned by Potomac Valley Association of USA Boxing, the national governing body for Olympics-style amateur boxing, and will include Laurel teenagers and young adults, in addition to boxers from the mid-Atlantic region, according to a news release.

CTF president Robert Crawford said the event will also launch his new Laurel-based nonprofit, Survival Fitness, which will promote wellness through fitness training.

“I’m looking to focus the services I provide through the nonprofit,” Crawford said.

Crawford said Survival Fitness — which will be hosted at the Laurel Boys and Girls Club — will include fitness, diet awareness, self defense and anti-bullying programs.

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Amy Saabedra (left), 6, of Riverdale Park gets the feel of using a fire hose Saturday with the help of Thomas Cassidy, 14, a junior member of the Riverdale Fire Department, during Riverdale Park Day at Riverside Neighborhood Park. The free event featured a moon bounce, pony rides, music, crafts, games and other activities. The festival celebrated Riverdale Park’s 93rd anniversary and gave residents the chance to meet community leaders and public safety officials.

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With Laurel’s Main Street being part of Ward 1, it’s no surprise that the three candidates vying for the ward’s two council seats are focusing on bringing in more business — but each offers a slightly different approach.

Political newcomer John Matthew Smith is running against incumbents Valerie Nicholas and H. Edward Ricks for the two council seats in the Nov. 5 city elections.

Council members are elected to two-year terms, and this is the first time since 2006 that there is a challenge for the posts in Ward 1, which includes the Main Street business corridor and north and east areas of Laurel.

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Smith, 55, a retired freelance celebrity photographer, said he had never considered running for office before, but decided to run because he wants to improve the city.

“Laurel is a wonderful place.

I love it here, but I think it could be better,” said Smith, who moved to the city in 2006.

Smith’s goals for the city include placing a privacy wall along Md. 198 to protect residents from noise and dust, and creating signs warning drivers of high-accident areas.

Smith said he would like the city to develop an advertising campaign geared toward drawing more business to Laurel’s Main Street.

“I think a great slogan can go a long way,” Smith said.

Ricks, 68, said revitalizing Main Street is one of his top pri-

orities.

“We want to continue to work diligently to bring traffic to Main Street,” said Ricks, who retired in 2000 after serving as director of the Family Division of Superior Court in Washington, D.C. Ricks served four consecutive terms on the council from 1980 to 1988, and was elected to his fifth term in 2011.

Ricks said he feels the city’s incentive program, which offers business owners up to $10,000 to move to Main Street, is a step in the right direction, and that the C Street Flats mixed-use development, which broke ground in August, will encourage more businesses to take advantage of the program.

Nicholas, 49, said she is also excited about development in Laurel, including the construction of the new Laurel Towne Centre, expected to open in fall 2014.

“It’s a wonderful accomplishment for the council as a team,” Nicholas said.

Nicholas was appointed to fill the remaining term of Gayle Snyder, who resigned from the council June 2011. Nicholas won her first full term later that year.

Nicholas, who has spoken publicly about being a survivor of domestic abuse, is the founder and executive director of Love is Not Enough, a nonprofit organization providing support for victims and public education on domestic violence.

Nicholas said if she is elected to a second term, her top priorities would be improving public safety and continuing to pursue opportunities for economic development on Main Street and elsewhere in Laurel.

Polling for Ward 1 takes place from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Nov. 5 at the Laurel Municipal Building, 8103 Sandy Spring Road.

One at-large and two Ward 2 council seats are also being challenged this year. janfenson-comeau @gazette.net

The hiring of Maritza Gonzalez as Prince George’s County schools’ first officer of diversity for Latino affairs is a step in the right direction, but more needs to be done to bridge the gap between the county’s leadership and its growing Latino population, according to officials.

“I know Dr. Gonzalez and her work, and I am happy and impressed that Dr. Maxwell hired Dr. Gonzalez for this role. It means they are definitely planning to address the issues that I spoke a b o u t f o u r months ago,” said Gonzalez Del. Joseline Peña-Melnyk (D-Dist. 21) of College Park.

In June, Peña-Melnyk took part in a news conference with the Silver Spring-based Latino advocacy group Casa of Maryland, decrying the lack of Latino representation on the county school board, which governs a school system with a 24.4 percent Latino student population, according to demographic information from the Maryland State Department of Education.

Although there are increasingly more Latino students in the classroom, that hasn’t translated to an increase in Latinos in school leadership positions. About 2 percent of county public school teachers are Latino, and five of the school system’s 461 school administrators are Latino, according to school system information.

“The work she is doing is going to become increasingly important,” said school board chairman Segun Eubanks. “Our culture is becoming increasingly diverse, and we want to make sure we are serving those communities.”

Gonzalez, 33, of Beltsville said that as the Latino population has increased, there is a pressing need for more role

models in county schools.

“I would recommend putting additional systems in place that would attract as well as support the recruitment, and retention, of talented educators of diverse backgrounds and linguistic abilities,” Gonzalez said.

“These incentives include, but are not limited to providing competitive salaries and benefits, providing professional development and growth opportunities as well as further supporting a culture of inclusiveness and collaboration.”

Gonzalez said her role is to provide support and a point of contact for Latino families in the county, to get information to Latino communities, and to serve as an intermediary between Latino families and businesses, government, the school system and other agencies.

“I know I am only one person, but I think I can be an asset in the school system’s efforts to support Latino families,” said Gonzalez, who began her new post Sept. 23.

Gonzalez said one of her priorities is reducing the Latino student dropout rate.

Overall, the dropout rate for county students who began high school in 2008 was 19.5 percent in 2012; for county Latino students, the dropout rate was 31.3 percent, according to statistics from the Maryland Report Card.

Gonzalez said she hopes she can be a role model for Latino students.

The El Salvador native moved to Maryland when she was 10 and attended school in Montgomery County. She received her doctorate in education from the University of Maryland, College Park, and was working as a research assistant at the university on literacy projects in local schools prior to her new post. Gonzalez’s annual salary is $143,458 in addition to benefits, and Gonzalez was the sole person considered for the position, according to information provided by the school system.

Education advocate David Cahn said he believes Gonzalez’s role is needed, but said the salary is too high.

“I think it’s important work, and I wish her the best, but we should be able to do this for less,” he said. janfenson-comeau @gazette.net

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While a Prince George’s County casino is inevitable, some residents say it isn’t too late to have an impact on what the new gaming facility will bring to the community.

“We fought gaming. We think it is bad public policy

with more downside than upside,” said William Cavitt of Fort Washington, chairman of the Indian Head Highway Area Action Council community group. “A casino is going to be built somewhere, so the issue is determining the least negative impact.”

Cavitt and other community activists are urging residents to attend a series of meetings later this month regarding the selection of a company and a site to build the casino. The casino will be Maryland’s sixth and the first in the county.

The three companies vying for the casino license will have meetings with the Video Lottery Facility Location Commission, the group responsible for regulating Maryland’s slot machines and overseeing the bids. Each meeting will consist of a site visit, presentation to the commission and a hearing where residents can give written or oral testimony.

“The casinos are a source of additional revenue, much needed revenue for the county as well as the state,” said Zeno St. Cyr of Fort Washington. “I

like the fact that at the state level much of the funds will be dedicated to education, which is probably the number one concern for Prince Georgians.”

Penn National Gaming, which runs Rosecroft Raceway in Upper Marlboro, will present Oct. 21. Pennsylvania Parx Casino owner, Greenwood Racing, will present Oct. 23. MGM International Resorts will meet with the commission Oct. 25.

The presentation and hearings will be held at Friendly High School, 10000 Allentown Road in Fort Washington, according to

the commission’s news release.

Residents have until 4:30 p.m. the day of the meeting to sign up at Friendly High School, according to the news release.

Sign-ups are also accepted on the commission’s website.

“The purpose of each of the site visits and public hearings is for the commissioners to view the proposed location, observe the surrounding community, get a sense of the size and scope of the proposed facilities, to hear directly from the applicants, and to listen to the public support and public concerns about the

proposed project,” said Commission Chairman Donald C. Fry in a news release.

None of the companies bidding for the license would comment about the upcoming presentation, with officials saying they wanted to wait until they have given their full presentation to the commission.

“If you are going to change our own economic standard in our backyard then we need to hold our developers accountable,” said Lisa Ellis of Clinton. ccook@gazette.net

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Bowie school moves on to semifinals after second-half comeback BY

ERIC GOLDWEIN STAFF WRITER

Bowie’s Northview Elementary Science Bowl captain Samaiyah McLaughlin said she thought her team was finished after falling behind by 45 points in the second half of the semifinal qualifier. But she and her two teammates — Tyler Zeigler and Banke Yiadom — got on a hot streak when it mattered most.

Northview scored 135 points in the second half, defeating Accokeek Academy 220-185 and advancing to the semifinals of the Science Bowl.

The Science Bowl is a televised science quiz competition between Prince George’s County public elementary and middle schools. During the program, students answer sciencerelated questions worth five to 25 points, based on difficulty.

Although the two teams managed 90 points apiece in the first half, they rallied in the sec-

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Above, Rogers Heights Elementary School students Leonardo Ortiz, Joab Giron and Andrew Fuentes compete Tuesday in the Science Bowl at the Bonnie F. Johns Educational Media Center in Landover. At left, Northview Elementary School students (from left) Tyler Zeigler, Samaiyah McLaughlin and Banke Yiadom answer questions and go on to win the day’s competitions. ond half of the competition, held at the Bonnie F. Johns Educational Media Center in Landover.

“You get one or two correct answers and it revives you. And they got competitive again,” Science Bowl host Dave Zahren said.

Leading 165-155, Northview answered a 25-point question, by identifying the scientist who in 1705, accurately predicted a comet would return in 1758.

Samaiyah said she knew the answer — Edmond Halley — because Northview co-sponsor Bruce Moffatt’s daughter was named after Halley’s Comet.

Samaiyah participated in Science Bowl last year and said the experience helped her prepare for the competition.

“It calmed me down a little bit because I knew the strategies that were good and bad,” Samaiyah said.

Northview will face Landover’s Cora Rice Elementary in the semifinals.

Accokeek Academy was a late add-on to the competition as Upper Marlboro’s Rosaryville Elementary dropped out.

The team, composed of sixth-graders Marisa Miles, Erica Acox and Matthew Makila, advanced to the semifinal qualifier by defeating Mount Rainier 230-185.

Mount Rainier overcame a 50-point second-half deficit against Accokeek, but could not complete the comeback.

Northview advanced to the semifinal qualifier by defeating Bladensburg’s Rogers Heights Elementary School 265-215.

“They did really well. I was proud of them,” said Rogers

Heights’ sponsor Patricia Brown of the team comprised of captain Joab Giron, Leonardo Ortiz and Andrew Fuentes.

Joab said he was nervous, but enjoyed the competition.

“Even if I lost, it was still a great experience,” Joab said.

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BY

KEVIN JAMES SHAY STAFF WRITER

The $250 million sale of The Gazette, The Washington Post and other properties to a private investment company owned by Amazon.com CEO Jeffrey P. Bezos was completed Oct. 1, executives said.

The sale, announced in August, ends four generations of ownership of the flagship Post for the Graham family.

The deal is “an exciting — and historic — opportunity” for the

Post, Gazette and other entities sold, Donald E. Graham, CEO and board chairman of The Washington Post Co., wrote in a letter to employees.

Besides The Post and Gazette, the sale includes the Express newspaper, Southern Maryland Newspapers, the Fairfax County Times, the Spanish-language El Tiempo Latino newspaper, the Post’s printing plant in Springfield, Va., the Comprint printing plant in Laurel and several military publications.

The Kaplan education company, Cable One, Slate magazine, some television stations, the headquarters building in Washington and some

other holdings will remain with The Washington Post Co., which will be changing its name. A new name has not yet been announced, and it is not yet known where that company will be headquartered, Rima Calderon, a spokeswoman for The Washington Post Co., said on Tuesday.

Graham, who will continue as CEO of the new company, wrote that the “future of The Washington Post Co. is the future of Kaplan,” calling the company a worldwide leader that is improving its profitability while “paying as much attention to improving student outcomes.”

Graham added that the

new company will continue to look for “good businesses to invest in” and “will have a new name to announce soon.” He said the company had a “very, very strong balance sheet” and “will be quite a bit stronger in a year or two when the headquarters building and our Alexandria waterfront property is sold.”

Bezos’ investment company, Nash Holdings LLC, is not part of Amazon.com.

Bezos, who has a reported net worth of $25 billion, founded Amazon in 1994. The company had revenue of $61.1 billion last year. kshay@gazette.net

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Prince George’s County police have identified a man killed by police as 39-year-old Elijah Glay of Takoma Park.

Glay was fatally shot Oct. 2 by county officer Tavarras Edwards, a seven-year veteran of the department, after he al-

legedly ran from Edwards, who was responding to a call at about 2 a.m. in the 3900 block of Lighthouse Way in Calverton, according to police. During the chase, Edwards caught up to Glay, who was nearing a fence. After Glay allegedly refused to obey commands from Edwards, the officer feared for his life and shot Glay, according to police. No weapons were recovered from the scene, according to police.

County police spokesman Lt. William Alexander said more specific details on the en-

counter weren’t available.

Glay allegedly assaulted a woman who was treated at the scene by paramedics, according to police. Alexander said the woman knew Glay, but police were still piecing together what happened.

Police said they did not recover a weapon from the scene but are investigating whether Glay had been armed. Edwards has been placed on routine administrative leave as the investigation continues. ccook@gazette.net

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

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

SEPT. 30 Assault, 6900 block Lamont

Drive, 1:51 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1100 block

Quebec St., 5:56 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8100 block

15th Ave, 6:12 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 5600 block

56th Ave, 9:57 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9000 block Baltimore Ave, 10:01 a.m.

Theft, 6100 block Springhill Terr, 10:53 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, Hartwick Road/Rossburg Drive, 10:58 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1800 block Metzerott Road, 11:17 a.m.

Residential break-in, 3600 block Cooper Lane, 11:36 a.m.

Theft, 5000 block Rhode Island Ave, 1:22 p.m.

Theft, 7900 block Annapolis Road, 2:56 p.m.

Robbery, 5400 block Block 85th Ave, 4:48 p.m.

Theft, 6300 block Landover Road, 4:57 p.m.

Theft, 10100 block Baltimore Ave, 5:54 p.m.

Robbery, 5300 block Quincy Place, 10:50 p.m.

OCT. 1 Vehicle stolen, 6900 block Carleton Terrace, 12:44 a.m.

Theft, 5400 block 85th Ave, 1:15 a.m.

Assault, 4000 block Warner Ave, 2:57 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6700 block Stockton Lane, 6:57 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 4000 block Warner Ave, 9:52 a.m.

Theft, 7500 block Annapolis Road, 10:57 a.m.

Commercial property break-in,

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5000 block Frolich Lane, 11:34 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 6000 block Carters Lane, 11:34 a.m.

Theft, 5800 block Longfellow St., 1:04 p.m.

Theft, 1800 block Metzerott Road, 2:04 p.m.

Assault, 6200 block Tuckerman St., 5:30 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6800 block Standish Drive, 5:35 p.m.

Theft, 1500 block University Blvd, 5:50 p.m.

Theft, 8400 block Annapolis Road, 5:56 p.m.

Residential break-in, 4000 block Remington Court, 6:07 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3400 block Toledo Terrace, 7:15 p.m.

Residential break-in, 6900

ONLINE For additional police blotters, visit www.gazette.net block Nashville Road, 11:49 p.m.

OCT. 2 Vehicle stolen, 5100 block Roanoke Place, 1:23 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8200 block New Hampshire Ave, 5:11 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 14th Ave/ Quebec St., 5:46 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9400 block Baltimore Ave, 6:23 a.m.

Robbery, 4000 block Warner Ave, 6:59 a.m.

Vehicle stolen and recovered,

6800 block New Hampshire Ave, 7:10 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 3600 block Dean Drive, 7:16 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1800 block Metzerott Road, 9:33 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 2000 block Fordham St., 9:37 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9400 block Baltimore Ave, 9:52 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9400 block Baltimore Ave, 9:52 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9400 block Baltimore Ave, 9:53 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9400 block Baltimore Ave, 9:53 a.m.

Theft, 7300 block Baltimore Ave, 11:26 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 4600 block Knox Road, 12:04 p.m.

Assault, 5400 block Queens Chapel Road, 1:57 p.m.

Theft, 6200 block Inwood St., 7:26 p.m.

Theft, 7300 block Baltimore Ave, 9:04 p.m.

Residential break-in, 5400 block 85th Ave, 10:10 p.m.

OCT. 3 Robbery, 7300 block Balti-

more Ave, 12:35 a.m.

Residential break-in, 5200 block Emerson St., 9:02 a.m.

Robbery, 6400 block Landover Road, 10:28 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1900 block Fox St., 11:58 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9300 block Cherry Hill Road, 2:26 p.m.

Residential break-in, 7900 block 15th Ave, 3:30 p.m.

Theft, 6800 block Riverdale Road, 5:02 p.m.

Theft, 8000 block New Hampshire Ave, 5:35 p.m.

Theft, 7300 block Baltimore Ave, 8:25 p.m.

Residential break-in, 4700 block 68th Place, 9:57 p.m.

Theft, 9500 block Baltimore Ave, 9:57 p.m.

OCT. 4 Theft from vehicle, 7100 block Riggs Road, 2:11 a.m.

Theft, 7300 block Baltimore Ave, 5:45 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6300 block Landover Road, 5:58 a.m.

Theft, 7500 block Sweetbriar Drive, 6:00 a.m.

Residential break-in, 4000 block Metzerott Road, 7:25 a.m.

Residential break-in, 5700 block Vassar Drive, 7:46 a.m.

Residential break-in, 4000 block Metzerott Road, 8:51 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1300 block

University Blvd, 9:24 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 7600 block Topton St., 9:38 a.m.

Theft, 6800 block Webster St., 9:45 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8500 block 58th Ave, 10:00 a.m.

Assault, 4000 block Parkwood St., 2:33 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3500 block 56th Place, 2:35 p.m.

Theft, 5200 block 56th Ave, 2:42 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 7300 block Radcliffe Drive, 3:22 p.m.

Theft, 7500 block Sweetbriar Drive, 4:08 p.m.

Theft, 49th Ave/Berwyn Road, 9:12 p.m.

OCT. 5 Theft from vehicle, 1700 block Merrimac Drive, 6:32 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8200 block 16th Ave, 6:34 a.m.

Break-in, 6200 block 20th Place, 7:33 a.m.

Theft, 3600 block Bladensburg Road, 12:33 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3600 block Bladensburg Road, 12:42 p.m.

Vehicle stolen and recovered,

6200 block Annapolis Road, 2:13 p.m.

Theft, 6500 block Chestnut Ave, 4:02 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6800 block Highview Terrace, 4:08 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3900 block Warner Ave, 4:14 p.m.

Theft, 2000 block Ravenswood St., 10:38 p.m.

Assault with a weapon, 1300 block Merrimac Drive, 11:19 p.m.

Theft, 8100 block 15th Ave, 11:39 p.m.

OCT. 6 Robbery, 7100 block Good Luck Road, 1:01 a.m.

Robbery, Park Drive/Kiernan Road, 1:10 a.m.

Robbery, 5400 block 55th Place, 6:52 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6500 block 8th Ave, 10:28 a.m.

Theft, 14th Ave/Merrimac Drive, 11:57 a.m.

Theft, 3000 block Hospital Drive, 2:00 p.m.

Theft, 6200 block Annapolis Road, 2:06 p.m.

Assault with a weapon, 400 block Greenlawn Drive, 6:32 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 10100 block Rhode Island Ave, 6:35 p.m.

District 3 Headquarters, Palmer Park, 301-772-4900. Chapel Oaks, Cheverly, Glenarden, Fairmount Heights, Kentland, Landover, Palmer Park, Seat Pleasant, Forestville, Suitland, District Heights and Capitol Heights.

SEPT. 30 Theft from vehicle, 6900 block Walker Mill Road, 5:30 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6000 block Surrey Square Lane, 6:10 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1800 block Clark Place, 6:46 a.m.

Theft, 4300 block Garden City Drive, 7:22 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 1800 block Belle Haven Drive, 8:23 a.m.

Theft, 8700 block Ritchie Drive, 8:50 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, Eb Marlboro Pike/Nb Brooks Drive, 11:57 a.m.

Carjacking, 6300 block Gateway Blvd, 1:40 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6700 block Martin Luther King Jr Highway, 1:50 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6900 block Bankrun Terrace, 2:56 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1700 block Village Green Drive, 4:40 p.m.

Robbery, Hampton Park Blvd/Central Ave, 5:49 p.m.

Residential break-in, 2500 block Darel Drive, 7:02 p.m.

Theft, 2500 block Kenmoor Drive, 7:44 p.m.

Residential break-in, 7500 block Grouse Place, 8:20 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 5700 block Balsam St., 9:16 p.m.

OCT. 1 Robbery, 5900 block Athen

St., 1:16 a.m.

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Theft from vehicle, 1400 block Alberta Drive, 6:27 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1400 block Hampton Park Blvd, 7:08 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 7900 block Central Ave, 7:49 a.m.

Residential break-in, 1300 block Capital View Terrace, 8:22 a.m.

Commercial property breakin, 2500 block Pinebrook Ave,

8:36 a.m.

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Money raised for smoke alarms, youth program

BY CHASE COOK STAFF WRITER

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Janice Liggins (right) works with assistant Tiffany Lancaster in her home office in Mitchellville. Liggins founded The Clarion Call, a nonprofit dedicated to reducing the rate of incarceration among people of color in Prince George’s County and other parts of Maryland.

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Janice Liggins, 52, has lived in Bowie her entire life, but said she was ready to leave Prince George’s County a few years.

She was disappointed by a lack of community pride and discipline, she said.

In 2010, Liggins toured a maximum security prison as part of a state program. She encountered men who inspired her to stay in the county. Now, she dedicates herself to preventing young men from ending up behind bars.

“I was so blind,” Liggins said. “I couldn’t tell you where a [prison] was located and I was very proud of that because that meant that world did not touch my world. But guess what?

Pride is blinding. I was blind to what was going on in my own cultural community.”

Of the 1,259 men currently incarcerated at the Prince George’s County Correctional Facility in Upper Marlboro, 85 percent are black and more than half likely will commit felonies within a year of release and be re-incarcerated, said Yolonda Evans, a spokeswoman for the Prince George’s County Department of Corrections.

Of the 22,000 people currently incarcerated in state correctional facilities in Maryland, 71.5 percent are black and 27.6 percent are white, said Mark Vernarelli, a spokesman for the Maryland Department of

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“A lot of families don’t even realize nonprofits are in existence. The solution they need is right around the corner.”

Janice Liggins, founder of The Clarion Call Public Safety and Correctional Services.

Vernarelli said those ratios have remained steady for at least a decade.

To change this pattern, in 2011, Liggins founded The Clarion Call, a nonprofit organization aimed at breaking the so-called “cradle-to-prison pipeline.” It connects families with nonprofits that help with anything from education to legal advice.

For example, a mother living in the county had a 14-yearold son facing jail time on charges of drug possession with intent to distribute, Liggins said. The mother called Liggins, who connected her with a Forestville-based nonprofit, Take Charge Juvenile Diversion Program Inc., which focuses on keeping youths out of the juvenile detention system. The nonprofit worked to reduce the teen’s sentence to 30 hours of community service, she said.

“A lot of families don’t even realize nonprofits are in existence. The solution they need

is right around the corner,” she said. “If parents don’t take proactive measures for their children, they will get caught in that pipeline.”

So far, she said, The Clarion Call — named after a Biblical term meaning “an assignment” or “call to action” — has helped dozens of families.

Liggins, who also runs her own marketing business in Bowie, got her first taste of the prison world in 2010. That year, she enrolled in Leadership Maryland, a yearlong program that exposes state and community leaders to state issues by taking them on tours, including one at a maximum security prison in Cumberland, she said.

She spoke to three inmates, who regretted their past choices and urged others to stay out of trouble, she said.

“I thought, ‘It’s kind of late for that conversation.’ That conversation needs to happen well in advance, so they don’t end up there. So The Clarion Call seeks to do just that,” she said.

The Clarion Call hosts a television show that showcases two local nonprofits each month, Liggins said. The show, also called The Clarion Call, airs on Prince George’s County Community TV on Channel 76 for Comcast and Channel 42 for Verizon.

Liggins said her nonprofit relies solely on private and corporate donations. She hopes to one day expand nationwide.

“I think I’m meant to stay here. If I had gone, I would have missed my assignment,” she said. “Now, I’m grateful to be here.”

A new rib champion was decided Saturday with the Prince George’s County Fire/EMS Department besting the police department at the second annual Public Safety BBQ Cook-Off. Each team served up a rack of ribs, attempting to woo consumers and a panel of judges to earn the coveted trophy, which was awarded to the county police department last year. The event was held in Largo as part of the Community Expo, an event featuring live music performances and food.

“It was a very festive atmosphere,” fire/EMS department spokesman Mark Brady said.

A panel of judges, which featured community members and Timothy Dean, a competitor on the “Top Chef” reality show, tasted each team’s ribs and by a 4 to 1 vote, the fire department was awarded the championship.

Kirk Ingram, District Heights’ volunteer Fire/EMS chief, said he was happy his first try cooking for the team netted a win.

Attendees could sample the ribs for $5 a plate with the $580 proceeds being split equally between the departments. The fire department plans to put its funds toward the purchase of smoke alarms to give to the needy, Ingram said.

“It’s good just being part of the fire department and giving back to citizens,” Ingram said.

The police department’s funds will be used for the Prince George’s County Police Law Enforcement Explorers, which is a program with activities for youth between 14 to 20 years old interested in law enforcement.

Cpl. Haris Johnson, a county police officer in District 2, serving the Bowie area, said he was happy for the fire department’s win and that the police depart-

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Johnson was the police de-

partment’s chef and won the cook-off trophy last year.

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A novel approach to housecleaning Governor’s race Mother charts puts spotlight strategy to on demographics get families n

Gansler officially in Democratic race

BY

KATE S. ALEXANDER STAFF WRITER

When choosing among a racially and demographically diverse field of gubernatorial candidates, voters are likely to consider more than just the issues next year, experts say.

The state could have its first black governor, its first female governor, or its first openly gay governor. It also could have a heterosexual, white, male or Jewish governor, none of which would be a first.

Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler (D) is the latest candidate to officially throw his hat into the ring, kicking off his campaign on Sept. 24.

In the 2014 Democratic primary, he faces Del. Heather Mizeur (D-Dist. 20) of Takoma Park and Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown (D) of Mitchellville.

Across the aisle, Harford County Executive David R. Craig, Del. Ronald A. George (RDist. 30) of Arnold and Charles Lollar of Charles County, the past Maryland state director of Americans for Prosperity, are competing for the Republican nomination.

As Gansler addressed voters recently, he spoke often of diversity — what he has helped bring to Maryland government and what is yet to come, promising an administration that “from top to bottom, will unapologetically be diverse.”

But his promise was not far removed from the heat Gansler took in August for accusing Brown of relying on race to get elected.

While some criticized Gansler’s comment as racist, Richard E. Vatz, professor of communication studies at Towson University, said that what Gansler was really saying was “get to the issues.”

Demographics shouldn’t matter in an election, Vatz said.

“It is not relevant,” he said, quoting the late President John F. Kennedy’s response to being asked about being the first Catholic president.

Vatz said race, as well as religion and gender, are not persuasive selling points and overshadow critical issues in an election.

But demographics matter to some voters, said Melissa Deckman, chair and professor of political science at Washington College in Chestertown.

Studies show that AfricanAmerican and Latino voters tend to support candidates who are like them, but not all voters vote for their own, she said. For instance, women do not tend to vote for other women so much as they tend to lean Democratic.

While many African-Americans voted for Barack Obama in 2008, isolating race has proven difficult in empirical political science research, Deckman said.

If elected, Brown would be the state’s first black governor.

But so would Lollar, and to date, Lollar’s race has been a focal point.

Vatz said demographics matter more to Democrats than Republicans.

“It has to be said that this is really one sided,” Vatz said.

Deckman agreed.

“Republicans, by definition, do not like to do identity politics,” Deckman said.

For candidates in the majority Democratic state, how and when to mention demographics in a campaign is a challenge.

Deckman said it can be a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation.

“In some respects, these would be important milestones for those communities,” she said. “But you also have to weigh the general election and general voters. You have to appeal to people in the middle of the road.

Too much emphasis on identity politics really turns off Republicans.”

A poll commissioned by Brown’s campaign showed the lieutenant governor leading among Democrats with 43 percent. Trailing behind were Gansler with 22 percent and Mizeur with 5 percent. However, 31 percent of those polled were undecided.

doing chores

BY SOPHIE PETIT STAFF WRITER

Ten years ago, Carol Paul of Bowie struggled to get her son, Bucky, to help clean their house. By the time he was in his 20s, she said, he was coming home from college once a week just to help out — thanks to a cleaning “system” Paul and her husband created. She is sharing that system in her new book.

“I would ride my bike 15 miles back home, so it was kind of like a cool way to get home once a week and spend time with my family. You didn’t really think twice about the cleaning,” said Bucky Paul, now 23. He recently graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, and lives in Baltimore.

He still makes it home every Thursday for cleaning night, he said.

“Kids respond to it how players respond to coaches. To be a coach is to be a salesman,” said Carol Paul, 47, who coowns a basketball camp and comes from a family of coaches.

Paul runs Coach Wootten’s Basketball Camp, based in Arlington, Va., with her brother, Joe Wootten, and father, Morgan Wootten, a DeMatha Catholic High School hall of fame coach at the Hyattsville school who spent his entire career coaching in Prince George’s County, she said.

Her book, “Team Clean,” was released in June and published by New York-based Aviva Publishing. Paul said she’s a coach selling clean.

The cleaning strategy starts with a game plan: On the same day at the same time each week, everyone — herself, her husband and their four children — gets the same chores that are listed on a chart, she said.

At the bottom of the chart, a chosen family member writes down the postcleaning reward, which is usually the name of the restaurant the family will order from that night, she said.

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Obituary Goodloe, Mary Dean, of Ashland, VA, born April 29, 1922 went to be with her Lord and Savior on October 6, 2013. She passed peacefully and was surrounded by her family and friends. She was preceded in death by her husband of 64 years, Colby S. Goodloe, Sr. her daughter-in-law Lisa Goodloe; and two great-grandchildren.

She is survived by her four children, Colby “Toby” Goodloe, Jr. and his wife, Lynn; Karen Resau, Raymond Goodloe, Thomas Goodloe and his wife Kim; nine grandchildren; nine greatgrandchildren, as well as many nieces, nephews, family and friends. Mary and Colby lived in Riverdale until 1972 when they moved to Richmond Va. She was known as Aunt Mary to those who loved her. She retired from the Hanover County Health Department and was very active in the community. She served with the ladies of the VFW Post 10657, American Legion Post 175, and the Ashland Moose Lodge #2099. She loved to dance and was a fabulous cook. She spent her last few years in assisted living at Our Lady of Hope in Richmond and made many new friends. The family will receive friends from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, October 9 at Nelsen Funeral Home, Reid Chapel 412 S. Washington Hwy. Ashland Va. Funeral Service will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday at the funeral home. Interment will follow at Signal Hill Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers please make a donation to Hanover ARC Colby and Mary Goodloe Fund, P.O. Box 91, Ashland, Va. 20335.

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Carol Paul and her husband, Steve Paul, co-founded the Team Clean system at their home in Bowie.

Carol Paul wrote a book about how to get the entire family to clean the house in a fun way, just like a coach motivates a team.

Next to the restaurant’s name, they list their orders.

“So the entire time they’re cleaning, they’re thinking, ‘Yes! My burrito is coming!’ By the time we’re done cleaning, dinner is basically arriving, and then we watch ‘Survivor,’” Paul said, referring to the family’s favorite weekly TV show.

With everyone doing their part, cleaning the house takes only about 20 minutes per week, she said.

Family members bond without realizing it; no one is on a phone or computer, and everyone is talking as they clean.

“Team Clean is about all these little things that make it not [only about] cleaning the house. It’s become our tradition.

Each family is different. One family decided to do a bonfire every night,” she said.

So far, the book has sold 2,100 copies and is available at all major bookstores, as well as online and in e-books, Paul said.

Bucky Paul said his older brother, who lives in Washington, D.C., introduced Team Clean to his roommates.

“They’re all party animals, and they do

it once a week and then sit down and eat some food,” he said. “It kind of shows you how powerful it is.”

Carol Paul said the Team Clean concept arose in 2000 after she paid a last-minute cleaning service $150 to clean her house for 40 minutes while she and her family sat around and waited.

“That’s ridiculous,” she said. “I thought, ‘That’s how we should do it, in a team.’”

Michele Cormier, 51, of Bowie lives down the street from Paul and tried the Team Clean system for the first time a couple of months ago after Paul told her about the book.

“Every mom I know feels the same way. We’re sick of nagging our families and our families are sick of being nagged,” said Cormier, who has a son in college who helps out now whenever he’s home. “Now cleaning isn’t seen as a negative thing, and it was for 20 years. It’s not me nagging anymore. It’s we do our stuff together and have fun together.” spetit@gazette.net

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Instructor Melissa Fiskaldo (right) assists Thomas Stone Elementary School sixthgrader Paola Mendez, 11, during an At School After School program at the Mount Rainier school, while sixthgrader Ana Cindy Sarceno (left) continues her work.

Continued from Page A-1 in July 2016. After July 2017, all employers would pay the new rate.

The proposed bill has angered business leaders, who said it would hurt employers and ultimately lead to fewer jobs.

“It’s a job killer,” said Jeffrie Zellmer, vice president of government and community affairs at the Annapolis-based Maryland Retailers Association.

“It forces all the other wages up, therefore you’ve got to cut back.”

Fred Rosenthal, who coowns Jasper’s Restaurant in Largo, said it’s too soon to increase wages as the economy is still fragile and businesses don’t have the income to offset increases.

“Most of us everywhere, whether in business or not, are torn by the situation. Obviously it’s important for people to make a wage in which they can afford to live, but on the other hand, we are in a time where businesses are struggling,” Rosenthal said.

“We face what we call the ‘bump up.’ Minimum wage goes up.

Those people making a dollar more than minimum wage feel their wage should go up. People making $10 today expect to make $11.”

Prince George’s has historically followed, along with Maryland, the federal minimum wage rate, which was last raised in 2009 from $6.55 to $7.25. The District, as well as 18 states, have minimum wages above the federal minimum wage.

“I think it’s just time,” said

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“Art Works has been a blessing,” Lafertte said.

At School After School supplements Thomas Stone’s club, but it adds a new, free after-school art program to the other schools, which have about 25 participants each.

“Our hope is that it will expand the students’ opportunities for arts education,” said Susan Holiday, principal at Gladys Noon Spellman.

Brenda T. Makle, the visual arts supervisor for county public schools, said elementary schools without a dedicated arts focus do not have full-time art teachers. She said Thomas Stone’s art teacher — shared with other elementary schools — offers lessons at least four times per year.

“I’m looking at the environment we’re in and trying to figure out a way to help the children out. It’s really about the kids,” Johnson said.

Miguel Gasca, 9, of Mount Rainier, a member of Lafertte’s club, said the program includes exciting activities, such as dec-

orating shirts, not offered during school hours.

“You can do fun things you’ve never done before,” Miguel said.

Thomas Stone students colored and labeled blank maps Sept. 26 as part of a lesson helping them relate and identify with their communities.

Kiterra Scott, 11, of Capitol Heights said the program gives her an additional creative outlet.

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Continued from Page A-1 Tim McNamara, Bladensburg’s code enforcement director, said the contested seat led to improved turnout.

“I was thinking the rain may have, no pun intended, dampened the turnout. But it didn’t.”

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working with Prince George’s and Montgomery officials, Sibert said.

Failure of the District or Montgomery County to pass raises would lower the chances of the bill passing in Prince George’s, Harrison said.

“Broad application of any change such as this is needed.

If we stand out in terms of the amount of the increase, the timing of the increase or similar factors, we risk both hurting our ability to recruit retail tenants and hindering job creation here,” said Scott Peterson, a spokesperson for Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III. Andre Rogers, president of the Prince George’s County Chamber of Commerce, said members are looking to negotiate with the county on finding a way to benefit employees and employers. “[Businesses] that hire a lot of young people, entry-level and part-time people, it would adversely affect their business model,” Rogers said. “We believe there’s a way to allow the County Council to meet their stated goal of a living wage as well as be able to meet business’ needs to hire entry level and seasonal workers.”

A committee meeting to discuss the bill has not been set, Harrison said.

“Our residents who are working deserve to be able to buy a pound of bacon and a gallon of gas and ride the Metro as needed,” Harrison said.

erly Hall received 130 votes to win the uncontested Ward 2 seat, left vacant due to Walter George’s midterm departure.

George could no longer serve on the council after moving out of Bladensburg in May, James said.

Hall is the president of Beacon Lights, a women’s support group in Bladensburg.

Incumbent council mem-

bers Cris Mendoza (Ward 1) and Walter Ficklin (Ward 2) also won their uncontested races with 173 votes and 163 votes, respectively. In 2009, Ficklin won a contested seat with 43 votes while Mendoza won unopposed with 67 votes.

Hall and Councilwoman Tina Brown (Ward 1) will be up for re-election in 2015.

James said he wants to continue collaborating with residents and business owners in order to help the town prosper and provide a safe environment.

“We need to focus on public safety and economic development,” James said.

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Councilman Brent Bolin (Ward 2), who authored the legislation, said the proposal establishes a framework that could be altered based on the different needs of blocks in Mount Rainier.

“Having a uniform process for petition and public hearing does not prevent the council from finding a unique solution once the issue is before us,” he said.

Councilman Jesse Christopherson (Ward 1) said he has received a few parking-related complaints from Mount Rainier residents but he does not expect many to petition for permits if the new legislation is passed during the next City Council meeting Nov. 5.

“Unless there’s a problem, I don’t think people will want to have that system in place,” he said.

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Harrison (D-Dist. 5) of Springdale. “The costs of everything have gone up and those wages have not. It’s time to do something to help our residents.”

Harrison said she has the support of all the County Council members, who are working with neighboring Montgomery and District officials to raise the minimum wage to $11.50 an hour in those jurisdictions as well.

Harrison was scheduled to meet with District Council Chairman Phil Mendelson and Montgomery County Councilman Marc Elrich (D-At Large) of Takoma Park on Wednesday at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments in the District to announce the collaborative effort.

“We’re trying to make this a regional effort so no one region is at a competitive disadvantage. [The District] has already introduced several bills. Montgomery County introduced a bill on the same day. We believe that if we all work together, then all of the residents will benefit,” Harrison said.

“This is historic in us working together this way.”

On Sept. 12, District Mayor Vincent C. Gray vetoed a bill that required large retailers of 75,000 square feet or more to pay their employees a combination of salary and benefits that equaled $12.50 an hour, said Karen Sibert, a District Council spokeswoman.

The District Council will introduce a new bill that applies to all employers to raise the minimum wage at its next meeting in early November, a result of council members

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Let’s face it: The state’s minimum wage of $7.25 per hour — about $15,000 per year (before taxes) for a full-time employee — simply is not enough to live off in Prince George’s County.

But the County Council’s proposal to raise the minimum wage to $11.50 per hour, even in a phased-in manner, isn’t realistic either.

It’s a debate that’s already been somewhat waged Washington, D.C., highPOORLY TIMED in lighting all that can go wrong INCREASES when wages could be reCOULD DO MORE quired to rise significantly.

HARM THAN The District’s proposed Large Retailers AccountGOOD ability Act sought to require non-union retailers with stores bigger than 75,000 square feet — and whose parent companies’ annual revenues are at least $1 billion — to pay employees a minimum of $12.50 per hour.

Wal-Mart department store balked at the expense and threatened to cancel plans to open three stores in the District.

Ultimately, Mayor Vincent Gray vetoed the legislation, understanding that the loss of jobs would be harmful to those the legislation was intended to help.

In other words, even a lower paying job is better than no job at all.

Prince George’s officials would be remiss to think that anything different would happen if the county raises the minimum wage by such a significant amount without the backing of a strong economy.

Sure, it was wise of county legislators to partner with Montgomery County and District leaders to support a phased-in plan, beginning with a hike to $8.75 per hour in July and eventually ending with an $11.50 minimum wage for all county businesses in 2016.

After all, having similar wage requirements would ideally give all three equal footing when trying to attract businesses.

But, again, let’s face it — Prince George’s is hardly on even ground with its neighbors when it comes to business.

Prince George’s is already struggling to attract companies, whereas Montgomery County and Washington, D.C., have thrived commercially.

Sure, Prince George’s has some prized developments on the radar, but businesses don’t yet appear to be tripping over themselves to come to the county — and a higher minimum wage isn’t likely to raise the county’s attractiveness.

And to be clear, even Montgomery County and the District have not fully shaken off the effects of the Great Recession.

Clearly, something must be done, however. Having people work long hours and still not make enough to survive is ridiculous. Sure, businesses have to survive, but people do, too.

And it’s a problem that affects everyone, even those making a comfortable living.

Who pays for the social programs needed to help the working poor? Taxpayers.

But the economy is still struggling, and as congressional stubbornness has proved through the federal government shutdown, the economic forecast is hardly stable.

With about 72,000 county residents working for the federal government and many of them enduring furloughs, businesses are seeing less customers as residents pinch pennies until the shutdown ends.

The federal government spends about $12 million per day on salaries and wages in the county, according to a news release from the county executive’s office. In just five days, the county could lose $1.4 million in income tax revenues, according to the release.

Understandably, now is not the time to make any major financial decisions.

Perhaps a better approach would be to evaluate the changes annually, instead of making a promise up front without knowing the country’s financial status in three years.

It’s possible the economy will be thriving in a few years and the $4.25 increase will be easily adapted by most businesses — but that’s a decision that can and should be made at that time.

Federal and state officials are also eyeing minimum wage rates, in some cases proposing $10 or more per hour.

For now, let’s stick with what legislators already know: People need to make more money to afford to live in this area, and businesses are still struggling to stay afloat.

Change is needed, but it’s time for reasonable steps, not unrealistic leaps.

Douglas S. Hayes, Associate Publisher

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Don’t waste money on Spanish immersion I read with disgust the article [“Parents push for Prince George’s Spanish immersion instruction,” Sept. 12] on the front page no less, concerning P.G. County school students being forced to learn their main subjects all day long in nothing but Spanish. I couldn’t disagree more with this program nor could I think of a program I would want to subsidize less with my tax dollars than this one.

If I were a parent who had schoolage kids from kindergarten through high school in P.G. County, I would definitely pull them out and home school them. If language immersion is to take place, it should definitely be the children of immigrants from Mexico and other Spanishspeaking countries “assimilating” into American culture by learning and speaking nothing but the “King’s English” as it is known, and is the native tongue of America. Irrefutable studies have shown

We cannot have these so-called well-meaning, but far-left-wing, agenda-driven programs in our defenseless public schools. that immigrants from all countries earn more money and have a better quality of life by learning and speaking only English at least in public and on the job, and as I mentioned above, assimilating as quickly as possible into American society.

We cannot have these so-called

well-meaning, but far-left-wing, agendadriven programs in our defenseless public schools. I would submit to your readers that we all see enough American kids who due to overuse of handheld devices (phones, tablets, etc.) and the popularity of texting with its shortened use of words — LOL and OMG just a few examples of this — cannot even spell or use proper grammar because of constant use of these devices. So I say American kids can definitely also use English immersion courses as most kids today can’t even have a faceto-face conversation with each other or adults.

So I would beg the school system higher-ups to rethink this wrong-headed policy and keep language classes as electives as they were when I was in the P.G. County school system in the 1980s.

Amy Jones, Bowie

Ending ‘maintenance of inadequate effort’ During an international crisis on the old “West Wing” television series, President Josiah Bartlett asks rhetorically, “Why is a Kundunese life worth less to me than an American life?” His speechwriter, Will Bailey, retorts, “I don’t know, sir, but it is.”

That subtle act — telling truth to power — induces angst for the fictional leader of the free world that inspires a new policy supporting human rights everywhere.

Alas, it was only a television show ... .

Flash forward to real life in 2013 and access to an adequate public education is the social justice issue of our time.

Over a decade ago, the Thornton Commission finished its landmark study. Dr. Alvin Thornton put us all on notice by declaring that, “We know the characteristics of

So, when did it become public policy that our children ... will receive but a fraction of a complete education? excellent schools; we simply allow disparities to exist.”

Mostly, those disparities adversely affect the socio-economically disadvantaged.

In her new book, “Reign of Error,” Diane Ravitch presents compelling evidence that the achievement gap between ethnicities has closed over the last three decades. However, she also notes that the achievement gap between affluent students and impoverished ones has nearly doubled in the same time frame.

For a whole host of rea-

sons, children living in poverty arrive in kindergarten well behind their more affluent peers.

When a majority of a school’s population is poor, lack of access to adequate resources compounds the problem.

A super-majority of students in Prince George’s County Public Schools lives below the poverty line. Our annual per-pupil-spending of around $12,000 still hovers close to 80 percent of Montgomery County’s spending, virtually the same proportion as in the early ’80s.

Maintenance of inadequate effort will never yield the superior results we seek, and undifferentiated results will never arise from differentiated circumstances.

Our children remain far more likely to arrive hungry in class and enter an overcrowded classroom staffed by an inexperienced educator. They remain far less likely to profit from enrichment courses.

So, when did it become public policy that our children in Prince George’s County will receive but a fraction of a complete education?

To echo the words of [“The West Wing” character] Will Bailey: I don’t know, my friends and neighbors, but it did.

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

Is O’Malley having a Sister Stephanie moment?

Sometimes a political event takes place that doesn’t make any sense. No, I’m not talking about the federal government shutdown, which, upon reflection, is perfectly understandable. The gridlocked politicians in Washington simply reflect the gridlocked nation that elected them.

The American people are badly polarized between two very different world views with little room for compromise or direction. How do you explain a nation that elects Barack Obama president in 2008, repudiates him by electing a Republican Congress two years later, and then elects Obama again in 2012?

But the inexplicable event I’m talking about is Gov. Martin O’Malley picking MY MARYLAND a nasty, gratuitous BLAIR LEE fight with Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, one of his closest political allies.

O’Malley is publicly criticizing the mayor for Baltimore’s spike in homicides.

“I believe it has to do with the fact that enforcement levels and police response have fallen to 13-year lows,” he said.

If Baltimore police made more arrests, said O’Malley, there’d be fewer murders.

In 1999, O’Malley ran for mayor as a crime fighter and, once elected, adopted a zerotolerance policy that led to an era of mass arrests peaking at 100,000 (more than 20 percent of the adult population) during several years of O’Malley’s term.

Folks, mostly blacks, were arrested for minor offenses or on their way to church, weddings or work (20 percent of the arrests were dropped as baseless.) And many young Baltimoreans ended up with harmful, unwarranted arrest records. Appalled at the civil rights infringements, the ACLU and the NAACP filed a lawsuit against the city that resulted in an $870,000 settlement.

Nevertheless, O’Malley credits his zero tolerance policy with reducing crime and is critical of Mayor Rawlings-Blake’s

targeted enforcement against gangs and guns. Under Rawlings-Blake, arrests have fallen more than half.

But this is a fight that O’Malley can’t possibly win on either the merits or on the politics.

Despite O’Malley’s election promise to reduce them to 175 per year, homicides actually increased during his term from 253 (in 2003) to 276 (the year he left office).

After that, homicides receded to a 30-year low of 197 in 2011.

Amazingly, O’Malley, four years removed from being mayor, tried grabbing credit for the 2011 downturn. Pointing to his past mass arrests as a contributing factor, he said, “I’m not going to quibble with God over the timing (of the downturn).”

Now however, with Baltimore’s homicides headed to 221, O’Malley is shifting from credit-taking to blame-placing.

At first, Mayor Rawlings-Blake tried politely deflecting the assault. “While I appreciate Governor O’Malley’s concern about crime in Baltimore, it’s simply inaccurate to suggest more arrests lead to less crime,” she said.

But instead of relenting, O’Malley doubled down with a Baltimore Sun oped piece calling for more arrests “despite the protest of the ideologues of the left.”

Strange rhetoric from the guy who repealed Maryland’s death penalty.

Finally, fed up with O’Malley’s attacks, Mayor Rawlings-Blake lowered the boom: “There is an anxiety that is building in some of our communities that we’re going back to a time when communities felt like their kids were under siege.” Message translation: “Martin, if you keep this up I’m going to make it into a race issue that you will forever regret.”

What’s so astonishing is O’Malley’s willingness to shatter such a long-standing political alliance. When O’Malley first ran for mayor in 1999 against two black candidates, it was Del. Pete Rawlings, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s dad, who issued the crucial endorsement making O’Malley acceptable to black voters.

In return, O’Malley’s younger brother, Peter O’Malley, ran Stephanie RawlingsBlake’s mayoral campaign and, thereafter, served as her chief of staff.

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And not only is Martin O’Malley annoying the mayor, he’s making life miserable for his protege and wannabe successor, Anthony Brown, who’s being forced into a no-win choice between the governor and the mayor.

Martin O’Malley isn’t stupid. Ambitious, narcissistic, yes. But dumb, no.

So why is he waging this pointless battle over Baltimore murder rates? Well, maybe he’s speaking to a national audience and maybe Baltimore is merely a stage and homicides are merely the script.

After all, the presidential campaign isn’t going well. Despite those countless Sunday TV talk shows and visits to other states, O’Malley isn’t even registering in the Iowa and New Hampshire polls.

So maybe Martin O’Malley is trying to reinvent himself, temper his death penalty repeal, Black Guerilla Family image with some tough-on-crime, mass arrests rhetoric.

And maybe Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is serving as O’Malley’s Sister Soulja, the 1990s angry black hip-hop hate merchant whom presidential candidate Bill Clinton put into her place to appease white voters who feared Clinton was too liberal.

After Sister Soulja’s inflammatory remark, “If Black people kill Black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?,” Clinton made a calculated public attack on Soulja and on Jessie Jackson for including her in his Rainbow Coalition. According to Wikipedia, “Clinton’s well-known repudiation of her (Soulja’s ) comments led to what is now known in politics as a Sister Soulja moment.”

So, maybe O’Malley is reshaping his image by orchestrating a Sister Soulja moment, or more accurately, a Sister Stephanie moment. Hey, it worked for Clinton in 1992; maybe it will work for O’Malley in 2016.

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 blairleeiv@gmail.com.

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DeMatha Stags Gwynn Park Yellow Jackets Suitland Rams Flowers Jaguars DuVal Tigers Bowie Bulldogs Wise Pumas Surrattsville Hornets Forestville Knights Douglass Eagles

6-1 60 pts 5-0 54 pts 5-0 48 pts 5-0 42 pts 4-1 34 pts 2-3 31 pts 3-2 17 pts 5-0 16 pts 5-0 13 pts 3-2 9 pts

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Forestville Gwynn Park Surrattsville Douglass Potomac Friendly Crossland Largo Central Fairmont Hghts

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5-0 5-0 5-0 3-2 2-3 2-3 1-4 1-4 1-4 0-5

3-0 3-0 3-0 2-1 2-1 1-2 1-3 1-3 0-3 0-3

Prince George’s 4A League Team

Flowers Suitland DuVal Wise Bowie Northwestern Parkdale E. Roosevelt High Point Oxon Hill Laurel Bladensburg

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5-0 5-0 4-1 3-2 2-3 2-3 2-3 2-3 2-3 2-3 1-4 1-4

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Riverdale Baptist DeMatha McNamara Capitol Christian Pallotti National Christian

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KIPP 40, National Christian 6 Parkdale 16, High Point 14 Pallotti 40, Baltimore Lutheran 3 St.St./St. Ag. 22, Cap Christian 20 Riverdale Baptist 47, Avalon 32 Gwynn Park 66, Crossland 7 Good Counsel 41, McNamara 0 DeMatha 49, O’Connell 14 Flowers 48, Oxon Hill 0 Potomac 46, Largo 8 Suitland 54, Laurel 6 Bowie 13, Eleanor Roosevelt 6 DuVal 33, Bladensburg 6 Surrattsville 54, Fairmont Heights 6 Wise 50, Northwestern 0 Douglass 36, Friendly 6 Forestville 38, Central 8

Running back Amaru Major (right) practices with the football team Tuesday at Surrattsville High School in Clinton.

BEST BET p.m. Saturday. Forestville and Surrattsville are both 5-0 and a matchup between undefeated teams this late in the season is a treat. At most, there will be just 10 others between public schools this season. Forestville has won five straight in the series. Running backs Marcel Joly (Forestville) and Amaru Major (Surrattsville) lead their respective teams.

LEADERS Top rushers J. Baynes, R. Bapt.

A. Major, Surratts.

T. Deal, DeM. K. Freeman, Doug.

R. Williams, McN. J. Burke, Suit.

Carries 89 70 96 69 68 53

Top passers

Yards 919 891 733 549 462 439

Cmp-Att. R. Williams, McN. 88-141 M. Duckett, Lau. 59-133 J. Lovett, DeM. 63-108 J. Green, Bowie 44-98 W. Wolfolk, Suit. 34-60 J. Adams, G.Park 30-56

Top receivers J. Crockett, McN. C. Murray, McN. C. Phillips, DeM. M. Roberts, Bow. M. Phillips, Bow. N. Nelson, Suit.

Rec. 38 38 27 12 10 11

Avg. 10.3 12.7 7.6 8.0 6.8 8.3

Yards 1567 1066 927 890 659 609

Yards 866 497 484 304 295 255

Int. 8 5 0 3 4 4

TDs 10 10 8 10 5 4

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Junior leads the undefeated Hornets into showdown with 1A rival, and undefeated, Forestville

fashion,” Harris said. “He really didn’t know how to answer. He didn’t want to say no, and he was hesitant and cautious to say yes.”

Eventually, Major said he would if it were best for the team.

Then, Harris revealed he was just testing his athlete, checking how he’d respond rather than planning to change his race schedule.

“I gave him an A for how he handled that,” Harris said.

Now a junior, Major is receiving high marks on the football field, too. He’s averaging 178 yards and two touchdowns per game and has received interest from University of

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Robert Harris, who coaches football and track at Surrattsville High School, summoned Amaru Major during a track meet last year.

Major typically ran the 100- and 200-meter dashes and anchored the 400- and 800-meter relays, and he’d become comfortable in those events.

But Harris asked him to enter the 400-meter dash and drop another race.

“He just got quiet in typical Amaru

First-year Eleanor Roosevelt High School girls’ soccer coach Bob Sowers doesn’t want a superstar. The former fiveyear Raiders’ assistant coach certainly won’t complain about the one he has — senior midfielder Nicole Delabrer — but Roosevelt teams in the past have been too reliant on specific players and Sowers’ system is a complete departure from that.

“If we had a star there’s no question it’s Nicole, but we don’t talk about that and try to set her up all the time,” Sowers said. “I’ve noticed in lots of playoff games over the years that we’re relying on this person and that person and if they’re not scoring, we have nothing else. My style is for everyone to be a good offensive player, for everyone to feel comfortable with the ball and to be a threat. I like creative players who can really handle the ball and not get stuck.”

Despite losing nine seniors from last year, Roosevelt, which is seeking its first state tournament appearance since 2011, is a step ahead of where it was in 2012. The Raiders (6-0 as of Tuesday) picked up their first win over rival and two-time defending Class 4A South Region champion Bowie in nearly two years earlier this season and are on pace to win the Prince George’s County 4A League title and No. 1 seed in the 4A South Region later this month.

Delabrer and junior midfielder Holly Hughes — the team’s best distributor — agreed that Sowers’ system, predicated on team balance, has cultivated a new level of cohesion that has been missing in recent years and credited that with Roosevelt’s success in 2013. While there remains some

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For the Charles H. Flowers High School football team, its success is not dependent upon the speedy legs of just one or two star running backs, or even the stud arm of some collegiatequality quarterback. Instead, the Jaguars have leaned on the experience of their veteran offensive line to simply overpower and out-discipline opponents on their way to a 5-0 record midway through the 2013 season.

In Saturday’s 48-0 victory against Oxon Hill (2-3) at Friendly in Fort Washington, it did not matter which running back received the ball. The visiting Flowers’ offensive line, which features four seniors and a junior center on its starting unit, helped an assortment of nine Jaguar ball carriers to rush for 348 yards on 39 carries.

It did not matter if coach Mike Mayo called for a dive, sweep, offtackle or misdirection run, the offensive line worked like a well-oiled machine giving ball-carriers huge gaps to gain consistent chunks of yardage.

Even though quarterback Malik White only dropped back to pass four times, he was well-protected, allowing him time to connect for three comple-

tions — two being touchdowns of the 55 and 56 yards.

“I think we got the best line in the county,” said senior running back Jamal Higgs, who finished with 99 rushing yards and three touchdowns on five carries. “They open up the lanes for us and it is easy. We just do the rest.”

What gives Flowers’ offensive line an edge is the fact that this group has been together for the better part of the past three seasons. They have also grown comfortable in executing Mayo’s game plan.

“They all played last year, and they have worked very hard, and they take a lot of pride in what they do,”

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Eleanor Roosevelt High School’s Nicole Delabrer leads the undefeated girls’ soccer team with 13 goals and eight assists.

Bladensburg junior still hungry for more soccer With 12 goals and six assists through eight matches, Johnson developing into one of county’s elite n

TDs 17 8 9 9 6 3

Avg. TDs 22.8 14 13.1 6 17.9 8 25.3 3 29.5 2 23.2 4

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Forestville at Surrattsville, 2

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STAFF WRITER

Also receiving votes: McNamara 6.

Prince George’s 3A/2A/1A League

BY JENNIFER

BY

NICK CAMMAROTA STAFF WRITER

GREG DOHLER/THE GAZETTE

Michael Johnson (left) of host Bladensburg High School fights for the ball against Rojey Dovey of Laurel Oct. 3.

As a young boy growing up on the West Coast of Africa in Sierra Leone, Michael Johnson said he always woke up early in the morning.

He slipped on a pair of shorts and ran outside to play soccer.

Johnson, who wears a perpetual grin and has an infectious, giggly laugh, didn’t eat breakfast despite the fact that he knew he’d

be out of the house for a while.

He’d run all day, kicking whatever ball he and his friends could find across rocks, sand and stone, aiming at crates or boxes they collected to serve as goals. He missed lunch, too, at which his parents would always become upset.

And when his father, Desmond Johnson (a former professional soccer player), forced Johnson inside to eat dinner, he’d scarf that down and sprint right back out.

“I always loved to play soccer,” said Johnson, now a junior at Bladensburg High School. “It was kind of different because back home you don’t really have a coach. You just get up and you just go play.

You practice on your own, develop

your own skills. Then you’re ready to play.”

Since moving to Maryland in 2009, it’s pretty evident that Johnson is “ready to play.” In his third year at Bladensburg — during a campaign where he’s split time between center back and attacking midfielder — the powerful 5-foot10, 170-pound Johnson has scored 12 goals and assisted on six more in eight matches. Not unrelated, the Mustangs have a 5-2-1 record.

“He’s the absolute team man.

I’m sure he’d play goalkeeper for me if I asked him to, and I’m sure he’d be pretty damn good at it,” second-year Mustangs coach

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ROOSEVELT

Continued from Page A-10 discrepancy between the level of travel club soccer players and those who just play during the fall, an issue every high school team state-wide faces, Delabrer and Hughes agreed there has been more of a concerted effort to encourage everyone and involve everyone on the pitch, no matter what their soccer experience is. Instilling confidence in players is vital to their performance, the two agreed.

“In the past we’ve had players who were just focused on getting five goals a game but this year we’re working a lot on finding each other and we’ve become really good at connecting,” Hughes said. “I like getting the ball to people in the best position so they can have a better chance of scoring rather than just taking it for myself and I think everyone on the team thinks that way whether they’re a forward or not.”

Delabrer leads the team with 13 goals and eight assists and Hughes has eight assists and three goals. Eight Raiders have scored at least three goals.

The Raiders’ improved

overall team speed, boosted by the addition of freshman forward Sheyenne Bonnick and midfielder Natalie Hanno, also plays well into Sowers’ more offensive-minded style of soccer.

Sowers said he does not want his players to sit back and defend when they face top opponents.

The goal is to move forward and attack with 10 players, he said, and the Raiders can feel comfortable moving forward with senior Kate Monroe directing a stellar backline.

Roosevelt has not won a state tournament game since winning its only championship in 2003. Hughes and Delabrer said this year’s team has the opportunity to take the region and state by surprise.

“I was really excited that Bob was our new coach because he came in on the first day of tryouts and was like, ‘I want to make you as good as you can be,’” Hughes said. “He wasn’t worried about rivalries, he just wants to make us good and it’s nice to have that support and I think it’s the foundation of us being good. In the past we have been focused on four or five individuals holding up the team.” jbeekman@gazette.net

BLADENSBURG

Continued from Page A-10 Avinash Chandran said. “Michael is special, I cannot deny that. It’s just a question of somebody giving him the time and attention that he deserves.”

That question remains unanswered. Despite emerging as one of the county’s better players — Johnson said he now consistently hears opposing players warning one another about “that No. 8” — he hasn’t received much attention from college coaches. Un-

CHALLENGES

Continued from Page A-10 Maryland, College Park, Salisbury University and McDaniel College.

“He can carry this team,” Harris said. “Sometimes, he’s going to be challenged to do that.”

As Harris learned during that track meet, Major typically answers those challenges.

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FEARLESS FORECASTS The Gazette sports staff picks the winners for this week’s games involving Prince George’s football teams.

Here are this week’s selections: Prince George’s County record All games

Archbishop Carroll vs. Capitol Christian Central at Fairmont Heights

Ken Sain

Dan Feldman

Travis Mewhirter

Nick Cammarota

Jennifer Beekman

Kent Zakour

76-17 151-32

78-15 150-33

80-13 145--38

74-19 144-39

72-21 143-40

70-23 140-43

Carroll

Carroll

Cap. Christian

Cap. Christian

Cap. Christian

Carroll

Central

Central

Central

Central

Central

Fairmont Hgts

Gwynn Park at Largo

Gwynn Park

Gwynn Park

Gwynn Park

Gwynn Park

Gwynn Park

Gwynn Park

Cesar Chavez at Riverdale Baptist

Riv. Baptist

Riv. Baptist

Riv. Baptist

Riv. Baptist

Riv. Baptist

Riv. Baptist

Pallotti at Mount Carmel

Pallotti

Mount Carmel

Pallotti

Mount Carmel

Pallotti

Mount Carmel

Laurel at Parkdale

Parkdale

Parkdale

Parkdale

Laurel

Parkdale

Parkdale

Bowie

DuVal

Bowie

Bowie

DuVal

DuVal

Suitland

Suitland

Suitland

Suitland

Suitland

Suitland

DuVal at Bowie Suitland at Bladensburg Eleanor Roosevelt at Wise

Wise

Wise

Wise

Wise

Wise

Wise

Flowers

Flowers

Flowers

Flowers

Flowers

Flowers

Forestville at Surrattsville

Forestville

Forestville

Forestville

Surrattsville

Surrattsville

Surrattsville

Oxon Hill at Northwestern

Oxon Hill

Oxon Hill

Northwestern

Oxon Hill

Northwetern

Northwestern

Crossland at Friendly

Friendly

Friendly

Friendly

Friendly

Friendly

Friendly

Douglass at Potomac

Douglass

Douglass

Douglass

Douglass

Douglass

Douglass

DeMatha at Bishop McNamara

DeMatha

DeMatha

DeMatha

DeMatha

DeMatha

DeMatha

High Point at Flowers

able to afford the high cost of joining an academy program, which also would force him away from playing for a team he loves in the Mustangs, Johnson plays club soccer for the Maryland Rush and said he’ll continue to develop his skills in the hopes of playing at the next level.

“I really and truly hope Michael can explode and get to where he belongs,” Chandran said. “There are certain parts of his game tactically that we hope he’ll really develop and that we hope will make him top class.”

In a recent match against Laurel, Johnson scored a goal in the second

Harris wanted Major to study more football film, and Major has. Harris wants Major to win every wind sprint, and Major often does. The next step is getting Major to be more vocal, and Harris trusts Major to figure that out, too.

Major already has an internal attitude conducive to motivating.

He vividly recalls suiting up for a varsity game his freshman year, a chance to stand on the

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half to put his club up by two before the Spartans came back to win on the strength of forward Kelly Mareh’s hat trick. Mareh, who’s also from Sierra Leone, and Johnson spoke for a while after the match.

Unlike Mareh, however, the muscular Johnson is comfortable playing anywhere on the field, and has been utilized as such in Chandran’s tiki-taka system (maintain possession with short passes).

“I like playing back there,” Johnson said of playing central defense. “It doesn’t bother me because I know what

my team wants me to do and it’s very difficult for another team to pass me or another team to get a goal that easy.

“If playing the back can help win us a state championship then I’m going to do it.”

Bladensburg’s run at a state title was cut short last season after a second-round loss to Northwestern in the 4A South Region playoffs. Down the stretch Johnson was significantly hampered by ankle issues that left him far less effective than usual. The bumpy field at Bladensburg, not without its occasional eight-foot-wide mud puddles,

doesn’t help matters. This season, however, Johnson said he feels better than ever and is anxious to stay healthy and play a full schedule.

“It’s a big difference playing a lot of games, helping my team,” said Johnson, whose favorite professional club is Barcelona. “To go from only winning a few games when I got here to having one of the best records now is special.”

Added Chandran: “You find him a way onto a soccer pitch and he won’t get off.” ncammarota@gazette.net

“He can carry this team. Sometimes, he’s going to be challenged to do that.” sideline but not play. He traveled with the varsity team to Woodrow Wilson (D.C.), where the teams played Friday evening on a turf field.

Major thought he was living Friday Night Lights, but Wilson

won 20-19.

This season, Major ran for two touchdowns and the gamewinning two-point conversion in a 20-19 win over Wilson.

“I had it in my heart that I wasn’t going to lose to them no

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more,” Major said.

And that was revenge for a game he hadn’t even played in.

Imagine how he feels about Forestville Military Academy (5-0), the opponent Saturday of Surrattsville (5-0). Forestville has

won five straight in the series between the two teams atop the 1A North Region.

“Our goal is to work, try to work harder than them,” Major said. “In my mind, we should be — we’re trying to work hard to show that we’re better than them, so when we play against them, it should be a good game, and we try to take that victory.” dfeldman@gazette.net

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Oxon Hill freshman makes surprise trip to states n Clippers’ rookie who wasn’t on team to start year, earns spot at regionals

Bulldogs, DuVal, Wise and Eleanor Roosevelt have key games n

Three weeks ago, Morgan Minor wasn’t on a golf team.

A freshman at Oxon Hill High School, Minor couldn’t dig up any contact information for the coach. Every cell phone num-

Bowie High School football coach Jae Jackson told his players their game this week could be the biggest of their tenures.

It’s the same thing he told them last week and the week before.

After starting 0-3, No. 6 Bowie beat No. 7 Henry A. Wise

PREP NOTEBOOK

BY TRAVIS MEWHIRTER ber she tried was wrong and every email bounced back, so she played unaffiliated for the first month or so of the season.

And then, finally, she worked things out with the school and coach Pua Ponafala and joined the team.

“There was a lot going on,” Minor said of making her way onto the team.

“Somehow it wasn’t working out well,” said team leader Demarkis Cooper, who won Tuesday’s regional tournament by six shots with a 75. “She finally got in contact with him and showed up at Marlton and was on the team. She’s really good.”

Three weeks from now, Minor will be playing at the state championship as one of three girls from Prince George’s County and four total individuals alongside Eleanor Roosevelt, which qualified as a team.

FLOWERS

Continued from Page A-10 Mayo said. “There is nothing like having an experienced group of lineman.”

Led by two 300-pound senior tackles in Dorian Cash and Mikeal Mills, along with two senior guards in John Robinson and Davon Reaves, the strength in the line does not necessarily come from its size, but rather its dedication to perfection during the practice week.

“We don’t say that we are big and bad, but we dominate,” Cash said. “We go through it

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Bowie faces final major hurdle to playoff berth

FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK

BY DAN FELDMAN

GREG DOHLER/THE GAZETTE

Demarkis Cooper of Oxon Hill High School tees off Tuesday during the Prince George’s District Golf Tournament at Enterprise Golf Course in Mitchellville.

“My goal for the states is to be below 83,” she said. “I want to make sure I hit every fairway and hit every green in regulation.”

Minor led the contingent of county girls with an 86, a score she called disappointing but was still good enough for a

five-shot victory over the next closest female, Bowie freshman Sumayah Arcusa (91).

Arcusa’s freshman teammate, Maryanne DelaCuesta shot the qualifying number of 96 to also earn a berth to the University of Maryland, College Park for the

state championships.

“I’m really impressed with the girls,” Roosevelt coach Troy Bradbury said. “The girls have really stepped up. That’s the bottom line.”

every day during practice. We go through all of our drills and everything just like it is a gameday situation. Every practice we have is a game day for us.”

Although the majority of the offensive line has had the advantage of having years to get to know the offense, junior starting center Emeka Ugweje is in his first season with Flowers and has relied on his fellow lineman to catch him up to speed throughout the summer and practice weeks.

“It was good that he came in, we taught him up,” Cash said.

“As you can see, he still gets stuff wrong. We still get on him and

make sure he does it right the next play.”

Jaguars’ offensive line coach Hameed Sharif said that the group is not only successful because of the starting unit, but the addition of a well-prepared rotation of reserves keeps the line fresh at all times allowing for the maximum push.

The linemen take turns practicing at the different guard and tackle positions during the week. This gets them all comfortable with the nuances of each spot. Coach Sharif said he rotates his lineman in and out of the game when needed. When the backups are in, there is little

difference in the offense’s ability to execute.

Take senior guard Nigel Moxam for example. He is not on the starting unit, but he was ready when called upon in the fourth quarter serving as the lead blocker for Higgs, who followed Moxam 30 yards to the end zone for the game’s final score.

“We really work at getting all the kids ready to play,” Sharif said. “Anytime I can get them on the field, I get them on the field because we don’t want to just start over, we just want to reload. That’s our motto: reload, reload, and reload.”

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and Eleanor Roosevelt. Jackson continues to believe, as he did before the season, his team could make the playoffs only with a 3-3 start during a difficult opening schedule.

That would require snapping a two-game losing streak against No. 5 DuVal at 2 p.m.

Saturday.

“I’m not afraid to tell my team that it’s a big game, because they know it,” Jackson said. “They already know it. They know the situation. They know that this game is of utmost importance to us in trying to get the playoffs. So, there’s no need for me to sugarcoat it and treat it as a normal or anything like that.”

Bowie’s final four opponents — Laurel, Parkdale, Oxon Hill and Bladensburg — all have losing records, and Bowie went 4-0 against them last season, winning by an average score of 39-9. So this could quite possibly be Bowie’s final substantial test.

Two of the other four teams considered firmly in the 4A South Region playoff hunt also meet Saturday, when Eleanor Roosevelt plays at Wise at 2 p.m.

“If we weren’t playing,” said Jackson, whose team beat both squads, “that would be the game I was going to.”

Suitland and Charles H. Flowers are both 5-0 and atop the region standings.

Making a pitch Bishop McNamara turned heads under first-year coach Keith Goganious, starting 5-0 and rising as high as No. 16 in the state poll a year after going 3-7.

After losing to Good Counsel last week, Bishop McNamara (61) will face No. 1 DeMatha (6-1) at 2 p.m. Saturday — potentially a key game as far as recruiting for the two Washington Catholic Athletic Conference programs in Prince George’s County.

Bishop McNamara and DeMatha have on common opponent: Our Lady of Good Counsel.

DeMatha beat Good Counsel 210, and Bishop McNamara lost to Good Counsel 41-0. But a good showing with its up-tempo offense could mean Bishop McNamara impresses middle schoolers.

“That’s part of it, playing the game and winning,” Goganious said. “Another part of it is your program, the academic piece you have, the coaches that are there, the kids feeling comfortable being with you. So, it’s not all about what happens on the field.” dfeldman@gazette.net

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Bowie’s Mohamed Roberts runs after a catch during Saturday’s game.

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October 10, 2013

ELECTION ISSUE - MEET THE CANDIDATES

MAYOR: VOTE FOR 1 Andrew M. Fellows

Benjamin S. Mellman

301-441-8141 Candidate for Mayor

Andrew Fellows has been College Park’s Mayor since being sworn in on December 8, 2009. He previously represented the 3rd District on the City Council from 2001–2007, and has served on the Metropolitan Washington Council of Government’s Board of Directors, the Transportation Planning Board and Chesapeake Bay and Water Resources Policy Committee, and by appointment of the Governor on the Maryland Commission on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Communities.

Andy moved to College Park in 1991 to attend the University of Maryland as a graduate student. Within a year, he joined the Veterans Memorial Improvement Committee and the Committee for a Better Environment, both of which he eventually chaired. Andy was a two-term president of the University of Maryland Graduate Student Government, and served four years as president of the Calvert Hills Citizens Association before being elected to the Council.

Andy has worked as the Chesapeake Regional Director for Clean Water Action since 1999. He has over 30 years of grassroots organizing, lobbying, electoral, media, development, and management experience.

He and his wife Elizabeth live in the College Park Estates neighborhood with their cat “Jake,” and enjoy movies, reading, Lake Artemesia, baseball, and life in general.

Robert J. McCeney 301-312-0860 Candidate for Mayor

Bob is an elementary school teacher, and volunteers for the American Red Cross in Prince George’s County as a First Aid, CPR, Babysitting, and Life Guard Instructor. He is a life-long resident and graduated with his Bachelor of Science degree in Education from the University of Maryland in College Park. Bob graduated with honors from Bowie State University with a Master of Education degree and is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Education Policy, Planning, and Administration from The George Washington University. He has served as the First Aid Chairman for the Prince George’s County Red Cross overseeing the volunteers, serving on the Safety Services Committee, and presenting service awards at schools and events.

While working in an elementary school, Bob wrote a proposal to secure a $2,500 grant from the Four Winds Weather Network for a weather station, and he secured matching funds from the Parent-Teacher Association that enabled the students to advance their study of meteorology.

Bob believes in donating to the University of Maryland, and is a lifetime member of the University of Maryland Alumni Association, National Education Association, Maryland State Teachers Association, Montgomery County Education Association, Environment Maryland, and The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

DISTRICT 1: VOTE FOR 2 S.M. Fazlul Kabir

301-802-9727 Candidate for City Council District 1

Benjamin Mellman was born in Miami, Florida.

He is graduating with degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering in May from the University of Maryland. Benjamin currently works developing a new heatexchanger technology at Advanced Thermal and Environmental Concepts Inc., a College Park company. He has been a member on the City of College Park’s volunteer Committee for a Better Environment for two years and has recently been

voted to be a Co-Chair.

Benjamin has been devoted to College Park ever since he planted his roots here in the summer of 2009. He grew up in a small town community in Vermont, so he cares about the people in his community in a small-town-community way. His neighbors expressed their confidence in his abilities and the congruence of his values with their own, so they urged him to run for a position on the City Council.

As both a permanent resident and a university student, Benjamin is capable of representing multiple views and believes that a better College Park could be created for everybody. He believes that citizens would benefit from the establishment of more locally-owned businesses to entertain the students, locals, and their families.

DISTRICT 2: VOTE FOR 2 Monroe S. Dennis

301-742-4442 Candidate for City Council District 3

A City Councilmember since January 2007, Stephanie has lived in College Park with her husband Bob Schnabel for 19 years. She previously served as president of the Old Town Civic Association and on the Committee for a Better Environment, and co-authored a book on the history of College Park. She recently cochaired the Neighborhood Stabilization and Quality of Life Work Group. Stephanie works at the U.S. Department of Education.

Stephanie believes we have many opportunities to make College Park a more vibrant, safe, and attractive community. She has been a vocal advocate for supporting effective police services and building more student housing near the University campus. Redevelopment will continue to change College Park; we must work hard to reduce traffic, attract high-quality locally-owned retail and restaurants, ensure new developments are moderate density and environmentally sensitive, and create a walkable and vibrant downtown. Stephanie will continue to vigorously support the Purple Line and oppose efforts to redirect traffic through established neighborhoods.

Stephanie believes constituent service and keeping the community informed is one of a councilmember’s most important roles. She invites residents to share their concerns and ideas so that we can work together to make College Park a better place.

301-474-6270 Candidate for City Council District 2

Dennis is a native Marylander having grown up and finished high school in Worcester County, Maryland. After finishing college in Baltimore, where he earned a BS degree in Mathematics, he has been employed as a federal employee, and has served 2 years in the US Army. Following military service Dennis was employed by, and has retired from the IBM Company, and from Group1/Pitney Bowes Software, Inc. Dennis settled in the city of College Park in the mid-1990’s and soon thereafter became involved with the Lakeland Civic Association (LCA) and other neighborhood advocacy affairs. He has served the LCA in many capacities, and has been president of the LCA for more than 6 years.

During his LCA time, Dennis has interacted with City Staff, and Mayor and Council to accomplish a number of initiatives, and considers his ability to grasp the big picture, and to work through details with all stake-holders to arrive at amenable end-results as an asset that will serve well in the future.

Looking forward to the next Council term Dennis expects to enhance relationships with Council, and constituents, and in general to tackle stabilization/ quality-of-life, public safety, and all day-to-day issues facing the City.

P.J. Brennan

301-220-1640 Candidate for City Council District 2

301-659-6295 Candidate for City Council District 1

Stephanie E. Stullich

PJ grew up in a large Irish Catholic family in Towson, Maryland. He attended public schools, participated in scouting, and was a competitive swimmer for 12 years. He is a graduate of Fazlul Kabir is a current Councilmember of University of Maryland, College Park and holds a District 1 in north College Park. Kabir lives in Master’s Degree in Business Administration from east Hollywood with his wife and two children.

University of Maryland University College. PJ Kabir teaches at the University of Maryland, currently works for the federal government and College Park and also works as the Senior Project has worked for various cultural and academic Manager in a federal project. He holds a institutions in the DC-metro area. In addition, PJ doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering from coaches an 8 & Under swim team for Nation’s Capital Swim Club. the University Of Manchester.

PJ and his husband Nick have lived in Prince George’s County since 2005. In Kabir has led the effort and worked with a 2011, they relocated from Greenbelt to their home in College Park. They enjoy group of residents to establish the Hollywood walking their two dogs on local trails, gardening, biking around town, exploring Farmers Market in north College Park. The market has offered farm-fresh food, local restaurants, and taking advantage of the University of Maryland’s Campus supported local farmers, provided a space where residents and community Recreation Services. groups can meet and also helped revitalize the Hollywood commercial district.

PJ takes pride in his community, enjoying local farmers markets, volunteering Kabir has also worked to improve pedestrian safety along Rhode Island Avenue for Good Neighbor Day, and attending St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church. Recently through the use of Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacons. appointed to the city’s Sustainable Maryland Certified Green Team, PJ has an Before he became the Councilmember, he served as a four-term Secretary for interest in promoting a healthy environment and advancing energy and cost saving the North College Park Citizens Association. measures.

He is a co-founder of the College Park Day event, where he works with 3 community groups, local schools and helps manage the event’s website.

DISTRICT 3: VOTE FOR 2 Kabir enjoys helping in community projects. In the past years, he helped organize the Annual Hollywood neighborhood cleanup event, winter clothing drive Robert W. Day, Sr. and tree planting event.

Matthew E. Popkin

240-696-7898 Candidate for City Council District 3

Matthew is a graduate student at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy and works for the University’s Department of Public Safety. A lifelong Maryland resident, he has lived and studied in College Park for five years. Matthew has previously served in the University Senate, University Sustainability Council, and Student Government Association, where he worked to improve public safety, environmental sustainability, and public transportation at the University and in College Park. He also served on the College Park City University Partnership safety subcommittee and the Purple Line Now Board of Directors, where he helped encourage collaboration between the University and the City on public safety concerns and regional transportation and smart growth planning.

Matthew also recently worked on residential energy financing at the Maryland Energy Administration in Annapolis. In his spare time, he enjoys playing the piano, playing tennis, and hiking in national parks. Because a 200-word description cannot fully convey the issues and his priorities for College Park, please check out www.popkinforcitycouncil.com for more details! Ultimately, Matthew hopes to represent everyone in District 3 to make College Park one of the most desirable college towns in the country.

DISTRICT 4: VOTE FOR 2 Denise C. Mitchell

240-460-7620 Candidate for City Council District 4

To my fellow residents of College Park, I am humbled by the oath I have taken as your District 4 representative and the trust that you have placed in me.

My success is because of your support and together I hope we can continue to make strides for a sustainable but vibrant community. With the University of Maryland and its dynamic educational programs as our partner, we can continue to serve our communities in many great ways. Greater communities equal robust businesses and committed stakeholders.

My task is not done; together I want to focus more on our community, Economic growth and development, education, and safety for all of our residents.

I will work to ensure that you can continue to live in a city that will provide this. I hope you will join me in continuing to become “A Factor in our Success for a Greater College Park”. I am asking for your support in my candidacy for reelection as our Councilmember for District 4 on November 5, 2013.

Yours in Service, Denise C. Mitchell.

301-741-1962 Candidate for City Council District 3

Patrick L. Wojahn

240-988-7763 Candidate for City Council District 1

Patrick Wojahn is an attorney and civil rights advocate who advocates for the rights of people with disabilities at a national non-profit organization. Previously, Patrick provided legal services for adults with mental illness and for people living with HIV/AIDS in the DC metro area. Patrick has served in leadership roles with a variety of other service organizations, including Equality Maryland, the College Park Food Bank, and the College Park Community Foundation,

which Patrick helped found.

Born and raised in Wisconsin, he received his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 2002. He has lived in College Park with his husband, Dave Kolesar, for over ten years. Patrick ran for City Council first in 2007 because he felt he could use his experience to make a difference in the community. Since then, he has taken on new initiatives to improve life for College Park residents, such as starting College Park Day and helping found the College Park Community Foundation. Patrick also headed a committee to develop new strategies to address problems with rental properties, strengthened the City’s tools to ensure that vacant and abandoned properties are properly maintained, and has led initiatives to make the City more environmentally sustainable.

I have lived in College Park Estates with my wife Melissa and our sons Robert Jr., Matthew and Maxwell, for 16 years.

I have been an active member of the community for 14 years through many boards and commissions. Until I was elected to the Council, I was the President of the College Park Estates Civic Association, Chair of the Rent Stabilization Board, member of the Noise Control Board, current member and two-term former chair of the Advisory Planning Commission. I have also served as the 2003 Vice Chair and 2011 Chair of the City Redistricting Commission, and member of the Advisory Planning Group for 2002 US 1 Corridor Sector Plan.

I have worked to represent resident and neighborhood interests to improve the Quality of Life in our community. Throughout all of my board and committee roles, and now as a councilmember, I have been a strong voice, asking the tough questions and focusing on representing the needs and desires of the community.

My goal in running for re-election is to continue being a strong leader in building a better College Park which will remain a community that people and businesses want to call home for years to come.

Alan Y. Hew

240-391-8678 Candidate for City Council District 4

My experience with College Park began in 1991 while attending the University of Maryland. I graduated in 1994 with a B.S. in Natural Resources Management, with an emphasis on Environmental Education & Parks Management. I continued working at UMD, living nearby in Adelphi. I moved to College Park in 2005.

In 2007, I became involved in Jefferson Properties Inc. (JPI) West efforts to develop in our community; the economy derailed that development. I then became involved in the update to the County’s Sector Plan for US Route 1.

I am presently on the Committee for a Better Environment, focusing on Energy Efficiency workshops. I also serve on this year’s College Park Day Committee. I have served on the Animal Welfare Committee, and the 2011 Redistricting Commission for College Park.

This year I became the Autoville community liaison working with the Monument Village at College Park project (successor to JPI West) on their Detailed Site Plan.

I believe community involvement is essential to any community worth living in.

North College Park is the focus of the City’s next wave of development. Assuring smart development and development that will complement its surrounding community is why I am running for City Council.

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THEATER

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Laurel Mill Playhouse revives Thornton Wilder classic.

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ith Halloween approaching, Laurel Mill Playhouse is staging a story about a free-spirited witch named Gillian who falls for her nextdoor neighbor, a publisher named Shep.

“It’s a sweet love story with some comedy in it,” said Larry Simmons, director of “Bell, Book and Candle,” which runs from Oct. 11-27 at the Laurel Mill Playhouse.

The play debuted in New York in 1950 starring Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer, morphing into a movie in 1958 featuring Kim Novak and Jimmy Stewart.

“It’s charming, it’s witty, there’s witty repartee,” said Kat McKerrow, who plays Gillian. “It evokes the 1950s in Manhattan. It’s kind of sexy for the time.”

Gillian has a yen for Shep (Ken Krintz), which her aunt Queenie (Maureen Rogers) facilitates by casting a spell to enable their introduction.

Gillian, who dislikes the woman Shep is about to marry, then casts a spell on the unknowing publisher with the help of her assistant, Pyewacket the cat (played by feline actor “Bones” Maurer), to make Shep fall in love with her.

Laurel Mill Playhouse’s production of the romantic comedy “Bell, Book and Candle,” opening Friday, features Kat McKerrow as Gillian Holroyd and “Bones” Maurer as her assistant, Pyewacket the cat.

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CARA HEDGEPETH STAFF WRITER

Normand Latourelle, founder of Cavalia, the Montreal-based company showcasing a mix of equestrian and performing arts, admits he’s “not a guy from the horse world.”

Latourelle, one of the pioneers behind Cirque du Soleil, said before Cavalia, he could “barely tell you the difference between a cow and a horse ... ” Today, Latourelle is the president and artistic director of Cavalia which has produced two shows: “Cavalia” and “Odysseo.” “Odysseo,” the newer of the two, premiered in October 2011

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ODYSSEO n When: to Oct. 27, see website for specific times n Where: The Plateau at the National Harbor, 201 Harborview Ave., National Harbor, Md. n Tickets: $34.50-$149.50 n For information: 866-999-8111, cavalia.net

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Many of “Odysseo’s” acrobats and dancers have also been trained to ride horses and do tricks.

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Balé Folclórico da Bahia, a dance troupe from Salvador, Brazil, will perform on Oct. 17 at the Publick Playhouse in Cheverly.

The troupe is known internationally for its contemporary take on the music and dance developed by African slaves in the state of Bahia.

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Brazilian choreographer Walson Botelho was studying singing, acting and classical ballet in his home city of Salvador when at age 17 he saw a performance by

a folk dance troupe called Viva Bahia that changed his life.

“I’d had no contact with this,” he said about the dances and music that had emerged from centuries of African slave culture in Brazil.

“I gave up classical and started dancing with Viva Bahia,” he said.

Six years later the company closed, and

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BALÉ FOLCLÓRICO DA BAHIA n When: Oct. 17. Noon, onehour demo/preview matinee; 8 p.m., two-hour full show n Where: Publick Playhouse, 5445 Landover Road, Cheverly n Tickets: matinee, $7 per person; full show, $20 per person n For information: 301-2771710, arts.pgparks.com, balefolcloricodabahia.com.br

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Complete calendar online at www.gazette.net

PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY’S ENTERTAINMENT CALENDAR For a free listing, please submit complete information to noravec@gazette.net at least 10 days in advance of desired publication date. High-resolution color images (500KB minimum) in jpeg format should be submitted when available.

THEATER & STAGE Bowie Community Theatre, “The Cover of Life,” coming in November, 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.

Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, MFA Dance Thesis Con-

cert: Visible Seams, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 9-10; Masterclass: Orion Weiss, piano, 2 p.m. Oct. 10-11; UMD Choirs: Family Weekend Concert, 8 p.m. Oct. 10; “The Matchmaker,” Oct. 11-19, University of Maryland, College Park, claricesmithcenter. umd.edu.

Harmony Hall Regional Center, Swing Machine, 8 p.m. Oct. 19, call for prices, 10701 Livingston Road, Fort Washington, 301-203-6070, arts.pgparks.com.

Greenbelt Arts Center, “Avenue Q,” to Oct. 26, call for prices, times, Greenbelt Arts Center, 123 Centerway, Greenbelt, 301-4418770, www.greenbeltartscenter. org.

Hard Bargain Players, “Evil Dead: The Musical,” to Oct. 19, 2001 Bryan Point Road, Accokeek, www.hbplayers.org.

Joe’s Movement Emporium, Comedy Supreme’s Anniversary Show featuring Abbi Crutchfield,

8 p.m. Oct. 12; LateNight Expressions, 10 p.m. Oct. 19; Lesole’s Dance Project, 8 p.m. Oct. 26, 7 p.m. Oct. 27, 3309 Bunker Hill Road, Mount Rainier, 301-6991819, www.joesmovement.org.

Laurel Mill Playhouse, “Bell, Book and Candle,” Oct. 11-27, call for ticket prices, Laurel Mill Playhouse, 508 Main St., Laurel, 301-452-2557, www.laurelmillplayhouse.org.

Montpelier Arts Center, Ron Holloway, 8 p.m. Oct. 11, 9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel, 301-3777800, arts.pgparks.com.

National Harbor, Cavalia’s “Odysseo,” to Oct. 27, White Big Top, National Harbor, Maryland.

Tickets on sale now. www.cavalia. net, 1-866-999-8111.

Prince George’s Little Theatre, TBA, call for tickets and show times, Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Drive, Bowie, 301-957-7458, www.pglt.org.

Publick Playhouse, Mandy the Clown, 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.

Oct. 10; The Stylistics, 8 p.m.

Oct. 12, 5445 Landover Road, Cheverly, 301-277-1710, arts.pgparks.com.

2nd Star Productions, “Little Shop of Horrors,” to Oct. 26, Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Drive, Bowie, call for prices, times, 410-757-5700, 301-8324819, www.2ndstarproductions. com.

Tantallon Community Players, “Quartet,” to Oct. 13, Harmony Hall Regional Center, 10701 Livingston Road, Fort Washington, 301-262-5201, www.tantallonstage.com.

6:30 p.m. Oct. 11-12; Stealing Liberty, 8 p.m. Oct. 11; Bruce Kritt, 4 p.m. Oct. 12; Jessica Star Band, 8 p.m. Oct. 12; Jazz Guitar with Jan Knutson, 12:30 p.m. Oct. 13; John Guernsey’s CD Listening Party, 2 p.m. Oct. 13; Willis Gidney Quintet, 5 p.m. Oct. 13, 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.oldbowietowngrille.com.

A CLOSER LOOK

OUTDOORS Dinosaur Park, Dinosaur Park programs, noon-4 p.m. first and third Saturdays, join paleontologists and volunteers in interpreting fossil deposits, 13200 block Mid-Atlantic Blvd., Laurel, 301-627-7755.

Mount Rainier Nature Center, Toddler Time: hands-on treasures, crafts, stories and soft play, 10:30 a.m.-noon Thursdays, age 5 and younger free, 4701 31st Place, Mount Rainier, 301-927-2163.

Prince George’s Audubon Society, Bird Walks, 7:30 a.m. first Sat-

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A CUT ABOVE Hard Bargain player Seth Lohr slices and dices in “Evil Dead: The Musical” at the Theater in the Woods in Accokeek. For more information, visit hbplayers.org.

VISUAL ARTS Brentwood Arts Exchange,

“Her Words,” to Oct. 19, opening

reception scheduled for 5-8 p.m.

Sept. 14, 3901 Rhode Island Ave., Brentwood, 301-277-2863, arts. pgparks.com.

Harmony Hall Regional Center,

Passages Revisited - Paintings by Tinam Valk, to Oct. 11, 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.

David C. Driskell Center, “Still...” by sculptor Allison Saar, to Dec. 13, University of Maryland, College Park. www.driskellcenter. umd.edu.

Montpelier Arts Center, “Hiroshima Schoolyard,” Nov. 4 to Dec. 1, reception scheduled for 3-5 p.m.

Nov. 10, gallery open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, 9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel, 301-377-7800, arts.pgparks.com.

University of Maryland University College, TBA, call for prices

and venue, 3501 University Blvd., Adelphi, 301-985-7937, www. umuc.edu/art.

NIGHTLIFE Hand Dancing with D.C. Hand Dance Club, free lesson from 4 to

5 p.m., dancing from 5 to 9 p.m.

Sundays at the Coco Cabana, 2031-A University Blvd. E., Hyattsville, $10 cover, www.dchanddanceclub.com.

New Deal Café, Mid-day melodies with Amy C. Kraft, noon, Oct. 10; Open Mic with James and Martha, 7 p.m. Oct. 10; John Guernsey,

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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.

REC CENTERS 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.

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.

ET CETERA College Park Aviation Museum, Peter Pan Club, 10:30-11:30 a.m. second and fourth Thursdays of every month, activities for preschoolers, $4, $3 seniors, $2 ages 2-18; Afternoon Aviators, 2-4:30 p.m. Fridays, hands-on aviationthemed activities for age 5 and up, $4, $3 seniors, $2 ages 2-18, events free with admission, 1985 Cpl. Frank Scott Drive, College Park, 301-864-6029, www.collegeparkaviationmuseum.com.

Women’s Chamber Choir Auditions, by appointment for the con-

cert season of women’s chamber choir Voix de Femmes, 7:45-9:30 p.m. Thursdays, 402 Compton Ave., Laurel, 301-520-8921, annickkanter@gmail.com.

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The dame from Yonkers Wilder play story behind Broadway’s “Hello, Dolly!”

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WILL C. FRANKLIN STAFF WRITER

The play “The Matchmaker” is actually a rewrite by the award-winning playwright Thornton Wilder.

Wilder, who penned the classic “Our Town,” originally adapted an adaptation of a oneact farce written by John Oxenford in 1835 called “A Day Well Spent” and called it “The Merchant of Yonkers.”

The show bombed on Broadway.

Be that as it may, Wilder rewrote what was already a rewritten play 15 years later and called it “The Matchmaker.” It seems the fourth time was the charm, as “The Matchmaker” went on to be a huge success on Broadway, winning multiple awards and spawning a hit Broadway musical, “Hello, Dolly!”

The School of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland is set to raise the curtain on their production of “The Matchmaker” on Friday.

The show revolves around Dolly Levi, a widow who arranges marriages. She has her heart set on Horace Vandergelder, who hires her to find him a bride.

Riley Bartlebaugh, a junior at Maryland, is in charge of bringing Dolly to life.

“Dolly is a force of nature,” Bartlebaugh said. “She’s a woman who manages things, and that’s a direct quote from the play. She’s someone that finds great joy in helping other people to live their lives and have the courage to be silly and seize the joy that they see before them.”

Bartlebaugh is no stranger to the stage at Maryland. Last year, she played the fairy Mustardseed in American/Chinese coproduction of “A Midsummer

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Gabriel Macedo (Joe Scanlon), Martin Thompson (Horace Vandergelder), and Thomas Frances (Ambrose) rehearse for “The Matchmaker” at the Clarice Smith Center in College Park.

Night’s Dream.” Even though Shakespeare’s plays were produced about 400 years before Wilder’s, Bartlebaugh said there are similarities between the two.

“In my study of Shakespeare, it’s been a lot about focusing on the breath of the

character and really living and breathing within the character,” Bartlebaugh said. “The text is obviously very different, but like Shakespeare, Thornton Wilder chose his words very specifically and the speech patterns of his characters are very fascinat-

ing. [For example,] Dolly goes through like a freight train, whereas characters like Barnaby can barely speak in sentences longer than seven to 10 words.

“Just the attention to the written word and letting that transform the spoken.”

Alan Paul, who is directing the show, said he not only wanted to direct a show at Maryland for a long time, but “The Matchmaker” has been on his directorial wish list for a while as well.

“I saw it at the Stratford Fes-

tival in Ontario two summers ago and loved it,” Paul said. “I knew a lot about it, but I had never seen it. I knew about it because of ‘Hello, Dolly!’ which is the way that most people know about it. So when I started talking with the University of Maryland, they said, ‘What couple of shows would you be interested in if we were to bring you on,’ and this was the top of the list.”

Paul said everyone knows Wilder’s “Our Town,” because the award-winning play is so iconic. “The Matchmaker,” he feels, is just as important as “Our Town.”

“I think it’s really powerful and the students seem to understand the meaning of it,” Paul said. “It’s about adventure and a lot of people who feel they’re not having adventures in their life and why aren’t they having adventures and why is it that ‘even though I’m alive I feel like I’ve never really lived.’ Each of the characters begins to conquer that and begins to live in the moment.”

For Bartlebaugh, playing Dolly has given her a newfound sense of resiliency.

“This show has really helped me a lot to find the courage to go out and, even though I might be sad, live every day to its fullest because every character in the show has a reason to be sad,” Bartlebaugh said. “They’ve all found the strength to go on and not wallow in their sadness — seize the day, really carpe diem it.” wfranklin@gazette.net

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ODYSSEO

Continued from Page B-1 in Latourelle’s native Montreal.

The show is currently running at the National Harbor to Oct. 27.

So how, you may wonder, did Latourelle go from equestrian novice to the driving force behind a ground-breaking show revolving around horses?

Latourelle’s love affair with the animal started in the early 1990s during production on a historical play that called for a horse.

“When the horse came on stage ... I just realized that what attracted everybody’s attention, including me, was the horse just

crossing the stage,” Latourelle said. “ ... I fell in love with the aesthetic of the horse. When you look at [it] very carefully ... they are very beautiful. I think they are the most beautiful animal on earth and that is what attracted me ...”

In addition to his newfound love of the horse, Latourelle, who’s made a career out of innovation, said he was also itching to push boundaries.

“I wanted to move to something totally different,” Latourelle said. “I knew that going with horses allowed me to totally challenge what was existing in terms of the performing arts world.”

“Odysseo” certainly pro-

vides a challenge. The show, which chronicles man and horse’s journey together to discover “the most beautiful landscape in the world,” is set on a 18,000-square-foot stage, the largest of its kind in the world.

The stage sits beneath a big top standing 125-feet-high and features close to 70 horses from 11 different breeds, along with 50 human performers — half of them acrobats and musicians and the other half riders and trainers.

With a show of its magnitude, “Odysseo” requires incredible travel accommodations. Insistent on the comfort of his horses, Latourelle depends on 120 53-foot trailers to trans-

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port them.

“The trucks can usually bring 18 [horses] per truck, but we do eight, which means the horses aren’t attached,” Latourelle said. “ ... They have space to move around.”

In addition, the horses are given 14 days off between each city.

“I didn’t want to exploit the animal at all,” Latourelle said.

Like “Cavalia” before it, “Odysseo” also uses light and 3D projection thanks to a screen three times the size of an IMAX screen.

As “Odysseo” focuses on the journey through a changing landscape, Latourelle said he needed acrobats who could per-

form on less traditional surfaces, including sand.

“Most of the modern acrobats come from a gymnastics world or learn at a circus school and all of those schools are using surfaces such as track or a dance floor,” Latourelle said. “I needed people who could flip and do acrobatics on the ground and who could do it in the sand.”

Little did he know he’d have to travel halfway around the world to find such acrobats.

Before staging “Odysseo,” during a run of “Cavalia,” Latourelle was approached by a stagehand, Yamoussa Bangoura, who wanted to audition for a spot as an acrobat. Bangoura impressed the artistic director with his skills, and Latourelle asked him to join the “Odysseo” tour.

Bangoura revealed that since moving to Canada, he’d been sending half of his salary back to his village in Guinea in an effort to start a circus school there.

He showed Latourelle a video of acrobats performing on gravel, cement and sand. Impressed, Latourelle sent one of his choreographers to Guinea to audition the acrobats. Twelve of them were hired for the “Odysseo” tour.

“They are the most amazing, fabulous acrobats I’ve seen in my life,” Latourelle said.

The Guinean acrobats, most of whom according to Latourelle have no formal training but instead relied on imitating YouTube videos, join a cast of trained acrobats to bring to the “Odysseo” journey to life.

“With ‘Cavalia,’ we were telling the history of the relationship between humankind and horses, where ‘Odysseo’ is humankind and horses going side-by-side ... going for a journey,” Latourelle said. “Not a realistic journey, more of a dream journey.” chedgepeth@gazette.net

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The enchantment works, and Shep says he wants to get married.

“He has one thing on his mind and that’s her,” Krintz said.

But unfortunately for Gillian, witches themselves aren’t supposed to fall in love, because they lose their powers if they do.

“She thinks she’s in control, but ... she’s not,” McKerrow said.

“It’s a spell that’s gone awry,” said Krintz. “She voluntarily gives up her power to feel what love is, the joy and hurt.”

Also involved in the story are Gillian’s brother Nicky (Jimmy Hennigan), who also has magical powers and is helping author Sidney (Simmons) write a book about witches in New York.

Meanwhile, Shep goes to Queenie to break the spell, and angered by Gillian’s manipula-

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tion of him, departs.

But as one might guess in a romantic comedy, there’s more to the story.

“Boy meets witch, is enchanted, boy leaves, boy returns,” said Simmons. vterhune@gazette.net

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Continued from Page B-1 Botelho and Ninho Reis started their own dance company in 1988 called Balé Folclórico da Bahia, which will visit the Publick Playhouse in Cheverly for two performances on Oct. 17.

The United States is the first stop on a world tour called “Bahia of All Colors” to celebrate the company’s 25th anniversary, said Botelho. The troupe, with its dancers, singers, musicians and vivid costumes, will visit Africa in December, Europe next spring and Asia next summer.

On Oct. 15, the Publick Playhouse will present a Brazilian dance workshop with former samba dancer Sonia Pessoa.

The workshop is free but reservations are recommended.

What sets Balé Folclórico da Bahia apart is that it preserves the traditional moves of Afro-Brazilian dances that are still popular today in Bahia but presents them through original choreography and a modern theatrical lens, according to Botelho.

“The difference between us and the rest of the folk companies in the world is in how we put the traditional and contemporary language together,” he said.“The result is what you see on the stage.”

The company, which has employed 700 dancers since its inception, has won awards in Brazil for its performances and for its dance training. But even more important for the dancers than mastering technique is “to be filled with the spirit of Bahia,” said Botelho.

“They know they are responsible for transmitting the popular manifestation of that to the rest of the world,” he said.

Four out of five people in Bahia are of African descent, reflecting Salvador’s colonial role as the largest slave-trading port in the Americas beginning in the mid-1500s.

Slaves were sent to work on sugar and tobacco plantations, in mines and on cattle ranches.

They found ways to hold on to their African religions and traditions and mixed in influences from the native peoples and Portuguese colonists around them.

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“The difference between us and the rest of the folk companies in the world is in how we put the traditional and contemporary language together.”

On the program for the Publick Playhouse is the Capoeira, a Portuguese word for a form of martial arts and self defense called N’golo that originated in Angola. The dance is known for its kicks, spins and wheels.

“Slaves would go into a space in the middle of the forest to practice the fight,” said Botelho. “But because they did not want the masters to know, they would incorporate dance moves, so if discovered, they could claim they were praying to their deities.”

Although slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1888, people still had to get permission from police to dance the Capoeira until the 1960s, he said.

Also on the program is the Maculele, a dance that slaves used to celebrate a successful sugar cane harvest.

“They paid homage to the Catholic saint [Santo Amaro], protector of the city,” said Botelho, about the colonial sugar processing center near Salvador called Santo Amaro.

The Origin Dance in the show expresses the creation myth in Candomblé, a religion brought from Africa and still practiced in Bahia, in which the supreme god Oxalá creates the universe from a mix of sacred powder and water with the help of his sons.

In the Puxada de Rede dance, fisherman and their wives ask the Goddess of the Sea for an abundant catch.

Fisherman in Bahia today set up huge nets offshore and disturb the surface of the water, attracting the fish toward the beach, Botelho said. Then the men pull on the line as a group, hauling in the catch.

Botleho said during his early years as a dancer, assistant choreographer and arranger with Viva Bahia, he also studied anthropology at the university in

Salvador to get a better understanding of the cultural connections between Brazil and Africa.

“I wanted to go deeply into it, to study and do much more,” said Botelho, who knew that the fisherman in Bahia today practiced the same techniques as their enslaved Brazilian ancestors.

But it wasn’t until he saw fishermen working in the same way on a beach in West Africa while on tour last year that he fully understood the connection.

“As a researcher, I had studied all the cultural manifestations,” he said. “[But then] I saw it live, I saw it in front of me almost 500 years later.”

“It was still happening in Africa the same way it was happening in Bahia — to see it in 2012 in front of me was a surprise. I was fascinated by that.”

Botelho said the response among African audiences to the company is particularly warm.

“They think the work we do to preserve the Brazilian culture is very important to them,” he said.

Money to form traveling dance companies is in short supply in Africa, which is why Balé Folclórico da Bahia is so appreciated.

The company, which tours internationally, serves not only as an ambassador for Brazilian culture but also for the African influences to which it is so indebted.

In the show is a piece called Afixire, which means “Dance of Happiness” in the Yoruba language of West Africa. The choreography is a celebration of the contributions of African countries to the rich culture of Bahia.

“It’s an honor for us ... 500 years later to pay homage,” said Botelho.

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RELIGION CALENDAR To submit a calendar item online, go to calendar.gazette. net and click on the submit button in the lower left-hand corner. To find an item, go to The Gazette’s home page at www. gazette.net. You can mail them to The Gazette, 13501 Virginia Manor Road, Laurel, MD 20707; fax, 240-473-7501. Items must be received by Wednesday to appear the following week.

OCT. 11 “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” 7:30 to

9:30 p.m., St. Matthew’s United Methodist Church, 14900 Annapolis Road, Bowie. St. Matthew’s Musical Theatre Troupe invites you to a production of Stephen Sondheim’s “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.”

Cost: $10. Contact 301-262-5835 or gwood.avatoy@gmail.com.

Fall Bazaar, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church, 8603 Contee Road, Laurel. Bazaar will also take place 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Oct. 12. Enjoy crafts handmade by parishioners, homemade baked goods, children’s activities, St. Nicholas Boutique, theme baskets to raffle, door prizes and a 50/50 raffle. The food concession will serve breakfast and lunch on both days. This year, there will be an Oktoberfest dinner Friday night.

Contact Pat at 301-776-4645 or buttonspaf@aol.com.

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OCT. 12 Mt. Ephraim Baptist Church Scholarship Ministry’s annual Yard/Bake Sale, 8:30 a.m. to 3

p.m., Mt. Ephraim Baptist, 610 Largo Road, Upper Marlboro.

Tables cost $25; new or slightly used items only. Call church office

at 301-808-1584 or 301-499-0434.

Community Spaghetti Dinner, 5 p.m., Christ Episcopal Church, 8710 Old Branch Ave., Clinton.

Spaghetti, salad, bread, beverage and dessert. Thrift shop is also open. Free-will offering ($10 suggested). Contact 301-868-1330 or christchurchclinton@verizon.net.

OCT. 13 Joyful Journey, 6 p.m., Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 7607 Sandy Spring Road, Laurel. The concert will be an intergalactic festival featuring music composed by Dr. Monkres. There will be a wide range of musical and dramatic offerings by performing groups and soloists. Special guests from a galaxy far, far away will share their unique musical talent. It is rumored that the Purple People Eater will make an appearance, along with some of his space friends. Contact 301-725-1666.

OCT. 16 Sign language class, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Davies Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church, 7400 Temple Hill Road, Camp Springs.

Students will learn more than 3,500 signs in sentence order to make it easier to learn, as opposed to memorizing vocabulary out of context. The course includes finger spelling, numbers, and practicing receiving for comprehension.

Learn about deafness, reasons to sign with hearing people, different kinds of sign language, resources and things to do to help remember the language. Contact 301-7829922.

ONGOING Women’s Bible Study, 9 to

11 a.m. every Thursday, Berwyn Baptist Church, 4720 Cherokee St., College Park. Study the book of Romans. Women of all ages are invited. Cost of $6.50 for textbook.

Contact 301-474-7117 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 University of Maryland, College Park, 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

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Anti-domestic violence and stalking support group meetings,

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Imagine Prince George’s County Public Schools is proud to be this year’s Platinum Sponsor of The Gazette’s “My Favorite Teacher” contest.

Meet the IPad sweepstakes winner in next week’s paper!

Get ready to vote for the finalists on October 24th! If your teacher makes the ballot, be sure to spread the word!

We currently operate four public charter schools in Prince George’s County, providing a challenging learning environment for students in Kindergarten through Grade 8. Although our campuses vary in size and structure, all adhere to the belief that providing every child with a world-class education is the single most effective way to achieve individual life opportunities and a better society.

Our schools include: • Imagine Andrews Public Charter School (www.imagineandrews.org) • Imagine Foundations at Leeland Public Charter School (www.imagineleeland.org) • Imagine Foundations at Morningside Public Charter School (www.imaginemorningside.org) • Imagine Lincoln Public Charter School (www.imaginelincoln.org) Imagine Prince George’s County is part of Imagine Schools, a national organization that operates 75 campuses in 12 states and DC, providing 40,000 students nationwide with an effective program of academic study and strong moral development in a safe, nurturing environment.

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Visit favoriteteacher.net today!

Educational Systems FCU is proud to be part of the Maryland education community as we celebrate amazing teachers. As longtime sponsors of the Gazette’s “My Favorite Teacher” award, we recognize how important educators are to the success of students everywhere. We wish to thank the Gazette for providing a platform where students are given the chance to show their appreciation for some of the most amazing educators around. To learn more about Educational Systems FCU, including how you can join others in the Maryland education community as Credit Union members, visit esfcu.org.

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and DAKOTA LOWERY (7th grade).

Platinum sponsor William Hill (Executive Director of Imagine Schools) also in picture.

The backpacks have been filled, the laptops are charged and students have welcomed a new school year throughout our community. MGM National Harbor is proud to be a sponsor of the “My Favorite Teacher” contest and support educational opportunities for students at all levels. Education empowers us with knowledge to tackle the challenges of today. With each educated man, woman and child, our community and society takes one giant step forward. Stepping up to the plate for students is one more way MGM National Harbor is strengthening communities through education.

Our schools are open to all children living in Prince George’s County and they are tuition-free. In order to enroll your child, you must apply through our online lottery process. The online application form for School Year 2014-2015 will be available beginning Friday, November 1, 2013, and will remain open through January 31, 2014. The lottery will be held after January 31, 2014.

For more specific information about each school, including how to enroll your child, please visit their individual websites.

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Committed and qualified educators make a positive difference for students, their families, and the greater community. It is our pleasure to support a contest that allows the community to honor those who prepare the next generation of leaders!

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