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SPATE OF DEADLY STABBINGS RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT MENTAL ILLNESS, TREATMENT AND THE JUSTICE SYSTEM

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Zakieya Avery, 28, and Monifa Sanford, 21, each face two counts of ﬁrst-degree murder, accused of stabbing to death two of Avery’s children — 2-year-old Avery Sanford Zyana Harris and 1-year-old Norell N. Harris — in an attempted “exorcism.”

Shaun D. King, 36, of Bladensburg faces one count of ﬁrst-degree murder, accused of fatally slashing and stabbing Abdul Ghaffar, 63, of Gaithersburg 75 times at the 7-Eleven store where Ghaffar worked. Prosecutors believe King suffers from schizophrenia and asked that he be King evaluated to determine if he is competent to stand trial.

Police say Christopher Stirkens, 25, stabbed his mother, Denise Stirkens, 53, to death at their Gaithersburg home. In an effort to save her, his father, James Stirkens, an off-duty Montgomery County police ofﬁcer, shot and killed their son.

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POLICE CALLS RELATING TO MENTAL ILLNESS

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mid a spate of unusual and violent killings in Montgomery County last month, authorities are investigating what they say is a common thread: mental illness. • In Germantown, two women were accused of stabbing two young children to death in an attempted exorcism. • In Gaithersburg, police said, a man stabbed a 7-Eleven clerk to death less than a week later.

• Police said an off-duty sergeant shot his adult son to death as the son was stabbing his mother to death. The two women and the 7-Eleven defendant were transferred to a psychiatric hospital in Jessup for mental evaluation and treatment. The slayings prompted Montgomery County State’s Attorney John J. McCarthy to highlight local law enforcement’s role in dealing with and caring for the mentally ill. He talked about the lack of funding for treatment and the need for more resources and funding. “The larger issue for us in the community is: How do we deal with people who

have persistent mental health issues and intersect with the criminal justice system?” McCarthy said in a press conference last month. He said it’s an “open secret” that jails are one of the largest providers of mental health care and treatment nationwide. Statistics show a growing problem. According to data from the county prosecutor’s office, the number of “intakes” — people who were arrested — at the Montgomery County correctional facilities decreased from 9,256 in 2010 to 7,879 in 2013.

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As Montgomery County digs out from its largest snowfall of the winter, a county councilman is pondering ways to improve snow removal from sidewalks, bus stops and other places in the county’s urban areas. During snow or ice storms, people on foot still need to be

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Lawmakers want coaches subject to sex abuse law House, Senate bills differ; supporters consider compromise

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Juan Carlos of Hyattsville clears a snowbank from a crosswalk in downtown Silver Spring on Friday.

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Riemer wants fresh look at snow removal able to negotiate bus stops, Metro stations and other common pedestrian areas, said Councilman Hans Riemer (D-At Large) of Takoma Park. Generally, the responsibility for clearing sidewalks falls on the business owner or the property owner, Riemer said. Riemer said he would like to see a program in the county’s urban districts in Silver Spring and Wheaton similar to the one in the urban district of

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Two groups of Maryland legislators want to close a statutory loophole regarding which adults can and should be punished for engaging in sexual conduct with a student. One bill would apply to adults who work with children

in either a school system or a county recreation program. A second bill adds to that list volunteers at schools and employees and volunteers at private recreation facilities. Both bills agree that coaches should be written into the law. Maryland law criminalizes sexual contact between certain people in a position of authority and a minor in their care, but lawmakers say there is a huge loophole in the law. The law deﬁnes individuals

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Quilt show highlights Black History Month Quilts can last generations. Some tell family stories. Others are made for special occasions — such as the ﬁrst African-American Quilt Show on Feb. 11 at Riderwood retirement community in Silver Spring. About 150 people attended the show to see 18 quilts, which were not for sale. They were made only to be on display, but each told a meaningful story. “The notable theme is that the quilts were inspired by AfricanAmerican history,” said Jeffrey Getek, a Riderwood spokesman. Thirteen of the quilts were designed and made by residents. One was made in South Africa; others were made from cotton imported from Africa. Dorothy Sojourner, a Riderwood resident, displayed a multi-colored nylon quilt that was given to her as a gift by her husband’s family in South Carolina in the 1950s, Getek said. Another resident, Audrey Smedley, displayed a pink-andblue quilt that her great-grandmother gave her when she was 4. Riderwood’s Quilt Club and the African-American History Club produced the inaugural show. Other themes included scenes from the Caribbean; photos celebrating President Barack Obama’s re-election in 2012; and symbols of the Underground Railroad. The show was part of Riderwood’s celebration of Black History

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Month throughout February. The African-American History Club will sponsor a presentation by historian and author Robert Ewell Green on Wednesday. On Friday, the club and the Riderwood Performing Arts Committee will present a concert by Raymond Jackson and Company, and on Sunday the Dee Cee Harmonizers & Cheryl Nelson will perform in Riderwood’s chapel. More information is at ericksonliving.com.

Ethiopians to celebrate decisive victory Next month, the Ethiopian Heritage Society of North America will mark the centennial of Emperor Menelik II’s death and the 118th anniversary of the victory in Adwa. The commemorative event will take place at 2 p.m. March 2 at 1 Veterans Plaza, Silver Spring. Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) will be the keynote speaker. The celebration of the Battle of Adwa is the Ethiopian equivalent of U.S. Independence Day, according to a news release from the group. Two leaders, Emperor Menelik II and the Empress Taytu, along with an army of Ethiopian citizens,

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Levern Allen of Riderwood with “Caribbean Fun,” the quilt she designed and made for the Silver Spring retirement community’s African-American Quilt Show last week. repelled a well-armed Italian force on March 1, 1896. The Italians were trying to occupy and eventually colonize Ethiopia. For more information, call 202596-1964.

Ex-Silver Spring woman dancing to the top Lillian Di Piazza, originally from Silver Spring, has been promoted to

soloist in the Pennsylvania Ballet, second-highest tier in the company. Di Piazza began her training with the Maryland Youth Ballet, and attended summer intensive programs at Miami City Ballet and Paciﬁc Northwest Ballet on full scholarship. She studied at the School of American Ballet for one

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Campus congrats Georgia Corran of Silver Spring was named to the dean’s list at the College of Wooster (Ohio). Corran, a graduate of Springbrook High School in Silver Spring, is a junior sociology major and achieved a grade point average of 3.65 or higher.

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said Yvette Freeman, chief of operations of the Silver Spring Urban District. Freeman said property owners are responsible for removing the grafﬁti, but the urban district helps to clean

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County officials said they have a “zero tolerance policy” regarding graffiti, but the latest Silver Spring regional area monthly report shows that residents have noticed an increase in graffiti throughout the area from neighborhoods to commercial hubs. Sara Sheppard, a Silver Spring resident, said there have been new instances of graffiti in her neighborhood on Oakview. She is worried that these drawings or writings can potentially mean an unsafe neighborhood. “I think some of it is just kids, but I also think there has been some tagging going on. ... This isn’t a very stable neighborhood anyway,” Sheppard said. Law enforcement officials, however, say otherwise. According to Lt. Kevin Sullivan of the Montgomery County Police Department, the Criminal Street Gang Unit has not seen an increase in gang graffiti reporting. “They do, however, receive the reports and follow up on gang-related graffiti when the events are reported,” Sullivan wrote in an email to The Gazette. Sullivan said there is a difference between gang graffiti and tagging graffiti. Gang graffiti tends to be more simplistic, with just the gang name or symbol and possibly the nickname of the person who did the graffiti, while tagging graffiti is typically more “artistic” in nature and is not easily read or deciphered. Sheppard and other residents saw graffiti drawings on recently installed telephone poles that were difficult to decipher and the word “zap” on a stop sign. Sullivan added that the gang graffiti’s purpose is usually to either display the presence of the gang in a particular area or simply demonstrates the individual’s connection with the gang, and it is motivated by the presence of an empty spot on a fence or wall that the “artist” sees as a blank canvas.

“I think some of it is just kids, but I also think that there has been some tagging going on. ... This isn’t a very stable neighborhood anyway.” Sara Sheppard, Silver Spring resident

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Sara Sheppard of Silver Spring is concerned about graffiti that has appeared on this stop sign and telephone poles in her neighborhood. County officials also said certain areas such as Langley Park and Takoma Park have had gang graffiti in the past. “We have young people referred to us ... either doing some graffiti or may have gotten caught doing some tagging [and] we tend to work with them,” said Luis Cardona, coordinator at the Montgomery County Gang Prevention Initiative. According to Cardona, the Montgomery County Police Department takes a look at the drawings to see if it is gang related. Cardona said he hasn’t seen much graffiti because either the law enforcement “cracks down” on it or the

community has been more vigilant. “What I still do hear, typically, school security might see a student in school and might see some kind of grafﬁti or some kind of tagging on a notebook, and they deal with it accordingly to whatever the school protocol is,” Cardona said. Silver Spring Urban District officials said it hasn’t been much of a problem in the Silver Spring central business district. “During cold temperatures it is difﬁcult for us to remove it. ... We use power wash and we often use chemicals depending on the surface. ... But if it is cold we can’t do a whole lot,”

up any form of graffiti as long as the property owner signs a waiver. “To make sure we are not liable for any damage,” Freeman said. The Montgomery County Department of Transportation also works in partnership with a nonprofit called GRAB, which stands for GRaffiti ABatement, and tries to eliminate graffiti vandalism through eradication, education and enforcement strategies. According to the county’s website, in the fiscal year 2010, GRAB, along with the Montgomery County Department of Corrections, cleaned up 125 sites across the county, including signal boxes, retaining walls, roads, bridge underpasses, pedestrian tunnels and fences. They removed or painted over 32,000 square feet. GRAB responds to graffiti reports countywide and coordinates cleanup. Law enforcement asks residents to call GRAB’s hotline at 301-607-4722 if graffiti or tagging is seen throughout the county. County officials said cleaning of any graffiti or tagging will take place when temperatures are higher. abarros@gazette.net

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Decision on hire to be announced this week

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Officials in the town of Chevy Chase delayed a decision on whether to hire a legal and lobbying firm to represent the town’s interests in Purple Line planning. The Town Council had been scheduled to vote on whether to hire Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, a D.C. law firm, at its Feb. 12 meeting, but after a closed session, Mayor Pat Burda said the council members were not prepared to make a decision. “We have decided that we are not able to make a decision tonight,” she said. The council had hired the law firm to oppose some aspects of the Purple Line on a monthto-month basis, but is considering giving them an 18-month, $360,000 contract. Al Lang, secretary, said for the past four or five years, he has wanted the town to work on Purple Line issues with a legal and lobbying firm. “We really needed to get more oomph [and] experience,” he said. Kathy Strom, vice mayor, said she realizes not everyone will agree with the council’s eventual decision, but said the council members are trying to listen and move forward in good faith. “We’re working on it. We are definitely taking into account all the opinions and comments that we’ve gotten,” she said. David Lublin, treasurer, said his goals are to get the state to provide answers on things like ridership and provide real mitigation to address some residents’ concerns. “There’s a whole kaleidoscope of views in the town,” Lublin said. Burda said the council had continued to receive public comments until the record closed Feb. 12. The Town Council had come under attack recently from the Action Committee for Transit, or ACT, which supports the Purple

Line. The group announced Feb. 4 that it had filed a public information request for the contract, invoices and correspondence between the town and the law firm. It also called on the town to hold another public hearing before deciding on a longer contract for the firm and said it had filed an Open Meetings Act complaint related to the town’s hiring of the firm. The group zeroed in on a

“We really needed to get more oomph [and] experience.” Al Lang, secretary quote from Burda in a January Washington Post article saying that the town is not lobbying Congress. ACT pointed to a congressional lobbying disclosure report filed by the law firm listing the town as a client and said it wanted to pin down whether the firm is lobbying Congress on behalf of the town. Burda read a statement during the Feb. 12 meeting to clarify that the town is speaking to members of Congress to raise issues about the Purple Line. Burda said the quote printed in The Washington Post referred specifically to an inquiry about lobbying the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Burda said the town has been working for four years to get commitments on noise walls, a safe crossing for students and mitigation of environmental concerns. “Our goal is to convey to decision makers the significant concerns held by the majority of town residents regarding the Purple Line as proposed,” she said. “... The Purple Line project is just not ready for prime time.” A special meeting for the Town Council to vote on hiring a law firm is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Thursday at 4301 Willow Lane. ewaibel@gazette.net

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Boy had injuries to the brain, police said BY KRISTA BRICK STAFF WRITER

A Damascus man charged with murder for allegedly killing his 3-year-old son is being held without bail. Brian Patrick O’Callaghan, 36, of the 25230 Conrad Court in Damascus, is charged with ﬁrstdegree murder and child abuse resulting in the death of Hyunsu O’Callaghan, his son he adopted from Korea. On Feb. 2, detectives from the Montgomery County Police-Major Crimes Division were notiﬁed that Hyunsu was at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where he was unresponsive and had multiple injuries. Investigators learned that the toddler’s injuries, including trauma to the brain, indicated that the boy was recently beaten. Police said

O’Callaghan could not provide a reason why the boy had the injuries. Hyunsu died of his injuries on Feb 3. The Ofﬁce of the Chief Medical Examiner in the District of Columbia performed an autopsy and determined that the toddler’s death was caused by multiple blunt O’Callaghan impactinjuries. During the investigation, O’Callaghan told police he had complete care and custody of Hyunsu from Jan. 31 through Feb. 1. On Sunday, O’Callaghan was arrested in connection with the boy’s death. According to charging documents, Hyunsu had been in the United States since October. O’Callaghan told police during an interview that the boy had bonded with his wife Jennifer but not with him. In January he said his wife

went back to work and he stayed home to care for the boy. According to charging documents detailing an interview with police, O’Callaghan said on Jan. 31 his son had slipped in the bathtub, fell backward and hit his shoulder after taking a shower. He told police the toddler then went to bed. The next morning, O’Callaghan took Hyunsu and his 6-year-old biological son out for breakfast and then later to the Germantown Indoor Swim Center where the older brother took a diving class and Hyunsu played in the park, according to charging documents. O’Callaghan is then reported as saying he took the boy to lunch, home for a snack of yogurt and for a nap. He said he changed the boy’s sheets and cleaned his nose when he noticed a pinkish ﬂuid on the sheets and mucus coming from his nose. At 4 p.m. O’Callaghan said the toddler was unresponsive and vomiting despite O’Callaghan attempting to wash him in the tub. It was then that O’Callaghan

took his son to the Shady Grove Adventist Emergency Center at Germantown. The child was then taken to Children’s National Medical Center, according to the police documents. Doctors told police the boy had multiple injuries including trauma to the brain. Steven J. McCool, a D.C. attorney representing O’Callaghan at the bail review Tuesday, said O’Callaghan is a “decorated combat Marine veteran” who had served in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. “This is a tragedy, and not a crime,” he said at the review. Montgomery County State’s Attorney John J. McCarthy said a hearing for O’Callaghan’s case has been set for March 14. Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the Major Crimes Division at 240-773-5070. Staff writer Sylvia Carignan contributed to this report. kbrick@gazette.net

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A new catalogue system is a top priority BY

SARAH SCULLY STAFF WRITER

The Takoma Park library hopes to update its integrated library system — catalogue and circulation — and rearrange its space, according to a report released recently outlining library needs and improvements. Library staff and a contracted consultant, Arizona-based Providence Associates, discussed library use and needs with residents, city and library staff, and the City Council, as well as conducted surveys. Potential changes are still under preliminary discussion. Staff is scheduled to discuss the

Ride On buses change youth system Montgomery County Ride On bus system is going plastic for young riders: Starting March 1, the Youth Cruiser SmarTrip card will replace the paper Youth Cruiser passes. The Youth Monthly Pass, which costs $11, provides unlimited rides to those age 18 or younger for an entire month. The Youth Summer Pass provides unlimited rides from June 1 through Aug. 31, for $18. Both passes provide signiﬁcant savings over regular fares. Additional value can be added to the Youth Cruiser card, the same as a regular SmarTrip card, for use on Metrorail, Metrobus and other participating transit agencies. The new cards must be purchased in person, for $2. Proof of age and county residence is required. The cards are available weekdays at the TRiPS Commuter Stores in Silver Spring and Friendship Heights, and the county treasury division in Rockville. A full list of participating retail outlets is available online. Riders age 18 and younger also can continue to use Ride On’s Kids Ride Free program from 2 to 7 p.m. weekdays. More information is at montgomerycountymd. gov/dot-transit/ or by calling 311 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday; 301-251-4850 TTY; or 240-777-0311 from outside Montgomery County. Meanwhile, Ride On continues to offer free rides to passengers 65 or older who have a Senior SmartTrip card or Medicare card with photo ID. The free rides are offered 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays.

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The future Takoma/Langley Transit Center at the corner of University Boulevard and New Hampshire Avenue in Takoma Park. sity Boulevard, is one of the busiest parts of the county for bus transfers. On both roads there, more than 60 buses pass per hour.

Construction on the project started in November.

“The new transit center will provide a central off-street location for the buses to safely pick up and discharge passengers, and allow them to connect with other routes quickly without risking traffic conflicts,” Wilson wrote. The project will cost $34 million, including planning, engineering and real estate, and is financed by a Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery federal grant. The center will serve 11 bus routes that provide service to 12,000 passengers daily at the crossroads. Takoma Park Councilman Fred Schultz said

he hasn’t heard any complaints from residents or local businesses owners, adding that people should not be concerned. “As far as disruption to trafﬁc, I am familiar with the design plan, ... but looking at the plans ... I don’t see how this is going to be disruptive to any business anywhere in that area,” Schultz said. Wilson said state ofﬁcials are on “top of the matter” and will always address any issue or concern. The transit center is planned to be completed by December 2015 with bus routes from Montgomery County, Prince George’s County, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority and the University of Maryland running into the center. abarros@gazette.net

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Local artist Carolyn Fischer will release her new CD, “A Rumor in the Mill,” with a concert at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 28 at the Takoma Park Community Center, at 7500 Maple Ave. Fischer is a guitarist, singer and songwriter. Takoma Park’s Institute of Musical Traditions is sponsoring the show. A $15 donation at the door is suggested; proceeds beneﬁt the institute. More information is at imtfolk.org.

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Construction of the Takoma/Langley Transit Center has begun, but residents and local business owners are concerned about the lack of appropriate signage, business disruption and walkability during construction, according to a recent report from the Silver Spring Regional Center. Reemberto Rodriguez, the center’s director, said concerns were expressed during conversations between him and community members. But according to state transportation ofﬁcials, bilingual signs were placed to help pedestrians navigate their way and advise that businesses are open during construction. A community outreach team from Casa of Maryland helped the Maryland Transit Administration liaison disseminate information about the project in both English and Spanish. “This project was designed so that construction would be staged in a manner to minimize its impact to the community and businesses during construction, but it is a very busy area to work,” said James Miller, project manager for the state agency. Agency ofﬁcials recognized that construction activity will always cause temporary impacts to the community, but hope that the “multiple phases” construction will minimize its impacts to business and pedestrians. “We have, therefore, planned this project to be constructed in stages that address its future impacts early on and incrementally,” Chrys Wilson, community relations and task manager for the transit center, wrote in an email to The Gazette. Takoma Langley Crossroads, at the intersection of New Hampshire Avenue and Univer-

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library’s needs with the City Council on Feb. 27, Director Ellen Robbins said. This is a standard meeting and staff from other departments will discuss their department’s needs with the council as well. Currently there is no funding to move forward with changes. City Manager Brian Kenner said it’s still too early to tell if he will include any updates in his next proposed budget to the City Council for ﬁscal year 2015, which begins July 1. Staff does not yet have estimates on how much updates would cost. The library was established by the Takoma Park Women’s Club in 1935 on Jackson Avenue. In 1955 it moved to its current location at 101 Philadelphia Ave., attached to the community center, and has doubled its collection since. The space is just under 8,000 square feet.

“We’d like something that is faster, is more efﬁcient, to more quickly get data on what parts of the collection are being used, and probably shows book reviews and the cover of books when people look for things,” Robbins said, describing an upgraded catalogue system. “Those are some of the things that would make it more attractive to patrons ... and more functional for us.” In a December survey, 252 residents identiﬁed the top three areas for improvement as: more books, more digital resources and book discussion groups/clubs. The last library renovation was completed in 1990, and consultants suggested a physical renovation to keep up with other libraries in the county. The consultants’ report sug-

gested a new integrated library system as the ﬁrst priority, to be implemented by the end of 2016, with modern search capabilities and online access. To make space for new materials, the report’s second priority was to weed out little used items by the end of the next ﬁscal year. Anything that has not been circulated at least three times a year should be removed, the report recommended. The third step outlined is for the library to work with an interior space planner or architect to rearrange the space and potentially expand. City staff and the council will review the proposed updates and new budget in the coming months. sscully@gazette.net

Chanel Banks of Silver Spring was selected as part of the 2014 White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities All-Stars program. The initiative recognized 75 undergraduates, graduate and professional students from 62 historically black colleges and universities for their accomplishments in academics, civic engagement and leadership. Banks attends the University Maryland Eastern Shore. The selected students will have the opportunity to work as ambassadors for the White House, plus share with other students the value of education, and career and educational potential. The students were selected from 445 who submitted applications that included a transcript, resume, essay and recommendation.

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County honors Ervin and Forehand At last month’s annual Women’s Legislative Briefing, the Montgomery County Commission for Women inducted former Councilwoman Valerie Ervin and state Sen. Jennie M. Forehand (D-Dist. 17) of Rockville into the county Women’s History Archives. The archives was created in 2002 to recognize the contributions of women of historical significance to the county. Ervin was elected to the county school board in 2004 and chaired its Research and Evaluation Committee. She was NAACP Parents’ Council representative and a founding member of Blacks United for Excellence in Education. In 2006, she became the first black woman elected to the County Council. Five years later, she was elected council president. Forehand was a state delegate from 1979 to 1995, when she became a senator. She plans to retire in January. She has been an “ardent” supporter of women and of legislation that supports women and families, according to a county news release. Early in her legislative career, she took the lead on such issues as domestic violence, day care access, family leave, child support, reproductive freedom and greater representation of women in the judiciary.

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“To put in a bill, bring the conversation up and have the discussion, to bring awareness to the issues is signiﬁcant.” Del. Adelaide C. Eckardt, co-sponsor of bill Colleges or universities that violate the legislation face losing 3 percent of their funding the following ﬁscal year as a penalty. Nothing in the proposed legislation prevents faculty members from paying their own way. Lisa Akchin, associate vice president and assistant to the president at UMBC, said the school’s membership in the American Studies Association was a decision of the university’s American studies department. The membership consists of a $170 annual fee paid by the department, she said. University President Freeman Hrabowski and Provost Philip Rous have openly opposed the academic boycott. “We oppose academic boycotts because they are inconsistent with the tenets of academic freedom and open scholarly inquiry,” they said in a Dec. 23 statement. Through its boycott, the association is refusing to collaborate

officially with Israeli academic institutions or with scholars serving as institutional representatives or ambassadors, or on behalf of the Israeli government “until Israel ceases to violate human rights and international law,” according to a statement by the association’s National Council. Just as UMBC opposed the boycott, it vigorously opposes Kramer’s bill, Akchin said. “In every aspect of these issues, freedom has been our guiding principle,” Akchin said. “The freedom to have open connections between the U.S. scholarly community and Israeli institutions, the freedom of our own faculty in the American studies department to make their own determination about their research and scholarly association, and the freedom of our faculty to continue their scholarly work without interference by the General Assembly.” Del. Adelaide C. Eckardt, a cosponsor of the bill, said lawmakers have a responsibility to address a questionable issue when it comes to their attention. “To put in a bill, bring the conversation up and have the discussion, to bring awareness to the issues is significant,” said Eckardt (R-Dist. 37B) of Cambridge. “For the body to make a conscious decision on it, weigh the pros and cons, is important debate and discussion to have.” This is not the first time the legislature has questioned how Maryland universities spend public funds. In 2010, Perdue chicken farmers Alan and Kristen Hudson of Worcester County were sued by the Waterkeeper Alliance of New York over Chesapeake Bay pollution. The University of Maryland Environmental Law Clinic represented the plaintiffs. Gov. Martin J. O’Malley (D) wrote to law school Dean Phoebe Haddon in 2011 to complain about the injustice of the law

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An academic boycott of Israel byaU.S.academicassociationhas Maryland lawmakers questioning how the state’s colleges and universities spend public funds. The American Studies Association — a national organization devoted to the interdisciplinary study of American culture and history — voted in December to boycott Israeli academic institutions. The University of Maryland, Baltimore County remained a dues-paying member of the association even after the vote to boycott, so Del. Benjamin F. Kramer has introduced a bill that would restrict the ability of universities and its faculty to spend public money on participation in organizations that engage in such boycotts. Kramer’s bill has been crossﬁled in the Senate by Sen. Joan Carter Conway (D-Dist. 43) of Baltimore, chairwoman of the Senate’s Education, Health and Environmental Matters Committee. “In this case we have a single institution in Maryland that is using public dollars to participate as a member in this organization,” said Kramer (D-Dist. 19) of Derwood. “I don’t think we should be using public dollars to fund membership or participation in the activities of this organization because it completely undermines state policy and its relationship, throughaDeclarationofCooperation, with Israel.” The declaration means Maryland and Israel will work to cooperate in trade, agriculture, academics and economic development, Kramer said. Broadly, Kramer’s bill addresses the appropriate use of public funds by state colleges and

universities. Speciﬁcally, it restricts higher education institutions from spending public funds to support — through membership fees or travel expenses — academic boycottsofcountriesthathaveratiﬁed Declarations of Cooperation with the state.

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clinic pursuing “costly litigation of questionable merit” against the Hudsons. Lawmakers later put money in the budget to start an agriculture law clinic or advisory group to help farmers in the state. But opponents of Kramer’s and Conway’s bills say this latest legislation would impose political restrictions on the use of public funds by universities and colleges and it would violate academic and personal freedom. “…[W]e believe that it constitutes a very serious threat to academic freedom and to the autonomy and integrity of the state’s publicly-supported colleges and universities,” Nathan Brown, president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, said in a letter to Conway. “Faculty in Maryland should not be subjected to a political litmus test concerning their involvement in academic organizations ...” In an action alert, the Council on American-Islamic Relations said the bill prohibits peaceful dissent by withholding state funding and urged Muslims and other concerned citizens to push lawmakers to drop the legislation. A representative of the group in Maryland could not be reached for comment. Kramer said the Maryland Attorney General’s office was involved in drafting the bill and that he has a letter of advice from it “indicating the legislation is indeed right in line with everything that the state has the authority to be doing without jeopardizing anyone’s constitutional rights or freedomofspeechorassociation.” Kramer’s bill has 51 co-sponsors. A hearing on the Senate version of the bill is scheduled for March 5. A hearing on the House version hadn’t been set as of Tuesday. kalexander@gazette.net

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SYLVIA CARIGNAN STAFF WRITER

The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission is facing a lawsuit brought by environmental groups who say the utility is destroying the health of the Potomac River. Attorneys from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Environmental Integrity Project, which represents the Potomac Riverkeeper, filed a lawsuit against the commission on Feb. 12. The attorneys said a WSSC water filtration plant near Seneca, south of Poolesville, is discharging millions of pounds of sediment and aluminum into the Potomac River instead of treating it and transporting it to a facility for disposal. The Potomac Water Filtration Plant provides water for much of Montgomery County and parts of Prince George’s County. WSSC released a statement in response to the lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. “The commission believes the discharges cited by the Riverkeeper during normal operations and high volume rain events comply with WSSC’s existing permit issued by the Maryland Department of the Environment,” the utility’s spokeswoman, Lyn Riggins, said in an email. Matthew Logan is president of Potomac Riverkeeper, an organization dedicated to protecting the quality of water in the Potomac River watershed. Logan said his organization reviews discharge permits in the Potomac River watershed routinely. This issue came to their attention

about a year ago. “When you see something like this that’s so egregious ... and for so long, it certainly captures our attention,” he said.

“When you see something like this that’s so egregious ... and for so long, it certainly captures our attention.” Matthew Logan, president, Potomac Riverkeeper

According to documents filed by their attorneys, the discharges have affected the Potomac River for at least the last four years. The plant’s solids treatment facility, which would process the sediment in question, came online in 2002 but is ineffective, according to attorneys for the environmental groups. The lawsuit seeks penalties for illegal discharges and asks the court to require WSSC to address issues with the solids treatment unit. They also ask the state Department of the Environment to issue WSSC a more strict permit to replace their currrent one, which has expired. WSSC has ﬁled an application to renew its permit with the state Department of the Environment, Riggins said, but the commission said it would not comment on pending litigation. scarignan@gazette.net

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Editor’s note: To celebrate Black History Month, The Gazette is sharing the stories of some African-American teachers in Montgomery County Public Schools. In her 65 years, Jackie Shropshire has played a role in the classroom and in history. Between her 32 years at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring and six years at Albert Einstein High School in Kensington, Shropshire taught thousands of students before retiring in 2012. She was also active in the civil rights movement in her hometown of Williamston, N.C., and elsewhere. For Shropshire, Black History Month reminds younger generations of African-Americans’ role in history — a history in which she played a part. At age 15, Shropshire participated in the 1963 March on Washington, where a photographer snapped a shot of her singing “We Shall Overcome.” The image is now on a billboard on 14th Street and Constitution Avenue for the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. “That’s a powerful, powerful picture,” she said. “You can see the vein in my neck singing ‘We Shall Overcome’ to God.” She said students ask why she is yelling in the photo. She says it’s a sign that younger people aren’t familiar with the past and the civil rights movement. “They were clueless,” she said. “My generation has never asked. When they see the picture, they know I’m singing.” Shropshire said she has been jailed four times for pushing for African-American civil rights — once for trying to wash her clothes inpartofalaundromatdesignated for white people.

Her teaching career began in 1970 in North Carolina, when career choices were limited for African-Americans, she said. From 1974 to 2012, she taught accounting and computer classes at Blair and Einstein. Shropshire said she is passionate about teaching because her role models growing up were teachers, including her mother and her aunts. Students have changed over the years, Shropshire said. She thinks one problem among today’s students is a lack of motivation and passion about education. Another problem for students is poverty, she said. She said that when she moved from Blair to Einstein, she saw a stark change in the number of students affected by poverty. “At Blair, nobody ever approached me and asked me for my lunch,” she said. “They did at Einstein.” Shropshire said she kept active in the school system and become a substitute teacher because she still has lessons to teach. “I can’t divorce education when I retire,” she said. “I’m gradually weaning and I’m not going to stay away ’cause I’m not going to stop. There’s too much work to be done.”

Challenging their thinking Michael Williams took to the ﬁeld before he took to the classroom. Now a social studies teacher at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, he ﬁrst played professional soccer for eight years on several teams. “It was, and still is, my greatest passion,” he said. Williams said he left the sport when he turned 30 and could feel himself moving more slowly than younger players. It was through his experience working with kids in soccer demonstrations, he said, that he discovered teaching as a passion. Williams said he discovered soccer after moving from Boston to Tanzania, which made him appreciate people of different cultures and ethnicities.

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“I can’t divorce education when I retire,” says Jackie Shropshire, who taught at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring for more than 30 years. His experiences living in Tanzania for several years had a big inﬂuence on him, he said, as did his transition back to the U.S. He said he remembers people who heard he lived in Tanzania calling him the N-word and asking if he lived in a hut. “For the ﬁrst time that I can think of, I had to really deal with the issue of race,” he said. His experiences led him toward an interest in “how we humans interact.” “I’m a bit of an idealist. I think that, you know, we can make a better world and when we look at many of the problems we have in the world, a lot of it is the pictures we strike up in our mind because of misunderstandings and barriers we put up,” he said. Williams said he is passionate about soccer and coaching, but he is proudest of his work coordinating the school system’s Minority Scholars Program, which started at Walter Johnson and has spread to eight schools. The student-run program uses “positive peer pressure,” he said.

Students reach out to other students to encourage each other to take more challenging courses and strengthen their academic achievement, he said. “When you empower students, they rise to the occasion,” he said. In his U.S. history, AP world history and African-American history classes, Williams said, he enjoys seeing students experience a moment of growth when the way they view the world is challenged. “I think my students learn to really appreciate that because their eyes are being opened,” he said. Williams said he recently told his students he hopes there will be a day when there’s no need for a Black History Month or an African-American history class. “That would mean that African-American history has been not only acknowledged as a valuable and valid part of American history, but also infused into our American history,” he said. “And I said I don’t think we’re there yet.” “Black History Month, African American history — it is all of our

history. It belongs to all of us. It is not for one particular group,” he said.

‘It’s just a love’ Leroy Hyson, a sixth-grade science teacher at Neelsville Middle School in Germantown, said he knew he had a gift when it came to working with children since he volunteered at a camp as a middle schooler. He started in the school system in 1985, working his way from professional assistant to a teaching post. Hyson taught in three elementary schools — South Lake in Gaithersburg, Flower Hill in Gaithersburg and Glen Haven in Silver Spring — before he moved about four years ago to Neelsville Middle. The jump from elementary to middle school allowed him to focus on one subject area, he said. Hyson, who teaches subjects such as physics and environmental education, said one of his goals is to make science more real for students.

To help kids learn about the Chesapeake Bay, Hyson used grant funds to run a project that allows students to raise rainbow trout in their classroom. “A lot of my kids that might struggle with reading, learning all the concepts right away, they really have gravitated towards this project,” he said. Hyson doesn’t stick to just the classroom. He also can be found entertaining kids on a stage performing songs he wrote with his guitar named “George.” When it comes to his view on Black History Month, “I just live it,” Hyson said. “My premise is to students, ‘I don’t look at black, white, Spanish. I look at all my students the same,’” he said. What matters to Hyson is the opportunity to teach. “I’ve always enjoyed teaching basketball, reading or whatever,” he said. “For me, it’s just a love.” lpowers@gazette.net

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RYAN MARSHALL STAFF WRITER

Stanton Gildenhorn remembers the first time he met John F. Kennedy. It was 1958, and Gildenhorn had stopped at Kennedy’s Senate office on Capitol Hill to pick up a gift from his friend Evelyn Lincoln,theMassachusettssenator’s secretary. As Gildenhorn and Lincoln stood in the outer office, the door opened and out walked the future 35th president. Lincoln introduced Gildenhorn, and Kennedy greeted him warmly before apologizing that he didn’t have more time to talk and hurrying off to the next appointment on his schedule. The brief meeting left a mark on Gildenhorn, who would later work inside Kennedy’s White House. “He was my hero then, and to get to meet him was one of the greatestmomentsofmylife,”said Gildenhorn,71,alongtimeMontgomery County Democratic activistwholivesinNorthBethesda. After Kennedy beat Richard Nixon in the 1960 election, Gildenhorn went to work for Larry O’Brien, one of Kennedy’s “Irish Mafia,” in a job for the Democratic National Committee. Gildenhorn conducted political clearance, briefing O’Brien on any objections from Democratic state and local officials or members of Congress to potential political appointees. O’Brien was an “extraordinary man,” Gildenhorn said. Gildenhorn’s job brought him into contact with many of the other prominent figures of the administration that would come to be dubbed “Camelot” after Kennedy’s death. Kennedy had a certain aura about him, Gildenhorn said. When he walked into a room, all

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Stanton Gildenhorn of North Bethesda, who worked in the Kennedy White House. eyes turned to him. In a lifetime spent around politics, he said, he’s never met anyone else with that type of charisma. The president was downto-earth, with a good sense of humor, Gildenhorn said. He was a voracious reader, devouring reports and memos. Gildenhorn said he was aware at the time what a great opportunity he had, but looking back now he realizes how extraordinary it was. While it was a heady life, it also came with unique challenges. One of his occasional jobs while working for the Kennedy campaign was to escort several of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy’s notoriously high-spirited brood of children on outings in downtown Washington, D.C., an assignment that left Gildenhorn exhausted. “They were climbing up on trees. They were climbing on mailboxes. They were walking into stores,” he recalled. Gildenhorn’s time in the Kennedy administration ended as abruptly as his ﬁrst meeting with the young senator had occurred just a few years before. On Nov. 22, 1963, Gildenhorn was on the campus of George Washington University, where he was taking classes, and was scheduled to report to the White House in the afternoon. When he walked out onto G Street, people were standing

around car radios, ﬁve and six deep, listening to reports out of Dallas of the president’s assassination. By the time he made it the few blocks to the executive mansion, the gates had been locked. “It was the worst day of my life and continues to be the worst day of my life,” he said. The White House was in mourning “for months and months and months,” even as Lyndon Johnson rapidly moved most of Kennedy’s staff out and his own people in, Gildenhorn said. Gildenhorn was among the staffers who were quickly replaced, although he kept in touch with O’Brien, Lincoln and a number of other members of Kennedy’s staff. He was offered a position as the chief guide at the U.S. pavilion at the World’s Fair in New York, overseeing about 120 guides in 1964 and 1965. He became an attorney and has worked with a number of groups, including the Montgomery County Democratic Central Committee. He carries fond memories of his small piece of an era that captured the country’s imagination. “These were different kinds of people, and people felt it,” he said. rmarshall@gazette.net

About two months ago, students took to Twitter with barbed virtual tongues when Montgomery County Public Schools decided not to close after area temperatures dipped to unusual lows. Some students tweeted directly at Superintendent Joshua P. Starr and included angry, sarcastic and even threatening messages that prompted Starr to release an open letter sharing his concern over their behavior. Now Montgomery County Public Schools has formed a task force focused on “cybercivility” and is seeking applications from parents, students, staff members and community members to ﬁll its ranks. Task force members will be charged with developing ways to raise awareness of the need for more polite online communication as well as guides for students, parents and others to talk about the issue. The group will meet once a month from March to August and those interested have until 5 p.m. Monday to submit an application at montgomeryschoolsmd.org/ cybercivility/application.aspx. Starr said in a Feb. 10 school system release that he hopes the task force’s work will fuel conversations about how students and others can use social media “in positive and productive ways.” Starr said in a Dec. 13 letter to the school system community that students contacted him on Twitter with “offensive and disturbing” messages related to the decision on whether to close schools due to the cold weather. “We not only have to teach our kids how to handle new technologies appropriately, but we also have to model that behavior in our own communications on

social media and email,” he said in the letter. County school board Vice President Patricia O’Neill (Dist. 3) of Bethesda said in her 15 years as a school board member, she has seen that both adults and children have lost a sense of civility. There’s a difference, she said, betweenthecurrentvirtualmodes of communication and a handwritten letter that involves a delay andopportunitiesforrevision,ora phonecallthatcarriesamore“human tone.” O’Neill said there are “no easy answers” but hopes the task force canhelpputcivilitybackinsociety. “There is a ﬁne line, we are a free speech society,” she said. “But I really believe that even if you disagree with me, or disagree with the board, there is a civil approach to discourse.” School board member Michael Durso (Dist. 5) of Silver Spring said the issue transcends the school system and online civility is “probably more of a local and a parental issue.” “It’s not new that sometimes our young people, you know, say things a little more graphically or a little more candidly than we like,” he said. The changes in communication are “a sign of the times,” Durso said, citing language seen on television and in publications that would not have been said or written in the past but have “kind of creeped into acceptance now.” He said he also think it’s behavior that is difﬁcult to police. “I hope we’re not just spinning our wheels,” he said. Therese Gibson — president of the parent, teacher and student association at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring — said she doesn’t think the county school system needs a task force to address the issue. “I think there’s a lot of excellent teaching materials out there already,” she said. Gibson said she is on a listserv with other county PTA leaders where members exchange rec-

ommendations for programs and materials related to cybercivility. “We’re pretty active on this,” she said. “I would just encourage Dr. Starr to keep focusing in on academic achievement.” Robyn Posner Solomon — president of the parent, teacher andstudentassociationatWinston Churchill High School in Potomac —saidshedoesn’tthinkcybercivility has been a problem at Churchill and that the issue goes beyond schools and includes adults. “I just think it’s parents’ responsibility to talk to their children,” she said. Solomon said she has talked to her children “ad nauseam” about being careful in how they behave on social media sites including Facebook. “This whole generation needs to be careful in how they say things,” she said. Silvia Vargas, a professor who teaches cybersecurity at Montgomery College, said she thinks the task force is a great way for the school system to develop resources to raise awareness. “I believe that awareness is definitely needed and from that we can have policies and procedures to be able to drive a better civil communication over the Internet,” she said. Vargas said she thinks there are a lot of parents who might not know what their kids are doing online. Materials addressing cybercivility exist online, she said, but some parents might not be able to access them and would benefit from other forms of outreach such as fliers or meetings. Cyberbullying seems to be more prevalent nowadays, she said, and children are surrounded by technology. “If you think about it, there are many children, even in elementary school, who already have an iPad or a [Kindle] Fire or an [iPod Touch],” she said. “They’re just fully connected.” lpowers@gazette.net

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David Perry has run through 10,000 volts of electricity in extreme Tough Mudder races and completed basic training for the Army. That’s just a warmup for his latest challenge: tackling one of the world’s hardest obstacle courses on the television game show “American Ninja Warrior.” “I’m excited for the chaos of it all and being on television,” said Perry, 28, of Manassas, Va. “It will be like nothing I’ve ever done before.” “American Ninja Warrior,” with roots in Japan, is billed as

the ultimate test of strength and stamina. Contestants must cross freely spinning suspended logs, climb up a small space in between two walls using no ropes, leap off concave walls and use swinging ropes to pass over gaps of water, among other incredible feats. The Japanese version of the show has aired for 17 years in Japan, where it is called “Sasuke,” which loosely translates to “tough ﬁghter.” The course is so tough that only three people have ever successfully completed it, standing atop the manmade “Mount Midoriyama.” The Japanese version developed a cult following when it U.S. cable television starting showing it more than a decade ago as “Ninja Warrior.” It became the highestrated program on the G4 cable

network, leading to the birth of the American version in 2009. In the early seasons of “American Ninja Warrior,” contestants competed on a U.S.-based obstaclecourse.Tencontestantsearned the right to to travel to Japan and compete in the final stage of “Sasuke,” on Mount Midoriyama. The “mountain” is actually a mass of steel bars, hanging ropes and spinning platforms, placed in front of a screaming audience. In the final stage, contestants must climb more than 30 feet straight up a hanging rope in less than a minute. Since 2012, U.S. contestants no longer fly to Japan to compete on the obstacle course. Instead 100 finalists compete for $500,000 on a replica of Mount Midoriyama in Las Vegas. No contestant on the U.S. show has successfully com-

pleted the obstacle course. Perry, who submitted his application video for the show in January, hopes to get his chance and tackle Mount Midoriyama. In preparation, Perry trains at Urban Evolution in Manassas, Va., an “alternative ﬁtness” gym that recreates obstacles seen on the show. The gyms host “ninja warrior” events Sundays, on a course modeled after the show’s. Between the Urban Evolution gym in Manassas and locations in Baltimore and Alexandria, Va., about 50 people are training for either “American Ninja Warrior” or extreme races such as the Tough Mudder, owner Salil Maniktahla said. The gyms also have hosted ofﬁcial tryouts for the TV show. In 2012, 13 people who train at Urban Evolution gyms were ac-

cepted by the show, Maniktahla said. Perry began working out at Urban Evolution in 2011, after basic training in the Army, as a way to train for Tough Mudders and other extreme races. “I actually lost a lot of my shoulder and control muscles during military training,” he said. At Urban Evolution, Perry befriended several people who appeared on the show and decided to try out. For Alex Anschuetz, an engineering major at the University of Maryland, the chance to appear on television is not why he’s trying out for “American Ninja Warrior.” Theshowwillallowhimtotest himself on perhaps the world’s toughest obstacle course, he said. “I’m not really worried about winning money or being on tele-

vision,” Anschuetz said. “For me, it is more about pushing my limits to see how far I can will myself.” Anschuetz has been rock climbing since high school and trains at Earth Treks, a rock-climbing gym in Rockville. Grip strength, a key component of rock climbing, is critical to several obstacles throughout the show’s course. To train, he practices with gymnastics rings, tackles rock walls and does pull-up variations. “I like the idea that I got stronger without the use of weights, and I’m excited to see how well I can handle the course,” he said. Capital News Service reporter Alexander Glass contributed to this report.

Maryland license plate recognition networks Business owner eyes District 18 House seat prompt state and federal privacy concerns Lawmakers want data to solve crimes, ‘not extend the reach of Big Brother’

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ANNAPOLIS — Each day across Maryland, hundreds of thousands of motorists’ license plates are recorded, stamped with location and time, and disseminated to various local, state and federal law enforcement agencies — sometimes to be retained indeﬁnitely. While local police departments have decided how long to keep this data, state and federal data “fusion centers” are collecting the same information and keeping it for much longer, raising privacy concerns. Last month, Maryland legislators introduced a bipartisan proposal calling for limitations on state law enforcement’s ability to track citizens through these systems of license plate surveillance. “We want to make sure that the[plate-recognitiontechnology]

is used to solve crimes, but not to extend the reach of Big Brother,” said Sen. Jamie Raskin (D-Dist. 20) of Takoma Park. Sen. Christopher Shank (RDist. 2) of Hagerstown is working with Raskin on that bill and three others aimed at protecting civilian privacy on email, cellphones and drone surveillance. “We need to know how long is too long to keep that data,” Shank said, citing the potential to use the data for “nefarious purposes.” If passed, license-plate records unrelated to ongoing police investigations would be terminated after 90 days in both local and state run agencies. License-plate information is recorded throughout the state by 411 license-plate scanners equipped with automated recognition technology. Of those scanners, 307 are mobile — mounted on police cruisers — and 104 are ﬁxed cameras, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Harvey Eisenberg, coordinator of Maryland’s Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council. This marks an increase from 2011, when Maryland law en-

forcement had 295 license plate readers — 242 mobile, 53 ﬁxed. Of the 411 cameras, about three-quarters are networked through the Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center, also referred to as the “fusion center.” The Maryland Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council established the fusion center in 2003 “to provide analytical support for all federal, state, and local agencies.” Sixty-eight Maryland police agencies use automated license plate readers, and 55 feed data into the fusion center. In December 2011, thirty-two agencies were linked to the fusion center, suggesting the network’s outreach is growing. As agencies delete data, records often live on in even larger databases. For example, the Greenbelt Police Department stores license plate data unrelated to criminal investigations for a maximum of 30 days. However, the Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center will keep that data for up to a year. The National Capital License PlateRecognitionProject—which

compiles data from Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. — keeps data for an unknown length of time, according to the ACLU. Eisenberg, the coordinator of Maryland’s Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council which oversees the fusion center, said data is secure. “This data is hosted on a standalone server. ... No one can dive into it. ... There is no datamining, and [the data] can only be accessed by a legitimate law enforcement officer for a legitimate reason,” he said. Eisenberg noted that the fusion center’s one-year retention limit was decided on after consultation with various other government agencies. Currently, a subpoena is not required for law enforcement officers to access license plate records. “[W]e’ve already seen abuse with police spying,” said Sarah Love, a spokeswoman for ACLU Maryland. “We need to make sure these policies have quantified, strict regulations.”

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She came to the U.S. at 16 with her mother from Venezuela for better economic opportunities and now Natali Fani-Gonzalez wants to create an atmosphere of opportunity for everyone. Fani-Gonzalez, 33, of Kensington, filed Feb. 4 as a Democratic candidate for the House of Delegates from District 18. She said she can represent all the people of the diverse district, which includes Kensington, Chevy Chase, Garrett Park, Wheaton and parts of Silver Spring and Rockville. “I have diversity within me,” she said. “I am where I am because I worked hard for it and I want to represent working families, especially working women.” When Fani-Gonzalez came to the U.S. she did not speak English, but, she said, she studied hard, graduated from Northwestern High School in Prince George’s County and was accepted to Goucher College in Towson. Now a business owner, she is founder and director of the Matea Group, a communications and public policy advocacy ﬁrm. Fani-Gonzalez said she is a business candidate and will work to see that businesses are vibrant and more jobs are created. Before founding the Matea Group, Fani-Gonzalez worked as a lobbyist for CASA of Maryland, an organization that works for the rights of Latinos and other immigrants. She then became part of the communications team for the Ser-

vice Employee International Union Local 32BJ, representing property service workers, such as office cleaners and maintenance workers, bus drivers and aides, and food service workers. “I’m not a one issue person, and I have the background to reflect that,” she Fani-Gonzalez said. H e r record, she said includes working with labor issues, businesses, women’s issues and health care. She feels that this is her time to run for ofﬁce. “I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time,” she said. “I was a lobbyist in Annapolis so I know Annapolis and I have friends [there].” So far, Fani-Gonzalez said she has raised $30,000 and hopes to make that $40,000 by the end of the month. “I make calls and ask people to donate,” she said. “And I have friends asking [their] friends to give me money.” She said she expects friends and former colleagues to be her main source of income but also said expects people who share her ideals will support her too. There are three seats in the House from District 18 and all the incumbents — Alfred Carr Jr., Ana Sol Gutierrez and Jeffrey D. Waldstreicher, all Democrats — are running. In addition to Fani-Gonzalez, Democrats Rick Kessler, Elizabeth Matory and Emily Shetty have ﬁled. The primary will be held June 24 and the general election Nov. 4. pmcewan@gazette.net

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Since Mother Nature dumped more than a foot of snow on Montgomery County last week, the county has received nearly 200 complaints about residents or shops who

have not removed snow from the sidewalk in front of their homes or businesses. County law requires people to remove snow and ice from any sidewalk, walkway or parking area on or adjacent to property they own, lease or manage within 24 hours after the snow stops falling. The county has received 192 requests about snow shoveling since Thursday, county spokeswoman Esther Bowring said Tuesday. The county law requiring

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Continued from Page A-1 in positions of authority to include principals, vice principals, teachers and school counselors. However, the law applies only to individuals who are fulltime, permanent employees. It does not apply to part-time employees and coaches, substitute teachers or volunteers. Lawmakers in both chambers point to the 2012 case of a Montgomery County middle school teacher, Scott D. Spear, as a reason to change the law. At age 47, Spear was accused of having sex with a 16-year-old former student. The student was, at the time of the alleged offense, on the Richard Montgomery High School track team that Spear coached part-time, according to police. Spear was charged with two counts of fourth-degree sex offense because prosecutors said that, as a former teacher and the victim’s coach, he was in a position of authority. Charges against Spear were dropped due to a legal technicality

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property owners to clear pathways wide enough for use by pedestrians or people in wheelchairs does not apply to unpaved walkways, and walkways or parking areas on the property of a single-family home. People who live in apartments or other multiple-family homes aren’t responsible for removing snow or ice from sidewalks or parking lots. If ice or packed-down snow is “impossible or unreasonably difﬁcult to remove,” a property owner is responsible for putting

every urban district should provide,” Riemer said. Riemer said he may ask if County Executive Isiah Leggett would add some money for snow removal in the Silver Spring and Wheaton districts to his operating budget scheduled to be

that prevented prosecutors from moving forward because Spear was not employed full-time. Sens. Jamie B. Raskin, Jennie M. Forehand (D-Dist. 17) of Rockville and Nancy J. King (DDist. 39) of Montgomery Village have proposed a Senate bill to close this loophole. Dels. Luiz R.S. Simmons and Sam Arora have proposed a House bill with a similar mission, but different provisions. Raskin (D-Dist. 20) of Takoma Park said lawmakers have tried for nearly a decade to close the loophole. The House and Senate bills differ in several ways. Simmons (D-Dist. 17) of Rockville said he and Arora (DDist. 19) of Silver Spring want to broaden the list of people in authority positions who could be held accountable under the law by including part-time school employees, coaches, independent contractors and employees of county recreation departments. The two delegates fused their respective bills on this issue last year, Simmons said. Their consolidated bill passed

down sand, salt or some other material so that the area is safe for people to walk on, according to the law. Last week’s storm featured multiple times when snow fell, causing the 24-hour timetable to reset several times, Bowring said. The county is in the process of sending out letters to property owners who didn’t clear their sidewalks, she said. A violation results in a $50 fine for residential properties and a $50-per-day violation for

released in March, or the county could add some money during its part of the budget process. The urban areas have a potential solution in place with the urban districts, the county would just have to expand their responsibilities, he said.

the House, but not the Senate. Arora said this year’s bill is nearly the same. One amendment — still being drafted — would add employees of boards of education, he said. Simmons said his Senate colleagues are taking “a different approach.” Arora said the House bill aims at “fixing the problem,” while the Senate bill involves “larger reform.” The Senate bill also broadens the list of people in authority, but goes further by including volunteers, Raskin said. “Most volunteers have the best intentions in the world and want to help, but some predators will sneak in as volunteers in order to find their prey,” he said. Arora said it’s “not unthinkable” that volunteers would make the list, but that could raise challenging questions “because of the difficulties of coming up with a durable and discernable definition.” The bills also differ on whether the law should apply to people who work at private recreation facilities, as well as county facilities.

The Bethesda Urban Partnership doesn’t remove snow on sidewalks, just crosswalks and curb cuts, said Stephanie Coppula, spokeswoman for the partnership. Their crews also remove trash, sweep streets, she said.

Raskin said the House version is limited to those who work for county recreation facilities. His bill would go further and also include those who work or volunteer at private facilities, such as private sports clubs. The House and Senate bills also don’t agree on other aspects. One is how much jail time a convicted fourth-degree sexual offender should serve. The House bill would impose one year in jail, while the Senate bill imposes a ﬁve-year punishment, Raskin said. Another is related to relationships between students old enough to consent — at age 16 in Maryland — and people in authority. Raskin said he favors the law applying to any people in authority, regardless of how close in age they might be to the student. However, some lawmakers think prosecuting a 20-year-old coach in a relationship with a

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12 inches of snow should take about 60 hours to be cleaned up, county spokesman Patrick Lacefield said Tuesday. Plow crews focused on clearing primary and arterial roads first but were able to complete first runs through county neighborhoods by around 7 p.m. Friday, he said. The county used about 680 pieces of equipment in dealing with the storm, Lacefield said. rmarshall@gazette.net

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17-year-old student, for example, is too harsh, Raskin said. “A 20-year-old assistant track coach in a relationship with a 17-year-old student could still be grounds for firing or making sure that person never works in a school again,” Raskin said. “The question is when we should send that person to jail.” His bill would prohibit sexual contact between a person of authority and a minor who is at least seven years younger. Before the 2013 bill fell apart, Raskin said, lawmakers reached a compromised on an age gap of about eight years. Simmons said the problem of students being victimized usually involves a larger age gap, a point Raskin also made. Most cases involve adults in at least their 30s, Raskin said. Simmons said the evidence points to problems involving part-time employees, independent contractors and coaches. Lawmakers say they are

open to compromise. Arora said he wants to see the loophole closed as soon as possible. “We have so much more in common than separates us on this issue,” he said. Raskin agreed, but said he will hold fast to having part-time teachers and coaches, substitutes and volunteers included. John Woolums, director of governmental relations for the Maryland Association of Boards of Education, said the association supports both bills. “I think those bills are well intended and address our primary concern, which is to no longer limit to full-time permanent employees,” he said. On Feb. 11, the Montgomery County Board of Education voted unanimously to support both bills, as long as they apply to school system employees. kalexander@gazette.net lpowers@gazette.net

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Continued from Page A-1 But the number of people who needed mental health screenings increased from 2,161 in 2010 to 2,222 in 2013. The 2,222 are 28 percent of the jail’s population. Of those, 926 had to be taken to the jail’s 34-bed crisis intervention housing unit, where the detention center houses the most seriously mentally ill. Law enforcement officials said they can’t explain the rise. Of the 2,161 inmates in 2010 who had mental health screenings, 653 needed to be transported to a critical intervention housing unit, according to the state’s attorney’s office. “Of all the issues faced by adult corrections, mental illness is by far the most challenging and difficult,” said Arthur Wallenstein, chief of the county’s Department of Correction and Rehabilitation. On Tuesday at the county jail’s critical intervention unit in Boyds, therapist Laurie Mombay said that as many as 10 to 12 of the 34 inmates at the unit at any one time were chronic offenders. They might cycle through the jail multiple times a year on low-risk offenses, like trespassing or disorderly conduct charges. “It’s difficult to intervene in a way that helps people get better,” she said, citing the demands of the system, the number of inmates the unit treats, and how critically ill they often are when they arrive. Historically, in the U.S., those with debilitating mental illness were held in institutions, including psychiatric hospitals. Decades ago, for example, Saint Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., heldthousandsofpatients.Today, it holds just a few hundred. According to Dr. Alan Newman, a psychiatrist with Georgetown University, in the past, institutionalization was “too easy.” Now, people can only be hospitalized against their will if they are “an immediate danger” to themselves or others, he said. “The flip side means that many people who are severely mentally ill, untreated and homeless, cannot be forced to get treatment because they do not meet this narrow definition of dangerous,” he said. “Some of those patients will eventually commit an offense that they wouldn’t have if they had gotten treatment,” he said. Conversely, those who committed violent acts when untreated often are not a threat to the com-

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Four bills under consideration in the 2014 Maryland General Assembly could help those who have severe mental illness. “We think some of these laws will give some families the ability to treat people and give them back their lives and health,” said Stephanie Rosen, executive director of the Montgomery County chapter of the National Alliance for Mental Illness. Rosen provided a rundown of four important bills this session:

SB67/HB606: DANGEROUSNESS STANDARD This bill would clarify Maryland’s law on emergency psychiatric and inpatient commitment by changing standards for involuntary hospitalizations and emergency evaluations. According to Rosen, current law allows physicians or health workers to “involuntarily commit” someone only if the person presents a danger to the life or safety to [the patient] or to others. “Curmunity once they’ve received the care they need, he said. Advocates for those with mental illness say that when Congress passed legislation emphasizing de-institutionalization in 1963, the goal was community-based treatment centers. That goal never substantially materialized, Wallenstein said. “Unfortunately we only hear about mental illness when there’s an egregious act of violence,” said Dr. Raymond Crowel, the county’s Chief of Behavioral Health and Crisis Services. “We shouldn’t be waiting until someone breaks the law before they begin to get treatment,” he said. “There’s a conﬂict in the way the system is structured.” The county spends about $34 million — including federal and state dollars — on mental health services, he said. “We don’t have all the resources for someone coming out of jail with mental illness,” he said. “We have to be able to recognize [symptoms] and treat them earlier. ... If someone comes in for a second time, we have to be able to catch that and intervene before things become

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rently, there is no definition of that requirement,” she said. The new bill would have a definition and would make it easier to involuntarily hospitalize people if there’s a reasonable expectation that they would hurt themselves or others if not hospitalized. A similar change would affect standards on how health officials give emergency evaluations to people with mental disorders.

SB262/HB273: MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SAFETY NET ACT This bill would provide help moderate- to high-risk offenders with a history of mental illness and substance abuse, before and after release. It would require that a plan for incorporating behavioral health services in all public schools be delivered to the legislature by Oct. 1. It also would provide health services — including behavioral health services for Baltimore city and Caroline County — and early intervention services statewide for substance abuse and mental health. Rosen said the bill would head off potential crises earlier.

SB831/HB767: ASSISTED OUTPATIENT TREATMENT This bill would let courts order outpatient treatment for people with serious or

disabling mental illness and who struggle to adhere to voluntary mental health treatment, Rosen said. Maryland is one of ﬁve states whose courts can’t order outpatient treatment for people with severe and disabling mental illnesses who can’t follow voluntary prescribed treatment, she said. The bill is speciﬁcally for people who don’t recognize their mental illness and wouldn’t seek treatment, she said. “We do not want to force people to be treated, but for this small subset, lack of treatment is resulting in hospitalizations and imprisonment and great cost to community,” she said.

SB620/HB592: MEDICATION-OVER-OBJECTION This bill would help people with mental illness move toward recovery by allowing the forced administration of medication in certain conditions. Currently, someone considered dangerous enough to be admitted to a hospital must be actively dangerous in a hospital to receive forced medication. “We don’t want it to be easy [to force someone to receive medication]. There should be a panel, host of requirements ... but when necessary, I think there should be an option for treatment,” Rosen said.

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A cell in the crisis intervention unit for men at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Boyds. violent,” he said. Programs like pre-jail diversion (which the county already uses) and longer hospital stays could help, he said. Government agencies also should look at stabilizing a person’s life through resources for education, housing and vocation, he said. Mental health courts — in which treatment teams, prosecutors, public defenders work together to keep people out of jail — also could help, he said. People who previously

might have been in the more paternalistic health care institutions of generations past are out on their own, without the protection of a safety net. “If they are refusing treatment and not considered an ‘imminent danger,’ they are allowed to sort of rot away with their rights on,” Newman said. That has put some living with mental illness in a precarious position, advocates say. Many people who come into contact with police wouldn’t be in the criminal

justice system if they had the help they needed sooner. “Mental illness includes a lot of different disorders,” said Stephanie Rosen, executive director for the Montgomery County chapter of the National Alliance for Mental Illness. Mental illness encompasses everything from mood disorders to phobias, or panic disorders, along with conditions like eating disorders, or schizophrenia, she said. The vast majority of people with mental illness are nonviolent,

living successful lives, she said. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, about 25 percent of the adult U.S. population will experience symptoms of mental illness in a one-year period. Mental health advocates say that sometimes the only way a person can get the care they need is by being arrested and taken to a correctional facility. Law enforcement and mental health professionals also find themselves in a bind, Rosen said, when a person with mental illness may be arrested, but can’t be sent to the hospital, because the person doesn’t think he or she is sick. One case Rosen was familiar with was a man suffering from schizophrenia who routinely visits a 7-Eleven even after being told not to. “He constantly comes back to the same 7-Eleven,” she said. “The same officer is constantly having to pick up the same individual — there are zero laws, and no other options than arresting him.” Police say they have seen a jump in calls for service dealing with individuals who may be mentally ill. McCarthy said mental health has become a significant factor in how criminal cases are handled. That includes services for defendants while their cases are investigated and prosecuted, putting new pressures on jails and police officers. “The biggest challenge we face in this county is dealing with people with delusional disorders,” said Officer Scott Davis, Montgomery County Police’s Crisis Intervention Team coordinator. “They’re not ill enough to involuntarily petition, but if we let [the situation] lay the way they are, it causes non-stop calls for service.” He and his fellow officers have had to respond to calls at one house in Bethesda 50 times over the last few months, because of constant calls by the person living there, who Davis said has a mental disorder. According to Davis, county police responded to 5,256 calls for service related to mental illness in 2013 — up from 4,449 in 2009. That number from 2013 accounts for about 20 percent of the 235,000 calls police made that year. Local law enforcement officials say the influx has strained their resources. “Corrections never asked to be a mental health provider and now we find more seriously and persistently mentally ill persons in our custody than ever before,” Wallenstein said, calling the issue a “crisis.” sjbsmith@gazette.net

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BUSINESS Adventist aims to improve health care delivery 29,059 Marylanders enrolled as of Feb. 1 through state’s health care exchange

KEVIN JAMES SHAY STAFF WRITER

The federal health care reform law — known as the Affordable Care Act — is sparking a vast array of changes across Maryland and the nation. More providers are joining together to better compete with larger hospital networks and cut costs, while more people are at least trying to obtain coverage through exchange networks that have gotten off to a rocky start since rolling out in October. Last month, Gaithersburg-based Adventist HealthCare started operating the Mid-Atlantic Primary Care Accountable Care Organization, an entity designed to improve the coordination of medical services and reduce costs. It is one of more than 100 nationally approved by the federal agency Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services to participate in a shared-savings program. Adventist has long been working on ways to reduce medical costs and serve patients better, said Patrick Garrett, chief administrator of the ACO and senior vice president for physician integration and population-based care with Adventist. In that regard, the federal law is not a driver in developing the organization. “Many trends in medicine preceded the [Affordable Care Act],” Garrett said. “For many years, we have been taking on more responsibility to obtain better outcomes.” The physician-led partnership includes more than 1,000 providers, ranging from individual physicians to larger physician groups such as MedPeds in Laurel and Comprehensive Women’s Health in Silver Spring. Adventist’s facilities include Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville, Shady Grove Adventist Emergency Center in Germantown and Washington Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park. There are more than 100 primary care physicians and 14,000 patients

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Juliet Rodman, left, Chief Wellness Officer and co-founder of Wellness Corporate Solutions, and Fiona Gathright, president, CEO and co-founder of Wellness Corporate Solutions, right, led Sen. Ben Cardin, center, on a recent company tour. in the region within Adventist’s ACO, mostly in Maryland. While providers in the organization do not share facilities and resources, they can reduce costs through, for example, avoiding duplication of lab tests and services, Garrett said. “It helps us create more efficient and coordinated care,” he said. “It does take a lot of coordination. … But we think this is a big part of the future of health care, working with our community physicians.” Another way Adventist is working to improve care is by establishing more preventive care clinics. Along with Community Clinic Inc., the company recently opened a new clinic at its Takoma Park hospital that focuses on uninsured and underinsured patients. Federal researchers project that spending by Medicare will slow in the coming decade, breaking a trend in past decades of that spending being significantly higher than the rate of growth of the economy.

State: Many glitches in exchange ﬁxed Maryland’s health care exchange, through which some peo-

ple have obtained insurance, is still plagued with inefficiencies to the point that U.S. Rep. John Delaney (D-Dist. 6) of Potomac and others continue to ask that the state switch to the federal health insurance exchange while Maryland’s system is being fixed. State health officials said in a report last week that many of the technical glitches “most frustrating to consumers have been fixed, and we continue to work to address others that continue to cause difficulties for some Maryland consumers.” The state system had signed up 29,059 Maryland residents in private health plans, as of Feb. 1. More than 140,000 residents had been enrolled in Medicaid, either automatically or through the site. Maryland is one of 16 states, along with Washington, D.C., operating their own exchanges. Others like Virginia have residents use the federal government’s system. U.S. Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin (D) of Pikesville, who recently toured the Bethesda headquarters of Wellness Corporate Solutions, which provides corporate wellness programs for public and private clients, said he was not happy with the start of Maryland’s exchange system. But

he was told that moving to the federal system even temporarily would cause transitional issues such as problems with people in the middle of their application process. “The state has considered multiple changes, including moving to the federal exchange on a temporary basis,” Cardin said. “They are interested in getting health care coverage to as many people as possible. But they say that moving right now to the federal exchange would be counterproductive.” Wellness Corporate Solutions provides a good model to help employers bring down medical costs by working on the prevention side in helping employees stay healthy through exercise and better nutrition, Cardin said. He has promoted wellness programs within the federal government and also serves on the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee. “It’s a very impressive company,” Cardin said. “Everyone seems happy and wants to get to work. And it’s growing fast.” Wellness Corporate Solutions moved to its Bethesda location last fall from a smaller space in Cabin John. The company has more than 80 employees and last year made Inc. magazine’s annual list of the 500 fastest-growing private businesses nationally. The business ranked 355th with a revenue growth rate of 1,237 percent between 2009 and 2012, to $9.3 million. While employers investing in wellness programs reap financial beneﬁts over time, it’s sometimes a struggle to demonstrate a clear return on investment, said Fiona Gathright, president and CEO of Wellness Corporate Solutions. It takes several years to collect the necessary data and foster a true culture of health in a workplace that promotes lasting results, she said. “But we’ve found that even at the outset, employers reap a number of beneﬁts from wellness programs,” Gathright said. “Employee morale improves markedly, and as employees become healthier, absenteeism rates decline and levels of productivity increase.” kshay@gazette.net

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Stephenson joins Capital Digestive Care Capital Digestive Care, a local group of physicians specializing in digestive health, recently added its 60th physician, Ann Marie Stephenson. Board-certified in both gastroenterology and internal medicine, Stephenson will focus on general gastrointestinal health with a special interest in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel diseases. Stephenson works in the practice’s Associates in Gastroenterology office in Rockville. More information is at capitaldigestivecare. com/AG.

Moving company coming to Gaithersburg A new Two Men and a Truck moving franchise is opening in Gaithersburg. Joey Hale, 40, an Air Force veteran, has worked with the company since 1998 and owns and operates the Chattanooga, Tenn., franchise. He is now expanding, and plans to open a new location at 7540 Rickenbacker Drive, Gaithersburg, in March. Company information is at twomenbethesdawashingtondc.com/home.

Two local poets release books Two area poets recently released books. Molly Hamilton of Potomac released her first children’s book, “Animals on Parade.” The book, sold through Ingram Publishing and available in soft cover on amazon. com and autographed hard cover versions at postcardexplorer.com, profiles more than two dozen animals through whimsical poems. “Animals on Parade” also is Hamilton’s first painting effort, according to an email from her. More information is at MollyBHamilton.com. Terry Harris of Bethesda also recently published a book of poetry and photography, “Breathe with Thee.” The poems are a collection of work stemming from Harris’ life and experiences. Harris taught elementary school and preschool for 15 years in Montgomery County and Fairfax County, Va., according to a news release from Harris. “Breathe with Thee” is available from publisher WestBow Press and retailers.

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When a senior citizen smiles and wants to get up and dance, Teen Angel Project members know their time and effort has been worthwhile. When a military veteran get tears in his eyes listening to patriotic songs or a young cancer patient joins in, the young performers feel the success. The Teen Angel Project, based in Montgomery County, is a group of middle and high school students with training in music and dance and experience in performance. They put on shows for “people who need joy,” according to founder Francesca Winch of Silver Spring. “I literally had a dream,” Winch said. “[It was] of these kids performing in a hospital. Somebody announced them as Teen Angels.” Winch said her daughter, Fiona, 18, was taking music and dance lessons for years and performing with other young

people in local theater. Winch had a ready-made community on which to draw to make her dream come true. She shared the idea with other parents in the summer of 2012. That fall, the Teen Angel Project held its ﬁrst auditions, attracting about 40 members. This year, the group’s second season, there are 45 members — 29 are in grades 9 to 12; the other 16 are in grades 6 to 9. “There is some overlap [in the ninth-graders] because some kids need more work than others, with their singing and dancing,” said Theresa Mezebish of Brookeville, a member of the Teen Angel Project board. Mezebish has two daughters in the group — Sophie, 16, and Anna, 14. Both started dance lessons at a young age and love performing. “I started dance classes when I was 2 or 3 years old,” Sophie said, “and started performing in third grade at summer camp. I like getting my energy out.” Sophie said the group lets her combine two of her favorite things. “It gives us a way to do the things we love: be together with our friends and help the community,” she said. The group has performed at lo-

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Members of the Teen Angel Project rehearse at the Jewish Community Center in Rockville for an upcoming performance. The group sings and dances to bring joy to others. cal assisted living homes, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and The Children’s Inn at the National Institutes of Health, and for the Make a Wish Foundation and Autism Speaks. “They were great,” said Taylor Watson, assistant house manager at The Children’s Inn. “It gave the kids an opportunity to take a break from what they are going through. Some of the kids got up from their seats and danced

with the group.” Members come from across the metropolitan area and rehearse every Saturday for three hours at the Jewish Community Center in Rockville. They perform a variety of music, including musical theater and popular tunes. They also do a patriotic revue, said artistic director Jason Strunk. Teen Angel Project members are rehearsing for performances at the Heart

Songs Luncheon on Feb. 26. Heart Songs in an outreach of the Mattie J.T. Stepanek Foundation in support of the critical care units at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The group also is preparing for a performance at Homecrest House senior living facility March 19, a showcase fundraiser for Best Buddies on April 5 and their own gala fundraiser May 10. Open auditions for next year’s season with be held on May 17. During the patriotic revue at Walter Reed, Tara Shepherd, 17, of Olney realized how much the group’s performance meant to the audience. “A guy took off his cap and was crying,” she said. “It meant a lot that we were touching someone’s life and you could see that on his face.” Kayla Chernof, 17, of Potomac knew she was doing a good thing for the community when she talked to a resident of Grace House, a senior living community in Silver Spring. “After the performance, she smiled and said she wanted to get up with us,” Chernof said. “She didn’t, but it made her feel good.” pmcewan@gazette.net

EDUCATION NOTEBOOK Students have virtual visit with NASA astronaut Students at Cloverly Elementary School in Silver Spring were ready for

a treat during their Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Career Day on Jan. 24, when they were scheduled to have a Skype interview with NASA astronaut Megan McArthur. But a terrestrial phenomenon — an ice storm in Houston that day — forced NASA to reschedule the chat for Feb. 10. All students — kindergartners through ﬁfth-graders — were invited to submit questions for McArthur, said Rachel Safri, Cloverly’s assistant principal. Two students from each grade were selected to speak with McArthur during the nearly hourlong interview. McArthur appeared on the large screen in the school’s all-purpose room where everyone had gathered and the students who were preselected and had rehearsed asked her questions about her job and, mostly, life in space. Fourth-grader Michael Krich-Early asked what zero gravity felt like. He said he has always wanted to feel zero gravity. “She said it was fun. It took a day to get used to,” he said. Amber Johnson, a ﬁrst-grader, asked what the sun looked like from space. McArthur explained that orbiting astronauts are not really that much closer to the sun than when they’re on Earth, so it did not look much different. As McArthur answered questions, she held up photos taken during her mission to illustrate her answers. She spent almost 13 days in space in 2009 aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis, whose mission was to repair and refurbish the Hubble Space Telescope. When someone asked what was the best part of her job, McArthur said, “Getting to do the job I trained for and doing it successfully.” The career day brought the students together with 20 science, math, engineering and other professionals,

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mostly from the school community, who shared information on their careers, including the required education and the most interesting parts. “The more opportunities students are exposed to, the more they will know what’s out there,” Safri said. She and parent Natalia Chalmers, a pediatric dentist, organized the day to encourage students to consider careers in such ﬁelds, Chalmers said.

Churchill High to present annual mix tape show Winston Churchill High School’s annual production of “Blast From the Past Blast 25: Mixtape” marks the 25th year of the musical revue. More than 130 student singers, dancers, musicians and technicians will perform and produce this year’s show. The new “Blast” director is Churchill choral teacher Matthew Albright. “It is a great honor for me to take the reins of this incredible production and carry on the tradition that is so widely regarded in this community,” Albright said in a statement. The production will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday, and Feb.

28 and March 1, plus 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the school’s Bish Auditorium, 11300 Gainsborough Road, Potomac. “The impetus for the name ‘Mixtape’ stems from my childhood in the 80’s and 90’s,” Albright wrote. “In my generation, people would create a mixtape for a loved one or to commemorate a treasured time in our lives just like today’s students listen to Pandora or put together playlists on iTunes. I hope the title, and the show itself, will hit home with an older generation while also translating well to our younger performers and audience members.” The show will feature songs from many of the revue’s previous years, plus current hits. Tickets are $20, and $15 for the balcony and all seats Sunday. The box ofﬁce will open one hour before each performance. For group sales, email Matthew_D_ Albright@mcpsmd.org.

High schools plan fundraisers Both Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville and Clarksburg High School are planning fundraisers,

each for a different cause. There will be a Zumbathon for Wootton’s senior class from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Friday at the school, 2100 Wootton Parkway. The senior planning committee will host the Zumbathon to raise money for graduation and other senior activities. It will be led by senior Catalina Mejia, recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world’s youngest licensed Zumba instructor. The class is open to anyone; no dance or ﬁtness experience is needed. Tickets, at $7, are available at the door. • Clarksburg High School’s CHStage will hold Flower Power to raise money for the festival team, a group of students who travel to theater competitions. The students are judged by professionals, and also take classes with them, audition for scholarships and sometimes are scouted by schools. Last season CHStage earned 28 awards from three festivals. So far this year,

the group has a total of 30 awards, with one more festival to go. Supporters may order flowers and bulbs online and have them delivered. Half of the sales total benefits CHStage. To order visit flowerpowerfundraising. com.

Chevy Chase students send peace cranes to Sochi Working with the idea from a Japanese legend that says if you make a thousand paper cranes with one wish in mind it will come true, students at Chevy Chase Elementary School made and sent more than 2,000 paper cranes to Sochi, Russia, the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics. The students’ wish? That there be peace for all Olympic athletes. The idea grew out of an all-school meeting where a student wanted to know about terrorism at the Olympics, said Principal Jody Smith. “That’s a frightening thought for the students,” she said. Somehow the discussion of what could be done came around to the idea of the students making the paper cranes, an idea embraced by students in every grade, Smith said. Each crane — the students ended up making 2,009 — was inscribed with the wish for peace, the ﬁve Olympic rings and the maker’s name. “They made them all in two days, during indoor recess,” Smith said. The ﬁrst two batches of cranes went to Sochi with friends of one of the student’s parents; the rest were shipped from the school to the U.S. Olympic Committee in Sochi to be distributed to the athletes. Rep. Christopher Van Hollen Jr. (D-Dist. 8) of Kensington helped the school get in touch with the Olympic committee and visited the school to make one of the cranes. “It was an honor to join the students in making and sending these cranes to our athletes in Sochi,” Van Hollen said in a statement. “Their message of peace and safety is one that we

send out to all the men and women participating in this year’s Olympics.”

Students to sell refurbished cars, computers to public Students in the Montgomery County Students Automotive Trades and Information Technology foundations recondition vehicles and computers as part of their studies and will offer them for sale from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday at Gaithersburg High School, 101 Education Blvd. Three times a year, students in the programs hold public sales where refurbished vehicles and computers are offered at competitive prices. These sales provide the students with the opportunity to practice their sales skills, earn student service learning hours and develop an appreciation for community involvement, according to a news release from the program. More information is at atfcareers. org and itfcareers.org.

Youth leadership program taking award applications Youth Leadership Montgomery will present ﬁve Community Leadership Awards to high schools students who demonstrate leadership through community service efforts. Five $1,000 scholarships are available to seniors in a public or private county school who have completed at least 260 hours of community service learning activities by the end of their junior year. The awards are sponsored and funded by the Potomac law ﬁrm Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy and Ecker. The application deadline is March 14. For more information, visit leadershipmontgomerymd.org or email carol.ippolito@leadermont.org. Students interested in joining the county youth program can attend an information session from 6:30 to 8 p.m. March 13 at VisArts, 155 Gibbs St., Rockville. Register at the above email address.

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CELEBRATIONS Hower, Peluso

Cindy and Bruce Matter of North Potomac announce the engagement of their daughter, Elizabeth Ann Hower, to Michael Francis Peluso, son of Ann and Jack Peluso of Rockville Centre, N.Y. The bride-to-be graduated from Quince Orchard High School in 2006. She is a 2010 Magna Cum Laude graduate of Towson University with a bachelor’s degree in integrated elementary education and special education. She is currently a special education teacher. The prospective groom graduated from South Side High School in New York in 2005. He is a 2009 graduate of Towson University with a bachelor’s degree in sociology and a minor in history. He is currently employed by the United States government. The wedding is scheduled for September 2014 in Annapolis.

Winestone, Jameson Jamie and Jerry Winestone of Bethesda announce the engagement of their daughter, Rachael Winestone, to Bobby Jameson, son of Robert Jameson and Kimberly Sprouse Jameson of Hughesville. Rachael Winestone and Bobby Jameson will be married on May 25, 2014, in Southern Maryland. The couple met in Arlington, Va., where Rachael is a preschool special education teacher at Hoffman-Boston Elementary School. She holds her master’s degree in early childhood and special education from NYU. Bobby recently completed his occupational therapy master’s degree and training at Towson University. Currently they are living in Arlington.

Gluckman Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gerard Gluckman of Olney are preparing to celebrate their 59th wedding anniversary. Gerda Katherina and Albert were married on Feb. 24, 1955, in Munich, Germany. Their daughter Carol Nancy is a librarian with the Department of Public Libraries of Montgomery County. Their son Brian Peter is vice-president of media in his NGO. In the 1970s, Mrs. Gluckman was a volunteer Red Cross worker in the Children’s Cancer Unit

at the National Institutes of Health. Mr. Gluckman, after military service, was employed with the federal government as a mathematician and analyst. From 1975 till 1977, he was President of Local 2049 of the American Federation of Government Employees union at the Naval Surface Weapons Center in White Oak. After retirement from federal service from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, he taught as an adjunct professor of mathematics. He is a Fellow Emeritus of the Washington Academy of Sciences.

RELIGION CALENDAR ONGOING Agape African Methodist Episcopal Church, 7700 Brink Road,

Gaithersburg, conducts Sunday morning worship service at 11 a.m. Sunday School is at 10 a.m. Communion celebration on ﬁrst Sundays, men leading worship on second Sundays, youth leading worship on third Sundays. “You’ll Get Through This” Bible Study from 7-8 p.m. Wednesdays. 301924-8640; www.agapeamec.org.

Damascus United Methodist Church, 9700 New Church St., Da-

mascus, offers traditional Sunday morning worship services at 8:15 a.m., a youth contemporary worship service at 9:30 a.m. and a service of liturgy and the word at 11 a.m. with Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. for all ages during the school year. www.damascusumc.org. Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 7730 Bradley Boulevard, Bethesda, offers services at 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. each Sunday, with Sunday School for all ages scheduled at 10 a.m. Child care is offered from 8:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. A fellowship and coffee hour follows the 8:30 a.m. service. 301365-5733, www.elcbethesda.org. Liberty Grove United Methodist Church, 15225 Old Columbia

Pike, Burtonsville, conducts Sun-

day morning worship services at 8:30, 9:30 and 11 a.m. Sunday school, nursery through adult, is at 9:30 a.m. 301-421-9166. For a schedule of events, visit www. libertygrovechurch.org. “MOPS,” a faith-based support group for mothers of children, birth through kindergarten, meets from 9-11:30 a.m. the ﬁrst and third Wednesdays of the month at the Frederick Church of the Brethren, 201 Fairview Drive, Frederick. Child care is provided. For more information call 301662-1819. Email mops@fcob.net. Neelsville Presbyterian Church, 20701 Frederick Road,

Germantown, has returned to its fall worship schedule, with services at 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sundays. Sunday School for all ages at 9:40 a.m. www.Neelsville. org.

Providence United Methodist Church, 3716 Kemptown Church

Road, Monrovia, conducts a contemporary service at 8 a.m. followed by a traditional service at 9:30 a.m. Sunday mornings, with children’s Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. and adult Sunday school at 11 a.m. For more information, call 301-253-1768. Visit www. kemptownumc.org. Trinity Lutheran Church,

11200 Old Georgetown Road, North Bethesda, conducts services every Sunday, with child care from 8 a.m. to noon and fellowship and a coffee hour following each service. 301-881-7275. For a schedule of events, visit www.TrinityELCA.org.

Chancel choir auditions and rehearsals, 7:30 p.m. Thursdays

at Liberty Grove Methodist Church, 15225 Old Columbia Pike, Burtonsville. Call 301-4219166 or visit www.libertygrovechurch.org. “Healing for the Nations,” 7 p.m. every ﬁrst and third Saturday of the month at South Lake Elementary School, 18201 Contour Road, Gaithersburg. Sponsored by King of the Nations Christian Fellowship, the outreach church service is open to all who are looking for hope in this uncertain world. Prayer for healing available. Translation into Spanish and French. Call 301251-3719. Visit www.kncf.org. Geneva Presbyterian Church, potluck lunches at 11:30 a.m. the second Sunday of each month at 11931 Seven Locks Road, Potomac. There is no fee to attend. All are welcome to bring a dish to share; those not bringing dishes are also welcome. Call 301-4244346.

HEALTH CALENDAR WEDNESDAY, FEB. 19 Simplify Your Life, from 7-9 p.m. at Suburban Hospital, 8600 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda. Learn techniques and skills for de-cluttering and de-stressing your everyday life. Discussion will include more than just cleaning out your cluttered closet. $20. www.suburbanhospital.org.

TUESDAY, FEB. 25 AARP Driver Safety Class at MedStar Montgomery, 10 a.m. to

3 p.m. at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, 18101 Prince Philip Drive, Olney. The nation’s first and largest refresher course for drivers age 50 and older has helped millions of drivers remain safe on today’s roads. Course is designed to help tune-up driving skills, explain safe driving strategies, and update knowledge of the rules of the road. Learn about normal age-related physical changes, and how to adjust driving to allow for these changes. Reduce traffic violations, the likelihood of crashes and chances for injuries. Some insurance companies operating in Maryland consider drivers who take the course qualified for an auto insurance premium reduction or discount. $15 for AARP members; $20 for nonmembers. Checks should be made payable to AARP to secure your registration. Mail to: MedStar Montgomery Medi-

cal Center, Planning & Marketing, 18101 Prince Philip Dr. Olney, MD 20832. www.medstarhealth. org. Pilates for Seniors, from 11:15 a.m. to noon, Feb. 25 to April 1, at Bethesda Regional Service Center, 4805 Edgemoor Lane, second floor, Bethesda. Pilates for Seniors will incorporate gentle movements to help strengthen the core, lengthen the spine, and build muscle tone while improving posture and increasing flexibility. Bring a mat and dress comfortably. Taught by a certified instructor. $60. www.suburbanhospital.org.

THURSDAY, FEB. 27 Healthy Cooking Series, from

6-8 p.m. at Suburban Hospital, 8600 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda. Healthy Start for a Healthy Heart: a way to help with your New Year’s Resolutions! Learn simple tips in preparing heart-healthy and delicious vegetarian dishes that will keep you on the right track for 2014. Club Med-iterranean — The Tastes of Greece and Cyprus: an exotic culinary journey of Greece and Cyprus as we demonstrate tasty, aromatic and nutritious dishes to enjoy at home. Dress Up Your Greens: get out of the traditional salad rut and discover delicious combinations of grains, greens, beans and fruit. $25/$70. www. suburbanhospital.org.

UPCOMING Yoga for Women Cancer Survivors, from 7-8:15 p.m.

Mondays to March 31, at Sibley Medical Building Conference Room 2, 5215 Loughboro Road, NW, Washington, D.C. Weekly meditative gentle and restorative yoga using mindful movement, balance and breathing techniques to help women with a history of cancer to reduce anxiety, improve quality of life and regain sense of self. $10 per class, $30 per month, scholarships available. Walk-ins welcome with cash/check if space permits. 202-243-2320. www.suburbanhospital.org.

Meditation and Mindfulness: Tools for Alleviating Stress Post Cancer Diagnosis, from 7-8 p.m.

Thursdays to March 27 at Sibley Memorial Hospital, Private Dining Room 3 (next to cafeteria), 5255 Loughboro Road, NW, Washington, D.C. Join facilitator Ashley Nunn and others with a history of cancer to learn about and practice a relaxation technique that uses focus on breathing. This practice has been shown to be effective in reducing stress, anxiety and loneliness; improving sleep; and boosting immune system. No prior experience required. Walk-ins welcome. Register at Sibley.org or call 202243-2320. Free. www.suburbanhospital.org.

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In Doug Duncan’s quest to reclaim the reins of Montgomery County political power, he has attacked Isiah Leggett’s decision to relocate some biotech businesses out of a Gaithersburg incubator. The move is to make room for the county’s effort to become a cybersecurity center for Maryland. On this, Duncan is wrong and Leggett is right. Duncan, who will face Leggett in the Democratic primary in June, believes the county should find a way to keep the biotech companies in place and find somewhere else for the cybersecurity businesses. Some might agree with Duncan’s logic that the move is a poor way for the county to show how important the biotechnology industry is to the county’s economy. Except Duncan seems to be ignoring the costs of what he’s suggesting and the realities of the commercial real estate market. A new location to house cybersecurity start-ups would cost $3 million, the county says. The cost inside the William Hanna Center for Innovation: $750,000. Where would Duncan find the difference? He doesn’t say. Finding new spaces for tenants in the William Hanna Center for Innovation might not be easy, but it will be less challenging than when Duncan opened the center himself, as county executive. Then, landlords could turn their back on start-up companies that needed only small spaces. Those landlords could favor bigger companies that leased large areas. With changes in the market, more commercial real estate companies are realizing they need the small start-ups, too, said Steven A. Silverman, the county’s director of economic development. He’s confident that all of the affected tenants will have new spaces. Plus, the county already does a lot for biotechs, with tax credits and the economic development fund. We appreciate Duncan’s desire to assist growing biotechs. Voters will remember all he did to turn the Interstate 270 corridor into a major hub for life sciences, as well as his quixotic effort to fight slot machines — he argued instead for government investments in high technology to grow the state’s economy. However, his recent actions cast him as a politician who has forgotten the financial difficulties of the last six years. Adding millions to the county’s bottom line looks like a 20th-century thing to do.

The proper netiquette In recent months, people in Montgomery County have shown the good and the bad of electronic expression. As we noted in January, critics launched a blizzard of ugly remarks at Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Joshua P. Starr when the district did not shut down one particularly cold day. The remarks we saw on Twitter were appalling, using blistering language and insults, including a few veiled threats. More recently, Montgomery County football program supporters showed more humanity when they reacted to Thomas S. Wootton High School coach Tyree SpinFOR ONLINE ner losing his job. Spinner’s fans were COMMUNICATION, outwardly upset, but CHOOSE CIVILITY showed that it’s possible OVER VENOM to be outspoken yet civil. The messages we saw on a Twitter feed created to fight for Spinner’s job never got mean or personal. Even a direct appeal to Starr stuck to the message, with no meanness. A new school system task force on “cybercivility,” or appropriate online behavior, should hold up the Spinner protest movement as a model. The task force will meet once a month from March to August. Parents, students, staff members and community members can apply to participate through Feb. 24 at www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/cybercivility/application.aspx. When anonymity crowds out face-to-face contact, it kills accountability. Through social media, especially, people with screen names say things they’d never say if their identities were known. Others read it and join in, forming a vicious online mob. We support the school system and Starr, who have shown remarkable restraint and tolerance for behavior that’s far out of bounds. Of course, no one has to wait for a task force to set an exemplary social atmosphere. Students can gain respect for their opinions by earning it. Parents can instill decency, then set rewards and punishments to affirm it. As the Spinner episode unfolded, we learned that other school officials are doing their part — such as Dave Mencarini, Quince Orchard High School’s football coach until he recently left for a coaching job in Frederick County. Mencarini said he follows his players on Twitter and reads what they post. It’s not snooping; this is public conversation, which is exactly the point. We second the advice he gives players: “There’s two things in this world you can’t get back and that’s time and what you put on the Internet.”

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Elementary school bell time proposal has no base in evidence Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Joshua P. Starr recently made recommendations to change the bell times for all public school students in the county. He bases these recommendations on a study that provides convincing evidence for changes to high school and middle school times, but lacks any evidence for changes in elementary times. These days we expect accountability and evidence-based decision-making from our leaders. This omission comes as a disappointment. Starr recommends that the elementary school day be extended another 30 minutes — ending at 3:35 or 4 p.m., depending on which school your kids attend. As the lead statistician in a federal agency, I’ve seen a growing push across government to base decisions on evidence — not intuition, beliefs or anecdotes. That means: support things that work, don’t support things that don’t work, and if you don’t know if it works, test it. There is no evidence that extending the school day for our youngest students impacts test scores, graduation rates, academic motivation or self-conﬁdence. In fact, substantial research suggests the opposite. Students in school longer have no better performance on average, and as they become more fatigued, their memory and concentration decrease. A longer day can lead to teacher burnout, which has proven negative effects on kids. Combine tired kids with tired teachers and you can imagine the result. Finally, playtime has therapeutic effects on kids, so less playtime can have negative effects on social and emotional health. Add

The Montgomery County Public Schools’ website has a page devoted to the bell times issue. Visit it at www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/info/belltimes. to these effects the budgetary cost, which will be paid for by higher taxes or cutting needed programs. Rather than cite evidence, Starr has based his recommendation on personal beliefs in a longer school day and false comparisons. Starr has pointed out that Montgomery County has the second shortest school day in Maryland. That’s another way of saying “everyone else is doing it, so why can’t we?” If you were to point out that students in other counties are smarter (they aren’t), more engaged (they’re not), or more self-conﬁdent (we don’t know), and you were to show that this is because they are in school longer, I would not argue. But the superintendent has done none of this. Rather than implement the change on 130 schools and thousands of kids, why not do a test study on a small number of schools that willfully participate? That would provide evidence that it works and the beneﬁts outweigh the costs. The good news is that Starr and the Board of Education have not yet made their decisions, and are working hard to listen to our concerns and ideas. Parents have recently received a survey from their school on the topic. Parents and community members can also voice their own opinions by writing to belltimes@mcpsmd.org.

Robin Ghertner, Wheaton

All watersheds need robust regulations There has been a great deal of discussion regarding the Montgomery County Planning Board’s proposals for development in Clarksburg’s Ten Mile Creek and rightly so. The Ten Mile Creek watershed was characterized as “extremely sensitive and fragile” in a 2010 water quality report to the County Council. The areas now slated for development east of the creek as an “ecologically unique special protection area” including species that are rarely — if ever — found elsewhere in Montgomery County. It is on this land that developers propose to build hundreds of new residences bordering directly on the creek and an outlet mall, with all of the accompanying infrastructure development these would entail. Based on recommendations from the Planning Board as to just how much development the county’s last remaining pristine watershed can handle, the County Council has had to manage a tough balancing act between the health of Ten Mile and the rights of property owners. Even the constraints adopted to try and protect the creek — by preserving forest and staying away from erodible areas — still have the effect of channeling even more dense building into the two most sensitive parts of the watershed. The council’s vote Feb. 11 represented the best reachable compromise to

mitigate damage by choosing appropriate zoning and impervious surface limits. We shouldn’t have had to face this choice. We need to consider the framework of environmental stewardship throughout Maryland. The current proposals for Ten Mile Creek will be implemented in a regulatory environment that does not provide adequate protection to our watersheds. Current state regulations are designed to mitigate stormwater runoff and erosion, and there is no mechanism that would prevent these sorts of planning decisions, taken decades ago and now threatening the watershed, from being made again and again in other jurisdictions. We must ensure robust and enforceable regulations are created to support the health and preservation of all watersheds, not just Ten Mile Creek. We can do more to empower the agencies charged with protecting and repairing our waterways and wetlands, and we can help local government steer development in ways that protect the quality of our drinking water, and preserve our region’s beauty and environmental diversity.

Jonathan Shurberg, Silver Spring The writer is a Democratic candidate for the District 20 House of Delegates seat.

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Be alert about Silver Spring Transit Center Now that the election season is well underway we can expect to hear plenty of political talk about the Silver Spring Transit Center — about who is at fault, etc. Meanwhile the county is in private negotiations with the various contractors, WMATA and other parties regarding fixing that structure’s serious problems. Citizens need to be alert because in the next few months we might anticipate a deal being reached that could undercut future taxpayers. No person knows whether the planned fixes will work, meaning fixes that would enable the transit center to last for 50 years. The fixes that have been arrived at have not been technically justified to the public, and have not undergone independent engineering review, unlike the fixes to the San Francisco Bay Bridge problem. County politicians up for reelection know that the taxpayers will not want to pay for any future failures that may need fixing in the out-years. Those problems are not our fault. Politicians seeking re-election say that won’t happen. The county executive himself has publicly stated that he knows that he needs to have the contractor(s) put up some type of financial assurance to pay for any future problems due to poor construction. Issue No. 1: How much money is to be set aside in the form of some surety bond? No one knows how much but if citizens see that any bond is for less than $10 million they should be uneasy. Issue No. 2: How long should these contractors be on the hook? Of course the contractors want to minimize their exposure to a few years. But problems could arise even 10-15 years down the road. This is supposed to be a 50-year structure, after all. Citizens and the press should be upset if a settlement only is good for five or so years. Issue No. 3: What would trigger an event that would use set-aside funds to fund a downstream fix? Who would represent the county and WMATA? The same people who negotiated a deal? What standards would be used to access a set-aside fund? Will all this be done behind closed doors with a donedeal [to] be handed to the public or will the county lift the veil of secrecy to enable more transparent government?

Bernard Bloom, Silver Spring

POST COMMUNITY MEDIA Karen Acton, Chief Executive Ofﬁcer Michael T. McIntyre, Controller Donna Johnson, Vice President of Human Resources Maxine Minar, President, Comprint Military

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Marylanders we lost in 2013 Art Donovan. NFL all-pro lineman who played on 1950’s championship Colts teams. Earl Weaver. Hall of Fame Orioles manager who won 1970 World championship and four pennants. Tom Clancy. Maryland author whose best-selling novels became hit movies, owned minority share of Orioles. Richard Ben Cramer. Pulitzer prize-winning reporter who wrote Esquire’s seminal William Donald Schaefer profile. Jack Pardee. All-American fullback at Texas A&M under Bear Bryant, All-Pro during 15 MY MARYLAND year NFL career, coached BLAIR LEE Redskins, Bears, Chargers and Oilers. Dick Hug. Leading Baltimore businessman, prolific GOP fundraiser, University of Maryland regent. Paul Blair. Eight-time Golden Glove center fielder who won World Series with both Orioles and Yankees. Steve Muller. Johns Hopkins University president led unprecedented growth effort during his 18-year tenure. Mary Corey. Beloved lifelong Sun employee who rose from college intern to top editor, broke glass ceiling. Lord Nickens. Founded Frederick NAACP in 1936, dodged murder attempts to lead civil rights fight long before it was popular. Elsbeth Bothe. Brilliant but eccentric Baltimore Circuit Court judge known for wit, fairness and decorating her chambers with skulls. Lou Panos. AP and Sun fixture covered Maryland politics, including 40 General Assembly sessions, and served 6 years as Gov. Harry Hughes’ press secretary. Larry Simns. Founded and led the Maryland Waterman’s Association, lobbied for commercial fishermen’s rights and for the Bay for 40 years. Joe Alton. Anne Arundel

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County’s first county executive, architect of today’s charter government and a lifelong force in county politics. John Tydings. Long-time Washington Board of Trade director who successfully pushed business’s agenda in Maryland, D.C. and Virginia. Mac McGarry. Household name to generations of TV viewers who, for 50 years, watched “It’s Academic” in Baltimore and D.C. areas. Lloyd Bunting Jr. Four-time All American lacrosse player whose Hopkins teams went 31-0 and won four national championships. Vernon Dobson. Baltimore religious leader who founded BUILD and the Baltimore Food Bank, marched at Selma and worked with Martin Luther King Jr. Ernie Crofoot. Son of a railroad worker, he became Maryland’s top labor leader, built AFSCME to 40,000 members. Gus Triandos. All-star Orioles catcher and slugger beloved by Baltimoreans who named a street after him. Ann Brobst. Baltimore County prosecutor who became tough but fair Circuit Court judge, widely respected. John Harvill. Maryland’s alltime winningest high school football coach (312-97) over 43 years, trained a generation of future coaches. Leonard Kerpelman. Gadfly civil rights lawyer who pushed his protests to the outer limits. Bob Turley. “Bullet Bob” pitched Orioles first game in 1954, traded to New York Yankees. Harold Carter. Baltimore pastor whose radio preaching and civil rights work made him a celebrity. Jack Germond. Baltimore Sun Washington bureau reporter for 20 years, became syndicated political columnist. Jerry Wolman. Rose from paint store clerk to real estate magnate and NFL Eagles owner but lost his fortune and ended in bankruptcy. Phyllis Brotman. Baltimore PR whiz founded Maryland Public Broadcasting and advised many politicians including Mayor Schaefer. Bobby Parker. P.G. County blues guitarist who played with

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Bo Diddley, Sam Cooke and Fats Domino and whose style was copied by the Beatles, Led Zeppelin and Santana. Bob Fustero. The Giant stock clerk who set off alarms in his quixotic 2002 Democratic gubernatorial bid by winning 20 percent of the vote against Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the rest is history. David Ross. Former P.G. County state delegate who served 15 years on the county Circuit Court. Hattie Harrison. The “godfather” of Baltimore’s east side politics, set record by serving in House of Delegates for 40 years. Ike Dixon. Four-term state lawmaker from Baltimore City. Bill McCaffrey. Affable P.G. County state delegate who later worked for state Transportation Department. Gerry Curran. Member of the Curran/O’Malley political family, served in state legislature. Don Mason. Sparrow’s Point steel worker who rose to Baltimore County Council representing Dundalk. Werner Fronos. Liberal Anne Arundel state lawmaker who ran for Congress. Jack LaPorte. Top national mutual fund manager, quiet and respected Baltimore philanthropist. Joe Blocher. Founding member of leading law ﬁrm, was the “workhorse” partner. Dave Cahoon. Montgomery County councilman appointed to the circuit court. Jack Kay. Built homes and apartments in suburban D.C. during the 50s and 60s boom, became a leading philanthropist. Everett Wilson. Son of a sharecropper who broke the color barrier at St. John’s College, longtime state government worker. Bill Brubaker. Founding member of the legendary Baltimore Colts marching band. Blair Lee is chairman of the board of Lee Development Group in Silver Spring and a regular commentator for WBAL radio. His column appears Fridays in the Business Gazette. His past columns are available at www.gazette.net/ blairlee. His email address is blairleeiv@gmail.com.

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Kramer’s proposed bill suppresses academic freedom The Gazette’s report, “Kramer bill puts reins on college memberships,” has mentioned a legal precedent involving environmental law. Let’s look further back in history to a more compelling precedent, namely the anti-apartheid movement, which included academic boycotts targeting South African institutions. Let’s remember that moral issues are involved here, not merely political ones. In fact, one might ask why the state of Mary-

land has committed itself to a Declaration of Cooperation with a country that violates the Fourth Geneva Convention by building settlements, mocks Secretary Kerry, and maintains an oppressive occupation of Palestinian territories, displaying indifference toward human rights. If Israel would end this immoral occupation, the boycotts would end.

Carole C. Burnett, Silver Spring

Fuming over air pollution In “Rising Stars,” [Opinion, Feb. 12] Blair Lee states that, “Despite Maryland’s punitive environmental efforts against state businesses, it turns out that 70 percent of Maryland’s air pollution comes from upwind states beyond Maryland’s control.” Putting aside the accuracy of the 70 percent claim, if Lee had noted that nearly half of Maryland’s coal-ﬁred power plants are among the worst emitters on the East Coast of sulfur dioxide, a toxic gas that causes respiratory disease and aggravates heart dis-

ease, or that a state-approved incinerator in south Baltimore is permitted to emit 1,000 pounds of highly toxic lead into the air, he might has chosen a word other than “punitive” to describe Maryland’s efforts to address air pollution. Maryland’s made progress, but more can be done here at home.

Tim Whitehouse, Poolesville The writer is director of Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility in Baltimore.

Councilwoman Branson’s District 5 priority The Gazette editorial staff in welcoming the new District 5 Council Member, Cherri Branson, [“Welcome to the council,” Feb. 5] appears unaware she is taking Valerie Ervin’s seat for the most groundbreaking council agenda item in decades impacting her own District 5 — namely, the White Oak Science Gateway Master Plan for which Ms. Ervin was a principal proponent. The WOSGMP, under development by the council and Planning Board for nearly four years and now supported by a County Executive Ofﬁce public-private partnership, seeks to capture and fast track the previously unimaginable east county economic development potential presented by the consolidation of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration headquarters and laboratory campus at White Oak. Testimony at the Feb. 4 council hearing

emphasized the magnitude of east county revitalization to be leveraged from within the worldwide biomedical industry by one of the largest construction projects in Montgomery Country history (the $1.3 billion Food and Drug Administration campus at White Oak), and the regulatory gateway for one of every four consumer dollars spent in the United States. Ms. Branson and the council must weigh opponents’ concerns over the negative and positive impacts on U.S. 29 commuter trafﬁc against the unprecedented opportunity to elevate nearly one-third of the Montgomery County non-AgReserve land mass from economic stagnation.

Rob Richardson, Silver Spring The writer is a member of the Montgomery Planning Board appointed WOSGMP Citizens Advisory Committee.

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HOW THEY RANK BOYS The 10 best boys’ basketball teams in Montgomery County as ranked by The Gazette’s sports staff:

Rank

School

Record Pts

Bullis

21-3 60

Montrose Christian 14-5 54

Springbrook

18-2 47

Gaithersburg

16-2 40

St. Andrew’s

17-5 36

Clarksburg

15-4 33

Montgomery Blair 16-3 23

Poolesville

14-4 16

Rockville

14-5 7

10.

Magruder

13-7 6

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The Takoma Academy boys’ basketball team is all about “putting money in the bank,” says senior Charles Vines. The ﬁrst deposit, though, came in Au-

gust, well before the season’s official start in November. At the time, it had been recently announced the team would be under the tutelage of first-year coach Jerry McFarland, who attracted a few new transfers, and he would be bringing an entirely different system by which to navigate a schedule with a serious uptick in difficulty. A “team bonding” moment was in dire need. So McFarland took his new-look

team to Mount St. Mary’s for a weekend team camp from Aug. 3-4, a road trip where its only friends and family would be teammates and coaches. “We were playing against a whole lot of different styles of basketball and for us to be away from home and together — there’s something about being away from home that helps you come together,” McFarland said. “There’s no distractions. For us, being away from home, the kids decided it was more me

giving them directions and them setting out and pursuing the goals they wanted to accomplish.” Vines remembers the ﬁrst game at The Mount, though not necessarily the opponent, trivial information in retrospect. “We didn’t even get to stretch,” Takoma’s second-leading scorer (11.9 points per game) recalled. “We lost. But

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Others receiving votes:

Jewish Day 4; Walt Whitman 4.

BEST BET

IAC Championship, TBD Saturday: Bullis is trying to con-

clude a perfect conference regular season with the league title.

TOP SCORERS

Name, school A. Trier, Montrose Christian J. Friedman, Sandy Spring J. McKay, McLean W. English, McLean J. Stern, Hebrew Academy I. Kallon, Wheaton N. Segura, The Heights K. Williams, Kennedy M. Adkison, St. Andrew’s A. Tarke, Gaithersburg

PPG 25.5 22.1 20.9 20.0 19.5 19.3 19.2 19.0 18.5 18.1

GIRLS The 10 best girls’ basketball teams in Montgomery County as ranked by The Gazette’s sports staff:

Rank

School

Record Pts

Damascus

18-2 60

Walt Whitman

17-2 54

Paint Branch

18-2 48

John F. Kennedy 15-2 42

Holy Child

20-3 36

Seneca Valley

14-4 20

Thomas S. Wootton 14-6 18

Poolesville

14-4 19

Gaithersburg

12-5 8

10.

Jewish Day

13-1 11

Others receiving votes: Winston Churchill 5; Good Counsel 1.

BEST BET

Kennedy at Whitman, 7 p.m. Friday: Cavs face their biggest test

since Paint Branch while Vikings look to add to their win streak.

TOP SCORERS

Name, school K. Prange, Damascus S. Addison, Wootton K. Colston, Paint Branch J. Karim-Duvall, Churchill D. Lerner, Jewish Day D. Harris, Paint Branch B. Beckwith, Quince Orchard D. Walker, Watkins Mill K. Porter, Bullis J. Craig, Seneca Valley K. Meredith, Northwest

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Ellie and Cece Kobylski (left) are three-year varsity basketball starters for Thomas S. Wootton High School.

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Junior guards and sisters have come into own in third year starting

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If there is one thing Montgomery County’s best high school girls’ basketball players have in common, it’s likely their competitiveness. That’s probably how they got to the top in the ﬁrst place. And the thing about super competitive athletes is that they want to win, all the time, at everything. So, when Thomas S. Wootton High School

current junior guards and twin sisters Cece and Ellie Kobylski were assigned to pick teams for a practice game one day last season, coach Maggie Dyer assumed they’d choose from the top. “They were just sophomores and when they chose their teams, they started with the kids all the way down the line who don’t really get to play as much,” Dyer said. “I didn’t tell either of them to do that, it’s just a testament to who they are. It made those girls feel so good and as a coach it was such

a great demonstration of the type of people [Cece and Ellie] are and those are the type of people I want leading my team.” The Kobylskis are at the heart of what Wootton’s 11th-year coach said is the closest team she has had in a long time. The Patriots, which clinched their ﬁrst division title since the 2008-09 season with a 24-point win against Montgomery

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One of the six Montgomery County players selected for the Maryland State Association of Baseball

Coaches 2014 Preseason All-State team, includes a senior rebounding from an injury. It was about a year ago that Poolesville High School senior Robbie Metz suffered a torn meniscus that cost him most of his junior season. After surgery and the arduous months of physical therapy and rehab that followed, the George Washington University recruit is eager to get his ﬁ-

nal high school season underway. Being selected to the All-State preseason team for the second straight year was an ideal early boost of conﬁdence. “It’s a great honor being selected for the All-State team,” Metz said. “It really means a lot to me knowing how much the baseball coaches think of what I can do on the ﬁeld. After the

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PRESEASON ALL-STATE BASEBALL n The Maryland State Association of Baseball Coaches announced its 2014 Preseason All-State Team last week. Six players from Montgomery County made the list. They are: Drew Aherne, Walt Whitman Matt Chanin, Sherwood Evan Colon, Gaithersburg Nick DeCarlo, Gaithersburg Joe Feldman, Bethesda-Chevy Chase Robbie Metz, Poolesville

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The Richard Montgomery High School boys’ and Winston Churchill girls’ swimming and diving teams secured 4A/3A West Region Championships on Saturday at Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Swim Center in Silver Spring. The Bulldogs eked out a 350337 victory over defending state champion Thomas S. Wootton. Walter Johnson came in third with 249 points, while Richard Montgomery (225) and Northwest (212) rounded out the top five. “I think the team did really well today,” Churchill junior Elaina Gu said. “We really stepped it up and did amazing at this meet. I think we set ourselves up for a good performance at states too.” Gu was the standout performer for the Bulldogs, repeating as 200-meter freestyle champion, while also nabbing a first place finish in the 500-meter freestyle event. She also contributed to a pair of first-place relay finishes in the 200-meter and 400-meter freestyle events. “I really like being on relays because it’s more of a team thing

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Walter Johnson High School’s Jean-Marc Nugent smiles after seeing his time for his first-place finish in heat four of the 50-yard freestyle during Saturday’s race. — swimming is usually individual, but with the relays you work with your teammates,” Gu said. “I just really have fun doing the relays. I really like it.” Hannah Lindsey also turned in a strong performance for Churchill, winning region titles in both the 200-meter individual medley as well as the 100-meter backstroke. Meanwhile, Richard Montgomeryamassed303totalpoints, followed by Wootton (268.5) and Walt Whitman (261.5). Twotime defending state champion Walter Johnson finished fourth (255.5), and Churchill (249) secured a fifth-place finish. The Vikings set the lone meet record of the day, shaving .44 seconds off of the 400-meter

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Continued from Page B-1 4A West Division foe Gaithersburg Feb. 7, in turn have truly found their stride at a crucial juncture in the season. After a 2-4 start — granted leading scorer Sheri Addison was sidelined early with an ankle injury — Wootton (14-6) is 11-2 in 2014 with only two regular season games remaining on the schedule. “You can tell the girls really enjoy playing together, they’re really getting to know each other,” Dyer said. “Against Gaithersburg, that was some of the best basketball we’ve played all season, the girls are really feeling comfortable in their roles and I’m excited [for playoffs]. I feel really good about this year.” The Kobylskis have come into their own as leaders both on and off the court this year more than ever since being thrown into the proverbial ﬁre known as varsity basketball two years ago as two of three freshmen starters — Addison was the third. Their dynamic on the court — despite sharing similar styles their slightly different strengths complement each other’s perfectly —

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Continued from Page B-1 surgery, the rehab went well. I think my knee is stronger than it ever was before. Now I want to put it to the test.” Metz played basketball for the school as a freshman and sophomore before focusing his attention on baseball for his ﬁnal two seasons. “Those other players on the list, public and private, are really great players,” Metz said. “It’s really an honor just to be on that list. So many of those

freestyle relay mark set just last season by Walter Johnson. Whitman coach Geoff Schaefer was encouraged by the record, as well as the performance of individuals such as Mike Sullivan (ﬁrst in both the 200 and 500 freestyle) and Johnny Mooers (second in both the 50 and 100 freestyle). “They all have the same focus — they want to do well for states, get geared up for a state record, and walk out as champions,” he said. “I think when they got on the block, they had that focus of ‘I want to win this thing. Not just kinda win, but dominate.’ That’s they way they are supposed to win.” Interestingly, the Rockets cliched the region title with win-

is one the Patriots can thrive on. For one, there’s what the Patriots refer to as “twin telepathy.” “Cece can be going down the court and throw a no-look pass and hit Ellie and we’ll be like, ‘That was the most beautiful twin play,’” Dyer said. “They do have similar tendencies but they always know where each other is on the court and I think every year they’ve gotten better.” Both sisters are guard oriented in general and can be relied on to sink a shot from just about anywhere on the court. Cece is currently the team’s second leading scorer with 13.8 points following a 27-point performance in Saturday’s 72-46 win against Springbrook; Ellie is third with 12.3 points per game — Dyer said they consistently average similar statistics. But while Ellie possesses more forward-type qualities than her sister, the two agreed Cece is the better ball handler and their ability to ﬁnd each other leads to some productive combinations. “[Ellie] has always been a little bit taller than me so she’s always had that push to go into the post area,” Cece said. Added her sister: “When we’re play-

other players in Montgomery County that we face every year are really talented. They’re also really dedicated. I can’t wait to face Churchill, Sherwood and Gaithersburg this season. I really don’t have any personal goals. I just want to help lead the team to victories.” Gaithersburg baseball coach Jeff Rabberman has two players on the list —Evan Colon and Nick DeCarlo — and he was also quick to compliment the other Montgomery County players on the list, including Metz. Rabberman’s Trojans are the early favorites to claim the Montgom-

ning just one event win — the 200-meter medley relay. The display of depth was business as usual for Richard Montgomery, which won a Division I title two weeks ago with just two event victories, and a third-place finish last week at Metros with no individual winners. “Their times were so-so today, but they got their places where they needed to,” Rockets coach Aryn Wheeler said. “They knew where they had to place. “They knew if they were in the third heat instead of the last heat, they knew they had to try to win that race to place in the next heat. That’s what they were really going for today, to get as high of a finish as they could and make it to states next week.” Gregory Song finished second in both the 200-meter individual medley and the 500-meter freestyle for Richard Montgomery, while Juan Barrera took second in the 100-meter butterfly as well as sixth in the 200-meter freestyle. The Rockets also finished second in the 200-meter freestyle relay. “We are rolling, we are on the right track,” Wheeler said. “This is something really big. Our school hasn’t won a state title in almost 20 years, so this is something really big for us. That’s what the boys want. Since day one, that’s what they’ve wanted to do. It’ll be exciting next weekend.”

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Continued from Page B-1 the coaches brought us together. In basketball, you got to put money in the bank. That’s what [McFarland] always tells us. You have to put in what you expect to get out. You put money in you’re going to get interest.” As interest goes with banks, it accrued slowly for Takoma. The Tigers dropped two of their ﬁrst three in the McFarland-era. A week later, following consecutive wins over St. Alban’s and Evangel Christian, they lost three straight and another two games later, allowing their record to slip two games below .500. “Sometimes kids coming through middle school and church league, they feel like they just got to walk out there and they’re going to win,” McFarland said. “It’s just building a culture of practicing hard and working hard every day. Our best player won’t always start but the kids who worked the hardest or our best rebounder — he’ll start every day.” McFarland claims he had several offers to coach for schools considered to be in the area’s upper-echelon, and he has coached a number of that ilk — Riverdale Baptist for two years, Bishop Ireton for 14 and Calvin Coolidge for another two. He took Takoma for the challenge of building a program, putting his footprint on a school. A challenge is exactly what he inherited. A cursory glance at the roster reveals all 13 players standing 6-foot-4 or below to match up against national powers such

ing, I can be down low and kick it out or she can drive and I’ll be on the side. Everyone always asks who’s better and we always answer that we’re better at different things.” The raw talent has always been there for the Kobylskis, who grew up around Wootton basketball with an older sister who played for Dyer and graduated in 2009, Dyer said. These days, they’re combining sheer skill with a more mature perspective of the game it’s helped the Patriots re-establish themselves in the county’s upper echelon. “I don’t think many players come in as freshmen and start at high level programs,” Dyer said. “They’ve always been very strong at pushing the ball and popping 3-pointers but they’ve also learned to slow it down and execute on offense. They’re very gifted but they’re always working. They’re ﬁrst to pick up a ball and last in the gym shooting. It’s not a chore to them, they’re passionate about the game. And it’s really cool to coach kids who are so humble. They don’t carry any ego. They’re exactly the kind of kids you want to coach.” jbeekman@gazette.net

ery 4A West Region crown and Maryland Class 4A state title, but he was hardpressed to overlook the quality players on the list he will face this spring. “Obviously, I can’t enough about my guys, Evan and Nick, who are both excellent ballplayers,” Rabberman said. “But I have always been really impressed with Robbie Metz. He’s a great player, a great kid and his parents are exceptional. I think Poolesville is going to be very good this year and having Robbie back at full strength is only going to make them that much tougher.” Poolesville second-year

as Montrose Christian, Paul VI and Riverdale Baptist, and local’s with plenty of strength in Clinton Christian, Bullis, National Christian and Potomac (Va.). “We could have made things a lot easier on ourselves,” he said. “We didn’t have to play Montrose twice, we didn’t have to play Clinton Christian twice, we didn’t have to play National Christian twice or Paul VI. We felt like that with a schedule like that, it’s going to better them as individuals.” Matching up against coveted recruits such as Montrose’s Allonzo Trier and Riverdale’s Chinanu Onuaku is precisely why leading scorer Olyadoyin Fadojutimi transferred from High Point over the summer. “It was just something I was more excited about,” he said. “Paul VI, Riverdale Baptist — that is just playing against the best. I realized I have to play at different paces at this level.” There comes a point, though, where playing such a thorny schedule is only worthwhile if the team can compete. McFarland has twice vindicated his decision to load up the slate. The first came just as it all began: away from home. The coach took his team to Texas for a holiday tournament, hosted by Southwestern Adventist University, and Takoma came home with a trophy in hand, the school’s first-ever win at the tournament. The second such moment came with a stunning, 66-65, win over Montrose on Jan. 6, another first. tmewhirter@gazette.net

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Ellie and Cece Kobylski (left) practice with their girls’ basketball teammates last week at Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville.

coach Steve Orsini said he is looking forward to having Metz healthy for an entire season this spring. Not only will Metz be an integral part of the rotation, but he will also anchor the defense at shortstop when he is not on the mound. “He’s the type of ballplayer that makes everyone on the team better,” said Orsini, who guided Poolesville to a 13-4 mark last season. “He usually gets to workouts an hour before everyone else and does a workout of his own. He just loves playing the game. He and our other three seniors, Chris Convers, Thayer Seely and

Hunter Pearre, really changed the whole culture of the program when they arrived. Robbie is the leader of the team and the other players naturally follow his examples.” Former Poolesville baseball coach Ted Gardiner, who went 48-43 during his ﬁve seasons at the helm, agreed with Orsini’s assessment that Metz represents the focal point of the program’s revival with the other three seniors also being vital. Metz, Convers (UMBC) and Pearre (Barton College) have already committed, while Seely, a left-hander pitcher, remains undecided.

“From the time that Robbie ﬁrst stepped onto the ﬁeld as a freshman, you knew he was going to be a starter on day one,” Gardiner said. “Whether it’s in practice or in a game, he plays every play like it’s for a championship. He was an obvious choice for preseason All-state. He just has that much desire and passion for the game. The two years that I coached him were really special and having Chris, Thayer and Hunter and the support of their parents, really changed the whole program.” tblack@gazette.net

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Poolesville’s Weaverling sets record in 3,200 at state meet Senior breaks Class 2A meet record in 3,200-meter run as Falcon boys, girls ﬁnish ninth

BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN STAFF WRITER

“He’s going to break 9 minutes, 30 seconds,” one spectator said with a certain tone of disbelief as Poolesville High School senior distance runner Chase Weaverling rounded the final turn of his 3,200-meter run in Monday’s Class 2A state indoor track and field championship meet held at the Prince George’s Sports and Learning Complex. He sure did, winning in a Class 2A meet record time of 9:29.76. Not only was Weaverling 9.16 seconds ahead of the runner-up, but most of his competitors were just starting their final laps as he trailed off the side of the track to cool down. Perhaps no one should tell the rest of the field that Monday’s time was about six seconds off the personal best he ran at the Virginia Tech Invitational last month. Heading into last year’s indoor state

CLASS 4A/3A STATE INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD MEET n The Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association Class 4A/3A indoor track and ﬁeld championships were held Tuesday night, too late to be included in this edition. Check online at www.gazette.net for coverage.

championship, Weaverling was without a single state title. Monday’s 3,200 win marked his second straight in that event and fifth overall across indoor, outdoor and cross country. “It’s something to be proud of, it definitely means a lot to be able to put my mark on the state meet,” Weaverling said. The anchor of Poolesville’s thirdplace 3,200-meter relay team, which also included William Stamm, Matthew Psaltakis and Elan Guzman, Weaverling said he was also proud of Poolesville’s effort as a unit, both the boys’ and girls’ squads. The Falcons finished ninth on both sides in a meet dominated largely by teams from neighboring Prince George’s and Frederick counties. Prince George’s Frederick Douglass won the boys’ competition with a fivepoint advantage over Carroll County’s Century in second place, 65-60. Fred-

erick’s Catoctin (55.50 points), Prince George’s Largo (50) and Frederick’s Oakdale (40) rounded out the top 5. Baltimore County’s Western Tech won the girls’ title by three points over Largo, 64-61. Carroll County’s Liberty (59) and Frederick’s Oakdale (44) and Middletown (43) finished third through fifth, respectively. “[The bad weather last week] threw off everyone’s schedule, nobody was able to practice,” Douglass coach Kori Green said. “[Teams] had to get creative [with ways of practicing].” AsidefromWeaverling,Poolesvillegot wins from Denise Larson, Claire Beautz, Chelsie Pennello and Theresa Nardone in the girls’ 3,200 relay. The Falcons were also propelled by a plethora of top 10 finishes across the board. jbeekman@gazette.net

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Poolesville High School’s Chase Weaverling competes Monday in the 3,200-meter run during the Class 2A/1A state championship track and ﬁeld meet at the Prince George’s Sports & Learning Complex.

Kennedy succeeds with chemistry Damascus clinches division; Holy Child extends streak

ERIC GOLDWEIN STAFF WRITER

The John F. Kennedy High School girls’ basketball team (15-2 as of Monday) is having a

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Keif Williams practices with the John F. Kennedy High School basketball team earlier this season in Silver Spring.

Wake up early for ‘senior night’ Weather reschedules annual ceremony to an unusually early tip-off

TRAVIS MEWHIRTER STAFF WRITER

Marco Basso-Luca surveyed the scene before him on Saturday morning — a sparse gym, the only fans being parents and cheerleaders, both essentially

BOYS BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK mandatory attendants — so he ditched the microphone. He would be heard just ﬁne without it. Just outside the Wheaton High School gym where the coach stood, a woman yawned and voiced her desire for some coffee. It wasn’t exactly the scene that comes to mind when picturing a senior night — normally a raucous occasion with a packed gym and high emotions — if not because the ceremony was being held at 10 a.m., about

nine hours before one would typically take place. The snow had done its worst, rescheduling Wheaton’s Friday night matchup with John F. Kennedy to Saturday morning. “It was more like senior morning,” Wheaton shooting guard Mikey Patterson said. “I kind of wish we could have moved the game back to next week,” Basso-Luca said. “I think more parents could have showed up for the kids and come out for senior night. It is what it is so both teams had to deal with a 10 in the morning start.” The ceremony getting moved was inconvenient, sure, but what was a bit more of a concern was how the players would respond to playing a game a good nine hours earlier than normal, on a day generally reserved for light shoot-arounds and walk-throughs. “Most of these kids don’t even eat breakfast, man,” said former Wheaton coach Sharief Hashim, who walked out Patterson for the occasion. “They’ll just have some juice or a soda or

something.” Kennedy’s Keif Williams and Bruke Hawkins, who scored 22 and 14 points, respectively, in the 59-57 overtime win, weren’t too concerned, and neither was their coach, Diallo Nelson. “Obviously it’s unusual,” Nelson said. “The only time I can remember having a 10 o’clock start is in a tournament situation or, even back in the day, at the boys’ club. But I think for them it’s very unusual.” Fortunately for Kennedy, Nelson has his team awake and practicing at 8:30 every Saturday morning, and it showed as the Cavaliers leapt out to an 11-2 lead and never trailed for a single possession. “Playing AAU — well, the good teams, they play at 8:30 in the morning,” Williams said. “So I’m kind of used to it.” “Yeah, just playing AAU gets you ready,” Hawkins agreed. “Most of the guys play AAU over the summer and you have to wake up at eight and play an early game so I was used to it.” tmewhirter@gazette.net

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BY TED BLACK STAFF WRITER

After upending Winston Churchill High School by identical 5-1 scores in each of their two previous meetings with the Bulldogs, Thomas S. Wootton’s ice hockey coaches and players realized the third meeting would likely be considerably tougher. Wootton (14-0) may not have been at its best throughout Monday’s game in the Montgomery Hockey Conference ﬁnal, but the Patriots were not about to let the Bulldogs end their unbeaten season. Wootton got a late empty-net goal

from Luke Klecker to claim a 4-2 victory over the Bulldogs at the Wheaton Ice Arena, securing the Patriots’ berth in the Maryland Student Hockey League’s state quarterﬁnals on Monday at the Gardens Ice House in Laurel. “I have never been so happy to see an empty net goal,” said Wootton coach Dave Evans, who is in his 20th season. In fact, Wootton had won its 12 league contests by an average margin of seven goals per game and its two 5-1 wins over Churchill perhaps gave further indication of their overall superiority among the Montgomery squads. By the same token, the Patriots’ players knew the Bulldogs were not going to go away quietly in Monday’s ﬁnal. “We saw that they played more of a trap and we made

some mistakes against it,” said Wootton senior captain Jordan Bretner, who had an assist on the Patriots first goal. “We tried to force some things through the trap and it cost us early. Once we settled down and played the puck around it, we were fine. But that last five minutes was tough. Until Luke scored that goal, it really was nerve-wracking.” With just over five minutes remaining in the game, Churchill narrowed the deficit in half when Philip Satin scored with the teams at even strength. With less than 90 seconds remaining the Bulldogs brought on the extra attacker when goaltender Marcus Hurd raced to the bench. But the advantage never materialized and Klecker sealed the verdict with an empty net goal with 1:08 remaining.

near-perfect season, improving on last year’s 15-9 record with its only losses coming against Paint Branch. The Cavaliers are handling opponents with ease, winning four straight since a 4945 loss to the Panthers. Kennedy coach Kevin Thompson attributed the team’s success to chemistry and continuity. “You have good chemistry when you have good kids and they like playing with each other,” he said. “They like each other off the court and on the court. The chemistry is huge.” The team returned most of its lineup and has benefitted from Daysha Adams’s breakout

season. The fifth-year senior is averaging a team-high 14.6 points after missing most of the last two years with Graves’ disease, an autoimmune disease affecting the thyroid. She has been one of the county’s premier shooters, leading the 4A East Division with 55 3-pointers. Adams has made life easier on the rest of the team, Thompson said, by drawing attention and freeing up space for her teammates. For example, Makeda Wright has improved as a distributor with Adams back in the lineup. Though her scoring has decreased by about two points (11.1), she has been more effective running the offense. “Last year I needed her to score ... This year since everyone around her got better, she’s ﬁnding her teammates,” Thompson said. “She’s adjusted to the girls getting better around her and she’s done it with a great attitude.”

Damascus clinches its division Damascus (18-2, 9-0 as of Monday) is a win away from achieving a perfect Montgomery 3A/2A Division record, with

its regular season ﬁnale against Rockville scheduled for Friday. The No. 1 Swarmin’ Hornets defeated Seneca Valley 54-31 on Feb. 11, completing the season sweep of their division foe. Senior Kelli Prange scored 28 points and grabbed 14 rebounds, connecting on 13 of 15 ﬁeld goals. “Props to my teammates,” Prange said. “Our game plan every game is to get it inside. Since I have a huge height advantage, we take advantage of that every game, so props to my teammates for getting me the ball.”

Holy Child extends streak Connelly School of the Holy Child won its 16th straight game against Episcopal Jan. 11, defeating the Independent School League ‘A’ opponent 53-50. Holy Child (20-3, 11-1) has not lost since it was defeated by Episcopal 48-33 in December. The Tigers are led by Talley Britt, a 5-foot-3 senior averaging a team-high 12.5 points per game. Lilly Paro (10.4) and Mary Claire Byrne (10.1) round out Holy Child’s top scorers. egoldwein@gazette.net

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Seven Montgomery County private school wrestlers reached the ﬁnals of the Maryland Independent State Wrestling Tournament on Sunday evening at McDonogh School in Owings Mills and three won championships.

PREP NOTEBOOK BY GAZETTE STAFF Georgetown Prep freshman Eric Hong (120 pounds), Our Lady of Good Counsel sophomore Kevin Budock (132) and Georgetown Prep senior Michael Sprague (138) each won titles in their respective weight classes Sunday, while four other county wrestlers earned runnerup honors. McDonogh narrowly won the team title with 239.5 points, followed by Good Counsel with 237. Hong won his first two matches by pins, then defeated St. Paul’s sophomore Ryan Friedman, 1-0, before pinning St. Mary’s Ryken junior Steven

CLASS 4A/3A STATE WRESTLING DUALS n The Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association Class 4A/3A state wrestling dual meet tournament was held Tuesday night, too late to be included in this edition. Check online at www. gazette.net for coverage of Damascus’ performance.

Simpson in the second period of their title match. Budock won his first match by forfeit, his second via pin and then edged Tyshaun Williams, 3-1, in the semifinals before posting a 3-1 decision victory over St. Paul’s senior Jack Mutchnick in the finals. Prep’s Sprague won his first four matches in four different ways before beating Spalding’s Matt Pente, 8-0. Ironically, Sprague’s closest match was in the opener, when he won by a 4-0 decision. He then won his next match by pin, the third by technical fall and his semifinal round by an injury forfeit. Good Counsel wrestlers also had a quartet of runnerup finishes. The Falcons’ Adam Whitesell (113), Bailey Thomas (126), Nick Miller (182) and Kevin Snyder (195) all reached their respective weight class finals. Whitesell lost a 7-3 decision in the final, while Thomas suffered a 5-3 setback.

Good Counsel sophomore Garrett Neff (152) won his first three matches before losing to Loyola’s Walter Johnson in the semifinals and Landon junior Jarett Witzal (160) won his first two matches by pins before being pinned by eventual champion Logan Breitenbach (Spalding) in the semifinals. — TED BLACK

Sherwood girls, Blair boys win region swim titles The Sherwood girls’ and Montgomery Blair boys’ swim teams continued their dominance of the Class 4A/3A North Region since Montgomery County joined the state competition two winters ago with their third consecutive region titles Monday. Despite losing the majority of its scoring from last year, Sherwood followed up last week’s Montgomery County Division II title by winning

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Montgomery Blair High School’s Brian Tsau wins Monday’s 200-yard freestyle in the Class 4A/3A North Region championships. 373-349 over Blair, which finished second. James H. Blake (250.5), Col. Zadok Magruder (210) and North Point (184) finished third through fifth. The Blazer boys, who were a preseason favorite to take the state title, recovered from a winless dual-meet season to win Monday’s region championship. They finished with a 385-263 advantage over Hun-

tingtown. Sherwood (260), Springbrook (225) and North Point (22) rounded out the top ﬁve. The state competition, which only allows two entries per team per event, feeds into Blair’s strengths. The Blazers have some of the fastest swimmers in the state but don’t boast the same depth as many of their Montgomery

County rivals. Blair won eight of 11 races Monday, including all three relays, which are worth double the points. Brian Tsa won both his individual events, the 200- and 500-yard freestyle, setting a meet record in the latter (4 minbutes, 39.46 seconds). Michael Thomas (100-yard butterfly, 53.56) and Ethan Amitay (100-yard breaststroke, 1:00.82) also broke individual meet records. The three then teamed with Kaden Sukachevin to win the 200 freestyle relay in meet record fashion (1:30.87). Sherwood’s girls, led by double winner Morgan Hill (50- and 100-yard freestyle) won six events, including the opening 200-yard medley relay and the meet-finale 400 freestyle relay. Hill set a new meet mark in the 50-yard freestyle (24.17). Blair freshman Madison Waechter certain announced her arrival on the state scene with wins in the 200- and 500-yard freestyle and led off the Blazers’ winning 200-yard freestyle relay. — JENNIFER BEEKMAN

Good Counsel grad helps start Furman lacrosse BY KENT ZAKOUR STAFF WRITER

After graduating from Our Lady of Good Counsel High School in 2012, Graham Dabbs planned to attend the U.S. Naval Academy to play lacrosse. But after verbally committing to the Midshipmen and spending a season at the Salisbury School in Connecticut, Dabbs’ college plans changed. For reasons that Dabbs politely declined to disclose to The Gazette, the Damascus native was in search for a new place to play lacrosse.

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Our Lady of Good Counsel High School graduate and college freshman Graham Dabbs is a key member of Furman University’s new lacrosse program. So he got in touch with a

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five assists) on nine shots. “I didn’t expect to start,” said Dabbs, who added he is interested in majoring in accounting. “I expected to be competing for a spot. ... Coach Meade told me a lot of good players would be coming in.” Meade says Dabbs is wellrespected amongst his teammates, has a strong first step, distributes the ball well and is a “better shooter than we thought.” “He’s probably our best offensive player here,” Meade said. Dabbs says the team is building off every mistake and knows finding consistent success will be a growing process for the Paladins, who have a difficult non-conference schedule

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start up a men’s lacrosse program. Meade had developed a solid relationship with the family having coached Dabbs’ older brother, Bryce, from 2009-13 at Navy. So it proved to be a natural fit “Coach Meade had helped me out the entire recruiting process whether he was recruiting me or not,” Dabbs said. “... My parents love Coach Meade, I love Coach Meade.” While Furman (0-3) has experienced the expected growing pains of a young first-year varsity team, Dabbs, individually, has started fast as a freshman with significant responsibility on the field. In three games — all starts — the 5-foot-10, 160-pound attacker has recorded eight points (three goals,

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BITS AND PIECES

Caroline Thornington’s “Contemplating Betelgeuse” lithograph print is on view as part of a collective exhibit at BlackRock.

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Arts & Entertainment

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A W A K E N I N G ’ :

turmoil TEENAGERS IN

Frank Wedekind’s 1891 play took an honest look at burgeoning sexuality

A ﬁne ﬁddler

Fairy tale’s accompanist plays violin for hospital patients, senior citizens n

WILL C. FRANKLIN STAFF WRITER

The arts have been used throughout time as a way to entertain, to teach and to convey messages that are important to the artist. At times, it’s forgotten the arts can do something quite magical as, well, heal and comfort those in need. A prime example of the healing power of the arts comes from violinist Anthony Hyatt, who will be playing the Fair Folk Fiddler for Imagination Stage’s production of “Rumpelstiltskin,” running through March 16 in Bethesda. Hyatt offers his services through the organization Moving Beauty,

RUMPELSTILTSKIN n When: To March 16 (contact theater for show times) n Where: Imagination Stage, 4908 Auburn Ave., Bethesda n Tickets: $12-$25 n For information: 301-280-1660; imaginationstage.org

where he is the founder. Hyatt plays violin for pediatric and cancer patients at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and is co-director for the nonproﬁt Arts for the Aging program Quicksilver, a senior citizens improv dance company. A master trainer for the National Center for Creative

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Emily Zickler was 18 when she and a friend went to see the controversial musical “Spring Awakening” in New York. “The show just echoed so many of my own emotions,” said Zickler. “It really pinpointed being in between [adolescence and adulthood].” Now 25 with a degree in acting from Boston University, Zickler is directing and choreographing the musical for the Kensington Arts Theatre. “I felt understood,” she said about the show. “I feel it captured the spectrum of feelings in a teenager, when the hormones are pumping in your veins and everything seems like life or death.” “Spring Awakening” is running from Friday to March 15 at the Kensington Town Hall. The production is based on the 2006 musical “Spring Awakening,” with book and lyrics by Steven Sater and music and orchestrations by singer and songwriter Duncan Sheik, who topped the charts in 1996 with his single, “Barely Breathing.” The Broadway production of “Spring Awakening” won eight Tony awards in 2007, including Best Musical, Director, Book, Score, Choreographer and Orchestrations. Instead of relying on her memories of the New York show, Zickler said she went back to the source of it all, the 1891 play of the same name by German play-

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wright Frank Wedekind. Wedekind was in his mid-20s when he wrote “Spring Awakening.” It was his ﬁrst major play. Set in a provincial German town in the 1890s, the story is about high school students struggling to manage their burgeoning sexual desires while living in a repressive society controlled by parents and teachers. Banned in Germany at the time, “Spring Awakening” pulled no punches with its frank depictions of and allusions to teenage masturbation, sex, physical and sexual abuse, homoeroticism, abortion and suicide. The Kensington show includes strong language and brief nudity and is not recommended for children younger than 13, Zickler said.

Magic in music The cast has 13 members, two of whom are age-appropriate actors in the adult roles, including parents, a doctor and school ofﬁcials. Zickler said she asked the two actors to develop their characters as perceived by the teenagers, and they come across for the most part as repressive, unthinking and

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Kensington Arts Theatre is presenting the Tonyaward winning musical, “Spring Awakening,” from Friday to March 15 in Kensington. Pictured: Joanna Frezzo as Ilse.

SPRING AWAKENING n When: 8:15 p.m. Feb. 21-22, Feb. 28 and March 1, 7-8, 14-15; 3 p.m. March 2, 9 (talk back following March 2 performance) n Where: Kensington Arts Theatre, Kensington Town Center, 3710 Mitchell St., Kensington n Tickets: $15-$23 n For information: 206-888-6642, katonline.org

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From left, King (Jason Glass), Fiddler (Anthony Hyatt), Mess (Kathryn Kelley) and the Miller’s Daughter (Katherine Turner) star in Imagination Stage’s production of ‘Rumpelstiltskin.’

PlayingwithPluto n

Surreal production mixes comedy and tragedy BY

Forum Theatre presents

PLUTO

VIRGINIA TERHUNE STAFF WRITER

In Forum Theatre’s current play, “Pluto,” a mother named Elizabeth comes home from shopping one morning expecting to experience a routine day. But on the radio is news of a violent incident at the community college where her son, Bailey, attends classes. And in her kitchen is a three-headed dog named Cerberus sitting under a tree branch that has grown through the roof, while someone inside her refrigerator is trying to get out. “It’s not a play that goes from A to B — that’s why I think it’s so brilliant,” said director Michael Dove, artistic director for the Forum Theatre. “It’s a very funny play, [but] dealing with some very serious topics.” Written by California playwright Steve Yockey, “Pluto” runs Thursday to March 15 at the Round House Theatre in Silver Spring, where Forum is a resident company.

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n When: Feb. 20 to March 15 (playwright will attend Feb. 22 performance for post-play discussion. Discussions held after Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday evening performances. Contact theater for complete list of show times)

n Where: Round House Theatre, Silver Spring, 8641 Colesville Road, Silver Spring

n Tickets: $20 in advance. Pay what you want at the door.

n For information: 240-644-1390, forum-theatre.com/pluto

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Seeing red Nineteen-year-old wunderkind Andy Poxon and his band will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club, with special

PHOTO BY RICK KIDD

Singer-songwriter and guitarist Andy Poxon will perform with his band Thursday at the Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club. Also performing will be the Dave Chappell Band.

guests the Dave Chappell Band. Poxon has toured the Washington, D.C., area steadily since 2009, entertaining audiences with a blend of blues, rockabilly, soul and jazz. Poxon released his ﬁrst album, “Red Roots,” in 2011 at the age of 16. Last March, “Tomorrow,” a 14-song CD produced by Duke Robillard, showcased how far the young performer has come in such a short time. For ticketing information, visit bethesdabluesjazz.com.

Philharmonia and ‘Change’ The National Institute of Health Philharmonia, under

NIH PHILHARMONIA

‘Your man’

The NIH Philharmonia, under the direction of Dr. Nancia D’Alimonte (pictured), will present “Change is in the Air” on Saturday at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church in Rockville.

Slaid sends off series

STRATHMORE

A rising country star and one of the youngest members of the sterling Grand Ole Opry, Josh Turner (“Why Don’t We Just Dance,” “Your Man,”) will bring his Punching Bag Tour to the Music Center at Strathmore on Friday.

Multi-platinum country star Josh Turner will perform in concert at 8 p.m. Friday at the Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda. The concert is part of Turner’s Punching Bag Tour, and will feature hits such as “Why Don’t We Just Dance,” “Would You Go With Me,” and his latest, “Time is Love.” Ruthie and the Wranglers will open. For ticketing information, visit strathmore.org.

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Singer-songwriter Slaid Cleaves will perform in concert Saturday at the Gaithersburg Arts Barn.

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the direction of Dr. Nancia D’Alimonte, will present “Change is in the Air” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church, 917 Montrose Road, Rockville. Included on the program will be Debussy’s “Danse,” Mozart’s “Symphony No. 25” and Sibelius’ “Symphony No. 5.” Founded in 2005, the Philharmonia continues its mission of making classical music available to the entire community, by performing in settings less formal than concert halls. Admission is free. For more information, visit nihphil.org.

Slaid Cleaves will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Gaithersburg Arts Barn. His performance will close out this season’s Singer Songwriter Concert Series at the venue. Cleaves’ melodic, deep-felt tunes will also be present during a special workshop preceding the concert at 3 p.m. at the adjacent Kentlands Mansion, 320 Kent Square Road in Gaithersburg. For more information, visit gaithersburgmd.gov/artsbarn.

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RoboCop reboot comes with a message n

Your move, moviegoers

ROBOCOP

MICHAEL PHILLIPS

n 3 stars

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n PG-13; 116 minutes

Intriguingly ambiguous in its rooting interests, the “RoboCop” remake doesn’t really believe its own poster. The tagline “Crime has a new enemy” suggests little more than point and shoot — the same old cyborg song and dance. While nobody’d be dumb enough to reboot the original 1987 kill’em-up franchise by holding back on the scenes of slaughter in favor of sly political satire about arm-twisting Fox News jingoism or American business ethics, Brazilian-born director Jose Padilha manages to do all that and still deliver the product. That ﬁrst, excitingly sadistic “RoboCop,” directed by Paul Verhoeven, paved the way for one of the ugliestspirited sequels ever, and a third, forgettable outing. Now, working from a script by Joshua Zetumer based on the Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner ur-text, we have a movie taking

n Cast: Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson, Abbie Cornish, Jackie Earle Haley n Directed by Jose Padilha

place in the ever-popular near future, 14 years hence. We’re back in Detroit. America’s the lone, squishy-liberal holdout among first-world nations in the crime-fighting revolution deploying deadly peacekeeping robots and robotics. The airwaves are ruled by a Bill O’Reilly-type show, “The Novak Element,” in which a paranoid visionary (Samuel L. Jackson in fantastic, “distinguished” anchorman hair) shills for the OmniCorp company, the money behind the armed robots. The company president (Michael Keaton) realizes the American public won’t support robot police officers, unless they can package them as human-ish. Joel

Kinnaman of the television series “The Killing” plays Alex Murphy, the Detroit police detective critically injured by a car bomb and reconﬁgured, by Gary Oldman’s kindly OmniCorp researcher, into the franchise title at hand. There’s a lot to enjoy here, though the brutality is very rough for a PG-13 rating. (The screening included an awful lot of clueless parents accompanied by an awful lot of preteens.) RoboCop becomes a pawn in the corporate game, as he was in the original ﬁlm, but here the machinations and talk of focus groups and marketing strategies is more pronounced and pretty sharp. Most audiences will be content with the gamer-friendly set pieces, in which a fatality count snuggles itself into the upper-right corner of the screen. Jackie Earle Haley plays the robot trainer/programmer, and he’s one of several ace supporting players lifting “RoboCop” above the routine. The female roles aren’t much, but they’re not insulting, and they’re handled with steely panache by Abbie Cornish (grieving, confused wife, since her husband’s not technically dead), Marianne JeanBaptiste (no-nonsense police chief)

Gary Oldman in Columbia Pictures’ “RoboCop,” starring Joel Kinnaman. and the great Jennifer Ehle (icy business associate). The script includes some interesting ideas about the researchers struggling to get RoboCop’s medication doses at the right level, so he retains enough of his human side to be relatable to the public. This is at heart a pretty sad movie. Verhoeven wouldn’t be caught dead making you care about

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anything in his “RoboCop”; Padilha is after something different. He shoots in a familiar shaky-cam style that might be called “early ‘NYPD Blue.’” That I can do without. But unlike the recent, empty-headed “Total Recall” remake, for example, this movie comes at you with an idea or two, as well as every available gun blazing.

‘Winter’s Tale’ displays sincere ridiculousness Star power can’t save star-crossed nonsense

MICHAEL PHILLIPS CHICAGO TRIBUNE

In the movies, particularly in the case of best-sellers adapted for the screen, time travel and its next-door neighbor, reincarnation, seem like a good idea at the time. But very often something goes gooey. Even with Colin Farrell’s soulful eyes, the tastefully cockamamie and increasingly gloppy new ﬁlm “Winter’s Tale,” pulled from Mark Helprin’s 1983 novel, refuses to take off in any of its eras. Screenwriter/director Akiva Goldsman has stripped the source material for parts

WINTER’S TALE n 1 1/2 stars n PG-13; 118 minutes n Cast: Colin Farrell, Russell Crowe, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jennifer Connelly n Directed by Akiva Goldsman

and for its through-line, eliminating various characters, as is the case with any adaptation. What’s left is sincere ridiculousness. You have the timetraveling thief with the heart of gold, played by Farrell, who begins life in late-19th-century New York City as a foundling straight out of Shakespeare. (As

is the title, minus the “The.”) You have a magical flying horse who befriends our hero, Peter Lake, at a convenient juncture, just as he’s about to be attacked by one of Lucifer’s own henchmen. The adversary with the penchant for computer-generated monsterisms is portrayed by Russell Crowe, twitching and glowering and always, always threatening to break into one of his songs from “Les Miserables.” In the 1916 section of the tale, Peter falls for a consumptive newspaper heiress (Jessica Brown Findlay of “Downton Abbey”), who dies seconds after losing her virginity, swathed in cinematographer Caleb Deschanel’s honey-toned lighting, to the thief who stole her heart. In the

2014 bits, also set in and around a highly romanticized New York, Peter’s the same age, the same desperate miracle worker in a new era. Jennifer Connelly, playing a food writer but looking like someone who never eats enough, has little to do except be sad, and then be happy that this mysterious hunky angel of sorts has come to save her own little girl from cancer. If that sounds like a plot development of dubious taste, “Winter’s Tale” may not be for you. Goldsman, a veteran screenwriter, makes his feature directorial debut here, and he doesn’t yet think like a visual fantasist. If your movie features, prominently, a ﬂying steed with wings made of starlight, you want that animal to look cool,

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Colin Farrell as Peter Lake and Jessica Brown Findlay as Beverly Penn in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Village Roadshow Pictures’ romantic fantasy adventure “Winter’s Tale.” or at least interesting, not like a hippy-dippy knockoff of the old TriStar studio logo. At one point Crowe, who comes off like a ward boss with no concerns about re-election,

talks of “blackenin’ souls and crushin’ miracles.” Despite the actors, who at least get some swell clothes to wear, “Winter’s Tale” is a bit of a soul-crusher itself.

and Sundays, call for shows and show times, Puppet Co. Playhouse, Glen Echo Park’s North Arcade Building, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., $5, 301-634-5380, www.thepuppetco.org. Round House Theatre, Bethesda, “Seminar,” to March 4, 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. 240-644-1100, www. roundhousetheatre.org. Round House Theatre, Silver Spring, “Pluto,” presented by Forum Theatre, Feb. 20 to March 15, call for show times, 8641 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, $15 for general admission, $10 for subscribers, patrons 30 and younger and seniors, 244-644-1100, www.roundhousetheatre.org. Silver Spring Stage, “Superior Donuts,” Feb. 21 to March 15, Woodmoor Shopping Center, 10145 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, see website for show times, www.ssstage.org. The Writer’s Center, Poetry and Prose Open Mic, 2 p.m. Feb. 23, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, 301654-8664, www.writer.org.

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IN THE ARTS March. 13, Steve Hickman, John Devine and the Major Minors, DeLaura Padovan, caller, 7-7:30 p.m. contradance workshops, 7:30-10 p.m. Contras & Squares, second Thursdays, Great Hall, Silver Spring Civics Center, One Veterans Plaza, Silver Spring, $10 for general admission, $8 for members, $5 for students and those without income, www.carpediemarts.com. Hollywood Ballroom, Feb. 19, free Waltz lesson at 7:30 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8:15 p.m. ($16); Feb. 20, 27, March 6, Tea Dance from 12:30-3:30 p.m. ($6); Feb. 21, drop-in lessons from 7:30-9 p.m., West Coast Swing Dancing with Dance Jam Productions at 9 p.m. ($15); Feb. 22, Latin Night with Mr. Mambo, workshops from 8-10 p.m., dance from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. ($18); Feb. 23, free Fox Trot lessons at 7 p.m., Social Ballroom at 8 p.m. ($16); Feb. 26, free Rumba lesson at 7:30 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8:15 p.m. ($16); Feb. 28, drop-in lessons from 7:30-9 p.m., West Coast Swing Dancing at 9 p.m. ($15); March 1, Ballroom dance night, lessons from 6:30-9 p.m., dance from 9 p.m. to midnight ($15); March 2, free Cha Cha lessons at 7 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8 p.m. ($16); March 5, free Step of the Evening lesson at 7:30 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8:15 p.m. ($16), 2126 Industrial Highway, Silver Spring, 301-326-1181, www. hollywoodballroomdc.com Now and Then Dance Studio, Saturday ballroom dances, second and fourth Saturdays, beginner group lesson at 8 p.m., open dancing at 9 p.m., $10 cash at door (all men admitted at halfprice throughout October), 10111 Darnestown Road, Rockville. 301424-0007, www.nowandthendancestudios.com. Scottish Country Dancing, 8-10 p.m. Mondays, steps and formations taught. No experience, partner necessary, T-39 Building on NIH campus, Wisconsin Avenue and South Drive, Bethesda, 240505-0339. Glen Echo Park is at 7300 MacArthur Blvd. Blues, Capital Blues: Thurs-

days, 8:15 p.m. beginner lesson, 9-11:30 p.m. dancing to DJs, Glen Echo Park’s Spanish Ballroom Annex, $8, www.capitalblues.org. Contra, Feb. 21, Dick Bearman and Devine Comedy, 7:30 p.m. lesson, 8:30 p.m. dance, Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $10, www. fridaynightdance.org. Contra & Square, Feb. 23, Michael Hamilton with Froghammer; March 2, Ted Hodapp and Contratopia, 7:30 p.m., Glen Echo Park

MUSIC & DANCE Arts Barn, Singer Songwriter Concert Series, Slaid Cleaves with Tony Denikos, Feb. 22, 3 p.m. workshops at the Arts Barn or Kentlands Mansion, 7:30 p.m. concerts at the Arts Barn, 311 Kent Square Road, Gaithersburg. 301258-6394, www.gaithersburgmd. gov/artsbarn.

Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club, Armand Netp, 7:30 p.m. Feb.

19; Andy Poxon Band and Dave Chappell Band, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 20; Joe Louis Walker - Hornet’s Nest, 8 p.m. Feb. 21; The Soul Crackers with Tommy Lepson, 8 p.m. Feb. 22; David Sanchez, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 23; Gotta Swing Dance with Josh & The Good Old Stuff, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26; Veronneau, 8 p.m. Feb. 27; The Texas Chainsaw Horns & Hot Mess Burlesque, 8 p.m. Feb. 28; Mojo & The Bayou Gypsies, 8 p.m. March 1, call for prices, 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. 240-330-4500, www.bethesdabluesjazz.com.

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Robin and Linda Williams, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 20; Ballet Hispanico Latin Dance Party, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 28; Cashore Marionettes, 1 p.m. March 1, call for tickets, 12901 Town Commons Drive, Germantown. 301-528-2260, www.blackrockcenter.org.

Institute of Musical Traditions — Rockville, Carrie Newcomer,

7:30 p.m. March 8, Saint Mark Presbyterian Church, 10701 Old Georgetown Road, Rockville, call for prices, www.imtfolk.org. Strathmore, Afternoon Tea, 1 p.m. Feb. 19, 25-26; AIR Education Workshop with Nistha Raj: Hindustani Classical Music, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 19; Krasnoyarsk National Dance Company of Siberia, 8 p.m. Feb. 19; The Lomax Project: Jayme Stone, Bruce Molsky, Julian Lage & Margaret Glaspy, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Feb. 20; BSO: Sci-Fi Spectacular!, 8 p.m. Feb. 20; Paul Huang & Jessica Osborne, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 21; Josh Turner Punching Bag Tour with Ruthie & the Wranglers, 8 p.m. Feb. 21; Do It Yourself: Exhibiting, 10 a.m. Feb. 22; National Philharmonic: Brian Ganz: Chopin, the Storyteller, 8 p.m. Feb. 22; The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra featuring New York Voices, 4 p.m. Feb. 23; Artist in Residence Education Workshop with Christie Dashiell: A Jazz Journey, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25;

AIR: Nistha Raj, Hindustani violin, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26; Pilobolus, 8 p.m. Feb. 26; AIR Alumni: Daisy Castro, Gypsy jazz violin, 11 a.m. Feb. 28; BSO: Off the Cuff — CSI: Mozart, 8:15 p.m. Feb. 28, call for venue, Locations: Mansion, 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda; Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, 301581-5100, www.strathmore.org.

ON STAGE Adventure Theatre, “Miss Nelson is Missing,” to March 9, call for prices, times, Adventure Theatre MTC, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo, 301-634-2270, www.adventuretheatre-mtc.org. Arts Barn, “A Little Night Music,” to Feb. 23, 311 Kent Square Road, Gaithersburg, 301-258-6394, www.gaithersburgmd.gov/artsbarn. Imagination Stage, “Rumpelstiltskin,” to March 16, call for prices, times, Imagination Stage, 4908 Auburn Ave., Bethesda, www. imaginationstage.org Olney Theatre Center, “How to Succeed in Business Without Even Trying,” to Feb. 23; call for prices, times, 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney, 301-924-3400, www. olneytheatre.org. The Puppet Co., “Sleeping Beauty,” to March 23; Tiny Tots @ 10, select Wednesdays, Saturdays

VISUAL ART Adah Rose Gallery, “The Deep-

est Feeling Always Shows Itself in Silence,” to March 23, opening vernissage from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Feb. 22, 3766 Howard Ave., Kensington, 301-922-0162, www.

The Dennis and Phillip Ratner Museum, TBA, hours are 10 a.m. to

4:30 p.m. Sundays, noon to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10001 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda. 301-897-1518. Gallery B, “Creative Connections,” MFA at Gallery B, to March 1, gallery hours are noon to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, 7700 Wisconsin Ave., Suite E. www.bethesda.org. Glenview Mansion, Gordana Gerskovic, experimental photography, to Feb. 21, Rockville Civic Center Park, 503 Edmonston Drive, Rockville. www.rockvillemd. gov. Marin-Price Galleries, “The Way of the Horse,” to April 18, 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, 7022 Wisconsin Ave., 301718-0622. VisArts, Ryan Rakhshan: Robin Meyer: “Life and death of charm city,” to March 16, opening reception from 7-9 p.m. March 7, Common Ground Gallery, 155 Gibbs St., Rockville, 301-315-8200, www. visartsatrockville.org. Washington Printmakers Gallery, “Fourth Annual Excellence in

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Assemblage, test tubes and prints: Mixed media at BlackRock The Main Art Gallery in the BlackRock Center for the Arts is featuring a “Collective” exhibit of the work of three artists: Renée Lachman, Zofie Lang and Henrik Sundqvist. They are connected loosely in that the first two are both exhibiting assemblages, and the third three large paintings with attached elements. The Terrace Gallery on the second floor has a small but choice exhibit of lithographic prints by Caroline Thornington.

ON VIEW BY CLAUDIA ROUSSEAU Henrik Sundqvist, originally a native of Sweden, is concerned about the environment. His work, which is exquisitely crafted in various media, always carries an ironic and often latent message about social, political and especially environmental issues. Last year he exhibited a series of glass spray bottles, each carefully etched with highly detailed images of insects. Each had a ring around its neck bearing an elegant gray card with an historical cross and the name of the chemical used to poison them. “Spray,” the name of that work, is related to the current exhibit at BlackRock. On three large panels Sundqvist has painted three kinds of insects often targeted for “pest control” in careful rows across a painted surface: wasps, beetles and ﬂies. Each of the panels bears a central image:

a garden gnome and fruits with the wasps, flamingoes with the beetles and a weeping angel with the flies. Attached to each of the panels with gleaming hardware are nine large test tubes that the artist has floridly etched with parts of the title: “At home; in my garden; there is heaven and hell.” Here are both beauty and death. The artist has written that the work was inspired by DuPont’s 1935 advertising slogan: “Better Things for Better Living … through Chemistry.” The irony implicit in that statement is made clear in these paintings which, for all the messaging, are visually attractive. The assemblages of Renée Lachman are by far the most numerous objects in the show, and their variety is nearly staggering. Lachman uses found objects which she combines in ways that create narratives through the juxtaposition of their shapes. A few of these combinations imply a kind of accidental figuration, as in “Sax” in which the various objects are arranged to resemble a figure playing an instrument, or “Volts” which looks like a face with a mustache though composed of an electric meter, a slender bone, a piece of toy train track, a grinding wheel, a level, a compass, and other bits and pieces. There is often a sense of humor in these works, such as in the large relief called “Two Shoes” after two wooden high-heeled shoes painted white in its center, with toy piano keys hanging below — the whole per-

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Continued from Page B-5 Aging, Hyatt also is an instructor of a Dance for Parkinson’s class. For “Rumpelstiltskin,” Hyatt has double duty, as he has written the music he’ll play on stage during the show. “Originally, we had thought I would have a spoken part, but I was actually somewhat relieved when [director Janet Stanford] decided to let my voice be the violin,” Hyatt said. “That allowed me, while we were rehearsing the play, to concentrate on the music because I was working in real time improvising and trying to write down my ideas and

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Henrik Sundqvist’s “At home in my backyard there is Heaven and Hell,” 2014. haps evoking a blues singer on a piano. But frequently the narrative is darker, more poetic and/ or referential. Like many of these pieces, “Sickle” has a base of old dark wood to which a pocked sickle is attached along with bits of other metal, doll hair, some handmade paper and a tiny leaf. The result is an invitation to the viewer to meditate on themes like time and place, history and memory. “Skinned” features a shed snakeskin and a zipper along with other elements that suggest coming out of one’s old

drawing on the various sources of music for the show.” The seed for Hyatt to perform at Imagination Stage was planted years ago by his friend Kate Bryer, who serves as associate artistic director for the theater. The two were neighbors in the Bannockburn neighborhood in Bethesda. Every year, Bannockburn has a Halloween parade where Hyatt dresses up and plays the ﬁddle. “She thought that it would be wonderful to have my music in a show at Imagination Stage and she talked with Janet about this idea,” Hyatt said. “It took a long time before they were able to come to a show in which it ﬁt. ‘Rum-

The five-member cast of “Pluto” includes the mother Elizabeth (Jennifer Mendenhall); her son Bailey (Mark Halpern) and Bailey’s friend, Maxine (Brynn Tucker). It also includes Cerberus the dog (Kimberly Gilbert) and Death (David Zimmerman, who also plays the voice on the radio). “The real focus of the play for me is about this mother and the son and how they communicate,” said Dove. “It’s about what happens when you fail to communicate and be honest with one another, especially in a family.” In a Forum blog interview with the play’s dramaturg, Hannah Hessel Ratner, Yockey said the idea for the play and title germinated after the change in reclassiﬁcation of Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006. “We have difﬁculty allowing our idea of [people] to evolve even when the actual person changes, grows or becomes

Lang adds more photographic and graphic imagery to her pieces, relying less on found objects to create the work. Many of the pieces contain references to fairy tales, such as “Sleeping Beauty” with three hanging pocket watches, “Rumplestilskin” with a golden chain and a photo of a very frustrated woman, and “The Pied Piper” in a found sewing drawer, a photo of mice, surrounded by faux fur. My favorite, however, was “Three Wishes,” a complicated piece with little shelves and tubes full of strange substances. In the very bottom compartment are three symbols: a dollar bill, a caduceus and a heart. The three wishes are for money, health and love. Thornington’s prints in the Terrace Gallery are definitely worth going upstairs to see. They are both black and white and color lithographs, done with the old-school stone with which the artist can pull deep colors and very complex imagery.

gressed and I wanted to learn more.” Hyatt took a course – artists and hospital training – at Montgomery College. According to Hyatt, Judy Rollins, a registered nurse with a Ph.D. who taught the class, does a lot of work with arts and healthcare with the MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, including a pediatric program called Studio G. “She invited me to join that program as one of their artists,” Hyatt said. “I started going in to the pediatric units and doing music for the patients and their families.” Over time, Hyatt became more involved, working with the hospital’s Lombardi Cancer Center where he

Among the color prints the best are “Star Dancers” and “Castor and Pollux get Sirius” from an older series of prints featuring the constellations personified by ordinary people. The latter features children in skateboard garb ﬂying around in a purple outer space capturing a dog: Sirius is the “Dog Star” and Castor and Pollux are the Gemini. Among the newer prints the artist continues her fascination with stars and the magic of art. The best of them is “Contemplating Betelgeuse.” “Collective: a visual narrative of tale, time, and thought,” featuring the assemblage and mixed media works of Renee Lachman, Zoﬁe Lang, and Henrik Sundvquist, to Feb. 28; “Between Two Portraits,” lithographs by Caroline Thorington, to Feb. 28, Black Rock Center for the Arts, 12901 Town Commons Drive, Germantown, 301-5282260, www.blackrockcenter.org.

would visit and perform for the patients, families and the staff. Hyatt’s work with older patients grew, as well. He became a master trainer for the National Center for Creative Aging. “Basically, I found this strange little niche that I could never have written a script for the way my career developed,” Hyatt said. “… I guess the best way to say it is I took a leap of faith. I quit the job that was paying my bills and kept the one that was my heart. “I never look back. I keep on doing it and the universe keeps giving me opportunities to do wonderful things.” wfranklin@gazette.net

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skin, while the somewhat chilling “Barometer” contains a nonworking barometer and parts of a broken dark-skinned doll. The artist has said that her aim is to “assemble forgotten pieces into a harmonious whole, to capture time within a frame…Each object persists in its own way; each has its own history.” This is much evidenced in the current almost too extensive exhibit of them. Also in this show are the assemblages of Zoﬁe Lang which seem rather minimal and monochrome in contrast to Lachman’s.

pelstiltskin’ is the one that did.” For 15 years, Hyatt has worked with Arts for the Aging. After being invited by friend Nancy Havlik to join her, Hyatt became co-director for Quicksilver. Originally, Hyatt was coming on board as a musician, but the group quickly evolved to the point where Hyatt would co-direct with Havlik and the two would do performances and workshops at senior care facilities. Eventually, Arts for the Aging asked Hyatt to become a solo artist for them. “So I got involved doing this work initially as a volunteer and then being paid for something that I loved doing,” Hyatt said. “It grew as my life pro-

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“This is the ﬁrst time anyone has produced him in the Washington area,” said Dove. “We’re excited that people here can get to see his work.” A University of Georgia graduate, Yockey earned a Master of Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2008. He has written more than a dozen plays that have been produced in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Dove said the audience will have a chance to meet him for a discussion after this Saturday’s performance. Forum also typically hosts discussions following every Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday night show. In June, Yockey’s play “The Thrush & the Woodpecker” will be one of three full-length plays selected from 120 scripts running during the annual Source Festival of new works in Washington, D.C. “I think he’s going to really take off,”Dove said.

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The Forum Theatre will present the Washington, D.C.-area premiere of “Pluto,” a new play by Steve Yockey, running Thursday to March 15 in Silver Spring. The story unfolds in a single mother’s kitchen, where a three-headed dog, Cerberus, sits under a tree that has grown into the kitchen, and someone is trying to get out of the refrigerator. something different right in front of us,” he said in the interview. Dove said the play is humorous not only because of its surreal setting, but also because of the characters. “It’s the kind of comedy that comes from recognizing ourselves or people we know,” he said. But the darkness in the story is also broadly relevant in light of recent shootings in the United States, including the Jan. 25 shooting at The Mall in Columbia, when a teenager from College Park fatally shot two employees before killing himself. “I think this takes things a step further [than media reports],” Dove said. “The play is not about gun control or mental illness, it goes much deeper than that.” There’s something in how we treat one another,” he said. “How do people get to value themselves and others so little that something like this can happen?” “I hope it starts a real interesting discussion,” he said.

Network of the new Forum Theatre is presenting “Pluto” as an associate member of the National New Play Network’s “rolling premiere” program, which enables playwrights to open plays in different cities during one season.

In addition to Silver Spring, “Pluto” is also running in Atlanta, Cincinnati and Orlando. In this case, Yockey benefits from not only one, but four productions, as he continues to fine-tune the script. “The playwright has a chance to learn about the piece and develop things faster,” Dove said. “Pluto” is also Forum Theatre’s third production since instituting its new Forum for All ticketing policy this season designed to make plays as affordable as possible for audiences. People can reserve a seat for $20 or pay what they want at the door. “We decided to make all work accessible to everyone in the county, especially to lowincome people who can’t afford to take their families to a show,” Dove said. So far, the first two plays this season seem to have brought more people to the performances. “For ‘Agnes Under the Big Top,’ it was about the same, and now that the word is out, ‘Meena’s Dream’ had lines out the door for the final week,” he said. “We want to play with it a little bit,” Dove said, but the hope is to continue the policy. “We plan to make it permanent,” he said. vterhune@gazette.net

conformist. “It’s truer to Wedekind’s original intentions,” she said. “He was trying to highlight, and put in the face of society, what society was doing to the next generation.” Most of the actors playing the roles of teenagers are 26 and younger, and the story is told from their point of view. “I want the audience to think about how everyone can feel like every day is a war within themselves, with the world around them and with their peers,” Zickler said. As originally conceived by Sater, the contemporary pop and rock songs were intended to reﬂect the inner life of the teenagers. Some of the lyrics and harmonies are strong and direct, full of youthful energy and rebellion, while other lyrics are tentative and new, as the teenagers begin to explore each other’s feelings and bodies. There are also songs that are romantic, almost mystical, with allusions to lush colors, open fields, butterflies, summer winds, darkness and light, storms, angels, stars and heaven. “The imagery through the lyrics — it’s so delicious to say those words,” Zickler said. “You feel the emotion in the vowels, and the sense in the consonants, and then when you add the melody, magic happens.”

Exploring sex Among the characters is Melchior (Ryan Alan Jones), an intelligent, rebellious young man who challenges the conventional wisdom imposed on him by his establishmentminded teachers. In the song “All That’s Known,” he sings: “Thought is suspect/And money is their idol/And nothing is OK unless it’s scripted in their Bible.” He reads and knows more about sex than his friends, and he’s given unusual leeway by his liberal-minded mother.

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Kensington Arts Theatre is presenting the Tony-award winning musical, “Spring Awakening,” from Friday to March 15 in Kensington. From left are Michael Van Maele as Georg, Ashley Zielinski as Thea, David Tuttle as Hänschen, Riley Lopez as Ernst and Joanna Frezzo as Ilse. “She trusts him and allows him to read Goethe’s ‘Faust,’” Zickler said. “She’s allowed him to be an adult before he really is.” Melchior’s best friend is Moritz (Harrison Smith), who is under pressure from his parents and society to succeed at school. “The 1890s was a really interesting time in Germany,” said Zickler. “The country was going through a second wave of industrialization, and education was more structured to train boys to be a useful cog in the wheel of society.” Flunking out of school was not an option for boys whose parents were intent on projecting a successful image of the family. “The play was shockingly accurate,” Zickler said. “Those who failed were forced into the military.” Moritz is embarrassed to talk about sex, even with Melchior, and asks him to write down an explanation with illustrations. In “The Bitch of Living,” Moritz and the boys sing about the turmoil and frustration caused by their desires. The girls also wrestle with their feelings in “My Junk.” Drawn to the boys, they are confused about what to do. Wendla (Em-

ily Dey), a naive girl interested in Melchior, asks her mother where babies come from, and her mother provides no answers. Also part of the crowd is Hänschen (David Tuttle), a pragmatic young man who acknowledges his feelings but doesn’t lose control of them. “You can rock the boat and fall off ... or you can take your time and let the system work for you,” Zickler said. “He’s the one who observes and let’s things sort themselves out.” Zickler said the songs and music in “Spring Awakening” are vocally demanding, especially for the male actors who need to sing at the top of their range. Although there are some solos, there is no big “11 o’clock” show-stopping number in the second act, she said. “It’s really an ensemble,” she said. “I just love this show,” said Zickler, who was reminded through directing it, what it felt like to be a teenager. “They’re like crocuses struggling through layers of frost to the sunlight,” she said. “They’re ﬁlled with a kind of momentum, pushing through to summer.” vterhune@gazette.net

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OLNEY: 1BD, 1BA

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GERMANTOWN: HORSE LOVERS DREAM. 2.6 AC On- TH, 3Br, 2.5Ba, h/w ly $19,900 ADD’L 4.8 AC Avail! Pristine Mtn. Setting. This parel has it all! Level ridgetop, hardwoods, open pasture with fencing, 180 degrees breathtaking mountain views, state road frontage, easy access. Short dirve to town. Additional acreage available to make this a 7+ acre farmette for under $50,000. 2 percs, warranty deed, easy low down financing. Must see. CALL NOW 1-800-888-1262.

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SFH,

4BR 2.5BA 3lvl Split 1/3 acre, tbl spac Kitch FR w/FP. Near metro / 270. Owner/Agent $2,350 301-924-5536

SIL SPR: MARCH RENT FREE FOR APPROVED APPLICANTS. 3br/2ba

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3BD, 2FB, SFH. Recently remodeled. $1750 + dep. No vouchers. 240-606-0325

bd 2.5 ba TH w/ garage & deck. Near shops, metro & 270 $2000 301-330-1177 finished bsmt, patio, back yard, avail 03/01, $2000 + utils Ns/Np call 540-588-3481

G E R M A N : 3BR, 2.5BA, totally remodeled TH, plenty parking, HOC welcome $1750/month Call Francis 301-570-0510 GERMANTOWN: 4

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CONDO FOR RENT 3-BR, 2-Bathrooms, Kitchen w/ Gas Oven & Fridge; Living Room w/ Gas Fireplace & Wood Floor; Spiral Stair to Loft/ Enter-tainment Room. Call: 301-838-9443

SS: 1 bd /1 ba $1300

util inclu near Forest Glen Metro. New Kitch & Bath, LRG closets. Call (301)213-7749

ASPEN HILL: 1Br

w/BA, shared kit & living rm , NS/NP, $600/mo + sec dep req call 301-962-5778

BELPRE/S.S.: TH

N.POTOMAC ROCKVILLE: 1 BR

Apt. $1150 incl util, CATV, Free Parking Avail now. NS/NP CALL: 301-424-9205

ROCKVILLE: 3BD,

2BA. $1700 util included. 12205 Braxfield Ct. #5, 20852. 240353-8500

GERM: 2BR, 2BA Nr I-270, Bus, Shops, $1,275 + elec., water incl. HOC Pref. Avail Now. 240-498-0606

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GAITH/LAYTONSV ILLE: Lrg Rm in SFH,

full privlgs, pool ,beautiful setting, NS. $600 301-482-1425

GAITH:M BRs $435+ 440+475+555+ Maid Ns/Np, nr 270/370/Bus shops, quiet, conv.Sec Dep 301-983-3210 GAITH/MUDDY BRANCH: M/F only for LG lwr Lvl suite

w/ba,Fam RM w/FP NSTH $745 + utils avail Mar.3016747928

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Rooms for Rent share BA, utils incl. N/S/ N/P, Nr Bus & Metro. Avail. Now. 301-915-7264

Mature Male, Furn BRs. Util not incl. Near 61 Bus Line. Maria 240-671-3783

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ment with room with private BA in SFH. Gt community. $700 incl. utils. 240-273-2512

GBURG: Spacious 3

GERM: 3Br, 2.5Ba TH

to advertise call 301.670.7100 or email class@gazette.net

flrs, updated kit, Ba & paint $1600 + util Pls Call: 301-956-4775

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BELTSVILLE-

Room in TH $500 incl utils. N/S, N/P. Avail immed CALL: 240361-3391

GERM: Bsmt w/pvt

LAYTNSVL: M, N/S off street park, Furn Br, shr kit, lndry & comm. areas, homey, quiet $625 utils incl. TV/int 301- 253-9662

MONT

1BD in Apartment. Share Bath & Kitchen. $530 + util. Wifi avail. 240-406-6694

BRs $400 each + utils in TH NS/ND. Near bus & shops. Sec Dep Req. 240-476-6224

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SILVER

SPRING:

2Rooms avail Mar.1st

$550/$465 w/private bath shared kitch & utils, 301-404-2681

GERM: Male only 2

DAMASCUS: Bsmt

Lrg furn Br, shrd Ba, kit & W/D, 1 blk frm bus & 5 blks from Red/Metro $800/util inc 202-361-8087

WHEATON: 2 BD in

OLNEY: 1 Rm in bsmt in SFH share kitchen $500 utils included, NS/NP Avail Now. 301-257-5712

GAITHERSBURG:

SFH, $550/mo utils incl Free Cable. Available March 1st! Call: 301-509-3050

Shared Kit & Ba, Nr Forest Glen Metro/HC Hosp, utl/cbl/intrn inc CALL: 240-389-8825

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1 Br in TH, shrd Ba w/female NS/NP, $429/mo + util Call: 240-401-3522

1br, 1LR, 1ba, pvt entr, cable, int, util inc. $700+ sec dep. Np/Ns Call: 301-253-1370

BOWIE: Furn rm in

S S : Rms in SFH,

kFull Size W/D in every unit kSwimming Pool

VILLAGE

Entr, Ba, Br, nr schls, bus, util incl N/S N/P Avl now! Please Call SS: Furnish BR w/pvt 301-461-2636 Ba in SFH, Fem Only uti incl $675 +Sec Dep GERM: Full basmt in nr RIDE ON, Wheaton TH $575 + utils & Sec Metro 301-681-7848 Dep Requ. NS/No pets Avail 02/17 Call 202SS: Furnished 2 BRs 491-1565 in Bsmt, Liv Rm, Shrd GERM: Male 1Br in BA/Kit, Prvt Ent. $750 TH Share bath & per person/rm incl kitchen $450 ut inc Nr utils. NS/NP Cls to MARC/Buses, Ref’s Veirs Mill & Randolph. Please 301-213-9797 Req. 240-370-2301

RM for rent w/priv bath NS/NP $625 util inclu near shops. Avail Now call 240-643-7532

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of Bladensburg Request for Proposal Digital Signage The Town of Bladensburg (the Town) is seeking proposals from qual-ified firms for external Digital Signage to display information and op-erate as a community bulletin board at its Town Hall. The deadline for receipt of proposalsis:March 12 2014 at 3:00 PM(Eastern Time). Proposals must be received by this deadline at the following location: The Town of Bladensburg The Town Administrator 4229 Edmonston Road Bladensburg, MD 20710 Any proposal received after the date and time listed above will not be considered. Questions reqarding this request must be sent to the email address below and should include the proposal number and any question(s) should includea reference to the appropriate page and section number of theRFP. Answers to the questions will be made to the requestor. John Moss Town Administrator Moss@bladensburg.net Copies of the Request for Proposal, area vailable at the Town Hall (from the Office of the Clerk) and on theTown of BladensburgsWebsite at: ww.townofbladensburg.net For more information about the request for proposal or to obtain a copy, please contact John Moss at 301-927-7048 or jmoss@bladensbug.net.

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2014 JETTA S

2013 GOLF 2 DOOR

2014 PASSAT S 2.5L

04 Toyota Highlander LTD #462007B, $ 4 Speed Auto, Vontage $ Blue, Sport Utility

#7380482, Power Windows, Power Locks, Keyless Entry

14,999

2014 PASSAT S #9009449, Power Windows, Power Locks, Keyless Entry

MSRP $22,765 BUY FOR

18,999

OR 0.9% for 60 MONTHS

2013 GTI 4 DOOR

BUY FOR

16,999

OR 0% for 60 MONTHS

BUY FOR

18,999

2013 JETTA TDI

#1679497, Power Windows/Locks, Sunroof, Auto, Loaded

#7415025, Automatic Power Windows, Power Locks, Bluetooth

BUY FOR

19,490

OR 0% for 60 MONTHS

2014 PASSAT TDI SE

10 Scion XD $$

#P8873, 4 Speed Auto, 1-Owner, 24K Miles

13 Toyota Corolla LE #472176A, $ 1-Owner, 1.9k Miles, $

MSRP $25,510 - $5,000 OFF

4 Speed Auto

20,155 2014 TIGUAN S 4WD BUY FOR

12,800

15,500

12 Toyota Camry LE #477442A, 16k $ Miles, 6 Speed $

#4116048, Automatic, Power Windows/ Power Locks, Keyless Entry

MSRP $26,960 BUY FOR

22,955

OR 0% for 60 MONTHS

#9060756, Automatic, Power Windows, Power Locks, Sunroof

MSRP $27,385 BUY FOR

23,399

OR 0.9% for 60 MONTHS

Auto, Silver Mertallic

#13543457, Automatic, Power Windows, Power Locks, Keyless Entry

BUY FOR

24,999

13 Scion TC $$

16,800

#351071A, 1Owner, 11K Miles, Blue Metallic

11ToyotaRAV4 $$

#364568A, 4 Speed Auto, 1-Owner, 18K miles

#472173A, CVT Transmission, 1-Owner, 11.6k miles, Brilliant Silver

10,900

18,700

11 Toyota Camry LE $$

15,500

#P8894, 1-Owner, 6 Speed Auto, 34k Miles, Silver Metallic

13 Toyota Corolla S $$

#364525A, 4 Speed Auto, 22k miles, 1-Owner

17,700

08 Mercedes-Benz C-Class 3.0L #457003B, 7 Speed Auto, Mars Red

18,700

2011 Toyota Avalon............ $18,800 $18,800 #478001A, 6 SpeedAuto, 1 Owner, 4 Door

$19,800 2011 Toyota Tacoma........... $19,800 #467046A, Ext. Cab, 5 Sp Manual, 32k Miles, 1-Owner

2010 Toyota Prius II............ $16,800 $16,800 2013 Ford Escape SE.......... $21,700 $21,700 #P8874, CVT Trans, 1 Owner, 25k Miles, Barcelona Red #377732A, 6 SpeedAuto, 22k Miles, 1-Owner, Sterling Grey Metallic $17,700 2012 Mitsubishi Outlander GT. $22,700 2013 Toyota Corolla S......... $17,700 $22,700 #364525A, 4 Sp.Auto, 22k Miles, Hot Lava, 1-Owner #363225A, 6 SpeedAuto, 5k Miles, Sport Utility, Rally Red 2011 Chevy Traverse LS....... $17,900 $17,900 2013 Ford F-150 XLT........... $24,800 $24,800 #363442A, 1-Owner, Sport Utility, Dark Blue Metallic #355055A, 6 SpeedAuto, 3k Miles, Green Gem Metallic 2012 Toyota Sienna Minivan. . $18,700 $18,700 2013 Nissan Quest SV......... $26,700 $26,700 #460044A, 6 SpeedAuto, 25k Miles, Silver Metallic #363238A, CVT Trans, 11k Miles, 1-Owner, White Pearl

2011 CC.....................#VP0032, White, 36,116 miles................$18,991 2013 Jetta SE...........#VPR0027, White, 6,101 miles...............$19,995 2013 Jetta SE............#VPR0030, Silver, 4,340 miles................$19,995 2011 CC.....................#VP0035, White, 38,225 miles................$20,991 2013 Passat S...........#VPR0026, Black, 6,891 miles................$20,995 2012 Toyota Camry.#V374559A, Gray, 19,681 miles..............$20,995 2013 Beetle Conv...#V827637A, Black, 20,496 miles..............$21,991 2013 Beetle.............#V606150A, Gray, 20,895 miles..............$21,991 2012 Routan SE......#VP0033, Maroon, 12,853 miles..............$24,991 2013 Subaru BRZ.....#V007888A, Gray, 5,589 miles...............$25,991

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All prices exclude tax, tags, title, freight and $200 processing fee. Cannot be combined with any previous advertised or internet special. Pictures are for illustrative purposes only. See dealer for details. 0% APR Up To 60 Months on all models. See dealer for details. Ourisman VW World Auto Certified Pre Owned financing for 60 months based on credit approval thru VW. Excludes Title, Tax, Options & Dealer Fees. Special APR financing cannot be combined with sale prices. Ends 02/28/14.

Ourisman VW of Laurel

G560706

3371 Fort Meade Road, Laurel

Online Chat Available...24 Hour Website • Hours Mon-Fri 9 am-9 pm • Sat 9 am-8 pm

13,800

$13,500 2012 Nissan Sentra 2.......... $13,500

20 Available...Rates Starting at 2.64% up to 72 months

1.855.881.9197 • www.ourismanvw.com

17,700

12 Nissan Altima S #470192A, CVT $ $ Trans, 2.5. Low Miles

2010 Scion XD.................. $12,800 $12,800 #P8873, 4 SpeedAuto, 24K miles, 1-Owner, Super White

MSRP $28,936

OURISMAN VW WORLD AUTO CERTIFIED PRE OWNED 2009 CC.....................#V0022A, Black, 90,298 miles................$14,491 2007 Passat ................#V003637A, Blue, 34,537 miles...........$15,491 2012 KIA Rio............#V415025A, Red, 57,565 miles...............$15,491 2012 Mazda 6..........#VPR0023, Black, 44,340 miles...............$15,491 2012 Nissan Altima.#VPR0024, Gray, 42,366 miles...............$15,991 2012 Jetta SE …......#VPR6113, Gray, 34,537 miles...............$16,495 2007 BMW Z-4.......#V006539B, White, 69,522 miles.............$16,991 2012 Jetta Sedan...#V348867A, Black, 14,749 miles..............$17,995 2012 Nissan Juke..#V257168A, White, 57,565 miles.............$18,491 2011 Jetta TDI..........#VP0034, White, 69,522 miles................$18,991

08 Toyota Camry LE $$

#372404A, 5 Speed Auto, 1-Owner, Blue Metallic

MSRP $22,765

2013 BEETLE

MSRP $24,490 - $5,000 OFF

10,700

#9009449, Automatic, Power Windows/Power Locks, Keyless Entry, Cruise Control

MSRP $20,860

MSRP $17,810 BUY FOR

#3096366, Automatic, Power Windows/Power Locks, Keyless Entry, Heated Seats, Bluetooth, Cruise Control

9,800

11 Ford Focus SE #364474A, Auto, 23k Miles, 1-Owner

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2008 Nissan Rogue SL

12,977

11,995

$12,995 -$500 -$500

17,495

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2007 BMW 3 Series 328Xi

12,977

#445067A, AWD, Automatic

#341184A, 4WD, 1-Owner, 29,738 Miles

16,977

2008 Mercedes-Benz C-Class

16,977

#470267D, 3.0L Sport, RWD, 1-Owner, Auto

With Bluetooth, #13114 2 At This Price: VINS: 190462, 194374

2013MSRP: NISSAN ROGUE S$22,795 AWD

2013 NISSAN JUKE SV AWD

17,995

2011 Jeep Liberty Sport Jet

$23,940 $19,495 -$1,000 -$1,000

#22213 2 At This Price: VINS: 665691, 665708

12,977

$14,995 -$500 -$500

13,995

Sale Price: Nissan Rebate: NMAC Bonus Cash:

MSRP: Sale Price: Nissan Rebate: NMAC Bonus Cash:

#446119A, Auto, 1 Owner, Special Edition, Sunroof, Navigation

2013 NISSAN SENTRA SV MSRP: $18,360 Sale Price: Nissan Rebate NMAC Bonus Cash:

MSRP: Sale Price: Nissan Rebate: NMAC Bonus Cash:

2012 Nissan Sentra 2.0S

#11124 2 At This Price: VINS: 853988, 854917

2014 NISSAN ALTIMA 2.5 S

G560707

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2011 Nissan Versa 1.8 S

#P8912, Automatic, 1-Owner

2014 NISSAN VERSA S +CVT $14,770

MSRP: Sale Price: Nissan Rebate: NMAC Bonus Cash:

#12113 2 At This Price: VINS: 788738, 797494

4 NEED AUTO FINANCING ASSISTANCE? 4 TIRED OF HASSLES? 4 WANT A FRESH START?

11,977

#E0263A, Automatic, FWD, Sport Utility, Leather, Sunroof

2010 Cadillac DTS w/1SC #374548A, Auto, Sunroof, Heated/ Ventilated Seats

$18,995 -$500 -$500

17,977

2006 Nissan 350Z Touring

18,977

#432035A, 6 Speed Manual, Leather, 22,288 Miles

17,995

$24,800 $20,995 -$2,500 -$500

2010 Volkswagen New Beetle #442018A, Auto, Convertible, Final Edition

15911 Drive • • Rockville, Rockville, MD MD (at (at Rt. Rt. 355 355 across across from fromKing KingFarm) Farm) 15911 Indianola Indianola Drive www.DARCARSNISSAN.com 888.824.9166 •• www.DARCARSNISSAN.com

Prices include all rebates and incentives. NMAC Bonus Cash requires financing through NMAC with approved credit. Prices Pricestax, include rebates incentives. NMAC Bonusand Cash requires financing through NMAC with approved credit.with exclude tags, all freight (carsand $780, trucks $725-$995), $200 processing charge. *Lease payments are calculated Prices exclude tax,$200 tags,processing freight (cars $810,and trucks $200 processing charge. valid only onthrough listed tax, tags, freight, charge first$845-$995), payment dueand at signing, and are valid withPrices tier one approval VINS. See dealer for details. Offer expires 02/28/2014. NMAC. Prices valid only on listed VINS. See dealer for details. Offer expires 10/22/2012.

#4495563A, Auto, Navigation, Sunroof, 1Owner

20,977

www.DARCARSnissan.com

#20413 2 At This Price: VINS:221861, 221956

DARCARS NISSAN of of ROCKVILLE ROCKVILLE

16,977

2012 Volkswagen Passat TDI SE

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24,690

15,890

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NEW 2014 SCION XD 2 AVAILABLE: #453014, 453005

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AFTER $1,000 REBATE

169/mo.**

4 CYL., 4 DR., AUTO

NEW 2014 RAV4 4X2 BASE 2 AVAILABLE: #464051, 464055

NEW 2014 CAMRY LE 2 AVAILABLE: #472312, 472335

4 DR., 4 CYL., AUTO

NEW 2014 PRIUS II

21,690

AFTER $750 REBATE

4 CYL., AUTOMATIC

NEW 2014 CAMRY SE

2 AVAILABLE: #477414, 477421

21,590

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07 Chevy Suburban LT

$4,498

11 Nissan Versa

#KP06988, 4WD, DVD/MNRF, $2,321 OFF KBB

12 Suzuki SX4

$10,985

#KA02686, PW/CC, FAC WARR!! $744 OFF KBB

11 Dodge Avenger

95 Dodge Caravan...............................$1,475

#KA33911, AT/AC/CD, GREAT TERMS!!

$14,990

13 Dodge Dart LTD

#KD41178, LUXURY, MNRF/LTHR, $1,190 OFF KBB

UNDER $10,995

MORE VEHICLES

02 Toyota 4Runner SR5...................$7,988

08 Suzuki XL-7 Luxury.....................$11,495

11 Hyundai Sonata GLS....................$15,990

03 Dodge Ram 1500 SLT.................$7,998

06 Dodge Charger R/T “Hemi”...............$12,970

11 Ford Ecoline E-350 XLT...........$17,970

#KR16361, AWD, BEAUTY! MNRF, LTHR/HTD, CD

#KP68177, 4WD, AT, MNRF, PW/PL, MD INSP

#KP04832, SHARP! $588 OFF KBB, “HANDYMAN”

#KP81341, CLEAN! PW/PLC, CC, CD

#KP61691, GORGEOUS! NAV, LTHR, CD-6

#KP17091, WGN, PAMPERED, 82K!! AT, MNRF, ALLOYS

#KP16976, PRISTINE, 53K! PW/PLC/PMR, CC, CD

06 Suzuki Verona............................$5,450 #KP71370A, LUXURY, MNRF, LTHR, P/OPTS CAA/CD, MSI

03 Mazda Protoge5.........................$5,488 #KP80627, GAS SAVER! 5SPD, MNRF, LTHR

G560703

$17,970

#KR73090, SHOWROOM 3K!! NAV, $1,334 OFF KBB

#KP56630A, AT/AC, GREAT RUNNING VAN “HANDYMAN”

02 Ford Focus ZX3...........................$2,988

$10,435

03 Mazda Protoge5 ........................$8,488 06 Jeep Liberty Limited..................$9,988 #KP44562, 4WD, SHARP! NAV, MNRF, LTHR/PWR, SEAT

11 Honda Civic...............................$13,970

07 GMC Acadia SLT.......................$14,745 #KP19204, AWD, LOTS-OF-TOYS, DVD, NAV, MNRF

#KP78723, IMMACULATE, 30K!! FAC WARR, P/OPTIONS

#KN03615, 12 PASS, CLEAN! PW/PLC, RAC, PARK SENSE

08 Toyota 4Runner SR5................$17,990

#KP26594, 4WD, MNRF, TOW, RNG BRDS, BEST BUY!!

10 Chrysler Town & Country LTD....$22,988

#KP51814, STRIKING! NAV, DVD’S, PWR 3RD SEAT