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In the search for a college athletic scholarship, parents have endless opportunities to spend money, including youth teams, camps run by college coaches, buying top equipment, and online recruiting sites that market athletes. The trend has led to children specializing in sports at earlier ages, which has led to more serious injuries, youth giving up free time to chase their athletic dreams, and in some cases burnout. Another trend is that many top athletes now are being forced to choose between their club and high school teams.
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Thomas S. Wootton High School tennis star Titas Bera went undefeated this spring, winning his third consecutive county singles championship and the state boys doubles title. Bera, a rising senior, hasn’t lost a singles match in three years of
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Repairs to the Silver Spring Transit Center could be complete before the end of the year, county officials told the Montgomery County Council on Tuesday. David Dise, director of the county’s Department of General Services, told the council contractors are supposed to submit a SILVER SPRING finalized schedule at TRANSIT CENTER a project work group meeting Thursday. Get the latest Dise said if work developments about on a concrete overlay the Silver Spring Transit — which is supposed Center by visiting to remedy varying conour page devoted to crete thicknesses and the project. Go to www.gazette.net/ cracking in the structure transit. — is approved within a reasonable time frame and work begins in August, the repairs could be completed before the weather gets cold.
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Former Silver Spring resident Roger Vales says that eight years ago, three people swindled him and his wife out of $350,000 in a fake investment scheme. He has been trying to recover his money ever since. His quest has sparked criminal and civil court cases, including a 15-year prison sentence against one woman and a civil judgment in federal court in Vales’ favor this year. Despite victories in criminal and civil court, Vales, who now lives in West Palm Beach, Fla., said he may never get his money back. But he hasn’t given up hope of persuading prosecutors to seek criminal charges against two people he says were involved. “I just want justice,” he said in a recent interview. In 2005, Vales and his wife, Lourdes — who had worked at the Organization of American States — invested part of Lourdes’ pension in a loan organized by Alma Preciado, who was then a rising star in the Republican Party in Montgomery County. Vales had completed several deals with Preciado in the past. Preciado promised to put together a deal in which he could lend money to a couple with an initial interest rate of 12 percent, he said. When he hesitated, she offered 15 percent, then 17 percent, he said. The deal was for a balloon note; he could ask for the principal after six months,
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Needwood Boathouse, 15700 Needwood Lake Circle, Rockville. Read a different story onboard and look for what’s swimming, soaring and standing nearby. $2 per adult, $6 for kids. Register at www.parkpass.org. Dance Club Friday, 1:15-2:15 p.m., Holiday Park Senior Center, 3950 Ferrara Drive, Wheaton. The Retro Rockets include rock and roll, tangos and Latin music in their repertoire. $5. 240-777-4999. Spring Awakening, 7 p.m., Walt Whitman High School, Daryl Shaw Auditorium, 7100 Whittier Blvd., Bethesda. A show that delves into the angst and tribulations of the adolescent experience. $15 for adults and $10 for students in advance, $20 and $15 at door, respectively. awakenthefringe@gmail.com.
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Ostrega, of Silver Spring, said he dreamed about joining the Peace Corps since he was 14. “From an early age, my parents instilled in me the importance of community service,” he said in an email. “That desire to serve along with my interests in living abroad and learning a new language all fueled my desire to join the Peace Corps.” Ostrega wasn’t picky about his destination when applying. He said his only request was to be placed in a Spanish-speaking country in South or Central America. When offered a chance to live in a small town in the northwestern corner of the Dominican Republic, near its border with Haiti, he accepted it right away. The Dominican Republic makes up two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola; Haiti accounts for the rest. While living there, Ostrega has been working to improve cookstoves to reduce wood consumption and improve the respiratory health of women who use the stoves every day. Typically, rural Dominican communities use wood as a cooking fuel, but burning it produces large amounts of smoke and is not energy efficient. With funding from the State Department, Ostrega said he and the community are fixing the problem, with the new stoves burning wood more efficiently. “These cookstoves aim to reduce wood consumption, which helps limit deforestation as well as remove environmental wood smoke from the kitchen,” he said. “[This] dramatically improves respiratory health for the women who cook over these open fires every day.” Ostrega said the community also plans to build composting latrines to help keep the groundwater clean. He said the community’s Mothers Club association is spearheading the effort. The project will be funded by a Peace Corps Partnership Program grant. Now halfway through his service, Ostrega said he hopes the projects he works on in the Dominican Republic continue to help the community for years to come. “I hope that all the work I do
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sion television station. The county will have a weekly news segment called “Montgomery al Día,” or “Montgomery Today.” The segment will highlight programs, services and events related to the county’s departments. Lorna Virgilí, a Spanishlanguage broadcast journalist and public information officer with the county, will lead the segment. It will be shown during Friday newscasts of Noticias Washington.
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Save 10 Mile Creek rally in Silver Spring The Save 10 Mile Creek Coalition hold a rally from 9 to 10 a.m. Thursday in Royce Hanson Park next to the Montgomery County Planning Board offices at the intersection of Georgia Avenue and Spring Street in downtown Silver Spring. That’s the day that planning department staff will present their draft and request a public hearing date for their plan on 10 Mile Creek. The coalition says none of the plans under consideration adequately protect the Clarksburg creek. For more information visit savetenmilecreek.com.
YMCA’s Trigger Thoughts and Distortions workshop YMCA Youth and Family Services will hold a workshop designed to help identify trigger thoughts that intensify parents’ or their children’s anger. The workshop will explore how to analyze the distortions and develop alternative coping strategies. The workshop will run from 7 to 8:30 p.m. July 31 at 9601 Colesville Road, Silver Spring.
Silver Spring chamber honors Shining Stars Six Silver Spring businesses, individuals and organizations were honored by the Greater Silver Spring Chamber of Commerce as Shining Stars of Silver Spring at the business group’s 20th anniversary awards and installation dinner June 26. They were Innovative Business Interiors, 10 or fewer employees; the Daily Dish, 11 to 50 employees; Bankers Business Management Services, more than 50 employees; YMCA Youth & Family Services, nonprofit; Richard Guzman of the Army recruiting station in Silver Spring, Shining Patriot; and the Fillmore Silver Spring, Arts and Entertainment Shining Star. The chamber also recognized the 3rd District Police Officers of the Year: Cpl. Douglas Miller and officers Brian Walburn and William Weill. The following were installed as directors for 2013-14: Chairman J. Manuel Ocasio, imme-
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from 2755 Cassedy St. in Silver Spring, in front of the old gymnasium. For more information, visit saveourseminary.org or call Save Our Seminary at 301589-1715. Reservations are not needed, but there is a $5 fee for nonmembers of the organization.
Sunday hours now at Long Branch Library
County students awarded National Merit Scholarships
The Long Branch Library at 8800 Garland Ave., Silver Spring, is now open Sundays, from noon to 5 p.m. “I know, very well, how residents value their public libraries and how important it is to have them open at times that are convenient for customers. That is why I am proud that we are able to provide this service at Long Branch for the first time,” County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) was quoted as saying in a press release. The Long Branch library also is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and from 1 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Thirteen Montgomery County public school students received National Merit Scholarships in the latest round of awards sponsored by universities and colleges. This final round brings the total number of this year’s county public school winners to 65, or more than one-third of the 185 recipients in Maryland. The latest winners include the following: Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring: Isaac C. Friend, University of Chicago, physics; Tony Liang, University of Maryland, electrical engineering; and Adam M. Lott, University of Rochester (N.Y.), undecided.
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Janel & Anthony perform in Silver Spring
Take a guided walking tour of the historic National Park Seminary property and see a display of archival items in the grand ballroom that show the stages of the seminary’s history at 1 p.m. Saturday. The tour begins across
Janel & Anthony will perform from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Friday at the BioWall Plaza, a multimedia outdoor public plaza and art space on the grounds of United Therapeutics in downtown Silver Spring. The duo performs contem-
porary music comprising cello, guitar and some electronic elements. They are signed with Cuneiform Records of Silver Spring. The free concert’s rain date is 4 to 5:30 p.m. Saturday. The space is on the corner of Cameron and Spring streets.
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County’s primary food bank, will hold its July Help the Hungry food drive from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at all 27 Giant Food stores in Montgomery County. Volunteers will be in front of the supermarkets to accept donations of nonperishable foods. Items on the Manna Healthy Food Wish List include canned tuna and salmon packed in water, canned or dried beans, brown rice and oatmeal. The complete list will be available at the stores. “The current need for donations of canned products is critical during these summer months,” Jenna Umbriac, director of nutrition programs for Manna, wrote in an email. “While we are able to provide our clients with an abundance of fresh produce this season, we are very low on staple nonperishable items.”
County teams up with Univision Montgomery County is teaming up with Noticias Washington, the area’s Univi-
one-week summer camp, Monday through Aug. 2, for middle school students interested in the growing field of cybersecurity. The session provides hands-on activities focused on science, technology, engineering, math and cybersecurity. Students will be taught basic concepts of programming, forensics, cryptography and program management from a series of gaming, modeling and simulation activities that explore the interconnections of science, math, technology and computers, according to the school. Camp will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The campus is at 20200 Observation Drive. The cost is $250 for county residents. Registration at montgomerycollege.edu/youth.
DEATHS Maxwell Croft Howard Maxwell Croft Howard, 91, formerly of Rockville, died July 17, 2013 at the Charlestown retirement community in Catonsville. A service will take place at 10 a.m. July 27 at Pumphrey’s Funeral Home in Rockville, followed by interment at Parklawn Memorial Park.
Charles Gordon Hollister Charles “Chuck” Gordon Hollister, 82, formerly of Gaithersburg and recently of Schuyler, Neb., died July 18, 2013, in David City, Neb. Funeral services took place July 22 at the Svoboda Funeral Home South Chapel in Wahoo, Neb., followed by burial at the Cedar Grove Extension Cemetery in New Bern, N.C.
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Del. Heather Mizeur kicked off her campaign for governor with a series of events across the state emphasizing the importance of service. The events included a meeting Friday with supporters in Glenarden for which people were asked to bring supplies for a Capitol Heights shelter for women and children, restoring a playground in Silver Spring on Saturday, cleaning up marshlands in Cambridge on Sunday and reading with campers at a summer program in Baltimore on
Monday. At the Silver Spring event, about 30 volunteers braved intense heat to help repaint areas for hopscotch, foursquare and other games at Galway Elementary School, Mizeur (D-Dist. 20) of Takoma Park said. Mizeur, 40, joins a Democratic primary field that includes Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, who has chosen Howard County Executive Ken Ulman as his running mate. Attorney General Douglas Gansler has said he’ll run, but doesn’t plan to start campaigning formally until the fall. Harford County Executive David Craig and Anne Arundel Del. Ronald George (Dist. 37B) are seeking the Republican nomination. Craig recently picked Del. Jeannie
Haddaway-Riccio (Dist. 37B) of Newcomb as his running mate. Mizeur said she’s emphasizing service in her campaign because community service offers people a chance to talk and work with people they otherwise might not. One of her focuses in office would be to create a statewide service corps, along with rethinking how Maryland creates jobs and approaches the criminal justice system. “I think it’s time to fundamentally change the way we do business, how we govern this state,” Mizeur said. She added that the comment wasn’t intended as a criticism of the administration of Gov. Martin O’Malley (D). rmarshall@gazette.net
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Homeowners in Takoma Park will soon have to read their pesticide bottles and make sure they are on approved lists. The Safe Grow Zone Act passed unanimously Monday night at the Takoma Park City Council meeting. Commercial pesticide applicators will be restricted beginning on March 1, 2014 and restrictions of homeowner applications will begin on Jan. 1, 2015. “We want to thank you for treating this as the serious public health issue that it is,” said Julie Taddeo, one of the writers of the proposed ordinance. Takoma Park residents Catherine Cummings and Taddeo proposed the act several months ago as an effort to restrict the use of pesticides they say are harmful to residents’ health and the environment. The act restricts the use of cosmetic pesticides on lawns. Home-
owners in Takoma Park can still use approved pesticides on gardens, invasive and noxious weeds and insecticides on disease-carrying insects. “We believe it will serve as a model piece of legislation for other communities,” Taddeo said. Greenbelt has passed similar pesticide restricting ordinances.
Knocking on tenants’ doors Political candidates are no longer allowed to knock on Takoma Park tenants’ doors for their campaigns. An ordinance amending the Takoma Park Code, Title 6 Housing passed its final round of votes unanimously Monday. The revision will require multiunit residential property managers’ permission for city employees or candidates to enter these facilities to reach residents. Registered political candidates will be able to enter these buildings for the 90-day period before a primary, general or special election to distribute campaign material or speak with residents with permission from the property management company, according to the law. Councilman Terry Seamens (Ward
4) said he has experienced trouble knocking on the doors of apartment tenants but not homeowners while he campaigns. “I can’t engage the tenants in the same way that I can the homeowners,” Seamens said. Many apartment residents have voiced concerns about this act, like Robin Schafer, who lives in the Kennebec Apartments on Kennebec Avenue. She said the act is too broad. “The wording is not restrictive at all,” Schafer said. “City employee means any city employee. I asked the city clerk and that’s like 150 people. And they can come into the building unattended by a tenant.” She said her building doesn’t have a buzzer, so the only way city employees could enter the apartment would be if they were given keys or access codes by the property management company, which worries her. “I want more outreach from candidates,” Schafer said. “I just don’t think they need my front door key to do it. This is one of the most invasive ways.” The candidates should make themselves more accessible, instead of tenants becoming more accessible with this act, according to Schafer.
“One of the concepts that I found surprising tonight is that people consider the front door of the building to be the front door of their home,” Seamens said. “And therein lies a big difference between my concept and the tenants’ who live in these buildings concept. They consider themselves to be home when they go through that front door.” Schafer does consider herself home once she opens the front door of the Kennebec Apartments building. “I feel the council didn’t realize the extent to which they’re breaching that,” she said. “There is a custom here. And telling us who should come in the door really violates that.” Seamens said these fears are not irrational, but also come from not understanding how the act will work. “All I was asking for was the right to go knock on the door of their home,” Seamens said. “They have a right not to answer the door. They have a right to tell me to go away. They have a right to put a sign on their door that says ‘no soliciting.’” The council will recess until Sept. 3. mchertock@gazette.net
Arborist to ride more than 500 miles in Tour des Trees Race to end at conference in Toronto; proceeds to go to tree research and education
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Jonathan Carney will be one of 36 new bicyclists hoping to improve tree research and education later this month at the STIHL Tour des Trees, the country’s largest fundraising event for the Tree Research and Education Endowment Fund. Carney, 25, works for Washington, D.C.-based Casey Trees, a nonprofit that works to protect the tree canopy in the greater Washington, D.C., area. He and a co-worker plan to ride 585 miles in one week in the tour and stay for an industry conference not far from the finish line in Toronto. The former Silver Spring resident, who now lives in Adams Morgan, said he bikes to and from work every day and rides sometimes 70 miles for fun on the weekends. Carney said he ran cross-country in middle school, high school and college, but decided to switch to cycling, an endurance sport that’s “less hard on the legs.” Carney said he tends to ride road bikes and bikes that are a hybrid of racing and non-racing styles. This is not his first race, but Carney
said this is the first industry-based race he has participated in — and certainly the first one he’s “getting paid to go and do.” “It’s a way for people who ride for tree companies to get exposure and the tree fund arboriculture world to have fun and race each other,” Carney said. Carney said he and a fellow coworker will head to his father’s house in West Virginia on Friday. From there, his dad will drive the two to Buffalo. The tour is supposed to roll out of Niagara Falls on Sunday and finish Aug. 3 in Toronto, where the International Society of Arboriculture conference will take place Aug. 4 through 7. The conference is for industry professionals to do outreach, share knowledge and network, said Mary DiCarlo, development and communications manager for the TREE Fund. The TREE Fund was created in 2002 to research and educate how to keep trees alive in places where trees are constantly effected by construction, pollution and improper care, she said. DiCarlo said the tour started in 1992, when 13 arborists rode from Seattle to Oakland in a week, raising $89,000 that was given to the society’s research trust. The tour, she said, has continued every year since. Last year’s ride, she said, raised about $650,000. On average, 65 percent of the cyclists have ridden in the tour before,
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Jonathan Carney, a former Silver Spring resident, will be cycling more than 500 miles in the Tour des Trees later this month. DiCarlo said. “We’re trying to reach out to the industry to bring new people in and we’re really excited about the number of professionals that joined the ride this year,” DiCarlo said. While he has not prepared much
for this ride, Carney said he is excited for the working vacation. “I get to see a part of the country I’ve never seen before on a bike,” Carney said. “I’m just excited.” krose@gazette.net
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The official confirmation of Thomas E. Perez as U.S. labor secretary last week adds another Takoma Park resident who has hit the big time, governmentally speaking. Other Takoma Park notables include White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot, Federal Reserve Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin and Montgomery County Council members George Leventhal, Marc Elrich and Hans Riemer. “You might not find [many] corporate CEOs in Takoma Park,” Leventhal said. “It’s also a very political environment” and an active, involved community, he said, adding that the proximity to Washington, D.C., and conveniently located Metro station didn’t hurt either. State Sen. Jamie Raskin (D-Dist. 20) of Takoma Park, who is married to the federal reserve governor, said Takoma Park provides a welcome counterpoint to life in the District. As depicted in the recent book “This Town,” D.C. can be marked by hypocrisy, pretense and artifice, he said. Takoma Parkers are engaged more in lively community activities than social-climbing, Raskin said. “It’s the place where people can go if they understand that there is something potentially corrupting about the elite culture in Washington, D.C.,” he said. Of course, the city — sometimes referred to as “the People’s Republic of Takoma Park,” both affectionately and not — also has been home to some prominent journalists and commentators, including Clarence Page and Matt Drudge. Polk Award-winner David Corn of Mother Jones magazine lived in the city. He broke the story of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s infamous remarks about the “47 percent.” Actress Goldie Hawn grew up in Takoma Park. Former NBA star Steve Francis lived there, too. Novelist James Grady, who wrote the novel upon which the film “Three Days of the Condor” was based, also lives in the city, Raskin said. Then, there’s Howard Kohn, who wrote a book about whistle-blower Karen Silkwood. “He’s a big-time civic activist,” Raskin said. dleaderman@gazette.net
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Probe finds ‘no attempts’ to defraud students BY
LINDSAY A. POWERS STAFF WRITER
An initial investigation by Montgomery County Public Schools found the work-study program at Rock Terrace School was “poorly managed” and “money was inappropriately used,” according to a Thursday letter from Christopher S. Garran, associate superintendent of county high schools, to the school’s parents. However, there does not appear to have been fraudulent activitybyschoolstaff,thelettersays. The Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office is continuing to investigate the allegations with assistance from the school system. Thursday’s letter said the school’s principal, Dianne G. Thornton, who had been on administrative leave, announced her retirement effective Aug. 1. The Rockville school serves developmentally disabled students. “To date, the investigation has found that there appears to have been no attempt to intentionally defraud students and their fami-
lies of funds provided to students as part of their educational program,” the letter said. The letter was posted on the school’s website late last week and a recorded phone call went out to parents and staff directing them to the letter, said Dana Tofig, a spokesman for the school system. Parents claimed weeks ago that the school’s administration had misappropriated the funds. Tofig said he could not comment on whether Thornton’s retirement was related to the investigation, saying it was a personnel matter. Reached by phone on Monday, Thornton said she was not interested in commenting. Tofig said the investigation involved interviews with several parents and the school’s staff. Student bank account records at the school were found “incomplete” and the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office will request account records from the Educational Systems Federal Credit Union using subpoenas, the letter said. Accounts were created at the credit union to hold money students earned through workstudy experiences. The school system also sent a second letter to the family of every student known to have a
credit union account or who was in the payroll system, Tofig said in an email, adding that families of students from prior years were included. “MCPS sent letters home to comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act so that we could share information that would allow the State’s Attorney’s office to subpoena records from the credit union and provide other information to assist in the State’s Attorney’s investigation,” he said in the email. The second letter said the school system’s investigation, which is continuing, “has not found criminal wrongdoing.” “Nevertheless, MCPS and the State’s Attorney’s Office believe that a thorough investigation requires complete bank records on the credit union ac-
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counts that were opened by students, with staff assistance, as part of their transition to work educational experience,” it said. The school system’s initial investigation found that some money Rock Terrace students had earned through the program had been put toward school activities. Other work experience programs in the system’s high schools generally treat the money as the students’, according to the first letter. Some parents also were not told the students were being paid or about the bank accounts, the letter says. The school’s work program will continue during the upcoming school year, as will other high schools’ programs, but the stipends will be put on hold “until the district is able to clarify whether these stipends should be
treated as earned income.” Garran said in the letter that a community meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday at the school will give parents the chance to hear about the investigation from school system staff and ask questions. Tofig said it is likely that Larry Bowers, the school system’s chief operating officer, Garran and members of the system’s special education department would be at the meeting. He said he did not know if Thornton would attend. Lyda Astrove, a Rockville lawyer and special-education advocate working with Rock Terrace parents, said she was pleased to hear about the community meeting. Astrove said she thinks that questions remain, including those about how much the students made, where exactly the
money went and if the students will see the money. “This isn’t a happy thing for all these families that this happened but this is the first step on the road to making it right,” she said. Tamara Clark, whose son recently graduated and earned money while a student there, said she was bothered by the school system’s decision to suspend the stipends. “They [the students] have an opportunity to get paid for work, and now they’re punishing everybody,” Clark said. Clark called the letter posted to the website “wimpy” and said she still has a lot of questions. “I want to know where the money went,” she said. “And I want to know why us parents weren’t told.” lpowers@gazette.net
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Longtime Silver Spring school makes Hyattsville its home n
Special education school says most students are from Prince George’s BY
ERIC GOLDWEIN STAFF WRITER
After 36 years in Silver Spring, a well-known school for children with learning disabilities has moved to Hyattsville, a change officials said allows the school to be located where demand has been the greatest: Prince George’s County. Chelsea School, a nonpublic school that serves grades 5 through 12, consists mostly of publicly funded students — children whose tuition is paid by their local school system because they need more specialized help than a public school can provide, according to Head
of School Kate Fedalen. Nonpublic schools, which are approved by the Maryland State Department of Education, are independent from the school system, but provide some publicly funded services. Enrollment at the school has declined over the years — the school has about 70 students now compared to 100 about a decade ago — and the students are now predominantly from Prince George’s County, Chelsea officials said. Prince George’s funded tuition for 33 students at the school last year, while Montgomery funded three, according to school data. “The move will enable the school system to work closely with the Chelsea School to align curriculum demands and foster efforts to return students to their neighborhood schools, as
ready,” said ShaVon McConnell, a Prince George’s County schools spokeswoman. The shift coincides with the expansion of special education programs in Montgomery and Prince George’s County public schools. Montgomery increased its special education budget from $182 million in 2004 to $279 million in 2013, according to Brian Edwards, chief of communications for the Montgomery County school system. Last year, Montgomery funded 513 nonpublic students — down from 657 in 2004. “We’ve become much better over the last 10 years in being able to meet a broader array of needs of our students,” he said, explaining the decrease in the number of students who get funding for private schools. Similarly, Prince George’s has
increased its special education budget while reducing nonpublic enrollment by about 300 students in the last five years, to approximately 900 students, said Mary Bell, a coordinating supervisor of special education for Prince George’s County public schools. “We try to build and sustain as many students as we can in their neighborhood schools,” she said. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act requires schools to provide specialeducation students a free and appropriate education. Under Maryland law, parents must prove the school system cannot provide an appropriate education in order to receive county funding for use at a private school. Parents in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties said
getting county funding can be challenging. Nancy Doumchick of Greenbelt, who has a son with a language-based learning disorder at Chelsea School, said her child was underserved in the Prince George’s school system, but the county would not provide reimbursement. “It’s a very frustrating process, and I understand why some people don’t want to through with it,” Doumchick said. Montgomery County resident Sherry Lamper enrolled her daughter in Chelsea School, but will send her to public school in the fall after trying for three years to get Montgomery County to provide private school funding. “You’re not entitled to the best education. You’re entitled to a free and appropriate educa-
The following is a summary of incidents in the Silver Spring area to which Montgomery County police responded recently. The words “arrested” and “charged” do not imply guilt. This information was provided by the county.
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• On July 3 at 2:30 a.m. in the parking lot of 7-Eleven, 13880 Old Columbia Pike, Fairland. The suspect threatened the victim with a weapon and took property. • On July 7 at 5:54 a.m. in the 14100 block of Castle Boulevard, Silver Spring. The suspect threatened the victim with a weapon and took property. • On July 8 at 11:09 a.m. in the 14300 block of Beaker Court,
Burtonsville. The suspect threatened the victim with a weapon and took property.
Commercial burglary • On July 5 at 3:02 a.m. at Wilson Tires, 15420 Old Columbia Pike, Burtonsville. Forced entry, unknown what was taken.
Residential burglary • 1200 block of Oakview Drive, Silver Spring, between 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. July 1. Forced entry, took property. • 14300 block of Beaker Court, Burtonsville, between 6 p.m. July 1 and 7 a.m. July 2. Attempted forced entry, took nothing. • 800 block of Houston Avenue, Silver Spring, at 7:01 p.m. July 2. Unknown entry, took property. • Unit block of Hunters Gate Court, Silver Spring, at 3:53 a.m. July 5. Forced entry, took nothing. • 11400 block of July Drive, Silver Spring, at 9:15 a.m. July 5. Unknown entry, unknown what was taken.
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What if water woes hit Montgomery? n
Replacing aging water mains carries a $2 billion price tag BY
SYLVIA CARIGNAN STAFF WRITER
After a water crisis was averted in Prince George’s County, Montgomery County representatives are considering the reliability of their local water infrastructure. In parts of Prince George’s County, the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission temporarily enacted water restrictions last week after a 54-inch pipe threatened to break. The main was repaired and back in service by July 19, thanks to a small team of workers who were able to repair a stuck valve, according to a WSSC press release. WSSC’s Prince George’s County customers did not lose service, the release said. Stuart Freudberg, director of environmental programs at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, said the aging water main reflects the state of some of the region’s water infrastructure. The utility may have few options when it comes to pipe maintenance and replacement, depending on the location. In some parts of the system, redundancy exists, and secondary pipes are able to shoulder some of the pressure when necessary. “In general, the utilities seek to have redundancy,” Freudberg
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Continued from Page A-1 The work group, which meets every Thursday, comprises the county, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority and contractors on the project. Rodrigo Bitar, assistant general manager for WMATA, read a long statement on behalf of the agency, stating multiple times throughout Tuesday’s briefing that WMATA still wants to operate the facility. WMATA is concerned, however, that the root problem for the excessive cracking has not yet been identified, which he said could affect the longevity of the structure. Bitar said WMATA is committed to operating the facility as per its contract with the county only if it is assured of the longevity of the structure and will not be held liable for maintenance costs. An agreement between the county and WMATA stipulates that the structure would have a life expectancy of 50 years. Dise and the county maintain that the repairs they are engineering will ensure the longevity of the structure to 50 years, given regular maintenance, something Dise said WMATA agreed to and accounted for in its budget for the project. “We believe that this has done what we expect it to do and achieve the results that were desired,” Dise said of the remediation plans. One point of contention between the county and WMATA at the briefing was the use of slot stress testing — which tests load-bearing capacities to measure how the stress impacts the structure — to provide the best approach to repairing the facility. Dise insisted the test was unnecessary because testing to evaluate the ground conditions of the structure have already happened at the facility. WMATA believes the test will provide the “best approach to conducting an analysis” of the root problem for cracking at the center. WMATA said it is not opposed to other types of testing, though no other examples were provided. The test, according to officials, could cost up to $800,000, which Dise said would ultimately produce “inconclusive” results. “When I read your responses, I do harken back to a time when it was made clear to our county that you really weren’t prepared to take on the responsibility to maintain this facility,” Councilman Roger Berliner (D-Dist. 1) of Bethesda said of the agency’s correspondence. “I believe your posture now is inextricably linked to that fundamental position.” The county awarded the contracts to build the $120 million transit center, at Colesville Road and Wayne Avenue. According to the county’s contract with WMATA, the agency would then operate the facility. The center
said. “That clearly doesn’t exist, necessarily, in every single case.” Valves in some locations may help ease pressure on certain pipes, but “the only true redundancy is a second pipe,” WSSC spokesman I.J. Hudson said. According to WSSC documents from April 2013, the cost of replacement for all the utility’s large water mains, from 36 inches to 96 inches in diameter, would cost about $2 billion. Montgomery County Councilwoman Nancy Floreen said the public is generally aware that WSSC is making improvements to the infrastructure. “They know WSSC is working hard to upgrade their system, and all the ratepayers know about it because their rates have been going up,” Floreen said. Freudberg said the price of replacing water mains hinders the process, and the cost would likely fall on those who pay WSSC bills. “You can’t unduly burden your ratepayers with huge rate increases all the time because people, especially at the lower end of the economic ladder, can be spending huge portions of their salary [on water bills],” he said. Many of the aging mains in the region are located near the Capital Beltway, Freudberg said, but old neighborhoods don’t necessarily mean old mains. A major break in a 66-inch water main on River Road in Bethesda in 2008 led to a deluge of water that trapped 15 people
and shut down roads. The main broke before it was fitted with a fiber-optic monitoring system, like the one that warned WSSC of a possible break in the Prince George’s County main last week. “WSSC is very focused on ... setting priorities to addressing the most critical need, but they can’t always keep ahead of every single pipe and every single issue,” Freudberg said. The economic impact of water main breaks or water restrictions on businesses is unlikely to be permanent, but it depends on the business, said Marilyn Balcombe, president of the Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce. “For the most part, business interruption is a short-term problem that businesses would likely recover from,” Balcombe said. “However, we’re just coming out of a recession, and reserves may be low.” For retailers, customers are oftenforgivingiftheyknowalocation wasaffectedbyawatermainbreak. “Businesses are resilient, and customers are resilient,” she said. Balcombe and Ginanne Italiano, president of the Greater Bethesda-Chevy Chase Chamber of Commerce, said they have not heard complaints or concerns from member businesses about possible water main breaks or related WSSC issues.
was slated to open in 2011. Under county direction, workers are trying to repair individual “pour strips” — sections of concrete — that showed a series of cracks. The cracks were the result of a lack of reinforcement in the concrete, according to a contractor’s report delivered to the county in March, which further delayed the center’s opening. Originally, the county was planning to completely remove and replace the pour strip sections that lacked reinforcement at the facility, county spokesman Patrick L. Lacefield said Monday. But WMATA raised concerns that the work could produce further unanticipated stress to the structure. The agency asked the working group to look further at the issues, and the working group
agreed WMATA was correct. Instead of completely removing the concrete, workers could remove portions of the concrete, add reinforcements and then repour concrete. Now that the county has pushed forward with the alternative, the agency has “flipped,” saying the concrete sections should be removed entirely, Lacefield said. “We reconsidered it in the first place because of them,” Lacefield said Monday. “Now they are saying it all needs to come out.” Bitar, Dise and members of the county all agreed that it is in everyone’s best interest to “get the structure open as soon and safely as possible.” The county is scheduled to brief the council again on Aug. 15 about the project.
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formerly of Brookeville, Maryland, turned a nice, even 88 years of age on the last day of his life July, 15, 2013. He died as he predicted, of “natural causes.” George was born in 1925 to Laura K and George B Smith in Dundee, Illinois and grew up on the family farm. He graduated high school from St. Meinrad Seminary in St. Meinrad, Indiana. Upon graduation, George enlisted in the US Army, and served in the Army Air Corps in Takarazuka, Japan and Fairbanks, Alaska. When his tour of duty was complete, George enrolled in Northwestern University earning a BS in Mechanical Engineering. While interning with Bell Aircraft he met and fell in love with Lois, also an engineer at Bell, when he cleverly asked her if she had change for a dime so that he could buy a Coke. George and Lois shared Cokes for the next 60 years! His career with various mechanical engineering companies took him from Syracuse, NY to Silver Spring, MD, Toledo, OH, then finally back to Maryland. In 1967 he and Lois formed Industrial Air Conditioning Company which became a successful commercial HVAC contractor throughout the Washington, DC area. Having never quite forgotten his farming roots, George and Lois purchased a small farm in Brookeville, MD in the mid 1970’s. He acquired, restored and used antique farm machinery at Sunnybrook Farm and especially enjoyed putting on threshing demonstrations at local community events. From his early years raised with 7 siblings in a staunch Catholic family, his faith remained a strong fixture in his life. He enjoyed singing in the choir of St. Peter’s Parish during the years spent in Maryland, where he was active in study groups, religious education, and other parish activities, especially those involving building and maintenance. In the early 1980’s, George began to concentrate his engineering efforts on solving the problem of ice and frost build up in refrigerated warehouses. He used his mechanical engineering degree as well as his good old fashioned farmer’s ingenuity to develop and patent the HCR, Air Curtain. In 1991 with most of his kids either already living in Montana or headed that way, George became in his words “a falling leaf in a flowing stream.” He moved his newly formed business, HCR, Inc, (named after the unique Horizontal, Curvilinear, Recirculatory air-flow pattern in the doorway) to Lewistown. HCR, Inc. continues to provide safe and energy efficient doorway solutions to the industry today. His passion to keep old time farming ways alive led him to donate his entire collection of antique farm equipment to the Maryland-National Park and Planning Commission for their historic farm upon his departure to Montana. Once in Montana, George and Lois settled into ‘Sunnybrook Farm – West” on the divide East of Lewistown where he enjoyed establishing a garden and orchard and just “puttering around” the place. After the move to Montana, George concentrated his efforts on building the success of HCR, Inc. and was always eager to have an audience to which he could explain the principles of psychrometrics!
or collect interest for two years. Preciado told him the couple interested in the loan would put up their Bethesda house as collateral, Vales said. The deal became too good to pass up, and on April 5, 2005, he wrote a check for $350,000 to Dorita deLemos Down, whom he believed to be an owner of the house. “We got fooled,” said Vales, 66, a Cuban-American who worked as a director of Hispanic Employment Programs in several government agencies. Down, in her 80s, lives at the home on Augusta Lane. But the home never was Down’s to mortgage — it belonged to her husband, Harry, county records show. Although she signed the mortgage documents and Harry Down’s name appeared on the documents, he never signed the loan documents Vales looked at before writing out the check. Preciado told him that was a “mistake” that she would fix, he said. Vales and his wife headed to Florida, expecting to hear word that the documents had been completed or that a lien had been placed on the house. Instead, he said, there was silence. After returning to Washington to check what was going on, Vales said, the money landed in the accounts of a now-defunct Washington company called Pidegro LLC, which was working on several development projects in Hidalgo worth more than $60 million, according to William Camp, a principal in Pidegro. Other money went to Metropolitan Financial Services, Preciado’s business; Dorita Down; and Camp. Some money went to salaries in Mexico, along with a Suburban sport utility vehicle, according to court records. Three months after the money landed in Pidegro’s accounts, it was drained, Vales said.
George leaves behind Lois, his devoted wife of 60 years, children Mary Ellen Hendrickson (Matt Paton), Eileen (Randy) Crittenden, Pete (Margaret) Smith and Becky (Mel) Jackson, Grandchildren Jason (Whitney) Hendrickson, Burke Hendrickson, Jeanne Crittenden, Maria (Hunter) Calloway, Rebecca, Rose and Matt Smith and Jamie, Katie and Robbie Jackson, as well as four great grand children. Also siblings Jeanne Shipley, Cyril and Dan Smith as well as many cherished nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, siblings John, Orville, Peggy and Mary Ellen and a great grandson. A Vigil Service celebrating George’s life will be held Sunday, July 21, 2013 at 7 pm at St. Leo the Great Catholic Church in Lewistown, Montana. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 am Monday, July 22, 2013 also at St. Leo’s. Internment with full military honors to follow at Mt. Calvary Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to Hospice of Central Montana, Mt. Calvary Cemetery or the charity of your choice. Creel Funeral Home is assisting with the arrangements. Condolences for the family can be expressed at www.creelfuneralhome.com 1859539
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Roger Vales and his wife, Lourdes, want prosecutors to charge the people they say swindled them out of $350,000 more than eight years ago. The money went to salaries and rent, Camp said. Two different people contacted by phone at Dorita Down’s residence referred questions to her lawyer, Brigida Benitez. Benitez has not returned numerous calls requesting comment. Preciado was charged with embezzlement and theft and related charges. At her sentencing in 2011, Preciado said she was duped by Camp and Down. Preciado said she always was forthcoming with Vales about the unsecured nature of the loan, but, ultimately, it was her partners who cashed the check and stole Vales’ money. In 2009, she said it was Vales who first approached her about the loan, according to a story in The Washington Times. “Mr. Vales walked into my office and said, ‘You haven’t given me any loans,’” she testified at a restitution hearing that year, according to the story. That account says Preciado remembered Vales pushing for a higher interest rate and knowing that the loan was not secured. The Valeses called and visited with the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office and other investigators. Preciado filed a countersuit
against Vales. He spent $200,000 defending himself against Preciado’s suit and pursuing his case. And at one point Dorita Down filed a peace order claiming that she and Vales were in a dating relationship. Vales said he was “shocked” when he heard about that, since he had never had any dealings with Down before his money disappeared. Preciado pleaded guilty to embezzlement and theft in 2009. She fled to Mexico before being sentenced, but she was extradited and brought back to the U.S. in 2011. Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Michael Algeo at one point called her Montgomery County’s “Bernie Madoff” and sentenced her to 15 years in prison. Online court records show she was denied an appeal in 2012. Public defender Theresa Chernosky represented Preciado. Chernosky declined to comment about her client’s case. In May, a civil suit that Vales filed against Preciado, Dorita Down and Camp came to a close, when U.S. District Judge Charles B. Day ordered Down to pay the Valeses back. Although Day ruled against Down, he did not rule against Camp, who disputes much of
Vales’ version of events. “He should leave that lady alone,” Camp told The Gazette, speaking of Down. As for the business of the check, “Dorita and Alma were wrong in what they did, but that was after I got into it,” Camp said. He said he offered Vales a partnership in Pidegro, but Vales spread rumors about Pidegro to officials in Mexico, causing them to scuttle the deal. Vales disputes that account. “He blackmailed me. He told me if I didn’t join Pidegro, I would never see a penny,” Vales says now. Vales is pressing on. Whether he gets any further is unclear. After Vales’ victory in court, Day ruled: “The Valeses have spent enormous energies, and I assume, dollars, getting to this point. They have been a two-person attorney general ... prosecuting their claims. But I query if there is gold at the end of this rainbow.” Finding any “gold” might be hard. After the judgment was issued, Down’s lawyer told Day, “Ms. deLemos Down is an 85-year-old woman with no income. She receives Social Security, has no assets other than, I believe, she owns a car.” On June 17, Down’s lawyer filed a motion asking Day to limit the award to Vales to the original $350,000 — with no interest and no punitive damages. Vales had asked for $839,354.60 in compensation and damages. The case is pending. Now, Vales is asking that the State Attorney’s Office consider pressing charges against Down and perhaps Camp, he said. “As a rule we don’t discuss matters that might be part of an ongoing investigation,” said Ramon Korionoff, a spokesman for the State Attorney’s Office. “Alma Preciado is already serving 15 years in the Department of Corrections. That’s already 30 times the sentencing guidelines for her crime.”
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Duncan Hawvermale wrestled from ages 5 to 15. He spent his first two years at James H. Blake High School on the Bengals’ squad, competing in the 103and 112-pound weight classes. Whenhisjuniorseasonrolledaround, he chose not to go out for the team. The sheer repetition of day-after-day practices got boring, he said. A lifelong snowboarder, he was barred from hitting the slopes while his team was on the mat. “I just didn’t want to put the work in anymore. I got tired of it,” Hawvermale said. “I guess I just didn’t love it as much as I used to.” Hawvermale is among the athletes who, in their latter years of high school or at the beginning of college, discontinued sports they’ve played their whole lives. With children focusing on a single sport at younger ages, players such as Hawvermale can burn out easier as they move through the ranks. “I think that there is a ton of pressure out there,” Sherwood High School softball coach Ashley Barber-Strunk wrote in an email. “School (specific classes to take, grades and scores), family pushing them to be the best, and burnout would be among the top reasons students do not go on after college. These kids are playing year-round when they are younger and do it more vigorously as they get older. I think others don’t see a future beyond college and would rather just not have to worry about something they have been doing year-round since they are young.” Barber-Strunk said, in her experience, maybe one of six softball players will actually pursue softball after high school, either intercollegiately or through intramurals. The emphasis on competition at an early age, she said, turns players off from participating as they get older. “The emphasis on being the best certainly plays a role,” she said. “I think athletes need to relax more and not stress so much.” Sherwood rising senior Kasey Rosen played varsity softball her freshman and sophomore years before dropping the sport just before her junior season. She said she played softball for nearly a decade, and after coming off knee surgery a month before the season began, opted to sit the spring out. “I’d been playing for so long and I kind of just needed a break,” she said. “Some of my friends felt the same way. Some people can keep going and enjoy the sport like when they start, but some people just lose the love of the game.” After missing spending time with
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Continued from Page A-1 high school competition. The Patriots’ 2013 county title was their fourth straight. But those remarkable accomplishments don’t guarantee a college scholarship, and rarely garner attention from most NCAA Division I college coaches. Recruitment and scouting by college coaches is done almost entirely outside of high school competition, said Montgomery County high school coaches in a wide range of sports. “A lot of the really good Division III schools are interested in him — Hopkins, Tufts, Amherst. But like, Yale, [my daughter] is going there and I knew his academics were identical to hers. So, I emailed the tennis coach and he was super nice. But he emailed back and said, ‘Yes, [Bera] has the academic piece, but I only look at the top 40 to 50 players [in the country],’” fifthyear Wootton boys tennis coach Nia Cresham said. Bera, the 2013 Gazette Player of the Year, might have been a lot closer to that high level had he not foregone the spring USTA tournament circuit each of the past three years to play for Wootton and work on his academics. He almost certainly would be better than his current position of No. 814 (of 2,101) in the U.S. Tennis Association’s Boys 18s national rankings. It’s not a decision Bera regrets at all, he said. High school tennis is important to him; he said his college search is more catered to balancing academics with athletics. But that’s not an attitude —
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Rising Sherwood senior Kasey Rosen played softball for nearly a decade before giving the sport up in high school. “I’d been playing for so long, I just needed a break,” she said. friends and family — her older brother Andrew was poised to leave for college — Rosensaidshedecidedshe’dhadenough. “I kind of found a way to get used to it and work my schedule around sports,” she said. “But it just got a little too much. I missed doing stuff with my friends and family. My friends had all this free time and I always wondered what that would be like.” Both Hawvermale and Rosen said they each miss their respective sports. Hawvermale said wrestling always reminded him of friendly roughhousing with his older brother as a child. Rosen said her father gets nostalgic aboutthegametheysharedasshegrewup.
high school over outside participation — that everyone shares. Historically, athletics have been an important part of the American high school culture. Competing well and winning state championships might be the ultimategoal,butstudent-athletes should enjoy and learn from the journey to achieving such feats, Montgomery County high school coaches agreed. Recent studies indicate that participation in sports can help student-athletes in many facets of life, including academically and socially. But in this economy, finding ways to get into college and decrease the growing costs of a continuing education has developed into a competitive sport of its own. As the fight for athletic scholarships reaches new heights, participation in high school sports could become more of a burden than an outlet for Montgomery County’s top athletes. Three of the county’s best boys tennis players — University of Richmond recruit Alex Hahn (Wootton) and Walt Whitman rising seniors Aries Wong and Sean Ngo, the two-time state boys doubles champions — did not compete during the 2012-13 high school season. Several top boys soccer players in the fall skipped playing on their high school team. The reason was a new rule that prohibits U.S. Soccer Academy players from playing high school ball. The U.S. Soccer Development Academy is a partnership between U.S. Soccer and the nation’s top youth club teams to provide the country’s most promising players with an environment designed to produce future national team players. The majority of exposure to
“I kind of wish I was out there again,” she said. “I miss the atmosphere.” But Rosen moved on to play volleyball for the Warriors, where she was part of back-to-back-to-back state championships. She said she doesn’t know if she wants to play varsity volleyball in college, but is convinced she wants to at least play club or recreationally. “It’s so addicting,” she said. Hawvermale’s old wrestling skills certainly came in handy recently — at about 5 a.m. on June 30 in Jackson, N.J. Hawvermale, 22, was a bit groggy walking back to his car. In bare feet and basketball shorts, he was set to drive
four hours from a friend’s graduation party back to College Park. He needed to be there in time to work the 9 a.m. shift at Bill’s Backyard Barbeque. That’s when Hawvermale noticed the trunk of his Chevy Malibu was open and a stranger was rifling through his belongings. A second person was sitting in his front seat toying with his GPS. “The first thing I see is the trunk wide open mysteriously,” Hawvermale said. “The first guy said he was sorry and ran away. The second guy tried to put down my possessions and asked if I could just let him go.” Hawvermale said that wasn’t going to happen. When the perpetrator tried
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Thomas S. Wootton High School’s Titas Bera, The Gazette’s Player of the Year in boys tennis, decided against playing on the U.S. Tennis Association’s tournament circuit so that he could play for the Patriots. college recruitment comes from playing high-level travel soccer, or lacrosse, or volleyball, and so on. It comes from competing in college showcase tournaments, high school coaches agreed. Athletes in individual sports such as tennis and golf must support themselves in a year-round ranking system by competing in as many tournaments as possible. Bera has a jam-packed summer tournament schedule to make up for lost time. He’s currently ranked
No. 43 in the USTA Mid-Atlantic Section and hopes to finish the summer inside the top 20. “[Club] is where 99 percent of college recruiting goes on” second-year James H. Blake High boys soccer coach David Edlow said. “Sherwood lost its goalie [to the Academy system]. That was huge. Bethesda-Chevy Chase lost a bunch, Whitman. Northwood, Clarksburg. I think you’re seeing the quality drop. It’s not going to disappear — there’s plenty of people who want to play. But the
to run, Hawvermale’s 10 years of wrestling experience kicked in. As the second intruder tried to flee, Hawvermale used a wrestling move called “leg riding” — when standing above an opponent, a wrestler twists his leg between his foe’s calf and thigh to bring him down. This freed Hawvermale’s hands, so he could calmly reach into his pocket and call police. He restrained the intruder in that hold until authorities arrived. Hawvermale got to work on time. “Your moves in wrestling stay with you,” he said. jbogage@gazette.net
top goalkeepers and goal scorers are gone.” Time is the biggest obstacle, coaches agree. A rule in the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association handbook states that students may participate in the same sport outside of the school during that sport’s season — some states forbid even that — but those outside commitments cannot conflict with high school practice and competition. For the most part, high school practice — a mix of elite-level individuals and “normal” high school players — is not preparing these aspiring scholarship athletes to play at the level in which they are competing, high school coaches agreed. Therefore, they are doubling, sometimes tripling, up on training sessions. For example, the county’s top swimmers tend to practice nine times a week, before and after school on certain days. They must fit in their school work in between. “It’s so tough to juggle everything. It creates a lot of pressure. It’s very difficult for these kids to be competitive and play for high school. I think there needs to be a little more flexibility. I think there can be a happy medium,” Cresham said. Some sports are affected more than others. Longtime Winston Churchill girls soccer coach Haroot Hakopian said club and high school teams have found a way to coexist in the girls soccer world, with club teams giving way to high school training in the fall season. Wootton girls basketball coach Maggie Dyer said Amateur Athletic Union teams are almost non-existent during the
winter months. High school sports, of course, still have the same allure. Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart rising junior swimmer Katie Ledecky won an Olympic gold medal in the summer of 2012 but was adamant about her desire to remain a part of the Gators squad in 2012-13. The distance freestyler’s smile seemed just as bright in February — when she set two national high school records en route to winning the 200- and 500-yard freestyle events at this winter’s Washington Metropolitan Interscholastic Swimming and Diving Championships — as when she shocked the world by winning the 800-meter freestyle in London. After the Metros, Ledecky spoke of the important role that high school swimming — the opportunity to represent her school — still plays in her life amid her international success and rapidly growing fame. “I’m committed to my high school team — no doubt I wanted to swim high school. It’s a great chance to be with my Stone Ridge teammates and my friends from high school,” Ledecky said at the time. Friends. Teammates. Representing your school. Currently, those three main factors still seem to outweigh the juggling act many elite high school athletes are enduring, for the most part, high school coaches agreed. But many said they fear that might not always be the case. “It’s a hard decision to make. But it’s always a different feeling competing with a team. It’s a lot more fun — you’re with your friends,” Bera said. jbeekman@gazette.net
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Normal 7-year-old boys should not be doubled over in excruciating back pain. Knee discomfort should not prevent an 8-year-old girl from frolicking, carefree, with her friends. In the past five to seven years, however, sports-related ailments such as these are becoming more common, Montgomery County-based physical therapist Stacy King said. King has worked with many county athletes, including Walt Whitman High School rising junior basketball player Annabelle Leahy, who recently underwent her second knee surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in as many years. Leahy had her first surgery when she was 12. “I have been practicing since 1999 and within the niche I have, I treat a lot of athletes. Certainly, the average age is coming down. Looking at the median, it’s certainly getting younger. It’s sad to see a kid who is 8 or 7 coming in with such pain. I’m like, ‘This kid is so young. Why is he here?’” King said. The specialization of athletes in one particular sport at increasingly younger ages has opened youth to many injury problems, said William Levine, the director of the Columbia University Medical Center’s Sports Medicine Department of Orthopaedic surrgery for 16 years. In 2007, the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine initiated the Sports Trauma and Overuse Prevention (STOP) campaign because of the rapid increase in sports-related injuries in children. Levine is chairman of the advisory board. Sixteen years ago, Levine said, he rarely saw athletes under the age of 14 with shoulder and elbow injuries, or
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Physical therapist Stacy King demonstrates a strength test July 17 in Potomac with Walt Whitman High School rising junior basketball player Annabelle Leahy, who has had two knee operations in the last two years. tears to the anterior cruciate ligament in the knee. ACL injuries have become more common, though, and no longer stand out, he said. “The beauty of playing multiple sports is it allows body parts to recover while others are being strengthened or stressed. [Early specialization] is a major change. “Usually, I’ll say, ‘Who’s your favorite baseball player?’ They’ll say Derek Jeter. I’ll say, ‘What do you think Derek Jeter is doing during the offseason?’ One thing he doesn’t do is he doesn’t play baseball. He doesn’t throw; he doesn’t bat. He lets his body recover from a 162-game season. Then, usually the light bulb goes off,” Levine said. More than 5 million athletes under the age of 18 are suffering sports-related injuries each year and approximately half of these cases are due to overuse, according to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. About 3.5 million children under the age of 14 receive medical treatment for sports injuries each year, according to the STOP website. Children ages 5 to 14 account for nearly 40 percent of all sports-related injuries treated in hospitals. In baseball and softball alone, the number of serious shoulder and elbow injuries in young athletes has increased fivefold. The quest for scholarships, as a way to afford college, helps explain the trend. Youth sports has become a huge moneymaking industry, longtime Winston Churchill High School girls soccer coach Haroot Hakopian said. As more young athletes compete for scholarship money, there’s pressure to maintain an edge. Each sport has become year-round
rather than seasonal. Even in professional sports, Hakopian said, athletes cannot train all year and expect their bodies to hold up. Continually training for specific skills then creates an imbalance, especially in the bodies of younger athletes who are still growing and maturing. Athletes who intend to pursue a sport in college eed to specialize at some point. But high school age is an appropriate time, Hakopian said. “There is a lot of stress in this area,” King said. “Parents feel like [their kids] have to pick a sport at a younger age and it’s perpetuating a problem. When I was a kid, we did all sports. We didn’t specialize until we were closer to high school and it allows our body to use muscles in different ways. “Instead of pushing, you also do pulling activities. If you’re a soccer player and you’re a right-side defender, you’re do-
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On national letter of intent signing day, cameras flash and prized senior high school athletes slide on sleek, brand new caps with college logos in front of television crews. They have chosen where they will play sports in college. Young men and women are getting a taste super-stardom months before they receive their high school diploma. Now, there are online recruiting consultants to help colleges find those star players. “The angle I tend to look at it from is the athletes with the requisite skills should have a chance to play in college,” BeRecruited.com CEO Vishwas Prabhakara said. BeRecruited is the largest website in the burgeoning online recruiting industry, with 1.5 million athlete subscribers and more than 25,000 college coaches logging on to search for players in the last year. Any athlete can create a free profile on BeRecruited and post highlight videos, statistics, grades and standardized test scores. The goal is to let coaches see at a glance whether an athlete will fit into their school or system. Athletes can upgrade to a deluxe profile package that provides a monthly report of views that a profile generated. The cost is either $19.99 a month or a one-time $99 fee. College coaches aren’t charged to use the service.
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Continued from Page A-1 For all of the money they spend on the finest coaches, world-class teams, and stateof-the-art equipment, there is a slim chance it will be returned in the form of an athletic scholarship. According to recent NCAA statistics, only 2 percent of high school athletes are awarded scholarships to compete in college. Even then, the average scholarship is only $11,000. Most parents easily can spend more than that on youth sports by the time their children reach college. “Huge. It’s huge,” Bullis boys basketball coach Bruce Kelley
“You have your Rivals.com, your Scouts.com — those kids don’t need recruiting services,” BeRecruited spokesman Vince Wladika said. “Those are the .001 percent of kids who are going to get recruited by the Alabamas or Notre Dames. “That means there are 99.999 percent who want to progress in their sport, but need another bump. These services are for the 99.999 percent, not for the super blue-chippers.” University of Tulsa women’s rowing coach Kevin Harris said that for well over half of the athletes on his team, Tulsa recruiters used BeRecruited to reach them. “It’s really important for us to use these services because getting people to pay attention to a rowing school in Oklahoma is tough,” Harris said. “Truthfully, everybody uses it, I just don’t know if they use it as much as we do.” Salisbury University softball coach Margie Knight said she fears too many student-athletes are using recruiting websites to do the work for them. Marketing is a two-way street, she said, and just as athletes like the personal touches coaches put on recruiting tips, coaches like it, too. “A student-athlete still has to be the one to market themselves,” Knight said. “If I’m just getting blasts from BeRecruited, I delete them. It’s not the student-athlete who’s interested; it’s the corporation.” The approach each service takes to corner a market-share is as different as coaching philosophies. BeRecruited focuses on the selfmotivated athlete, Prabhakara and Wladika said. The service has no direct communication with coaches or recruiters. Players fill in their profiles
said about the cost parents must pay to finance their children’s athletic endeavors. Kelley’s son plays basketball. “People talk about the parents being more involved than ever. ... The parents are taking kids to practice constantly. They’re paying for extra camps and teams. The parents are involved right from the beginning with transportation and paying for these camps and teams. ... I can’t quantify [the cost]. That is a big part of the deal.” Some parents might see this as an investment, a security deposit that will be returned in the form of a Division I scholarship. The major colleges compete in Division I. Division II schools, such as Bowie State University, offer fewer athletic scholarships
without the oversight of their high school coach. “It’s the kids’ job to be proactive to keep their profile up to date, so their profile looks good for coaches,” Wladika said. Popular video editing software Hudl also has a recruiting element, though its placed squarely in the hands of high school coaches. As coaches use the program to analyze game film and share it with their teams, players can cut footage into personal recruiting videos and post it on their individual profile page. “From the core, we want to help coaches win and that’s one of the tools we give them,” Hudl recruiting spokesman Kyle Bradburn said. Hudl does not charge athletes for the service. Instead, teams purchase the program and grant access to each of their athletes. Players can go online to view film and create highlights, or they can use Hudl’s mobile app. On the iPhone version, Bradburn said, double-tapping the screen on a selected portion of a video clip automatically creates a highlight. When coaches think their players are ready to release recruiting material, they alone can send out a recruiting package to colleges that includes highlights, statistics, and academic and contact information. “It’s amazing how quickly they can send these packages to a coach,” Bradburn said. “They can have a big game Friday night. And Saturday morning, a college coach can watch the highlights.” Hudl and BeRecruited offer Webonly support. Jay Jackson, the driving force behind Step Your Game Up, a consulting
than the Division I schools (That varies by sport). Division III schools do not offer athletic scholarships. The idea of parents paying large sums in the name of preparing a Division I-caliber athlete saddens Thurman, who raised three children to play collegiate athletics. “You got to have two different things,” Col. Zadok Magruder boys basketball coach Dan Harwood said. “One is unbelievable, God-given athletic ability. Two, if you don’t have that unbelievable talent, you got to have an unbelievable work ethic.” That doesn’t stop some parents from spending money on the most renowned coaches and top-notch equipment.
firm in Northern Virginia, said the recruiting journey necessitates a handson service. “A lot of times, kids end up going through a website, but not a real faceto-face person and I want to be there for them,” he said. “I try to tell kids what to improve on or tell kids they’re not a Division I player. I’ll be honest.” He was a basketball coach for 13 years and spent another 10 as the assistant admissions director at the Flint Hill School in Oakton, Va. Instead of widely offering Step Your Game Up, Jackson said, he takes about 15 athletes per recruiting cycle. There’s a one-time charge of $500, which includes a personalized Web page, highlight video production and Jackson’s services as an evaluator, mentor and guide through the intense process. “Recruiting is a cutthroat business,” he said. “People’s feelings get hurt, especially kids and parents.” Jackson said the personal relationship he has with clients let him pinpoint the best college programs for each player. As an evaluator, he sometimes reaches out to coaches — or vice versa — to put an athlete on their radar. “A family the other week was uncomfortable with the direction they were going and they asked me to call up another program and see how things developed,” Jackson said. “We had a great conversation and the kid is going to go there.” Knight had one piece of advice for student-athletes: “Do your work yourself. Use the services as another tool to get you where you want to go, not as the main tool.”
ing the same types of movements, which develops motor patterns and you grow and get stronger on one side, in one direction. Imbalance leads to more issues,” King said. Another factor in the injury epidemic is underreporting, Levine said. The pressure to be the best, to not show vulnerability, to not “waste” parents’ money, prevents many young athletes from admitting they are in pain, Hakopian said. That pattern continues into high school. Coaches must be in tune with their athletes, Hakopian added. It is typically obvious when an athlete is compensating for pain. Seeking medical attention is imperative, Levine said. While there are some extreme cases where surgery is necessary, the majority of the children he sees can be treated without an operation. Most of these injuries are preventable and can be avoided by taking proper precautions. STOP is geared toward guiding parents, coaches and athletes on how to safely participate in athletics. It provides information on age-appropriate training regimens. A more realistic view of college athletics also might help. “I don’t think people realize how limited those scholarships are,” Hakopian said. “I’m getting you ready to play soccer in college if you want to play soccer in college. There is a vast difference between playing soccer in college vs. getting money for soccer in college. I think a lot of people are getting into it for the wrong reasons. “Straight from the mouth of all [my] players who have ever gone on to play college soccer, it makes the transition to college much easier. You’re going into this world of the unknown and no matter how much you think you know, soccer provides a sort of security blanket. That’s what I tell people. If you’re passionate about the sport and you love playing it, those are the reasons why you should play.” jbeekman@gazette.net
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Cost of buying youth sports equipment adds up quickly
FIELD HOCKEY n Sticks: $50 to $350 n Goggles: $40 to $80 n Gloves: $15 to $30 n Balls: $6 to $10 n Shin guards: $20 to $50 n Bags: $30 to $80 n Total: $161 to $600 for field players n Goalie sticks: $50 to $110 n Goalie protection: $500 to $565 (includes mask, body guard, leg guards, foam hand protectors, girdle, throat protector)
n Goalie total: $550 to $675
ICE HOCKEY n Helmets: $50 to $250 n Gloves: $35 to $190 n Shoulder pads: $40 to $170 n Hockey pants: $50 to $170 n Shin guards: $30 to $150 n Cup and supporter: $30 to $80 n Neck guard: $13 to $20 n Mouth guards: $10 to $30 n Total: $258 to $1,060 n Basketball: $18 to $70 n Baseball: $5 to $15 individually n Football: $20 to $100 n Tennis racquet: $40 to $200 n Golf clubs: $200 to $500
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For some, money is the equalizer. Parents paying for equipment, camps, coaches, teams, ice time or green fees, and travel expenses might struggle to make ends meet. Some think the best way to win a scholarship is to attend a college coach’s camp, and have the coach see and work with the child. “It’s haves and have-nots,” Paint Branch field hockey coach Dan Feher said. “Which has always been the case, which we’ve tried in the county to avoid in certain cases. Some places have money; some places don’t.” “Haves” might pay for an unguaranteed future of their children’s athletic careers. “Have-nots” might not be able to afford decent equipment
— a complete golf bag can run around $1,000 — without help. The ramifications are both emotional and financial. “I’d say about half of my kids are members at country clubs and a few have had swing coaches,” Thomas S. Wootton golf coach Paul Williams said. “You’re talking thousands and thousands of dollars. These parents and kids are investing loads and loads of time and money and I can’t put an exact number on it, but the expenses are massive.” He added: “The players come to me knowing how to play. They’ve had swing coaches, they’ve had lessons, they’ve played before, and that’s money.” Each sport has its own costs. It costs more to play golf and
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hockey, because of the green fees and ice time, than it does to run track, which requires only a pair of shoes. Asked about certain athletes not having the liberty to choose which sport they want to play due to financial constraints, Thurman said, “Absolutely. There’s absolutely no question about it. I always thought, ‘Wow, I wish I could go to the inner city with a grant and get all these athletes into different sports.’” On the idea of spending money in hopes of getting an athletic scholarship, Thurman said: “Is it worth the extra money? I don’t know. It’s all about trying to find the right balance.” tmewhirter@gazette.net
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Pet project Montgomery County opens its new Animal Services and Adoption Center in Derwood on Nov. 1, meaning a government function that had been provided by the volunteers at the Montgomery County Humane Society will now fall squarely on the county government’s shoulders. The Humane Society spent $1.6 million a year running the well-worn facility on Rothgeb Drive, but as Police Chief COUNTY Thomas NEEDS TO Manger told a County CHANGE Council DOG committee AND CAT last week, LICENSING the new $20 million county center will cost more to run. (The police department oversees animal control services.) One way to bolster the budget would be to seek out grant funds more aggressively. He also mentioned the county could revamp pet licensing. Here, there’s plenty of room for improvement. A few numbers: There are an estimated 400,000 pets in the county. The cost of an annual license for a cat or dog that has been spayed or neutered is $12 and $25 for an unaltered pet. The licensing compliance rate is 7 percent. The county collects $400,000 a year in license fees. There will always be scofflaws, but 7 percent is abysmal. It should be a high priority of the new shelter director to see the compliance rate increase, and fast. A licensed dog or cat ensures that one more pet is vaccinated against rabies, a dangerous disease that can transfer from an animal to a human being. But if a pet license is meant to serve as disease prevention, one has to doubt how seriously the county takes the job. Do pet owners know the licenses need to be updated annually? Do cat owners know they face the same provisions as dog owners? Here, the Humane Society could play a vital role in the new animal services scheme. Another way to improve compliance would be to make it easier to pay. At that committee meeting, participants discussed an online payment system — and it’s odd that one wasn’t created before. And finally, an annual fee of $12 is just too high. Montgomery County residents can point to any number of taxes or fees that ought to be reduced. But the pet tax should be first in line. A homeowner can see the value of paying property taxes, however high, when a police officer meets with a neighborhood watch or a snow plow clears a street. A $12 pet license? Lower the fee, make it easier to pay and remind pet owners it’s their duty. The compliance rate will increase, and fewer tax dollars will be needed to shelter homeless pets. MY MARYLAND BLAIR LEE
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Train deaths the result of trespassing The letter was entitled “Train deaths have implication for Purple Line,” was published on July 10, and was written by Mary Rivkin, a member of the board of directors of the Friends of the Capital Crescent Trail. This is a totally false argument. The two young men unfortunately killed in Garrett Park last week were not “killed by the train.” They were trespassing on the railroad, and on the busy CSX line that is the same as if they went out for
a stroll on Interstate 270. In many cases people who do this also have their music player earbuds in, volume turned way up, and never even hear the train coming. The railroad is not your shortcut to get somewhere. Keep off the tracks — always, and expect a train on any track, in either direction, at any time. What is really going on is an argument by a special interest group that does not want a needed transit im-
provement. The Purple Line will be separated from the trail by a fence, and no one with any intelligence is going to be vaulting the fence to go for a stroll on the railroad. Further, the Capital Crescent Trail would not even have been there had the old B&O Georgetown Branch had been purchased by the government decades ago, with the intent that the right of way would ultimately have been a transit line.
Wasteful defense spending hurting county As sequestration cuts sink in, the consensus seems to be that they are causing little pain, even though they have resulted in cuts for programs in Montgomery County such as housing assistance and senior lunch programs, as well as layoffs and furloughs for government workers and contractors. This comes after years of budget cuts necessitated by economic recession. None of this pain would have been necessary if Congress had the courage to cut wasteful spending that has drawn the criticism of both liberals and conservatives, but there has been no action by either side. Military spending is bloated
by pork and waste that primarily benefit a wealthy few without improving national security at all. Publications as diverse as Businessweek and the American Conservative have listed areas of military waste that could be cut. Weapons manufacturing is rife with corruption and overspending. Fighter planes don’t need to cost $200 million to $300 million apiece. They do because contracts are awarded to companies in districts with influential congressmen, based on political expediency not efficiency or comparative advantage. Other Defense Department programs have nothing to do with defense at all: a $100,000 De-
fense Advanced Research Projects Agency strategy planning workshop including a session titled “Did Jesus die for Klingons too?” that entailed a panel debating the implications for Christian philosophy should life be found on other planets; a DOD and Department of Agriculture co-produced reality cooking show called “Grill It Safe”; and DOD-run microbreweries. The needs of Montgomery County citizens are being sacrificed because Congress doesn’t have the willpower to cut the most bloated and unnecessary programs that both parties have criticized as wasteful.
Since last August, I have tried to license five pets, initial one-year licenses for two cats, one-year renewals for one cat and one dog and a three-year renewal for my younger dog. Acknowledgement for only the one-year dog license was returned by MCHS and even that was mishandled. I had checked the box
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Congratulations to those responsible for creation and approval of the development plan amendment increasing retail space to 484,000 square feet in Cabin Branch [“Planning board OKs Clarksburg outlet center,” July 19]. This amendment sets the stage for Clarksburg to finally have the kind of upscale retail that has long been
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needed. It will transform the unused Adventist property into an asset that will re-energize our community, adding more than 1,000 jobs and over $150 million in private investment to the local economy. Most important, it finally will allow for implementation of a broad vision for Clarksburg that not only incorpo-
rates a wide range of business, service and employment opportunities, but positions it to serve as an attractive — and competitive — place for a wide range of employers and a key component of the economic engine that is driving Montgomery County and the entire state forward.
Shanise DeMar, Clarksburg
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for a new tag but no tag was sent. I have the check images from my bank showing that each payment I sent was processed but I am supposed to have the piece of paper from MCHS for each license. I hope the changes coming in the fall will solve the problems with licenses.
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Carleton MacDonald, Gaithersburg The writer says he worked for a railroad for 33 years.
Paul Layer was portrayed in a front page article as being a hero for defeating a speed camera ticket in county court [“Montgomery County drops case of Damascus speed camera ticket,” July 10]. I’m sure some of us gave a silent cheer to see someone who escaped a fine, especially for those of us who have received these tickets. However, let me present a different perspective. First, in the article Mr. Layer never refuted his ticket on the basis of speeding. Therefore, there was a good chance he was speeding. Second, the camera is along Ridge Road which is heavily traveled and is flanked by numerous schools, residential homes and businesses. Third, Mr. Layer ties up the court with his case and causes untold Montgomery County resources to be spent. So instead of some money going into our county’s coffers, our judicial system languishes on bureaucratic technicalities and thus wastes our tax money. Personally, I support speed cameras from both the safety and revenue standpoint. And I consider the real heroes as those who obey the laws and pay their fair share for any transgressions.
How will pet licenses be handled? Your article in the July 10 Gazette [“County to play larger role in managing animal shelter”] was a little disturbing to me as it did not mention how pet licensing will be handled after the change. While the Texas firm that used to handle that task had problems, they did a better job than the Montgomery County Humane Society.
There is an excellent trail from Bethesda to Georgetown on the portion that will never be used by transit, and the trail and the Purple Line will be integrated on the portion from Silver Spring to Bethesda. Someone just doesn’t want something in her backyard.
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always thought I was born too late,” said musician James Bazen. “ ... I thought I definitely would have been one of those guys in the big bands traveling around, but that doesn’t happen so much anymore.” While traveling big bands may be a thing of the past, Bazen is still managing to live out his big band dreams today. Bazen is the owner of Music Unlimited, a Montgomery County-based booking agency that schedules local bands and DJs. He’s also the leader of the James Bazen Big Band, a 17-piece jazz orchestra. The band will perform at BlackRock for the first time Saturday. Bazen is a graduate of Greensboro College in North Carolina where he earned a degree in musical performance. He then spent a year studying jazz and commercial music at DePaul University in Minnesota. Bazen moved to Montgomery County from Chicago in 1984. “It took me a couple of years to get the business off the ground and make contacts,” he said.
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Piano soloist Jon Nakamatsu from California will perform Gershwin’s classic “Rhapsody in Blue” with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra on Thursday at the Music Center at Strathmore. PHOTO BY SARAH SHATZ
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A year after composer Marvin Hamlisch’s death, Wildwood Summer Theatre presents one of his most celebrated scores with their production of “A Chorus Line,” now in its second week at BethesdaChevy Chase High School. “ ... This seemed commemorative,” said Mattia D’Affuso, Wildwood’s producer. The theater company’s members range in age from 14 to 25. A group of Walter Johnson A CHORUS High School LINE students started the n When: 7:30 p.m. company in Friday, July 26, 1965. Since 2 p.m. and 7:30 then, Wildp.m. July 27 wood has p r o d u c e d n Where: BethesdaChevy Chase at least one High School, musical every 4301 Eastyear. West Highway, “Every Bethesda year, the pron Tickets: $20 ducer and diadults, $18 rector select seniors, $12 a list of five students to six shows and then the n For information: 240-583-0978, board holds wst.org a meeting to choose the shows,” said Ben Lurye, chairman of the board of directors. The 65-member company includes the Wildwood board made up of 15 young people who make decisions about everything from what show the company will produce to rehearsal and performance space. It wasn’t just the anniversary of Hamlisch’s death that led members of Wildwood’s board to choose “A Chorus Line” — the story of Broad-
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Some musicians apply to the Juilliard School in New York for the training they need to become solo pianists, but Jon Nakamatsu of California achieved the same end by using different means. Nakamatsu didn’t go to a music conservatory, but in 1997 the privately trained pianist won the Gold Medal at the prestigious Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, capping his performances with Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto and Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto. “It changed my life overnight — I began touring three days after that,” said Nakamatsu, who will perform Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” during the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s “Gershwin’s Greatest Hits” concert on Thursday at the Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda.
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Devin Goodman, director of “A Chorus Line” (left) gives directions to cast member Alex Palmer who plays Zach.
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A Ratner roundup “6 at the Ratner Museum” continues to July 29 at The Dennis and Phillip Ratner Museum, 10001 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, featur-
ing the “color, abstraction and whimsy” of six unique artists: Rajika Vani Banarjee, Jim Haynes, Kimberly Iles, Ed Ramsburg, Cherie M. Redlinger and Colleen Sabo. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Visit www.ratnermuseum.org/ page/calendar.
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Kimberly Iles’ “Core,” mixed media on Yupo, 30” x 24.”
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The Unexpected Stage Company’s presentation of Alan Bennett’s play, “The Lady in the Van,” continues to Aug. 11 at the Randolph Road Theatre in Silver Spring. From left are Sally Anderson as Miss Shepherd, Adam Downs as Alan Bennett and Lois Sanders-DeVincent as Mam.
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The Unexpected Stage production of Alan Bennett’s “The Lady in the Van” continues to Aug. 11 at the Randolph Road Theatre in Silver Spring. Partial proceeds from Sunday’s 2 p.m. performance will benefit The Dwelling Place. Headquartered in Gaithersburg, the nonprofit assists low income families in Montgomery County achieve housing and financial stability. The performance will be followed by a post-show discussion with Dwelling Place board members, director Christopher Goodrich and actors. Audience members are encouraged to mention The Dwelling Place on Sunday, and half of their admission will benefit the organization. Bennett’s play was inspired by his own personal relationship with Miss Shepherd, a homeless eccentric who moved her van into the playwright’s garden — and remained there for 15 years. For more information, visit www.unexpectedstage.org. PHOTOS BY SHERVIN LAINEZ
Cello, guitar and electronics duo Janel and Anthony will perform in concert on Friday at the United Therapeutics BioWall Plaza in Silver Spring. For more information, visit www.janelandanthony.com.
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Avant-garde at the plaza Sonic Circuits and Cuneiform Records will present the experimental stylings of cello, guitar and electronic duo Janel and Anthony at 6 p.m. Friday at the United Therapeutics BioWall Plaza, Cameron and Spring Streets, Silver Spring. The avant-garde concert marks a first for the plaza, a new urban space recognized for its architecture and “green” design. Guitarist Anthony Pirog and cellist Janel Leppin’s second album, “Where is Home” (Cuneiform) draws on everything from Hindustani ragas to surf rock. Rain date is 4 p.m. July 27. For more information, visit www.janelandanthony.com.
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“Lanterneers” from the puppet company Nana Projects.
Strathmore’s puppet extravaganza continues at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday with “Nana Projects: Alonzo’s Lullaby” at CityDance Studio Theater 405. Featuring an original score co-written and performed live by Strathmore Artist in Residence alumna ellen cherry, Nana Projects’ haunting tale of madness, passion and intrigue was inspired by the tragic Hagenback-Wallace Circus train wreck of 1918. Nana Projects’ style of puppetry is performed by “lanterneers” who project hand-manipulated cutout images made of acrylic gels onto a screen, gracefully and ingeniously using tricks of Victorian magic lantern slide shows. The program is intended for audiences ages 10 and older. Tickets are $8. For more information, visit www. strathmore.org.
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Cuba calling: Free concert offers Afro-Cuban music in Gaithersburg BY
VIRGINIA TERHUNE STAFF WRITER
Traveling to Cuba has become easier in recent years. Those who can’t get there, however, can experience the island’s Afro-Cuban music at the annual Latin Music and Dance Festival on Friday in Gaithersburg. Performing at the event for the first time will be the Afro Bop Alliance, a jazz septet that won a Latin Grammy in 2008 for its CD “Caribbean Jazz Project.” Also performing will be the DC Casineros, a Washington, D.C., based troupe named after a popular Cuban-style salsa called casino. The free outdoor event will take place at the City Hall Concert Pavilion. Organizers suggest bringing a blanket or low-back chair for lawn seating and encourage audience members to join in and dance along with the music. “They say in Cuba, ‘If you can walk, you can dance,’” said DC Casineros director Amanda Gill. Gill, who speaks Spanish, has been to Cuba eight times, most recently with a group of students from George Mason University based in Fairfax, Va. “We’ll probably be getting the audience in circles and lines so they can learn the basic footwork,” she said. Popular dances in Cuba include the “rueda de casino” (“wheel of casino”), a highenergy group dance performed by couples in a circle. A social dance, it became popular in Cuba during the 1950s, Gill said. “I think Cuba has the widest range, probably the richest range of music,” she said about its African influences. West African musicians use the five-stroke clave rhythmic pattern, and the clave is at the center of Cuban music, she said.
LATIN MUSIC AND DANCE FESTIVAL n When: 7-9 p.m. Friday, July 26 n Where: City Hall Concert Pavilion, 31 S. Summit Ave., Gaithersburg n Tickets: Free n For information: 301-2586350, gaithersburgmd.gov
“It’s found in most Cuban dance forms,” said Gill, referring to dances such as the rumba, salsa, son (which pre-dated salsa), mambo and timba, which has become increasingly popular in Miami. Cuban musicians also developed a connection to musicians in New York over the years, tapping into the rhythms of American jazz, while AfricanAmericans traveled to Cuba in the 1930s and 1940s. After the Cuban Revolution ended in 1959, the Castro regime set up free music, dance and art schools in the country, which enabled people who had danced as part of their everyday lives to also study the music behind the dances. “It was then that popular music got more complex,” Gill said. “It’s never been considered ‘low’ art, because it’s become so sophisticated.” Joe McCarthy, percussionist and leader of the Afro Bop Alliance, said Afro-Cuban music has a “rhythmic depth” that makes it “some of the hippest music” out there. McCarthy teaches music at George Mason University and at Georgetown University in the District. Currently leader of the Naval Academy jazz ensemble, McCarthy said he first heard Afro-Cuban music in college in Connecticut and later learned more about it
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The Casineros, who perform Afro-Cuban dances, will perform at the Latin Music and Dance Festival in Gaithersburg on Friday, July 26. From left are Laura Dalemarre, Adrian Valdivia, Alison Blank, Amanda Gill, Cedric Teamer and Margaret Villalonga. Kneeling are Jahaira Vanegas and William Sanchez. from musicians in New York. “It’s been a profound impact that goes both ways,” said McCarthy about the cross-cultural links between Cuba and the U.S. “American and Cuban musicians have their strengths and they rub off on one another,” he said. Traditionally Cuban musicians learned music by watching and listening to others. “The street training gave them a reaction time and listening skills that were stronger than [conservatory trained musicians in the U.S.],” he said. “The Americans could read music well, but they can’t improvise as well.” McCarthy said the Afro Bop Alliance typically plays jazz made more for listening than
From left are three of the seven members of The Afro Bop Alliance — saxophonist Vince Norman, bassist Tom Baldwin and bandleader and percussionist Joe McCarthy. PHOTO BY JASON GILMAN
dancing but that it is reworking some of its music for dances like the mambo and cha-cha for the Gaithersburg concert. Even so, he said the band, with its two saxophones, trumpet, bass, drums and recently added steel pan, is not likely to sound like a typical Latin dance band. “It’s definitely not your standard type of salsa,” he said. vterhune@gazette.net
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Vocalist Michael Bolton will perform in concert on March 2 as part of Strathmore’s highlyanticipated 2013-14 season.
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WILL C. FRANKLIN STAFF WRITER
What do Broadway star Sutton Foster, country music legend Travis Tritt, blue-collar comedy alum Bill Engvall, actress Olympia Dukakis and THE Michael Bolton have in common? They’re all scheduled to perform this season at Strathmore. Tickets went on sale to the public July 18 for the 2013-2014 season at Strathmore. Shelley Brown, artistic director at Strathmore, said it’s exciting to see the venue come into its own. “I think that we really are hitting our stride,” Brown said. “We’re finding out what we do well and we’re doing more of it. I think, in the area of Broadway, Sutton Foster I think is one of the biggest names out there who’s doing performances. We’re delighted to have her featured here in the fall. Also Diane Reeves, who’s coming out with a big, new album. It’s nice that we’ve become a venue with the reputation that sometimes these artists are seeking us out, in the case of these two. Going into planning with a sense of balance was paramount for Brown. It was important to everyone at Strathmore to have the right mix of dancers, singers and performers.
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Broadway star Sutton Foster will perform in concert on Oct. 12 at Strathmore. “When I start to present – or to outline – a season, we do try to have a balance both in terms of the dates throughout the year from September through June and we do try to have a balance of performances from different constituencies,” Brown said. “This year there was a big change. We did a big thematic festival in the summer – that’s going on right now – it’s called ‘Puppets Take Strathmore.’ The big thematic events in years past have happened in the Music Center or in the Mansion. This one is taking place in the new blackbox theater … in the Education Center.” According to Brown, the puppets really started the new season for Strathmore. “It’s a marvelous way to begin a season because it’s creative, it’s interdisciplinary, it’s surprising, it’s artistic and
2013-2014 SEASON AT STRATHMORE n Tickets are on sale now. For a complete schedule, and to purchase tickets, visit strathmore.org. Call the box office at 301-581-5100.
some of it’s a little naughty with little adult puppets,” Brown said. “So I’m really happy with how that sets the tone for the season.” With dance groups popping up regionally, Brown said it was important to try to get performers local dancers could come and see. “We try to have dance in every season,” Brown said. “We’ve got ‘Forever Tango’ coming up, we’ve got Pilobolus here in February, which I’m delighted
because I’ve been trying to get Pilobolus here since we first opened. … I’m working really hard to keep dance on the stage here. ... I think that we have a growing market for dance in Montgomery County with [American Dance Institute]’s great success and with CityDance’s school growing like crazy, I want to have product for them to come see at the Music Center.” Also featured in the growth of the season is the inclusion of more country acts. Again, the dynamic of the surrounding area played a big part. “This year we do have more country music,” Brown said. “I’m really trying to move into that area because I think, well, number one, because of WMZQ right here, we have a great country radio station. We don’t have that with all formats of music, but we have a good way to speak to audiences who like that mu-
sic. We also have a whole new group of neighbors at the NIH at the Walter Reed Center and country music is one that ... age group likes. So I’m trying to adjust our concerts in response to changes going on in our community.” Big name acts aside, there are plenty of other events and acts coming to Strathmore that audiences will find intriguing. Strathmore continues its artists-in-residence program and a comic book exhibit will make its way there in mid-April. For Brown, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. “You know, the Mansion at Strathmore, we have a 100-seat music room,” Brown said. “This year, we have created a new cabaret series and we have Nellie McKay coming and others. But Nellie, I think, is one of the just brightest rising stars in music. She has performed in the Music Center before and some 100
lucky people are going to get to see her there. So that’s one that I think is quite wonderful. “The other one is we’re working on a residency program with Jayme Stone and his Lomax Project. Alan Lomax was an important recorder of music for the Smithsonian and went all over the country to record sounds and music and this will be looking at that archive, which is available in the public domain to use. We’ll be looking at what’s there and using that as a teaching tool. [Stone] will be working with Julian Lage, who’s amazing, and Bruce Molsky, who’s from the area and brilliant, and Margaret Glaspy. … This is giving us an opportunity to present fantastic concerts but also do some school outreach, some education stuff, education events in conjunction with the concerts that I think will have some real impact.”
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7:30 p.m. July 26; Create a Shadow Puppet Show with Nana Projects, 10 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. July 27; Free Summer Outdoor Concert: Jon Scales Fourchestra, 7 p.m. July 31, call for venue, Locations: Mansion, 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda; Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, 301-581-5100, www. strathmore.org
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IN THE ARTS DANCES Hollywood Ballroom, July 24, free International Fox Trot Routine lesson at 7:30 p.m., Social Ballroom dance at 8:15 p.m. ($15); July 25, Aug. 1, Tea Dance from 12:30-3:30 p.m. ($6); July 26, dropin lessons at 7:30 p.m., West Coast Swing Dancing with Dance Jam Productions at 9 p.m. ($15); July 27, Latin Night with Mr. Mambo, workshops from 8-10 p.m., dance from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. ($18 for workshop and dance; $15 for dance only after 10 p.m.); July 28, free Tango lesson at 7 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8 p.m. ($15); July 31, free International Fox Trot Routine lesson at 7:30 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8:15 p.m. ($15), 2126 Industrial Highway, Silver
Spring, 301-326-1181, www.hollywoodballroomdc.com
Glen Echo Park is at 7300 MacArthur Blvd. Blues, Capital Blues: Thurs-
days, 8:15 beginner lesson, 9-11:30 p.m. dancing to DJs, Glen Echo Park’s Spanish Ballroom Annex, $8, www.capitalblues.org. Contra, July 26, Gaye Fifer calls to Coffee Zombies, 7:30 p.m. lesson, 8:30 p.m. dance, Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $10, www. fridaynightdance.org. Contra & Square, July 28, Gaye Fifer with The Coffee Zombies, 7:30 p.m., Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $12 for general, $9 for members, $5 for students, www. fsgw.org. English Country, July 24, Caller: Tom Spilsbury; July 31, Caller: Anna
Rain, 8 p.m., Glen Echo Town Hall (upstairs), www.fsgw.org. 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. Swing, Aug. 10, The Boilermaker Jazz Band, lesson at 8 p.m., dancing at 9 p.m., Glen Echo Park, $15, www.flyingfeet.org. Waltz, Aug. 4, Quartetto Con Brio; Aug. 18, Waverly Station, 2:45-3:30 p.m. lesson, 3:30-6 p.m., dance, $10, www.waltztimedances.org.
MUSIC & DANCE Bethesda Blues & Jazz Sup-
per Club, Bethesda Blues & Jazz Orchestra, 7:30 p.m. July 25, $10; Tracy Hamlin, 8 p.m. July 26, $30; Doc Scantlin & His Imperial Palms Orchestra, 8 p.m. July 27, $35, VMA Summer Institute Ensemble, 7:30 p.m. July 28, $15; Music Pligrim Trio w/Special Guest Mary Alouette, 7:30 p.m. July 31, $10; Main Event, 8 p.m. Aug. 2, $10; The Tony Rich Project, 8 p.m. Aug. 3, $30; Nadine Rae & The Allstars, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 4, $10, 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, 301-634-2222, www.bethesdabluesjazz.com The Fillmore Silver Spring, Enanitos Verdes con nuevo disco Tic Tac, 8 p.m. July 26, 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, 301-960-9999, FillmoreSilverSpring.com, www. livenation.com.
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Institute of Musical Traditions — Rockville, TBA, Saint Mark
Presbyterian Church, 10701 Old Georgetown Road, Rockville, call for prices, www.imtfolk.org. Strathmore, Afternoon/Specialty Teas (call for times), July 24; Free Summer Outdoor Concert: Trouble Funk, 7 p.m. July 24; Backyard Theater the Kids: The Pop Ups (‘80sinspired kindie rock), 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. July 25; BSO: Gershwin’s Greatest Hits, 8 p.m. July 25; Mary Alouette EP Release of “The Lark,”
ON STAGE Adventure Theatre, “Dr. Seuss’ Cat in the Hat,” to Sept. 2, call for prices, times, Adventure Theatre MTC, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo, 301-634-2270, www.adventuretheatre-mtc.org. Do or Die Mysteries, “Art of Murder,” Saturdays, to Aug. 26, 6:30 p.m. buffet, 7:30 p.m. show, $47.50 buffet and show, Flanagan’s Harp and Fiddle, 4844 Cordell Ave., Bethesda, 443-4223810, www.flanagansharpandfiddle.com Imagination Stage, “Peter Pan and Wendy,” to Aug. 11, call for prices, times, Imagination Stage, 4908 Auburn Ave., Bethesda, www. imaginationstage.org Olney Theatre Center, “A Chorus Line,” Aug. 1 to Sept. 1, call for prices, times, 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney, 301-924-3400, www.olneytheatre.org. The Puppet Co., “Dinosaur Babies,” to July 28; “Circus!” Aug. 2 to Sept. 1; Tiny Tots @ 10, select Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, call for shows and show times, Puppet Co. Playhouse, Glen Echo Park’s North Arcade Building, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., $5, 301634-5380, www.thepuppetco.org. Round House Theatre, Bethesda, “The Beauty Queen of Leenane,” Aug. 21 to Sept. 15; 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. 240-644-1100, www.roundhousetheatre.org.
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Living phat at Wheaton’s Mi La Cay Noodles and Grill
Mi La Cay is Wheaton’s newest destination for authentic Vietnamese noodle and grilled dishes, and that can be a daunting proposition considering the population density of pho and noodle restaurants in the neighborhood. Located on University Boulevard near the intersection with Georgia Avenue, Mi La Cay is the expanded operation of what was until recently a tiny little noodle shop call Song Phat, located in a few square feet behind the perfectly charming Huang Phat market on Fern Street. In addition to expanding the size of the dining room, the menu has grown significantly without diminishing the quality, and ample parking makes Mi La Cay far more accessible.
DINING REVIEW BRIAN PATTERSON The space, formerly the venerable Lucia’s Delicatessen, is now a vast and clean restaurant space. Tables are well stocked with a tidy caddy of condiments. There is a vestibule at the front door, which matters when it comes to containing the outside elements from the dining room. Come for the beef in grape leaves. They are moist and rich with just the right singe of char on the briny grape leaf. And the dipping sauce is modestly sweet, sour and salty. Stay for the duck in broth. It’s an elegant, deeply flavored consommé piled with hunks of duck roasted on the bone, served with typical pho garnishes including fresh bean sprouts, cilantro,
MI LA CAY n Cuisine: Vietnamese n 2409 University Blvd W., Wheaton n 301-929-2822 n Appetizers: $1.25 - $7.95 n Entrees: $6.95 - $11.95 n Hours: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and Sunday; 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday n Accessible n Major Credit Cards
lime and sliced jalapenos. Seafood soup also begins with a nice clean broth loaded with shrimp, scallops, squid and mussels. The clean, clear broth is rich in flavor, and can reasonably tolerate the addition of a couple of chilies at the table. Spicy beef soup with peanuts and noodles is thick and viscous in texture and it glows with the iridescence of red chilies. It satisfies in a teary kind of way. Their superb rendition of classic pho with the usual array of off-beat cuts of beef is reasonably priced at $6.95 for small, and $7.95 for large. Spring rolls contain a nice mixture of vegetables and meat in a fairly greaseless fried wrapper and they are served with a piquant sweet and sour marinated cabbage salad. Grilled lemongrass chicken has that floral, tropical, citrusy flavor of lemongrass that has an affinity for the slight bitterness from be-
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Main dishes at Mi La Cay in Wheaton include (clockwise from bottom left) grilled pork chops; crispy fried chicken with tomato rice; barbecued pork, squid, shrimp, fish balls and fish cakes with pork broth; strawberry-mango smoothie and stir-fried noodles with chicken, shrimp, fish cakes, bean sprouts and onions. ing touched by flames. The noodles and straightforward salad make this simple yet satisfying. I was looking forward to a house breadstick that goes with some of
the soups, but they ran out of those they day I was there. In any incarnation, Mi La Cay enjoys a loyal following. On one Sunday,
Mi La Cay was packed, yet food came out in a timely manner and the noise level did not leave us straining to converse.
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way dancers auditioning for a spot in a musical. “We haven’t done a dance show in the last few years,” D’Affusso said. “ ... This would be a good opportunity to give student dancers an opportunity to audition for us ...” Wildwood Theatre Company is all about providing opportunity, whether it’s for young actors looking for a role, singers hoping to join the chorus or a technician looking to gain some hands-on experience behind the scenes. “We try to take an array of people who are interested ... and we provide them with a way to ... get their feet wet with various aspects of theater,” said D’Affuso. “Everyone gets to focus on whatever they’re interested in and just gain more experience with that.” D’Affuso joined the theater company in the summer of 2009 as a member of the cast, while he was a student at Thomas S. Wootton High School. The next summer he became the group’s director of public relations. “My major was music but I decided to get involved in the PR side and see that part of the theater,” said D’Affuso, who graduated in May from James Madison University. D’Affuso went on to join the board of directors and work as an associate producer before becoming producer this summer. Actress Katherine Worley said she too has explored more than one area of the theater business during her three summers with Wildwood. “It’s a whole group effort so everyone is encouraged to work on the tech side of things,” Worley said. Though she appreciates Wildwood’s collaborative nature now, Worley said she was apprehensive when she first heard about the theater company. “I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect because I had always worked with adult directors,” Worley said. “I was shocked by how professional everyone seems but at the same time, how much of a learning experience it is.” A graduate of Quince Orchard High School, Worley will start her senior year at Salisbury University in the fall. Though performing is her first love, Worley said Wildwood wouldn’t function if members didn’t contribute in multiple areas. “Everyone’s individual skills really do come together in putting together a company,” Worley said. “It’s really neat to see.”
On Friday, Nakamatsu and the BSO will perform the same concert at the Myerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore. The BSO also will present music from Gershwin’s “An American In Paris” at both venues. Composed in 1924, “Rhapsody in Blue” established Gershwin as a serious composer, but the piece for solo pianist and jazz ensemble has never been easy to pigeonhole. “It’s not jazz, it’s not classical, it’s not pop — it’s just Gershwin,” said Nakamatsu, adding that there’s no disagreement about its popularity among musicians and audiences. “It’s fun to play, because of the interplay between the piano and the orchestra, and it’s immediately appealing to everybody,” he said. A San Jose native, Nakamatsu was 4 years old when he saw a piano for the first time at his preschool, knowing right away that he wanted to learn how to play it. “The teacher pressed these [keys], and this magical sound came out that attracted me,” said Nakamatsu, who started lessons when he was 6. “I had private teachers who [referred me] to others for musical theory and background — it was like being home-schooled,” he said about the focus and intensity of his years of classical music training. At the same time, he was also able to pursue his academic interests, including a love of languages and grammar, focusing on German because so many of the great piano works are by German-speaking composers such as Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert. “I thought it would help with travel, and I could study the same materials and the same books that Beethoven did,” he said. Nakamatsu earned a bachelor’s degree in German Studies from Stanford University in 1991 and a master’s in education from Stanford the following year. He also taught German at a high school in Mountain View,
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The Wildwood Summer Theatre cast rehearses the closing number of “A Chorus Line.” In “A Chorus Line,” Worley plays Kristine, a character she said is a far cry from other roles she’s played and her own personality. “It’s been very, very different from anything I’ve done,” Worley said. “I typically play the more provocative role.” Perhaps the biggest difference between Worley and Kristine is their musical abilities. Kristine is supposed to be tone deaf while Worley has been playing the piano and singing since a young age. While Worley still has a few years of eligibility left, “A Chorus Line” will be Lurye’s final show with Wildwood. Now
funct, pizza place in Rockville called Paisano’s. “We had a steady gig there on Wednesday nights for 10 years, maybe,” Bazen said. “So that’s how the band got developed and got to be known, because people would come in and it was often standing room only.” The gig was so integral in helping the band get off its feet that they named their second album, “Wednesday Night Pizza Band.” “ ... That’s what we were,” Bazen said. “We were playing in this pizza joint on Wednesday night.” Bazen has four other recordings under his name; “Tonight is Mine,” “Merry Christmas Take One, “James Bazen Quintet” and “USA Canteen,” a tribute to the
25, Lurye has been a member of Wildwood since 2006. He studied music at the University of Maryland and now works as a professional actor, appearing in shows at local theater companies in the Washington, D.C., area. He said his experience with Wildwood has helped him tremendously in his career. “ ... It has given me incredible insight as to how things work,” Lurye said. “Even though I won’t continue to pursue the business side of things, it’s certainly an experience that will sit with me my entire life.” chedgepeth@gazette.net
Andrews Sisters. All are available on Amazon, CD Baby and Bazen’s website. After Paisano’s closed, the James Bazen Big Band moved on to regular gigs at Felicita’s in downtown Rockville and Ching’s in Sterling, Va. More recently, the band has started playing more regularly at Montgomery County venues and events, including Taste of Bethesda, Blues Alley and most recently, the Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club. In fact, Music Unlimited is responsible for booking all local bands that perform at the club. Bazen sees the club as an opportunity to bolster the jazz and swing scene in Montgomery County. He feels so passionately about the genre of music that
he’s become an advisor on the county executive’s task force on nighttime economy. “We need a place that plays jazz badly in Montgomery County,” Bazen said. “What they’re trying to do is trying to keep people in Montgomery County for their nightlife instead of leaving for U Street or somewhere else in D.C. We’re going over some ideas about how to keep people here and them spending their money here and going to clubs like Bethesda Blues and Jazz.” One of the ways to keep big band and jazz music alive locally is to broaden its audience. Bazen said he and his band try to do that by incorporating different styles of music into traditional swing and jazz.
JAMES BAZEN BIG BAND n When: 7 p.m. Saturday, July 27 n Where: BlackRock Center for the Arts, 12901 Town Commons Dr., Germantown n Tickets: Free n For information: 301-5282260, blackrockcenter.org
“ ... There are so many styles and influences we play on any given day, even if somebody doesn’t like what they’re hearing for this tune, they’re going to like the next tune because it’s so different,” Bazen said. Bazen hopes his vocalist
Calif., while continuing to enter musical competitions, not yet sure he could chart a successful career for himself as a solo pianist. “The Van Cliburn visibility is so enormous that it gives you the push that you need to start something,” said Nakamatsu, who quit his teaching job and has been touring the world ever since. “There’s not just one way to do something,” he said. “There’s so much about experience that matters. It’s not so much about the paper, although it helps.” On the road for most of the year in the U.S., Europe and Asia, Nakamatsu continues to make good use of his musical skills while also employing the social skills he learned as a teacher. “Fifty years ago, you could hop from hall to hall and play, but today you need to do more than that,” he said. “You might have to teach a master class, or talk to the press or go a reception. You’re expected to know all that — music is just a part of what you do.” Meanwhile, Nakamatsu has found time to release CDs, including a recent all-Gershwin album with conductor Jeff Tyzig and the Rochester Philharmonic featuring “Rhapsody in Blue” and “Concerto in F.” He also records with clarinetist Jon Manasse, with whom he serves as co-artistic director of the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival. The duo released its first CD in 2008 called “Brahms Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano,” followed in 2010 by “American Music for Clarinet and Piano” and “Brahms Quintets” in 2012. During Nakamatsu’s years of performing, the Internet has made it easy for the public to access musical performances from all over the world without leaving the house. But he said he doesn’t think the experience of listening to live music will not be going away any time soon. “There’s something about hearing an instrument right in the same room,” he said. “There’s an excitement and energy you can’t replicate.” vterhune@gazette.net at Saturday’s performance will help draw some of the younger audiences. “Our singer is my daughter,” Bazen said of 18-year-old Jamie. “ ... Of course she grew up in my house so she likes jazz and all of that stuff and she has influenced her friends and they all come out to hear me and they seem to like it.” Bazen said the big-band sound is one that he thinks is capable of transcending generations. “I think it’s just the novelty and the beauty of the sound,” he said. “The uniqueness of the band appeals to a whole bunch of different people.” chedgepeth@gazette.net
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Coaches agree they must guard against youngsters’ emulation of professional athletes BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN STAFF WRITER
Every young athlete has that moment when he turns his shoulders and runs backward at the perfect diagonal to steal a base hit with a miraculous backhanded grab. Just for that second, they know what it feels like to be the New York Yankees’ Derek Jeter. Or that moment when he speeds to his right and with no chance at reaching an opponent’s shot slides toward the ball and slaps a squashshot style slice forehand for a cross-court winner just like the world’s top-ranked men’s tennis player, Novak Djokovic. “I’ll even draw on my own experience. All the time [as a kid] we’d play pick up basketball and we’d be counting down, ‘Magic Johnson for the NBA championship. Larry Byrd for the NBA championship,’” ninth-year Northwest High School softball coach Kevin Corpuz said. Watching sports can benefit young athletes in many ways. Coaches agree the pros set great examples in work ethic, intensity and overall knowledge and strategy in their respective sports.
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up (and sometimes down) lengthy flights of stairs. The Empire State Building, the Willis Tower and the U.S. Bank Tower are all skyscrapers in which competitive stair climbers race to the top in an all-out display of strength, balance and wild desire. “I know a lot of very good athletes who won’t go near this, they’re terrified of it,” said Karlin, who lives in Bethesda and works as an entrepreneur in the biotechnology and Internet fields. Karlin specializes in sprint-distance climbs that take the top performers anywhere from 10 to 15 minutes to complete depending on the course. In April 2012, after failing to complete the course in 2011, Karlin became the first American to finish the Mount Everest Stair Marathon in Radebeul, Germany. The climbers have 24 hours
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hen Michael Karlin ran track for Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School, he wasn’t — as he put it — any good. A young Karlin, now 41 with a lanky and seemingly-unathletic build, ran a mile in six-plus minutes and was fairly discouraged by the entire concept of racing competitively. “I got lapped on the mile,” Karlin said. “I had recollections that I never wanted to do this stuff again. Especially when you’re young to get killed like that, it’s never fun.” Roughly 23 years later, not only can Karlin run the mile nearly a minute faster than he did in high school, but he’s ranked 50th in the world in the remarkably demanding sport of stair climbing. Stair climbing features sprint and marathon-distance races
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Michael Karlin, 41, competes in the Mount Everest Stair Marathon in Radebeul (Dresden), Germany in April 2012. The Everest Marathon is the longest endurance stair event in the world, where athletes have only 24 hours to climb up and down the equivalent distance from sea level to the summit of Mount Everest, while covering the horizontal distance of two marathons across.
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It’s easy to see why Robert Churchwell’s resume jumped out among the 60-plus applications for the vacant Our Lady of Good Counsel boys basketball coaching position, which became available after Blair Mills resigned. As a graduate from Gonzaga College High, he has the local roots. As a standout at Georgetown University from 1990-1994, he earned a spot on the Big East All-Rookie Team, started 128 consecutive games and finished 18th in
all-time scoring at the school and 15th in rebounding. As a former NBA player with Golden State and eight years playing professionally overseas, respect from his players likely won’t be an issue. “I think my experience as a player, as a [Washington Catholic Athletic Conference] student-athlete, my experience at the professional level, my experience coaching and teaching — they obviously thought I was the right guy for the position,” Churchwell said. “The first step is just coming in, gathering in all the information I can gather, reaching out to all the families I can, let them know who I am and what I am trying to do here.” Mills said he resigned in May to fo
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First-year Our Lady of Good Counsel High Schoool boys basketball coach Robert Churchwell.
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Capitol Heights native and Montrose Christian graduate Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma City Thunder can do things most basketball players, especially young ones, can’t.
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During the 2012 season, rising fifth-year senior running back Khalil Wilson led Montgomery County in rushing at Albert Einstein High School with 1,567 yards and 12 touchdowns. This fall, he is aiming to repeat the feat, but this time, he wants to surpass 2,000 yards. “Personally, I want to be the best I can be,” he said during one of the team’s summer workouts on Thursday. Wilson, who attended Charles H. Flowers High (Prince George’s County) as a true freshman, began playing football after meeting Einstein coach Jermaine Howell during the winter of 2011. Last fall, he suited up and proved to play a vital role for the Titans. “I was granted a fifth year by [Principal Jim] Fernandez himself,” said Wilson. “We had a contract that was on the table ... I had to step up to the plate and I managed to do it ... through hard work in the classroom.” Wilson and Howell declined to discuss the specific details of the contract. “[The contract] was about him proving [that he could play] to
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Continued from Page B-1 cus on his family, including a new child he and his wife are expecting. “It was just the right time for me and my wife,” said Mills at the beginning of June, who added he will continue to teach social studies at the school in the fall. “I’ve been there quite a while. I love working there, but just with us expecting a baby ... and the demands and rigors of coaching in the WCAC, and teach a full course load, it’s a lot. It’s a hard decision to make, but when I compare my family and coaching, it’s unfair to my wife and child if I’m never home.” Along with Mills, five players transferred out of the program, most notably leading scorer Byron Hawkins (18.1 points per game) and rising sophomore Anthony Cowan, the team’s third leading scorer (8.8). The personnel losses present Churchwell with a pressing issue: Finding enough bodies to fill the voids. In addition, the new coach will
see plenty of Cowan next season when the Falcons play St. John’s College High, a favorite alongside Bishop O’Connell and Paul VI to capture the WCAC crown. “I really can’t worry about those five spots that were vacated,” Churchwell said. “I got to focus on the young men that are still there. I definitely have a plan. I expect to win and obviously you can expect a lot of things but you have to put in the time and work to get there.” Success is something that Churchwell has had little issue in attaining and sustaining throughout his career as both a coach and player. Last season, he coached Benedictine to a 31-4 record and a VISAA Division I state title, beating out WCAC champ O’Connell for the trophy. Preceding his one season at Benedictine in Richmond, Va., Churchwell coached for six years at Harrison High in Georgia. Most impressive, however, may have been his 3-1 record against WCAC opponents this past season, which included wins over O’Connell, DeMatha and Bishop Ireton.
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Continued from Page B-1 to finish a course that requires 100 laps on a 397-step staircase (up and down), which happens to be equivalent to the vertical distance from sea level to the summit of Mount Everest. And back. The course, which is comprised of 85 percent stairs and 15 percent hills, also is equivalent to the horizontal distance of two full marathons. Karlin conquered the 39,700 steps, while listening to a collection of 1980s rock music, in 23 hours, 20 minutes and 45 seconds. During this successful second attempt at the challenge — around the lap where Karlin cramped in 2011 (he retired
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First-year Our Lady of Good Counsel High Schoool boys basketball coach Robert Churchwell. “It’s very exciting, obviously, coming back to the WCAC, it’s very exciting,” Churchwell said. “I’m very familiar with the talent there.” One school he is extra familiar with the talent in is Gonzaga, his alma mater turned conference rival. Though the Eagles have lost one of the region’s top
talents in 6-foot-6 small forward Kris Jenkins, they’re never one to sleep on. “I graduated from there so I’m always going to be an Eagle,” Churchwell said with a laugh. “But I’m all in as a Falcon right now.”
your muscles make,” Karlin said. “I do lose time. You feel it. On the flip side, the fact that I can compete at the global level and have a world ranking, I’m proud of myself for that.” So how did Karlin discover stair climbing in the first place? “I was going to the gym and working out and I noticed I was very good at the step mill,” Karlin said. “I started working with a terrific personal trainer and the combination of the two was great.” Karlin began researching races and entered himself into an Empire State Building race in 2005. His admiration for the sport grew from there. Karlin said he competes in six to 10 races per year, which usually are stacked during the colder months, and he’s sore for two
“I was like, ‘I love it, but if I don’t finish, I’ll have to come back and do this crap again.’ You make fun of yourself and you’re like, ‘How stupid can this be?’
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hand or trying to do too much dribbling to get by a guy when you could just keep it simple. You see things on TV and it’s tough at times to get people back to reality. Just because it might work great for Kevin Durant, it doesn’t mean you should be trying that stuff,” St. Andrew’s Episcopal School boys basketball coach Kevin Jones said. “They shouldn’t be emulating Kobe’s fadeaway. They should look at what Kobe does every single day to get better.” There is a certain entertainment factor in sports, coaches agreed, and the best players can be flashy at times. Coaches agree that it’s important to instill good sportsmanship in young
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athletes and eliminate the showboating common at the professional level. But perhaps most importantly, there are some things children see on television — sliding headfirst into home plate, for example — that are just plain dangerous. Precautions have been taken at the lower levels to ensure athletes’ safety. In recent years rules have been implemented in youth baseball to prevent headfirst sliding into first base and home plate as well as to avoid high impact collisions at home plate — something that happens quite often in Major League Baseball — said Kenny Roy, who has coached football, basketball,
softball and baseball for 13 years with the Olney Boys and Girls Club. “You really do have to be careful. I think the leagues have done a really good job. In regards to plays at home plate, you’re supposed to avoid contact if at all possible. If you have to slide, if a player doesn’t slide to avoid a potential collision, they’ve been calling them out,” Roy said. Jeter doesn’t need to secure the baseball in his glove with his right hand. Durant might not need to rebound with two hands. Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polamalu might be able to take a running back down without wrapping him up.
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But they also do a lot of things most “normal” people can’t. Coaches said they must constantly guard against young players’ emulation of their favorite players. “I think when you take it to the professional level, it’s just a whole different breed. They’re freaks of nature who can do things with their body that the average person can’t. That’s why there are so few out there,” said four-year Northwest High School football’s defensive line coach Scott Pierce, a longtime coach with the Germantown
Sports Association. Children tend to learn visually, President of Clarksburg Baseball Scott Davis said. It is natural for them to want to play like their favorite athletes. But no 10-year-old, or high school student for that matter, is 6 feet, 9 inches and 235 pounds and can pull down a rebound in traffic with one single outstretched arm like seemingly half of the NBA. While it might be hard for children to understand early in their development, a foundation built on proper fundamental skills is integral to their success in high school, college and beyond. “I’ll see guys trying to rebound the basketball with one
near lap 70 and roughly 18 and a half hours of climbing) — he achieved a mental breakthrough. “I was kind of thinking to myself — this is both an amazing feat and a ridiculous feat,” he said. “Here we are, a bunch of guys going up and down a staircase, going nowhere, it’s kind of ridiculous. “I was like, ‘I love it, but if I don’t finish, I’ll have to come back and do this crap again.’ You make fun of yourself and you’re like, ‘How stupid can this be?’ And I really motivated myself to pick it up and finish this thing. I didn’t let anything distract me from that point on.” In 2005, Karlin was in a snowmobile accident that nearly ended his stair climbing career just as it was beginning. The vehicle crashed, flipped over and landed on his left ankle, shattering the bone. An emergency surgery required eight screws and a plate to be inserted into his leg. If Karlin’s middle-aged development into an elite athlete out of relative obscurity wasn’t enough of a testament to his determination and willpower, overcoming that type of injury and continuing to climb stairs competitively sure is. “It makes a difference. I got the hardware removed, but there are compensations
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or three weeks after every event. “He had no real athleticism, per say, but he just wanted to strengthen his core,” Karlin’s trainer Elvin Baldwin said. “I saw something more in him and we started to get into performance training and he became a very good athlete. “The fact that he is so coachable really determines his success.” Naturally, it can get pretty tight in the staircase, especially for the elite climbers. But proper preparation and strategy can help climbers achieve the best time possible. Always use the hand rail, Karlin said, and pivot on the landings instead of shuffling your feet or taking baby steps. Slower climbers on the right, faster climbers on the left. If Karlin’s participating in a sprint-distance climb and needs to stop for water, he’s having a bad day. But it’s still likely better than how he performed in high school. “I’m a late bloomer,” Karlin said. “You preserve some of your energy that might have been expended by some other athletes at the high school level. I had the reserve and it kind of helps me to take a bit of revenge on the track.” ncammarota@gazette.net But they put in the work to get where they are. They are in a class of their own, one players can work to try and reach — though so few get there — but shouldn’t be concerned about yet. “If [young tennis players] are going to emulate anything, they should really watch the footwork and how the players set up for the ball and less of how they swing. The biggest thing right now is trying to hit the running forehand slice. They all want to try and run and slide and hit that slice, it drives me crazy,” Bullis School boys tennis coach Steve Miguel said. jbeekman@gazette.net
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Growing sport seeks more coaches Former players returning to the area to coach is key to the sport’s development n
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COLIN STEVENS STAFF WRITER
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Richard Montgomery High School first-year football coach Josh Klotz (right) works with rising sophomore Alex Page and other players in the weight room on Wednesday.
RM football coach wants to win on field, in community n
Klotz hopes creating challenges leads to success BY
COLIN STEVENS STAFF WRITER
With a cloudless sky above and a sweltering heat causing innocent bystanders to sweat despite no physical activity, Phillip Osborn ran across the grass field behind Richard Montgomery High School to catch a pass from coach Josh Klotz. The ball slapped off of Osborn’s hands and fell to the ground. Before making his way back to the receiver’s line, the rising senior dropped to the ground, without direction to do so, and did 10 pushups. “We’re more motivated,” Osborn said. “We have a lot of coaches here that are pushing us harder than the coaches we had last year. It’s just a different mindset going into the season.” Entering his first season as the Rockets’ football coach, Klotz is trying to establish a culture of hard work and accountability at the Rockville school. Klotz comes to Richard Montgomery after coaching at Quince Orchard the past seven years, the last four as offensive coordinator. After reaching the state finals the past two seasons with the Cougars, Klotz wanted to take
on a greater role in a program. He did his research and decided Richard Montgomery would be a good fit for him. “After the end of last season, I just wanted to be around football more,” said Klotz, who will also teach English at Richard Montgomery. “I wanted to have a greater influence on a greater number of kids. I thought I was able to help out a bunch of guys at QO and be a role model and help turn them into men. But as a head coach, I’m able to directly impact even more young men and help them out. And I wanted the personal challenge.” Klotz said he likes to challenge himself, just like he hopes his players seek a challenge. During the offseason, he’s tried to create a competitive atmosphere every day, ending each workout session with a contest. Joshua Dyson has bought in. He has attended every workout since Klotz arrived and has seen his body change. He’s gained around 15 pounds, going up from 170 to 185, and has increased his bench press by 50 pounds (195 to 245). “We’ve got new coaches and I want to establish myself as a person that wants it and is a hard worker,” Dyson said. “I know if I take one day off, then I’m going to take more. Then I’m going to just sit back and get lazy while other people are working their [behind] off.”
Klotz said he’s going to build his offense around his talent, so he said the offense won’t necessarily look like what was run at Quince Orchard. But he did promise that the Rockets will run a no huddle. “I’m flexible,” said Klotz, who brought Mike Wheeler with him from Quince Orchard to run the defense. “Whatever is best for our players. We’ll build around our talent.” While he is happy with what his players have done athletically so far, Klotz also beams when talking about what they do away from the field. The players went to area elementary schools during the offseason to read to students, and also held questionand-answer sessions with older students. They’ve also helped with youth camps. Klotz believes that in building a program, it goes beyond what happens on the field. “I keep stressing — wins and losses are obviously important to me, and what we do on the field is important, but the last five months it’s also rewarding to see just how, when we reach out to the community, how supportive everyone is,” Klotz said. “When we get into the football season, the whole idea of a program and community is going to come together and support the team and build that relationship. That’s exciting.” cstevens@gazette.net
Poolesville polo club growing quickly n
Club has expanded from seven members to 81 BY JACOB BOGAGE STAFF WRITER
It takes a lot of care to play one of the oldest sports, polo. Poolesville’s Capitol Polo Club has 90 horses that need daily care on its 170 acres. The field they play on, all 30 acres, requires nearly as much care as the turf is cut thick but short. Hoof marks are stomped out. Manure is scooped away briskly. General manager Marcos Bignoli left his native Argentina in 2008 to take over the Capitol Polo Club and since, the club has increased in popularity, now playing the sport five times a week, six months a year. Since Bignoli started at Capitol Polo, the club’s membership has increased from seven members to 81. The club hosts sanctioned tournaments every weekend and a number of large professional charity tournaments every year. Polo players are assigned a handicap ranging from -2 for beginners to 10 for the best. As a professional, Bignoli, 55, carried a handicap of 6 — one of 50 active players at the time to do so — until he retired to play recreationally, pursue a career in real estate and run his ranch and polo club in Pilar, Argentina. “Everybody in polo knows who Marcos Bignoli is,” club coowner and Bethesda resident T. Hoy Booker. Bignoli started the club’s polo academy, which currently has 30 students, to help take the edge off the game many view as dangerous or cruel to both horse and horseman.
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Capitol Polo Club rider Marcos Bignoli (left) participates in a match on Sunday in Poolesville. Neither is true, Bignoli says. Riders at the polo academy start slow and learn to ride with one hand before even touching a mallet or ball. After three months, they progress to play games. Horses, on the other hand, train for two years before they can enter a match. “When you are training a horse from out West, lets say Wyoming, Montana, and it’s ... raised with cattle and it’s been roped off, it’s easier — a horse that’s been exposed to pressure and things being swung around their heads,” Bignoli said. “When you train a thoroughbred off the track, you need a lot of patience.” A match begins or resumes after a goal with a referee throwing the rock-hard ball between two teams of four players each. From there, more experienced horsemen maneuver their steeds to pass the ball forward to where an attacker can break away from the pack and at 40 miles per hour with defensemen in hot
pursuit. To prevent a goal, players can hook an opponent’s mallet from the right side or bump an attack off their line on the left side. Never can a defenseman cross in front of the ball or an attackman for safety reasons. “It’s kind of an adrenaline rush,” attackman Pat Post, 53, of Potomacsaid.“It’sfullblast.These horses are going 30, 40 miles per hour. It can be a bit scary.” Booker says most beginners find they love the rush of the game and the social aspect of the club even more. Since polo is such a time-consuming sport and economic investment, club dues cost $4,000. The fee does not include the cost of purchasing a horse or renting two or three per match. “People come out here on a whim and they end up staying,” he said. “You get ‘em to buy one horse and it’s all over.” jbogage@gazette.net
When John Pino’s eldest daughter, Daniella, started playing lacrosse several years ago, he knew little to nothing about the sport. The Damascus resident had never played lacrosse, had only seen a handful of games before and admits he didn’t know what was happening. But with a lack of available coaches in the area, he and two other fathers decided to immerse themselves in the sport so they could take up the coaching reigns. There wasn’t another option. “I was the true, stereotypical dad that was forced into learning on the spot,” Pino said. “There are very few girls lacrosse coaches. So I made it a mission. I can’t help if I don’t know about lacrosse.” Lacrosse is one of the fastest growing sports in the country. From 2011 to 2012, the participation rate grew 5.5 percent, according to a study by USA Lacrosse, and in the last five years, participation among females has increased by 67 percent. With the rapid increase in numbers, a lack of quality coaching, especially at the recreational levels, has stunted the growth in the quality of the game. Top coaches in the area are naturally attracted to high school and club coaching positions, which allows them to work with the best talent. Sherwood High School and Rebels club coach Kelly Hughes, a Sherwood graduate who played in college at Iona, said it’s natural for players who competed in college to gravitate towards higher levels of competition when returning to the coaching ranks. Parents taking over coaching duties “is really common,” Hughes said. “There are a lot of dads, which is great because they love sports, but they’re not getting the same understanding of how the game and the rules work together. ... You’re not getting the same stuff [on the field], but it’s the same lessons and the same game. But I
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Stingers A Division girls youth lacrosse players Olivia Vozzo (left) and Casey Leach (right) try to stop Taylor DeRose as she advances on the goal during a Monday clinic at Ovid Hazen Wells Park in Clarksburg. don’t mind it because at least they’re playing.” Recent Damascus High School graduate Colby Muller, who is signed with Old Dominion University, said just getting out and playing is the most important thing. When she was younger, Muller played for Pino and her father, Frank, and enjoyed having male coaches. “From a defensive and physical perspective, that’s how guys play the game and I can see how that helped more,” she said. This summer, Colby Muller coached a team of rising eighth graders and got a different perspective of the game. “When my dad would coach me, he’d tell me things that the coaches can see, but as a player I wouldn’t really see what he was seeing,” said Muller, who is also helping coach at a clinic Pino is hosting this week. “But from a coach’s view, there’s a whole different perspective. It’s amazing because you can teach them these things. It’s easy to solve and I can work on the field, too, so it’s a lot of fun.” Muller represents the next phase of coaching in Montgomery County. Hughes and Pino agree that for lacrosse to take the next step, girls returning from college need to take up more of a role in the coaching ranks. That’s easier said than
done. Hughes said she knows plenty of viable former players in the area. But with jobs that aren’t conducive to coaching travel teams and more involved programs, it can be difficult to find time. But coaching at the recreational level is more doable, with fewer practices and games being played in the area. Coaches like Pino, who didn’t have to learn about lacrosse until they were forced to, are still playing a strong role. He said he spent countless hours watching other top coaches, using “osmosis” to pick up on whatever information he could. He took certification classes through USA Lacrosse. When Pino hosts clinics or practices — he currently coaches the Damascus Stingers U15 team, which won the Metro Girls Lacrosse championship this spring — he encourages parents to come out and learn about the sport. Still, he hopes it is feasible in the future for former girls lacrosse players to be afforded a greater role in the coaching community. “To get kids who went to college to come back and coach, they’re struggling [after college] and are working more hours and are not earning as much,” Pino said. “We have to make it worthwhile.” cstevens@gazette.net
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Giants secure No. 2 seed in MCBL Baseball: Shortstop playing well after recovering from arm injury n
BY NICK CAMMAROTA STAFF WRITER
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Gaithersburg Giants infielder Andrew Frazier throws out a batter against the visiting Frederick Hustlers on Thursday at Kelley Park.
Giants received a first-round bye in the double-elimination tournament and played Monday at Joe Cannon Stadium against Dig In. The result ended too late to be included in this edition of The Gazette. “We’re glad we got him,” said Giants coach Gary Holzapfel of Meiners. “We contacted him pretty early and locked him up. Everything that I’ve heard about him has been true.” In the eighth inning, with the Giants batting, a foul ball hit the massive screen on the first-base side of Kelley Field and plummeted down toward the players in the dugout. Meiners sprung forward, made a two-handed over-the-shoulder catch and threw the ball back to the umpire. He tipped his cap. “I’m really confident going into the playoffs. It’s a really good group of guys,” said Meiners. “It’s a good mix of local and guys from out of town.” Last season in college, Meiners played in 40 games and batted .268 with 20 runs scored and 18 runs batted in. If the Giants (18-14) hope to achieve their ultimate goal of winning the MCBL title, they’ll likely need to do so by beating the Baltimore Chop (31-1). “The four games we’ve played them, all of them have been close,” Meiners said. “We’re not intimidated by them.” ncammarota@gazette.net
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Damascus Post 171 wins county title Dickey pitches a shutout against defending state champion Sandy Spring Post 68 n
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NICK CAMMAROTA STAFF WRITER
Before the start of the seventh inning on Friday, Damascus Post 171 pitching coach Daryl Keys pulled his starter, Grant Dickey, aside and rested his hands on Dickey’s shoulders. The rest of the team was huddled around manager Tommy Davis in front of Post 171’s dugout, while the conference between Keys and Dickey was happening a few feet away under the lights at Kelley Park in Gaithersburg. Dickey, who was three outs away from pitching a shutout that would send his club to the American Legion Maryland state championship tournament, liked what he heard. “He told me to have fun with these three outs,” Dickey said of his chat with Keys. “And that he wasn’t going to take me out.”
Dickey made quick work of Sandy Spring Post 68’s final three batters of the game, putting the finishing touches on Damascus’ 8-0 victory against last year’s state champions in the double-elimination Montgomery County tournament. The sturdy right-hander allowed four hits, walked two and struck out two as he pitched to contact and pounded the strike zone. While Sandy Spring stung a few balls, nearly all of them were right at Post 171’s outfielders. “If you’re talking about the ability to throw first-pitch strikes and control, you’re talking Grant Dickey,” Davis said of the Sherwood High School graduate. “If he’s going to throw strikes and we’re going to make the plays behind him, it’s going to force a team to really string some hits together and it’s a tough match for them to do that.” Damascus’ big inning was the bottom of the third. The regular season champs (214) scored six runs — four off of Post 68 left-handed starter Kyle Cassidy and two against right-handed reliever Marcus Hailstock. Post 171’s Zach Thompson stroked a two-
run double into the left field corner and John Hanley and Michael Zerafa also delivered doubles in the decisive frame. “I’m so proud of everyone. They’ve put in so much work during the season to get us that first seed and we really came together today and put together that big inning,” said leadoff batter and center fielder Emory McMinn. “We did what we’ve been doing all season stepped it up when it counted.” Despite the loss, Post 68’s season isn’t over. They’ll have TOM FEDOR/THE GAZETTE the opportunity to make the Damascus Post 171 player Zach state tournament by winning Thompson swings the bat against a play-in game against a team Sandy Spring Post 68 on Friday. (to be determined) from Anne Arundel County at 1 p.m. Sunday at Severna Park High Damascus became the first School. Sandy Spring won the American Legion team from play-in game last season be- Montgomery County to win a fore going on to dominate the state title in 2000. “We know what it takes,” state tournament. Damascus, meanwhile, Davis said. “We think the was scheduled to open the components are there, but tournament against the host, we’re going to have to prove Cumberland Post 13, at 7:30 it on the field. But going up p.m. on Tuesday at Veterans there with the club we have, Field in Cumberland. The re- we’re fine with that. We’re sult ended too late to be in- looking forward to having cluded in this edition of The some fun and playing good Gazette. baseball.” It is be Post 171’s first state tournament appearance since ncammarota@gazette.net
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In all the years Gaithersburg Giants shortstop Nate Meiners has played baseball, he had never experienced any arm issues until recently. He played in Little League, travel ball and started at St. John’s College High School. Meiners could play shortstop and pitch for days. But one cold afternoon last year — Meiners’ first game with Randolph Macon College — the tendons in his right shoulder reached their breaking point. “My arm had been bothering me a little bit up to that point in practices, but that game was the final straw,” said Meiners, who started at shortstop. “I played in one game my freshman year.” Meiners received a medical redshirt and spent the spring rehabbing his arm, watching his teammates play and longing to be on the field. “It was the first arm pain I’ve ever had in my life. My arm had always been rubber. I could throw forever,” said Meiners, who grew up in Silver Spring. “I pretty much dreaded going to physical therapy. ... It definitely wasn’t easy.” Meiners has since worked his way to a full recovery — something that’s not easy to accomplish with shoulder injuries — and is one of the catalysts on the Giants’ talented roster following a successful sophomore season at Randolph Macon. Meiners had a hit, a run and a walk in Gaithersburg’s 9-7 victory against the Frederick Hustlers at Kelley Park on Thursday, helping the Giants secure the second overall seed in the Maryland Collegiate Baseball League playoffs,. University of Delaware right-hander Chad Martin tosses six superb innings — allowed one hit, six strikeouts and three walks — on a blisteringly hot evening to get the win. The
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BY KENT ZAKOUR STAFF WRITER
Earlier this month, Gus Gill was content on spending his final summer before college playing for Dig In Baseball, a team in the Maryland Collegiate Baseball League. But in mid-July, Gill, who graduated from Walter Johnson HighSchoolinthespring,wasable to fulfill a childhood dream. On July 13, he made his unexpected debut in the Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League as a member of the Silver Spring-Takoma Thunderbolts. In fact, his first game was at Shirley Povich Field against the Bethesda Big Train, a venue and organization he frequently visited while growing up. “It’s actually is a dream come true being up here and [playing with my brother],” said Gill, who went 2-for-5 in his debut with a double and a run scored. “I’ve always known the Ripken League is the best [college-age] competition and talent around this area. I’ve been watching this league all my life because I went to so many Big
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Walter Johnson High School graduates and brothers Mac (left) and Gus Gill play together for the Silver Spring-Takoma Thunderbolts. Train games with my travel teams as a fan. I kind of hoped I played for them someday.” Gill, who is hitting .286 (as of Monday) in limited action as the Thunderbolts (11-26 record) shortstop, joined the summer wood bat league at the request of manager Doug Remer, who also coaches at Springbrook High School. Gill’s older brother, Mac, a rising senior at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, has been pitching for Silver Spring all summer. Mac owns a 2-4 record with a 6.24 earned-run average in
nine games (seven starts). “With Mac on the team and having coached [Montgomery County High School baseball], we had Gus on our mind before the season,” Remer said. “We had a couple injuries. ... We knew he was a good ball player with good defense and he’s a gamer.” Gus, who threw a no-hitter against Winston Churchill on April 17 and established Walter Johnson’s single-game record for strikeouts (13), is expected to attend Montgomery College in the fall and play for the Raptors. He
was recruited out of high school by a few Division I college programs to pitch, but would prefer to play every day at the next level. “My goal has always been to play D-I,” Gus said. “I feel I can go to MC like my brother did, grow as a player and then transfer. “I’m playing against guys that have top-notch talent this summer. I was a little nervous in the first game, but I have a lot of confidence in myself.” Added Remer: “It’s obvious playing in the Ripken League against older, established college players — not many kids that just graduated high school play up here — is going to help him. Unless he struck out every single at-bat and makes 42 errors in one game, this is a good experience and thing that will help him get a head start on college ball.” The Gills come from a strong baseball pedigree. Their father, Rich, played at Catholic University, and they are St. Louis Cardinal fans. Rich grew up listening to Cardinals games on the radio. “We’vealwaysdonebaseball,” Gus said. “We played whiffle ball, it is just what we do.” kzakour@gazette.net
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After losing eight seniors, Colonels rebuild BY TRAVIS MEWHIRTER STAFF WRITER
It looked strange, seeing a Col. Zadok Magruder High School boys basketball team take the court without a guards J.J. Epps or Nick Griffin. Two fouryear varsity starters, Montgomery County’s most formidable backcourt tandem combined for 84 wins, a state title and two more region titles — Magruder’s
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finest era of basketball. In Wednesday’s 61-41 loss to Clarksburg in a Montgomery County summer league playoff game at Thomas S. Wootton, the growing pains being weathered in the post-Griffin/Epps reign were evident, as were signs of a different type of basketball, however. “Everybody is going to sleep on Magruder,” commented St. Andrew’s coach Kevin Jones during the first half. “I think they’re going to surprise some people.” Given how most everybody seems to be looking at the Colo-
nels as a bygone, any amount of wins will likely be labeled a surprise. “Everybody thinks we’re going to suck,” Magruder coach Dan Harwood rather candidly told his team after the game. “But the thing is, everybody can be as good as they want to be. We can be as good as we want to be.” Predictably, considering Magruder’s loss of eight players and more than 65 points per game, the Colonels went through spells of miscommunications and sloppy basketball and then stretches of impressive resil-
ience. With about six minutes left, Josiah Jones, the team’s third leading returning scorer (3 points per game) went on a run of andone buckets and 3-pointers to whittle the lead to 12 while the defense forced a string of turnovers on the opposite end. “It just gives us more opportunities,” Jones said of the team’s steadfast approach on the defensive end. “Our offense obviously needs a lot of work but I think we’re going to be picking it up on defense.” tmewhirter@gazette.net
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B-CC graduate signs with D.C. United Soccer star hopes to make most of his opportunity in Major League Soccer
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SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
On July 10, Collin Martin fulfilled a dream. The Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School graduate signed a professional soccer contract with D.C. United’s first team. Martin, who has been playing soccer since he was 3, is happy to be living a dream he’s had since he was 8. After four years on United’s Academy team and one year on Wake Forest University’s team, he said he is excited for the opportunity. “I’ve never been like a goal person ... but there’s no reason not to hope for the best,” he said after training last week. “For these next six months, I want to train consistently well.” D.C. United coach Ben Olsen said that Martin’s growth and development over the past two years was what really caught their attention. “Collin is a kid we’ve had our eye on for awhile ... We’ve always known he was a very talented kid,” he said. “He wants to take it to the next level, and he was excited to do it, so that’s always a big part of this.” Having been a part of an Academy team that won the Major League Soccer Cup multiple times, Martin has traveled all over the world. He said his favorite destination so far has been South Africa. “I got to see crazy things,” he said. “Culturally it was so different from America. I got to pet baby lions, and that was so cool.” Growing up, one of Mar-
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B-CC High School graduate Collin Martin recently signed with D.C. United.
tin’s biggest mentors was his older brother, Trevor, who played for George Washington University. “He had me out there ... always training, always teaching me how to get better,” Martin said. Although he is currently not in school, Martin said he and his family value his education, and he will definitely return to school. He is currently working on transferring to George Washington University to major in either English or journalism. Martin, along with fellow newcomer Syamsir Alam, made his debut to a home crowd at RFK Stadium on July 12 in an international friendly game against Chivas de Guadalajara. “I think he did fine in the game ... It was nice to be able to throw him into the fire,” Olsen said. “There’s not a lot of fear in that kid ... it’s up to us to develop him now.” jcoyne@gazette.net
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Bullis’ top boys tennis players excel during summer Countee is topranked player in USTA Mid-Atlantic Section; teammate is No. 7 n
BY JENNIFER
BEEKMAN
STAFF WRITER
Rising Bullis School senior No. 1 singles player Kasey Countee’s first instinct on the tennis court is to get to the net. In an age where powerful
baseliners have taken over the sport, it is quite rare, especially at the high-school level, for someone to be so comfortable moving forward. “It’s kind of old school. I like quick points. I don’t like staying out on the court that much. If you stay out there too long, you tire yourself out,” Countee said. Classmate Darian Hashemzadeh, however, prefers to stay back. He thrives in the marathon match environment his teammate consciously avoids.
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A self-proclaimed grinder on the court, Hashemzadeh prefers to work the point from the baseline and wait for his opponent to make an error or the right opportunity to make his move. Their contrasting styles of play, though both boast big serves, have led each to individual success — Countee won his third consecutive Interstate Athletic Conference tournament singles title this spring, the last two coming at No. 1 singles, and Hashemzadeh went undefeated
en route to his second consecutive tournament title in the second singles slot. But they also complement each other well in a doubles setting, the two agreed. In an important summer — Bullis coach Steve Miguel said they are working to get noticed by college coaches — Countee and Hashemzadeh have shot up the U.S. Tennis Association rankings. The No. 1-ranked player in the USTA Mid-Atlantic Section Boys 18s, Countee is ranked No. 181 of 2,095 nationally. Hashemzadeh is No. 7 in the USTA Mid-Atlantic Section, 293rd nationally. Two regional doubles titles together this summer, in New York and California, in addition to a few final appearances, have not just helped boost the teammates’ individual rankings, but their confidence on the singles court, they said. Skills used in doubles, like the use of angles and getting to the net, can also be translated into his singles game, Hashemzadeh added. “I think [Kasey and I] really match up well together in doubles. If I wasn’t partners with Kasey I don’t think I’d be winning that much. I’ll work the point, cross-court, and he’ll poach over and finish at the net. He comes in so fast. I think the one thing he has that no other player [in this area] has that I’ve seen is he has the best anticipation. He knows exactly when to poach and when not to poach,” Hashemzadeh said. Though Countee and Hashemzadeh have settled at the top of Bullis’ lineup, their paths there were quite different. When Countee was 4, he was selected from a class at the Junior Tennis Champions Center catered toward finding athletes with good hand-eye coordination. Thus started his tennis journey. He was recruited in sixth grade by former Bulldogs coach Jack Schore to feed into
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Bullis Nos. 1 and 2 singles players, Kasey Countee (left) and Darian Hashemzadeh, teamed together for two USTA doubles titles this summer. a program that was nearly untouchable for most of the 2000s — Bullis’ streak of seven straight IAC titles was snapped in 2011 — and recognized as one of the best high-school programs in the nation. By eighth grade he was practicing and holding his own with the guys on the varsity squad. “I almost played in eighth grade. But then I wouldn’t have been allowed to play senior year. But I traveled with the team and that
was fun,” Countee said. The following year, in the spring of 2011, Countee announced himself as one of the league’s best by winning the No. 2 singles bracket at the IAC tournament. “Kasey has a really good feel for the game. He changes the pace well. He is always looking to come in,” Miguel said. jbeekman@gazette.net
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Our Lady of Good Counsel High School 2013 graduate Brendan Marshall (right) rolls out to pass against Gilman last year.
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The Our Lady of Good Counsel High School football team is scheduled to play the Gilman School at 8:30 p.m. Aug. 23 at Towson University in a game ESPNEWS plans to televise. Hosting Gilman last year, Good Counsel won, 20-19, in overtime. Running back Dorian O’Daniel ran for two touchdowns, and wide receiver Kendall Fuller caught the other. However, O’Daniel is moving onto Clemson, and Fuller to Virginia Tech. Good
Counsel will be breaking in several new starters after winning the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference title the past four seasons. This is the Falcons fourth game on national television since 2008. Good Counsel played DeMatha that year, St. Xavier in 2010, and Bishop Gorman of Nevada last year. Gilman was also on national television last season, losing to Archbishop Moeller of Cincinnati. The Greyhounds finished the year at 9-2, defeating Calvert Hall for the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association championship. — DAN FELDMAN
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013 s Mia Branco (left), Imagination Stage access coordinator, and and Diane Nutting, director of access and inclusion, chat with occupational therapist Roger Ideishi after he viewed a performance of “Peter Pan and Wendy.” Ideishi was called in to suggest where tweaks could be made, so children with special needs can watch the play without experiencing sensory overload. PHOTOS BY DAN GROSS/ THE GAZETTE
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The theater is packed with kids eagerly waiting for the show to begin. One man sits in an aisle seat with a notepad opened on his lap and a pen in his hand, ready to take notes. He’ll be marking down all of the points in “Peter Pan and Wendy” when the lights might flash too quickly, the sound might be too loud or an action might be too surprising. This is the first step in occupational therapist Roger Ideishi’s role in helping Imagination Stage in Bethesda produce a sensory-friendly performance. Imagination Stage ran four shows of this type in its 2012-13 season. Sensory-friendly shows are aimed at families with children on the autism spectrum and or with other sensory, social or learning needs. Many of the families who attend these shows can’t attend normal performances because of society’s reaction to their children’s actions, said Diane Nutting, director of access and inclusion at Imagination Stage. “These shows let families be who they are,” she said.
Producing a performance When selling tickets for the show, Imagination Stage leaves pockets of empty seats around families to allow easy movement if necessary. Some children stand close to the stage, leaning in to absorb the play, Nutting said. Once, a child ran around the theater for a whole show, taking breaks every once in a while to watch the actors. “It’s a hodgepodge of reac-
(From left) Dan Van Why, Justine Moral and Matt Dewberry perform in “Peter Pan and Wendy” before a sold-out Imagination Stage in Bethesda on Friday. tions,” Nutting said. “There’s no textbook case of how these children will react to the play.” The key, she said, is preparation — for both the families and the actors. Actors go through training to learn about what they might hear or see in the audience while on stage. They also run scenes that have been adjusted. Ideishi doesn’t change the script for sensory-friendly performances — he just adds clarity to it. In a meeting with members of the Imagination Stage team after watching “Peter Pan and Wendy,” Ideishi discussed making the message clearer for the audience. Instead of implying that the actors want the audience to answer a question or tell them what to do, he said they should clearly ask questions such as, “What should I do next?” Ideishi also recommended providing background on the “Peter Pan” story to the audience either during or before the show to give some context. Imagination Stage helps families prepare for shows by giving them guidelines — known as “social stories” — on how to pick up tickets, where the bathrooms are and how the the-
ater looks. The families receive another set of guidelines on the day of the event, as well, to tell them what will happen during the play itself. There are suggestions for what the children can do if they are scared or surprised. “If the music is too loud for me I can cover my ears, put on my headphones, or hug my mom or dad,” one set of guidelines said. Once in the auditorium, there are also Imagination Stage staff sitting in the corners with glow sticks. When a surprising scene is approaching or the actors are about to walk through the audience, the staff will raise the glow sticks as a warning sign for the audience. Nutting said the warnings and suggestions for surprising events are preparing children to know how they can react when watching a conventional show in the future. Going through the experience also prepares them for life, she said. “Life is surprising,” Nutting said.
‘We all benefit’ Ideishi always has been interested in how people with developmental needs interact
with society. Once he realized this community didn’t have much involvement in society, he wanted to work to change that. “I wanted to reach out to community organizations to make [these families] be able to go out more,” Ideishi said. Through his work with museums, theaters and aquariums, Ideishi created a way for families with children who don’t develop typically to experience what everyone else does. He currently works with about six organizations spread out among Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and the Washington, D.C., area, including the Smithsonian Institution and the Kennedy Center. Now, it seems his dream is coming true. Nutting said families with typically developing children have attended the last two sensory-friendly performances at Imagination Stage. This trend is happening at other organizations. too. Betty Siegel, director of VSA — formerly known as Very Special Arts — and Accessibility at the Kennedy Center, said all families who attend sensoryfriendly performances benefit, not just those with non-typically developing children. The performances are “really about enabling families in the community who have children, typically or not typically developing, to have engaged theater experiences,” she said. The Kennedy Center began producing sensory-friendly performances in 2012 when it had four performances. It plans to present five in the 2013-14 season. Siegel said there is much collaboration among the Smithsonian, Imagination Stage and other public venues involved with sensory-friendly activities. “We’re collaborative in nature,” she said. “It’s not an area of competition — it’s about helping the community. We all benefit.”
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A change in the way paramedics treat cardiac arrest patients could delay their arrival to the hospital, but could also increase their chances of survival. New protocols released by the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems create two major practice changes for EMS providers. As of July 1, providers will first treat medical cardiac arrest patients on the scene rather than rushing them to a hospital. They also now have the authority to declare a patient dead on the scene. “The public expects that we swoop in, we scoop up the patient, and we swoop out,” said Alan Butsch, battalion chief for the EMS section of Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service. Now, EMS providers are required to perform “high-quality continuous CPR” for 15 minutes on the scene. If a patient regains cardiac activity during that time, then the patient would be taken to a hospital. The prior practice in Montgomery County was to get the patient to a hospital as soon as possible, Butsch said. “We now know that their best chance of survival comes within that 15-minute window and that it depends on effective CPR (which you cannot do when moving the patient) in combination with the advanced techniques our paramedics can do,” Butsch wrote in an email. Cardiac arrest survival rates are already very low. Nationally, there are roughly 383,000 cardiac arrests that occur outside a hospital each year, and fewer than 8 percent of these patients survive, according to the American Heart Association’s website. In Montgomery County, EMS is dispatched for a cardiac arrest roughly once or twice per day, Butsch said. Of those, about half are actually cardiac arrest patients. Successful treatment is a race against time. The American Heart Association calls this the “chain of survival” — noticing a cardiac arrest and calling for emergency help, early CPR, defibrillation, “advanced life support,” and proper care afterwards. The first steps in this chain, medical officials said, might be the most crucial. “If we are going to save them, we are going to save them right there,” said Richard Alcorta, EMS medical director at the state institute. “For every
minute that someone is in arrest with no CPR, the chance of saving them drops by 10 percent.” After 15 minutes of CPR, EMS providers also can now declare a patient deceased and stop resuscitation attempts if the cardiac arrest did not occur while they were on the scene and the patient does not have a “shockable rhythm”; that is, the person won’t be revived with a defibrillator. In other cases, EMS can still stop resuscitation, but only after consulting with a doctor. There are exceptions. EMS providers cannot terminate resuscitation for minors, pregnant women, or those with cardiac arrest due to hypothermia or submersion. Families also can request that a patient still be taken to a hospital, Butsch said. Before the change, EMS providers in Montgomery County could declare a patient dead after 30 minutes of no pulse or breath if the provider consulted with an emergency room physician, Butsch said. The focus of these new protocols is on patient care, but there is always a risk to consider when ambulances move through traffic with sirens and lights on. In an emailed statement, the American Heart Association wrote, “In short, staying on the scene can reduce unnecessary transport to the hospital, reduces road hazards during the transport, reduces EMS exposure to biohazards, and reduces the need for Emergency Department pronouncement.” There were 55 ambulance collisions in the county in 2012 out of 80,000 EMS calls per year, Butsch said. Of those 55, 17 were traffic collisions in an emergency situation and one caused injuries. “Most collisions were minor and had nothing to do with traffic and the use of red lights and siren — so I can’t say that [Montogmery County Fire & Rescue] sees transporting cardiac arrests as a significant injury risk,” he wrote in an email. Statewide, 182 crashes were reported to police involving an ambulance or emergency vehicle in an emergency situation in 2011 and 239 the prior year, according to a University of Maryland, Baltimore analysis of Maryland Automated Accident Reporting System data. Although these protocol changes affect the behavior of paramedics, medical officials emphasized that the moments before they arrive count as well. “The patients that do better are the ones who had bystander CPR,” said Kiersten Henry, a cardiac nurse practitioner at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center. “If you don’t know how to do handsonly CPR, learn it.”
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deliver training and post-graduate level education to the military medical community and would enable USU to serve as the core academic health research center at WRNMMC. The proposed actions would enhance and support but not add to the missions of the installation, medical center, or the USU.
The Wait Period for the Final EIS is from July 19 to August 19, 2013, which provides at least 30 days from the date the Notice of Availability (NOA) is published in the Federal Register. The Navy will sign a Record of Decision (ROD) following the end of the 30-day Wait Period. The Final EIS has been distributed to various federal, state, and local agencies, as well as other interested individuals and organizations. Copies of the Final EIS have been placed at the following locations: Bethesda Library, 7400 Arlington Road, Bethesda, MD, 20814; Chevy Chase Library, 8005 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD, 20815; Davis Library, 6400 Democracy Boulevard, Bethesda, MD, 20817; Kensington Park Library, 4201 Knowles Avenue, Kensington, MD, 20895; Rockville Memorial Library, 21 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, MD 20850; and Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Services Center, 4805 Edgemoor Lane, Bethesda, MD, 20814. The Final EIS is also available at the following website: http://www.wrnmmc.capmed.mil/PatientVisitors/SitePages/EIS.aspx
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Skilled Nursing Facility in search of Full-Time GNAs for 7-3 and 311 shifts and Part-Time/On-Call positions on all shifts. Apply in person and take the preemployment exam at 1235 Potomac Valley Road, Rockville, MD 20850 EOE.
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2013 JETTA S
2013 GOLF 2 DOOR
#3131033, Automatic, Power Windows/Power Locks, Keyless Entry, Heated Seats, Bluetooth, Cruise Control
#7313437, Auto
MSRP $17,785
BUY FOR
14,699
$
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MSRP $21,910
17,995
$
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OR 0% for 60 MONTHS
2013 JETTA TDI
2013 BEETLE CONVERTIBLE
UP TO 42 E A HIGHWPA Y
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MSRP $25,530
#2822293, Power Windows/Power Locks, Auto
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$
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21,699
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2013 PASSAT TDI SE
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#V13770, Mt White, Pwr Windows, Sunroof
MSRP 24,790
MSRP $27,615
$
22,499
$
BUY FOR
OR 0% for 60 MONTHS
17,999
$
OR 0% for 60 MONTHS
2013 GOLF TDI
#7200941, Power Windows, Power Locks, Bluetooth
BUY FOR
#V13749, Mt Gray,
MSRP $19,990
OR 0% for 60 MONTHS
BUY FOR
2013 PASSAT S 2.5L
21,999
$
OR 0% for 60 MONTHS
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#9521085, Mt Silver, Pwr Windows, Pwr doors, Keyless
MSRP $31,670
23,999
$
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26,999
$
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2013 Golf HB Conv........#094406A, Red, 3,943 mi...............$19,494 2010 Tiguan Wolfsburg. #614718A, Gray, 46,795 mi............$19,991 2013 Passat S....................#PR5083, Gray, 3,140 mi................$21,591 2013 Passat.........................#PR5082, Silver, 3,140 mi...............$21,699 2010 Tiguan SE..................#P6505, Black, 40,938 mi..............$21,995 2013 Beetle Conv.............#P5094, Black, 4,184 mi................$22,991 2011 Tiguan SE..................#P6004 Gray, 20,118 mi.................$26,591 2012 Golf R Nav.................#819675A, Black, 21,246 mi..........$31,491
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CARS TO LAST CHANCE L AST C H A N C E 16CHOOSE CLEARANCE E VENT!! FROM CLEARANCE EVENT!! 7 DAYS TO SAVE UP TO $7,000 OFF RETAIL PRICE
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#326022A, 5 Speed Automatic, Flint Grey
RETAIL PRICE
9,995 2,500
$
SAVINGS
$
7,495
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#327025A, 5 Speed Automatic, Grey
RETAIL PRICE
13,995 $ 3,100 $
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10,895
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15,895 $ 4,000 $
11,895
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14,995 $ 2,100 $
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RETAIL PRICE SAVINGS CLEARANCE PRICE
17,985 $ 3,090 $
14,895
$$
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17,995 $ 2,100 $
SAVINGS
15,895
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#E0176, Automatic, 34.1K miles, Black
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12,985 $ 4,490 $
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12,995 $ 4,500 $
18,495
$$
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21,995 $ 3,100 $
18,895
$$
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RETAIL PRICE
24,985 $ 5,490 $
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19,495
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21,995 $ 2,500 $
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19,895
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23.995 $ 4,100 $
19,895
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26,895 $ 5,400 $
21,495
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10,985
07 Toyota Camry Hybrid #372326A, $$ Sand, CVT
12,985
12 Toyota Corolla LE #R1676, Blue, $ $ 13.8K mi, 4 Spd Auto
14,995
12 Honda Civic $$
#370631B, Red, 5 Spd Auto, 15.7K mi
16,985
09 Ford Ranger XL $$ #360242A, Auto, Red
11,985
12 Scion XB $$
#355014A, 4 Spd Auto, 30.9K mi, Black
13,985
12ScionTC $$
#363210A, 6 Spd Manual, Blue, 9.3K mi
15,985
08 Toyota Avalon XLS #378045A, $ 6 Spd Auto, $ Gray
17,985
!
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12,985
13 Toyota Corolla LE $$
#370554A, 4 Spd Auto, 19.2K mi, Silver
13,985
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15,985
12 Toyota Carmy LE $$
#R1647, 6 Spd Auto, 17.8K mi, White
17,985
$17,985 2005 Toyota Sienna LE........ $11,985 $11,985 2012 Scion TC.................. $17,985 #35109A, 6 SpeedAuto, 23.6K miles #360283A, 5 SpeedAuto, 2WD, Blue $19,955 2010 Toyota Corolla LE........ $14,985 $14,985 2012 Toyota Corolla SE........ $19,955 #372351A, 6 SpeedAuto, 26.6K mi, Gray #364236A, 4 SpeedAuto, Black $19,985 2011 Toyota Corolla LE........ $14,985 $14,985 2011 Hyundai Santa FE........ $19,985 #364207A, 6 SpeedAuto, Silver #367171A, 4 SpeedAuto, 28.8K miles $21,985 2012 Toyota Corolla LE........ $15,985 $15,985 2012 Toyota RAV4 4WD....... $21,985 #360237A, 4 SpeedAuto, 6.4K mi, Silver #R1688, Silver, 4 SpeedAuto, 15.5K miles $23,985 $15,985 2010 Toyota Highlander 4WD $23,985 2010 Chevrolet Silverado..... $15,985 #363255A, 4WD Sport Utility, Silver #367140A, 1500 2 WD Pick Up, 30K mi, Gray $27,985 2012 Nissan Frontier S........ $15,985 $15,985 2010 Toyota 4 Runner SR5.... $27,985 #362026A, 5 SpeedAuto, Red #R1652A,Avalanche, 5 SpeedAuto, 39.7K mi
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#11214 2 At This Price: VINS: 815560, 813881
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$
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11,977
$
24,995
13,977
$
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15,977
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17,977
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14,977
$
2012 Nissan Sentra
#332138B, 4K miles, Navigation, Sunroof
17,477
$
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19,977
$
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18,495
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$
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‘03 Buick Rendevzous
$5950
#KP21001 DVD, $1492 UNDER KBB
‘05 Chevy Monte Carlo $10,700
‘04 Acura MDX AWD
‘11 HYUNDAI SONATA GLS
$15,590
$12,935
‘04 Infinity QX56 4WD
#KP05913 FACTORY WARRANTY!
$7988
#KP09664A AWD, $885 BELOW KBB
#KP62182 DVD, $1433 BELOW KBB
#KP22294 “Tony Stewart”, $797 BELOW KBB
‘01 Toyota Sequoia SR5
‘07 Honda Accord EX-L $14,988
#KP32745 V6, $2608 UNDER KBB
$16,970
#KP36196A NAV, $3268 BELOW KBB
‘08 Infinity G35X
$19,988
#KP63436 AWD, $2128 UNDER KBB
HUNDREDS of USED CARS, TRUCKS, VANS & SUVs All Makes & Models! Visit FitzMall.com Today! W WHEATON H E AT O N U USED SED V VEHICLES EHICLES UNDER $10,995
1994 Ford Explorer 4x4..............................1,450
2000 Ford F-150 Supercab..........................5,500
1998 Olds Cutlass GLS...............................1,950
2005 Nissan Altima 3.5 SE..........................6,750
#KP10186A,AC,AT,ABS, BEST VALUE!, “HANDYMAN”
#KP44731,Clean 99K! AT, AC, LTHR, P/OPTS, “HANDYMAN”
#KX71474, AT, AC, BD LNR, “HANDYMAN”
#KP50517A, Mnrf, Lthr, P/Options, Great Value, “HANDYMAN”
1991 Toyota Corolla DLX............................1,988
2004 Chrysler PT Cruiser GT.......................6,988
1997 Subaru Legacy L WGN........................2,650
2003 Buick Lesabre LTD..............................7,488
#KP12853, AT, AC, Great Transportation, “HANDYMAN”
#KP04510, AT, AC, PW/PLC, MORE! VALUE PRICED!, “HANDYMAN”
2001 Ford Explorer Sport 4WD...................2,950 #KP83311A, Great buy!, PW/PL, CD CHGHR, Alloys, “HANDYMAN”
2004 Ford Taurus SE..................................2,988 #KP56450A, PSEAT, PW/PLC, CC, “HANDYMAN”
2002 Ford Taurus SES................................2,990
#KP72468,NICE!,LTHR/PWR Seat,PW/PLC,Alloys,”HANDYMAN”
1998 SAAB 900 SE......................................3,498
#KP02717, CONVERTIBLE, FUN! AT, AC, P/OPTIONS, LITTLE NEEDED! “HANDYMAN”
3,950
1999 Ford Ranger Supercab Sport.............. #KP02968, NICE!! PW/PLC, SLDG RR WNDW
2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4WD................3,950 #KP55012, A STEAL!! PW/PLC, AT, AC, “HANDYMAN”
2000 Subaru Outback LTD..........................4,788 #BD90768A,AWD,Super Clean,MNRF,LTHR/PWR Seat,SAB,ABS,MD Insp., “HANDYMAN”
2002 Chrysler PT Cruiser LTD.....................4,850 #KP74330,”WOODY” MNRF,AT,ABS,CSAB,P/OPTS
2002 Ford Taurus SE WGN..........................4,988 #KP31409,3rd Seat,PW/PLC,Alloys,Super Clean,MD INSP
2004 Subaru Forester X.............................4,988 #KP38727, 5 SPD, GAS SAVER!, AC, P/OPTIONS, CC, “HANDYMAN”
2005 Buick Century...................................5,498 #KP00882, MD INSPECTED, PSEAT, PW/PLC, CD, CC, TLT
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UNDER $10,995
#AP03775, TURBO, LTHR, MNRF, SAB, MD INSP
#FP98059, GORGEOUS! MNRF, LTHR/PWR SEATS, P/OPTIONS, CASS/CD
2004 Chevy Malibu LT.................................7,988 #KP18816, Clean! PW/PLC, Auto, Md Insp
2001 Toyota Sequoia SR5 4WD ...................7,988
#KP09664A, PSEAT, PW/PLC, CASS/CD COMBO, GREAT VALUE
2008 Saturn Astra XE..................................8,488 #KP59427,H/BK,SHARP!,MNRF,AT,ABX,Alloys,Stabilitrak
2004 Chevy Trailblazer LT...........................8,888
#KP27447, 4WD, MNRF, PW/PL/PMR, CC
2003 Toyota Matrix XR WGN .......................8,988
#KP69845, AT, ABS, ALLOYS, P/OPTIONS, GAS SIPPER!
2008 Chrysler PT Cruiser TRNG...................8,988 #KP34446A, AT, ALLOYS, PW/PLC, CD, NICE!
2004 Nissan Xterra SE ................................9,470
#KP05169, S/C SPORT, 4WD, MNRF, NTG BDS, 6-DISC CD, P/ OPTS, NICE!
2002 Mini Cooper.......................................9,745
MORE VEHICLES continued 2006 Suzuki Grand Vitara.........................10,970 #KP95439A, 4WD, LUXURY, PRISTINE, 69K! AT, LTHR, MNRF
2006 Jeep GR Cherokee LTD.....................11,490 #KP12539,4WD,MNRF,LTHR,CD-6,Stability
2005 BMW X3 3.01 AWD...........................11,994 #KP02511, SHARP! NAV, MNRF, LTH/HTD, STABILITY
2005 Toyota Camry XLE............................11,997 #KP05193, MNRF, LTHR/PWR SEATS, 6-DISC CD, VALUE!
2005 Caddy CTS.......................................11,988 #KP91895, SHARP! LTHR/PWR SEAT, PW/PLC, CC, CD, TLT
2010 Mitsubishi Lancer ES.......................12,297 #KP75693A, PW/PLC/PMR, CD, CC FAC WARR!
2008 GMC Savana Cargo Van....................12,470 #KR11890,WELL KEPT!,AT,AC,Tradesman Shelves/Drawers
2008 Mercury Mariner..............................12,488 #KP21874, Mnrf, Audiofile CD Chgr, Stability
2009 Hyundai Sonata GLS.........................12,488 #KP77485, Beauty! MNRF, Wood Grain, P/Options
12,488
2005MercedesC-240 ...................................... #KP65999, LUXURY SPORT! MNRF, LTHR/PWR SEATS, P/OPTIONS, GREAT VALUE
2008 Mercury Sable Premier ..................12,588
#KP55813, Clean, 63K! NAV, MNRF, CD, ALLOYS
#KP05554, LTHR, MNRF, 6-CD CHGR, P/OTPS, SAVE OVER $2400 OFF KBB
2004 Lincoln Navigator............................10,470
2010 Chevy HHR LT........................12,835
#KP21761A,4WD,BEAUTY!,Nav,MNRF,DVD,LTHR,RNG BDS
2010 Suzuki SX4.......................................10,488 #KN02825, AT, PW/PLC. CD Fac Warr
10,945
2006 Buick Lucerne CXS.......................... #KP37654, Luxury!, LTHR/HTD/Mem Seats, Harman Kardon CD, SAB
10,945
2004 Dodge Dakota Quad CAB SLT........... #KP81097, PAMPERED 53K!! ALLOYS, TLT, P/OPTIONS, CD
#KP54941, MNRF, PSEAT, AT, REMOTE START, STABILTRAK
12,988
2006ToyotaCamryXLE.................................... #KP33971, Sharp, Mnrf, Lthr, Stability, P/Opts
2009 Toyota Corolla LE........................13,488 #KP65389, CLEAN, 50K! AT, PW/PLC, CD
Ford Mustang CNVTB’L.............................13,988 #KP09213,PW/PLC/PMR Off-Season
MORE VEHICLES continued
MORE VEHICLES continued
2008 Suzuki XL-7...................................14,488
2010 Dodge Grand Caravan SXT.........16,988
#KP24175, Luxury AWD, Pristine, 49K! Lthr, 3rd Row, Mnrf, Lthr/Htd, P/Opts
#KN96774, PWR DRS, PW/PLC, CD, GREAT VALUE!
2009 Dodge Journey.............................14,488
2008 Chrysler 300 C “HEMI”..................... #KA35559, DON’T MISS! NAV, MNRF, LTHR/HTD, MYGIG
2011 Chevy Impala LT...............................14,988
2008 Honda Pilot EX-L.............................. #QP18730, LTHR,MNRF,STABILITY,P/OPTIONS
2008 Ford Escape Limited.........................14,988
2008 Infinity G35X.................................... #KP63436, ALL-WHEEL-DRIVE! Mnfr, Lthr, Pwr Opts
2006 Toyota Sienna XLE............................15,945
#AR75862, LOTS OF TOYS, LTHR/PWR/HD SEATS, CD CHGR, FAC WARR!
#KA02097, R/T ERD SESAT, MNRF, 19” WHLS, AIT FILTERING SYST, P/OPTS #KN88726, MNRF, LTHR/PWER SEATS, CD, ALLOYS
#KP30166, 4WD V6 Nice! MNRF, LTHR, PSEAT, Stability, P/Opts, CD Chgr #KP57549, ALL-WHEEL-DRIVE! LTHR/HTD, QUADS, JBL CD
18,988
19,988
19,988
2012 Hyundai Genesis 3.8V6....................24,988