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After a year of surveillance and undercover work, law enforcement ofﬁcers arrested 17 people in the predawn hours Monday for conspiring to distribute heroin and crack cocaine in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties, according to authorities. The operation backed by search warrants began about 4:30 a.m. and netted 11 handguns, an unspeciﬁed amount of drugs and more than $70,000 in cash as of Monday afternoon, said Montgomery County police

(Above) McKenzie Glotzbach (center) hugs Nathasha Gonzalez after graduates turned their tassels Monday at the Kennedy High School graduation at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. At left is Rahel Girma. About 370 graduates heard senior addresses from Kiana Jackson and Nestor Leche and a commencement speech by DeRionne P. Pollard, the president of Montgomery College. (Right) Teacher Joanna Greer (center), who has been out of work since the fall as she battles cancer, surprised the class by visiting. She teaches video production and journalism.

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Chief Thomas Manger during a news conference hosted by the FBI in Rockville. The blitz of arrests based on indictments by a federal grand jury effectively breaks up a drug ring operating in Silver Spring, which had been working with a smaller operation in Forestville, according to federal indictments. “They’re no longer there — they’ve been taken out of the neighborhood,” said Stephen Vogt, a special FBI agent who coordinated the arrests, at the news conference. “This slows the potential for violence [in neighborhoods] ... and sends a message [to drug distributors] that you could be next,” Vogt said.

KATE S. ALEXANDER STAFF WRITER

Kathleen Matthews, a former local TV news anchor and Marriott International executive, and Valerie Ervin, a former Mont-

gomery County councilwoman, are the latest Democratic candidates to vie for the party nomination in Maryland’s 8th Congressional District. From the noisy steps of the Silver Spring Metro station on June 3, Matthews announced her campaign, saying she wants to bring an “opportunity agenda” to the voters of the district. Ervin said Monday she plans to launch

her campaign next week. Describing herself as a strong ﬁghter for opportunity, dignity and equality, Matthews said, “those are the values I want to bring to the U.S. Congress.” “It’s something I’ve spent my lifetime ﬁghting for,” she said. Matthews said her agenda will focus

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KEVIN JAMES SHAY STAFF WRITER

As supporters and opponents of the proposed Purple Line await Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s decision on the lightrail project, one question that remains unclear is how many riders the system is expected to carry. Hogan (R) was expected to make a decision on the project in mid-May, but he put off do-

ing so until at least this month. A timeline for that decision has not been made, Shareese Churchill, a Hogan spokeswoman, said Monday. The proposed $2.45 billion, 16-mile line would link Bethesda and New Carrollton, stopping in Silver Spring, College Park and other areas. If approved, the federal government is expected to contribute the Purple Line’s largest share at $900 million, with the state kicking in at least $360 million. Local governments and the private sector would pick up the rest.

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LINDSAY A. POWERS STAFF WRITER

Interim Superintendent Larry A. Bowers put forward on Tuesday a plan to cut millions from Montgomery County Public Schools’ ﬁscal 2016 operating budget to align it with countyapproved funding.

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operating budget for ﬁscal 2016 that the Montgomery County Council approved. The amount leaves the district with about $53 million less than what the board asked for, according to district ofﬁcials. “There are no easy answers when you have to make a budget cut of this size, especially in an organization like MCPS, where 90 percent of our budget goes toward paying for the people who do the important work every day,” Bowers said in a school system press release

Tuesday. Bowers recommended that the district eliminate more than 340 school employee positions, including teacher, media specialist and instructional data specialist positions. In March, he held back about 370 such positions because of a gloomy budget outlook. His recent proposed reduction would trigger class-size increases at all county schools, though less so at schools with higher percentages of students who receive free or reduced-price

meals, an indication of poverty, according to Dana Tofig, a school system spokesman. The school-based positions, combined with an earlier cut of about 40 central office positions, marks a $25.5 million shift to fill the gap, according to the release. The proposal would restore about 30 positions Bowers had held back tied to working with special education and

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To help fill a $53 million budget gap, Bowers recommended the district eliminate about 340 full-time-equivalent school employee positions, not buy more Chromebook laptops next fiscal year and delay by a couple of weeks employee compensation increases. The county school board will vote on a final budget on June 16. Board members will consider at the same meeting whether to include Bowers’ changes. The board faces a $2.32 billion

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10 Zumba, 6:30-8:30 p.m., 111 Geneva Ave., Silver Spring. $10 per person per class. cogicsports@yahoo.com. Social Media for the Non-Tweeter, 2-4 p.m., Silver Spring Civic Building, 1 Veterans Place. With Pam Holland of Tech Moxie. Free. sparkle@silverspringvillage. org or 301-503-7401.

World Elder Abuse Awareness Day Senior Safety, noon-3 p.m., Holiday Park

Senior Center, 3950 Ferrara Drive, Wheaton. Speakers, demonstrations, exhibitors, free blood-pressure checks, music, door prizes. Free. 240-777-6547 or Lucille. Baur@montgomerycountymd.gov. Open mic night, 7-9 p.m., MidCounty Community Recreation Center, 2004 Queensguard Road, Silver Spring. Part of June meeting of Montgomery County chapter of the Maryland Writers’ Association. Free for members and ﬁrsttime guests; $5 for others. grcalame@ yahoo.com.

THURSDAY, JUNE 11 Center, 7500 Maple Ave. A documentary on the history and development of the Canterbury Scene, a sub-genre of progressive rock music. Followed by Q&A with the ﬁlmmakers. arts@takomaparkmd.gov.

on Mental Illness Montgomery County, 11718 Parklawn Drive, Rockville. Athena Morrow, a manager of adult forensic service for the Montgomery County Department of Health, will talk about a possible framework to help people with behavioral health problems in the criminal justice system. Free. 316-617-7403 or megan@ namimc.org Where & How to Get Financing, 1-3:30 p.m., Wheaton Business Innovation Center, 11002 Veirs Mill Road, suite 700. A counselor will present the spectrum of resources. $50. 301-403-8300, ext. 22, or sbtdc-training@umd.edu. B’nai Israel Hazak group, end-of-year celebration with the Classy Jazz Band and featuring Cantor Josh Perlman, bring lunch at noon, program at 12:30 p.m., 6301 Montrose Road, Rockville. For those 55 and older. Free. Reservations: 301-8816550, ext. 575, or beth@bnaiisraelcong.org.

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Amateur Musician Play-in, 7:15-9:30 p.m., Living Faith Lutheran Church, 1605 Veirs Mill Road, Rockville. Montgomery County Chamber Music Society is organizing small ensembles in two one-hour sessions. All ages and skill levels welcome except beginners. Music is provided or bring what you would like to play. Group meets every Friday night. 301-770-2041 or MCCMSinfo@gmail.com. Art Walk in the Park, 6-8 p.m., Glen Echo Park, 7300 MacArthur Blvd. 301-6342274 or photoworksgep@comcast.net. Stone In Stone, new works by Glen Echo Park Stone Carvers, noon-6 p.m., Stone Tower Gallery, Glen Echo Park, 7300 MacArthur Blvd. info@glenechopark.org.

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Rockville Swing Band, 3-4 p.m., Praisner Library, 14910 Old Columbia Pike, Burtonsville. Eighteen-piece band with vocalists Barbara Strang and Shari Wright. Free. 240-773-9460 or vera.ramaty@montgomerycountymd.gov. Kensington Summer Concert, 10-11 a.m., Howard Avenue Park, Kensington. Mystic Warriors will play world music from the Andes, across from the farmers market at the Kensington train station. Concerts continue each Saturday during the summer. Free. info@kensingtonhistory.org. Hoop4Heroes 3on3 Basketball Tourney, 8 a.m., McLean School, 8224 Lochin-

ver Lane, Potomac. Open to ages 10 and older, including adults. Different divisions for children and adults, male and female. $100 donation per team to Wouned Warrior project requested. 301-922-3603 or information@Hoop4Heroes.org.

SUNDAY, JUNE 14 Takoma Park JazzFest 20th Anniversary, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., 7000 Carroll Ave.

More than a dozen free performances. www.tpjazzfest.org. Spring Festival of Ballet 2015, 2 p.m., Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center, 7995 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring. $20. 301-593-6262 or akhmedovaballet@gmail. com. Beyond the New Jim Crow: Preventing the Revolving Door, 5-7 p.m., Cedar

Lane Unitarian Universalist Church, 9601 Cedar Lane, Bethesda. With Donna Rojas and Alisa Smedley, co-directors of the “ready-for-release” program at the Montgomery County Detention Center, and Art Wallenstein, former director

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p.m., Wheaton Claridge Park, 11901 Claridge Road, Silver Spring. Music, vendors, dancing, fashion show. horoyah.mans@gmail.com or 240600-2935. of the Montgomery County Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Refreshments. Free. 301-913-0090 or edelaplaine1@verizon.net.

MONDAY, JUNE 15 Leave No Trace Hike, 6 p.m., Seneca Creek State Park, 11950 Clopper Road, Gaithersburg. Meet at park ofﬁce for 1.5mile hike. Free. 301-924-2127 or scspnaturalist@gmail.com.

TUESDAY, JUNE 16 GED Preparation Classes Registration, 6:30 p.m., Westﬁeld South Ofﬁce Building, 11002 Veirs Mill Road, Silver Spring. Free. 240-567-8950 or Ahu.Mozer@montgomerycollege.edu.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 Know the 10 Signs: Early Detection Matters, 7:15 p.m., Shri Mangal Mandir,

17110 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring. Free workshop on Alzheimer’s disease. Registration requested. 800-272-3900 or lvajpeyi@alz.org.

Montgomery County Humane Society Yappy Hour, 6-9 p.m., Denizens Brewing

Company, 1115 East West Highway, Silver Spring. $15 per individual, $25 per couple. 240-252-2555 or kdillon@mchumane.org. Meditation, 7 p.m., Praisner Library, 14910 Old Columbia Pike, Burtonsville. John David Newcomb will demonstrate practical techniques. anne.seiler@montgomerycountymd.gov.

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Takoma Park is reviewing its city employee salary structure, considering pay upgrades that would cost more than $1 million over three years. The plan calls for step increases as employees advance through grades. This fiscal year, most employees were placed in the system at or just above their current salary. Next year, most will be raised halfway to the market pay and then are scheduled to be increased to the market rate in ﬁscal 2017. Last year, the city hired Condrey & Associates to study employees’ compensation, comparing salaries in similar positions in nearby cities like Gaithersburg, Rockville and Bowie. Due to the Great Recession and other factors, almost all salaries were below market levels, with some “particularly low,” said City Manager Suzanne Ludlow. Takoma Park plans to emphasize “pay for performance” and not just raise salaries because other area cities are, she said. “Most of the municipalities are very cost conscientious,” Ludlow said. “We prefer not to have some kind of arms race on raising salaries.” The City Council was scheduled to vote on a salary ordinance Monday, but that was delayed to a future meeting. Ludlow said she needed to obtain more background information and personnel details before a formal vote. Several council members, including Seth Grimes and Tim Male, said they supported doing what Montgomery County does and publicly release what employees make as

“Most of the municipalities are very cost conscientious. We prefer not to have some kind of arms race on raising salaries.” Takoma Park City Manager Suzanne Ludlow part of an “open government” philosophy. Ludlow said she would like to do that, but officials still were in collective bargaining negotiations with city employee unions using the findings of the study. “So it’s premature to do that,” she said. For this fiscal year, grade ranges for a deputy city manager vary from a minimum of $118,326 annually to a maximum of $182,772, according to city documents. Grimes said he couldn’t see paying a deputy city manager at the maximum level and wanted to see a rate cap. Ludlow, who has worked in various positions for Takoma Park since 1993, has an annual salary of $172,000. The police chief range is from $107,198 to $165,582. On the lower end of the list, the scale for library shelvers is from $31,188 to $48,175, and for school crossing guards, salaries range from $29,686 to $45,854. kshay@gazette.net

DEATHS Malcolm Lawrence

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Malcolm Lawrence, 89, of Chevy Chase died June 1, 2015. The funeral was Friday at Gate of Heaven Cemetery Chapel in Aspen Hill. DeVol Funeral Home of Gaithersburg was in charge of arrangements.

Gary Moulton of Mitchell, S.D., and formerly of Rockville died June 2, 2015. Chapel Hill Funeral Home of Sioux Falls, S.D., is in charge of arrangements.

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Blair High club holds book drive Two students at Blair High School in Silver Spring led an effort to collect books this year to be distributed as part of a nationwide literacy program. Christopher Leung and Zachary Williams started a Blair High chapter of the Bring on the Books Foundation, a national nonproﬁt organization. At schools across the country, Bring on the Books accepts donated books, which will be given to children in “juvenile systems, health clinics, and urban tutoring programs,” the organization’s website says. Tattered books are sent to paper recycling plants. Bring on the Books also includes motivational speeches and counseling for the students receiving books. “So many people don’t have the opportunity to read because being literate is having books,” Leung said. Leung and Williams just completed their junior year. Their Bring on the Books chapter took in more than 400 books through a collection drive at Blair High. Leung’s English teacher, Lauren Termini, agreed to be the club’s adviser and to use her classroom to store the books. “I had barely enough room,” Termini said. The club, which can be reached at Mbhsbringonthebooks@gmail.com, plans to do another collection drive in the next school year.

Students take second in writing contest Two students from Sandy Spring Friends School teamed up with one from Blake High School in Silver Spring to win second place in this year’s Diverse Minds Youth Writing Challenge in the Washington metro region. The contest, organized by B’nai B’rith and sponsored by Pepco, “aims to enlighten, inspire and educate America’s young people and their families in an effort to eradicate prejudices and strengthen ties among today’s youth,” according to a news release. Katherine Lentz and Justin Warring of the Friends School worked with Morgan Isabella of Blake High to write and illustrate “A Boy Named Timmy.” They will share a $2,000 scholarship.

Urban gardening tips available at Fenton market The Master Gardeners of Montgomery County have cre-

ated an urban gardening program. The group, which is a program of the University of Maryland Extension, will discuss various topics at its booth at the Fenton Street Market at Veterans Plaza in Silver Spring once a month. Upcoming topics include “Pests and Beneﬁcial Insects” (July 11), “Houseplants” (Aug. 1), “Lawns and Groundcovers” (Sept. 5) and “Bulbs and Winter Gardens” (Oct. 3). Also, on June 27, urban gardening volunteers will speak about the program at the new Silver Spring Library. Go to www.tinyurl.com/ nnz8doh for more information.

Takoma Park Lion will be district governor A member of the Takoma Park Lions Club will be a district leader for the organization. As District 22-C governor for 2015-16, Michael L. Bigler will be the top official overseeing 49 Lions clubs in Washington, D.C., and five Maryland counties, according to a Lions Club press release. Bigler, a 24-year member and seven-term president of the Takoma Park Lions, is the first Takoma Park club member in 60 years to be district governor, the press release said.

Planners to take bike tour Friday Casey Anderson, chairman of the Montgomery County Planning Board, along with staff from the county planning and parks departments, will lead a bicycle tour of downcounty communities that are the subjects of current sector plans. The group will cycle from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, mostly on the Capital Crescent Trail to visit Lyttonsville, downtown Bethesda and the Westbard neighborhood of Bethesda. “The bike tour will allow us to experience the planning areas at a more ﬁne-grained level of detail,” Anderson said in a news release. “At the same time, it will help us identify the places where a safer, more connected bicycle network is still needed in the County.” The public is invited to join the bike tour at the planning department headquarters at 8787 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, at 11 a.m. or people can meet the group at stops along the way. The 15-mile round trip is for experienced cyclists, who must have bikes and helmets. All participants must sign a form for indemniﬁcation and release of all claims before they begin the tour.

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Zachary Williams (left) and Christopher Leung started a Bring on the Books chapter at Blair High School. English teacher Lauren Termini (right) is the group’s adviser. The itinerary is: • 11:25 a.m.: Rosemary Hills Elementary School, behind the school at the sign for the future Capital Crescent Trail. • 12:30 p.m.: Battery Lane Urban Park in Bethesda. • 1:30 p.m.: Veterans Park, Fairmont and Norfolk avenues, Bethesda. • 2:30 p.m.: Giant Food shopping center in Westbard. • 3:30-4 p.m.: return to planning department headquarters. The times are approximate and subject to change. The tour is also designed to help participants understand the goals of the countywide Bicycle Master Plan. This plan will be launched in July to develop a high-quality, low-stress bicycle network reﬂecting the newest types of bikeways, such as separated and buffered bike lanes, and bicycle boulevards, plus secure bicycle storage facilities at transit stations, according to the release.

Silver Spring group starts nursing scholarships The Family & Nursing Care Foundation in Silver Spring has established a nursing scholarship at Montgomery College. The foundation said in a news release that $5,000 will be awarded each year for ﬁve years to help students get a certiﬁed nursing assistant certificate, starting in August for the Fall 2015 semester. The foundation says on its website that it “supports community organizations that provide low-income aging adults with the dedicated home care they need to remain in the safety and comfort of their own homes” and also supports “home care training programs

for individuals who want to learn the skills needed to become nurses and nursing assistants, so that they may care for this at-risk population.”

Wooster grads include three from Silver Spring Three Silver Spring students have received bachelor of arts degrees from The College of Wooster in Ohio: • Springbrook High School graduate Georgia Corran, who majored in sociology • Blake High School graduate Emily Watt, who majored in English • Einstein High School graduate Alissa Weinman, who majored in anthropology and graduated cum laude.

Transit task force plans public forum June 17 The Montgomery County Executive’s Transit Task Force will hold a public forum June 17 at 6 p.m. in the County Council’s third-floor hearing room, 100 Maryland Ave., Rockville. The task force has been reconvened to review legislation and recommend how to organize and ﬁnance a bus rapid transit system in the county. Those who want to speak must sign up by noon June 17 at 240-777-7165, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Speakers will have three minutes and are encouraged to submit written remarks, including additional information and materials. Comments may also be submitted by July 1 at www2.montgomerycountymd. gov/CEXcontact.

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(Above) Graduate Bria N. Graham is all smiles as the Wheaton High School commencement comes to a close at DAR Constitution Hall on Monday in Washington, D.C. Mahlet Moges gave a student speech. Math teacher Kolawole Marville and White House ofﬁcial Jennifer M. Fay, the keynote speaker, also addressed the graduating class of 275. (Right) Graduate Kevin A. Torres looks to familiar faces in the audience.

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The ﬁrst time Chuck Redd performed at the Takoma Park JazzFest, he and the late Charlie Byrd played through a thunderstorm. “It was just about rained out and very muddy,” Redd said. “We went on anyway, as there was a break in the storm. Right as Charlie was beginning his set, a downpour came. But people stuck around. There are a lot of diehard jazz fans in this area.” This year, Redd will be the headliner of the 20th annual event, slated for Sunday. The free festival runs from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Old Town area of Takoma Park. “It’s grown into an important jazz event,” said Redd, who lives in Takoma Park. “I’ve brought many good friends from New York and around the country to this festival to be special guests. I’m proud of the festival.” Shortly after moving to Takoma Park from Kentucky, where he produced music festivals and a regional NPR music show, festival president Bruce Krohmer answered an ad placed by Dave Lorentz, who wanted to start a jazz festival. Krohmer became one of the early organizers and eventually took over as producer when Lorentz left the area. “Jazz music is America’s gift to the world,” said Krohmer, a teacher and musician. “With this festival, we’ve been trying to keep an educational component and add something new when we can, while keeping jazz free for the people.” The event includes free workshops. Some jazz-themed ﬁlms were scheduled in partnership with the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring last week and this week. Raising the thousands of dollars needed to run such an event can be challenging, but Krohmer said organizers “have the fundraising thing down.” Several local restaurants

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Chuck Redd is among the scheduled performers at the 20th annual Takoma Park JazzFest on Sunday.

20TH ANNUAL TAKOMA PARK JAZZFEST n When: 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday n Where: Old Town Takoma Park n Cost: Free n More information: www.tpjazzfest.org

raise money with special Jazzfest events, while state and local entities provide grants. Supporters include the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, the Maryland State Arts Council, the city of Takoma Park and the Takoma Foundation. The number of vendors has grown to about 65, while sales of T-shirts and other items help out, Krohmer said. The festival is bringing back some of the more popular performers of the event’s ﬁrst two decades. Redd — who has toured with Dizzy Gillespie and Mel Torme and will be playing drums — is bringing in guitarists and other musicians from cities such as Denver and New York. He is also an accomplished performer on the vibraphone. The event welcomes a broad range of styles, including instrumental, vocal, swing, contem-

porary and vintage sounds from the 1920s, Krohmer said. Other scheduled acts include Veronneau, the Hokum Jazz Trio, the Dave Kline Band and the Takoma Park Middle School Jazz Ensemble. Making its debut this year will be Brulee, a quintet that won the 2015 Jazz Brawl, an event sponsored by Takoma Park JazzFest to showcase fresh performers. Members of the Uptown Vocal Jazz Quartet look forward to connecting with the Takoma Park audience again, leader Ginny Carr said. “They engage with us so warmly. We are proud to celebrate such an important, joyous milestone,” Carr said of the 20th anniversary event. Karen Lovejoy and the Lovejoy Group have performed at the Takoma Park festival since 2006. “The festival is known for bringing the community some of the hottest local, East Coast performers on the scene,” Karen Lovejoy wrote in an email. “It’s an opportunity for folks to bring friends and family, discover new music and treat yourself to something special.” kshay@gazette.net

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Chip Hiden and Alexis Irvin are big beer fans. Making a documentary on the craft beer industry was a topic right up their alley. The Silver Spring residents, who grew up in Howard County, have found welcoming fans in ﬁlm festivals for “Blood, Sweat, and Beer.” The 70-minute documentary centers on two main venues — Backshore Brewing Co. in Ocean City, Md., and the Brew Gentlemen Beer Co. in Braddock, Pa. Along the way, the couple interviewed representatives of more than 100 other breweries across the country to supplement the two main subjects. Those included others in Maryland, such as Flying Dog Brewery in Frederick. One of the more surprising aspects they learned during the two-year project was how

difﬁcult it can be to start and operate a brewery, said Hiden, 27. Recent changes in laws have allowed craft breweries in Montgomery County to distribute their beer directly to other venues rather than through the county, he noted. “They don’t just make beer and sell it,” Hiden said. “There are a lot of challenges involved, including dealing with legal roadblocks and lawsuits.” Danny Robinson, founder of Backshore, changed the name of his brewery from Shorebilly Brewing Co. in the midst of a federal trademark infringement lawsuit. The owners of Teal Bay Alliances ﬁled the lawsuit in 2013, claiming they had trademarked Shorebilly to sell T-shirts. In January, U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis ruled that Teal Bay had “no right to interfere” with Robinson’s use of the Shorebilly name, according to federal court records. The case is under appeal. The Brew Gentlemen provides a compelling story since the founders are trying to help the town of Braddock near Pittsburgh

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

Aggravated assault • Georgia Avenue and Spring Street at 4:45 p.m. May 20. During a tow dispute, the subject assaulted two tow employees. • 12000 block of Atherton Drive at 1:30 p.m. May 21. Subject was in possession of a knife and was threatening to kill his parents. • 8700 block of Carroll Avenue at 8:40 p.m. May 23. Two subjects approached and assaulted a man with a handgun. Robbery • 12500 block of Georgia Avenue at 3:15 p.m. May 19. The male victim was approached and assaulted by the subject. Cash was taken. Strong-arm robbery • 13000 block of Castle Boulevard, between 5 and 5:20 p.m. May 19. A young female victim was approached and assaulted by an unknown subject. Cellphone was taken. Burglary • Hillandale Swim & Tennis Association, 10116 Green Forest Drive, in the early-morning hours of May 24. Forced entry, took property. Residential burglary • 8300 block of Draper Lane between 1 p.m. May 16 and 11:26 p.m. May 19. No forced entry, took property. • 13000 block of Serpentine Way between 9 a.m. and 3:44 p.m. May 18. Forced entry, took property. • 9500 block of Adelphi Road at 10:50 a.m. May 18. Forced entry, took nothing. • 800 block of Northampton Drive between 6 and 8 p.m. May 18. No forced entry, took property. • 8600 block of Piney Branch Road at 11:40 a.m. May 19. Unknown entry, nothing taken. • 8700 block of Manchester Road between 6 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. May 21. No forced entry, took property. • 9000 block of Manchester Road between 12:15 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. May 22. Forced entry, took property. • 100 block of Croydon Court between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. May 24. Forced entry, took property. Vehicle larceny • 12000 block of Holdridge Road at 2 p.m. May 18. Unknown entry, took property. • Five thefts from vehicles occurred in the early-morning hours of May 20 in the parking lots of KFC at 720 Blair Road and Whole Foods at 833 Wayne Ave. Incidents may be related. Forced entry, took property. • 2200 block of Touchstone Court in the early-morning hours of May 22. No forced entry, took property. • 2100 block of Aventurine Way in the early-morning hours of May 23. Forced entry, nothing taken.

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Silver Spring ﬁlmmakers Chip Hiden and Alexis Irvin (right) spent two years making a documentary about the craft beer industry called “Blood, Sweat and Beer.” They pose with cameras they used to make their ﬁlm in the brewery at Denizens Brewing Company in Silver Spring while assistant brewers Chris Surrusco and Kevin Corcoran clean tanks. make a comeback from lean economic times, said Irvin, also 27. “It’s a town that lost thousands of residents after the steel industry collapsed,” she said. “The founders hope to provide jobs and do their part to revitalize the town.”

The filmmakers said they have learned much of their craft on the ﬂy and through experience. Hiden majored in history at Washington College, while Irvin majored in journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park. They purchased a “decent”

camera and have found a big aid through technology while handling duties such as on-air interviews, ﬁlming and editing. They raised money on Kickstarter. “We have a crew of two,” Hiden said. The beer film debuted in

March at the DC Independent Film Festival. They were greatly pleased with the reception. “It was sold out. There was a line of people who couldn’t get in,” Hiden said. Screenings followed in other cities, such as Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Chicago and Anchorage. Others are scheduled this summer, including at the SouthSide Film Festival in Bethlehem, Pa., June 11 and 13, and at the Flix Brewhouse in Des Moines, Iowa, June 18. They plan to release the ﬁlm through various platforms in the fall. In 2010, Hiden and Irvin quit their desk jobs and did a documentary, “The Dream Share Project,” on how certain people pursue careers they love. They wrote a book, “Build Your Dreams: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love,” published by Running Press. “We have ideas for another documentary, and another book,” Hiden said. “But right now, we are focusing on marketing this current ﬁlm.” kshay@gazette.net

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When the new Silver Spring Library opens June 20, it will feature a special section designed to foster pre-literacy skills in children. A $100,000 earmark, or bond bill, from the state will help the library with the project. A section of the new library will be known as the Early Literacy Center. It will feature interactive installations, or modules, that target skills children need before entering kindergarten. It will be the ﬁrst of its kind in a county library. Kathlin Smith, a volunteer with the Friends of the Library Silver Spring Chapter, said the goal was to raise about $220,000 to create the Early Literacy Center. Roughly half of that will come from the state, thanks to the bond bill introduced by Sen. Jamie B. Raskin and Del. Sheila E. Hixson, who both represent District 20, including Silver Spring. The rest of the money to create the center was raised by the nonproﬁt Friends of the Library chapter. “We are very grateful for the funding we’ve gotten,” Smith said. Money raised from the community will allow the library to open June 20 with some of the Early Literacy Center in place. The state funding will allow the library to complete the center, Smith said. State Department of Education data from 2014-2015 Kindergarten Readiness Assessment Report show that about 44 percent of Montgomery County children were fully ready in the areas of language and literacy to enter kindergarten. However, the report found children from

certain subgroups — English language learners, children with disabilities and children from lowincome families — consistently begin school without the skills and behaviors needed to succeed in kindergarten. The differences are part of what is often referred to as the achievement gap. Only 21 percent of children with disabilities were prepared with the skills and behaviors needed to succeed in kindergarten, compared to 50 percent of children without a disability, the report found. Among English language learners, only 25 percent entered kindergarten with the skills and behaviors needed to succeed, compared to 60 percent of their English-speaking peers. Thirty percent of children from low-income families enter kindergarten with the skills and behaviors needed to succeed, compared to 60 percent of children from mid- to high-income families, according to the report. The Early Literacy Center will be a place where children can foster the critical skills to prepare for kindergarten, Smith said. The center will be open to everyone during normal library hours. It will encompass about 2,000 square feet of the new library’s children’s ﬂoor. The Early Literacy Center was one of 18 Montgomery County capital projects the state budget supported this session. The Writer’s Center in Glen Echo was granted $310,000 to add another ﬂoor to its Walsh Street location. Cornerstone Montgomery and Interfaith Works were given $350,000 to buy, renovate and equip an outpatient mental health clinic in Rockville. kalexander@gazette.net

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The woman who died in a fatal collision with another car in Derwood on May 31 has been identified by police as Diane Alice Corrao, 50, of the 18000 block of Fertile Meadow Court

in Gaithersburg. Corrao was driving north on Muncaster Mill Road about 11:30 p.m. in a white Ford Taurus when she collided with a black 2014 Ford Fusion driven by Juan Francisco Diana, 34, of the 3000 block of Aquarius Avenue in Silver Spring. Based on a preliminary investigation, the southbound Fusion crossed the center line for an as-yet-unknown reason

and hit the Taurus in a location north of Bowie Mill Road, according to police. Corrao died at the scene, and Diana was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Anyone who saw the crash is asked to call the Collision Reconstruction Unit at 240-773-6620. Callers may remain anonymous. vterhune@gazette.net

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Volunteer Delaney Harrington of Silver Spring lets Maya Pitch, 8, of Silver Spring listen to her heart during a play day Sunday hosted by MomsRising and Jews United for Justice at Ohr Kodesh Congregation in Chevy Chase. The afternoon was an opportunity for the parents to show their support for paid sick days legislation in Montgomery County, organizers said.

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Former county executive candidate Jim Shalleck will lead the Montgomery County Board of Elections as the board majority shifts from Democratic to Republican. Shalleck, a Republican, was appointed to the elections board in February by Gov. Larry Hogan and conﬁrmed by the Senate. Shalleck was unanimously elected to serve as president of the seven-member board on June 2. “I’m very honored by this and grateful to the governor,” he said. For the next four years, local boards of election across the state will be led by Republicans. State law dictates that the majority party — the party of the sitting governor — have a majority on local elections boards. Montgomery County Republican Central Committee Chairman Michael L. Higgs said the board of elections is the only politically appointed board in the county that will have a Republican majority. “We’re all looking forward to open, fair, honest elections and doing everything we can to ensure the people get that,” Higgs said. Among the challenges Shalleck and the board face are the rollout of Maryland’s new voting system. Starting with the primary in April 2016, Maryland will trade its touch-screen voting machines for a paper-based system. Montgomery County was the last in the state to report Election Day results in 2014 — a problem some blamed on the

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complicated touch-screen voting system. During early voting for the 2014 general election, Republicans claimed that voting system switched ballots cast for GOP candidates to their Democratic rivals, and party leadership sought a state investigation. Twenty machines were reported to have the problem in the state, of which three machines were in Montgomery County. However, election ofﬁcials could not replicate the alleged problem in the county and said, locally, the machines were working properly. The new system is a top priority for the elections board, Shalleck said. “We have to implement a whole new voting system, so it is a big challenge to, one, educate the voters ... and to make sure the system works smoothly,” Shalleck said. “It’s a big challenge and I’m excited about it.” Montgomery County has struggled with low voter turnout and ﬁnding enough election judges. It also has handled complaints of unauthorized switched voter registrations through the state Motor Vehicle Administration.

The county has more than 630,000 voters and Shalleck said he expects turnout to increase for the 2016 presidential election. MVA has taken steps to prevent any future unauthorized switches in voter registrations. While a shift to Republican leadership should not significantly affect the board, Shalleck said he expects some vigorous debate over early voting sites. “Hopefully, it will be as congenial and nonpartisan as possible,” Shalleck said. Montgomery expanded from five early voting sites to nine sites for the 2014 election. The election board selects the sites. Maryland allowed large counties such as Montgomery to operate eight early voting sites, plus one additional site, if officials in the county agreed. Both Montgomery’s County Council and County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) supported adding a ninth site, as did the county’s board of elections. The election board also selected its other officers on June 2. Nahid Khozeimeh (R) was elected to serve as vice president and Mary Ann Keeffe (D) — the board’s immediate past president — was elected secretary. Also sworn in to the board were newcomer Alexander C. Vincent (R) and returning members David A. Naimon (D), Graciela Rivera-Oven (D) and Jacqueline L. Phillips (R). Rivera-Oven and Phillips are substitute members of the elections board. While both can participate in discussions, Rivera-Oven and Phillips only can vote if another member of their party on the board is absent. kalexander@gazette.net

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Rock Terrace School’s graduating class of seven included (from left) Aleksey Tretick of Takoma Park, Gabriel Salapare of Silver Spring, Minhaj Molla of Gaithersburg (hidden), James Lynch of Silver Spring, Brian Lopez of Montgomery Village and Vonell Bell of Rockville. Joette James, an assistant professor in the departments of pediatrics and psychiatry at George Washington University, was the guest speaker.

The scoreboards that have tallied baseball and softball games at Blair High School in Silver Spring for years soon will be upgraded. The Montgomery Blair Athletic Association Inc. — a nonprofit that promotes youth athletics and athletic education at Blair High School and in eastern Montgomery County — secured a $25,000 state earmark, known as a bond bill, to cover roughly half the cost of a project to replace the scoreboards at the softball ﬁeld and the baseball stadium. Both existing scoreboards are often in need of repair and generally inadequate to

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The baseball (pictured) and softball scoreboards at Montgomery Blair High School soon will be replaced, thanks in part to state funding.

handle the current level of use, said Richard O’Connor, president of the athletic association. “The current scoreboards are, at best, marginal,” he said. “They sometimes work, sometimes don’t work. We’ve had all sorts of electrical problems with them. They’re old technology. They’re an analog system in the digital age. They’re well beyond their useful life.” The two ballparks are owned and operated by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission and used by the school system under an agreement. Not only do Blair High School teams use the fields and the scoreboards, but other teams also can obtain permits to use the fields. Among the other teams that play at the ballfields are the Silver Spring-Takoma Thunderbolts — a Cal Ripken Sr. Collegiate Baseball League team that plays in the summer. Despite the condition of the scoreboards, O’Connor said, there is no money in Park and Planning’s budget nor in the school system’s budget to replace the scoreboards, so the athletic association stepped up to raise the funds. With the help of the Thunderbolts and the high school baseball and softball programs, the athletic association raised the $25,000 matching amount required for the bond bill. Among the 18 bond bills that were approved for Montgomery County, the earmark for the scoreboards was one of the smallest. But for those who attend or play games at either field, it will be a big improvement, O’Connor said. The new scoreboards will have digital and wireless technology. Both boards will be larger — 20 feet long compared to the current 9.5-foot long scoreboards, he said. Both will be relocated to right-centerfield, so they will be easier to see. The current scoreboard for the baseball stadium is eclipsed by the sun and people can barely see it, O’Connor said. The new dugouts for the softball field block the current scoreboard from the view of some spectators. “You literally have to get up and walk out of your seat to see the board if you are sitting on the left side of the softball field,” he said. Actually replacing the scoreboards will be a challenge because it will require closing each field for three to five days, removing outfield fences and installing new beams to support the scoreboards, he said. O’Connor said the athletic association hopes to have the new scoreboards in use by early fall. 159197G

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An engineering report from the U.S. Federal Transit Administration forecasts that the Purple Line will see 56,100 daily riders by 2035. Meanwhile, a travel forecast report from the Maryland Transit Administration projects Purple Line ridership at 64,550 by 2030 and 69,300 by 2040. About 5,000 more riders are added in the MTA report if University of Maryland students and special boardings are counted. An FTA spokesman said Tuesday he was checking on a response. An MTA official could not be reached for comment. Robert J. Riker, a Chevy Chase resident who worked as a management engineer for 30 years with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, reviewed the reports and said he believes that even the lower figure by the FTA is significantly high. “That level of ridership cannot be handled by the number of trains they propose,” he said. Riker, who also at one time had his own transportation consulting firm, said the FTA might have realized “as they went along that the numbers are incompatible with other technical numbers, and they have made some corrections.” Ralph Bennett, president of the Silver Spring-based advocacy group Purple Line Now, said the ridership projections were “conservative.” Opponents of the project are “using anything they can” to try to discredit

on higher wages, equal pay, women’s reproductive rights, addressing education disparity and ensuring retiree benefits such as Social Security. A political novice, the Chevy Chase resident said she brings experience to the race from her 25 years with WJLA, an ABC affiliate in Washington, and her nine years as chief global communications and public affairs officer for Marriott International of Bethesda, from which she resigned to run for office. Matthews is married to Chris Matthews, the host of MSNBC’s “Hardball.” She is the latest in a string of Democrats to announce their candidacy for the seat held by Christopher Van Hollen Jr. of Kensington. The 8th District comprises parts of Montgomery, Frederick and Carroll counties, stretching from the Washington, D.C., line to the Pennsylvania border. State Sen. Jamie B. Raskin (Dist. 20) of Takoma Park, Del. Kumar Barve (Dist. 17) of Gaithersburg, Del. Ana Sol Gutierrez (Dist. 18) of Chevy Chase and lawyer Will Jawando of Silver Spring also are running. Ervin, who lives in Silver Spring, said she will launch her campaign soon. Ervin said she has been on the front lines of issues such as economic equality for working women and families long before it was, as she described it, an “issue du jour” for candidates. She served from 2006 to

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Continued from Page A-1 On June 3, a federal grand jury charged in two indictments a total of 18 people, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Maryland, which is prosecuting the case. Seventeen of the 18 indicted defendants were arrested Monday, wrote Vickie LeDuc, spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s office for Maryland, in an email. Officers also detained five additional people who were arrested during the course of executing search warrants of locations associated with the indicted defendants, said Capt. Dinesh Patil, director of Montgomery County police department’s special investigations division. The nature of the charges against the five arrestees was not immediately available Tuesday. Contact information for any attorneys who are representing the defendants and who could comment about the cases was also not immediately available Tuesday. Some defendants were distributing and storing drugs in the Bel Pre Square area of Montgomery County, not far east of the Leisure World Retirement Center on Georgia Avenue. The Bel Pre operation was

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Continued from Page A-1 English for Speakers of Other Languages students. Bowers also proposed that the school system not purchase more Chromebook laptops next ﬁscal year, delaying a technology initiative. The system had planned to spend about $3 million on the laptops in ﬁscal 2016, after adding laptops and other devices to some classrooms this year. Under Bowers’ plan, the district’s employees would get compensation increases in October, but one pay period later than scheduled. The change would save the district about $3 million. Bowers recommended other ways to trim the budget, including further cuts to proposed measures meant to improve

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January 2014 on the Montgomery County Council. She resigned to become executive director of the Center for Working Families, where she worked for 14 months. She now heads the Working Families Organization’s Participatory Democracy Project, which she said creates a pipeline for women of color to run for office. Since leaving the council, Ervin said, she has been engaged in national politics, fighting for changes such as increasing the federal minimum wage. Running for Congress was not something on her to-do list, Ervin said, but the announcement she plans to make next week has support from people around the district. The race for the Democratic nomination began in March when Van Hollen announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate to succeed Barbara A. Mikulski (D) of Baltimore. Mikulski is retiring at the end of her current term. While the Democratic field continues to grow, no Republican has officially entered the race, according to the state central committee. Franklin “Frank” Delano Howard Jr. (R) of Laytonsville, a former candidate for state Senate in District 14, said in April he was exploring a run. However, he confirmed in a May 11 email that he has chosen to stay out of the race after talking with many people and “doing quite a bit of homework.”

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The Silver Spring Transit Center is planned to be one of 21 stations along the proposed Purple Line. Gov. Larry Hogan is expected to make a decision on the Purple Line project’s future soon. it, he said. “Ridership on these types of projects usually exceeds the projection numbers,” Bennett said. The Purple Line differs from many other single rail line projects since the ends are connecting to established Metro lines, he said. “There are huge population and job centers along the proposed line,” Bennett said. “The number of people who will logically use this line is gigantic.” Riker said he knew of projections on various rail projects that have turned out to be signiﬁcantly high. The FTA report updated a July 2014 evaluation, calling for reducing Purple Line service by one early-morning hour on weekdays and by three hours on weekends. But Riker doubted that would account for even part of the difference in ridership

forecasts since he didn’t think there would be many new riders during the early-morning hours. The ridership ﬁgures in the MTA report were prepared using the regional travel forecasting model maintained by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, according to that document. The model uses population and employment data, approved zoning and highway and other transit networks to calculate the expected demand. Bennett was not happy about Hogan continuing to delay a decision on the project, saying it was costing millions of dollars to put it off. Purple Line Now formally invited Hogan on Monday to visit the projected route in response to a spokesperson’s comment in a Baltimore Sun story that the governor wasn’t aware of being

invited to tour the Purple Line corridor. Last week, during a trade mission in Asia, Hogan rode a high-speed magnetic levitation train in Japan that reached speeds of 314 mph and expressed interest in possibly exploring a Baltimore-D.C. maglev line. “Opponents haven’t come up with a reasonable alternative that would help alleviate trafﬁc the way [the Purple Line] would,” Bennett said. Riker said a more effective use of transportation funds to alleviate trafﬁc would be on improvements to roadways and building infrastructure, including rail lines, in areas “that have proven to have a real need.”

headed by George Earl Gee, 30, of Beltsville, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Ofﬁce. “Gee directs and/or supplies several local drug distributors operating in the Bel Pre Square and conducts hand-to-hand drug transactions with local distributors,” according to search warrant documents. The Prince George’s County operation was headed by Anthony Niles, 36, of Bowie, who worked out of the Crooked House Entertainment music studio on Cryden Way in the Forest Center Industrial Park in Forestville, according to search warrant documents. The federal indictments seek forfeitures totaling $680,000 from those involved, according to the release. “Heroin and crack cocaine are extraordinarily dangerous,” said U.S. Attorney for Maryland Rod Rosenstein at the news conference. “The number of overdoses and death continue to increase in Maryland and throughout the country. ... [Dealers] bring in drugs [to a community], get people addicted and create lifelong horror,” he said. The 18 indicted defendants include seven from Montgomery County: • Amir Bey-Jones, aka “Meano,” 41, of Silver Spring. • William T. Fergerson, aka

“Fats,” 42, of Silver Spring. • Keenan Jones, 54, of Silver Spring. • Brandon Richardson, 30, of Silver Spring. • Frederick J. Davis, 31, of Gaithersburg. • Sonya Darby Thomas, aka “Peaches,” 37, of Gaithersburg. • Tiki Harmon, 42, of Burtonsville. Six defendants were indicted from Prince George’s County: • George Earl Gee, 37, of Beltsville. • Sierra Lynch, 37, of Beltsville. • Anthony Niles, 36, of Bowie. • Abdul Hakim Sauda, 30, of Laurel. • Ryan Snowden, 30, of Laurel. • Vincent Collins, 36, of Oxon Hill. Five others were indicted from elsewhere in Maryland and New Jersey: • Joseph Miles, 62, of Westernport, Md. • Rayvon Walls, 25, of Indian Head, Md. • Jovan Brian Lancaster, aka “Juvie,” 30, of Maryland. • Alfonso Salazar, 38, of Maryland. • Greg Milden, 40, of Cliffside, N.J. Manger said the multiagency investigation began about a year ago based on numerous and ongoing com-

plaints from residents of the Bel Pre Square townhouse complex about open-air drug dealing. Some residents were “too intimidated to go to police ... because of fear of retaliation,” Manger said. Seven residents in the area, however, participated in the drug operation, he said. Manger said his department will take steps to ensure that another operation doesn’t move to replace those indicted by increasing the number of patrols in the neighborhood and boosting the police proﬁle in the Bel Pre Square area. The investigation involved the court-approved tapping of cellphone conversations, as well as the use of undercover agents who bought drugs from the dealer, according to search warrant documents. In one instance an agent was provided with $700 to buy 500 grams of heroin, according to the documents. Defendants appeared before a federal judge in Greenbelt for bond hearings Monday. They face a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison on drug conspiracy charges, Rosenstein said. Seven of them also face charges of distributing drugs, according to the release.

how the district works to narrow its student achievement gap. School board President Patricia O’Neill said Tuesday that she anticipates the board will vote for Bowers’ plan. “This is a hand that we’ve been dealt,” she said. “While none of us are happy about it, I think this is a reasonable way to address the shortfall.” O’Neill said she’s “very worried” about the ﬁscal 2017 budget, which will pose a bigger challenge. The district will start that budget process “in a hole.” “I hope we don’t get screwed by the state again,” she said. District ofﬁcials had hoped to receive $35 million from the state through the Geographic Cost of Education Index. The index provides additional money to school systems where the cost of education is higher. Gov. Larry Hogan, however, decided to fund the index at 50

percent, signalling a loss of more than $17 million from what Montgomery County expected. Doug Prouty, president of the Montgomery County Education Association, said the school-based positions are the biggest part of Bowers’ plan. “It’s going to be difficult, especially if this sort of pattern keeps up for more years than it has already. Then, it’s going to

be really difﬁcult to maintain the quality of instruction we have in the school system right now,” Prouty said. The compensation increase delays are “not ideal,” he said, but are “a good solution” given the circumstances. School system ofﬁcials have cited a funding gap of about $53 million based on the county’s approved budget and how the

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Former Montgomery County Councilwoman Valerie Ervin said she plans to run for Congress in Maryland’s 8th District. district plans to make use of available money. The county’s final budget provides $27.2 million to the school system from the Consolidated Retiree Health Benefits Trust for paying retiree health insurance claims in ﬁscal 2016. That money must be used to pay for health benefit claims, but frees up to an equal amount for the school system to use other-

wise in its operating budget. Toﬁg said Tuesday that the school board plans to take advantage of the full $27.2 million. The board also plans to reduce its contribution to district employee pensions by about $10 million and use that money elsewhere in the budget, he said. lpowers@gazette.net

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Ever wonder how to find a lawyer? The Montgomery County Circuit Court Law Library will provide some answers during two free sessions June 17 in Rockville. “Finding and Working with a Lawyer” is scheduled for 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. and again from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Courtroom 3E of the Circuit Court building at 50 Maryland Ave. The talks are part of the law library’s Everyday Law series offered to the public. A panel of five lawyers will answer a range of questions, according to a flier from Circuit Court law librarian Kate Martin, including the following: • What should you look for in a lawyer? • What can you expect from lawyers? • How do lawyers set their fees? • How can you save money working with a lawyer? • For whom is your lawyer really working? The law, themselves or you? The five panelists will be Bruce Avery, Dawn Elaine Bowie, Suzy Eckstein, Andrew Jezic and Donny Knepper. The talks are sponsored by the Circuit Court law library, Maryland Legal Aid and the Montgomery County Bar Foundation. For more information, call the law library at 240-777-9120. vterhune@gazette.net

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Carlos Colon said he stole his first car at age 10. He started selling them, making a couple hundred dollars a pop, by age 11. “A professional thief” is how Colon described his then-self. He dropped out of high school in ninth grade because the money from stealing cars was so good, and over time he grew even bolder. In 2012, he stole a BMW after leaving a D.C. nightclub, just because he didn’t want to take a bus back home to Germantown. Oh, and then he called up the cops to report the theft. “There’s a car parked in this lot,” he remembered telling them, “and it’s been here for a few days.” But Colon now has a challenge. A guy who was “great” at stealing cars is desperate to find another job that suits him, and this time he has far less confidence. He’s 32 years old. Upon release from jail in August, he’ll have no place to live. He has little education. And he knows most employers will hold his past — which also includes domestic violence, burglary and drug charges — against him. Take a look at the first three paragraphs of this article: This is Colon’s record, much of it publicly available, and he will carry it like an anchor into any job interview. “I’ll have, like, two minutes to explain it,” Colon said. America’s incarceration rate, after skyrocketing for decades, has only recently started to go down — a necessary change in the nation’s criminal justice system, President Obama has said. But that has opened a broader and controversial debate about how to prepare inmates for re-

entry, and the degree to which a criminal record should be considered for employment. A handful of states and cities have drafted new “Ban the Box” laws that essentially delay employee background checks, so records aren’t immediately used to weed out candidates. But these moves only help so much. Jobs still require background checks. For ex-convicts, the job interview can be terrifying, and handling it the wrong way can lower the chances of employment and ultimately stunt long-term economic opportunity. The Montgomery County Correctional Facility, where Colon has been locked up for 1½ years, is one of the only jails in the country that tries to coach inmates on what to say and how to sell themselves before they are released. In room C1.360, on the first floor of a building that looks like a windowless high school, a one-stop job center has quietly operated for the last nine years, funded by the taxpayers of Montgomery County. Posters give advice on “asking for a fair chance.” Coaches help inmates put together resumes. Computers — while restricting access to most Internet sites — offer a portal to state and federal job pages. The jail is maximum security, and inmates in olive jumpsuits, when walking the hallways, are never out of eyeshot of at least one guard. But in the job center, there is carpeting on the floors, and plastic chairs lined up to hear motivational speakers. Here, inmates are called “customers.” The program in Montgomery County has been successful enough, officials say, to merit a broader rollout. The Department of Labor said Thursday it was supplying $10 million in grants to set up similar programs in 20 other communities throughout the country. “The most vulnerable time somebody has coming out is the

ﬁrst month or two, because now they have an absence of structure,” Department of Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez said in an interview. “If you start people toward work behind the fence, you are preparing them with skills to succeed when they get out.” Nationally people with criminal records are anywhere between 25 to 50 percent less likely to get call-backs after job applications, according to research from Devah Pager, a professor of sociology at Harvard University. The Center for Economic and Policy Research estimated in 2010 that reduced job prospects among ex-convicts reduced the overall unemployment rate by 0.8 or 0.9 percent. Perhaps the hardest skill to hone, those in Montgomery say, is the interview itself. So inmates do mock interviews and then watch videos of those interviews, scanning for ways to improve. They also write letters, intended for prospective employers, in which they take responsibility for their crimes, talk about what they learned from it, and describe their new goals. Colon hasn’t yet written his letter, but he’s already practiced describing the previous decades of his life, emphasizing more than his record: He is a foster kid who spent years acting crazy and now wants to settle down, he said. If he violates his parole after his release, he’ll be back behind bars for 15 years. “I’m going to struggle, beg, scrap, whatever, to not do that,” Colon said. He has held jobs; four are listed on his still-in-progress resume. He knows how to buff ﬂoors, work with marble and design kitchens; two of his kitchen designs were featured in a home improvement magazine. While locked up at at the Montgomery facility, right along I-270, he’s never gotten in trouble. He’s working on his GED. To get previous jobs, Colon said he told employers that he

didn’t have a criminal record — or that it only consisted of a minor traffic ticket. But they often found out anyway. At least one fired him for lying, he said. “Now I’m trying to find out if I can get a job doing it the right way,” he said. So why, Colon was asked recently, would this time be different? How would he be able to stay out of trouble after getting released? “That’s a question I can’t totally answer for myself,” he said after thinking for a moment. “I’m in here — it was my fault. It was my ex-girlfriend. I beat her up. I’d been drinking.” Donna Rojas, one of the job coaches who works at the center, interrupted. “It’s one thing to say you’re going to change and another thing to have a plan,” she said. She turned to Colon. “By the time you get out of here you’ll know what to say. As you’ve been here, you’ve learned,” she said. She tried to demonstrate for him how a strong answer should sound: “I couldn’t speak outwardly about what I’d done; now I can. I was not one who was able to take responsibility. Now I can.” “We’ll work on some drafts of the letter,” she said to Colon. Court records indicate that Colon’s sentence stems from a second-degree assault charge. In Montgomery County, the in-jail job center is linked to the county’s broader workforce development system, and inmates are encouraged to work with other job center branches when they’re released. Rojas said roughly 80 percent of the inmates at the jail’s job center find employment. Inmates are eligible for the training when they’re within eight months of their release date — and if they maintain good behavior. The recidivism rate among inmates who go through the job program is about 25 to 30 percent lower than the broader average, said Robert Green, director of the Montgomery County Department Of Correction and Rehabilitation. “I tell people, about 94 percent of the people here [in jail] are going back to the streets of the community,” Green said. “So how do you want them back?”

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is planning to consolidate several local offices into one office in Rockville’s Twinbrook neighborhood. The move is expected to bring agency employees from leased offices on Gaither Road, Choke Cherry Road, Twinbrook Parkway and Thompson Avenue into an office currently being renovated at the Parklawn Building at 5600 Fishers Lane, according to a document from the U.S. General Services Administration. Once the renovation is complete, the change will increase the number of employees at the Fishers Lane location from about 2,900 to 4,500. Among the agency operations there is HHS University, which offers online courses on a range of relevant topics, according to an agency website. Health and Human Services officials could not be reached for comment Monday. Rich Gottfried, president of the Twinbrook Citizens Association, said he’s concerned about traffic from employees going from Fishers Lane onto Twinbrook Parkway, plus the impact on Metrorail at the nearby Twinbrook station. Beyond the specific project, Gottfried said, officials need to look at the bigger picture for the area and create a plan for how people are going to get in and out of Rockville. rmarshall@gazette.net

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53 townhouses coming to King Farm Streetscape Partners of Rockville is teaming up with a Los Angeles company to build 53 townhouses in King Farm in Rockville. The four-story townhouses on King Farm Boulevard will range from 1,800 to 2,250 square feet, with three to five bedrooms, according to a news release. Each will have a two-car garage; some will have decks and rooftop terraces. The project is Streetscape’s second collaboration with Remark Land and Housing, a division of the Resmark Cos., a private equity firm. The first is a condominium development in Washington, D.C.

Not Your Average Joe’s opening in Bethesda Not Your Average Joe’s of Middleboro, Mass., plans to open its second Maryland restaurant July 5 in the Georgetown Square Shopping Center on Old Georgetown Road in Bethesda. The casual restaurant plans to hire more than 100 employees, according to a company news release. It has 22 East Coast locations, including one in the Kentlands in Gaithersburg.

Medical society inducts president, board members The Montgomery County Medical Society recently inducted its 2015-16 president and executive board members.

Regulatory lawyer joins Shulman Rogers Shulman Rogers of Potomac named Jeffrey S. Holik a shareholder in the law firm’s financial industry regulatory group. Previously, Holik was chief counsel at PNC Financial Services Group and Holik senior vice president for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. He also was a financial regulator with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Union College and a law degree from the George Washington University Law School.

Bethesda art gallery moves Bethesda Fine Art has moved to 4931 Cordell Ave. The new gallery will be open from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday during the Bethesda Art Walk.

Enviva Partners turns quarterly profit Enviva Partners of Bethesda, which provides wood fuel pellets to electrical generators, reported a first-quarter pro forma profit of $5.6 million, versus a net loss of $4.8 million in the first quarter of 2014. Revenues rose to $114.3 million from $104.8 million.

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Largent’s Restaurant and Bar will soon be rebranded as Kentlands Kitchen by chef Michael Harr, but he doesn’t see success coming without the community’s help. Harr was at Food Wine and Co. in Bethesda for almost four years before leaving in October 2014 to pursue a different path. He was brought on by the current owners of Largent’s as a partner. “I was brought on to turn it around because there was a need,” Harr said, comparing the partnership to the television show “Restaurant Impossible,” where the host helps failing restaurants launch a whole new concept and hopefully a moresuccessful business. Harr said everything in the kitchen is made completely from scratch. He is bringing years of experience and patrontested signature dishes to the restaurant including his lamb burger, Baja fish tacos and grilled calamari. He said, however, that he’s open to change depending on what customers want. Harr said he has made an effort to speak with people in the community and people who came to the restaurant to ﬁgure out what residents of the Kentlands wanted in a restaurant and on the menu. He said feedback showed that people wanted a restaurant they could come to more than once a week, one with great food and even better service. In addition to changes to the menu, the interior of the restaurant received a makeover, distancing it from its original sports bar model to a more cozy theme. Harr wants customers to feel as if they are being invited into someone’s house for a home-cooked meal with good wine and good conversation. He got rid of the TVs that overpowered the room and loomed over every table in favor of local photographs and art.

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New dishes — like grilled calamari seen here — will be featured at Kentlands Kitchen.

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Chef Michael Harr, formerly of Bethesda’s Food Wine and Co., is creating new dishes at Largent’s Restaurant and Bar in the Kentlands. Walls were repainted to contrast chimney-like rock accents. He added service stations throughout to ensure quick access to diners and convenience for servers. Harr decided on the name Kentlands Kitchen after exploring the neighborhood and seeing its charm as well as how much residents enjoy living in it. “If I’m bringing in the res-

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Obituary Miss Rebecca Day 30, of Gaithersburg passed away unexpectedly on June, 2, 2015. She was the loving daughter of Randy and Patricia Hart. Born August 30, 1984 in Olney, Maryland, Becky was a loving and caring person to all those she encountered. She worked as a medical assistant in Gaithersburg. She was a great friend, listener, and extremely giving. She had a strong personality as was evident by working diligently to overcome many obstacles and adverse conditions in her life. She loved her nieces and nephew and was a lover of all animals especially her beloved dog Nala. In addition to her parents she is survived by her sisters; Monica Kolbjornsen, Jessica Day and her brother Ryan Hart. Nieces, Danielle and Alexis and Nephew Dylan along with additional friends and family. A visitation will take place from 2:00pm-3:00pm on Saturday June 13th at the Chapel Mausoleum of Resthaven Memorial Gardens, 9501 U.S. Route 15N in Frederick, MD. A funeral service will begin at 3:00pm with Pastor Tim May officiating. Inurnment will be at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to assist family with funeral expenses at http://www.gofundme.com/ w3z83u4 Arrangements are with Resthaven Funeral Services. Skkot Cody, P.A. 1951703

A Hagerstown man acHundreds of friends and cused of killing his ex-girlfriend in a Target store parking lot in family members joined together Germantown on June 1 was for a candlelight vigil June 3 for ordered held without bond on a young Germantown woman who was fatally shot in a Target Friday. store parking lot two days earDefendant Donald Wayne lier. Bricker Jr., 27, illegally ordered “I cried for three hours a gun by mail that arrived on straight,” said friend Burnett June 1, said Assistant District Crawford of Columbia after he Attorney Deborah Feinstein at heard about the death of his friend Mariam Foloshade Adethe Friday bond review. Bricker already had pur- bayo, 24, known to her family and friends as Shadé Marie. chased 100 rounds of ammu“It didn’t hit me until the nition for the “black powder” words came out of my mouth,” gun, an unregulated replica of said Crawford, who graduated an antique handgun, before from Damascus High School in using the gun to shoot Mariam 2005 and was part of Adebayo’s Folashade Adebayo, 24, as she group of friends. “We hung out all the time,” walked away from his truck in he said. “It is a close-knit group.” the parking lot. County police arrested Bricker then walked up to a Hagerstown man, DonAdebayo and shot her a second ald Wayne Bricker Jr., 27, and time, according to police and charged him with ﬁrst-degree prosecutors. murder, according to a “He shot Police Departher twice in ment news republic, which lease. was caught on Based on surveillance police intervideo in the views with AdeTarget parking bayo’s friends lot. ... She went and family, Adebayo and to the ground Bricker had and he shot her been dating again,” Feinfor about six PHOTO BY STEPHANIE EVANS stein said. months and Bricker is a Mariam Adebayo was shot twice in the relationship registered sex a Germantown parking lot. had recently offender due ended, accordto a third-degree sex offense ing to the release. Bricker, who led ofﬁcers on in 2008, according to online a chase along upcounty roads in records. “He knew he couldn’t the rain after the shooting, was purchase [a gun through the injured after his pickup truck slid off the road and hit a tree on mail],” Feinstein said. Darnestown Road, according to Bricker was arrested sev- police. eral hours after the shooting He was released from the after crashing his car at the end hospital, charged and held in jail of a police pursuit, and was until a June 3 bond review. The daughter of immigrants charged on Thursday. from Ghana, Adebayo lived with Bricker was working in the her parents in the Churchill Vilhome improvement business lage neighborhood. and going to college at the She graduated in 2009 from time of his arrest, said Assistant Seneca Valley High School, Public Defender Aubrey Dillon, where she was a member of the who represented Bricker at the Poms team. Four years later, she earned hearing. “In light [of the circum- a bachelor’s degree in public stances], I have no choice but health from the University of to hold the defendant with- Maryland, College Park, according to relatives. out bond,” said District Court “That was a big accomJudge John Moffett, who set plishment for her,” said friend Bricker’s next court appear- Sherel Bowman, who said she ance for June 26. had known Adebayo since they were classmates at Martin Luvterhune@gazette.net ther King Jr. Middle School in

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Molly Gillespie of Germantown (left) is held by an unidentiﬁed woman as mourners gather at a vigil for Mariam Adebayo, 24, who was recently killed in Germantown. The gathering ﬁlled a corner of the Seneca Valley High School campus on June 3 in Germantown, which Adebayo once attended. Germantown. Bowman remembered with a laugh that some subjects were harder than others for Adebayo as she pursued her college degree. “She hated anatomy – she’d text me and say, ‘Save me!’” laughed Bowman, who remembered her friend as “very vibrant and lively.” “She was always trying to make situations better,” Bowman said. Close friend Stephanie Evans, a classmate at Seneca Valley, said much the same. “She was my sunshine,” Evans said. “Any time there was an issue or any kind of drama, she’d put it in a way to see the positive side.” “That’s so rare,” Evans continued. “It’s not often that someone is always positive. She was the epitome of what a best friend is.” Evans’ father, Lawrence Evans, said Adebayo would often come to backyard barbecues at the Evans house. “She had a certain bearing ... and conveyed a feeling of comfort and a feeling that everything’s going to be all right,” he said. “It’s incomprehensible how one can have a young lady in the prime of her life to be taken by bullets,” Lawrence Evans said. Friends and family also talked about Adebayo’s infectious laughter and her attempts to sing. “She could not sing, but she loved Michael Jackson — she’d pretend to moonwalk,” said her cousin Crystal Essiaw at the vigil. Adebayo had recently started a new job as a reimbursement specialist at a health care company, and her long-range goal was to become an occupational therapist, Essiaw said. She was thinking about applying to a master’s program at Towson University or at George Mason University in Virginia, according to Essiaw.

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There’s much to like in a recent agreement between Montgomery and Howard counties to investigate police-related deaths in each other’s jurisdictions. If someone dies in the custody of, or during an interaction with, a Montgomery County police officer, the Howard County state’s attorney’s office will review the evidence and decide whether criminal charges are apMONTGOMERY, propriate. Montgomery County’s HOWARD prosecutor’s office PROSECUTORS will do the same SMART TO for Howard County REVIEW EACH cases. a promisOTHER’S CASES ing It’s sign that both counties are striving to be fair and accountable when scrutiny is needed. This especially matters because police-related deaths across the country — in Ferguson, Mo.; New York City; North Charleston, S.C.; Baltimore city; and other areas — have sparked public outrage. In some cases, there have been strong feelings in the community that officers should have been held criminally responsible for a death, but weren’t. It’s common practice for a police department, when faced with allegations against one of its own employees, to have a neighboring agency investigate. However, Montgomery and Howard prosecutors say their evidence-review agreement is the first of its kind in Maryland. Jaded critics could write off this extra step as meaningless symbolism, convinced that police and prosecutors work closely enough that they will watch out for each other, no matter the jurisdiction. Then we see otherwise, such as when the state’s attorney in Baltimore filed criminal charges against six officers for the death of Freddie Gray. The skepticism that the fix is in isn’t universally justified. Police work can be remarkably difficult and fraught with grave life-and-death decisions. Sometimes, killing one person to protect the lives of others is understandable. According to a Washington Post report about a May 19 encounter in Arlington, Va., a man with a metal pole threatened officers responding to a call about a disturbance. An officer tried to use a Taser, but it didn’t work at first, and the man hit the officer in the face with the pole. The officer tried again to use the Taser and ended up hitting a second officer instead. When the man swung the metal pole again, the officer shot him three times in his upper body, killing him, the Post wrote, based on the latest information from police. If this account holds true, it’s an example of a split-second decision about the use of deadly force. If deadly violence isn’t justified, a police officer should be held accountable, too, just as anyone else would. Montgomery County already has a pending investigation that Howard County will review — the May 12 death of Dajuan Graham, 40, of Burtonsville. On May 10, Graham was seen acting erratically in the Briggs Chaney area, according to police. When a woman tried to get Graham to stop walking in the roadway of Castle Boulevard, he punched the woman in the face, police said. Observers suspected that Graham was under the influence of PCP. Graham reportedly ignored multiple orders by police to take his hands out of his pockets. An officer then shocked Graham with a Taser. Graham fell down and was taken to a hospital, where he later assaulted an officer and security staff, according to police. Two days later, he died. Montgomery County police have been open with information about what happened and the officers who were involved. That’s a sharp contrast to inexcusable secrecy from the police department in Fairfax County, Va., after an officer there shot and killed a man who had his hands up during a call in 2013, according to police records reported by The Washington Post. It took a court order to force the police department to release details of the call, including the officer’s name, 17 months later. The county has settled a wrongful death suit with the victim’s family, the Post reported. Montgomery County police and prosecutors have demonstrated that they can be transparent and straightforward in handling cases of policerelated deaths, giving the community reason to have faith in their impartiality and professionalism. The reciprocal agreement with Howard County enhances that reputation.

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Public health should not be compromised by poultry The United States Department of Agriculture announced that more than 45 million chickens and turkeys have been euthanized since March because the present vaccines are not effective against the highly pathogenic H5N2 virus. Avian flu strains (H5N2, H5N8, H5N1) have been detected in U.S. birds in the past few months. The question is why, during the worst outbreak of bird ﬂu in commercial poultry and wild flocks since 1980, does the Rockville City Council want to change zoning laws and allow backyard poultry now. In Asia and Africa, a form of H5N1 resulted in human infections of farm workers. These health concerns, in addition to the endemic problem of salmonella contamination, are public health issues that are best monitored by the Department of Agriculture in a commercial setting rather than the Rockville City Council, whose expertise is urban rather than rural. If backyard poultry are allowed in Rockville, there must be protections for the unsuspecting residents: licenses, education, and, above all, inspections to protect the chickens from abusive treatment and unclean practices. Refuse from chickens should be red-bagged as biohazardous waste and picked up by appropriate haulers. The infection potential of chickens should not be underestimated. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that backyard chickens should not come in contact with children, seniors, pregnant women and those with

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Betsy Newman feeds wood sorrel to her four chickens in the backyard of her home in Gaithersburg. Newman rented hens and a coop from a local company to decide if she wanted to commit to raising chickens. compromised immune systems. They should be kept away from areas where food is eaten — patios. Cities cannot exist without strong public health laws. If the City Council wants to bring farming practices into this environment, the costs of public health must be born by those

residents with licenses to maintain backyard poultry and not those who buy their eggs at the supermarket. They should also bear the costs of rodent and pest control in contiguous properties because of the chicken coops. Even the proverbial fox in the henhouse will become a reality of

concern. Rockville does have foxes, although they usually keep their distance. But, regardless of where we get our eggs, it is important to wash our hands after touching raw eggs because of salmonella. Joan Selinger, Rockville

Changes create more doubt about accuracy of Purple Line projections Has anybody noticed? The Purple Line ridership numbers have been revised downwards. The Federal Transit Administration’s recently released “New Starts Engineering” highlights a Purple Line ridership forecast for 2035 of 56,100 daily trips. This is a remarkable, if insufﬁcient, move in the direction of reality. The MTA’s August 2013 Final Environmental Impact Statement calculated a ridership forecast for 2030 of 69,300 daily trips, which was increased to 74,160 for 2040, assuming the typical transit growth rate for the Washington area of 7 percent per de-

cade. These numbers formed the basis for beneﬁt calculations, like those of the Sierra Club, which cited information that said the Purple Line would take 17,000 cars off the road. Using the new FTA-reported 56,100 represents a reduction of more than 20 percent in predicted ridership and revenue. But even a daily load of 56,000 passengers cannot be distributed on the Purple Line’s 21 stations during the time periods predicated. And opening-day capacity, determined by peak period operations, can never be increased because of right-of-way design

limitations. The MTA also reported the following changes: weekday service is reduced from 139 to 130 trains a day through eliminating service between midnight and 1 a.m. and reducing other late-night trips. One estimate going up, however, is the number of 90-foot trolleys required to operate from opening day onward, now increased to 58. Never mind that the lay-up yard planned and priced for the down-sized Lyttonsville facility could not possibly accommodate 5,220 feet of trains. Robert J. Riker, Chevy Chase

Chickens will mean headaches for Rockville The proposal to allow keeping chickens in Rockville backyards, if passed, will be one big headache “coming up ‘The Pike.’” For every neighbor who may “keep chickens” and be ever so pleased about their flock of Rhode Island Reds or Plymouth Rocks and their ﬁve (maybe) eggs a day, there will be several more neighbors nearby who are not too pleased with the manure odor, the frequent appearance of predators — the friendly neighborhood fox or coyote — or the appearance of

rats (rats like chicken eggs). And then, most surely, Rockville will have to hire a chicken control ofﬁcer to settle disputes between disgruntled neighbors. And, if you go to sell your house, be prepared for buyers to not be very happy about the chicken coop and odor in your neighbor’s backyard. And maybe your property abuts to three or four yards and you could have a possible three or four chicken coops gracing your view. Most of us do not have large

yards, and chickens in close quarters are not good neighbors. There was a “straw vote” by the mayor and council, 3-2 in favor of chickens, though most residents are not happy with the idea. There will be a ﬁnal vote on the issue on June 15 at the mayor and council meeting. Please e-mail the mayorandcouncil@rockillemd. gov to vote against chickens in Rockville. Elizabeth M. Spano, Rockville

When there are problems, propose solutions This is in response to Michael Hoxie’s letter to the editor (“Not the finest moments for school board,” June 3), in which he correctly identiﬁes problems created by the Montgomery County Board of education — or at least exacerbated by the board’s actions. The problems are additional examples of what have been characterized as “attitudinal” problems. While Mr. Hoxie’s concluding statement (“Something is rotten in the county of Montgomery”) may or may not be accurate, as

it stands, it reﬂects an additional attitudinal issue quite common in our society — namely, identifying problems, but making no attempt to propose solutions. As a member of the First Steps Coalition, I have committed to helping the board of education begin to solve some of its attitudinal problems, by providing it with detailed directives on how to address three such problems. One involves the obvious need for curricular attention to “civics.” The First Steps Coalition has

no delusions that its actions will solve all of the ills of our public education system. We have simply chosen to be part of the solution. And we recognize that “even a journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” For more information on the First Steps Coalition, readers can send an email to infofsc@thedavidcoalition.org, and, if they request it, we will send them our position paper. Mark R. Adelman, Kensington

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Regulations, taxes on e-cigarettes are excessive The Gazette recently posted an opinion on the “banning” of e-cigs indoors by the council, as needed or as “should be,” if I recall. The so called emperors Thereof Montgomery County do not know the facts. There are two, yes, two chemicals in e-cigs. Propylene glycol is a colorless liquid. It is used in coffee, ice cream and soda. Vegetable glycerin is clear, and used in soaps and toothpaste, derived naturally from plants. And then there is nicotine. Yes, it is bad and yes, it is addictive. But it is not absorbed through the skin, which is a preposterous claim by the round table (Montgomery County Council). And to get even better, now they will tax it. Wonderful idea. Let’s run all the vape stores out of business in the county. The thoughts of a few should not inﬂuence or control the many. David Gust, Rockville

Beneﬁt concert was a success The Gazette, in its May 6 edition, announced the premiere concert in the Washington area of Music for Food. Held in Bethesda on May 16, the concert was a rousing success, both artistically and ﬁnancially. The music was gorgeous, and we raised over $22,000 for the Manna Food Center in Gaithersburg. We thank the community for coming out to support this effort to reduce hunger in our midst. Ann H. Franke, Washington, D.C.

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Germantown native Tori Finucane, who just wrapped up her sophomore season as the Univer-

sity of Missouri softball team’s ace, said she was adamantly against wearing protective gear in the pitcher’s circle. “I just always thought it would mess me up or something to have [a face mask] on my face,” Finucane said. “I never really even wore a mouth guard. I never liked anything extra on me when I had to throw.” Finucane no longer has much of a choice. On

May 24 — on national television — she was struck in the face around her left eye by a hard line drive during Missouri’s NCAA Softball Super Regional at the University of California, Los Angeles. Fortunately for Finucane, the damage was minimal, but with worse luck the line drive could’ve resulted in a life-threatening injury. She has since been advised

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Blake High School pitcher Ellie Smethurst throws to ﬁrst base April 28 during the softball game against Wootton.

Spirit pick up a point in tying Boston Breakers Washington remains unbeaten on its Boyds home ﬁeld this season

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Paint Branch High School’s Jovaun Wheeler reaches for the goal line in Sunday’s 7-on-7 football game at Seneca Valley.

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Paint Branch High School football’s Jovaun Wheeler timed the jump perfectly, catching the pass as if it was intended for him, and not one of the Huntingtown receivers, in Saturday’s St. Charles Battle of the Beltway 7-on-7 tournament against Huntingtown.

The result of that play was an interception, but his soft hands and ball instincts won’t be limited to the secondary this upcoming season as Wheeler, a third-year starter on defense, is expected to step in as a major contributor at wide receiver for Paint Branch. “I’m excited. I get to make plays on offense and defense,” Wheeler said. Wheeler, a rising senior, joins receivers JD Guerrero and Ivan Nnadi and running back Cedric Content in what will be a new-look offense as the Panthers look to replace key players such as Ryan Stango

and Darryl Hill. Also stepping back into the starting lineup is quarterback Armani Ceballos, who backed up Danon Davis-Cray in 2014. The summer passing tournaments have aided Paint Branch’s growth providing players such as Wheeler the conditioning necessary to play both sides of the ball for the ﬁrst time, an opportunity to learn the offensive plays and intricacies of playing receiver and a chance to gain chemistry with Ceballos. “Jovaun, he’s going to be big for us this

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Saturday’s 1-1 tie against the Boston Breakers at the Maryland SoccerPlex in Boyds was a game of missed opportunities for the Washington Spirit women’s professional soccer team. But while coach Mark Parsons admitted there were feelings of frustration among his players at the end of the night — the team dictated play for much of the game but failed to convert on numerous prime scoring chances — Washington still walked away from the result with a point toward its National Women’s Soccer League standing and a good feeling about its game heading into the next stretch of the season. “Basically what I said to the team was, I know there’s going to be a lot of emotion and they’ll be upset [with the result] but we played extremely well and we had opportunities,” Parsons said. “If we play games like that every single week we’re going to win more games than we’re going to tie and we’re not going to lose. “We lacked a little bit in front of the goal, but that is not a problem, we were creating [chances] all game and that is something we can work on.” With Saturday’s tie, Washington (4-3-2) remains unbeaten at home. The Spirit currently sits in second place

“It’s been a good start to the season, and this will be a good chance to refocus.” Katherine Reynolds, defender in the NWSL with 14 points, just one behind Chicago Red Stars in ﬁrst with 15. Boston (3-3-2) is third with 11 points. Washington is scheduled to travel to Chicago on June 27 after the league’s two-week World Cup hiatus, a time Parsons said the Spirit will use to recover, physically and mentally. Washington has played the past two games without stalwart midﬁelder Tori Huster, who has been acting as the team’s captain in the absence of defender Ali Krieger, but Parsons said he expects Huster to be back at full strength after the break. Washington won all three of its one-goal decisions against the Red Stars a year ago, two of them away in Chicago. “I think the break will be good, we can focus on a few things we need to improve,” said defender Katherine Reynolds. “It’s been a good start to the season, and this will be a good chance to refocus.”

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Son of former Sherwood great, NFL player ready to shine for Northwest BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN STAFF WRITER

If Northwest High School football coach Mike Neubeiser seemed rather relaxed following last fall’s second straight state championship run for someone who was losing most of the receiving corps from his pass-ﬁrst offense, it’s probably because he had a secret weapon in his back pocket.

Last fall, rising Northwest junior wide receiver Reggie Anderson moved to Germantown from Frederick County — he played at Oakdale for two seasons. His father is 12-year NFL fullback and Sherwood graduate, Richie Anderson. The younger Anderson, already an NCAA Division I recruit, was enrolled in time to play for the Jaguars by the postseason and Neubeiser said he “contemplated having him play” but ultimately decided “since he played at Oakdale earlier in the year, it would be weird to bring a player in, midseason, so we held off.” But Anderson, who said he is excited about the prospect of showcasing his abilities in an offense more geared toward his

style of play, has spent the past six-plus months getting to know his new teammates and the program and it’s already been paying dividends in this spring’s 7-on-7 passing league season — the Jaguars defeated Clarksburg Thursday at Seneca Valley. Rising senior quarterback Mark Pierce threw for 2,126 yards and 31 touchdowns in 2014. “He’s got to know the guys and see our style of play,” Neubeiser said. “[During passing league] you want to work on routes and running at the correct level and getting the separation you need between the different offensive players, the timing

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Northwest High School’s Reggie Anderson transferred to the Germantown school last fall after playing parts of two seasons at Oakdale.

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Paint Branch High School quarterback Armani Ceballos sets up for a pass in Sunday’s 7-on-7 football game at Seneca Valley.

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Continued from Page B-1 year,” Ceballos said. “He has good route running, good hands. He’s going to go up and get the ball. [JD Guerrero] on the outside, he has great hands, deep threat. [Nnadi], screens and stuff like that. And Cedric too.” So far, everything appears to be clicking for the Panthers, who ﬁnished second at the St. Charles tournament despite missing several key players such as All-Gazette linebacker Jordan Hill. They also won the May 30 7-on-7 tournament at Blair, defeating Sherwood in the championship game. “Everyone on the ﬁeld is capable of making plays,” Panthers coach Michael Nesmith

said. “So, the quarterback’s not focused on trying to force the ball to anybody. It’s just reading what the defense is doing, take what they give us, and wherever the ball goes, it’s going to a pretty effective player that can make things happen for us.” Wheeler said his chemistry with Ceballos — they’ve known each other 10-plus years — is already strong, and continuing to grow. Ceballos said the team just needs to reach a point where it treats every opponent with the same level of respect. “When we play teams that aren’t on the same level, we stoop down to their level,” Ceballos said. “We got to just keep our high intensity.” At this time last year, Ceballos was penciled in as the starting quarterback but af-

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Continued from Page B-1 Washington, which relied heavily on good forward movement from its outside backs to create space, controlled play the majority of a scoreless first half — the Spirit outshot Boston, 7-3. Per its strategy, according to coach Tom Durkin, Boston’s best chance in the first 45 minutes came on a counterattack when midfielder Kristie Mewis snuck a shot past Spirit goalkeeper Kelsey Wys but hit the far post. Boston reorganized itself in the second half, Durkin said, and focused on limiting Washington’s production through the midfield. And for a period of time, Parsons said the Spirit did begin to play to Boston’s pace. Crystal Dunn, whom Durkin said he would have preferred to have been with the U.S. National Team in Canada, wreaked much havoc for

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Boston’s defense with her speed and athleticism, though she was unable to get the final touch she needed. But Amanda Da Costa gave Washington a 1-0 lead in the 64th minute when she followed up a deflection from her own pass toward the middle and buried the ball inside the left post. “[Washington] has some really good players, they have a few players I wish would’ve been in Canada [for the World Cup],” Durkin said. “Dunn and [midfielder Christine] Nairn, I wish they were in Canada.” The Spirit’s lead was short-lived as Boston answered with a goal two minutes later from Maddy Evans. Washington continued to create — the Spirit had about six quality looks at the net in the second half — but settled instead for the tie. “That was a good team performance,” Parsons said. “We got a point out of it and now we’ve got to build. The future for us is really exciting.” jbeekman@gazette.net

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Continued from Page B-1 you need. It’s a time to work on communication, work on where you need to be and when to be there, all that little stuff. Reggie is ﬁtting right in, it was deﬁnitely a needy area for us.” Anderson, who said while he might have football in his genes, his father always taught him to continue to work harder for the little things no matter what, has all the attributes of a tremendous wide receiver. A lean but sturdy 5-foot-11, 165 pounds, he is extremely fast and quickfooted. He can jump high, has good hands and hand-eye coordination, Neubeiser said, and is extremely elusive. “He’s a big weapon for Marky [Pierce] and he is excited to have him to throw to,” Neubeiser said. But, aside from the physical skills, Anderson also brings largely unrivaled intangibles to

the ﬁeld. Growing up around the sport at the highest level, he knows all the nuances of the game, Neubeiser said. He understands the importance of all the little things, on and even off the ﬁeld — diet, preparation — that can add to a player’s success. Potentially one of the best players to ever come through Northwest, according to Neubeiser, Anderson’s impact on the Jaguars’ offense will be felt whether or not the ball comes to him. He will undoubtedly create matchup problems — he’s too athletic not to draw attention, Neubesier said — which will open up some of Northwest’s other options. Neubeiser said rising sophomore Alphonso Foray has shown well this spring and said the two will be able to push each other during practice. There are some major perks to growing up as the son of an NFL player and coach — Anderson’s older brother Richy is a rising junior on the Penn

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jbeekman@gazette.net State University football team — it can also be daunting to try and live up to expectations, the younger Anderson said. But he doesn’t think about that as much anymore, Anderson said, and he is creating his own identity, Neubeiser added — it helps that he plays his own position. “We as a staff talked about it and made a conscious decision not to say anything about [his dad playing in the NFL], ever,” Neubeiser said. “Reggie is Reggie. I think it helps being here and away from where his brother went to school [at Gov. Thomas Johnson in Frederick] and he’s not at Sherwood where his dad went. He’s playing his own position. ... He deﬁnitely came in at an opportune time. We lost most of our starters at receiver. And hopefully defensively he will establish himself as well, he’s too good of an athlete to not have on the ﬁeld.” jbeekman@gazette.net

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ter suffering a broken foot in the season opener, he was replaced by the now graduated Davis-Cray. Back in control of the offense, Ceballos may be more prepared thanks to that experience. “It helped me a lot,” said Ceballos, who also backed up 2013 All-Gazette Player of the Year Gaston Cooper as a sophomore. “Because I didn’t want to sit out. So now I’m taking advantage of my opportunities.” “He’s poised. He’s composed. He’s more experienced than it may seem,” Nesmith added. “I think he didn’t think he had anything to worry about last year. We tell the boys all the time, your job is not safe, you’re competing year round. … I think he knows that now.”

by her doctors to wear a face mask moving forward. The occurrence, which silenced the packed stadium at UCLA, brought to light an ongoing discussion regarding possible mandatory facial protection for infielders — primarily for pitchers and first and third basemen — at the national but also local level. Blair High School coach Louie Hoelman said he and other Montgomery County athletes and coaches were affected by the incident. While the vast majority of the county’s athletes don’t wear the protective face masks — Blazers rising senior third baseman Mildred Devereux and Blake rising junior pitcher Ellie Smethurst are two of the exceptions — coaches have brought up the issue in past meetings, and Hoelman said he would not be surprised if a rule was implemented at the high school level within five years. Softball has become a faster, more powerful game in the past decade, Hoelman said, and it’s important for safety protocol to evolve along with a sport. Pitchers stand only 43 feet from home plate, and there are situations — such as bunt defenses — when fielders get within feet of the batter’s box. Smethurst, a pitcher, said she feels more confident wearing a face mask and would encourage infielders to do the same. “I think people would get used to it,” Smethurst said. “People think you can’t see out of it, but that’s totally not true, there are just two thin bars across the lower half of your face.” Discomfort and vision impairment are two arguments skeptics have presented. But the same issue was debated when the National Federation of State High School Associations mandated in 2006 that all batting helmets be

equipped with a face mask or guard. And it turns out batters can see just ﬁne. Softball’s comparison to baseball also plays a role, Hoelman said. “Wearing a safety mask is a pretty good idea, but whenever it’s brought up, people think about Title IX,” Hoelman said. “It’s like, ‘Baseball doesn’t have a face mask, why should girls wear one?’ But it’s a different game, girls stand a lot closer. To me, that’s not a valid [reason]. We should do anything to keep [the girls] safe.” The biggest obstacle at the collegiate level, NCAA Softball Secretary-Rules editor Dee Abrahamson said, is that there is not yet a performance standard for the facial protective equipment. NCAA softball uses National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment-approved helmets and bats, but there has not yet been enough research to guarantee protection from the newly developed face masks. Therefore, Abrahamson said, the NCAA can’t force its players to wear them. The NFHS, however, does not necessarily abide by NCAA rules — college softball batting helmets are not required to have a face guard. And face masks in the inﬁeld seem to be becoming more and more popular at the youth level. County coaches said facial protection is a good idea, but many still believe the decision to wear one should be at the player’s discretion. Finucane said she doesn’t disagree, but hopes that the incident will at least spark a conversation among girls and their families. “It’s not an option for me. For me, it’s mandatory,” Finucane said. “Ever since I started throwing, I was so against it that I think a little piece of that is still with me, but it’s not a bad idea, I think for the younger kids, to get used to it. I never thought [the ball] would come close to my head, and then it did. You don’t think it’s going to happen to you, and then it does. Taking the right precaution is never a bad idea.”

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Recent Richard Montgomery graduate Kate Payson is headed to play women’s rugby at Penn State in the fall.

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Four years ago, recent Richard Montgomery High School graduate Kate Payson was out for a stroll with her younger brother in their Olney neighborhood, when she noticed a group of girls playing rugby in the park. “I saw these girls on a ﬁeld passing the ball backward, and I was like, ‘I need to get into whatever they’re doing,’” Payson said. “I had heard of rugby before. I always found it interesting because girls and boys have the same rules. There’s no, ‘Girls can’t do that’ or, ‘This is too harsh for girls.’ It’s always frustrating to be underestimated because of your gender, so that was a major factor.” While girls rugby is on the rise in this area, it is far from mainstream, and teams are always looking for new players to recruit, Payson said. The girls on the ﬁeld — Maryland Exiles club members — noticed Payson and invited her over. “They were like, ‘we don’t

know you, but you should play,’” Payson said. “They were automatically very welcoming, similar to everyone in the rugby community.” Last summer, just three years after picking up a rugby ball for the ﬁrst time, Payson, who played three years of varsity soccer at Richard Montgomery, was one of 50 girls selected from Regional Cup tournaments nationwide to compete in the USA Rugby Stars and Stripes Game. She is headed to Penn State University in the fall to play for the eight-time national champion women’s rugby team and said she hopes to continue to ﬂourish there in the pursuit of competing at an international level. Third-year Maryland Exiles Girls Under-19 coach Valerie Connelly said she has no doubt Payson, whose work ethic she said is largely unrivaled, can accomplish that feat. She’s progressed at a rapid rate, Connelly said, because of her dedication to becoming a true student of the game. She has recently moved from fullback — the last line of defense and a more structured position — to the eight woman, where she has more freedom to move about and can be more involved in scoring.

While Payson is focused on her own individual goals within the sport, Connelly commended her effort to promote the game in the community. “I think rugby teaches this kind of empowerment, this sense of, ‘You can do it,’” Payson said. “It gives girls confidence, which is really important to earn at a young age. As far as the physical aspect, if they have confidence in themselves it will show in the classroom and in social interaction. But it also helps to stay fit and really creates a family within.” The biggest challenge in recruitment is rugby’s stereotype as a violent sport, Connelly and Payson said. Many parents prohibit their children from playing because of fear of injury, but Payson said the sport is safer than people think. “A lot of people tell me, ‘Oh, rugby is like football and soccer, mixed,’” Payson said. “But it’s its own sport. People only say that because it’s a similar shaped ball and you throw it in the air but it’s a much safer sport. For girls in high school, I actually think the highest concussion sport is cheerleading. In four years I have only suffered one minor injury, that’s been less than people I see who play soccer.”

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Poolesville High School graduate Patti Maloney was asked to play in an all-star game against Team USA.

County softball players selected to all-star team For the second straight summer, former Poolesville High School softball pitcher Patti Maloney was selected to the Maryland All-Stars team that will take on the U.S. Women’s National Team. The exhibition game is scheduled for June 18 at Regency Furniture Stadium in Waldorf. Maloney just ﬁnished her junior season with the Fordham University softball team. Also named to the Maryland roster was Germantown native Tori Finucane, who recently completed her sophomore season at the University of Missouri. Finucane missed last year’s game while recovering from an injury.

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Blair, Northwest qualify for Ravens’ 7-on-7 tournament The Blair High School football team made its ﬁrst-ever postseason in the fall, and the Blazers have carried that momentum into this passing league season. On Saturday, the Silver Spring school won a tournament at Williamsport High School, capping off the competition with a 42-35 win over Allegany (Cumberland) and qualifying for the June 19 Ravens 7-on-7 Football Tournament. Blair, along with two-time defending 4A champion Northwest (Germantown), are the two Montgomery County teams that are slated to play in the eight-team championship tournament held at M&T

Bank Stadium in Baltimore.

— ERIC GOLDWEIN

Sherwood graduate gets shot a pro lacrosse Sherwood graduate and Marist College lacrosse player Mike Begley was picked up by Major League Lacrosse team the Ohio Machine via the 2015 Undrafted College Player Pool, according to a news release by the New York school. The senior middle ﬁelder 2011 FILE PHOTO from Brookeville was named to the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Mike Begley Conference All-Star Second Team on June 1 and also earned United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association Division I All-America Honorable Mention.

— PRINCE J. GRIMES

Bullis quarterback competes at Elite 11 Bullis School quarterback Dwayne Haskins competed in the Elite 11 semiﬁnals this past weekend in Los Angeles. Elite 11 is considered the nation’s premier competition for high-level high school quarterbacks. Haskins, who committed to play at the University of Maryland on May 15, already holds a spot in the ﬁnal competition set to take place later this summer.

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There is no doubt a major physicality aspect of rugby but it’s less about one big hit than it is about body positioning and core strength, Connelly said. Heads and helmets — which are not even worn in rugby — are not used as weapons. Payson was a soccer player and a soccer player only from age 5 until she reached high school. Rugby opened her eyes to a whole new world, she said. The next step for the Exiles, Connelly and Payson said, is to cultivate youth programs as a feeder to the older team and draw athletes in early. “Rugby is a confidencebuilder,” Connelly said. “The changes people have seen in their daughters have been profound. I don’t think there’s a sport that rivals it because a lot of rugby women ... we have that feeling that strong women don’t tear each other down, they build each other up. And it gets you outside of your comfort zone like you wouldn’t believe. Once in a while [a girl] will have a meltdown and freak out because they got hit hard but then they realize they’re still alive and get up and then feel like nothing can stop them.” jbeekman@gazette.net

Though its purple reversible jerseys differed from their usual navy and gold garb, the Gaithersburg High School boys basketball team looked to be in regular form Wednesday night at Jewish Day, flying up and down the court and ultimately defeating its opponent, Sherwood, with a heavy dose of points in transition. In many ways, the Trojans 65-55 win looked similar to one authored by last year’s group that finished the season 17-5. But a closer look revealed just how much the Trojans program had changed in that short time. After two years of patrolling the sideline, veteran coach Tom Sheahin stepped down over the offseason, opening the door for longtime junior varsity coach Jeff Holda to assume control of the varsity team. But Sheahin’s departure was just part of the Trojans’ offseason facelift. Gaithersburg lost nearly 50 points per game to graduation, including first team All-Gazette selection Anthony Tarke (26.3) and Geron Brathwaite (14.3) — a versatile pair that headed the Trojans’ transition attack. Gaithersburg often suffocated opponents last season with their incessant run-andgun style — a mantra Holda doesn’t plan to deviate from, even with his relatively fresh crop of talent. “That’s Gaithersburg basketball,” Holda said. “When Tom came here he really emphasized that and set me up and our program with that style of basketball. That’s the style I like to play and the kids love it. It’s not careless or reckless. It’s get up the floor and earn yourself a shot … So we’re going to play that way. That’s how we’re going to beat teams.” When the Trojans occasionally slowed things down, instead opting for more methodical ball movement, the results weren’t as favorable. Gaitherbsurg proved not ready yet to handle the decision-

making of a halfcourt offense — an understandable deficiency for a young backcourt. So, they returned to what they knew, as quick outlet passes and aggressive takes to the hoop saw their lead steadily grow. The Trojans’ transition game was certainly the key to knocking off Sherwood on Wednesday after both teams jumped out to sluggish, sloppy starts in the first ten minutes. Gaithersburg made up for their apparent lack of height with a tenacity on the defensive end that continuously opened up transition opportunities. Late in the game, the Trojans forced three consecutive turnovers, leading to six transition points that pushed their lead to double digits, effectively burying the Warriors hopes of any comeback. “We’re still quick,” rising senior Andy Kwiatkowski said. “We like to run and we’re conditioned. We’ll be fine. We’ll be running, shooting threes and attacking the rim just like last year — just different players.” The story was similar on Sherwood’s sideline, where a roster depleted by eight graduating seniors looked to fill a significant scoring gap left behind by the departure of guard Xavier McCants (17.5). Assistant coach Walt Williams wasted no time beginning to patch up the hole graduation left behind however, as he employed the “platoon system” popularized by the University of Kentucky. The Sherwood assistant started the game substituting rotations of five into the game in an effort to begin identifying viable replacements for the offensive firepower lost over the offseason. “It starts right now,” Williams said. “So that’s the basis behind what we’re doing and the way I’m running the summer league. We have so many guys here that are talented. We’ve got to narrow things down, so I just want to give everyone an opportunity to state their case here in the summer and get into that live action to see what kind of player [they are].” agutekunst@gazette.net

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STEVEN FRANK AND ARNOLD MELTZER Avast, ye landlubbers. Baltimore’s Clipper City Brewing, now known under its Heavy Seas Beer label, is the second largest brewery in Maryland and will be celebrating its 20th anniversary in December. Heavy Seas, and its founder/ owner and Captain, Maryland beer pioneer and visionary Hugh Sisson, has sailed through some rough waters and heavy storms to achieve their current success. Clipper City Brewing changed the names of its beers to Heavy Seas with the growing popularity of the adventuresome Heavy Seas lines. Sisson was instrumental in getting state legislation passed that allowed for brewpubs in Maryland, and opened the ﬁrst brewpub in the state in 1989, leaving it to start the predecessor to Heavy Seas Beer. First out of the Heavy Seas docks was Winter Storm, an imperial ESB, at 7.3 percent alcohol by volume (ABV) brew. Winter Storm was followed by Small Craft Warning Über Pils (7 percent ABV); Red Sky At Night, a saison which is no longer made; Peg Leg (8 percent ABV), an imperial stout; and Loose Cannon (7.25 percent ABV), a triple hopped (in the

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In the past decade, I’ve visited New York two or three times a year for various reasons, mostly to play the role of tourist. I thought I had the parking thing down until a recent visit. I’d ignore the garages with their $11.95 per half-hour specials and find a gem of a space on a side street that would have made George Costanza envious. In all my previous visits, my system had only resulted in one parking ticket when I returned to a metered space a few minutes too late. So on a visit in late May to the Big Apple in which I took my daughter, McKenna, to her first Broadway show, I was as confident as ever in my ability to beat the New York parking system. We made it to the Neil Simon Theatre two hours before the show and parked temporarily in front of the venue on West 52nd Street. There was a “No standing except commercial vehicles” sign, but other noncommercial cars were parked there with people running in to purchase tickets. Besides, we weren’t “standing;” we were temporarily parking. We scored some discount “rush” tickets on the third row for a mere $35 each. When I returned, I didn’t see one of those parking ticket experts in sight, so I became bold enough to suggest walking a block to the Ed Sullivan Theater. David

Letterman had given his final performance three days before, and I read stories where crews placed most of his dismantled set into dumpsters on West 53rd Street, with people taking home pieces of history from the “Late Show.” Sure enough, workers were still there, placing various metallic and wooden pieces into large dumpsters. They were blocked off with yellow tape and orange cones, as if that was going to keep people from approaching. I walked up to one worker and asked if I could take home a souvenir. He seemed a bit flustered and said they were busy. I spied one specific metallic piece about 6 feet long that looked like it could have been part of a bridge. “How ’bout that one?” I asked. “Is that part of a bridge?” He realized he wouldn’t get rid of me so easily and handed me the piece. “It could be. But it’s probably from Paul Shaffer’s orchestra set,” he said. After having McKenna take a photo of me near the dumpster and then in front of the Letterman sign with the piece to help verify its authenticity, we started walking back to the car. We passed near Rupert Jee’s Hello Deli, and I couldn’t resist a slight detour. But as I started to enter the deli, some guy in shades and a tight T-shirt — who could have been a Letterman crew union manager, Mafia boss or just some Joe from the street — yelled at me to stop. “What are doing with that?” he asked, pointing at my 6-footlong souvenir. “You need to get

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James Whalen (Aidan), Laura C. Harris (Charlotte), Danny Gavigan (Rupert), and Brandon McCoy (Sam) rehearse for Round House Theatre’s production of “NSFW.”

For a free listing, please submit complete information to wfranklin@gazette.net at least 10 days in advance of desired publication date. High-resolution color images (500KB minimum) in jpg format should be submitted when available. MUSIC Arts Barn, 311 Kent Square Road, 301-258-6394. AMP by Strathmore, The Hillbenders, June 11; The Chuck Brown Band, June 12; Active Child with Low Roar, June 13; Beggar’s Tomb, June 19; Brubeck Brothers, June 21; WCP Summer Music Showcase, June 24; Chatham County Line, June 25; Robin and Linda Williams, June 27; call for times, 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda, ampbystrathmore.com, 301-581-5100.

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Paul Comedy Show, June 11; Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, June 12; Joe Clair; June 13; Bill Haley’s Comets, June 16; Gregory Porter, June 17; call for prices, times, 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. 240-3304500, bethesdabluesjazz.com. BlackRock Center for the Arts, Red Baraat, June 27; 12901 Town Commons Drive, Germantown. 301-528-2260, blackrockcenter.org. Hershey’s At The Grove, John Zahn, June 12; Dangerous Curves, June 13; call for times, 17030 Oakmont Ave., Gaithersburg. 301-9489893; hersheysatthegrove.com. Fillmore Silver Spring, Franco de Vita, June 10; Rakim and DJ Zu; June 12; Juicy J, June 17; AWOLNATION, June 18; Tori Kelly, June 19; Against Me!; June 21; 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. ﬁllmoresilverspring.com. Strathmore, BSO: Bernstein’s Candide, June 11; CityDance: Conservatory Concert, June 13; AIR: Rochelle Rice, June 17; Art and Wine Night, June 18; Landau Eugene Murphy Jr., June 20; Mormon Tabernacle Choir, June 25; 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, 301-581-5100, strathmore.org.

ON STAGE Arts Barn, “The Wedding Singer,” June 12 through June 28; “Tales of Wonder: The Reluctant Dragon,” June 14; One Act Play Festival, July 17 through July 26; “The Wiz,” Aug. 7 through Aug. 23; 311 Kent Square Road, 301-2586394. Adventure Theatre-MTC, “Gar-

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Continued from Page B-4 brewkettle, hopback and dry hopped) American IPA which is the brewery’s best selling beer. The Sissons have been involved in the Baltimore region for seven generations. Sisson proudly notes that his namesake, stone mason and great grandfather, supplied the marble for the upper two-thirds of the Washington Monument. The brewery has experienced about a 20 percent annual growth rate in recent years. It brewed 40,000 barrels in 2014 and expects to reach 50,000 this year. With new fermenters scheduled for installation in October, the capacity will be about 70,000. Their beers currently are in 18 states focused on the Delaware/Virginia/Maryland region, reaching from Maine to Florida and as far west as Indiana. Because he loves fresh cask beer and believes that real ale is the best way to experience the beer ﬂavors and complexity, Sisson has what he believes is the

ﬁeld the Musical,” June 19 through Aug. 23, call for prices, times, Adventure Theatre MTC, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo, 301-6342270, adventuretheatre-mtc.org. F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, 603 Edmonston Drive, Rockville. 240314-8681 Imagination Stage, “Double Trouble (aka The Parent Trap),” June 24 through Aug. 14, call for prices, times, Imagination Stage, 4908 Auburn Ave., Bethesda, imaginationstage.org. Olney Theatre Center, “The Price,” through June 21, call for prices, times, 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney, 301-924-3400, olneytheatre.org. The Puppet Co., “Cinderella,” through June 21; Tiny Tots @ 10, select Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, call for shows and show times, Puppet Co. Playhouse, Glen Echo Park’s North Arcade Building, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., $5, 301-6345380, thepuppetco.org. Rockville Musical Theatre, “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,” July 10 through July 26, Arts Barn, 311 Kent Square Road, 301-2586394, r-m-t.org. Round House Theatre, “NSFW,” through June 21, call for show times, 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. Tickets range in price from $10 to $45 and seating is reserved. 240-644-1100, roundhousetheatre.org. Lumina Studio Theatre, Silver Spring Black Box Theatre, 8641 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, 301588-8277, luminastudio.org; theatreconsortiumss@gmail.com. Silver Spring Stage, “On The Razzle,” through June 20, Woodmoor Shopping Center, 10145 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, see Web site for show times, ssstage. org. Randolph Road Theater, 4010 Randolph Road, Silver Spring, belcantanti.com, Cafe Muse, Friendship Heights Village Center, 4433 South Park Ave., Chevy Chase; 301-656-2797.

VISUAL ART Adah Rose Gallery, Carte Blanche: Alicia, Hannah, Olivia, Nora and Asia: The Interns of Adah Rose Gallery Curate the Summer Show,” through Aug. 23, 3766 Howard Ave., Kensington, 301-9220162, adahrosegallery.com BlackRock Center for the Arts, 2015 Mid-Atlantic Regional Watercolor Exhibition, through July 1; 12901 Town Commons Drive, Germantown. 301-528-2260, blackrockcenter.org. Glenview Mansion, Juliya Ivanilova, Nighat Ahmed, Jo Levine; Rockville Civic Center Park, 503 Edmonston Drive, Rockville.

largest cask-conditioned beer program in the country. Loose Cannon (7.25 percent ABV) starts with a bouquet of bitter hops and citrus which presages a delicious bitter hop front. In the middle, the hops increase a tad and grow further to medium in the finish with a moderate sweet malt and tangy citrus presence. The citrus fades in the aftertaste while the bitterness, modified by the sweet malt, continues. This medium bodied, very smooth brew has a lovely mouth feel. Ratings 8.5/7.5. Double Cannon (Imperial IPA, 9.5 percent ABV) has a faint citrus and pine nose introduces Double Cannon and its smooth, medium malt front with moderate bitter hops. The hops increase in the middle to medium with a modest sweet malt. In the finish the hops increase abundantly but are well balanced by the malt. This robust bodied brew finishes with an aftertaste where the hops linger and come to the front as the malt fades. Well blended and

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Marin-Price Galleries, “An Exhibit of New Acquisitions;” 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, 7022 Wisconsin Ave., 301-718-0622, marin-price.com. Montgomery Art Association, Member Show & Sale - Creative Expressions 2015; Westﬁeld Wheaton Mall, 11160 Viers Mill Road, Wheaton, montgomeryart.org. VisArts, Greg Braun: Sharpened, through July 5; “These Mirrors are Not Boxes,” through July 12; Rob Hackett, June 12 through July 12; Bobby Coleman: re-build, July 15 through Aug. 16; Gibbs Street Gallery, 155 Gibbs St., Rockville, 301315-8200, visartsatrockville.org. Kentlands Mansion Art Gallery, Maryland Art League, through July 17, 320 Kent Square Road, Gaithersburg, 301-258-6425. Gallery B, Bethesda Painting Awards, through June 27; 7700 Wisconsin Ave., Suite E, Bethesda, bethesda.org. Washington Artworks, Poetry reading by the military veteran artists who have work displayed in the gallery exhibition, “Drawing Upon Experience,” June 12; 12276 Wilkins Ave., Rockville, washingtonartworks.com, 301-654-1998.

ET CETERA The Writer’s Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, 301-654-8664, writer.org. La Galeria at Ranazul, “Signs of Summer,” featuring creations of 18 artists from Olney Art Association beginning May 31 and running through June 27. ranazul.us; olneyartassociation.org. Montgomery Symphony Orchestra, led by A. Scott Wood,

performs music by Gluck, Grieg and Beethoven and from Phantom of the Opera, 2:30 p.m. June 14, at Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church, 6601 Bradley Blvd., Bethesda, 301385-6438, montgomerysymphonyorchestra.com. Free. Tchaikovsky’s opera “Iolanta,” performed by the Festival Opera Festival participants at the Randolph Road Theater, 4010 Randolph Road, Silver Spring, on June 19 and June 21. Ticket prices $40 adult, $38 senior, $15 students. Sung in Russian with projected English supertitles. A multimedia production accompanied by the images of ﬁne art, fully staged in costume and accompanied by a chamber ensemble.

The Victorian Lyric Opera Company presents Gilbert & Sullivan’s “Ruddigore” (or, “The Witch’s

Curse”) from June 11 through June 21 at the F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, 603 Edmonston Drive, Rockville. vloc.org, 240-314-8690.

dangerous with no noticeable alcohol in this high ABV brew. Ratings: 8.5/9. Peg Leg (Imperial Stout. 8.0 percent ABV). Roast, toast, and burnt chocolate aromas introduce a medium roast front. This smooth, medium bodied beer has a pinch of coffee joining in the middle. The finish adds a hint of semi-sweet chocolate while the coffee and bitter hops continue. The aftertaste has lingering roast and bitter hops. Ratings: 8.0/8.5. Blackbeard’s Breakfast (10 percent ABV), part of the creative Unchartered Waters series which ages beer in a variety of spirit barrels, is a bourbon barrel-aged porter with coffee. Coffee, roast, and bourbon greet the nose and segue into a front of moderate coffee with a pinch of roast. Both flavors grow in the middle and even more in the finish. Tasty vanilla and bourbon flavors appear in the late finish and into the aftertaste where they linger. Blackbeard’s Breakfast is medium bodied and very smooth. Ratings: 9.0/9.5.

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out of here with that or hand it over. If my boss sees you walking around with it, I can get in big trouble.” I agreed to leave. Our car had been fortunate enough to not get ticketed, so we drove around looking for a better parking spot. We almost had one on 55th Street, but our vehicle would have blocked part of a driveway. I was experienced enough to know that parking in front of a driveway in New York is the ultimate sin. So we ventured all the way to 60th Street, finding a few open spaces near Columbus Avenue. Parking signs in New York are designed to be as ambiguous and confusing as possible. They have stumped better people with more magical interpretative powers than me. Few of them state what times permits are good for, so you have to assume if they don’t state times, they are effective 24-7. Even if they aren’t. I knew that as our showtime approached. I didn’t see any large “No standing” or “No parking” signs on that street next to the Church of St. Paul the Apostle. So I parked there, figuring I would return in a few hours after the performance and move it. As I walked down the block, I looked at other vehicles to see if any had special permits. I couldn’t find any, so that was good enough for me. It was a Saturday afternoon, and surely the parking czars would be more lenient than on a weekday, right? “Gigi” was an enjoyable show — McKenna grew up watching “High School Musical,” and Vanessa Hudgens is among her favorite actresses. She was thrilled to see the action live from the third row. Afterward, we were hungry, so we walked through Times Square and ate at Planet Hollywood. It was a good time until we walked back to retrieve our car. Problem was it was nowhere to be found. I spied a city tow truck down the street and asked the driver if he knew the whereabouts of my car. He pointed to a small sign partially-hidden by trees, reading “Doctors parking only.” He told me my car was likely in the tow pound. I knew enough not to argue with him about that sign being all but hidden down the street from where I parked, not stating the times it was effective and how few other vehicles parking on that street actually had permits. He was just a puppet of the New York Towing Machine, which involves

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Mayor Bill de Blasio, city budget and transportation chiefs, the unions, the Mafia and the remains of Jimmy Hoffa supposedly buried under the old Giants Stadium in New Jersey that was conveniently demolished in 2010. I asked the driver if he had a phone number for the pound, and he gave me one and the address. At no time did he tell me to call 311 or check a city website where you can actually discover if your car was impounded. That would have been extremely helpful. There should have been signs up mentioning such a website or telling visitors to call 311 if their car is missing. But this is New York, remember? At the only other time in my considerable number of years of driving that my car was towed, there were actually signs on the Bethesda street with phone numbers on them. And when I called, a human answered and told me my car was towed, not stolen. The driver even drove it back to me, releasing it after I paid the $200 fee and fine. I tried calling the tow pound number several times and only got lost in recording hell. I didn’t have much cash left for a cab ride, so McKenna and I walked about 2 miles to the pound. Not only did I not want to give anyone in that city more money than I had to at that point, but I needed a long walk to cool my anger. As we walked, I could only hope my car was at that pound and not another, or it had not been stolen. By the time I entered the tow pound, I was calm enough to just state exactly what was necessary to retrieve my car. I didn’t question why a pound would need a copy of my insurance card that I had to retrieve from my car under the watchful eyes of a guard. I thought the registration and license would be enough, but whatever. I did ask why I had to sign two receipts. They charge a fee if you pay by credit card, rather than cash or money order. And they don’t take personal checks. I ended up paying about $190 and later learned I could dispute the ticket online. We received our car quickly enough. It helps going in the evening and not afternoon. McKenna seemed to enjoy our little tour of the tow pound and asked why there was something like 100 tow trucks there. I told her that’s how they make a lot of money off people like us, and they have to justify the expense of all those trucks. The bottom line is this experience soured our visit to the point that I cut it short and just drove the five hours

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David Lettermanís show is done, but that doesnít mean we canít take home a piece of his set. home to Maryland, rather than ﬁnd a hotel in New York, getting in at 1 a.m. I realize the safest way to park in that city is in a garage or lot, but that’s too easy for me. Besides, there have been numerous stories about people’s vehicles returning from garages and lots with odd scratches and dents. And there are hidden rates in ﬁne print on those

come-on garage signs. New York Show Tickets, a company that provides marketing services to Broadway and television shows, even advises visitors on its website to not bring a new car to the city, but an older one “that already has some bumper damage.” The site also advises people to strap bumper protectors on their vehicles and to make sure they fully inspect

their cars before driving away from the garage. Garages will usually fix any damage if it’s clearly their fault, but you may have to take some cases to court, the site says. “Chances are you won’t have an easy time winning the battle,” they grimly state. New York is the biggest market for parking tickets in the U.S., making roughly $542 million in parking fines in fiscal 2014, an increase of $58 million from 2013, according to city budget figures. Chicago rakes in about half and LA less than one-third of that amount. D.C. — another city known for bloated bureaucracy — receives even less than LA with about $84 million in 2014. But D.C. makes significantly more than Baltimore, which “only” collected some $21 million in parking fines in 2014. Taken in that context, Montgomery County’s parking ticket revenue in fiscal 2014 is barely worth mentioning at about $10 million. That doesn’t include what Rockville and other incorporated cities take in. Towing fees gave New York another $24 million in 2014, parking meter revenue another $204 million, and redlight and speed cameras another $30 million. On top of that, New York took in about $48 billion in various taxes in 2014, including about $20 billion in property taxes and $6.5 billion in sales taxes. And it doesn’t seem that even 0.00000001 percent of those billions go toward improving signage so out-oftown visitors and others might better understand where they can and cannot park and avoid spending time and money at the tow pound. Or adding signs that inform visitors whose cars are towed to call 311 or check the city website. You’d almost think New York officials want a certain percentage of visitors to be ticketed and towed to keep their multimillion-dollar parking ticket and towing scheme going. After all, it’s a more significant sum that is built into their budgets than any other U.S. city. New York is a city, like no other I know, where something magical and something tragic can happen at the exact same time. I likely won’t return for awhile, but I will return. Like a black widow spider, New York lures you in with its charms, then at the zenith of your most enjoyable moment, it bites your head off. And perhaps that’s precisely the way it should be. kshay@gazette.net

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DEADLINE: JUNE 29, 2015 Legal Notices

OFFICE OF ZONING AND ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND Rockville, Maryland, 240-777-6660 A public hearing on the following application for Zoning Amendment will be held in the 2nd Floor Hearing Room, Davidson Memorial Hearing Room, Stella B. Werner Council Office Building, 100 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, Maryland, on Friday, July 17, 2015 at 9:30 a.m., or as soon thereafter as it can be heard. APPLICATION NO. G-957 Local Map Amendment No. G-957: Jody Kline, Attorney for Applicant, Clarksburg Mews, LLC, requests rezoning from the R200 Zone to the PD-4 Zone of property known as Gankirk Farms, Lots P21 and P22, aka parcels N780 and N888 of tax map EW31, located on the Westside of MD Route 355, 1300’ north of its intersection with Shawnee Lane in Clarksburg, consisting of 24.37364 acres in the 2nd Election District. Tax Account Numbers 0200016222 and 02-00016211.

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Armentrout’s Construction a residential home improvement Company now hiring. Hand tools and transportation required. Min of 10yrs experience. Call 410-946-7983

OPTICAL SURFACING Optical Company in Silver Spring needs a person for our fast paced surfacing dept. Will train. Only dependable people need apply. Hours of operation Mon-Fri 9am-6pm. We are accepting applications Mon thru Fri 10am-4pm at 2401 Linden Lane, Silver Spring, MD 20910.

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Comprint Military Publications publishes military weekly newspapers, websites and special sections in MD/DC/VA and is looking for an energetic and organized sales representative to sell advertising into our media products. Job requires cold calling/in person sales calls and maintaining existing advertising customers. Must be able to handle deadlines and pressures of meeting sales goals. Sales required in the field include Prince George’s County and DC area. Prefer someone with print/online advertising sales experience. Position is located Gaithersburg office and hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. M-F. Send resume and cover letter with salary requirements to: Maxine Minar at mminar@dcmilitary.com. Base salary + commission and benefits. EOE

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Dispatcher/Customer Service Rep Growing Service Company. Looking for positive & professional individual. Admin duties. Competitive wages & benefits. Send resume to Careers@GACServices.com

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Busy Urology office seeks a full time registered nurse for our Rockville office. Applicant must be willing to learn our electronic records system and work independently. Position requires phone triage and direct patient care in the office. Will train new graduate. Benefits available. Please send resume to cmcgee@uroconsultants.com

Press Technician The Gazette, a sister company of The Washington Post, has an immediate opening for a Press Technician in our Laurel plant. State-of-theart technology, Mitsubishi printing press. We will train individuals with mechanical aptitude and strong work ethic for a career in the printing technology industry. Individuals must be computer literate, a team player, have good verbal and written skills, printing experience preferred but not required. This position is a labor position which requires repetitive stacking of newspapers and very hands on work with the printing press. After training completion this individual will be assigned to the 2 pm - 10 pm shift. Upward mobility potential for this exciting career opportunity. We offer a benefits package including: medical, dental, 401K and tuition reimbursement. EOE. Please email, fax or mail resume to: Comprint Printing 13501 Konterra Drive Laurel, MD 20707 ATTN: Press Tech Fax: (301) 670-7138 HrJobs@gazette.net to advertise call 301.670.7100 or email class@gazette.net

Call Bill Hennessy Be trained individually by Realtor Emeritus one of the area’s top offices & one of the area’s best salesman with over 40 years experience. 3 301-388-2626 01-388-2626 New & experienced salespeople welcomed. Bill.Hennessy@LNF.com EOE

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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

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