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If they’re old enough to vote in city elections or fight in wars, they’re old enough to run for office, some College Park council members contend.

The city is considering a charter amendment that would lower the minimum age for City Council candidates from 21 to 18.

A candidate for mayor would have to be at least 21, down from the current 25.

During the council’s Nov. 12 meeting, College Park Councilman Marcus Afzali (Dist. 4) urged his colleagues to support the amendment.

“Please put the right thing to do above what may be the easiest thing to do politically when this comes up,” he said.

The measure is scheduled to come before the council during a Dec. 3 work session and will be introduced during

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Haley Zack, 11, of Laurel (center) helps Alyssa Casey, 6, of Laurel (left) and her sister, Alexis Casey, 8, wrap their secret Santa gift Saturday at the 31st annual Bond Mill Elementary Crafts Fair in Laurel.

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After a large exodus of teachers last year, the Prince George’s school system is putting in place new measures to improve teacher and administrator recruitment and retention.

“We must focus on getting the right people in the right positions, measure their performance through fair and accurate evaluations, and support them so that they continuously grow and develop, and make data-driven performance decisions so that

we have our staff positively impacting student achievement,” said Robert Gaskin, chief of human resources, during a Nov. 21 report to the school board.

The school system had 983 voluntary departures during the previous school year, said Debra Sullivan, recruitment and retention officer in the Office of Human Resources.

Sullivan said many of those departures were due to the issue of employee compensation, based on voluntary online exit interviews.

The school system hired 1,195 new teachers for the current school year, more than double the number of teachers hired two years ago, when the school system’s budget was tighter.

During the summer, the school system finalized a negotiated pay increase with the county teacher’s union, providing teachers their first pay increase in three years, and during the meeting, the board approved a 2 percent salary increase for employees represented by the county principals and administrators union.

The average Prince George’s teacher salary is $63,566, and the county ranks fifth highest in teacher pay out of 10 metropolitan area school systems, according to the Washington Area Boards of Education 2013 Guide.

“Increased salary and wages will help us better attract and retain highly effective employees, and highly effective employees are

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Task force at Lanham school says relocation site would hinder language efforts

BY CHASE COOK STAFF WRITER

Yolanda Rogers would like her two children at Robert Goddard French Immersion School to spend their day immersed in the foreign language, but their immersion in an overcrowded school is keeping that from happening — and a planned relocation site isn’t much better, she said.

The French immersion school, a kindergarten through eighth-grade program in Lanham, is currently housed in the same building as the Robert Goddard Montessori School, where students speak English. The immersion program was supposed to move to the shuttered Greenbelt Middle School this school year, but was delayed due to planning and funding issues.

“We need the space to make it into a full immersion program,” said Rogers, president of the Greenbelt Middle School Task Force, a group formed in 2011 to hold officials accountable for the move. “They share gym time with other students who speak English.”

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Hakim Muhammad, president of the Coalition of Prince George’s County Leaders and Organizations, speaks at the Monday press conference requesting that Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder change the NFL team’s name.

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Arguing that the Washington Redskins’ name is offensive to Native Americans and thus reflects poorly on Prince George’s County, community leaders called on residents to stop using the name.

The NFL’s Redskins plays its home

games at FedEx Field in Landover and according to Forbes’ August update, the franchise is the third most valuable NFL team out of 32 squads, earning $381 million in revenue in 2012.

Despite the history of the team, which began in 1932, county leaders say now is the time for a name change.

“This is a local issue,” said Bob Ross, president of the Prince George’s County NAACP branch. “If it is something that is offensive to Native Americans, we need to support the Native Americans.”

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Ross was part of a press conference held Monday in Landover, where county community leaders urged residents to stop using the team’s name because of its offensive nature.

The controversy around the name has gained traction throughout the year.

Team owner Dan Snyder released a letter on Oct. 9 to season-ticket holders to address the controversy and increased criticism.

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NOV. 28 Ninth annual Thanksgiving Morning 5K Turkey Trot, 8 a.m., First United

Methodist Church of Laurel, 424 Main St., Laurel. The event will benefit Laurel Advocacy & Referral Services Inc. Contact 301-776-0442, Ext. 27.

Peter Pan Club, 10:30 a.m., College Park Aviation Museum, 1985 Cpl. Frank Scott Drive, College Park. Ideal for little learners up to 5 years old, the club includes story time and craft activities. To schedule a group larger than 10, please call the museum to make a private group reservation. Contact 301-864-6029; TTY 301-699-2544.

opportunity to dance, socialize and dine on some good food. Enjoy a performance from the New Dimensions Senior Choir and have fun playing Bingo games. Each winner will take home a prize. Cost: resident, $5; nonresident, $6. Contact 301-864-1611; TTY 301-445-4512.

PGTAG Annual Meeting, 6:30 to 8 p.m., Kenmoor Middle School, 2500 Kenmoor Drive, Landover. Join school officials to discuss the state of TAG in Prince George’s County and the plans for TAG’s future. We highly encourage parents and school staff to attend this informative meeting and ask questions. Contact www.pgtag.org.

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to 11:15 a.m., West Laurel Community Building, Brooklyn Bridge Road, Laurel. Race is held in memory of Tom Linsenmeyer and benefits Sarah’s House, a supportive housing program for families near Fort Meade. Prizes and refreshments will follow the run, and Santa will make a holiday appearance. Donation fee: $35. Register at www.tomsreindeerrun.org or call John Linsenmeyer at 443-896-7561.

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The Intruder (Tim Caffrey) assaults the Rev. Toop (Brendan Perry) in “See How They Run,” through Nov. 30 at the Greenbelt Arts Center. For more information, visit www.greenbeltartscenter.org.

MORE INTERACTIVE CALENDAR ITEMS AT WWW.GAZETTE.NET innovative interpretations of classic and contemporary work. This annual event offers a glimpse into the breadth of repertoire in the big band genre.

Cost: $30 or $10 for students. Contact 301-405-2787 or tickets.claricesmith@ umd.edu.

DEC. 3 Senior Winter Wonderland Social,

noon to 2 p.m., Prince George’s Plaza Community Center, 6600 Adelphi Road, Hyattsville. What better way to enjoy the holidays than to get together with friends? Attendees will have the

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Prince George’s County Police District III Coffee Circle, 9 to 11 a.m.,

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Hospital, J.R. Jones Conference Room, 7300 Van Dusen Road, Laurel. Donors should be healthy, 17 years or older, and weigh at least 110 pounds. To schedule an appointment, call 301497-7950. Walk-ins are welcome, but scheduled appointments will be given priority. Contact 301-497-7950.

Winter Big Band Showcase, 7:30 p.m., Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park. UMD Jazz Studies Program Director Chris Vadala brings together three ensembles in

SPORTS Check online this weekend for coverage of the state semifinal football games.

Bird Walk, 8 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 301-4975887.

Regional Technology and Recreation Complex, 7007 Bock Road, Fort Washington. There will be giveaways, scholarships, a raffle and representatives from more than 100 colleges and universities. Event will include a number of workshops. Contact 301-749-4160; TTY 301-203-6030.

Blood Drive at Laurel Regional Hospital, 2 to 7:30 p.m., Laurel Regional

University of Maryland Big Band Showcase jazzes up the holidays. For more, go to clicked.gazette.net.

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Wegmans, Woodmore Towne Centre, Largo. Public forum for all residents, business owners, organizations and public officials who share our goal.

Meetings focus on common concerns expressed by residents of District III. Contact belindaq9@aol.com.

Senior Holiday Concert, 10:30 a.m. to noon, Prince George’s Ballroom, 2411 Pinebrook Ave., Landover. Too Smooth Dudes are sure to get you in the holiday spirit as they perform some of your favorite holiday tunes. Donations are requested for Soft Soap hand soap and Kleenex tissue in holiday designs, which will be delivered to homebound seniors. Contact 301-446-3400; TTY 301-446-3402.

New Music at Maryland, 8 p.m., Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park. New works, as well as breathing new life into music, give young instrumentalists and singers the opportunity to learn from living composers, collaborate with them and gain insight into the compositional process.

Concert features original works by UMD student composers, including solo, chamber and electroacoustic performances. Contact 301-405-2787 or tickets.claricesmith@umd.edu.

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County announces Thanksgiving, Black Friday closings Prince George’s County government offices will be closed today and Friday in observance of Thanksgiving, according to a news release.

There will be no trash or recycling collection on Thanksgiving Day as Thursday collection will resume the following week.

All waste management facilities and collection services, including refuse, recycling and yard waste will operate on a normal schedule Friday.

The only exception is bulky trash collections, which will resume Tuesday, according to the release.

TheBus, a countywide transit service administered by the Department of Public Works and Transportation, will not operate on Thanksgiving. The county’s Call-A-Bus and Senior Transportation services will also not operate.

TheBus routes will be operational Friday except for those that service county government buildings. Call-ABus will operate Friday for pre-scheduled medical appointments only. All regular services resume Dec. 2.

All Prince George’s County Memorial Library System branch libraries will reopen Friday at their regular times.

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“At this time, there are a lot of people that are in need,” Brown said. “We want to make sure our club is responsive to community needs.”

Donations can be dropped off at Old Line Bank, 12100 Annapolis Road in Glenn Dale, and Edward Jones Investments, 3030 Mitchellville Road, Suite 101, in Bowie.

The donations will be accepted until Dec. 15.

The club meets from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. Thursdays at the Woodmore Country Club in Mitchellville.

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Laurel Historic Society updates city’s history on Wikipedia Volunteers with the Laurel Historical Society and Wikimedia DC, the regional outreach association for the Wikipedia website, teamed up to provide more information on the history of the city of Laurel on the online encyclopedia website Wikipedia.

The first Laurel History Edit-AThon took place Nov. 16, according to Abram Fox, a society board member and one of the organizers of the event.

The event teamed people familiar with the history of Laurel with experts in editing the Wikipedia website, to create new content for the website, as well as updating old information and links, Fox said.

Fox said the volunteers were able to utilize source material at the Laurel Museum.

“We gave the material we had to the Wikipedia editing experts and let them go to town on it,” Fox said. Additionally, Wikipedia editors were able to instruct the volunteers in the Wikipedia editing process, Fox said.

The team created four new articles for Wikipedia on the Laurel Mill, the Patuxent Iron Works, the Laurel Sanitarium and Edward Phelps, Laurel’s fifth mayor, who served seven terms in office and for whom the Phelps Community Center is named, Fox said.

The team also updated Wikipedia articles on Snow Hill, the Laurel Park race track and the list of Laurel mayors, Fox said.

Greenbelt native places first in Florida mock trial competition Greenbelt native Tai Lowry, a graduate student at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Fla., helped lead her school to first place in the Florida

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Franklin Osorio (center) of Hyattsville reads with his sons, second-grader Mike Osorio (left), 7, and third-grader Franklin Osorio Jr., 9, during the second annual Camp Read-A-Lot gathering Nov. 21 at Rosa Parks Elementary School in Hyattsville. The event, which featured an indoor mock campsite with tents, fake trees and students dressed in their pajamas, was designed to encourage children and their families to spend more time reading together.

Justice Association Mock Trial Competition, held Nov. 10 at the George E. Edgecomb Courthouse in Tampa, Fla., according to a news release.

Twelve Florida teams competed in the event, according to the release.

Stetson sent two teams, and Lowry’s team placed first in the competition, according to the release.

Lee Coppock, Stetson law trial attorney fellow, and alumnus Grant Gillenwater coached the teams.

“Our advocates show again why Stetson is ranked first in trial advocacy,” Coppock said in the release. “We are proud that they represented Stetson with the unequaled preparation and professionalism that is typical.”

Lowry is a 2008 graduate of Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt and graduated with honors from Frostburg State University in 2012, according to the release.

Her parents are Quentin and Tammy Lowry of Greenbelt.

In addition to being a member of Stetson’s trial team, she also serves as secretary of the Black Law Students Association, according to the release.

Laurel native presents at science conference Michael Nsoesie of Laurel, a senior at Earlham College in Richmond, Ind., presented in the school’s Natural

Sciences Division Undergraduate Research Poster Conference held Oct. 18, according to a news release from the university.

Nsoesie is the son of Henrietta and David Nsoesie of Laurel, according to the release.

Michael Nsoesie co-presented “Synthesis and Optimization of Differentially Protected L-Malic Acid and Avenic Acid Analogs” at the conference, according to the release.

Roosevelt announces Principal’s Honor Roll Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt recently released its first quarter Principal’s Honor Roll list.

To be named to the Principal’s Honor Roll, a student must have a 4.0 GPA and no grade lower than a 90.

Students with last names beginning with “A” through “L” were published in the Nov. 21 edition.

Students named to the Principal’s Honor Roll with last names beginning with “M” through “Z” are as follows: Madison Maragliano, Michelle Marsandi, Melanie McFarland, Shawn Meepagala, Elizabeth Mehalick, Bianca Meinhardt, John Meyer, Natalia Miller, Jazmyne Mitchell, Katherine Monroe, Kyle Montemayor, Ronaldo Moscoso-Morales, Claire Mudd, Elizabeth Mulvey, Duy Nguyen, Nancy

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Rotary Club holds food, clothing drive The Rotary Club of Historic Prince George’s County, chartered in Bladensburg, is collecting food and other goods at Glenn Dale and Bowie locations to support residents in need.

The club is collecting canned goods, school supplies, warm clothes and monetary support for various organizations and schools such as the Capital Area Food Bank and Bladensburg Elementary School, said Rochelle

The Prince George’s County Talented and Gifted education advocacy group will be holding its annual meeting from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Kenmoor Middle School, 2500 Kenmoor Drive, Landover.

The meeting will feature Kevin Maxwell, CEO of county public schools, said Crystal Lewis, PGTAG board member.

“This gives parents the opportunity to ask questions and receive real-time feedback from the TAG Office Supervisor Theresa Jackson and Dr. Maxwell,” Lewis said.

The event is free and open to parents of current and prospective TAG students.

University of Maryland hosts Native American Indian Powwow The University of Maryland, College Park, Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Education will hold its ninth annual Native American Indian Powwow from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Dec. 7 at the Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center on campus, according to a news release.

The free one-day event is expected to draw Native American Indian dancers from across the country for the event, co-sponsored by OMSE and the American Indian Student Union, according to the release.

Two drum groups, the Zotigh Singers from New Mexico and the Eagle Dancers and Singers from North Carolina, will be featured.

Guests can enjoy Native American Indian food, arts and crafts, door prizes, educational booths and vendors selling authentic Native American goods, according to the release.

At 2:30 p.m., there will be a Veterans Honor Circle to highlight the men and women serving in the U.S. military, the release states.

“We hope people will come out to support the Native American community at the University of Maryland, and experience our rich heritage and colorful beliefs, our food, our arts and crafts, our educational booths and enjoy seeing our colorful regalia,” said Dottie Chicquelo, assistant director of OMSE and Powwow chairperson. “It encourages people not only to celebrate the Native American Indian experience in November, but all year.”

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People from across the region shopped Friday, which was opening day, at the retail stores at the new Tanger Outlets at the National Harbor area in Oxon Hill. Stuart Turner of Gaithersburg talks with a friend as other shoppers move about the semi-covered concourse between stores.

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James Johnson of Fort Washington has always wanted to be a firefighter, saying the job makes for a good role model for his family, provides a good career and is a respected position.

“I’ve always wanted a career where I can take care of my family and play an important role in my community,” said Johnson, whose dream will come true Monday, when he joins 42 other recruits in the Prince George’s County Fire/ EMS Department’s graduation ceremony for Career Recruit School No. 48.

The new firefighters are greatly needed, fire officials said, to help fill vacant positions and decrease overtime as the department tries to keep up with retiring staff and new paid staff positions created in the new collective bargaining agreement.

Currently, the county needs 815 paid firefighters to fill all positions but only has 640, meaning paid firefighters are

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As fire instructor David Young (right) looks on, recruit James Johnson III of Fort Washington practices a drill Friday at the Prince George’s County Fire/EMS Department training center in Cheltenham. working overtime to make sure there are no lapses in coverage, said Mark Brady, fire/EMS department spokesman.

“We have to compete with the number of people retiring, which is about three a month,” Brady said. “The Baker administration, including the County Council, has been tremendous in allowing us to hire firefighters and medics as we are.”

Brady said there are two more recruit classes in the works, with one slated to graduate early next year and another to start in February. Training

takes about six months, so the department will be losing more staff to retirement as the classes graduate.

For safety reasons, fire stations must operate with at least four paid firefighters unless they decide to staff the location with all volunteer firefighters, who then must maintain safe staffing levels of four volunteers or more, Brady said. Many of the county’s stations are selecting to use paid staff, which has caused an increased need in firefighters throughout the county, he said.

Stations that receive a lot of calls must also bolster their staff to run more ambulances based on the county’s surge policy, which mandates new ambulances at locations that exceed a certain number of calls, fire officials said. Emergency medical services make up the bulk of the fire/EMS department’s calls, and with increasing calls, the surge units create a need for more paid firefighters, officials said.

Recruit Melissa Schafer of Dunkirk said her family has a long history of being firefighters, but they are serving in Washington, D.C. Schafer said she decided to join Prince George’s County’s department because of its reputation and diversity. She said she looks forward to being stationed in the county.

“It has been a really rewarding experience,” she said.

Firefighter instructor Lt. David Wilson of Laurel said the recruit class, the second he has trained, has been impressive.

The group received more rigorous training so they can jump in and fill gaps in staff, Wilson said.

“These recruits, when they hit the field, they are ready,” Wilson said. ccook@gazette.net

After a season with increases in attendance and number of vendors, organizers of the downtown College Park farmers market are devising strategies to keep the momentum growing for 2014 and beyond.

Michael Stiefvater, the city’s economic development coordinator, said the Sunday market peaked at about 550 visitors and the lowest attendance was 150 on the University of Maryland, College Park, graduation day.

While organizers don’t have a target goal, Stiefvater said the market averages in the low 300s.

In its third year, the market more than doubled its vendors from three in years prior to eight by the end of the season.

Stiefvater said at the Nov. 19 City Council work session that the market master, Virginiabased KSM Marketing & Events, decided not to return for next year’s season due to concerns about the market’s long-term growth potential.

The Farmers Market Committee, tasked with developing recommendations to the council on how to maximize the market and emphasize locally grown

products, provided suggestions to thrive going forward.

Among the ideas were giving less responsibility to a market master and allowing Stiefvater to oversee marketing and vendor recruitment, as well as applying for management from a nonprofit. Under the new setup, a market master would be in charge of items such as putting up signs and making sure the market runs smoothly while Stiefvater said he handle marketing and finding vendors.

“Our knowledge of the city will hopefully be an asset,” Stiefvater said.

To maintain and run the farmer’s market next year, Stiefvater said, it must become more cost-effective. The city paid KSM $28,000 last season to run the market as well as advertise and contact vendors, Stiefvater said.

Despite the improvements in attendance, some vendors have ideas they’d like to see implemented when the next season begins in April.

Bill Coleman of College Park, who has operated his Bill’s Backyard Barbeque at the market since its inception, said he enjoys being part of the effort.

“I’ve got a pretty good following and everyone has a good time,” he said. “... Like everything, we always could be better like trying to get more families and do more things with the kids so Mom and Dad can bring the kids and everyone can have fun.”

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College Park recently announced the awarding of $25,000 in Retail Business Improvement Fund grants to seven locally owned businesses for improvements to their buildings, according to a news release.

The seven awardees are Azteca Restaurant and Cantina, Bananas Hair Design, Cornerstone Grill & Loft, Fishnet, Hanami Japanese Restaurant, RJ Bentley’s, and Wood’s Flowers and Gifts, according to the release.

Established this year, the program awards matching grants ranging from $1,125 to $5,000 to businesses for electrical repairs; façade work; flooring; green initiatives; heating, ventilation and air conditioning; upgrades and other improvements, the release states.

“We’re always trying to find ways to help grow and improve our local businesses,” said Michael Stiefvater, College Park’s economic development coordinator. “Through interviews and surveys, we found that one of the basic issues facing many of our local businesses is a lack of funding to pay for ongoing improvements.”

A new round of applications is expected to open beginning July 1, the release states.

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Donor: ‘I’m just doing my small part to help out’

BY RAISA C. CAMARGO SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE

Back in the 1980s, Alex Rohan of Bowie said he found a good way to get time off from work: donating blood.

“So, it was a selfish thing,” he said.

“After a while, I saw the benefit to other people.”

Rohan, a retired forensic document examiner with the U.S. Treasury Department, continues to donate blood and joined about 30 other donors par-

ticipating in a Nov. 19 blood drive organized by the American Red Cross at the Bowie Gymnasium.

Among the thumping of basketballs, the donors came to city gymnasium to, as many described, practice “good citizenship.”

“I think it’s a good way to give back to the community,” Rohan said. “It’s very easy to do.”

The Red Cross hosts blood drives at numerous Prince George’s County locations throughout the year, said a Red Cross representative. Donations are distributed to area hospitals and clinics, which includes southern Maryland, southern Pennsylvania, Virginia and

Washington, D.C. Previous donors are usually called by the American Red Cross every 56 days from the date of the last donation.

An estimated 60 people were scheduled to donate, according to a Red Cross team manager.

Simon Miller of Bowie took his book with him to read as he said he can’t stand the sight of needles.

“I’m just doing my small part to help out,” he said.

The American Red Cross is the nation’s largest blood collection organization, according to the company. It supplies an estimated 40 percent of the blood and blood products used in the

United States. There are roughly 3.3 million volunteer blood donors each year.

Eddie Hicks, donor recruitment representative of Prince George’s County, said hospitals are always in need of blood considering that every two seconds someone is getting a blood transfusion in the United States. Around this time of year, there are also more blood shortages in hospitals considering everyone’s busy schedule, he said.

“The last thing we want to do is postpone people’s surgeries because there isn’t enough blood on hand,” he said.

Additional blood drives are scheduled in the county from 12:30 to 6 p.m.

Friday at the Greenbelt American Le-

gion Post 136, 6900 Greenbelt Road in Greenbelt; 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the Upper Marlboro Volunteer Fire Department, 14815 Pratt St., Upper Marlboro; 2 to 7:30 p.m. Monday at Laurel Regional Hospital, 7300 Van Dusen Road, Laurel.

Also, 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Prince George’s County Human Resources Department, 1400 McCormick Drive, Largo; noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday at the University of Maryland, College Park, Stamp Atrium; and 2 to 7:30 p.m.

Dec. 4 at Capitol Cadillac/Buick/GMC, 6500 Capitol Drive, Greenbelt.

For a list of more blood drives, visit redcrossblood.org.

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The Equality Maryland Foundation is raising funds to pay for a portrait of the late state Sen. Gwendolyn T. Britt (left), shown here in 2005, to be placed in the state Senate in honor of Britt’s equal rights efforts.

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of her long history of fighting for people’s civil rights and putting her life on the line as an activist as well as someone who served as an elected official and made a real difference.”

Niemann said the fundraising campaign is nearly at the goal’s halfway mark.

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the space and bringing it up to code,” he said.

The cost of checking on environmental issues, such as asbestos and lead paint, will be factored in, Carey said.

Architect Thomas Ahmann, a University Park resident who was hired to work on the project, said he is gathering information to determine renovation costs.

“We are looking at mechanical and plumbing systems in there because it’s a very old building,” Ahmann said.

Korab said the church was built around 1950. The church building has been a community center in the town, serving as the site of an annual holiday party.

About 40 people attended an Oct. 10 community meeting to discuss the proposal.

A “community conversation” will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Dec. 17 at the church.

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The late state Sen. Gwendolyn Britt was a champion for civil rights, fighting on behalf of equal rights for all citizens, according to members of Equality Maryland Foundation, a nonprofit now championing to honor Britt’s legacy.

The Baltimore-based group is working with Britt’s husband, Travis Britt, for the Senator Gwendolyn Britt Portrait Project, which they hope will lead to a portrait of Britt being featured in the Maryland Senate.

Carrie Evans, the foundation’s executive director, said the project is a way to thank Britt, who died in 2008, for her friendship to the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender community as she dedicated her life to equal rights.

Equality Maryland is working to raise $20,000 to pay for the portrait through tax-deductible donations, as well as contributing $2,500 from the foundation.

Dan Furmansky, the foundation’s former executive director, said the project is a

chance to accurately represent Britt as an ideal civil servant and vehicle for revolution.

“When we asked her to be the lead sponsor of our marriage equality bill, she did not hesitate,” Furmansky said. “[She] was no ordinary individual. She took the responsibility seriously and became a passionate champion for marriage equality. She was a bona fide civil rights hero.”

Britt’s civil activism began in 1960, while she was an 18-year-old student at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Britt was elected senator of the newly formed District 47 in 2003. During that time, she maintained her efforts in championing social equality through her work on legislation that restored voting rights to ex-offenders, education and health care, in addition to promoting literacy and diabetes and obesity awareness.

“She was a remarkable woman who became our ally, friend and inspiration,” Furmansky said.

Del. Doyle Niemann (DDist. 47) of Mount Rainier, who worked with Britt since the inception of the 47th District, strongly supports the project.

“It’s a great idea,” he said.

“I can’t think of anyone more appropriate to honor because

University Park officials are moving forward with a proposal to provide residents with a larger meeting space and potential community gathering place.

Town officials and Riverdale Presbyterian Church congregation leaders are considering an option that would have the town purchase the church at 6513 Queens Chapel Road to use as its new town hall.

“Last spring the town approached us, and said ‘we’ve outgrown our spaces, would you be interested in trying to discuss a sale or lease back agreement?’” said Joyce Korab, head of communications at the Riverdale Presbyterian Church.

For the town, the church offers a solution to the lack of space for University Park Town Council meetings, said Councilman Len Carey (Ward 4). The group meets in the University Park Elementary School library because the current building at 6724 Baltimore Ave. doesn’t provide enough room.

“The so-called town hall chamber is a conference table with eight chairs. If you’ve got 30

people in that the room would be packed,” Carey said of the 3,500-square-foot building.

The 27,000-square-foot church is too large to suit the congregation needs any longer, Korab said.

“We decided that for us and for financial reasons as well, selling the property and leasing back what we need is the best solution,” Korab said.

Carey, the chairman of the town’s Council Committee on Public Facilities and Services, updated his fellow council members on the proposal at a Nov. 18 Town Council meeting.

Both parties have had the building appraised, but declined to make the numbers public.

The town plans to transform the space into a new town hall site, but only if the cost is reasonable, Carey said.

“There is going to be the cost of acquiring it. Then there is going to be the cost of converting

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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. 18 Vehicle stolen, 5100 block 59th Ave., 5:48 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 5600 block Lafayette Place, 7:01 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 7600 block Riverdale Road, 9:27 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 8200 block New Hampshire Ave., 10:40 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 4900 block Frolich Lane, 11:19 a.m.

Theft, 6100 block Eastern Ave., 12:40 p.m.

Theft, 4200 block 57th Ave., 1:01 p.m.

Residential break-in, 3700 block 41st Ave., 1:04 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 600 block Sheridan St., 1:18 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6200 block Annapolis Road, 1:43 p.m.

Theft, 5000 block Fox St., 2:19 p.m.

Theft, 8100 block Baltimore Ave., 2:55 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6400 block Medwick Drive, 4:19 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 4000 block 38th St., 5:31 p.m.

Assault with a weapon, 7900 block Annapolis Road, 5:52 p.m.

Assault, 5700 block Sargent Road, 6:43 p.m.

Robbery, 7400 block Block Buchanan St., 10:22 p.m.

NOV. 19 Vehicle stolen, 6900 block Greenvale Parkway, 5:27 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8400 block Sprague Place, 5:31 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 2400 block Queens Chapel Road, 6:07 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 2400 block Queens Chapel Road, 7:00 a.m.

Vehicle stolen and recovered,

2400 block Queens Chapel Road, 7:28 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6400 block Inlet St., 7:48 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9700 block 51st Ave., 8:07 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3900 block Spirea Court, 8:10 a.m.

Theft, 2200 block Phelps Road, 9:48 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3600 block Bladensburg Road, 12:37 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3600 block Bladensburg Road, 1:00 p.m.

ONLINE For additional police blotters, visit www.gazette.net Theft from vehicle, 6800 block New Hampshire Ave., 1:37 p.m.

Assault, 6700 block Northwest Drive, 4:31 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 2200 block University Blvd., 4:55 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 5000 block Rhode Island Ave., 7:31 p.m.

NOV. 20 Assault, 2100 block Ruatan

St., 8:45 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6900 block Emerson St., 11:15 a.m.

Residential break-in, 8200 block New Hampshire Ave., 1:10 p.m.

Theft, 6500 block 40th Ave., 3:36 p.m.

Residential break-in, 5400 block 16th Ave., 4:00 p.m.

Robbery, 6000 block Carters Lane, 4:30 p.m.

Residential break-in, 1500 block Kanawha St., 4:36 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 5300 block 85th Ave., 6:13 p.m.

Theft, 1800 block Drexel St., 6:42 p.m.

Residential break-in, 100 block Ames Road, 8:33 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6200 block Annapolis Road, 10:04 p.m.

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NOV. 21 Residential break-in, 5500 block 59th Ave., 12:37 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9300 block 49th Ave., 7:25 a.m.

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

Theft, 4200 block Kenilworth Ave., 8:13 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6700 block Annapolis Road, 9:04 a.m.

Commercial property breakin, 2000 block University Blvd.,

10:10 a.m.

Residential break-in, 3900 block Warner Ave., 11:51 a.m.

Theft, 4900 block Donovan Place, 12:22 p.m.

Theft, 2300 block Parkway, 2:48 p.m.

Theft, 3300 block Toledo Terrace, 4:22 p.m.

Residential break-in, 6600 block Chestnut Ave., 4:30 p.m.

Theft, 8000 block 15th Ave., 5:07 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 5100 block Kenilworth Ave., 5:55 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6200 block Annapolis Road, 8:22 p.m.

Residential break-in, 6800 block Fairwood Road, 8:40 p.m.

Assault, 1800 block University Blvd., 8:46 p.m.

Robbery, 5800 block Nystrom St., 9:37 p.m.

Residential break-in, 7800 block Powhatan St., 9:43 p.m.

NOV. 22 Sexual assault, 6000 block Block Eastern Ave., 12:25 a.m.

Robbery, 6800 block Red Top Road, 1:34 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9100 block 49th Place, 4:36 a.m.

Residential break-in, 9500 block Baltimore Ave., 5:03 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1400 block Merrimac Drive, 6:01 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 7300 block Sara St., 7:33 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 4900 block Tilden Road, 7:36 a.m.

Theft, 1400 block Kanawha St., 8:07 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 5000 block Berwyn Road, 8:19 a.m.

Theft, 6000 block Crest Park Drive, 8:24 a.m.

Sexual assault, 8200 block Block New Hampshire Ave., 9:06 a.m.

Vehicle stolen and recovered,

5000 block Rhode Island Ave., 9:18 a.m.

Theft, 6900 block Riverdale Road, 10:51 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, Eb Annapolis Road/Sb Veterans Parkway, 11:04 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 10000 block Baltimore Ave., 11:10 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 4600 block Cooper Lane, 11:46 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6200 block Annapolis Road, 11:49 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 7500 block Annapolis Road, 11:54 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 5000 block Roanoke Place, 12:15 p.m.

Robbery, 5000 block 56th Ave., 1:27 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 5000 block Indian Lane, 2:10 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 3300 block Chillum Road, 3:51 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, Warner Ave./Allison St., 5:40 p.m.

Theft, 7200 block Rhode Island Ave., 6:43 p.m.

Residential break-in, 5700 block Gallatin St., 7:16 p.m.

Residential break-in, 9200 block Davidson St., 7:25 p.m.

Residential break-in, 8900 block 58th Ave., 8:39 p.m.

NOV. 23

Theft from vehicle, Nb Baltimore Ave./Knox Road, 7:25 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 7400 block 18th Ave., 8:30 a.m.

Theft, 4600 block Calvert Road, 9:27 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6500 block Oak St., 10:34 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 7100 block Annapolis Road, 11:16 a.m.

Theft, 8400 block 48th Ave., 12:03 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 5600 block Sargent Road, 12:46 p.m.

Theft, 4700 block Cherry Hill Road, 1:01 p.m.

Theft, 6800 block New Hampshire Ave., 2:18 p.m.

Theft, 4300 block Kenilworth Ave., 2:34 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6700 block Baltimore Ave., 3:27 p.m.

Sexual assault, 4500 block Block Hartwick Road, 3:52 p.m.

Sexual assault, 4800 block Block Lawrence St., 4:09 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 400 block Chillum Road, 4:21 p.m.

Residential break-in, 6500 block Landover Road, 6:00 p.m.

Assault, Nb Veterans Parkway/Eb Annapolis Road, 6:55 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, Eb University Blvd./Nb Adelphi Road, 9:18 p.m.

Robbery, 900 block Chillum Road, 10:16 p.m.

NOV. 24 Theft, 5400 block 85th Ave., 3:52 a.m.

Robbery, 800 block Fairview Ave., 7:31 a.m.

Theft, 8900 block Rhode Island Ave., 7:57 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 2300 block University Blvd., 10:04 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 4000 block Newton St., 11:46 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1800 block Keokee St., 12:48 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6100 block 63rd Place, 1:15 p.m.

Break-in, 4400 block 75th Ave., 1:19 p.m.

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Police ID 19-year-old struck by train in Laurel Investigation ongoing to figure out why man was near tracks

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A Laurel man, identified as Dontay Lamont Owensby, 19, of the 8700 block of Dulwick Court, was struck and killed by a train on Nov. 19, according to the Laurel Police Department.

Laurel Police Chief Richard McLaughlin stated in a news release that shortly after 7:30 p.m., police were notified of a body in

the 800 block of Lafayette Avenue, near the Laurel MARC Commuter Train Station on Main Street.

“His injuries were consistent with having been struck by a train,” Laurel spokesman Peter Piringer said.

According to police, the man was struck by an unknown train heading north. Piringer said two trains are known to have passed through the area around the time of the accident.

Owensby was pronounced dead on the scene.

Piringer said it is not known what the man was doing at the tracks and said the investigation is ongoing.

He said teenagers reported

seeing someone matching his description in the vicinity of the train tracks.

Also, Maryland Transportation Authority officials reported that a MARC commuter train operator had observed a person matching the victim’s description running along the tracks and filed a suspicious person report, according to police.

Piringer said it is unclear whether that train or another train struck the victim.

Police said rail traffic in both directions was closed until 10:30 p.m. janfenson-comeau@ gazette.net

POLICE BLOTTER HYATTSVILLE NOV. 10 Vehicle theft, 3000 block of Nicholson Street. Someone stole a parked 2007 Honda Accord. It was recovered in Mount Rainier on Nov. 12.

Drug paraphernalia arrest, 4000 block of Gallatin Street. At approximately 2 a.m., a suspect was arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia.

Theft, 3500 block of East West Highway. At approximately 3:45 p.m., two suspects were apprehended for shoplifting at a store in the mall.

Robbery, 6500 block of Belcrest Road. At approximately 8:30 p.m., while in the stairway of the student towers, the victim was approached by an unknown suspect who tazed her on the back of the neck and demanded her building key card.

Two more suspects approached, went through her pockets and took her wallet. She told them she could go to her apartment and get the key card and they agreed. The victim then ran to her apartment and locked the door. The suspects attempted to force open the door without success and fled in an unknown direction.

NOV. 11 Theft from auto, 3500 block of East West Highway. Someone broke into a parked vehicle and removed property.

Vandalism, 5700 block of 29th Avenue. Sometime between 7:45 and 8 p.m., someone spray painted graffiti on a shed.

Burglary, 3400 block of Hamilton Street. At approximately 11:45 p.m., someone broke into a pharmacy. It did not appear that anything had been taken.

NOV. 12 Vandalism, 4600 block of Baltimore Avenue. Someone broke a window at a gas station office.

Attempted burglary, 5300 block of Baltimore Avenue. Sometime between 4:30 and 9:30 a.m., someone damaged the entry doors to a store and attempted to break into it.

Weapons arrest, Northwestern High School. At approximately 10 a.m., a student was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon (knife).

Fraud, 3300 block of East West Highway. At approximately 2 p.m., a suspect was arrested after she

attempted to purchase roofing materials from a home improvement store using a fraudulent credit card.

Theft, 3500 block of East West Highway. At approximately 2:30 p.m., a suspect was arrested for shoplifting at a store in the mall.

Theft, 3500 block of East West Highway. At approximately 5:15 p.m., a suspect was arrested for shoplifting at a store in the mall.

NOV. 13 Theft, 3500 block of East West Highway. At approximately 4:15 p.m., two suspects were apprehended for shoplifting at a store in the mall.

NOV. 14 Theft, 3500 block of East West Highway. At approximately 4:15 p.m., a suspect was arrested for shoplifting at a store in the mall.

Drug arrest, 5600 block of 30th Avenue. At approximately 11 p.m., a suspect was arrested for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine.

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Continued from Page A-1 the council’s Dec. 10 meeting, which will be Afzali’s last.

Afzali chose not to run for re-election in last month’s elections and will be replaced by political newcomer Alan Hew, starting Dec. 10.

Besides the current age requirements, College Park council members must have lived in the city for at least two years.

Afzali attempted to introduce the same measure three years ago, but following strong opposition from city residents, the measure failed 6-2.

In 2010, Afzali said he felt it was a matter of fairness in treating all adults equally. If people were opposed to having someone younger than 21 in office, they could exercise their right not to vote for the candidate.

Afzali said he now believes the new council — which will include several members who were not on the council three years ago — might approve the measure.

“I know a majority of the residents will be against you. I know the pressure you will be under; I just ask you to vote for what you know is the right thing to do,” Afzali said.

With the departure of Afzali and Robert Catlin (Dist. 2), only three council members will remain who voted on the measure three years ago.

Councilman Patrick Wojahn (Dist. 1) voted for the measure in 2010, and said his opinion hasn’t changed.

“As a matter of principle, if they’re old enough to fight and die for their country, if they’re old enough to vote in the demo-

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cratic process, then they should have the opportunity to present their case to the voters and run for council,” Wojahn said.

Councilman Fazlul Kabir (Dist. 1) said he feels 18- to 20-year-olds should be allowed to run, but as this is a charter amendment, he will speak with residents in his district before deciding how to vote.

“On a personal side, I think it doesn’t hurt, and may encourage more young people to be involved in the city,” Kabir said. “If someone can vote for council at 18, they should be able to run for it.”

When Afzali presented the motion in 2010, a dozen residents spoke out against the measure during public comments.

College Park resident Leslie Booth, who spoke out against the measure in 2010, said he still opposes lowering the candidate age.

“I think, at that age, they’re more interested in their own personal satisfaction than in serving the public good,” Booth said.

Catherine McGrath, the council’s student liaison from the University of Maryland, College Park, said it’s in the best interest of both the city and students to lower the candidate age.

“I think that the most important thing to remember is that students are also residents. They are an important voice in the community,” McGrath said. “Allowing more people to run will make races more competitive, which benefits everyone.”

Two university students, both older than 21, ran for council seats in districts 1 and 3 this year, but both lost in the Nov. 5 election.

The measure will come up for public comment and a second reading in 2014. janfenson-comeau@gazette.net

Board Vice Chairwoman Carolyn Boston (Dist. 4) said she has heard from constituents who never hear anything back after they apply for teaching positions.

“They have to constantly call

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Continued from Page A-1 “As some of you may know, our team began 81 years ago — in 1932 — with the name ‘Boston Braves.’

The following year, the franchise name was changed to the ‘Boston Redskins.’ On that inaugural Redskins team, four players and our head coach were Native Americans.

The name was never a label. It was, and continues to be, a badge of honor.”

Ross said the team’s name reflects poorly on the county, and while he realizes there is a business to the team, county leaders and residents have to speak up for the Native Americans in the county and abroad who find the name offensive.

“You have to be sensitive to what everyone is saying,” Ross said.

In 2012, Prince George’s County has a Native American and Alaskan native population of about 8,800, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Dottie Chicquelo of Upper Marlboro and a member of the Cherokee Tribe, said that the team name is derogatory because it makes the term Redskin, which she said comes from Native American warriors and tribe celebrations, a mascot, thus demeaning the term and the people associated with it.

“It remains unappealing to the community,” Chicquelo said. “I can’t speak for everyone … It offends so many members of the Native American Indian community.”

Michael Logan of Riverdale, who

and email and so forth,” Boston said. “I think that by this time, we should have something in place.”

Gaskin said the department is working to improve the online application process to improve

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Jay Winter Nightwolf of Fort Washingtion, a local radio host, speaks at a Monday press conference requesting that Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder change the NFL team’s name. Nightwolf, of Cherokee, Shoshone and Taino descent, spoke at the conference held overlooking FedEx Field in Landover. described himself as a “lifelong Redskins fan,” said he initially didn’t understand what the fuss was about over the team name change, but now said the team should change its name if a significant portion of Native Americans find the name offensive.

“I’d really like to hear more Native Americans sound off on the issue in an open hearing,” Logan said.

“If there is a significant portion that like the name and identify with it, that matters.”

notifications.

“We know that we must continue to leverage cutting-edge technology to improve,” Gaskin said. “This is something we are researching and working to dramatically improve.”

Darryl Pegram of Clinton said he is sensitive to the name being offensive, but there are bigger issues in the Native American population, such as high diabetes rates and other more important issues in the U.S. than a football team name.

“If we want to fight about something, fight about something that advances you as a people,” Pegram said.

Gaskin said the new online application system should be in place by the start of the recruitment season in March.

Board member Edward Burroughs (Dist. 8) said he has heard from teachers and assis-

ccook@gazette.net tant principals who have told him they can find better opportunities for promotion outside the school system.

Douglas Anthony, human resources officer, noted that the school system, with assistance from a grant from the New York-based Wallace Foundation, a philanthropic education nonprofit, is now in the second year of a program to prepare assistant principals for school leadership.

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Continued from Page A-1 The move is on track again for the 2014-2015 school year, but parents at a task force meeting Nov. 20 said they aren’t satisfied with the new location because they want the entire facility to be used for the French immersion program. The new move would mean continuing to share space with English speakers as Greenbelt is planning on putting offices in the building, Rogers said. Students also wouldn’t have full facility access because a section of the school will be kept available for the school system in case students need to be brought in from other schools during emergencies.

“We want a place we can call our own,” Rogers said, acknowledging that students wouldn’t interact much with officials at the new site.

Being in a school with English language speakers poses language conflicts, said Kathleen Brady, Prince George’s County Public Schools instructional director. French immersion students are normally only exposed to English during foreign language classes. Sharing a school with non-immersion students results in announcements being made in English and time in the cafeteria is shared with English-speaking students, which makes it difficult to maintain French as the primary language, Brady said.

Sarah Woodhead, county schools director of capital programs, said the plan is operating under a specific budget, about $3.5 million, so approving new space would require more money to expand renovations, which necessitate approval from the county school board.

Parents vowed to get in contact with top school officials to stress the importance of the French immersion program having its own space for full immersion and their own school.

Mitchellville resident Lee Wright, parent of a French immersion student, said many officials may not know about their struggle. It is about getting the word out and going to meetings, she said.

“We are going from sharing with one entity to sharing with two entities,” Wright said. “It doesn’t make sense.”

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It’s commonplace on Thanksgiving to express appreciation for family members and close friends — but oftentimes, people who make life better in less obvious ways can go unnoticed: the teenager who helps rake leaves, the bus driver who makes sure not to pull up to a puddle, and the neighbor who bakes extra cookies to share with children.

While their small acts of kindness may not seem significant in the grand scheme of things, each contribution manages to make the day a little bit easier and make the community a bit nicer for residents.

EXPRESS Each year, The Gazette APPRECIATION honors those hometown FOR COMMUNITY heroes, such as a Laurel woman honored for helping EFFORTS, BIG residents overcome subAND SMALL stance abuse, a Fort Washington woman recognized for launching a mentoring organization and a Bowie couple featured for helping lowincome teenagers pursue their dreams.

The Gazette invites readers to take part in the recognition effort by nominating Prince George’s County residents and organizations to be featured for having made a difference in the community in 2013. Those Who Made a Difference highlights efforts that impacted lives in a positive way during the year, honoring people who make the county a better place to work, play and live.

Nominations must be submitted by Dec. 5 and include the nominator’s name, phone number and address; the nominee’s name and contact information; and detailed information regarding how the nominee made a difference in Prince George’s in 2013.

Nominations can be emailed to jlyles@gazette.net (type “Those who made a difference” in the subject line); mailed to Jeffrey Lyles, The Gazette, Attn: 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.”

Author William Arthur Ward once said, “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”

It’s important to take the time to give the gift of appreciation, especially to neighbors.

Keeping outside money out On its face, Douglas F. Gansler’s push to limit thirdparty advertising in the Maryland gubernatorial race looks like a reasonable step toward campaign purity.

Gansler has challenged his rivals in the 2014 Democratic to make a promise: If an outside group buys an ad in a candidate’s favor, that candidate — as a self-imposed penalty — will donate half of the cost of that ad to a charity.

In theory, this could dissuade outside groups from buying air time, if it would squeeze the coffers of the group’s preferred candidate.

There’s no question that the free flow of money can alter political races through attack ads intended to win over the uniformed and the easily influenced.

“It is easy to talk about reform, the test is — are you willing to do something to keep outside money out of Maryland,” Gansler said in a campaign news release. “The Candidates Pledge is a chance to do just that. It is a chance not to talk, but to act.”

In Massachusetts, U.S. Senate candidates Scott Brown (R) and Elizabeth Warren (D) signed the same pledge in 2012. It’s worth noting that that was a general election, in which partisan attacks are more likely to dominate a race.

This is a party primary; third-party groups aren’t as likely to lob damaging attack ads that could benefit Republican candidates in November.

Strategically, Gansler’s proposal could be seen as protecting an advantage his ticket had in campaign cash as of January 2013 (new totals won’t be known until a January 2014 filing).

Or it might be perceived as a muffling of outside voices, as the Brown-Ulman ticket racks up scores of endorsements.

Suppressing outside spending is also attractive for a candidate whose campaign started with two controversies that can easily be skewered in 30-second TV segments.

We could get behind a movement that helps keeps the focus on the issues and handcuffs the mudslingers.

But we don’t see this pledge as a guarantee that dirt and sleaze won’t permeate the race; candidates and their operatives are plenty good at doing that on their own.

Pledge or not, nothing stops the candidates from calling off attack dogs, even if they are officially unaffiliated with their campaigns.

We suggest a simpler, stronger pledge that candidates can control: No distortions in campaign speeches, ads and mailings. When your facts and allegations are challenged, provide proof.

Win on your merits, not at all costs.

Douglas S. Hayes, Associate Publisher

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Is the deck stacked for the gaming license?

We in the local business community are troubled by a number of things that we have seen in and around the Prince George’s County gaming license award process. If we truly want what is best for all interested parties, we should be asking ourselves the following: • Why are our local politicians not supporting local business owners like the two minority partners in the Parx Casino group? Aren’t they supposed to represent us?

• Why during the public hearings did Senate President Mike V. Miller come on stage at the MGM hearing and speak to the commission? We did not see Mr. Miller in attendance at the other two public hearings.

• Why is the state of Maryland just releasing road improvement funds for Route 210 at Kirby Hill Road that have been available since 1988? Could this be designed to further subsidize, at taxpayer expense, National Harbor, Tanger Outlets and now MGM? • How did MGM manage to pacify both local and state officials by promising to use existing infrastructure as viable access to its location? Their analysis of our usable infrastructure has already been exposed as heavily flawed. Everyone anticipated a measure of traffic congestion from

the installation of the Tanger Outlets, yet no one criticized MGM’s plans to further exacerbate this problem as a sign of indifference toward local concerns. Traffic congestion has already reached critical mass in Oxon Hill, some three years before the advent of a MGM proposed casino, hotel and showplace arena. No one questioned how the anemic single-lane ramps would accommodate the throngs of visitors they anticipate. It appears gridlock in Oxon Hill is one of many side effects purposely omitted from MGM’s disclaimer.

• Who is concerned about the further destruction of the Oxon Hill community?

First National Harbor, then Tanger Outlets and now MGM? • Parx is the only bidder offering to contribute up to $100 million to help build out the long overdue Route 210 infrastructure. By the way, that $100 million would help the entire community, including National Harbor, Tanger Outlets and, most importantly, the residents of Oxon Hill.

• Parx is the only bidder willing to take 33 percent instead of 38 percent on slots.

That 5 percent difference on $1 billion annually represents hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue to the state of Maryland.

The more basic question we must ask is: “Can we trust the process?” As a business community, we can no longer

settle for the old ways of doing business in the state of Maryland or Prince George’s County. As a local business community, we are saying, “Enough is enough!” Parx Casino made the only responsive, responsible and honest proposal of all three bidders. If they are not selected for the county gaming license, we should question the validity of the entire process.

Let’s see if the deck was truly stacked.

Andrew L. Colbert of Fort Washington is the president of the Indian Head Highway Area Business Council.

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More communities should join composting program I am writing in response to an article written by Chase Cook, published Oct. 31. The name of the article is titled “Prince George’s talks trash to help the environment” and discusses an improvement on composting taking place in University Park.

There is a new program that the county Department of Environmental Resources’ Waste Management Division has created that will reduce the food compost that is brought into county landfills and will

increase the nourishment in the county’s fertilizer that is sold. The GORE Covers allow the decomposition process to occur faster than if it were to do so naturally on its own. This is a great way to give back to the Earth and to reduce each household’s carbon footprint.

One day the resources we have now will no longer be in existence. Everyone should spread the word on programs like this so that in a group effort this will greatly impact the Earth in a positive way. Each

resident that takes time aside do this will be able to reuse wasted food as compost.

If you think about it, this all started with 50 homes in University Park, has now risen to 156 homes since the start of the year — won’t this lower the amount of trash that is sent to landfills every year?

I am very interested as a reader to know this program has been growing more since it started in May. I would like to know if this program were to branch out further, would it be

able to take place in my town?

I live in Brentwood, a neighboring town of University Park. It would be wonderful if this program branched out further to neighboring towns.

The more towns that are participating in the program, the more disposed foods will be used for composting.

In the long run, we will be helping the Earth by not using up land that would most likely be used as part of a landfill.

Anna Higgins, Brentwood

One toke over the line?

Heather Mizeur says she’s running for governor, but her campaign looks more like a cultural movement testing liberalism’s outer limits.

If elected, she’ll be Maryland’s first woman governor, Maryland’s first lesbian governor, Maryland’s first governor elected from Montgomery County and the first governor elected directly from the House of Delegates.

Wow, that’s a lot of “firsts.” Also, she’ll be the first governor with an African-American Baptist minister lieutenant governor. Picture her inauguration where the lieutenant governor delivers the benediction.

Then there’s MY MARYLAND Mizeur’s campaign BLAIR LEE platform: • She wants to raise Maryland’s $7.25 per hour minimum wage to $16.70.

• She wants to soak the rich by raising taxes on incomes over $500,000 and splitting the proceeds with everyone earning less.

• She wants a $15 billion school construction program funded by another one cent sales tax increase (levied at the local level).

• She wants to spend billions more on new light rail, bus rapid transit, mag lev and port expansion projects.

• She’s against slots, casinos and natural gas fracking.

• She wants a new $170 million-a-year state-funded child care program for lowincome families, and • She wants a $280 million-a-year state-funded, all-day pre-kindergarten program for 3- and 4-year-olds.

Whew, and it’s only November. More’s sure to come. Here’s Mizeur’s latest bombshell; she wants to finance her $280 million-a-year pre-kindergarten program by legalizing and taxing marijuana.

Need a catchy name? How about “tokes for tots” or “tripping for tykes”?

Anyway, here’s how it works: marijuana would be sold and taxed much like alcohol except users may only possess up to one ounce and may not imbibe in public. The tax would be $50 per ounce at the whole-

sale level with another 6 percent sales tax and 2 percent excise tax at the retail level.

And that’s in addition to the actual cost of the darn stuff. Wow, talk about a bum trip.

Mizeur admits to having smoked pot in the past but not while devising this plan.

Her marijuana tax would raise $157 million a year which would all go toward her pre-K “potty training” program.

Like most Montgomery County elected officials, Heather Mizeur came here from somewhere else. Born and raised in Blue Mound, Ill., to a Catholic, blue-collar, labor-union family, she was her high school valedictorian and graduated form the University of Illinois.

And, like many Montgomery residents, she headed to D.C. to work on Capitol Hill for a slew of congresspersons including then-U.S. Sen. John Kerry. In 2003 she was elected to the Takoma Park City Council, in 2004 she ran Kerry’s Maryland presidential campaign and in 2006 she was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates. In 2008 she married her wife, Deborah, who often joins Heather on the campaign trail.

Mizeur’s legislative focus has been on health care, children’s issues, access to open government, anti-fracking and gay marriage. She’s also held several National Democratic Party posts.

In Annapolis Mizeur is not particularly well-liked by her Democratic colleagues, who view her as a self-centered lone wolf.

Even her fellow gay colleagues think she hogged the limelight during the gay marriage wars.

But some of this criticism stems from Mizeur’s sticking to her principles while her fellow Dems did not. When Republican governor Bob Ehrlich proposed legalizing slots, all the legislature’s liberals were opposed on moral grounds. But when Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley introduced slots, most of the liberals “pivoted” from their moral objections. Only Mizeur and a handful of others placed ethics above party hypocrosy.

But, can Mizeur’s progressive resume and radical platform move her numbers in a Democratic primary where she’s polling only 5.2 percent and running a distant third behind Anthony Brown and Doug Gansler?

Can she gain ground given the early June 24 primary date, her being tied-down in next year’s 90-day legislative session

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(during which she’s barred from fundraising), the media’s focus on the Brown vs.

Gansler heavyweight bout and polling showing that 78.7 percent of Dems never heard of her?

With few endorsements and little money how can she expand her base beyond liberal enclaves like Takoma Park, Charles Village, Bolton Hill and College Park? Yes, she’s getting rave reviews from the pro-gay press corps, but just because same-sex marriage passed in 2012 doesn’t mean those same votes are hers in 2014.

Heck, even her fellow gay lawmakers aren’t endorsing her. And, if she’s counting on the women’s vote, she’s in for a big disappointment.

Yet, Mizeur’s campaign is important not because she might win but for whose votes she takes away, Brown’s or Gansler’s? If the frontrunners’ tilt narrows while Mizeur attracts 10 percent or 15 percent of the vote, her candidacy could determine the winner.

Conventional wisdom says Mizeur hurts Gansler because they’re both from Montgomery County, a gross misread of the Montgomery electorate which shuns parochialism and favorite sons (or daughters).

Truth is, Montgoery voters don’t care about state politics (MoCo’s 20 percent 2010 primary turnout was the state’s worst) and, when they do participate, usually vote for whomever the media tells them is the most liberal Democrat. And that would be either Brown or Mizeur.

On election day Maryland’s liberal Dems will be agonizing whether to vote for Maryland’s first black governor or Maryland’s first lesbian governor. And in that tug, every Mizeur vote is at Brown’s expense. Meanwhile, Mizeur’s new running mate, a popular P.G. County megachurch minister, drains away even more Brown votes.

Heather Mizeur probably won’t be sworn in as governor in 2015, but she may decide who is.

Blair Lee is chairman of the board of Lee Development Group in Silver Spring and a regular commentator for WBAL radio.

His column appears Fridays in the Business Gazette. His past columns are available at www.gazette.net/blairlee. His email address is blairleeiv@gmail.com.

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BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN STAFF WRITER

A few years back when Charles H. Flowers High School swim coach Jeff Ware worked for Prince George’s County Public Schools’ TV 96 — he shot and edited video for county athletics and ran the sports portion of the website — he had access to records. Ware was interested to find, he said, that up until about 1980, Prince George’s County used to excel at all the so-called “niche” sports.

Accessibility — it’s a lot easier to walk down to the neighborhood basketball courts or toss around a football than find time or affordable classes at an indoor swimming facility — is one major reason for the county’s lag behind its Montgomery and Anne Arundel neighbors. The growth of the summer’s Prince-Mont Swim League and the recently built Prince George’s Sports and Learning Complex has certainly helped foster more interest in the sport, though Ware said the southern part of the county could now use a similar facility. The effects are starting to surface in high school competition.

Eleanor Roosevelt has dominated the county with 14 consecutive county titles on the girls’ side and eight since 2002 on

the boys’ side — Bowie is the only other team to win during that time. Up until last winter, the Bulldogs — and on occasion Laurel — were the only ones who could come close to Roosevelt. The Raiders’ sweep of last year’s county meet was by a smaller margin than the previous year and the arrival of Charles H. Flowers to the top three on both sides was indicative of a new wave of teams pushing toward the top, which could make 2013-14 as competitive a season as ever.

Favorites Roosevelt’s boys and girls will be the

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Henry A. Wise High School’s Isaiah Black (right) was trying to sell a screen pass, but DuVal’s Chinedu Oparaku would have none of it as recorded a sack this fall.

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ERIC GOLDWEIN STAFF WRITER

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Byron Hawkins (right) of Clinton Christian School goes for the basket against Dennis Gray Jr. of visiting From Heart Christian School in Upper Marlboro.

Building a basketball power

Clinton Christian assistant coach has revamped the program, luring in eight high-profile transfers

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TRAVIS MEWHIRTER STAFF WRITER

One by one they reneged on prior allegiances and followed Chris Cole. They came from Henry A. Wise High School, National Christian, St. John’s College, Bishop O’Connell, Bowie and Archbishop

Carroll. When the game of transfer chess was finally over and the 2013-2014 school year was set to begin, eight total studentathletes followed Cole to Clinton Christian and a basketball program that has already been dubbed a future rival of nationalpower Montrose Christian despite not having played a single possession.

“My name kind of jumps out there as far as the individual workout stuff goes,” said Cole, who is technically the assistant at Capitol Christian, though principal Carlos Williams made it clear the program is Cole’s. “So when people found out I was

coming over, they kind of followed. Really, it was just word of mouth.”

Some, take former Wise guard Asante Shivers, sought an opportunity for more college looks. Who better to prepare him for a ramped up recruiting process than Cole, who says he trained NBA talents Nolan Smith (formerly of the Portland Trailblazers), Norris Cole (Miami Heat, no relation to Chris Cole) and Kris Joseph (formerly of the Boston Celtics, Brooklyn Nets and Orlando Magic), among several

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Before the 2011 season, Chinedu Oparaku remembered hearing an announcement on DuVal High School’s public address system reminding students about football tryouts.

The then-sophomore had never played the sport, but intrigued, he went into DuVal coach Dameon Powell’s office and said he wanted to join the team.

“I just knew it was something I had to try,” Oparaku said.

Three seasons and a few dozen sacks later, he’s glad he did.

Oparaku was a nightmare for opposing quarterbacks this fall in his final season in DuVal’s football program. The senior recorded 26 sacks to help lead the Tigers to a 10-2 season and an appearance in the Class 4A South Region championship game.

“He’s a relentless player. He can’t be blocked,” Powell said.

Oparaku’s performance

picked up as the games gained significance. In the Class 4A South Region semifinal, he recorded three sacks and recovered a game-changing fumble in DuVal’s 14-12 victory over Henry A. Wise (7-4), the defending state champions.

In Saturday’s 18-17 loss to Suitland (12-0), he recorded multiple sacks and tackles behind the line of scrimmage helping limit the Rams’ highpowered offense.

Oparaku finished the season with 78 tackles, 14 hurries, five fumble recoveries, two blocked punts, one safety and one touchdown.

Oparaku said he didn’t know much about football before joining DuVal’s program. He watched the Baltimore Ravens and the Washington Redskins on television, but lacked playing experience.

He caught on quickly, Powell said. At first he relied on his athletic ability, Powell said, but now he’s gained skills to maximize his talent.

“He’s a little bit more seasoned,” Powell said.

DuVal senior lineman Jesse Manful said Oparaku was helpful to have around as a team

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IF YOU GO: STATE SEMIFINAL FOOTBALL GAMES

Surrattsville (10-2) at Fort Hill (12-0)

Meade (10-2) at Suitland (12-0)

n When: 7 p.m. Friday n Where: Fort Hill High School, 500 Greenway Ave, Cumberland

n Where: Suitland High School, 5200 Silver Hill Road, District Heights

n Tickets: $5

n Tickets: $5

n Stakes: Winner advances to the Class 1A state championship game against the winner of Saturday’s Cambridge-SD (10-2) vs. Balt. Douglass (12-0) game.

n Stakes: Winner advances to the Class 4A state championship game against the winner of Friday’s Northwest (10-2) at Paint Branch (11-1) game.

n When: 1 p.m. Saturday

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NICK CAMMAROTA STAFF WRITER

As Parkdale High School’s ascension to Prince George’s County wrestling dominance has built over the course of the last four seasons, coach Adam Forschner has been surprised every step of the way.

Never, he said, did he envision reaching this point nine years ago when he took over the wrestling program. But alas, here are the Panthers with another powerful squad ready to defend their county title and make even more noise at the state tournament than they did last year.

More than 40 wrestlers tried out for Forschner this fall and he expects to carry 37 on the roster. This is the time period for Parkdale’s program when a few successful years transition to an era of sustained success. A time period when coaches are calling Forschner to come and be a part of his program, not the other way around. A time period where a quintet of grapplers is poised to maintain, if not surpass, last year’s successes.

“I couldn’t imagine if you told me that this is where we’d be nine years ago,” Forschner said. “We’re expecting big things. I don’t know what to say because you see the fruits of your labor at this moment. Even if we win or lose, how our team transformed from then until now is pretty special.”

Seniors Macred Gbenro, Ray Jones,

LK Lyles-El, Michael Perdomo and Kevin Thomas all return to bolster a strong Panthers lineup that will also receive a significant infusion of youth. Included among the underclassmen are Raymond Thomas, Kevin’s brother, and Forschner’s son, Nathaniel.

“They’re ready, if anything, they’re definitely ready,” Forschner said. “The new guys are working hard. I’m not a cocky person, but I think this is going to be the best team I’ve ever had. It’s definitely the hardest working team I’ve ever coached and we’ve got guys that are hungry.”

Meanwhile, another county power is preparing for a rebound season at DeMatha Catholic after the Stags finished

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Parkdale High School’s Michael Perdomo (top) deafeated Eleanor Roosevelt’s Ben Panga during last year’s Prince George’s County Wrestling Championships at Charles H. Flowers in Springdale.

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SOCCER

Boys’ Player of the Year

Girls’ Player of the Year

Nicole Delabrer

Arion Sobers DeMatha Senior Forward

Eleanor Roosevelt Senior Midfielder/forward

The catalyst of the Stags’ offense scored 20 goals for the WCAC champions, including six in the playoffs.

Raiders seemed unfazed by graduation of several key players. This goal scoring and assist machine was a key reason why. Delabrer had 25 goals and 10 assists.

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DeMatha Catholic High School’s Arion Sobers (right) is The Gazette’s Player of the Year in boys’ soccer in Prince George’s County.

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Eleanor Roosevelt High School senior Nicole Delabrer (left) is The Gazette’s Player of the Year in girls’ soccer.

Girls’ first team

Boys’ first team

Ellen Anderson

Ebone Baker

Tashina Cardwell

Paige DeLoach

Kianna Hart

Bowie Senior Defender

Bowie Senior Forward

Henry A. Wise Senior Defender

Gwynn Park Senior Midfielder/forward

Elizabeth Seton Senior Striker

Frederick Douglass Junior Forward

Unstoppable in the final third, Marah scored 21 goals in 2013 and has 46 in two years.

A three-year letterman, helped bolster Bowie’s remarkable defense all year.

Moved from three years in goal to lead team with 19 goals.

Four-year starting back was integral in Pumas’ resurgence into county’s upper echelon.

Tallied unprecedented 38 goals and 25 assists to keep Yellow Jackets atop division.

Cornell University recruit’s scoring abilities kept Roadrunners afloat in tough WCAC.

Led Eagles in scoring for third straight year with 26 goals, 76 in three.

Rodney Ngoh

Kobe Osei Wusu

Tariq Sharif

Holly Hughes

Angely Mercado

Kate Monroe

Brionna Morrison

Melanie Stiles

Parkdale Junior Midfielder

Crossland Junior Defender

DeMatha Senior Midfielder

Flowers Senior Midfielder

Eleanor Roosevelt Junior Midfielder

Parkdale Senior Forward

Roosevelt Senior Defender

Surrattsville Senior Midfielder/forward

Bishop McNamara Sophomore Goalkeeper

Playmaker in the middle contributed 12 goals and 14 assists toward an historic season.

Fast, physical and deadly on set pieces, led Cavaliers with 16 goals.

Made the most of his senior year by scoring six goals and assisting five.

Team leader in assists and runner-up in goals also captained the talented Jaguars.

Playmaker was starting point of many scoring runs, tallied 8 goals and 12 assists of own.

Contributed teamhigh 18 goals and valuable leadership to Panthers first region final run.

Anchored a stingy backline that gave up 3 goals in county and shut out 11 opponents.

Team-high 14 goals helped team creep into top of division and first region final in 27 years.

She tallied 11 saves per game and 3 shutouts in area’s most competitive conference.

Kelvin Amaya

Ricardo Garcia

Michael Johnson

Kelly Marah

Adam Matthews

High Point Senior Goalkeeper

Crossland Senior Midfielder

Bladensburg Junior Defender

Laurel Junior Forward

A vocal and tactical leader, Amaya recorded nine shutouts for the two-loss Eagles.

Controlled the middle with Andre Ferguson’s club; scored 10 goals, assisted nine.

Technically brilliant back poured in 13 goals and assisted five more.

Oliver Meade

Steve Momenya

Eleanor Roosevelt Senior Midfielder Capped tenure as a three-year starter with eight goals and five assists.

Boys’ Coach of the Year

Sadak Abukar Parkdale 2nd season Led Parkdale, his alma mater, to the first state semifinals appearance in school history, upsetting topseeded High Point along the way.

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Continued from Page A-10 teams until it is proven that they’re not. First-year coach Stacey Russell said that despite some graduation losses the Raiders expect to remain the county’s top finisher. Whether or not Roosevelt has the star power to win every event — and it does have quite a few top swimmers — its success has also been predicated off tremendous depth that other teams have not been able to challenge often enough in the past.

“They could go to every meet and not win a race but finish two, three, four and still have more points,” Ware said.

Contenders With every single scorer back from last year’s county runnerup squad, the Flowers girls are a good bet to creep even closer to making history with their first county championship. Led by an incredible sophomore class, the Jaguars certainly have strength across the board of events.

Whether or not they’re deep enough to truly topple Roosevelt

Boys’ second team

Girls’ second team

Philip Adu, Bladensburg, senior, midfielder; Joseph Conti, DeMatha, senior, defender; Adam Diagabate, Northwestern, senior, midfielder; Brandon Ernest, Riverdale Baptist, senior, goalkeeper; Andre Ferguson Jr., Crossland, junior, midfielder; Eric Gonzalez, High Point, senior, defender; Gabe Jenkins, Bishop McNamara, defender; Denis Lopez, Parkdale, junior, midfielder; Omar Moran, Bowie, senior, midfielder; Ebin Quijada, High Point, senior, forward; Sekou Sackor, Central, senior, midfielder

Emily Andine, Northwestern, freshman, goalkeeper; Isabella Brewer, Eleanor Roosevelt, senior, defender; Erin Epps, Grace Brethren, junior, defender; Jocelyn Gutierrez, Parkdale, senior, forward; Anna Huddelston, Bowie, junior, forward; Chloe Jackson, Riverdale Baptist, senior, midfield; Troiah McCorkle, Frederick Douglass, senior, midfielder; Kimberly McPhearson, Riverdale Baptist, freshman, forward; Sydney Mitchell, Henry A. Wise, senior, forward; Kayla Truesdale, Henry A. Wise, senior, midfielder

Boys’ honorable mention

Girls’ honorable mention

Marcus Harris, R.Baptist, senior, forward; Sorie Kargbo, Flowers, senior, defender; Nyakeh Karimu, Flowers, senior, forward; Ian Kisakye, Laurel, senior, defender; Brenden LeMaster, Bowie, junior, goalkeeper; Jesus Martinez, Parkdale, junior, defender; Steve Mbappe, Crossland, senior, defender; Jacob Miller, Roosevelt, senior, defender; Tulio Monkam, Central, senior, midfielder; Oluwatobi Motajo, Bowie, senior, defender; Karl Ominiabohs, G.Park, senior, midfielder; A.J. Read, DeMatha, senior, defender; Elfried Sanabria, Northwestern, senior, defender; Jeffrey Sanchez, Laurel, senior, defender; Salmineo Sherman, Surrattsville, senior, forward; Adam Sidibe, Bladensburg, senior, forward; Oscar Ventura, High Point, senior, defender; Davonte Williams, Surrattsville, senior, defender

Jazmin Bryant, Grace Brethren, junior, forward; Sandra Benyella, Charles H. Flowers, junior, midfielder; Emily Carroll, Bishop McNamara, senior, defender; Nancy Flores, Northwestern, sophomore, forward; Tierra Hawkins, Forestville Military, senior, forward; Angeles Hernandez, Surrattsville, junior, midfielder; Alex Porterfield, Gwynn Park, junior, forward; Kameryn Robinson, Charles H. Flowers, sophomore, forward; Calista Tebit, Northwestern, junior, forward; Dominique Thompson, Frederick Douglass, senior, defender; Jameka Wiggins, Charles H. Flowers, sophomore, forward

remains to be seen. The same can be said for the Bowie and Flowers boys, the latter of which struggles a bit more in the depth department. Bowie’s girls might have slipped to third place a year ago but the Bulldogs return a lot of their scoring and certainly should not be disregarded.

Darkhorses Laurel’s boys and girls have been a fixture in the top five and will likely remain one, though the Spartan boys return less of their bigger scorers than the girls. Despite being one of the smaller schools in the county, Frederick Douglass’ swim program has become quite competitive. The Eagles return a number of swimmers capable of maintaining their status among the county’s top five.

Though teams such as Parkdale, Suitland, Largo, Friendly and Crossland aren’t often considered swimming powerhouses, they have produced some of county’s best individual talent in recent years and certainly shouldn’t be disregarded.

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Continued from Page A-10 third in the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference last year. Dick Messier’s squad, which has won the WCAC title 25 times during his tenure as the only coach the program has known, will feature a balanced lineup of returners. Included among them are captains Mack Meehan (220) and Shane Wilson (138). Also returning are Logan Wilson, Darryl Taylor, and Lewis Riggs.

“I think we’re really in control of our own destiny,” Messier said.

WhiletheStagshavelong been a WCAC power, the feature attraction in the conference this year is Bishop McNamara senior Alfred Bannister. The freakishly strong wunderkind who has verbally committed to the University of Maryland will begunningforhisfourthconsecutive state title. He’ll also be chasing a third National High School Coaches Association National Champion,

second National Preps title and the record for the most wins in a high school career for any wrestler (public or private school) in Maryland history.

Elsewhere among the public schools, the usual suspects are likely to provide Parkdale some stiff competition throughout the regular season. Bowie, Charles H. Flowers and Eleanor Roosevelt all return key components of their core from last season, while High Point, DuVal and Bladensburg all are in the mix in 4A. Roosevelt’s Casey Wokocha, who just started wrestling last season but finished third in the state at 195, should turn in a very strong campaign along with Raiders’ returning grapplers Jon Inda, Rickey Bryant and Rajesh Nair. At Bowie, Javan White is a key returner while Flowers brings back Francois Scarboro, Terron Paden and Michael Williams.

In 3A/2A/1A, Surrattsville is hoping to carry over success from last year.

Gwynn Park is strong.

Girls’ Coach of the Year

Bret Loes Parkdale 3rd year The Panthers have been pushing into the upper echelon of county soccer with two consecutive region semifinal showings. Under Loes’ leadership Parkdale took another step forward this fall with its firstever region final appearance.

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mate. He was a good motivator since he never took plays off during practice, Manful said.

“It’s like he’s making me better, but I’m making him better,” Manful said.

Manful said Oparaku, who recorded four sacks in an October victory over Bowie, improved significantly the last few seasons.

“He picked up the stuff pretty quickly,” Manful said “... I’ve seen him get better over the years. He’s gotten way better.”

Oparaku wrestled in the 152-pound weight class as a freshman, Powell said. He has since grown into a 6-foot-2, 195-pound speedy defensive lineman — he ran a 4.5-second 40-yard dash, Powell said.

This season he played tight end in addition to defensive line.

“He kind of knows how the offense works. That adds to his craft,” Manful said.

Oparaku said he put extra pressure on himself in his senior year.

“My goal was to get a college scholarship. So I knew I had to step my game up,” Oparaku said.

others?

“I played in the summer league with Wise and that wasn’t working out,” said Shivers, who plays his Amateur Athletic Union ball with the since-renamed D.C. Assault, now D.C. Premier. “I wasn’t getting any college looks.

Coach Cole could change that.”

The others — namely Byron Hawkins (formerly of Our Lady of Good Counsel), Jon Davis (formerly National Christian), Develle Phillips (formerly Bowie) and Leroy Butts (formerly O’Connell) — don’t necessarily need the increased exposure that comes with playing on a team with such a high-profile schedule. Davis is already committed to DePaul, Hawkins to Towson and Butts to Rutgers. They’re in it to be a part of a program that has a bona fide chance at establishing itself as a national powerhouse.

“We have the talent,” said Davis, a junior. “Not that many schools can say they have six or seven dudes who are going highlevel [Division I].”

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4500 KNOX ROAD, COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND 20740 • 240-487-3500

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You Are Cordially Invited To Attend The Inauguration Of The 2013 – 2015 City of College Park Mayor and Council Tuesday, December 10, 2013 7:30 P.M. City Hall Council Chambers 4500 Knox Road

CITY HALL, LOWER LEVEL CONFERENCE ROOM 4500 KNOX ROAD, COLLEGE PARK Neighborhood Watch is a safety program for citizens by citizens to watch for and report suspicious and criminal activities.

Neighborhood Watch training dates: • December 5 – 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm • December 7 – 9:00 am to 11:30 am Attendance of one date only required (multiple offerings to accommodate.)

For more information please contact, Dino Pignataro at 240-487-3570 or jdpignataro@collegeparkmd.gov.

FREE BREAKFAST WITH SANTA

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2013 COLLEGE PARK COMMUNITY CENTER 5051 PIERCE AVENUE 10:00 AM UNTIL 12:00 PM Children of all ages are invited to visit with Santa! Enjoy a complimentary continental breakfast and bring your camera to capture photos with Santa! Sponsored by the College Park Recreation Board and the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission. Reservations not required. For more information, please call 240-487-3570 or 301-441-2647.

CURBSIDE LEAF COLLECTION IS UNDERWAY

College Park will continue curbside leaf collection until January 2014 with the leaf vacuums. Look for the posted signs to know when curbside leaf collection will occur in your neighborhood.

Collection schedules are tentative; please refer to the city website (http://www.collegeparkmd.gov) or contact Public Works at 240-487-3590 for the most updated information. Weather conditions may affect collection (rain may delay collection; dry conditions may generate dust). We apologize for any inconvenience.

LEAF COLLECTION PROCEDURES

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.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2014 7:30 PM MAYOR AND COUNCIL WORKSESSION

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.

COMCAST/VERIZON CUSTOMER • Block storm drains or fire hydrants, as this can lead to storm FEEDBACK REQUESTED water and emergency access problems.

The College Park Cable Television Commission would like to hear • Pile leaves in the street. Leaves in the street can create a about the customer experience when calling Comcast or Verizon. We slipping hazard, parking problems, and clog storm drains. have an escalation process to help customers who may be experiencing problems they feel are not being addressed by the company.

For information about shopping, dining, If you would like to share your experience, please send an email to cabletv@collegeparkmd.gov. The Cable Television Commission attractions, services, and accommodations will review responses at their next meeting. in College Park, visit shopcollegepark.org

TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2014 7:30 PM MAYOR AND COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING

CITY OF COLLEGE PARK WINTER ALERT SNOW & ICE REMOVAL

City Hall Bulletin Board MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEETINGS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2013 7:00 PM MAYOR AND COUNCIL WORKSESSION TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2013 7:30 PM MAYOR AND COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING AND INAUGURATION OF THE 2013 – 2015 MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL, FOLLOWED BY A RECEPTION

All meetings take place in the 2nd floor Council Chambers of City Hall, 4500 Knox Road, College Park, MD unless noted. All meetings are open to the public except Executive Sessions. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at 240-487-3501 and describe the assistance that is necessary.

All Mayor and Council meetings can be viewed live on Comcast cable channel 71 or Verizon channel 25. Regular Council Meetings and Worksessions are rebroadcast in their entirety at the following times: Wednesdays at 8pm, Thursdays and Fridays at 6pm, and Saturdays at 10am Worksessions and Council meetings may also be viewed live over the internet. Those interested in watching the live meetings from their computer should visit the City’s website at www.collegeparkmd.gov, and click on the menu item “Council Meetings Video”. You will be redirected to the Granicus, Inc. web site which will host the web streaming and archiving of Council meetings. Meetings that are streamed will also be archived for future viewing through the City’s website.

Meeting Agendas are posted on the City’s website on the Friday afternoon prior to the meetings www.collegeparkmd.gov – and are available at the City Clerk’s office. Meeting back-up materials will be posted to the website on the Monday prior to the meeting.

Meeting schedule is subject to change. For current information, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at 240-487-3501.

COUNCIL ACTION

At their regular meeting on November 12, 2013, the College Park City Council took the following actions: • Voted to voice no objection to the application for a new Class B, Beer and Wine License for the use of Fishnet Restaurant, LLC, t/a Fishnet, 5008-5010 Berwyn Road, subject to the applicant entering into a Property Use Agreement with the City in substantially the form as attached, authorization for the City Manager to sign the PUA and for staff to testify to the City’s position at the BOLC hearing.

• Approved a letter to the Prince George’s County Council in support of CB-77-2013 - Neighborhood Nuisance Bill (Wojahn opposed; Kabir abstained).

• Appointed Arthur Eaton to the Veterans Memorial Improvement Committee

Around Town!

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY BUS DRIVER – PART-TIME On-call driver needed to transport senior citizens and others to shopping, medical appointments, and various events within an 8-mile radius of College Park on weekdays. No guaranteed schedule. Valid driver’s license and a kind and patient manner are required. CDL w/passenger endorsement preferred. City application is required. Open until filled.

Applications are available from: City of College Park - Human Resources, 4500 Knox Road, College Park, MD 20740. Or on our website: www.collegeparkmd.gov. EOE

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November 28, 2013

INFORMATION SYSTEMS TECHNICIAN Full-time desktop support position. Responsible for installing, configuring, trouble-shooting, repairing and upgrading hardware/software to insure optimal performance. Other duties include assisting users with hardware/software problems and providing user training. Required qualifications include high school diploma or equivalent plus additional relevant vocational or college course work and a minimum of two years hands-on work experience troubleshooting PCs and upgrading software in a network environment. Working knowledge of Linux, Cisco switches, AS400, website maintenance and VPN technology is a plus. Starting salary $40,949 DOQ plus excellent benefits. Apply online before December 4, 2013 at www.collegeparkmd.gov and please attach a resume and cover letter. EOE

Property owners, occupants and merchants are reminded of the City requirement to remove accumulated snow and ice from all walkways, driveways, parking lots and other areas used by pedestrians or automobiles. The owner or occupant of any property that abuts the sidewalk must clean public sidewalks of ice, sleet and snow for their full width. It is required that snow and ice be removed within the first eight (8) hours of daylight after snowfall stops. These requirements are listed under City Code Sections 1576(B)(10) and 141-5(A).

Though City code enforcement officers may not cite all such violations immediately after a storm, failure to comply with this regulation in a timely manner could be used as evidence by anyone injured in a fall on or adjacent to your property if you are sued for such injuries.

Be prepared! Keep snow shovels and salt ready for the next storm, and plan to have help available if necessary to make your walkway safe as soon as the snow stops falling.

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.

From The Public Works Dept...

9217 51st Avenue

240-487-3590

publicworks@collegeparkmd.gov

ALL CITY DEPARTMENTS CLOSED NOVEMBER 28 & 29, 2013

City departments 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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27TH ANNUAL WINTER FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS OPENS IN UPPER MARLBORO

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WINTER FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS n When: 5-9:30 p.m. nightly, Nov. 29 to Jan. 1 n Where: Watkins Regional Park, 301 Watkins Park Drive/Route 193, Upper Marlboro n Admission: $5 per car/van; $10 multi-visit (three visits, transferable); $15 per minibus or limo; $25 per bus; free on Dec. 25 n For information: 301-699-2456; pgparks.com/Festival_of_lights.htm n Of note: Donations are accepted for local food banks

Candy canes lead the way as Watkins Regional Park celebrates the Winter Festival of Lights.

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WILL C. FRANKLIN STAFF WRITER

he holidays are just around the corner, and what better way to celebrate than by seeing bright, twinkling lights as you ride through the park.

For the 27th year, Watkins Regional Park in Upper Marlboro will be adorned with more than a million holiday twinkling lights as the park gears up for the Winter Festival of Lights. The drive-through event allows people to see miles of light displays without having to leave their car.

Kathleen Garrity, program superintendent for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, said the idea for the event came after a visit to Oglebay Park in Wheeling, W.Va. “We met with them just to sort of pick

their brains of how they run their [holiday lights],” Garrity said. “We then came down and started it here at Watkins Regional Park.”

Visitors are asked to bring food donations, which in turn will be delivered to area food banks.

“We’ve always asked for food donations,” Garrity said. “It used to be, for several years, it was free admission and then we’d ask for canned goods or cash donations and all the canned goods go to local shelters.

Then we started charging, I think in 2001.

We’re still the best deal in town. It’s just $5 per car. We still ask for the canned good donations. [The donations] have gone down some since before we were free, but we still get over 300 cases of food to donate.”

The event is made for people to drive through it. Stopping along the way to get out of your car is not allowed — nor is it safe — according to Garrity.

“We get a lot of cars [that] come

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A kingdom of lights awaits at Watkins Regional Park.

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PHOTOS BY JASON C. KUO

The brush and ink paintings of Gao Xingjian, including “Dark Story” left, and “Morning Fog,” are on view at The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland to Dec. 20. A native of China who now lives in Paris, Gao will attend a reception on Dec. 4 at the gallery in the Art-Sociology Building. Also a filmmaker and author, Gao won the Nobel Prize in 2000 for his novels, plays, short stories and poetry.

Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian, 73, will soon be flying in from Paris to attend an artist’s reception in his honor on Wednesday at the University of Maryland, College Park.

In 2000, Gao was the first Chinese-born writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature for his plays, poetry, short stories and novels. But Gao is also globally known as an artist and avant-garde filmmaker.

His brush-and-ink paintings and films are on display at The Art Gallery in UMD’s Art-Sociology Building through Dec. 20.

The exhibit of 27 paintings and three films, called “The Inner Landscape: The Paintings and Films of Gao Xingjian” is curated by Jason C. Kuo, a professor

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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, “Dark Passages,” coming in February, 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, Winter Big Band Show-

case, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 2; UMD Japanese Koto Ensemble and UMD Gamelan Saraswati, 8 p.m. Dec. 4; New Music at Maryland, 8 p.m.

Dec. 4; Bach Cantata Series: NWV 106, 1:30 p.m. Dec. 5; The Inner Landscape, 2 p.m. Dec. 5; Honors Chamber Music Recital, 8 p.m.

Dec. 5, University of Maryland, College Park, claricesmithcenter. umd.edu.

Harmony Hall Regional Center, TBA, call for prices, 10701 Livingston Road, Fort Washington, 301203-6070, 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, “It’s a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play,” Dec. 13 to Jan. 4, call for ticket prices, Laurel Mill Playhouse, 508 Main St., Laurel, 301-452-2557, www.laurelmillplayhouse.org.

Montpelier Arts Center, Divas Deck the Halls, 5 p.m. Dec. 7, 9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel, 301-3777800, arts.pgparks.com.

National Harbor, ICE! “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” to Jan. 5, Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, 201 Waterfront Street, National Harbor, Maryland. www.christmasonthepotomac.com.

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, Snow Queen, 10:15 a.m. and noon, Dec. 3, 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, 301-832-4819,

p.m. Nov. 30; Little Red and the Renegades, 8 p.m. Nov. 30; Cooking with Gas, 5 p.m. Dec. 1; Ruthie and the Wranglers, 7 p.m. Dec. 3; Apothecary, 7 p.m. Dec. 4; Midday Melodies with Amy C. Kraft, noon, Dec. 5; Open Mic with Paige Powell, 7 p.m. Dec. 5; The Moxie Blues Band, 8 p.m. Dec. 6; The TV John Show, 11 a.m. Dec. 7; Bruce Kritt, 4 p.m. Dec. 7; The U-Liners, 8 p.m. Dec. 7, 113 Centerway Road, 301-474-5642, www.newdealcafe.com.

Old Bowie Town Grill, Wednesday Night Classic Jam, 8 p.m. every Wednesday, sign-ups start at 7:30 p.m., 8604 Chestnut Ave., Bowie, 301-464-8800, www.oldbowietowngrille.com.

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OUTDOORS GAYLORD NATIONAL RESORT

DASH AWAY! DASH AWAY! DASH AWAY ALL! Santa and his eight reindeer take to the skies in the “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” ICE! display at the National Harbor. For information, visit www.christmasonthepotomac.com. 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, gallery open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, 9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel, 301377-7800, arts.pgparks.com.

University of Maryland University College, TBA, call for prices

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

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

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

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

New Deal Café, John Guernsey, 6:30 p.m. Nov. 29-30, Dec. 6-7; The Hall Brothers Band, 8 p.m. Nov. 29; Jazz Jam with Greg Meyer, 1

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

REC CENTERS Prince George’s Sports & Learning Complex, Senior Days at

the Sportsplex, 8 a.m.-noon Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, seniors allowed free use of the fitness center and pool, age 60 and up, 8001 Sheriff Road, Landover, 301-583-2400.

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AT THE MOVIES

Director gives ‘Hunger Games’ franchise and heroine a solid score BY

MICHAEL PHILLIPS CHICAGO TRIBUNE

“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” is a lot like its own celebrity heroine, Katniss Everdeen, who begins this second “Hunger Games” movie fulfilling a public relations tour as penance for her killer — literally, killer — popularity. She is adored by millions; the books are too. The three Suzanne Collins novels, to be spread across four films, are being adapted with both eyes on fidelity to the source material. All “Catching Fire” had to do was to show up, look good and not screw up to succeed.

Consider “Catching Fire” an example of successful franchise installment delivery, on time and in sturdy condition.

Some interesting shifts in tone and texture this time out.

The film looks nothing like the first, Gary Ross-directed “Hunger Games,” which I slightly prefer to the solid, well-paced No. 2. “Catching Fire” features director Francis Lawrence behind the camera, and already he has signed for the next two.

Ross favored hand-held shakycam stylistics in his depiction of futuristic totalitarian America, a police-state mess known as Panem. Lawrence, by contrast, shoots “Catching Fire” with a steadier gaze and a sleeker touch, offering a little bit of everything and not too much of any one thing.

For newbies: The games of the title are battles to the death between cunning, resourcefully murderous representatives of Panem’s beaten-down districts. Through her wiles, her bow-and-arrow skills and her bangin’ fashion sense Katniss triumphed, mournfully, in the first movie, surviving to the end and cleverly engineering a lifesaving maneuver for her friend and fellow district competitor, the baker’s son, Peeta.

“Catching Fire” opens in the script by Simon Beaufoy and Michael deBruyn with Katniss and Peeta, pretending to be sweethearts for a rabid TV audience, embarking on their 12-day victory tour, culminating in a big show at the Capitol. President Snow connives to crush this fearsomely famous woman, whose ability to foment revolution among the oppressed masses is nothing to dismiss.

The movie is part treatise on the hardships of unwanted notoriety, part blood sport revisited, the games this time played by an all-star cadre of past winners.

Ways to die? Oh so many.

This time there’s creeping, human-made poisonous fog, which gives its victims a miserable case of acne, as if there weren’t already enough points of identification for teens. There are electrocutions, stabbings and other classics. Shooting in Hawaii, which gives this sequel a distinct “Lost” look, direc-

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE n 3 stars n PG-13; 146 minutes n Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth. Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci n Directed by Francis Lawrence

tor Lawrence traffic-manages with considerable effectiveness.

The simian attack, for example, which is plenty scary, recalls Lawrence’s work with the computer-generated beasties in his remake of “I Am Legend,” the one starring Will Smith.

Like that picture, “Catching Fire” has the bonus of a genuinely charismatic performer at its center. Jennifer Lawrence, now an Oscar winner thanks to “Silver Linings Playbook,” emotes like crazy throughout “Catching Fire,” but you never catch her acting. It feels real, and Lawrence sees to it that we rarely experience the dramatic set-ups in terms of cheap revenge or conventional movie blood lust.

Josh Hutcherson returns as Peeta; his romantic rival for Katniss’ preoccupied affections (she’s got a lot going on, after all) is once again played by Liam Hemsworth. Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks and Lenny Kravitz buzz around engagingly as Katniss’ entourage. You keep waiting for better zingers, which never arrive, but “The Hunger Games” isn’t about wit; it’s about blunt lessons in hypocrisy and class warfare, about to be waged but good.

Newcomers to the franchise, all welcome, include Philip Seymour Hoffman, as the game designer with the ambiguous motives, and Jeffrey Wright and Amanda Plummer as a Muttand-Jeff pair of unlikely competitors, more about brains than brawn. The violence in “Catching Fire” can get pretty rough, but the reason these first two movies work relates to our ability to take the carnage seriously.

Lawrence’s Katniss doesn’t Bruce-Willis her way through the events of the rather thinly spread story. Each time she witnesses a killing, state-sanctioned or otherwise, it hurts. It means something. We’re not talking about highly dimensional or evocative mythmaking here; the films are more about hitting the marks and setting up the next part. But they work.

Postscript A: I find the rampant fashion merchandising tie-ins with “Catching Fire” pretty strange, given the outre, drag-queeny excess of costume designer Trish Summerville’s clothes. At times the results verge on “Priscilla: Queen of the Hunger Games.” But for many the costumes are part of the dys-

Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen and Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark in “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.” topian, blood-stained fun.

Postscript B: Stanley Tucci

reprises, drolly, his role of the oily reality-TV host from the

first picture. If his teeth get any whiter we’re going to need spe-

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Bowie State University is adding to the store of holiday cheer this year with its new “A Holiday Bistro” musical revue.

“It’s meant to be entertaining,” said theater professor Elliott Moffitt, who developed the show with musical director professor Gilbert Pryor.

The free student performance will

be presented on Dec. 7 on the main stage of the university’s Fine and Performing Arts Center, which opened in January 2012.

“We got the idea for a Motown Christmas,” said Moffitt, explaining that there will be lively arrangements of holiday songs for a group of 12 singers.

“There will also be some dancing,” he said.

In the 1960s and early 1970s, groups such as the Temptations, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles and the Jackson 5 recorded crossover Christmas tunes “trying to introduce themselves to a larger population,” Moffitt

A HOLIDAY BISTRO n When: 7 p.m. Dec. 7 (Music in the lobby before the concert) n Where: Main Stage Theatre, Fine and Performing Arts Center, Bowie State University, 14000 Jericho Park Road, Bowie n Tickets: Free n For information: 301-860-3717, bowiestate.edu

said.

Featured in “A Holiday Bistro” are

songs such as “This Christmas” recorded by Donny Hathaway, “Some Day at Christmas” by Stevie Wonder, “Santa Baby” by Eartha Kitt and “Gee Whiz, It’s Christmas” by Carla Thomas, as well as songs such as “Silver Bells” and “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?” Also on stage will be BSU’s gospel choir performing three numbers, including “Soulful Messiah,” an arrangement of Handel’s “Messiah” but with an African-American beat.

“One of the students is doing the choreography for this show,” Moffitt said.

There will also be a reading from the Gospel of Luke and instrumental music performed by students in the lobby before the show, he said.

Moffitt said he and the BSU students have been presenting revues for years, but this year is the first time they’ve produced “A Holiday Bistro.”

“There was no show, no script, when we started this,” said Moffitt, who is inviting the audience to join in.

“We hope at some point the audience will stand up and sing along,” he said. vterhune@gazette.net

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CARA HEDGEPETH STAFF WRITER

On Monday , Chris Vadala, University of Maryland’s Jazz Studies Program director, will conduct the 20th anniversary Winter Big Band Showcase at the Kay Theatre in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Vadala, also a saxophone professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, has directed the holiday concert for its entire 20-year run.

The two-hour show features three of the university’s jazz bands; the UMD Jazz Ensemble, the primary jazz big band for advanced jazz and music majors, the UMD Lab Band, made up of music majors as well as advanced non-music majors, and the newest and largest group,

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the UMD Jazz Band, an all-campus band drawing musicians from all majors of study.

“Jazz is considered to be American music and that’s what we’re trying to showcase in our concert,” Vadala said. “We will do a couple holiday tunes ... wintry-themed pieces played by the different bands and some others written by large jazz composers.”

Some of the night’s selections include The “Nutcracker

Overture” by Duke Ellington and “Things to Come” by Dizzy Gillespie.

A graduate of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., Vadala said he was about 12 years old when he decided it would be music and not Little League baseball he’d pursue.

Though neither of his parents were musicians, they were avid listeners and passed their passion for music on to their son.

“The music education part of it [came] because .., I had a good instructor along the way,” Vadala said. “I saw what they were doing and I really wanted to accept that for my own career choice.”

In addition to directing the

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three ensembles for the Big Band Showcase, Vadala serves as the “full administrator to the jazz program” year-round.

He advises all of the jazz majors in the School of Music and directs four of the university’s jazz ensembles. He rehearses with the Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Lab Band twice a week for 1 1/2 hours and with the University Jazz Band for two hours, once a week. He also leads the university’s Alumni Reunion Jazz Band which meets just once a year.

When Vadala is not teaching, he still performs professionally which he said has helped make him a more effective instructor.

“I perform as a professional performer so I have the best of

both worlds,” Vadala said. “My own personal passion to perform in different settings has really turned out to be a great balance between the two. In performing, I can bring experiences back to my students as they proceed in their musical careers.”

In addition to Vadala, University of Maryland junior music major Lianna Gekker has another role model on the School of Music faculty; her father.

Chris Gekker is a trumpet professor at the University of Maryland and Lianna plays the piano for the UMD Jazz Lab Band. This will be her third year playing in the Big Band Showcase.

“It’s really cool seeing the other bands do different tunes,” Gekker said. “It’s nice to hear them, to hear the other musicians.”

Gekker added that it’s the collaborative nature of jazz that first attracted her to the genre.

“In high school was when I really got into it and thought, this is what I’m going to do in college,” said Gekker, a graduate of Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda. “[I liked] the improvisation element; the fact that jazz is pretty much all about improv and listening to other people who are in the band with you ... Especially the improvisation and the collective aspect of playing with other people and complimenting them.”

While Gekker is looking forward to the chance to hear the other two ensembles play, master’s student and drummer in the UMD Jazz Ensemble Andrew Hare said there is a sense of healthy competition between the various groups.

“There may be a little bit of competitiveness but there is a lot of camaraderie,” Hare said.

Ultimately, Hare said the evening is an opportunity for the musicians, and the audience, to hear a varied selection of jazz.

“There’s a huge diversity of styles, even within each band selection,” Hare said. “It’s sort of a sampling of the jazz music ... I think it’s fun for the audience, too.” chedgepeth@gazette.net

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“There’s a lot of interest in his work around the world because he’s multi-faceted,” said Kuo. “He writes novels, short stories, essay and art theory.”

THE INNER LANDSCAPE: THE PAINTINGS AND FILMS OF GAO XINGJIAN n When: To Dec. 20. Call gallery for hours and film screenings n Artist’s reception: 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday (informal talk/Q&A with Gao and curator and UMD Professor Jason Kuo at 6:15 p.m.) n Where: The Art Gallery, 1202 Art-Sociology Building, University of Maryland, College Park n Tickets: Free n For information: 301-4052763, artgallery.umd.edu (for images of paintings, click on “gallery images.”)

GAO XINGJIAN Stage reading/discussion of plays n When: 2-3:15 p.m. Dec. 5. n Guest Facilitator: Claire Conceison, Duke University n Where: Cafritz Foundation Theatre, 3800 Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, College Park n Tickets: Free n For information: 301-4057794, claricesmithcenter. umd.edu, nobelprize.org

Gao and Kuo will give an informal talk and host a Q&A during the Wednesday reception.

On hand will be translators fluent in Chinese and French who will interpret for Gao, who does not speak English.

On the afternoon of Dec. 5, Gao and Kuo will attend a stage reading and discussion of Gao’s plays at the Cafritz Foundation Theatre at the Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts on campus. The readings will be performed in English by students in the Globalization and Theatre class.

In his work, Gao draws from both earlier Chinese and later European influences.

“The ‘borders’ [Gao] has crossed are not only those that mark geographic and political boundaries but also the borders associated with artistic media, literary genres, and cultures,” wrote Kuo in his essay, “On Gao Xingjian’s Films, Paintings, and Photographs.”

A native of Taiwan who now lives in Greenbelt, Kuo taught at National Taiwan University, Williams College and Yale University before coming to College Park in 1990. He published a book this year called “The Inner Landscape: The Paintings of Gao Xingjian” that includes 300 images of Gao’s paintings.

to create images without other kinds of pigment. [The paintings] are very subtle.”

Manyofthemcommunicatea sense of introspection and reflection, often featuring a lone figure, say other observers.

Gao draws on a long tradition of Chinese “literati” painting, which typically also incorporated calligraphy in the painting, something that Gao chooses to leave out.

But Gao also draws on the traditional Chinese principal of space as solid (“shi”) and void (“xu”) with void leaving room for the viewer’s imagination to work.

“Even though he’s now working and creating in the West, he still [draws] on a lot of the Chinese painting tradition,” Kuo said.

Screening in The Art Gallery are Gao’s three films, works that he calls “tripartite” films, because they incorporate paintings and photographs, sound and music.

Gao has said he gives equal weight to all the elements, not favoring one over another.

His films don’t follow a narrative or focus on an issue, nor are they commercially distributed.

His 90-minute “Silhouette/ Shadow,” finished in 2006, was made as a result of a stay in Marseille where he was rehearsing a play and nearly died from heart problems. “[T]he film interweaves scenes from his ‘real’ life, scenes from his imagination, excerpts from his poems, excerpts from theater performances he scripted, images from his oil paintings, music . . . and sound,” wrote critic Barbara Yien.

Gao’s 28-minute “After The Flood” (2008) incorporates paintings and photographs with music and the movement of dancers.

His two-hour “Requiem For Beauty,” completed this year, includes video from Gao’s travels, including visits to Japan and Ireland, and poetry in French, Chinese and English.

In 1982 he made his debut as a playwright with “Absolute Signal,” followed in 1983 by “Bus Stop,” which was soon shut down by the government.

“His kind of individualism was not good from the point of view of the government,” Kuo said.

Banned from publishing for a year and falsely diagnosed with lung cancer, Gao took time off in 1983 to travel through southern China, starting in Sichuan Province and following the Yangtze River east to the China coast.

Along the way he met peo-

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ple living in rural areas who contributed folk tales to what would later become Gao’s rambling and reflective novel, “Soul Mountain.”

In 1987, Gao traveled to France as a painter, and after the Chinese government’s crackdown on students in Tiananmen Square in 1989, he sought asylum and resolved not to return to China.

Since then Gao has had 30 international exhibitions of his ink wash paintings. vterhune@gazette.net

Gao Xingjian shown in a 1983 photo.

JASON C. KUO

Born in China Born in 1940 in Ganzhou, an inland city in southeastern China, Gao was the son of an amateur actress.

He developed an early interest in theater, writing, and painting and studied French at Beijing Foreign Studies University (1957–1962), later working as a translator of classical French literature.

Gao was also writing manuscripts of his own but had to burn them after running into government opposition during Mao’s Cultural Revolution, which started in 1966.

In 1970, he was sent to a prison farm where he worked as a peasant. Mao died in 1976, and in 1981 Gao was appointed resident playwright at the Beijing People’s Arts Theatre.

Influenced by Western playwrights such as Brecht and Beckett, Gao became known for absurdist drama that also criticized government policies.

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Paintings and films Gao’s ink-and-brush paintings, which the artist calls “mindscapes,” reflect multiple tones of black, white and gray.

“It’s a very fluid medium,” Kuo said. “Using water and Chinese ink, he can vary substantially the tonality and washes

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Although the lights are really pretty and the park is lit up at night, Garrity encourages drivers to keep their lights on while driving in the park.

“A lot of people turn off their headlights,” Garrity said.

“They’re like, ‘Oh, we want to see the lights and we want it to be dark!’ It is dark and that makes for sort of a dangerous situation when people are driving without their headlights.” wfranklin@gazette.net

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25,980

$

2010 Volvo XC60 3.2L

$11,480

2012 Mazda Mazda 3 Speed 3

2009 Nissan Xterra X

2013 Honda Civic XLE

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$17,980

$18,480

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2008 Cadillac STS

2013 Volkswagen Passat SE

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2011 Toyota Camry LE......... $14,800 $14,800 2013 Toyota Camry LE.......... $19,800 $19,800 #P8785, 6 SpeedAuto, 36.2k Miles, Blue Ribbon Metallic #R1747, 6 Speed Auto, 11.9k Miles, 4 Door

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$25,980 $27,980

#429002A, 4WD, Sport Utility, 44K Miles, Gray Metallic Certified...........

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$36,480

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2010 Chevrolet Malibu LTZ

2008 Volvo V70 3.2L

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2011 Toyota Camry LE......... $13,800 $13,800 2010 Toyota Venza............. $18,800 $18,800 #P8771, 6 SpeedAuto, 42.2k Miles, Magnetic Gray Metallic #374551A, 6 SpeedAuto, Barcelona Red Metallic, 1 Owner

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#325074A, Navigation, Back-Up Camera, 4WD, 1-Owner, Smokey Mica

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2007 Toyota Sienna LE........ $11,800 $11,800 2012 Scion XB.................. $14,800 $14,800 #364373A, 5 SpeedAuto, 2WD,Artic Frost Pearl #450015A, 4 SpeedAuto, 15.4k Miles, Super White

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#E0259, 5 Speed Auto, 38K Miles, Polished Slate

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10 Toyota Rav-4 $$

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