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Diego Chicas, 12, and Carlos Calderon, 8, ask Ashley Stanton of the Anacostia Watershed Society about the goats they pass on their way home from Rosa Parks Elementary School in Hyattsville.

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A group of students and parents on their way home from Rosa Parks Elementary School in Hyattsville stopped Nov. 7 to watch about 30 goats as they ate vines or romped in the sun behind a fence at Kirkwood Park as part of an environmental project.

“I think this is awesome,” said Diego Chicas, 12. “They’re just eating and eating. My favorite part is that the goats are helping the environment.”

The goats are part of a project by the environmental nonprofit Anacostia Watershed Society, in collaboration with the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, to remove kudzu, an invasive vine native to Asia that has infested the area, said Mary Abe, AWS steward-

ship manager.

The kudzu has killed off native plant life that serves as a natural filter to help protect the stream from overland stormwater runoff before it flows into the stream and functions as a critical wildlife corridor buffer, Abe said.

“When [kudzu] takes hold, it basically swallows up the existing native vegetation,” Abe said, adding that kudzu can grow up to a foot a day. “It’s called ‘the plant that ate the South,’ and now it’s here.”

Fortunately, Abe said, the goats are not picky eaters, and will happily munch on kudzu in the acre they were penned in. Nearby, another 20-plus goats finished off the kudzu in a half-

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Four years ago, Emmett V. Jordan made history by being elected the first black Greenbelt City Councilman. Monday, he continued his historic tenure in Greenbelt as he was named the city’s first black mayor.

Jordan, 56, downplayed his trailblazing moment.

“Because Greenbelt is a very diverse community, it was only a matter of time,” Jordan said. “I’m honored to have the opportunity to serve as mayor and hopefully, I’ll be remembered as an effective mayor, working with council to get things accomplished.”

Others were more than happy to revel in the occasion.

“I wanted to see him take the office of mayor. I do think this is important,” said June Dillard, former president of the Prince George’s County chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP, who attended Monday’s meeting. “Given that Greenbelt is over 50 percent African-American, I do think it is about time.”

Beltsville shut down for six months; Laurel closing set for January

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A goat eats invasive kudzu vines along the Northwest branch of the Anacostia River in Hyattsville as part of an effort to remove the plant and educate the public.

Winifred Evans of Calverton visited the Beltsville branch library for the last time Nov. 7, just days before it closed for a six-month renovation.

“I’m so sad. I’m going to miss them terribly,” Evans, a frequent visitor to the library that closed on Nov. 9, said of the staff. “These people are absolutely wonderful, and this is a wonderful library.”

Circulation supervisor Felicia Willis gave Evans a hug over the circulation desk. She said patrons have expressed those feelings a lot lately.

“They’re sad to see us close for six months,” Willis said.

“People are saying, ‘What are we going to do?’”

The Beltsville location is not the only branch temporarily closing. The nearby Laurel branch is expected to close in January, in preparation for construction of a new $17.5 million library, which is expected to take up to two years, said Michael Gannon, associate director for administrative services with the Prince George’s County Memorial Library

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Quality of life in Prince George’s County lags behind its neighbors and a few more distant jurisdictions, resi-

dents told officials Nov. 6.

“I go to Alexandria in Virginia for work every day, and it’s clean. There’s no trash, the homes are old, but the lawns are mowed,” Emily Hickey of Lanham told elected officials. “Then I drive through my neighborhood, and I see trash and Christmas decorations up all summer long ... . Other people say Prince George’s is a slum.”

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dents who attended a forum at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt to voice concerns to County Executive Rushern L. Baker III (D), state Sen. Doug Peters (D-Dist. 23) of Bowie and other officials.

The event was Baker’s second “listening session” of the year, sessions where residents share concerns and ideas with officials seeking input to help form legislation before the Maryland

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General Assembly gears up in Annapolis in January. Officials do not address citizen concerns at the sessions but listen and take notes.

Almost all of the 26 residents who spoke at the forum struck comparisons between Prince George’s and other jurisdictions, comparing it to Virginia, Washington, D.C., Montgomery County, Philadelphia and New York.

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asked why the county doesn’t offer a program that supports local businesses like the District does.

Yolandra Hancock-Bowman of Upper Marlboro said Prince George’s should follow Philadelphia’s “excellent example” for reducing childhood obesity by increasing access to healthy foods and exercise.

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NOV. 14 G.E.A.R. Ladies and Tea, 6 to 8 p.m., Prince George’s Plaza Community Center, 6600 Adelphi Road, Hyattsville. At this girls-only activity, not only will you be able to enjoy tea and finger foods, but you will also get to paint your own oversized tea cup to remember the occasion. Contact 301864-1611; TTY 301-445-4512.

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UMD Men’s Chorus & UMD Women’s Chorus: “When the Night is Sweet with Starlight,” 5 p.m., Clarice Smith

Stationed in Laurel: Our Civil War Story, 7 p.m., Laurel Museum, 817

Performing Arts Center, College Park.

Contact 301-405-2787 or tickets.claricesmith@umd.edu.

Main St., Laurel. Isaac Hall was a slave, Civil War soldier and free man. Hall’s great-great-granddaughter shares his story, “A Long Overdue Story: From a Slave to a Soldier to Freedom,” using oral history traditions and 19th century documents. Contact 301-725-1975.

Shine-a-Light on Lung Cancer Vigil, 7:30 to 9 p.m., Wayne K. Curry Sports & Learning Complex, 8001 Sheriff Road, Hyattsville. The fifth annual vigil provides hope, support and compassion to those affected by lung cancer and those at risk. Contact ladyhamlet426@ yahoo.com.

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Parent Town Hall: Expanding Quality Afterschool Options in Prince George’s County — Socratic Forum III,

10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Metro Points Hotel, 8500 Annapolis Road, New Carrollton.

We invite all parents and residents of Prince George’s to join us in exploring strategies that will enable parents to have access to quality after-school options. Event is free and will offer continental breakfast, lunch and child care services. Contact 202-775-3939.

The Three Bears, 1 to 2:30 p.m., Patuxent Research Refuge National Wildlife Visitor Center, Powder Mill Road between the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and Md. 197 in Laurel.

Learn about the different kinds of bears in North America in this handson program. Registration required.

Ages 5 to 7. Contact 301-497-5887.

SPORTS Check online this weekend for coverage of all high school playoff games, including DeMatha playing for the WCAC championship.

For more on your community, visit www.gazette.net

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NOV. 19 Maryland Crossroads 2013: Clean Energy, Not Cove Point, 7:30 to 9

Electronics Recycling Event, 8:30

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Puppetry gets personal at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Chamber Music Showcase, 7 p.m., Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park. Small chamber groups of students perform repertoire for strings, woodwinds, brass and piano. Contact 301-405-2787 or tickets.claricesmith@ umd.edu.

NOV. 15 a.m. to 3 p.m., Public Works Facility, 305-307 First St., Laurel. In recognition of America Recycles Day, Nov. 15, residents can drop off electronics, household batteries and CFL/fluorescent bulbs for free. Contact 301-725-0088.

Owl Prowl, 4:30 to 6 p.m., Patuxent Research Refuge North Tract, Md. 198 between the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and Md. 32, Laurel. Discover the nighttime world of the refuge as you look and listen for nocturnal animals on this guided walk. Registration required. Ages 10 and older. Contact 301-497-5887.

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Jenay McNeil as Lucas, Ariel Myren as Jacqueline and Sam Stenecker as Sganarelle perform in “Molière Impromptu,” which runs through Saturday at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. For more information, visit http://claricesmithcenter.umd.edu.

MORE INTERACTIVE CALENDAR ITEMS AT WWW.GAZETTE.NET NOV. 17 Bird Walk, 8:15 to 10:15 a.m., Patuxent Research Refuge North Tract, Md. 198 between the BaltimoreWashington Parkway and Md. 32, Laurel. Search for birds in several refuge habitats on this guided hike. Field guides and binoculars recommended.

Registration required. Contact 301497-5887.

Parent STEMpowerment Workshop, 2 to 5 p.m., Kossiakoff Center, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel. Free workshop designed to help parents of elementary and middle school students prepare children to explore

careers in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM. The event, developed for parents with little or no exposure to STEM fields, will provide resources to support children in the pursuit of STEM careers and impart a better understanding of the importance of STEM. Contact 240-228-7796.

All-U-Can-Eat Spaghetti Dinner, 1 to 5 p.m., Laurel Police Department’s Partnership Activity Center, 811 5th St., Laurel. Cost: $10 for adults in advance, $12 at the door or $9 for takeout; children ages 3 to 12 will cost $5; and children younger than 3 will be free.

Contact 301-725-5306, Ext. 2444, or fourthofjuly@laurel.md.us.

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p.m., University of Maryland Stamp Student Union, Room 2208, 7600 Baltimore Ave., College Park. Sounding the alarm on an unprecedented pollution threat facing the state. Learn how you can help stop this pollution disaster in Maryland. Contact megan@chesapeakeclimate.org.

NOV. 20 Bird Walk, 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.,

Patuxent Research Refuge National Wildlife Visitor Center, Powder Mill Road between the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and Md. 197, Laurel.

Search for birds in several refuge habitats on this guided hike. Field guides and binoculars recommended. Registration required. Ages 16 and older.

Contact 301-497-5887.

Community Workshop-College Park-Riverdale Park Transit District Development Plan, 7 to 9 p.m., Parks

and Recreation Building Auditorium, 6600 Kenilworth Ave., Riverdale. Staff will present an overview of the project, provide information on key design and planning principles, present an outline of existing conditions and allow for discussion of current plans impacting the TDDP area. Contact 301-952-3171.

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Honor a community member who made a difference in 2013 In our Dec. 26 edition, The Gazette will honor Prince George’s County residents and groups that made a positive impact on the county throughout the year. These difference makers remain as essential as ever and we want your help in recognizing those who make Prince George’s County a better place to live, work and worship.

Nominations must be submitted by Dec. 5 and include your name, phone number and address; the name of the nominee, their contact information and detailed information about how they made a difference in 2013.

Nominations can be emailed to jlyles@gazette.net.

Please type “Those who made a difference” in the subject line; mailed to Jeffrey Lyles, The Gazette, Attention: Those who made a difference, 13501 Virginia Manor Road, Laurel, MD, 20707 or faxed to 240-473-7501, addressed to “Those who made a difference.”

Laurel school participated in food drive James H. Harrison Elementary School in Laurel recently held a food drive for the Capital Area Food Bank, said Principal Wanda Williams.

Williams said the students and their families donated canned and boxed food to fill 10 boxes during the two-week food drive. The Capital Area Food Bank distributes food to partner agencies throughout the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, distributing 37.5 million meals annually, according to its website.

This is the first year James H. Harrison Elementary has held a food drive for the Capital Area Food Bank, Williams said.

“We are very proud of the generosity of our students and their families,” Williams said.

“Our students take great pride in knowing they benefited their community in a positive way.”

neth Tsugio Bess; Fourth grade: Elijah Anthony Lancaster; Fifth grade: Ashley Sarai Estrada, Eduardo Gabriel Vera, Rebecca Sarai Benitez, Ansharan Akbar and Hanna Cristina Palchefsky.

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Jodie Kuloa-Eddy of Berwyn Heights picks up trash along Indian Creek in Berwyn Heights on Saturday morning. The University of Maryland Alumni Association and the Berwyn Heights Recreation Council organized the cleanup effort to beautify Berywn Heights.

Youth recognized by national academic group Eight Prince George’s County residents became members of the nation’s oldest and largest high school academic excellency organization last month.

The nonprofit National Honor Society, founded in 1921, has more than 17,000 local chapters in individual schools and districts across the nation, said NHS spokesperson David Cordts.

The following students at Archbishop Carroll High School, a private high school in Washington, D.C., who live in the county were inducted into the school’s NHS chapter: Taiha Greenfield of Lanham, Nicholas Orji of Lanham, Theodore Smith

of Lanham, Shannon Hunt of Temple Hills, Julian Nelson of Capitol Heights, Gretchen Ingram of District Heights, Ray Butler of Laurel, and Jonathan Beckett Jr. of Fort Washington.

Students with a minimum 3.0 GPA are eligible to apply and are selected based on grades, leadership, service and character, Cordts said.

“We require every chapter to engage in a minimum of one service program per year. On average, chapters are doing four to five different service projects,” Cordts said, adding common projects are fundraisers for charities as well as food and clothing drives.

Cordts said the NHS recognizes more than one million high school students each year but does not keep count of the number of total members.

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Laurel Elementary students make honor roll Laurel Elementary School has released its first quarter Principal’s Honor Roll.

To earn Principal’s Honor Roll, a student must have at least a 4.0 GPA and no grade below a 90.

Laurel Elementary students making Principal’s Honor Roll are as follows: Second grade: Robert Aaron

Massey, Naomi Tennille Vaughn Young, Raul Antonio Cervantes Osorio, Nadia Mali Baker, Nicolas Carter Meadows, Christopher Alejando Diaz, Genesis Gabriela Pineda-Prudencio, Samuel Chukwuemeka Oladayo Asaya, Jeevan Williams, Diego Alejandro Harner, Lamine Mohamed Diaby, Daniel Esau Perez, Ashley Yamile Ferdinand-Ruiz and Aaron Ken-

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The Montpelier Mansion’s November history lecture will feature Jill Crowther-Peters, a historic re-enactor with the Star Spangled Banner Flag House in Baltimore, who will portray 19th century flag maker Mary Pickersgill, said museum manager Mary Jurkiewicz.

The lecture is free to the public and begins at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, at Montpelier Mansion, located at 9650 Muirkirk Road in Laurel.

Pickersgill, who lived from 1776 to 1857, was commissioned to make the American flag that flew over Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore in 1814 and inspired Francis Scott Key to write the national anthem, “The Star Spangled Banner,” according to the state of Maryland’s Official War of 1812 bicentennial website.

“She will talk about the flagmaking business and what it was like to have one of her creations become the inspiration for ‘The Star Spangled Banner,’” Jurkiewicz said.

Volunteer fire department recognized for service The Bladensburg Volunteer Fire Department was recognized Nov. 5 by the Prince George’s County Fire/EMS Department for outstanding service.

The County Fire Chiefs Flame Award, which is typically presented to an individual, was awarded to the volunteer department for its nine years of uninterrupted service, according to the county fire/EMS department news release. The station was also recognized for

its ability as an all-volunteer station to provide fire suppression and emergency medical services, according to the news release.

This is the first time the award has been given to an organization, with Volunteer Chief Randy Kuenzli and the Bladensburg volunteer members receiving the award during their company meeting.

Laurel group spotlights former slave, soldier The Laurel Historical Society will present the story of a former slave and Civil War soldier as told by a descendant beginning at 7 p.m. Nov. 14 in the Municipal Pool Room, at the corner of 9th and Main streets, according to a news release.

Laurel resident Diane Cross will share “A Long Overdue Story: From a Slave to a Soldier to Freedom,” the story of her great-great-grandfather, Isaac Hall, rediscovered through 19th century documents and oral history traditions.

“My presentation started from a portrait of my greatgreat-grandfather, Isaac Hall, which hung in my grandmother’s living room,” Cross said.

“As children we called it ‘the soldier.’ My curiosity led me to find out more about him: who was he and what did he do?”

“My extensive research has enabled me to weave together his life from a slave to soldier to freedom. The long overdue story is the story of one of the over 200,000 African Americans who fought in the Civil War,” Cross said.

Admission to the program is free. The program complements the Laurel Historical Society’s current exhibit, “Stationed in Laurel: Our Civil War Story,” which runs through Dec. 13.

The Laurel museum will be open from 6 to 7 p.m. Nov. 14 prior to the program.

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Landover Hills Mayor Lee P. Walker walks away after placing a wreath at the base of the new Landover Hills Veterans Memorial on Monday morning during a dedication ceremony.

Landover Hills unveils veterans’ memorial

BY SOPHIE PETIT STAFF WRITER

Michael Tavel, 64, of Landover Hills said he doesn’t remember any warm welcome after returning home from combat during the Vietnam War in the early 1970s. He remembers feeling forgotten.

“We go over there, we get hurt, and we die and we’re forgotten,” Tavel said, who’s lived on Beale Street for 30 years.

That feeling is gone now, he said, especially thanks to veterans memorials like the one unveiled Monday at Henry Rinck Park in front of about 45 residents and local officials, including U.S. Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Dist. 4) of Fort Washington, Prince George’s County Councilman Eric Olson (Dist.

3) of College Park and state Sen. Victor R. Ramirez (D-Dist. 47) of Cheverly.

“Something like this tells us that we’re not forgotten,” Tavel said.

The Landover Hills Veterans Memorial replaced a 1946 wooden memorial bearing 100 World War II town veterans’ names, said town Mayor Lee P. Walker.

A $50,000 grant from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources was used to fund the memorial, Walker said.

Town officials said they’ve never actually seen the original memorial, which deteriorated and disappeared, although no one knows exactly when.

Officials knew of the memorial from a single picture found in the town archives, said resident Mike Walker, 60, who served on the Town Council when its members began planning the memorial in 2008.

Efforts were delayed as the town sought funding, which arrived via the grant in October 2011.

“This town goes back to 1945. The town has a long history,” Walker said.

“And the town has a long history of maintaining its history.”

Based on the photograph, town officials transferred the original World War II veterans’ names onto a metal plague that was embedded at the center of the new stone memorial, said Kathleen Tavel, the town manager and Michael Tavel’s wife.

Some names consist of just initials or a few blank spaces in between letters as they were impossible to read from the photograph, she said.

A group of Landover Hills police officers erected the U.S. Maryland and county flags behind the memorial.

The surface surrounding the memorial is made up of bricks, 37 of

which were purchased by residents and engraved with the names of those who have served in all U.S. wars, from Vietnam to Afghanistan with the most recent dated 2013.

Residents purchased engraved bricks — and can still do so — for $40.

Frances Motta, 83, who has lived on 71st Avenue for more than 50 years, purchased a brick engraved with the name of her brother, Fred Louis Verant.

Motta said the U.S. Army listed him as “missing in action” since 1951 when he never returned from combat during the Korean War. Her brother, who was 23 years old when he went missing, has no grave, Motta said. He is memorialized through a small cross given by the Army in a cemetery in his hometown in Minnesota, and now in the Landover Hills memorial, not far from her front door.

“These kids that are killed in these wars are so young,” Motta said. “These kids don’t know a thing and they’re the ones that end up fighting, and the memorial makes them think a little about what’s going on. You’d be amazed how many people forget. People don’t understand what [war] means, unless it happens to them.”

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Sister Karen Lester said she can hardly believe more than 50 years have gone by since she began teaching at St. Vincent Pallotti Catholic High School.

“Year after year just rolls along, you don’t realize that time is passing,” she said.

“Each new year is a new adventure, because you have a new group of students, new things that you have to watch out for and Lester that you want to do for them.”

Lester, 77, is a member of the Pallottine Missionary Sisters, an international religious order within the Catholic Church and the owners of St. Vincent Pallotti High School, a private Catholic school in Laurel.

In October, the school held a 50th anniversary celebration for Lester, who began teaching at the school in 1960,

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but spent three years of her career teaching at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic High School, which was located in Laurel at the time.

When Lester began teaching at Pallotti, the faculty was composed almost entirely of sisters from her order. Now, Lester, who teaches Algebra I and II, is the last sister at the school.

Principal Jeff Palumbo said the numbers of Pallottine sisters has declined, and they are now more focused on providing medical care, leaving teaching in the hands of laypeople.

“It’s awesome having her here. I can’t imagine not having her here,” Palumbo said.

Palumbo, who took over as principal last year, said he was a little worried that Lester, given her many decades at the school, would not be open to change, but those fears turned out to be unfounded, Palumbo said.

“Because she does love Pallotti so much, she’s always thinking of the next best thing, and anytime we have new ideas, she always works with us to continue making Pallotti a great school,” Palumbo said.

Lester, a native of West Virginia, joined the convent at the age of 16, moved, she said, by the deep faith with which she was raised. Lester earned a

bachelor’s degree in physics, but has taken college classes to prepare her to teach a variety of math and science classes at the school.

Lester began teaching at 22.

Now, after more than half a century of teaching, Lester said her greatest joy in teaching is watching students improve.

“It’s a happy time when you see some students who were struggling their first couple years, and you thought to yourself, ‘Will they ever graduate high school?’ but then they go on to be very good scholars and finish high school with flying colors,” Lester said.

Pallotti Administrative Assistant Claire Rudinski said Lester isn’t just about academics.

“She’s a huge Notre Dame football fan,” Rudinski said, adding that Lester was the first female athletic director in Maryland.

The school’s basketball court is named “Sister Karen Court” in her honor, Rudinski said.

If God wills it, Lester said, she plans to continue teaching.

“I enjoy what I’m doing, so I’ll continue doing it as long as I can,” she said. janfenson-comeau@gazette.net

As appeals of its July rate increase progress in court, Pepco Holdings Inc. told investors on Nov. 6 that it will file yet another request to raise its rates by the end of the year.

Joseph M. Rigby, chairman, president and chief executive officer, said the outcome of the company’s most recent request makes it necessary to file another rate case. The company will also continue to work to reduce regulatory lag and ensure timely recovery of its costs, Rigby said, citing upfront surcharges as a means to that end.

“We will remain very active in the regulatory arena,” he said.

On July 12, for the third time in four years, the Maryland Public Service Commission denied the lion’s share of Pepco’s request for higher rates when it granted Pepco $27.9 million of a $60.8 million request.

However, it also broke with decades of precedent when it awarded the company $24 million upfront to fix feeders. Feeders are high-voltage lines that carry electricity from substations into neighborhoods.

The utility requested $192 million as an upfront surcharge, known as the grid resiliency charge, for feeders

and other projects.

At the time, Pepco spokeswoman Myra Oppel said the decision was disappointing, a sentiment also shared by those who opposed raising the utility’s rates.

Pepco appealed the decision, as did Montgomery County, AARP of Maryland and the Maryland Office of People’s Counsel.

All four appeals, filed this summer, are waiting on a judge in Baltimore City Circuit Court to decide if the cases should be consolidated into a single appeal, physically merging the cases under a single case number. Merging the cases should make the appeals move more efficiently.

While Pepco Holdings promised to continue its annual pattern of filing for higher rates, it also reported income and stock earnings increases year-over-year for the third quarter on Nov. 6.

For the third quarter of 2013, Pepco Holdings posted $110 million in net income from continued operations, up from $87 million in the third quarter of 2012. Its earnings per share for the quarter rose to 44 cents, up from 38 cents in 2012.

Rigby attributed the results to the “positive impact of our continued investment in utility infrastructure,” along with higher distribution revenue from higher rates, increased infrastructure investments and lower operation and maintenance costs. kalexander@gazette.net

County may get state’s first veterans’ court Officials hope to help former service members suffering from combat-related illnesses

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With the state’s largest population of veterans, Prince George’s County is being eyed as the future site for Maryland’s first veterans’ court, state officials said.

“I was in combat, and it’s very difficult coming back and going through the regular daily routine,” said state Sen. Douglas J.J. Peters (D-Dist. 23) of Bowie, who served during Operation Desert Storm in the early 1990s and is chairman of the special veterans task force that recommended the court.

“A lot of these young people have post-traumatic stress disorder, which is basically combat stress.”

Veterans suffering from PTSD and other combat-related mental illnesses are more likely to commit crimes, Peters said, but instead of time behind bars, they need rehabilitation and mentoring services to get their lives back on track.

With the support of Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown (D), also a veteran, Peters said officials hope to open the court by 2015 and want to start the program in Prince George’s.

“Our veterans deserve our full support as they work to transition back into civilian life,” Brown said in a Nov. 8 statement.

Maryland is home to 443,076 veterans, with 62,744 living in Prince George’s — the most in the state, according to U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs data.

The task force released its final report recommending the court on Nov. 7. The next step is getting approval from the Office of ProblemSolving Courts in Annapolis, which oversees the county’s drug court, a similar system to veterans’ court.

“The way these problem-solving courts work is they work with the individual to make sure their needs are

met. Veterans have given unselfishly to this country, and what a veterans’ court will do is make sure there is a mentor and counselor that works with and understands the individual and matches them with resources they need to help them through the crises that they are in,” said Judge Sheila R. Tillerson Adams, Prince George’s Circuit Court administrative judge.

Adams, who has been pushing for a veterans’ court since she was appointed in 2010, said the circuit court is working on the application but doesn’t know when it will be submitted.

“If they agree Prince George’s can have a veterans’ court, I will make it happen,” Adams said, adding that space for the court would be made in the county courthouse in Upper Marlboro.

The task force projected a $250,000 start-up cost for 2015. After that year, the court would cost $365,445 annually to operate, the budget analysis states.

Funding pends approval of the application and would be mostly federal, with the U.S. veterans department covering all rehabilitation and treatment programs, Peters said.

Remaining costs would be covered by the state and county.

Looking at the success of the nation’s first veterans court, the Buffalo Veterans Treatment Court established in New York in 2008, which has since served as a model for the now 168 veterans’ courts around the country, Peters said officials know the system works.

The New York court has a zero recidivism rate, the report states, meaning no offenders were rearrested, reconvicted or reincarnated within three years of their initial offense.

The taskforce will officially present its report to the governor, the state Senate and House presidents, and the Maryland Court of Appeals chief justice by Dec. 1, Peters said.

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District Heights Elementary School students Devonte Duncan, 11, Madison Holmes, 11, and Kyasia Waddy, 11, all of District Heights, compete Tuesday in The Science Bowl at the Bonnie F. Johns Educational Media Center. dure used to treat intestinal infections.

“I knew the answer to the last one, I just didn’t want to say it on national TV,” Kyasia said with a laugh.

District Heights nearly tied in the first round with Bowie’s Yorktown Elementary School team of fifth-grade Bowie residents Ben Varghese, 10, team captain Shane Yran, 10, and Darren Ambe, 10.

Both teams had 195 points in the second half, but District Heights pushed ahead to 220 points by correctly answering “laser” to a final question asking what a beam of condensed light was called.

“After that comeback, it was anyone’s game,” Ben said.

The second round saw another nail biter as the Mother Jones team of fourth-grader Anthony Romero, 9, of Adelphi, team captain sixth-grader Milagros Reyes, 11, of Hyattsville, and fourth-grader Dominique Maragh, 9, of Adelphi, made a strong comeback against Laurel’s Scotchtown Hills Elementary School.

Mother Jones ended the first half of the second round with 55 points, but won the round with 205 points. For example, the

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After a game full of comebacks and close calls, District Heights Elementary School ultimately defeated Adelphi’s Mary Harris Mother Jones Elementary School 215-145 in Tuesday’s elementary school quarterfinal Science Bowl rounds.

District Heights will next compete against Laurel’s Montpelier Elementary School during the semifinals in February.

The Science Bowl is a televised game show started 28 years ago that quizzes Prince George’s public elementary and middle school students on their science knowledge. Questions are worth up to 25 points with point values based on question difficulty.

The District Heights team of sixth-grade District Heights residents Devonte Duncan, 11, team captain Madison Holmes, 11, and Kyasia Waddy, 11, said they were happy with the win, especially because the competition was stiff.

“I feel really good,” Madison said. “I’m slightly surprised we won because the other teams were really good teams.”

Science Bowl host Dave Zahren said the game had some tough questions that referred to many relevant topics in today’s news, such as asbestos poisoning, electric cars and — to the students’ shock — fecal matter.

The show’s final 25-point question, which neither team attempted to answer, asked what was transferred during a fecal transfer, a new medical proce-

team correctly answered “hydrogen” when asked what gas is added to vegetable oil when used in baking to make it solid.

“We had practice sessions since September two to three times a week,” said Mother Jones sponsor Tamra Taylor.

The Scotchtown Hills team of fifth-grade Laurel residents Victoria Lozada, 10, Brian Moscoso, 11, and Ethan Lac, 10, answered questions, including “upper dermis” when asked what the upper layer of a leaf and human skin was called.

“These were challenging questions. They’re pulling out answers, some answers even the judges thought they might not know,” Zahren said. “We’re hoping the people watching it at home are learning as well as the students.”

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BY KATIE FITZPATRICK AND CHASE COOK STAFF WRITERS

A 21-year veteran of the Prince George’s County Police Department was arrested Nov. 5 in Calvert County and charged on 16 counts, which include alleged sexual abuse to a minor and second-degree rape of a girl since 2008.

John Grady Warhurst, 42, and Aimee Beth Warhurst, 34, both were charged with one count each of second-degree rape, conspiracy to commit second-degree rape, thirddegree sex offense and conspiracy to commit third-degree sex offense; two counts each of second-degree sex offense, conspiracy to commit seconddegree sex offense, sexual abuse of a minor — course of conduct and second-degree assault; and four counts of sexual abuse of a minor.

Both John and Aimee Warhurst were released Nov. 6 and 7, respectively, from the Calvert County Detention Center after posting $100,000 bond each.

John Warhurst is a lieutenant with the Prince George’s County Police Department, where he has worked for 21 years.

Warhurst, who is assigned Pre-registration is preferred for faster service but walkins are welcome. www.princegeorgescountymd.gov To pre-register, call the Department of Social Services at 301-909-7061. If you are not able to attend this event you can also go online to www.marylandhealthconnection.gov or call 1-855-642-8572 to shop, compare and enroll on your own.

In January or February 2008, the girl, who then was in eighth grade, told Fridman she was given alcohol by Aimee Warhurst and then the couple took her into their bedroom, where they allegedly raped her, charging documents state. The girl told Fridman the abuse had continued for several years, and the couple would allegedly perform sexual acts on her, police said.

The girl then showed Fridman a text message sent to her from Aimee Warhurst that read, “You know I love you and would do anything for you. We actually both care about you. I need you to understand that is [sic] you … ever say anything … I could go to jail for the rest of my life. Please think about that,” charging documents state.

Fridman then met with the victim Oct. 30 “to gather additional information” regarding the offenses.

The girl allegedly told Fridman the Warhursts video taped “their sexual exploitations,” according to charging documents.

Warhurst’s preliminary hearing is set for 1 p.m. on Dec. 4 at the Calvert County District Court House, 200 Duke St., Prince Frederick, according to online court records.

Warhurst has not been assigned an attorney, according to online court records. kfitzpatrick@ somdnews.com

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to district four in the Bureau of Patrol, was initially suspended with pay when the charges were first discovered, but after a suspension hearing he is no longer receiving pay, said Lt. William Alexander, a Prince George’s County police spokesman.

Prince George’s County police are cooperating with the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office in their investigation, and administrative action against Warhurst will be taken internally pending the results of the Calvert County Sheriff’s investigation and trial, Alexander said.

“This police department takes very seriously our mission of constitutional, professional and ethical policing,” PGPD Chief Mark Magaw said in a written statement. “We strive to be transparent in everything we do. This is our unwavering commitment to the community we serve.”

On Oct. 16, Sgt. T. Fridman of the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office met with an 18-year-old girl, who told him that in January or February 2008, when she was about 13, John and Aimee Warhurst “began a sexual relationship with her,” according to charging documents. She told Fridman all of the sexual offenses took place at the Warhursts’ home in Chesapeake Beach.

The sheriff’s office is not releasing the victim’s name in order to protect her identity, Jones said.

A Charles County jury handed down a guilty verdict Nov. 7 in the third trial for a

2001 murder.

Attorneys delivered their closing arguments Nov. 6 in the murder trial of Bladensburg resident Jeffrey Edward Allen, 51, who had been convicted twice previously of firstdegree murder for the death of Port Tobacco resident John Butler.

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Two previous convictions were overturned on appeal after defense lawyers cited errors in jury instructions from Circuit Judge Robert C. Nalley.

Allen stabbed Butler 19 times during a fight the two men had and then drove off in Butler’s car, according to prosecutors.

After fleeing the scene in Butler’s car, Allen crashed near the intersection of routes 6 and 425.

He was found wandering shirtless and bloody by Wayne Carter of Nanjemoy, who he told he had been in a fight.

Allen also has been convicted previously of seconddegree murder and robbery.

Janet Hart, Allen’s defense attorney, maintained that her client never had the intention to rob or steal from Butler.

Hart also said many of Butler’s wounds were very shallow and said the state did not present a diagram of the wounds on his body. This, Hart said, proved that Allen was “just swinging the knife” rather than holding Butler down and stabbing him.

Hart also made reference to the coroner’s discovery of cocaine in Butler’s system during the autopsy, consistent with Allen’s earlier statements that he witnessed the man smoking crack cocaine when they arrived home the night before.

“The most important stuff was said from the very beginning. Mr. Allen told Mr. Carter he’d been in a fight,” Hart said.

“When he called 911, he said, ‘He came at me.’ That was said from the very beginning, and over time his explanation unfolded and became more detailed.”

Hart said Allen’s actions immediately after the incident prove his innocence.

Speaking Nov. 7 over the phone, Charles County State’s Attorney Anthony B. Covington (D) said he was pleased by the outcome of the trial.

“I’m gratified that a third jury found [Allen] guilty,” Covington said.

“I am confident the appellate courts will not find any reversible error in this third trial.

I would add that I really hope this is the last time we have to try this case. This is a tough thing for the victim’s family to go through. It makes it harder to get closure.” lrenner@somdnews.com

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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.

NOV. 4 Theft from vehicle, 2200

block Woodberry St., 3:02 a.m.

Commercial property break-

in, 7400 block Annapolis Road,

3:56 a.m.

Vehicle stolen and recovered,

5000 block Tuxedo Road, 7:06 a.m.

School break-in, 4900 block Annapolis Road, 9:30 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 9300 block Cherry Hill Road, 10:23 a.m.

Residential break-in, 3700 block 41st Ave, 12:14 p.m.

Residential break-in, 9300 block 19th Ave, 3:33 p.m.

Residential break-in, 3500 block Webster St., 3:38 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 2000 block Amherst Road, 3:41 p.m.

Robbery, 5800 block Rittenhouse St., 5:33 p.m.

Break-in, 6500 block Parkway Court, 6:12 p.m.

Residential break-in, 3500 block Webster St., 8:20 p.m.

Robbery, 2100 block Saranac St., 9:01 p.m.

NOV. 5

block Landover Road, 2:31 p.m.

Residential break-in, 3200 block Toledo Place, 3:19 p.m.

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

Vehicle stolen and recovered,

Ave, 3:42 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 6700 block Darby Road, 4:49 a.m.

Theft, 6700 block New Hampshire Ave, 7:28 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 4700 block Caddo St., 7:47 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 4700 block Catawba St., 8:31 a.m.

Theft, 2000 block Erie St., 8:54 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 7400 block Annapolis Road, 9:49 a.m.

Assault, 5200 block Crittenden St., 9:54 a.m.

Residential break-in, 8900 block 60th Ave, 3:42 a.m.

Theft, 9000 block Baltimore Ave, 6:29 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 5100 block Pierce Ave, 8:50 a.m.

in, 6400 block Landover Road,

in, 3000 block Kenilworth Ave,

Theft from vehicle, 4700

Robbery on commercial property, 3700 block Rhode Island

Commercial property break-

10:35 a.m.

block Caddo St., 10:51 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 5100 block Berwyn Road, 11:02 a.m.

Theft, 6200 block Greenbelt Road, 11:35 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 5000 block Berwyn Road, 12:33 p.m.

Theft, 3000 block Kenilworth Ave, 12:43 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 4700 block Norwich Road, 1:13 p.m.

Theft, 6500 block Knollbrook Drive, 1:40 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 5000 block Berwyn Road, 3:50 p.m.

Theft, 3800 block Bladensburg Road, 5:35 p.m.

Residential break-in, 5600 block Sargent Road, 5:58 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6300 block Landover Road, 9:02 p.m.

NOV. 7 Commercial property breakin, 4900 block Edgewood Road,

2:08 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 3900 block

Warner Ave, 12:06 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8100

block Powhatan St., 12:31 a.m.

Commercial property breakin, 6800 block New Hampshire

Ave, 3:38 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 7600 block Vicar Place, 7:31 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1500 block Kanawha St., 7:33 a.m.

Break-in, 2300 block Chillum Road, 8:23 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 8200 block Baltimore Ave, 9:41 a.m.

Theft, 7100 block Greenvale Pky, 10:42 a.m.

Commercial property breakin, 3300 block Bladensburg

Road, 10:55 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 7900 block

15th Ave, 10:59 a.m.

Theft, 2400 block Fordham St., 12:01 p.m.

Residential break-in, 4100 block 40th St., 1:53 p.m.

Theft, 3400 block Dean Drive, 2:07 p.m.

Theft, 7400 block Baltimore Ave, 4:52 p.m.

Residential break-in, 2300 block Chillum Road, 5:20 p.m.

NOV. 6 Theft from vehicle, Nb Riggs Road/Drexel St., 12:49 a.m.

Robbery, 2400 block Chillum Road, 1:47 a.m.

Assault, 7600 block Carroll

5000 block Rhode Island Ave, 4:15 p.m.

Theft, 9000 block Baltimore Ave, 4:34 p.m.

Theft, 7700 block Riverdale Road, 4:45 p.m.

Assault, 8100 block 14th Ave, 11:58 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 10000 block Baltimore Ave, 6:06 a.m.

Theft, 8200 block Tahona Drive, 6:12 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 5700 block Sheridan St., 12:54 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 5700 block Cypress Creek Drive, 2:24 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 4600 block Hartwick Road, 5:05 p.m.

Theft, 5900 block Eastern Ave, 6:03 p.m.

Residential break-in, 3900 block Warner Ave, 6:39 p.m.

Robbery on commercial property, 1300 block Chillum Road,

11:27 p.m.

NOV. 8 Theft, 2000 block University Blvd, 4:37 a.m.

Vehicle stolen and recovered,

8500 block Laverne Drive, 5:07 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 4200 block 37th St., 5:15 a.m.

Theft, 7500 block Riverdale Road, 9:32 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1100 block Linden Ave, 10:49 a.m.

Theft, 5400 block 20th Place, 10:52 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6200 block Annapolis Road, 11:46 a.m.

Theft, 5600 block Greenbelt Road, 11:49 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 6200 block Annapolis Road, 1:32 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6300

NOV. 9 Assault, 2000 block Univer-

sity Blvd, 3:28 a.m.

Commercial property break-

9:50 a.m.

Ave, 11:31 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 2200 block Phelps Road, 1:12 p.m.

Theft, 1400 block University Blvd, 1:42 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6200 block Annapolis Road, 2:59 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6700 block Annapolis Road, 3:02 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8400 block Annapolis Road, 3:58 p.m.

Residential break-in, 5100 block Lackawanna St., 4:28 p.m.

Residential break-in, 2400 block 59th Place, 8:56 p.m.

Residential break-in, 4900 block La Salle Road, 10:15 p.m.

Assault with a weapon, 1900 block Amherst Road, 10:44 p.m.

Theft, 8400 block Annapolis Road, 11:30 p.m.

NOV. 10 Assault, 3400 block Kenilworth Ave, 12:50 a.m.

Robbery, 1500 block Kanawha St., 1:22 a.m.

Assault with a weapon, 1400 block Kanawha St., 2:07 a.m.

Theft, 7300 block Baltimore Ave, 9:07 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 800 block Sheridan St., 9:42 a.m.

Sexual assault, 5400 block Blk Annapolis Road, 10:59 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 800 block Sheridan St., 11:42 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 6700 block Dorman St., 11:56 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 6300 block New Hampshire Ave, 12:02 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8400 block 49th Ave, 1:55 p.m.

POLICE BLOTTER 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.

NOV. 4 Theft from vehicle, 2300

block Vermont Ave, 7:07 a.m.

Theft, 6100 block Central Ave, 7:22 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1700 block Kenilworth Ave, 7:26 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3100 block 75th Ave, 8:20 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 2000 block Brooks Drive, 8:52 a.m.

Residential break-in, 4900 block Heath St., 9:22 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3100 block 75th Ave, 9:29 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 7600 block Barlowe Road, 9:39 a.m.

Theft, 4348-4350 Suitland Road, 9:58 a.m.

Commercial property breakin, 2700 block Marble Court,

10:08 a.m.

Theft, 5700 block Silver Hill Road, 11:23 a.m.

Theft, 7600 block Normandy Road, 12:03 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9000 block Central Ave, 12:25 p.m.

Commercial property breakin, 6200 block Sheriff Road, 1:10

p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 5700 block Silver Hill Road, 2:41 p.m.

Residential break-in, 6500 block Pennsylvania Ave, 3:41 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6100 block Central Ave, 3:46 p.m.

Vehicle stolen and recovered,

5900 block Martin Luther King Highway, 4:12 p.m.

Residential break-in, 5000 block Lee Jay Drive, 6:07 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6500 block Prosperity Court, 6:26 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 7600 block Allendale Cir, 8:20 p.m.

Robbery, 3500 block Stewart Road, 9:35 p.m.

Theft, 4800 block Addison Road, 10:47 p.m.

Robbery on commercial property, 7700 block Annapolis

Road, 2:37 p.m.

Theft, 9600 block Baltimore Ave, 3:26 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 5600 block Quincy St., 3:50 p.m.

Theft, 7800 block Riggs Road, 5:13 p.m.

Residential break-in, 6800 block Fairwood Road, 5:45 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3400 block Toledo Terrace, 6:50 p.m.

Theft, 8300 block 14th Ave, 6:51 p.m.

Theft, 4700 block Norwich Road, 7:52 p.m.

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Theft — 300 block of Mon-

14400 block of Laurel Place.

OCT. 30

200 block of Fort Meade Road.

Theft — shoplifting, 200 block of Fort Meade Road.

trose Avenue.

Theft — bicycle. 15600 block

of Dorset Road.

Theft — shoplifting, 1000

block of Fairlawn Avenue.

NOV. 2 Theft — bicycle, 14900 block

of Belle Ami Drive.

NOV. 4 Motor vehicle theft — 100

block of Morris Drive.

Burglary — forced entry,

14700 block of Fourth Street.

NOV. 5 Theft from building, 700

Theft from motor vehicle, Theft from motor vehicle,

NOV. 7 Theft from motor vehicle,

200 block of Fort Meade Road.

NOV. 8 Theft, 900 block of Fourth

Street.

NOV. 9 Theft, 14800 block of Baltimore Avenue.

NOV. 10 Theft from motor vehicle,

9300 block of Hilltop Court.

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Church drive aims to aid typhoon victims $17 million in

state scholarships went unclaimed

Pastor: ‘We are all appealing to all human beings regardless of race and gender’

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An Oxon Hill Seventh-day Adventist Church is reaching out to residents, community groups and others as it plans a fundraiser Saturday for the Filipino people of the Iloilo Province in the Philippines, an area devastated

by Super Typhoon Haiyan.

That province, along with other areas of the Philippines, was hammered by Super Typhoon Haiyan Friday through Saturday. Emergency response officials estimate the death toll in the affected areas to top 10,000.

“All of us are being moved or touched by seeing the pictures,” said Pastor Ariel Matira of Beltsville. “Probably as of now, [the Filipino people] don’t know if they have food to eat. We are all appealing to all human beings regardless of race and gender. Let us be united.”

Matira’s church is holding a fundraiser from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the church’s new location, 7412 Livingston Road in Oxon Hill, in an effort to collect canned food, clothing and money that can be sent to the Iloilo Province.

The event will feature music, food and group prayers as Matira and his congregation collect donations.

Church deacon Romy Dumling of College Park said he worked disaster situations before as a colonel in the Philippines Army so he knows that the people of his country are struggling to get food and water. The military works with local groups to distribute the food, so once the donations are collected and the

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Second annual event focuses on educating adults so they can prepare children

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(From left) Ariel Matira, pastor at Oxon Hill Filipino Seventh-day Adventist Church; Rocky Twyman of Rockville; and Joel Rizalino of Beltsville pray in front of the Seventh-day Adventist Church on Monday for the Filipinos suffering from Super Typhoon Haiyan. The church is holding a fundraiser Saturday to collect food, clothes and money for the victims. church finds a way to get them overseas, the Filipino organizations will find a way to get the goods to those in need, he said.

“We can easily gather stuff here,” Dumling said.

Church board member Teresa Descalzota, a Filipino living in Alexandria, Va., said she has already donated 50 sacks of rice and plans to help gather more donations on Saturday after

speaking with residents.

Descalzota said her brother lost his home due to the storm and she knows he and many other Filipino people need the aid.

“It is a blessing the community has responded right away,” Descalzota said. “I’m thankful.” ccook@gazette.net

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Maryland students offered funding, but awards were rejected

ent STEMpowerment Workshop from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Kossiakoff Center on its Laurel campus, 11100 John Hopkins Road.

The free workshop is designed to assist the parents of elementary and middle school students in preparing their children to explore careers focused in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, ac-

cording to the release.

“Parents are a critical part of the STEM equation, but they’re often forgotten or left out of STEM initiatives that focus mainly on the student or teacher,” Dwight Carr, APL STEM program manager, said in the release. “That’s why the Applied Physics Laboratory looks hard for unique ways to inform and support parents as well as students and teachers. The

event was very successful last year and we hope to empower even more parents this year.”

Online registration is recommended, at http://www.jhuapl. edu/STEM/psw/registration. aspx. The APL will also offer Spanish translation services for Spanish-speaking attendees. janfenson-comeau@ gazette.net

About $17 million in Maryland need-based college scholarships went unused last year after a “higher than anticipated level” of students rejected awards or were ineligible for them.

According to an audit by Maryland’s Office of Legislative Audits, $17.2 million in funding that was appropriated for scholarships was not spent. The unspent funds could have helped 7,800 students on the Maryland Higher Education Commission’s 31,000-applicant waiting list, the report said.

The office’s report on the commission was released to the public on Nov. 6. The commission did not use the accumulated scholarship funds from students who were offered scholarships but were later found to be ineligible, or turned down the award.

Commission spokesman Gregory P. FitzGerald said the funds went unused because the commission saw a “higher-than-anticipated level of cancellations” for the awards, but there is no definite cause behind the cancellations.

The Need-Based Student Financial Assistance Fund was created in 2011 to account for rejected or canceled awards in the state’s budget, the report stated. Unused funds from the previous year roll over to the next year.

The fund’s balance was $9.9 million in June 2011 and $17.2 million in June 2013.

The financial need-based awards include the Educational Excellence Awards, available for high school seniors and undergraduate students.

Awardees must maintain satisfactory grades to renew their application for the awards. Grants for graduate students and professional school students also are available to students who demonstrate need and are studying certain subjects.

FitzGerald said $14 million of the fund’s $17.2 million balance will be appropriated to offer awards to more students on the waiting list. The commission plans to award about $81 million in needbased scholarships in fiscal year 2014, though $135 million already has been offered to students.

In fiscal year 2012, the commission awarded $81.4 million in need-based grants and scholarships to students.

The commission will be “actively engaging the institutions, streamlining the process, and communicating earlier with students and parents to get more aid to students,” FitzGerald said. scarignan@gazette.net

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‘We should never have extensive amounts of people on the street’ KATE S. ALEXANDER AND JENN DAVIS STAFF WRITERS

As Maryland’s gubernatorial candidates traverse the state rolling out jobs and education plans, advocates for the homeless say they have yet to hear a plan to address some of the state’s most vulnerable citizens.

“The reality is that there are homeless people in our county and in our state but people do not want to really acknowledge it,” said James Mannarino, executive director of Interfaith Works.

“Candidates spend too much time appealing to the larger population of the well employed. We have to have a consciousness, as a community.

I’d like to hear more from them, but I am not hearing anything yet,” he said.

Nov. 4 through 6, from 4 a.m. to 7 a.m., volunteers canvassed Montgomery County to survey homeless people, learn about their needs, and assemble data to identify the most vulnerable and transition them into permanent housing with supportive services, like counseling.

On Nov. 7, more than 500 homeless Montgomery County residents flocked to Bohrer Park in Gaithersburg to attend Homeless Resource Day. Homeless individuals and families were given free medical screenings, legal services, financial and health counseling, employment help and tax assistance. Free haircuts, manicures, massages and sandwiches from Subway also were offered.

But those who work with the population daily say that while the problem is complex, the solution is simple: housing.

“We should never have extensive amounts of people on the street,” said John Mendez, outreach specialist for Bethesda Cares. “There’s a solution.”

Mendez said homelessness is his personal yardstick for politicians.

“Homelessness is a measure of how well public officials are performing at the fundamental level of public administration,” Mendez said. “Housing, the distribution of housing, health care, domestic violence, mental

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Mary Parsons from the Gaithersburg Safe Haven shelter reacts to the hair cut she received from a Gaithersburg High School cosmetology student. health support and education, if a public official fails to address those efficiently, the end result is greater homelessness for the community.”

Among those who want to be the state’s next governor, homelessness is a problem with diverse solutions.

“It’s unacceptable that so many throughout our state are left without a roof over their heads and, while we’ve made a lot of progress, we must continue working to solve this challenge by pushing for more affordable housing, improving mental health care and expanding services for our homeless,” said Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown (D).

Harford County Executive David R. Craig (R) said the primary role of government is to create the conditions for job growth that put as many to work as possible across education and income levels.

Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler (D) is proposing a plan to close the revolving door of ex-offenders, by providing job training and housing placement for those in need, men and women who have nowhere to sleep or call home upon release from the state’s correctional facilities, said Gansler spokesman Bob Wheelock.

Wheelock said the campaign also is mindful that one in seven homeless in America are U.S. military veterans, and supports taking care of veterans.

Del. Ronald A. George (RDist. 30) of Arnold said restoring and increasing mental health funding and by creating an eco-

nomic environment leading to more entry and midlevel jobs will make significant progress.

Del. Heather Mizeur (DDist. 20) of Takoma Park said her policies aim to improve the lives of all Marylanders, to lift the neediest out of poverty and to combat all inequalities, including homelessness.

Charles Lollar (R) would work through partnerships with civic groups, churches and nonprofits. “Our hearts go out to the homeless, especially veterans,” he said.

Brian Vaeth (R) suggested offering incentives to owners of vacant properties to turn them into shelters or affordable housing for the homeless.

Though, to Mannarino, the little the candidates have said sounds more like lip service.

Jobs will help and funding for mental illness or nonprofits like Interfaith Works is a plus, but you can’t just throw money at a problem; there has to be a clear plan, he said.

Both Mannarino and Mendez said politicians need to talk with those who work with the homeless.

“We can point our fingers at public officials, but if we are not sitting down and meeting with those public officials ... we have to stress collectively as advocates and providers that we feel this is the most important issue,” Mendez said.

But so far, few public officials have knocked on his door, Mannarino said. kalexander@gazette.net jedavis@gazette.net

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In the race to be the next Maryland governor, Brian Vaeth (R) is not likely to do as his competition does.

Among candidates boasting campaign accounts in the millions and counting, Vaeth said his account is and will remain zero.

“That way we’re not bought off,” he said.

When it comes to a platform, Vaeth said he is focused on government accountability.

And as other gubernatorial candidates hire campaign staff, Vaeth, 46, and his running mate, Duane Gerald Davis Sr., constitute his entire campaign staff.

Davis of Baltimore made headlines in 2011 when he placed a toilet, covered in newspaper clippings, on the grounds of the historic Baltimore County Courthouse. The toilet triggered a police reaction that included a bomb-sniffing dog and a small robot, according to The Baltimore Sun at the time. The Baltimore Sun later reported that Davis was acquitted of the charges against him for the toilet incident.

Vaeth, a White Marsh resident originally from Baltimore, filed for the Republican nomination in May and will face Harford County Executive David

R. Craig, Del. Ronald A. George (R-Anne Arundel) of Arnold and Newburg resident Charles Lollar in the race for the Republican nomination.

Describing his politics as “leaning to the left a bit, but mostly middle of the road,” Vaeth supports a higher minimum wage and favors Vaeth prison reform and strong education funding — “teachers should be making $100,000 a year, and schools should look like cathedrals,” he said.

While he believes Maryland should seek alterative energy options, but not necessarily hydraulic fracturing to recover natural gas, he wants the stormwater management tax repealed, more jobs created and the state’s law books completely rewritten.

“It’s not about Republican or Democrat with me,” he said.

“Republican is just my designation. I’m reaching out to the voters and saying ‘this is what needs to be done.’”

A businessman in the field of solar energy and former Baltimore firefighter, Vaeth said he has spent years fighting against what he sees as corruption in government, and that is why he is running for accountability.

“We are using this platform to let people know what we’ve experienced, to find out what

other people have experienced let know them there is a process in place for them do what they need to do to hold officials and politicians accountable,” he said. “We need them [government] to start working for us.”

Those who faced hurdles to benefits and red tape in government, similar to what Vaeth experienced as he fought for a pension and health care benefits for family members, is what prompted him to get involved and eventually run for office.

Vaeth acknowledged that as a Republican candidate in a majority Democratic state, who vows not to take a dime of donations, there is a chance he will not win. He said his campaign is more about spreading awareness than winning.

Still, do not assume he is not in it to win it.

Starting in January, he will kick off a statewide campaign tour and plans to run a grassroots effort, knocking on doors and talking to voters.

Vaeth might run an unconventional campaign, but this is not his first. And it will not be his last, he said.

In 2012, he ran against Dan Bongino (R) for the GOP nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin (D) for his seat in Congress.

If Vaeth does not win the Republican nomination or a term in Annapolis as governor, he said voters can expect to see his name again, running for another office. kalexander@gazette.net

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ERIC GOLDWEIN STAFF WRITER

An Upper Marlboro resident and former member of Frederick Douglass High School’s football team died in a car accident Sunday morning.

Jerrell Lamont Wedge, 24, was killed after his vehicle crashed into a tree 3:30 a.m., according to Prince George’s County Police spokesman Harry Bond.

Speeding appeared to be a factor in the accident which occurred on Old Marlboro Pike, Bond said.

Wedge graduated from Douglass in 2007, playing four years on the school’s football team. After high school he attended Miami University in Ohio where he continued his football career as an outside linebacker.

Coaches and teammates at Douglass said Wedge was a “free-spirited kid” with a strong sense of humor.

“He’s one of the best kids I ever

coached. Not just a football player, but as a person,” Douglass coach J.C. Pinkney said.

Wedge was training to be a member of the Maryland-National Capital Park Police, Pinkney said.

“He was a trailblazer,” Pinkney said.

“He followed his own path.”

Upper Marlboro resident Zary Stewart, a longtime friend and former teammate at Douglass, said Wedge was like family.

“He’s a guy you want to hang out with. You want him by your side,” Stewart said. “... He would have been a great cop.

When he does something, he’s great at it,” he said.

Wedge, a 5-foot-11 linebacker, was a three-time All-Gazette football player.

He finished his high school career as Douglass’ second all-time leading tackler, behind retired professional football player Shawne Merriman.

“He had this uncanny ability to find the football,” Pinkney said.

In 2010 he was named to The Gazette’s All-Decade football team.

In four seasons at Miami he recorded 305 tackles, 9.5 sacks, two interceptions and five forced fumbles. As a senior he was named to the All-MidAmerican Conference Third Team.

“Jerrell was a passionate young man, who was a better person than a player. He made some great physical plays in his career and was a quiet leader who led by example,” Miami coach Mike Bath said.

Wedge was pursuing a career in the National Football League but was slowed down by a knee injury he suffered in college, Pinkney said.

He remained part of the Douglass football family after graduating and frequently visited the school, Pinkney said.

“I just wish I had an opportunity to spend more time with him,” Pinkney said.

A service is scheduled for 11 a.m.

Saturday at St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church at 14908 Main Street in Upper Marlboro. egoldwein@gazette.net

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Frederick Douglass High School graduate and former Miami University in Ohio player Jerrell Wedge (left) died Sunday morning in a car crash.

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Jordan, a business marketing contractor, said he had no political ambitions before running for council four years ago.

“I never really pictured myself running for office or being an elected official, but I’ve always been really involved in volunteering with a lot of different groups, and that’s sort of how I started down this path,” Jordan said.

He said his goals were to focus on community and economic development, as well as streamlining government operations and incorporating more community involvement.

In Greenbelt, voters elect seven atlarge candidates to serve two-year terms on the council. The council, in turn, elects one of its number the mayor.

Traditionally, the council has elected the highest vote-getter as mayor and the second highest as mayor pro tem, the person who fills in when the mayor is absent, or serves the remainder of the term if the mayor dies or leaves office.

The tradition goes back at least 50 years, and possibly as far back as the city’s founding, said Councilman Rodney Roberts, 55, a lifelong Greenbelt resident.

Jordan received 1,476 votes in the Nov. 5 election while former mayor Judith “J” Davis, 71, received 1,368 votes.

Also following tradition, the council elected Davis as mayor pro tem, ending her 16-consecutive year run as mayor.

Davis is the longest-serving mayor in Greenbelt’s history, beating Gil Weidenfeld, who served 15 and a half nonconsecutive years as mayor.

“There will be time for me now to smell the roses in my personal life,” Davis said.

System.

Patrons of the two libraries will have to go to Greenbelt or Hyattsville for the closest libraries.

Gannon said the new libraries will better meet the technological and community needs of their patrons. He said the fact that funding for both projects became available at around the same time is a coincidence. The $440,000 grant from the state, paying for half the Beltsville renovations, must be used by June 2014.

Blaine Halliday, regional director of the north county libraries, said there will be a book depository at the Beltsville site for patrons to drop off books.

Gannon said a temporary facility will be established in Laurel. The location had not been confirmed yet.

“We’re looking at a space, and the county is negotiating the lease now,” Gannon said.

The temporary facility will not have the full book collection, but will have an assortment

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Greenbelt’s new mayor, Emmett V. Jordan, is sworn into office Monday. Jordan, a business marketing contractor, is Greenbelt’s first black mayor.

Davis proposed the motion that the council elect Jordan as its mayor. She said that in the time she has known Jordan, he has greatly impressed her with his energy and enthusiasm for Greenbelt.

“He is very personable, he is very concerned about the city, and he has brought up some very interesting ideas for us to consider,” she said.

In 2009, partly in response to a challenge by the Prince George’s County NAACP, the council expanded its membership from five to seven members. Jordan was elected to the council then becoming

Greenbelt’s first, and to date only, black council member.

Dillard said the NAACP would still prefer to see the creation of district seats in Greenbelt, in place of or in addition to the current at-large seats, but said progress has been made.

“We definitely have gotten more people running for office, and even though some of them have been on the council forever, eventually there will be some new people here,” Dillard said. janfenson-comeau@gazette.net

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The goats, 60 in all, arrived Nov. 1. In one week, they had eaten up to 12,000 pounds of kudzu, Abe said.

The goats are provided through Donaldson-based EcoGoats, a business that rents goats for just this purpose, and was paid through a grant from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.

Abe said the goats are just the first step in the stream restoration project.

“By clearing the kudzu away, it allows a really good look at the land,” Abe said. “Also, by reducing the overall biomass of the kudzu, we remove the [kudzu] root system in a more efficient and complete manner to facilitate for the future planting and re-vegetation of this stream segment with native plants.”

Abe said there are other ways the kudzu could be removed, but the goats offer a way to reach out and inform the community.

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Throughout the session, a message that many voiced in Baker’s listening session last month was reiterated: Prince George’s residents want more walkable, mixed-use communities with access to more upscale food and retail stores.

“We currently have to go to [the District] and spend a big chunk of money to do the things that we want to do in our home county,” said Donald James of Bowie. “What we don’t need is more of these faux shopping centers. ... They’re just insideout malls. No one wants to live near that.”

Baker’s son, Rushern L. Baker IV, who is running for state delegate, voiced support for more urban, walkable communities.

“Especially considering the amount of untapped potential we have around our Metros,” he said.

Peters said many of the de-

of new books, computer access and other services, Gannon said.

Gannon said staff will be reassigned to other libraries during the closures.

The renovations to the Beltsville location will feature a number of new amenities, including a quiet room, six study rooms, a conference room and a bookstore cafe, Gannon said.

The children’s room is being remodeled with a fairy tale theme, Gannon said, including a three-dimensional image of the front of a castle on the wall, surrounded by a tile “moat.”

“As we renovate libraries, we’re looking to make the children’s area of each an exciting place for kids,” Gannon said.

Gannon said the number of computers at the Beltsville branch will be expanded from 26 to 43, and outlets for charging mobile devices will be added.

“It’s going to be a little tearful leaving it. I’ve been here for 25 years,” Willis said. “But it’s going to be beautiful when it’s finished.” janfenson-comeau@ gazette.net care. But goats? People are slamming on their brakes to look,” Abe said.

Abe and other members of AWS were on hand to explain to the children and their parents what the goats were doing and why. A sign, posted in both English and Spanish, also explained about the project.

Maria Villarta, 9, who lives nearby, said her mother was driving past and pulled over the first time they noticed the goats.

Now they’ve gotten used to seeing them.

“We really like the goats.

They don’t make any noise in the night,” her sister, Brenda Villarta, 10, said.

Daniel Ventura, 11, came because a friend had told him about the goats. He said the goats are great and has picked out a large brown goat as his favorite.

“He’s pretty smart, because if he cannot find any leaves on the ground, he stands up on his back legs to get them,” Ventura said.

Although the goats finished their work Friday, Abe said they will be back in March for a longer visit to devour any recurring kudzu before native vegetation is planted. janfenson-comeau@ gazette.net velopment issues are to be addressed at the county level, not the state.

“It’s clearly a County Council issue. They’re invested with zoning authority,” Peters said.

Baker spokesperson Barry Hudson said in terms of development, legislation to garner state support for infrastructure projects is a top priority, in particular transportation infrastructure and rebuilding and renovating schools.

Other items on Baker’s priority list so far, he said, are increasing pre-kindergarten education and increasing the minimum wage.

“A legislative team looks at patterns [during the sessions] and decides whether it’s a local legislative issue or a state legislative issue,” Hudson said.

The final listening session was scheduled to be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Potomac High School in Oxon Hill, he said. spetit@gazette.net

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Charity begins at home With about two weeks until Black Friday, a major shopping event largely considered the kickoff to the holiday season, many Prince George’s County residents must be sure to remember the less fortunate, those who are already wondering whether they’ll have enough money to provide toys — or even food — for their families during the holidays.

Many food, clothing and toy drives have already launched, seeking as many early donations as possible in hopes of getting some idea by December as to how many people they will be able to help.

And those in need aren’t far away: the recent government shutdown impacted a good number of residents and many others are still struggling from the recession.

Help doesn’t have to come in the form of monetary donations, either. Sometimes the best gift of all is the gift of time. Volunteering at schools, fundraisers and other community events can provide support to organizations that help others. Get the family involved, too; children learn best from examples set by their parents.

Ideally, lending a hand to those in need in the community would be a year-round focus — and this holiday season is a good time to start.

This summer I turned 18 years old. I had thoughts of getting my license, going to college, but no thought ever crossed my mind about registering to vote. Being the middle of the summer, it was no pressing matter. No elections were coming up, and no major campaigns triggered my mind about election day.

What if by the time elections came around I wasn’t registered to vote? I figured many young people didn’t vote the first time after turning 18 because they weren’t registered, especially those with birthdays close to election time. If Americans were automatically registered to vote when they turned 18, more people would vote.

While patiently awaiting my most cherished belonging, my license, the man at the Motor Vehicle Administration asked me an important question. He asked, “Would you like to register to vote today?”

I answered the man with an excited “Yes!” He directed me to look at a screen that asked me to name my political views. I answered and was registered to vote.

That simple.

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Prince George’s County residents head to the polls for early voting at the College Park Community Center in October 2012.

After I was registered, I was shocked that I had not thought about registering to vote earlier. I knew voting was important. I knew as a female, women before me struggled for years so that one day my vote would count. I knew being Latina, a minority, I needed to represent my community because so many in this country are unable to vote. And being a young adult, I knew it was important to set a good example for my peers. So knowing all of this, how could I forget to do something so important?

The reality is registering to

vote was not a priority for me.

I had so many other things to do. Why would I set aside time in my last summer before college to go register to vote?

It later occurred to me how fast and easy it was for somebody who had my information to register me. Because the MVA had my information, like my address and date of birth, there was only one field of information I needed to answer, which was my political view.

It seemed that I could have been registered to vote automatically and asked my political views later.

I also wondered about all the young adults who do not have their license. How are they going to register? Typically, a voter registration form is sent through the mail to your address. The form must be filled out and returned by mail.

But so many things could go wrong. You could move right before getting it, it could be lost; the possibilities are endless. I am sure you could go to the MVA or post office and fill out a generic form, but that seems too tedious. And with all the budget cuts, the post office hours are so inconvenient.

It would make more sense to just automatically register people to vote and ask specific questions later. What is the worst that could happen? You give somebody an opportunity to have their voice heard, and they don’t accept? Big deal.

Young adults want to positively contribute to society. We understand that the freedom that comes with turning 18 elicits an even greater responsibility, especially to society. If we are given a better opportunity to vote, then more people will show up in the polls.

Melissa Higgins, Brentwood

Grateful, hopeful after Bowie campaign

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contested election so I did this as a public service. We ran the campaign on passion, used old signs left from my two mayoral campaigns in the 1990s and spent less than $100 on the campaign.

I had lots of fun on the streets, and I find myself grateful, hopeful and thankful. I now return to my private life.

Thank you, and again my hat’s off to Mayor Robinson.

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My congratulations go to Mayor Robinson on his overwhelming re-election to an eighth term in office.

Let me thank Bowie voters, my friends and neighbors who cast their votes and let their voices be heard. I get my encouragement on the streets, and I appreciated all the honks, waves and thumbs up. I didn’t have to put my name on the ballot, but I felt it was important for Bowie to have a citywide

Richard A. Dahms, Bowie

Let’s butt out During election years Maryland politicians promise tax cuts. Then, after the election, they spend the next three years raising taxes until the next election year when the cycle repeats itself.

An exception to this phenomenon is the cigarette tax, the ugly duckling of taxes, which most voters support. So it wasn’t surprising last week when anti-smoking activists called for a $1 a pack increase in Maryland’s cigarette tax, an increase to $3 a pack (the highest tax in our five state region and 10 times higher than Virginia’s 30 cents a pack). And they want state lawmakers to act next January, in the middle of an election year.

The anti-smoking crusaders say the tax isn’t meant to raise revenue, it’s meant to make cigarettes so expensive that people quit. It’s true that boosting taxes MY MARYLAND doesn’t raise a lot BLAIR LEE more revenue.

Maryland’s cigarette tax was 36 cents a pack in 1999. Since then it’s been increased three times to $2 a pack, more than a 450 percent increase.

Yet revenues haven’t kept pace.

When the tax doubled in 2008, revenues only increased 51 percent. Since then there’s been a steady drop in state cigarette tax proceeds.

So, is taxation driving the tobacco industry out of business? Are fewer Marylanders smoking? Maybe. The number of cigarettes sold here dropped from 243 million in 2008 to 200 million in 2012.

This is proof positive say the antismoking folks that their tax-it-to-death plan is working. Maybe, but measuring Maryland cigarette sales doesn’t account for cigarette smuggling which, thanks to the tax hikes, is on the rise.

A January 2013 Tax Foundation report ranks each state by its estimated amount of cigarette smuggling. Maryland ranks 13th with smuggling accounting for 26 percent of cigarettes consumed here, up from 10 percent in 2006. New York, with its $4.35 per pack tax (an additional $1.50 in New York City) comes in first with a 61 percent smuggling rate.

An Ocean City smuggling ring was recently nabbed smuggling 1 million cartons from Virginia to New York. By my math these guys were looking at a $41 million profit. According to Jeff Kelly, a Maryland cigarette tax enforcement officer, some heroin and cocaine dealers are switching to cigarette smuggling because it’s less risky, easier and just as lucrative.

Tobacco smuggling has a rich history.

The first American tobacco was grown in 1612 by Virginia planter John Rolfe from tobacco seeds he smuggled into the colony from Venezuela.

Tobacco growing soon spread to Maryland where it became the foundation of the colony’s economy for the next 150 years. Port Tobacco in Charles County became Maryland’s second largest seaport (today’s population is 13) and in 1637, tobacco was declared the official currency.

Colonists bought goods and paid their debts and taxes with tobacco leaves.

But most ironic was tobacco’s widespread popularity in Europe because, doctors believed, it was good for smokers’ lungs.

Today, tobacco has fallen from grace.

The war on tobacco is being waged by raising taxes, curbing advertising, limiting smoking venues and by peer pressure. In 1999 Maryland launched a tobacco buyout program paying tobacco growers who converted to other crops. Of the state’s 1,000 growers, 845 participated and today tobacco auctions are largely a thing of the past.

So, here’s my question: Why prolong the agony? Smokers have been reduced to social outcasts. They huddle like lepers in the freezing parking lot sucking on their $7-a-pack cigarettes. Why not just outlaw cigarettes the same way we’d outlaw any other dangerous drug?

Imagine if tobacco was first introduced today instead of 400 years ago. Picture the industry’s FDA presentation: “We’d like you to approve an inhalant that has no redeeming value but is addictive and often causes lung cancer.” It wouldn’t have a chance.

Heck, even electronic cigarettes, the new non-tobacco fake cigarettes, are having a tough time with the FDA. A libertarian by nature, I don’t like government officials who think they’re better

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Virginia is clean. Philadelphia is fighting childhood obesity. Washington, D.C., supports local businesses.

At a series of public forums in Prince George’s, residents have been sharing these observations from visits to other jurisdictions — as they note that the county needs to do a much better job in all these categories, and more.

Sadly, the complaints are nothing new. The desire for high quality retail and dining establishments, the frustration with dilapidated shopping centers and the exasperation over roadside litter have been discussed for more than a decade, but with spotty results.

The recent forums, called listening sessions, are being RECENT PUBLIC hosted by County Executive FORUMS ARE Rushern L. Baker III (D) and REMINDER OF other leaders to get input for LONGSTANDING the General Assembly’s 2014 legislative agenda. On the surCOMMUNITY face, the residents’ comments CHALLENGES may not seem helpful regarding state affairs, but when put in perspective, they are extremely valuable.

For example, as the General Assembly weighs whether to raise minimum wages, leaders will need to keep in mind the impact doing so would have on Prince George’s, a county struggling to attract and retain businesses. Balancing businesses’ and residents’ needs will take some work.

With an incoming casino in south county, a new mall at National Harbor and longstanding congestion on many roadways throughout the county, state transportation funding is critical to quality of life. If residents want more and better businesses, it’s imperative that the infrastructure be in place to make the sites accessible.

And businesses flock to areas where schools are thriving. State funding helps there, too.

Granted, these challenges don’t fall solely on the state’s plate.

The county must do — and is doing — a better job addressing quality-of-life issues. Baker has restructured school leadership, funneled millions into economic development, launched a new government system that eases the process of filing community complaints, and crime is at a record low. And in his defense, he’s only been in office a few years and must overcome the failed attempts of his predecessors.

The burden falls on residents, as well. When a community is buried in litter, not only should residents pitch in to clean up, but they should overload county phone lines demanding better service. As unwanted businesses propose moving in, county meetings should be standing-room only — as they should also be when promising businesses eye Prince George’s.

School board meetings should be the most populated event in the county. Nearly every aspect of life is negatively affected when schools are struggling.

Unfortunately, it’s a discussion that’s been had for many years. And although officials have tried different strategies to address the challenges, it’s difficult for residents to continue being patient while paying taxes into a system they feel offers rundown schools, traffic congestion, littered streets and limited commercial options. Especially when some better quality-of-life options are just over the county border.

While the county has many wonderful aspects, it is also regarded as a sort of stepchild for the region, the less successful member of the metropolitan family. It’s time to change that image, posthaste.

For far too long, residents have had to hear about the great potential in Prince George’s and the baby steps being taken to get there. However, after years of promises, it’s time for some leaps and bounds.

Douglas S. Hayes, Associate Publisher

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and smarter than me telling me what to eat and drink or what health insurance I must buy. But protecting us from addictive, fatal substances falls well within the government’s purview.

So, instead of taxing it to death, which only promotes widespread smuggling, let’s put a bullet in it. Let’s figure out a realistic, equitable tobacco ban.

The anti-smoking zealots are fine with an immediate, outright ban because, having battled the tobacco industry all these years, they view it as the Evil Empire which must be punished. Like most moralists, they don’t live in the real world.

In fact, the only argument for tobacco is its 400-year evolution into a global industry with $90 billion in U.S. sales last year. Abruptly ending those jobs, investments and revenues would cause economic chaos. So phasing out tobacco over a reasonable period is step one. If tobacco’s days are numbered, let’s start numbering them.

And perhaps Maryland’s successful experience converting tobacco farmers to other crops is a model for the larger tobacco industry. If e-cigs don’t have health dangers, that’s one conversion path. The e-cigs use a tiny battery that vaporizes a solution which is then drawn through a nicotine cartridge. “Smokers” get the nicotine without the tobacco and its harmful effects.

The health zealots oppose e-cigs as a “gateway” to tobacco smoking that produces “secondhand vapor.” That’s the unhelpful, hard line approach. If harmless, e-cigs could be a godsend for smokers and the industry and should be welcomed instead of taxed and regulated like tobacco.

Another conversation path, and I’m not kidding, is the coming legalization of marijuana. If this nation has its heart set on switching from tobacco to pot, why not put the tobacco industry in charge? Lord knows they’re set up for it.

After all, that’s where we’d be today if, back in 1612, John Rolfe had smuggled in different seeds from Venezuela.

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.

POST-NEWSWEEK MEDIA Karen Acton, Chief Executive Officer Michael T. McIntyre, Controller Donna Johnson, Vice President of Human Resources Maxine Minar, President, Comprint Military Shane Butcher, Director of Technology/Internet

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HOW THEY RANK Football

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High Point plays for more than a trophy

FOOTBALLPLAYOFFPREVIEW

DeMatha 10-1 Stags 60 pts Gwynn Park 10-0 Yellow Jackets 51 pts Suitland 10-0 Rams 51 pts DuVal 9-1 Tigers 42 pts Wise 7-3 Pumas 35 pts Douglass 8-2 Eagles 31 pts Bowie 6-4 Bulldogs 22 pts Riverdale Baptist 11-0 Crusaders 20 pts Surrattsville 8-2 Hornets 12 pts Forestville 8-2 Knights 6 pts

Also receiving votes: None.

STANDINGS Prince George’s 3A/2A/1A League

Team

All Div.

PF PA

Gwynn Park 10-0 8-0 400 81 Douglass 8-2 7-1 339 122 Surrattsville 8-2 6-2 285 185 Forestville 8-2 6-2 347 134 Potomac 5-5 5-3 303 188 Friendly 4-6 3-5 270 284 Largo 3-7 3-6 108 280 Central 2-8 1-7 124 347 Fairmont Hghts 1-9 1-7 106 396 Crossland 1-9 1-8 88 351

Prince George’s 4A League Team

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

All Div.

10-0 9-1 7-3 7-3 6-4 6-4 5-5 3-7 2-8 2-8 2-8 2-8

Private schools Team

Riverdale Baptist Capitol Christian DeMatha Pallotti McNamara National Christian

PF PA

9-0 8-1 6-3 6-3 6-3 6-3 4-5 3-6 2-7 2-7 1-8 1-8

362 81 267 111 230 83 287 120 273 176 321 107 214 202 100 264 175 429 124 300 140 350 100 293

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350 224 349 205 293 134

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111 79 198 204 301 240

Last week’s scores

Capitol Christian 22, McDonough 8 R. Baptist 14, Perry Street Prep 6 Forestville 26, Potomac 20 DuVal 31, Laurel 18 Suitland 47, High Point 0 Bowie 43, Bladensburg 24 Fairmont Heights 14, Crossland 12 E.Roosevelt 28, Northwestern 3 Wise 25, Flowers 0 Oxon Hill 38, Parkdale 0 Gwynn Park 40, Friendly 0 Largo 20, Central 14 Douglass 38, Surrattsville 6 St. John’s CP 14, Pallotti 0 DeMatha 29, Good Counsel 28 OT

BEST BET St. John’s College vs.

DeMatha, 2 p.m., Saturday at

Byrd Stadium. It has been five years since DeMatha Catholic last won the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference in football. To do so this year, they’ll have to defeat SJC quarterback and future Maryland Terp Will Ulmer and his teammates.

LEADERS Top rushers

Carries A. Major, Surratts. 165 J. Baynes, R. Bapt. 140 K. Strong, Potom. 95 T. Deal, DeM. 141 M. Sesay, Bowie 137 A. Gillis, Wise 125 T. Davenport, DuV.137

Yards Avg. TDs 1561 9.5 16 1397 10.0 15 1363 14.3 22 976 6.9 13 952 6.9 8 897 7.2 14 860 6.3 7

Top passers

Cmp-Att. Yards Int. TDs R. Wllms, McN. 157-262 2654 10 24 J. Green, Bowie 108-223 2018 7 18 M. Duckett, Lau. 109-250 1829 13 21 W. Wolfolk, Suit. 74-122 1600 5 17 J. Adams, G.Park 57-102 1374 5 9 A. Brooks, DuVal 78-138 1370 2 12 J. Lovett, DeM. 83-138 1287 0 12

Top receivers J. Crockett, McN. C. Murray, McN. C. Phillips, DeM. M. Roberts, Bowie C. Walker, Lau. C. Brenden, Lau. S. Rowlands, Bow.

Rec. 55 63 48 31 33 21 28

Yards 1213 872 829 822 623 483 463

Avg. 22.1 13.8 17.3 26.5 18.9 23.0 16.5

TDs 17 9 13 7 8 6 5

GEORGE P. SMITH/FOR THE GAZETTE

Gwynn Park High School cornerback Anthony Chesley tries to make an interception during the football game against Frederick Douglass earlier this year.

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First game went to overtime before being settled

ERIC GOLDWEIN STAFF WRITER

he Frederick Douglass High School football team (8-2) is riding a seven-game winning streak heading into the 2A South Region playoffs. To keep it going, they will need to spoil Gwynn Park’s

(10-0) perfect season.

The teams have been here before.

Last year, Gwynn Park dominated Douglass in the regular season, 39-16, but the Eagles reversed that in the playoffs, eliminating the Yellow Jackets 28-6.

Earlier this season, Gwynn Park won, 4028, in overtime in Brandywine on an interception return.

“Both teams know one another. It’s just one of those types of games,” Gwynn Park coach Danny Hayes said.

Douglass was plagued by late-game mistakes early this year but has made significant improvements as the season has progressed, Douglass coach J.C. Pinkney.

Kickoff is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday at Brandywine.

“These are two different teams, but the teams remember the games. It’s a historical rivalry, a respectful one,” Pinkney said.

See REMATCH, Page A-11

TOM FEDOR/THE GAZETTE

DeMatha Catholic High School quarterback John Lovett throws over his offensive line against Our Lady of Good Counsel during Sunday’s game in College Park.

RAPHAEL TALISMAN/FOR THE GAZETTE

High Point High School’s Erica Kittleson sets the ball against Parkdale on Nov. 6.

High Point volleyball coach values teaching aspect more than a few trinkets

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TRAVIS MEWHIRTER STAFF WRITER

Sometimes sports are about the material successes: wins and losses, bragging rights and records and trophies and plaques.

Then again, sometimes they’re not.

On Nov. 6, longtime coach Shirley Diggs and her High Point High School girls’ volleyball team eliminated Parkdale in four sets to advance to the 4A South Region championship, where the Eagles met county champion Bowie. Though she was asked about it, she brushed off the possibility of the 4A state championship trophy returning to Prince George’s County for the first time since 1979. She barely even mentioned winning in general.

Wednesday’s state semifinal match ended too late to be included in this edition of The Gazette. Check online at www. gazette.net for the result.

But she did point to Keturah Gregory, Erica Kittleson, Grace Biney, Sumintra Sinonan and to a cadre of seniors who, despite being the eldest members age-wise, were some of the most inexperienced on the court. Diggs, no matter the result of the match, is just happy to see them on the floor.

“I’m proud of them. I’m proud,” Diggs said. “I did not expect this team to go this far this year. I have seniors, but I have seniors who I have not played. I have seniors, No. 10 [Gregory}, on my team, she never played. She’s one year. I have one four-year senior on the court.”

The coach swelled with pride when speaking of Gregory, a senior starter in her first year of volleyball that played a pivotal role in halting Parkdale’s season. She busied herself in the middle, swatting down spikes from the 6-foot-3 Christina Oyawale,

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NICK CAMMAROTA STAFF WRITER

James H. Blake High School’s boys’ soccer team watched and waited as Parkdale packed its bags. Both literally and figuratively.

The Bengals had just defeated the Panthers in the Class 4A boys’ soccer state semifinals, 3-2, and weren’t going to leave the field until Parkdale did so first.

But as the Panthers, who made their first appearance in a state semifinals match in school history, leaked tears onto the artificial turf at Richard Montgomery High and exchanged long hugs, they didn’t realize what was waiting for them.

There, surrounding the chain-link fence and winding through the metal bleachers, was a massive crowd of Parkdale supporters. Former players, students, parents. All of them waiting for Parkdale to walk by so they could give the Panthers a standing ovation as they shuffled toward the bus wondering

See PARKDALE, Page A-11

RAPHAEL TALISMAN/FOR THE GAZETTE

Players from Parkdale High School’s boys’ soccer team pile on on each other after winning the 4A South Region title this fall.

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Bowie boy places seventh at state meet

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

Here are this week’s selections:

Prince George’s County record All games

Flowers at Suitland Wise at DuVal Douglass at Gwynn Park FAET at Surrattsville Sparrows Point at Forestville St. John’s College vs. DeMatha Clarksburg at Quince Orchard Gaithersburg at Northwest Sherwood at Paint Branch Urbana at Damascus Poolesville at Middletown

Ken Sain

Dan Feldman

Jennifer Beekman

Nick Cammarota

Travis Mewhirter

Kent Zakour

145-25 294-52

144-26 290-56

142-28 288-58

142-28 288-58

144-26 284-62

137-33 276-70

Suitland Wise Douglass Surrattsville Forestville DeMatha Q. Orchard Gaithersburg Paint Branch Damascus Middletown

Suitland DuVal Douglass Surrattsville Forestville DeMatha Q. Orchard Gaithersburg Paint Branch Urbana Middletown

Suitland DuVal Gwynn Park Surrattsville Forestville DeMatha Q. Orchard Northwest Paint Branch Urbana Middletown

Suitland DuVal Gwynn Park Surrattsville Forestville DeMatha Q. Orchard Northwest Paint Branch Urbana Middletown

Suitland DuVal Gwynn Park Surrattsville Forestville DeMatha Q. Orchard Northwest Paint Branch Urbana Middletown

Suitland Wise Douglass Surrattsville Forestville DeMatha Q. Orchard Gaithersburg Paint Branch Damascus Middletown

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DeMatha hockey hoping to wear teams down 2013-14 winter preview: Stags eager for tough trip to Chicago

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NICK CAMMAROTA STAFF WRITER

Each of the past three seasons, DeMatha Catholic High School ice hockey coach Tony MacAulay has taken his team to Chicago to play in a tournament that features some of the better teams in the nation.

This year’s no different as the earlyseason trip, which features games against Providence Catholic, Prairie Ridge, Glenbrook and Culver Academy, serves multiple purposes.

In addition to helping MacAulay’s team bond through travel, the games allow the Stags to test themselves against teams that play 50-to-60-game schedules. It’s also an opportunity for DeMatha to find its 2013-14 identity against teams where the emotions from local rivalry games don’t come into play. Through five games early this season, the Stags are 3-2 with 22 goals for and 19 against.

“I don’t think we’re that big of a squad. We’re not going to be a real knock ’em down, drag ’em out type team,” MacAulay said. “We’d like to be a pesky team that works hard and that’s more system oriented. In the past we were blessed with a great deal of skill.”

That’s not to say there’s no skill on the current roster. Far from it. The Stags’ early leader in goals is junior Chris Myers (six) while senior center Kyle Coakley and senior defender Andrew Malloy figure to be popular targets on opposing teams’ scouting reports all season. Receiving the bulk of the playing time in goal is Kevin Mackey, who last year split time with the now-graduated Jonathan Hudson.

“This team just has a different quality to it,” MacAulay said. “There’s less uniqueness per player. We have a lot of

PARKDALE

Continued from Page A-10 what could have been.

“Just to have the experience to play here under the lights, with the fans, it opened the door for the players,” said Panthers second-year coach Sadak Abukar, who himself played for Parkdale. “They’re workaholics. Now they have that experience, they know how it tastes to lose in the semifinals. They’ll come back strong. They’ll work in December, they’ll work during the summer, they’ll work in March.”

The Panthers (8-6-1) nearly didn’t

HIGH POINT

Continued from Page A-10 recording kills off 10 sets from Kittleson and provided some reliable passing.

She “does everything,” according to Diggs, but prior to this fall, Gregory had never done anything on a volleyball court. That, Diggs says, is the ultimate reward when her Eagles take the court.

“One of the things about this team is that none of them have

FILE PHOTO

Landon School’s Matt Potolicchio (left) moves the puck against DeMatha Catholic’s Andrew Malloy during a 2011-12 game. guys that do the same thing. But I think that can be an asset for us to try and use to wear teams down.”

MacAulay, entering his 12th season at the helm, said that Calvert Hall and Gonzaga likely will serve as DeMatha’s top competition in the Mid-Atlantic Prep Hockey League.

Meanwhile, among the public schools, both Bowie and Eleanor Roosevelt are hoping to improve on last year’s campaigns.

The Bulldogs had a rough season in

have to begin their offseason on that chilly Saturday evening as they rallied from down 2-0 and 3-1 to make it a onegoal game but Blake never lost the lead even though things were tense down the stretch.

One of Parkdale’s key players during its run to a 4A South Region title and state semifinals appearance was sophomore Celio Gracias. Called up from the junior varsity ahead of the playoffs for his booming free kick ability, Gracias played a part in both of Parkdale’s goals against Blake (a header and an assist) and likely will be a key component on next year’s club. After not playing in Parkdale’s

ever played volleyball before,” she said. “They don’t play club ball, they don’t play in camps.

I have to take the first three or four weeks and I teach them the game of volleyball. And that’s the difference playing against some of these teams that have club team members. Like Bowie, they have club team members.”

Given how Friday’s 4A South Region title match with the Bulldogs went — a 3-0 sweep in High Point’s favor — Diggs must know something about getting her

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DeMatha wins overtime thriller DeMatha Catholic already knocked off the reigning conference champions Sunday, but needs to come up with one more victory against St. John’s College to take the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference crown.

The top-seeded Stags (10-1) escaped with a 29-28 overtime victory over four-time defending champion Our Lady of Good Counsel (6-5) thanks to a second-half scoring outburst led by quarterback John Lovett and receiver Cameron Phillips. The two seniors

2012-13 as they finished 2-8-0 with 17 goals for and 104 against competing in the Maryland Student Hockey League’s Southern Division. They are, however, a young team with only one senior on the roster (Caroline Moore).

Eleanor Roosevelt also had a rough go of it as the Raiders finished with a 1-7-1 record. The Raiders, though, have a bit deeper squad than Bowie, which includes six seniors. ncammarota@gazette.net

first-round win against DuVal, Gracias saw time in the Panthers’ upset of top-seeded High Point, their win against Northwestern, the region final against Bowie and in the state semis.

Not only should Gracias be a cornerstone of the club in 2014, but Daniel Rojas (who scored the game-winner against Bowie in double overtime) and dynamic midfielder Denis Lopez will both be seniors next season. And for a team that lost nine seniors last summer before regrouping to make it two wins shy of a state title, that bodes well for Parkdale’s future.

“Twenty-two of the 26 players come back,” Abukar said. “We’ve just got to

rookies ready for the big matches, even when the team lining up across the court is laden with club talent. She assembled the team in August, showed them the ropes in her three to four week teaching period through September, and in November, landed High Point’s first state semifinal appearance since 2005, when most of her team was still in elementary school.

“We didn’t expect to come this far,” Biney said. “But it would be the best feeling in the

BY

Mike Mayo said he was optimistic that injured starting quarterback Malik White (knee) would return for this week’s game, set for 1 p.m. at Suitland.

Suitland beat Flowers 27-6 in the Oct. 26 regular season meeting, handing the Jaguars their first loss of the season.

Flowers QB may return

Pumas pouncing on opponents

Charles H. Flowers started 7-0 but has lost its last three games.

The Jaguars (7-3) enter their postseason matchup against top-seeded Suitland (10-0) after losing 25-0 Saturday against Henry A. Wise. The Jaguars managed only 137 total yards of offense.

Following the loss, Jaguars coach

Henry A. Wise’s defense has been lights out, shutting out its last three opponents and leading the Pumas (7-3) into the postseason.

Saturday the Pumas get a rematch with one of the teams that beat them this year, DuVal (9-1). Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m. in Lanham. The Tigers

KYLE RUSSELL

SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE

Bowie High School runner Joshua Wilkins finished seventh in the boys’ Class 4A state cross country championships at McDaniel College on Saturday to lead all Prince George’s County representatives with a time of 16 minutes, 16.8 seconds.

Wilkins’ coach, Rich Andrulonis, knew that a top-10 finish was likely for the senior despite running on a course he had never seen before.

“Joshua came through with flying colors,” Andrulonis said.

“He really had a great race — he finished seventh — and that’s about the time he has been running. On Georgetown Prep, he ran 16:14 — that was the only legit 5[-kilometer race] that we ran in for their invitational — and he was almost dead even for what he ran there. If there were a lesser amount of hills and turns, he would have had great chance of breaking 16 minutes.”

The Bulldogs finished 16th as a team, as Donnell Davis (83rd, 18:02.2), Dwaine Thomas (86th, 18:04.8) and Matrell Royal (102nd, 18:23.2) finished in a close bunch, with Lamario Favron (142nd, 19:46.2) not far behind.

Other notable boys’ finishers included Justin Bentham of Charles H. Flowers — who finished 80th overall in a time of 17:52.1 — and Adel Akalu (18:06), who came in 93rd for Oxon Hill.

Flowers produced the top two finishers in the girls’ 4A race.

Alexis Baynes’ time of 21:08.7 was good enough to earn her 65th place overall, while teammate Imani Matthews (21:34.4) took 84th.

Bowie, which was without a top competitor in Chyna Sequeria due to injury, received strong performances from Ashley Modeste (121st, 22:55.9), Zari Weaver (134th, 23:35.7) and Felicia Haidara (138th, 23:40.2).

“The girls ran well,” Andrulonis said. “We were missing one of our top girls — Chyna Sequeria, who has Achilles’ tendonitis — so we didn’t do as well as we had hoped. Fourteen of my 15 girls are underclassmen, and only two of them have run cross country before, so with what they have

come back and handle our business just like we did this year. I’m blessed to have these guys. We’ll enjoy the moment and come back strong now that we know what to expect.”

Not only did Parkdale’s boys’ team enjoy immense success this year, but the girls’ side advanced further than it ever had in school history as well.

Under the direction of Bret Loes, the Panthers (9-3-0) made it to the 4A South Region final where they lost to Eleanor Roosevelt, 4-0.

“They were very talented,” Loes said of his group. “And they got better as the season went along. That’s what you coach for is to get the girls bet-

world, us, the class of 2014, to make it, because we worked so hard. We want to graduate not just with a diploma but to say that we won state.”

Entering Wednesday’s game, history was far from High Point’s side.

The most recent Prince George’s County win in a volleyball state semifinal was more than a decade ago, when the 2001 Eleanor Roosevelt team — last year’s 4A county representative — moved on and then lost

connected nine times for three touchdowns, including one in overtime.

St. John’s (9-2) is on a six-game winning streak after defeating Gonzaga 1710 in the other semifinal. Its last loss: a 26-21 defeat against DeMatha. The WCAC title game is scheduled for 2 p.m.

Saturday at Byrd Stadium.

Wilkins leads all county racers by finishing in 16:16.8 as Bulldogs finish 16th overall

TOM FEDOR/THE GAZETTE

Bowie’s Joshua Wilkins tries to catch Wootton’s Urgy Eado as they run the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association (MPSSAA) boys, class 4A, cross country championships on Saturday at McDaniel College in Westminster.

done this year they have done me proud.”

In 1A boys’ action, Northwestern’s Ka’yin Walker came in 37th in the team standings with a time of 19:40.6. Three of Walker’s teammates were close behind: Keandre Cook (42nd, 19:50.2), Muhenned Mohieldin (53rd, 20:13.7) and Ronald Garner (59th, 20:32.3). The Wildcats finished 11th as a team.

For the girls, Sarah Bellamy paced a Fairmont Heights squad that also claimed 11th in the team standings. She posted a time of 24:10.4 which was good enough for 37th overall.

“The race went by kind of quick,” Bellamy said. “I have never run this quick before, so I just tried to stay up with the top runners but also pace myself. I did well on the hills, because we train on hills, and I had to control my breathing.”

Mercedes Stokes (Central) was the top individual finisher from the county, posting a time of 23.15.3 and finishing in 21st.

“It is a great experience,” Stokes said. “It’s my senior year, so I came out strong an just did what my coach told me to. I came in blind [not having seen the course before], but coach told me to stick with the top runners and stay on their shoulder. It was hard, but I did it. I finished.”

Other top-75 finishers included: Vondasia Forbes of Fairmont Heights (49th, 24:36.5), Nikka Taylor of Northwestern (52nd, 24:39.8), Natalie-Rae Jefferson of Northwestern (64th, 25:39.7), Erin Early of Fairmont Heights (65th, 25:40.2), Shantae Byro of Northwestern (68th, 26:13.9) and Jessica Kemoh of Northwestern (74th, 27:27.8).

ter, get them improved so that you get chances like this.”

Unlike the boys’ side, however, the girls’ team is graduating eight seniors and likely will need to rebuild if it hopes to make it back to the same stage next fall. One senior in particular, midfielder Angely Mercado, was a vital part of Parkdale’s success and plans on playing college soccer.

“We’re like a family and that brings everybody together. It helps the team build their confidence up and that helped us a lot this year,” Mercado said.

“I’m definitely going to miss it.” ncammarota@gazette.net

in the final. In 51 appearances in the state semis, Prince George’s has won just nine. Only the 1979 High Point team has returned home with trophy in hand.

But that’s not the primary, or even secondary, concern for Diggs. Winning is great. Trophies are nice. Teaching a new sport is invaluable.

“I love volleyball, and I’ve been coaching for a long time, and I just — the thing that’s most important to me is that they learn how to play competi-

are on a six-game winning streak and have averaged 32 points in those victories.

What’s it going to take for Wise to advance?

“Basically, the same thing it took for this game [against Flowers],” said senior cornerback Reggie Ware. “We’re going to have to have heart, intensity, and be ready to play every single down,” DuVal snapped Wise’s 15-game winning streak with the 14-13 victory.

Tigers quarterback Antoine Brooks threw for 162 yards and two touchdowns.

Settles leads Forestville Forestville Military Academy (8-

tive volleyball,” she said. “And in 2005 was when we went to state, and we get beat by those Montgomery County and Howard County powerhouses, but I love to see them learn to play the game of volleyball.

“These girls are tight. They grow together, we work a lot of togetherness. My thing is teach them the game. I want them to learn the game. And you can see that they are learning the game.” tmewhirter@gazette.net

2) overcame a 14-point deficit and capped off its regular season with a 2620 overtime victory over Potomac. The Knights’ run-heavy offense is led by senior quarterback Earon Settles, who ran for two touchdowns in the victory. They are scheduled to play Sparrows Point (7-3) at 1 p.m. Saturday in Forestville.

Surrattsville hosting FAET Surrattsville (8-2) looks to rebound from a 38-6 defeat against Douglass with a home playoff game against Friendship Academy of Engineering and Technology (7-2). The game is scheduled for 1 p.m. in Clinton. egoldwein@gazette.net

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This will be a wonderful workshop for families, scouts, fellowship groups, or any group of friends.

To register, or for more information, please contact CPAE (info@cpae.org; 301-927-3013) or Public Works (lohagan@collegeparkmd.gov; 240-487-3590).

MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES

NOVEMBER 18, 2013 – 7:00-8:30 PM COLLEGE PARK COMMUNITY LIBRARY 9704 RHODE ISLAND AVENUE, COLLEGE PARK Nov. 18th Tapped. From the plastic production to the ocean in which so many of these bottles end up, this inspiring documentary trails the path of the bottled water industry and the communities which were the unwitting chips of the table. A powerful portrait of the lives affected by the bottled water industry, this revelatory film features those caught at the intersection of big business and the public’s right to water.

The College Park Committee for a Better Environment donated eight movies to the library along with a number of environmental books all of which can be checked out by our members.

The movies will be held at the College Park Community Library, 9704 Rhode Island Ave. The library is located on the lower level of the Church of the Nazarene, however, the movies will be shown in the Church’s Sanctuary on the upper level.

GET PAID TO CLEAN UP STORMWATER RUNOFF AND BEAUTIFY YOUR COMMUNITY!

RAIN CHECK REBATE WORKSHOP NOVEMBER 20, 2013 – 6:30-8:30 PM 2ND FLOOR COUNCIL CHAMBERS CITY HALL, 4500 KNOX ROAD, COLLEGE PARK The program provides cash rebates to residents and businesses for managing rainwater runoff on their property. Come learn how simple actions like putting a rain barrel under your downspout, building a rain garden or switching to permeable pavers instead of asphalt can beautify your landscape AND earn you money. Learn how at www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/sites/StormwaterManagement/ RainCheck. If you have any questions you may call 301-883-3264.

CITY OF COLLEGE PARK RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS SUSTAINABLE MARYLAND CERTIFIED AWARD AT MARYLAND MUNICIPAL LEAGUE FALL CONFERENCE The City of College Park’s effort to promote economic resiliency was evident in their Buy Local campaign, “Shop College Park”, which features brochure distribution and storefront and streetlight signage; web and social media platforms; a “Buy Local and Independent Week” and other events, all with special emphasis on promoting locally-owned and independent businesses. Other sustainability initiatives in College Park include support for the region’s annual Bike to Work Day; an innovative recycling College Park’s City Manager, Joe program that includes single stream Nagro, Councilmember Denise recycling, electronics and yard waste; and Mitchell display the award a comprehensive workplace wellness presented by Mike Hunninghake. program for municipal employees.

“This award is a testament to the passion and dedication of College Park’s volunteer residents, municipal staff and elected officials to go green, save tax dollars, and improve the quality of life in their communities” said Mike Hunninghake, Program Manager for Sustainable Maryland Certified.

METRO BIKE & RIDE FACILITIES

At Metro’s new Bike & Ride at College Park - U of MD station, you can park your bike in a secure, enclosed area with card access. You pay just pennies per hour, with no monthly or annual fees.

HOW IT WORKS • Get a BikeLink™ card. Purchase one online at www.bikelink.org or call 1-888-540-0546. Your card will arrive by mail.

• Verify your identity. The first time you use the facility your ID will be verified via camera. A one-time $5 charge is deducted from your card for this service.

• Park and retrieve your bike. Insert your card. Press the button to confirm you are parking or picking up a bike. The door will unlock when you remove the card. Always lock your bike inside.

• Rates: 5 cents per hour from 8 am - midnight, 2 cents per hour all other times.

• You can access the Bike & Ride 24 hours a day with your card.

• The facility is equipped with security cameras.

DO: • Rake leaves, grass, flowers, and light clippings to the curb (but not in the street) - you do not need to bag these items • Pile leaves away from cars and storm drains – piles blocked by obstacles will not be collected • Watch for the posted signs in your neighborhood to know when to rake your leaves to the curb. Visit the website for updates to the collection schedule.

DO NOT: • Include brush, branches, sticks, bamboo, vines, rocks, or debris (litter) in your leaf piles. These items may damage the leaf vacuums and delay collection.

• Use plastic bags for leaves and clippings. You also do not need to use paper bags or reusable containers during curbside leaf vacuum collection.

• Block storm strains or fire hydrants, as this can lead to storm water and emergency access problems.

• Pile leaves in the street. Leaves in the street can create a slipping hazard, parking problems, and clog storm drains.

CITY OFFICES CLOSED NOVEMBER 28TH AND 29TH

• City Offices are closed on Thursday, November 28, and Friday, November 29, to observe the Thanksgiving holiday.

Refuse and recycling will be collected on your regular collection day, but there will be NO special collections for brush or bulky trash during the week of Thanksgiving.

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

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

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

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

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

MAYOR AND COUNCIL

Mayor Andrew M. Fellows 5807 Bryn Mawr Road..............................................301-441-8141 Councilmember Fazlul Kabir (District 1) 9817 53rd Avenue....................................................301-659-6295 Councilmember Patrick L. Wojahn (District 1) 5015 Lackawanna Street...........................................240-988-7763 Councilmember Robert T. Catlin (District 2) 8604 49th Avenue....................................................301-345-0742 Councilmember Monroe S. Dennis (District 2) 8117 51st Avenue....................................................301-474-6270 Councilmember Robert W. Day (District 3) 7410 Baylor Avenue.................................................301-741-1962 Councilmember Stephanie Stullich (District 3) 7400 Dartmouth Avenue..........................................301-742-4442 Councilmember Marcus Afzali (District 4) 9238 Limestone Place...............................................240-391-8241 Councilmember Denise C. Mitchell (District 4) 3501 Marlbrough Way.............................................240-460-7620

OTHER FREQUENTLY CALLED NUMBERS

EMERGENCY: FIRE-AMBULANCE-POLICE................................911 NON-EMERGENCY POLICE SERVICES Prince George’s Co. Police (Hyattsville Station).........301-699-2630 Prince George’s Co. Police Non-Emergency Svcs......301-352-1200 Prince George’s Co. Park Police................................301-459-9088 State Police (College Park Barrack)............................301-345-3101 University of Maryland Police....................................301-405-3555 College Park Community Center.....................................301-441-2647 5051 Pierce Avenue, College Park Branchville Vol. Fire & Rescue Squad...............................301-474-1550 4905 Branchville Road, College Park www.bvfco11.com College Park Vol. Fire Department...................................301-901-9112 8115 Baltimore Avenue, College Park www.cpvfd.org PEPCO - Power Outages, Lines Down...........................1-877-737-2662 WSSC: Water Mains........................................................301-206-4002 Prince George’s County Storm Drains..............................301-499-8520

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‘THOR 2’ HAMMERS IT HOME It’s workmanlike, but it works — furthering the construction of the Marvel movie universe.

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Santa and his eight reindeer in the ’Twas the Night Before Christmas ICE display at the Gaylord National.

GAYLORD NATIONAL RESORT

Visions of sugar plums this year at National Harbor’s ICE! exhibit

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Soprano Cheng performs songs by Mussorgsky, Schumann written for young people

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VIRGINIA TERHUNE STAFF WRITER

Soprano Sharon Cheng of New York earned degrees in management and public administration but came

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CARA HEDGEPETH STAFF WRITER

lement Clarke Moore’s beloved holiday poem, “’Twas the Night Before Christmas,” comes to life in the form of two million pounds — 1,000 tons — of colorful ice at Gaylord National Resort’s annual ICE! display, opening Friday and running through Jan. 5.

“It’s a classic American poem that everyone knows,” said Rachel Dinbokowitz, public relations manager for Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center at National Harbor.

Gaylord is the only hotel chain in the U.S. to host an ice display of this magnitude. This year, four of the company’s hotels will host ICE! exhibits: The Gaylord Palms in Florida and the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville have Frosty the Snowman-themed displays, while the

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to realize that her real — and irresistible — passion was for music.

“I love classical music,” said Cheng. “All the great classical musicians inspired me — I decided to go on this path.”

Cheng will performing a recital program of songs written for children by classical composers on Sunday at the Montpelier Arts Center in Laurel.

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VOICES OF CHILDREN FEATURING SOPRANO SHARON CHENG

Three people, one puppet Group uses Banraku puppetry for new show n

n When: 3 p.m. Sunday n Where: Montpelier Arts Center, 9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel

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STAFF WRITER

n Tickets: $5 suggested donation

Some might see puppetry as being just something that involves either the puppeteer’s hand being used as the puppet’s mouth or strings, a la Pinocchio.

There’s much more to it than that. For instance, there’s Banraku.

“Our expertise has sort of become Banraku puppetry,” said Mark Down, artistic director for the Blind Summit Theatre, which is based in London.

Banraku style puppetry involves a puppet that is operated by more than one puppeteer, according to Down. They’re in plain

n For information: 301-377-7800, arts.pgparks. com, sharon-cheng.com

her on piano will be musicologist Will Crutchfield, who is also the opera director at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah, N.Y.

See CHENG, Page B-6 Soprano Sharon Cheng from New York will sing “Voices of Children,” a program of classical songs for children by Schumann, Mussorgsky, Poulenc and Ives on Sunday at the Montpelier Arts Center in Laurel.

Accompanying her on the piano will be conductor and musicologist Will Crutchfield.

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WILL C. FRANKLIN

See PUPPET, Page B-7 The grumpy puppet stars in the Blind Summit Theatre’s production of “The Table,” at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

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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,” to Nov. 24, Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Drive, Bowie, 301-8050219, 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, “Moliere Impromptu,” to

Nov. 16; UMD Faculty Dance Concert: Falling Forward, 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 15-16, 3 p.m. Nov. 16-17; District 5: The Evolution of the Wind Quintet, 1 p.m. Nov. 17; UMD Men’s Chorus & UMD Women’s Chorus: When the Night is Sweet with Starlight 3 p.m. Nov. 17; John Lithgow, 5:30 p.m. Nov. 18; Chamber Music Showcase, 7 p.m. Nov. 18; Chamber Music Showcase, 5:30 p.m. Nov. 20; Blind Summit: “The Table,” 8 p.m. Nov. 20-22, University of Maryland, College Park, claricesmithcenter.umd.edu.

Harmony Hall Regional Center, AFTERNOON TEA: Maribeth & Bradford Gowen, 2 p.m. Nov. 20; call for prices, 10701 Livingston Road, Fort Washington, 301-2036070, arts.pgparks.com.

Greenbelt Arts Center, “See How They Run,” to Nov. 30, call for prices, times, Greenbelt Arts Center, 123 Centerway, Greenbelt, 301-441-8770, www.greenbeltartscenter.org.

Hard Bargain Players, TBA, 2001 Bryan Point Road, Accokeek, www.hbplayers.org.

Joe’s Movement Emporium, Silk Road Dance Festival, 8 p.m.

Nov. 9, 3309 Bunker Hill Road, Mount Rainier, 301-699-1819, www.joesmovement.org.

Laurel Mill Playhouse, “The Lieutenant of Inishmore,” to Nov. 24, call for ticket prices, Laurel Mill Playhouse, 508 Main St., Laurel, 301-452-2557, www.laurelmillplayhouse.org.

Montpelier Arts Center, The Montpelier Classic Recital Series, Sharon Cheng, soprano, 3 p.m.

Nov. 17, 9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel, 301-377-7800, arts.pgparks. com.

National Harbor, Cavalia’s “Odysseo,” Fridays through Sundays, to Nov. 17, 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, “Junie B. Jones - Jingle Bells, Batman Smells,” 10:15 a.m. and noon, Nov.

14, 5445 Landover Road, Cheverly, 301-277-1710, arts.pgparks.com.

2nd Star Productions, “Funny Money,” coming in January, Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Drive, Bowie, call for prices, times, 410-757-5700, 301-8324819, www.2ndstarproductions. com.

Tantallon Community Players, “Miracle on 34th Street,” Dec. 6-15; Harmony Hall Regional Center, 10701 Livingston Road, Fort Washington, 301-262-5201, www. tantallonstage.com.

VISUAL ARTS Brentwood Arts Exchange, “My Haiku: Paintings of Cianne Fragione,” to Dec. 28; Front Window Featured Artist: Ellyn Weiss, to Nov. 28, 3901 Rhode Island Ave., Brentwood, 301-277-2863, arts. pgparks.com.

Harmony Hall Regional Center, “It Happened One Night,” Paper Collage by Ronnie Spiewak, to Dec. 27, 2nd Annual Prince George’s Parks and Recreation Employee Visual and Performing Arts Exhibition, to Dec. 27, 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,” 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

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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, Nov. 14; open mic with Paige Powell, 7 p.m. Nov. 14; Open mic with James and Martha, 7 p.m. Nov. 14; John Guernsey, 6:30 p.m. Nov. 1516; The Bad Weather Boyz Band, 8 p.m. Nov. 15; Jaqui MacMillan, drum circle, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 16; Akoma Drummers, 8:30 p.m. Nov. 16; Djesben, 10 p.m. Nov. 16; Not2Cool Jazz Trio, 11 a.m. Nov. 17; Fez Tones Hafla, 6 p.m. Nov. 17; Reel and Meal at the New Deal: “Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home,” 7 p.m. Nov. 18; Poetry Night Open Mic, 7 p.m. Nov. 19; 113 Centerway Road, 301-4745642, 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.

OUTDOORS Dinosaur Park, Dinosaur Park

programs, noon-4 p.m. first and third Saturdays, join paleontologists and volunteers in interpret-

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HAVE A LITTLE MOLIERE! Katerina Klavon as Martine and Sam Stenecker as Sganarelle in “Moliere Impromptu,” running to Saturday at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. For more information, visit http://claricesmithcenter.umd.edu. ing fossil deposits, 13200 block Mid-Atlantic Blvd., Laurel, 301627-7755.

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-

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.

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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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Catch them if you can Time is of the essence for Greenbelt Arts Center director n

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CARA HEDGEPETH STAFF WRITER

During opening night of Philip King’s “See How They Run” in London’s West End, three bombs exploded nearby.

It was January 1945 and WWII was coming to a close.

SEE HOW THEY RUN n When: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays through Nov. 30 n Where: Greenbelt Arts Center, 123 Centerway, Greenbelt n Tickets: $17 general admission, $14 students, seniors and military, $12 for children 12 and younger

PHOTOS BY JON BARRETT

Sgt. Towers (William Powell Jr.) interrogates Penelope Toop (Liz Dapo), The Intruder (Tim Caffrey) and the Bishop of Lax (David Berkenbilt) in “See How They Run.”

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“Three bombs fell near the theater but audiences stayed in their seats,” said Ann Lowe-Barrett, who is directing “See How They Run” at the Greenbelt Arts Center, playing now through Nov. 30. “The lead actor ... complained afterward that the bomb fell during his funniest lines.”

“See How They Run” is an English farce written in 1942, centered on the Rev. Lionel Toop (Brendan Perry), his wife Penelope (Liz Dapo) and their Cockney maid Ida (Rachel Duda). Chaos ensues after a number of uninvited guests, including an actor, a Bishop, some meddling neighbors and a German intruder, file in and out of the Toop’s living room.

King actually rewrote the play in 1948 to reflect changes in the national and international landscape, making some adjustments such as replacing the German intruder with a Russian spy. The Greenbelt Arts Center is presenting the 1948 version.

This is Lowe-Barrett’s directional debut at Greenbelt, though she has experience with the farce genre thanks to productions at other local theaters.

She directed Ken Ludwig’s “Moon Over Buffalo” at Prince George’s Little Theatre in February.

Lowe-Barrett saw a produc-

The Intruder (Tim Caffrey) assaults the Rev. Toop (Brendan Perry) in “See How They Run.” tion of “See How They Run” for the first time last year and said she was immediately drawn to the show.

“It is so funny and so delightful that I wanted to direct it,” Lowe-Barrett said. “It’s put together very well in the British farce tradition.”

Typical of the farce tradition, “See How They Run” has plenty of cases of mistaken identity, slamming doors and no shortage of physical comedy. Though the physical can be taxing on an actor’s body, it’s the dialogue that Greenbelt Arts Center actors said proves most difficult.

“I think that the physical stuff isn’t quite so difficult but I think the dialogue timing is really critical,” Perry said. “I think the dialogue is much more important to me and it has to go really quickly.”

According to Lowe-Barrett, timing is everything in a farce.

“Timing with lines, timing with entrances; a fraction of a second too late or too early and the joke is lost,” she said. “It has to be right on.”

Lucky for Lowe-Barrett, the director said the “See How They Run” cast comprises a group of talented actors, including Duda

who’s been acting since she was just 5 years old. But even for a seasoned actor like Duda, whose first experience in farce was during the Greenbelt Arts Center’s production of “Not Now, Darling” in 2007, timing is still tricky.

“I learned it’s not just the timing of the lines, it’s the timing between the lines that’s important,” Duda said. “Some people think the point of comedy is for the lines to be fast, but it’s the time in between. There’s a rhythm and a song that goes

along with farcical comedy. The pause is just as important as the pace of the rest of it.”

But pace wasn’t the only challenge facing Duda. The actress also had to adopt a Cockney accent for her role as working class maid Ida. “The Cockney accent is a bit of a challenge,” Duda said.

“It was trying to find that gentle balance between the audience knowing I’m of lower class but still being able to understand what I’m saying.”

While Friday’s opening at Greenbelt Arts Center wasn’t interrupted by warfare, contemporary audiences, just like their 1940s counterparts, did remain engaged and in their seats, a testament, Lowe-Barrett said, to the timeless humor of farce. “‘Comedy of Errors,’ Shakespeare wrote around 1594 and it’s still funny today,” she said. “Since people find it funny, we continue to do it over and over again.” chedgepeth@gazette.net

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AT THE MOVIES

‘Thor’ hammers home the same points BY

MICHAEL PHILLIPS CHICAGO TRIBUNE

“Thor: The Dark World” is the eighth movie in its particular franchise. So if anyone asks you what it has in common with “Blondie Goes Latin” and “Bomba and the Jungle Girl” you’ll know the answer.

The franchise at hand goes by the name of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, encompassing the new adventures of Iron Man, the Hulk, Captain America and so on, worth billions around the world. (Rumor has it the next all-star “Avengers” movie will be two hours of actors in costume, counting their money.) So how’s this “Thor” sequel? It’s fairly entertaining. Same old threats of galaxy annihilation, spiced with fish-out-of-water jokes. My favorite here: Encountering a London flat for the first time in his travels, Chris Hemsworth’s Thor comes in the door and hangs his snazzy flying killer hammer from its leather loop on

THOR: THE DARK WORLD n 2 1/2 stars n PG-13; 120 minutes n Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins, Idris Elba n Directed by Alan Taylor

one of the coat hooks.

This is the second outing for mighty Thor and his mighty hammer, though honestly, what chance have they against Tom Hiddleston as Odin’s other, less trustworthy son, Loki? The chief adversary from the first “Thor” (which I liked, in spite of its squareness) and the hugely popular mash-up “The Avengers” has a way of making valor and honor look foolish. Clearly director Alan Taylor, whose previous work has mostly been in classy series television (lately,

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Tom Hiddleston stars as Loki in “Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World.”

“Game of Thrones” and “Boardwalk Empire”), likes this character best, because he snivels most.

Now for some very important plot points. In “Thor 2” Malekith, the leader of the dark elves of Svartalfheim, comes

out of a long hibernation ready to rumble. Their secret weapon is the aether, pronounced “eether,” an “ancient force of infinite destruction,” as Anthony Hopkins’ Odin describes it, sounding like he’s saying the

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When some of the aether enters the bloodstream of astrophysicist Jane Foster (Natalie Portman once again), things get sticky. At the end of “Thor 1” Thor took off back to Asgard, leaving Jane bereft. “Thor 2” ponders the challenges of intergalactic dating, and the film has its scrambled moments where one beat of an action sequence begins on Earth, and then two seconds later, the second beat is completed at the other end of the tunnel. After a while anything’s possible, and little is compelling, even though it’s on Asgard where Jane meets Thor’s folks. Other scenes takes place on Vanaheim, which is like Anaheim without Disneyland.

Taylor handles the battle sequences dutifully and without much visual dynamism. (If you go to “Thor 2,” don’t bother with the 3-D edition. Two’s enough.)

By now, in this Marvel world,

we’ve seen everything twice, and it’s hard to impress audiences with something new. But we don’t go to “Thor 2” or any of these films, really, for something new. We go because we saw the other ones. The most satisfying films of the eight so far — the first “Iron Man” and “Captain America: The First Avenger” — did the job with a lighter hand and a less pummeling attack.

The occasional charms of “Thor 2” are all about the way Kat Dennings (back again as Jane’s intern) deadpans her way through another Armageddon, or Hopkins’ stunning final-t consonant enunciation when he bites off the end of the word “birthright.” Or Hiddleston’s malevolent grin, the mocking face of sibling rivalry. Plenty of fine actors do what they can here amid the digital mayhem and smashed columns. At times the film appears to have been directed by The Hulk, in a snit.

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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.

NOV. 14 St. George’s Players, 8 p.m., St. George’s Episcopal Church, 7010 Glenn Dale Road, Glenn Dale. St. George’s Players present “Complete History of America (Abridged).” Cost: $15 general admission, $8 ages 65 and older.

Contact 301-262-3285 or officestgeo@comcastbiz.net.

NOV. 16 Biblical Apprentice Program, 8

a.m. to 6 p.m., Carolina Missionary Baptist Church, Camp Springs.

The purpose of the event is to encourage and support student entrepreneurship using Biblical instruction. Contact 240-994-4861 or info@nehemiahproject.org.

Craft & Bake Sale, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Oaklands Presbyterian Church, 14301 Laurel Bowie Road, Laurel. Handmade jewelry, holiday wreaths, scented candles, carved wood ducks, etc. There will be face painting. Contact 301-6515335 or ckirby7207@comcast.net.

It’s a Family Affair: Family and Communities Working Together, 9

a.m. to 1 p.m., Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Bowie. Caregiver workshop specifically targeted to Bowie residents. It will address intergenerational issues of seniors and their family caregivers, provide resources and identify strategies for reducing emotional and financial stressors, and improving family relations. Call 240-6671849 or visit www.360wholeness.

org for details and to register.

Mishkan Torah New & Prospective Member Shabbat, 9:30

a.m. to 1 p.m., Mishkan Torah Synagogue, 10 Ridge Road, Greenbelt.

Join us for services at 9:30 a.m. and a delicious kiddush lunch at 11:30 a.m. Meet our rabbi, education director and members, and visit our school. Mishkan Torah is affiliated with both the Conservative and Reconstructionist Jewish movements. RSVP appreciated but not required to membership@MishkanTorah.org or 301-474-4223.

Used Book Sale at Hope Lutheran Church, 9:30 a.m. to 5

p.m., 4201 Guilford Road, College Park. We have a large collection of eclectic books donated by a longtime member along with other book donations from our membership. All proceeds go to the church. Cash or checks only for the book sale and refreshments.

Contact 240-264-7924 or chezvigen@yahoo.com.

Be thankful for Good Health!

Riverdale Health Festival, 10 a.m.

to 2 p.m., St. John’s Lutheran Church, 5820 Riverdale Road, Riverdale. Health fair with free screenings, health information and door prizes. Screenings include blood sugar, blood pressure, body fat, vision and many more. The festival is sponsored by University of Maryland School of Public Health students. Contact 301-405-2526 or desmond@umd. edu.

Alzheimer’s Association Support Groups, 10 a.m., Grace United

Methodist Church, 11700 Old Fort Road, Fort Washington. Groups provide a place for people with Alzheimer’s, their caregivers, family members, and friends to share information. Call the Alzheimer’s Association 24/7 Helpline at 800272-3900 before attending a group for the first time to verify meeting information. Contact 301-248-3027.

First United Methodist Church Free HIV Testing Program, 1 to 3

p.m., 6201 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville. A free and confidential HIV testing program at the church. No syringes/needles are used. The results will be available in 20 minutes. Please call the church’s office at 301-927-6133, visit www.fumchy.org or email church@fumchy. org for information.

Free Community Dinner and Grocery Give-away, 5 p.m., St. Mi-

chael and All Angels Church, 8501 New Hampshire Ave., Adelphi/Hyattsville. Enjoy a delicious dinner.

In addition, free groceries will distributed. Groceries are distributed on a first come, first served basis while supplies last. Contact 301 434-4646 or dgibbs715@gmail.com.

NOV. 17 The Mishkan Toran Synagogue, 10 Ridge Road, Greenbelt,

will host an open meeting from 1 to 2 p.m. to discuss the Affordable Care Act and how people can enroll in the program. Leni Preston, chair of the Maryland Women’s Coalition for Health Care Reform, will be the guest speaker. Health department representatives from Prince George’s and Montgomery counties will explain the enrollment process starting at 2 p.m.

Call 443-292-8095.

HOPE Support Group, 3 to 5

p.m., St. John’s Parish Education Center, 8912 Old Branch Ave., Clinton. For people suffering from depressive illnesses. Contact 301868-6180.

ing 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 301-8643869 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 Commu-

nity Church, 15720 Riding Stable Road in Laurel. Sessions start with cardio/strength classes from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday, with a co-ed session from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. For more information, call Abby Dixson at 301-5491877, email abbyfitness@aol.com or visit www.bodyandsoul.org.

Touch of Love Bible Church, conducts weekly support group meetings for people who are separated or divorced, 11 a.m. every Saturday at the church, 13503 Baltimore Ave. in Laurel. Call 301210-3170.

Ladies Bible Study Class on the book of Esther, Maryland City

Baptist Church, 1:45 p.m. Tuesday afternoons at the church, 326 Brock Bridge Road in Laurel. Free nursery. Call Tammie Marshall at 301-498-3224 or visit mdcitybaptist @yahoo.com.

Free First Place 4 Health series, 7 p.m. Tuesdays at Berwyn

Baptist Church, 4720 Cherokee St. in College Park. Call 240-601-1640.

Anti-domestic violence and stalking support group meetings,

11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. every Saturday. Abigail Ministries offers the meetings in Hyattsville. Call 301277-3775 for exact location.

Maryland Family Christian Center’s Praise Dance Ministry, 7

p.m. Tuesdays at North Forestville Elementary School, 2311 Ritchie Road in Forestville. Ministry teaches people to dance. Call 240392-2633.

New Creation Church Bible study meetings, 7 p.m. Wednes-

days at the Bladensburg High School auditorium, 4200 57th Ave. in Bladensburg. Sunday services are at 10 and 11 a.m.

New Broken Vessels Ministry Women’s Bible Study and Discussions, 9 a.m. every Friday at It’s

God’s Choice Christian Bookstore, 1454 Addison Road South in Capitol Heights. Call 301-499-5799 for information.

Vocalists/singers needed to harmonize “Inspirational Music,”

every Saturday at 8221 Cryden Way in Forestville. Call 301-599-

0932 or 301-219-4350.

Baha’i devotions, 10 to 11:30 a.m., first and third Sunday of every month. Breakfast served at 10 a.m. All are welcome. The devotions are at 14200 Livingston Road in Clinton. Call 703-380-7267.

Urgent call for 50 prayer warriors, noon to 1 p.m. Monday

through Friday. Christian Outreach International Center calls for prayer warriors in intercessory prayer with Bishop Janie Carr at the church, 3709 Hamilton St. in Hyattsville. Call 301-927-1684.

Hidden Strengths Support Ministry Inc. Phone Line Prayer Ministry, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. every

Wednesday. Email requests to hssministryinc@aol.com. Call 202372-7716.

Victory Church International prayer services, 6 to 8 a.m. daily at

the church, 9308 Allentown Road in Fort Washington. Call 301-4497706.

Heavens Best Healing and Deliverance Baptist Church revival services, 8 p.m. Monday through

Friday and at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Sundays at the church, 8311 Old Branch Ave. in Clinton. Call 301877-7702.

Church on the Hill “School of Healing,” 3 to 5 p.m. the first and

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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.

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Continued from Page B-1 The recital is free, but donations are welcome.

The program includes songs from the 1800s and 1900s by composers Charles Ives, Robert Schumann, Modest Mussorgsky and Francis Poulenc.

Cheng, who grew up in Taiwan, will also be singing a collection of children’s folk songs from Taiwan, China and Japan.

They will complement an exhibit of reproductions of drawings, called the “Hiroshima Schoolyard Exhibition,” on view at Montpelier to Dec. 1.

The drawings were made by children as a way to thank the All Souls Church Unitarian in Washington, D.C., for sending half a ton of school supplies as the city struggled to survive and rebuild after the atomic explosion on Aug. 6, 1945.

The drawings are also the subject of a documentary, “Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard” by filmmaker Bryan Reichhardt and Shizumi Shigeto Manale, both of Silver Spring, which will screen at Montpelier on Nov. 24.

“I think it’s an incredible project that they’re doing, that they found the authors of those paintings,” said Cheng, who had seen the trailer for the film along with Crutchfield.

“I think the poems [in the songs] are the same reflection [of a child’s world] that the paintings represented,” said Cheng, who was inspired by the exhibit to add the folk songs from Asia to the recital program.

“These are famous songs that people would have known,” she said about the familiar childhood tunes.

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I think the poems [in the songs] are the same reflection [of a child’s world] that the paintings represented. applicants are invited to submit samples of their work, which are reviewed by the U.S. Army Field Band at Fort Meade.

Winners in different categories receive an honorarium for performing at the Montpelier Arts Center.

“It’s a way to get some exposure,” said Cheng, who performed in Baltimore in March 2012 in Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” but has never performed at Montpelier.

Included in the “The Voices of Children” recital are two songs by American composer Ives.

“Two Memories” (1897) includes a pleasant tune, as a boy remembers his excitement at going to the opera, and a sad tune about an uncle and his “old red shawl,” according to the lyrics.

“Two Little Flowers” (1921) is a poem and song that Ives and his wife wrote while watching their daughter play outside with a friend.

Also in the program are seven songs from Mussorgsky’s “The Nursery” song cycle, which he composed from 1868 to 1872.

“He wrote the poetry himself as gifts to his own kids,” Cheng said.

Among the songs is a child singing a lullaby to her doll, a song about an imaginary journey on a stick horse and another about an encounter with a big beetle.

German composer Robert Schumann set to music poetry written by others for his “Album of Songs for the Young,” which Cheng will also perform.

Among those songs is “Käuzlein” (Little Owl) and “Marien-

würmchen” (Ladybird) from the “Boy’s Magic Horn,” a collection of traditional German folk songs and poems.

Also included is “Die wandelnde Glocke” (The Moving Bell) with words by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and “Des Sennen Abschied” (The Herdsman’s Farewell) with words by Friedrich von Schiller.

Cheng will also be singing songs from the La Courte Paille collection of songs by French composer Francis Poulenc.

The songs, using the words of Belgian poet Maurice Carême, were initially written for a performer in Poulenc’s operas, Denise Duval, to sing to her 6-year-old son.

In “Le sommeil” (Sleep), a parent tries to comfort a restless child who has been crying since noon.

“Quelle Aventure!” paints a whimsical picture of a flea in a carriage who pulls along an elephant who is absentmindedly sucking up a pot of jam.

“Lune d’Avril” (April Moon) is a dream-like song about war and violence, about “the bird who ... gently awakens the dead,” about “the land where there is joy ... sunny with primroses, all the guns have been destroyed,” wrote Carême.

A choral conductor in high school, Cheng earned a bachelor’s degree in administrative management from the College of Law at Chinese Culture University in Taiwan and a master’s degree in public administration from Pennsylvania State University.

Realizing that she wanted to pursue singing as a career, she earned a master’s degree in music performance from Syracuse University, and an artist diploma from Queens College, The City University of New York.

“When art is calling me, I turn my way here,” she said. vterhune@gazette.net

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Continued from Page B-1 Gaylord Texan has a Nutcracker theme.

ICE! at the National Harbor is a multiple-room display taking guests on a journey from the beginning to the end of the poem.

“There’s different rooms and each one tells a different part,” Dinobokowitz said. “There’s Pa and his cap, you’ll see Santa and his eight reindeer. There’s a room with the mice sleeping and teacups.”

ICE! also features five twostory ice slides.

Thirty-four ice sculptors from Harbin, China, a city in the country’s northeast region, have been working on the display since mid-October. The sculptors were hired by International Special Attraction Ltd. (ISA). ISA is an American production company specializing in large-scale attractions, and a partner of Gaylord National. After traveling to Harbin, famous for hosting one of the largest ice festivals in the world, members of ISA wanted to bring the art form back to the U.S. The temperature throughout the ICE! exhibit is a brisk 9 degrees.

“We do give parkas to our guests,” Dinbokowitz said. “We recommend that people wear hats.”

New to Gaylord National’s ICE! exhibit this year is a bonus display featuring scenes from New York City at Christmastime.

“We’re really excited,” Din-

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Continued from Page B-1 view of the audience, but usually dressed in black. Banraku will be on display when the Blind Summit Theatre brings their show “The Table” to the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in College Park for three days, starting Nov. 20. “‘The Table,’ which is our most recent show, feels like the most developed version of that [Banraku-style] project,” Down said. “… It’s a show about a puppet on a table, and that was our starting point. Kind of a puppet who’s stuck on a table who knows he’s a puppet and knows he’s on a table and has never been off the table. It sort of has this ‘Waiting for Godot’ feeling to it. It’s very funny.

“It’s sort of a debate between reason and belief. The fact that the puppet knows everything about how he works and what he is doesn’t stop us from believing in him and believing that he’s somehow more than a puppet.”

Another emphasis when it comes to Banraku is that it’s geared more to adults than children. Due to strong language, “The Table” is recommended for ages 12 and older.

“We don’t swear a great deal, but there are swear words in it,” Down said. “Children do love it — I mean, if they come with their parents, they love it, but it’s not geared towards a children’s audience at all.”

Not only is Down the artistic director for the Blind Summit Theatre, he also acts as a writer for the shows and a puppeteer.

Before working with puppets on a full-time basis, Down had plans on becoming an actor.

“I trained as an actor,” Down said. “I sort of discovered puppetry while I was at drama school. It was something I kinda had a feeling for. As an actor, you don’t always have a choice. You play the jobs that come, and I kept getting offered jobs that had puppets involved.”

Down met Nick Barnes, who “made the most extraordinary puppets,” he said. Barnes cofounded Blind Summit Theatre with Down in 1997. Barnes is quite literally the puppet master.

As the associate artist at Blind Summit, he designs the puppets that are used in the shows.

“We worked together building up Blind Summit,” Down said. “I guess the real thing is that

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bokowitz said. “This is the first time we’re doing this.”

The New York City display features scenes from Rockefeller Center, Times Square, the Statue of Liberty and even a taxi cab, constructed partially from ice and partially from a real cab.

According to Dinbokowitz, the New York City portion of the exhibit also features the tallest ice sculptures Gaylord National’s ever had with some standing at 22-feet.

ICE! is a part of National Harbor’s Christmas on the Potomac celebration which also features a light and fountain show synchronized to Christmas music, an indoor snowfall, gingerbread decorating and brunch with Santa. Gaylord National hopes to give visitors a memorable holiday season.

“We have a lot going,” Dinbokowitz said. “People can truly make day-long experience of it.” chedgepeth@gazette.net

THE TABLE n When: 8 p.m. Nov. 20-22 n Where: Kogod Theatre, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, 3800 Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park n Tickets: $10-$35 n For information: claricesmithcenter.umd.edu; 301-405-2787 n Of note: The artists will participate in a talk-back session with the audience after the Thursday performance

it’s lead to more and more opportunities to work as a performer and as a writer and a director than I ever imagined. It sort of opened the world up for us really.”

Down said it’s important to know while some associate puppetry with children, it can also be used to entertain — and to teach — grown-ups as well.

“Puppetry can be an adult art form,” Down said. “It can be an intelligent and a really enjoyable thing to watch. I hope people see puppetry in a completely new light.”

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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.

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:

The votes are in and the winners will be announced in our December 12th edition!

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Please visit our website at www.gazette.net/teacher to see our sponsors who made the program possible.

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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Automotive

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PRICES AND PAYMENTS INCLUDE ANY APPLICABLE MANUFACTURE’S REBATES AND EXCLUDE MILITARY ($500) AND COLLEGE GRAD ($500) REBATES, TAX, TAGS, DEALER PROCESSING CHARGE ($200) AND FREIGHT: CARS $795 OR $810, TRUCKS, SPORT UTILITY AND SIENNAS $810, $845 AND $995. *0.9% APR & 0% APR FINANCING UP TO 60 MONTHS TO QUALIFIED BUYERS THRU TOYOTA FINANCIAL SERVICES. TOTAL FINANCED CANNOT EXCEED MSRP PLUS OPTIONS, TAX, AND LICENSE FEES. 0% APR 60 MONTHLY PAYMENTS OF $16.67 FOR EACH $1000 BORROWED. 0.9% APR 60 MONTHLY PAYMENTS OF $17.05 FOR EACH $1000 BORROWED. APR OFFERS ARE NOT VALID WITH ANY OTHER CASH BACK OR LEASE OFFER. NOT ALL BUYERS WILL QUALIFY.**LEASE PAYMENTS BASED ON 36 MONTHS, 12,000 MILES PER YEAR WITH $995 DOWN PLUS $650 ACQUISITION FEE, NO SECURITY DEPOSIT REQUIRED. SEE DEALER FOR COMPLETE DETAILS. OFFERS EXPIRES 11-30-13.

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