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Police said Tuesday they don’t know when the 31-yearold neighbor charged in the fatal stabbing of a Rockville-area couple on Mother’s Day will be extradited from Alaska. Scott Tomaszewski quickly left town after the crime for a planned vacation cruise to Alaska with his parents, law enforcement ofﬁcials said Sunday. Tomaszewski, was arrested Saturday after the cruise ship pulled into Juneau for a sched-

uled stop, police said. “I fully believe he was going sightseeing,” said Capt. Darren Francke, commander of the Montgomery County police’s major crimes unit. “He’d been doing it all week.” Capt. Paul Starks, a spokesman for Montgomery County police, said he didn’t know when Tomaszewski will be brought back to Maryland to face the charges. Three county detectives took part in the arrest, as did officers from Alaska and the Coast Guard. They found bloodsoaked cash in Tomaszewski’s wallet, according to arrest records. Detectives also searched his stateroom on the cruise ship,

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Soon, hens may It’s Westward Ho! for ﬁfth-graders not run a-fowl of the law in city Bill Kraegel, an outdoor education teacher at the Lathrop E. Smith Environmental Education Center, leads a group of ﬁfth-graders and parents from Olney Elementary School to the center in their annual trek Friday.

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They may not have been hiking exactly westward, but ﬁfth-graders at Olney Elementary School on Friday successfully completed their 6-mile trek to the Lathrop E. Smith Environmental Education Center in Rockville. Westward Ho is a tradition that dates back to at least the early 1980s, said fifth-grade teacher Jeanann Bowles, and one that all students look forward to. It’s been going on for so long that there are now students accompanied by parents who recall making the trek when they were ﬁfthgraders at Olney Elementary. The activity simulates the westward movement in the 1800s that the students study in their social studies class. About a month ago, the students, broken up into “families” of four, began to prepare for their trek. They gathered supplies, built their covered wagons and planned their period costumes.

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Rockville leaders support allowing backyard chickens

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Some Rockville residents may be on track to get some new neighbors as city leaders took an unofﬁcial step Monday toward letting residents keep backyard chickens. Three City Council members indicated they would support changing the city’s animal control ordinance to let residents keep up to ﬁve hens — but no

Olney Elementary School ﬁfth-graders listen to outdoor education teacher Bill Kraegel at the start of their trek from the school to the Lathrop E. Smith Outdoor Education Center in Rockville on Friday.

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Memorial Day weekend marks the traditional start of summer, and this weekend people in Rockville can even visit the beach without hassling with the Chesapeake Bay Bridge or even leaving downtown. The city will hold its annual Hometown Holidays celebration Saturday and Sunday,

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featuring food, music and activities. The festival will include more than 30 music groups of various genres, including blues, rock, reggae, folk, Americana, Irish, pop and country on four stages around the Town Center from 2 to 10 p.m. each day. Held each May, Hometown Holidays is one of Rockville’s major celebrations of the year and a chance to show off the city to the region. “This is the big thing,” city spokeswoman Marylou Berg said. The event usually draws about 60,000 people over the course of the weekend, she said. One of the four stages will be set up

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near an artiﬁcial beach created from thousands of tons of sand that will be trucked in. The Hometown Holidays will also include the Taste of Rockville — a chance for participants to try food from restaurants around the city to benefit Community Ministries and the Rockville Chamber of Commerce. Tickets for the Taste of Rockville, which opens at noon both days, can be purchased for $1.25 at two locations in Town Center. This year, the tickets can be bought with credit cards, Berg said. Restaurants participating are expected

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roosters — in their backyards. The ordinance is scheduled for a vote on June 15, according to a city memorandum. The chickens would be allowed under changes to the ordinance proposed by Councilwoman Julie Palakovich Carr, which would also address issues such as licensing cats and ferrets and establishing a system of trapping, neutering and releasing feral cats in the city. Under a potential policy discussed by the mayor and council Monday night, residents

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The Basics of Alzheimer’s: Memory Loss, Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease,

7 p.m., Chevy Chase Village Hall, 5906 Connecticut Ave. Free. 800-272-3900 or lvajpeyi@alz.org.

Bloody Orators Toastmasters meeting, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., American Red

Cross, Jerome H. Holland Laboratory, 15601 Crabbs Branch Way, Derwood. Improve your communication and leadership skills in a self-paced atmosphere of fun and fellowship. Free for ﬁrst-time visitors. contact-614319@toastmastersclubs.org. Royal Assassinations in the Ancient Near East, 8 p.m., Jewish Community

Center of Greater Washington, 6125 Montrose Road, Rockville. A lecture on interesting and important royal assassinations in the ancient world, including those in ancient Israel and Judah. $5-$10. baf. jccgw@gmail.com. Child-loss support group, 6:30 to 8 p.m., Montgomery Hospice, 1355 Piccard Drive, Suite 100, Rockville. Free. Registration required: 301-921-4400.

THURSDAY, MAY 21 Potomac Community Village birthday party, 7 to 9 p.m., Bolger Center’s Osgood

Building, room 111, 9600 Newbridge Drive, Potomac. U.S. Rep. John Delaney will speak. Free. 240-221-1370 or info@ PotomacCommunityVillage.org. Medicare discussion, 7 to 9 p.m., Bethesda Library, 7400 Arlington Road, Bethesda. Free session through the State Health Insurance Assistance Program. www.medicareabcd.org or 301-590-2819. Kindergarten Orientation, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Wheaton Woods Elementary School, 4510 Faroe Place, Rockville. Call 301-929-2018 for an appointment. Evening Grief Support Group, 6:30 to 8 p.m., Church of Christ at Olney, 17020 Georgia Ave. Six-week group led by Montgomery Hospice professional counselors. Registration required: 301-921-4400. Parent Loss Support Group, 6:30 to 8 p.m., Montgomery Hospice, 1355 Piccard Drive, Suite 100, Rockville. For adults who have experienced the death of one or both parents. Six-week group led by professional counselors. Registration required: 301-921-4400 Fourth Annual Laugh Riot for MobileMed, 6:30 p.m., Hyatt Regency

Bethesda Ballroom, 1 Bethesda Metro Center. Comic show to beneﬁt Mobile Medical Care. $60 includes drinks, hors d’oeuvres and desserts. Tickets: info@mobilemedicalcare.org or 301-841-0825.

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American Red Cross Blood Drive, noon to 5 p.m., Medstar Montgomery Medical Center, 18101 Prince Philip Drive, second ﬂoor, training rooms A and B, Olney. Contact Sharon_R_Clem@mcpsmd. org or call 800-733-2767 for an appointment. Double-red-cell donations will be accepted. Walk-ins accommodated during available time slots. David.Hull@redcross. org or 240-676-9955. Blessing of the Animals, 4;30 to 5 p.m., Animal Exchange parking lot, 605 Hungerford Drive, Rockville. With Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish clerics, followed by individual blessings. 301-424-7387 or animalexchange@erols.com. Evening Canoe/Kayak Paddle, 6 to 7:30 p.m., Seneca Creek State Park, 11950 Clopper Road, Gaithersburg. A leisurely tour with a naturalist; brief paddling lesson for beginners. Canoes/kayaks, lifejackets, and paddles provided. $3 for Maryland residents, $5 for others. Registration required. 301-924-2127 or bethany. lillard@maryland.gov.

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Ridge Drive, Boyds. Register at 8 a.m.; race at 9 a.m. $35 for adults; $20 for children 12 and younger. Includes T-shirt. 240-2857369 or chris.eckard12@gmail.com. Hike for Health, 9 a.m., Seneca Creek State Park, 11950 Clopper Road, Gaithersburg. A brisk 2.5-mile hike on moderately challenging terrain, or take the extended hike of 6 miles. Bring appropriate shoes, water. Meet at Kingﬁsher Overlook. $3 per person for Maryland residents, $5 for others. 301-924-2127 or bethany.lillard@ maryland.gov.

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Olney Town Center Advisory Committee Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Olney Community

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SPORTS It’s the final weekend of spring high school sports, with state championships scheduled to be awarded in baseball, lacrosse, softball, tennis and track and field. Check online for coverage.

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Center, One Veterans Place, Silver Spring. Green Pro Partners and Wellness Center will hold a networking event for people interested in the business of medicinal marijuana in Maryland. Light refreshments. $40 by RSVP, $50 general registration. apriledwards@greenpropartners.org.

Film screening of “How I Became an Elephant,” 6 to 8:30 p.m., Sandy Spring

Friends School, Yarnall library, 16923 Norwood Road, Sandy Spring. Free; donations accepted. Movie contains some violent scenes; best for viewers older than 12. Go to tinyurl.com/nugm62b for tickets. 301-8717557 or theydeservetobefree@gmail.com. “Saturn at Opposition,” viewing, 9 to 10:30 p.m., Observatory Park, 100 DeSellum Ave., Gaithersburg. Free. Suitable for ages 11 and older. Hosted by Gaithersburg Community Museum. Check facebook. com/GaithersburgCommunityMuseum for possible cancellation due to weather.

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Olney Days 2015 is in the books, and it lived up to its billing as a weekend full of activities to celebrate hometown spirit and community pride. Events included Joe’s Ride and Stride, the Olney Idol contest, a Shred-it event, fireworks, a car and truck show, a parade and Rock the Lot block party. “It was an amazing event this year with great turnout from the community,” said John Webster, president of the Greater Olney Civic Association. “Olney Days is blossoming into Olney’s signature festival that makes a statement about what a great place to live Olney is.” The weather cooperated — for the most part. A thunderstorm wiped out Saturday evening’s Fun Fair, canceling the Olney Big Band concert, the food-eating contests and sports competitions. But the skies cleared in time for a spectacular fireworks show. Olney Days Chairwoman Helene Rosenheim said she was surprised by the size of the crowd for the fireworks. “A lot of folks who left when the storm started came back and others just waited out the rain,” she said. “Overall we had amazing luck with the weather, the fireworks were amazing, and I can’t think of an event that did not exceed my expectations.” Rosenheim said the big star of the weekend was the expanded Rock the Lot Block Party and Beer and Wine Garden on Sunday evening. The event featured several live bands, children’s activities and food trucks along Hillcrest Avenue. “Arianna Patterson, Dave Peers and Jim Smith did an amazing job growing this event to something at least twice as big as last year, and a hundred times bigger than that first concert on a pieced-together stage in the parking lot of what is now the Fair Hill Shopping Center,” she said. Smith organized the beer and wine garden, which offered libations from Denizens Brewing Company and The Winery at Olney. “It was a phenomenal success,” he said. “We added wine this year, and we doubled the number of servings from last

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n Shining Star: Nia Zagami n Shooting Star: Leanna Rathbun

20th annual Car and Truck Show n Pre-war: Chuck McDonald, Ford Model A n Post-war: Nick Byroad, Mustang GT n Modiﬁed: Jack Monahan, Volkswagen Bug n Olney’s Choice: George Kephart, Lincoln Continental n Sponsor’s Choice: Mark Cecil, Corvette n People’s Choice: William Osorio, 1963 Austin n Best of Show: Wendy Chavez, Ford Mustang

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Andy Carpenter of Olney marches with the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd during the annual Olney Days parade Sunday. His dogs Mojo and Shelby wear sheep costumes to go along with Carpenter’s shepherd garb.

Elizabeth Denton, 8, a student at St. John’s Episcopal School, tosses ﬂying discs to spectators during Sunday’s parade. year, and our net after expenses about tripled what we did last year.” Rosenheim said the weekend represents a tremendous effort by many people, but it’s worth the effort. “Without the amazing effort by the Olney Civic Fund that raised all the money to pay for the weekend, and the amazing generosity of our corporate and individual sponsors, this weekend wouldn’t happen — at least not as the kind of celebration Olney Days has become. We sure did throw ourselves a great party.”

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The Olney Civic Fund collects donations from businesses and individuals to fund Olney Days, which costs about $15,000 to stage. Excess funds are returned to the community in the form of grants to nonprofits. “Because the community supported us so well this year, we anticipate being able to make another significant grant to support a worthy Olney nonprofit later this year,” Webster said. Webster said the community should be thankful for Rosenheim and the many volunteers who put countless hours into planning, fundraising and organizing to make sure Olney Days comes off without a hitch. “And the financial support from key sponsors such as Fletcher’s, Shoppers, Graeves, and McFall & Berry cover the expenses that make the event such a success,” he said. Winners who did not receive their trophies are urged to pick them up as soon as possible from Fletcher’s Service Center’s convenience store at 18001 Georgia Ave. More photos are at www.Gazette.net. thogan@gazette.net

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n Best of Parade: Dynamite Allstars Cheerleaders n 1st place: Sandy Spring Athletic Association n 2nd place: Studio of Ballet Arts n 3rd Place: Girl Scout Troop 808, Greenwood Elementary School

Floats n 1st place: Salem United Methodist Church n 2nd place: St John’s Episcopal School n 3rd place: Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd

Marching n 1st place: Olney Baptist Church n 2nd place: Relay for Life of Olney n 3rd place: Sandy Spring Museum, the Strawberry Festival

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Smith communities elects Bethesda man chairman Joseph B. Hoffman of Bethesda was elected chairman of the board of governors at the Charles E. Smith Life Communities of Rockville. Hoffman, a graduate of the University of Maryland and George Washington University Law School, is a partner in the WashHoffman ington, D.C., ofﬁce of law firm Kelley Drye & Warren. He’s an active member of CongregaOram tion Beth El of Montgomery County in Bethesda, according to a news release. Also at its 105th annual meeting May 6, the organization presented its 2015 Chair’s Award to Steven H. Oram of Potomac. Oram, a graduate of the Kogod School of Business at American University and the University of Baltimore School of Law, is a founding principal of Oram & Moss, a Chevy Chase law ﬁrm. In presenting the award, outgoing Chairman Marc Solomon cited Oram’s “deep personal commitment to philanthropy, Jewish community and caring for those who are vulnerable.” The board also recognized President and CEO Warren R. Slavin for 20 years of leadership. Charles E. Smith Life Communities, founded in 1910 in Washington as the Hebrew Home for the Aged, moved to Rockville in 1969. The services it provides to more than 1,000

Olney student wins tech council scholarship Camila Penaloza of Olney, a senior at Blake High School in Silver Spring, won the Tech Council of Maryland’s $2,500 STEM Scholarship, provided by JK Moving Services and its sister company CapRelo. Penaloza, who plans to major in civil or mechanical engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, was involved with Girls in Technology: Mentor-Protege Program and the Young Scholars Program at the University of Maryland. After graduating she hopes to work with Engineers Without Borders.

St. Peter’s student recognized as top scholar CharlesDavis,athird-grader at St. Peter’s School in Olney, was recently honored as one of the brightest young students in the world at a regional awards ceremony for academically advanced children sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth. Charles scored in the 99th percentile and was presented a high honors award at Johns Hopkins on May 9. A participant in the program’s Talent Search, he was recognized for his exceptional performance on a rigorous, above-grade-level test given to academically talented secondthrough eighth-graders, according to a news release. Charles was one of more than 33,000 students from more than 60 countries who participated in the program this year. Because of the difﬁculty of the tests, only about 30 percent of students who participated earned an invitation to the awards ceremony, where they were individually honored.

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Miriam Gardsbane of Rockville, a sixth-grader at Sandy Spring Friends School, is hosting a screening of “How I Became An Elephant” at 6 p.m. Saturday in the school’s Yarnall Library. The documentary opened Miriam’s eyes to elephant abuse and inspired her to help. The 12-year-old’s affection for pachyderms started a couple of years ago, when an aunt living in Kenya gave her an unusual birthday gift: an “adopted” elephant at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. Since then, Miriam has had the opportunity to visit the Elephant Nature Park in Thailand, which helps abused elephants, and meet Lek Chailert, who runs the sanctuary. Miriam returned even more determined to help elephants and educate the public about their abuse. Last year, she and her friends made more than 70 clay elephants to sell, raising more than $2,000 for the Thai sanctuary. The ﬁlm screening is free, although donations will be accepted. Miriam and her friends have made more than 100 additional elephants, which will be sold at the screening and at the Olney Farmers and Artists market June 7. More information is at www. elephantnaturepark.org or contact Miriam at theydeservetobefree@gmail.com.

Potomac teen honored as youth volunteer Potomac Community Resources, a nonproﬁt that provides programs for teens and adults with developmental disabilities, named Edward Yao of Potomac its 2015 Outstanding Youth Volunteer. Yao, 17, is a senior at Churchill High School in Potomac. “Eddie has demonstrated a

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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 r commitment to volunteer every weekend, which means a lot to the boys and parents,” Christy Sadler, whose twin sons are program participants, said in a news release. “Eddie is engaged, kind and a mentor for the boys as a team player.” Yao started volunteering with Potomac Community Resources in 2013 with the M&T Bank Basketball Program. “This experience has shown me the importance of community service and the joy that volunteering can bring to the participants,” he said in the release. Yao also has received the 2015 Governor’s Award for academic achievement. He is the son of Jiaqin Yao and Na Jin. After graduation, he plans to study engineering at Duke University.

Charles E. Smith student chosen as Bronfman fellow The Bronfman Fellowships has chosen the next group of high school students to participate in a ﬁve-week program of study and travel in Israel. Afterward, they will have a year of programming in pluralism, social responsibility and Jewish texts, according to a press release. The 2015 fellows come from 13 U.S. states and from Canada. The group will include Malka Himeloch, the daughter of Sheila Jelen and Seth Himeloch of Silver Spring. Himeloch, a junior at Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, holds leadership positions in the school’s newspaper, Social Activism Club and Conservative services. She is part of the debate and mock trial teams and plays soccer. The youth fellowship program is named for Edgar Bronfman, a former CEO of Seagram Co. who died in 2013.

Olney man rides across U.S. to beneﬁt housing Kevin Pham of Olney, a student at Vassar College, is participating in Bike & Build, a national nonproﬁt that raises money and awareness for affordable hous-

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Along with 30 other young adults on the Connecticut-toCalifornia team, Pham will ride a bicycle across the U.S., fundraising and advocating for the cause while stopping in many towns to volunteer building homes for needy families, according to a news release. Over 10 weeks, the team plans to pedal 4,072 miles, or 70 per day, to Half Moon Bay, Calif., arriving Aug. 24. Along the way, the riders will volunteer with 15 different affordable housing organizations such as Habitat for Humanity and Rebuilding Together. More information, including how to support Pham’s effort, is available at bikeandbuild.org/ rider/8214.

Pediatric rheumatologist honored by foundation Dr. Lawrence Jung of Olney recently received the J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation’s Marriott Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the ﬁeld of pediatric rheumatology and arthritis care. Jung received the award from the Arthritis Foundation on May 3 at the 2015 Walk to Cure Arthritis at Nationals Park in Washington. Jung is a pediatric rheumatologist and chief of the rheumatology division at Children’s National Health System in Washington. He has more than 30 years of experience treating pediatric rheumatology patients and has received research funding from the National Institutes of Health and other agencies for studies in immunology and rheumatology, according to a hospital news release.

Campus congrats Kathryn Anastasi, daughter of Frank and Susan Cooke Anastasi of Rockville, graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s in American studies from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn. Anastasi is a graduate of Wootton High School in Rockville. Her honors program paper was “Ways We Remember: Rethinking Symbols of Italian American History and Imagining Alternative Narratives.”

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Rockville OKs $123.4M budget Robber pleads guilty to bank heists RYAN MARSHALL STAFF WRITER

Rockville will set aside more than a million dollars to deal with the results of a review of city employees and their compensation, as the mayor and council Monday approved a $123.4 million budget for fiscal 2016. Tax rates will stay the same as in fiscal 2015, even as the city’s total operating budget increases by $5.4 million. The real property tax, which is applied to all properties in the city, will be set at $0.292 per $100 of assessed value, while the personal property tax rate on commercial properties in the city will be set at $0.805 per $100 of assessed value. The parking district tax, which is applied to commercial properties within the boundaries of the Town Square area, will be set at $0.330 per $100 of assessed value. Fiscal 2016 runs from July 1 to June 30, 2016. The city will set aside $1.2 million to implement the results from the compensation and classification study looking at how city employees are classified and establishing a new pay structure. Although the mayor and council had hoped to have to

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A Silver Spring man who pleaded guilty on Monday to robbing two banks on Georgia Avenue last year of nearly $4,000 faces up to 40 years in prison. Paul Milton Laney, 60, pleaded guilty to two counts of bank robbery, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Ofﬁce for the District of Maryland. Laney is scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. 19, according to online court records. Laney entered the Wells Fargo bank in the 13000 block

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Rockville will hold elections for mayor and City Council in November, but some potential future contenders were on the dais at their weekly meeting Monday night. Rockville fourth-graders MaryElena Morales of College Gardens Elementary School and Tyler Sauvajot of Fallsmead Elementary School sat in for part of the meeting, reading off agenda items and being recognized by Mayor Bridget Donnell Newton and the council for their winning essays in the “If I Were Mayor” contest. Fourth-graders from around Maryland participated in the contest sponsored by the Maryland Municipal League and the Maryland Mayors Association. Under this year’s theme of “Respect,” students were asked to write about how they would form a community consensus on how to develop a vacant lot, with some people wanting to build a playground and others wanting a skate park. Winners were chosen by the association and the Maryland Municipal League. MaryElena, 10, wrote that she “would help the citizens understand each other, so the two groups will not get mad at each other.” MaryElena said her favorite subject in school is art, because she likes making things. Tyler, 10, wrote that he would set aside a small part of the playground to contain elements of a skate park in an effort to make everyone happy. “I would get them to agree on something both sides are happy with while being respectful of each other,” Tyler wrote. Tyler said he likes science and isn’t sure if he’d like to pursue a career in politics. On Thursday, the two will tour Rockville City Hall as “Mayors for the Day.” They’ll also visit the Gude Drive maintenance facility and Croydon Creek Nature Center. Also on the itinerary is a ride-along with police and lunch with Newton, plus participation in Rockville’s Memorial Day Parade on Monday. 1931642

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Fargo bank in the 8700 block of Georgia Avenue, threw a plastic bag over the counter and said, “This is an armed robbery. I want all your $100s and $50s,” according to the release. When the teller was slow to put money in the bag, Laney leaned over the counter, revealing a large kitchen knife inside his jacket, and threatened to kill the teller. The teller put nearly $1,000 in the bag and handed it to Laney, who left the bank, according to the release. vterhune@gazette.net

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The Montgomery County school board will vote to conditionally appoint an interim superintendent Wednesday, a few days after its top choice for a permanent leader withdrew his name. The appointment, if approved by state schools Superintendent Lillian M. Lowery, would run from July 1 through June of next year, according to a school board news release. Andrew Houlihan, chief academic ofﬁcer of the Houston Independent School District, informed school board President Patricia O’Neill on Sunday that he was no longer interested in

becoming the district’s next su- the superintendent position in perintendent. The school board February before his four-year said Thursday that Houlihan, 36, contract would have expired this was its “preferred candidate” for summer. Bowers previously said superintendent. he planned to retire at the end of The board announced its plan June. to vote for an interim On Tuesday, Bowleader a day after it reers had no comment, ceived a letter from Alan according to Dana Goodwin, principal of Toﬁg, a school system Walt Whitman High spokesman. School in Bethesda, on Goodwin said behalf of 29 high school Tuesday that he principals. Monday’s thought, and the other letter requested that principals agreed, it Houlihan the board ask Interim might be best for the Superintendent Larry board to slow down the A. Bowers to continue in the post process to identify the next superfor the next school year. intendent. If Bowers continued, O’Neill said Tuesday she the board would have more time could not comment on whether to continue its search, said Goodor not the board would appoint win, who is head of high school Bowers a second time. principals in the Montgomery Bowers was appointed af- County Association of Administer Joshua P. Starr resigned from trators and Principals.

The letter pointed to challenges posed by recent funding shortfalls and Houlihan’s decision to withdraw. “We believe that Larry Bowers is, at this point in time, the best person to bring stability and expertise to deal with the challenges MCPS faces, as he has done this spring,” the letter said. During Bowers’ time as interim superintendent, Goodwin said, he has led the school system well through a tough budget season. He said he hoped that Bowers would agree to stay. “But at the same time, he’s put in his many, many years and he deserves to retire if he wants to retire,” he said. Bowers has worked for county public schools for about 37 years. O’Neill said Houlihan sent her a letter about his withdrawal electronically on Sunday, soon after he visited the county. “It said that after reﬂecting on the superintendency here in Montgomery County, he decided

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that it was not a good ﬁt for him, his family and for the system,” she said. O’Neill said Houlihan’s intelligence, energy, ideas and varied experience in Houston stood out to her. “I wouldn’t have supported his moving as far in the process as he did if I didn’t believe he had the ability to be our superintendent,” she said Monday. She said his withdrawal came as a surprise. Houlihan, along with O’Neill and school board Vice President Michael Durso, met Friday with Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett (D), County Council President George L. Leventhal and Councilman Craig L. Rice (D-Dist. 2) of Germantown, who is chairman of the council’s Education Committee. That meeting went “extraordinarily well,” O’Neill said. After the meeting, Leventhal (D-At large) of Takoma Park said his impression of Houlihan was

“very positive.” “He has real depth and he communicates a lot of knowledge and a lot of sensitivity,” he said. After announcing Houlihan as its top pick, the board planned to continue vetting Houlihan. Four board members planned to visit Houston. Houlihan recently met with a community panel of from a range of county groups. Houlihan was one of 25 candidates the board considered in its search for a new leader. The board interviewed seven of the candidates in person. Houlihan had also expressed interest in leading the school district in Palm Beach County, Fla., according to a March 27 letter from Houlihan to the search ﬁrm Ray and Associates. The Palm Beach Post reported that Robert Avossa, who was selected for the Palm Beach position, was also a ﬁnalist for Montgomery County superintendent. lpowers@gazette.net

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Council not cutting energy tax rates for ﬁscal 2016 BY

KATE S. ALEXANDER STAFF WRITER

Fuel-energy tax rates will not continue to fall in Montgomery County. In a 5-4 vote on May 13, the County Council voted to keep the energy tax rates the same for fiscal 2016. Starting in fiscal 2013, the council has steadily reduced the tax rate each year — including this fiscal year, which ends June 30. Montgomery County levies the fuel energy tax on “persons transmitting, distributing, manufacturing, producing or supplying electricity, gas, steam, coal, fuel oil, or liquefied petroleum gas,” according to county budget documents. The tax is based on how much energy is supplied and is paid by the supplier, who generally passes it on to customers. In 2010, Montgomery hiked the energy tax for fiscal 2011 to generate about an extra $110 million in revenue and close budget gaps during the Great Recession. County Executive Isiah Leggett had proposed doubling the energy tax rates, which would have raised an additional $133 million in revenue. The council instead chose a lower rate that would raise about 85 percent of

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what Leggett (D) had proposed, or about $110 million. The increase was to “sunset,” or revert back to the previous rate, at the end of fiscal 2012. However, Leggett recommended not following through on the sunset. Instead, the council committed to gradually reduce the rate over several years. For fiscal 2016, Leggett again recommended not changing the tax, and for the first time since the rate was scheduled to sunset, most council members agreed. On May 13, the council considered cutting the tax yet again. A resolution was proposed by Councilwoman Nancy Floreen (D-At Large) of Garrett Park to cut the tax rate so it draws $11.5 million less in revenue. That equates to about 10 percent of the total increase the council passed for fiscal 2011. The issue split the council, with Councilman Tom Hucker (D-Dist. 5) of Silver Spring providing the swing vote against cutting the tax. “I’m uncomfortable cutting the energy tax at a time when there’s both an increase in [elementary school] class sizes because of insufficient funds and we will likely have to increase property taxes next year,” Hucker said after the meeting. What held his vote up, he said, was that he was talking to his fellow council members about

ways to address the tax this year without being locked into an ongoing commitment. “It really isn’t possible,” he said. Council President George L. Leventhal said on May 13 he would delay the vote to Thursday

because not all council members had decided where they stood. He said, as he understood it, four members favored cutting the tax and four opposed it. Hucker did not speak during the sometimes heated May 13 discussion, but at one point conveyed to

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Leventhal he was prepared to vote and the vote was called. While the council split on the energy tax, it unanimously supported taxing distributors of electronic cigarettes for 30 percent of the wholesale price of e-cigarettes and other so-called

vaping products, and unanimously supported expanding its room rental and transient tax to those who rent single rooms or homes through venues such as Airbnb. kalexander@gazette.net

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The Montgomery County Council has tacked on nearly $8 million to Montgomery College’s ﬁscal 2016 operating budget, a boost that lets the school increase employee compensation and beneﬁts, as planned. The council’s Education Committee recommended in April that the full council place nearly $11 million in new county money for the college on the county’s reconciliation list. That list includes items that Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett did not put in his recommended budget and that the council wants to fund if it can. The $7.9 million extra from the council was added to Leggett’s recommended $3 million increase in county funding for the college’s current fund. The current fund pays for operations, student services, instruction and other things, according to a report from the college president. Susan Madden, the college’s

chief government relations officer, said about $6.8 million of the added money will go toward increasing employee compensation and benefits for all faculty and staff. “The council and the county executive clearly recognized our faculty and staff’s deep commitment to our students to help them succeed and thereby fuel our local economy with ready workers,” Montgomery College President DeRionne Pollard said in a statement. The remaining dollars will go toward various college initiatives, Madden said, though college officials are still hammering out exactly how to divvy up the roughly $1.1 million remaining of the $7.9 million from the council. The college had hoped to receive about $3 million from the county for the initiatives. The college planned to expand the Achieving Collegiate Excellence and Success program to six more high schools in Montgomery County Public Schools. With less funding than hoped for to spend on the initiatives, the program will expand to fewer schools, Madden said. The program involves collaboration from Montgomery College, the county school system and The Universities at Shady Grove. The college also hopes to use some of the money to pay for permanent staff at two community engagement centers, which are off-campus connection points between the college and the public. The plan had been to make four temporary workers at the centers permanent, according to Marcus Rosano, a college spokesman. Some of the money will go toward efforts aimed at the college’s achievement gap. Madden said the council’s action helped the college keep tuition affordable with slight increases for the next school year. College officials had previously said significant increases were possible if the county didn’t provide more money to help the school pay for the compensation and benefit increases. Soon after the Education Committee recommended that the council try to add more money for the college, the institution’s Board of Trustees voted to follow the smaller per-credithour tuition increases the college initially proposed: $3 for students living in the county, $6 for students living elsewhere in Maryland, and $9 for students living outside the state. For 2014-15, county students paid $115 per credit hour, in-state students paid $235 and out-ofstate students paid $323, according to the college’s website. “Clearly, councilmembers heard our concerns and share our collective commitment to an affordable, high-quality, locally provided postsecondary education,” Pollard said in her statement. lpowers@gazette.net

POLICE BLOTTER The following is a summary of incidents in the Rockville area to which Montgomery County police responded recently. The words “arrested” and “charged” do not imply guilt. This information was provided by the county.

Residential burglary • 7500 block of BuenaVista Terrace, between 6:20 a.m. and 4:10 p.m. on April 29. Forced entry, nothing taken. • 9300 block of Copenhaver Drive, at 2:49 p.m. on April 30. No entry gained, nothing taken. • 8300 block of Raymond Lane in the early morning hours of May 4. Forced entry, took property • 12700 block of Split Creek Court, between 11:30 a.m. and 12:22 p.m. on May 4. Forced entry, took property.

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Rockville library to open summer weekend nights Rockville Memorial Library, at 21 Maryland Ave., will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays from May 29 through September. County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) included funding for the extra hours at the Rockville branch in his budget proposal, and the County Council approved it. “Rockville Memorial Library is one of the anchors of the Town Center, and we are pleased to offer our services during high trafﬁc hours,” county libraries Director Parker Hamilton said in a news release. For more information, call 240-777-0140.

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Olney church reaches out through mission projects Several families from Oakdale Emory United Methodist Church visited the Olney Manor Skate Park on Sunday afternoon, bringing refreshments and encouraging the skaters to wear helmets. Helmet use was mandatory prior to this season. New policies have been implemented that

Brookeville re-elects two commissioners Commissioners Katherine Farquhar and Suzanne Daley were both re-elected to new twoyear terms May 12 in the town of Brookeville. Brookeville holds a staggered election each year for either one or two commissioners, each for a two-year term. This system is designed to ensure continuity and experience on the commission. The third commissioner, Robert T. “Buck” Bartley, has one more year remaining in his term. There were 30 votes cast, out of about 100 registered voters, said Debbie Wagner, election supervisor. Farquhar and Daley ran uncontested, although Wagner said there were a few write-in votes. This will be Farquhar’s ﬁfth term and Daley’s third. Following the election, the three commissioners elect one of themselves president to serve as a quasi-CEO or mayor in the conduct of town business and to represent the town in dealings with other elected ofﬁcials and levels of government. The elections are nonpartisan and the commissioners receive no compensation. Monthly public meetings are held the second Monday of each month.

Shady Grove Farmers Market opens The Shady Grove Farmers Market has opened on the Johns Hopkins University campus at 9601 Broschart Road, at the corner of Key West Avenue, Rockville. The market will be open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesdays through Oct. 28. It accepts various federal food programs. More information is at shadygrovemarket@gmail.com or shadygrovemarket.org.

Olney’s Ride of Silence is Wednesday night The fourth annual Ride of Silence in will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Cyclists will meet in the Harris Teeter parking lot at the Fair Hill Shopping Center in Olney, where police will escort them on the 10-mile ride. The purpose is to honor those who have been injured or killed while bicycling, to raise awareness that cyclists are on the roads and to ask all users to share the roads. “This is not a race or an evening ride to show how strong a rider you are,” said organizer Vince Cooke. “Instead, it will look very much like a funeral procession; after all, it is a memorial for those we have lost.” The route was chosen to minimize any hills and the pace will average 10 mph. Volunteers are needed. Registration and other information is at bikemaryland.org/events/ ride-of-silence-olney/, or contact

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include free admission, longer hours and no supervision. Helmets, previously available to rent, are now only “recommended.” Church member Gina Murray said the families did this in honor of a church member who died in a bike accident and was not wearing a helmet. “We love our community and youth and are concerned about the changes at the skate park,” she said. The skate park visit was just one of several projects by church

members. Instead of being in the church “gathered” for worship on Sunday, 175 members were “scattered” as they donned orange T-shirts and served the community as part of their annual Missions Sunday. Families and small groups participated in a variety of outreach projects, which also included picking up trash along area roads, collecting food for Olney Help and distributing refreshments at the Olney Days Parade.

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Ride of Silence in Rockville on Wednesday Rockville’s 10th annual Ride of Silence will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, starting at Rockville Memorial Library, 21 Maryland Ave. The 10-mile ride will run through the Town Center, Rockshire, Falls Grove and King Farm neighborhoods. All bikers are asked to bring lights and a helmet and to arrive at 6:45 p.m. for a brieﬁng. Rockville police will es-

cort the cyclists. This year’s ride is dedicated to Jamie Roberts, the 24-year-old Rockville native and basketball coach who was killed June 13, 2004, while cycling across the country to raise money for cancer, according to a news release from the city’s bike advisory committee. The free ride honors cyclists who have been injured or killed by motorists while riding on public roadways. More information is at rideofsilence.org.

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InBrief Picnic and bazaar seeks donations

Organizers of the 95th annual Women’s Board Picnic and Bazaar on July 28 in Olney are now accepting donations of books, DVDs and CDs. Donated items may be dropped off in the front lobby of MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, Fletcher’s Service Center, Olney and Ashton branches of Sandy Spring Bank, Wilson Tire and Auto, and the Leisure World administration building. Tax donation receipts are available at each location. All proceeds beneﬁt the Women’s Board, in support of MedStar Montgomery Medical Center and the Women’s Board Scholarship Program.

A Very Berry Evening coming to museum Five top local chefs will prepare berry-inspired dishes and handcrafted signature drinks at the third annual A Very Berry Evening from 6 to 8:30 p.m. May 28 at the Sandy Spring Museum.

Ticket and other information is at sandyspringmuseum.org/veryberry.

Delta Alumnae Foundation presents awards The Montgomery County Delta Alumnae Foundation has awarded $1,500 to the following community programs that beneﬁt local youths, low- and moderate-income families, and the elderly: Organizations getting community grants included the following: • Conﬂict Resolution Center of Montgomery County, for its Youth Restorative Justice Initiative to help eliminate bullying and violence. • Montgomery County Television/ Media for scholarships for camps and training programs, including its Agricultural Fair Video Camp and Backpack Journalism Summer Academy. • Stepping Stones Shelter for services for homeless families. • Our House in Brookeville for a program to keep young men out of trouble, for its Computer Enhancement Program and to help young men complete a GED education. Also, more than $16,000 in scholarships were awarded to 17 seniors at 12 Montgomery County schools, including

the following: • Jamilah I. Silver, Morgan I. Offord and Melissa LaNoire of Sherwood High School in Sandy Spring. • My’Kael S. Poole of Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville. • Rachelle N. Sims of Magruder High School in Rockville.

Transportation Committee seeks feedback The Greater Olney Civic Association’s Transportation Committee is seeking community feedback regarding potential transportation options. The data collected will help direct the committee’s work plan and be shared with ofﬁcials, and it will be compared with published county and state information. This is the second survey conducted by the committee. Last fall’s survey generated 465 responses and provided basic data on area commuting habits. Olney-area household members older than 16 are encouraged to take the survey, which should take about ﬁve minutes to complete, according to the association. The survey is available at surveymonkey.com/s/Olneytransportationsurvey.

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Schools recognized for financial literacy programs Three area schools last week won awards for their financial literacy efforts from the nonprofit Maryland Council on Economic Education. • Frost Middle School in Rockville won first place in the Stock Market Game, an educational simulation for grades four through 12 that teaches about the stock market and the U.S. economic system. Each team is given a virtual $100,000 to invest in common stock, mutual funds and bonds. The team adviser was Matt Anton. • Wootton High School in Rockville won in the Adam Smith Division in the Economic and Personal Finance Challenge. Students demonstrated knowledge of topics such as spending, credit, savings, investing, and money management. The adviser was Chris McTamany. • Farquhar Middle School in Olney was a winner in the Economic and Personal Finance Concepts Poster Contest. Teachers were Max Johnston and Carlos Landau.

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grounds May 28 and 29. There will be two shows each day at 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. The event is sponsored by the American Legion Post 68, and proceeds beneﬁt local organizations. The public is invited to watch the raising of the giant big top and see the animals unloaded and fed, starting at 7:30 a.m. May 28. Discounted tickets are available at Fletcher’s Service Center, Graeves Auto and Appliance, Christopher’s Hardware, The UPS Store and Cheeburger Cheeburger. Full-price tickets will be available at the door. For more information, contact Cmdr. Halsey Smith at halseywsmith@verizon. net.

Library shuts down for repairs A broken sewer line means the Olney Library will get a long holiday weekend. The library won’t open for regular hours Friday and Saturday; it will also be closed Sunday and Monday, in observance of Memorial Day. Workers need to repair the line so the bathrooms work properly, the county said in a news release. This weekend was chosen to minimize disruption. The library, at 3500 Olney-Laytonsville Road, is due to reopen Tuesday.

American Capital posts smaller profit American Capital of Bethesda, a private equity firm and global asset manager, reported that its first-quarter profit fell to $15 million from $38 million in the first-quarter of 2014. Revenues dropped to $154 million from $158 million. The company also announced that it changed its previously announced plans to spin off to its shareholders two new business development companies, with American Capital continuing primarily in the asset management business. Plans now call for only one spinoff, American Capital Income, which will have about $4 billion of equity capital and will own most of American Capital’s existing investment assets.

Intrexon posts bigger profit Intrexon of Germantown, which uses synthetic biology to develop drugs and other products, reported that its firstquarter profit grew to $25.8 million from $3.2 million in the first quarter of last year. Revenues rose to $33.8 mil-

lion from $7.9 million.

Kaplan University names executive director Kaplan University named Cyndie Shadow of Bowie executive director of its learning center in Rockville. P r e viously, Shadow was regional executive director for Shadow Anthem Education Group and also worked at the Arts Institute and the University of Phoenix. She holds a bachelor’s in political economy and Asian studies from Princeton University and an MBA from Golden Gate University.

Net loss grows at Synthetic Biologics Synthetic Biologics of Rockville reported that its ﬁrst-quarter net loss widened to $12.4 million from $3.8 million in the ﬁrst quarter of 2014. No revenues were reported for either quarter.

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County to lose millions in income-tax revenue

KATE S. ALEXANDER STAFF WRITER

States cannot double-tax income earned out of state, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday — a decision that will cost Montgomery County millions. The court was considering whether states should provide taxpayers a full credit for taxes paid to other states on income earned in those states. The case was filed by Howard County residents Brian and Karen Wynne. The Wynnes filed the case after they tried to claim an income tax credit for income paid to other states on their 2006 tax filing. The credit was denied, in part. The state allowed a credit against their Maryland state income tax, but not against their county income tax. On Monday, the Supreme Court struck down the tax system in a splintered 5-4 decision. In the majority opinion, the court referred to the tax as a double-taxing “scheme” and held that it violates the negative or dormant Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The negative clause “precludes states from discriminating between transactions on the basis of some interstate element,” says a majority opinion by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. “Maryland’s income tax scheme discriminates against interstate commerce,” the opinion says. Alito was joined in the opinion by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and justices Anthony M. Kennedy, Stephen G. Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor. Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan dissented. The decision will affect Montgomery County over many fiscal years, starting as soon as fiscal 2016, Council President George L. Leventhal said Monday morning. Montgomery’s budget will take a hit of between $8 million and $10 million in the coming fiscal year, which starts July 1. In fiscal years 2017 and 2018, the blow will be much bigger — as much as $55 million each of those two years, said Leventhal (D-At Large) of Takoma Park.

“It’s a devastating decision. I can’t overstate the significance to us in terms of our finances and plans going forward. It is not welcome news at all.” Isiah Leggett, county executive The fallout will come when the state withholds additional tax payments to Montgomery County, said County Executive Isiah Leggett. Currently, the state does not grant credits against county income taxes for income earned out of state. “They will deduct based on our people that filed and the time frame they filed in terms of the income tax,” he said. Starting in fiscal 2019, the county expects to see income-tax revenue decrease about $25 million each year as a direct result of the decision, Leventhal said. “This requires us to be cautious,” he said. “We need to live within available resources.” While $10 million is a small percentage of next year’s $5.07 billion budget, Leggett (D) said, it’s significant. “It’s a devastating decision,” Leggett said. “I can’t overstate the significance to us in terms of our finances and plans going forward. It is not welcome news at all.” Even without the Wynne decision, Leggett has warned that the county likely would need to raise property taxes next year for the fiscal 2017 budget. “This just adds to it,” he said. In the majority opinion, the justices said Maryland taxes the income that residents earn both in and out of state, as well as income that nonresidents earn from sources within Maryland. “But unlike most other States, Maryland does not offer its residents a full credit against the income taxes that they pay to other States,” the justices said. “The effect of this scheme is that some of the income earned by Maryland residents outside the State is taxed twice.” The Supreme Court previously has ruled that states cannot subject corporate income to tax systems like Maryland’s doubletax “and we see no reason why

income earned by individuals should be treated less favorably,” Alito wrote. Justices in the minority disputed the use of a doctrine known as the negative or dormant Commerce Clause. In his dissenting opinion — which Thomas partly joined — Scalia wrote that the U.S. Constitution does not contain a negative or dormant Commerce Clause. It only has the Commerce Clause, which empowers Congress to regulate the commerce with foreign nations, among states and with Native American tribes. “The Clause says nothing about prohibiting state laws that burden commerce,” Scalia said. The so-called negative Commerce Clause is doctrine, and not part of the Constitution, he argued. Scalia also wrote that Maryland’s tax has disadvantages, but it also lets the state collect equal revenue from taxpayers with equal incomes, to avoid the burden of verifying tax payments to other states, and it ensures that every resident pays at least some income tax.

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“Nothing in the Constitution precludes Maryland from deciding that the beneﬁts of its tax scheme are worth the costs,” he said. Thomas wrote a separate dissenting opinion, which Scalia partly joined. Thomas also disagreed on the use of the so-called negative Commerce Clause, arguing that it has no base in the Constitution, makes little sense and has proved it doesn’t work when applied and cannot serve as a basis for striking down a state statute. Thomas wrote that the majority opinion would have surprised “those who penned and ratiﬁed the Constitution.” In a third dissenting opinion, Ginsburg wrote that the decision veers from a principle the Supreme Court has repeatedly acknowledged: that “a Nation or State may ‘tax all the income of its residents, even income earned outside the taxing jurisdiction.’” Ginsburg was joined by Scalia and Kagan in her minority opinion. “As I see it, nothing in the Constitution or in prior decisions of this Court dictates that one of two States, the domiciliary State or the source State, must recede simply because both have lawful tax regimes reaching the same income,” Ginsburg argued. She continued: “A taxpayer living in one State and working in another gains protection and benefits from both — and so can be called upon to share in the costs of both States’ governments.” kalexander@gazette.net

Alex’s Run is June 14

The ﬁfth annual Alex’s Run will be held June 14. The race is held in memory of Alex Popeck, a Sherwood High School scholar-athlete who died in 2011 of injuries suffered in a car crash. The 5K course is designed for runners of all abilities, plus walkers. Registration will begin at 7 a.m. at the Olney Boys and

Girls Community Park, 4501 Olney-Laytonsville Road. Proceeds beneﬁt the Alex Popeck Never Back Down Foundation, established to help teens recognize that an individual can make a difference in their community. The foundation has awarded more than $40,000 to seniors whose applications best embody the qualities of caring, compassion, humility, honesty and a “Never Back Down” attitude, according to organizers. Registration and other information is at apnbd.org.

Memorial Day closings Montgomery County and its municipalities will observe the following holiday schedules for Memorial Day on Monday.

• Parking at public garages, lots, curbside meters: free. • State ofﬁces and courts: closed.

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• County ofﬁces, libraries, schools: closed. • County liquor stores: open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. • Recreation: All indoor and outdoor aquatic facilities will be open; administrative ofﬁces, senior centers and community recreation centers will be closed. • Montgomery Parks: All Parks facilities will be open. Operating schedules are at MontgomeryParks.org. • Ride On buses, Metrobus, Metrorail: Sunday schedule. • TRiPS Commuter Stores in Silver Spring and Friendship Heights: closed. • Trash and recycling pickup: no collection Monday; pickups one day later through week until Saturday. • Transfer station: closed.

• City Hall: closed. •Trash and recycling pickup: no collection Monday; pickups one day later through week until Saturday. • F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre and box office, Croydon Creek Nature Center, Glenview Mansion and Art Gallery, Lincoln Park, Thomas Farm and Twinbrook community centers, Senior Center: closed. • Rockville Swim and Fitness Center: Indoor pool and fitness center will be open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. The North Pool will be open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. The outdoor recreation and fitness pools will be open noon to 9 p.m. The South Indoor Pool will be closed. • Parking at city meters: free.

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Continued from Page A-1 who wish to keep up to ﬁve hens would have to give prior written notice to neighbors on abutting properties. Onley said she thought it was important to require that the notice be written. Palakovich Carr, Councilman Tom Moore and Councilwoman Virginia Onley indicated they would support the policy, while Mayor Bridget Donnell Newton and Councilwoman Beryl Feinberg were not supportive. Palakovich Carr pointed out that many large cities around the country allow chickens, and said she believes that if New York, Los Angeles and Chicago can make chickens work, Rockville can too. But Feinberg expressed concerns that the proposed ordinance doesn’t limit the height of chicken coops or have enforcement provisions other than on a complaint-driven basis. She also worried about possible ﬁres from heaters or other methods used to keep chickens warm in the winter. Even if the ordinance passes, not all Rockville residents will be able to get new feathered friends, as some areas of the city have homeowner associa-

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Continued from Page A-1 to include American Tap Room, Armand’s Pizzeria & Grille, The Bean Bag Deli & Catering Co., Bon Chon Chicken, Buffalo Wild Wings, Carmen’s Italian Ice, Chef Geoff’s, City Perch, Dawson’s Market, Ev & Maddy’s, iPic Theaters, Island Pride Jamaican Restaurant, La Tasca, Matt’s House of Kabob, Miller’s Rockville Ale House, Nantucket’s Reef, Paladar Latin Kitchen & Rum Bar, Pinch, Potomac Pizza, Quench, Rocklands Barbeque and Grilling Company, Savvy Treats, Spice Xing, Sushi Oishii and The Woodside Deli. The city will also offer a souvenir mug for $10, with the ﬁrst beer included in the price. Free parking will be provided at the Council Ofﬁce Building on Fleet Street, Metro lots, City Hall lots and the lots north of Beall Avenue. Parking will be provided for $5 in the Rockville Town Square

tions or other organizations with their own rules forbidding chickens. The proposal initially drew an enthusiastic response from residents who testified before the mayor and council about their desire to own chickens, but lately most speakers have opposed allowing the birds. Newton said Monday that she would not support allowing chickens because the “overwhelming” number of people who testified were against the idea. Also on the fauna front Monday, the mayor and council discussed whether to allow the city to hire companies to bring goats on public property to help control invasive plant species. Moore, Onley and Palakovich Carr again expressed support for the measure, with Newton and Feinberg not supporting it. Moore also raised the question of whether the city should allow private property owners to bring goats on their property, arguing that if it’s good policy for public land it could be good for private property too. His proposal failed to draw much support from his colleagues, with only Palakovich Carr saying she would support it as long as it was specified as a temporary measure. rmarshall@gazette.net

Route 355 and North Washington Street garages from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, and from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday for the Memorial Day Parade. The parade and ceremony — the town’s 71st — will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday in the Town Center. It will begin with a musical prelude by the Rockville Concert Band and Rockville Community Chorus at 9 a.m. The ceremony, hosted by the mayor and City Council, will start at 9:30 a.m. The program includes remarks from Mayor Bridget Donnell Newton, the laying of a wreath, a 21-gun salute and the playing of taps. The grand marshal, retired Marine Cpl. Jeff King, who grew up in Rockville and graduated in 2003 from Richard Montgomery High School in the city, will speak during the ceremony. King enlisted in the Marine Corps in 2008 and served in the 2nd Marine Division as an infantry riﬂeman and radio operator. He deployed to Helmand Prov-

ince, Afghanistan, in 2010 and 2011. After he was wounded in September 2011, he completed physical therapy and rehabilitation at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda and medically retired from the Marine Corps in 2013. Among his awards are the Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal and the Afghanistan Campaign Medal. King is completing a master’s in social work at the University of Maryland this month. He interned at the Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center, where he provided counseling and behavioral health services to veterans, and plans to have a career as a social worker. The parade starts at 10:30 a.m. The route begins on Martins Lane, turns south onto North Washington Street, then east onto Beall Avenue, south onto Maryland Avenue through the Town Center and east onto East Montgomery Avenue. It will feature more than 60 units, with a variety of floats, bands, step units, drill and majorette units, color guards, dance troops and other community groups. Brian van de Graaff, weatherman for ABC7/WJLA and News Channel 8, will emcee the parade. More information is at rockvillemd.gov/hth. rmarshall@gazette.net

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SAMANTHA SCHMIEDER STAFF WRITER

On Saturday, book readers and book writers braved the humidity and forecasted storm for the sixth annual Gaithersburg Book Festival. According to Gaithersburg Mayor and book festival founder Jud Ashman, the day’s events overall “went very well,” although some unforeseeable events caused some small issues. “It was our hottest book festival yet,” Ashman said. “It could have been worse and frankly I’m glad it held out as long as it did. It started storming around 5 [p.m.] or so and it caused us to have to shut everything down early.” In addition to the storm and heat, the May 12 Amtrak crash in Philadelphiahampered

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Gaithersburg’s Kyle Craig, 14, portrays the “Where’s Waldo?” character at the Gaithersburg Book Festival on Saturday morning. travel for a number of authors scheduled to attend. Ashman said that some of those authors were able to make other plans while three were unable to make it down from the northeast. A few others had to cancel last minute due to illness and personal reasons.

“Our author programs were so well-received, even though we did have those couple snags. It really went well and everyone got good face-time with their favorite authors,” Ashman said. sschmieder@gazette.net

Veteran enters plea in 2006 death Former Army Ranger freed after ﬁve years

VIRGINIA TERHUNE STAFF WRITER

A former Army Ranger accused of killing his roommate in Gaithersburg in 2006 has reached a plea agreement that lets him go free after serving more than ﬁve years in prison. On Thursday, Gary James Smith, 32, now living in Olney, entered an Alford plea in Montgomery Circuit Court to involuntary manslaughter in the death of fellow soldier Michael McQueen. An Alford plea means Smith does not admit guilt but acknowledges that there is evidence that could convict him. Twice, Smith was convicted of killing McQueen, but both convictions were thrown out on appeal. A third trial had been scheduled for this month. As part of the agreement, Smith pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless endangerment.

“He wanted a compromise that would end this,” his attorney, Andrew Jezic, said Thursday about the agreement reached with the county state’s attorney’s Office and McQueen’s family. The end result is that Smith is free to continue studying engineering at Montgomery College and working as a carpenter. “It means I now have a chance to move on with my life, go to school and be with my family members,” Smith said Thursday. Representatives of McQueen’s family could not be reached for comment. Smith was originally charged with murder after police found McQueen, 22, dead of a gunshot wound inside the Gaithersburg apartment he shared with Smith. Smith was found outside, crying and covered in blood. The question for a jury to decide was whether Smith shot McQueen or whether McQueen committed suicide, Jezic said. In Smith’s first trial in 2008, the jury found him not guilty of first- and second-degree murder, but guilty of depraved heart murder, a crime which is not intentional, Jezic said. The jury’s verdict was overturned by the state’s Court of Appeals in 2011. In Smith’s second trial in 2012, the jury found Smith not guilty of depraved heart murder, but guilty of involuntary manslaughter. That conviction

was overturned by the Maryland Court of Special Appeals last August. Smith was released from prison in October and has been living under house arrest until the plea agreement was reached in April, Jezic said. Under the agreement, Circuit Court Judge Joseph Dugan Jr. gave Smith credit for time served and ordered a period of unsupervised probation. Smith will not be allowed to have ﬁrearms for 18 months, Jezic said. If Smith had gone through another jury trial, he would have run the risk of being found guilty, Jezic said. Smith said that would mean losing more time than he already has missed with family and friends, including his elderly grandparents. “It was hard not to be there for them during my two stints in prison,” said Smith, who spent time in Hagerstown-area and Salisbury prisons while waiting for state appeals courts to rule in his case. Last weekend, Smith said he went to the beach with his girlfriend after not seeing the Atlantic Ocean for nine years. “It was great. We had a phenomenal time,” he said. According to his deal, Smith may ask for reconsideration of his plea in 4½ years and ask for probation before judgment. vterhune@gazette.net

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Continued from Page A-1 Three county detectives took part in the arrest, as did officers from Alaska and the Coast Guard. They found blood-soaked cash in Tomaszewski’s wallet, according to arrest records. Detectives also searched his stateroom on the cruise ship, finding possible evidence linked to the crime, and interrogated Tomaszewski at the Juneau Police Department headquarters. There, he admitted to the slayings and said he’d broken into the home to steal from it, officials said. The arrest came one day after a heart-wrenching funeral for the victims, Richard “Dick” Vilardo, 65, a hotel developer, and Julianne “Jody” Vilardo, 67, a retired accountant. They left behind two children and two grandchildren and were remembered by a motto: Friends are family, and family is everything. “It is difficult to describe how incredible my parents were,” their son, Andrew Vilardo, said, standing near two wooden caskets and speaking to more than 600 mourners at the Fourth Presbyterian Church in Bethesda on Friday morning. The family thanked law enforcement in a statement Sunday. “For the past week, we have known the where, the when and the how; now we know who,” the statement said. Investigators had spent days examining the Vilardos’ home, piecing together the attack. They said they think that early on Mother’s Day — May 10 — Tomaszewski cut through a window screen, lifted the window, attacked at least one of the Vilardos in the bedroom and continued the assault in the kitchen and rear patio. When the Vilardos did not show up for a Mother’s Day gathering, their daughter went to check on them. Jody Vilardo’s body was found inside the house. Dick Vilardo’s body was found outside. “The extreme violence that occurred in that home helped to drive our detectives to work around the clock until they got someone into custody,” Francke said. Little is known about Tomaszewski. He lives at the same home as his parents, according to court records and police officials. Two people with knowledge of the case, who spoke on the condition of

anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it, said his parents appeared to have no idea about what their son had allegedly done. Efforts to reach family members by phone were not successful Sunday. No one answered a knock at their home next door to the Vilardos’ home on Sunday or Monday. Tomaszewski was being held Sunday at the Lemon Creek Correctional Center in Alaska without bail, according to Juneau police. Montgomery County officials said they weren’t sure of Tomaszewski’s motive. “We don’t know at this point what his intentions were,” said Montgomery Police Chief Thomas Manger, who added that it was difficult to understand any of Tomaszewski’s behavior — from the alleged murders to the time spent on the cruise to the relatively unemotional reaction he had when he was apprehended. “I think everybody would have a difficult time making sense of that because it makes no sense,” he said during a news conference Sunday. Early in the case, detectives received a tip from a retired colleague: In 1998, he had investigated a burglary at the Vilardos’ home and remembered that it might have been connected to Tomaszewski — then a teenager living next door, Francke said. Detectives searched local pawn shop registries for any transactions that Tomaszewski had made recently and learned that last month he had pawned several pieces of jewelry, including a 1940s Coaldale High School class ring. The detectives connected the class ring to a burglary about two weeks earlier, in early April, at a home about 400 feet from that of the Vilardos, along Ridge Drive, according to an arrest warrant charging Tomaszewski with the murders. Detectives learned that Tomaszewski was not only out of town but had left hours after the slayings, Francke said. Concerned that Tomaszewski might try to dispose of evidence, detectives hurried to Juneau, making it there the day before the ship made its scheduled stop. Then, after the boat docked, the detectives and other officers boarded. They arrested Tomaszewski without incident as he was preparing to leave the ship, police said. He apparently had thought he would be spending

the day whale-watching. Detectives have charged him with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of armed robbery and one count of ﬁrst-degree burglary — and have accused him of stealing watches and other items from the Vilardos’ house. Relatives have declined interview requests since the Vilardos’ deaths. At the funeral Friday, several people spoke eloquently about the couple — how their home was always welcoming, how they loved to dance. A statement written by the Vilardos’ daughter, Katherine, was read aloud. She recalled once asking her mother how she knew her father was “the one.” “He can always make me laugh, always,” her mom had said. She wrote about trips that her parents still took: “Mom said she felt like a newlywed again every time she and Dad got away together.” Andrew Vilardo spoke at the funeral, describing his mother as an avid reader, solver of crossword puzzles and gardener. “She loved the pursuit of knowledge,” he said. He said his father’s success as a hotel developer was beyond anything his father had imagined and was built on a brilliant financial mind and an ability to remember the names of most everyone he met. “Financial engineering is what he used to call it. Few could rival his understanding on the topic,” he said. “Whatever room he had left in his mind, he ﬁlled with ‘Fletch’ movie quotes, Booker T. & the M.G.’s songs and a complete playby-play recollection of basically any sporting event that took place between 1968 and 1988.” In the pews, mourners laughed softly through their tears. Andrew Vilardo recalled growing up with a family tradition on Mother’s Day, with everyone piling into a car to visit a historic or renowned garden. Photographs over the years revealed a constant. “My mother looked exactly the same in each one,” he said. “Same lovely smile, same bright presence no matter the surroundings. My dad used to joke that we were traveling with a cardboard cutout of mom. He claimed it was Take Your Picture With Mommy Day.” Gazette Staff Writer Virgnia Terhune contributed to this report.

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Continued from Page A-1 The families “shopped” for ingredients at a general store that was set up in a classroom and students then prepared foods, including cornbread, biscuits, applesauce and oatmeal cookies. Bowles said Westward Ho is a wholeschool effort: Principal Carla Glawe joined the students for dinner, the music teacher taught the students square dances, cafeteria workers allowed the students to use the kitchen, parents helped in multiple ways and the whole student body came outside Friday to wish the fifth-graders good luck and safe travels as they set out. The students traveled, along with their wagons, first to the grounds of Norbeck Country Club, where they stopped for lunch. From there, they continued through the woods, crossing multiple streams, until they reached the Smith Center on Muncaster Mill Road. Bill Kraegel, an outdoor education instructor at the Smith Center, led them. As they walked, he told stories from the perspective of an 11-year-old girl’s journal from the 1850s, which the students could relate to. Once at the Smith Center, the students prepared stew over an open fire and ate it for dinner along with the other items they had cooked at school and brought with them. The evening ended with a square dance performance for the parents. Some years the trek goes more smoothly than others and Bowles said this year’s was just about perfect. Last year, rain caused the school to postpone the trip. Because of scheduling difficulties, the students were able to hike only to the country club and then returned to the school. When the Intercounty Connector was being planned, organizers were unsure if the tradition would continue, but it has had little impact, Bowles said. The students now travel under the highway, where they encounter the largest creek. There are also new policies in place, one of which requires the school to purchase the

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Continued from Page A-1 Marc Dubick, the president of Duball LLC, which developed the project. The building in Rockville Town Center also has a 140-room Cambria Hotels & Suites, plus about 17,000 square feet of retail space. Slabs of plywood still cover the spaces along East

meat for the stew from Montgomery County Public Schools. “We used to take a field trip to Giant to buy all the food, but now more parents work, so we have the rest of the food delivered by Peapod, which is Giant Food’s delivery service, Bowles said. “Little things like that have changed, but much has remained the same.” Bowles said watching the students work together to lift their wagons over the stream crossings continues to amaze her. “You hear ‘one, two, three up’ and then everyone cheers,” she said. “It just all works out really well.” Many of the students say the stream crossings, while difficult, are their favorite part of the trek. “It is kind of hard to pick up the wagons and not slip on the slopes, but the parents helped us,” said Emily Siansky, 11. “It was also hard going downhill, although it may seem easy. The brake person has to make sure the wagon doesn’t go too fast and the side people have to make sure that it doesn’t tip over and nothing falls out.” Emily said the experience was fun for her, because she enjoys history. “I read all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books,” she said. “Pioneers would think it was easy for us to travel now with cars and technology, but it would have been hard to travel like they did.” Hannah Lees, 11, also liked having to lift the wagon and said it was difficult to get the wagons up big hills. She also enjoyed the square dancing. Six miles proves challenging, but somehow they make it. “It’s definitely long,” Bowles said. “Besides the creeks, we have to maneuver through some pretty rough terrain.” Peyton Sokol, 10, said that at one point, she got tired and wasn’t sure if she’d be able to continue. “I just said, ‘OK, I can do this,’” she said. “My older sisters both did it, and I wanted to do it too. It was hard at times, but we all had fun.” thogan@gazette.net

Middle Lane where that retail will go, but Dubick said he had agreements pending with several companies. The hotel opened May 8, Dubick said. Cambria Hotels & Suites is one of the brands owned by Choice Hotels International of Rockville. On Friday, even as construction workers worked on finishing touches just outside the door, customers lined up in the hotel lobby

with their luggage while staff checked them in. A second project, with 400 residential units, is planned next door on what is currently a parking lot. In December, the Rockville mayor and City Council approved a 15 percent reduction in the number of parking spaces for the project, about 70 spaces. rmarshall@gazette.net

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SAMANTHA SCHMIEDER STAFF WRITER

The Westside at Shady Grove Metro broke ground on May 12 in Derwood with the first townhomes expected to be finished this year with move-ins beginning early 2016. The development is being made possible by a public-private partnership between the county and Bethesda developer EYA. Westside plans to have 407 townhomes, more than 1,000 rental homes, 131,000 square feet of office space and a total of 21,828 square feet of retail space, according to a release. Current plans call for the addition of a library on the site, as well. A percentage of the residences will be moderately priced dwelling units and workforce housing. The townhomes start at the up-

Tech council honors industry leaders The Tech Council of Maryland in Rockville presented its 27th annual Industry Awards last week in North Bethesda to the following: • Chief Executive Officer of the Year: Stephen Hoffman, CEO and chief scientific officer of Sanaria of Rockville, which develops malaria vaccines. • Chief Financial Officer of the Year: Robert Kramer of Emergent BioSolutions in Gaithersburg, which develops biodefense products, including anthrax vaccines. • Chief Information Officer/ Chief Technology Officer of the Year: Herman Wong, senior director, information technology with Amarex Clinical Research of Germantown, a contract research

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Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett (right) looks over a Westside at Shady Grove Metro scale model with EYA President Bob Youngentob (center) and David Dise, the county’s general services director. per $500,000s and go through the upper $700,000s. McLean Quinn, the vice president of acquisition and development for EYA, said they are targeting rent at $2.35 per square foot. The current plan is to have four apartment buildorganization. • Life Science Firm of the Year: Novavax of Gaithersburg, which develops ﬂu and ebola vaccines. • Technology Firm of the Year: WeddingWire of Chevy Chase, which provides online wedding resources. • Government Contracting Firm of the Year: Phacil of Arlington, Va., a federal information technology contractor. • Emerging Firm of the Year: ZeroFox of Baltimore, which provides cybersecurity services for social media. • STEM Educator of the Year: Virginia Brown, molecular genetics teacher at Churchill High School in Potomac. • Advocate of the Year: state Sen. Edward J. Kasemeyer (DDist. 12) of Columbia, chairman of the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee.

ings, two of which will have retail spaces on the bottom. Those two will start development this summer and be complete late 2016 or early 2017. In addition to the residential and retail space, there will be

green space as well as a community swimming pool, clubhouse, ﬁtness center, dog park, garden and walking paths. The sales center at 16658 Crabbs Branch Way is open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. Greg Ossont, deputy director of the Department of General Services for Montgomery County, explained that the development project goes back to the Shady Grove Sector plan and has been implemented as part of County Executive Isiah Leggett’s Smart Growth Initiative. According to the county’s website, the Smart Growth Initiative looks to the future to make sure there are quality jobs, sufﬁcient and affordable housing near mass transit, redevelopment of old industrial sites and investments in county-owned facilities. Ossont explained that the county’s infrastructure in the area surrounding Shady Grove Metro was aging and would need to be replaced eventually.

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Four in county win state export grants Four Montgomery County businesses are among the 12 small and mid-sized Maryland companies that have won ExportMD grants to help promote their products and services globally. The ExportMD grant program is administered by the Department of Business and Economic Development. It’s designed to help businesses with the costs of marketing internationally, including trade

show fees, brochures and travel expenses. The program provides matching grants that are capped at $5,000, plus up to 40 hours of marketing consulting from the Ofﬁce of International Trade and Investment. After being awarded an ExportMD grant in 2012, Golfarb & Associates of Rockville reapplied this year and was accepted. The company is a diesel parts brokerage. “Exhibiting at international trade shows is a vital part of our ability to connect with our international customers and gain

Instead, they got rid of them all together and moved the current uses to other facilities throughout the county, clearing that land for the “urban village.” “Where we are today is the west side of Crabbs Branch has been completely cleared of all the county uses,” Ossont said. “Everything has been relocated and demolished and that site has been cleared. The builder has effectively taken us through the site plan process and purchased the ﬁrst phase of residential lots from the county so now they are ready to build.” Ossont said that in order to facilitate the new residential buildings the developers and county will need to enhance the water and sewer capacity, rebuild Crabbs Branch Way, improve the transportation network and add walkable retail. “Not as much commercial as Rockville’s town center, but it’s the same type of product,” Ossont said. Quinn called commercial

uses like these, “neighborhoodserving, amenity retail,” which he listed as things like a corner store, dry cleaners, neighborhood cafes and fast-casual as well as sit-down restaurants. He said the plan calls for the uses to be largely residential, with both townhouses and multifamily buildings. “I think what’s different is that it hasn’t been designed to be a regional shopping destination,” Quinn said, explaining that it will be for the daily use of residents, who would be able to reach bigname department stores by car or metro. “Our company’s motto is ‘life within walking distance’ and we use that motto to drive all our decisions, including where we develop, what kind of communities we hope to develop,” Quinn said. According to Quinn, a large majority of the units will be within half a mile of the metro or less.

exposure to new markets,” Saul Goldfarb, company president, said in an agency news release. The other county recipients are Anna Bags of Gaithersburg, which designs and sells handbags; fashion clothier Miel Tala of Silver Spring; and Temple Allen Industries of Rockville, which provides pneumatic tools used to make airplanes.

vices include meal preparation, light housekeeping, shopping, driving to medical appointments and personal care. Besides Gaithersburg, its coverage area is Rockville, Darnestown, Montgomery Village, Derwood and other parts of northern Montgomery County. “When we started caring for my wife’s godmother, it made me think about how I might be able to help other seniors and family members in a similar situation,” Hofmann, a former executive with a U.S. healthcare company in China, said in a news release. FirstLight HomeCare has more than 120 franchises around the country. More information is available at 301-798-7089 or gaithersburg.ﬁrstlighthomecare.com.

Home care franchise opens in Gaithersburg David Hoffman has opened a Gaithersburg franchise of FirstLight HomeCare, which provides nonmedical in-home care for adults. The business provides companion care services for seniors, new mothers, those recovering from surgery and others. Ser-

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New taxes rarely inspire celebration from the public, but a new one in Montgomery County makes sense. The County Council has indicated its intention to impose a tax of 30 percent on the wholesale price of electronic cigarettes. Final approval is expected this week. We support the idea because of health and equity. Perhaps electronic cigarettes are meant to be a safer, filtered-down version of their tobacco brethren. Still, they currently contain nicotine — satisfying a smoker’s craving — but don’t have the tar and carbon monoxide that come from smoking conventional cigarettes. Even if they’re considered less dangerous, though, they aren’t safe. The federal Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. surgeon general say there is great uncertainty about the safety and risks of e-cigarettes. The FDA is pushing for measures to regulate sales and marCOUNTY keting. We do know, COUNCIL though, that eMAKING THE cigarettes often RIGHT CHOICE contain nicotine, IN REGULATING which is highly E-CIGARETTES addictive and can damage heart cells, affect the immune system, alter brain growth and carry other health risks. In addition, studies have found potentially unsafe chemicals in e-cigarette liquid and high levels of formaldehyde, a carcinogen, in e-cigarette vapor. Because of these health concerns, we believe it’s appropriate to tax and regulate e-cigarettes in the same way as tobacco products . At a recent public hearing on the tax proposal, lobbyist Bruce Bereano, representing the Maryland Association of Tobacco & Candy Distributors, asserted that Montgomery County has overstepped its authority. He said the county treats e-cigarettes like tobacco cigarettes by grouping them together in an indoor-smoking ban. Only the state can tax tobacco, so Montgomery’s proposed tax on e-cigarettes is illegal, he alleged. That’s a parsing of words, semantic jiu-jitsu, to protect his clients’ interests. A county attorney responded that e-cigarettes are not subject to the state’s tobacco tax; the distinction already has been made clear. Besides, secondhand vapor could be hazardous, too. Research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that e-cigarette aerosol, commonly called vapor, can contain chemicals, that the nicotine solution can be poisonous through the skin or eyes, and that potentially harmful chemicals have been found in some e-cigarettes — which, as we mentioned, are not regulated. Some might see the council as seizing an opportunity to benefit financially by imposing another sin tax. We hope the tax effort would be tied to public health — in the same way the state’s increases on tobacco products have been directed to health care initiatives. The only danger is that diminishing revenue would mean a smaller pot of money for programs, but that’s an enviable problem. We have heard opponents’ economic arguments that an extra tax on e-cigarettes will drive buyers to other states to avoid that tax. With them, they take their purchases of gas, groceries and other items. Perhaps e-cigarette users will reprogram their lives and shopping habits in much the same way cigarette smokers drive to bordering states for their next carton. But we can’t justify the reasoning that revenue outweighs public health. The pleas from those who say e-cigarettes have helped them kick the cigarette habit carry more weight, but we come back to the idea that e-cigarettes carry harmful health risks. The surgeon general does not recommend e-cigarettes as a cessation technique in the same way it supports nicotine patches, gum or lozenges. Electronic cigarettes are not just a fallback for smoking addicts. They’re also an entry point for the next generation of curious young adults, who are targeted with candylike e-cigarette flavors. The County Council’s efforts to restrict and tax electronic cigarettes are justified.

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Corridor Cities Transitway could be boon for region As we move forward from a legislative session marked by progress on statewide economic development initiatives and recommendations from the Augustine Commission, it is time for us to take stock of economic growth closer to home. How do we spur economic development and bring jobs to Montgomery County and the state of Maryland? How do we relieve crushing trafﬁc congestion? How do we increase access to affordable transit and create jobs? We strongly believe that the Corridor Cities Transitway (CCT) is the answer to these questions. In terms of affordability, congestion relief and fostering economic development along the Interstate 270 corridor, the CCT should be the top transit option for Maryland. The line would run from the Shady Grove Metro station in Gaithersburg northwest to Clarksburg, across Montgomery County. We can expect many positive impacts from the CCT, but the expansion of the Great Seneca Science Corridor (GSSC) would ensure Maryland is a leader in biotechnology advancements for decades to come. Over the next 20 years, the GSSC will beneﬁt the state of Maryland by generating 100,000 new annual full- and part-time science-related jobs, $13 billion in annual goods and services for businesses, and $322 million in annual state tax revenues. However, as stated in the GSSC Master Plan, a prerequisite for complete development is the full funding of the CCT. Upon completion of the CCT, this transit-oriented applied bioscience research community would stretch across 900 acres, contain 17.5 million square feet of mixed use commercial space, and 9,000 dwelling units. The I-270 corridor in the area around the Shady Grove Life Sciences Center is already the third largest biotech cluster in the country.

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Denny Finnerin (center), a consultant with RK&K, and Richard Arkin (left) of Gaithersburg discuss plans for a segment of the planned Corridor Cities Transitway running near the Crown Farm area of Gaithersburg. The direct economic impacts of the GSSC and the CCT are signiﬁcant, and completion of these projects would be a crowning achievement for Maryland. Beyond future positive economic impacts, the CCT would provide faster, more direct transportation between residential and major employment areas along I-270. This project would also increase capacity of heavily congested roadways while reducing negative environmental effects. CCT planning is on schedule, and design work is 15 percent complete

for the CCT’s ﬁrst section between the Shady Grove Metrorail station and Metropolitan Grove. Pending funding for construction, work on the CCT could begin as early as spring 2018, with a projected opening in 2021. Support for the CCT is strong. Johns Hopkins, Adventist Hospital and multiple chambers of commerce join us in urging for the development of this critical transit project. The CCT would help ensure Maryland’s regional competitiveness for decades to come. Together,

we can create jobs, strengthen economic development, and ensure Maryland is a leader in biotechnology by building this very efﬁcient and cost-effective transit system. Shane Robinson, Montgomery Village Nancy J. King, Montgomery Village Marilyn Balcombe, Germantown

Robinson is a state delegate and King is a state senator; they represent Montgomery County’s District 39. Balcombe is the president and CEO of the Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce.

Wealthier residents shouldn’t get favorable treatment I am one of the neighbors who is a party to the dispute over the maintenance and control of a shared driveway (“Driveway makes bad neighbors in Chevy Chase,” April 22). It is important for readers to understand that the property that my neighbors bought in 2008 is adjacent to a very narrow shared driveway. At the time they purchased the property, the driveway had a grassy median strip running down the center of it — the same grassy strip that has been the subject of this ongoing controversy. The plans for my neighbors’ new house meant that my neighbors would have a new driving pattern — one that would require them to drive across the grassy strip. It is also important for readers to understand that back in 2008, when the proposal for my neighbors’ new house — much larger than the original house — was still in the planning stage, I objected to those plans, and

made it clear that I would not consent to any changes to the existing shared driveway. My neighbors could have made changes to their plans prior to any construction occurring to address my concerns, but they did not. But just why did this happen? I think The Gazette has missed the more important story behind the dispute between two neighbors, a dispute which I do believe is most unfortunate. The underlying story is that there are builders and developers intent on making a profit by tearing down older homes that have been occupied primarily by residents who are less affluent than some of the newcomers and building much larger homes for those more affluent new homeowners. While no one really wants to talk about it, it really is a kind of class warfare in a relatively affluent suburban community. The builders make their

proﬁt and then leave, with no care about the effect on neighbors to their construction projects, or on neighborhoods, or the environment. Larger houses mean a loss of tree canopy and of green space, less privacy between neighbors and festering issues with respect to storm water management. Underlying these facts is also the reality that while the town of Chevy Chase has a very well-intentioned building code, stormwater ordinance and tree protection ordinance designed to mitigate against these forces, there are loopholes in the town code, which lessen the protections that should be available to neighbors to large construction projects. It would seem that the builders and developers have had these loopholes written into the town code, to protect their interests. We know that the wealthiest individuals in our town pay a larger share

Basis for ridership projection a mystery The letter from Mr. Bennett, president of Purple Line Now (“Purple Line opponents haven’t proposed real alternatives,” May 6), does no credit to him for writing it or to The Gazette for printing it. Instead of arguing the merits of the evidence, he personally attacks a critic with legitimate questions. The mysterious ridership estimates Mr. Bennett fails to defend present a particularly troubling concern about the beneﬁts of the project. The Purple Line record raises many more questions than it answers. For example, the ridership estimates reveal nothing about how the numbers were derived or what assumptions were made in deriving them. This failure was explained as “proprietary information” without further elaboration. While the Federal Transit Administration and

Mr. Bennett may be satisfied with numbers that are neither supported nor capable of replication, there is in truth no evidence that the federal government knew any more than the general public about how the consulting firm Parsons Brinckerhoff derived those numbers on behalf of the Maryland Transit Administration. To attack Mr. Riker because he now lives in the Chevy Chase area is not only rude, but is an implicit admission that the evidence would not help Mr. Bennett succeed in selling the Purple Line. Based on the evidence available, the costs of the Purple Line far outweigh the speculative and uncertain benefits claimed by the proponents of the project.

Dennis Wilston, Corporate Advertising Director Mona Bass, Inside Classiﬁeds Director Anna Joyce, Creative Director, Special Pubs/Internet Ellen Pankake, Director of Creative Services

Put the ‘Smart’ back in ‘Smart Growth’

nounced, I had no idea who Fred Cecere was. I ﬁnd it ironic he is concerned about “the town government’s lack of transparency.” Barbara Rose, Chevy Chase

Dale Barnhard, Silver Spring

Lewis Leibowitz, Chevy Chase

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In regard to the prediction of the 27,000 new jobs the Purple Line would add to the region (“Purple Line’s anticipated impact grows,” April 22), I can’t help but wonder what crystal ball the “experts” gazed at in this conclusion. A far more logical solution would be to build affordable housing where the jobs are located. A more cost effective and better return of the current estimated cost of building the Purple Line at $2.45 billion would be to apply those funds to building more affordable housing in areas that support jobs. The original concept of “Smart Growth” was to “Live, Work and Play.” We need to put the “Smart” back into “Smart Growth.” Building and maintaining an exceedingly expensive light rail at the cost of destroying neighborhoods and natural habitat would not be needed if the housing options were more readily available.

Ironic ‘transparency’ As a resident of the town of Chevy Chase, I appreciated Tiffany Arnold’s article on the recent town-council elections (“Big issues ﬂare in small election,” May 13). When the election results were initially an-

of the revenues received by the town than individuals who are less wealthy, because the bulk of the revenue comes from the payment of Maryland state income taxes. I think there is a real question, with respect to inequality of treatment, when it comes to enforcement of the town code and with respect to issuing permits for construction in our town. Are the less wealthy residents getting as much consideration from the town as their wealthier counterparts, when it comes to decisions relating to variances and building permits? I don’t believe so. Income inequality leads to unequal treatment in our town — just as is the case in the society at large. This underlying picture is the real story that the media should be focusing on.

Leah Arnold, Information Technology Manager David Varndell, Digital Media Manager Cathy Kim, Director of Marketing and Community Outreach

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Elite no longer need prep sports

Eager to pass the summer away Players can solidify their spot on the depth chart during 7-on-7 play

Editor’s note: Ned Sparks, who has been executive director of the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association since 1981, is retiring effective Aug. 1. This is the last of three columns looking at his tenure and the big issues facing high school sports today. It was 1975 when Ned Sparks began his head coaching tenure in high school sports. Still in his 20s, Sparks was promoted from an assistant role and tasked with leading Howard High School’s football team. The Lions were the defending Class B state champions and had an active winning streak of 36 games when he took KEN SAIN the helm. No pressure SPORTS EDITOR there. “Maybe I was too young to even think too much about it,” Sparks said. Howard, with Sparks in charge, won 11 straight, sending the Lions back to the state title game and extending its state record for consecutive football victories to 47 games. They lost that title game to Paint Branch, ending their streak. Urbana would break that record in 2001, winning 50 consecutive games. “Some things in life ... losing that game really hurt,” Sparks said. “It’s a good experience for a young person to go through, I wouldn’t recommend it, but it stayed with me awhile. That was a bitter, bitter loss.” Back then, high school sports were basically the only option for elite athletes. All the best athletes played prep sports if they wanted to get noticed by colleges and earn a scholarship. One change since Sparks became executive director of the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association in 1981 is that elite athletes no longer need high school sports. In fact, in some cases, they are penalized for playing for their schools. “Those few kids that are at the top of the food chain, well, maybe we’re not for them,” Sparks said. If you’re a tennis player and want to earn a scholarship, you better be competing on the junior circuit because that’s where the college coaches are. They want to know your rank, not how many state titles you’ve won. College basketball coaches rarely come to high school games anymore, unless it’s to seal the deal in recruiting. Most evaluation takes place during Amateur Athletic Union games. The top boys soccer players actually have to choose: Do they play for their Academy team against the best competition, or for their high school team with their friends? Academy rules won’t allow them to play for both. Even in football, where college coaches still pay attention, most of the recruiting today starts off-campus. If you’re not going to college camps, then it will be very hard to get noticed. In sport after sport, for the elite athletes, how you perform outside of high school now matters more than what you do for your high school team. Sparks, who announced he is retiring effective Aug. 1, says that despite that, high school sports still have a value in educating young people. “Unfortunately, [recruiting of elite athletes] gets all the attention,” Sparks said. “Those are just for a few kids. We have 113,000 student athletes who participate in our state this year. How many of those kids are going on to college? How many will make it to the pros? A tiny fraction. “We still got the vast majority of all those kids who are ... going pro in something else. They’re going to be the people who sell insurance, the people who teach school, are [information technology] people, and professionals who become doctors, and lawyers. “Hopefully, we’re nurturing and developing that group of people who become the citizens of tomorrow.” ksain@gazette.net Listen to my interview with Ned Sparks at Gazette.net.

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The spring high school sports season ends this weekend, which means football season is not far behind. Monday is Memorial Day to many, but to some, it’s also the ﬁnal day before teams can begin competing in passing leagues. Not many starting jobs are decided during 7-on-7 games, but players can definitely start to make a case for themselves. Coaches use this time to teach but also to evaluate receivers, defensive backs, linebackers and quarterbacks. The ﬁnal depth chart for the opening week of the fall be-

gins to take shape during this time. “[Players] can certainly win or lose jobs,” Blair coach Andrew Fields said of the summer tournaments. “That doesn’t mean they won’t win it or lose it again at some point. Everybody’s got a depth chart going into August, and that thing ebbs and ﬂows over the course of the summer time.” All but four Montgomery teams, and a couple from Prince George’s, will kick off the summer on May 30 in Blair’s passing league. “Our league kind of represents the beginning of football season,” Fields said. Sophomore Desmond Colby is penciled in to return as the starting quarterback for Blair in his junior season. “We’re excited. He’s a young guy, very mature, has got good size on him. Hopefully this

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about,” Blair coach Louie Hoelman said. “Everyone knows she’s the best hitter in the county, that she’s one of the best players they’ve seen in the game. ... It’s amazing she broke the record because I don’t think many coaches throw her strikes right down the middle of the plate. Any pitch we’ve given her is way outside or way inside, and she still manages to get hits. She hit several home runs off us. It’s incredible she can do that, and it makes me happy that she broke that record when she is constantly getting pitched around.”

As the starting goalie, Taylor Suplee had a perspective that her Bullis School girls lacrosse teammates did not. And in the first preseason practices, the freshman said she could see firsthand that the offense wasn’t where it needed to be. “I remember that their shots were kind of — not bad, just ... they weren’t as strong as they knew they could be,” Suplee said. So as the season started, the players got to work, doing shooting drill after shooting drill, Taylor Suplee said. When practices ended, they weren’t finished. They would stay after, grab a bucket of balls and then shoot some more. Those post-practice sessions didn’t pay immediate dividends — at least, not wins. The Potomac school started 1-5, dropping onegoal games to Holy Child and Episcopal of the Independent School League AA Division. But as the season progressed, so too did the offense. Bullis asserted itself as the ISL-A’s top team thanks to an offense that scored in double figures in all but one league game, and a defense that kept its league opponents to a 4.2-goal average. The Bulldogs’ slow start was followed by a five-game win streak which brought them back above .500. By May, after a 13-6 win over Madeira (McLean), they had clinched the ISL-A regular season title and reserved a spot back in the upper division next spring. All Bullis had left to do was win the league outright, and on May 11, it accomplished that feat by defeating National Cathedral, 13-4, capping off a 14-8 season and a 10-0 ISL-A campaign. “It was a product of prepared-

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Nicole Stockinger of Sherwood High School bats against Bowie High School during the semiﬁnal game of the Maryland State Softball Tournament at the Bachman Sports Complex in Glen Burnie on May 20, 2014.

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Sherwood shortstop set new marks for single-season, career home runs BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN STAFF WRITER

On May 1, Sherwood High School senior shortstop Nicole Stockinger hit her Washington, D.C., area-leading 13th home run of the season to bring her career total to 38, eclipsing a 28-year state record. With that long-ball, the Towson University recruit also grabbed sole possession of the state record for home runs in a single season, a mark she previously shared with former Broadneck star Kourtney Salvarola after launching 12 as a sophomore in 2013. Stockinger’s eight triples that season are also tied for ﬁrst on the state list. Numbers like those — not to mention a .625 batting average with 39 runs batted in and 37 runs scored in Montgomery County’s most competitive division — have made Stock-

“I don’t think I’ve heard, in the 15 years I’ve been coaching, a player talked about the way Nicole is talked about.” Louie Hoelman, Blair coach inger arguably the most feared batter in the county and likely the state the past four seasons. But perhaps more impressive than sheer statistics is the manner in and humility with which Stockinger has gone about making state history. She has also helped the three-time defending state champion Warriors get into the state record book. Thursday’s Class 4A North Region ﬁnal win over Perry Hall was Sherwood’s 81st consecutive win, the previous state record was 77 straight. “I don’t think I’ve heard, in the 15 years I’ve been coaching, a player talked about the way Nicole is talked

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Continued from Page B-1 Stockinger, who has an on-base percentage of .703, has been walked 17 times this spring. Hoelman commended the level of discipline it takes to accept those walks, but Stockinger’s only intention when she gets up to the plate, she said, is doing whatever she can to help the Warriors. When she does swing, though, it’s never at half speed, Sherwood coach Ashley Barber-Strunk said. Stockinger’s offensive production is no doubt rooted in picture-perfect mechanics and mentality — and bat speed — Barber-Strunk said. But it’s also a symptom of extra time put in and a remarkable internal drive to get better each and every day. Stockinger said she knows no one is ever perfect, and with a dad and older brother in baseball and an older sister who played softball at Sherwood and in college, there has been plenty opportunity to sharpen her skill set. “Everything [sets her apart], work ethic, mindset, ability, hard work,” Barber-Strunk said. “Every positive word, everything you want in an athlete, she is. That’s what makes her so special. Knowing even the best player isn’t perfect and can get better, she has that mindset. [Her success] really comes down to the countless hours, every drill you do in practice, every game, she gives 110 percent. If she makes a mistake in practice, it’s, ‘Give me one more.’ It’s ‘Do it over and over until I feel good about it, until I get that one thing right, I won’t move on.’”

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Bullis’s Maddy Ugaz heads for St. Andrew’s goal to score in an April 7 girls lacrosse game in Potomac.

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Continued from Page B-1 ness and deﬁnitely preparation for that game. I know we practiced so hard to get there,” said Taylor Suplee, a Penn State recruit. “... It was just a dramatic difference from the beginning of the season to the end.” The season finale was a revenge game for the upperclassmen. The Bulldogs fell to National Cathedral (Washington, D.C.) in the 2013 ISL-A ﬁnals, a loss that senior defender Jessica Mays said has stuck with her to this day.

“I kind of knew that we had something to prove, that we belonged in the upper division,” Mays said. For the underclassmen, it was a sign of things to come for next season. Freshmen were responsible for seven of the 13 goals against National Cathedral. Maddy Ugaz had three goals, while Starr Howard and Maqui Carrillo had two apiece. Taylor Suplee, whose sister Mia Suplee is a sophomore midﬁelder, registered 11 saves in the victory. “The freshmen and sophomores by the end of the season weren’t playing like freshmen

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also returns his quarterback from last season, Jabari Laws. The Pumas, similar to Gaithersburg, were known for running the football, but passing league offers a different dynamic. Parrish, who played quarterback in high school, said he always wants to pass more, but his personnel has to convince him they’re capable of handling it. “I want to throw the ball all the time,” he said. “But if you’re not built toward that, I don’t think you force people to do something that they’re not used to doing.” Most coaches agreed that the main objective of passing tournaments is to make sure players are doing things the right way and progressing toward being ready for the season, not necessarily winning. Essentially, these games are like a shell of a practice. This time of year, teams are only allowed to practice once for each 7-on-7 game they’re scheduled to play. Passing leagues afford players more opportunity to work on coverage techniques, route schemes and anything else involving a pass catcher and a defender. It’s also a good time for players to get familiar with plays and

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jbeekman@gazette.net schemes, especially for teams with a new coach. Jason Lomax is the new coach at Springbrook, and he’s known to air the ball out. With a graduating senior at quarterback, this is where the competition to start begins. “From the kind of offense I run, passing league’s kind of important in terms of getting all your base passing concepts in, then getting the timing of the routes down,” Lomax said. “I’ve tried to simplify it as much as I can so they can have as much success year-one as possible. A lot of people assume ﬁrst-year coaches coming in, it’s a rebuilding process. I looked all my seniors in the face and said we’re not rebuilding, we’re reloading, because you guys deserve to have the same kind of effort that I would put in any other year.” Teams will be participating in passing leagues until July, in and out of the state, gaining experience and showcasing their abilities for scouts. Players want to get noticed on the trail, but they want to also make sure the guy sitting behind them on the depth chart doesn’t take their place. pgrimes@gazette.net

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and sophomores,” coach Kathleen Lloyd said. “They were playing on another level.” The Bulldogs will need that type production in 2016 when they compete in the tougher upper division, ISL-AA Division. It’s a challenge that Taylor Suplee said she is looking forward to. “I feel like we’ll deﬁnitely rise to the occasion, and we’ll be pushed in that division,” Taylor Suplee said. “I think that each day you play, you get better. We’re looking forward [to it].”

passing league will speed things along for him and everyone else as well.” Gaithersburg coach Kreg Kephart said there’s some value in 7-on-7 although limited because the big guys up front aren’t involved. During this time, offensive and defensive linemen usually go to camps and do individual workouts. “It has some value. It’s not a cure all. The ﬁve most important people in the game aren’t in the game,” he said. Kephart mentioned timing between the quarterback and receivers as one of the key impacts of passing league. Junior Petey Gaskins took over at quarterback for the Trojans towards the end of the season and will look to progress, but Gaithersburg is not a pass-heavy team. The Trojans will be playing in the Seneca Valley league which also begins the week of Memorial Day. “For a team that’s going to throw the ball 50, 60 times a game, it probably has a lot of value to them.” In Prince George’s County, Wise coach DaLawn Parrish

That repetition is also what makes everything Stockinger does in the field so instinctive — even though she stepped out of her comfort zone in the outfield to fill Sherwood’s need at shortstop in 2013 — and seamless. While there seems to be a visible thought process on every fielding play for most high school softball players — even the college-level ones — Stockinger appears to be an automatic, all the time. To the point where her presence in the middle infield, her range and throwing arm have caused opponents to change their own style of play. “She has a ridiculous arm, and she gets to the ball so quickly,” Hoelman said. “We do a lot of slapping and dragging, but after we saw her play at shortstop a couple times in a row, we stopped. She makes tough plays, routine and she gets rid of the ball so quickly.” So quickly, in fact, that Sherwood junior first baseman Kelly Bouma said that sometimes it takes her a second or two to realize the sting a Stockinger throw has left on her catching hand. “The neatest experience out of all of this has been seeing the drive Nicole has internally,” Barber-Strunk said. “It’s not like she worked for that record, it just came because of all the work she’s put in. ... You never hear Nicole brag. You never ever hear her talk about the record or how great she is. A lot of girls would want to make sure other people knew she broke a record, but for Nicole, it’s more about what she’s putting out there [on the field].”

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Warriors win ﬁnal three sets in boys volleyball BY

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For the first time all season, the undefeated Sherwood boys volleyball team dropped an opening set, losing 25-23 to Bethesda-Chevy Chase in the Montgomery County boys volleyball championship at Magruder High School on Thursday. Instead of folding however, Sherwood used the adversity as a chance to show its resolve. The Warriors jumped out to big leads in each of the following two sets and finished the Barons in four sets, 3-1, to finish the season undefeated and win the boys volleyball title for the first time since 2010. “I’m speechless right now,” said Sherwood (15-0) coach Benjamin Sanger, who took over the team the year after its last championship. Sanger said he didn’t have to motivate his experienced bunch following the first set. “They do a great job of motivating themselves. We’re just reinforcers. “I’m just so proud of what these guys accomplished all year. Not just to win the championship, but to go undefeated and to face adversity. This is the first time we ever lost the first set, and to come back out of a position we’re not very familiar with, it’s just incredible to see them overcome that. We just have a very relentless team. Serving, six guys can serve the ball tough. We have six guys that can attack the ball. And I think that’s what kind of separates us from a lot of these teams. They have a couple of weak spots. This team doesn’t have any weak spots.” At the start of Thursday’s game, B-CC looked like the team that eliminated undefeated Wheaton from the playoffs in the county semifinals on Tuesday. The height of middle hitter Tom Gilson and good assists to outside hitter CJ Lee helped the Barons pull away and win a back-and-forth first set, 25-23. Each team benefitted from an excessive amount of unearned points though, possibly due to nerves. Sherwood did a better job of tightening its attack the final three sets, winning 25-17, 25-21, 25-21. “I think nerves was part

Ryan Gallagher

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Sherwood High School’s Ali Waseem spikes the ball back to Bethesda-Chevy Chase during Thursday’s boys volleyball county championship game at Magruder High School. of it,” B-CC (13-2) coach Sue McPherson said. The Blue Division champions didn’t pass as well down the stretch the way they had been doing all season. “I think they got a little too intense games 2, 3, and 4, instead of going out and playing and having fun. “We had some things that weren’t quite clicking the way they have the rest of the season. We weren’t able to use Tom in the middle as much because they were shutting him down. I’m just so proud of the guys. They’ve come a long way. Eight years ago, we didn’t even have a boys team.” Setter Keegen Black recorded double-digit assists for the Warriors, consistently finding outside hitters Ryan Gallagher and Ali Waseem who figured out how to get the ball past the size of B-CC’s front line. The trio, along with strong serving, allowed Sherwood to string together big points streaks in the second and third sets. With Andy Miller serving in the second, Sherwood went on an 8-2 run that included five straight points and an ace by Miller. Sherwood began the third set by scoring the first seven points, including three straight by Black. Gallagher and Waseem each recorded double-digit kills. “It’s really exciting. It’s been four years, so we worked really hard for it,” Gallagher said of winning the title. “They had a very big block, so we just had to work around them. Actually, hit off their block. Try and use them.”

Clarksburg wins coed title It looked like a mismatch from the start. The Clarksburg High School co-ed volleyball team had three players on the floor that seemingly could look over the net without jumping. Its opponent in the Montgomery County championship on Thursday at Magruder High School, Churchill, didn’t have one player the size of Clarksburg’s third tallest. That made all the difference when the two undefeated teams clashed. Clarksburg walked away an unscathed 15-0, defeating Churchill 3-0 to win its first county title. “We worked really hard,” Clarksburg coach K.C. Landefield said. “It took us years to get to this point, but this is a special group and this is a group that, if we were ever going to do it, this was the group.” Clarksburg was led by senior Austin Duffy, a 6-foot, 6-inch basketball player who started playing volleyball last season. Landefield recruited Duffy, and although it took time, the team’s leading point scorer put it all together. “I was pretty raw,” Duffy said. “So I didn’t know what to do really. I practiced a lot, and I focused on finding out how to block people more, so I could read their shoulders and tell when they were going to block. Coach fixed my approach on my hits.” Duffy recorded 15 kills in the final two sets alone. Senior football player, 6-2 Craig Jessup, also added another powerful scoring option. pgrimes@gazette.net

SportsBriefs Bullis junior quarterback commits One of the most anticipated commitments in recent memory, Bullis School quarterback Dwayne Haskins Jr. committed to University of Maryland, College Park. Haskins, a four-star recruit on Rivals.com, was one of the top quarterback prospects in the country with offers from Ohio State, Rutgers, Louisiana State, and Penn State among dozens more. “Blessed to have this opportunity,” Haskins tweeted on May 15. He also Haskins held a news conference at Bullis to make his announcement. “I’m verbally committed to University of Maryland. #GoTerps The movement is real,” Haskins tweeted.

— PRINCE J. GRIMES

Paint Branch runners sign LOI Six Paint Branch High School track and ﬁeld athletes announced their college commitments on Monday. They include: Oliver Lloyd (Clemson), Adassa Phillips (Delaware), Taiwo Adekoya (UMES), Lorenzo Neil (UMBC), Ryun Anderson (Maryland) and Mary Sam (Stevenson). The school held a signing day ceremony for the students at the Burtonsville school’s gymnasium.

— ERIC GOLDWEIN

No national Golden Gloves champions The last of Washington D.C. area boxers remaining in the Golden Gloves national tournament was eliminated on May 14, including Burtonsville’s Tavon Body. He outlasted any other area fighter but was eventually ousted in the quarterfinals by a Detroit boxer. Waldorf’s Jordan White also lost in the quarterfinals. This marks the first time in six years that a boxer from this region failed to win a national championship according to boxingalongthebeltway.blogspot. com.

— PRINCE J. GRIMES

Sandy Spring wins PVAC The Sandy Spring Friends School baseball team capped an undefeated (12-0) conference season by winning the Potomac Valley Athletic Conference on May 14. Sandy Spring, which posted a 14-3 overall

record, defeated Jewish Day 4-0 in the championship game. It was the ﬁrst title win for Sandy Spring after reaching the PVAC championship in each of the previous two seasons.

— PRINCE J. GRIMES

Former Sherwood swimmer earns honors Rikki Sargent, a 2012 Sherwood High School graduate who recently completed her junior season on the Shippensburg University women’s swim team, was named Thursday to the 2015 Capital One Academic All-District 2 Women’s At-Large Team for Division II athletics, according to a news release sent to The Gazette. The teams are selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America and recognize the nation’s top student-athletes for their combined performances academically and in the classroom, per the news release. Sargent, a psychology major and disability studies minor, is a member of the university’s honors program and entered the spring semester with a 3.97 grade-point average. In the pool this season, she qualified for the championship ‘A’ finals in all four of her individual events at the 2015 Pennsylvania State Athletics Conference championship meet and earned her first career AllPSAC finish with a third-place finish in the 200-yard breaststroke, sixth in both the 100 breaststroke and 400 individual medley and seven in the 200 individual medley. In three years she has set seven school records and earned 11 PSAC individual place-winning performances and 10 PSAC relay place-winning performances.

— JENNIFER BEEKMAN

Spirit move into second place Francisca Ordega’s goal in the second minute of stoppage time lifted the Washington Spirit women’s professional soccer team over visiting Sky Blue FC, 1-0, Saturday night at the Maryland SoccerPlex in Boyds. The three points earned in the victory bumped Washington (3-2-1) up to second place — of nine teams — in the National Women’s Soccer League standings. The goal, which came off an assist from Crystal Dunn in a play that began with a winning defensive tackle by Tori Huster, was Ordega’s second of the season. Dunn’s four goals lead Washington and are tied for ﬁrst in the league. Washington is next scheduled to face the Western New York Flash Saturday at Sahlen’s Stadium in Rochester, N.Y.

— JENNIFER BEEKMAN

Four-year player was dominant from the left side. Could put the ball away even if the set wasn’t perfect. Go-to player for the county champions. Led the Warriors to an undefeated 15-0 record and led a deep team in kills. Well-rounded game was consistent from match-to-match.

Keegen Black

Noel Camello

Jeffrey Chang

Captain of the county champs. Led team in assists as the offense runs through him.

One of the team’s leaders, and one of the best defenders in the county.

Offensive and defensive force. Impacts all aspects of the game.

Tom Gilson

Bobin Jijo

CJ Lee

Strong blocker and middle hitter. Regularly recorded over ﬁve kills per set.

Dominant. Top hitter, defender, blocker, and server for Coyotes.

Mixes good power with effective offspeed hits. Effective jump serve.

Sherwood Senior Setter

Wheaton Junior Libero

R. Montgomery Junior Opposite hitter

COACH OF THE YEAR

Alex Theoharis

B.-Chevy Chase Senior Middle hitter

Wheaton

Continued building Wheaton into a county force with an 11-0 undefeated regular season. Knights lost to Bethesda-Chevy Chase in the county semiﬁnals and might have reached the title game if not for libero Noel Camello getting injured in the third set of a 1-1 match.

Clarksburg Senior Outside hitter

B.-Chevy Chase Senior Outside hitter

Second Team and Honorable Mentions are online at Gazette.net

Poolesville senior wins tennis title Whitman, Wootton win doubles championships

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HARRIS III

SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE

The majority of ﬁnal round and third-place matches at Thursday’s Region II tennis championships never reached a third set. Two out of the three title winners, Poolesville High School senior and Yale University bound standout Dennis Wang and Walt Whitman’s boys doubles tandem of Jack Welch and Andrew Leung won in decisive fashion. However, the last

match to conclude was a battle of two Thomas S. Wootton mixed doubles teams. The duo of Kelly Chen and Jake Gordon outlasted Patriots teammates Ruchi Nanda and I-Shiun Kuo; 6-4, 2-6, 7-5. All champions as well as the runner-ups in all three categories earned a berth into next Friday’s state tournament at the University of Maryland. College Park. Play begins at 9:30 a.m. The tournament concludes Saturday in College Park. For Chen and Gordon, Thursday’s victory over their schoolmates served as a bit of retribution. Earlier in the week during a practice session, Nanda

and Kuo handily defeated the eventual champs. “They beat us badly in practice,” Gordon said. “I think a lot of it was based off of communication. There were a lot of times on Monday that it would be my shot and I wouldn’t go for it. Or it would go out. But today, we talked a lot and that allowed us to hit our shots. Wang defeated Bethesda Chevy-Chase sophomore Conor Smyth 6-1, and 3-0 in the singles ﬁnal, with Smyth retiring in the second set due to an injury he suffered in his semiﬁnal win against eventual third-place finisher William Karpinski of Churchill.

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Bethesda school captures ﬁrst championship in 15 years BY

ADAM GUTEKUNST STAFF WRITER

Michael Blasey, a senior golfer at the Landon School, said he knew it was his day after bogeying the 12th hole at PB Dye Golf Course Monday afternoon as part of the 2015 Metro Championship. It wasn’t the bogey Blasey was so proud of — though it was hardly the worst outcome on a day that saw a number of the area’s top golfer succumb to the challenging course — rather, the six-stroke score on the challenging par-5 was a pleasant reminder of what could’ve been. Blasey’s tee shot rolled about 30 yards, coming up short of the ladies tee box. The next two shots, the Bears co-captain was forced to lay up due to the layout of the hole. His fourth shot, from approximately 90 yards out, didn’t make it all the way up the steep slope to the pin, but instead trickled down to the edge of the green. And still, Blasey managed to escape with a bogey, confident he could bring his now even score back down on the final six holes of the day. And that’s exactly what he did. As the quietly confident senior walked up the hill to the clubhouse after sinking

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Landon School golfer John Kalavritinos hits his ball out of the sand trap on the 13th hole during the Metro Championships at PB Dye Golf Course on Monday. his par putt on No. 18, he quietly announced his score to a group of teammates and coaches, whose reddened, exhausted faces suddenly erupted in smiles. It was a two-under 70 — the only under-par score on what was a sweltering, challenging afternoon. But the score, though Blasey listed

it as the most meaningful achievement of his high school career, was just one piece of the bigger picture that ﬁnally came together early Monday evening, as Landon topped off its undefeated season with a Metros title — the program’s ﬁrst in 15 years. “It feels good to bring it back to the

school,” Blasey said. “... Beginning of the season, Coach [Jack Duquette’s] message to us was, ‘I want to win Metros. I want to bring the Metros back to Landon.’” That’s exactly what the Bears did, and with relative ease on a day that saw a number of talented golfers fall victim to the course’s challenging pin placements and firm greens. Of the 18 golfers that competed for Episcopal, Gonzaga and Good Counsel on Monday, only two shot in the 70s. West Shaw, a freshman for Landon, shot a 77. His score was removed from the final team tally (370), as it was the lowest of the six Bears competing on the day. “To come out here and shoot the scores we do, I’ve got to believe we’re the best team in the area,” Duquette said. “This is by far my best team. There’s some really talented golfers. Not everybody had their best day today, but some guys really stepped up and that’s what it’s about. It’s about the team, and the team came through big.” A trio of sophomores, John Kalavritinos (75), Evan Katz (75) and Jeff Samit (74), provided strong scoring efforts in the middle groups for the Bears, who outscored second-place finisher, Gonzaga, by 31 strokes. Senior Morgan Egloff, who won the Interstate Athletic Conference individual title two weeks ago, finished with a 76 in his last high

school match. “It’s a lot different than a lot of courses I’ve played,” Egloff said. “You got to be in the right spots. Today, I missed in a lot of wrong spots. I hit a lot of and shots and that [will] kill you out here.” As the sun set behind the course, the nine-man Landon group of golfers and coaches gathered in a circle overlooking the 18th hole to bring a close to what had been perhaps the greatest single season in school history. “I have a group of kids that really work hard,” Duquette said. “And I give all the credit to them. I’m very blessed to be able to coach them.” Three months ago when the season began, making it to the Metros seemed like quite the long shot for Good Counsel, who had lost junior Gavin Rickert due to personal issues and their number three golfer to a broken ankle. So just to be in action Monday afternoon, senior Spencer McGladrey (83) said, was quite the accomplishment. “I’m super proud of the guys,” McGladrey said. “After last year, we went through some adversity going into the championship, so I think that really brought this year’s team closer together and we were able to push through and make a run to Metros, which was great.” agutekunst@gazette.net

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Nick Pantos and Andy Kwiatkowski each homered, and Anthony Felitti recorded 11 strikeouts over six innings to power the Gaithersburg High School baseball team to a 6-3 victory against visiting Blair in Friday’s 4A West Region championship game. The Trojans (20-1) claimed their second-consecutive region title, and ninth overall. Gaithersburg struck first in the contest as Pantos smashed a 1-0 pitch over the fence in left-center field to take an early 2-0 lead. “I was ahead in the count, I saw a pitch I liked, I swung at it and I made good contact,” Pantos said. “I was relaxed at the plate, because I knew that if I don’t get a hit the whole game, there’s other guys who are going to score runs.” The Trojans added another run in the first inning when Grant Mixell took advantage of a wild pitch to score from third. “We haven’t started hot in the first inning for a while right now, and to come out and do that — especially in a game like this — a two-run home run, and then to add another run on top of that, it makes it bigger for the other team,” Gaithersburg coach Jeff Rabberman said. “That was really big for us to start out that way.” The Trojans added additional runs in the second, fourth and sixth, the last of which came on Kwiatkowski’s homer down the left field line. Meanwhile, Felitti scattered four hits and two walks while only giving up a single run on a sacrifice fly in the sixth frame. “He’s 9-0, he’s going to [University of] Virginia for a reason,” Rabberman said of his southpaw. “He’s been like that all year. Three-days

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Churchill High School’s Reed Moshyedi advances toward the goal against Dulaney’s Bennett Heitt during Saturday’s Class 4A/3A state semiﬁnal boys lacrosse game. The Bulldogs won to reach the title game for the ﬁrst time in school history.

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Gaithersburg High School’s baseball team celebrates winning the Class 4A West Region championship with a 6-3 victory against Blair Friday in Gaithersburg. rest, and he was just dominant today, he really was. All of his stuff was working, he was down in the zone, and he just threw really really well.” Despite the lights-out performance by Felitti, the Blazers (15-41) refused to go down easily. Two walks and two singles pushed a pair of runs across the plate for Blair in the seventh inning. Ian Donaldson drove in both runs with a liner to left, chasing relief pitcher Bradley Sawyer from the contest in the process. “We just kept ﬁghting, and that’s what we’ve been doing all year,” Blazers coach Eric Zolkiewicz said. “I knew that we weren’t just going

to quit, so I was proud of the way we ﬁnished it up.” Gaithersburg then turned to Brendan Deyo for the ﬁnal two outs. It ended an emotional final week of the season for Blair, which sported black armbands in remembrance of former-captain Lowell Ensel [Class of 2013], who died unexpectedly on Monday. “Lowell was such a great young man, and he means so much to us,” Zolkiewicz said. “We were just talking about how emotionally and physically draining it was for them. Just the fact that they all pulled together as a team and as a family, I

am so proud of them.” For the Trojans were scheduled to play Tuesday at the University of Maryland’s Shipley Field in College Park against 4A South Region champion Wise. That game was scheduled after the deadline for this edition. Check Gazette.net for the result. “We are just looking to do more than we did last year,” Pantos said. “Our goal is states. Obviously this was a goal too, and we are going to celebrate this now, but tomorrow it’s back out to practice and working for our ultimate goal.”

Sherwood wins fourth straight region title

Northwest rallies to beat Blair for region crown

Warriors defeat Perry Hall for 81st consecutive win BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN STAFF WRITER

No one would believe it from recent scorelines but the Sherwood High School softball team has actually been in a little bit of a slump, second-year coach Ashley Barber-Strunk said. Not in terms of results and game play — the Warriors always come through when they need to, she said — but perhaps a small dip in motivation and intensity after winning their state-record 78th consecutive game against Blair in the regularseason ﬁnale. Sherwood was focused and energized from the start of Thursday’s 10-0, ﬁve-inning win over Baltimore County’s Perry Hall in

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Sandy Spring for its fourth consecutive region title. The Warriors’ (19-0) 81st straight win set up a state semifinal meeting against Leonardtown. The game was scheduled for Tuesday and ended after the deadline for this edition. Check Gazette.net for the result. “I’m not sure where our heads were, whether it was that we were getting complacent or we were over-thinking everything,” Barber-Strunk said. Though this isn’t Sherwood’s ﬁrst trip to the proverbial rodeo, senior shortstop Nicole Stockinger said it’s important that the Warriors do not take anything for granted. “We’ve been here every year the past four years but we have to go into it like we’ve never been here before,” Stockinger said. jbeekman@gazette.net

Jaguars scored three runs in seventh inning BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN STAFF WRITER

In perhaps the craziest 16 minutes of the Northwest High School softball team’s season — or history — the Jaguars went from being within one routine play of their second Class 4A West Region title in three years, to within three outs of being eliminated from the postseason, to scoring three seventhinning runs in a 4-3 victory against Blair in Germantown for the region crown that almost eluded them. Northwest, which also beat Blair in its season opener, was scheduled to face Eleanor Roosevelt in Tuesday’s state semiﬁnals. The game was scheduled for Tuesday and ended after the deadline

for this edition. Check Gazette.net for the result. “It takes a special group to be able to deal with, we had the game won to being down, 3-1, that’s not one run, we needed multiple runs,” Northwest coach Kevin Corpuz said. “It didn’t faze them. They have a lot of grit and they just refused to lose. That was the difference. At this point in the season, you’ll win any way possible.” In a state championship-caliber contest that featured two of Montgomery County’s best pitchers — Northwest’s Bridgette Barbour and Blair’s Karylena Cruz — the game remained scoreless through three innings. Then the Jaguars struck in the fourth. Barbour began the charge with a triple and then scored on catcher Sydney Salgado’s single. jbeekman@gazette.net

Reed Moshyedi had been part of the state semifinal experience before. Not as a Churchill High School boys lacrosse player, but as a spectator, sitting in the bleachers and watching his older brothers Matt (Class of 2014) and Cameron Moshyedi (2012) fall short against Westminster in 2012 and 2013. On Saturday against Dulaney, though, it was Reed’s turn to take center stage. With Matt on the sidelines — assisting with the team — and Cameron in the stands, the freshman stepped up in a big way, scoring five goals to lead the Bulldogs (17-1) to an 11-8 victory against the Lions (14-4) at Northeast High School in Pasadena. “[Watching them] really did. It motivated me to want to get the win,” Reed said. Churchill is slated to make the school’s first-ever Class 4A/3A state championship appearance against Howard on Tuesday or Wednesday at Stevenson University. Reed has been a key piece of a balanced attack that’s taken pressure off of star midfielder Louis Dubick. On Saturday — in a game that took nearly four hours due to a weather delay — the freshman midfielder’s goals came at pivotal moments. He struck twice in the first half, including a late second-quarter goal that gave the Potomac school a 6-5 lead heading into intermission. His third and fourth goals extended the Bulldogs’ lead to 8-5 in the third quarter. His final goal didn’t come until more than two hours later. A thunderstorm forced both teams off the field for an extended delay after the third quarter, but Churchill — which snacked on bananas, granola bars, and Gatorade — returned stronger than ever. With less than 10 minutes remaining, Reed took a pass from Marshall Rhodes and launched it past the Dulaney goalkeeper to give the Bulldogs a 10-6 lead. “After we scored that first goal coming off of the long break, I think we really had it then,” Reed said. Dubick, the state’s all-time leading point scorer, was part of the Churchill teams that appeared in the state semifinals. The difference this time around, he said, is that there are more options on offense. The Bulldogs have eight double-figure goal scorers, six of whom scored against Dulaney. “I think about losing those games every day,” said Dubick, who had a goal and several assists. “It’s going through the back of my mind throughout this whole game, but guys like [Reed Moshyedi] and Marshall [Rhodes] and Nick [Muscarella] made it so much easier on me and the rest of the team, and the coaching staff, so I can’t say enough about them.” Churchill becomes the third Montgomery County team to get this deep in the tournament, joining Wootton, which went to the finals in 2007 and 2010. The Bulldogs needed double-overtime victories against Whitman and then Quince Orchard just to get out of the West Region, but their challenge ahead — undefeated Howard (18-0) — may be their toughest yet. “[We] got to go with the right mindset that we’ll get that win,” Reed said. “… I’m just excited for it.” egoldwein@gazette.net

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‘The Price’ is right

Preparing to dive into deep writing

Arthur Miller classic comes to Montgomery County

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A timeless and relevant piece about family, money and choices, Arthur Miller’s “The Price” debuted May 13 at Olney Theatre Center. “There’s no question that the economic issues do resonate very strongly,” director Michael Bloom said. “It’s just a brilliant character study of these two brothers and how they came to make the choices they did in their lives.” The play was scheduled to premiere in honor of the 100th anniversary of Miller’s birth. Miller is well known for his proliﬁc playwriting, which includes popular works such as “Death of a Salesman,” “A View from the Bridge” and “The Crucible.” “I loved the density of [the play] and the family, the relationships are so interwoven,” said actress Valerie Leonard, who plays Victor’s wife Esther in the show. “It’s just so wonderfully dense and thick and full.” Miller’s 1968 work focuses on the price of family, the price of furniture and the price of our choices. The play is centered around two brothers, Victor and Walter, who meet in a New York apartment to sell the remainder of their deceased father’s belongings. “It really requires actors to dig down deep emotionally to get at just what it means to deal with issues of personal responsibilities and how social context and socioeconomic complex affects your choices,” Bloom

Rick Campbell is proud of beating the odds. When the retired U.S. Navy officer considered writing a book, with zero writing classes, training or experience, he “figured a snowball had a better chance in hell than me picking up a pen and beating out hundreds of thousands of writers with years of experience.” Until his 20th class reunion, Campbell felt unable to commit Campbell to investing “the thousands of hours it would take to learn how to write and then write the book, when it would most likely be a wasted effort.” The “futuristic sci-fi story rolling around in my head” for some 20 years was destined to remain there. His perspective changed when a speaker asked the assembled alumni “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” “I felt like he was talking directly to me, and I decided right then that I’d write my book,” he recalled. “It took a few years to get around to it, but I finally buckled down and wrote it.” That book, which turned out to be a “paranormal military science fiction novel,” has not yet made it to publication. The author refers to it as “Book 0.” After sending the manu-

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said. “And I think nowadays everybody can relate to that.” Victor and Walter took very different paths in life after their father lost his fortune due to the Great Depression. Victor

chooses to become a police ofﬁcer, while Walter struggles through school and becomes a surgeon. “Because it’s about class and about the difficulties of the father’s experience during the Great Depression, I think it resonates tremendously at this time,” Bloom said. “My parents were children of the depression, [and] just on a personal level it resonates with me as well. It’s a play that speaks to everybody [who’s] made certain choices in their lives and you wonder why you’ve made those choices.” When the brothers meet to sell their father’s belongings,

they have conflicting views about what should be done, which results in contention between the two. Leonard described her character, Esther, as a listener who has to reﬂect on what’s occurring between her spouse and his brother. “As far as I’m concerned, she’s a very difﬁcult role, because ... the two brothers have to hash it out,” Leonard said. “I have to listen and come to my conclusions.” However, Leonard realized she saw some aspects of her

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IN THE ARTS For a free listing, please submit complete information to wfranklin@gazette.net at least 10 days in advance of desired publication date. High-resolution color images (500KB minimum) in jpg format should be submitted when available. MUSIC Arts Barn, Amadou Kouyate Kora and Percussion, June 6, 311 Kent Square Road, 301-258-6394. AMP by Strathmore, Alice Gerrard, May 20; Alice Gerrard, May 21; Amigos Band, May 28; Mark Nadler, May 29; Cravin’ Dogs, May 30; Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, June 3; Jarrod Lawson, June 4; Raul Midon, June 5; call for times, 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda, ampbystrathmore.com, 301-581-5100. Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club, Michal Urbaniak, May 21;

Muscle Shoals and Stax/Volt, May 22; Joe Clair and Friends, May 23; Clones of Funk, May 24; Ginetta’s Vendetta Jazz Quartet, May 27; Linwood Taylor, May 28; Grainger and the New Pockets, May 29; The Hit Men, May 31; call for prices, times, 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. 240-330-4500, bethesdabluesjazz. com. BlackRock Center for the Arts, Suzanne Vega, May 30; Red Baraat, June 27; 12901 Town Commons Drive, Germantown. 301-528-2260, blackrockcenter.org. Hershey’s At The Grove, Chuggalug, May 22; Poverty Ridge, May 23; Little Bit of Blues, May 29; Crime Stoppers, May 30; call for times, 17030 Oakmont Ave., Gaithersburg. 301-948-9893; hersheysatthegrove.com. Fillmore Silver Spring, Ultimate 80s Prom with The New Romance, May 23; Kingpen Slim hosted by Uncle Yank, May 29; 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. ﬁllmoresilverspring.com. Strathmore, Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra, May 20; PVYO

Spring Gala 2015, May 22; BSO: Strauss’ Four Last Songs, May 23; Arts & The Mind: Bird Whale Bug, May 28; BSO: A Tribute to John Williams, May 28; National Philharmonic: Faure’s Requiem, May 30; Feria de Seville, May 31; 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, 301-581-5100, strathmore.org.

ON STAGE Adventure Theatre-MTC, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” through May 25, call for prices, times, Adventure Theatre MTC, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo, 301-634-2270, adventuretheatremtc.org. F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, 603 Edmonston Drive, Rockville. 240-314-8681 Imagination Stage, “Sinbad: The Untold Tale,” through May 29, call for prices, times, Imagination Stage, 4908 Auburn Ave., Bethesda, imaginationstage.org. Olney Theatre Center, “Carousel,” through May 24, call for prices, times, 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney, 301-9243400, olneytheatre.org. The Puppet Co., “Cinderella,” through June 21; Tiny Tots @ 10, select Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, call for shows and show times, Puppet Co. Playhouse, Glen Echo Park’s North Arcade Building, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., $5, 301-634-5380, thepuppetco.org. Rockville Musical Theatre, “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,” July 10 through July 26, Arts Barn, 311 Kent Square Road, 301-258-6394, r-m-t.org. Round House Theatre, “NSFW,” May 27 through June 21, call for show times, 4545 EastWest Highway, Bethesda. Tickets range in price from $10 to $45 and seating is reserved. 240-6441100, roundhousetheatre.org. Lumina Studio Theatre, Silver Spring Black Box Theatre, 8641 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, 301-588-8277, luminastudio.org; theatreconsortiumss@gmail.com. Silver Spring Stage, “On The Razzle,” May 29 through June

20, Woodmoor Shopping Center, 10145 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, see Web site for show times, ssstage.org. Randolph Road Theater, 4010 Randolph Road, Silver Spring, belcantanti.com, Cafe Muse, Friendship Heights Village Center, 4433 South Park Ave., Chevy Chase; 301-656-2797.

VISUAL ART Adah Rose Gallery, “Motionless, I Stay and Go: I am a Pause,” through May 24, 3766 Howard Ave., Kensington, 301-922-0162, adahrosegallery.com Glenview Mansion, Rockville Art League, Juried Members’ Show varied media, through May 29; Rockville Civic Center Park, 503 Edmonston Drive, Rockville. rockvillemd.gov. Marin-Price Galleries, Joseph Sheppard, through May 22; 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, 7022 Wisconsin Ave., 301-7180622, marin-price.com. Montgomery Art Association, Janet Fox, through May 31; Westﬁeld Wheaton Mall, 11160 Viers Mill Road, Wheaton, montgomeryart.org. VisArts, Stephanie Garmey, through May 24; Jowita Wyszomirska and David Brown, through May 24; Gibbs Street Gallery, 155 Gibbs St., Rockville, 301-315-8200, visartsatrockville.org. Kentlands Mansion Art Gallery, 320 Kent Square Road, Gaithersburg, 301-258-6425. Gallery B, “The Merry Month,” through May 23; 7700 Wisconsin Ave., Suite E, Bethesda, bethesda. org. Washington Artworks, Project Youth ArtReach’s Anniversary Exhibition, through June 1; 12276 Wilkins Ave., Rockville, washingtonartworks.com, 301-654-1998.

ET CETERA The Writer’s Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, 301-6548664, writer.org.

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heavy influences on his style. An agent he worked with gave him a reading list of espionage books, although he had written a military thriller. “As a result,” he said, “my books are a blend of military thriller plot written in an espionage style.” For the most part, Campbell bases his books on his first career. “I was a submarine officer for 28 years, and I write military thrillers that have strong submarine plot elements. There are a few actual experiences in the book, but 99 percent is fiction, using my background to get the authentic details correct.” Campbell said it takes him about 1,000 hours to write a book, including about an hour per page for the first draft, several hundred hours of research before starting and interspersed during writing, plus multiple revisions on his end and two by his editor. He writes in an upstairs office in his Germantown home, “where I can close the door and work in silence. Sounds really distract me when I’m writing, and I need complete silence or it breaks my concentration.” As a child, Campbell had no intention of being a writer.

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Conrad Feininger stars as Gregory Solomon in Olney Theatre Center’s production of Arthur Miller’s “The Price.” the script and then getting into the room with the director. The trick to doing it multiple times has been keeping an open mind to new ideas.” Both Bloom and Leonard hope the audience walks away discussing what they just witnessed in the play. “I want them to talk about

whether or not they felt that the paths that the two brothers took were justiﬁed,” Bloom said. “I hope they walk away talking forever and ever and ever about what happened,” Leonard said. “I just want them to talk, whether it’s about their own families or not.”

“Early on,” he said, I wanted to be a doctor, policeman and football player — simultaneously. I figured I could be a doctor during the day, a policeman at night and a football player on the weekends.” Although he was a good student, graduating second in his high school class in Cocoa, Fla., math and science were his strengths. He read fantasy and science fiction “voraciously” but remembers hating English and the liberal arts. The military was always a career option, Campbell said, because his father was retired from the Air Force. “When it came time to go to college, my parents had no money set aside and weren’t making a lot of money — mom was a waitress and dad worked at a regional K-Mart-style department store — so I knew I had to get a scholarship.” He applied and was awarded three ROTC scholarships and was accepted into the Air Force and Naval academies. He “chose the Navy, much to my dad’s chagrin. They had better academics and a great wrestling team, and I was a wrestler in high school.” When Campbell discovered he was prone to seasickness, he “went submarines. I figured I would be miserable as a pilot and also on the surface. But submarines are very stable

when they’re submerged — like sitting in an office except when they’re changing depth, so I applied for submarines and got accepted.” His tours of duty included four nuclearpowered submarines, the Pentagon and the Undersea Weapons Program office. On his final submarine, he said, he was one of two men whose permission was required to launch its 24 nuclear warheadtipped missiles. St. Martin’s Press, Campbell’s publisher, added a deal for two more books, which are due out in 2016 and 2017. Book three, “Cold Betrayal,” the author said, is almost done, due to his editor at the end of May. “It’s primarily a submarine thriller, which kicks off when the newest American and Russian submarines collide and sink under the Arctic ice cap, setting off a fateful chain of events,” he said. Campbell is optimistic about his second career. “We’ll see what the future holds when I come up for another contract next year. So far, my books have ‘met or exceeded expectations,’ so it’s likely additional contracts will follow, and I figure I’ll be writing military thrillers for the foreseeable future,” he said. “Book 0 will have to wait a few more years.” Hopefully, the odds will be in his favor once more.

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Points of light BlackRock Center for the Arts is pleased to present the exhibition “Light: Essence of Color” featuring oil paintings and pastel drawings by the seven member artists of the Maryland Colorists: Melissa Gryder, Sharon Littig, Abigail McBride, Nancy McCarra, Michele del Pilar, Andree Tullier and Sarah Wardell. The exhibit includes landscape, still-life, portraits and figurative subjects and will be on view in the Terrace Gallery through May 30. Light, that which reveals the world around us, is the source that links this group of artists together. Their primary focus is to capture a fleeting light effect observed in the everyday scenes. “Light: Essence of Color” is the first exhibition by the Maryland Colorists, a collective formed in 2013 by seven women with classic academic, studio and plein air training

in color, draftsmanship, portraiture and ﬁgurative work. Each of the artists maintains a professional studio practice which includes portrait commissions, exhibiting their work in both ﬁne art galleries and museums, and entering juried exhibitions and plein air painting competitions. Many of the artists live in the Annapolis area. All of the artists have been selected for membership and board positions in professional artist organizations, which include the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Society, Portrait Society of America, Maryland Society of Portrait Painters, Pastel Society of America, Maryland Pastel Society and Maryland Federation of Art. For more information, visit blackrockcenter.org.

Mix and match

Janet Fox is this month’s featured artist for the Montgomery Art Association. Her work will be on display through May 31. Fox paints with encaustic (heated pigmented bees wax), mixed media and acrylic, often layering in fibrous and colorful papers, fabric, ink and found materials. She carves, scrapes, fills and buffs, building contrasts and textures. Her work is often inspired by vivid sleeptime images or ideas; she also creates from nature and garden themes. Her art blog, including stories about her work, are on her website. Originally from the Midwest, Janet earned a bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety and Health from Purdue University, worked more than 20 years in the recycling, sustainability and energy-efficiency

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“Holding It All Together,” a piece by artist Janet Fox, is on display through May 31 at the MAA Gallery.

realms, and managed environmental-themed art exhibits. She is an MAA board member, a member of International Encaustic Artists, as well as a freelance writer, editor, content and project support professional. Admission to the gallery is free. For more information, visit montgomeryart.org or call 301842-7046.

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An artist demonstrates plein air painting at the BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown.

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Time is running out to go see the Wizard in the hopes you can go home again. Adventure Theatre MTC’s reimagined journey through Oz, a world premiere play by Jacqueline Lawton, is set to run through May 25. “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” is based on the classic American children’s book by L. Frank Baum starring Helen Hayes-nominated Paige Hernandez as Dorothy. Dorothy and Toto know so many adventures are happening everywhere other than Kansas. One day, a cyclone swoops in and takes them to the wonderful and magical Land of Oz. With her friends the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion, Dorothy

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Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion all take the stage at Adventure Theatre MTC for “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” sets off on the adventure of a lifetime down the yellow brick road. Tickets to “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” are $19-19.50 and can be purchased by calling 301-634-2270 or online at adventuretheatre-mtc.org.

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A Southern Soul Tribute: The Music of Muscle Shoals and Stax/Volt is set to take place at the Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club on Friday.

Soul of the South

A spectacular collection of 35 soulful performers from the DMV, pay tribute to music legends Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave, The Staples Singers, Carla Thomas and more, will take the stage at the Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club on Friday. A Southern Soul Tribute: The Music of Muscle Shoals & Stax/Volt will include such performers as The Hardway Connection, Little Margie, Tommy Lepson & Soul Crackers, Jon Carroll, Julia Nixon, Patty Reese, Eddie Jones, Daryl Davis, Bob Berberich, Patti Hatchett, the legendary Nighthawks rhythm section Pete Ragusa and Jan Zukowski and more. The 1960s produced a

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The Supplemental EA and FONSI are being made available to the public and Federal, and local government agencies for review. Comments are due no later than June 1, 2015. Please send all written comments and inquiries to: Mr. Paul Gyamfi, Regional Environmental Planner, U.S. General Services Administration, National Capital Region, 301 7th Street, SW, Room 4004, Washington, DC 20407 or by email at paul.gyamfi@gsa.gov. A copy of the Supplemental EA is available for public review at the following locations: Rockville Library, 21 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, MD 20850; and Twinbrook Library, 202 Meadow Hall Drive, Rockville, MD 20851. via

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The Draft Supplemental EA that analyzed the potential environmental impacts of the proposed action and a no action alternative was provided for a 30-day public review period that ended April 24, 2014. The comments received during the 30-day public review period have been addressed in this Supplemental EA.

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Supplemental Environmental Assessment and Finding Of No Significant Impact U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Lease Consolidation at 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act, as amended (NEPA) (42 US.C.4321, et seq.) and the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations for Implementing the Procedural Provisions of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500-1508), the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has prepared a Supplemental Environmental Assessment (Supplemental EA) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) lease consolidation at 5600 Fishers Lane to address a proposed increase in employees at that location from approximately 2,900 to 4,500. GSA has determined that the proposed action as described in the Supplemental EA is not a major Federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment. Therefore a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) is appropriate.

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15,995

2010 Volvo XC60 3.0 Turbo AWD 2013 KIA Optima SX Turbo

#P9371, 1-OWNER, Heated Front Seats, Bluetooth, Alloys

13,977

$16,995

2008 Nissan Xterra S 4WD

19,950

#526571C, 1-Owner, Leather, HEATED SEATS, Panoramic roof, Alloys, Beautifully Kept!

2012 Honda CRV EX-L AWD

19,995

2012 Volvo S60 T6 R Design

14,977

23,950

#P9308, CERTIFIED, Turbo, AWD, Leather, Sunroof

24,980

2012 Nissan Leaf SL NAV Hatchback

#P9327, ONLY 12K MILES!! Certified, Auto, Looks New!

15,977

23,980

2011 Volvo XC90 AWD Platinum

2010 Chevy Equinox LTZ $

14,777

#P9311, CERTIFIED!!, Only 26K Miles,Nav,Rear Camera, Leather, $ Sunroof, Premium Sound

#532188C, Nav, Leather, Sunroof, Loaded #P9369, 1-Owner, Leather, Sunroof, Alloys , Only 32K Miles!

2012 Hyundai Veloster #E0647A,Nav, Panoramic Roof, Leather, Loaded, Fun to drive

2011 Volvo S80 3.2L

#541214A, 1-OWNER, Only 74K Miles, Well kept!! #G0061, Only 62K mi!!,Leather, Panoramic moonroof, Alloys

12,977

2013 Hyundai Sonata SE

#541149A, Auto, Sunroof, Alloys 525586B, ONLY 77k Miles!! 6 cyl, clean inside & out!

2014 Chevrolet Sonic LS

#442078A, Only 5K Miles!!!, Automatic, Why Buy New?

#P9384,CERTIFIED!! Only 23K Miles,Nav, Rear Camera, Leather, Sunroof, Premium Sound,

15,977

2011 Hyundai Sonata Limited

16,977

#548040A, 1-Owner, Loaded, Sunroof, Leather, Clean!!

29,980

2011 Volvo C30 Turbo Coupe.............................. $11,995 2012 Acura TSX Wagon............................................... $21,950 #526588B, Black, Fun to drive, Well maintained inside & out!

# 527003A, 1-Owner, Only 27K Miles! Leather, Sunroof, Bluetooth, Alloys

2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee.................................... $11,995 2010 Volvo XC60 3.2L...........................$18,950 #P9310A, 1-Owner, Super Low Miles 61K, V8, SNRF, Alloys, Gray

2010 Mercury Mariner Hybrid

#P9277, 1-Owner, Leather, Moonroof, Bluetooth

#541161A, Hard-to-Find, 1-Owner, Loaded, Leather, Sunroof

2011 Mini Cooper S........................................................... $14,995 2012 Volvo S60 T5 Turbo......................$19,980 #P9243B, 1-Owner, Turbo, Auto, Leather, Well Maintained

16,777

2011 Mazda CX-7 #547519A, 1-Owner, Beautiful Inside & Out, Well Maintained

15,977

#P9315, CERTIFIED!! Only 30K Miles, Leather, Sunroof, Homelink

2010 Volvo XC60 3.2L..................................................... $17,950 2012 Volvo XC90 Premier Plus...........$25,980 #P9263, 1-Owner, Only 52K Miles! Panormic Moonroof, Well prices and clean!

DARCARS

#429033A, 1-OWNER, CERTIFIED Leather, 3RD Row seat, Moonroof, Well Maintained

VOLVO

G560934

2011 Kia Sorento SX

#587010B, Auto, Navigation, Panoramic Roof, AWD

15401 Frederick Rd, Rockville, MD

www.darcarsvolvo.com

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G560898

DARCARS

2008 Nissan 350 Z Touring #548505A, Low Miles!!, V6, Auto, Leather, Alloys

16,977

www.DARCARSnissan.com

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17,977

DARCARS NISSAN of ROCKVILLE 15911 Indianola Drive • Rockville, MD (at Rt. 355 across from King Farm)

888.805.8235 • www.DARCARSNISSAN.com

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DARCARS NISSAN TWO LOCATIONS

Rockville

College Park

15911 Indianola Drive Rockville, MD 20855 888-797-1831 2015 NISSAN

2015 NISSAN

Versa S Sedan

MSRP: $14,685 Nissan Rebate $400 Sale Price: $11,395

$ 4

automatic transmission MODEL #11115

AT THIS PRICE

ALTIMA 2.5 S

39 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

16,995

AT THIS PRICE

MODEL #13115 4 at this price

159/MO

36 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

2015 NISSAN

LEAF S

MSRP: $32,000 Sale Price: $27, 995 NMAC Bonus Cash: $3,500

$ with charger package MODEL #17015

AT THIS PRICE

MODEL #11615

13,995 OR

169/MO

36 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

149

AT THIS PRICE

MODEL #12115

NV200

/MO 36 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

AVAILABLE ON BRAND NEW: 2015 ALTIMAS, 2015 SENTRAS, 2015 ARMADAS, 2015 TITANS, 2015 LEAFS! 2015 NISSAN

MSRP: $32,455 Sale Price: $27,995 Nissan Rebate: $1,500 NMAC Bonus Cash: $500

PATHFINDER 4X4 S

$ 4

AT THIS PRICE

MODEL #25015

AT THIS PRICE

269/MO

36 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

17,495 279

MODEL #67115

/MO 36 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

2015 NISSAN

MURANO S AWD MSRP: $33,045 Sale Price: $28,495

25,995

MSRP: $22,045 Sale Price: $18,245 Nissan Customer Cash: $750

0% APR X 72 MONTHS

229/MO

36 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

14,495

2015 NISSAN

24,495 OR

169/MO

MSRP: $19,305 Sale Price: $15,745 Nissan Rebate $1,000 NMAC Bonus Cash: $250

SENTRA SV

MSRP: $23,935 Sale Price: $19,495 Nissan Customer Cash: -$1,000 Altima Bonus Cash: -$500 NMAC Bonus Cash: -$1000

2015 NISSAN

MSRP: $17,600 Sale Price: $14,895 Nissan Customer Cash: $400 NMAC Bonus Cash: $500

VERSA NOTE SV

10,995

9330 Baltimore Ave College Park, MD 20740 888-693-8037

AT THIS PRICE

28,495

MODEL #23015

339

/MO 36 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

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DARCARS NISSAN OF ROCKVILLE

DARCARS NISSAN OF COLLEGE PARK

www.DARCARSnissan.com

www.DARCARSnissanofcollegepark.com

Prices include all rebates and incentives. DARCARS Nissan DOES NOT Include college grad or military rebates in price! NMAC Bonus Cash require financing through NMAC with approved credit. Prices exclude tax, tags, freight (Cars $810, SUVs and Trucks $860-$1000) and $300 processing charge, Lease payments are calculated with tax, tags, freight, $300 processing charge and first payment due at signing, and are valid with tier one approval through NMAC. Prices and payments valid only at listed VINS. See dealer for details. Offer expires 05/25/2015. G560932

NEW 2015 HIGHLANDER LE 1 AVAILABLE: #563287

28,390

4 CYL., AUTO, 4 DR

NEW22015 RAV4 4X2 LE AVAILABLE: #564399, 564398

20,890

4 CYL., AUTOMATIC

2015 PRIUS C II

355 TOYOTA

2 AVAILABLE: #577511, 577476

MEMORIAL DAY 149/MO** $

SPECIALS

DARCARS

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NEW 2015 CAMRY LE

3 AVAILABLE: #572183, 572187, 572081

159/

MO**

18,990

NEW 2015 TACOMA 4X2 XTRACAB 2 AVAILABLE: #567184, 567181

$0 DOWN

AUTO, 4 CYL., 4 DR

18,890

3 DR. H/BK, MANUAL TRANS

AFTER TOYOTA $1,000 REBATE

NEW 2015 COROLLA L 2 AVAILABLE: #570717, 570731

14,590

4 DR., AUTO, 4 CYL. INCL.

AFTER $750 REBATE

MONTHS+ % 0 FOR 60 On 10 Toyota Models

1-888-831-9671

$0 DOWN

149/MO**

2015 COROLLA LE

15625 Frederick Rd (Rte 355) • Rockville, MD OPEN SUNDAY VISIT US ON THE WEB AT www.355Toyota.com PRICES AND PAYMENTS INCLUDE ANY APPLICABLE MANUFACTURE’S REBATES AND EXCLUDE MILITARY ($500) AND COLLEGE GRAD ($500) REBATES, TAX, TAGS, DEALER PROCESSING CHARGE ($300) AND FREIGHT: CARS $795 OR $810, TRUCKS, SPORT UTILITY AND SIENNAS $810, $845 AND $995. *0.0% APR & 0% APR FINANCING UP TO 60 MONTHS TO QUALIFIED BUYERS THRU TOYOTA FINANCIAL SERVICES. TOTAL FINANCED CANNOT EXCEED MSRP PLUS OPTIONS, TAX, AND LICENSE FEES. 0% APR MONTHLY PAYMENTS OF $16.67 FOR EACH $1000 BORROWED. 0.9% APR 60 MONTHLY PAYMENTS OF $17.05 FOR EACH $1000 BORROWED. APR OFFERS ARE NOT VALID WITH ANY OTHER CASH BACK LEASE OFFER. NOT ALL BUYERS WILL QUALIFY.**LEASE PAYMENTS BASED ON 36 MONTHS, 12,000 MILES PER YEAR WITH $995 DOWN PLUS $650 ACQUISITION FEE, NO SECURITY DEPOSIT REQUIRED. LEASES FOR COROLLA AND CAMRY ARE 24 MONTHS WITH $0 DOWN PLUS TAX, TAGS, FREIGHT, PROCESSING AND $650 ACQUISITION FEE. SEE DEALER FOR COMPLETE DETAILS. EXPIRES 5/26/2015.

4 CYL., 4 DR., AUTO

2 AVAILABLE: #570375, 570343

$0 DOWN G560907

13,590

MANUAL, 4 CYL

2014 SCION XB 2 AVAILABLE: #455033, 455044

NEW 2015 YARIS #577009

4 CYL., AUTO

AFTER TOYOTA $750 REBATE

NEW 2015 CAMRY LE

4 CYL., AUTO, 4 DR

AFTER TOYOTA $750 REBATE

AFTER $750 REBATE

2 AVAILABLE: #572152, 572074

$0 DOWN

139/MO**

4 DR., AUTO, 4 CYL