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On a split vote, Rockville ofﬁcials decided Monday night to use the same standards as Montgomery County when determining how its growing school enrollment affects proposed new housing and other development projects. The vote is the latest chapter in the monthslong controversy in which two public hearings on the issue

drew testimony from 93 people, with even more weighing in during public comment periods at mayor and council meetings, and through email and other means. Under the new standards, development in an area would be cut off when local schools hit 120 percent of their programmed capacity, rather than the former standard of 110 percent. Capacity will also be determined over all of the schools in a given high school cluster, rather than by individual school, as was formerly done. The new standards mean it might be easier for developers to win approval for their projects. Monday’s 3-2 vote was the culmination of a process that began in November, when Councilman Tom

Moore proposed changing the standards. The idea had also been discussed under previous mayors and councils. Moore and Councilwomen Virginia Onley and Julie Palakovich Carr voted for the change, with Mayor Bridget Donnell Newton and Councilwoman Beryl Feinberg opposed. Moore had withdrawn a motion to change the standards in February before a vote was taken. Moore said Tuesday that it was a relief to have the issue over and done with. While he’s hoping to see an increase in business DAN GROSS/THE GAZETTE

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Quartermaine Coffee’s head roaster, Calvin Dove, at work in the Rockville roasting facility.

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Breslin, Ron Chazin, Ignacio Diaz, Daniel Zimmerman. Meritorious Service Citation: Susan Gardner, James Gillin, Roberto Morejon, James Ray. On June 6, 2014, Gardner was in her ofﬁce at Shapiro and Duncan in Rockville when she saw Jeffrey Alvarez being assaulted in the parking lot. Breslin, Chazin, Diaz and Zimmerman followed the attacker through woods and onto a golf

Plenty of people start off their day with a cup or two of coffee, but for Carolyn Weinberg and Calvin Dove their whole day revolves around the brew. Weinberg is the CEO and Dove the head roaster for Quartermaine Coffee Roasters, which has two stores in Bethesda and a roasting facility on Wyaconda Road in Rockville. As you pull into the parking lot of the low, squat building in the industrial park that holds the roasting plant, the rich smell of roasting coffee wafts through the air. Inside, the temperature rises as Dove keeps an eye on a batch of French roast in the company’s roaster. A batch of French roast will reach more than 400 degrees, Weinberg said. Each type of roast requires a different time and heat process to create a different ﬂavor, body and acidity that affect its taste, said Dove, who’s been roasting with Quartermaine for about 15 years. Roasters have to carefully gauge the time for each batch, Weinberg said. Too long and the beans are too dark. After they’re roasted, the beans are dumped out into a large, circular cooling tray, where they’re brought from piping hot to room temperature in a matter of minutes. Quartermaine was started by Jerry Baldwin, Gordon Bowker and Zev Seigel, who founded the Starbucks chain in the 1970s.

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You did it (Above) Sheiku Koroma is congratulated by Principal William Gregory as the audience gives Koroma a standing ovation during Sherwood High School’s 106th graduation exercises Monday at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington. About 475 students graduated. The commencement speaker was author Mary Amato. (Right) Seniors Patrick Knowles (left), Matthew Koehler and Austin Kong (waving) look for family and friends before the start of Friday’s graduation exercises. PHOTOS BY DAN GROSS/THE GAZETTE

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The next-door neighbor accused of stabbing a Rockville-area couple to death on Mother’s Day was held without bail Monday after police brought him back from

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Dozens of Rockville workers, residents and ﬁrst responders will be recognized at the city’s Public Safety Awards on Wednesday. The city will honor the following for their service: • Citation for Bravery: Thomas

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Jihad in America/Obama and Iran: Why are Jews Still Democrats?, 6:30-8:30 p.m.,

Ted’s 355 Diner, back room, 895 Rockville Pike, Rockville. The speakers will be: Frank Gaffney, assistant secretary of defense under President Ronald Reagan and founder and president of the Center of Security Policy in Washington, D.C.; and Noah Silverman, the congressional affairs director for the Republican Jewish Coalition. $5. 301-417-9256 or katmcgop@gmail.com.

Open House for Norbeck Toastmasters, 7-8:30 p.m., Solana Assisted Living,

second-ﬂoor lounge, 2611 Olney Sandy Spring Road, Olney. Improve communication and leadership skills through prepared or impromptu speeches, and constructive evaluations. Free. Refreshments will be served. contact-367@toastmastersclubs.org.

Strategies to Transition to Middle School, 7:15-8:30 p.m., The Pediatric De-

velopment Center, 17620-A Redland Road, Rockville. Free 75-minute workshop. 301869-7505 or audrey@pdcandme.com.

FRIDAY, JUNE 5 Travel and Transportation Photography Exhibition, 6-9 p.m., Washington

School of Photography, 12276 Wilkins Ave., Rockville. Camera club members will showcase where they have traveled and the transportation they used. Free. 202489-8784 or arwphw@verizon.net.

p.m., St. Elizabeth Catholic Church, 917 Montrose Road, Rockville. Including Rimsky-Korsakov, Copland, Dvorak. Free. 240-888-6781 or smd8z@hotmail.com.

A Celebration of Life-Cancer Survivor Day 2015, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Montgomery

County Conference Center, 5701 Marinelli Road, North Bethesda. Educational workshops, beauty tips, health expo. Free transportation and child care. Registration required: cancersurvivorday.org/registration/register. 301-816-7160 or cancersurvivorday@kp.org. Used book sale, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Aspen Hill Library, 4407 Aspen Hill Road, Rockville. Books and CDs. 301-871-1113 or aspenhill@folmc.org. MoCo Youth Pride Open Mic, 2-5 p.m., Elwood Smith Recreation Center, 601 Harrington Road, Rockville. LGBTQ audience members are invited to perform. Snacks and beverages provided. Free. lgbtq.youth. forum@gmail.com. ABCs of Starting a Business, 9 a.m.12:30 p.m., Maryland Women’s Business Center, 51 Monroe St., suite PE-20, Rockville. $35. 301-315-8091 or donna@marylandwbc.org.

SUNDAY, JUNE 7 Paul & Celine Silver Memorial 5K, 9 a.m., Tilden Woods Park, 6800 Tilden Lane, North Bethesda. Donations and proceeds support scholarships and internship programs created in the Silvers’ honor. Registration: paulandcelinesilver. org. Information: Karen M. Stone, silver. karen@gmail.com or info@paulandcelinesilver.org. Sunday Afternoon Concert, 2-3 p.m., Glenview Mansion, Rockville Civic Center Park, Rockville. With Beau Soir, a ﬂute and harp duo. Free. 240-314-8682 or jfarrell@ rockvillemd.gov. Self-Defense Seminar, 3-5 p.m., East West Tae Kwon Do, Cabin John Mall, 11325 Seven Locks Road, Potomac. For teens and adults. $40 in advance, $50 at the door. EastWestTKD.Events@gmail. com. Glorystar’s spring concert, 1:30-3:30 p.m., Robert Parilla Center for the Performing Arts, 51 Manakee St., Rockville. Choral music from around the world, with ﬁve choirs and returning alumni. $20 general admission; $12 for senior citizens and students, free for children 12 and younger. 240-277-7629 or info@glorystar.org. A Concert of Jewish Themes in Classical Music, 7:30 p.m., Tikvat Israel

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National Association of Professional Asian American Women memorial concert, 7:30-9:30 p.m.,

Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, 6125 Montrose Road, Rockville. With Opera NOVA, Washington Metropolitan Women’s Chorus, HIVO Youth Orchestra, and invited guest artists. To beneﬁt Children’s Cancer Research Program. $30 plus fee. 703-795-6639 or tinyurl.com/qhw5rf4. Rockville. Cantor Rochelle Helzner will be joined by members of the New Orchestra of Washington. $25 in advance, $30 at the door. 301-762-7338 or concert@tikvatisrael.org.

NIH Community Orchestra and Chorus, 4 p.m., Georgetown Preparatory School, 10900 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda. Featuring works by Aaron Copland. Free. nihco.membership@yahoo.com. The Sleeping Beauty Ballet, 3 p.m., Rockville Memorial Library, 21 Maryland Ave., Rockville. With Connect the Dots Dance Company. For children ages 3 to 10 and their families. Free. 240-7770140.

MONDAY, JUNE 8 It is Easy to Be Green, 6:30-7:30 p.m., 4407 Aspen Hill Road, Rockville. Learn about best practices and rewards for recycling, composting, and rainscaping. Limited supply of free bins. 240-773-9410 or robin.pachtman@montgomerycountymd.gov.

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10 Talking Book Group, 11 a.m., Rockville Memorial Library, 21 Maryland Ave., Rockville. “Little Heathens, Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm during the Great Depression,” by Mildred A. Kalish. Free. 240-777-0140. Business Clinic, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Maryland Women’s Business Center, 51 Monroe St., suite PE-20, Rockville. Schedule an appointment to speak with a counselor. 301-315-8096 or linda@ marylandwbc.org.

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Strawberries take center stage at festival for 34th year Sandy Spring Museum’s main event offers everything from berries to beer

community, drawing multigenerational crowds of more than 5,000 people to enjoy the small-town atmosphere, live music, fresh strawberries, handmade crafts, children’s games and more. It may be the oldest continuous community festival in Montgomery County. “It seems like this year, we have one foot in history and one foot in the future,” said Allison Weiss, the museum’s executive director. “It’s the 34th year for the Strawberry Festival but practically everything is new this year — new activities, new foods, new games and prizes, new live music stages. But as always, my favorite part of the event is seeing the people who have been attending the festival for generations.” The children’s game area has been

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Strawberries may be the main attraction, but the Sandy Spring Museum’s 34th annual Strawberry Festival will offer lots more. The festival will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the museum, at 17901 Bentley Road, rain or shine. Admission is free, with a $3 donation suggested. The festival has become a sweet tradition for the Olney-Sandy Spring

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Olney teen wins $10K in video contest Matthew Post, a student at Sherwood High School in Sandy Spring, is becoming a noted video producer. Matthew recently won the individual grand prize of $10,000 in Trend Micro’s Internet Safety for Kids and Families program for his video “My Headset.” The 2015 “What’s Your Story?” international video contest asked youths to submit videos highlighting creative, safe and responsiAdditional ble ways to use People & the Web. In a news Places release, Matn Page A-9 thew, a selfdescribed hobbyist ﬁlmmaker, said, “The Internet often gets a bad rap due to how easy it is to be anonymous. Sometimes this small but loud minority can drown out the voices of those who use the Internet for educational, social and otherwise enriching purposes.” Matthew’s friend John Caporaletti, also of Olney, helped him with the video. They plan to use their winnings to purchase some new video equipment and will save the rest. They and other friends have

created other award-winning videos: This year they won ﬁrst place in the East region of CSPAN’s annual StudentCam Contest for their documentary video, “School Lunches — Healthier Hunger-Free Kids,” and in 2014 they won an honorable mention in the C-SPAN contest.

Ashton woman wins contest, donates winnings Jennifer Williams, a volunteer firefighter from Ashton, emerged as the winner from among 2,166 entries in M&T Bank’s “What’s Important to You?” contest. Entrants were asked to explain what’s most important in their lives and then describe how they would spend $5,000 to support what’s important to them. Williams wrote that “impacting people’s lives in a positive way every day” is what is most important to her and added that she would give the $5,000 grand prize to a young man who has cerebral palsy. She knows him from her church’s youth group. At a presentation May 22 at M&T Bank’s Olney branch, she presented her winnings to Matt Riordan, a recent high school graduate from Elkridge, so he will have an opportunity to attend Howard Community College and study creative writing. “Our life mission is helping teens, and we have always had a soft spot for Matt and his mom to help them however we could,“

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“rebooted,” according to Josh Ford, the museum’s director of development and communications. “We realized we needed to raise the bar to keep the kids’ attention,” he said. “We have lots of new fun, interactive games and activities with themes including science and food, as well as a bounce castle.” A $15 wristband provides access to the moon bounce, arts and crafts, pony rides, obstacle courses, and games and activities such as the “Giant Strawberry Slingshot” and “Berry Soda Blast.” There is something new for the over-21 crowd, too: a beer garden featuring brews from Jailbreak Brewing Co. of Laurel. “They are amazing guys with quality

Williams said in a news release. “Matt is so talented and has such a good heart and his mom is so hard working. This contest gave us a chance to help them even more. It’s rare to hear a bank offer a contest to help others, which shows that M&T really cares.” In the release, Riordan said, “Jen is amazing. She helps us do a lot and she means so much to us. Friends and family are what’s important to me. I go to bat for anybody I care about, and I try to help any way that I can.” Riordan has written 34 poems, is working on two novels and hopes to pursue a writing career.

Innovative students recognized Four Montgomery County students have been recognized for their innovative ideas, according to LearnServe International, an organization that works with high school students. All four participated in the 2015 LearnServe Fellows Program, in which students from public, private and charter schools in Maryland, Virginia and Washington work on projects to beneﬁt their schools and communities. Among them were the following: • Ishaan Parikh of Potomac, a senior at Blair High School in Silver Spring, was the runner-up in the Maryland public schools category. Parikh came up with KAST: Advanced, building on

beer, and we are thrilled to be working with a local brewery,” Ford said. The brewery will feature its summer beer, Feed the Monkey, which it describes as an orange Hefeweizen with notes of clove and banana. There will be continuous entertainment on three stages, including musical performances by Karen Collins and the Backroads Band, the Olney Big Band and the Sherwood Jazz Ensemble. For guests with — or without — their own musical talent, there will be karaoke. Other favorites return, such as the plant sale featuring native plants for attracting butterflies and other pollinators; the Upscale Yard Sale; and a rafﬂe, with prizes ranging from a large Big Green Egg grill to a karate birthday

the Kids Are Scientists Too nonprofit created four years ago by another LearnServe fellow. LearnServe says KAST: Advanced has “taken root at Takoma Park Middle School, and will be spreading across Montgomery County.” Parikh’s team also included Blair High students Alex Mangiafico, Ji-Hyuk Bae and Winne Luo, as well as Jessica Yang, a 2010 LearnServe fellow who founded KAST. Yang graduated from Richard Montgomery High in Rockville and is now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. • Gaia Jinsi of Potomac, a junior at the Holton-Arms in Bethesda, won an award in the independent schools category. Jinsi’s idea, called GirlsGoLearn, “aims to bring the safety and academic success of an allgirls learning environment to girls who do not have access to it in their schools,” LearnServe’s press release says. Holton-Arms students Caleigh Crawford, Gigi Asemenoah-Mensah and Paris Armstrong also were on the team.

Rockville teen gets his musical wish Like many teens, Wayne Jones has wanted to produce and record his own song. And thanks to Make-A-Wish MidAtlantic, the 17-year-old from Rockville who has kidney disease and end-stage renal failure got to do so last month. Jones recorded his single,

party. Not everything has been changed. The juicy berries will be featured in homemade strawberry shortcake, dipped in chocolate, or by the quart. For those who can’t get enough, there will be a strawberry shortcake-eating contest. “We are all about innovation, and the museum’s mission is to take history to make it relevant today,” Ford said. “But some things take less tinkering than others, and the strawberry shortcake is a classic.” For those wanting more than strawberries, there will be nine food trucks, serving everything from nachos to naan. thogan@gazette.net worked for the Air Force and was a contractor and management consultant before retiring. He moved to Ingleside in 2010 and has served on a number of resident committees. He is chairman of the Quality of Life and Care Committee and a member of the Resident Council. He was a founding member and is president of the Ingleside chapter of the Maryland Continuing Care Residents Association and is vice president of the state association.

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Wayne Jones, 17, of Rockville records his single, “Cheyenne,” at a Washington radio station last month.

“Cheyenne,” at WRQX, a Top 40 FM radio station in Washington, and it was produced at Omega Recording Studios, according to an email from the foundation. More about Jones and a link to the recording are at dcs1073. com/2015/05/21/wayne-makesa-wish.

Rockville man elected to national board William A. Ratcliff, a resident leader at Ingleside at King Farm in Rockville, has been elected to the board of directors of the National Continuing Care Residents Association and will be the board secretary. Ratcliff, a native of England, worked as an engineer before moving to the U.S. in 1990. He

University names Rockville woman a trustee Regis College of Weston, Mass., named alumna Mary Ann Walsh Lewis of Rockville to its board of trustees. Lewis received her bachelor’s in political science in 1974. She is incoming president and government liaison of Save International, the professional society for Lewis Value Enhancing Methodologies. Before retiring in 2014, she managed Black & Veatch’s water program and construction management practice. She co-founded Lewis & Zimmerman Associates in 1982, the Construction Dynamics Group in 1983 and CDG International in 1991.

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Trent Onsted, 16, of the Olney band Infection X performs Sunday during Montgomery County Recreation’s MoCo’s Got Talent showcase at The Fillmore in Silver Spring. His bandmates are bassist Veronica Schmidt, guitarist Ben Wilson and drummer Adam Falcigno.

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Rockville residents will have two chances this month to get details about a study that could mean fewer trucks driving through neighborhoods on the city’s east side, among other changes. The Lincoln Park Community Center at 357 Frederick Ave. will host a meeting from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, when city officials will provide information about the

Southlawn Industrial Area Feasibility Study.. The city will also host a public meeting on the study from 4 to 8 p.m. on June 25 at the David Scull Community Center, 1201 First St. The first meeting will give people a general overview of study’s scope and intent, and information on how to get involved, said Susan Swift, director of community planning and development services for the city. At the second meeting, officials will start asking residents and businesses what they’re looking for from the study and what they feel is working in the area and what’s not, she said. The study will try to find ways to reduce the impact of industrial properties in area neighborhoods, including through land use and traffic changes. The study covers 101 acres west of Gude Drive and First Street, north of Lincoln Street, south of Lofstrand Lane and east of Horners Lane, an area that includes the city’s Southlawn/RedGate, East Rockville and Lincoln Park

master plan areas. The study will look at both short- and long-term ideas, such as using redevelopment to create nonindustrial uses for some areas and finding appropriate light industrial uses; examining traffic patterns and the area’s road network to cut back on truck traffic through neighborhoods; and finding compatible height, size and scale for new development as compared with that in existing neighborhoods. The city has already gotten lots of information about trucks cutting through residential areas, Swift said. She said there will also be public meetings in the fall and thereafter as the process moves along. The study’s final recommendations are expected in early 2016. Residents can share thoughts and ideas on the study through a comment form on the city’s website, and can learn more about the study and get updates on it at rockvillemd.gov/southlawnstudy. rmarshall@gazette.net

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The historic North Bethesda home of 19th-century abolitionist Josiah Henson soon will be open more regularly as a historic park, with a museum and interpretative program focusing on Henson’s life and slavery in Montgomery County. State funding is helping that expansion. Maryland lawmakers awarded the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Montgomery County Department of Parks, a $100,000 earmark, or bond bill, this past session to help complete the Josiah Henson Park project. According to documents submitted for the bond bill, the project is estimated to cost about $9.85 million. Plans call for converting the site into a historic and cultural park and turning the historic house on the property into a museum. The park and museum will have indoor, outdoor and multimedia exhibits; a ﬁlm; and a research library. The park features the Riley/ Bolton House, where Henson spent most of his youth and was held as a slave. According to the Department of Parks, after years of enslavement, Henson escaped to freedom in Canada on the Underground Railroad. He later published his autobiography, “The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave,” which is credited with inspiring Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Montgomery’s parks department has owned the house since 2006. The house is listed on the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places. It’s also a stop on the National Park Service’s National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program. In 2010, Montgomery’s parks department adopted a master plan for updating the park. Currently, the park is open for guided group tours as well as for special events, such as the upcoming Montgomery County Heritage Days in June. For Heritage Days this year, the park will be open June 28. Museum Manager Shirl Spicer said the project will allow the park to be open on a regular schedule and offer a more interactive learning experience. She said the project is expected to take several years to complete, but the park will open for tours and special events as the work progresses. To help fund the project, the Montgomery Parks Foundation is running a capital campaign. Nina Aplebaum, the grants manager for the foundation, said the goal is to raise $2 million. The state funds will go toward the overall project costs for planning, design, construction, repair and renovation and capital equipping of the park, she said. While the park’s department sought $275,000 from the state, it received only $100,000. Aplebaum said there are plans to seek additional bond-bill funding in future years. kalexander@gazette.net

As the Olney Chamber of Commerce prepares for its annual Celebration of Excellence awards and installation banquet on Thursday, it has announced the honorees for Business Persons of the Year and Partner in Business. Mark and Mary Ann Malakoff are the 2014 Business Persons of the Year. “As owners of Kang’s Black Belt Academy, they have demonstrated their entrepreneurial acumen, and their support of a wide variety of organizations in the Olney-Sandy Spring area is unsurpassed,” said the chamber’s executive director, Jon Hulsizer. The Malakoffs have been members of the chamber for more than eight years. “The chamber is deﬁnitely a major part of the Olney area,” Mark Malakoff said. “They do a fantastic job of bringing the community together.” Malakoff began teaching martial arts in this area more than 25 years ago. He and his wife originally held classes at the Olney Studio of Dance and the Jewish Community Center in Rockville before opening their studio in 1997 at 17810 Meeting House Road, Sandy Spring. “We are off the main road so no one knows we are there,”

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The chamber’s 2014 Partner in Business recipient is Our Lady of Good Counsel High School. Hulsizer said the school has offered its 50-acre campus to host various community events and organizations, including Olney Relay for Life, Sandy Spring Athletics, Olney Boys and Girls Community Sports Association, the Knights of Columbus, and the parishes of St. Peter’s, St. Patrick’s and St. Jude’s. Its students are also active locally, regionally and internationally, and staff members have served as chamber board members and volunteers at activities. Two years ago, Good Counsel began hosting the annual Community Night/Taste of Olney. The change of venue gave the county’s longest-running business expo double the ﬂoor space and added more exhibi-

tors, food vendors and lighted, paved parking. Hulsizer said the result was a 35 percent increase in attendance. The 36th annual Community Night is already set for Oct. 12, again at Good Counsel. “From our perspective, it is important for the school community to reach out to support the larger community in which we reside,” said Adam Trice, the school’s advancement director. “We depend on area businesses and organizations for support. As a private, nonproﬁt Catholic high school, we are always in a position to raise money to support our students.” Trice called the school a strong advocate for local businesses. “We’ve been involved with the chamber and an advocate for a number of years, and plan to continue that.”

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“We really enjoy what we do, and it is nice to be acknowledged by the community, so this is like icing on the cake,” said Mark Malakoff of Kang’s Black Belt Academy, who, with his wife, Mary Ann, is being honored by the Olney Chamber of Commerce.

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Smith communities names new COO Charles E. Smith Life Communities of Rockville named Bruce J. Lederman senior vice president, COO. Previously, Lederman was chief strategy ofﬁcer of Midwest Administrative Additional Services. He BizBriefs holds a bachn Page A-14 elor’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a law degree from DePaul University.

Federal Realty names three executives Federal Realty Investment Trust of Rockville announced the following appointments. • Jeffrey S. Mooallem was named senior vice president, managing director core shopping center operations. Mooallem previously worked for Equity One

Wednesday, June 3, 2015 r and Turnberry Associates. He holds a bachelor’s from Boston University and a law degree from Fordham University. • Jarett L. Parker was named vice president, asset management Metro D.C. region. Previously, Parker was director of asset management at Kimco Realty. He holds a bachelor’s from University of Maryland University College and a master’s from the Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business. • Michael R. Linson was named vice president ﬁnance for the core shopping center division. Previously, Linson was senior vice president of asset management for Penzance Co. and also worked for Mills Corp. He holds a bachelor’s from Loyola College and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Potomac nonprofit honors business supporters Potomac Community Village honored several business leaders and one business at its birthday celebration May 21. The Potomac honorees were recognized for their financial and other support in helping the volunteer nonprofit grow and meet its mission of helping Potomac residents remain in their homes as they age.

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Olney Theatre hosts musical evening Weldon Brown, whom many Olney Theatre patrons know as the man who takes care of memberships and helps with ticket exchanges, will share his lesser-known musical talent as a pianist

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Steben & Co. names marketing chief Steben & Co. of Gaithersburg named Peter Weinberg head of investor relations and marketing. Previously, Weinberg was head of investor relations at SkyBridge Capital. He holds a bachelor’s in economics from Boston University.

KoolSpan names chief commercial officer KoolSpan of Bethesda named Tom Bryant chief commercial officer. Previously, Bryant was senior vice president-global distribution at Digicel and managing director and COO of Brightstar-Russia. He also worked for Verizon and Nextel. Bryant was co-inventor of the first solar-powered mobile phone designed for users in emerging markets around the world, according to a news release.

Friday evening. Weldon and his guests will offer a casual evening around the piano at 8 p.m. Friday at the Olney Theatre Center’s Historic Theatre. Artistic Director Jason Loewith may even sing a tune. All proceeds go to Olney Theatre Center’s educational initiatives. Tickets, at $25 for theater members and $35 for nonmembers, are available at tinyurl.com/pev9txz by calling 301-924-3400.

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Conﬁrmed PEOPLE TB case at high school University honors local reporter More online at www.gazette.net

Letters recommend some be tested

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Someone who attends or works at Rockville High School is being treated for tuberculosis, county health officials said. A letter to parents and guardians on May 26 said it is unlikely their children will become infected. Casual exposure is not enough to contract the disease, the letter said, and there is no risk of further exposure. “It usually takes at least eight hours of close contact in a small room for TB transmission to occur and the air space is only contagious when the untreated patient is actually present,” said the letter from county health officer Ulder J. Tillman and Principal Billie-Jean Bensen. Tuberculosis, a bacterial disease, usually affects the lungs and sometimes the brain, kidneys and spine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Symptoms are fever, weight loss, weakness and coughing. A second round of letters went out last week to everyone in the school community, said Mary Anderson, a county Health and Human Services spokeswoman. Some were sent a letter saying the health department recommended they be tested. Others were sent a letter that they were not at risk of infection. Anderson said she could not say how many people the department recommends for testing. She also said she couldn’t say whether both students and staff received the letters that recommended testing. She said, however, that in such cases both are usually included. Family members are also usually tested in such cases, she said. Anderson said staff worked to identify people who have been in close contact with the person. “They’re looking at that individual’s pattern at school,” she said May 27. County health officials are recommending that students and staff who were in a class or afterschool activity with the person from February to May be tested. Bensen said last week that the school had returned to its usual state. The TB case was the first she had seen as principal, she said. County health staff will conduct testing at the school on Thursday. Parents of students who were most frequently exposed to the infected person will be notified by health officials, according to schools spokesman Dana Tofig. Parents with immediate concerns should contact their family doctor or health officials.

James Risen of Derwood, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, was among six alumni recently inducted into Northwestern UniAdditional versity’s Medill’s Hall of People & Achievement. The honor was esPlaces tablished in 1997 to n Page A-6 recognize alumni of the university’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications whose “distinctive careers have had positive impacts on their ﬁelds,” according to a

school news release. Risen won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for uncovering the government’s secret domestic wiretapping program and was a member of the Times reporting team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting for the newspaper’s coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks. He also won the 2006 Goldsmith Prize for investigative reporting. Risen is the author of four books: “Wrath of Angels: The American Abortion War” (Basic Books, 1998); “The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Final Showdown with the KGB” (Random House, 2003); “State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration” (Free Press, 2006); and “Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War” (Houghton Mifﬂin Harcourt, 2014). “State of War” and “Pay Any Price” were New York

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Brinklow teen gymnast releases children’s book Lindsay Johnson is following her dream and inspiring others to do the same. Johnson, a freshman at Sandy Spring Friends School and a world-class trampoline-gymnast, wrote and illustrated a children’s book, “A Dream,” which is now available in bookstores and online. The book actually began as a poem that she wrote to encourage herself to pursue her own dream of competing in the Olympics. She realized that her empowering message, and the strength that she gained from it, might be shared with others to inspire them to go after their goals and to remind them that their dreams do matter.

Lindsay’s book tour started May 14 at Sandy Spring’s Lower School, when she read “A Dream” to a group of students. The students shared their own dreams with Lindsay, and she encouraged each of them to work hard at whatever they want to do with their lives and not give up. Currently training for the Olympics, Lindsay has been involved with trampoline and gymnastics since she was a toddler and has been training in the world of elite athletics and international competition since she was 10. Her hard work has paid off: She’s a U.S. Junior Olympic trampoline and tumbling gymnast and was selected to be a member of the Olympic Elite Development Program. Lindsay will have a book signing from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Cricket Bookstore in Ashton. More information is available at lindsayjohnson.org.

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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 • 15000 block of Joshua Tree Road in North Potomac in the early morning hours of May 16. No forced entry, took property. • 14000 block of Damson Terrace in North Potomac in the early morning hours of May 16. No forced entry, took property. • 11000 block of Trail Bridge Drive in Clarksville in the early morning hours of May 16. No forced entry, took property. Vehicle larceny • Six thefts from vehicles occurred in the early morning hours of May 16. Affected streets included Trail Ridge Drive, Becket Street, Piney Grove Court, Apple Hill Court, Wonder View Way and Winesap Terrace. Forced entry, took property.

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Museum photo exhibit focuses on water

Potomac market supports nonprofits with monthly Community First Day The Market at River Falls in Potomac has launched an initiative to support local food nonprofits. It will hold a Community First Day on the first day of each month, donating 25 percent of the day’s sales to support organizations that help fight hunger, promote nutritional education, support small farmers and fishermen, and help the sustainable food movement in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, according to a store news release. The first beneficiary Monday was DC Greens, which supports food education, access and policy in Washington. Future beneficiaries will include the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, DC Central Kitchen, Future Harvest and Miriam’s Kitchen. The market is in the Potomac Village Shopping Center, 10124 River Road.

Rockville Town Square offers Thursday concerts Rockville Town Square will kick off its Thursday Night Summer Concert Series this week with Taylor Carson performing acoustic rock from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. This month’s theme is acoustic June. July is Military Appreciation Month, and August will feature duos. The free outdoor live concerts will be in the plaza at 200 E. Middle Lane. More information is available at rockvilletownsquare.com.

Bruce McNeil’s exhibit “The River’s Journey” is now open at the Sandy Spring Museum. McNeil’s photographs document the ﬂow of water from the eponymous Sandy Spring to the tributaries that lead to the Anacostia. From Sandy Spring — where McNeil claims “one can drink the water from the ground” to the Anacostia, which is sometimes referred to as “one of America’s most-polluted rivers” — the journey is meant to inspire a feeling of connection to the beauty of the rivers and a sense of spiritual transformation, according to a news release. The exhibit is open through July 26. More information is available at sandyspringmuseum.org. The museum is at 17901 Bentley Road.

Local author in Gaithersburg for book signing Kathryn Chamberlin of Rockville will sign copies of her recently published book, “From Shame to Glory: Your Pathway to Freedom,” from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Family Christian Book Store, 18302 Contour Road, Gaithersburg. Chamberlin is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Bethesda. She holds a nursing degree from the University of Virginia, a master’s in social work from Catholic University and a certiﬁcation in Biblical counseling. “Katie’s life calling has been to bring healing to shame sufferers, through counseling, teaching, seminars — and now, this book,” according to a press release. For more information, call 301-990-6611.

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The show must go on, and it did, despite some protests by animal rights activists. The Kelly Miller Circus returned to MedStar Montgomery Medical Center grounds in Olney on Thursday and Friday, with two shows each day. This marked the 15th year the circus has performed in Olney. American Legion Post 68 sponsors the circus as a fundraiser, although it was originally sponsored by the Olney Rotary Club. “Thursday was kind of light because it was a school night, but Friday night was probably one of the best crowds we have ever seen,” said Post 68 Cmdr. Halsey Smith. Smith said he was aware of comments posted on the OlneyBrookeville Exchange about cruelty to the animals, plus a few emails sent to the hospital expressing similar concerns. He said one woman came to the grounds and questioned how the tigers were housed and called in a county inspector. “The inspector gave us a clean bill of health,” he said.

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Workers with the Kelly Miller Circus use a forklift to raise the big top tent Thursday in Olney.

Smith said there were a handful of protesters in the parking lot with signs opposing the circus. “They didn’t cause any problems, and they have every right to protest, so there is no point arguing with them,” he said. “Every circus deals with this, but I can say that I have never seen anyone turn around because of them.” Smith said the Kelly Miller organization is great to deal with. “I believe they treat the animals well because it is their livelihood,” he said.

Smith said the circus enjoys coming to Olney, and it is one of only a few places where it performs for two evenings. “They also like to shop at the thrift shop, so everyone wins, except for the few people opposed to dealing with animals,” he said. Smith said the ﬁnal amount raised has not been determined. “We don’t make a huge amount, but we don’t do it just for the money,” he said. “We make enough and the crowds are big enough to make it worthwhile. It’s a great community event, especially for the little kids.” One of the reasons he doesn’t think the Legion will clear as much as last year is higher expenses. “Our costs for the county permits almost doubled,” Smith said. Funds raised by Post 68 are applied to scholarships offered to Sherwood High School students, supporting a local American Legion baseball team, sponsoring a local student to attend the Boys State leadership and citizenship program, and sponsoring Boy Scout Troop 264. Post 68 has just under 200 members, with more than half of the members in their 80s and 90s, Smith said. He said the post plans to bring back the circus again next near.

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Following a Maryland attorney general’s ofﬁce opinion that a proposed pesticide ban in Montgomery County could be preempted by state law if challenged in court, a councilman is seeking additional advice from the state.

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farms. The ban has broad support among many environmental groups, but the county Farm Bureau is vehemently opposed and sought the attorney general’s ofﬁce opinion through Del. Kirill Reznik (D-Dist. 39) of Germantown. Assistant Attorney General Kathryn M. Rowe issued an opinion in April that found that a proposed ban on the cosmetic use of pesticide could be preempted by state law because the state already has the power

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He outlined these options: • Require those pesticides applicators to report to the county the amount of pesticides they apply each year, for the purpose of establishing a pesticide-reduction goal. • Require residents to sign a document that identiﬁes the health risks associated with pesticides, acknowledges organic alternatives exist and directs a lawn-care provider to use integrated pest management practices, which call for using pesticides as a last resort. • Require condo and homeowner associations to obtain an afﬁrmative vote of their membership to apply pesticides. • Require additional reporting for properties frequented by children, such as playgrounds and day cares.

Leventhal said he does not agree with any proposals in Berliner’s letter. “It certainly appears that Chairman Berliner and I are not on the same page on this,” he said. Leventhal (D-At large) of Takoma Park said he expects the environmental community will not care for the proposals either. “He’s proposing reporting, not prohibiting,” Leventhal said. Leventhal said he is open to compromises, but he cannot agree to any of the alternatives for which Berliner is seeking guidance. Leventhal said Berliner didn’t notify him about the letter before he sent it. kalexander@gazette.net

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Parent, legislators ask school district to publish test data Ofﬁcial: Performance gaps already evident

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A parent and some state legislators want Montgomery County Public Schools to publish test data so the community can see how students perform and, in some cases, do worse than their peers. A school system official said the district doesn’t plan to change what data it publishes. However, a task force is looking at how the district might change county quizzes to be a better fit for ESOL students and certain students with disabilities. Katie Spurlock, a parent who taught English in New York, is calling for public access to data from countywide tests given to middle or high school students. Some are formative tests, or quizzes, and others are summative tests, such as semester and final exams. As the district takes on an effort to review all testing, Spurlock

said, discussion should include public examination of the summative and formative results. Spurlock said her request stems from concern about the district’s English tests for middle school students, speciﬁcally how ESOL and special education students perform compared to peers. She said some of those students take the tests that measure reading and language ability and fail them multiple times a year — “more or less because of who you are and not what you did” in class. “I think we need the data to understand how the students are experiencing the test,” she said. In response to a Public Information Act request from Spurlock, the school system provided data from 2013-14 for formative and summative tests across a number of English courses in different grades and class levels. Data shows that ESOL and special education students, compared to other student groups, consistently earned mean scores that were the lowest or among the lowest. “To me, it’s not a minor thing

that a student with a disability or a student who’s an English language learner can look forward to failing all of these uniform tests,” Spurlock said of the English tests. Maria V. Navarro, the district’s chief academic ofﬁcer, said gaps are clear in other data the district does put out. The district is not considering publishing formative test results, Navarro said, because quizzes are meant to provide information for staff to ﬁgure out instruction and gauge how students are doing at a given time. That data is not “a done deal,” she said. Summative test results, she said, are only a portion of students’ grades. The district would need to pull data from hundreds of courses, she said. Navarro pointed to gaps in a presentation to the school board on high school milestones — certain targets the district uses to assess students at several points in their education. The board will hear about elementary and middle school milestone data in June. Milestone information,

she said, demonstrates not just whether students passed or failed, but if they reached a threshold, such as a grade of C or higher. State Del. Eric Luedtke (DDist. 14), a county schoolteacher, said formative test results don’t portray how much a student achieves. However, he supports publishing summative test data broken down by student groups.

That information can help gauge how the district is serving students with special needs and ESOL students, he said. There’s also a need for more community discussion, he said. “I think people often draw the wrong assumptions from data, simplistic assumptions from data,” he said. In December, state Sen. Rich-

ard S. Madaleno Jr. (D-Dist. 18) wrote to then-Superintendent Joshua P. Starr and board President Patricia O’Neill on behalf of eight other current and incoming legislators that publishing formative and summative test data would, among other things, let the public “participate more fruitfully” in talks about the achievement gaps.

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Obituary Mary Alice Kemp, 88, of Bedford, PA, passed away Sunday, May 24, 2015, at the Lions Center for Rehabilitation and Extended Care surrounded by her loving family. Friends will be received at the Adams Family Funeral Home, P.A., 404 Decatur Street, Cumberland, MD, (www.AdamsFamilyFuneralHome.com) on Thursday, May 28, 2015, from 2:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. and from 7:00 P.M., to 9:00 P.M. A funeral service will be conducted at the funeral home on Friday, May 29, 2015, at 11:00 A.M., with Pastor Jenny Barnes, Yeager Lutheran Church, officiating. Interment will be at the Maryland Veterans’ Cemetery at Rocky Gap.

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Graduates celebrate at the end of Magruder High School’s 42nd graduation exercises Tuesday at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington. About 375 seniors graduated this year. The commencement speaker was businessman Paul Burden, a member of the Rockville school’s ﬁrst graduating class in 1973.

Woman dies Sunday after Derwood crash Other driver taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries

The victim’s name and hometown were not released on Tuesday, as police worked to contact her family. Police said the crash happened shortly before 11:30 p.m. A white Ford Taurus driven by the victim collided with a black Ford Focus just north of Bowie Mill Road, police said in a news release. Police did not know on Tuesday what

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caused the crash. The driver of the Ford Focus — identiﬁed as Juan Francisco Diana, 34, of the 3000 block of Aquarius Avenue in Silver Spring — was taken to Suburban Hospital with injuries that were not considered life threatening, police said. Police have asked anyone who might have seen the collision to call them at 240-773-6620.

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Continued from Page A-1 course, while helping police pinpoint where he ultimately was hiding. The man, who had struck Alvarez several times on the head with a rock and tried to steal his backpack, was arrested and charged with attempted first-degree murder. While Breslin, Chazin, Diaz and Zimmerman were chasing the culprit, Gardner, Morejon, Gillin and Ray provided first aid to Alvarez until help arrived. Although taken to Suburban Hospital in Bethesda with a skull fracture and bleeding on his brain, Alvarez has made a complete recovery. • Distinguished Service Citation: Cpls. Heath Marshall, David Trogolo and Christopher Sadelson, Rockville Police Department. At about 1 a.m. on May 9, 2014, Rockville police took a call about a man who may have hung himself near the post office in the Twinbrook neighborhood. Trogolo found the man unresponsive and hanging from his sweatshirt tied to a railing. Marshall began performing first aid, and the man survived and was taken to Suburban Hospital. • Distinguished Service Citation: Deputy Dagan Culver, Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office; Detectives Jacques Cowan, Seamus Galey, Darrin Jones, Sean Reilly and Greg Martinez, Sgt. Ken Berger and Program Specialist 1 Penny Lapp, Montgomery County Police Department. The officers are members of the county’s Firearms Investigation Unit, responsible for investigating crimes involving guns in the county. • Distinguished Service Citation: Deputy Sheriff II Vithaya Iem, Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office. On March 31, Iem was in Silver Spring helping serve a protective order when he was approached by a woman about a person who wasn’t breathing. Iem found a man on a stairwell landing; the man was not breathing but had a pulse. Iem used his hand to remove saliva from the man’s mouth, helping him start breathing before he was taken to a hospital for further treatment. • Distinguished Service Citation: Firefighter 3/EMT James Hedges, Rockville Volunteer Fire Department. On May 21, 2014, Hedges and others were dispatched to a call for a woman who had given birth. When they arrived, they found that the baby, born at only 27 weeks, was still in the amniotic sac, and was blue, limp and not breathing. Hedges used a bulb syringe to help the

baby start breathing. • Meritorious Service Citation: Sgt. Jonathan Berry, Cpls. Steve Malko and Laura Myers, and Officers Jonathan Lee and Daniel Morozewicz, Rockville City Police Department. On April 13, 2014, Myers, Lee and Morozewicz responded to a call for a potentially suicidal person on the ledge of a building on Hungerford Drive. Malko and Morozewicz secured the perimeter and worked with fire and rescue crews and other units, while Berry tried to begin a conversation with the man. The man eventually agreed to come down from the ledge, and was taken to a hospital for evaluation. • Meritorious Service Citation: Communication Dispatcher Alice Frishkorn, Rockville Police Department. On May 9, 2014, Frishkorn was working as a dispatcher when she took a call from a mother who said she had gotten a message from her adult son threatening to kill himself. Frishkorn contacted the son and was able to help the Montgomery County Emergency Communications Center find a location for the man’s cellphone. He stayed on the phone with the man until officers arrived. • Meritorious Service Citation: Cpls. Eric Griffith and Harry Dunton, and therapist Clara Arthur, Montgomery County Department of Correction and Rehabilitation. Griffith, Dunton and Arthur helped a man who became uncooperative and combative while leaving the detention center’s Central Processing Unit on Dec. 24. The man’s wife told detention center staff that he had been working full time and was a doctoral student, and recently had suffered what she said was a nervous breakdown. Detention center staff worked with staff from the Department of Health and Human Services to have the man taken to a hospital for a mental health evaluation. • Distinguished Service Citation: Cpl. John Pfaehler, Rockville Police Department, and Christopher Day, a former corporal with the Rockville Police Department. On Dec. 15, Pfaehler arrived at the Rockville Metro station at about 6:15 a.m. for a reported stabbing and found two victims who had lost a lot of blood. He and Day performed first aid on the two for several minutes until medical help arrived. Both victims were upgraded at the hospital to stable condition with nonlife-threatening injuries due to the help Pfaehler and Day provided. A full list of the awards is at www.gazette.net.

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Continued from Page A-1 interest in Rockville with the change, “we’re not going to see development tomorrow,” he said. At Monday’s meeting, Moore argued that the county standards are the only ones that matter, as the county, not the city, decides when and where schools are built. If Rockville has a school at 112 percent capacity and a school in another part of the county is at 140 percent capacity, the other school is always going to get the county funding for expansion, he said. Onley had requested the item be put back on the agenda and was seen as the decisive vote Monday. She said she didn’t believe it made sense for Rockville to have different standards from the county’s, and aligning the standards would increase the city’s tax base and bring more affordable and workforce housing to the city. Palakovich Carr referred to her in-

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Continued from Page A-1 his wife suffered eight wounds. The Tomaszewski and Vilardo families are next-door neighbors, according to police. “This neighborhood is terriﬁed. ... We can’t imagine what would happen if he were released back into the community again,” said county State’s Attorney John McCarthy, who argued for continued incarceration during Monday’s bail hearing in Rockville. The stabbings were “quite brutal, quite severe,” McCarthy said during a press conference after the hearing. Police investigators think Tomaszewski acted alone, he said. “We continue to investigate but

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Page A-13 fant son and said his future will depend on the quality of education he gets in Montgomery County Public Schools. Rockville’s school overcrowding problem is a county school overcrowding problem, and the city hasn’t been well-served by having different standards from the county’s, she said. Newton urged her colleagues to think about how they can help the county get the money that it needs for new school construction. After the meeting, she said she doesn’t think that capacity should be measured by cluster averaging, but rather on a school-by-school basis. Despite her opposition to the changes, Newton said the city has a “fantastic” planning commission that will do a good job encouraging good development in the city. Planning Commission Chairman Don Hadley told the mayor and council Monday that there’s a lot more that needs to be discussed and considered before a decision is made on the new standards, ofﬁcially called the adequate public facilities standards.

Hadley said he thinks the debate was conducted out of context, and that the city’s master plan should work out how and where the city grows. Feinberg questioned why the city would adopt the county standards when they aren’t working and the county is beginning to look at the issue. She also pointed out that the standards don’t look at programs in various schools, such as which schools have high percentages of Title 1 students, students who speak English as a second language or special education students. Andrea Jolly, president of the Rockville Chamber of Commerce, was one of several business owners or representatives who urged the city to align its standards with the county’s. She said the change will help lead to a thriving Rockville, with an expanded tax base that lets the city provide more services. On Tuesday, the chamber released a statement hailing the vote as “fantastic news for Rockville, and all current and future businesses in the city.”

people should not feel anxious,” he said. John Kudel, who represents Tomaszewski, said he met with his client for the ﬁrst time on Sunday after police brought Tomaszewski back from Alaska. He was arrested there on May 16 during a cruise stop with his parents in Juneau. “I think he’s very much in a state of shock and trying to make sense of everything,” Kudel said Monday. When asked by a television reporter about a defense strategy, Kudel said he will ﬁrst need to review the evidence. Tomaszewski did not receive a mental health evaluation while in Alaska, he said. Reading from a statement, Kudel also said that Tomaszewski’s parents are “devastated” and “deeply saddened” by the death of the Vilardos

and by the fact that their son has been charged in the case. Tomaszewski’s parents recently had retired from government jobs, and the cruise in Alaska was to celebrate their retirement, Kudel said. Investigators arrested Tomaszewski in Juneau after linking him to a burglary on Ridge Drive in early April, during which he stole a class ring that he later pawned in Rockville on April 20, according to police. After arresting Tomaszewski, investigators found cash in his wallet “soaked with what appears to be blood,” according to the documents. “We have video of him pawning [the ring] ... and money was found in his own pocket,” McCarthy said at the hearing.

New York, but was ready for a change in 1991. She took a vacation to Italy, what she calls “the coffee capital of the world.” Weinberg’s mother is French, and coffee has been part of Weinberg’s life for a long time. “I grew up drinking café au lait out of a bowl,” she said. When Weinberg was hired as the company’s second employee, her ﬁrst job was putting together the roasting facility in Rockville.

The ﬁrst employee hired was the company’s president, Roger Scheumann. While the Cleveland Park store closed because of competition from Starbucks and other chains — and they do have the two Bethesda stores — much of Quartermaine’s focus is selling coffee for people to brew at home, Weinberg said, with 40 percent of sales coming from bean sales.

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Bethesda software company sells for $1.2B Privately held Virtustream of Bethesda has agreed to be acquired by publicly held EMC of Hopkinton, Mass., for $1.2 billion in cash. The deal is expected to close this summer, according to a news release. Virtustream, founded in 2009 by Rodney Rogers and President and Chief Technology Officer Kevin Reid, will form EMC’s new managed cloud services business. The software company will operate as a separate EMC business, with Rogers reporting to CEO Joe Tucci. Virtustream’s customers include Coca-Cola, Domino Sugar, Heinz, Hess Corp., Kawasaki, Lexmark and Scotts Miracle-Gro.

Irish restaurant coming to Rockville Town Square Finnegan’s Wake Irish Pub will open its first location at Rockville Town Square this summer, according to developer Federal Realty Investment Trust of Rockville. The 2,411-square-foot pub, owned by Terry and Vanessa Laurin, will feature traditional Irish cuisine. Construction will begin this month at 100-F Gibbs St. Finnegan’s is the newest restaurant at Rockville Town Square. Miso Café and Samovar are also expected to open this year, and Peter Chang recently opened.

Health care center opens in Rockville Patient First of Glen Allen, Va., is opening a new medical center Wednesday at 726 Rockville Pike, Rockville. The center will be open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. Its physicians and support staff will provide urgent care; work, school, camp, sports and travel physicals; occupational health services; and primary care for patients who do not have a primary care physician, according to a news release. It also will offer digital X-ray

and on-site lab services, along with some prescriptions. The center accepts most insurance plans. The Rockville facility is the chain’s 57th medical center. Its phone number is 240-238-0411.

HMSHost names VP for business development HMSHost of Bethesda named KentVandenOevervicepresident of business development. Previously, Vanden Oever was a consultant at AirProjects and manVanden Oever ager of airport business services for HNTB Corp. He holds a bachelor’s in business from Miami University and an MBA in ﬁnance and real estate from the University of Cincinnati.

Midcap Financial names managing director Midcap Financial of Bethesda named John Rosin managing director-national head of originations of the Midcap Financial Services General Industries Asset Based Lending Group. Rosin holds a bachelor’s from Indiana University.

Italian eatery marks 25th year with donations Il Pizzico, an Italian restaurant in Rockville, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this week by donating a portion of its sales to Manna Food Center in Gaithersburg. In addition, it’s rafﬂing off tickets for a trip for two to Italy, with proceeds benefiting the Literacy Council of Montgomery County, according to a news release. And on Thursday, all customers get a 25 percent discount. The restaurant is at 15209 N. Frederick Road.

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With the right business plan and the right experience, one lucky entrepreneur will get the opportunity and ﬁnancial backing to run their very own bar, conveniently and compactly built inside a shipping container, lakeside, at the Gaithersburg Marriott Washingtonian Center. The contest is just one of many launched throughout the country by Canvas, a food and drink concept lab by Marriott International of Bethesda to foster the ideas of entrepreneurs in its various locations. “[This is a] new idea that Marriott International has launched that is a vehicle to be able to source local talent with innovative ideas in food and beverage concepts and to be able to tap into that and attract them to our company,” Gaithersburg’s general manager Sara Moore said. Moore explained that local entrepreneurs may not necessarily want to sign on to work at a large chain, but this is a way to draw them in and utilize and cultivate their ideas. She said the winner is not only given the seed money to get their concept off the ground, but they have access to food and beverage experts who will be able to help. Marriott is hoping to have the bar up and running as soon as possible. “People have the idea and think, ‘Gee, if I had the money and could open up my own business, this is what it would be,’” Moore said. Though there are other contests occurring currently, Gaithersburg’s container bar is the only one of its kind. Other locations are offering onsite rooms or areas in their hotels, but the container bar is unique. The container, which is 20 feet long by 8 feet wide, has a small, fully equipped bar inside with several beer taps, refrigeration and storage space. The sides of the container can be raised, making it completely accessible, and a surround,ing

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The container bar premiered at an industry event in Los Angeles. The bar will soon be set up at the Gaithersburg Marriott Washingtonian Center, where the contest winner will make the business plan a reality. The interior of the bar might change as the entrepreneur sees ﬁt.

platform with decking is planned for additional seating. More seating could be set up on the surrounding lawn. The bar premiered at an industry event by Marriott in Los Angeles and is now waiting for the exterior decking to be constructed in Gaithersburg. The interior of the bar is decorated already, with industrial accents and hanging overhead lights, but the winner of the contest can change it however they want with the seed money provided to them by Marriott.

The container bar would focus on craft beverages, but food would be available to its customers from onsite restaurant, The Bench. Marriott and its restaurants onsite try to reﬂect the community that it is located in, according to Moore, with local foods and local beers. She said a common misconception is that hotel restaurants and bars are only open to hotel guests, but Marriott’s are open to the public and the container bar will be as well. Nicole Watkins, the food

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and beverage director, explained that there are regulars who live in the area that come out to The Bench for dinner and cocktails often, either inside or on the outdoor patio. “Local guests can’t wait for [the bar] to open,” Watkins said, The contest entries are due June 9 and Moore said that she’s heard from other Canvas start-ups that entries came in right up until deadline. The contestants will be evaluated by judges, including Moore and Imbibe Magazine’s 2015 bartender of the year Derek Brown who is based in Washington, D.C. The top three to ﬁve picks will be brought in for in-person interviews and drink trials. Once the winner is selected, they will run the bar for several months until midfall, because it is an outdoor location. After that, they will be examined for success based on popularity and return on investment. Watkins said it could potentially reopen next season. More information can be found at www.canvas-startup. com.

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Garrett Park’s poet laureate, Barbara Shidler, signs books at a May 17 reading and reception to celebrate her ﬁrst book, “Caught Moon,” a poetic memoir of her 54 years living in the town.

The Gazette is a local paper, whose focus was and should be on daily life in Montgomery County. When I pick up The Gazette, I want to read more about Barbara Shidler of Garrett Park who published her ﬁrst book of poetry at 88 (“The bard of Garrett Park,” May 20). I would have enjoyed a full-length article about her life in Garrett Park and its changes since 1961, and wished for a glimpse of her poems. Instead, the columns next to her photo were allocated to a Washington Post reporter covering (again) a sensational crime in the county, which no doubt already got its excessive coverage in the Post. I’m at least grateful that the crime story was moved to the inside pages, as opposed to recent headlines on the front of The Gazette about violence. I would rather not see that in our local paper. Publishing Deborah Vollmer’s letter to the editor, however, is just the right Gazette touch. Where else could you read about income inequality leading to unequal treatment in the town of Chevy Chase? That is truly priceless. Anne Murray sang it, and I challenge The Gazette to follow through: “We sure could use a little good news today.” Angie Loomis, Chevy Chase

Not the ﬁnest moments for school board

Two articles on the front page of The Gazette on May 20 (“Foes: school plan flawed” and “Board to name interim school superintendent”) raise serious questions about how well the Montgomery County Board of Education is functioning (or not functioning). First, the board apparently approved the construction of a $48 million middle school on a site in Kensington that does not conform to its own standards. As one county official put it, the board is trying to fit “10 pounds

of sugar in a 5-pound sack.” Not only does this sound like a poorly conceived plan, it also seems like a gross waste of taxpayer funds. But this is not the only questionable decision the board has made. On the same front page of The Gazette is an article chronicling the latest saga in the sad story of the superintendent of schools. For some vague reason, the board felt compelled not to retain the services of Joshua Starr and thought it could hire a new

superintendent easily. Now we ﬁnd that after meeting with the board, its chosen candidate has lost interest in the job. It is not too difﬁcult to understand why. So, the board is going to name an interim superintendent for a year. Do the taxpayers of Montgomery County really deserve a temporary caretaker of the highly prized school system? Something is rotten in the county of Montgomery. Michael Hoxie, Kensington

Beneﬁts of CCT are exaggerated Honestly, to read the May 20 letter to the editor in The Gazette by Shane Robinson, Nancy J. King and Marilyn Balcombe (“Corridor Cities Transitway could be boon for region”), one might think that building the CCT will be the economic boon to Maryland that the completion of the Union Paciﬁc Railroad in 1869 was to the nation. What nonsense. Or more to the point, what are their vested interests? They crow about 100,000 new jobs, billions in annual goods and millions in state tax revenues. Based on what? Oh, they don’t mention that. It’s kind of a “Trust

us — we’re from the government and the chamber of commerce” argument. Remember the promised trafﬁc beneﬁts of the ICC? Whoops. It remains sorely underused. Sorry about that, taxpayers and convulsed residents. What is certain is that building the CCT will convulse and forever divide long-established Gaithersburg communities, just as building the Whitehurst Expressway convulsed and forever divided Georgetown. Do we really need to take a cleaver to Gaithersburg to accommodate the expansionist dreams of Johns Hopkins, Adven-

tist Hospital, multiple chambers of commerce and politicians? I hope not. Bill Fallon, Gaithersburg

Editor’s note: When they submitted their letter, Robinson, King and Balcombe provided, as a source for their facts, a copy of a PowerPoint presentation on the Great Seneca Science Corridor. In the presentation, the figures on jobs, annual goods and services and state tax revenues are attributed to a Sage Policy Group Draft Vision 2030 Economic Impact Analysis from June 2008. The PowerPoint slide can be found on page 12 at tinyurl.com/lkqf2py.

For development and job creation, why wait for transit project? Del. Robinson, Sen. King and Ms. Balcombe ask “How do we increase access to affordable transit and create jobs?” (“Corridor Cities Transitway could be boon for region,” May 20). The answer is not to wait for the Corridor Cities Transitway (CCT) as though it, somehow, will answer the question. The answer, as demonstrated by the Crown Farm development and its job creations, is to build the science centers and related facilities now,

while at the same time improving the existing transit systems. Why are we waiting? Suppose the developers of Crown Farm — a planned CCT station — had waited for the CCT. Think of how many current and future jobs would have been lost. Currently, there is a Ride-On bus route from all the projected CCT stations that accomplishes the same basic objectives as the CCT. Build on what we have — that is the answer.

What we need to do is take the current $100,000,000 for the CCT design and use it to improve what already exists. Waiting for the CCT, which is years away — if it is ever built — is missing great opportunities to achieve the aims outlined in their letter. We should build on what we have, not hope that a future project will give us all the answers. Alan S. Kaplan, Rockville

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Many reasons to disagree with football reclassiﬁcation

I have just read the May 13 article “Two football stars want extra year” by Prince J. Grimes. I found it well written and I assume (often a mistake) factually correct. For those who may not wish to read further, my position is: I totally disagree with the concept of an extra year of eligibility for certain students who are reclassified eligible to play a fifth season. There are many reasons for my position, but I will focus on the most obvious reasons against reclassification. I will limit my comments to these young men’s situations. I will try to be brief: 1. The player “didn’t get the college recognition that his accolades would suggest.” The fact that Blake Dove was “named the 4A Defensive Player of the Year by Montgomery County coaches” nullifies this argument. 2. It is not a Maryland high school’s responsibility to provide a venue for school athletes to accumulate “sports accolades” over any number of seasons before or after grades 9 through 12. 3. The Maryland Public Secondary School Athletic Association provides guidelines schools must follow. “High school team members may participate in interscholastic athletic contests in a maximum of four seasons in one sport within the 9th through 12th grades.” He has completed this rule. 4. Riverdale Baptist High School football Coach Caesar Nettles notes that players who may need or want an additional year of eligibility can attend junior colleges and prep schools. 5. Having attended and taught at both prep school and the community college, I was of the belief that the mission of those educational institutions is not to provide facilities and coaches to further develop individual or team athletic skills and/or accolades. 6. Northwest High School football Coach Mike Neubeiser said it well: “It’s not fair, because we’re playing with different rules.” A year older, a year more experienced, a year more mature, etc., “is not fair.” 7. I probably should have listed the following reason as number 1, but I assume that the young man has graduated or completed high school. If so, case closed. If not, it brings up another set of issues which need to be addressed separately. John Pisarra, Gaithersburg

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A battle over public information in the town of Chevy Chase could be a good test of progress when it comes to the public’s right to know in Maryland. Action Committee for Transit, a group in favor of the Purple Line light-rail project, is pressing the town for records of its anti-Purple Line advocacy. In multiple requests, the group and activist Benjamin Ross of Bethesda have asked for documents showing how the town has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on lawyers, lobbyists and public relations firms to stop the project. The town has replied by saying LEGISLATURE the work of fulfilling the requests HAS IMPROVED PUBLIC RECORDS “has been very time and LAW, BUT THERE’S consuming expensive.” MORE TO FIX In some responses, the town has said it will charge the hourly cost of staff time at $75 for the town manager, $25 for the town clerk and $215 for a town attorney. The tension exemplified here is nothing new. Public information must be made available when it’s requested. But gathering extensive records takes time and costs money. This battle has reached court. ACT and Ross have sued, alleging “unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination” and seeking free copies of records. Both sides are relying on Maryland’s Public Information Act, which is sprinkled with vague, subjective language — although some was improved this year. State and local governments have been allowed to charge a “reasonable fee” to reproduce public records. But that’s a murky standard, and some government bodies have inflated those fees. There’s no sound reason why a photocopy that costs 6 cents at a business store should cost 50 cents (Chevy Chase’s rate) or $10 (from some police agencies), even adjusting for scales of efficiency. The Maryland General Assembly, in this year’s session, made an important improvement by altering the language. For a noncommercial request, the new standard for a fee is to recoup actual costs, rather than a “reasonable fee.” The PIA also has a hazy reference to fee waivers, which may be granted if they’re “in the public interest.” The Maryland Public Information Act Manual says factors can include ability to pay or if the information is for a public purpose. By definition, though, if the public asks for information, it’s “in the public interest.” Ross argued: “[M]y status as a member of the media supports a fee waiver. I frequently write books and articles on issues impacting the public.” Ross also is on ACT’s board. Chevy Chase pounced on this in a rejection letter: “We do not believe this request is being made in your capacity as a member of the media.” Having government decide who is a journalist is problematic. Press organizations resist Congress’ attempts to define a journalist for a possible national shield law, which would let reporters protect confidential sources. Rather, the act of journalism — gathering and presenting information — should be protected, no matter who does it. We got a kick out of Chevy Chase filing its own PIA request to the Maryland Transit Administration for its communications with ACT and other advocacy groups — and asking for a fee waiver. We look forward to another recent PIA change to help sort out disputes like this one in Chevy Chase and all over Maryland. Maryland soon will have a Public Information Act Compliance Board to rule on complaints that a government might have unreasonably charged more than $350. The new law also provides for a public access ombudsman, who can mediate public-records disputes — a lawyer serving a four-year term. As we’ve said before, government is a custodian of records that belong to the public. The goal — sometimes achieved through negotiation — should be how to provide as much information as possible to whoever asks for it, rather than how to put up financial and logistical barriers to keep records hidden away. Rethink the process of retreat and redact. Make records open and accessible as soon as they are created. However the ACT lawsuit turns out, we urge Chevy Chase to post online all of the information it ends up releasing, and much more. It’s in the public interest.

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Posted online by 8 a.m. the following day. SUMMER FOOTBALL: Northwest plays two games Thursday afternoon in the Seneca Valley summer passing league against Seneca Valley and Clarksburg. Games start at 3 p.m. at Seneca Valley High School. BASKETBALL: Paint Branch vs. Sherwood, 6:40 p.m., Wednesday at Jewish Day.

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Goodbye, 3A West Seneca Valley High School’s football team went 15-5 the past two seasons and didn’t make the playoffs. The losses came against three schools: Two-time defending state champion Northwest, Class 3A state finalist Damascus (twice) and Sherwood (once), a program that has won three state titles. Despite tough schedules, 7-3 in 2013 and 8-2 in 2014 wasn’t good enough for the KEN SAIN Screaming Eagles to SPORTS EDITOR make the playoffs. Such is life in the 3A West Region, the state’s toughest to earn a postseason berth. No help is coming for Seneca this year, despite reclassification shuffling up the regions. The Eagles are still grouped with 3A powerhouse programs Damascus, Linganore, Urbana and South Hagerstown — the four teams that made the playoffs last year. But for another group of Montgomery County high schools, this fall represents new life. Teams that have struggled can now see a path to the playoffs that doesn’t require a 9-1 record. Five Montgomery County schools are now part of the 3A South Region. “See you, I’m out,” Watkins Mill coach Kevin Watson said to the 3A West Region with a smile. While Damascus, Seneca Valley and Poolesville are in the 3A West with all those powerhouses from the Frederick area — including Oakdale, which moves up after earning a top seed in 2A last fall — Watkins Mill, Rockville, Wheaton, Blake and Magruder are five of the 11 schools in the 3A South. Joining them are Prince George’s County’s Potomac (9-1 last year) and Oxon Hill (5-5); and four schools from southern Maryland, Huntingtown (7-4), Northern Calvert (4-6), St. Charles (0-10) and Great Mills (2-8). Rockville, which was 7-3 in 2014, makes the playoffs if that would have been the region pairing. In the old 3A West, the Rams weren’t in the conversation. Watkins Mill was one of the surprise teams on Saturday at the passing league tournament held at Blair High School in Silver Spring. The Wolverines went 3-1 in the round-robin portion, defeating Springbrook, Wheaton and Bowie. The loss came to Clarksburg, which entered Saturday undefeated. In the tournament playoffs, the Montgomery Village school defeated Rockville before being eliminated by eventual tournament champion Paint Branch. One reason for the 4-2 day was rising sophomore quarterback Markel Grant. “I’ve seen my game improve a whole bunch in the past year,” Grant said. “If I just keep doing the hard work, stay on top of my things, stay focused ... it should be a good year.” In the Bowie game, the Wolverines trailed when the referee announced there was 30 seconds left to play. Grant went back, looked downfield, then tossed a tight spiral 25-plus yards to Gedeon Elenga to give Watkins Mill a 22-21 victory. He had to deliver the ball in traffic, while a referee was counting down the seconds remaining and knowing the game was on the line. That was a lot of poise to see from a quarterback just finishing his freshman year. “He was like that last year, very poised for a freshman,” Watson said. “He doesn’t seem like he gets rattled, For a freshman, wow, to be able to do something like that.” He is 6-foot-4 — and might still be growing — so colleges are already taking notice. Grant said he’s being invited to college camps, where the true recruiting evaluations take place. Elenga, a rising senior, is one of two receivers who are 6-3 or taller, which is going to make slowing Watkins Mill’s offense a tall order. “Obviously, this is just passing league, you still have to have the big guys up front, they determine everything,” Watson said. “Being in the 3A South, I don’t have to look up at those 3A West teams.” ksain@gazette.net

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Rockets personnel dictates change in playing style BY

ADAM GUTEKUNST STAFF WRITER

In a game that seems to be increasingly more fast-paced and high-scoring, Richard Montgomery High School boys basketball coach David Breslaw said he was presented with an interesting conundrum early last season. Most every team he had overseen in his young coaching career ﬁt the mold of so many of today’s teams — fast, athletic and quick-triggered. But the 2014-15 Rockets were different. They weren’t slower or incapable of pushing the tempo. But they played the game with a veteran

poise and a patience most people, including Breslaw, were unfamiliar with, he said. And it certainly worked. A heady, experienced group led the Rockets to the No. 1 seed in the Class 4A West Region and a program-best 21-2 record before falling to eventual state runner-up, BethesdaChevy Chase. But it was never as easy as the Rockets made it look. Standing back and letting that unorthodox style of play take form, Breslaw said, was one of the bigger challenges of his coaching career. “I think it was just a mature thing that the kids last year made a decision that they were going to play like that,” Breslaw said. “... I don’t expect every kid to act like that.” A week after the Rockets’ season came to a

Daniel Alexander is one of few returning varsity players and is poised to take on a more prominent role in Rockets’ new up-tempo offense. TOM FEDOR/THE GAZETTE

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Churchill High School quarterback Nino Tranquill is settling into his starting role Saturday at the Battle on the Beltway passing league tournament hosted by Blair High School.

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Junior steps forward to replace injured senior quarterback BY

ERIC GOLDWEIN STAFF WRITER

Churchill High School’s Colin Smyth laid on the Stevenson University turf, grabbing his knee after going down in the second quarter of the 4A/3A

boys lacrosse state championship on May 20. Watching from the sidelines, Andrew Zuckerman — the lacrosse manager, as well as Smyth’s football teammate and close friend — said he sensed the injury was serious; something that would not only force Smyth out of the game but could cost him his ﬁnal season under the Friday night lights. Zuckerman was right. Smyth, the Bulldogs quarterback, had torn his left anterior cruciate ligament in the state ﬁnal loss to Howard.

“The last game, for that [to] happen, it was really heartbreaking,” Zuckerman said. That injury was the latest twist in what has been an eventful offseason for the Churchill football team. In January, sixth-year coach Joe Allen stepped down after his son’s request to transfer to the Potomac school was denied. The vacancy was ﬁlled

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State may introduce team tennis championship Players can currently only compete for individual titles

BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN STAFF WRITER

As it has every year, Memorial Day Weekend served as the culmination of the spring sports season for high school athletes in Maryland with

conclusion of the Maryland Public State Secondary Athletic Association tournaments. Some of Montgomery County’s best — Sherwood softball, Gaithersburg baseball and Clarksburg girls track and ﬁeld — celebrated what coaches say is the pinnacle of the high school athletics — winning a team state championship. That’s not the case for tennis

teams. Boys and girls tennis are the only two varsity sports offered statewide in which a team is not crowned champion. And this spring, for the ﬁrst time since the tournament’s ﬁrst installment in 1975, the winning region — all-Montgomery County Region II for the 15th consecutive year — didn’t get a trophy, either. “All season long, we play as a

team and then for regionals/states, it becomes individual,” said former longtime Northwest tennis coach Jeff Barnes, who stepped down before the start of this season for family reasons. “I preached to my teams, it’s not only representing yourself, but the school you play for and that they play for each other. This was the reason I

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Wootton High School sophomore No. 1 singles player Miranda Deng’s second straight girls singles state championship was one of two titles won by Wootton at the 2015 MPSSAA state tournament.

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Continued from Page B-1 played high school tennis. I asked my team in 25 years when you come back for a reunion, are you going to remember at [U.S. Tennis Association] Mid-Atlantic [Section] ranking or the state championship you won with your teammates?” For this reason, among others, Montgomery County Public Schools Athletics Specialist Jeff Sullivan said a team championship might be on the horizon. A state committee, led by Supervisor of Athletics for Carroll County Public Schools, Jim Rodriguez, will spend next season looking at how the state might implement a team tennis championship, Sullivan said. “The kids would love that, no question about it,” Wootton boys and girls tennis coach Nia Cresham said. “The closest thing they have is counties. Most of my kids add up their points at states and they like to say, if we win two or three [individual titles at states], that we won states. That’s the closest they can come in terms of a team championship.” As it stands, each region sends only two representatives in each of ﬁve categories — boys and girls singles, boys and girls doubles and mixed doubles — to the state tournament. Therefore, the majority of

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Churchill High School’s Sriya Movva (left) and Katie Gauch won the girls doubles state title May 23 at the University of Maryland, College Park.

the athletes on each team are done after counties, just about nine weeks after the ﬁrst day of practice on March 1. Winning an individual title is a special moment, Whitman boys and girls coach Jasen Gohn said, but ideally the tournament could involve both individual and team champions. Cresham said any opportunity to increase kids’ participation is a good move. “I wish we did have a team state thing, a team championship,” Gohn said. “I know Pennsylvania does and other states do. It’s weird that it comes down to just an individual thing when it comes to the state level. The county tournament, that’s the end of the team

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Continued from Page B-1 close, Breslaw turned those expectations into action, gathering the remaining members of his team together at lunch — a group the Richard Montgomery coach said will not only look but play quite differently from last year’s bunch. Gone is the inside-outside punch of center Nick Jackson and guard Renzo Farfan. No longer at Breslaw’s disposal are sharpshooting forward Tim Whaley and athletic reserve, Jinmi Odunlami. And departed with them, Breslaw said, is that unique style they claimed so successfully as their own last season. “We’re not going to necessarily do that,” the Rockets coach said. “This team is a lot more athletic and offensively oriented. We’re going to try and push the pace a little more.” The style was successful without doubt, but also was tailor-made for last year’s team. This year’s crop of talent will likely have a starkly different on-court identity. Daniel Alexander, a versatile and athletic shooting guard, will join Nassir Robinson — who missed most of 2015 with an ankle injury — to form a quick, veteran backcourt that will lead the charge for some newcomers, such as Jonathan Custodio and Jordan Stover. After what he called “the most fun season of his life,” Alexander will return to a style of play he’s grown more accustomed to over the years. The Rockets, not exceptionally deep in terms of height, will likely turn

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egoldwein@gazette.net to some guard-heavy lineups and base their play around their speed — a significant departure from their identity a season ago. “I like running the floor just because it puts pressure on the defense,” Alexander said. “I think it will be good because we have a lot of guards and guys that can bring the ball up the floor.” Breslaw added, “I’m used to coaching this way, not with all the patience [we had]. I think, for the most part, in Montgomery County or really anywhere in high school basketball, you’re going to get kids who want to score more. They just want to score more.” But scoring is only part of what Breslaw said he expects this new-look Richard Montgomery group to be able to offer. There are more shooters with this group, and they’re quicker with the ball, the Rockets coach said. Their speed and athleticism will open up the door for some more aggressive defensive packages. But like any new group, it will take time. The Rockets is scheduled to compete in the MPS Hoops league at Jewish Day throughout the summer, working toward establishing the same synergy the 2014-15 team had, while creating their own identity at the same time — something Breslaw mentioned in his lunchtime meeting months ago. “He just said how last year’s team is gone, so this year’s team won’t come easy,” Alexander said. “We’ll have to prove to the whole county who we are. Nothing is going to be given this year, especially after what happened last year.” agutekunst@gazette.net

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aspect. I think it would be fun.” The biggest obstacle, Sullivan said, is logistics. The state relies on coaches and athletic directors to run the season-ending tournament and that takes a lot of manpower, he said. Court time is also major consideration, he added. Then there is also the matter of format, a variety of which could work. Cresham said the easiest way would likely be the way counties are run. Athletes are divided into position-based brackets — No. 1 singles, No. 2 singles and so on — and each individual match win earns a point toward the team’s total. Sullivan said perhaps it would be wise to split the state’s teams into two regions, two separate tournaments. The Independent School League and Interstate Athletic Conference season-ending championship is played in a dual-match format, which would be similar to how the state tournament works for most other sports. Sullivan said it is likely, however, that tennis will take its cues from other individual sports such as wrestling and swimming. “It’s been this mythical thing, the team champion,” Sullivan said. “So [the state] said, let’s get a work group together to look into how that might be done.”

by Albert Song, a former Seneca Valley assistant and Churchill graduate — class of 1996 — who said he plans to bring a more traditional offense to what has been an optionheavy team in recent years. The Bulldogs have dealt with the changes well thus far, Song said. “They learn quickly, they’re coachable,” Song said. “They want to get better and they pick it up fast, and they apply it.” That applies to the new quarterback, Nino Tranquill. The 5-foot-9 sophomore made his 2015 passing league debut last week and then led the Bulldogs to a 2-3 record in Saturday’s Battle on the Beltway 7-on-7 tournament at Blair. “He’s stepping up to the challenge,” Song said. “It’s tough to be a backup and step in all the sudden and be the guy. He’s doing a great job.” Tranquill said there were times Saturday when the timing wasn’t quite right, but as the tournament progressed, so did his communication and chemistry with the receiving corps. Tranquill, the junior varsity quarterback in 2014, said that trend should continue through the summer. “These games are just measurements of our improvement as a team. That’s why we’re in a league,” Tranquill said. “We’re in

the league to compete and get better. We just want to get better as a team for when the season starts.” Zuckerman, a 5-foot-8, 180-pound running back, won’t play a major role in the passing league games, but he will this upcoming season. The junior was a leading rusher for Churchill while also playing safety in last year’s 6-4 campaign. He said he’s looking forward to his role in the new offense, which will rely on his downhill running to not only gain yardage but also set up the play-action pass. “We’re not really going to be beating teams down ﬁeld with our speed, but more so with our physicality,” Zuckerman said. With his ﬁnal season approaching, Zuckerman said this offseason feels different than the previous ones. He said he’s been impressed with how his teammates have responded to all the changes, but they’ll need to have a productive summer — particularly in the weight room — to improve on last year’s record. “With this situation, it just puts more responsibility on the shoulders of the entire team. Everyone’s got to do their job ... focus more in practice. The little things,” Zuckerman said. “... I feel like in past years I’ve been playing for myself, but this year I’m playing for a lot more than that. I’m playing for a team, the coach. And I’m playing for one of my best friends.”

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GOLFER OF THE YEAR Morgan Egloff Landon Senior

Loyola University recruit headed what coach Jack Duquette called his “best team in 27 years.” Won the IAC tournament with a 67 at Columbia Country Club and set the Bears’ all-time lowest nine-hole scoring average (36.4).

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Twins Peter and Michael James, 10, of Rockville work out during swim practice Friday at the Tilden Woods Swim Club in Rockville.

Ledecky inspires new generation Montgomery County Swim League kicks off its 57th season next week n

BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN STAFF WRITER

In a motivational message to fans on his foundation website last fall, LeBron James, who has made a convincing case for himself as one of the greatest basketball players ever, wrote: “I believe in all of you and all of your dreams and your promise of never giving up, no matter what. You all can be anything you want to be...” Top athletes across the world in all sports often preach to their young fans the importance of aiming high, reaching for the stars and never backing down from a dream. And that is a great message for role models to send the next generation — every elitelevel athlete did start somewhere. But it’s one thing for the inspiration to come from some seemingly untouchable figure and another to hear it from someone who grew up in the neighborhood. To hear if from someone who got their start in the very same place. Say, perhaps, 2012 Olympic gold medalist and the world’s best distance freestyle swimmer, Katie Ledecky. On June 13, the Montgomery County Swim League, which consists of 91 neighborhood pool teams in 15 divisions, is scheduled to kick off its 57th summer with the ﬁrst of ﬁve dual meets — the season also includes a

long course invitational, division championships and individual and relay all-star meets. The historic league encompasses swimmers of all ages, 8-under to 18, and levels — and provides a special opportunity for interaction between the older and younger age groups. “I remember being in the 8-unders and thinking, ‘Wow, I really want to grow up to be like the 15-18 [age group],’” said Elena Spak, Tilden Woods coach and former Walter Johnson standout. “I had a talk with the 15-18s this week telling them about how special they can make the summer for the little ones. They’re kind of like celebrities to the little guys.” The MCSL, which is geared toward friendly competition, can be a time for serious nationalcaliber swimmers to let loose, Bethesda coach Malka Ostchega said, just the same as it is a competitive outlet for seasonal swimmers. There is no denying the MCSL has served as the starting point for some of the country’s and world’s top talent and coaches said there is no question Ledecky’s rise to the top of international swimming has had a positive impact on a new generation. Ledecky began swimming for the MCSL’s Palisades Swim Club when she was 6. “[Ledecky] came back for a meet last year, and it got leaked,” Palisades coach Gerri Diamond said. “Kids on both our team and the other team ... she was never alone on deck. But she is

so grounded, and she’s so passionate about the sport, she just wants to give back to the community. ... Especially after [she won Olympic gold in] 2012, there was much more interest in the sport and an increase in year-round swimmers [from our team]. Kids were inspired.” That seems to be the general consensus among all MCSL coaches. While Diamond said it’s unlikely Ledecky will be around MCSL pool decks much this summer with the FINA World Championships scheduled for July 24 to Aug. 9 in Russia — not to mention the fast approaching 2016 Olympics in Brazil — she and fellow MCSL coaches commended Ledecky’s accessibility whenever she is. Her relatability — the fact that she got her start in the same league in which they compete — makes reaching for Olympic dreams seem more tangible to young swimmers, coaches said. “I think no matter what, any Olympic year, you’re going to build a dream,” Ostchega said. “It gives that opportunity to get that one kid, even if it’s just one kid, who’s like, ‘I’m going to do that, and that’s what I’m going to be.’ I think having someone locally be a part of it has made huge changes. It’s a huge, big deal to have the hometown hero. There is always going to be someone who is looking up to [Ledecky], actively watching every race she swims and wanting to become that.” jbeekman@gazette.net

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Only Maryland, Texas still separate public, private schools

PRINCE J. GRIMES STAFF WRITER

Imagine if two-time defending state champion Northwest High School football team, or any other public program in Maryland, had to go through national-caliber private school teams such as Good Counsel, DeMatha or McDonogh to claim a state title. On one hand, it makes sense for a champion to have to win a tournament that included all the top teams in the state, not just from the public schools. And that’s the way it works for most of the states in the country. Virginia private schools are the latest to be given that chance, joining the Virginia High School League, after private school Liberty Christian Academy brought an antitrust lawsuit against the VHSL for not allowing the Lynchburg school to join its league. On May 20, the VHSL reached a settlement to allow Liberty Christian and all nonboarding state private schools to apply for membership. Maryland and Texas are the only states remaining that don’t allow private schools into the public school leagues, and most coaches say they would prefer to keep it that way. The differences in rules and restrictions between public and private schools would give the privates an unfair advantage, coaches said. “We’re not playing with the same rules,” Clarksburg coach Larry Hurd, Jr. said. “How do you make a private school and public schools play each other for a state championship when pri-

vate schools can go around and recruit the best players all over the place. I don’t know what it is in Virginia. We get players from Clarksburg. Good Counsel gets players from out of state. How in the world would that be a fair situation?” In a joint statement released by the VHSL and Liberty Christian, the VHSL said, “Any private school that joins the VHSL must meet the same individual participant eligibility requirements and regulations as public school students currently meet with minor changes and adjustments.” The statement also said, “Member private schools have the option of adopting the public school attendance zone where their campus is located or adding one additional contiguous attendance zone and being subject to a multiplier for the playoffs.” The multiplier would be toward enrollment for classiﬁcation purposes. The only way it would work in Maryland, Seneca Valley coach Fred Kim said, is if the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association took similar steps in forcing the private schools to play within the same restrictions of the public schools, or lifted some of the restrictions on the latter. “If they played within the same rules as we do, then I don’t think I’d have a problem with that,” Kim said. “We’re not allowed to recruit players. They’re allowed to recruit players. Within their league, they can do different things as far as coaching out of season, facilities, that sort of thing. The programs that put their emphasis into the football program, the schools that do that have a decided advantage in my opinion. For example, a DeMatha or Good Counsel, where they travel beyond and they’re

playing some of these bigger name teams.” It would probably take a lawsuit to force a change in Maryland, but there’s one factor that may discourage that. Many of the private schools compete in leagues that cross state borders. The Interstate Athletic Conference and its classic rivalries between Georgetown Prep, Landon and Bullis has lots of history and tradition. The Washington Catholic Athletic Conference and the almost annual conference championship clashes between DeMatha and Good Counsel, amongst others, would be threatened. “The IAC means a lot to all the schools in the IAC. The WCAC means a lot to them. And same thing with the [Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association],” said Bullis coach Pat Cilento. “There’s a lot of history in all those conferences, so I think it’s going to be difficult. Not saying it can’t be done, there’s beneﬁts to it. It’ll be interesting to see, with this new law in Virginia, what the teams like St. Stephens in the IAC and the schools in the WCAC like Paul VI and O’Connell do. If they stay with the WCAC or follow the Virginia state rules, and play in those tournaments. I think the next few years will tell a lot.” Liberty Christian’s situation is unique in that it’s a private school that was relatively isolated from the other schools in the conference it competed in. Scheduling games within a reasonable distance was difficult and the school found it to be easier if it could play the local public schools. The VSHL denied Liberty Christian membership three times before ﬁnally succumbing to the lawsuit. pgrimes@gazette.net

Guided an ultratalented team, which included three sophomores and one freshman, to a dominant, undefeated regular season. The Bears captured the team Interstate Athletic Conference title and brought home their ﬁrst Metros title in 15 years.

Michael Blasey

Graham Hutchinson

Delaney Shah

Metros individual winner was the only player in the 24-person ﬁeld to shoot under par (-2, 70) at P.B. Dye. A Davidson University recruit.

Cruised to state championship with a 141, the only sub70 round posted; tied for third in county with 9-hole average of 35.50 strokes.

The girls state champion (148) had the county’s second-lowest scoring average (35.25 strokes/nine holes). No. 2 female scorer at districts.

Whitman, Soph.

Landon, Senior

Wootton, Senior

Second Team and Honorable Mentions are online at Gazette.net

SportsBriefs Holy Cross alum earns national honor Rhamat Alhassan, a rising sophomore volleyball player at the University of Florida, was named to the Women’s Junior National Team last week. Alhassan, a 2014 graduate of Academy of the Holy Cross in Kensington, was named the Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Year in her ﬁrst season with the Gators.

— ADAM GUTEKUNST

Gaithersburg signing day On May 29, Gaithersburg High School held a signing day for its 16 graduating seniors who plan to play sports in college. From the baseball team, Brendan Deyo signed to McDaniel College and Trey Martinez signed to Towson. For football, Kamonte Carter signed to Penn State, Henry-Emmanuel Yoboue to Marist College, Tyrik Etheridge to West Virginia State University, Zavae Johnson to Reedley College, and Othniel Kpodar to Bethany College. For girls lacrosse, Morgan Price signed to Lynchburg College, and Bethany Scott to Longwood University. For girls soccer, Jaime Montgomery signed to Palm Beach Atlantic, Shannen DeLeon to Shenadoah University, Melissa Krofcheck to Frostburg, and from the boys Christian Reyes signed to Hood College, Tyler Beaudoin to Loyola, and Luc

Durand-Zara to Millersville. Basketball player Anthony Tarke signed with University of Charleston.

— PRINCE J. GRIMES

Paint Branch coach earns top honor Paint Branch High School baseball coach Tommy Rey was named the 2015 Coach of the Year by the Montgomery County High School Baseball Coaches Association. The Panthers went 20-3 this season and won the 4A North Section II ﬁnal against Sherwood before losing in region championship game.

— PRINCE J. GRIMES

Springbrook grad getting pro interest Zaid Hearst, a former Montgomery County high school basketball standout and NBA prospect, had a workout with the Philadelphia 76ers last week in preparation of the June 25 NBA Draft. The 6-foot-4 guard played four seasons for Quinnipiac and was named to the MAAC All-Conference team this past season after averaging 18.3 points. Hearst, of Bethesda, played for Bethesda-Chevy Chase then transferred to Springbrook, where he was part of the 2009 Class 4A state championship team. Hearst graduated from Salisbury School in Connecticut in 2011.

— ERIC GOLDWEIN

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Seneca Valley High School football coach Fred Kim said he was happy with the offensive playmakers the team was expecting to return next season. Receivers Antonio Fox and Donovan Beckett-Simms and running backs Adrian Feliz-Platt and Darius Golston are all threeyear starters, each with different attributes. Kim also said he expected current sophomore Dawayne Kelley Jr. to take on a more prominent role. “We already had five guys that we feel very strongly and confident that can definitely be great wideouts,” Kim said. So, when former Gaithersburg receiver Cortez Ervin transferred to the Germantown school this spring, Kim said the addition was just a bonus. “Bringing Cortez in, obviously the guy is big. He’s strong, extremely difficult to defend,” Kim said. “He can play multiple positions. The guy has incredible hands. Great football moxie, so he understands the game. And he just knows how to get to the football. So you bring a guy like that in, on top of all our guys, we’ll take it.” Ervin, a 6-foot-3-inch, 200-pound mismatch for most defensive backs led the Trojans in touchdown receptions last season. While he doesn’t exactly bring a brand new dimension to Seneca’s offense — Fox is a 6-2 receiver with excellent ball skills — he certainly adds another option that can either catch or serve as a decoy. If teams choose to focus too much attention on any of Seneca’s threats, the expectation is that another player will benefit, Kim said. “[Ervin] brings a good distraction,” said Fox, who isn’t as heavy as Ervin. “Especially at the slot, because he’s a big body and he’s hard to hit in the slot. That’ll get the safety to come up on him and leave the deep ball open.” Seneca is still adjusting to a new coordinator but received tremendous results from its new-look offense in the Battle of the Beltway passing league tournament Saturday at Blair High School, reaching the semifinals. As if talent wasn’t enough to drive Ervin and his new team next season, he received taunts of being called a traitor for opting to spend his senior year at another school after three years at Gaithersburg. He said he

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Seneca Valley’s Cortez Ervin catches a pass Saturday at the Battle of the Beltway passing league tournament hosted by Blair High School. transferred because his mom moved closer to Seneca, but he hasn’t forgotten the grief he was given and said it will be used as motivation. “Got to do what you got to do sometimes,” Ervin said. “I already played with some of these guys from little league. I’m excited. As soon as I came, they accepted me like I was already a part of their family. It’s good vibes here.” Ervin and Fox should also make for an imposing cornerback tandem for the Eagles, as Kim said he expects them to be defensive starters as well. And with rising junior Zach Robinson returning for his sec-

ond season as the starting quarterback, optimism is high at Seneca this summer. “We’re working on chemistry,” Fox said. “Everybody getting the ball. Make sure Zach takes his right reads, make sure our routes are crisp. We got Cortez. He’s a big asset. We’ve got new coaches, so the offense is better than last year. He knows how to use more of our weapons. We get everybody the ball, make sure everybody eats. We still got Adrian. So, we’re going to be pretty good this year. I’m pretty excited.” pgrimes@gazette.net

On Thursday, the Damascus Post 171 American Legion baseball team opened its season against Wheaton Post 268 in a game that represented the best and worst of Montgomery County teams in terms of last season’s win-loss. Nothing over the course of thatgamechangedtheperception of either team’s fate as Damascus won,9-0,butthePost171teamfell short of its goal last season despite a dominant regular season. In the county championship, playing for a chance to compete in the state tournament, Damascus lost to Laurel Post 60. Coming back this summer, Damascus has a good blend of new, returning and college players hoping to push it toward a championship. The team, which pulls from Clarksburg, Damascus, Sherwood andsomeprivateschools,finished a division-best 25-5 last season. “Motivating factor for this team is we want to go out and try to win every game. Leave it all out on the field,” Post 171 coach Jimmy Stone said. “Last year, we tried to win every game, left it all out on the field, we just lost that one time — at the bad time. That’s it. It just so happens that one time was the worst time to have that one loss.” Wheaton, which pulls from consortium schools and Bethesda-Chevy Chase, doesn’t return a single player from a team that finished winless last season. Second-year Post 268 coach Gabe Medina said he didn’t feel as though players took the opportunity to play Legion baseball seriously enough last summer and sought to change the culture of the team. “My idea behind it is, this might not be the winning season that I’d like to have, but it’s a growing system. Next year, I’ll have the

same guys come back. They’re ready for this level because they played it this year,” Medina said. “I have a really young team, so as far as being aggressive at the plate, that’s something they need to work up to.” With new players, Wheaton could struggle to ﬁnd wins as the team comes together and gains trust, but it wouldn’t take much to show a marked improvement over last summer’s team and join the ranks of Laurel, Cissel Saxon Post 41 and Sandy Spring Post 68 in the middle of the division. “Everybody can play,” Laurel coach Doug Drewyer said. “The target has always been Damascus because they’re a program. They are consistent year in and year out. Cissel Saxon, they got ball clubs. Last year, Wheaton, I think they won two games or something. They scare the mess out of people.” Laurel, which pulls from Howard County schools, might have won the division championship last summer, but Drewyer said the team has already forgotten last season. This summer, he added, is about getting back to the state tournament and actually winning it this time. “We ﬂush good stuff and bad stuff,” Drewyer said while pointing at a prop toilet sitting in the dugout at Blake High School following a win over Sandy Spring. About half of the Post 60 team are players from last season. Sandy Spring lost Rockville as a school it can pull players from, but added 4A state champion Gaithersburg, which coach Matthew Cangas is excited about. The team will look to secure wins around a solid pitching staff which includes Magruder’s Kyle Cassidy and Churchill’s Ryan O’Carroll. “To take that next step, we just got to get out there and play ball together as a team,” Cangas said. “I think last year, we were in the mix.Wewerejustshortonplayers. This year, we have a pretty decentsized team.” pgrimes@gazette.net

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Mitchell Brunings takes on the role of Bob Marley in Center Stage’s production of “Marley.”

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Two local residents have scored ﬁrst-run ensemble spots in what’s being touted as one of the most anticipated musical premieres this year. Jeff Kirkman III of Beltsville and Bill Hurlbut of Silver Spring are a part of the 10-person ensemble of “Marley,” the ﬁrst theatrical depiction of the late Jamaican reggae artist Bob Marley — played by Internet star Mitchell Brunings. The musical, which will run at Center Stage’s Pearlstone Theatre in Balti-

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more until June 14, has been highlighted as one with potential for success on Broadway in the future. Though a signiﬁcant amount of the hype comes from the musical’s subject matter itself, it would be a mistake to consider this

production a gimmick. The director and writer, Kwame Kwei-Armah, has inspired a top-notch disciplined and creative dynamic, according to both Kirkman and Hurlbut. Both noted their excitement of being a part of it. “Kwame ... is just a tremendous person to work with, and right from the start he kind of instilled a feeling in the cast that [the environment] was open and loving and friendly,” Hurlbut said. “I had never been hugged by so many people I’d only just gotten to know in my life — it’s been one of those kinds of things. It’s very personal for all of us, to be involved in this.”

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Gilder’s “The Rose Beyond” is a historical piece

An aspiring novelist is likely to listen to sage advice from the author of 17 bestsellers. As such, when Sharon Allen Gilder asked the late Tom Clancy about dealing with procrastination and writer’s block, he told her, “Just write the damn book.” Gilder did just that, and it was about time. For about two decades, she had saved a scrap of paper on which she had scribbled some thoughts. With Clancy’s kick-start and just a few alterations, those words evolved into the ﬁrst page of “The Rose Beyond,” the historiGilder cal romance she published with Amazon’s CreateSpace in 2014. From start to ﬁnish, the process of researching, writing and editing the book took 14 years. Historical romance has delighted Gilder since she read Kathleen Woodiwiss’ “Ashes in the Wind” at age 22. She believes that the genre keeps “the words and telling of the past from fading” and makes “a connection to the past through the characters — to imagine the voices that came before me and let them be heard.” “The Rose Beyond” focuses on a privileged family, whose lives are disrupted by a letter that

BOOKS BY ELLYN WEXLER reveals long-buried secrets that challenge their relationships. Gilder chose the Washington, D.C., setting because she is an area native, and the year 1897 because she is drawn to the era, both personally and in her book. Her Gaithersburg home’s décor features two Victorian pieces of furniture, and she likes the romantic ﬂow of the period’s apparel. Gilder claims that “anyone who knows me knows I go through tea lights like a maniac.” Similarly, electric lighting is out of the question for Gilder’s characters; instead, candles or gas provide their light. A Historical Novel Society review described her writing as ﬂorid, Gilder said, explaining that “the more formal way of speech” she opts for “keeps wonderful words — like portal, manse and

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Continued from Page B-6 Some would say that “Marley” comes at an opportune time for a Baltimore community still staggering after the death of Freddie Gray. In theory — but not necessarily in reality — the theme of peace that’s ever present in Marley’s music could have redemptive qualities for a city that’s seen more than 40 homicides in the past 30 days. Along these lines, “Marley” found itself at an unusual juncture in late April. Its content, which revolves around a Marley desperately seeking peace in Jamaica at a time at which his country was in deadly turmoil — in the mid-to-late 1970s — was drawing increasingly more similarities to recent unrest in this country. The cast and crew have not shied away from this. On May 2, at the end of a week in Baltimore that will almost certainly hold a place in history, they played a free concert of Marley’s music at

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Continued from Page B-6 parlor — in the language.” The title came from A.L. Fink’s poem, “The Rose Still Grows Beyond the Wall,” which Gilder heard a minister read at a funeral. “The poem spoke to me because there is love, loss, mystery and beautiful gardens in ‘The Rose Beyond,” and the poem made me feel more hopeful about the mystery of life after death,” she said. “I thought the message was a good tie-in to my storyline.” In the novel, a character dies in childbirth, and her friend says, “We know it does not end at the grave.” According to Gilder, “[that] is essentially the message in the poem. … There’s also a double meaning in [the] statement because the book is about inevitability ... ultimately, the

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that working on the production has been an enriching experience in his life due to the varying viewpoints he’s been exposed to. Because the majority of the cast and crew is black — some of whom have Jamaican lineages — the process has felt like a rejuvenated one, he said, with fresh perspectives fueling the conversation. “Usually, in plays, it’s the other way around,” Hurlbut noted. The coming weeks will likely prove crucial for the future of “Marley,” as potential backers evaluate its marketability as a Broadway production. But the actors don’t seem to be worrying about that. They’re taking it one show at a time. “I really don’t have any idea where it’s going to go,” Kirkman said. “I’m really just trying to make sure this is solid, and we ﬁgure out what the show is. And if it goes somewhere it does, but right now we’re just focusing on Center Stage.” Tickets range from $19 to $84 for the remaining shows.

truth will be told.” Gilder, who graduated from Wheaton High School and studied home economics education at the University of Maryland, taught child development and gourmet foods at Woodward High School for eight years, and then worked as a teacher and administrator at a private preschool for more than 30. Her propensity for writing stems from early childhood when she produced bound books she still has “somewhere,” often with an “adventurous Pippi Longstocking-type” heroine. Later, as an educator, Gilder wrote food, child development and sexual assault curricula for the Montgomery County Public Schools. A freelance journalist since late 2006, she has written for local media including The Gazette, the Potomac Almanac and The Town Courier. Her subject matter varies, but occasionally

features the Brem Foundation to Defeat Breast Cancer and Friends of Montgomery Animals, organizations on whose boards she sits. Gilder writes at her dining room table, without an outline, often out of order; she allows the characters to “take me to places I didn’t know I was going.” She is not sure writing is the solitary pursuit it is “often characterized as … Although I might be alone in a room with my fingers on the keyboard waiting for the next words to flow upon my computer’s screen, the confluence of people, places and events from my past keep me in wonderful company.” A sequel to “The Rose Beyond” is on that table now. Gilder is pleased that there is no need for Clancy’s kick-start this time. “It is moving faster than my debut novel, and hopefully won’t take 14 years to complete!”

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North and Pennsylvania avenues. “You get a sense you’re looking at a portrait of somebody that wanted to help change the world for the better,” Kirkman said of Marley’s story. “So it’s almost like ... a rubric that people can experience and say, ‘What can I pull from this that will help my community?’ “‘What can I do to help change the world?’” Perhaps the main power of “Marley,” Kirkman said, is its ability to put the past in perspective with the present, especially in regards to police brutality issues. Parallels greater than nominal ones have been noted between Trenchtown, where Marley grew up in Kingston, and Sandtown, where Gray grew up in Baltimore. “The things that people were going through at this time in the ’70s aren’t that much different than what we’re going through now in 2015,” he said. “If you’re a person who’s aware of what is going on in the world ... you say, ‘Oh, I know exactly what this is.’” Hurlbut, who is white, said

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The NIH Philharmonia presents their season ﬁnale “National Pride” on Saturday.

Playing off the stage

As the spring winds down and the summer begins, some area venues begin their transitions — either they’re just starting up for the summer, or they’re putting a bow on their seasons. The NIH Philharmonia in Rockville is that latter,

wrapping up their season with “National Pride,” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church in Rockville. Under the baton of Nancia D’Alimonte, the NIH Philharmonia will take on “Russian Easter Overture” by

Rimsky-Korsakov, “Billy the Kid Suite” by Copland, and “Symphony No. 9 (from the New World)” from Dvorak. Tickets for the concert are free and the even is open to the public. For more information, visit nihphil.org or call 240-888-6781.

Party in the streets The 21st annual Imagination Bethesda, a children’s street festival celebrating children and the arts, is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Musical performances and professional children’s entertainers will light up the stage, while hands-on art & craft activities will line the streets along Elm Street and Woodmont Avenue in downtown Bethesda. Organized and managed by the Bethesda Urban Partnership, the festival will host 25 local businesses and arts organizations that will provide a variety of hands-on art and craft activities to entertain and energize the 12-andunder crowd. Additionally, the festival will feature face painters, balloonists, a stilt-walker, free giveaways and more. Imagination Bethesda is a free event. For more information, visit bethesda.org.

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The 21st annual Imagination Bethesda, a childrenís street festival celebrating children and the arts, is scheduled for Saturday in downtown Bethesda.

Pianist Grace Cho, left, of the New Orchestra of Washington practices with Cantor Rochelle Helzner in advance of a chamber music concert on Sunday at Tikvat Israel Congregation in Rockville.

A living culture

Cantor Rochelle Helzner will be joined by members of the New Orchestra of Washington for “Chai Culture,” a concert of Jewish themes in classical music, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, at Tikvat Israel Congregation in Rockville. This marks the orchestra’s ﬁrst performance with a cantor, although the New Orchestra of Washington has presented a Jewish-themed program at various venues, including the Strathmore Center for the Performing Arts. The concert program will include the “Divertimento From Gimpel the Fool” for clarinet, violin, cello and piano by David Schiff, and the trio for clarinet, violin and piano by Paul Schoenﬁeld. Tickets are available for $25 in advance, $30 at the door. Teenagers and younger children will be admitted at no charge. To purchase, contact 301-762-7338, concert@tikvatisrael.org or visit tikvatisrael.org/ concert.

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Arts on the Green concludes its World Music Series for the season with the concert “Amadou Kouyate: Kora and Percussion,” at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Arts Barn in Gaithersburg. As an ambassador of African culture, Kouyate’s main instrument is the kora, a 21-string harp. Born in Washington, D.C., Kouyate is the 150th generation of the Kouyate lineage and has studied and performed Manding traditional West African music since the age of 3. Besides playing the kora, Kouyate is a dynamic djembe and koutiro drummer and is passionate about reconnecting those of the African Diasporas to one another. His repertoire ranges from traditional songs from the 13th century to contemporary original compositions incorporating blues and jazz riffs. Kouyate has received the

Maryland Start Arts Council Governor’s Citation and other artistic awards from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Special Talents and Musical Theatre Scholarships at Howard University and Levine School of Music. He has studied in Mali, Senegal, Guinea and Cote d’Ivoire with master musicians of the Diali tradition including Djimo Kouyate and Toumani Diabate. Prior to pursuing his career as a professional solo artist and collaborator full time, Kouyate served as an Adjunct Lecturer of African Music and Ethnomusicology at the University of Maryland and as Artist-In-Residence at Montgomery College. Admission is $25 ($12 for youth 18 and under). For more information, visit gaithersburgmd.gov or call 301-258-6394.

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Domestic Sports Utility Vehicles

YOU ALWAYS GET YOUR WAY AT OURISMAN EVERYDAY

2002 FORD EXPLORER LIMITED: 176,900 miles. Fully loaded. Runs great! $2,600 obo. 240-7517263

Cars Wanted

RAIN OR SHINE! Since 1989

DONATE AUTOS, TRUCKS, RV’S. LUTHERAN MISSION SOCIETY. Your donation helps local families with food, clothing, shelter, counseling. Tax deductible. MVA License #W1044. 410-636-0123 or www.LutheranMissionSociety.org

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2015 GOLF 2D HB LAUNCH EDITION

#3025420, Bluetooth, I Yr. Car Care Maintenance*, Auto, Keyless Entry

MSRP 18,815 $

16,599

2015 JETTA S

2015 PASSAT LIMITED EDITION

#7271256, Front/Side Airbags, Aluminum Wheels, Keyless Entry, Auto, Stability Control

#9088106, Automatic, Keyless Entry, Leather Seats, Backup Camera, Front/Side Airbags, ABS Brakes

MSRP 19,245 $

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MSRP $25,135 BUY FOR

21,999

OR $229/MO for 72 MONTHS

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2015 JETTA SEDAN TDI S

2015 BEETLE 1.8L

2015 GOLF GTI 2D HB S

#7262051, Bluetooth, 1 Yr. car Care Maintenance*, Loaner Car For Life

#1647049, Bluetooth, Keyless Entry, Auto, Touch Screen Radio, iPad Adapter, I Yr. Car Care Maintenance*

#5501562, Manual, ABS Brakes, Audio Streaming, Keyless Entry

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OR $219/MO for 72 MONTHS

MSRP $23,880

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18,998

MSRP 21,105

MSRP $23,315

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17,837

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20,599

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2015 GOLF SPORTWAGEN S

2015 TIGUAN S 2WD

2014 CC SPORT LAST 2014 AVAILABLE!

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MSRP $27,120

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24,999

OR $372/MO for 72 MONTHS

MSRP $35,060

BUY FOR

26,999

OR $431/MO for 72 MONTHS

OURISMAN VW WORLD AUTO CERTIFIED PRE OWNED 24 Available...Rates Starting at 1.64% up to 72 months

2007 Rabbit...............................#V033452A, Black, 117,967 Miles..............$5,991

2013 Passat SE.......................#V080993A, White, 29,626 Miles...............$17,391

2008 Dodge Caliber...............#V293674A, Silver, 130,404 Miles................$5,999

2012 CC.....................................#V820490A, Black, 47,400 Miles...............$17,491

2006 Touareg...........................#V001597A, Black, 78,489 Miles.................$8,991

2013 Jetta TDI..........................V320148A, Black, 31,444 Miles.................$17,492

2011 Toyota Prius...................V283821B, Red, 112,390 Miles.................$11,593

2013 GTI Conv..........................V297056A, White, 31,734 Miles.................$17,993

2011 Nissan Sentra...............#V298174B, Silver, 83,127 Miles................$11,791

2014 Jeep Patriot...................VP0134, Black, 9,454 Miles........................$18,692

2011 Toyota Camry SE..........V0125A, Black, 61,476 Miles.....................$11,995

2013 Beetle..............................#V591026A, Black, 35,857 Miles...............$18,791

2014 Nissan Versa.................V309714A, Gray, 7,485 Miles.....................$13,772

2013 Passat TDI SE................V033935A, Gray,28,762 Miles...................$19,955

2013 Passat..............................#VPR0138, Maroon, 44,978 Miles..............$14,991

2004 Honda S2000 Roadster..V255772A, Gray, 36,661 Miles...................$19,792

2014 Chrysler 200 LX............#VPR0139, Grey, 33,534 Miles...................$14,991

2013 Jetta Sportswagen TDI..V055283A, Black, 30,101 Miles.................$20,992

2013 Nissan Altima...............V303606A, Silver, 49,926 Miles..................$15,871

2012 Chevrolet Equinox AWD...#V099935A, Blue, 38,419 Miles.................$21,991

2013 VW Beetle.......................V801398, Yellow, 16,020 Miles...................$16,293

2014 Routan SEL.....................VP0130, Blue, 18,268 Miles.......................$25,993

2011 Jetta TDI..........................#V005099A, Black, 71,951 Miles...............$16,991

2013 CC VR6 4Motion............VP0131, Black, 33,105 Miles.....................$25,993

All prices & payments exclude tax, tags, title, freight and $300 processing fee. Cannot be combined with any previous advertised or internet special. Pictures are for illustrative purposes only. Special APR financing cannot be combined with sale prices. Ends 06/09/15. *1 Year or 10,000 miles of No-Charge Scheduled Maintenance whichever occurs first. Some restrictions. See dealer or program for details.

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NEW2 2015 AVALON XLS AVAILABLE: #578023, 578024

26,790

355 TOYOTA ASK A FRIEND

V6, AUTO, 4 DR

AFTER $1500 REBATE

NEW22015 RAV4 4X2 LE AVAILABLE: #564445, 564460

20,890

4 CYL., AUTOMATIC

2015 PRIUS C II 2 AVAILABLE: #577477, 577476

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159/MO**

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AUTO, 4 CYL., 4 DR

18,890

NEW 2015 COROLLA L 2 AVAILABLE: #570717, 570731

14,790

4 DR., AUTO, 4 CYL. INCL.

AFTER $750 REBATE

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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 6/09/2015.

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2 AVAILABLE: #570377, 570393

$0 DOWN G560141

13,690

3 DR. H/BK, MANUAL TRANS

MANUAL, 4 CYL

2014 SCION XB 2 AVAILABLE: #455033, 455044

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NEW 2015 TACOMA 4X2 XTRACAB

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AFTER TOYOTA $750 REBATE

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4 CYL., AUTO, 4 DR

AFTER TOYOTA $750 REBATE

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4 DR., AUTO, 4 CYL