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Wednesday, May 27, 2015
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After hiatus, a hot-button issue is back
Holiday cool-down
Rockville mayor and council to discuss school, development standards n
BY
RYAN MARSHALL STAFF WRITER
A long-simmering dispute over development and schools in Rockville is scheduled to come back before the mayor and council Monday night with a discussion of the city’s adequate public facilities standards. Councilwoman Virginia Onley said she’d like to have a discussion on the topic to help
everyone understand the issue better. It’s important make everyone aware of why the ordinance was initially implemented, what it’s accomplished and what the future holds for the issue, Onley said. “I want everyone’s eyes to be open,” she said. Under a proposal by Councilman Tom Moore, the city’s threshold for cutting off development in an area would be triggered when local schools reach 120 percent of their programmed capacity, which also
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Accused killer due in court Monday Neighbor of slain couple to be returned from Alaska this week n
(Above) People play in the spray provided by the Rockville Volunteer Fire Department during the city’s annual Hometown Holidays celebration Sunday in the Town Center. The weekend festival included live music, the Taste of Rockville, games and even a beach. (Left) Rick Gerber, AnheuserBusch’s master illusionist, entertains (from left) Gaithersburg’s Carole Harris and Hans Harris, along with Silver Spring’s Brittani Harris and Alexis Redmond, during the weekend’s festivities. PHOTOS BY TOM FEDOR/THE GAZETTE
BY
VIRGINIA TERHUNE STAFF WRITER
A Rockville-area man still being held Tuesday as a fugitive from justice in Alaska is expected back in Maryland this week to face murder charges in the Mother’s Day stabbing deaths of his next-door neighbors on Ridge Drive. Scott Tomaszewski is due back in Montgomery County this week and will be ar-
raigned Monday in Montgomery County District Court in Rockville, Ramon V. Korionoff, a spokesman for the county state’s attorney’s office, wrote in an email Tuesday. Montgomery police officers will bring Tomaszewski, 31, back from Juneau, where he is in custody after being arrested on a cruise ship, said James T. Scott, district attorney for the Juneau judicial district covering southeast Alaska. “We never disclose exactly when prisoners will be transported for security reasons,” Scott wrote in an email on May
See COURT, Page A-9
Sherwood champs again
WWII vet offers a personal history lesson n
Bombardier shares importance of faith at Olney school BY
TERRI HOGAN STAFF WRITER
One of the five Xaverian values stressed at Our Lady of Good Counsel High School in Olney is humility, which can be defined as “the quality or state of not thinking you are better than other people.” Good Counsel students recently got an opportunity to experience humility through meeting retired 2nd Lt. John R. Pedevillano, who fought in World War II with the Army
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Air Corps. For an assignment, his granddaughter Angela Vucci of Brookeville, a junior, was required to visit the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and took him along for his perspective. In a paper reflecting on the visit, she wrote about the experience she shared with her grandfather that day. Religion teacher Natasha Fredericks was so moved by Vucci’s reflections that she invited Pedevillano, 93, to talk to the class. Pedevillano, of College Park, originally spoke to the religion class in April. “One of the reasons this was so important to me is to hear the history, just as he
experienced it,” Fredericks said. “In his case, he had such a strong faith, and told us how, from his perspective, he saw God’s hand in all of his experiences. It shows that even through evil and suffering, God is with us.” Fredericks arranged to have Pedevillano return to Good Counsel on May 19, this time to speak in the chapel to a larger audience. The talk was recorded, so it could be shown to future classes. “I’ve had a blessed life,” said Pedevillano, thoughtfully and softly. “I came from a family of religious and patriotic people. I believe the events in my life did not happen
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NOT SAFE FOR WORK Round House Theatre’s latest play focuses on bad behavior, job issues at men’s magazine. B-4
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Nicole Stockinger (10) of Sherwood High School in Sandy Spring scored her second run of the game on this play, but Julie Swarr was tagged out at home by Northwest High School catcher Sydney Salgado during the state 4A softball championship Saturday at the University of Maryland, College Park. Still, the Warriors won their 83rd-straight game and fourthstraight state championship, 4-0. See Sports, Page B-1.
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