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The traffic volume on the Intercounty Connector has increased by 75 percent since opening to Interstate 95 almost two years ago, according to new data from the Maryland Transportation Authority. Kelly Melhem, a spokesperson for the transportation authority, explained that this fairly new addition to the state’s highway system is still in its “ramp-up period” as its popularity increases and more motorists “identify the benefits of using the ICC.” The transportation authority’s annual financial statement reports that more than 17.2 million trips were made on the ICC between July 2012 and June 2013 and the total revenue reached $39.59 million, which was slightly higher than the projected amount of $39.56 million. MDTA Acting Executive Secretary Bruce Gartner said in a press release that traffic on the road approached 40,000 vehicles daily during the month of September adding that drivers are making longer trips on the ICC than the authority had originally estimated. Though the speed limit was originally set at 55 mph, studies and crash analysis confirmed that the speed limit could be safely raised to 60 mph and with that increase in March, the transportation authority believes that drivers could potentially further decrease their travel time from end to end by a minute and a half. A traffic study released this year by the transportation authority and Maryland State Highway Administration found that drivers on the ICC have cut their travel time in half when compared to travelers on local east-west routes. It also found that drivers on other local routes during peak hours have experienced a travel-time reduction of 5 to 11 percent compared to before the ICC. “The study had very positive conclusions,” Melhem said. “It is not just helping ICC motorists, but also helping traffic on local roads.” Melhem said that the next step towards helping congestion on Maryland roads is to continue the construction that will extend the ICC from Interstate 370 and its current ending at I-95 to U.S. 1. The segment is projected to open next spring. sschmieder@gazette.net
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Graciela Saraiva has been trying to change the status of her discharge from the Navy. She received an “other than honorable” discharge due to a drug analysis revealing doctor-prescribed medication when a wisdom tooth was removed.
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For three years, Graciela Saraiva has been trying to clear her name after she was discharged from the U.S. Navy under “other than honorable” conditions for failing a drug urinalysis. Saraiva, 23, of Olney, tested positive for codeine, which was in Tylenol-3 pills she was taking after getting her wisdom teeth removed, she said. During her orientation for
the Navy Reserve, she took a urinalysis, she said. There was paperwork asking what medication she was on. She left it blank. It was a simple mistake, she said; she didn’t list her birth control either. “It didn’t even occur to me,” she said of the Tylenol. When contacted by The Gazette, Hunjin Kim, a Silver Spring-based dental surgeon, confirmed Saraiva’s account. The Navy found codeine and morphine in Saraiva’s system, and sent her a letter in May 2010, telling her she had tested positive for the drugs. A Navy spokeswoman said the Navy has a zero tolerance for drug use, but would not publicly comment on details of Saraiva’s dismissal.
Saraiva contends that she didn’t receive the letter right away because it had been improperly addressed to her and because she was in California completing her annual reserve training, she said. When she returned from her annual training, supervisors pulled her aside. “They give me a letter which said I had popped for codeine,” she said of the positive drug test. They escorted her off the base, and told her that if she didn’t provide paperwork that explained the codeine in her system, she would be kicked out of the Navy. It was a shock for Saraiva,
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Montgomery County will continue to pay the water bills of approximately 100 Laytonsville homeowners whose wells were contaminated by the Oaks Landfill, as long as they own their homes. Robert G. Hoyt, director of the county’s Department of Environmental Protection, said that a letter was expected to go out this week to affected homeowners, announcing the county’s decision. “As you know, the county installed public water to properties near the now-closed Oaks landfill in the late 1990s and agreed to pay the potable water bills for fifteen (15) years,” stated Hoyt in the letter. “Upon further review, I have decided that the county should continue to pay these water bills in accordance with the terms of existing contracts for as long as each property is owned by the person (or persons) who executed the applicable contract.” In March, County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) sent a memorandum to the County Council, stating that he believed the obligation for the county to pay the water bills should be extended. The council did not have any objections and therefore was not required to take action on the issue. It was forwarded on to the Department of Environmental Protection. “As the county execu-
“Everyone just felt this was the right thing to do.” Robert G. Hoyt, director, county Department of Environmental Protection tive said, no conditions have changed,” said Hoyt. “Everyone just felt this was the right thing to do.” Miller Poppleton, president of the Stanbrook Lane Homeowners Association, represents 19 homes, 10 of which are affected. “We are very pleased and appreciate the county’s largesse,” he said. “While it was the appropriate action, I am not sure that all counties would have done it. The county has again shown itself to be concerned regarding the welfare of its citizens.” Poppleton said that residents incurred additional expenses associated with the well infrastructure. When they purchased their homes with wells, most homeowners installed filtration systems to remove impurities, such as iron which would discolor laundry. These systems, which cost up to $6,000, were shut off once public water was connected, and the tanks remain empty in their basements. “The filtration systems became obsolete, but the investment did not go away,” he said.
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Middle school students’ performance will be tracked by the Measures of Academic Progress test as the county’s schools await data from new state assessments. Kimberly Statham — deputy superintendent of teaching, learning and programs for the school system — said in a presentation to the school board Monday that the school system eventually
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will develop academic targets based on the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness of College and Careers. PARCC will be fully implemented in the school system next school year. “In the meantime, however, we need a high-quality instrument to assess the health of the school system,” she said. “We believe that that instrument is MAP.” The computer-based progress test that assesses math and reading performance already is in use in the school system. This year, however, will mark the first time the test is used to assess student progress systemwide, Statham said. Superintendent Joshua P. Starr said
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these measures are not the same as the “milestone” targets described in the strategic planning framework he announced in June. Starr said that Monday evening’s conversation marked the first of four the school board will have regarding the school system’s milestones. According to the strategic plan, students will be tracked through five milestones at grades three, five, eight and nine and graduation. The data from the progress test, Starr said, will rather serve as a placeholder of sorts. “Until we have PARCC, we don’t have targets,” he said.
Using the test to create temporary progress measures will help schools understand how to improve their instruction, Starr said. “It makes sense for measuring our progress without imposing a whole new test or using tests that are going away,” he said. Students will continue to take the Maryland School Assessments. Because the MAP test recently underwent significant change, the 20132014 school year will mark the school system’s baseline year for data, Starr said.
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Sherwood High’s field hockey teams think pink for cancer Olney’s Sherwood High School field hockey teams participated in a Play 4 the Cure game against Clarksburg High School Oct. 8, not only netting goals but scoring big bucks for cancer research. Varsity and junior varsity players wore pink shirts, socks, armbands and hair ribbons as they competed. It was a successful night — not only did Sherwood’s varsity team win 3-0 and junior varsity win 1-0 — but the girls raised more than $1,000, which will be donated to cancer research. The team raised money the through a website set up by their head coach, Amy Morse. Players, families and friends contributed more than $800 online, which will go to the National Foundation for Cancer Research. The players also raised money by purchasing “Stick It To Cancer” shirts, as well as pink accessories for their first Play 4 the Cure game. A portion of the money from their purchases also went to the same charity. Money also was collected from fans at the game. Donations are still being accepted at firstgiving.com/fundraiser/amy-morse-2/p4tc or checks can be sent in the name of Sherwood Field Hockey to National Foundation for Cancer Research, attn: Eli Goldstein, 4600 East West Highway, Suite 525, Bethesda, MD 20814.
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Zumba and Halloween fun Maya Wolf, 12, of Olney, continues to raise funds for a cause she is passionate about. For her bat mitzvah project, she is raising money to support Lev Lalev, a nonprofit home in Israel that provides orphaned girls with basic needs. She spent all summer making her Recycled Treasures jewelry out of pop tabs and selling it to raise money for the organization. Maya, a seventh-grader at Parkland Magnet Middle School, has organized two community fundraisers. Her jewelry will be available for purchase at both. She will host a Zumba class at 2 p.m. Sunday in Re/Max Realty Centre’s Olney Community Room. The event is free and donations will be accepted. “We would like to invite anyone who would like to attend, adults and children alike,” Maya said. “If you always wanted to try Zumba and were not sure, this is a great opportunity to try it.” On Monday, she will host a Halloween-themed fundraiser at Cheeburger Cheeburger in the Olney Village Center. The restaurant will donate 20 percent of pre-tax checks towards the Lev Lalev fund. Diners must mention Maya’s name or show a flier, available at the restaurant.
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The Sherwood High School field hockey teams raised more than $1,000 for cancer research during their first Play for the Cure event. From left are varsity team seniors Haroula Tzamaras, Mollie Russell, Christina Ricciuti, Gabrielle Yore and Emily Kenul. “Families are invited to a safe and warm Halloween party,” Maya said. “Costumes are encouraged. We will have complimentary face painting for the kids and donations will go towards Lev Lalev Fund.” For more information, contact Maya at recycledtreasures13@yahoo.com.
A thrilling good time on Halloween Olney’s annual Halloween flashmob returns to the Fair Hill shopping center next week. For the past two years, more than 100 students from local dance instructor Krisie Allen’s classes showed up to dance to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” along with other community members. This year, she is inviting everyone in Olney, Brookeville, Sandy Spring and Laytonsville to show up in costume and participate in the “Thriller” dance in front of the fountain, at 4:15 p.m. Oct. 31.
Throughout the month, Allen will go to some of the local schools to teach “Thriller” during recess to encourage participation. She also plans to post a tutorial video on the Olney-Brookeville Exchange Yahoo Group so that others may learn the dance at home. Allen said she hopes the tradition continues to grow. “It is a wonderful way to kick off Halloween,” said Allen, who owns the Dancin’ 4 Ever dance company. For more information, contact her at KrisieAllen@verizon.net.
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Town gets War of 1812 grant Brookville receives $98,500 for commemoration n
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The new Safeway store on Georgia Avenue in Wheaton will open on Friday.
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Wheaton Safeway to reopen BY
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Nearly four years after Safeway closed its doors in Wheaton to build a new one down the street, the new store is scheduled to open on Friday at the corner of Georgia Avenue and Reedie Drive. Craig Muckle, manager of public affairs and government relations for Safeway’s eastern division, said that at 60,000 square feet, the new store will be “much more modern, much larger — at least twice the size of the previous store.” The Safeway is at the base of a new apartment building and features a full service floral department, pharmacy, deli, and meat and sea-
food counter. Muckle said a store of this size typically employs 150-175 people. When the old store closed, employees were able to continue working at nearby Safeways and will be given the option to return once the Wheaton location reopens. Bob Weschler will manage the new store. Safeway has operated a store in Wheaton since 1951, and Friday will mark the second reopening. The previous store opened in 1968. “We’re really looking forward to reopening the store to serve the community,” Muckle said, “We’re looking forward to reintroducing ourselves.” sscully@gazette.net
State officials traveled to the Brookeville Academy on Monday morning to award $1.2 million in grants to the Town of Brookeville and other nonprofit and government entities in support of a variety of War of 1812 Bicentennial projects. T. Eloise Foster, secretary of the Maryland Department of Budget and Management, presented the town, the only recipient from Montgomery County, a grant from the Maryland 1812 Commission in the amount of $98,550 for events associated with its War of 1812 Bicentennial Commemoration, planned for 2014. Other recipients included Maryland Public Television, the Maryland Historical Society, the Maryland Academy of Sciences, the Calvert County Chamber of Commerce, and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture. The grants, supplemented by matching funds, will support programming, education, visitor experience and capital improvement projects. Funding is through corporate sponsorships, state appropriations and proceeds from the sale of Star-Spangled Banner Commemorative Coins and other memorabilia.
“We are pleased to be able to provide these grants, which will be supplemented by more than $2.5 million in matching funds to revitalize communities, spur tourism and create jobs,” said Dominick Murray, Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development secretary. Sandra Heiler, Brookeville’s War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission chairwoman, welcomed visitors to the town with a bit of history, including the fact that only four places have served as the capital of the United States — New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Brookeville. Heiler said while the town may seem small, quaint and old-fashioned, in 1814 it was anything but. The Quaker town was the second largest town in Montgomery County, and was “thoroughly modern.” She said on Aug. 26, 1814, President James Madison fled to Brookeville as the British burned Washington. He sought refuge at the home of Postmaster Caleb Bentley, now known as The Madison House, making Brookeville the U.S. capital for a day. At a reception held at the historic Madison House following the grant presentations, Murray said that being in such a historic setting provides an opportunity for people to learn from the past while moving forward. “I can almost hear the muskets,” Murray said. “We are able to learn from the past through the celebration of the War of 1812, and it continues to demonstrate that we can all become allies, even if we were at one time
enemies.” Brookeville Commission President Michael Acierno said that the event was a great leadoff for next year’s events. “There were a lot of people here familiar with Brookeville, but a lot were not,” he said. “It’s great to see people come to learn about and appreciate our town, and next year, we are looking forward to many others experiencing the joys of Brookeville.” Brookeville’s celebration will include several events taking place throughout 2014, including presentations at Montgomery County History Day, a history symposium, a children’s play, musical performances and archaeological exhibits. The yearlong campaign will culminate on Aug. 30-31, 2014, with a recreation of the events that took place in Brookeville in August 1814. Heiler said this grant, most of which will be matched by the efforts of many volunteers, will be used to create a documentary and for other associated costs. “It is the one thing we will do that will be permanent,” she said. The town has previously received grants from the Daughters of the American Revolution, the state, the Maryland War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission, Montgomery County, Maryland Heritage Areas Authority and Heritage Montgomery. The funds will be used for research at the Maryland State Archives and for the commemoration events. thogan@gazette.net
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Benz said the hope is that the Chinese students — who are learning at the U.S. high-school level — could visit for about a week in the fall each year, possibly starting as soon as next fall. “We want to show them what American football is really like, and homecoming and dances,” she said. Churchill students then could visit in the spring of each year, possibly during their spring vacation, she said. The partnership will let Churchill “heighten the awareness of how important Chinese is as a language” in its students, Benz said. The first Churchill students going abroad likely would take those Chinese courses.
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Students at Winston Churchill High School in Potomac soon might be setting off for the other side of the world. Principal Joan Benz was part of a September trip to China along with Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett, Superintendent Joshua P. Starr and others. Benz returned with an agreement between her school and Xi’an No. 1 Middle School in China that includes plans for regular visits between the two schools.
The agreement also calls for the schools to work toward a teacher-exchange program, which could start with teachers visiting for part of the summer or during their vacation time, Benz said. The schools also will look into a shared study subject related to scientific research, according to the agreement. Benz said the schools currently are identifying their interest areas. Benz said she visited the Xi’an school for a few hours, meeting school leaders and some of its roughly 1,800 students. The Chinese students, she said, were eager to learn about their American counterparts. “The kids there are like sponges,” she said. “They want to know what teen-
agers are like here.” Benz said the schools are similar to each other in that they both have “high standards” and share an interest in technology. She described the Xi’an school as “very modern,” with sculptures on the building entrances, a garden area and a calm atmosphere. “It’s an enclave there,” she said. “It’s a school that’s right in the city, but you wouldn’t know it.” Benz said the visit marked the first time she spoke with the Xi’an school leaders, but they had received a packet of information on Churchill before the trip. The next step, she said, is for
Churchill and Xi’an students to start communicating online and for her school to start fundraising for travel expenses. “We will have to start getting into the fundraising piece, so that we can make this a reality,” she said. Montgomery County Board of Education member Rebecca Smondrowski, who also was part of the county delegation on the China trip, said she’d like the school system to develop a center to help provide similar opportunities to other county schools. lpowers@gazette.net
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Council OKs hike for next members New council salary will be $136,258 in 2017 BY
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Pay for the next members of the Montgomery County Council will increase about $32,000 in the next four years. The current council voted 8-1 to approve the increase Tuesday, based on an amendment by Council President Nancy Navarro (D-Dist. 4) of Silver Spring to phase in the increase. Councilman Philip M. Andrews (D-Dist. 3) of Gaithersburg opposed the increase. According to the amendment, the council’s pay would increase from $104,291 — the level as of December 2012 — to $136,258 on Dec. 4, 2017. There would be increases of 8.6 percent in 2014, 6.5 percent in 2015 and 6.5 percent in 2016. The final increase, in 2017, would be 6.0 percent. The final amount of $136,258
matches the recent recommendation of a committee appointed by the council every four years to study compensation by elected officials, but alters the committee’s suggestion for getting there. The committee’s suggestion would have set the council’s salary at $125,000 starting in December 2014, with cost of living increases each year, bringing it to $136,258 by the end of the four-year term. In proposing the change, Navarro said, the council needs to be mindful of the financial issues facing many county residents as the country continues to recover from the economic recession. Navarro called phasing in the increases a “reasonable and responsible approach.” The first phase, an increase in the salaries to $113,310 a year, won’t take effect until Dec. 1, 2014, after the next election. Lawmakers are legally prohibited in Maryland from giving themselves a raise. The bill the council passed Tuesday also increases the next county executive’s salary from $180,250 a
year to $190,000 per year, and ties the salaries of the county’s sheriff and state’s attorney to a consumer price index. Andrews said he thought Navarro’s amendment was an improvement, but he still thought the increase was too large. Andrews said he’s afraid the increase will make it harder for the county executive to negotiate labor contracts and would inhibit the council’s ability to reject comparable salary increases for other employees. Councilwoman Valerie Ervin (D-Dist. 5) of Silver Spring said she opposed Navarro’s amendment and would have supported the increase as proposed by the committee, but ultimately supported the final proposal. Council Vice President Craig Rice (D-Dist. 2) of Germantown said a majority of people who expressed their disapproval of the increase to him said the council didn’t deserve a raise. Rice said that even though the council works hard to improve the quality of life in the county, it needs
to pay more attention to how its actions are perceived by residents. But Rice said he supported the increase to make sure qualified candidates seek public office in the future. “We need to be sure that we put the best people forward to represent one of the best counties in this nation,” Rice said. Somerset Mayor Jeffrey Slavin — who served on the compensation committee and emphasized Tuesday that he was speaking on his own behalf rather than as a public official — touched on a similar note during a public hearing held before the vote. The impact on the county’s budget is minimal compared to the importance of getting a council that’s most representative of the county, he said. “So, please have the courage to vote for a salary that will result in more candidates to run for your positions and give the voters more options when they go to the polls,” Slavin said. rmarshall@gazette.net
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Former IRS director applied to serve on county’s Grants Advisory Group BY
KATE S. ALEXANDER STAFF WRITER
The woman at the center of an Internal Revenue Service investigations controversy wants to help Montgomery County award grants, and local Republicans are objecting. Lois G. Lerner, past director of exempt organizations for the IRS, applied for a volunteer post on the county’s Grants Advisory Group, a council-appointed panel that screens grant applications and gives advice on proposals from nonprofit groups. Lerner, of Bethesda, made
headlines this year when she and her agency were accused of targeting political groups that applied for tax-exempt status for additional scrutiny. Because of that connection, Mark Uncapher, head of the Montgomery County Republican Central Committee, has asked the County Council to reject Lerner’s application to volunteer. “In light of the continuing inquiry into whether Lerner used her official position at the IRS for partisan ends, she should not be involved in screening Montgomery County nonprofit grant applications,” Uncapher said in a statement. “Appointing Lerner would raise questions about the county’s grant program.” Lerner could not be reached Monday afternoon at a phone num-
County plans Hispanic consumer chat The county’s Office of Consumer Protection will offer a bilingual online chat focusing on issues that affect the Hispanic community. The chat will be conducted by the office’s director, Eric Friedman, and will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. Thursday. The discussion is part of the “Consumer Ed Cafe ... Food for Thought” series. Participants can enter questions in English or Spanish before or during the live discussion at montgomerycountymd.gov/consumer. A transcript will be available to view during and after the chat. For more information, contact the Office of Consumer Protection at 240-777-3636.
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Complete report at www.gazette.net The following is a summary of incidents in the Olney area to which Montgomery County police responded recently. The words “arrested” and “charged” do not imply guilt. This information was provided by the county.
Aggravated assault • On Oct. 3 at 5:33 a.m. in the 2200 block of Georgian Way, Silver Spring. The subject is known to the victim.
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The Montgomery County Planning Department will kick off the Sandy Spring Minor Master Plan Amendment planning effort with a community meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Sandy Spring Volunteer Fire Department’s Oak Room, 17921 Brooke Road. The 1998 Sandy Spring/Ashton Master Plan proposed creating a village center concept for Sandy Spring “that will help ensure that the village center serves its role as a focal point of community life.” This minor amendment will implement recommendations of the 1998 Plan for development of a village center concept. More information is at montgomeryplanning.org/community/sandyspring.
Instead of selling their 150-acre farm after their parents died, the 11 children of the Martin family, originally from Olney, put the land into farm preservation so it could be enjoyed for years to come. As it has each Saturday this month, the farm is hosting an Equine Festival from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. this week at the Timberleigh Springs Rustic Red Roof Pavilion, which is 6 miles from Olney in Howard County. There will be wine tastings from Knob Hill winery, a custom etched wine glass, horse-drawn wagon rides, music and horse shows. Guests also are welcomed to explore 2 miles of heavily wooded trails, as well as view the lost spring, the Dry Falls rock formation and the open grassy glade of Horse Shoe Meadow. The festival is a sponsor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and a portion of the proceeds goes to Potomac Valley Dressage Association’s Ride For Life, a nonprofit that raises money to support the Johns Hopkins Breast Center. Advance admission: $20. The farm is at 3268 Route 94, Woodbine. Information: equinewinefestival.com.
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Above, Ting Mak of Rockville plays traditional Chinese drum music with the group “Power Drum” on Sunday during the World of Montgomery Festival at Westfield Wheaton Plaza. The event celebrated the county’s cultural diversity through food, art and music. At right, Arella Beatty, 9, (left) tries her hand at grinding spices using a mortar and pestle under the guidance of volunteer Jessica Cheng of the Kids International Discovery Museum in the Global Kitchen tent. n Sunday, residents gathered at the World of Montgomery Festival to celebrate the diversity of cultures represented in Montgomery County with arts, music, food and performances at Westfield Wheaton Mall. The festival was co-organized by the KID Museums (Kids International Discovery Museums), an organization aimed at creating fun, educational events for kids, with the ultimate goal of opening a KID Museum. This year’s theme was the “Essentials of Life,” focusing on
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ber listed on her application to the county. What the council will do remains to be seen. Action to appoint the group is scheduled for December. Asked how she plans to deal with the situation, Council President Nancy Navarro said in a statement provided by her staff that Council Grants Manager Joan Schaffer will interview all of those who apply and will recommend applicants to the council. “All applicants are vetted by the Council Grants Manager to ensure they are knowledgeable about our local nonprofit community,” Navarro (D-Dist. 4) of Silver Spring said. In her Oct. 9 letter of application, Lerner cited her experience with the IRS, where she spent 12 years working with nonprofits, as qualifications
for the ad hoc group. “During that process, I learned a lot about the qualities that make an organization effective and efficient,” she wrote. “I believe that knowledge would be useful to the team determining where the county should expend its limited grant funds.” The council is accepting applications to serve on the grants advisory group through 4 p.m. on Nov. 6. Those interested in applying should submit a letter of interest with a resume to Council President Nancy Navarro, Montgomery County Council, Stella B. Werner Council Office Building, 100 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850 or by email to County.Council@montgomerycountymd.gov. kalexander@gazette.net
Armed robbery • On Oct. 2 at 7:06 p.m. in the 14000 block of Connecticut Avenue, Silver Spring. The subject threatened the victim with a weapon and took property. • On Oct. 6 at 3:46 a.m. in the 1700 block of Wilcox Lane, Silver Spring. The subject threatened the victim and took property. Commercial burglary • On Oct. 4 at 2:28 a.m. at Papa John’s, 11915 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring. Forced entry, took property. • On Oct. 5 at 8:52 p.m. at Hampshire Greens Golf Course, 616 Firestone Drive, Silver Spring. Forced entry, took property. Residential burglary • 11600 block of Grandview Avenue, Silver Spring, between 10:30 p.m. Sept. 30 and 7:15 a.m. Oct. 1. No forced entry, took nothing. • 2500 block of McMahon Road, Silver Spring, between 8 p.m. Oct. 2 and 7:30 p.m. Oct. 3. No forced entry, took property. • 4300 block of Independence Street, Rockville, between Oct. 3 and 7. Forced entry, took property. • 4200 block of Tulare Drive, Silver Spring, between 8 p.m. Oct. 4 and 2 p.m. Oct. 6. No forced entry, took property. • 3800 block of Terrawood Court, Rockville, at 5 a.m. Oct. 5. Unknown entry, took nothing. • 300 block of Flannery Lane, Silver Spring, at 11:44 p.m. Oct. 5. No further information provided. Robbery • On Oct. 9 at 1 a.m. in the 3200 block of Birchtree Lane, Silver Spring. The subjects forcefully took property from the victim and fled.
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Maryland might require applicants for a new handgun license to shoot a gun first, but it does not require the many private ranges in the state to open their doors to those applicants. Maryland’s new law that went into effect Oct. 1 mandates those who apply for a handgun qualification license to complete a training course. Part of that course must include firing one live round. Where applicants will be able to meet that requirement in many parts of the state remains a mostly unanswered question. Nothing in the new law or regulations requires private ranges to open their facilities to nonmembers, said
Shannon Alford, Maryland state liaison with the National Rifle Association. “Offering a firearms range is a wonderful thing to allow people to enjoy the sport of shooting, but it includes a lot of responsibility and a lot of liability,” Alford said. “It is to be expected that a number of them will not allow their facilities to be used by just anyone.” Montgomery County is home to only four gun ranges, all private. Currently, use of those ranges is limited. There are few parts of the county to fire a gun outside of a range. At the Bethesda-Chevy Chase chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America, only members and their guests can use the range, said James Hubbard, the chapter’s legislative chair. The organization has no plans to offer training for the handgun qualification license, he said. Lee Hays said the Izaak Walton League’s Rockville chapter, where he is president, likely will offer its members
training courses that meet the mandate, but whether it will open those courses to nonmembers remains to be seen. In Damascus, the Wildlife Achievement Chapter of the Izaak Walton League is considering offering a training course for members, then, possibly, a course for nonmembers, President Chuck Crooks said. “We’re still trying to assess the law and what the training encompasses,” he said. Crooks said the organization has not seen the final requirements for the course and is concerned about liability. Maryland State Police was not required to map out the course for instructors, spokesman Greg Shipley said. The course requirements were set forth in the law, he said. The law requires the course to be four hours and include instruction on state firearm laws, home firearm safety, and handgun mechanics and operation. Applicants also must fire a live
round, proving they can safely operate the firearm. “However, we have gone above and beyond and put a draft training curriculum together for qualified firearms instructors,” Shipley said. Maryland’s hunter safety courses also would meet the requirements of the law, he said. Unfortunately, hunter safety courses only happen around hunting season, and seats are limited, Alford said. The courses are so limited, Alford said she had to go to Pennsylvania to take her hunter’s safety course. Crooks said his chapter hosts about four hunter safety courses each year and attendance has reached record highs for 2013. He did not have exact figures available. Hays said the Rockville chapter offers about four hunter safety courses each year, as well as NRA handgun courses. According to the Department of Natural Resources’ website, there is
only one more hunter safety course for the year offered in Montgomery County, and it is at the Rockville Izaak Walton chapter. And it is full. Questions remain as to where applicants will be able to go to take a course that meets the requirement outside of a hunter safety course. State police have published a list of qualified handgun instructors. In addition to a training requirement, Maryland’s new gun law requires background checks, fingerprinting and a licensing fee for everyone purchasing regulated firearms — a category that includes handguns but not shotguns or hunting rifles. The law also bans about 40 semiautomatic rifles deemed to be “assault weapons” and magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. It also restricts gun ownership by certain people with a history of mental illness. kalexander@gazette.net
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Lawyers trade versions, victim testifies BY ST. JOHN BARNED-SMITH STAFF WRITER
To hear Montgomery County prosecutors tell it, Luisa Paiz wanted her son’s father dead, and she was willing to pay to make it happen. Last year, they say, Paiz paid $5,000 to a man she met while the two were serving in the Army in Afghanistan to kill Santiago Perez, her high school sweetheart and the father of her son. In opening statements Tuesday, prosecutors said the testimony of Khiry Blue, Paiz’s co-defendant in the June 2012 assault, would prove their case. According to prosecutors, Blue traveled from Texas, waited for Perez outside his Gaithersburg home and forced him into a wooded area behind his house, where he tried to choke him to
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death in the predawn hours of June 25, 2012. Blue, 22, pleaded guilty in August to attempted first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, first-degree assault and conspiracy to commit assault. He is scheduled to be sentenced in November. “The version he tells is the only one that fits,” Assistant State’s Attorney Mark Anderson told jurors Tuesday. Paiz, 33, is on trial this week for attempted murder, solicitation of murder and conspiracy to commit murder, along with related crimes. Paul Kemp, one of the lawyers representing Paiz, said the case had been over-charged and that she was innocent of the attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder charges. Paiz, Kemp said, had confided to Blue about domestic issues she was having with Perez — from whom she separated more than 10 years ago — regarding their son. Kemp said
that Blue told her he could help, but that Paiz had never intended for him to try to commit murder. “This, ladies and gents, is a second-degree assault case — and she’s guilty of that,” Kemp told a Montgomery County Circuit Court jury Tuesday, arguing that the prosecution’s case hinged on the testimony of Blue, whom he called a “manipulator and admitted liar.” Perez, Kemp said, suffered no broken bones, had no finger marks on his neck and had only minor cuts which did not need stitches. They were the wounds of a fight, he said, not an attempted murder, adding that Blue hadn’t taken any weapons with him — even the tire iron in the car he was driving — when he confronted Perez. Blue also told investigators that he never intended to kill his victim, Kemp said. According to Paiz’s charging documents, Perez told police that a man — whom police later identified as Blue through
DNA, phone records and other evidence — accosted him in the early morning as he left his home on Stedwick Drive to go to work. According to Perez’s testimony in court, he and Paiz had met in high school in the 1990s and dated for five years, living together at one point and having a child. They broke up, he said, because their work schedules didn’t match. From there, the relationship between the two became more acrimonious, he said, after a custody arrangement between them changed.
‘I was fighting for my life’ Paiz called him and told him, he said, “I would be sorry for everything I had done, and I would pay for everything I had done.” In the call, Paiz also threatened several of his relatives, he said. Paiz initially had custody of their son, he said. Later, after Paiz joined the Army and began serving in Texas and Afghani-
stan, he took care of the boy. In court Tuesday, Perez described the ordeal he went through that June morning. He woke up after receiving a blocked phone call at about 4 a.m. An electrician, he worked early hours, so he got up, brushed his teeth and made his lunch, took out the trash, grabbed some coffee and headed out the door. As he was walking to his car, he turned around and saw a man, masked and gloved, and wearing a black V-neck T-shirt standing just a few feet away. And he had something in his right hand; Perez thought it was a gun. “I was scared. I didn’t know what was going on,” he said. The attacker forced him to put down his belongings, then forced him into a wooded area near his house. Eventually, the man told him, “Right here’s good,” and ordered him to put his hands behind his back. That’s when the man assaulted him, he said. The man put a rag over his mouth and also tried to choke him, he said. Perez fought back. “He was really strong, really fast,” he said in court, remembering the man trying to stifle
his screams with the rag and the man’s hands on his neck. “I thought he was going to snap my neck. ... I was fighting for my life. I felt horrible. I was really scared,” he said. He started screaming for help when he realized he couldn’t fight anymore, he said. In that moment, he said, “I thought I was going to die.” According to charging documents for Paiz, the screams alerted a neighbor, who turned on a light and called 911. Police found Perez, bloodied with bite marks and cuts, and recovered gloves and other evidence in a wooded area behind his house. Rescue personnel treated him at the scene, but he declined to go to the hospital. Hours later, after the convincing of his wife, he checked himself into a local hospital emergency room, he said. The police investigation led detectives to Fort Hood, Texas, where both Blue and Paiz were stationed. Blue is scheduled to testify this week. If convicted, Paiz could spend the rest of her life in prison. sjbsmith@gazette.net
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Community Service Week allows residents to help in many ways ‘We do these days of service to ... get people engaged’
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Volunteers from The Foundation School worked to clean up outside the offices of On Our Own in Gaithersburg on Monday as part of Montgomery County’s Community Service Week.
Montgomery County residents are invited to flex their do-good muscles this week by volunteering to make their community a better place. Oct. 20 through 27 is the county’s Community Service Week, a time for nonprofits, business, religious, service and social groups to host vol-
unteer service projects. Many have registered online with the Montgomery County Volunteer Center www.montgomeryserve. org, a website to connect individuals and groups with service opportunities. “We do these days of service to celebrate service and get people engaged,” said Katie Sayago, Days of Service coordinator for the volunteer center. “We hope people really connect with an organization and have the feeling of working together.” Sayago said there are more than 50 projects listed on the volunteer website and many of them require a number of people.
“There are lots of ways to still get involved,” she said. Some opportunities include are a diaper distribution project with the D.C. Diaper Bank that is taking place in the Bank’s Silver Spring warehouse; a sandwichmaking day at the International Cultural Center in Montgomery Village and collecting acorns with the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, she said. “We give [the acorns] to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources state tree nursery to plant,” said Kimberly Knox, spokeswoman for the commission. DNR then distributes the
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seedlings for planting throughout the state, she said. Acorn collecting will take place from 9 a.m. to noon at the Triadelphia Recreation Area in Brookeville on Saturday and at Browns Bridge Recreation Area in Silver Spring on Sunday. The D.C. Diaper Bank will be sorting and bundling diapers from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Oct. 23 and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. “It’s a great family affair, even little kids can do it,” Heather Foley, chairwoman of the board of D.C. Diapers, said. “It involves counting and coloring labels and we have a play area for when they get tired of working.” The group, she said, distributes approximately 50,000 diapers a month to social service agencies across the D.C. area. The diapers come from donations and the group purchases many with money from grants and “the general good will of the community,” she said. Community Service Week kicked off this year with the World of Montgomery festival at Westfield Wheaton Plaza Mall which had a community service area for children and adults to show their commitment to the community by participating in on-site projects. Among the hands-on opportunities at the World of Montgomery were: sandwich-making sponsored by So What Else, a nonprofit that provides services to at risk youth in the D.C. Metropolitan area; letter-writing to U.S. troops abroad sponsored by Mover Moms of Bethesda and a demonstration from Bikes for the World. Many of the week’s volunteer activities are scheduled for Saturday, the 27th Day of Service in the county, which aligns with National Make a Difference Day, Sayago said. Last year, about 2,000 people participated in projects during the week leading up to the Day of Service, Sayago said in an email. pmcewan@gazette.net
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SARAH SCULLY STAFF WRITER
When it comes to America’s 401 national park sites, Chris Calvert now can say he’s seen them all. On Saturday, Calvert set out from his home in Wheaton for a 12-mile walk to his final site — the Carter G. Woodson Home in northwest Washington, D.C. At age 10, Calvert itched to visit the national parks, begging his parents for a trip to Yellowstone. But they never got to Yellowstone after Calvert heard about Disney World opening in Florida. Growing up in Silver Spring, he often visited parkland in Washington, D.C. But his first purposeful trip came in 1980, when Calvert, then 17, and his parents traveled west. They began with Olympic National Park in Washington state. Starting at a visitor center at sea-level, Calvert and his parents drove up a winding road toward the Olympic Mountains, through thick fog lingering in the ancient fir forest. As they gained elevation, the clouds dissipated. By the time they reached Hurricane Ridge, Calvert looked over a clear sky, past forest and meadows, to the peaks of the glimmering snow-capped mountains. “I decided, if this is what the national parks are about, I have to see them all,” he said. “It was amazing. I still remember that, 33 years later.” He was determined to visit at least two new national parks a year to reach his goal — at the
time, there were 49 national parks. Between trips to the Grand Canyon, Hawaii, American Samoa, Alaska and other destinations, by 1993, Calvert had visited every official U.S. national park, ending with Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska. He wanted to keep going, so he expanded his goal to sites maintained by the National Park Service, of which there are currently 401. Many people commonly refer to them all as national parks. Actually, there are 58 official national parks among the 401 sites that fall under the National Park Service, including national historic sites, preserves, battlefields, memorials, and other public land designations. These areas encompass land ranging from the White House to the Hawai’i Volcanoes. To achieve his goal, Calvert often made stops along the way, spending time at up to 36 sites in one year, in 1998. But, he said, it’s always about the experience, not just getting his park stamp and checking off a list. He keeps notes on a tape recorder of what he wants to do when he returns to a park, and puts extensive planning into each endeavor. But in the end, “33 years of memories is what it amounts to,” he said. He has been shocked by the checklist approach others have taken. He found one such man in Alaska when both were chartering planes to reach remote wilderness areas. The man was essentially puddle-jumping the Alaskan parks, exiting the plane for just a toe touch in each. It was then that Calvert realized the goal meant different things to different people. His approach wasn’t just to see each
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Chris Calvert of Wheaton speaks to friends as he stands in front of the Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site in Washington, D.C. That was the only national park he had not visited, until Saturday afternoon. park, but to learn about and experience them. Seeing every one just added a fun challenge. Calvert has chartered planes to drop him off for a week or two at a time in the Alaskan wilderness. He remembers the first time he watched the small plane disappear in the sky, leaving him hundreds of miles from another living soul. It’s something he has done several times since. “It feels wonderful,” he said, “I’m usually kind of laughing with joy.” He recalls the comparison between his first time in the Alaskan wilderness to where he had been two days before, also
on parkland, but with thousands of others. It was the Fourth of July, on the crowded National Mall. Calvert always asks himself: What is significant about a site? What warrants its designation? How does it contribute to, or mark, our national identity? Some are obvious American landmarks; others take more investigation. He was skeptical of one — the Johnstown Flood National Memorial in Pennsylvania. Was this flood more significant than other natural disasters, he wondered. He learned that the flood, caused by a dam failure, killed
2,209 people. It prompted modern standards to prevent future disasters, marking a moment in American history in safety and engineering. Over the years, Calvert has amassed hundreds of books, pamphlets, and magazines about park sites. He has filled binders with his transcribed notes, park stamps, and tens of thousands of slides. In neat rows, they line walls of a library Calvert and his partner, archaeologist Jeff Splitstoser, built onto the back of their kitchen several years ago. Calvert’s collection is on one side, and Splitstoser’s on the other.
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Calvert saved the Carter G. Woodson Historical Site in Washington, D.C., for his final trek, hoping to highlight the site’s dire need for funding for renovation. Carter G. Woodson, often called the father of AfricanAmerican history, lived in the Shaw rowhouse from 1915 until his death in 1950. Woodson became the second black American to graduate from Harvard University in 1912 and went on to direct the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, working largely from that home. Since it became a national historic site in 2005, the dilapidated site has not been open to the public — steel beams hold up the facade, and the site is almost completely blocked off. Calvert had hoped to make the walk a fundraiser, but bureaucracy and politics in the National Park Service delayed that. Calvert said the fundraiser might happen in the future, but for now, he was eager to accomplish his goal. Thirteen friends, many of whom had accompanied Calvert on other trips, joined him for the walk on Saturday. His journey to visit every park started as a child in Washington D.C., with the zoo, the monuments and Rock Creek Park, and Calvert was glad to end it there, and to raise awareness for a need in the park system. “After 33 years of having gotten so much from the National Park Service, I wanted to give a little bit back,” he said. sscully@gazette.net
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The planning process for Pike & Rose, one of the region’s largest mixed-use development projects that is replacing Mid-Pike Plaza in North Bethesda, started in 2005 when developer Federal Realty Investment Trust requested a revision of the White Flint Policy Area boundaries to include the shopping center on Rockville Pike near Montrose Road. About five years later, the county approved the amended master plan, and the site plan for the massive 3.4 millionsquare-foot transit-oriented project was approved another two years later. Federal Realty broke ground on the first phase — which includes some 170,000 square feet of retail, 80,000 square feet of commer-
cial office and 493 residential units — in July 2012. While seven years from planning to ground breaking may seem like an abnormally long time, it’s really about right for projects of Pike & Rose’s scale, said Evan Goldman, vice president for development of Rockville-based Federal Realty. The project was placed on the state’s FastTrack program, designed to streamline and speed up the permitting and planning process. “County and state officials have been great to work with,” Goldman said. “They have been doing everything they can to help us keep going. ... After all, we are building what is essentially a new city here.” For others, the county permitting process is still costly and frustrating. Adam Greenberg, president and founder of Restaurant Zone, a company that manages several Potomac Pizza restaurants in Montgomery County, said he thought he was following regulations
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Evan Goldman of Federal Realty discusses the new Pike & Rose devlopment under construction on the site of the current Mid-Pike Plaza in Rockville. Eventually, Pike & Rose hopes to have 450,000 square feet of retail, more than 1 million square feet of office, 1,500 residential units and a 300room luxury hotel all less than a quarter mile from the White Flint Metro station. Some tenants of Mid-Pike Plaza, including La Madeleine and Chipotle, have signed on to move into the new development, and Goldman hopes to announce the hotel project soon. Plans for others like Toys R Us are still being negotiated. A.C. Moore moved to the Montrose Crossing Shopping Center, while Silver Diner transferred to Federal Plaza. A little north of that project at 1775 Rockville Pike, InterContinental Hotels Group recently announced plans for a 167-room Even Hotel to open in early 2014. The hotel brand focuses on health and wellness
with a gym, fitness classes and healthy food options. In Gaithersburg, the Crown mixed-use project — another massive town center-type development in the planning stages for years that broke ground about a year ago — recently opened its first retailer, Starbucks. A Harris Teeter grocery store and LA Fitness, along with restaurants and other stores, are expected in the next few months. Numerous families have closed on new homes, while the Cadence at Crown, an apartment community in the downtown Crown neighborhood, will open its leasing office in January. The community plans about 320,000 square feet of retail and commercial space with more than 2,000 residential units. kshay@gazette.net
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to obtain a permit for a project but had to resubmit plans, costing him tens of thousands of dollars. “I love Montgomery County. ... But it’s very hard to do business here,” said Greenberg, also president of the Potomac Chamber of Commerce. The record plat approval and permitting process in Frederick County and Northern Virginia is less expensive and time consuming than in Montgomery County, said Robert Kaufman, vice president for government affairs with the Maryland National Capital Building Industry Association. The average number of days that the Montgomery County Department of Permitting Services took to issue a commercial permit for new construction was 163 days in fiscal 2012, according to the county’s fiscal 2014 budget. That was up from 160 days in fiscal 2011, but still below the average of 177 days in fiscal 2010 and 296 days in 2009. Commercial additions were approved faster, an average of 61 days in fiscal 2012, down from 78 days in 2011. Residential projects were also approved faster in fiscal 2012 than 2011. The county has been making efficiency improvements that include allowing online permit applications in some areas and is working to reduce the time taken for the cross-agency approval process, according to the budget report. The county also has a small business navigator, Judy Stephenson, who helps businesses through the per-
While Montgomery County has created jobs at a slightly faster pace than key competitors in Northern Virginia in recent years, there continues to be a glut of available office space, according to figures released Monday. The county’s top economic development official does not foresee that changing much in
the next few years. “There is nothing from a program aspect that will change these numbers right away,” Steven A. Silverman, director of the Montgomery County Department of Economic Development, said Monday during a meeting with a council committee. Montgomery has about 4.8 million square feet of its Class A office space vacant, or 13.7 percent of its total, and 4.3 million square feet of Class B space available, or 14.6 percent, according to figures presented in the meeting of the council’s
Planning, Housing and Economic Development Committee. That’s up from about 8 percent available in late 2006. Montgomery needs large companies to move in from outside the county and take up several hundred thousand square feet of office space at a time to make a significant dent, Silverman said. But with an even higher glut of office space seen in places such as Fairfax County, Va., and Prince George’s County, prospective companies are difficult to find, he said. “The same challenges are seen in other counties in our re-
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gion,” Silverman said. Fairfax’s Class A vacancy rate is almost 17 percent, while Prince George’s is 20.5 percent. Besides the regionwide office glut, many employers are in cost-cutting mode and significantly reducing the space they consume, he said. “Several years ago, an employer with 200 employees might take 50,000 square feet,” Silverman said. “Today, they are more likely to be asking only for 25,000 or 30,000 square feet.” County officials will continue to work with the private sector to find out better what to do to help fill office space, he said. The latest figures from private firm Economic Modeling Specialists International showed that Montgomery added about 28,000 jobs since 2010, the low point of the recession for the county in terms of jobs. That 4.5 percent growth rate in the past three years is slightly more than Fairfax County and City’s combined 4.3 percent rise and Arlington County’s 3.8 percent gain, according to EMSI. Silverman and former county Councilman Michael Knapp, CEO of Germantown consulting firm Orion Ventures, also discussed a proposal to get the county’s incubator network more focused on sectors. The county-financed incubators help startups and young companies grow by providing space and services at rates lower than the private market. The proposal is in the initial planning stages and would require increased funds and likely help from an outside firm with the realignment process, Silverman said. Also Monday, County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) announced that a program formed last year to pump more funds into local community banks to invest in small businesses would receive $25 million more than the $10 million it got last year. The Small Business Plus program has succeeded in helping boost loans made to small businesses, so it made sense to increase the investment, Leggett said. Banks have to be headquartered in Montgomery County, have assets greater than $200 million and less than $5 billion, and meet certain financial soundness standards. Among the banks in the program are Capital Bank, Congressional Bank, EagleBank and OBA Bank. kshay@gazette.net
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Montgomery communities prepare for booming seniors Senior population to double by 2030
County senior village, Burning Tree, started in 2010 around Burning Tree Elementary School in Bethesda. The community helps coordinate volunteer opportunities and takes requests for grocery runs and trips to doctor’s appointments. Since the highest density of seniors is downcounty, Marks said, more villages are concentrated in that area. But upcounty, where neighbors are spread out over more land, it may be more difficult to start or maintain a village.
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Shirley Mallory takes yoga classes every Monday and Wednesday, sings in a choir, walks to her local gym and recently learned to ballroom dance. She volunteers at Church of the Redeemer and the Wilson Health Care Center and still finds time for high-intensity interval training classes and family get-togethers. Shirley Mallory is 68 years old. She lives at Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg, one of the county’s largest communities for seniors. Mallory said her neighbors, who tend to be older than her, are also active. A few friends of hers who are more than 90 years old attend her weekly yoga class. One paints watercolors and another plays piano. “I tell them, ‘I want to be like you when I grow up!’” she said. Mallory and her neighbors are part of a growing group of Montgomery County residents age 60 and up. According to county data, the senior population will double by 2030. As of 2010 census numbers, there were about 173,000 seniors in the county’s 970,000 residents (the county hit one million residents in 2012). The county predicts over 215,000 residents will live here by 2030. LeisureWorld, a senior community in Silver Spring for residents age 55 and up, houses about 8,000 people. LeisureWorld General Manager Kevin B. Flannery said he expects the community’s population to stay relatively constant in the next few years, though LeisureWorld’s rental properties may be in higher demand. The growing community has necessitated additions to LeisureWorld facilities. Flannery said he has seen more participation in the community’s selfgoverned fitness programs. “We’re contemplating putting an addition on the building to accommodate that growth,” he said. They are also considering adding space to their food-
Marks said the communities are mainly raised through grassroots efforts, but the county is considering hiring a physician to help provide health services at established senior villages. “The county recognizes that there needs to be transportation and activities, and a sense of creating a community,” Marks said. With a growing senior population, Marks said the county only needs to coordinate its health services, transportation and public facilities for seniors
to be adequately served. “If we could get an entity to harness those services ... I think we could go a long way down the road,” she said. Montgomery County’s Commission on Aging made recommendations for the fiscal year 2014 budget that included funding for a senior villages coordinator and a senior transportation coordinator to bring together public transit and private resources. scarignan@gazette.net
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Shirley Mallory strikes a yoga pose Monday at Asbury Methodist Village. service operations, with a facility enhancement plan on the way. “Although there might be some pressure [from the community’s needs], we’re in a pretty good position to update,” he said. At the Ingleside community in King Farm in Rockville, staff are accepting housing deposits for the waiting list. The seniororiented retirement community has been open since 2009.
It takes a village Leslie Marks, who works with the county government on aging issues, said most seniors don’t want to move into assisted living communities or senior complexes — they want to live at home. Marks wrote the county book on senior “villages,” or grassroots-led communities of existing neighbors who support one another. They provide dinners if someone is sick, have social events and exercise together. “That’s a major thing that we have to start thinking about,”
Marks said. “How do we keep seniors safe at home, where they want to be?” Marks’ 2011 “Village Blueprint,” available in the county’s public libraries, provides a stepby-step guide for seniors who want to start their own local support community. There are 15 villages in the county that have either been established or are on their way, Marks said. They include communities in Silver Spring, Chevy Chase, Olney, Takoma Park and Potomac. The first Montgomery
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As Maryland’s six gubernatorial candidates make known their proposed education plans, the three Democrats are voicing their emphasis on closing achievement gaps and expanding early childhood education as the Republicans’ focus appears more varied. Del. Heather Mizeur (DDist. 20) of Takoma Park announced Thursday that her administration would work to close student achievement gaps in part through expanding early childhood education for 3- and 4-year-olds. “The only way to truly level the playing field is to start with early childhood education,” she said. “That is where we know we can have the biggest impact.” Mizeur said that, by the end of her first term, all 4-year-olds will have access to a full-day pre-kindergarten program and 3-year-olds from low- and middle-income families will have access to a half-day pre-kindergarten program. Mizeur said her approach to closing the achievement gaps would also include improving access to child care subsidies by updating the income guidelines for the subsidies to allow more low- and middle-income families would qualify for coverage. While other candidates have said they would use state gambling revenue to fund prekindergarten expansion, Mizeur said she would turn to other means including raising revenue and finding “wasteful spending.” “I think that it is a really bad idea to expect middle-income and low-income families in Maryland to lose at casinos in order to fund education opportunities for their children,” Mizeur said. Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown (D) said he would establish “universal, voluntary and high-quality” pre-kindergarten programs. All 4-year-olds would have
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access to a half-day program by the end of his first term, he said. By 2022, the children would have access to a full-day program. His plan would first prioritize lower-income and economically disadvantaged families and eventually include all families. The state is making a significant amount from gambling, he said, some of which he would put toward his expansion plan. “We have a high level of confidence that the revenues will be there,” he said. Brown said his administration would build on existing programs and continue to give school systems the choice of whether to incorporate prekindergarten programs in their buildings or to fund enrollment at private provider. “We would not seek to disrupt those relationships,” he said. Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler (D) also said he would focus on closing the achievement gap, which he said disproportionately affects minority students. The achievement gap, he said, is really “more of an opportunity gap.” “We need to have a laser fo-
cus on the early years, the pre-K world,” he said. Gansler said he would put state gambling funds toward expanding pre-kindergarten half-day programs to full-day programs for the “underserved” community to help better prepare children for kindergarten. Gansler said he doesn’t think there is enough money available in the near future for expanding the programs for everybody. He would also address the gap, he said, through a mentoring program called Maryland Matters, in which college students or recent college graduates would work with families to help them understand how to develop cognitive skills in their young children. The race’s Republican candidates have their eyes turned toward a variety of issues. For Harford County Executive David Craig (R), a major issue is the Common Core state standards, which he said are “taking education in the wrong direction.” Craig said the standards translate to government control of schools’ curriculum and teacher evaluations and “spending money in one direction,”
among other issues. “I would tell the (Maryland Board of Education) that we need to back away from that,” he said of Common Core. Another component of Craig’s education plan includes shifting money within local school system’s budgets. Craig said he would develop a pilot program in which local systems would find areas — such as in facilities maintenance, procurement and bus transportation — where they could consolidate resources and work more efficiently to cut costs. The money saved in these areas would be put toward “the education side,” he said, for purposes such as raising teacher salaries or hiring more teachers. Charles Lollar, a Charles County businessman, said he is focused on increasing accessiblity to education avenues outside of the public system, including charter schools, private schools and home schooling. “Every child is not the same, so every child is not going to learn the same,” he said.
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Ruth B. Luke died October 6, 2013 at age 86. She is survived by three daughters, Candace Luke-Bless, Carin Luke, and Wendy L. Colquitt, and four grandchildren, Emily Bless, Jenna Bless, Melissa Colquitt, and Jordan Colquitt. Born Ruth Louise Baker on June 4, 1927 in Derby, CT, she was high-spirited, independent, artistic, generous, and compassionate. She was also tremendously courageous: when working as hotel night manager in Florida, she ‘talked down’ a violent thief who had killed every previous victim, in the process saving the life of her daughter and resulting in the perpetrator’s subsequent capture by police. On retiring, she earned a B.S. degree at age 75. She later tutored Spanish-speaking students in reading English and sought always to be of service to others. She will be missed dearly. Her daughters are arranging a remembrance service in her honor.
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Lollar said his goal is to encourage the use of other education systems through tax breaks for families who enroll their children in private schools or teach them at home. Other goals, he said, include creating a system that rewards teachers in a way that incorporates their teaching process and creative thinking, and increasing parent involvement so that parents are helping the teacher in the child’s development. Lollar’s plans also overlap with other candidate’s when it comes to the achievement gap and early childhood education. When it comes to funding his plans, Lollar said it’s a matter of finding and redirecting existing funds toward education. Del. Ronald George (D-Dist. 30) of Arnold said he would help alleviate pressure on public school teachers and systems by creating a scholarship program for students to attend private schools. If a student passed a private school entrance exam, they would receive a scholarship to
help them attend the school, George said, adding he thinks a lot of minority students and families “would jump at the chance.” Moving students from public schools to private schools would save money that could be put toward teacher raises, school psychologists and potentially teacher pensions, he said. The scholarship system would also help students in both public and private schools get an education “more tailored” to them as private school students might be exposed to programs for specific interests and public school students would receive more attention from teachers as part of a smaller class. George said he also wants to create charter schools that could help students from the state’s immigrant population get acclimated to the school system. Eventually, he said, these students would move back into the public school system. lpowers@gazette.net
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Continued from Page A-1 a Brazilian-American immigrant who enlisted out of high school, mirroring her sister’s decision to join the Marines a few years before. It was an “honor” for her and her family, she said. “I wanted to be part of this organization, to be part of a team, and do something greater for my country,” she said. Saraiva provided the paperwork later that week, but was discharged in August anyway, she said. “I was amazed, speechless, and pissed off,” she said. “Of all the [people] in the Navy who can’t pass [physical requirement tests] and follow orders, I’m the one kicked out? For something I didn’t even do?” Saraiva earned a Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, a Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, a Rifle Expert Medal, and a Pistol Sharpshooter Ribbon, according to her public record from the Navy before she moved to the reserves in March 2010. Saraiva received a discharge of “Other Than Honorable,” which is two grades below an “honorable” discharge and one above “dishonorable.” She also was designated as RE-4, which is a recommendation against re-enlistment, according to the website of the Navy’s inspector general. Naval records that Saraiva’s family provided to The Gazette show that when Saraiva appealed her discharge, two separate boards reviewed her case. One, a Navy discharge review board, ruled in her favor in 2011, and changed her discharge status. “She does have an honorable discharge,” Naval News Service Lt. Cmdr Sarah Flaherty told The Gazette.
WATER Continued from Page A-1 The Oaks Landfill, at 6001 Olney-Laytonsville Road in Laytonsville, operated from 1982 until 1997. During that time, the landfill received 7 million tons of waste. Homeowners in the area filed a lawsuit against the county, alleging that the construction and operation of the
However, the Board for Correction of Naval Records told the Saraiva family in May that it would not change Saraiva’s re-enlistment code from an RE-4, which Saraiva believes stands as a black mark on her record. “It’s not a good thing to have — at all. It’s going to influence whether or where and what kind of jobs I can get,” she said. “It’s going to limit me significantly.” “The rules for urinalysis are to disclose and declare medicines you’re on at the time of urinalysis,” Flaherty said. She added: “The reason [the Navy] has medical declarations is because when something pops, they refer to your medical record.” Flaherty also said that the Navy had received a congressional letter on behalf of Saraiva, but Ray Mabus, the secretary of the Navy, had not yet sent his response. “She needs to wait to see the letter to see what comes,” Flaherty said. She did not say what decision the letter contained. A representative from Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), who Saraiva’s family contacted, said office policy prohibits them from discussing individual constituent cases. If the Navy declines to change Saraiva’s reenlistment code, her next step would be to file suit against the Navy in federal court, Flaherty said. Saraiva said she is considering that. But she’s not sure if she would re-enter the reserves at this point, even if she could, she said. “At this point, I’m focused on getting my life back, getting my reputation back. Then I’ll think about whether or not I want to pursue that route,” she said. sjbsmith@gazette.net
landfill would create a public nuisance that would harm their property, specifically by causing water contamination. As part of the settlement, water testing was conducted and revealed low levels of groundwater contamination. As a result, the county originally agreed to provide public water for each of the 144 designated property owners, and agreed to pay the water bills for 15 years or until the property was sold.
Of those original 144 properties, 43 have been sold, leaving 101 eligible. The 15-year payment period ended for some residents in May, and was staggered, depending on when each resident began to receive public water. The payments are expected to cost the county $37,000 annually, although the amount will decline as property turnover occurs. thogan@gazette.net 1894887
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As a black man entering a white-dominated industry, Solomon Graham wasn’t intimidated when he founded Quality Biological in 1983, investing $10,000 of his own money to start the business. The Gaithersburg company is one of the longest-operating bioscience companies in Montgomery County and has grown into a multimillion-dollar enterprise. It provides products and supplies for molecular and cell biology laboratories to use in infectious disease and cancer research. Race was never an issue, Graham said. “I worked with most all of the biotech CEOs in the early days,” said Graham, 70, known to many as Sol. “I started in the Navy in the 1960s making images of the human skin and went through technical school to learn how to preserve tissue cultures. ... I grew up with the industry here, so I had a comfort level.” Graham has been a vital business and community leader in Montgomery for more than 30 years, said Robert L. Orndorff, founder and president of RLO Contractors and chairman of the board of Sandy Spring Bancorp. Graham served on the Olney bank’s board for 18 years through May. “He has never hesitated to offer his leadership, support and judgment whenever it was needed,” Orndorff said. Graham is one of five leaders who will be inducted Tuesday as the second class of the Montgomery County Business Hall of Fame, a program founded by Grossberg Co. and Monument Bank. The event at the Universities of Shady Grove will include an address by former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge. Other honorees are John S. Hendricks, executive chairman of Discovery Communications; Carmen Ortiz Larsen, CEO of Aquas Inc.; Ray Schoenke, founder of Schoenke & Associates; and James A. Soltesz, CEO of Soltesz Inc.
Family still has Reconstruction-era farm Graham’s road to business success started from humble roots, growing up on a family
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“The key to building a business is to find a niche and supply people with what they need.” Solomon Graham farm in one of the poorest areas of Georgia. “That farm has been in my family since right after slavery ended,” Graham said. “My mother still lives in the house today.” He graduated with honors from high school and immediately joined the Navy. For four years, he learned skills that would serve him well in the biotech industry, including attending the Navy’s tissue culture school. Once out of the armed forces, Graham attended community colleges in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties long enough to earn an associate degree in business management. He studied marketing at University of Maryland, University College, but decided to start his business before he could earn a bachelor’s degree. “I had the idea for the business and had to devote my full time to building a business,” Graham said. Along the way, he has gotten involved with almost every local business and trade group, from the Tech Council of Maryland to the Economic Advisory Council of Montgomery County. He has served on hospital and bank boards, and the Montgomery College Foundation. He has won awards from the U.S. Small Business Administation,
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Continued from Page A-1 The school system will determine baseline data based on the PARCC assessments during the 2014-2015 school year, according to Statham’s presentation. At the high school level, Starr said, the school system can look at factors such as AP test scores, SAT scores, algebra grades and graduation data until PARCC data is available. “It is a struggle to find equally solid measures of success at the lower grades without having a stable test,” he said. Board President Christopher S. Barclay raised the issue that the school system would be testing a different group of kids next year, making it more difficult when it comes to determining changes in student performance. Starr responded that the test results will help form an approximate idea of the school’s overall ability to teach the students. School board member Shirley Brandman emphasized that she wished to see the test data presented in a way that makes it clear how students are performing compared to their past results, as well as compared to national scores. In the presentation to the board, Statham reviewed recent math and reading test data from fifth and eighth graders. The spring 2013 data showed eighth-grade reading
n Professional/Community: Former board member, Tech Council of Maryland, Sandy Spring Bancorp, Montgomery College Foundation, Montgomery General Hospital. Current board member, Strathmore Hall Foundation. Former chair, Economic Advisory Council of Montgomery County. Mentor, Montgomery County Mentorship Program. In 1992, he established a biotechnology scholarship fund at Montgomery College. n Honors: 2013 inductee, Montgomery County Business Hall of Fame. Montgomery Business Spirit of Free Enterprise Award. Maryland Top 100 Minority Business Enterprise Award. SBA Minority Small Business Award of Excellence. n Education: Associate degree, business management, Montgomery College, Prince George’s Community College. Studied marketing, University of Maryland University College. n Residence: Rockville n Best business advice given: Take care of your employees, and they will take care of your customers. Invest money wisely, have good accounting services and legal advice. Pay attention to detail.
Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce and others. “The key to building a business is to find a niche and supply people with what they need,” Graham said. In the past year or so, Graham turned Quality Biological over to his daughter, Angela Graham Whitaker, who is now president. He still is board chairman. He is amazed how the bioscience industry has developed in the county in the past three decades. “The growth did not come without some effort,” Graham said. “Montgomery County was pretty much a bedroom community for the federal government when I moved here. ... The leadership has done a pretty good job establishing an employment base other than government.” kshay@gazette.net scores generally dropped as a school’s student body had a higher percentage of certain student groups, including Hispanic, African-American, lowincome and ESOL students. “I wonder and want to figure out how we can really understand the performance of these schools that are above both the system mean and the national mean that have a very small Latino population,” Barclay said. Starr said the presentation data showed gaps known to exist in the school system but offered an incomplete view of student performance that will require further analysis. As it faces these performance gaps and generally seeks to improve school performance, school system staff said the school system will continue to use the Malcolm Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence, which outline a way for schools to approach these issues. Larry Bowers, chief operating officer for the school system, described the Baldrige system as an “important framework and tool for not only understanding performance but guiding planning work that we’re doing.” The criteria, he said, involve digging deeper into issues — such as achievement gaps and varying performance among schools — and are used to help schools develop their strategic plans. lpowers@gazette.net
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For the first time, 16-yearolds will be able to vote on Nov. 5 in Takoma Park city elections. The idea behind the change, which passed in May as an amendment to the City Charter, is that involving teenagers in voting early on will encourage voting and political participation as they get older. Many people vote for the first time when they are away at college, in a new place where they are likely unaware of local issues. But if teens first vote in the community they grew up in, they’ll have a better understanding of local issues, the argument goes, and some studies show that the earlier a person votes the more likely they are to establish a lifelong habit of voting. As of Monday, 90 16- and 17-year-olds had registered to vote with the city. Based on 2010 census data, Councilman Tim Male estimated that there are about 350 16- and 17-year-olds living Takoma Park. Some, like Fred Schultz, the sole council member to oppose the amendment, call the effort nominal, saying that simply lowering the voting age is not the best way to increase political participation. It broadens the pool of voters, but won’t necessarily draw them to the polls or make anyone more aware of community issues — that takes outreach. Sara Shonkwiler, 17, of Takoma Park, said she received a Takoma Park registration form in the mail after registering to vote with the county when she got her driver’s license. She sent in her registration form and said that she would likely vote, admitting that she will be more excited when she can vote in state and national elections. The first time Shonkwiler heard about the move to allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote was when a friend posted on Facebook about a council hearing last spring. But the outreach she’s seen has been limited to the letter she got in the mail. Most city residents have little motivation to vote because Mayor Bruce Williams and five council members are running unopposed. Ward 4 has the only
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they’re excited about the move toward youth voting. As for Takoma Park, students and teachers estimated that onefifth to one-fourth of Montgomery Blair students are Takoma Park residents, so the first trick was to find those students. Once they did, members of the club found that many had already registered. Abby Kiesa, youth coordinator and researcher at the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, or CIRCLE, an organiza-
tion based at Tufts University that focuses on youth political engagement, said the organization has found that 15-, 18- and 21-year-olds score similarly in research assessing their political knowledge, and come close to the average score for all adults. High school, she said, is a critical time to teach teenagers about civic engagement and a place to disseminate information effectively about voting, from how to register to understanding how the government works.
“Voting is a habitual activity,” she said, “learning about voting in high school predicts actual voting once people reach 18,” she said. When the council was considering the amendment earlier this year, CIRCLE sent a letter in support of lowering the voting age. “At the end of the day, if we get one more person to show up and engage, that’s a success to some extent,” Male said. sscully@gazette.net
Lily Durkee (right), 17, will be able to vote in the upcoming Takoma Park city election. She and her friend Emily Guthrie, 16, of Silver Spring are excited about the city’s focus on young voters. Both are students at Montgomery Blair High School. contested election with incumbent Terry Seamens facing challenger Eric Mendoza. Mendoza, who says he’s very involved in the youth community in Ward 4, said he knows many teens who are excited about him running for City Council, but there’s a gap between their enthusiasm and their knowledge of what the City Council is or how to vote. He said he plans to educate teenagers about the system, but he’s skeptical of how many youth will actually make it to the polls and he thinks it will take time for younger voters to get involved. A city Task Force on Voting made recommendations about how to increase voter participation, including public service announcements, signs, targeted Facebook ads, organized rides to the polls and ways to generally encourage a culture of voting. They suggested a “friendly competition,” among wards for the highest voter turnout and making voting a family event. A member of the task force, Tim Anderegg, said the group has used public service announcements and passed out fliers at local businesses, apartment buildings and community organizations. But although many 16- and 17-year-olds are aware of the new law, many do not know how to register and vote. Lily Durkee, 17, had heard about the change when it passed, but had not heard much else, until a teacher made an announcement about it a couple weeks ago. “It’s definitely cool to be able to make an impact on the community,” she said. Durkee also lives in an un-
contested ward, Ward 3, but said she planned to register, and vote, if she could fit it into her schedule. She was surprised that she hadn’t heard anything about how to actually go about voting — she didn’t know how to register nor did she realize she could vote early. Fellow classmate Michelle McGhee, 17, also said she had seen little information about the election, and wasn’t sure how to register, but she planned to and said she plans to vote as well. Schultz says that he believes teenagers are more concerned with being teenagers than engaging in community issues. Emily Guthrie, 16, and Max Foley-Keene, 15, president and vice president of the Young Democrats Club at Montgomery Blair High School, said that could be true for some teens. “There are people in every age group who aren’t as politically aware,” Guthrie said. Both residents of Silver Spring, neither can vote in any elections yet, but
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KEVIN JAMES SHAY STAFF WRITER
As online marketing continues to grow, direct mail is still a substantial part of the marketing realm, according to a study released this month by the Direct Marketing Association. Traditional offline marketing, including direct mailers, was a $93.6 billion industry in 2012, according to the study by professors John Deighton of Harvard University and Peter Johnson of Columbia University. Online marketing, which includes electronic ads, targeted emails and revenues from selling information to brokers, is about a $62 billion industry, the study says. That many businesses still use direct mail to reach customers is not new to Kenneth Roseborough, owner of Money Mailer of Silver Spring. The company contracts with businesses such as Silver Spring restaurant Greek Islands Grill to help drive customers to the eatery through coupons and ads sent by U.S. mail. “People get caught up in the digital age,” Roseborough said. “But they find that have to go back to paper. A lot of people want to see something in their hand like a coupon, and not just an electronic image on their smartphone or other device.” Coupons are particularly effective as customers seek better value in leaner times, he said. “Digital marketing has in-
creased in recent years, but direct mail has not declined,” said Roseborough, 54, a longtime marketing executive who belongs to the American Marketing Society. “In fact, it has gotten stronger.” Money Mailer has an Internet presence as well as in the paper mailers, he said. “We want to give customers the option of being able to go online and upload coupons if they want,” Roseborough said. That practice is also happening at grocers such as Safeway, which gives customers the option of going online to attach electronic savings to their store club cards in a program called “Just for U.” Customers also can get digital coupons through a mobile app. Safeway still offers paper coupons, as well. The electronic advertising industry has come under fire recently as officials and others cite concerns over privacy in using targeted emails that pick up characteristics of online users through “cookies” — electronic tracking messages — and other methods. New regulations that would stop the exchange of electronic data due to privacy and other concerns would affect $110 billion in revenue to the U.S. economy and 478,000 jobs, Deighton and Johnson said in their study. “The biggest winners — innovation and small businesses — would also be the biggest losers if startups could no longer use data to .... raise ad-supported revenue and identify new and niche markets to serve,” they said. kshay@gazette.net
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Andrew Berube’s sports card collection got so big, his mother said he needed to do something about it. His answer was to do something charitable. Andrew, 10, and his friend Ben LeBlanc, 13, formed DC Ambassador for Cards2Kids, a local affiliate of an Illinois nonprofit started to share sports cards with young people in need. The boys and Ben’s 8-year-old brother, Graham, collect, sort, package and donate cards to charities around the region to distribute to other children. “We donate them to places like the Boys and Girls Club in Germantown, the Ronald McDonald House in Washington, and to children at Walter Reed, through the Red Cross,” said Andrew, a fourth-grader at Wyngate Elementary School in Bethesda. “We have 110,000 [cards] in our basement.” Cards2Kids was started in 2011 by John Makowiec, a Chicago-area teenager who wanted to share his passion for collecting with others, especially kids who were ill or did not have the means to buy cards.
There are now four affiliates in the Midwest, one in New Jersey and Bethesda’s DC Ambassadors, according to the Cards2Kids website. Ben is an eighth-grader at Westland Middle School in Bethesda. Graham is a third-grader at Bethesda Elementary School. In less than a year, Andrew, Ben and Graham have become masters of sorting cards into two categories — “A,” the most popular sports figures, and “B,” who are less popular, but still in demand. “It’s baseball, basketball and football cards that we do,” Graham said. “And hockey, but not so many.” The most tedious part of the job, the boys said, is packing 15 sports cards plus a Cards2Kids card into each plastic bag that eventually will be delivered to another child. “We give them out to patients in the hospital,” said Marin Reynes, senior station manager for the American Red Cross at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda. “A piece of entertainment to keep your mind off of why you are here is appreciated.” Officially, the boys meet monthly to sort and package, but they get together at other times too, and work at home whenever they have extra time, Andrew’s mother, Anne Berube, said. And they are still personal collectors. They separate the two collections, never keeping a card, no matter how appealing, that was donated to Card-
s2Kids, said Leslie LeBlanc, Ben and Graham’s mother. “Like the encased 24-carat gold, signed Nolan Ryan card,” Andrew said. “We are going to donate it.” The boys and their mothers agreed that they have learned a lot about the ethics of being ambassadors, receiving cards for a purpose and being honest to their mission. “When we put on our [Cards2Kids] shirts, it’s all about Cards2Kids,” Ben said. In addition to the day-to-day work with the cards, the boys also have to contact charities about accepting their cards and conduct card drives to get new offerings. They are doing drives at their schools and have collection boxes at two local card stores — House of Cards in Silver Spring and Hall of Fame Cards in Potomac. “We are just beginning to work with them,” Chuck Bortnick, the store manager at House of Cards, said. “It sounds like a good group and a good cause.” Once, Andrew said, they put out a collection box at a card show and got 7,500 cards. They also get them from friends and neighbors who know about the work. “Some people are really faithful donators,” Anne Berube said. “They send good cards because they know they are going to kids.” Good cards for kids in this case are
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From left, Graham and Ben LeBlanc and Andrew Berube sort cards, looking for the best selections to package and donate to local children through the nonprofit Cards2Kids. current, no earlier than 2007, Ben said, because they want the kids to know the players. They also encourage people to donate unopened packs of cards. “For [the] Children’s Inn at [the National Institutes of Health], they have to be unopened packs because they are concerned about germs,” Andrew said. “We are hoping to get unopened packs to give to [them].” The DC Ambassadors do not accept money — only cards. “We don’t need much money to run it — basically, just for boxes [to store] the cards and bags for the cards,” Anne
Berube said. “Both families knew there would be a certain amount of expense.” Andrew said he has learned a lot sorting cards. “I’ve learned a lot about older players,” he said. “I’ve also learned that people really like this.” Ben said he had to learn to manage his time better to keep up with school, sports, his own card collection and Cards2Kids. “I’ve learned a lot about caring and helping other kids,” Ben said.
Two-for-one open house at Rockville schools
montgomerycountymd.gov/mcvaccineclinic/. For more information or other flu shot locations and times visit www. montgomerycountymd.gov/flu or call 311.
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EDUCATION NOTEBOOK Bethesda-Chevy Chase teens celebrate Day of the Girl Members of the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School chapter of School
Girls Unite celebrated the Day of the Girl on Oct. 11 with a Day of the Girl Arts and Actions Night in the school cafeteria. The event, designed to celebrate girls’ rights and recognize the struggles that still exist, featured performances by local teen artists and information booths where participants could learn about and engage in dialogue on specific issues affecting girls. Guest speakers included Donna Wilkinson, wide receiver of the D.C Divas football team, who discussed pursuing her passion, and Gary Barker, international director of Promundo, a nonprofit that works with men to eliminate violence against women. About 250 people attended the event, said Emily Kuttner, co-president with Julia Fine of the chapter. “It was so great so see a variety of people from the school and the community, all the ages,” Kuttner said. “The best part was the energy. It was so exciting to see so many people dedicated to changing the status quo when it comes to women.” School Girls Unite is a “...100 percent youth-led movement committed to promoting the International Day of the Girl Child on Oct. 11 as a platform for change in the U.S.,” according to its website, www.schoolgirlsunite.org. In December 2011, the U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring Oct. 11 the International Day of the Girl Child. Its purpose is “to recognize girls’ rights and the unique challenges girls face around the world,” according to the U.N.’s website. The focus of this year’s day was “Innovating for Girls’ Education.” “Two years ago, the School Girls
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Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School seniors Michelle Budin (left) and Vivian Vazquez, and junior Nathan Kaye pose by their booths at the school’s School Girls Unite Day of the Girl Arts and Actions Night on Oct. 11. Unite Club at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School led the successful campaign to gain U.S. support for the recently recognized U.N. International Day of the Girl,” Kuttner wrote in an email. “This year, the movement against gender injustices continues as the School Girls Unite Club reaches out to involve the community in the Day of the Girl.”
Language study scholarships available About 600 scholarships are available for the 2014-15 academic year for U.S. high school students to study language through the National Security Language Initiative for Youth. The program is funded by the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. It seeks to increase Americans’ capacity to engage with native speakers of critical
languages by providing formal and informal language learning through a study abroad experience, which includes language classes and living in a local community abroad, often with a host family. Scholarships to participate in summer or academic year programs are available for the study of Arabic, Mandarin, Hindi, Korean, Tajiki, Russian and Turkish. The merit-based scholarships cover domestic and international travel, tuition and related academic expenses, daily language classes, supporting cultural activities, room and board, and secondary health benefits for travel abroad. To be eligible, applicants must be U.S. citizens, high school students with a grade point average of at least 2.5, and 15 to 18 years old at the start of the program. The application deadline is Nov. 5. More eligibility criteria and applications are at nsliforyouth.org.
Marine Band in concert at Montgomery Blair High The President’s Own Marine Band will perform a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Montgomery Blair High School, 52 University Blvd. East, Silver Spring. Selections will include Sousa marches, an orchestral transcription of Aaron Copland’s “El Salón México” and John Williams’ original fanfare written for the band. Other highlights include clarinet soloist John Norton performing Eric Richards’ “A Klezmer Tribute” and baritone Gunnery Sgt. Kevin Bennear singing Stephen Bulla’s arrangement “Pride of a People.” The concert will conclude with an armed forces salute honoring all veterans. The public is invited; no tickets are required. For more information visit finearts. mbhs.edu or call 301-649-2839.
St. Raphael School and St. Raphael Nursery School will hold an open
house doubleheader Monday. The school, which serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade, will be open from 9:15 to 10:15 a.m. and the nursery school from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. The nursery school has programs for 3- and 4-year-olds and pre-kindergarten, plus extended-day offerings. Each open house starts with a presentation, followed by a tour of the facilities. Child care is available during the open house. The schools are at 1513 Dunster Road, Rockville. For more information call 301-762-2143 or visit www.straphaelschoolmd.org.
County to offer flu vaccine clinics in November The Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services will conduct free, nasal spray flu vaccine clinics in November for children 18 and younger at a number of public schools. The first will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Nov. 1, at John F. Kennedy High School, 1901 Randolph Road, Silver Spring; Richard Montgomery High School, 250 Richard Montgomery Drive, Rockville; and Seneca Valley High School, 19401 Crystal Rock Drive, Germantown. No classes will be held that day because it is a professional day for teachers. The clinics are open to any schoolage child. All public elementary schools will host a flu clinic either Nov. 11 or Nov. 12, following early dismissal of students those days. The clinics are free, but registration is required due to limited vaccine supplies. To register visit www2.
WSSC calendar contest for students is underway The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission is accepting entries for its fourth annual calendar contest. Students in second through fifth grades in schools in Prince George’s and Montgomery counties are eligible to enter artwork promoting the theme “Why I ‘Can the Grease.’” “Can the Grease” is the utility’s ongoing effort to urge residents to pour fats, oils and grease into a can and then dispose of them in the trash rather than pour the clogging materials down the drain. When too much of these materials get into the sewer system, backups occur, which can be costly to repair and can harm the environment. Entries must be no larger than 8½ by 11 inches and no smaller than 5½ by 11 inches. Students may use any medium, such as oil, watercolor, pastels, pencil, pen and ink, and crayon, but three-dimensional work will not be accepted. Mounted and framed entries will not be judged. Entries must have the artist’s name, grade, school, school address, teacher’s name and teacher’s email address on their back. Only one entry can be submitted per student. The deadline for entries is 5 p.m. Nov. 1. Entries may be sent or delivered to WSSC, Attn: Community Outreach Group, 14501 Sweitzer Lane, Laurel, MD 20707. Twelve winners will be chosen for the 2014 calendar. Each winner will receive $100 and six copies of the calendar. For more information, contact the utility at 301-206-7019.
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CELEBRATIONS
HEALTH CALENDAR WEDNESDAY, OCT. 23 Healthy Cooking Series: Gluten Free Foods, from 6-8
p.m. at Suburban Hospital, 8600 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda. By demonstrating delicious, flavorful recipes, you will learn helpful tips on how to stock a gluten-free pantry and recipes sure to inspire your palette. Call for prices. 301-896-3939. www.suburbanhospital.org.
Health Fair for Older Adults at MedStar Montgomery, from
Boarman, Jagoda Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Boarman of Olney announce the engagement of their daughter, Ashley Michelle Boarman, to Douglas Andrew Jagoda, son of Mrs. Elaine Jagoda Adornetto and stepson of Mr. Thomas Adornetto of Derwood. The bride-to-be graduated from Sherwood High School in Sandy Spring in 2004 and went on to graduate magna cum laude from East Carolina University in 2008, receiving a bachelor’s degree in communication. Ashley is employed by MGH of Owings Mills as a public relations senior account executive. The prospective groom graduated from Col. Zadok A. Magruder High School in Derwood in 2004 and went on to receive his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2008. Douglas is employed by Clark Construction of Bethesda as an assistant superintendent. A June 2014 wedding is planned in Baltimore.
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, 18101 Prince Philip Drive, Olney. Make plans to attend MedStar Montgomery Medical Center’s first health fair for older adults, Thriving as You Age. During this event, you will have the opportunity to speak directly with medical experts and learn about health topics on aging. www.montgomerygeneral.org.
Donoho, Constantine Stephen Donoho of Geneseo, Ill., and William and Kathy Blackburn of Silver Creek, Ga., announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Stephenie Ann Donoho, to James V. Constantine, son of Ted and Sharon Constantine of Bethesda. The bride-to-be graduated with honors from Denbigh High School in Newport News, Va., and is a 2002 graduate of Virginia Tech. She is currently employed as a government contracts manager at Wesco Distribution Inc. The prospective groom is a graduate of Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda and graduated from York College in York, Pa., in 2004. He is currently employed at Comprint Military Publications as an advertising consultant. The couple resides in Clarksburg. A ceremony and reception is planned for September 2014.
THURSDAY, OCT. 24 Food Day Lunch and Learn at MedStar Montgomery,
from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, 18101 Prince Philip Drive, Olney. Learn how you
UPCOMING the church’s Fellowship Hall, 20701 Frederick Road, Germantown. The church will also observe Orphan Sunday that day. All are welcome. Services are held at 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sunday mornings. Sunday School for all ages at 9:40 a.m. www.Neelsville.org
ONGOING Damascus United Methodist Church, 9700 New Church
Lynch, Foster Madison Booth and Wilma Harmon Dunlap celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on Oct. 10, 2013. Wed on Oct. 10, 1953, at Tacoma Park Baptist Church, they’ve enjoyed a wonderful and stimulating life together, all spent in the Silver Spring area. After starting their honeymoon sharing the Hershey Hotel with Dwight Eisenhower’s birthday party, they visited the Finger Lakes region, including Niagara falls, the Thousand Islands region and Quebec. The couple’s children and their spouses are Tom and Linda Dunlap of Winston-Salem, N.C., Susan and Steve Kline of Olney and Cynthia and Ken Gwynn of Raleigh, N.C. They also enjoy their eight grandchildren: Jack, Pete and his wife Cameron, Sally, Michael, Laura, Amy, David and Matthew.
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SATURDAY, OCT. 26 Safe Sitter, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Suburban Hospital, 8600 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda. Comprehensive training course teaching 11- to 13-year-olds the essentials of babysitting. Course includes tactics in handling emergencies basic first aid and childcare skills. $95. Registration required. If you are interested in becoming a Safe Sitter instructor, please call 301-8962999. www.suburbanhospital. org.
MONDAY, OCT. 28 Learn to Understand Your Anger, from 7-9 p.m. at
Suburban Hospital, 8600 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda. Understand your anger style, its triggers and the impact on your health. Discover healthy and practical techniques for managing your anger in everyday situations. Not appropriate for court referrals. $20. www.suburbanhospital.org.
RELIGION CALENDAR Neelsville’s Alternative Gift Market will be held Nov. 3 in
Dunlap
can reduce your risk of certain diseases by making healthy food choices. www.montgomerygeneral.org.
Gerard and Marla Lynch of Gaithersburg announce the engagement of their daughter, Christina Leigh Lynch, to Sean Richard Foster, son of Richard and Barbara Anne Foster of Germantown. Christina is the granddaughter of Henry and Kay Shenton of Apopka, Fla., and the late Kevin and Mary Pat Lynch of Timonium. Sean is the grandson of Elizabeth Kondraki and the late Anthony Kondraki of Upland, Pa. He is also the grandson of the late Charles and Margaret Foster of Farmingdale, N.Y., and Lake Worth, Fla. The bride-to-be, who resides in Frederick, attended Colonel Zadok Magruder High School. She received her undergraduate degree and master’s degree from the University of Maryland, College Park. The prospective groom, who also resides in Frederick, attended Seneca Valley High School. He received his undergraduate degree from Salisbury University and his master’s degree from the University of Maryland, College Park. The couple met while teaching middle school in Germantown. A September 2014 wedding is planned in Frederick.
St., Damascus, offers traditional Sunday morning worship services at 8:15 a.m., a youth contemporary worship service at 9:30 a.m. and a service of liturgy and the word at 11 a.m. with Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. for all ages during the school year.
Liberty Grove United Methodist Church, 15225 Old
Columbia Pike, Burtonsville, conducts Sunday morning worship services at 8:30, 9:30 and 11 a.m. Sunday school, nursery through adult, is at 9:30 a.m. 301-421-9166. For a schedule of events, visit www. libertygrovechurch.org. “MOPS,” a faith-based support group for mothers of children, birth through kindergarten, meets from 9-11:30 a.m. the first and third Wednesdays of the month at the Frederick Church of the Brethren, 201 Fairview Drive, Frederick. Childcare is
provided. This year’s theme, “A Beautiful Mess: Embracing Your Story,” focuses on remembering that beauty can come out of chaos and that your past, present and future can be used for good with God’s love. For more information call 301-662-1819. Email mops@fcob.net.
Neelsville Presbyterian Church, 20701 Frederick Road,
Germantown, has returned to its Fall worship schedule, with services at 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sundays. Sunday School for all ages at 9:40 a.m. www. Neelsville.org.
Providence United Methodist Church, 3716 Kemptown
Church Road, Monrovia, conducts a contemporary service at 8 a.m. followed by a traditional service at 9:30 a.m. Sunday mornings, with children’s Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. and adult Sunday school at 11 a.m. For more information, call 301-253-1768. Visit www. kemptownumc.org. Trinity Lutheran Church, 11200 Old Georgetown Road, North Bethesda, conducts services every Sunday, with child care from 8 a.m. to noon and fellowship and a coffee hour following each service. 301-8817275. For a schedule of events, visit www.TrinityELCA.org. Chancel choir auditions and rehearsals, 7:30 p.m.
Thursdays at Liberty Grove Methodist Church, 15225 Old Columbia Pike, Burtonsville. Call 301-421-9166 or visit www.libertygrovechurch.org.
The Gazette prints engagement and wedding announcements, with color photographs, at no charge, as a community service. Copy should be limited to 150 words and submitted in paragraph form. Announcements are subject to editing for space. Please include contact information, including a daytime telephone number. Photos should be professional quality. If emailing photos, file size should be a minimum of 500 KB. Wedding announcements should be submitted no later than 12 months after the wedding. Send to: The Gazette, 9030 Comprint Court, Gaithersburg, MD 20877, or email kgroff@gazette.net. Montgomery County celebrations are inserted into all Montgomery County editions.
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In Silver Spring, some people love Donna Kerr’s elaborately spooky “Haunted Garden” for the fun it adds to Halloween. But some who live near her decked-out Worth Avenue home are wholly annoyed, fed up with the incoming wave of vehicles and spectators. Nineteen of Kerr’s neighbors signed a petition protesting the Haunted Garden. This is more than a nuisance issue. More than once, Montgomery County has explicitly told Kerr, a real estate agent, that she was violating an ordinance on limits for home COUNTY WAS businesses. CORRECT TO The county tried in two CITE MARKETING previous years to get Kerr to OF HALLOWEEN stop. This year, the county got DISPLAY a temporary restraining order, saying the display did not comply with the residential zoning code, was expanding each year and was a potential safety hazard. Kerr has a single-family home on a 15,000-square-foot lot in a dense residential neighborhood, according to the county’s petition. On Oct. 15, Montgomery County District Judge Patricia Mitchell settled the matter, for now, by letting Kerr hold her Haunted Garden for two days instead of the five days she had advertised. Diane Schwartz Jones, the director of the county’s Department of Permitting Services, was baffled by the ruling, and so are we. “The real issue is a public safety issue,” Schwartz Jones said. “If it is a public safety issue for five nights, it is a public safety issue for two nights.” This was hardly a Solomonic split down the middle. If the central question were how long a neighborhood should be inconvenienced, then tapering back the number of days might be a reasonable middle ground. But there’s a grander fundamental issue here — whether Kerr should use business channels to boost an event at her home. The county amassed plenty of evidence of how much she entangled her Halloween display with her commercial enterprise, Pure Energy Real Estate. The company’s website and Facebook page and a flier that went to about 12,000 households mixed publicity about the event with listings of homes for sale. Kerr paid her employees to work on the display. Approximately 2,000 people attended the 2011 event, the company’s Facebook page said, urging even more visitors this year. But with such large crowds, Montgomery County’s transportation and police departments have had to get involved. Montgomery County’s law on home-based businesses allows two visitors at a time. The county’s website says home-based businesses are permitted “by right” if they have: “up to five vehicles visits per week, excluding deliveries;” “no nonresident employee;” and “no discernible impact on the surroundings.” Owners must get a home occupation registration certificate if their business has a “maximum of twenty vehicles visits per week with no more than five per day, excluding deliveries” and “one nonresident employee.” Anything beyond those limits requires a special exception. A home-based business must follow two overarching principles. It must be “conducted entirely within the house.” And it “does not change the residential character of the neighborhood such as by creating noise, odors, or vibrations at the property line.” Kerr did not have a permit for a home occupation on the property. Perhaps she wasn’t selling homes to people as they were spooked by goblins, but there’s no question her business was an integral part of the operation and marketing of the event. It’s hard to imagine this case reaching the judicial system if Kerr had left her business name and resources out of it. That’s how the display started, when Kerr decorated her yard for a 2010 humane society fundraiser. The following year, she started spreading the word through her business, prompting the county to cite her. Mitchell’s ruling lets the Haunted Garden proceed. Kerr will have public showings for four hours apiece on Friday and Saturday. If Mitchell’s ruling was based on a belief that Kerr’s Haunted Garden marketing is incidental to her business, then Montgomery County will have to add new zoning language prohibiting business activities like this one. We’d rather not see another battle testing the limits of the law and the peace of a neighborhood. We encourage Kerr to instead consider an alternate way to hold her impressive Halloween display, perhaps in a public space. Maybe the county or the Montgomery County Fairgrounds could host it, with support from Kerr and her business. Sell tickets and find a worthwhile beneficiary. Kerr deserves credit for the time, work and spirit that she pours into her display. By stripping away the nuisance and legal issues, it could become a perfect treat.
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As the holidays approach, food drives and other hungerrelief efforts seem to be everywhere ... except your local Costco. Although this retailer is the current darling of the “socially responsible” financial set and has been praised by President Obama and patronized by Vice President Biden, a closer look at Costco’s record in helping the hungry shows it to be more Scrooge than saint. In an email, Arthur D. Jackson Jr., Costco’s vice president of general administration, said the company would not likely have a food drive at any of its locations. “There are just too many worthy causes that would love to have that access, we would never be
Cold-hearted Costco able to accommodate them all. Once we allow one we’d be hard pressed to deny it to others,” he said. But what happens to all the food in stores that isn’t purchased before its sell-by date? Most large retailers, including BJ’s Wholesale and Sam’s Club, Costco’s direct competitors, have robust programs for collecting and donating products to food banks and soup kitchens. But not Costco. It composts that food and sells it for use as fertilizer and livestock feed. Just how much food does Costco dispose of in this way? According to figures in Costco’s own 2009 Sustainability Report, each Costco location produces an average
of 3.7 tons of food waste each week. The number of Costco locations in the U.S. is 448 and growing. That means each year Costco composts or throws away more than 172 million pounds of food, about 7 pounds for each of its more than 25 million U.S. members. So why doesn’t Costco donate this food to some of the “many worthy causes” mentioned by Mr. Jackson? After all, the same economies of scale in selling only large-sized packages of food that help make Costco so profitable would also apply to food donations. The answer, unfortunately, appears to be profit. Donating food would require Costco to pay employees
Councilman Rice has his work cut out for him — and so do we We are lucky that our elected County Council representative Craig Rice is young, energetic and thoughtful. We need to give him and our issues strong support. Last week, Rice hosted a town meeting in Damascus [“Rice set to tackle traffic,” Sept. 25]. Without fanfare, and almost without any notes, he, along with several members of the police department, covered an amazing array of issues facing both the upcounty, which Rice represents, and Montgomery County as a whole. We heard about transportation, Clarksburg and drug enforcement programs. It was good to hear facts, plans and issues presented in honest, thoughtful terms. It was reassuring to see residents listening, asking thoughtful questions and voicing their own concerns. The evening represented the best of our demo-
cratic process. Now the responsibility for the next steps in our local democracy rest with us. Will we call the Board of Elections to support having an early voting site at the Damascus Community Recreation Center, which was the excellent site for the meeting? Will we keep a close eye on decisions affecting the headwaters of Ten Mile Creek, the last and only clean water source that backs up water for our region’s 4.2 million people? We know backup systems have been used in the past. We know it is only a matter of time that these backup systems will be called into full primary service. Who among us will speak for our natural resources, clear air and clean water? Will we go to the public library or go online and review the county’s next six-year planning document — the CIP — to
check for what is and is not included for our area, the largest geographic and population area of Montgomery County? And if the roads, the buildings, the needs are not reflected there, will we write letters, attend hearings and testify? What about transportation? A real town center with the promised public library for Clarksburg? The list goes on and on. Rice has his work cut out for him and so do we as we watch him weigh the issues, the facts and the needs of the people who elected him. We are also lucky to have The Gazette send reporters to cover local events and local issues. This is another major support for our democracy. So in spite of the somber news all around us, we still have a great deal to be thankful for.
Robert Rand, Managing Editor Ken Sain, Sports Editor Andrew Schotz, Assistant Managing Editor Dan Gross, Photo Editor Jessica Loder, Web Editor
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County should match state in aid to working poor
Is this why Mr. O’Malley raised the gas taxes? To waste our money on unnecessary projects? My son pointed out to me that this has been going on for a while along other roads. I would like to know who the people are that set priorities at MDOT? Shame on them all!
Antonio Corsini, Rockville
Linda Anderson, Silver Spring
Maria Pedak-Kari, Damascus
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Timothy F. Reynolds, Silver Spring
The Montgomery County Council has the chance to greatly ease the burden of making ends meet for thousands of households living below the poverty level. By passing Expedited Bill 8-13, the council would restore the county’s match with Maryland’s Earned Income Tax Credit funding to 100 percent, as it was from 2000 through 2010. A “hand up,” not a “hand out” from the EITC has proven successful for 40 years since President Ford signed it into law in 1974. It helps the working poor — most of whom are single adults with two children — survive while earning at or near the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. That comes to a shamefully insufficient $15,000 a year full time for those fortunate enough to secure full-time work in these challenging times. Fully restoring the county’s match means more than 30,000 residents will get a modest tax credit of over $500. That’s not a complete solution, but enough for many to fully cover their medical expenses or most of their monthly food bills. Such assistance not only eases some of the pressure on low-income families, but is a wise public investment in the long-term strength of our region’s economy, children and future.
Sidewalk projects are wasting money In the article of Oct. 2 [“Raised bricks on Georgia Avenue sidewalks called a possible hazard”], a project is referred to “sidewalk restoration.” I call it “sidewalk robbery.” Over the past several months I observed miles of perfectly sound sidewalks been pulled up and replaced along Georgia Avenue from Aspen Hill to Olney. Miles of these sidewalks had been built only a couple of years ago.
to sort the food, and somebody would have to bear the cost of transporting it to hunger-relief agencies. It’s apparently more profitable for Costco to sell the food for pig slop than give it to hungry people. Costco derives most of its profits from the annual membership fee it charges. And Costco is not reticent about taking from the communities where it operates, such as the $4 million subsidy Montgomery County taxpayers gave to help bring a new Costco to Wheaton. When Costco solicits you for a membership, ask why Costco doesn’t do more for hungry people.
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Maryland voters can make history next year by electing either the state’s first black governor (Anthony Brown or Charles Lollar) the first governor from Montgomery County (Doug Gansler) or the first woman/lesbian governor (Heather Mizeur). But history is already being made not for who’s running, but for who’s not running. When Gansler this week picked Joline Ivey, a P.G. county delegate, as his running mate, both parties’ major gubernatorial tickets became finalized without a single candidate from Baltimore. So, MY MARYLAND barring a highly BLAIR LEE unlikely, lastminute Baltimorean’s entry into the governor’s race, this is the first time in more than a century that no one from Baltimore will appear on the gubernatorial ballot. Gansler (Montgomery) is running with Ivey (P.G.); Republican David Craig (Harford) is running with Jeannie Haddaway (Talbot); and Anthony Brown (P.G.) is running with Ken Ulman (Howard). Ulman is peddling himself as a Baltimorean but no matter how many Ravens jerseys he dons, he was raised in Columbia and schooled in P.G. and D.C. The disappearance of Baltimore candidates is a stunning development given that seven of our last eight governors were from either Baltimore city or Baltimore County (Agnew, Mandel, Hughes, Schaefer, Ehrlich and O’Malley). Only Parris Glendening (P.G.) interrupted Baltimore’s 48-year control of the governor’s mansion. And at least he had a Baltimore-area lieutenant governor, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. I had to go back to the 1911 election (they were odd years back then) to find a governor’s race without a Baltimorean. The incumbent, Austin Crothers (Cecil) a progressive-era reformer, couldn’t seek re-election because his liberal policies split the Democratic party. So, two Democratic state senators battled for the nomination; the machine candidate, Arthur Pue Gorman Jr. (Howard) vs. the reform liberal, Blair Lee (Montgomery). In one of state history’s most bitter elections, Gorman defeated great-granddad,
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but the resulting acrimony split the party allowing Philip Goldsborough (Dorchester) to become Maryland’s governor, only the second Republican since the Civil War. In politics, demographics is destiny and Baltimore city’s demographics stink. Since World War II, when it accounted for nearly half the state’s population, the city has lost a third of its residents. More people lived in Baltimore city during World War I than today when Baltimore is merely 11 percent of Maryland’s population and, even worse, cast only 8.5 percent of the statewide vote in the last two gubernatorial elections. With the loss of population has gone the loss of state and federal legislative seats, bad news for a city that survives on state and federal aid. And now it appears that Baltimore is losing control of the governor’s office, one of the most powerful in the nation. How much money will the city get when a non-Baltimore governor writes the 2015 budget? Baltimore congressman Dutch Ruppersburger coyly hints that he might fill the vacuum. But it’s unlikely that Dutch wants to go down in history as the man who destroyed Maryland’s Democratic party by defeating Anthony Brown, its first African-American gubernatorial hopeful. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake attempts salvaging some face by warning that, “I don’t think there’s a way to win the governor’s race without the Baltimore vote.” That might be true for the Democratic nomination, but Bob Ehrlich won the 2002 general election without carrying the city. The age-old axiom “the road to the governor’s mansion leads through Baltimore” is becoming increasingly obsolete. Instead, Maryland’s political center of gravity has shifted to the D.C. suburbs, 30 miles and one media market distant from Baltimore. If Gansler, Brian Frosh (or Bill Frick) and Peter Franchot all win, Maryland’s governor, attorney general and comptroller will all be Montgomery Countians. How weird is that? Hail to the Redskins and please pass the tofu and bean sprouts.
Get Gansler Doug Gansler and Anthony Brown have both spent the last eight years preparing for the 2014 governor’s contest. During that time, Gansler skillfully outmaneuvered Brown by becoming Maryland’s first white poli-
tician to back Barack Obama in 2008 (Brown tagged along with O’Malley’s support of Hillary Clinton) and by being the first major elected official to back gay marriage long before it was popular. Gansler, as attorney general, has also compiled a long list of court victories and ran his office, generally, without incident or scandal. Meanwhile, Brown’s signature accomplishments were BRAC (preparing for the influx of new military personnel), Maryland’s Obamacare roll-out (so far an embarrassing flub), and garnering the support of most Democratic elected officials. Stuck with the Obamacare fiasco and facing Gansler’s bulletproof record, the Brown campaign is exploiting Gansler’s only weakness — his brash intemperance, reckless arrogance, oversized ego and big mouth. First, it was the tape of Gansler telling supporters that Brown was mainly running on being black. Somehow the secret tape mysteriously fell into the hands of the Washington Post reporter, John Wagner, a notorious O’Malley administration shill, who dutifully ran it on the paper’s front page. Now, two months later it’s “Troopergate,” allegations that Gansler hectored his state trooper drivers into bypassing traffic jams by driving on the shoulders with emergency lights flashing. Again, it was John Wagner and, again, it was on the Post’s front page. The “Troopergate” allegations stem from a 2011 internal state police memo that, we are supposed to believe, suddenly appeared in John Wagner’s sleep, causing him to file a freedom of information request. Wagner’s miraculous “investigative journalism” became a damaging front page scandal on the day before Gansler announced his running mate. A coincidence? I’m no Gansler fan, but I hate political “hit jobs” by so-called journalists and news desks who hold themselves out as objective truthseekers and reliable fact messengers. Do the voters of Maryland realize that they’re being unscrupulously manipulated? That’s the greater scandal of “Troopergate.” 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.
I read Matthew D. Taylor’s letter (“Another Wegmans Lament,” Oct. 9) with great amusement, certain until the very end that it was an elaborate joke, perhaps an homage to Robin Williams’ coffee-induced panic in “Moscow on the Hudson.” But, as I read his conclusion, it dawned on me that he was serious: He really does believe that their fresh produce section is “unnecessarily vast” and
that their convenient and high-quality assortment of grocery and non-grocery items is “excessive.” I suggest that if more local residents visit Wegmans, they will see that they’re being denied a product selection superior to Giant and Safeway in both quality and quantity. My only Wegmans lament? That’s it’s so far away!
David Edelstein, Bethesda
Is Maryland going over the cliff? The Oct. 2 Letter from Dan Bongino [“Texas has nothing on Maryland, except opportunity”] should be read by every Marylander. His letter was obviously motivated by the recent overtures by Gov. Rick Perry of Texas touting the advantages of Marylanders moving to Texas. It is refreshing and inspiring to have a candidate for Congress speak the truth when he identifies the current advantages of Maryland over Texas and warns that these advantages will fade away if the state continues on its current course. His objective is obvious — to wake up Marylanders to a growing problem that needs resolution. He states Maryland does not provide motivation to succeed, to make something of oneself. This is the process that strengthens the economic fiber of a state. It gives one state an advantage over another that fails to understand this concept. As he says, we are in the process of losing these advantages because of an unfavorable business climate and an ever-increasing tax burden causing the flight of taxpayers to other states. He makes his case by pointing out that over 66,000 Marylanders have fled the
state to avoid increasing taxes and regulations. Why is all this happening? Why is this governor and this legislature raising taxes in almost every category, e.g. sales, income, property, gasoline tax, seeking additional sources of revenue like the nefarious rain tax, and over regulating businesses? Why is this state unleashing the very factors that inhibit growth and opportunity? Are higher order factors motivating all this? Is one factor the political climate in which Maryland has become a one-party state forcing its will on all? Doesn’t a one-party system of government resemble failed similar one-party systems like socialism, communism, dictatorships and kingships? Is the other factor the sometimes-heard charge that Maryland has become a sanctuary state? If so, is this imposing financial burdens on the state that can be met only through increased taxes? Regardless of political affiliation, elected state (and national) officials have an obligation to evaluate cause and effect before taking any action that might impose a burden on its citizenry and prevent progress.
Warren Manison, Potomac
Whose morals will they use? In their letter, [“Organizations: Council must help those on brink of poverty,” Oct. 16] officers from 11 local organizations “demand just and fair laws that reflect our moral teachings.” Really? That sounds suspiciously like the approach the Taliban uses. Just what are the moral teachings that they demand be codified into Maryland law? Are their moral teachings expressed in the Sermon on the Mount, or the Koran, or the Hindu Ve-
das, or the Communist Manifesto? Who knows? This group goes on to say that they pledge to work with the Montgomery County Council to advance the health and well-being “of all county residents.” I’m unclear how their moral teachings will necessarily advance my health and well-being, although they would likely increase my taxes.
Bill Fallon, Gaithersburg
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Fourteen-year-old Andrew Christianson may not have graduated from high school — much less middle school — yet, but he is already a college athlete. On Friday, in front of his family, friends, teammates and fans, the Olney-resident signed a National Letter of Intent with the Montgomery College men’s soccer program. While the eighth-grade student at Rose Parks Middle School is an official member — he attends the Raptors’ practices, games and even has his own set of purple, black, white and silver jerseys — of the junior college program, Christianson will have to wait a little less than five years to actually play in a collegiate contest. “This is pretty cool,” Christianson, an avid soccer player and fanatic, said with a grin on his face. “Everyone has been so nice.” Christianson, who appears to be mature for his age, isn’t a typical 14-year-old boy. Two years ago, in September 2011, Christianson was diagnosed with Pre-B Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Following a year of aggressive chemother-
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Our Lady of Good Counsel High School’s Jesse Aniebonam pursues the ball against Gonzaga in the Falcons’ loss to the Eagles on Sept. 20.
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Jesse Aniebonam, considering joining the Our Lady of Good Counsel High School football program, visited the school in eighth grade and met defensive line coach Kevin McFadden. McFadden saw Aniebonam’s long arms, big feet and even his big nose and thought, “He just looked different. There was some-
thing about him.” The coach, wanting to see whether Aniebonam’s athleticism matched his physique, took him to the gym, positioned him underneath the basketball hoop and told him to jump. “His elbow touched the rim,” McFadden said. “I told him, I said, ‘You do everything I tell you to do, you’ll be one of the best defensive ends. You’ll be top three in the country if you do everything I tell you to do.’ And he did ev-
erything I told him to do.” The U.S. Army All-American Bowl announced its selection of Aniebonam last week, the latest honor for the Silver Spring resident who committed to Maryland and has the pedigree of a star defensive end. Aniebonam’s 38 first cousins include National Football League defensive end Osi
Boys’ race wide open; B-CC girls the team to beat BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN STAFF WRITER
This year’s Montgomery County boys’ soccer season has been so unpredictable Walt Whitman High School boys’ soccer coach Dave Green said he half considered running a
March Madness-type bracket pool for the upcoming postseason, which begins with Thursday and Friday’s region tournament first-round games. Popularity in high-level club soccer’s expansion from its original nucleus in the Bethesda, Potomac and Rockville areas has lead to increased parity among Montgomery County teams and that equity among teams has reached new heights in 2013, coaches agreed.
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There are six teams legitimate contenders for the all-county Class 4A West Region championship as well on the girls’ side of the playoffs. The postseason will be even harder to predict this fall as a new structure was introduced with reclassification. Each region has been divided into two sections pertaining to geography. In the 4A West, that pits most of the historical rivals and traditional county
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powers out of Bethesda and Potomac in one section, competing with each other just to get to a region final. The split likely affects the girls more than the boys this year, coaches agreed, but the truth of the matter is any team that is going to get through the region is going to have to beat the best teams to get there whether it’s in the first round or the region final.
Quince Orchard High School defensive back Kyle Gregory and a few teammates, having played the night before, watched Gaithersburg defeat Sherwood 32-7 during the first Saturday of the high school football season. Gregory, to say the least, was impressed. “I knew they had a chance to go undefeated, because they had a lot of talent,” Gregory said. So far, Gregory’s assessment has proven correct. No. 4 Gaithersburg (7-0) and No. 2 Quince Orchard (7-0) are Montgomery County’s only undefeated teams, though one will lose its perfect record this week. The teams are scheduled to play 6:30 p.m. Friday at Richard Montgomery. Surely, Gregory was referring to talent such as running back Solomon Vault, a Northwestern recruit who had 200 yards of offense and four touchdowns in that opener. But Vault has missed three of the last four games with a leg injury and is questionable for this week, according to Gaithersburg coach Kreg Kephart, potentially wiping away one of Gaithersburg’s advantages.
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Umenyiora, who plays for the Atlanta Falcons and made two Pro Bowls with the New York Giants. Aniebonam said he regrets not seeking mentorship from Umenyiora sooner, and he hopes they’ll train together this winter. For now, they exchange texts, and Aniebonam said his cousin’s advice often centers around two themes. One — keep a level head — comes easy to Aniebonam. Whenever he feels stressed, Aniebonam sings to himself. Sometimes, he hums during class to the point his peers tell
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to best Sherwood and zero succeeded. Three state titles were earned, wins piled up and statistics verged on the absurd. Finally, however, the streak was undone. A deep and talented Damascus went into Olney on Thursday and did what no team had done since Thomas S. Wootton on Nov. 6, 2009: it defeated the Warriors. It may have taken five sets, and it may have taken every last swing Annika Schwartz’s right shoulder had in it, but the Swarmin’ Hornets stole away with a 3-2 victory. “This has been my and our goal since freshman year,” said Schwartz, who recorded a match-high 21 kills. “We wanted this. We are a small 3A school and we proved we can beat a great big 4A school and one of the best programs.” Predictably, Sherwood shrugged it off as a loss, nothing more. Coach Brian McCarty has been preaching all year long that the gaudy streak was just a nice little resumé booster. After all, there’s a more important streak still intact: three consecutive state championships. Winston Churchill defeated Damascus on Monday.
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A new look for Hillard Winston Churchill’s Kaitlyn Hillard established early on that she was one of the county’s more talented hitters with 144 kills in 15 matches. Standing 6-foot-1, the position is a natural fit. So imagine the surprise John F. Kennedy had on Oct. 16 when Hillard suited up in a black libero uniform for a fun little change of pace for the Bulldogs. Apparently being 6-foot-1 didn’t mean she couldn’t get the job done, as “even the ref said what a good libero she was,” coach Cindy Hillard said. “They were all like ‘take a picture, take a picture!’” Cindy Hillard wrote in an email.
him to shut up. “That’s how I focus,” he replies. That method, coupled with his family’s support, has helped him navigate a high-profile recruitment. “All the buzz with the media and all the offers coming in and everything, that can really get somebody who doesn’t have a level head and the right roots and the right base and the right family structure,” Aniebonam said. On the football field, though, Aniebonam doesn’t need any tricks to clear his mind. “Going to practice, that’s kind of like my humming, that’s kind of like my singing,” Aniebonam said. his mother, Mardith Christianson. “Andrew had never been sick. “It is one of the most traumatic things you can go through as a mother and parent. It’s been tough, but he’s been so positive about it and I don’t think I could be as calm if he didn’t handle it as well as he has.” Added Andrew: “I just wasn’t feeling good — mainly just being tired — before [getting diagnosed]. The doctors did tests for other things before they figured it out.” Christianson, who says his favorite professional team is D.C. United, began playing the sport in early elementary school. He then joined his first organized team with Montgomery Soccer, Inc. (MSI) and after sitting out most of
Not that it’s of any comparison to its volleyball counterparts, but the Sherwood field hockey team’s winning streak was also put to a close on Oct. 16. The Warriors were vying for their second consecutive undefeated regular season — last year was the first such in school history — recording 28 straight regular season wins in the last two seasons. Walter Johnson won, 2-1, on goals from Mackenzie Johnson and Catherine Royston. The loss is of little concern to the Warriors, though. They still received a first round bye in the playoffs and will host Paint Branch on Thursday night. tmewhirter@gazette.net
But Umenyiora’s other tip — use outside criticism and doubt as motivation — doesn’t come as naturally to Aniebonam. Describing himself as “kindhearted and kind-spirited,” Aniebonam said he typically just ignores negativity. He’s working on it, though. Sometimes, Aniebonam, now 6-foot-4 and 240 pounds, thinks back to all the middle schoolers who teased him for being so tall. But he still hopes he can learn from Umenyiora how to better motivate himself. Unknowingly, Umenyiora has at least already helped Aniebonam receive an Auburn scholarship offer. Umenyiora grew up in the same city as the Southeastern Conference school, but the past two seasons to fight leukemia, he currently plays with the Olney Boys’ and Girls’ Club. “I never really got depressed or sad about being sick. It was a new challenge to overcome and something I didn’t really worry about, but it was tough not playing,” Christianson said. “Friends would ask to hang out and I just didn’t feel like it.” During Friday’s ceremony, Christianson, who celebrated his birthday on Oct. 13, ran through a tunnel of players as he was introduced prior to the Raptors’ game against Allegany. He was then “drafted” by the Raptors, posed for pictures with the team and received a jersey with his lucky number 13 on it.
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it didn’t offer him a scholarship. To avoid repeating the mistake, Auburn quickly offered Aniebonam a scholarship, McFadden said. That was one of more than 20 offers Aniebonam received including Alabama, Florida, Florida State, Notre Dame, Ohio State and his other two finalists besides Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia Tech. McFadden is confident Aniebonam will find success at Maryland — and beyond. “If he stays healthy, he’ll be an NFL draft pick,” McFadden said. “Yes, he will. He’ll go in the top five.” dfeldman@gazette.net “This is great,” Montgomery College coach Pedro Braz said. “We’ve all really become connected with Andrew. He’s a great kid.” Christianson, who was joined at the event by his mother, father Mark and younger sister Caroline, was introduced to Braz and the rest of the Montgomery College program through Team IMPACT, a non-profit organization that is chartered to improve the quality of life for children facing life-threatening illnesses. The Christiansons became aware of Team IMPACT after attending Camp Sunshine, a retreat for children and their families with lifethreatening diseases, in Maine last summer.
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Girls B-CC will permanently be the favorite in the 4A West until someone proves it’s not. The Barons have annually proven they will find a way to win the big games whether or not they’re the best team. The top seed in the region’s top section lost to an MCPS opponent in the postseason in five years. The Barons boast some of the county’s best playmakers and though scoring hasn’t come easy, opponents haven’t been able to do much against B-CC’s backline. Walt Whitman poses the biggest threat to B-CC. The Vikings are arguably the state’s fastest and most technical team, top to bottom. Whitman possesses a unique kind of versatility that is difficult to defend against. But if either of those teams is going to get to the final they’re going to have to go through Winston Churchill, Walter Johnson and Montgomery Blair, which all have records above .500. Quince Orchard is the bottom section’s top seed and on paper, an overwhelming favorite to advance. But coach Peg Keiller said the Cougars do not expect an easy path. Second-seeded Gaithersburg, resurgent Wootton and Northwest are all capable sides. Defending 4A North champion Sherwood (7-3-1) came as close as penalty kicks to taking B-CC out in last year’s state semifinal. The Warriors have all the tools necessary to win a second straight region title. Damascus remains the county’s only undefeated team and that includes wins over B-CC and Sherwood. The Swarmin’ Hornets are heavy favorites to get out of their section, which includes county opponents that are .500 or less, but will face a tough test should they get to the final to face a Frederick County team. This could be Damascus’ year to break through for the first time since 2000s, though.
Boys Might as well pick favorites for the 4A West out of a hat. Montgomery Blair, Churchill and Clarksburg have been the region’s most consistent performers, record wise, but in a fairly low-scoring region that is sure to be decided by defensive prowess, Churchill’s JJ Van Der Merwe (10 goals) might be an additional X factor as one of the Washington metropolitan area’s top finishers. Blair is extremely skilled
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Continued from Page B-1 “It’s not just Solomon,” Gregory said. “They have a whole bunch of players around him that are able to make plays that they don’t really talk about but should get a lot more credit than they do.” Gaithersburg, which went 3-7 last season, views this game as a potential turning point. “It’s a good chance for us to try and maybe play well and get some respect,” Kephart said. “We don’t think people think so highly of us.” Quince Orchard, on the other hand, is 24-0 against 4A West Region teams since mov-
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Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School’s Denali Minnick during a girls’ soccer game against Walt Whitman.
and Clarksburg is propelled by a veteran lineup. With nine goals against, Walter Johnson boasts the stingiest defense but has struggled to produce on the other end. Defending state champion Wootton has only given up 10 goals and goalie Jeremy Yeager could be the most important piece of the Patriots’ puzzle, coach Douglas Schuessler said. Whitman just lost its starting goalkeeper to a broken wrist, just another injury to add to the Vikings’ already lengthy list. But this is a team that should not be held to its mediocre record. The Vikings are, technically, the most talented bunch overall in the county and playoffs bring a different intensity. With the right combination of players in the right positions, this is a team no one wants to face, Churchill coach Arnold Tarzy said. “I haven’t had my starting 11 on the field since our first scrimmage against [James H. Blake] in August,” Greene said. “I’ve not been able to play anyone, basically, where I want to play them. But I’m pretty sure no one feels sorry for us, and we wouldn’t want them to. I think if anyone underestimates us, they’re making a big mistake.” Fresh off its first division title in program history, Blake’s physicality allows it to match up well with anyone, giving the Bengals a good chance in the 4A North. Ten players have scored at least one goal for Blake, with five of them scoring four or more. The 2011 state champion, Watkins Mill and Wheaton, which is led by the region’s top scorer in Juan Castellon (10), are likely the favorites to come out of the county’s section of the 3A West but Damascus could be a dangerous floater. “I think we’re seeing parity at a level we’ve not seen before and it makes every game exciting,” Schuessler said. “I think every school is going into the state playoffs thinking they have as good a shot as anybody.” ing into the region in 2011, winning by an average score of 43-5. Though Quince Orchard defensive coordinator John Kelley said it appears Gaithersburg would be the toughest foe in that span, it still seems Quince Orchard is still a clear favorite. Quince Orchard has won at least seven straight over Gaithersburg. As impressive as Gaithersburg’s average score has been this season, 25-6, Quince Orchard has posted an even better mark, 40-3. Plus, Quince Orchard has beaten all four of its common opponents with Gaithersburg by a larger margin than Gaithersburg did.
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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
Damascus players take on extra duty
HOW THEY RANK The 10 best football teams in Montgomery County this week as ranked by The Gazette’s sports staff.
Rank
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
School
Swarmin’ Hornets’ players tag plays on tape before Friday’s game
7-0 5-4 6-1 7-0 6-1 6-1 6-1 5-2 5-2 4-3
Quince Orchard Cougars Good Counsel Falcons Bullis Bulldogs Gaithersburg Trojans Damascus Swarmin’ Hornets Northwest Jaguars Paint Branch Panthers Sherwood Warriors Seneca Valley Screaming Eagles Walt Whitman Vikings
60 54 46 43 36 31 24 16 13 4
Jalen Christian, Stephon Jacob and Andrew Bausch have a busy week. As aides for Damascus High School football coach Eric Wallich, those three tag video of opponents’ games
FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK BY DAN FELDMAN with identifiers like down, distance, yard line, play type and formation to ease the scouting process. Though they’re required to trade just two weeks worth of video, Wallich and Seneca Valley coach Fred Kim agreed to trade all their games each season. So, that means extra work for Wallich’s aides. But Wallich said the experience can be valuable, saying his aides are “kind of like a [graduate assistant] in college — in high school.” They’re not
Also receiving votes: Clarksburg, 3.
LEADERS Top rushers Khalil Wilson, Einstein Isaac Boyd, Avalon Dage Davis, Geo. Prep Zac Morton, Whitman Charles Lyles, Poolesville Devonte Williams, Bullis Chris Dawson, G. Counsel E. Spottswood, Sherwood Kevin Joppy, Q. Orchard D. Sims, Wheaton
Carries 115 110 120 153 156 118 120 109 80 101
Top passers
Yards 1262 1126 1119 1094 1070 950 747 742 621 599
Cmp-Att. Chuck Reese, Rockville 186-295 Sam Ellis, Wootton 142-271 G. Cooper, P. Branch 102-181 Mike Murtaugh, Q. Orch. 69-112 Renzo Farfan, R. Mont. 105-188 Nick DeCarlo, G’burg 52-83 Evan Smith, Whitman 56-116 C. Hennessey, N’wood 71-152 S. Morningstar, Pooles. 54-103 Raymond Burtnick, Blair 44-102
Top receivers
Catches Jibri Woods, Wootton 50 Trevon Diggs, Wootton 55 Joey Cornwell, Rockville 51 Javonn Curry, P. Branch 36 Ryan Stango, P. Branch 30 Anthony Albert, Rockville 37 Michael Scott, Kennedy 29 Steven Kelly, B-CC 19 Louison Biama, Rockville 27 Phil Osborn, R. Mont. 32
Avg. 11.0 10.2 9.3 7.2 6.9 8.1 6.2 6.8 7.8 5.9
Yards 1985 1898 1383 1180 1158 906 742 728 643 619 Yards 684 646 608 544 489 447 444 420 393 386
Int. 9 9 5 4 5 4 8 8 7 5
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TDs 11 22 15 11 8 15 10 9 12 6
Bullis, ranked in The Gazette’s top 5, can clinch at least a share of the Interstate Athletic Conference title with a win over unranked Landon his week. Sound familiar? That was also the case last year, when Landon upset Bullis 12-7 to clinch a share of the IAC title itself. Again, one of the county’s biggest rivalries carries championship implications for both teams. If Bullis (6-1 overall, 2-0 IAC) wins at 2 p.m. Saturday, it would clinch the title outTOM FEDOR/THE GAZETTE right if it beats Espiscopal in two weeks or Episcopal loses Seneca Valley High School football coach Fred Kim talks to his team. to St. Stephen’s/St. Agnes this week. just tagging plays, but getting “I watch a lot of film, and If Landon (2-4, 1-1) wins, in extra film work in the pro- I study the little things that cess, especially because they people don’t notice to help it would clinch a share of the often must watch the same my teammates be successful,” title by beating St. Albans in two weeks and Episcopal losplay multiple times in order Christian said. “... I just mainly ing to either St. Stephen’s/St. to get every detail. Christian said his extra watch the pass plays, because Agnes this week or Bullis in responsibility to Wallich leads I’m a defensive back, and I try two weeks. to an extra responsibility to give our other defensive backs keys of what to look for.” his teammates. dfeldman@gazette.net
FEARLESS FORECASTS The Gazette sports staff picks the winners for this week’s games involving Montgomery football teams. Here are this week’s selections:
Montgomery County record All games
TDs 25 15 19 13 13 7 6 4 9 5
Poolesville vs. Wheaton Blair at Einstein Damascus at Seneca Valley Richard Montgomery at Wootton Walter Johnson at Whitman Springbrook at Churchill Paint Branch at Bethesda-Chevy Chase Clarksburg at Northwest Rockville at Magruder Quince Orchard vs. Gaithersburg Blake at Sherwood Spalding at Georgetown Prep Watkins Mill at South Hagerstown KIPP vs. Avalon Good Counsel at Bishop O’Connell Northwood at Kennedy Bullis at Landon
Avg. TDs 13.7 5 11.7 8 11.9 7 15.1 10 16.3 7 12.1 6 15.3 1 22.1 4 14.5 4 12.1 8
Bengals win North Division, 11 games for first time in school history The James H. Blake’s boys’ soccer team accomplished two things it never had before, doing so against a bitter rival in Montgomery Blair, and in a game that featured of two of the better
SOCCER NOTEBOOK BY NICK CAMMAROTA AND JENNIFER BEEKMAN teams in Montgomery County. With Blake’s 2-1 double overtime victory against the Blazers, coach David Edlow’s club secured the 4A North Division title for the first time in school history and also eclipsed the 10-win mark, something Bengals teams of the past have never done. “It was just a special night all around,” Edlow said. “Our guys just go out every night and fight for one another. They want to do it as a team. It just shows how much hard work and discipline can do for the overall results.” Edlow — who has been at Blake for three years and won 30 games (10, 9, 11) — and his team now will receive a first-round bye in the 4A state playoffs and hold an 11-2-0 record. Their two losses came vs. Churchill and Wheaton. Against Blair, which had won eight in a row prior to Thursday night’s clash, Blake’s Tanner Williams scored both goals to cap a four-goal week after he returned from a four-week absence with an ankle injury. “We had that breaking point against Wheaton early which really turned our season around where we realized that no one person is too important to the team and if we all fight for each other, we’re going to get the results,” Edlow said.
HOW THEY RANK Boys n 1. Georgetown Prep n 2. James H. Blake n 3. Winston Churchill n 4. Montgomery Blair n 5. Clarksburg
Girls n 1. Good Counsel n 2. Bethesda-Chevy Chase n 3. Walt Whitman n 4. Damascus n 5. Holy Cross
As of Sunday night, the Bengals lead all of Montgomery County in scoring with 32 goals. The finishing has been balanced as six players have scored three or more times. Darien Waters is the leader with six, while Williams and Emmanuel Oppong both have five. Playmaker Raul Escobar has been key in the middle, assisting 12 goals and scoring four.
B-CC earns top seed Fresh off its Montgomery 4A South Division title, the BethesdaChevy Chase High School girls’ soccer team earned the No. 1 seed in its section of the Class 4A West Region bracket, released Monday. The Barons’ reward for a stellar run? A second-round matchup against either Winston Churchill or Walter Johnson, whose combined record is 13-8. This year’s reclassification came with a new region tournament structure in which each of the state’s four regions were divided into sections based on geography. When the ruling was announced last school year, Maryland Public Second-
Montgomery 4A South Division Team
Wootton* Whitman R. Montgomery B-Chevy Chase Walter Johnson* Churchill
All Div.
3-4 4-3 2-5 2-5 1-6 1-6
3-1 2-1 2-1 1-2 1-2 1-3
PF PA
183 119 141 132 158 173 92 181 40 199 39 212
Montgomery 4A East Division Team
Paint Branch Sherwood Springbrook* Blair Kennedy Blake
All Div.
6-1 5-2 3-4 3-4 2-5 1-6
4-0 2-0 2-2 1-3 1-2 0-3
PF PA
270 63 167 124 124 84 115 115 84 116 20 190
Montgomery 4A West Division Team
Gaithersburg Quince Orchard Northwest Clarksburg* Magruder
All Div.
7-0 7-0 6-1 4-3 1-6
3-0 2-0 1-1 0-2 0-3
PF PA
176 43 283 20 261 99 125 91 48 273
Montgomery 3A Division Team
Damascus Seneca Valley Einstein Rockville Watkins Mill Wheaton Northwood
All Div.
6-1 5-2 4-2 4-3 2-4 1-6 1-6
4-0 4-0 3-1 3-3 1-3 0-4 0-4
Montgomery 2A Independent Team
Poolesville
All
PF
PA
All
PF
PA
5-2 158 102
Private schools Team
PF PA
224 68 219 69 160 171 232 205 84 196 84 248 47 264
Bullis 6-1 231 88 Good Counsel 5-4 226 111 Georgetown Prep 4-3 208 162 Avalon 4-4 217 158 Landon 2-4 142 130 * Includes forfeit result
Last week’s scores
Ken Sain
Dan Feldman
Nick Cammarota
Travis Mewhirter
Jennifer Beekman
Kent Zakour
106-21 207-43
105-22 206-44
103-24 204-46
99-28 201-49
102-25 200-50
98-29 193-57
Poolesville Poolesville Poolesville Einstein Einstein Blair Damascus Damascus Damascus Wootton Wootton Wootton Whitman Whitman Whitman Springbrook Springbrook Springbrook Paint Branch Paint Branch Paint Branch Northwest Northwest Northwest Rockville Rockville Rockville Q. Orchard Q. Orchard Q. Orchard Sherwood Sherwood Sherwood Spalding Spalding Spalding S. Hagerstown S. Hagerstown S. Hagerstown Avalon Avalon Avalon Good Counsel Good Counsel Good Counsel Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy Bullis Bullis Bullis
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ary Schools Athletic Association executive director Ned Sparks admitted it was mostly geared toward more rural areas of the state where schools within the same region are 160-plus miles apart rather than more self-contained areas like the all-Montgomery County 4A West. While coaches agree most any team within the 4A West is capable of beating another, there’s no denying one section is a good bit stronger, at least on paper. The realignment pits the majority of the perennial powers, which tend to hail from Bethesda and Potomac, together in the top section. The winner of that section, which will only land it in the region final, will have to weather a seven-team field that consists of four teams above .500 and an additional team at the .500 mark. The odd number in the bracket means that secondseeded Walt Whitman, fresh off its 3-0 victory against nationallyranked and Washington Catholic Athletic Conference favorite Our Lady of Good Counsel, does not get a first-round bye. B-CC and the top two seeds in the bottom section — Quince Orchard and Gaithersburg — will all have an extra day of rest. That, Whitman coach Greg Herbert said, could be a major factor in the later rounds. Though Quince Orchard (10-1-1) certainly isn’t a guaranteed region finalist — Northwest, Gaithersburg, Clarksburg and Thomas S. Wootton can all be dangerous floaters — Gaithersburg has four less wins. This isn’t the first year perennial powers will face off in the first round but in the previous structure, Churchill likely would’ve gotten the fourth seed and teams wouldn’t be so condensed. The best way to ensure the truly best team wins, Walter Johnson coach Liz Friedman said, would be to seed the brackets, top to bottom and craft the draw accordingly.
Poolesville Poolesville Einstein Einstein Damascus Damascus Wootton Wootton Whitman Whitman Springbrook Springbrook Paint Branch Paint Branch Northwest Northwest Rockville Rockville Q. Orchard Q. Orchard Sherwood Sherwood Spalding Spalding S. Hagerstown S. Hagerstown Avalon Avalon Good Counsel Good Counsel Kennedy Kennedy Bullis Bullis
Poolesville Einstein Damascus Wootton Whitman Springbrook Paint Branch Northwest Rockville Q. Orchard Sherwood Geo. Prep S. Hagerstown KIPP Good Counsel Kennedy Bullis
Seneca Valley 37, Watkins Mill 0 Northwood 14, Walter Johnson 7 Poolesville 34, Brunswick 6 Einstein 22, Wheaton 15 Damascus 43, Rockville 8 R. Montgomery 34, Churchill 0 Quince Orchard 42, Sherwood 7 Northwest 39, Wootton 17 Gaithersburg 40, Magruder 6 Clarksburg 21, B.-Chevy Chase 19 Whitman 28, Springbrook 13 Paint Branch 35, Blair 0 Kennedy 13, Blake 0 Good Counsel 49, Carroll 0 Bullis 47, St. Albans 0 Georgetown Prep 42, Anacostia 8 Landon 41, St. Ste. & St. Agnes 21 Avalon 48, Options 6
BEST BET No. 2 Quince Orchard vs. No. 4 Gaithersburg, 6:30 p.m.
Friday at Richard Montgomery. In one of a maximum of just four regular-season matchups between undefeated Maryland public-school teams this deep into the season, the inside track for the 4A West’s No. 1 seed is on the line.
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Clarksburg tailback turns a corner Quarterback proud to play for Seneca Valley
Coyotes’ Holland has attracted interest from several top Division I college programs
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Junior running back Tavis Holland. Just saying it brings a smile to Clarksburg High School football coach Larry Hurd’s face. “Every time I think about that [he’s a junior] I smile,” Hurd said. “He’s going to get bigger, stronger and faster and he’s going to be even better [than he already is] next year.” Of course neither Holland, who has already received interest from several top Division I college programs, nor Hurd are thinking about next year just yet. The Coyotes’ mantra for the remaining weeks of the 2013 regular season is to go 1-0 each week as it comes. But it’s impossible not to take note of the tremendous stride Clarksburg’s rising star takes each week. Holland turned a big corner in Friday’s 21-19, come-from-behind win over visiting Bethesda-Chevy Chase in a game that was vital to Clarksburg’s Class 4A West Region tournament hopes. The Coyotes haven’t made the postseason since back-to-back appearances in 2007-08 when they were a 2A program. The first 24 minutes of Friday night’s game were not Holland’s finest. Through two quarters, the Coyotes’ leading rusher mustered only 8 yards of offense and had two passes to literally slip through his finger tips. The Holland of old — or even just a couple weeks ago — probably would’ve let that eat way at him for the remainder of the night, Hurd said. But he’s not that guy anymore and the multifaceted athlete sure picked a good game to prove it. With Clarksburg trailing 19-0 at halftime Friday and its playoff chances in danger of being completely thwarted, there was no time for Holland to dwell on the past. In a quick turnaround, he put forth a rather impressive display of versatility to rush for 107 yards and a touchdown on 11 carries, catch two passes and score on a 79-yard punt return. Clarksburg (3-3) is in a four-way tie for the fourth and final spot in the Class 4A West Region alongside Thomas S. Wootton, Walt Whitman and Montgomery Blair, but faces a tough test against third-place Northwest in Week 7. “At times in the past when things didn’t go his way [Holland] sometimes he had the tendency to shut down, but that’s not Tavis anymore,” Hurd said. “His maturity level picked up. If things aren’t going his way, he showed in the
Parents were classmates at Germantown school BY
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Clarskburg High School’s Tavis Holland skips past Bethesda Chevy Chase returning a punt to inside the Barons’ 10-yard line during Friday’s football game in Clarksburg. second half [Friday] that he’s a warrior and he’ll come back out to play.” Holland’s speed — forget about catching him once he gets around the outside — can present some challenges, for instance, much less time for decision making. Holland graciously credited his offensive line for creating the gaps through which he scurries and for making the blocks that allow him to keep going, but there’s something to be said for his incredible field vision and overall football instincts. On Holland’s second touchdown of the night, which gave Clarksburg the lead, he very easily could’ve settled for a 69-yard punt return that would have given the Coyotes the ball inside the B-CC 10-yard line. After weaving his way through a cluster of B-CC players to the
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Seneca Valley High School quarterback Calvin Reighard practices with teammates on Oct. 16.
“Pretty much scripted the way you normally see it,” Kim said. Reighard hopes the epilogue includes playing college football — Monmouth, Georgetown, Shepherd, Towson, Delaware and Stony Brook have shown interest. But for now, he’s just cherishing playing for Seneca Valley. One of Reighard’s favorite aspects of Seneca Valley football is the long walk to the field before home games. The team exits the weight room and passes the girls’ locker room, where the opponents suit up. Reighard always tries to listen through the wall to what they’re saying. Once he heard someone say, “These guys aren’t as good as they think they are.” Seneca Valley won that game in a blowout. The players continue by a display case with Seneca Valley’s state record 12 state-championship trophies, through a door outside and past cheering junior varsity players to the field. It’s a trek Reighard will make again this Friday, when No. 9 Seneca Valley hosts No. 5 Damascus. In a loss to Damascus last season, Reighard threw a crucial interception that was returned for a touchdown, so he’s especially looking forward to this game. “I want to redeem myself for that and redeem Seneca Valley,” Reighard said. dfeldman@gazette.net
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right sideline he was met by two defenders just short of the end zone. Without missing a beat Holland managed to stop on a dime, plant his right foot and juke left, right around the obstacle, and surge ahead the final 10 yards. Holland has the moves, the passion and the smarts, Hurd said. And the most exciting part is he’s a junior, just tapping into his potential. “Isn’t that a wonderful thing?” Hurd said. “He can run, he can catch, he can do it all. There are going to be some times when you might see him in the backfield. He can throw too, people better watch out for that. He’s going to be at the next level. He’s going to play on Saturdays and he’s going to be on TV.”
Calvin Reighard ran around his grandparents’ basement screaming. As long as Reighard can remember, his family holds a table-tennis tournament on Thanksgiving and a Madden tournament on Christmas. Reighard said he always wins the Madden tournament, calling the football video game “my thing.” But the ping-pong tournament really tapped into his competitive nature. “Ever since I was little, I always wanted to win everything,” Reighard said. Reighard first played in the tournament, held in his grandparents’ basement in Frederick and typically comprised of about 12 participants, when he was about 6. He didn’t win a single match until he was about 10. “Probably, I beat my mom,” Reighard said. Reighard eventually got better and developed a rivalry with his older cousin, Zack Sheahin, but always lost to him when they met in the tournament. Finally, Reighard bested Sheahin last year and celebrated so loudly, his family upstairs worried about what was happening in the basement. Then, everyone calmed down to eat and watch the NFL, combining two of Reighard’s favorite things: his Seneca Valley-loving family and football. Reighard’s parents were classmates at Seneca Valley, and many of his other family members also attended the school, where he’s now the starting quarterback. “He was pretty much born and bred to be a Screaming Eagle,” Seneca Valley coach Fred Kim said. Reighard played one varsity game as a freshman (and loved that), spending most of the season as the junior varsity starter, and then spent his entire sophomore year as the varsity backup (and hated that). Those seasons prepared him for his junior year, when he broke multiple program records. This season, he’s helped Seneca Valley to a 5-2 record. In many ways, Reighard is the prototypical high school quarterback. He’s a good leader, strongarmed and the homecoming king.
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WE CAME AS ROMANS
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Metal band We Came As Romans is set to play the Fillmore Silver Spring on Tuesday.
Young metal band celebrates release of new CD with nationwide tour
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WILL C. FRANKLIN STAFF WRITER
Bands created in high school rarely stay together. Sometimes life gets in the way and friendships tend to dissolve over time. For the metal band We Came As Romans, things are only getting better. Fresh off the release of their latest album, “Tracing Back Roots,”
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which peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 chart, We Came As Romans is set to play on Tuesday at the Fillmore Silver Spring. “It was a whole different process than what we’re used to,” said Joshua Moore, the band’s lyricist and lead guitarist, about putting the new album together. “We went with a different producer and we recorded in a different state. It was like a breath of fresh air for us.” “Tracing Back Roots,” is the band’s third studio album. Their
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WE CAME AS ROMANS n When: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday
n Where: Fillmore Silver Spring, 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring
n Tickets: $20 n For information: 301-960-9999; fillmoresilverspring.com
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VIRGINIA TERHUNE STAFF WRITER
Singer Julie Fowlis sang two songs in English — “Touch the Sky” and “Into the Open Air” — for the 2012 Disney/Pixar animated movie “Brave” about a heroine in 10th century Scotland. But her primary language is Scottish Gaelic, the language she will perform in her “Music of the Scottish Isles” concerts on Friday and Saturday at the BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown. “It’s the first language of my children and my mother — to us it’s very much a major language,” she said.
Scottish singer Julie Fowlis will perform traditional Gaelic songs accompanied by instruments on Friday and Saturday at the BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown. Fowlis sang two songs in English for the Disney/ Pixar animated movie “Brave.” PHOTO BY MICHELLE FOWLIS
Last year, Thile was one of the recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship, or “Genius Grant.”
Fowlis and her band will host a onehour workshop about traditional Scottish songs before the Saturday concert. Preceding the concert Friday, BlackRock will host its first-ever tasting event, a sampling of five Scotch whiskies not sold
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Ask Grammy Award-winning musician Chris Thile about classifying music and he’ll tell you there are two genres: “good music and bad music.” “And I would love to be a part
of making music that falls into the former,” he said. At 32, the musical prodigy has seen more success than most musicians can hope for in a career. In 2003, Thile’s first band, Nickel Creek, won the Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album for their record, “This Side.” In 2006, he founded his current band, Punch Brothers. One of the band’s latest projects includes recording the soundtrack for “In
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CHRIS THILE n When: 8 p.m. Oct. 30 n Where: The Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda n Tickets: $26$36 n For information: 301-581-5100, strathmore.org
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Montgomery College’s Department of Visual Arts and Design will present “Rainforest/Christmas
Tree: Frank Hallam Day” in the King Street Gallery, from Thursday to Nov. 28. The exhibit opens with
a reception from 6–8 p.m. Thursday. An artist talk will follow from noon to 1 p.m. Oct. 30. Both will be held at the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center, where the gallery is located. The exhibit includes new works from the Washington, D.C., artist and photographer’s travels to Sudan, Ethiopia, and Ghana in 2012 and 2013, expanding on his interest in history and culture and examining the adaptation, appropriation, and resiliency of indigenous cultures through their contact with influPHOTO BY FRANK HALLAM DAY ences of globalization. Day has “Flag Shack, Assin Foso, 2003.” taught photography at the Washington Center for Photography and at the Smithsonian Institution. The exhibit is free and open to the public. For more information, visit cms.montgomerycollege.edu/arts-tpss/exhibitions.
Classic jazz The Conservatory Classic Jazz Band will perform at 4 p.m. Sunday at the Chevy Chase Prebysterian Church,
One Chevy Chase Circle, NW, bringing audiences their blend of small group swing and New Orleans and Chicago style. Featuring six instrumentalists, the band’s repertoire includes Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, JOEL ALBERT Benny Goodman, George The Conservatory Classic Jazz Band will perform Sunday at Chevy Gershwin, Cole Porter and Chase Presbyterian Church. Hoagy Carmichael, among many others. A free will offering will be accepted, and a reception will follow the concert. For more information, visit www.chevychasepc.org. Visit www.ccjazzband.com.
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The John E. Marlow Guitar Series will present classical guitarist Jason Vieaux in concert at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Westmoreland Congregational Church, Westmoreland Circle, Bethesda. A preconcert lecture is scheduled for 7:15 p.m. Vieaux has performed around the world, playing works from the standard repertoire including Johann Sebastian Bach but also embracing the music of Duke Ellington and Pat Metheny. Tickets are $35 for adults, $17.50 for ages 18-22, and free for those younger than 18. For more information, visit www.marlowguitar.org.
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A screening of “The Return of the Living Dead” at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center will coincide with the return of the Silver Spring Zombie Walk on Saturday.
A screening of Dan O’Bannon’s animated corpse classic, “The Return of the Living Dead,” will cap off the Silver Spring Zombie Walk on Saturday at the event’s destination point, the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center. Because of ongoing sidewalk construction on Georgia Avenue, this year’s route will use the sidewalk on Fenton Street to head north to downtown (instead of Georgia Avenue). Gathering occurs at 8 p.m., with the walk beginning at Sligo Avenue and Georgia Avenue at 9 p.m. O’Bannon’s 1985 horror flick finds a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally releasing a deadly gas into the air, which causes the dead to rise and rampage through Louisville, Ky. The film begins at 10:15 p.m., followed by a midnight screening of “Shaun of the Dead.” For more information, visit www.afi.com/ silver. Visit www.silverspringzombiewalk. com.
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Pilot Andrew King of Vienna, Va., flies over an Indiana field in “Barnstorming.”
‘Barnstorming,’ ‘Choc’late Soldiers’ to screen at film festival BY
VIRGINIA TERHUNE STAFF WRITER
Independent filmmaker Bryan Reichhardt of Silver Spring wasn’t sure what to expect when he hopped in a car with friend Paul Glenshaw in 2009 and headed to rural Ohio to catch up with some antique airplane pilots. But he’s glad he did. The trip turned into the 49-minute feature documentary “Barnstorming,” which will screen on Sunday at the Bow Tie Cinemas in Reston, Va. “Barnstorming” is one of 41 films included in the third annual Washington West Film Festival running today to Sunday at several venues in Northern Virginia. “Barnstorming” follows two antique airplane pilots on their way back from a big air show in Oshkosh, Wis., who spotted an alfalfa field and decided to land to take pictures. The Dirksen family who owned the farm invited them in — and also invited them back — for what has become a yearly tradition to entertain enthralled children and visit with local families that have become good friends. “They come back year after year — it’s a big event,” said Reichhardt’s wife, singer/songwriter Suzanne Brindamour, who wrote the music for the film. The filmmakers will attend the screening for a Q&A session.
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“Barnstorming” by independent filmmakers Bryan Reichhardt and Paul Glenshaw of Silver Spring screens Sunday at the Washington West Film Festival in Reston, Va.
WASHINGTON WEST FILM FESTIVAL
Check schedule for times and locations.
n When: Today through Sunday
n Tickets: $5 to $50 depending on event.
n Where: Venues in Reston, Fairfax and Rosslyn, Va.
n For a complete listing of films and events: wwfilmfest.com
Showing at the Washington West Film Festival on Saturday is a documentary by College Heights filmmaker Noel “Sonny” Izon about 140,000 black American soldiers stationed in Britain in preparation for the D-Day landings, where they were welcomed by English citizens. The 58-minute “Choc’late Soldiers from the USA,” will screen at the Angelika Film Center & Café in Fairfax, Va. One million African-Americans served during World War II, but many newsreels of the day showed only Caucasian faces, said Izon. “The iconic images of the
stories of World War II are pretty much white,” he said. African-Americans liberated towns and concentration camps, but when they got home, they were still treated like second-class citizens, said Izon. “Choc’late Soldiers from the USA” screened at the GI Film Festival in Arlington in May and will show at a festival in Bakersfield, Calif., on Nov. 8, he said. “We’re showing it at a dozen film festivals to refine it and give us the time to raise the completion funds,” said Izon, who plans to add music performed by an orchestra. Izon has partnered with actor Joe Mantegna from the TV
show “Criminal Minds” to look for a distributor. They hope to show the film on a cable TV channel and ultimately PBS. An earlier film directed by Izon, “An Untold Triumph,” about the contributions of the 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment during World War II, debuted nationally on PBS in 2005 and ran for four years, reaching millions of viewers. “I like to deal with history, the untold stories that have been left out of our historical narrative,” said Izon. “I want to complete our national narrative.” Also scheduled for Saturday is a visit by Emmy-award winner Ed Asner, who will speak about a 12-minute short, “Good Men,” in which he appears with a longtime friend, director Mark Rydell. In the film, the two get into a heated discussion about the Holocaust, conspiracy theories and the Sept. 11 attacks on New York City.
Following the movie, Asner and Rydell will also do a reading of “Oxymorons,” a short play by Brian Connors, who also wrote and directed “Good Men.” Also screening are fulllength movies, including “Just a Sigh” starring Gabriel Byrne, and a 10th anniversary screening of “Bruce Almighty” starring Jim Carrey and Jennifer Aniston. Tom Shadyac, director of “Bruce Almighty,” will be present for a Q&A session. There are also two collections of shorts screening on Friday and again Saturday, and, for the first time, films made by students at George Mason University in Fairfax. This year also marks the first year for films from a specific foreign country. This year the focus is on Lithuania. Released in 2010, “Barnstorming” has appeared on PBS stations around the country but Sunday is the first time it has appeared on screen in the
Washington, D.C., area, said Reichhardt, who edited the film and co-produced it with Glenshaw. They had heard about the annual fly-in at the farm in Indiand had been encouraged to do a film about it. “We almost didn’t go, because there was no funding for it,” said Reichhardt, who decided to go anyway. “We were shooting everything we saw,” said Reichhardt, who also brought along his nephew, Mark Betancourt, who also shot footage. “We quickly knew we had something,” said Reichhardt. “We knew we had something special.” Three years later, the memory of the annual fly-in sticks with him. “Just being a part of it is so peaceful, friendly and fun,” he said.
monic: Romantic Sentiments, 3 p.m. Oct. 27; Voice, 7 p.m. Oct. 30-31; Chris Thile, 8 p.m. Oct. 30; Voice; Bootsy Collins, 8 p.m. Oct. 31, call for venue, Locations:
Mansion, 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda; Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, 301-5815100, www.strathmore.org.
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IN THE ARTS Hollywood Ballroom, Oct. 25, drop-in lessons from 7:30-9 p.m., West Coast Swing Dancing with Dance Jam Productions at 9 p.m. ($15); Oct. 26, Latin Night with Mr. Mambo, workshops from 8-10 p.m., dance from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. ($18 for workshop and dance; $15 for dance only); Oct. 27, free Waltz lesson at 7 p.m., Social Ballroom at 8 p.m. ($16); Oct. 30, free International Quickstep Routine lesson at 7:30 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8:15 p.m., ($16); Tea Dance from 12:30–3:30 p.m. ($6); 2126 Industrial Highway, Silver Spring, 301-326-1181, www.hollywoodballroomdc.com Glen Echo Park is at 7300 MacArthur Blvd. Blues, Capital Blues: Thurs-
days, 8:15 p.m. beginner lesson, 9-11:30 p.m. dancing to DJs, Glen Echo Park’s Spanish Ballroom Annex, $8, www.capitalblues.org. Contra, Oct. 25, Will Mentor with Perpetual Emotion, 7:30 p.m. lesson, 8:30 p.m. dance, Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $10, www. fridaynightdance.org. Contra & Square, Oct. 27, Costume Dance with Perpetual e-Motion, Will Mentor calling, 7:30 p.m., Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $12 for general, $9 for members, $5 for students, www. fsgw.org. English Country, Oct. 23, Special Guest Jacqueline Schwab on piano; Oct. 30, Caller: Marth Siegel, 8 p.m., Glen Echo Town Hall (upstairs), www.fsgw.org. Now and Then Dance Stu-
dio, Saturday Ballroom dances,
second and fourth Saturdays, beginner group lesson at 8 p.m., open dancing at 9 p.m., $10 cash at door (all men admitted at half price throughout October), 10111 Darnestown Road, Rockville. 301424-0007, www.nowandthendancestudios.com. Scottish Country Dancing, 8-10 p.m. Mondays, steps and formations taught. No experience, partner necessary, T-39 Building on NIH campus, Wisconsin Avenue and South Drive, Bethesda, 240505-0339. Swing, Nov. 9, WWII Canteen Dance with the Eric Felten Jazz Orchestra; Dec. 14, Daryl Davis, lesson at 8 p.m., dancing at 9 p.m., Glen Echo Park, $15, www.flyingfeet.org. Waltz, Oct. 6, Larry, Elke and Friends; Oct. 20, Gigmeisters, 2:45-3:30 p.m. lesson, 3:30-6 p.m., dance, $10, www.waltztimedances.org.
MUSIC & DANCE Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club, Gotta Swing Dance with
Shannon Gunn & The Bullettes, 8 p.m. Oct. 23 (beginner lesson at 7:30 p.m.); Elikeh Afropop Band wtih Djesben, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24; Art Sherrod Jr. with special guest Ann Nesby, 8 p.m. Oct. 25; Marcus Johnson, 8 p.m. Oct. 26; Trio Caliente, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27; First Annual Grand Masquerade with Doc Scantlin, 8 p.m. Oct. 31; Eddie Palmieri’s Latin Jazz Septet, 8:30 p.m. Nov. 1-2; Avon Lucas, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 3; Emmanuel Tri-
filio Tango Trio, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 6; Familiar Faces, 8 p.m. Nov. 8, call for prices, 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. 240-330-4500, www. bethesdabluesjazz.com.
BlackRock Center for the Arts, Julie Fowlis, 8 p.m. Oct. 25-26, Della Mae, 8 p.m. Nov. 2; Thomas Pandolfi, 3 p.m. Nov. 3; District Comedy, 8 p.m. Nov. 8; call for tickets, 12901 Town Commons Drive, Germantown. 301-5282260, www.blackrockcenter.org. Fillmore Silver Spring, Austin Mahone, 7 p.m. Oct. 23; Journey’s Noise Tour Featuring 3OH!3, 7 p.m. Oct. 24; Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, 8 p.m. Oct. 25; Ben Rector, The Walking In Between Tour, with Tyrone Wells, 8:30 p.m. Oct. 26; Chance the Rapper, 7 p.m. Oct. 27; We Came as Romans, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 29; Cristian Castro with special guests Lazaro, 8 p.m. Oct. 30; Jessie Ware — Fall Tour 2013 with special guest Mikky Ekko, 8 p.m. Oct. 31; House of Blues 20th Anniversary Presents Third Eye Blind, 8 p.m. Nov. 1, 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, 301-960-9999, FillmoreSilverSpring.com, www. livenation.com.
Workshop: Crossover Techniques for Bach, Bluegrass and Beyond, 10 a.m. Oct. 26; Ikebana: Japanese Flower Power Workshop, noon, Oct. 26; National
Institute of Musical Traditions — Takoma Park, A Civil War
Scrapbook: CD Release with Hesperus & Maggies Music, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 13; Takoma Park Community Center, call for prices, times, Takoma Park Community Center, 7500 Maple Ave., Takoma Park, 301-960-3655, www.imtfolk.org. Institute of Musical Traditions — Rockville, Rafe & Clelia
Stefanini CD Release, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 4; Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8, Saint Mark Presbyterian Church, 10701 Old Georgetown Road, Rockville, call for prices, www.imtfolk.org. Strathmore, Afternoon Tea, 1 p.m. Oct. 23, 29-30; The Mancuso-Suzda Project, avant garde jazz duo, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 23; BSO: Brahms’ Third Symphony, 8 p.m. Oct. 24; Maurice Steger Trio, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 25; WPAS: Yuja Wang, piano, 8 p.m. Oct. 25; Mandolin
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Rockville Musical Theatre presents
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Philharmonic: Mostly Schumann - Zuill Bailey Cello Recital, 3:30 p.m. Oct. 26; National Philharmonic: Romantic Sentiments, 8 p.m. Oct. 26; National Philhar-
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Annual literary festival honors ‘Great Gatsby’ author BY
CARA HEDGEPETH STAFF WRITER
On Saturday, Montgomery College will host the 17th annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival. The oneday event featuring writing workshops, literary discussions and the presentation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Outstanding Achievement in American Literature Award is sponsored by the college, the city of Rockville and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference Inc. “I don’t know that when we started we thought it would be going 17 years,” said Jackson Bryer, president of the conference. The city of Rockville started the event in 1996 to honor what would have been the author’s 100th birthday. Fitzgerald, best known for his 1925 novel “The Great Gatsby,” had roots in Montgomery County and is buried at Saint Mary’s Church Cemetery in Rockville. This year’s recipient of the Outstanding Achievement in American Literature Award is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler. Butler has written 14 novels and six books of
short stories. His first volume of short stories, “A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain,” won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This year’s festival will also feature the annual presentation of the short story contest winner as well as a screening of the 1949 and 1974 film versions of “The Great Gatsby,” followed by a panel discussion about the films in comparison to the 2013 Buz Lurhmann version. Other authors will be in attendance Saturday, including R. Clifton Spargo who spent part of his childhood in Rockville and recently released the novel “Beautiful Fools: The Last Affair of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald.” Spargo is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, a cultural critic for the Huffington Post and serves as the Provosts’ Postgraduate visiting writer in fiction in the department of English at the University of Iowa. “Beautiful Fools” is the fictional account of Fitzgerald and Zelda’s real life trip to Cuba toward the end of their lives. “The true part of the novel is the two take a trip to Cuba and not a lot is known about the trip,” Spargo said. “It was the last time they would see each other but there’s no way they would know that. It was the last chance at a great love.”
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R. Clifton Spargo, a Rockville native, is one of the featured speakers at the festival and the author of “Beautiful Fools,” a 2013 novel about the Fitzgeralds.
A Fitzgerald expert who’s taught the author’s work on the undergraduate and graduate level, Spargo counts the author as one of his first literary loves. He said as his interest in Fitzgerald grew
over the years, so did his fascination with the woman in his life. “As I grew in my love of Scott, I became just enthralled by Zelda,” Spargo said. “It had always struck me that there was this gaping hole at the end of their lives. This was an opportunity to tell that story that no one really knew ...” Before writing the novel, Spargo read and re-read about 20 books on the Fitzgeralds. And although the author said he knows “their lives in and out as a biographer,” Spargo said it’s important to recognize the distinction between a biographer and his role as a novelist. “A biography is an imperfect art,” Spargo said. “A biography captures famous scenes but it’s not really capturing what it’s like to be Scott or Zelda.” In fact, according to Spargo, Fitzgerald himself wasn’t a fan of biographies, especially for writers because “[writers] are too many people.” “I would like to think he would have more appreciation for the novel because it’s trying to capture the lived life,” Spargo said. “Beautiful Fools,” which was released in May, is intended for the average reader with a surface knowledge of Fitzgerald’s life. Spargo said he’s interested in the reaction from the literary festival audience, many of whom are Fitzgerald experts.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD LITERARY FESTIVAL n When: Saturday, see website for specific event times n Where: Montgomery College, 51 Manakee St., Rockville n Tickets: See website for specific event prices n For information: 301-309-9461, cms.montgomerycollege.edu
“The average person knows a few things about Scott and Zelda so you’re writing to an audience that isn’t specialized in the knowledge,” Spargo said. “At the festival, there will be a mix, historians ... For the Fitzgerald experts, there’s all sorts of ways the book plays on things in [Fitzgerald and Zelda’s] lives and how they might have been remembering them.” More than just Fitzgerald aficionados, Bryer said the festival is an opportunity for literature fans to gather. “I think it brings literary figures to Rockville,” he said. “... It gives the citizens at all levels an opportunity to avail themselves of the expertise.” chedgepeth@gazette.net
AT THE MOVIES
‘Carrie’ remake has big, bloody footprints to fill BY
MICHAEL PHILLIPS
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
With her wide-eyed glare of grave intensity, the actress Chloe Grace Moretz appears destined for her share of artfully crafted, slightly unnecessary horror remakes. She starred in “Let Me In,” the American version of the terrific Swedish vampire picture “Let the Right One In.” And now she takes on director Kimberly Peirce’s remake of “Carrie,” a work of smooth confidence and a humane, dimensionally human brand of horror. You’d expect this from Peirce, who made “Boys Don’t Cry,” among others. The direc-
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tor puts Moretz in the sad, fierce role of Carrie White, the putupon telekinetic high school student introduced in the 1974 Stephen King novel. Carrie’s psychotically fundamentalist mother, played in the new film by Julianne Moore, goes beyond the usual notions of “helicopter” parenting, and makes the concept of Bible-thumping literal. Moore seizes the day without going crazy with excess; like the rest of the film, her portrayal takes care to humanize the demonic cruelty on screen. Those with little or no personal relationship to the 1976 Brian De Palma-directed “Carrie” will find themselves in a
different situation than I am on this one. I admit it. If I didn’t love Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie quite so madly in that movie — a film representing drive-in schlock elevated to Himalayan heights, with two of the great 1970s performances leading the way — I might’ve fallen further into the world of the remake. With all movies, really, we bring the baggage we bring. Some things are different, others are the same. Peirce delivers none of the voyeuristic nudity of the ‘76 edition. Even with the various killings in the promnight climax, when Carrie, slathered in pig’s blood poured by her enemies, takes revenge,
CARRIE n 2 1/2 stars n R; 99 minutes n Cast: Chloe Grace Moretz, Julianne More, Judy Greer n Directed by Kimberly Peirce
Peirce stages and shoots the action tastefully by R-rated horror standards. Even this remake’s arresting prologue, depicting the bloody birth of Carrie into the conflicted, scissors-wielding hands of her unstable mother, has an air of restraint. The director, in other words, isn’t an showboater or a sadist or a combination of the two, the way De Palma was behind the camera in the first “Carrie” movie, or the way Steven Spielberg tortured audiences with elan in that other ’70s blackcomic thriller classic, “Jaws.” The question is: Is tasteful better with this material? In its story contours the screenplay credited to Lawrence D. Cohen and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Cohen wrote the ’76 version) hits its marks. It stays faithful to King and (relatively) to the De Palma film and gets the job done in workmanlike fashion. The acting’s strong; in addition to Moretz and Moore, Judy Greer is a welcome presence in the Betty Buckley role of the sympathetic gym instructor. But something’s missing from this well-made venture. What’s there is more than respectable, while staying this side of surprising.
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Julianne Moore stars in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and Screen Gem’s horror thriller “Carrie.”
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Consumers find wine labels to be a sticky situation worldwide Wine labels are funny things. With the hundreds of unique winemaking varietals, numerous different methods and an entire world of unique regions, you would think that wine labels would be designed to be models of clarity in order to assist a consumer in making an educated purchase. If only that were true.
GRAPELINES LOUIS MARMON It is unusual to see European wine labeled with the name of the grapes in the bottle, despite the fact that many in the American market would like to know that information. Instead a Bordeaux or Burgundy label notes the name of the property (“Chateau” or
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Continued from Page B-5 side Llewyn Davis,” a Coen Brothers film about fictional folk singer Llewyn Davis, due out next month. Thile has contributed vocals and instrumentals to some of the biggest names in country including Keith Urban and Eric Church. Now, Thile is out on a solo tour promoting his latest album, “Bach: Sonatas and Partitas Vol. 1.” The album features 16 tracks — all pieces written for solo violin and played by Thile on his mandolin. The tour kicked off Oct. 1 and Thile will play at Strathmore on Oct. 30, a venue he’s played in the past with Punch Brothers. “The overall vibe I got from the [Strathmore] crowd was that they were there to listen and to enjoy,” Thile said. “Sometimes you get a crowd that’s only there to listen and you feel like a zoo exhibit. Or you get a crowd that’s only there to enjoy and you feel like a deejay or something ... As a performing musician, I want to feel like I’m performing with people and not for them, especially in a solo position, it gets lonely up there.” Though he’s best known as a bluegrass or folk musician, due in large part to his expertise on the mandolin, Thile said releasing a record of classical music didn’t feel like a stretch. “For me, playing Bach is far less about dipping my toe into the classical music genre and more about wanting to interact with great music,” Thile said. “It’s important to note that because the mandolin is toned exactly like the violin, it’s exactly the same ... It’s not quite the leap of faith it might first appear.” Leap of faith or not, Thile’s latest feat is impressive, especially for someone who didn’t grow up playing classical music. “At a certain point along the way, my grandmothers
“Domaine”) and has a smattering of French that tells such fundamentally useless stuff to the average consumer like where the wine was bottled. Italian and Spanish wines mostly follow this pattern. And don’t even get me started about German wine labeling which require an advanced language degree to comprehend. The casual wine drinker may not be aware that Chablis and other white Burgundies are made from Chardonnay, Beaujolais from Gamay, Nebbiolo is the principle grape in Barolo and Barbaresco, Tempranillo dominates in Rioja, and wines from Bordeaux are most commonly a blend of up to five varietals, while the southern Rhone region of Châteauneuf-du-Pape permits the blending of up to 13 different grapes. And that is just the beginning of
both introduced me to Bach and the world of written-down music,” Thile said. “I taught myself how to read music and realized written-down music didn’t have to be stuffy. That was huge.” Growing up in Kentucky, Thile was influenced by folk and bluegrass music, though again, he’s hesitant to differentiate. “When you say bluegrass, one person could think of music started by Bill Monroe ... you say bluegrass to someone else and they think of the old TV show ‘Hee Haw.’” Call it whatever you want, but Thile grew up listening to mostly folk music on radio programs like “A Prairie Home Companion.” His mother played violin and piano as a hobby while his father played the bass and worked as a piano technician. “Listening to music was our family pastime,” Thile said. By the age of 5, Thile was learning the mandolin from renowned mandolinist, guitarist and vocalist John Moore. He also counts bassist and composer Edgar Meyer as a major influence who Thile said “took [him] under [his] wing.” Last year, Thile was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, also known as the “Genius Grant.” It’s given annually to between 20 and 40 people in any field who show “exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work.” Oddly enough, Thile, who’s been touring tirelessly for the last several years, said the prestigious grant will actually allow for some down time. “What I’m really looking forward to is the opportunity to take six months off and do some thinking,” Thile said. “I’ve been on output mode for the last seven or eight years. I’m ready to go back to input mode and the MacArthur Fellowship will certainly help me do that.” chedgepeth@gazette.net
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Chris Thile of the Punch Brothers will perform at Strathmore on Oct. 30
a long and confusing list. American origin wine labels are better but still can be incomplete and misleading. US Department of Treasury regulations permit the use of a single varietal name, such as Cabernet Sauvignon, on the label as long as at least 75 percent of the wine is made from that varietal and it all originates from a single location (appellation). What composes the other 25 percent is left to the imagination or a search on the winery’s website. And the wine’s alcohol content can be equally as vague since the number on the label and the actual alcohol by content (ABV) may vary by law. So a wine listed as 13.3 percent ABV may really range from 11.8 to 14 percent, while those stated as 14 percent may truly be 15 percent. Doesn’t look like much but alcohol content is important to many
consumers since it implies a certain style of winemaking and knowing the ABV may influence purchasing decisions. Another issue is the use of undefined terms on the label such as “reserve” and “barrel select.” What exactly does “old vines” mean? 25 years? 50 years? Older than the winemaker? And how much of the wine needs to originate from these vines to achieve this designation? The Treasury Department has been considering tightening the use of such terms since 2010 and are scheduled to make a decision sometime next year. Until any new regulations are implemented, we will still see nebulous jargon including “estate bottled” and “old clones” on the front of bottles The label on the back of the bottle can be more helpful by providing fur-
ther information about the grapes, location and winemaking approach. But sometimes they are just meaningless marketing stories matching the misinformation seen elsewhere on the bottle. Many labels are creative and entertaining, adorned with artwork, animal illustrations, and even braille or “scratch and sniff” stickers that may entice a purchase of an unfamiliar bottle. Some wineries haven’t ever changed their labels while others replace their designs annually. Clearly front labels are critical to wine marketing, but is there any reason why they cannot be more accurate and informative? We all would benefit from a bit more clarity regarding the varietals, ABV and the terms on the front label, which could only enhance consumer’s comfort and facilitate sales.
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Continued from Page B-5 previous album, “Understanding What We’ve Grown to Be,” peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard 200 chart. Moore said he wasn’t surprised the album did so well. “I don’t mean that to sound cocky or full of myself,” Moore said. “When the CD is done and John Feldmann [who produced the album] is telling me how great of a record it is and I’m listening to it over and over while it’s going through the mixing phase — I guess I just really believed in the CD. So when we had a really good first week, it wasn’t like, ‘Oh yeah, that’s what I expected,’ but it wasn’t like this massive shock to me. I was really happy that our fans really enjoyed it the way that I do.” We Came As Romans formed when five high school guys from Troy, Mich., decided they wanted to play music together. The lineup has changed over the past few years, but Moore said being able to go out and do their own thing has really helped the band stay together. “Everyone has their different techniques or habits on the road,” Moore said. “Like today we have an off day, and I’m the only one sitting on the bus. Kyle [Pavone] is out visiting some extended family, Eric [Choi] stayed with some friends last night, Andy [Glass] is in our hotel room … I think he’s doing some T-shirt designs, and I just saw Dave [Stephens] walk back from somewhere. I mean, everyone just kind of keeps themselves occupied on days off. It’s just a really good day to refresh and recharge yourself. After touring
Metal band We Came As Romans is set to play the Fillmore Silver Spring on Tuesday. for six years now, we’ve all found the things that help us replenish that energy lost throughout the week of playing shows.” Moore didn’t grow up with heavy metal music. In fact, it wasn’t until he joined the band that he started listening to the kind of music We Came As Romans plays. “When I first joined the band eight years ago, I did not listen to any heavy music at all,” Moore said. “If there was music with screaming in it, I would fast forward the screaming part. It was OK that my band was doing it — it was cool because it was my band — but I didn’t like it when any other band did it. I don’t
know why. The first few months of being in my band, back when I was 16, it was weird because I got exposed to all these heavy bands at once. “The typical band that every musician and everyone in a band that plays heavy music likes and loves was influenced by Montrose.” Montrose was a heavy metal band based in California in the late 1970s with former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar as the lead singer. “I honestly think it’s just that they did it better than every single band I listened to and every single band that guys in other bands have listened to. They
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were a huge, huge influence to my band.” Moore said he hopes audiences and fans really pick up on the message behind the band’s songs. “It’s different from what a lot of bands are doing,” Moore said. “When we first started with it, it was different than what pretty much any other band was doing. The heavy music scene wasn’t near as developed as it is now, but when we started, there weren’t a lot of bands at all trying to put out the message that we had. And that’s just been our thing ever since.” wfranklin@gazette.net
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Continued from Page B-5 in retail stores. The event is sponsored by the Scotch Malt Whiskey Society of America. “My father is a connoisseur of whiskey — I’ll be reporting back to him,” Fowlis laughed. Fowlis grew up in the Outer Hebrides, a string of islands that buffer the Scottish mainland from the North Atlantic. The islands have been producing Harris tweed for hundreds of years. “It’s become incredibly fashionable,” said Fowlis about the fortunes of the old and durable material. “You can see it on the cover of ‘Vogue.’” The islands are the last place in the world where people speak Scottish Gaelic as their first language, said Fowlis, who grew up hearing it around the house along with English. But it wasn’t until she began studying classical music at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow that she began singing and researching traditional Scottish music. Clans, she said, used to engage poets to write elegies for chiefs who had died and songs of praise for their successors. “They had a really strong oral tradition, and many of the songs were never written down,” said Fowlis, who also sings work songs about fishing, churning butter and milking cows. Traveling with her and her band to BlackRock is her husband, Eamonn Doorley, who speaks Irish Gaelic and performs with the traditional Irish band Danú. A Celtic language, Gaelic diverged over time in Scotland and Ireland but today the two still share many of the same words. Fowlis said she and her husband speak both versions at home with their children. “We all understand each other,” Fowlis said. The BlackRock concerts will feature traditional songs, some of them hundreds of years old, accompanied by guitars, fiddles, bagpipes and the bouzouki, a lute-like instrument from Greece that became popular in Ireland in the 1970s. “It works well with our scales and moods, it fits into our melodic structure,” she said.
PHOTO BY MICHELLE FOWLIS
Scottish singer Julie Fowlis will perform traditional Gaelic songs accompanied by instruments on Friday and Saturday at the BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown. Fowlis sang two songs in English for the Disney/Pixar animated movie “Brave.”
JULIE FOWLIS: MUSIC OF THE SCOTTISH ISLES n Performances: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday n Scotch tasting: 6 p.m. Friday n Gaelic workshop: 5 p.m. Saturday n Where: BlackRock Center for the Arts, 12901 Town Commons Drive, Germantown n Tickets: $32 for performance only; $65 for performance and tasting. Workshop is free. n For information: 240-912-1058; blackrockcenter.org; juliefowlis.com
Fowlis will talk about some songs from the stage, but also let the sounds and rhythms of other songs speak for them-
selves. “Some people don’t want to know [what the words mean],” she said. “They just want to let the music to wash over them.” In the same way that Harris tweed is enjoying a renewed popularity, so is Scottish Gaelic, in part due to the Fowlis’ broadcasts on the BBC and her touring in the United Kingdom and overseas. In 2008, she was named Scotland’s first Gaelic Ambassador by the Scottish Parliament, an honor she treasures. “There’s been a resurgence in the last few years,” she said. “It’s finding its place in the modern world.” Fowlis’ singing helps preserve her culture and she’s glad it also entertains audiences. “We love what we do,” she said. “I hope everyone enjoys [the concerts] and has a laugh, and experiences something of Scotland on their night out.” vterhune@gazette.net
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Bell Ringers
The Salvation Army is now hiring Bell Ringers in Montgomery County for this Christmas Season. $8.25 per hour. Apply in person on M-F from 10am - 12pm and 1pm 3pm at 20021 Aircraft Drive, Germantown, MD 20874
Veterinary
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Automotive
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23,999
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26,999
$
OR 0% for 60 MONTHS
OURISMAN VW WORLD AUTO CERTIFIED PRE OWNED 35 Available...Rates Starting at 2.64% up to 72 months
2011 Jetta Sedan........................#P7636, Black, 31,282 mi................$13,790 2012 Passat....................................#VPR6111, Gray, 38,878 mi.............$14,995 2013 Passat....................................#P7654, Black, 24,991 mi................$15,991 2012 Jetta Sedan........................#VPR6112, Silver, 34,537 mi............$16,495 2013 Jetta Sedan........................#V13927A, White, 5,137 mi.............$16,893 2010 CC.............................................#V557658A, Black, 26,599 mi.........$16,995 2010 Routan...................................#P7638, Silver, 21,506 mi................$18,983 2010 Tiguan....................................#VP6060, White, 31,538 mi.............$18,995
2013 Passat S...............................#P7630, Silver, 4,428 mi..................$19,500 2011 CC.............................................#FR7183, White, 32,893 mi.............$19,991 2013 Jetta Sedan........................#MR0013, Blue, 4,964 mi................$20,392 2011 Routan...................................#VP6055, Blue, 37,524 mi...............$20,495 2012 Jetta Sportwagen TDI. .#100859A, Black, 60,262 mi...........$21,999 2012 Golf TDI..................................#691809A, Black, 17,478 mi...........$22,995 2013 Passat....................................#VPR6026, Gray, 4,502 mi...............$23,995 2012 CC.............................................#V13212A, Silver, 23,692 mi............$27,691
All prices exclude tax, tags, title, freight and $200 processing fee. Cannot be combined with any previous advertised or internet special. Pictures are for illustrative purposes only. See dealer for details. 0% APR Up To 60 Months on all models. See dealer for details. Ourisman VW World Auto Certified Pre Owned financing for 60 months based on credit approval thru VW. Excludes Title, Tax, Options & Dealer Fees. Special APR financing cannot be combined with sale prices. Ends 10/31/13.
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SAVINGS TO SCREAM ABOUT 10 Scion XD $$
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10 Toyota Corolla LE $$
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12,500
07 Honda CR-V EX-L $$
#472069A, 5 Speed Auto, Beige Metallic, 4WD
15,985
13 Toyota Camry LE $$
#R1739, 6 Speed Auto, 12.7k mi, 4 Door
19,855
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10,985
10 Toyota Corolla LE $$
#353030A, 4 Speed Auto, 20k miles, Capri Sea Metallic
13,985
11 Toyota Camry LE $$
#P8756, 6 Speed Auto, 4 Door Mid Size
15,985
10 Toyota Venza $$
#374551A, 6 Speed Auto, 43.9 mil, Red, Midsize Wagon
20,995
10 Scion TC $$
#350141A, 2 Door, 4 Speed Auto, Speedway Blue
11,985
11 Toyota Camry LE $$
#3372396A, 6 Speed Auto, 28k miles, Classic Silver
14,900
10 Toyota Prius III $$
#P8805, 4 Door, CVT Transmission, 45k miles
17,500
12 Hyundai Genesis $$
#378082A, 8 Speed Auto, 35.8K mi, Black Pearl
21,985
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$12,985 2010 Nissan Pathfinder....... $18,995 $18,995 2010 Toyota Corolla LE........ $12,985 #372403A, 4 SpeedAuto, 4 Dr #378077A, 5 SpeedAuto,Avalanche White $13,985 2013 Toyota Prius C Three.... $20,985 $20,985 2011 Toyota Camry LE......... $13,985 #P8739, 6 SpeedAuto, 34k miles, Magnetic Grey #372383A, 8.4K Miles, CVT Transmission 2011 Toyota Camry LE......... $14,500 $14,500 2011 Toyota Highlander SE. . . $23,985 $23,985 #270499A, 6 SpeedAuto, 29.8k miles, Classic Silver #363230A, 6 SpeedAuto, Blizzard Pearl 2012 Toyota Camry LE......... $15,900 $15,900 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo $25,985 $25,985 #E0229, 6 SpeedAuto, 37.6k miles, Silver #367198A, 5 SpeedAuto, 25.8K mi, Brilliant Black 2007 Honda Pilot EX-L........ $16,985 $16,985 2010 Toyota 4Runner SR5. . . . $26,695 $26,695 #360357A, 5 SpeedAuto, Blue, 2WD Sport Utility #N0238, 5 SpeedAuto, Classic Silver, 38k miles
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2008 Toyota Camry LE
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9,977
$
#349619A, Great Shape, Local Trade
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2014 NISSAN VERSA NOTE SV HATCHBACK MSRP: Sale Price: NMAC Bonus Cash:
2013 NISSAN SENTRA SV
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2012 Nissan Altima 2.5S #E0224, 1-Owner, 34K Miles, Automatic
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$
14,977
$
#N0247, 1-Owner, Hybrid, Sunroof, Auto
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#12113 2 At This Price: VINS:784016, 784168
2013 Nissan Sentra S
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15,977
$
2002 BMW 330ci Conv
16,977
$
#P8746, 1-Owner, Pano Roof, Automatic
Leather, Hardtop...................$11,950
2009 Pontiac Vibe
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18,995
2007 Pontiac Torrent
2010 Nissan Murano SL PKG
$23,110 $19,495 -$500 -$500
18,495
#R1762, Auto, Remote, Like New
$25,200 $20,995 -$1,500 -$500
6 Spd, AC, PW, PL, CD..........$8,950
2009 Mini Cooper Clubman S
$
2013 NISSAN ROGUE S AWD $
4x4, 61k, PW, PL, CD...................$8,950
$18,370 $15,495 -$500
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$17,115 $14,495 -$500
13,995
$
#11614 2 At This Price: VINS: 350804, 370886
#P8714, 38K Miles, Pano Roof, Leather, Navigation, Sunroof
22,977
$
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2009 Nissan 370Z Touring Coupe
2008 Chevy Equinox LT
23,977
$
#P8713, 1-Owner, Leather, Manual Trans
AWD,PW,PL,CD,XM,RemoteStart.......$13,925
2013 Dodge Grand Caravan
20K, PW, PL, 7 Pass............$18,950
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24,977
$
2008 Mercedes Benz CLK-Class 3.5L #448303A, Automatic, 2-Door
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$
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2001 Cadillac Deville........................6,988
#KN99557A, Pampered 55K!! P/Options
2005 Nissan Sentra 1.8S...................6,988
#KP27730, Nice! MNRF, LTHR, CD, PW
#KP13384, LTHR, MNRF, A STEAL!, “HANDYMAN”
#KP58509, AUT, LTHR, MNRF, “HANDYMAN”
2000 Mercury Cougar.......................2,750
#KP43284, MNRF, P/Opions, Great Buy! “HANDYMAN”
1999 Honda CRV AWD.......................2,850
#KP31467A, Auto, AC, PW Bargain Priced! “HANDYMAN”
2005 Mazda Miata...........................2,950 #KD10691, CNVTB’L Looks/Runs Well Off-Season, “HANDYMAN”
1997 Toyota Celica ..........................3,750 #KP34539A, SB ,ST, AT, SPORTY RUNS, GREAT, “HANDYMAN”
2001 Chevy Impala...........................3,988 #KP43564, Nice! LTHR, MNRF, MD INSP’D
2002 Olds Alero GLS.........................4,488 #KP84551, CLEAN 89k! PW/PLC, CC, MD INSP’D
#KP01702, AWD!, Nice!, PSeat, HTD Seats, P/Options
#KP93506, Pampered 90k! LTHR, P/Options, MD INSP’D #KP95439B, Clean! 92K, AT, AC, PW/PLC
2000 Isuzu Rodeo LS.........................6,988
#KP17054, 4WD, 3.2L, Clean! LTHR, PW/PL, AC, MD INSP’D
2005 Chevy Impala LS.......................6,990 #KP65991A, AT, AC, PW/PLC, Easy Terms!
2005 Dodge Caravan SXT..................6,990
#KP12424, QUADS, PSET, PW, DON’T MISS!
2003 Dodge Ram 1500 SLT................7,990
#KP81341, Clean! 5.7 HEMI, PW
2006 Chrysler PT Cruiser GT..............7,998
#KP0810, SHARP! Turbo, AT, P/Options
2001 Dodge Dakota Club Cab............9,997 2007 Ford Escape XLT.......................9,988 2009 KIA Rondo EX WGN.................10,450 #KA64205, Nice! ABS, SAB, PW/PLC
2006 Buick Lucerne CXS.................10,470
#KP37654, Luxury!, LTHR/HTD/Mem Seats, Harman Kardon CD, SAB
2008 Subaru Outback WGN.............10,688 #KP21097, Pampered!, AT, P/Options, HTD Seat
2008 Saturn Aura XE.......................10,900 KR61802A, Sharp 55k! MNRF, PSEAT, PW/PLC CD
2005 Toyota Avalon XL ...................10,988
#KP15848, MOONROOF, PW/PLC, CD
2005 Cadillac CTS 3.6....................11,488
2001 Saturn LW-300 Wagon..............4,488
2001 Toyota Sequoia SR-5 4WD ........7,988
#KP78808, RARE FIND! AT, AC, PW, ALLOYS, CD
#KP09644A, $726 OFF KBB
#KP91895, Pampered 68k! LTHR/PWR Seat, P/Options, OnStar
2003 Jeep Grand Cherokee..............4,988
2001 Toyota Highlander Sport...........8,970
#47651KP, 4WD, Beauty! 3rd Seat, LTHR, MNRF, RNG BDS
#KP26952, 4WD, MNRF, P/Options, 2-Tone, Sharp! “HANDYMAN”
2006 Chrysler Sebring Touring..........5,745
#KP13090, ABS, CD, CC, Alloys, PW
2000 Buick Lesabre LTD...................5,955
#KP05316A, LTHR/HTD/PWER Seat, P/Options
2003 Subaru Forester XS AWD..........5,980 #KP68175, Well Kept! MNRF, Alloys, P/OPTS
1998 Toyota Camry LE......................5,988
#KP03265, AT, AC, P/Options, Best Buy!
2003 Saturn L-200............................5,990
#KP59757, Super Sharp! 90K, AT, PW
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UNDER $10,995
#KP11507, 4WD, MNRF, LTHR, CD CHGR/CASS, PSeat
2006 Hyundai Sonata LX....................8,988
#KP81514, Super Clean! MNRF!
2009 Suzuki SX4 Sport......................8,990
2007 Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer......11,870 2006 Subaru Legacy Outbk 2.5XT...11,988 #KP09074, MNRF, LTHR, AT, CD-6, WELL KEPT!
2004 Acura MDX AWD.....................11,988 #KP62182, SHARP! DVD, MNRF, LTHR, DON’T MISS!
#KP71702B, NAV, P/Options, Fac Warr!
2008 GMC Savana Cargovan...........11,988
#KP59427, Beauty! Panoramic, MNRF, AT, P/Options
2009 Toyota Corolla LE...................12,588
2008 Saturn Astra XE........................8,998
2007 Dodge Magnum SE ...................9,445 #KR95510, STICKING! CUSTOM WHLS, PW/PLC, CD
2005 Hyundai Tuscon GLS AWD.........9,788
#KP34280, NICE! PW/PLC/PMR, CC, CD
#KR11890, AT, AC, Tradesman
#KP65389, CLEAN, 50K! AT, PW/PLC, CD
2007 Dodge Magnum SXT.................12,770 #KX47343, GORGEOUS!! CHRME WHLS, LTHR/PWR SEAT, P/OPTS
2007 Caddy STS..............................12,990 #KP24515, ALL THE TOYS! NAV, LTHR, PWR OPTS
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13,990
2010 Ford Econoline XLT.................19,745
2009 Mazda 5 Wagon......................14,988
2007 Infinity M35............................19,788
2012 Suzuki Grand Vitara 4WD........15,960
2009 Toyota Venza AWD.................. #KP05511, FG LTS, Alloys, P/Options
2005 Nissan Titan LE.......................15,985
2012 Dodge Grand Caravan SXT...... #KN41054, DVD, Backup CAM, PDRS/Gate, PSeat
2007 Honda Accord EX-L V6............ #KP32745, Clean! MNRF, LTHR, CD CHGR #KP57035, Auto, Sunroof, Leather, 3rd Row
#KR00804, Showroom Condition! FAC WARR.
#KP66997, SUPER SHARP! Brush Guard, Fog LTS, PWR OPTS
2011 Ford Econoline E-350..............18,990
#KN77515, 15 PASS, PW, CC, CD, Park Sense
#FP50592, AWD, Pristine! NAV, MNRF, PSEAT, P/OPTS
19,997
20,488
2007 Ford F150 Super Crew Lariat.....21,970
#KN03615, WGN, XLT, PW/PLC, RAC,CC, CD, 12 Pass
#KP86231, NAV & Moonroof, LTHR
#KP33232, GORGEOUS COGNAC INTERIOR LTHR, MNRF, P/OPTS
2010 Chrysler TWN & CNTRY............. #KP51814,SHOWROOM COND!! DVD/NAV/LTHR
2008 Hyundai Veracruz Limited AWD.....18,988
24,470