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Final environmental study outlines effects of $2.2B light rail project BY AGNES BLUM STAFF WRITER
The Purple Line will bring with it the hum of power substations, the squealing of wheels and the ringing of warning bells according to the final environmental impact study released Thursday. The study, conducted by the Maryland Transit Administration, is available online at www.purplelinemd. com/en/studies-reports/feis-document and goes into great detail about the effects of construction of the $2.2 billion light-rail line. The train will travel 16.2 miles east-west across Montgomery and Prince George’s counties and is slated to begin in 2015. Those who live alongside the tracks can expect increased noise and vibrations, according to the study. Trains will ring five-second warning bells as they approach a station, and crossing areas may also have
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Richard Willis, who is currently homeless, panhandles at the corner of Old Georgetown Road and Democracy Boulevard in Bethesda on Monday.
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Richard Willis strolled up and down the thin median strip in Bethesda, following the ebb and flow of traffic as the lights changed. Monday was one of the first days Willis had come to the intersection of Democracy Boulevard and Old Georgetown Road in months, but
he said he’s been coming to the area off and on for nearly 10 years. His small cardboard sign said he needed money for prescriptions, but Willis said he was actually trying to raise money to stay at a motel because there was no room in the homeless shelter where he had been staying. Drivers’ reaction to his presence is mostly good, although occasionally someone will tell him to get a job, Willis said. He said sometimes people will bring him a soda or a sandwich. Other times, a driver will say they are on their way to the grocery store across the street, and they’ll bring him something on the way back. In the winter, people
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will bring gloves, hats or an umbrella if it’s raining, he said. Earlier Monday morning in Wheaton, Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett (D), County Councilman George Leventhal and other officials announced an initiative to discourage drivers and other county residents from giving money to panhandlers such as Willis and instead direct their money toward county programs that work with the poor and homeless. “We want people to give. We don’t want people to give to panhandlers,” Leventhal said
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Tall mature trees will be lost during construction of the Purple Line, which will run behind the home of Maribeth and Lee Eiden, shown in their Bethesda backyard with their grandchild Richie.
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A plan intended to protect the public from medical waste near a popular trail at the Forest Glen Annex met with apprehension and doubt from local residents Thursday evening. A small part of the Ireland Drive trail, which runs along the southwestern edge of the Forest Glen Annex in Silver Spring, was fenced off in 2012 after syringes and scalpels were found
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that summer. Medical waste may have originated from one of two landfill sites on the annex — one near the commissary and one near the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research — where household waste, office waste, incinerator ash and medical waste were dumped from the 1940s to the 1960s. At a Restoration Advisory Board meeting Thursday evening, the Army Corps of Engineers proposed an interim solution to control public access to the area, since there may be more waste underground near the trail. According to Forest Glen Annex Garrison Manager William Crane, signs have been erected
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near the creek that runs alongside the trail, warning that the orange-tinged water is contaminated. The Army Corps’ recommended plan, Crane said, is to temporarily close off a larger part of the trail, including the landfill’s known perimeter, with a chain-link fence. That plan would cost the Army about $281,000. The fence would be in place until the Army Corps has determined how and if it will deal with landfill material and chemical contamination at the site. “We do not know ... what we’re going to
When a teacher has been accused of inappropriate behavior with a student, that teacher could wind up in a new school. The latest education news in Montgomery and affecting Montgomery County County Public Schools is considering new rules that would make such reassignments less likely in cases of “a sexual nature,” said chief operating officer Larry Bowers. The school system is examining its policy for reas-
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Kensington Summer Concert, 10-11 a.m., Howard Avenue Park. Howard Avenue, Kensington. Ellen Cherry plays spunky pop music. Free. info@kensingtonhistory.org. National Park Seminary tour, 1 p.m., across from 2755 Cassedy St., Silver Spring. Once a women’s private school and Army rehabilitation center, now a residential community. $5. 301-589-1715. Workshop: How to do a Spiritual Exercise, 2-3 p.m., Silver Spring Community Library, 8901 Colesville Road. Free. 410-300-6271. Fox Family in Fall, 3-4 p.m., Brookside Nature Center, 1400 Glenallan Ave., Wheaton. Learn where foxes live, hunt and play. $5. Register at www.parkpass.org.
erans Place. Xerxeser.Kayode@montgomerycountymd.gov. Volunteer Fire Department Carnival, 6:3011 p.m., Burtonsville Volunteer Fire Department Carnival Fairgrounds, Sandy Spring Road and Star Point Drive, through Sept. 21. Also open until 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2-8 p.m. Sept. 15. $2 entry, $1-$3 per ride. www.BVFD.com. Contra Dance, 7-10 p.m., Silver Spring Civic Building, Great Hall, 1 Veterans Place. $10 general admission; $8 for Folklore Society of Greater Washington members; $5 for students
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Hospice Caring starts book of memories as tribute to deceased PEOPLE & PL ACES ALINE BARROS
Hospice Caring in Gaithersburg has launched a new
way for people from around the county to memorialize and honor their loved ones. On Saturday, the nonmedical hospice helped attendees pay tribute to almost 50 mothers, grandmothers, fathers, sisters, uncles and friends with a book of memories. “It’s something new we’re starting because we wanted something permanent for the names,” said Executive Director Jeannette Mendonca. The hospice staff has put together tribute events involving the release of butterflies and the reading of names, but they wanted something that families could point to when they return to the agency’s cottage, she said. Attendees who signed the book were given a single, longstemmed rose as a keepsake. Names were read aloud, accompanying poetry and the dedication of bricks and pavers in the Hospice Caring cottage’s garden walkway. The garden has become a place for “quiet reflection” for the hospice’s visitors, Mendonca said. A children’s garden at the cottage was installed in April and paid tribute to grieving children and their families. Twenty-six bricks and pavers were dedicated as part of the tribute event. They are being inscribed with names and installed this week. Families and attendees who dedicated pavers chose their location along the path as well, Mendonca said. Bricks along the garden path have been made into tributes at the Hospice Caring cottage for more than a decade, she said. The book of tributes will be on permanent display in the cottage, at 518 S. Frederick Ave., Gaithersburg. Hospice Caring is “24 years young,” Mendonca said. The nonprofit is planning to start a garden catalog, where those interested can sponsor flowers, plants and ornaments that will appear in the Hospice Caring gardens. — SYLVIA CARIGNAN
Safe Silver Spring meeting is Tuesday Topics to be discussed at the next Safe Silver Spring meeting include minorities and the criminal justice system. The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Long Branch Community Center, Community Lounge, 8700 Piney
Branch Road, Silver Spring.. The speakers include the following: • Del. Aisha N. Braveboy (DDist. 25) of Mitchellville. • Elijah Wheeler Jr., disproportionate minority contact reduction coordinator for Montgomery County Collaboration Council for Children, Youth and Families. • Rashad Price, Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services Youth Violence Prevention Program. • Saschane Stephenson, president of the African-American Democratic Club of Montgomery County.
contest winner, Kerri Myers. More information and rules are at takomaparkmarket.com
Campus congrats Cadet Russell Douglas Wanke, son of Doug and Cindi Wanke of Silver Spring, recently
completed cadet basic training at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. Wanke, who entered West Point on July 1, graduated from James Hubert Blake High School. He plans to graduate from West Point in 2017 and be commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army. The initial military training program that Wanke completed provides cadets with basic skills to instill discipline, pride, cohesion, confidence and a high sense of duty to prepare them for entry into the Corps of Cadets, according to an Army news release. Areas of summer instruction included first aid, mountaineering, hand grenades, rifle marksmanship, and nuclear, biological, and chemical training.
Student teaches Holocaust history A college student from
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of history and her ancestry to a new level, earning an internship at a New York Jewish Heritage museum this fall. Rivka Malka Swartz, a student at Lander College for Women-The Anna Ruth and Mark Hasten School in New York, will be an intern at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan. She began training in August as a Holocaust educator at the museum. This fall she, along with the other 15 interns at the museum, will be matched with a middle- or high-school where she will teach about the Holocaust to prepare students for a visit to the museum. Those students will then visit the museum, where Swartz will be a docent, teaching about the Holocaust through artifacts in the museum’s collection. Swartz will then return to her assigned school to provide a post-visit lesson to discuss the material and find out how the students felt about the experience, according to Betsy Aldredge, a museum spokeswoman.
Silver Spring woman wins business competition A Silver Spring businesswoman won top prize in the 10th annual StartRight! Women’s Business Plan Competition. The Maryland Women’s Business Center and Rockville Economic Development Inc. awarded the $5,000 grand prize to Kellee James, founder and CEO of Mercaris, a market data service and online trading exchange for organic and non-genetically-modified agricultural commodities. James’ business plan was selected from 42 plans reviewed by 33 volunteer judges. The awards were announced Aug. 29 at the Power Conference at the Montgomery County Conference Center in North
Boyds gallery to host photography workshop The Art Connect gallery in
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Roslyn Price of Montgomery Village dedicates a stone paver to her late husband, Harvey Price, during the Gardens of Memories Tribute on Saturday at Hospice Caring in Gaithersburg. Bethesda.
The annual competition is supported with more than $23,000 in cash and in-kind prizes from Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy and Ecker; Comcast Business; the Maryland Biotechnology Center; Foster, Soltoff & Love; ActionCoach; Morgan Stanley; Citi; Wal-Mart; the Maryland Casino Business Investment Fund managed by Meridian Management Group; Intelligent Office; the Montgomery County Department of Economic Development; and Washington Post Capital Business, whose parent company owns The Gazette. James said that although the cash prize will be helpful to her business, the connections she made during the conference were invaluable, according to a news release from the women’s business center.
‘Faire’ focuses on the innovative Robots, electric go-karts, interactive art, flying machines — they all promise to be at the
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Silver Spring Mini Maker Faire.
The free family festival is scheduled for noon to 5 p.m. Sept. 29 at the Silver Spring Civic Building. The fair will feature handson activities and innovative projects created by inventors, hackers, crafters, artists and doit-yourselfers of all kinds. The goal of the festival is to demonstrate creative and unusual pursuits to inspire others to explore their own curiosity and make something new and different. It also will offer food, performances and a series of short talks from “Inventors in Our Midst.” The Silver Spring Mini Maker Faire is presented by Kid Museum, an emerging children’s museum in Montgomery County, along with the lead sponsor, Discovery Communications. The festival is accessible from the Silver Spring Metro station and free parking is available in the nearby town center and Wayne Avenue garages. More information is at makerfairesilverspring.com.
Apple pie contest celebrates harvest season Here’s an activity for those with pie-high aspirations. The Takoma Park Farmers Market will celebrate apple season with an apple pie contest at 11 a.m. Sunday. The market is at the corner of Carroll and Laurel avenues. Judging will be in four categories: Best Pie Ever, Most Beautiful Pie, Most Unusual Pie and Yummy Mess. Prizes will be awarded, including in a separate children’s category. At the end of the contest, all pies will be sliced and offered to the public for a donation. All donations will go to the Takoma Park Farmers Market [food stamp] Match Program. Celebrity pie judges are expected to include Takoma Park Mayor Bruce Williams, chef Danny Wells of Republic, a Takoma Park restaurant; Takoma Park Council members Fred Schulz and Kay Daniels-Cohen; business owner Rocco Casagrande; and last year’s apple pie
workshop Sept. 21. Nature photographer Marsha Liebl will teach participants techniques to help improve their skills. The workshop will be held from 8 to 10:30 a.m. at Brookside Gardens at 1800 Glenallan Ave., Wheaton. The fee is $59. Participants should bring a point-and-shoot or 35mm camera, and no tripods are necessary. Call 301-820-1193 by Sept. 20 to register.
DEATHS Neil C. Carmichael Sr. Neil C. Carmichael Sr., 75, of Woodlawn, died Aug. 30, 2013. Gasch’s Funeral Home handled the arrangements.
Roy Douglas Koppe Roy Douglas “Doug” Koppe, 85, formerly of Gaithersburg, died Sept. 2, 2013, in Berkeley Springs, W.Va. A funeral was held Sept. 6 at Helsley-Johnson Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Berkeley Springs. Interment occurred in Parklawn Memorial Park in Rockville.
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County sticking with decision
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Plans to fix the cracking Silver Spring Transit Center with a specialty concrete won’t work and will push the Metro hub’s opening past summer 2014, according to a letter released Tuesday from the project’s general contractor, Foulger-Pratt. A working group tasked with finding a way to get the troubled $120 million transit hub open for business has decided Montgomery County will use the latex-modified concrete as the overlay material to make the repairs, according to a letter Thursday from David Dise, director of general services, to County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) and Council President Nancy Navarro (D-Dist. 4) of Silver Spring. But in a letter sent from Foulger-Pratt Managing Principal Bryant Foulger to Dise Tuesday, the firm said it advised “against installation of the LMC overlay being insisted upon by the county’s design professional, Parsons Brinckerhoff.” Latex-modified concrete is a durable, fast-curing system that will be used to address areas
where the concrete durability and adthicknesses vary too equate coverage of much, Dise said. The infill of thin areas.” cracks will be repaired While Dise has and the modified consaid the actual work crete will be used as a of installing the SILVER SPRING uniform overlay. latex-modified conTRANSIT CENTER Foulger said in his crete would take six letter the LMC fails to weeks, he said deThe Gazette’s page address the design issign approvals and devoted to the transit sue that caused the permits would add center now includes concrete cracking and to the timeframe. an interactive timeline of the milestones of the long-term mainteThere’s a lot of the project. Go to nance of the cracking site work to be done www.gazette.net/ slabs. before the concrete transit. “Our recommenoverlay can start, he dations with regard to said. the overlay have been ignored Foulger alleges the cenin favor of an approach that we ter is looking at a much longer believe to be highly inadvisable completion schedule than sug— an approach insisted upon gested by the county. He said by the county’s design engineer before overlay work can begin over our strenuous objections,” other construction work such as Foulger wrote in a release to The demolition of handicap ramps, Gazette. “The designer’s ap- crack repair, waterproofing at proach is technically ill-advised handicap ramps and installaand ill-conceived.” tion of drain extension frames Dise told the Montgomery for curb inlet drains must occur. County Council at a briefing Foulger said the concrete Tuesday afternoon that he still product, because of temperabelieves the latex-modified con- ture restrictions on the matericrete will do the job. als, would likely not be able to “We certainly, along with be installed from November experts, believe it does or we through April. wouldn’t recommend it,” he Dise told the council the told the council. “We all want concrete needed to be poured the facility complete and open, when temperatures are 40 deand we want it to be done cor- grees or higher. rectly. This is the best solution “Weather is in fact the bigthat provides a combination of gest challenge in this,” Dise told
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the council. Dise said it is possible to do part of the project prior to November and close off some of the work to the weather to get the rest done. “We are highly disappointed that it has taken 18 weeks and all we have is a decision from the county to move forward with an ill-advised approach that is going to take more time than necessary and going to cost he county even more money. As we have said in the past, we want to get the Transit Center open for the citizens of Montgomery County, but we are again frustrated that it has taken so long to get to this point and that the decisions being made will not accomplish this goal in an effective, timely and cost efficient way,” Foulger wrote in a statement to The Gazette. Dise said the modified concrete is more expensive than conventional concrete because it has twice its strength, plus a latex component. So far there is no cost estimate for the remediation. Several council members expressed concerns about who would pay for the additional work. Dise said Leggett would prefer to get the project fixed first, then figure out who pays for what.
“Our drive now is to obtain substantial completion,” Dise said. Also still undetermined is how much the structure will cost to maintain and operate — the biggest hurdle in getting the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to accept the project. KCE, the county’s consultant for the repair job, is continuing its assessment of potential extraordinary maintenance costs of the remediated facility, according to Dise’s letter. This will be compared with the operating and maintenance cost anticipated by WMATA in its original 2004 estimate. According to a September 2004 estimate, WMATA expected to pay $2.2 million to perform annual maintenance at the transit center. WMATA also planned a $1 million allowance for rehabilitation of the center at 15-year intervals. WMATA is interested in identifying what, if any, extra costs may be anticipated beyond that original estimate, according to Dise’s letter. Charlie Scott, representing WMATA at the Tuesday meeting, said the authority’s board is waiting to review an entire remediation plan rather than weighing in throughout the process.
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One of striking workers hit by a company trash truck Wednesday morning BY KRISTA BRICK AND ST. JOHN BARNED-SMITH STAFF WRITERS
A striking worker at Potomac Disposal was hit by a trash truck Wednesday morning, as workers at a Gaithersburg trash-collecting company continued to picket the company over accusations of worker intimidation by managers. About 50 employees for Potomac Disposal went on strike Monday morning, claiming the company tried to intimidate them during labor negotiations last week with threats of immigration checks. Wednesday morning the two sides were working out a deal and workers were unable to report to work. As the strike continued Wednesday one striker was hit by a Potomac Disposal trash truck as a driver failed to negotiate a turn from the company’s gate entrance, driving onto the sidewalk and hitting the worker, according to Montgomery County Police spokeswoman Cpl. Rebecca Innocenti. “He was leaving the company property and making a turn, he failed to control his speed and did not navigate the turn correctly, went up on the sidewalk and hit the pedestrian,” Innocenti said. The male striker was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Innocenti said. The driver was charged with failing to control speed to avoid a collision, police said. Nicole Duarte, communications director for Laborers’ International Union of North America Mid-Atlantic Regional Organizing Coalition, which bargains for the workers, wrote in an email on Tuesday that strikers have offered to return to work, as they are legally required to do to keep their jobs. Duarte said Wednesday, the negotiations continued, but that the workers were not allowed back at work. Potomac Disposal did not address the accusations that workers made against the company. On Tuesday afternoon, Lee Levine,
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Felix Rodriguez uses a bullhorn Tuesday to lead the chants as workers from Potomac Disposal protest along Woodfield Road outside the company’s Gaithersburg president of the company, invited a Gazette reporter to speak with him at the company’s offices on Woodfield Road, then canceled at the last minute after company officials learned that the strikers planned to come back to their job site on Wednesday. “Striking is an option of last resort and we felt it was warranted with the severity of the intimidation here,” Duarte said during an interview on Tuesday. “They felt they have made their point and want to hear what management has to say,” she said. Duarte said the workers were not ruling out future strikes. On Tuesday, dozens of strikers milled about on Woodfield Road in Gaithersburg, holding signs with slogans like “We haul trash, but we’re not trash,” as trucks rolled by, horns blasting in support. The signs and the strike continued Wednesday morning. “There’s a lot of injustice going on,” Yovany Ramos, a striker, said on Tuesday, when the workers normally would have been collecting trash from 18,000 homes sprawling across Potomac, Bethesda, Wheaton and Silver Spring. According to Duarte, the workers had been negotiating with the company’s managers Thursday, seeking higher wages, health care benefits, and sick days. When workers showed up Fri-
day morning, they found Form I-9s — forms the government uses to identify workers — attached to their time cards, something they had never experienced before, strikers said. “In general, the company should have gone through this process right when the workers were hired. ... If they do have records for some workers, then the timing of this particular action on their part is even more suspicious,” Duarte said. “If it wasn’t a priority when [the workers] were hired, you have to wonder what made it a priority this week,” she said, adding that only the company’s mostly Latino crew, which covers Montgomery County, was asked for I-9’s. “It’s a very common tactic — you’ll see it through out country in a bunch of different industries,” Duarte said. “That was sort of the straw that broke the camel’s back,” Ramos said. “We condemn that kind of practice,” said Sirine Shebaya, an attorney at the ACLU of Maryland. “If this was happening in Montgomery County, that would be really shocking because we would expect more from these more progressive areas of Maryland.” She said labor laws prohibit reprisals against workers, even if they are undocumented. Potomac Disposal has a $5
million contract with Montgomery County. It serves about 40,000 homes in the county, according to county officials. “We don’t want workers who work for county contractors to not have the right to organize and bargain collectively. ... We’re monitoring this and we’ll see where things lead,” said Patrick Lacefield, a county spokesman. He did not know if the county would audit Potomac Disposal, he said. Right now, though, the county is focusing on the basics. “We want to make sure trash get picked up. If this company can’t do it, we have other provisions [so that] the other two [that already collect trash] are required to step in and do the work,” he said. Ernest Ojito, an organizer at the strike, said the workers began trying to improve their working conditions last November. The workers claimed they were being called names and were not allowed to file for worker’s compensation, among other issues. Drivers earn about $120 to $130 per day, Duarte said, and receive some sick days or vacation days. Helpers make about half of that, and do not receive sick time. “Sometimes I finish my route and they want me to finish another route. They don’t pay more for any of thatwork,”saidOscarMartinez,adding that the workers do not receive holiday pay. Martinez has been with Potomac Disposal for eight years. Union attorney Brian Petruska said employees file I-9’s when they start their jobs, but employers can update their records if they have a good reason to do so — for instance, if documents had been damaged in a flood. “Ordinarily, you get it done on the first day and never hear about it again,” he said. In another labor dispute earlier this year, a company used the same tactic to fire about half of its workforce, he said. “It’s not proper or legal for those people to lose their jobs because they were trying to join with other workers to collectively bargain for a raise,” Petruska said. Staff Writer Andrew Schotz contributed to this story. sjbsmith@gazette.net
“We are not taking every update and potential fix and plan to the board,” he said. “Ultimately we want to take a final remediation to board of directors and an agreement with the county on how we would be able to recommend acceptance.” The $120 million facility, at the corner of Colesville Road and Wayne Avenue in downtown Silver Spring, was slated to open in 2011, but a series of cracks found in the structure and disparities in the thickness of the concrete have delayed the project’s opening by two years. Concrete subcontractor Facchina Construction of La Plata, hired by Foulger-Pratt to work on the project, may end up doing the remediation work, Dise said. Foulger-Pratt will be responsible for hiring the subcontractor for the concrete overlay job and could choose to use Facchina or another contractor, he said. “Facchina is a good contractor. They do concrete structures across the county. There were mistakes made here, but that does not mean they make mistakes everywhere,” Dise said. “I would have no problem if they went with Facchina on this project.” Staff Writer Ryan Marshall contributed to this report kbrick@gazette.net
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Residents and dog owners in Takoma Park might get a place to hang out with their pets and neighbors. On Monday, the Takoma Park City Council met to discuss a possible dog park using money through the state’s Program Open Space, which is for acquiring and developing recreation facilities. Councilmember Fred Schultz said the conversation does not commit the city to spend any money. “It just creates an opportunity,” he said, adding: “There were so many unanswered questions. We are still a long way to make a decision on that.” The council agreed to work with advocacy groups such as TakomaDogs on possible sites and cost estimates. According to a city document, the municipality has $438,196 in its Program Open Space budget. The town is asking the Montgomery County Department of Parks to include the dog park on a list of projects that should be funded by the POS balance and city’s general fund. In July, Joe Edgell from TakomaDogs suggested four locations for a dog recreation site. One is the underdeveloped portion of Heffner Park at the west end of Takoma-Piney Branch Park. As stated by the document presented at the council meeting, if the site is chosen, development estimates could range from $40,000 to $400,000 based on the size, fencing choice, site work, type of ground and amenities. According to Edgell’s city council presentation on June 15, dog owners spend up to $2,898,500 annually in the Takoma Park area, and a dog park could also boost property values and make Takoma Park more attractive for people relocating to the area. Schultz expects the city staff to do more homework. “The next step is more planning and researching,” he said. The Gazette reported in June that the 2012 Park and Recreation Open Space Plan shows a countywide need of 12 dog parks, and so far, there are five dogs parks operating in the Montgomery County region. The State Highway Administration provided $135,000 for an Olney Manor Dog Park and construction for the Cabin John Dog Park, funded through the Capital Improvements Program, cost the county $158,000. No public meeting has been set to further discuss the Takoma Park dog park.
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KATE S. ALEXANDER STAFF WRITER
With or without co-sponsors, one Montgomery County councilman says he will introduce a bill to nearly double the county’s minimum wage. Seeking to close the gap between the county’s high cost of living and actual wages, Councilman Marc B. Elrich is drafting legislation that increases the county minimum wage from the federally mandated $7.25 per hour to $12 per hour. “Everybody knows you can’t live on minimum wage,” he said. “But everybody knows that $12 an hour isn’t really a living wage either. So I’m trying to narrow the gap.” Elrich (D-At large) of Takoma Park said he plans to introduce the bill Sept. 24. Elrich announced his bill two weeks ago and had planned to introduce it this week. His goal was to let the council tweak the legislation as it moved through the process, he said. But in his discussions with the business community and colleagues, he decided he could address their concerns before he introduced the bill. He included a provision to phase in the increase over several years and language that keeps the bill in line with existing exclusions to the federal minimum wage. “I’m hoping that some of the changes will get me some co-sponsors,” he said. As of Monday, a day before Elrich was going to introduce his bill, he had no co-sponsors. With or without co-sponsors, however, he said he will bring his bill before the council to start discussion on raising
wages. Across the state and nation, lawmakers are pushing to raise minimum wages. A bill by former Sen. Robert Garagiola (D-Dist. 15) of Germantown to raise Maryland’s minimum wage to $10 an hour died in committee in the 2013 state legislative session. But the effort is likely to continue in 2014. Raise Maryland, a singleissue campaign focused on increasing Maryland’s minimum wage, plans to push for a bill next session that raises the wage to $10.10 per hour. Matt Hanson, campaign coordinator, said the bill is essentially the same as the $10 wage introduced last session, adjusted for inflation. Increasing Maryland’s minimum wage has drawn support from politicians including Rep. John Delaney (D-Dist. 6) of Potomac and Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler, who is pursuing the Democratic nomination for governor. But $10 an hour does not go as far in Montgomery County as it does in some of the state’s rural regions, Elrich said. According to the 2012 Maryland Self Sufficiency Standard by the Maryland Community Action Partnership, a single adult with no children needs to earn $17.07 per hour to meet basic needs in Montgomery County, such as food, rent and clothing.
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An underwater photo taken by Silver Spring resident Diane Thomas just may have landed the woman and her husband an eight-day, all-expenses-paid trip to Fiji. Thomas, an avid scuba diver submitted the photo of her in her full scuba gear holding a message “Kelly and Michael, you’ve got us hooked.” The photo got her a spot in the semifinals for ABC’s show LIVE with Kelly and Michael’s biggest fan search. Thomas, 63, took the picture Friday, and submitted it minutes before the midnight deadline, she said. On Monday morning she saw the photo and her name on the television as one of the three semifinalists. Thomas said she screamed when she saw it and yelled, “Oh my gosh, we made it! We are in the running!” The week starting Sept. 2 marked Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan’s first year as a team
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Diane Thomas, 63, from Silver Spring, Md., a certified scuba diver for more than 30 years, and semifinalist at the contest “LIVE’s Biggest Fan.” The photo was taken on Friday and submitted minutes before the midnight deadline. at the television program “Live with Kelly and Michael.” To celebrate they decided to search for the show’s biggest fan. Viewers had to submit a creative selftaken photo with a celebratory message to the hosts. “There’s not many scuba divers watching the show,” Thomas said. She left her Silver Spring home to head to New York
City on Tuesday and is one of the three contestants to participate at a live trivia game all about LIVE’s history on Thursday at 9 a.m.. According to an official press release from ABC, the winner gets an eight-day all-inclusive vacation for two to the Yasawa Island Resort in Fiji. abarros@gazette.net
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Chicago bike sale started Landers on path to success Blue Corona CEO riding a wave of business-revenue growth n
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Fresh out of college, Ben Landers thought he had a job with Merrill Lynch in Chicago, where his girlfriend lived. Told the job actually would be in New York, he decided against moving east and found a position with a large bicycle store in Chicago. There, he sold a bike to the head of sales for Hotjobs.com and soon became a senior account executive with the online job search business.
“You never know where one position or one sale will lead,” said Landers, the 37-year-old CEO of Blue Corona, a fastgrowing Gaithersburg business that provides online marketing, web design, marketing analytics and other services. Blue Corona recently made Inc. magazine’s annual list of the nation’s fastest-growing private businesses for the second consecutive year. Last year, the company was the fastest-growing in Montgomery County, fourth-fastest in Maryland and 174th nationally. This year, it was 15th in Montgomery and 694th nationally, with a three-year revenue growth rate of 660 percent, up to
about $3 million for 2012. To grow fast, a company has to quantify its marketing data to build an effective system in which executives know what is working and what is not, Landers said. “You need a marketing system where you can turn the dial up to create demand for your services,” he said. While vice president of sales and marketing for Gaithersburg bottled water company DrinkMore Water, Landers helped that company’s founder, Bob Perini, develop a system to accurately track and quantify advertising and marketing campaigns. They eliminated almost $150,000 in ineffective Yellow Page ads per year. Landers con-
verted DrinkMore’s website from a “brochure” type of site to a “lead-generation machine” involving e-commerce. “We took a technological and analytical approach to marketing,” said Perini, who earned an MBA from Harvard and had led DrinkMore onto the Inc. magazine list in 2002 and 2003, shortly before Landers joined the business. Perini founded DrinkMore in 1993, when bottled water was not as popular as it is today. “We were a little bit ahead of the curve,” he said. “And with our data-driven approach to marketing, we were ahead of the curve there, too. Now you see almost every company taking a
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Ben Landers, president and CEO of Gaithersburg internet marketing and IT company Blue Corona, at his office.
more data-oriented approach to advertising.” Landers considers Perini, who co-founded Blue Corona with him, one of his key mentors. Perini had high praise for Landers, as well. “He has a fantastic level of energy and enthusiasm. He loves the business side of business,” Perini said. “He has entrepreneurial blood coursing through his veins and does whatever it takes to succeed.”
Sweating through the back of his suit Landers grew up in Montgomery County and graduated from Wootton High School in Rockville. He wanted a fresh environment for college and chose Ohio University, earning a bachelor’s degree in communications and marketing. After working for Hotjobs for two years, Landers joined WorldCom as a major account executive in the Chicago office in 2002, shortly after the former telecommunications giant filed for bankruptcy amid a financial scandal. While he considered his year there “great experience,” working conditions were tense, to say the least.
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“It was a competitive, serious environment. Everyone wore suits and ties,” said Landers, who recalled sweating through the back of his suit before one nerve-wracking meeting. “No one seemed to even take off to eat lunch.” He soon became regional sales manager at Windy City Sports and Gen-A and moved to Bethesda to manage the advertising agency’s mid-Atlantic region. While marketing the business at an event, he met Perini and began a key relationship. “He asked me where I saw myself in five years, and I said I wanted to either graduate from a top business school or run my own company,” Landers said. “He asked if I was interested in earning a practical, on-the-job MBA and starting a business together.” Less than five years after joining DrinkMore, Landers and Perini co-founded Blue Corona, using the marketing analytics system and e-commerce for clients such as Coakley Realty and Payroll Network. The business set up in an office in the same building as DrinkMore and has grown to 36 employees, with a satellite office in Charlotte, N.C. “This year, we are shooting for $5 million in revenue,” Landers said. Landers sometimes takes off from operating his company to speak to students at Georgetown Universityandblogonsites,which he considers an important marketing vehicle as well. Blue Corona is a member of local chambers of commerce, and he’d like to eventually get more involved in those business organizations. Perini, still an investor and adviser of Blue Corona, said the 60-employee DrinkMore, which has an on-site manufacturing and bottling plant, continues to see good sales increases. “Our partnership works well,” Perini said of his relationship with Landers. kshay@gazette.net
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County honors residents who have African heritage Festival and an African naming ceremony round out list of activities
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PEGGY MCEWAN STAFF WRITER
Since 2008 Montgomery County has designated September as African Heritage Month, with a number of events designed to celebrate the cultural heritage of county residents of African descent. But it is a celebration for the community at large, said Daniel Koroma from the county’s Office of Community Partnerships. “Many people realize that we are from Africa but Montgomery County is home,” he said. “It brings together [the idea] that we are part of this community.” County Executive Isiah Leggett started off the month with a celebration Sept. 3 at the Silver Spring Civic Building. The event included a reception hosted by members of the Montgomery County African Affairs Advisory Group, music and African foods. “Montgomery County has become a magnet for talented people from every corner of the globe,” Leggett said in a released statement. “In September, we celebrate African Heritage
Month with events across the County recognizing the extraordinary contributions made by our residents of African ancestry.” On Saturday the African Women’s Cancer Awareness Association is scheduled to host a walk-a-thon to raise funds for its work promoting the importance of cancer screenings, especially mammograms for women. “Most of the women we deal with have never had a mammogram,” said Ify Nwabukwu, the association’s executive director. “Eighty percent don’t have health insurance.” Nwabukwu said this will be the ninth year of the walka-thon, which is open to everyone. “Cancer does not discriminate,” she said. “There are no color barriers.” For more information on the event visit www.AWCAA. org. On Sunday there will be an Ethiopian Cultural Festival from noon to 9 p.m. at the Silver Spring Veterans Plaza at Fenton Street and Ellsworth Avenue. The festival will feature children’s activities, music, cultural performances and a fashion show. The month will also include a Diaspora Town Hall meeting at 6 p.m. Sept. 18 at
the Silver Spring Civic Building. The president of Sierra Leone, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, will host the meeting in collaboration with the African Affairs Advisory Group of Montgomery County. A Pan African Cultural Festival will round out the month’s activities. It is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sept. 21 on the plaza of the Silver Spring Civic Building. “In the morning there will be a African naming ceremony for African-Americans who traced their DNA back to Africa,” said Ada Brown, a Panafest organizer. “Traditional leaders from African countries assign names in a traditional way.” There will also be a march to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and the 50th anniversary of the formation of the African Union, 54 countries who join together to bring about change on the continent of Africa, Brown said. “It’s an extremely important event for people of Africa and all people, no matter what race, to come together to understand each other and to help our young people be proud of their culture,” Brown said.
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The following is a summary of incidents in the Silver Spring/ Takoma Park area to which Montgomery County and/or Takoma Park police responded recently. The words “arrested” and “charged” do not imply guilt. This information was provided by the county and Takoma Park police media services office.
When Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett travels to China later this month, much of his time will be spent trying to build relationships to help the county’s tech industries. The trip, scheduled for Sept. 15-25, will feature a delegation of 86 people including Leggett and County Council members Hans Riemer and Roger Berliner, as well as Montgomery County Public Schools Superin-
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3RD DISTRICT Aggravated Assault • On Aug. 16 at 8 p.m. in the 600 block of Silver Spring Avenue, Silver Spring. The subject is known to the victim. • On Aug. 21 at 1 p.m. in the 11500 block of Lockwood Drive, Silver Spring. The subject is known to the victim. • On Aug. 25 at 11:40 p.m. in the 13900 block of Castle Boulevard, Silver Spring. The subject is known to the victim.
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• On Aug. 23 at 2:05 a.m. in the 8800 block of Georgia Ave., Silver Spring. The subject threatened the victim with a weapon and took property. • On Aug. 23 at 6:57 p.m. at Shell Gas Station, 9510 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring. The subject threatened the victim with a weapon and took property. • On Aug. 26 at 8:48 p.m. at Sunoco, 12040 Cherry Hill Road, Silver Spring. The subject threatened the victim with a weapon and took property. • On Aug. 27 at 1:47 a.m. in the 1700 block of Staley Manor Drive, Silver Spring. The subject threatened the victim with a weapon and took property.
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Commercial Burglary • Two incidents between 6 p.m. Aug. 23 and 8:36 a.m. Aug. 24 at 7896 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring. Forced entry into Ana’s Salon and Live City Studios and took property.
Indecent Exposure • On Aug. 25 at 6:48 p.m. in the 8200 block of Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring. No further information provided.
Residential Burglary • 9700 block of Fairway Avenue, Silver Spring, at 7:42 a.m. Aug. 23. Attempted forced entry, took nothing. • 10600 block of Crestmoor Drive, Silver Spring, at 8 a.m. Aug. 23. Forced entry; police made an arrest.
Robbery • On Aug. 20 at 9:38 p.m. in the 14100 block of Armilla Court, Silver Spring. The subject is known to the victim.
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tendent Joshua Starr, two school principals and business executives from around the county, said Lily Qi, director of special projects for the Office of the County Executive. Not all of the delegation will be going to every stop, Qi said. Much of the trip will be geared toward developing relationships and attracting funding for Montgomery’s biotech industry, one of the main types of industry in the county. The trip will include stops in Shanghai, Beijing, and other cities. Montgomery County is home to about 300 biotech companies, the most of any county in Maryland and among the
largest group of such companies in the country, said Kristina Ellis, a spokeswoman for the county’s Department of Economic Development. Starr and the other county school officials are also scheduled to visit several schools on the trip. Among the roughly two dozen businesses that will be represented on the trip are Marriott International, Discovery Communications, BioHealth Innovations, Aeras, US Pharmacopeia, Sirnomics and Washington Labs, according to a county handout on the trip. rmarshall@gazette.net
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RYAN MARSHALL STAFF WRITER
A bill making possession of small amounts of marijuana a civil rather than criminal offense will be introduced in the coming state legislative session, after failing to advance this year. Sen. Robert A. Zirkin (D-Dist. 11) of Owings Mills said he will “absolutely” introduce a decriminalization bill in the 2014 General Assembly session. A bill he introduced in the 2013 session failed to come up for a vote in the House Judiciary Committee. The Senate approved the bill, 30-16, before sending it to the House. Zirkin said Thursday he didn’t know yet if his new bill would have any substantial changes. This year’s bill made possession of up to 10 grams of marijuana punishable by a fine of up to $100. He also didn’t know if other legislators planned to introduce similar bills. Zirkin said he’ll submit another bill because decriminalization makes sense for the state. “I firmly believe in it,” he said. Zirkin said he has an upcoming meeting with Judiciary Chairman Del. Joseph F. Vallario Jr. (Dist. 27A) of Upper Marlboro and plans to talk about marijuana decriminalization. After that, he’ll have a better idea what form his bill will take. Del. Kathleen Dumais (DDist. 15) of Rockville, the vice chairwoman of the Judiciary Committee, said several committee members struggle with the concept of decriminalization. Dumais said she believes the committee’s general philosophy is to take small steps on the marijuana issue. The state recently legalized medical marijuana and allowed police officers to issue citations for marijuana possession rather than arrest offenders. She and other committee members had concerns in the last session about whether decriminalization would make it easier for minors to get access to marijuana. “I think we’re going to have to wait and see” where the committee stands on a bill for the next session, Dumais said. Zirkin said research doesn’t show any increase in usage among teens or other groups, or use as a gateway to other drugs in comparisons between states that have decriminalized marijuana and states that haven’t. He said the state could save hundreds of millions of dollars on enforcement, as well as time by judges, police officers and prosecutors. Sen. Jamie Raskin (D-Dist. 20) of Silver Spring, who serves on the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee, said he thinks the days of marijuana as a cultural issue are over. “Today, we are looking at this as a question of public policy and dollars and cents. People want to know whether it really makes sense to be putting people behind bars for simple possession,” he said. Raskin was behind a 2011 bill that provided a defense for those possessing marijuana for medical reasons with a doctor’s order, and a 2012 bill that reduced the punishment for simple possession of the drug from 12 months in jail to 90 days. Both he and Zirkin think the public is moving toward approving the idea of decriminalizing marijuana. Raskin compared it to other issues the state has taken up in recent years. “I feel like the question of the war on drugs is where marriage equality or the death penalty repeal were several years ago,” Raskin said. “People are beginning to assess in a very sober way the costs and benefits of criminalizing marijuana.” Zirkin said he’s willing to have the measure go to referendum and let the voters decide, if that’s whatitwouldtakefortheJudiciary Committee to approve it. “Ithinkthevotersoverwhelmingly would support this,” Zirkin said. Staff Writer Kate S. Alexander contributed to this report. rmarshall@gazette.net
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O’Malley’s farewell tour
Brown, Gansler, Mizeur. Craig, George, Lollar. Maryland’s political solar system is filling up with gubernatorial-candidate planets. What’s a sitting governor — and presidential-maybe — to do? How can he redirect sunlight and attention his way? Martin O’Malley’s solution: Go on tour and proclaim his accomplishments after 6½ years in office. O’Malley’s statewide criss-cross is called “Better Choices, Better Results.” The governor is repackaging his achievements as a “greatest hits” album and playing it for all to hear. Pop star Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” could have been the soundtrack when O’Malley’s tour kicked off Aug. 28 at Goucher College in Baltimore. A video DON’T LOOK on Maryland’s quality BACK UNTIL THE of life played more like a campaign ad, minus the JOB IS DONE “Authority” line. O’Malley is scheduled to present more of the same Sept. 26 in Charles County, Oct. 31 in Howard County and in November in Prince George’s County and Baltimore City. O’Malley, a Democrat nearing the end of his two-term limit, openly admits — as if it were a secret — that he’s laying the groundwork for a possible White House run. While O’Malley unabashedly trumpets his successes more than a year before his successor takes over, Montgomery County voters should think about what the governor has done for them. The repeal of the death penalty and the legalization of same-sex marriage certainly play well here. Remember, though, that O’Malley was lukewarm on repeal for years. Other than testifying at bill hearings, his approach was to stall instead of taking action on new rules after the a court struck down Maryland’s capital punishment protocol. Maryland had a death penalty, but couldn’t use it. And the governor also wouldn’t commit beyond civil unions for gay couples until he evolved into a champion for expanding marriage. Those issues — and alternative energy — could get liberal voters to dance in presidential primaries. But his legacy will be remembered also for a pizzicato of tax increases. The sales, income, corporate income, gas, flush and cigarette taxes all increased during his two terms. And he signed the millionaire’s and rain taxes into law. With possibly the exception to dancing, if it were taxed, O’Malley increased it. All that led to the crescendo of his two terms — the legalization of gambling, anathema to many liberals because casinos prey upon the ones least able to afford slot machines and table gaming. Even though the 2016 presidential campaign is coming to life, O’Malley has a quarter of his second term left. The governor’s focus should be on the next songs on his playlist, not reminding voters’ of previous hits.
The minimum wage
As the major state and county elections are still a year away, supporters of a minimum-wage increase have lined up an array of politicians. The announced and presumed Democratic candidates for Maryland governor — Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, Del. Heather Mizeur and Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler — have all expressed support for an increase. The current rate, $7.25 an hour, was last increased in 2009. Maryland’s rate matches the federal rate. Nineteen states have minimumwage rates higher than the POOR TIME TO federal rate. Proposals at MANDATE A the state and federal level HIGHER RATE IN A would push the rate to $10 DOUR ECONOMY an hour or higher. Another supporter is Rep. John Delaney, who made his millions as a financier, and has pledged his own money to support an increase to the Maryland minimum wage. From inside Montgomery, County Councilman Marc Elrich (D-Dist. 1) of Takoma Park wants the county to raise its minimum wage to $12 an hour. He is expected to introduce county legislation soon to establish the rate. For the proponents, the timing is perfect. Raising the minimum wage is an election-friendly issue for Maryland. Opposing an increase could be seen as opposing our hard-working neighbors who struggle to make ends meet. For the people who have to pay the minimum wage, however, the timing is horrible. The economy remains fragile; no one doubts better days are ahead, but the question remains how far off those better days are. An increase could hurt the people who most need help — by increasing costs, employers may hire fewer minimum-wage workers. Teenagers could lose the chance at getting their first jobs. A better solution would be to wait at least a year to revisit and renew a debate. By then, the signposts to the future economy should point in more definitive directions.
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Fees sprout from tree bills This letter is in response to the letter to the editor published on Aug. 28 regarding tree canopy [“New tree legislation a step toward sustaining tree canopy”]. Conservation Montgomery continues to characterize all homebuilders as obstructionists and to misrepresent the facts, betraying their real agenda of stopping new home construction. The tree legislation that was passed by the council in July, Bill 35-12 Tree Canopy and Bill 4112 Roadside Trees, were based on anecdotal and selective examples and it is understandable the public is confused about the real consequences of these bills. The most recent Park and Planning study shows that our canopy is thriving and exceeds neighboring states. So those who may be concerned with the county’s tree canopy should be comforted that there is data proving there is no shortage of canopy. I am sure anyone who has been through one of our recent storms also knows this to be true. Without demonstrating a need for legislation, County Executive Ike Leggett submitted Bill 35-12 that used satellite imagery to measure the canopy located within the limits of disturbance. It did not matter if the canopy was disturbed. The sole purpose was to create a fee to
plant trees somewhere else. His bill did not save any trees or require any tree planting; it just established a new fee for a certain part of the population to fund a county goal — though the goal was never identified. Renewing Montgomery represents most of the builders in the downcounty area. In response to Leggett’s bill, we proposed a progressive tree planting requirement on all lots whether trees were removed or not. Our goal was to have an immediate positive impact for the community by planting trees instead of paying fees. DEP agreed with our approach. After several meetings, we also agreed on a reasonable number of trees that could fit on a lot. Then everything changed. Just prior to the County Council vote, DEP arbitrarily tripled the number of shade trees (oak, elm) required, and decided not to count ornamental trees (cherry, magnolia), making it impossible to plant all the trees on the impacted property and creating a new tree fee which was their original intention. Ornamental trees are desired by homeowners and grow to 30 feet so they definitely provide shade. The builders did all the compromising on these bills and now all property owners are economically impacted.
This legislation affects everyone who needs a sediment control permit — which is required for a single-room addition, a new driveway, a front porch or a new home. For residents on a fixed income, seeking to make minor improvements to age in place or accommodate the handicapped or create a rentable space, these additional fees may make their projects unaffordable. Unbelievably, even if no trees are removed, the property owner must agree to plant a significant number of trees on their private property to proceed with their home improvements! As an example, under this bill, an 8,001-square-foot lot will require nine shade trees. The county also requires excessive spacing making it impossible to plant this number of trees on site. The county’s solution is to require the property owner to pay a fee for any tree not planted. The fee for a lot this size is estimated at $2,250. These fees will be used by the county to plant trees somewhere else. That’s a lot of fees for a front porch. Montgomery County has the strictest regulations in the U.S. regarding stormwater management, and the county agrees these regulations are the primary reason trees are removed. So in effect the county is requiring an
Voters need to ask questions
What do voters want? County Executive Ike Leggett, former county executive Douglas Duncan, and County Councilmember Phil Andrews are all hoping to be elected to a four-year term as Montgomery County executive. They base their campaigns on their years of experience in government. Their priorities and reasons to vote for them are different, but all three claim to have a strategy to lead the county out of a “Great Recession.” The differences are how each candidate will prioritize fiscal responsibility, manage aggressive growth and be “transparent” — a buzzword that means integrity. The large number of building permits for works-inprogress is obvious, and new construction is everywhere: public school additions; recreation facilities; high-rise apartment, condominium and office structures; new retail locations; single-family and townhouse land use. Forthcoming is more development as the county planning authority and the City of Rockville and Gaithersburg master plans have adopted
future land use zoning. By November 2014, the economic downturn may be in the past. Governance must respond to the welfare, protection and civil rights of all citizens. County governance has assumed that residents will accept higher taxes and numerous fees, while public service employees have been generously compensated. Future state and county tax and fee increases will challenge both senior citizens on fixed incomes and low-income residents on tight budgets. Ask! What more can the three candidates for county executive do for our county than is already ongoing? There is always unfinished business. The candidates have a transportation vision for commuters, involving costly rapid transit systems built with help from state politicians using taxpayer dollars. Will rapid transit make county business more productive? According to “Montgomery County moves into the fast lane,” [The Gazette, Aug. 28], the county has more private companies than any other Maryland county.
Robert Rand, Managing Editor Ken Sain, Sports Editor Andrew Schotz, Assistant Managing Editor Dan Gross, Photo Editor Jessica Loder, Web Editor
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The writer is chairwoman of Renewing Montgomery.
Fixated on the Purple Line
Since WWII, Montgomery County has been on the path to be a colossal urban-suburban metropolis including centers of culture, trade and recreation that are planned and developed in livable environments. That is the vision. To praise or to criticize: Ike Leggett has worked hard to steer the ship away from floundering and default. Will Mr. Duncan or Mr. Andrews bring alternative goals and priorities? The county needs to elect a fiscally responsible thinker and doer to manage growth and to bargain openly with lobbyists and promoter interests. The executive needs to replace debt with a balanced budget. Ask the candidates where theircampaignfundscomefrom. Ask them how they will deal with collective bargaining, with developer land use, and with very, very angry residents who must have an objective even-handed executive approach. It is most important that registered voters are informed and go to vote on Election Day.
The Aug. 28 article on the Purple Line [“A virtual ride”] misses a key point. The “virtual ride” begins at the proposed Bethesda station at 9 a.m. and describes a hypothetical morning commute to Takoma Park/ Langley Transit Center, arriving at 9:28 a.m. Better, and more likely, morning commutes will originate from the east in Takoma Park or elsewhere to Bethesda with the reverse in the afternoon. Projected ridership is overstated, “mature trees” lost from East Bethesda through Rock Creek are understated and the practical destruction of the hiking/walking/biking trail is obfuscated by planners. They and our politicians have too long been fixated on running an expensive county light rail transitway for two-plus decades while ignoring reasonable alternatives for east-west transport in lower Montgomery County.
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unavoidable fee to comply with their regulations. Sometimes this is called a tax. Bill 41-12 Roadside Trees was sponsored by Councilman Roger Berliner. Trees in the right of way must be removed if they conflict with regulations regarding driveways and utilities. Prior to this bill, a property owner was required to obtain a permit from the state and replace any tree that was removed. The former process provided the county with the final approval of all tree removal permits and allowed the county to require additional tree protection. We had an efficient, economical process that resulted in no net loss of street trees. What do we have now? Now we have a duplicate process that requires you to plant three trees for every one removed. We have a requirement to submit a costly plan and pay two fees — even if a tree is not removed. We have a fee of $250 for every tree not planted to plant trees somewhere else. There are still many details to work out that could impact the additional costs to property owners. If you are interested in joining the discussion I encourage you to contact your council representative.
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Continued from Page A-1 signing teachers and other employees as it works to improve its ability to track incidents of employee behavior, he said. The school system recently studied several cases involving employees who engaged in inappropriate behavior with students over extended periods of time, leading the school system to make changes to its tracking system for reports on such alleged behavior, according to school system memorandums. The discussion over the changes comes on the heels of the arrest of Lawrence Joynes, a music teacher who was accused of sexually abusing 14 children at New Hampshire Elementary School in Silver Spring and raping a 15th victim at Eastern Middle School, also in Silver Spring. Joynes taught at 11 schools during 27 years in the school system. School officials have not said whether Joynes was reassigned to different schools because of accusations at any of the schools. The new tracking process would aim to help the school system better follow behavioral patterns, the Aug. 28 memo said. “The review highlighted the need to maintain information centrally from both formal and informal reporting of such behavior whether the reports were or were not substantiated and to assist in establishing patterns of
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Continued from Page A-1 at a news conference. People who want to help panhandlers can text SHARE to the number 80077 to donate $5 to the Community Foundation of Montgomery County, which helps coordinate charitable giving in the county. Kim Ball, administrator of homeless services for the county’s Department of Health and Human Services, said her department goes out to try and interview panhandlers. Some agree and some refuse, and oth-
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inappropriate behavior to be addressed by [the Office of Human Resources and Development],” the memo said. School Superintendent Joshua P. Starr sent a June 11 confidential memorandum, supplied by the school system, to members of the school board describing plans for the new system, noting the use of a confidential database for reported allegations and training that principals and supervisors would receive. In a recent interview, Bowers said that reassignments also will be considered. Bowers said that when it comes to cases in which inappropriate behavior of “a sexual nature” is suspected from an employee, reassignments will be rare if not nonexistent. “I don’t want to say never, but it will not happen very often in the future,” Bowers said. Bowers also said that reassignments have occurred “not very often” in the past. When it comes to behavior of a sexual nature, county Board of Education member Michael Durso said, he would have to “think long and hard” if reassignment is an appropriate action and that there are “many shades” to the issue. “Now I guess it depends on the severity of maybe what the action is: Was it something that was said? Was it maybe someone touching someone and that was seen as inappropriate and maybe it wasn’t intended to be? All the way up to the most severe of sexual involvement or, you
know, actual abuse,” said Durso, a former principal. “That’s the dilemma; it’s very difficult to lump everything into one category,” he said. Durso said the school system needs to consider false accusations. According to some people’s perceptions, “just being accused is tantamount to being guilty.” “It’s a huge gray area, but just because it’s complicated doesn’t mean we shouldn’t address it,” he said. In the Aug. 28 memo, “transfers” and “reassignments” are listed among a group of seven potential types of disciplinary action, which also includes a written reprimand, demotion, suspension, coursework and termination. Bowers said, however, that the inclusion of transfers and reassignments — as well as coursework — in the list of potential disciplinary action is a “miswording” in the memorandum. There are cases in which
ers just take the information the workers provide, Ball said. Panhandling is a complex, complicated issue, said Susan Sinclair-Smith, executive director of the Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless, who spoke at the press conference. Montgomery County’s affluence, with a median household income listed by the U.S. Census Bureau of $95,660 from 20072011, adds to the problem. “I think the disparities between rich and poor are even more stark here,” Sinclair-Smith said. Most people feel compassion and a desire to help when
they see someone struggling, she said. But giving the person cash isn’t really the best way to help them; a county service might be, officials said. “We know what works, so we just need to get people into the programs that work,” SinclairSmith said. The press conference was held at Veirs Mill Road and Georgia Avenue in Wheaton, the site of a May 16 crash that killed Mary Fish, 52, who had been known to panhandle in the area. A collision between two vehicles at the intersection pushed one of them onto the curb and
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keeping an employee in the school where a report was made would create a bad working and learning environment, he said. Generally, a reassignment would happen in a situation “where the principal feels it’s in the best interest of the school to not have that person there,” Bowers said. Susan Burkinshaw — health and safety committee cochairwoman for the Montgomery County Council of Parent Teacher Associations — said she thinks that if an employee is suspected of being a danger to students, they should not be kept where they might continue the alleged behavior. The school system “should not put them in a position where they have access to children,” she said. Burkinshaw said she has faith in the school system that they would “know better” than to move a teacher to a different school where they might still pose a danger to students. While it’s important to keep
students protected, she said, she recognizes there’s “a fine line” the school system has to walk when it comes to addressing suspicious behavior. “There should not be a witch hunt against anyone suspected” of inappropriate behavior, Burkinshaw said. “They can’t just be willynilly putting people on probation based on rumors,” she said. In Joynes’ case, according to court documents, the principal of New Hampshire Estates Elementary placed a variety of restrictions on him in November 2011, including “activities only in public areas, classroom door to remain open during instruction, stay off playground during recess, no sitting at the cafeteria with students, use of staff restrooms only, don’t be alone with any student in classroom, and no touching of students in any form.” These restrictions were put in place after a second-grade student told her mother, who then told the school’s principal, that Joynes had “asked her if she wanted to crawl into his lap” and if she dreamed about Joynes; and after a first-grade student told her teacher that Joynes tickled her during instruction, according to court documents. Not speaking to any specific case, Bowers said that, generally, restrictions placed on a school system employee are “not necessarily disciplinary actions.” Such restrictions can be put in place following situations
in which a teacher’s behavior, though not inappropriate, made a student feel uncomfortable, he said. “It’s the result of either observations that others have made or concerns that have been raised,” Bowers said. If a teacher were to have several or “extensive” restrictions placed on them, Bowers said, that doesn’t mean the teacher actually did all the things they are directed not to do. A principal can choose to be cautious in the restrictions on an employee, he said. He added he has not seen “a lot of examples” of restrictions placed on employees. When asked if extensive restrictions were concerning, Bowers responded, “This is my perspective — it’s concerning to place restrictions on a teacher for anything,” he said. “But you have to say that a lot of it is about perceptions.” A person’s words or actions could be innocent, he said, but another person may perceive it as inappropriate. Durso said that when a teacher is under extensive restrictions — such as those placed on Joynes — that are starkly different than what the school asks of another teacher or employee, it raises questions. “If it’s that bad, then I think you have to wonder: Does that person need to remain in that position?” he said.
into the median, where it hit Fish, according to Montgomery County police. Officials on Monday seemed particularly concerned about panhandlers who enter into traffic to ask drivers for money or to accept a donation that’s offered. Any time someone is on the roadside or the median, it creates a dangerous situation because it impedes traffic, distracts drivers and causes them to make bad decisions, said Capt. Thomas Didone, director of the Montgomery County Police Department’s Traffic Division. Panhandling is generally not
illegal in Montgomery County, unless the panhandler is aggressive or walking in the roadway, he said. As someone who has stood in the roadway to direct traffic, Didone can attest to the danger of it. “People voluntarily doing this for money is insane,” he said. On Democracy Boulevard, Willis said there are rules that panhandlers need to follow. He said he’s careful to stay in the median strip and is careful never to touch cars or people or wander into the street. People who don’t follow
those rules have no business being out there, he said. He said he’s all for the county’s initiative to encourage people to give to organizations to help people who need it. Ball said giving money at intersections helps panhandlers address their immediate problems. But many have more longterm issues that need to be dealt with to truly help them, she said. “Giving them money is not going to help that situation,” she said.
“There should not be a witch hunt against anyone suspected. They can’t just be willy-nilly putting people on probation based on rumors.” Susan Burkinshaw, health and safety committee co-chairwoman for the Montgomery County Council of Parent Teacher Associations
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WSSC admits ‘mistake’ in Chevy Chase water main break, promises inspections 17 vulnerable sections of pipe are located on a line that runs through the county n
BY AGNES BLUM STAFF WRITER
Montgomery County’s water mains have about 160 sections that contain similar vulnerabilities that caused a “catastrophic” water main break in March, leading to a massive crater on Chevy Chase Drive and a loss of 60 million gallons of water, Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission representatives said Monday. According to a forensic analysis of the break, three simultaneous issues led to the failure: First, the wire used between two components of the 35-year-old reinforced concrete pipe had not been “pre-stressed” and was therefore weak. Second, chlorinated water had been slowly leaking from a gasketseal.Andthird,thatleakhad weakened the grout in the joint, allowing water to seep in, corroding the steel parts inside the pipe. WSSC’s current detection system did not, and can not, pick up on these kinds of failures and a new inspection system must be created, said David Burke, group leader for technical services at WSSC at a meeting before the Montgomery County Council’s
Transportation, Infrastructure, Energy and Environment on Monday. Inspections of all the areas that have the same vulnerabilities will begin this fall, Burke said, but there are limits on how thorough those inspections can be, since so many water mains are buried in places that are difficult to access. “There are numerous locations we can’t excavate,” he said. While officials would not release the exact locations of the vulnerable sections, spokesman I.J. Hudson said that 17 of them were located on a 48-inch transmission line that runs through Montgomery County. Originally, workers thought accumulating water on Chevy Chase Drive was due to a leaky valve and did repair work to correct that. But later on that evening, around 8 p.m. on March 18, the water main burst. It turned out the problem was not a valve, but the 60-inch concrete water main. The break, at the southeast corner of the intersection of Connecticut Avenue and Chevy Chase Lake Drive, created a crater about 90 feet long and 45 feet wide and produced a 30foot high geyser. Much of the 60 million gallons lost ran into Rock Creek, but large portions of asphalt and pavement were washed out, Burke said. “What we’ve learned when
we’re out looking at these valves for leaks, is if it’s connected right to a main line, make sure it’s not from the main itself,” said Gary Gumm, WSSC’s chief of engineering and construction. Thatwillrequiremoretimeon each site, he said. “In the future, we will do more testing when it’s in that situation,” said Derrick Phillips, the acting chief of customer care for WSSC. The utility representatives admitted their workers had made a mistake, but were quick to point out this was the first time a break like this one had occurred in 70 years. Councilman Hans Riemer (D-At large) of Takoma Park questioned whether the workers on the scene had done a slipshod job. “I can’t escape the notion that, did they just want to get home for the day?” Riemer asked. Jerry Johnson, general manager of WSSC, called his workers “true professionals” who made a rare mistake in not correctly diagnosing the problem. An observant neighbor called the original leak in to the WSSC emergency line, a move Councilmember Nancy Floreen, (D-At large) of Garrett Park, praised. “We quite honestly rely quite heavily on the public to identify and find these kinds of situation so that we can respond,” Johnson said. Committee Chairman Roger Berliner (D-Dist. 1) of Bethesda, asked if the utility thought the failure was part of a systemic problem or a one-time occurrence. There was no indication that this was systemic, said a representative, but that would be clearer once an assessment was finished, which should be sometime late spring of 2014.
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Continued from Page A-1 warning bells and lights. The light rail is expected to run about 70 times a day at speeds of up to 50 mph. Nearby residents will also hear the hum of traction power substations and the “wheel squeal” of trains that are going around corners. Another source of noise at stations will be the public address systems, which will announce arrivals and departures and provide other information to passengers. Between Bethesda and Rock Creek Stream Valley Park, a 4-foot-high noise wall is planned to be built on the south side of the tracks. On the north side, either the trail will be elevated more than 4 feet above the tracks or a 4-foothigh noise wall will separate the Capital Crescent Trail from the adjacent community, according to the report.
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Continued from Page A-1 do to correct the stuff that’s out there,” Crane said. Members of the Restoration Advisory Board — which includes representatives from the Army, the Maryland Department of the Environment, the Environmental Protection Agency, local government officials and community members — expressed concern that a popular public resource was being taken away. The part of the trail that would be fenced off is “the heart of the entire trail,” Restoration Advisory Board member and Silver Spring resident Steve Rosen said. Joe Gortva, environmental restoration program manager for Fort Detrick, said public access to the Ireland Drive trail is important, but a plan that does not prevent people from coming into contact with landfill material is not effective. Fort Detrick, a military installation in Frederick, assumed
“This just breaks my heart,” said Maribeth Eiden, whose house on Kentbury Drive backs up to the Georgetown Branch of the Capital Crescent Trail. The backyard is her own shaded paradise, she said, pointing to two towering tulip poplars that will have to be cut down to make way for the light rail. She and her husband, who have lived in the house since 1982, are part of a neighborhood group that is fighting the Purple Line. “This will have a huge ecological effect. This kind of canopy is not replaceable.” The study also describes in detail the 116 homes and businesses that will be condemned to make way for the Purple Line, most of which are in Silver Spring and Prince George’s County. The largest group of single-family homes impacted will be along Riverdale Road, where roadway widening will take the place of 22 homes. Riverdale will also lose eight commercial buildings.
Bethesda will also lose three businesses, which are all in converted single-family homes along Montgomery Avenue. They are Newtown Auto Body Shop, Design in a Day studio and Maloney Design Build. Elm Street Park will temporarily lose 0.02 acre as a construction easement for a trail connection from the park to the Capital Crescent Trail. The Purple Line will run right through the Columbia Country Club and there are two underground cart tunnels planned. Public feedback is essential, said Robert L. Smith, an administrator with the Maryland Transit Administration. Comments will be collected and provided to the Federal Transit Administration. Read more stories about the Purple Line and view an interactive map.
control of the Forest Glen and Glen Haven areas, totaling 147 acres, in October 2008. Barbara Schubert, founder of the Save Our Trail Coalition, feared the interim solution would become permanent. “Once a fence is installed, it’s nearly impossible to remove it,” she said. Some Restoration Advisory Board members were also concerned that the Army Corps’ plan doesn’t express sensitivity for the public’s need for the trail, and that cost may be weighed too heavily. Restoration Advisory Board co-chairman Don Hall argued against both of those concerns, explaining that a less intrusive fence could be constructed. A lower-cost alternative with less environmental impact would be to simply put up signs, but that would not provide a “guaranteed barrier,” Hall said. The Army Corps also proposed fencing off the landfill but not the trail, or excavating all trees and vegetation to place a two-foot-thick soil cap over the known landfill area. Clearing the trees would be “cost-prohibitive,” Crane said. The excavation option would
cost between $1 million and $3 million. Cost, effectiveness and “implementability,” or the ease with which a plan can be put into effect, are factors that would help the Army make the final decision about the interim plan. A 45-day public comment period will also be open after the Restoration Advisory Board meets to discuss the alternatives in October. Speaking for the annex’s operations, Crane said he seeks a transparent relationship with the public. “We may uncover some stupid or bad stuff, but we want you to know that,” he said. As for the contaminants and debris that have already been found on the Forest Glen Annex, Crane said it will take a few more months of analysis to determine what kind of effect it would have on people. Though the measured amount of some landfill contaminants is above the Environmental Protection Agency’s limits for residential areas, those limits don’t apply because no one lives on the ballfield, Crane said.
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Obituary Darryl Ross Holliday, physicist and proposals manager for environmental sciences, died at his home in Germantown, MD, on September 4, 2013, of natural causes. He was 63. Mr. Holliday graduated in 1973 from Oakland University in Rochester, MI, with a master s degree in physics. He was hired by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, a Navysupporting contract research center of the university. JHU/APL also provided technical advice to the state of Maryland on the siting and licensing of all electrical power facilities in the state. At about the time he joined JHU/APL, the state got its first application for a nuclear power plant that fell under the siting law, and so he was drafted into the JHU/APL advisory team and assigned the role of handling nuclear safety issues. Shortly thereafter, recent faults were discovered in sediments near the site, and that became a major part of his portfolio. He went into the field with geologists, and he fell in lifelong love with geophysics in general and plate tectonics in particular. After he left JHU, Mr. Holliday did environmental licensing work for private utilities in New York City. Upon returning to Maryland, he supported the Department of Energy as a contractor in energy conservation projects and cleanup, and geological disposal of wastes from the nuclear weapons program. His job has always been to read what the professional geologists (and other scientific specialists) were finding in the field and translate it into concepts that the policymakers could understand.
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“Agnes Under the Big Top” kicks off 10th season for Forum Theatre.
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AFI SILVER SPRING
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The AFI Silver movie theater in Silver Spring, which opened in 1938, was saved from demolition and restored to its original Art Deco look. The theater is celebrating its 75th anniversary from Sept. 13-18 with screenings of four 1938 films.
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Errol Flynn stars in “The Adventures of Robin Hood,” one of three movies released in 1938 that will be screening at the AFI Silver Theatre.
Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood star in Alfred Hitchock’s “The Lady Vanishes.”
FREE SHOWING OF ‘FOUR DAUGHTERS’ MARKS THEATER’S 75TH ANNIVERSARY BY
VIRGINIA TERHUNE |
The AFI Silver Theatre almost fell beneath a wrecking ball in the 1990s, but thanks to a passionate and committed effort made by movie lovers and county officials, the theater was saved, restored and reopened. On Sunday, its operators, the American Film Institute, will celebrate the theater’s 75th anniversary with a free, one-time-only showing
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of “Four Daughters,” the movie on the marquee when the theater first opened in 1938. “We’re trying to make it special,” said Ray Barry, director of the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center. “It’s been a central part of the county for 75 years.”
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In the ‘Sway’
Local laughs Silver Spring comic co-produces show featuring up-and-comers n
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(From left) Ryan Delahoussaye, Jeremy Furstenfeld, Justin Furstenfeld and Matt Noveskey make up the platinum-selling band Blue October. The group will be performing Friday at The Fillmore Silver Spring.
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Blue October frontman and lyricist Justin Furstenfeld has spent most of his life in pain. Suffering with bipolar disorder and anxiety issues, Furstenfeld turned to self-medication through alcohol and drugs. In 2012, his pregnant wife threatened to leave him for good. Shortly afterward, his bandmates — including his brother Jeremy — went to his house ready to kick him out of the band. Enough was enough for Furstenfeld. After years of anger, frustration and pain, he decided it was time for
See OCTOBER, Page A-17
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Comedian and Silver Spring native Martin Amini.
Just a few years after discovering his own passion for comedy, Silver Spring native Martin Amini returns to the Washington, D.C., area this weekend to host a show featuring a new crop of up-and-coming talent. Amini is the co-producer and master of ceremonies for the D.C. stop on the Comedy’s Best Kept Secret Tour, playing at Club Heaven
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Bedlam’s ‘Saint’
FROM BEDLAM THEATRE
New York’s critically acclaimed Bedlam Theatre continues its rotating repertory of William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” and George Bernard Shaw’s “Saint Joan” to Oct. 20 at the Olney Theatre Center. In “Saint Joan,” directed by Eric Tucker, Joan of Arc is portrayed not as a saint, a witch or a madwoman — but as a French farm girl who is anything but simple. Considered by many to be Shaw’s greatest play, it played a critical role in him receiving the 1925 Nobel Prize. For more information, including tickets and show times, visit www. olneytheatre.org.
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Nebiur Arellano’s “City in Blue,” mixed media on silk.
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Nebiur Arellano’s “Timeless Filigree” will be on view from Friday to Oct. 13 at VisArts’ Common Ground Gallery in Rockville. An opening reception is scheduled for 7-9 p.m. Sept. 20. The solo exhibition spotlights Arellano’s mixed-media paintings, inspired by the beauty and striking modern designs of ancient Peruvian textiles. Through the shimmering and richly textured surfaces of her paintings on silk, the Peruvian-American artist creates timeless compositions layered with vibrant colors and intricate lines echoing primitive figures and contemporary cityscapes. Gallery hours are noon to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday and noon to 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday. Admission is free. For more information, visit www.visartsatrockville.org.
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Launched in 2008, Colleen Henderson’s “Daily Differences” series features photographs of varying subject matter. The series is now on view at the Multiple Exposures gallery in Alexandria, Va.
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The work of fine art photographers and Bethesda residents Colleen Henderson and Karen Keating is currently on view to Oct. 13 at the Multiple Exposures Gallery at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Va. Henderson’s “Daily Differences” hail from an ongoing body of work culled from a “shot of the day” series started in 2008 after attending a contemplative photo class. Keating’s “Street Portraits” include observations of daily life which have spanned Honduras, Bulgaria, Africa, Cuba, Sicily and Key West. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and Saturday and Sunday and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday. For more information, visit www.multipleexposuresgallery.com.
“Forever Plaid” closes this weekend at the Olney Theatre Center. From left are Brandon Duncan as Smudge, David Landstrom as Sparky, Austin Colby as Frankie and Chris Rudy as Jinx.
Farewell tour The clean-cut quartet of “Forever Plaid” returns to rock ’n’ roll heaven this weekend, following closing performances at the Olney Theatre Center’s Historic Stage. Touted as
“America’s favorite original boy band,” Stuart Ross’ musical revue finds the fictional Plaids, downed in an ironic bus collision, bestowed with one last chance for musical glory. For more information, including tickets and show times, visit www.olneytheatre.org.
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Bittersweet comedy “Agnes Under the Big Top” is now playing at Round House Theatre. The play opened Thursday to kick off the 10th season for socially-minded ensemble, and resident company, Forum Theatre. Agnes is also the pilot production for a new ticketing policy at Forum. “At least half of the seats available are for walk-up sales and pay what you want,” said Michael Dove, artistic director at Forum and director of “Agnes.” “I really want theater to move away from being this elite kind of experience for people with extra income ... if we’re truly going to tell stories about people in our community, it should be available to everyone in our community.” “Agnes” is the tale of the immigrant experience in America, told through six interconnected characters living in the city. Like the play’s setting, Dove said downtown Silver Spring boasts its own incredibly diverse population. The city’s demographic was just one of the reasons the director said he felt so passionate about bringing “Agnes” to Forum. “You’ll see that mix of culture coming together,” he said. “It felt like a really great starting point to have that conversation with those people around us.”
AGNES UNDER THE BIG TOP n When: To Sept. 28 (See website for show times)
Actress Nora Achrati plays Bulgarian immigrant Roza.
n Where: Round House Theatre, 8641 Colesville Road, Silver Spring n Tickets: Guaranteed advancesale tickets $20. Pay what you want tickets go on sale an hour before every show.
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Actress Annie Houston (left) plays Ella and actor Edward Christian (center) plays Shipkov in the Forum Theatre production of “Agnes Under the Big Top.”
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“We’re right in downtown Silver Spring ...” said Forum ensemble member Nora Achrati. “You see everybody, Ethiopians, Dominicans, Senagalese ...” Achrati, who grew up in Silver Spring, plays Roza, a Bulgarian woman who’s been in the States for almost 10 years. Roza doesn’t speak much throughout the course of the play and when she does, it’s mostly in Bulgarian. “She and her husband came to the States ... and their relationship is quickly deteriorating,” Achrati said. “She’s a really funny woman. She’s very smart, she understands English ... but she won’t let on that she does. She’s an enigmatic character who absorbs things but isn’t giving much back.” Roza and her husband Shipkov are just two of several characters floating in and out of the life of the play’s only American character, Ella, an older bedridden woman. “Things happen to the Li-
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berian and the Bulgarian that affect in small ways, the bedridden woman,” Achrati said. “You have these lower-class immigrant struggles that people don’t really see ... that are totally invisible except in the way they affect people with privilege.” There were other things about “Agnes,” which premiered in 2011 in Minneapolis, that appealed to Dove. After reading a draft of the show a few years before it was produced, Dove just couldn’t shake it. “It kind of stuck in the back of my head as something we would want to do,” Dove said. “It’s the one I just haven’t been able to get out of my head.” The director said it was playwright Aditi Brennan Kapil’s style that drew him in. “It was a play that struck me immediately with just some amazing lan-
guage,” Dove said. “As a director you’re reading a lot of plays. You see one writer influenced by another writer and this one just had its own sound.” Though “Agnes” focuses largely on the immigrant experience, Dove said audiences of varying backgrounds will relate to the show’s characters and some of their struggles. “You can certainly talk about it being about immigrant culture ... but I think that can also translate to anyone who is put into a situation that is different,” Dove said. “Relocating to a different school, to a different country. What I sort of loved about this is while it can be heavy, it really gets down to the idea of how do we interact with one another.” chedgepeth@gazette.net
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The next chapter for ‘Riddick’: And then there was Vin
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From the dusty annals of a science-fiction franchise belonging to another age, that of “Pitch Black” (2000) and “The Chronicles of Riddick” (2004) and several video game variations, here’s a modestly scaled summer picture continuing the legend that time and many moviegoers forgot. And it’s fun! Extremely violent, cleverly managed fun, full of eviscerating aliens, Vin Diesel making those little swimmer goggles look sharp and Katee Sackhoff of “Battlestar Galactica” swaggering around as a sexually ambiguous bounty hunter stuck with a bunch of guys on a crummy planet, ruled (more or less) by the escaped prisoner Riddick, whose story is recapped in “Riddick” but there’s not much to it, don’t worry. This is not one of those Johnny-come-lately sequels preoccupied with getting a new audience up to speed on where the story was. It’s about living in the moment, in the now, and killing in the now. The character name Riddick has a twee, sprightly air, two ad-
RIDDICK n 3 stars n R; 119 minutes n Cast: Vin Diesel; Katee Sackhoff; Bokeem Woodbine; Karl Urban; Jordi Molla n Directed by David Twohy
AT THE MOVIES jectives which do not bring Vin Diesel to mind. But he’s the one taking care of his adversaries in a plot line recalling Agatha Christie’s “And Then There Were None,” except here it’s: “And Then There Was Vin.” And here’s the beauty part, to the extent writer-director David Twohy’s simple, compact movie can be called beautiful: The bounty hunters are all individuals, and you actually care about some of them, so it’s not simply a “Saw”-type grinder of a movie, wherein we wonder how the next side of beef is going to get sliced. I mean, we do wonder that, but there are other things going on.
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(From left) Riddick (Vin Diesel) is forced to work with mercs Dahl (Katee Sackhoff) and Boss Johns (Matt Nable) in “Riddick,” the latest chapter of the saga that began with the hit sci-fi film “Pitch Black.” “Riddick” opens with a near-wordless sequence set on a hot, scrubby planet, where our antihero, betrayed by the Necromongers — there, that’s it: done with the plot summary — is left for dead among
the winged beasts and slithering giant scorpion- and fanged squid-like denizens of the swamps. The opening half-hour of Twohy’s picture is a grabber, a chronicle of Riddick dealing with the swamp things and his
domestication of a dingo-type alien jackal dog. The occasional voice-over (“Whole damn planet wanted a piece of me”) reminds us that Riddick can, in fact, speak if needed. Then come the bounty
hunters, some old, some new, and “Riddick” turns into a different picture, one that scrambles your sympathies nicely as Riddick squares off against the meanest of them while everyone contends with ace creature designer Patrick Tatopoulos’ alien animal kingdom. The movie is worth seeing simply for the aceof-spades-shaped ears on the hero’s pet dingo. The first half’s more compelling than the second; the flying effects, with zippy hovercrafts, look cheeseball; and the whole of “Riddick” smacks of being filmed in GreenScreenLand, which it was. (And Montreal.) More persuasively than the recent “After Earth” and “Oblivion,” “Riddick” makes an entertaining survival-guide virtue of its main character’s isolation. The side characters all get their share of profane zingers. The audience came away sated. In the 13 years since the first Riddick chronicle, Diesel has discovered what it means to be a certain kind of movie star, working hard but not too, serving material that, here, does what it’s supposed to do.
It’s Sofia’s choice in Ethan Hawke’s fast and furious knockoff ‘Getaway’ BY
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“Getaway” will never be mistaken for a “Fast & Furious” sequel. It’s more like “Taken … for a Ride!” Terrible but, in its squealing way, sporadically funterrible, it features a glowering Ethan Hawke as a former professional race car driver named Brent Magna … or Brock Magma … or Frack Slaterock … or something like that. Let’s call him Magma. Magma and his wife (Rebecca Budig, seen mostly in black-and-white, those-were-the-days flashbacks) live in Sofia, Bulgaria, allowing the producers to film in a city willing to let visitors mess up traffic for a spell. Mrs. Magma is abducted on Christ-
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mas and held in a warehouse, so that a criminal mastermind listed in the film’s credits as The Voice (Jon Voight, more or less German this time) can blackmail Hawke’s character into “a series of tasks” behind the wheel of a custom Ford Shelby GT500 Super Snake. These include a high-speed assault on a crowded ice rink and several rounds of police pursuits and evasions. Selena Gomez takes the passenger seat. In one of the weirdest character introductions in the history of any medium, her character, the least-madcap heiress around, known only as The Kid, attempts to steal back the car belonging to her. So. You have Magma, The Voice and The Kid. This movie is The Dumb. As steered with more enthusiasm than skill by “An American Haunting”
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Adventure Theatre, “Goodnight Moon,” Sept. 20 to Oct. 27, call for prices, times, Adventure Theatre MTC, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo, 301-634-2270, www.adventuretheatre-mtc.org. Do or Die Mysteries, TBA, 6:30 p.m. buffet, 7:30 p.m. show, $47.50
director Courtney Solomon, the takeaway on “Getaway” goes this-a-way: Is there anything a filmmaker can’t do in Sofia, Bulgaria? With Los Angeles and environs suffering millions in lost revenue thanks to runaway film production, “Getaway” serves handily as Exhibit A. Certain shots and the most head-banging stunts on view suggest that you can happily murder all sorts of extras if you film there. The action in “Getaway” is hacked up into messily edited bits, run through what are supposed to be a dozen different surveillance cameras recording the action inside and outside the death car. With Voight’s voice on the car’s GPS saying things like “Smash everything you can,” the movie makes its intentions clear. Hawke’s character spends most of
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the film not knowing why The Voice is making him do the things he does. Magma and The Kid trade cross-generational barbs (“Stop almost killing us!” she whines at one point) and develop a grudging mutual respect, although if you look up the word “chemistry” in the dictionary, you won’t find a picture of these two actors together. The repeated
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close-ups of Hawke’s foot slamming the clutch are more expressive. The movie requires little acting; it requires screeching — of tires. I will say this: It’s perversely satisfying to see the Bulgarian capital roughed up by a movie crew in this way, even by second-raters. And near the end there’s an extended shot, taken with a carmounted camera, reminding audiences of the gut-level pleasures of high velocity. The rest of “Getaway,” which many in the audience seemed to genuinely hate based on comments on the way out, is so mechanical and derivative, not even the abducted-spouse routine can stoke the audience’s rooting interests. Still, I confess: After the screening, I drove my Honda Fit home like a maniac.
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stone, to Sept. 29, reception from 1-4 p.m. Sept. 14, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, second floor, 8230 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, www. washingtonprintmakers.com.
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Continued from Page A-13 Accompanying the movie on Sunday afternoon will be an eight-minute Warner Bros. cartoon, “Cracked Ice,” featuring a pig who sounds like W.C. Fields scheming to get into the cask of booze carried by a Saint Bernard who rescues people. Also showing will be a 1938 newsreel, with footage of that year’s huge East Coast hurricane, the Japanese incursion into China and the Nazi takeover of Austria. Tickets to the first-come, first-served screening will be available when the box office opens late Sunday morning, Barry said. “Four Daughters” is part of a six-day run featuring four other 1938 movies running several times each day from Friday through Wednesday. For $5 a ticket, movie lovers can sit back and watch the dashing Errol Flynn in “The Adventures of Robin Hood,” as well as a goofy Cary Grant with Katharine Hepburn and a roving leopard in “Bringing Up Baby.” Other films include Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood looking for a lost woman on a train in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Lady Vanishes” as well as Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire sharing their first screen kiss in “Carefree” featuring Ralph Bellamy. AFI is inviting moviegoers to email their memories of the theater through today for an ongoing celebration this year of the 75th anniversary. Built in 1938, the 1,000 seat theater owned by Warner Bros. served as the anchor for the then-new Silver Spring Shop-
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Continued from Page A-13 help. He checked into a rehab facility in Nashville. “I’m actually very well [now],” Furstenfeld said. “I would have to say that I’m very grateful and I’m very blessed to be where I’m at today. I’m still pretty shocked and in awe of how well I am doing.” Healthy and, for the first time in a long time, happy, Furstenfeld and Blue October are on tour promoting their new album, “Sway.” They will be making a stop at 7:30 p.m. on Friday at the Fillmore Silver Spring. Whereas previous albums were used to lash out at others, “Sway,” takes the band into new territory. “’Sway’ is a lot different,” Furstenfeld said. “After putting ‘Any Man in America’ out, there was really nowhere to go but up. I’ve always known myself to just be brutally honest no matter what I was going through. For some reason in the past, there was always some sort of huge turmoil going on. All of our past records reflected that. … The No. 1 rule of this new album — and I wanted to challenge myself — there can’t be one song about how hard Justin’s got it. There can’t be one song about how hard life is and there can’t be one song that just centers around me-me-me-me-me.” “Any Man in America,” which was released when Furstenfeld was going through a bitter divorce with his first wife and custody battle over his daughter, Blue, was heavy with name calling, finger-pointing and accusations. While Furstenfeld feels the album needed to be made for the sake of his daughter, as he has called the record a push for parental rights, he realizes he’s in a much better place now. “It’s hard to explain the transition, but I’d rather enjoy my life and take it very honestly, simply and humbly,” Furstenfeld said. “In the past, when my ego and depression took over [it was different]. Now, I’m in a really good place. “‘Sway’ was a lot harder to make, to be honest with you, because it’s easy to write about sadness. It’s really easy to write about how bad you’ve got it. When it comes to happiness, peacefulness and when it comes to serenity … there’s a fine line between bubble-gum cheesy and honest and sincere. There was a lot of editing that went on and a lot of thinking. And work, work … if I can say one word, it was work!” As with most new releases, artists have to tour to promote their work. Blue October is no exception. The band is currently on a massive tour that will cover the United States and parts of Germany, Russia and the United Kingdom. Being on the road can be stressful for anyone — espe-
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ping Center, one of the first centers to provide off-street parking in a lot. “At the time Silver Spring barely qualified as a suburb,” said Barry about the almost rural surroundings of the time. Designed by Romanianborn architect John Eberson, the Art Moderne (a late form of Art Deco style) building was intended to evoke thoughts of an ocean liner, with a tall silver smokestack on the roof above the entrance and other nautical touches. Inside were murals of tropical birds, wave-like patterns on the walls and wall sconces with “porthole” lights intended to make patrons feel as they had boarded a ship bound for exotic locales. Using old photos, restorers were also able to reconstruct the lobby to look almost exactly like it did in the 1930s. “They identified the original carpeting pattern,” said Barry. “It’s pretty authentic.” The busy regional shopping center thrived during the 1950s, but in 1960, a new center opened in Wheaton and began to draw business away. The owners closed the
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The AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring is celebrating its 75th anniversary with a free, one-time showing on Sunday of “Four Daughters,” the movie that opened the new Art Moderne theater in 1938. From left are Lola Lane, Priscilla Lane, Gale Page, Claude Rains and Rosemary Lane. The Oscar-nominated film also featured John Garfield in his debut role. building in 1985 and planned to knock it down in the 1990s, when movie-lovers, preservationists and county officials mobilized to save it. “The key was finding the right operator,” said Jim Mooney, who at the time was working with County Executive
Douglas Duncan to revitalize downtown Silver Spring. At the same time, the American Film Institute, which had been screening films at the Kennedy Center, happened to be thinking about moving to the suburbs. AFI’s Jean Firstenberg, CEO and president of the group
at the time, paid a visit. “As soon as she saw it, she appreciated the potential,” said Mooney. With AFI at the helm, the theater reopened in 2003, now with three screens, as the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, offering a year-round program
of movies, videos, talks and festivals. “It’s been 75 years — it seemed noteworthy,” said Barry about marking the first showing of “Four Daughters” with a second. vterhune@gazette.net
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cially someone who is a recovering addict. Furstenfeld, however, said he’s excited about the tour. “If you were to have asked me about a year ago, I would have said I was nervous,” Furstenfeld said. “I finished a book and did a solo spoken-word tour earlier this year to kind of get my feet wet and back into touring in a different space. In the past, I would just drain all this darkness on stage and drama. So I wanted to see if I could still do it with just as much impact and just as much passion if I was talking about enjoying life. I’m really excited. Plus my wife goes with me on tour and my daughters. I’m just blessed to be able to do what I do for a living.” One of the tracks on the new album, “Bleed Out,” is a powerful song that focuses in on the pain a man has caused for a woman. While writing songs such as “Bleed Out,” is cathartic for Furstenfeld, he said the memories of the past still haunt him. “That one was written in the eyes of my wife,” Furstenfeld said. “Just the hell I put her through. She needed that. I needed to honor her by telling the whole truth, not just ‘Oh, look at me! I’m clean and sober! Pat me on the back!’ No, that’s not something you pat someone on the back for. It should have been done a long time ago. I should have manned up a long time ago. ‘Bleed Out,’ is my song to her. Every time I hear it now, it’s just sadness when I listen to it — but it’s this rebirth. It’s almost like I’m proud of myself for putting that together because it needed to be done. The memories that come along with it are hard to think about, but the fact that I’m owning it and celebrating the new-found freedom that we have together is quite powerful.” Furstenfeld said he hopes fans take to heart the messages in “Sway.” “The light at the end of the tunnel is now,” Furstenfeld said. “We can sit around and dwell on our problems all day long, but I’ve found — just personally, me — I’ve found that it just doesn’t get me anywhere. After awhile, people don’t want to see you doing that. People don’t want to watch someone circling the drain over and over again for years. They get sick of it. … You’ve got to live up every single moment you’ve got. Life’s short.” wfranklin@gazette.net
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Comedian and producer Dan Frigolette performing at Caroline’s on Broadway.
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Continued from Page A-13 and Hell in Adams Morgan on Friday night. The tour has enjoyed a 19-city run and showcases aspiring comedians in states across the country. This weekend, D.C.’s best kept secrets are Martin Montana, Gordon Baker-Bone and New York comedian and producer Dan Frigolette. “These are the funniest guys you haven’t heard of yet,” Frigolette said. “The idea is to get some exposure for these guys who haven’t popped yet.” Just last year, Amini was one of those guys. Born and raised in Silver Spring, Amini attended John F. Kennedy High School and graduated from Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda. After graduation, he earned a degree in entrepreneurship from the business school at the University of Maryland. Amini moved out to San Francisco after college with the intention of going to law school. But it wasn’t long after taking his LSATs that Amini said he realized it wasn’t the career he wanted and decided to move to Los Angeles. “I moved out to L.A. to pursue something,” Amini said. “I wasn’t sure what ...” During his first year in L.A., Amini lived with his cousin, comedian Max Amini. It was Max who initially suggested Amini check out the entertainment industry. “He asked me, ‘What do you plan on doing?’” remembered Amini. When Amini told his cousin he was thinking of using his background in busi-
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ness to open a hookah lounge, Max told him: “But then you’ll just be a hookah lounge owner.” “[He said], ‘L.A. is the entertainment capital of the world. You could do anything,’” Amini said. “And that’s when he planted the seed.” Amini soon started promoting his cousin’s shows and eventually landed an internship with Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Productions. After earning some experience through jobs with other local production companies, Amini bought a camera and headed out on the road with his cousin, filming his comedy acts. It was his first real exposure to the world of stand-up comedy. “[Max] caters to a Middle Eastern audience and I remember watching him sell out shows ... and saying, ‘I wish I could come back to my community and do that,’” Amini said. Last summer, Amini moved back to Montgomery County to do just that. He started doing stand-up with District Comedy, a booking production company started by local comics Ralph
Cooper and Brad Ryan. “I started off just talking about myself,” Amini said. “What works for most comics is they talk about their own experiences. I started immediately just making fun of myself ... and it worked.” It worked so well, in fact, that Amini admits the early success went to his head. “I thought, ‘Aww, man, I’m a natural,’” he said. “I was a little cocky ... the second time wasn’t nearly as funny as the first and the third and fourth sucked, too.” But after a few humbling experiences in the beginning, Amini seems to have found his footing. He now runs the Martin Amini & Friends Comedy Show at Heaven and Hell every Friday night. His open mics and showcases at Brass Monkey, also in Adams Morgan, earned Amini mention in DCist’s Best Comedy Clubs in D.C. Amini has also started his own production company, Silver City Productions, named for his hometown. He earns a living shooting commercials and promotional material for D.C. clubs. With Amini’s experience in L.A., and Frigolette’s in New York, the producers’ expectations for the Best Kept Secret Tour are understandably high. But both say they haven’t been disappointed in the D.C. comedy scene. “There are a lot of guys doing a lot of great comedy in D.C.,” Frigolette said. “Being in L.A. ... I was spoiled a bit,” Amini said. “But coming back to D.C., the talent level of D.C. comics is through the roof.” chedgepeth@gazette.net
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It seems like a pretty easy concept. If a tennis player can consistently weather nerves to win U.S. Tennis Association tournament matches and is ranked on a national level, he or she should have no problem cruising through a high school season, right? Not necessarily. “Whenever [the boys] first come back [to high school tennis in the spring] they always say it’s hard for them to make the switch,” Thomas S. Wootton High School boys’ and girls’ tennis coach Nia Cresham said. “It’s hard to make the transition. Team tennis is a lot more pressure on them than USTA.”
The USTA junior tournament circuit can be a lonely and cut-throat place, said Richard Montgomery senior No. 1 singles player Thea Postolache, who is the defending all-county Region II champion. Players are out for themselves as they attempt to raise their rankings and compete for the few scholarships available to tennis players. Despite the internal pressure that might cause, the only person affected by a USTA tournament loss is the individual. Playing with a school name displayed across the front of a jersey is a completely different story, Postolache said. Success at the national level and on the tournament circuit doesn’t always translate the way
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On a late-August day before his team began a training session at Morris Park in Gaithersburg, first-year Gaithersburg High School boys’ soccer coach Matt Bowling brought a picture into the locker room to show his players. It was of Italian national team
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superstar Mario Balotelli and his AC Milan teammates carrying a goal on their practice field. Bowling’s intent in showing his team the photo wasn’t just to have them take a glimpse of one of the world’s more effervescent players, but to create a connection with a task his club carried out one day prior. They lugged their own 24x8x5-foot goal from Gaithersburg High to Morris Park — a 2.2 mile round-trip — so that they could train for the afternoon as construction continues to
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Our Lady of Good Counsel High School girls’ soccer player Courtney Parr (right) is one of the Falcons’ top defenders this fall.
If one didn’t know any better, Austen Herbert looked clueless. As a sophomore on the Seneca Valley High School football team and playing Damascus, Herbert intercepted a pass and returned it 44 yards for a touchdown. “He just kind of looked like he was lost out there, like, ‘Oh, my God. There’s a football in my hand,’” Seneca Valley coach Fred Kim said. “It was almost like he waddled in the end zone. It’s like he was so surprised to be in that position.” Herbert’s composure didn’t improve once he reached the end zone. “I probably looked like a child getting ice cream,” Herbert said. “... I don’t think it hit me until I was on the sideline.” That was another mistake. Herbert ran to the sideline immediately after his score, but he was on the extra-point team, so he had to return to the field. The way Kim tells it, that might have been the last time Herbert has been confused during a game.
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Members of Gaithersburg High School’s boys’ soccer team move the goal to a new position during Friday’s practice at Morris Park in Gaithersburg.
Marcellus Powell had seen the play before. Powell, a senior outside linebacker at BethesdaChevy Chase High School, dropped into coverage on Friday as Winston Churchill quarterback Sean Strittmatter received the shotgun snap and turned to his left with just under seven minutes to play in the fourth quarter. The play was a designed quick out pass to the wing back, a play which the Bulldogs had run twice before — a first quarter incompletion due to a deflection by Powell and a 6-yard first down conversion two plays earlier. This time, Powell broke towards the ball just as Strittmatter planted to throw and intercepted it cleanly with no one between him and the goal line. He outraced Strittmatter to the corner of the end zone and gave the Barons the final blow in a 25-15 season-opening victory.
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the pressure of team expectations. “Playing for a team is very different,” Postolache said. “You’re playing for yourself, but you also know that your score counts for the school’s score and that is added pressure.” While that weight and expectations can be paralyzing for some, the load doesn’t have to be a bad thing, Postolache said. In fact, she used it as motivation in last year’s first run to the state tournament by a Richard Mont-
gomery singles player in recent history. Knowing every point a match win earns can be the difference between a team win or loss, and being surrounded by supportive teammates pushes her more, Postolache said. There is also generally a wider range of talent level that athletes must adjust to on a daily basis, which can be tricky. It is a scenario not limited to tennis players, but athletes in individual and team sports across
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the board. “Maybe for their club [soccer] team they’re playing a certain position, but for me they’re playing a different position or formation and now they have to switch their brain,” longtime Our Lady of Good Counsel girls’ soccer coach Jim Bruno said. “Or you might be a big fish on your club team, but not be a big fish on your high school team. There are some other mental things going on.”
Levels also vary within the average high school athletic teams, higher level athletes might have to adjust their games accordingly in order to play more efficiently with their team, Bruno added. Performing for classmates and friends is not an opportunity elite-level athletes are faced with very often outside of high school athletics, Bruno said. The pressure to live up to expectations can put extra weight on
these athletes’ shoulders and everyone handles the load differently. But no one can deny the honor of representing a home school and community in athletic competition, Bruno said. “Yes, you get more nervous,it is more nerve-wracking because you know what you do also affects your team,” Postolache said. “But for me, that added pressure is helpful.” jbeekman@gazette.net
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Continued from Page B-1 “They had thrown it twice before, so when I dropped back I was like, ‘I’m going to get it this time,’” Powell said. “I got it and started running, and I just barely made it, I was just thinking, ‘Thank God I didn’t cramp up.’” The B-CC defensive unit shut out the Churchill offense over the final three quarters of the contest. A nineplay, 62-yard scoring drive in the first quarter was the only real blemish for the group, which forced the Bulldogs into four turnovers and seven punts. “We went to the locker room [at halftime] and we had that mindset that we were going to come out and get this win,” safety Keenan McUmber said. “We were tired and they were tired, but we have been working hard all summer running hills and all this stuff for conditioning, so we were ready for it.” Barons’ defensive coordinator Chad Mack also provided his insight on the Churchill offense after moving over from the Bulldogs’ staff this year. “We had a whole film study thing yesterday, with the day off for the Jewish holiday, a lot of us just watched film all day,” Powell said. “We’ve been going over their plays, I made flashcards of their different formations, so it was great to have Coach Mack’s help on that.” Mack’s defense will certainly be tested on Thursday (6:30 p.m.) when B-CC hosts a Thomas S. Wootton team that scored 41 points against Walter Johnson on Saturday.
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Continued from Page B-1 Now a senior, Herbert has emerged as one of Montgomery County’s top linebackers and someone Kim calls “definitely one of the best kids I’ve ever coached.” Herbert’s biggest strength on the field is his intelligence, and even on that awkward touchdown return, he showed it. All week leading up to the
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School safety Keenan McUmber blocks Winston Churchill’s extra point attempt on Friday. “It is great for this program to come back and beat the returning division champs the first week of the season,”
B-CC coach Josh Singer said. “We knew they would be a tough match up. They are a great team, a well-coached team,
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Winston Churchill High School quarterback Sean Strittmatter gets tackled by Bethesda-Chevy Chase’s Kevin Washington on Friday.
and Joe Allen has them up at the top every year. For the coaching staff it was a nice win, with Coach Mack getting a
win as a defensive coordinator against his old team. We are just confident, but now getting ready for Wootton.”
Washington, D.C. for two years, he moved to Gaithersburg and started working for the city as a city planner in 2011. With a demanding work schedule, Bowling often arrives at the office early in the morning to ensure he’s able to start training on time. He walks from his office to the school and said he’s received a tremendous outpouring of support from his coworkers and supervisors at City Hall. “I’m very blessed to be in this situation and there’s nowhere else I’d want to be coaching,” Bowling said. “I love coaching at this school because it’s the city I live in and work in. This is a school of 2,000 students and a city of 60,000 residents and I believe we can do great things with the group that we have.” The Trojans are a young and diverse team, sprinkled with a mix of veterans who will lead
a club that Bowling hopes will play a possession-based style similar to his favorite Spanish sides. Gaithersburg finished 5-8-0 last season under Steve Schwarten and lost in the first round of the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association’s playoffs in penalty kicks. In the previous four years since the club’s last winning season in 2008, Gaithersburg has gone a combined 15-30-4. “He’s definitely putting in time even though he works a lot and he really believes we can do special things,” junior striker Gustavo Garcia said of Bowling. “I think we all want to surprise people and I feel like some people have no clue that there’s talent in Gaithersburg. The first thing he noticed is we have talent.” Whether or not the Trojans will be able to utilize that tal-
ent and translate it into results remains to be seen, but junior left back Parker Rist also is optimistic about the transformation of the attitude of his teammates since Bowling’s taken over. “We have lots of talent and lots of potential and having him in here to be very positive and motivational can bring out our full potential,” Rist said. While potential is one thing, the reality of having to play 10 consecutive road matches — and then play host to the defending state champions for the only home game — is daunting. “It’s going to be tough not being at home, not having that home feeling,” said junior goalkeeper Cristian Reyes. “We’ve talked through it a lot as a group and we pretty much said that if we have a field and we have a ball, we’re ready to
play. It doesn’t matter where we’re at.” Added Rist: “It’s not what we would prefer, but it’s also not going to be too different. We’re constantly somewhere else, moving and changing. We’re going to keep fighting through no matter what.” It’s that sort of positive mentality that Bowling’s infectious personality has seemingly imparted on all his players as the 2013 campaign gets underway. And it’s one he hopes will, along with hard work on the field, contribute to a successful tenure at his neighborhood high school. “I don’t want people to take us lightly,” Bowling said. “They’ll see that we’re a sleeping giant waiting to wake up from this nap. Once we get rolling, I think it’s going to be something else.”
game, Herbert practiced defending a play Damascus tended to run from a Bulldog formation, two receivers to the strong side and one on the weak side with a tight end on the field. The slot receiver would run a curl route into Herbert’s zone, and Herbert could jump the route. The first day of practice, Herbert got in proper position but kept dropping the interception. By the end of the week, he intercepted it every time — even
when he didn’t know in advance the play was coming. Damascus lined up in Bulldog for the first time late in the game, and Herbert recognized it immediately, jumped the curl route, scored his first varsity touchdown and showed how far he had come in a short period of time. Herbert said he was “a small presence on the field” during his freshman year on junior varsity. As program policy, Kim puts anyone he believes will be a key
varsity contributor as a junior on varsity as a sophomore. Really, that’s the only reason Herbert made varsity so soon. Herbert figured, if he played as hard as he could, he could at least ensure he wouldn’t be buried on the bench. But during preseason practice, he earned a starting job at outside linebacker. Kim even had Herbert set the defense, a responsibility typically assigned to a middle linebacker. Herbert did it
so well, his position didn’t matter. “I could tell him what the gameplan was on Monday after working on it for nine hours on Sunday, and he would learn it snap of the finger, and he would know it,” Kim said. As a junior Herbert became a captain, an honor Kim said goes to seniors “99.9 percent” of the time in his program. Now, Herbert is still setting the defense, and he’s fielding interest from Cornell, Towson, Le-
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Gaithersburg High School first-year coach Matt Bowling instructs his team during practice on Friday at Morris Park.
high, Monmouth and University of Maryland, College Park. Kim wants Herbert to pick Cornell, just so the coach can say he sent the first Seneca Valley football player onto an Ivy League team. “He talks to me about that all the time,” Herbert said. If history is any indication, Herbert will swiftly process Kim’s words, analyze them and then make the best decision possible. dfeldman@gazette.net
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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HOW THEY RANK The 10 best football teams in Montgomery County this week as ranked by The Gazette’s sports staff.
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Good Counsel Falcons Quince Orchard Cougars Seneca Valley Screaming Eagles Damascus Swarmin’ Hornets Gaithersburg Trojans Northwest Jaguars Bullis Bulldogs Walt Whitman Vikings Bethesda-Chevy Chase Barons Wootton Patriots
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Senior aiming for first scholarship offer BY DAN FELDMAN STAFF WRITER
Joshua Gills spent three quarters not being a star. One of his Northwest High School football teammates spent four years in a lesser role, and Gills admired him all the more for it. In the fourth quarter of his first varsity game and first game ever at receiver, Gills, as a sophomore,caughttwotouchdowns and scored a two-point conversion — “The Josh Gills Show,” Northwest offensive coordinator Justin Sickeri called it. Gills went on to set the program’s single-season record for receptions (55). Along the way, Gills, now a senior, befriended an older player who rarely played. “He was my favorite player on the team because he was
persistent,” Gills said. “Even though he never played, he was always ... everywhere the team went.” Gills noticed the team’s upperclassmen often ignored the player, so Gills made even more of a point to talk to him. “Some guys don’t do what I do,” Gills said, “And they’re just sort of left out, coming to practices, not talking to anyone, not participating. I like to get everyone involved.” Few do what Gill does. He’ll play quarterback for about two-thirds of Northwest’s snaps this season and running back and receiver for the other third. Defensively, he’ll line up at cornerback a third of the time — plus on any key plays. Which is his best position? “Um, that’s a good question. That’s a really good question. Um, he seems to gravitate toward the offense,” Northwest coach Mike Neubeiser said, breaking into a laugh. “I think, I don’t [know] if I can answer that
question.” Sickeri handles the question similarly. “Well, I don’t know if he has a best position,” Sickeri said. “... He’s good everywhere. Asked the same question, Gills punts, too. (By the way, he also does that. He’s the backup punter and obviously a threat on fakes). “You’d have to tell me that,” Gills said. “I like playing everywhere.” Prior to high school, he played offensive guard, tight end and defensive end. As he got more athletic, he figured he’d play running back and receiver in high school, which he did for the practice of a twosession day. By the afternoon practice, he was a quarterback and on a fast track to starting at his new position on the junior varsity team. When he reached varsity as a sophomore, Gills moved to receiver and running back next
to quarterback Matty Callahan. With Callahan graduated, Gills is again using his impressive burst mostly behind center, but he’s also working at running back and receiver. With a 28-yard catch in Northwest’s61-0opening-week win over Magruder, Gills is just 110 yards shy of the program record for career receiving yards. Gills hasn’t stopped watching out for players who don’t possess as much talent, though that has taken a different tone now. Despite receiving interest from Monmouth, Bucknell, Towson, Morgan State and New Hampshire, Gills doesn’t have a scholarship offer. So, he’s especially motivated for a few matchups this fall. “Whenever I see someone at my talent or below it, I feel the need to show my superiority,” Gills said. “Especially if they’re getting attention that I’m not from colleges.”
Top rushers
Carries Dage Davis, Geo. Prep 39 Chris Dawson, G. Counsel 39 Perry Stefanelli, G. Counsel 43 Solomon Vault, G’burg 18 Nino Scalia, G. Prep 12 Zac Morton, Whitman 19 Kevin Joppy, Q. Orchard 16
Top passers Chuck Reese, Rockville Sam Ellis, Wootton Mike Murtaugh, Q. Orch. B. Strittmatter, G. Counsel Evan Smith, Whitman S. Strittmatter, Churchill G. Cooper, Paint Branch
Yards 354 207 204 155 128 112 106
Cmp-Att. 35-45 15-27 13-19 14-30 12-20 13-21 14-34
Top receivers
Catches Myles Robinson, G. Counsel 4 Zac Morton, Whitman 6 Malcolm Brown, Q. Orchard 4 Louison Biama, Rockville 6 Elliott Davis, Q. Orchard 4 Jesse Locke, Churchill 6 Joey Cornwell, Rockville 10
Avg. TDs 9.1 6 5.3 4 4.7 2 8.6 4 10.7 0 5.9 1 6.6 1
Yards 295 260 247 228 187 155 153
Yards 113 107 105 101 92 91 84
Int. TDs 1 6 1 4 0 4 2 6 1 1 3 1 1 0
Avg. TDs 28.3 2 17.8 1 26.3 2 16.8 0 23.0 2 15.2 1 8.4 2
The Gazette sports staff picks the winners for this week’s games involving Montgomery football teams. Here are this week’s selections:
Montgomery County record All games
Magruder at Wheaton North Harford at Einstein Gaithersburg at Watkins Mill Seneca Valley at Rockville Damascus at Northwood Quince Orchard at Whitman Walter Johnson at Churchill Wootton at B-CC R. Montgomery at Northwest Springbrook at Clarksburg Blair at Sherwood Blake at Paint Branch Poolesville at Kennedy Bullis at St. Mary’s Annapolis Avalon at MSD Good Counsel at Calvert Hall Georgtown Prep at Gonzaga Mount St. Joseph at Landon
Whitman running back accounts for over 200 allpurpose yards; B-CC shocks Churchill FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK BY DAN FELDMAN Before his team’s season opener against Sherwood High School on Saturday night, Gaithersburg senior running back Solomon Vault didn’t feel right. Queasy and nervous, Vault vomited in the locker room at Richard Montgomery High — playing host to the Trojans while their home field undergoes renovations — and later threw up fluids before joining his team on the sideline. While most coaches would view their star player expelling his dinner minutes prior to kickoff with a concerned eye, Gaithersburg coach Kreg Kephart was — perhaps — relieved? “I felt good because I saw him throwing up,” Kephart said. “Usually, when he throws up he has a good game, so I thought to myself, ‘It’s going to be a good night out there.’” Kephart’s intuition was spot on as Vault rushed for 155 yards and four touchdowns and Gaithersburg dominated Sherwood, 32-7, to earn its first win against the Warriors since 2011 and spoil Chris Grier’s coaching debut. “The pregame jitters kind of got me and I was throwing up a little bit,” Vault said. “But we came out and we handled business, so I’m proud of my guys.” Morton stars: To rush for 100 yards in one game is impressive. To rush for 100 yards and tally another 100 yards receiving is pretty remarkable.Toachievebothwhile an entire opposing defense’s priority is to shut you down is a rarity in high school football. That’s precisely what Walt
Whitman High School senior Zac Morton did Friday in leading the Vikings to a 28-0 season-opening win at James H. Blake. Morton rushed for 106 yards and a touchdown and caught seven passes for 100 yards and a touchdown to account for 50 percent of the Vikings’ scoring. Whitman coach Jim Kuhn said Friday’s win, and an overall strong team performance, was just what the Vikings needed as they look to move forward in 2013 from two mediocre seasons, including opening last season with back-toback losses. “That was a fabulous start,” Kuhn said. “The kids played a great game.” Fast start: Just 2 minutes, 45 seconds into Damascus’ opening game, junior standout Jalen Christian returned a punt 76 yards for a touchdown. A Jake Funk touchdown run, a Chase Williams touchdown pass to Stephon Jacob, another Funk touchdown run and a Kevin Proctor touchdown run later, Damascus led 35-0 on its way to a 49-22 win over Einstein on Friday “We had a bad taste in our mouths from losing in the first round of the playoffs last season,” Damascus coach Eric Wallich said. “We were preaching to them, ‘Don’t be complacent. Just because the Damascus teams of the past have been successful, this team hasn’t done anything yet. “If you want something you have to work hard for it.’ Tonight was a step in that direction. A lot of things seemed to click tonight.” Opening statement: The Bethesda-Chevy Chase football team made a statement on Friday with a season-opening 25-15 victory over Winston Churchill, the defending Montgomery County 4A South Division champions. The Barons’ defense shut out the Bulldogs in the second half, as the opportunistic unit came up with four interceptions over the final two quarters. Jordan Miller
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B-Chevy Chase Wootton Whitman Kennedy Churchill Walter Johnson
All Div.
1-0 1-0 1-0 0-1 0-1 0-1
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Paint Branch Blair Blake Sherwood Springbrook
Travis Mewhirter
Ken Sain
Jennifer Beekman
Kent Zakour
Dan Feldman
15-7 21-8
14-8 21-8
14-8 20-9
14-8 20-9
14-8 20-9
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Wheaton North Harford Gaithersburg Seneca Valley Damascus Q. Orchard Churchill Wootton Northwest Clarksburg Sherwood Paint Branch Poolesville Bullis Avalon Good Counsel Gonzaga Mt. St. Joseph
Wheaton Einstein Gaithersburg Seneca Valley Damascus Q. Orchard Churchill B-CC Northwest Clarksburg Sherwood Paint Branch Poolesville Bullis Avalon Good Counsel Gonzaga Landon
Wheaton North Harford Gaithersburg Seneca Valley Damascus Q. Orchard Churchill B-CC Northwest Springbrook Sherwood Paint Branch Poolesville Bullis Avalon Good Counsel Gonzaga Mt. St. Joseph
Wheaton North Harford Gaithersburg Seneca Valley Damascus Q. Orchard Churchill Wootton Northwest Springbrook Sherwood Paint Branch Poolesville Bullis Avalon Good Counsel Gonzaga Mt. St. Joseph
Wheaton North Harford Gaithersburg Seneca Valley Damascus Q. Orchard Churchill B-CC Northwest Springbrook Sherwood Paint Branch Poolesville Bullis MSD Good Counsel Gonzaga Mt. St. Joseph
Wheaton North Harford Gaithersburg Seneca Valley Damascus Q. Orchard Churchill Wootton Northwest Springbrook Sherwood Paint Branch Poolesville Bullis MSD Good Counsel Gonzaga Mt. St. Joseph
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Gaithersburg High’s Solomon Vault runs against Sherwood on Saturday.
recorded a pair of interceptions in the contest and Marcellus Powell’s 47-yard interception return for a touchdown with just under seven minutes to play sealed the deal for B-CC. The Barons, who defeated the Bulldogs for the first time since 2009, will look to carry the momentum from this victory into their next contest against Wootton on Thursday. “You look at the [paper] and nobody picked us to win this, which we are kind of used to by now,” Powell said. “This sets the tone for the season that we are a good team, and we can beat a team that we normally haven’t beat. I think it sends the message that we are not that doormat team anymore. ... You’ve got to fear us now.” Extra home games: Wheaton planned to play Thursday’s game against Col. Zadok Magruder and its Sept. 28 contest against Rockville at Montgomery Blair, but construction to Wheaton has been delayed, so both games will be played at Wheaton. Kyle Russell, Nick Cammarota, John Harris III and Jennifer Beekman contributed.
25 41 28 0 15 0
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1-0 1-0 0-1 0-1 0-1
`15 0 0 25 25 41
PF PA
1-0 21 13 0-0 25 0 0-0 0 28 0-0 7 32 0-1 13 21
Montgomery 4A West Division Team
Northwest Quince Orchard Gaithersburg R. Montgomery Clarksburg Magruder
All Div.
1-0 1-0 1-0 0-1 0-1 0-1
PF PA
1-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-1
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Montgomery 3A Division Team
Damascus Seneca Valley Northwood Rockville Watkins Mill Einstein Wheaton
All Div.
1-0 1-0 0-1 1-0 1-0 0-1 0-1
PF PA
1-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-1
Montgomery 2A Independent Team
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Poolesville
1-0
Good Counsel Georgetown Prep Landon Bullis Avalon
Nick Cammarota
PF PA
1-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-1
Montgomery 4A East Division
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Private schools
FEARLESS FORECASTS LEADERS
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22 7 43 38 20 49 42
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Last week’s scores
Poolesville 43, Northwood 6 Seneca Valley 42, Wheaton 7 Damascus 49, Einstein 22 Rockville 40, R. Montgomery 38 B-CC 25, Churchill 15 Quince Orchard 35, Clarksburg 7 Northwest 61, Magruder 0 Paint Branch 21, Springbrook 13 Blair 25, Kennedy 0 Whitman 28, Blake 0 McNamara 34, G. Prep 9 Watkins Mill 29, Frederick 20 Good Counsel 42, St. Frances 6 Wootton 41, Walter Johnson 0 Boys Latin 10, Landon 0 Gaithersburg 32, Sherwood 7 St. Mary’s Ryken 48, Avalon 12
BEST BET No. 2 Quince Orchard at No. 8 Walt Whitman, 6:30 p.m.
Thursday
Since moving up a class in 2011, Quince Orchard has
won both 4A West Region titles and has 19-0 record against region opponents, winning by an average score of 41-7. Whitman, which shut out James H. Blake last week, is the latest challenger.
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Rockville hopes to be like G. Counsel Sherwood volleyball BOYS SOCCER NOTEBOOK BY NICK CAMMAROTA When Julio Zarate decided to take over the boys’ soccer program at Rockville High, he knew his assignment was difficult. He knew the club didn’t win a game in 2012 and, far worse, didn’t score a goal. But as bad as those statistics are, the former Our Lady of Good Counsel coach wasn’t aware of just how much work needed to be done laying a foundation for the program until he began work in March. “It’s been a bit bumpy,” Zarate said. “When we took over this team, we knew what we were getting into, but not really. We started working with them to see what was the problem. We’ve been working on academics and we’ve been going every week to talk to the kids, trying to recruit, to make them be more interested and come back to play soccer.” Zarate said there were roughly 40 to 50 players at tryouts for the team this preseason, including junior goal-
keeper Benjamin Neely and senior defender Oscar Rivera, two players expected to lead the club this fall. Zarate said the core of his team consists of sophomores and he hopes to build a solid foundation despite obvious hurdles, such as the lack of a feeder program. He hopes this season will mark the beginning of a dramatic turnaround for the Rams. “Good Counsel was exactly like Rockville was when we took over,” Zarate said. “It was the worst program in the [Washington Catholic Athletic Conference]. Kids had basketball shoes and basketball shorts at practice and we thought, ‘Oh man, what are we doing here?’ But the kids changed the program around. With Rockville, we’re trying to do something similar.”
Patriot games Thomas S.Wootton’s boys soccer team had a solid showing in a 2-1 loss against strong DeMatha on Friday. After losing a number of key players from last year’s 4A state championship club to graduation, the Patriots, who received votes in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America poll, didn’t appear starry-eyed or timid in going up against a national power. “We were excited for the
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Thomas S. Wooton High School’s Cristobal Corvolan (right) fights for the ball against DeMatha Catholic’s Julian Dove on Friday. opportunity to come out here and play a very talented team. They were excited about it not so much because they were playing DeMatha but because they were going to have an opportunity to show their quality,” said Wootton coach Doug Schuessler of the first meeting between the two teams. “They were disappointed in the result, but that’s because we’re not out here to lose. We’re out here to compete and win.” Perhaps Wootton’s best chance of the game came in the waning minutes of the second half. Forward Jared Nozick sprinted down the far sideline with space in front of him, but suddenly fell to the turf with a
severe leg cramp and lost the ball out of bounds. Following the match, Schuessler spoke about his team’s mentality as defending state champs and channeled his inner-Rick Pitino. “I don’t think that anyone is kidding themselves. Matt Hoy is not walking out on that field. Sam Summerlin is not walking out on that field. But you know what? A bunch of other guys are,” he said. “I think there’s a belief that anything’s possible and there’s a real determination to reach for it and try to grab that ring again.” ncammarota@gazette.net
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GIRLS SOCCER NOTEBOOK BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN What started off Friday evening as an indicator of just how far the Walter Johnson High School girls’ soccer team would have to come if it intended to be a 2013 postseason contender turned into a
glimpse of the Wildcats’ promising potential. Down 2-0 at halftime during its 3-2 season-opening win against Harford County’s Fallston High, Walter Johnson coach Liz Friedman said she half expected her young team, which lost an incredibly talented group of seniors a year ago, to throw in the towel. Instead, the Wildcats scored three second-half goals to clinch the victory. One of the most exciting aspects of the win, Friedman said, was that the three scores came from a pair of freshmen forwards.
it’s nice to know the freshmen can be upon.” The Academy of the Holy Cross followed up its 5-0 season-opening win against Montgomery Blair — on the Blazers’ schedule as its final scrimmage — with a 2-1, come-from-behind win over Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart. Dani White scored both Tartans goals, the game winner off a cross from Marissa Madaras in the final five minutes of regulation. jbeekman@gazette.net
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In what is widely expected to be a parity-filled year, Bethesda-Chevy Chase and Clarksburg earned the firstmatch-to-go-to-five-games award. After taking the first two games, B-CC had a little trouble getting past the Coyotes’ blockers, according to Barons’ coach Marie Cornejo, and the match was extended to the fifth, where B-CC ultimately prevailed in its season opener.
Field hockey While the Sherwood volleyball team was taking home an early-season tournament title in Magruder’s gym, the field hockey team busied itself by defending a similar title on the field for the second consecutive year in Paint Branch’s annual tournament. The two-headed monster of a scoring duo in Emily Kenul and Gabrielle Yore didn’t miss a beat from last year. Kenul scored four goals in a 7-3 win over Long Reach in the opening round and Yore added a pair in thechampionshipgameagainst Reservoir, which the Warriors won 3-0. “It’s definitely nice to start the season with a couple of wins,” Sherwood coach Amy Morse said. “I felt confident that we would be scoring goals but we had been moving a couple things around so I wasn’t quite sure what that would look like but it seems to have worked out pretty well.” Holy Cross’ Nicole Lantuh scored a hat-trick in a 6-1 win over Holton-Arms, the first victory under first-year head coach Lindsey Weller. Montgomery Blair’s Allison Chen added one of her own in a 5-1 season-opening win against Northwood. In her first varsity start, Our Lady of Good Counsel goalie Caroline Campbell shut out Stone Ridge in what became a 1-0 overtime victory, the lone goal coming off the stick of Mallory Fox. In another 1-0 contest, Winston Churchill’s Clare Nolan scored the only goal of the game to top Quince Orchard, which has already lost three games by one-goal margins. 1906764
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Cammie Mutha scored the first and go-ahead goals; Anya Bitchek netted the game-tying goal. Junior forward Caroline Braviak assisted the Wildcats’ first two goals. “I was surprised, actually, for a lot of us we could easily see a team fall apart, especially when you’re not in a playoff situation where it’s lose and go home,” Friedman said. “The girls didn’t panic and rush, there was no freak out, like, ‘How are we going to score three goals in 40 minutes?!’ They didn’t play out of control, they kept their cool. And
There’s one of two ways the Montgomery County high school volleyball world can view Sherwood High School’s success at the annual Magruder Invitational on Saturday: The Warriors claimed the title, reestablishing themselves as one of the premier programs in the post-Alex Holston era, or they lost to Tuscarora, thereby technically putting an end to their vaunted 57-match winning streak — but at the same time, technically not. By all means and purposes, Sherwood’s 5-1 run in the allday tournament on Saturday counts for a record of some sorts, but not to the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association, which, in the minds of some, is the determining factor if the streak is still intact or not. “That’s not really for me to decide,” Sherwood coach Brian McCarty said Sunday afternoon. “[The tournament] has never really been included in the winning streak. I don’t want totakeanythingawayfrom[Col. Zadok Magruder Coach] Scott [Zanni], it’s a great tournament and they’re real games, but these don’t count in the official records.” The tournament featured best of three-set matches while the regular season features best of five. The Warriors could still be a contender come late October for the state tournament. “I think all the work the girls put in over the summer and over the preseason — they really grew,” McCarty said. Sherwood knocked out Zanni’s squad, which went 4-1 in the tournament, in the semifinals. Others in the county to participate were Northwest (22), Richard Montgomery (1-3), John F. Kennedy (0-4), Paint Branch (2-2), Quince Orchard (1-3) and Wheaton (0-4).
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BY JOHN
HARRIS III
SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
The Damascus High School football team took the message from its coach Eric Wallich to heart on Friday. The Swarmin’ Hornets were instructed to make sure that just because they are a part of a storied program, they didn’t take its present status for granted. The perennial postseason participants proceeded to make quick work of their opponents in Kensington, dispatching of host Albert Einstein, 49-22. “We knew Einstein was going to bring everything that they had,” said junior wide receiver-kick returner Jalen Christian. “When a team plays Damascus, they always want
to beat us [badly]. We knew we had to keep our heads straight and work hard and fight every play.” Damascus, like every high school team kicking off its regular season, had to fight to keep from urges of anxiousness and being overzealous when it was time to hit the field under the bright lights. “We’ve been training for nine months, and it all paid off for us tonight,” Christian said. “We all wanted to get that feeling out of our stomachs tonight. We’ve been working hard all off season, and we came out on fire tonight.” Damascus had plenty of contributors to its big opening night win. Christian scored two touchdowns, one on a 76-yard punt return and another on a 15-yard run from scrimmage. He also had a third touchdown called back by penalty to open the third quarter on a 75-yard kickoff return. Quarterback Chase Wil-
liams threw just four passes, but completed three of them for 75 yards and two 25-yard scores to Stephon Jacob and Alec Magas, respectively. “Chase has looked really good in the off-season I think he can have a really good year,” said Wallich. “He has a lot of confidence. “Jalen had a big night, [running back] Jake Funk had a big night Stephon Jacob had a great night. I am just pleased with the [overall] team. “ By building a 35-6 halftime advantage, the Hornets’ reserves received plenty of playing time. Said Wallich: ”[It was] nice to see everyone get in and get rewarded [with playing time]. And you want everyone to stay healthy, and for the most part, we were able to do that.” The Damascus first-string players were also appreciative for the rest. “The [first-string] coming out in the second half
means we’ve done our job,” Christian said. “It also means that our second string can get experience so when we get into tough games later in the season, they can play and do what they have to do. At practice, we go at each other every day. We train each other, and we help each other get better. That’s what we are here for.” Einstein coach Jermaine Howell used some humor to deflect some of pain of a solid defeat in the opening game. “I start coaching [varsity football] in [Montgomery] County, and in [the first three opening games] I get Seneca [Valley] first [in 2011], then Seneca first [in 2012] again, then Damascus,” he said. “How the heck do I get that? “Honestly as a staff, I look for the big tough games right at the beginning, because hopefully we can catch one of those teams that we are not supposed to beat off guard. With that said, I think it is good for
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Damascus High School’s Jake Funk (left), Joey Salisbury and Johnny Fischer stop Albert Einstein’s Khalil Wilson on Friday. our program. We can’t do anything about the scheduling, so the bottom line is that we progress through the season. We took this one on the chin,
but hopefully this will make us stronger as we move forward. We are going learn from this, get into next week and see if we are any better.”
Walter Johnson’s golf team gets low early in season Wildcats open season with a 181 to start 3-0
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TRAVIS MEWHIRTER STAFF WRITER
The champs are back in town and it’s not those champs, the current state title holders, Thomas S. Wootton High School. This is Walter Johnson, right back where it began and ended the regular season and the first major tournament of the postseason: on top. At Bretton Woods Golf Course on Aug. 26, the Wildcats handily dispensed two of the county’s top contenders, Walt Whitman and Wootton,
totaling a combined 6-overpar between five players to finish at 181. Wootton, the heavy favorites to win the 3A/4A state title again this year, finished 10 shots back, and Whitman somehow went 1-2 in the match with a 195, something Whitman coach Karl O’Donoghue thought was just about impossible. “‘I can’t believe I shot a 195 and got beat by 191 and 181 and finished third,’” Wildcats coach Richard Payne recalled the Vikings coach saying after the season-opening match. “Because 195 will normally win. If we can keep that up, we can go pretty far.” Walter Johnson went more than pretty far last year. They
nearly went the distance. The Wildcats swept the county and district titles — both on tiebreakers, edging Whitman and Wootton on the former and Wootton on the latter — which predictably left the Patriots bristling. But Payne’s squad flamed out later that month in the state tournament, missing the cut and watching Wootton become the first team to top Urbana in four years. “Everyone on the team can go under par,” said Taso Scilaris, who is slotted as the Wildcats’ No. 1 player and finished with a 2-over-par 37 on Aug. 26. “We’re all capable and we’ve all done it.” What’s more comforting
for Payne than his team’s absurdly low score so early in the season is depth that may be unmatched by any in the county. His No. 5 golfer, Jordan Bobb, went lower than anybody in the county with a 33. His No. 3, Noah Moss, signed for a 1-over-par effort. Michael Gilman, who precedes Bobb on the depth chart, tied Scilaris at 2-over. Josh Jacobs, slotted at No. 2, came in at 3-over. And the final starter, Justin New, finished with a 40, which still ranked individually in the top 25 in the county and his score wasn’t even kept. “We just all stepped up to the plate,” Gilman said. “We kind of just came out and stayed positive and played
well. I thought [Bobb] would shoot low. He has the potential to shoot very low. We’re very deep. We’re a very solid five-, six-man team.” “It’s a great feeling to have,” Bobb added. “It kind of takes the pressure off of you because you know if you make a mistake you got all these guys behind you.” All this, and every single person interviewed on the Wildcats said that they can go even lower. To put that in perspective, if Walter Johnson were to match that pace at the state tournament, the Wildcats would shoot a 572, 30 strokes better than Wootton’s state title-winning effort last year and
a 24-stroke improvement from Whitman’s record of 596. “It was very easy to find three strokes where we could have shot under 180,” Payne said. So where exactly? According to Payne, one player made a bogey on a par-5 after hitting it in a hazard, another three-putted the ninth green and one made a double-bogey in 54 combined holes of recorded scores. But still, “I think we can go lower,” Scilaris said. “We had some mistakes we could shave off so we could go below 180.” tmewhirter@gazette.net
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BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN STAFF WRITER
A year ago, the Wheaton High School girls’ soccer team was desperate for a win — any triumph — after three consecutive seasons without a single victory. The Knights are not willing to settle in 2013, third-year coach Jeremy Gelling said. Last fall’s two-win campaign was a milestone for the program, but with seven returning starters expectations are high this year for the first time in a long time. The season got off to a good start with Friday’s 2-1 victory over Class 4A John F. Kennedy. “Once you know what it’s like to win, you want to do it more,” senior midfielder/forward Brenda Flores said. “It was definitely a huge accomplishment for all of us because at the beginning [of our tenures] we’d lost all of our games. But now [two wins] isn’t enough for us. We’re definitely more focused and more positive and we have a better understanding of the game.” It’s likely the Knights will continue to be overlooked — Flores admitted that Wheaton sports in general have a poor reputation. But that provides additional motivation, she said. “We have to try and overcome [that bad reputation] every time we step on the field, we have to show that we don’t suck,” Flores said. “We don’t suck, we have potential and we have to prove everyone wrong.” The next step for Wheaton will be pulling off a signature win. In the meantime, Gelling said he is fine with continuing to play the underdog. The Knights will sneak up on teams that underestimate them, he said. There are two main reasons for this new air of confidence around Wheaton soccer: The return of a large core of players who
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Wheaton High School’s Brenda Flores (right) moves the ball against a teammate on Monday during practice at Loiderman Middle School in Silver Spring. have competed together for two to three years and an influx of young and talented year-round soccer athletes to support them. Gelling and Flores agreed there are more clubsoccerplayersontheKnights’ 2013 squad than in recent history. “We’re more comfortable on the field this year,” Flores said. “Once you play with certain people you know what they can do and what they can’t do and you’re comfortable.” At the center of Wheaton’s varsity experienced core are Flores, who scored three goals last fall, classmate Meghan Culkin, junior Josselyn Flores (three goals) and sophomore and returning leading scorer Nadja Amaguana (five). As the Knights’ central midfielder and a talented playmaker from all areas of the field, Gelling said, Amaguana is likely to be at
the start of many Wheaton scoring runs. Brenda Flores provides much speed on the flanks and can drop back to help on defense and Josselyn Flores is a hustler who plays much bigger than her small stature, Gelling said. Amaguana scored both of Wheaton’s goals Friday, the first on a penalty and the second off a corner kick from Culkin. Culkin missed the majority of last season with a dislocated knee, but Gelling said he expects her to have an impact this fall. Another sign the Wheaton program is on the rise is increased participation numbers. Gelling said all his jerseys are occupied this fall for the first time in a while — 45 players between varsity and junior varsity. Five years ago there were only eight players on the junior varsity team. The growing number of players coming in
with soccer experience also allows Gelling to keep some players back on junior varsity for development whereas in the past he kept most people with any sort of athleticism on varsity, he said. Two wins in a season might not seem like a big deal for the average Montgomery County high school girls’ soccer team, but last fall’s two-win campaign marked a huge step forward for Wheaton soccer after three straight winless seasons. The Knights don’t intend to stall in 2013. “There are a few teams out there that will be really surprised if we beat them and I think there are a couple teams we can do that to,” Gelling said. “If we can get on a roll early and get some confidence, I think 6-6 is something we’d really like to be.” jbeekman@gazette.net
The Sherwood High School girls’ soccer team’s penalty-kick loss to six-time state champion Bethesda-Chevy Chase in the Warriors’ first state semifinal appearance last fall was all too familiar for current first-year varsitycoachDanielleRosanova. Just eight years earlier, in 2004, she was a junior on Howard County’s Centennial High team that the Barons brushed aside en route to championship No. 2. “It was just as crushing as a coach,” said Rosanova, who was Sherwood’s junior varsity coach a year ago. “Watching [the girls] cryonthefield,Ihadtears[when we lost in high school].” Rosanova said high school, everything she went through on and off the pitch, is still fresh in her mind. The former NCAA Division I soccer player’s ability to relate to Sherwood’s studentathleteswasamajorsellingpoint when former four-year coach John Vukovich stepped down in July, said the school’s athletic director, Kathy Green. Recently acquired jobs as a department head and athletic director at nearby Farquhar Middle School made it impossible for Vukovich to give the Warriors as much attention as he’d like, he said. In addition to Rosanova’s relatability, Green said she was impressed with her overall knowledge of women’s soccer — Rosanova played for two years at Monmouth (N.J.) University before finishing her collegiate career at Towson. Familiarity with the college search process she just recently went through and connection to the Sherwood program after a year with the junior varsity squad
were added bonuses. Those factors certainly eased the mind of the returning players, Warriors senior Kelly Flammand said. The defensive player said she was admittedly worried when Vukovich’s resignation was announced in July. The team felt close to him — he was there for their entire high school tenures — and he had taken the program somewhere it had never been before. But Rosanova’shiringshortlythereafter eased Flammand’s nerves, she said. Rosanova has made a concerted effort to get to know each of her players individually so she can be in tune with their needs, something Flammand said she and her teammates appreciate. “I think [Rosanova] is going to be great for us,” Flammand said. “She knows us from last year, she is young and she is a girl, she’s been through all this stuff recently. She knows what we are going through in high school. If anyone feels like they need to, we know we can talk to her. Her high school team was good, she played in college so maybe, some of us want to play in college, she will know how to help us out and she knows the game really well.” Primarily a midfielder and defensive player in high school and college, Rosanova’s style revolves around a strong defense and midfield, she said. Fittingly, those are areas where Sherwood has historically shined — another reason Green said she felt good hiring Rosanova. With many new faces, Sherwood is still finding its identity early. The Warriors enter the 2013 season without several players who were key in the program’s recent rise, most notably four-yearstartingmidfielderand University of Maryland, College Park recruit Hope Gouterman. But Rosanova and Flammand agreed the Warriors have the potential to build on last year’s success this fall.
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It was a simple meal — roast chicken, rice and a salad — but the women who prepared it made it special with the addition of their own garden-grown herbs and vegetables. The chicken became roast chicken with rosemary, the rice was enhanced with herbs and vegetables, and the lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers for the salad were all freshly picked. The dinner, held Aug. 21, was a celebration of the Garden of Hope planted at Betty’s House, a transitional home run by the National Center for Children and Families for women who are survivors of domestic violence and their children. The garden was the idea of Christina Esposito, 16, a senior at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda. “This is part of my Girl Scout Gold Award project,” Esposito
said. “I wanted to do something local and I came up with the idea to plant a garden somewhere where they didn’t have the opportunity to have one.” The Gold Award for Girl Scouts is the equivalent of the Eagle Scout award for Boy Scouts, said Esposito, who is a member of Troop 5994 in Bethesda. The final project needs be one that requires at least 80 hours of work and is sustainable. “In a month or so, when it gets colder, I’ll come back and put the garden to bed for the winter,” she said. “I have a binder of notes telling [the residents] how to restart it in the spring.” After securing permission from the national center to work at Betty’s House, Esposito was invited to a house meeting to share her plan with the home’s four residents. “I was excited,” said Hadja, one of the residents who did not share her last name to protect her identity. “At home [in Guinea] we eat from our own garden. We don’t go to the market.”
Esposito said it took a lot of people to get the garden going. Her neighbor Kate Kern, a master gardener, helped her with the plan and American Plant in Bethesda, where she works as a part-time cashier, donated soil and the vegetable plants. Irwin Stone donated the stepping stones and Esposito got a free compost bin from Montgomery County. The small plot, in the southwest corner of the yard where the sun shines most of the day, is filled with tomato plants, sweet and jalapeno peppers, cucumbers, green beans, carrots, parsley, parcel — also known as leaf celery — and rosemary. It represents almost 80 hours of work, Esposito said, and more if the hours of help she received from Betty’s House residents are added. “We worked together,” Hadja said. “I was really happy and the kids are very excited about the garden.” Hadja said she was especially excited about the rosemary, an herb she never knew about before Esposito added it
to the garden. “We don’t have rosemary” in Guinea, she said. “Now I use it when I cook soup or vegetables. I love the smell of it.” One unexpected bonus from the garden project for Esposito was learning about the women and their lives, she said. “I felt very sheltered” prior to this, she said. “Working with [the national center] and Betty’s House was very interesting. I was exposed to different cultures and the women.” Myrna Moses, director of transitional housing services for the national center, said she thought the Garden of Hope was a great idea. “It does a lot for the women and extends our resources because [the women] are able to grow herbs and vegetables to use at the house,” Moses said. She was at the celebratory dinner and said it was excellent. “It was much better than I expected because they really wanted to showcase what they grew,” Moses said. pmcewan@gazette.net
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Christina Esposito (left), 16, a senior at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, and Hadja, a resident of Betty’s House, tie up a cucumber plant in the vegetable and herb garden created by Esposito for families staying at the transitional home for survivors of domestic abuse.
EDUCATION NOTEBOOK Gaithersburg students relive history in March on Washington Fourteen fourth- and fifthgraders from Gaithersburg Elementary School were among a group of Gaithersburg residents who attended the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on Aug. 28. “They really were taken by the people who were there 50 years ago for the original march,” Principal Stephanie Brant said. “They were able to see themselves as making history and said they will be back for the 100th anniversary.” The students, along with four high school students, were invited to this year’s gathering, called the March on Washington for Jobs and Justice, by members of the Beloved Community Initiative at Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg. The Beloved Community concept was a dream of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., said Hal Garman, volunteer coordinator of the community at Asbury. It is a vision of a better society, a world where there is justice, equality, affirmation and acceptance of all people, Garman said. Members of the Asbury group mentor students from Gaithersburg Elementary, so including them on the trip to the march was a natural extension of their work. “This was a good thing to do because it has educational value for the kids,” Garman said. “Three presidents speak-
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Volunteers are needed to help with cleanup after the Sept. 28 Park after Dark benefit for the C&O Canal National Historic Park at Great Falls Tavern in Potomac. Cleanup will take place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 29. Volunteers will help get the tavern grounds back to their pre-celebration condition. Student volunteers can earn service learning hours. Registration: canaltrust. org/volunteer under “Register Today for Upcoming Events.” Great Falls Tavern is at 11710 MacArthur Blvd., Potomac.
Dancers, children’s games and language labs, an awards ceremony for race winners and a silent auction to benefit the school’s sports facilities. Cost for early registration, before Sunday, is $30 for the 5K race and $20 for the Fun Run; race-day registration costs $38 and $25, respectively. All entrants will receive performance shirts. To register or for more information visit www.dswashington. org/run or call 301-767-3810. German School Washington, D.C., is a coed private school with more than 500 students from 20 nationalities in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. An additional 500 adults and children are enrolled in the affiliated German Language School courses. Satellite parking and shuttle buses will be available at Our Lady of Mercy Church, 9200 Kentsdale Drive, Potomac;
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Students interested in applying for the program may see their school counselor or contact Karen Crawford, Montgomery County page coordinator, at 301-444-8620.
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These fourth- and fifth-graders from Gaithersburg Elementary School and their chaperones attended the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on Aug. 28. ing at the Lincoln Memorial [was] a very powerful moment in the history of our country and in the lives of the kids.” Brant said that when her students learned that no president had been at the original March on Washington they wondered why and it opened up a great opportunity to talk about changes in the last 50 years. “It was fabulous,” she said. “They are still talking about it.” Garman agreed. “Even though it was crowded, even though we had to wait in line to get on the [National] Mall, even though it rained a little, [the students] were great,” he said.
Seniors are invited to apply to page program High school seniors who are at least 16 years old and
legal residents of Maryland are eligible to apply for the Student Page Program at the State House in Annapolis. Those selected can get a first-hand look at the state legislative process while serving in the Senate and House of Delegates. Each year, 105 pages and 36 alternates are selected from the state’s public and private schools. Pages serve two nonconsecutive weeks during the 13-week session, which runs from the second week of January through early April. Duties include keeping lawmakers’ bill books up to date, distributing materials and messages to members, running errands, answering the phone and assisting visitors. Each page receives a stipend of $55 per day to cover expenses, but lodging and meals must be paid by the page. Housing, at $25 per night, is arranged by the page office.
German School Washington, D.C., which is in Potomac, and
the German Language School will host their second annual 5K Oktoberfest Run and 1K Fun Run at 9 a.m. Sept. 28. More than 400 runners are expected to participate. The festivities will kick off with the 5K run at 9 a.m., followed by the 1K Fun Run for children at 10 a.m. Post-race family activities include traditional German food, a performance by the Bairisch and Steierisch
Seven Locks Elementary School, 9500 Seven Locks Road,
Family life curriculum focus of meeting A Family Life Parent Meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Sept. 18 in the media center at John T. Baker Middle School, 25400 Oak Drive, Damascus. Parents will have the opportunity to preview all family life instructional materials and ask questions regarding the curriculum. Those unable to attend
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the meeting but who would like to preview the family life instructional materials should contact health teacher Patricia Paredes at Patricia_T_Paredes@ mcpsmd.org. To register, call 301-253-7010.
St. Raphael students hold food drive St. Raphael School and Nursery School in Rockville are con-
ducting a food and supplies drive Monday and Tuesday to benefit Stepping Stones Shelter, a local organization that helps homeless families with children. Students are invited to bring in donations from the shelter’s current urgent-needs list, which includes personal care items, household supplies and food donations. Residents who would like to participate can drop off donations at the school, which is at 1513 Dunster Road, Rockville. The phone number is 301-762-2143. The drive is part of Day to Serve, a collaborative interdenominational effort to help those in need in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington, D.C.
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HEALTH CALENDAR ONGOING New Mothers Postpartum Support Group, 10-11:30 a.m.
Cole Eileen and Ben Cole celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Aug. 10, 2013, with a dinner dance hosted by their three daughters at the Inn at Brookeville Farms. Along with the Coles, four other members of the original wedding party who attended the dinner were: Ms. Doris Mainville, maid of honor; Dr. Conrad Cole, best man; Mr. Jack Carroll and Ms. Nancy Elu. The couple met in seventh grade in Clearwater, Fla. They were married after college on Aug. 10, 1963, at St. Cecelia’s Roman Catholic Church in Clearwater, Fla. Dr. Ben Cole is a retired mathematician, and Eileen Cole is a retired librarian. The Coles have three daughters: Katherine Douglas of Bryn Mawr, Pa., Cheryl Holland of Kensington and Angela Cole of Rockville. Also in the family are two sons-in-law, John Douglas and Michael Holland, and five grandchildren: Alice and Sarah Douglas, and Colben, Ryan and Caitlyn Holland. As a special feature of the evening, Alice presented a slideshow set to music of the couple from their childhood to the present day. The Coles have lived in Maryland for 44 years and in the Ednor area of Ashton/Silver Spring for more than 37 of those years.
Mondays at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, 18101 Prince Philip Drive, Olney. Ever wonder if you are the only one feeling stressed and alone now that a baby has joined your family? Wasn’t it supposed to be easier? If you are finding yourself feeling sad, anxious, angry or irritable, group support can help. Group led by two therapists who specialize in the postpartum period. Babies are welcome. Free; registration required. 301-774-8881, www. montgomerygeneral.org. Senior Fit, meets from 9-9:45 a.m. once a week at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, 18101 Prince Philip Drive, Olney. Free 45-minute exercise program designed for seniors age 55 and older. Senior Fit focuses on increasing strength, flexibility, balance, coordination, and cardiovascular endurance. Exercise is an important factor in preventing falls, managing chronic illnesses and improving quality
Offutt It is with great admiration and love that the family and friends of Bill and Eda Offutt honor them on their 60th wedding anniversary. They were married on Sept. 5, 1953, at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Bethesda. They both grew up in Bethesda-Chevy Chase and graduated from the University of Maryland. Bill taught for Montgomery County Public Schools for 34 years. After retiring, he wrote the 780-page book “Bethesda: A Social History,” which has led to him giving hundreds of talks around Montgomery County about various aspects of its history. Eda Offutt has volunteered for the last 28 years at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. Bill and Eda Offutt will celebrate this wonderful milestone at their Bethesda home of 56 years with their three children: Bill and wife Nancy Reagin, Kate and husband Mike Morton and Caroline and husband Andy Gallagher, and their grandchildren: Mary and Seth Offutt-Reagin and Kathleen (deceased), and Shannon and Willow Gallagher.
Chabad Lubavitch of Upper Montgomery County will offer
the following Yom Kippur services at its synagogue, 11520 Darnestown Road, Gaithersburg: 6:45 p.m. Sept. 13, Kol Nidrei; 9 a.m. Shabbat Sept. 14, Shacharit; noon Sept. 14, Yizkor; 5:15 p.m. Sept. 14, Mincha/Neilah; 7:58 p.m. Sept. 14, Fast ends; breakfast following services. www.ourshul.org. Street, will welcome Lauran Bethell, a global consultant helping to combat human trafficking, at 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sept. 22. 301-585-5454, www.fbcss.org
Jamie and Karen Mills of Silver Spring announce the engagement of their daughter, Erin Michelle Mills, to Joseph Armenti, son of Wayne and Lucretia Armenti of Montville, N.J. Erin is a 2005 graduate of Paint Branch High School, received her bachelor’s degree in biology from Muhlenberg College in 2009 and her master’s degree in human genetics from Sarah Lawrence College in 2012. She is presently working as a certified genetic counselor for Reprogenetics in Livingston, N.J. Joe received his bachelor’s degree in political science and English from Muhlenberg College in 2010 and is presently a third-year law student in New Jersey. A summer of 2014 wedding is planned.
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Daniel and Nancy Wilkison of Clarksburg celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Aug. 31, 2013, at a dinner hosted by their children. The couple was married on Aug. 31, 1963, in St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church in Hollidaysburg, Pa. Daniel Wilkison is employed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg. Nancy Wilkison is semiretired, working part-time for Montgomery County Public Schools in Rockville. The Wilkisons have been residents of Clarksburg since 1974. They have three children, Paula Wilkison of Germantown, Lori Wilkison of Manchester, and Mark Wilkison and wife, Malissa, of Frederick. They have three grandchildren, Alex and Michael Spinnichio, and Olivia Wilkison.
second Wednesdays, 18169 Town Center Drive, Olney. Join Andrea Ciccone Troutner, a registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator during a supermarket stop-and-shop tour for all your nutrition and wellness needs. You’ll be able to identify the right healthy foods for you and your family. Free; registration required. 301-774-8727.
Damascus United Methodist Church, 9700 New Church
St., Damascus, offers traditional Sunday morning worship services at 8:15 a.m., a youth contemporary worship service at 9:30 a.m. and a service of liturgy and the word at 11 a.m. with Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. for all ages during the school year.
Liberty Grove United Methodist Church, 15225 Old
Columbia Pike, Burtonsville, conducts Sunday morning worship services at 8:30, 9:30 and 11 a.m. Sunday school, nursery through adult, is at 9:30 a.m. 301-421-9166. For a
schedule of events, visit www. libertygrovechurch.org. “MOPS,” a faith-based support group for mothers of children, birth through kindergarten, meets from 9-11:30 a.m. the first and third Wednesdays of the month at the Frederick Church of the Brethren, 201 Fairview Drive, Frederick. Childcare is provided. This year’s theme, “A Beautiful Mess: Embracing Your Story,” focuses on remembering that beauty can come out of chaos and that your past, present and future can be used for good with God’s love. For more information call 301-662-1819. Email mops@ fcob.net. Providence United Methodist Church, 3716 Kemptown
Church Road, Monrovia, conducts a contemporary service at 8 a.m. followed by a traditional service at 9:30 a.m. Sunday mornings, with Children’s Sunday School at 9:30 a.m. and adult’s Sunday school at 11 a.m. For more information, call 301-253-1768. Visit www. kemptownumc.org. Trinity Lutheran Church, 11200 Old Georgetown Road, North Bethesda, conducts services every Sunday, with child care from 8 a.m. to noon and fellowship and a coffee hour following each service. 301-881-7275. For a schedule of events, visit www.TrinityELCA.org.
The Gazette prints engagement and wedding announcements, with color photographs, at no charge, as a community service. Copy should be limited to 150 words and submitted in paragraph form. Announcements are subject to editing for space. Please include contact information, including a daytime telephone number. Photos should be professional quality. If emailing photos, file size should be a minimum of 500 KB. Wedding announcements should be submitted no later than 12 months after the wedding. Send to: The Gazette, 9030 Comprint Court, Gaithersburg, MD 20877, or email kgroff@gazette.net. Montgomery County celebrations are inserted into all Montgomery County editions.
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of life. Classes are ongoing and a physician’s consent form is required to participate. Free for people over the age of 55. 301-774-8881, www.montgomerygeneral.org. A Diabetes Support Group, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. the first Saturday of every month at Suburban Hospital, 8600 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda. A social network that provides peer support for people living with diabetes via open discussions and speakers on various diabetes topics. Light snacks available. Call Maria Chamberlain, diabetes nurse educator, at 301-896-3056 with questions. www.suburbanhospital.org.
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2.5Ba fpl, deck, wlk SILVER SPRING: out bsmt wlk to Twn Btful SFH. All brick, cnter nr 270/Bus HOC 4BR, 3BA, 2KIT, $1795. 240-383-1000 snrm,lv rm,dn rm, fr pl, 1 apt in bsmnt.. Plnty GERM: SFH 4Br/2Ba space. $2795/m 301fin bsmt, h/w floors, 793-6520 fenced yard, fireplace. Near 270. $2450. 301-442-5444 4BR, GERM/TH: 2.5BA, wew carpet, paint, deck. Ready to Move In. $1750/mo + utils HOC Welcome 301-972-1788 lv msg
MONT VILL: SFH, 2
Br, fireplace, beautiful setting, needs work, $1495/mo, good credit Call: 410-997-9045
MV/GAITH:
3br 2.5ba, TH fen yd w/d , AC, renov, $1475+utils nr sch. 301-279-9328 or 206-992-5206
I Buy Houses CASH! Quick Sale Fair Price 703-940-5530
FREDERICK Large
3BR Mountain view, fp w o o d flrs, w/d, min to 70 & 270, pets poss, $1,500 + util. Patrick 240-409-9410 owner/agent
BOYDS/NR Rt # 118
DAMASCUS 2 BR, 1BA W/D, A/C,Dogs ok, /S $1250/mo, + util avail 10/1, 301-693-0005
DMSCUS/GERM:
2Br, 1Ba, patio, fpl, fully renov nr bus/shops, $1300/mo + util 240-508-3497
DMSCUS/GERM:
bsmt Apt in SFH 2BR’s, foyer, bath, all appl, kitchen, pvt ent Male/Female. $1500 inc util 240-899-1694
3Br, 1.5Ba, deck, renov nr bus/shops, $1450/mo + util Call: 240-508-3497
CHEVY
renovated, nr bus, stores etc, $1200/mo inc util, Avl now Call 301-926-0163
CHASE:
1BD, 1BA at Riviera. Indoor parking and util included. $1650. Near metro. 301-529-1226
N.POTOMAC ROCKVILLE: 1 BR
Apt. $1250 incl util, CATV, Free Parking Avail now. NS/NP CALL: 301-424-9205
WORSHIP SPACE A V A I L A B L E fo r
L e a s e / R e n t Please call 301-9773440.
GAITHER: 1Br & Ba,
GAITHER: 3Br, + den, 2 Ba, renovated, Sec 8 welcome, $1800/mo inc util Call: 410-800-5005 GERM: 2BR/2FB, W/D Newly renovated, near 270/Middle Brook Inter sect. $1400/mo HOC OK 301-455-8440
GERM: Lux 2BR, 2.5 BA Split lvl w/FP, hwd flrs, balc, w/d, nr Bus $1375. Avail Immed. Call 240-350-5392
SIL SPG: Longmead FORT
MEADE
2Bdrm/2Ba minutes to Ft. Meade/NSA 301922-4996
BETH: beautiful 1400
sqft,3br,2fba/den/offic $2200+elec 301-4523636 bethesdagirl@ juno.com nr Mont Mall
Crossing, Newly renov 2br 2ba. $1350+ utils. w/d in the unit. OR 3bd 2ba. $1550. Nr Metro & Bus. 301526-3198
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Contact Ashby
BELTSVILLE: 1Br shared Ba w/ a male $400 +util in SFH quiet neighborhod. Avail Now. 301-538-8575
GERM: Room in TH.
GAITH: basment apt.
LAUREL: 1 BR base- ROCKVILLE: RM for
Pvt entr, pvt kit & BA, $900/mo inclds util & FIOS. Storage. 301370-7508 Avail 8/1
GAITHERSBURG:
1Br, 1Ba, Shr Kit, cable/int, N/S N/P, $550/month includes utils 240-643-4122
Partial furnished. Near shops,bus& 270. $500 incl util, catv. NS/NP 301-760-7474 ment in TH, prvt bath, share kit $650/month utils incl. Close to 95 202-903-6599
MONT.VILL.: 1BR in
ROCKVILLE:
furn bsmt rm with priv entr, single person, shr kit/Ba, $700/mo inc util Call: 240-432-4751
rent, $500. 1 mo deposit, shr utils. N/S. Close to White Flint Metro. 301-881-8474
SILVER
SPRING:
SILVER
SPRING:
GAITHERSBURG:
Bsmt w/2 Br, priv kit, Ba & entr, LR, $1k/mo + 1/3 util, CATV/int.240-6432343 or 301-222-7327
G E R M : 1 Lrg Br in
ROCKVILLE:
WHEATON 1 Large
GAITHERSBURG:
Lrg Rm in SFH, Pool, full privlgs, Vegetarian, NS. $600 + 1/4 elec Call: 301-482-1425
SFH unfurn. $650 util,cable, int, laundry, shr BA & Kit incl. NS/NP. 301-646-7691
MONT
VILLAGE:
1BD in nice TH. Off Rt 29 near public transp. NP/NS. $600 incl util. 301-793-4665
Rm for rent $600 incld utils; 2BR 2BA Condo for Rent $1650 inclds utils, 240-460-2582
TH Bsmt Apt pvt entr $750/mo util incl.Near Shops/Metro 240-388- NORTH POTOMAC: SILVER SPRING: basement 7552 or 240-370-0272 Cheery furn/unfurn w/full Ba & Room for $465/mo, GAITH:M BRs $430+ Br, $975/mo inc util shared kit Ba, W/D, CABTV & Util, Please Call: 301-529-8632 440+475+555+ Maid CALL: 301-404-2681 Ns/Np, nr 270/370/Bus shops, quiet, conv.Sec OLNEY: G R E A T Dep 301-983-3210 DEAL!! Br, shr Ba, SS: SFH Furnish BR beautiful EU TH, pvt Ba, Female Only GAITH/MONT VILL. female only $675/mnth uti incl $675 +Sec Dep Room for Rent w/util, int, cable TV, nr RIDE ON, Wheaton $500/month Avail NP/NS Sec. Dep. 301- Metro 301-681-7848 Imm. Ns/Np Near Bus 774-4654 Shops 240-426-5651 TWINBROOK RMs GAITH: Rm w/pvt BA RIVERDALE: Furn for rent. $650 Incl in SFH $550 Plus Utils 1Br, share Ba in 2br Wifi/parking N/s, N/p. 1st and Last Month in Apt $500/mo internet Nr Bus & Metro 301Advance Deposit Req. nr Metro, Bus, Shop- 221-7348 ping Ctr 301-254-2965 Call 240-606-7259 Bsmt w/priv Ba, NS/NP, priv parking, nr Bus, Female, 650 + uti, 240-401-3522
Bsmt w/2BR, 1BA, Prvt Entr patio $1200 incl utils, cbl 301-2319390 / 240-644-2221
BR, Female, 5min to Metro On Veirs Mill Rd $650 uti incl. NS/NP Call: 240-447-6476
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SOFA FOR SALE:
Perfect cond, beige/cloth, brass legs, 7ftx10" in length Calll: 301-530-5113
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S i l v e r MUNITY MULTISpring Wheaton Area FAMILY GARAGE Contents of entire SALE in Clarksburg. Sat 9/14 8a-4p. Severh o m e of a 90+ resident; trea- al homes with LOTS of sures from past and "stuff" to sell!! Enpresent including trance is located at Windsong Ln and b o o k s, vintage dolls, cos- Clarksburg Rd. tume jewelry, Xmas, YARD furniture, housewares POTOMAC and much more. Sale SALE: Bedding, toys, runs Sept 13-15th, books, clothes, home 10am-4pm. 12508 decor, electronics & more. Good condition! Arbor View Terrace 9/13-14. 10-3pm. 9704 GAITHERSBURG: Kentsdale Dr, Moving Sale Upscale Items! Entire content SILVER SPRING: of house must go Multi-Family Sat 9/14 Call 301-977-4123 by 9-2 (Rain Date 9/21) Furn, Antiques (inc. appt. only children’s), toys, HH items, clothes, books N POTOMAC: Furniture, (full house much more! 203 - 208 furnishings), lawn furn E. Indian Spring Dr, accessorie and more! 20901.No ’early birds.’ To set appt please contact: 301-520-8099
DAMASCUS:
Multi Family Yard Sale, September 14, 10a-2p 9825 Moyer Road Damascus MD
DARNESTOWN HH
GLENN DALE WOOD POINTE COMM SALE. Sat, 9/14. 8a-2p. Dir: 193, From Greenbelt R. & From 450 L. Prospect Hill L. Glenn Dale Rd. R. Harbor to WP Dr.
FOR SALE SENIOR m o v e mgmt, estate sales a n d downsizing business w/exclusive territory in PG County. Contact jtilghman@yahoo.com or (301)760 4024.
8a-2p, Tools, HH Items, Kids Clothes, Furn, & Toys, 9984 Lake Landing Rd, Mont Village, 20886
EARN $500 ADAY: Insurance
Lic# 15-133761 Germantown 301-972-1955
M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M We are looking for M M laborers/painters M M that worked for M Affectionate Artistic Musical M Dico Construction Financially Secure Couple M BLE W/CHINA M awaits baby. Expenses Paid. M in the Baltimore/ CABINET Light Oak, M DC area between leaf, 6 chairs, two M Lisa & Kenny M M M piece cabinet with 1973 and 1974. M lights. Excellent condi- M Please call 1-800-557-9529 M M tion, $800 or best offer M M Mt. Airy 301.607.9034 888-900-7034 MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
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Zayo has proposed to pay Montgomery County’s reasonable expenses relating to the preparation, issuance, implementation and administration of this Agreement, not to exceed two thousand dolELENA’S FAMILY lars ($2,000.00) in the aggregate. Zayo has proposed to collect Daycare and remit to the County any applicable Users Tax that is collected Infants-Up Pre-K profrom subscribers. The proposed term of the franchise agreement gram, computer Lab, Bi-lingual Potty Train. is fifteen (15) years.
Any objection to the proposed granting of the franchise by the County must be filed, in writing, with the County Executive by the close of business on September 28, 2013 at the Executive Office Building, 2nd Floor, 101 Monroe Street, Rockville, Maryland 20850. Copies of the proposed franchise agreement are availaHAVANESE PUPPIES ble at the Office of the County Attorney, 101 Monroe Street, 3rd Home raised, AKC, Floor, Rockville, Maryland 20850. For further information, contact best health guarantee Mitchell Merryman at 303-854-5271.
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FRONT DESK
PT (30hrs wk) Patient appts & medical billing, must be experienced with office work. Please contact: redhataudiology@verizon.net
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LPN/RN
For busy pediatric practice in Montgomery County. Pediatric experience preferred. Fax resume to 301.933.5087 or Email alynei23@yahoo.com Attn: Geri
VETERINARY RECEPTIONIST Seeking motivated, responsible person with positive phone personality. MUST have pleasant phone voice for 3 doctor hospital. Experience preferred. Apply at: Montgomery Village Animal Hospital; 19222 Montgomery Village Ave. or Fax resume to 301-926-6528.
GC3088
Bus Driver Lycée Rochambeau, French International School is accepting applications for school bus drivers. Must have 5 yrs of exp driving school bus. For detail job description and to apply go to www.gazette.net/careers
Pharmacy/ Phlebotomy Tech Trainees Needed Now Pharmacies/ hospitals now hiring. No experience? Job Training & Placement Assistance Available 1-877-240-4524 CTO SCHEV
Insurance
Personal Lines Underwriter/CSR Rockville insurance company needs personal lines underwriter/CSR. Must be Md. licensed and have experience. Career opportunity with salary & benefits. Email resume to: glenn@oxley-goldburn.com
CHAUFFEURS
Dental/ Medical Assistant Trainees Needed Now Dental/Medical Offices now hiring. No experience? Job Training & Placement Assistance Available 1-877-234-7706 CTO SCHEV
Become a Professional Chauffeur - We train! If you have a good driving record, know your way around and enjoy making people happy then we want to talk to you. Please join us Wednesday September 18th, 2013 from 11am to 5pm for our open house. 401K, benefits package, and bonuses provided! All applicants must be of the age of 25. RMA WORLDWIDE CHAUFFEURED TRANSPORTATION 11565 Old Georgetown Road, Rockville, MD 20852
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BEAUTY OPERATOR
Great job for students, retirees and stay at home moms. Work from home! Answer and handle phone calls from 5pm to 9am two evenings twice a month for staffing agency or one weekend a month. Must have Internet access, and a car. Fax resume to 301.588.9065 or email to cc2439@yahoo.com
with followings. Kohl’s Shopping Center in Aspen Hill, MD. Renters or Commission Call 301-871-8200
CLEANING
Earn $300-$500/wk. M-F, No nights or wknds. Must have own car & valid. Drivers lic. Se Habla Espanol.
Merry Maids
Gaithersburg 301-869-6243 Silver Spring 301-587-5594
Tax Preparers
Experienced tax preparers needed for Jackson Hewitt Tax Service. No experience? Online tax classes forming now. Earn extra money in tax time. Flexible hours, competitive pay. Call 301-620-1828 or e-mail 2013taxschool@gmail.com
Sports Coaches
FITNESS TRAINER Planet Fitness in Gaithersburg is now hiring for a Certified Fitness Trainer. Send resume to erin@pfofmd.com
PT Experienced Coaches wanted to teach young childrens skills in soccer, b-balll etc. Must have car and be available after 3pm. $25+ per hour. Call 240-401-4117
Healthcare
Geriatric Nursing Assistants (Rockville, MD)
Collingswood Nursing & Rehab Center in Rockville has immediate openings for experienced GNAs to fill full time and part time positions. Applicants must be willing to work every other weekend. Interested candidates are invited to come to our facility to complete the application process Monday thru Friday from 8am to 7pm. Our address is 299 Hurley Ave. Rockville, MD 20850. Real Estate
Silver Spring
Work with the BEST!
Be trained individually by one of the area’s top offices & one of the area’s best salesman with over 34 years. New & experienced salespeople welcomed.
Must R.S.V.P.
GC2995
Call Bill Hennessy
3 301-388-2626 01-388-2626
VETERINARY HOSPITAL
Laytonsville Veterinary Practice has opportunities for full time experienced veterinary technicians. Busy multi doctor practice. Generous wages, health benefits and retirement available. Send resume to laytonsvillevet@aol.com
Veterinary
WE’RE HIRING WEEKEND CNAS, GNAS, AND HHAS!
KENNEL TECHNICIAN
Exp./Compassionate caretaker needed for a vet clinic in Potomac. Good starting salary and benefits for the right person. Call Barbara at 301-983-8400 or email bpischitta@fallsroadvet.com
TRAVEL CONSULTANTS Sundance Vacations, a national travel co, in Washington DC is looking for enthusiastic team members. Earn $1000+ wkly. Health benefits, 401(k), paid vac and discount travel. No experience necesary. Will train. Evening and weekend hours. Call for an appt today: 1-877-808-1158
Bio-Technology Sales Engineer
CDL DRIVERS
Aggregate Industries, a leading supplier of quality construction building materials, has immediate openings for Class B Commercial Drivers in Rockville, MD. Qualified candidates will have a Class B Commercial Driver’s License, a clean driving record, the ability to work Mon-Fri with occasional Saturdays, and a strong work ethic.
Concrete Mixer Drivers
Primarily responsible for delivering concrete, conducting pre-trip/post-trip inspections, communicating truck/job status, maintaining the truck, and ensuring that all safety, compliance, environmental and DOT requirements are followed.
Water Truck Driver
Achieve sales goals for a defined territory thru development, maintenance, & enhancement of cust. accts. Develop & implement an effective territory busn. growth & plan. Manage relationships w/cust. Articulate complex busn & tech info to biomedical/engineering researchers. Utilize effective direct selling techniques & marketing strategies to expand prods & svc demands. Negotiate contracts w/guidance from mgrs. BA in Eng., Bio., Chem. or equiv. Exp in sales, inventory, purchasing, accounting & delivery of prods. Job Loc: Germantown, MD. Resumes to: Genewiz, Inc. Attn: E. Zhelezniak 115 Corporate Blvd South Plainfield, NJ 07080
GOLF COURSE EQUIP MECHANIC
Congressional Country Club is accepting applications for a FT to assist with preventative and corrective maintenance of golf course equip. HS diploma, verifiable references and mechanical exp with small engine repair and/or turf equip preferred. Schedule is Mon-Fri w/alternating wkends. $18/hr. FT Benefits. No phone calls please. Apply in person wkdays 9am-2pm at 8910 Bradley Blvd, Bethesda, MD 20817 or email resume to grounds@ccclub.org. EOE
Primarily responsible for loading and hauling water to appropriate areas to provide dust control and spraying material, performing pre-trip/post-trip inspections and adhering to all safety, compliance, environmental and DOT requirements. Apply online: www.aggregate-us.com, e-mail your resume to terri.coomaraswamy@aggregate-us.com or fax: 301-513-0126 EEO/ADA/Drug and Alcohol Free Workplace.
CNA’S/ACTIVITIES Coordinator Join a Winning Team!
(GNA & Med Tech a plu$) Asst. Living in a rural home enviroment, Brookeville, MD Must have own transp. Please send resume: brookevillehouse@aol.com or fax to: 301-570-1182
Have a passion for interior decorating? 40 year old company hiring for a fun and lively decorating studio. Training provided, either non-exp or exp and all backgrounds welcome. only 2 prerequisites: 1.Great Attitude 2. People person with fun personality please email resumes to jimkirlin@decoratingden.com
bill.hennessy@longfoster.com • Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc.
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EOE
Career Training Need to re-start your career?
Provide non-medical care and companionship for seniors in their homes. Personal care, light housework, transportation, meal preparation. Must be 21+. Must have car and one year professional, volunteer, or personal experience www.homeinsteads.com/197 Home Instead Senior Care To us it’s personal 301/588-9023 Call between 10am-4pm Mon-Fri
Part-Time
Work From Home
National Children’s Center Making calls Weekdays 9-4 No selling! Sal + bonus + benes.
Call 301-333-1900
VET TECH Experience preferred, but will train the right person. Call 301-299-0880; ask for Jean or Niki or fax resume to 301-983-6168
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‘04 Jeep Liberty Sport
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‘00 Chevy Express Cargovan $6,988
‘07 Jeep Compass LTD
#KA50006, Clean! 85K
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$9,745
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‘10 Chrysler TWN & CNTRY $24,470
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2008 KIA Sorento LX...................................7,745
1996 Chevy Baretta CPE............................1,950
2005 Honda Accord LX................................7,988
#KP10186A,AC,AT,ABS, BEST VALUE!, “HANDYMAN”
#KP43971A, Classic!, 77K Actual! AT, TLT, CC, “HANDYMAN”
2001 Ford Winstar SEL...............................2,450
#FP39852A, 7 Pass LTHR/PWER Seat, PWER OPTS, Don’t Miss “HANDYMAN”
2,488
1998 Toyota Camry LE................................ #KP41506, PW/PLC, TLT, DON’T MISS!!, “HANDYMAN”
1997 Subaru Legacy L WGN........................2,650 #KP04510, AT, AC, PW/PLC, MORE! VALUE PRICED!, “HANDYMAN”
1997 Acura RL...........................................3,990 #KP12871, Loaded, MD Insp.
2004 Subaru Forester X.............................4,988 #KP38727, 5 SPD, GAS SAVER!, AC, P/OPTIONS, CC, “HANDYMAN”
2005 Buick Century...................................4,998 #KP00882, AT, AC, PW/PLC, CC “HANDYMAN”
2006 Chrysler PT Cruiser...........................5,488 #KR08278, Clean!, AT, AC, PW/PLC
2000 Ford F-150 Supercab.........................5,500 #KX71474, AT, AC, BD LNR, “HANDYMAN”
2000 Buick Lesabre LTD.............................5,955 #KP05316A, LTHR/HTD/PWER Seat, P/Options
1998 Toyota Camry LE................................5,988
#KP03265, AT, AC, P/Options, Best Buy!
6,970
2006 Subaru Legacy WGN.......................... #KP01702, AWD!, Nice!, PSeat, HTD Seats, P/Options
2005 Nissan Sentra 1.8S............................6,988 #KP95439B, Clean! 92K, AT, AC, PW/PLC
2000 Isuzu Rodeo LS..................................6,988 #KP17054, 4WD, 3.2L, Clean! LTHR, PW/PL, AC, MD INSP’D
2004 Cadillac Deville.................................7,450 #KP81202, Prisine! MNRF, LTHR, Parksense, P/OPTS
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UNDER $10,995
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2001 Toyota Sequoia SR5 4WD ...................7,988
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2006 KIA Spectra SX...................................7,990 #KP43462, Clean 50K! 5 SPD, PW/PLC, CD, Gas Saver
2005 Mazda Mazda 6..................................7,997
#KP25777, PW/PLC, CC, CD, 5SPD, Gas Saver.
2004 Dodge Caravan S&T............................7,998
#KP11470A, Nice, DVD, LTHR, PWR DR/Gate
8,455
2004 Chevy Trailblazer LT 4X4.................... #KP27447, MNRF, PSEAT, PW/PLC
2005 Chrysler T&C Limited.........................8,488 #KP27304, Leather, Nav, One Owner
8,488
2008 Saturn Astra XE.................................. #KP59427,H/BK,SHARP!,MNRF,AT,ABX,Alloys,Stabilitrak
2005 Dodge Magnum SXT........................8,970
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2009 Dodge Caliber SXT..............................9,990 #KP97597, Sharp! AT, PW/PL, CD, CC
2006 Buick Lucerne CXS..........................10,470 #KP37654, Luxury!, LTHR/HTD/Mem Seats, Harman Kardon CD, SAB
2008 Subaru Outback WGN.......................10,688 #KP21097, Pampered!, AT, P/Options, HTD Seat
2005 Dodge Durango Limited....................10,988 HEMI, Sunroof, Leather, DVD Nav, One Owner
2008 Chrysler Sebring Cnvtb’l..................10,988
#KP23531, TRNG LTHR/PWR SET, CD, P/OPTS, OFF-SEASON PRICED
2006 Volvo S80 2.5T.................................11,470
#KP38876, AWD, Pampered! MNRF, LTHR/ PWER Seat, SAB
11,870
2007 Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer....... #47651KP, 4WD, Beauty! 3rd Seat, LTHR, MNRF, RNG BDS
2006 Subaru Legacy Outbk 2.5XT....11,988 #KP09074, MNRF, LTHR, AT, CD-6, WELL KEPT!
#KP14663, PSEAT, ALLOYS, PW/PLC, CD
2009 Hyundai Sonata GLS................11,988
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2008 GMC Savana Cargovan.....................12,470
2004 Ford Ranger Supercab........................8,988 2004 Nissan Xterra SE ................................8,945
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2004 Ford Expedition XLT...........................9,488
#KP77485, Beauty! MNRF, Wood Grain, P/Options #KR11890, AT, AC, Tradesman
2004 Acura MDX AWD......................12,477 #KP62182, SHARP! DVD, MNRF, LTHR, DON’T MISS!
2005 Mercedez C240W 4-MATIC......12,488
#KP62402, 4WD, Leather
#KP65999, IMMACULATE! MNRF, LTHR/PWR SEATS, CD
2001 Toyota Highlander Sport.....................9,488
2008 Mercury Mariner.....................12,488
#KP11507, 4WD, MNRF, LTHR, CD CHGR/CASS, PSeat
2002 Mini Cooper.......................................9,745 #KP55813, Clean, 63K! NAV, MNRF, CD, ALLOYS
2005 Hyundai Tuscon GLS AWD...................9,788
#KP34280, NICE! PW/PLC/PMR, CC, CD
#KP21874, Mnrf, Audiofile CD Chgr, Stability
2006 Toyota Camry XLE.....................12,488 #KP33971, SHARP! MRNF, PSEAT, PW/PLC, CD
2009 Toyota Corolla LE....................12,588 #KP65389, CLEAN, 50K! AT, PW/PLC, CD
2008 Toyota Rav-4...........................13,488
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2008 Suzuki X-7 Luxury.....................14,588 #KP24175, AWD, LUXURY, MNRF, LTHR, P/OPTS
2011 Chevy Impala LT......................14,770 #KN88726, MNRF, LTHR/PWER SEATS, CD, ALLOYS, P/Opts, CD Chgr
2009 Mazda 5 Wagon................................14,988 #KP57035, Auto, Sunroof, Leather, 3rd Row
2007 Honda Accord EX-L V6.............14,988 #KP32745, Clean! MNRF, LTHR, CD CHGR
2010 Dodge Charger SXT..................16,988 #KN46874, PSeat, Alloys, PW/PLC, CD, Fac Warr
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2010 Ford Econoline XLT..........................19,745 #KN77515, 15 Pass Rare! Park Sense, Tow, PW/ PL, RAC
2004 Infinity FX45...........................19,990 #KP04556, AWD, All The Toys! Nav, MRF, LTHR
2012 Dodge Grand Caravan SXT........20,488 #KN41054, DVD, Backup Cam, UConnect, PWR Doors/Seats
2009 Chevy Silverado 1500.......................20,998
#KG36062, Crewcab, 4WD, Meticulously Maintained!