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A birthday party over the weekend ended in tragedy after Montgomery County Police arrested a McLean, Va., man and charged him with killing his longtime friend. Police said Rahul Gupta, 24, killed Mark Edward Waugh, 23, of Great Falls, Va., in Silver Spring early Sunday morning, after a night of drinking with Waugh and other friends. The two met years before, when they had attended Langley High School.

Waugh had recently entered Georgetown University’s law school. Gupta was pursuing a master’s in biomedical engineering at the George Washington University. According to documents made public Tuesday, Gupta, his girlfriend, Waugh and another man had gone out drinking Saturday night to celebrate Gupta’s birthday. The girlfriend was identiﬁed in court records as Taylor Gould. Gupta, Gould and Waugh returned early Sunday morning to a Silver Spring apartment that Gupta and Gould shared. There, they continued drinking. Police received a call for help shortly before 3:30 a.m. When they arrived at the apartment, they heard yelling inside, according to Gupta’s charging documents. The documents tell a grisly tale: Of-

ﬁcers entered the apartment and saw Gould running toward them, telling them, “I don’t know what happened. Can you tell me?” Blood was found on the walls of the home’s living room and kitchen, and on Gupta, whom police found lying on the ﬂoor. The blood was from Waugh, whom police found lying near Gupta. Waugh had been stabbed more than a half a dozen times. Fire and Rescue personnel pronounced him dead on the scene. In Montgomery County District Court on Tuesday, Assistant State’s Attorney Steve Chaikin told Judge William

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Court allows Halloween display, limits days BY

ALINE BARROS STAFF WRITER

A Montgomery County judge ruled Tuesday that the Haunted Garden in Silver Spring will only be open to the public for two days, putting an end to a battle between the county and the homeowner behind the Halloween display. Donna Kerr may only invite the public to come to the outdoor display located at 9215 Worth Ave. from 6 to 10 p.m. on Oct. 25 and Oct. 26, according to the court ruling. “I certainly understand people’s frustrations. ... I understand the county’s concern with safety issues,” said Judge Patricia Mitchell. County ofﬁcials had shut down the display with a temporary restraining order issued Oct. 4, saying the display violated the county’s residential zoning code and caused a public safety hazard. Nineteen of Kerr’s neighbors who signed a petition asking the county to shut down the display argued their narrow roads in their Seven Oaks Evanswood community can’t handle the thousands of visitors Kerr expects to come view her free display.

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Some students, others stay home for festivities BY

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pend heavily on government workers and federal contracts are more focused on the immediate damage caused by the government shutdown, said Gigi Godwin, president and CEO of the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce. Godwin said she respects the county bill’s sponsors for trying to help people, but the uncertainty caused by the shutdown makes it a bad time to look at a county measure.

Around the same time they might have headed home after a day at school, some kids talked and played in a large Damascus basement amid a happy confusion of pizza, music and party dresses. Hebatallah Elradi, 15, a Clarksburg High School student, was among the younger participants at the home celebrating the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. “It’s just a good atmosphere,” Hebatallah said amid the buzz of the revelry. “I look forward to these holidays a lot.” Tuesday marked one of two holidays at the center of the Equality for Eid Coalition’s ongoing mission. The coalition is leading a call for Montgomery County Public Schools to close when classes overlap with Muslim holidays. The coalition urged school system staff and students to stay home from school Tuesday and instead celebrate the holiday. Eid al-Adha marks the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. The other holiday, Eid al-Fitr, celebrates the end of Ramadan, according to the coalition’s website. Students who miss school on the holidays

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Chamber: Many businesses focused for now on effects of shutdown BY

RYAN MARSHALL STAFF WRITER

Proposals to increase the minimum wage at the county or state levels have some Montgomery County businesses worried about the effect the bill would have on their bottom line, while

others support a raise in the wage. County Councilman Mark Elrich (D-At large) of Takoma Park has proposed a bill that would raise the county’s minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $11.50 an hour over three years. Similar bills have been proposed in Prince George’s County and Washington, D.C. A bill also is expected in the Maryland General Assembly during the 2014 session to raise the state’s minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. Many businesses in Montgomery that de-

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On Saturday, Virginia Johnson (pictured), former prima ballerina and current artistic director for the Dance Theatre of Harlem offered three master classes for CityDance students at the CityDance School and Conservatory at Strathmore in North Bethesda. Seven Montgomery County students from the school will perform with the company in Robert Garland’s “Gloria” at 8 p.m. on Thursday and at 2 p.m. on Saturday at Sidney Harman Hall in Washington, D.C. For more information on Dance Theatre of Harlem’s full performance schedule, visit www.citydance.net. Visit wpas.org.

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World of Montgomery Festival, noon-5 p.m., Westﬁeld

Wheaton Mall, 11160 Veirs Mill Road, Wheaton. Enjoy chef demonstrations and an interactive global kitchen, cultural performances, a craft market and traditional arts and games. Free. www. worldofmontgomery.com.

MORE INTERACTIVE CALENDAR ITEMS AT WWW.GAZETTE.NET THURSDAY, OCT. 17 Botanical Happy Hour and Lecture with Amy Stewart, 6:30-9 p.m., Brookside Gardens, 1800

Glenallan Ave., Wheaton. An exploration of the dizzying array of plants that humans have contrived to transform into alcohol. $40. Register at www.parkpass.org. Korean War Years at Forest Glen Annex, 7:30-9 p.m., National Park Seminary, 9610 Dewitt Drive, Silver Spring. A presentation on the history of the Korean War years at former women’s school converted to annex of Walter Reed Army Medical Center during World War II. $5. info@saveourseminary.org.

FRIDAY, OCT. 18 Demo: Plants and Construction, 1-2:30 p.m., Brookside Gardens Visitors Center, 1800 Glenallan Ave., Wheaton. $6. Register at www. parkpass.org. Meaningful Movies Olney: Bidder 70, 7:3010 p.m., Bufﬁngton/REMAX Building Community Room, 3300 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. Focuses on an act of civil disobedience

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SATURDAY, OCT. 19 Fall Colors and Holiday Lights Walk, 5 a.m.midnight, Safeway, 10541 Connecticut Ave., Kensington, through Dec. 30. Two sponsored 10K and 5K loops through Historic Kensington, Howard Avenue Antique Row and the Mormon Temple Visitors Center anytime of the day; use flashlights in evening. Free. 301-946-5496. Holiday Craft Bazaar, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, 4200 OlneyLaytonsville Road, Olney. Hand-crafted items and decorations with brunch and lunch items available for purchase. 301-774-9502. Attic in the Street, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Kenilworth Avenue, Garrett Park. Nearly 40 vendors selling clothes, toys, electronics and jewelry. hedges4@ verizon.net. Rummage, Indoor Yard and Bake Sales, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Hughes United Methodist Church, 10700 Georgia Ave., Wheaton. Profits benefit the missions of the United Methodist Women. church-office@hughesumc.org.

6th Annual Potomac River Jam, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Community Corner at Takoma Park Farmers Market, Carroll and Laurel avenues, Takoma Park. A community celebration of the Potomac River and C&O Canal with canoe trips, music, games and refreshments. Free. shannon@potomac.org. Fall Apple Festival, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Brookside Nature Center, 1400 Glenallan Ave., Wheaton. Games, crafts, cider and caramel apples. $5. Register at www.parkpass.org.

SPORTS Sherwood takes on Quince Orchard in weekend football action.

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MONDAY, OCT. 21 Renters Alliance State Candidate Forum, 7-9 p.m., Silver Spring Civic Center, 1 Veterans Place, Silver Spring. Candidates will be permitted time to express their views on renter protection and affordable housing issues and answer questions from the audience. Free. info@RentersAlliance.org.

Exploring the Urban Jungle: Natural History at Your Doorstep Talk, 8-10 p.m., Brookside

Gardens, 1800 Glenallan Ave., Wheaton. A discussion by Patterson Clark, science graphics editor at The Washington Post. Free. Laserblast@aol.com.

TUESDAY, OCT. 22 Paper Shredding and Electronic Recycling Event, 5-7 p.m., Signal Financial Federal Credit

Union Parking Lot, 3015 University Blvd. West, Kensington. Bring unwanted documents and paper, as well as televisions, electronics and small appliances. Free. info@greenwheaton.org. Medical Museum Science Café, 6-7 p.m., Silver Spring Civic Building, Fenton Room, 1 Veterans Place, Silver Spring. Program titled “Discover the Ghost in Your Genes,” about parts of genetic code that can be changed by the environment. Free. 301-319-3303.

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Collegian helps HIV-positive Rwandan women take charge of their lives PEOPLE & PL ACES ALINE BARROS

A Silver Spring woman spent her summer college break taking her studies far afield — to Rwanda. Samantha Lint, a graduate of Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, is now a student at the University of Richmond (Va.) majoring in international studies and French, with a minor in women, gender and sexuality studies. For 10 weeks this summer, she taught the meaning of social justice, community leadership and women empowerment to HIVpositive girls and women ages 17-23 in the African nation’s capital, Kigali. Lint said she created a curriculum with a series of workshops and sent it to Sheila Tlou, director of the regional support team for East and Southern Africa with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, known as UNAIDS. “I did not believe when I got a reply,” Lint said. She then received a summer fellowship from the University of Richmond and was awarded $4,000 to take on a challenging unpaid internship or conduct research with a faculty member, according to a news release. Lint worked in Kigali in partnership with the nonprofit Kigali Hope and the U.N. agency. “I want to do women empowering as my career field. I want to focus on policy and women’s rights,” Lint said. Her experiences in Rwanda, Lint said, hightlighted not only the differences between the young women and her, but also the similarities. “They were amazing girls, so loving,” she said. “They gave me two months of their lives; that’s huge.” The young women made “great” progress, she said. Lint taught them how to analyze a situation critically, create a budget and timeline, and deal with money. “They had no experience with money,” she said, adding

that even small activities such as making phone calls were learned in the classroom. Lint is writing her senior thesis about the women she met in Rwanda and said she feels so passionate about her work that she plans to return for a follow-up. “I am so grateful for their participation and enthusiasm,” she said. “I am thinking about running the programs again.”

Author discusses botany, alcohol at Brookside Amy Stewart, author of “The Drunken Botantist,” will host a happy hour from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Brookside Gardens, when she will discuss the botanical origins of alcohol and the history of how humans have used various plants to make alcohol. Botanical cocktail tastings and recipes will be provided. The cost is $40 and registration is required at www.parkpass.org. Brookside Gardens is at 1800 Glenallan Ave., Wheaton. More information is at www. brooksidegardens.org.

Fall book sale at Silver Spring Library Friends of the Library Silver Spring Chapter will hold a

book sale and family day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Silver Spring Library, 8901 Colesville Road. The event, held four times a year, will feature a magic show, science adventure and entertainment for all ages. It also will feature a bake sale for the ﬁrst time, according to ofﬁcials. Donations of baked goods are being accepted. To learn more, call 240-773-9420.

Walk to raise funds, awareness of homelessness The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless will hold a fundraising walk from 1 to 3 p.m. Oct. 27 at Sligo-Dennis Community Park. The event also will feature music, face painting, and artsand-crafts activities.

The nonproﬁt’s mission is to educate neighbors and raise funds toward ending homelessness in the community, according to its website. There also will be volunteer opportunities to help with registrations, T-shirt distribution, food and water table set-up, arts and crafts, and other activities. Registration is $20 for youths and $30 for adults. The park is at 10220 Sligo Creek Parkway, Silver Spring. To learn more, contact Danielle Verbiest at dverbiest@ mcch.net or 301-917-6654. Student service learning hours are available, but participants need to email Verbiest by Friday.

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Samantha Lint (center) of Silver Spring, here with Rwandans Jane and Joyce, spent 10 weeks this summer helping HIV-positive Rwandan girls and young women become community leaders. For more information, contact the city’s recreation department at 301-891-7290.

Volunteering opportunities available in county

Free job workshops start Oct. 25

The Montgomery County Volunteer Center will mark community service day, Oct. 26, with a week of activities and volunteer opportunities involving many organizations. The annual event, now in its 27th year, includes packing after-school snacks at Dawson’s Market, removing invasive weeds from local parks, painting a homeless shelter, winterizing gardens in Damascus and Poolesville, recycling electronics at Verizon in Silver Spring and organizing a holiday drive for the city of Rockville, according to a news release. Manna Food Center of Gaithersburg will be collecting food at 27 Giant Food stores from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 26 and 27. More opportunities are listed at www.montgomeryserves.org. abarros@gazette.net

National Honor Society students from Paint Branch High School in Burtonsville are offering free one-on-one “homework help” sessions for elementary school children from 4 to 6 p.m. Mondays and Tuesdays at the Marilyn J. Praisner Library. On Mondays, volunteers help with English homework. On Tuesdays, children can bring assignments on any subject. Registration is not necessary. The library is at 14910 Old Columbia Pike, Burtonsville. For more information, call 240-7739460.

Adventist Community Services of Greater Washington is hosting a series of free Friday workshops this fall to help residents find jobs. On Oct. 25, participants can learn about online job searches. Other classes include the following: “Interviewing with Confidence” on Nov. 8; “Professionalism” on Nov. 22; and “Mock Interviews” on Dec. 6. All workshops are held from 10 a.m. to noon. The nonprofit is at 501 Sligo Ave., Silver Spring. For more information, visit acsgw.org or call 301-585-6556.

Takoma Park offers annual Monster Bash

Registration open for Senior Spelling Bee

Takoma Park will kick off its Halloween festivities with its annual Monster Bash on Oct. 26. Families can meet at 5 p.m. in the Takoma Park Silver Spring Co-op parking lot at 201 Ethan Allen Ave. for games, arts and crafts, and a costume contest, with categories for most original, funniest and scariest. At about 6:15, the costume parade will begin, proceeding down Carroll Avenue to Old Town Takoma Park. A costume awards ceremony and musical performance will follow the parade at the intersection of Carroll and Laurel avenues.

Registration has opened for the Senior Spelling Bee, hosted by the county’s Friends of the Library at 10:30 a.m. Nov. 9 at Little Falls Library, 5501 Massachusetts Ave., Bethesda. The bee is open to Montgomery County residents 55 and older. The fee is $25 and participants may seek sponsors to cover the fee. Sponsors will be acknowledged in program materials and at the event. Participants must register by Oct. 25. Applications can be downloaded at www.folmc.org/senior-spelling-bee, or by calling 240-777-0020 or emailing staff@ folmc.org.

Drug Take-Back Day is Oct. 26 Drug Take-Back Day is Oct. 26 in Montgomery County. Residents may take unused, unwanted or expired prescription and over-the-counter medicines to six area police stations and law enforcement agencies will safely dispose of them. The drugs may be taken from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to the Rockville police station, Gaithersburg police station, Chevy Chase Village Hall, the Mary-

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Marilyn J. Praisner Library hosts a Teen Writing Club book discussion from 6:15 to 7:30 p.m. Thursdays for readers and writers 12 and older. Registration is not necessary. Participants can share writing interests, improve writing skills and try new writing approaches. The library is at 14910 Old Columbia Pike, Burtonsville. For more information, call 240-7739460.

Were you a Suburban baby 70 years ago? Were you born at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda in 1943 or 1944? If so, the hospital wants to hear from you. To mark its 70th anniversary this December, Suburban Hospital is looking for people who were born there to share their stories as part of its celebration. Suburban Hospital opened its doors on Dec. 13, 1943, as a 130-bed hospital built to accommodate the expanding World War II military population in rural Montgomery County. Those born at the hospital from December 1943 to December 1944 and are willing to share their story may contact the hospital at info@suburbanhospital.org or 301-896-3939. They should Include their name, address, email address, phone number and date of birth.

DEATHS Sandra Gorvine Sachs Sandra Gorvine Sachs, 73, formerly of Bethesda, died Oct. 8, 2013. Services took place at 1 p.m. Oct. 13 at Kittamaqundi Community Church in Columbia.

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Starr: Two elementary schools should stay paired Workgroup studied New Hampshire Estates, Oak View in Silver Spring

LINDSAY A. POWERS STAFF WRITER

Superintendent Joshua P. Starr is recommending New Hampshire Estates and Oak View elementary schools in Silver Spring remain paired following a discussion group report that offered mixed opinions on the idea of separating the schools. Since the 1986-87 school year, the two schools have been paired so that students attend prekindergarten through second grade at New Hampshire Estates and third through fifth grade at Oak View. Unpairing them would have created two schools that taught from prekindergarten through ﬁfth grade. In his written recommendation, Starr said unpairing the schools would require construct-

ing an addition at Oak View to accommodate the new grades that would require smaller class sizes. Students are also better off in the current model compared to an unpaired scenario, Starr said, because they have access to more academic programs and learn in more diverse environments. The PreK-5 Neighborhood School Initiative community coalition and the schools’ parent teacher association expressed interest in studying the schools’ potential unpairing, which helped spur Starr’s creation of the discussion group, which met from March to May. The group was composed of five Parent Teacher Association members, two Montgomery Blair cluster coordinators and one community coalition member. The coalition’s interest stemmed from its view that a pre-k through ﬁfth-grade school is “a dominant and highly successful model to foster academic achievement and parental and

community involvement,” according to Starr’s recommendation. Starr said Oak View’s transition to a six-year school with younger grades would necessitate an addition — a roughly $9.4-million project that would fall at the end of a list of 20 school addition projects waiting for funding in the school system’s Capital Improvements Program. “Creating the need for an additional capital project in a time of tight ﬁscal climate with limited funds is not a prudent strategy for the school system,” Starr said in the recommendation. Bruce Crispell, director of the school system’s Division of Long-range Planning, said that Oak View’s capacity would decrease because the studentto-teacher ratios in some classrooms would change. With fewer students allowed in each class of the younger grades, the school would need more classrooms. Starr’s recommendation includes enrollment projections

that show Oak View would be expected to be about 140 students over capacity in the 2014-2015 school year if it were unpaired with New Hampshire Estates. By the 2016-17 school year, Oak View would be an estimated 166 students over capacity. According to the recommendation’s preliminary enrollment ﬁgures, New Hampshire Estates is currently 56 students over capacity and Oak View is four students over capacity. Projections under the scenario that the schools remain paired show that New Hampshire Estates is expected to be about 51 students over capacity and Oak View about 67 students over capacity by the 2017-18 school year and then remain steady for at least a couple years. The schools were originally paired by the county school board to increase racial diversity among the student populations. While the schools are currently both racially and ethnically diverse, Starr said, they are differ-

Library in the books for next fall opening The new library to be three times bigger than former Colesville Road location.

ALINE BARROS STAFF WRITER

The new Silver Spring library construction is in full swing with books expected to be on the shelves by late fall 2014. The brand new facility is being funded by Montgomery County’s Capital Improvement budget and state grants, with a total cost of $69.5 million for the entire project, including land purchase, utility relocation, building constructions, furniture, new books, and permit costs, according to the project’s website. To support the new enhancements, the Silver Spring chapter of the nonproﬁt group Friends of the Library is organizing a fundraising event on Wednesday, Oct. 23 from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Silver Spring Civic Center with guest speakers Catherine Leggett, chair of the honorary committee of the Silver Spring Friends of the Li-

brary; Parker Hamilton, director of the Montgomery County Public Libraries, and Jim Polk, chairman of the friends fundraising committee. The group aims to raise $500,000 to help make the early literacy Center, Digital Innovation Lab, and Connection Corner for elementary school age children and families more dynamic and exciting. During the event, officials will share a slideshow with pictures of the new library and unveil a model of the building. “I think it is going to be a signature building,” said Ernest Lunsford, chief at the county’s division of building design and construction. The facility will have approximately 63,000 square feet, and as stated in the library website, is intended to meet requirements of an increasingly residential and business community. Lunsford said the new library, located at the corner of Fenton Street and Wayne Avenue, follows the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards with a vegetative roof to deal with stormwater management, use of recycled

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Silver Spring elementary school is ﬁrst in Montgomery County to use format BY

LINDSAY A. POWERS STAFF WRITER

Parent-teacher conferences at Sligo Creek Elementary School in Silver Spring are taking on a new format. Rather than teachers meeting with individual parents and families, the conferences are moving to a group setting starting this November, making it the ﬁrst school in Montgomery County Public Schools to do so. Sligo Creek Principal Diantha Swift said that through the new format, the school hopes to help teachers share information and answer questions during the conferences and get parents more involved. Previously, teachers have

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held 15-minute meetings with parents to discuss topics such as their child’s performance and updates on the curriculum. Swift said that doesn’t let teachers go into as much depth as they would like. “If you’re conference number 28, you have a tired teacher who’s been talking all night,” Swift said. The group meetings, she said, will last about an hour and include parents from the entire class — between 15 and 25 parents. These meetings will happen three times a year rather than once a year and each meeting will have a different focus. The two other sets of meetings this school year will be held in January and April. Parents will receive information about their child’s performance and have the opportunity to ask questions speciﬁcally about their child if they wish. Swift said these conferences are not the only opportuni-

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Located on the corner of Wayner Avenue, Fenton and Bonifant streets in Silver Spring, and pictured on Tuesday, Oct. 8, steel beams and concrete forms rise to form the new Silver Spring Library building. content and material manufactured within 500 miles from the library, and energy efﬁcient ventilation equipment. According to the library project website, the facility has a number of new features such as public meeting rooms, tutoring rooms, group study rooms, quiet study room, children’s program room, and computer lab. Lunsford said he believes its

location was selected because it is on major bus routes, light railroad line, and metro making public access very easy. There will be two entrances from Wayne Avenue, and another from Fenton Street. It is still in discussion what is going to happen with the former Silver Spring library on Colesville Road, which is operating until the new facility is open to the

ties for parents and teachers to meet. Many Sligo Creek teachers already have met with parents this fall. “If a teacher is waiting until a parent conference to let a parent know that a child is struggling, that’s too late,” Swift said. She said the change has caused “angst” among some parents. While the format is different, Swift said, it’s “certainly not meant to shut parents out.” Swift said the school sent information to parents about the changes and she has spoken to the school’s Parent Teacher Association. Sligo Creek fourth-grade teacher Erin Payne said she was excited about the idea right away. When she conducted the 15-minute conferences, Payne said, she would share information such as data and progress, but didn’t have time to go into details. She said teachers don’t wait

until conferences to alert a parent about a speciﬁc issue. “If there’s a deeper issue, like a learning disability or a behavior problem, that would be a different meeting anyway,” she said. Michael Robbins — who works in family and community engagement related to education, but spoke as a parent of a Sligo Creek second-grader — said he met with the school’s staff to talk about parent-teacher conferences he had observed elsewhere. Robbins said he saw conferences that not only used a group setting, but also focused more on using data, setting goals and equipping parents to help with the teaching process at home. School board President Christopher S. Barclay said that, while he had not previously heard of the changed conference format at Sligo Creek, he thought it sounded like “an interesting idea.”

attract non-FARMS students to the schools, and get rid of the transition to a new school that students currently go through in the third grade, among other reasons. The PTA’s membership voted in June in favor of unpairing the schools. The cluster coordinators thought that unpairing the schools would translate to less interaction between the two schools, a loss of diversity and potential overcrowding at Oak View. The school board is scheduled to hold a Nov. 7 worksession on Starr’s recommendation for the paired schools and another recommendation concerning boundaries for the new Clarksburg Cluster Elementary School. The board will hold public hearings on Nov. 11 and 14 and is expected to take action on the recommendations Nov. 18. lpowers@gazette.net

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ent when it comes to the percentage of students who receive free and reduced-price meals, an indicator of poverty and “a strong indicator for student success.” If the schools are unpaired, New Hampshire Estates would see an increased percentage of students on free or reduced-price meals, while Oak View would see a decreased percentage, therefore widening the gap already present between the two schools. Under the current model where students attend both schools with different FARMS rates, Starr said he thinks that “students in both schools (have) the opportunity to attend schools that are more socioeconomically diverse than the neighborhoods in which they reside.” The PreK-5 coalition supported unpairing the schools, according to Starr’s recommendation. In the coalition’s view, two six-year elementary schools would lead to more balance enrollment between the schools,

When the Carroll Avenue Bridge over Sligo Creek closes for rehabilitation next spring, traffic will be divereted through Takoma Park for about a year and that has some neighbors worried about cut-through traffic. In a workshop Oct. on 2, the Maryland State Highway Administration presented plans for rehabilitating the Carroll Avenue bridge over Sligo Creek and Sligo Creek Parkway. The bridge was built in 1932, and during routine inspection by engineers, the road surface and main supporting elements showed early signs of becoming structurally deficient. SHA officials emphasized that these early signals do not mean the bridge is unsafe. Construction is projected to begin in spring 2015 and will include replacing the entire bridge deck — the driving surface, the columns above the bridge arches, sidewalks, railings and lights on the bridge. The bridge will be closed for about a year, during which time cars will likely use a detour route on Flower, Maplewood and Philadelphia avenues. A temporary pedestrian bridge also will be constructed next to the Carroll Avenue bridge. However, Christopher Bishop, community liason with SHA, said the detour has not been finalized and the administration will continue to work with the community, including nearby Washington Adventist Hospital, to create a detour that can best mitigate traffic and disruption to neighborhood. The hospital is a designated Chest Pain Center and Primary Stroke Center, which means many patients are experiencing life-threatening conditions, wrote Geoff Mor-

gan, vice president for expanded access at the hospital, in a statement. “We are working collaboratively with the State Highway Administration and the City of Takoma Park to ensure effective access to the hospital during the period of construction,” Morgan wrote. John Robinette, president of the Long Branch-Sligo Neighborhood Association, said that planning ahead will be key. “We know we’re going to have to deal with that inconvenience,” he said. “We’ve always had to deal with cutthrough traffic.” But with plenty of time to work with the city and police before construction begins, Robinette is confident that the neighborhood will come up with strategies for keeping the neighborhood safe for children and keep disruption to a minimum. One strategy will be working with police to ensure strict enforcement of traffic signals, he said. SHA Project Manager Maurice Agostino said the agency looked into building a temporary bridge during rehabilitation, but determined it would be too expensive and would disturb the Sligo Creek Stream Valley park area. “The majority of the concerns were with traffic, with the detour cutting through the surrounding neighborhoods,” Agostino said of the Oct. 2 meeting. At the workshop, highway officials and community members discussed the detour and alternative plans. Bishop estimated that about five dozen people came to the meeting. Some construction may also take place before and after the bridge’s closing. Bishop said the project would go to bid in 2014, with a budget of $946,000. For now the next steps are to work with the community to address their concerns and move forward with the project design, Agostino said. No further meetings have been scheduled. sscully@gazette.net

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Potomac woman mixes history, cultures in annual celebration Figurines help family share Hindu festival of Dussehra

PEGGY MCEWAN STAFF WRITER

Century-old wooden dolls, a miniature marketplace and a replica mariachi band combine old and new in a display in Deepti Navile’s basement. It isn’t a little girl’s playhouse, but rather a way to share the history and culture of Navile’s native India during the Hindu festival of Dussehra, which this year was celebrated Oct. 5 through Monday. The festival celebrates Lord Rama’s victory over the 10-headed demon King Ravena, a victory of good over evil, Navile said. She was not sure why many people set out displays of dolls during the festival. “In celebrating the victory, people decorated their houses,” she said. “That is one story.” She knows why she does it and will continue to, even though it entails hours of work. “I started doing this because my grandmother did it and I liked it as a child,” she said. “It’s very creative.” She wants her daughters, ages 10 and 16, who are being raised in this country, to share in this part of their Indian heritage. It’s a lesson not lost on her older daughter, Shreya Navile, a junior at Winston Churchill High School in Potomac. “I’ve grown up watching my mom do the dolls, helping her set them up and learning the stories. It’s part of me,” Shreya said. “It’s so great I get to have this deep in me and also just be an American teenager.”

When she was a young girl, Navile said, her grandmother, now 87, displayed dolls representing important historical and religious figures on seven wooden steps she set up in her home. Decorating with dolls is part of the tradition in the celebration of Dussehra in Bangalore in southern India, where she grew up. It has to be an odd number of steps, depending on the number of dolls on display. Odd numbers are considered auspicious in Hindu tradition, said Ananda Bloch, community president of the International Society of Krishna Consciousness of D.C. in Potomac. The most important dolls — such as Pattadha and Gombe, representing an early Indian king and queen, and important Hindu gods, like Lord Rama — go on the topmost steps. Musicians, dancers and other dolls fill the lower steps. Some dolls in Navile’s display are more than 100 years old, given to her by her grandmother, who received them from her own grandmother. Those are her favorite, she said. They are carved of wood and have painted faces and cloth clothing. “They are close to my heart. The faces are so perfect, the way they are done,” she said. “The modern [dolls] are not as well done.” Navile said it takes about two weeks to set up her display each year. She displays them between two windows in her Potomac basement. The steps are draped with fabric and have white holiday lights and votive candles. On the floor in front of the steps are bowls of fresh fruit and flowers, which she changes daily.

“Those are traditional offerings to the gods,” she said. Novile also created six scenes on small tables flanking the steps, although they are not traditional. That artistic license opened up a new direction for Navile’s creativity. Now, wherever the family travels, she brings back figures and accessories to add to her display. “Every year, I try to do something different,” she said. “This year, I added a fairyland scene.” She also has a floating market scene from Thailand full of miniature vegetables, fruits, books and even tiny incense burners. It replicates a market that uses boats instead of stores, with boat keepers pulling up to docks to display their wares. Navile used colored glass and stones for the water, but has bigger plans for the future. “Next year, I want to have real water flowing,” she said. Another scene shows figures and food from a traditional Indian wedding. One depicts a temple ceremony. There also are flamenco dancers from Spain next to a mariachi band Navile bought in Brazil and an Indian snake charmer and his cobra. “I wanted all kinds of people in my display,” she said. “I [also] want people to know our history and traditions.”

Obituary James Moorhead Akin, 86, of Gaithersburg, MD, died Tuesday, October 8, 2013 at home. He was born in Boston, MA on May 13, 1927. He was the son of the late Donald Andrew and Marion Moorhead Akin. After serving in the U.S. Army as a medic during World War II, he attended Allegheny College in Meadville PA and graduated in 1951. His career was in retail executive management having worked for Montgomery Ward, Joseph Horn’s, R.H. Stearns and the Outlet Company (Associated Dry Goods). He was a 29 year member of AA. As a longtime member of Grace United Methodist Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland, he served on the Board of Trustees and as Usher Captain. He was also instrumental in providing leadership for the refurbishment restoration of Susanna House at #3 Walker Ave. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by his first wife, Janet Skeel Akin of Tarpon Springs, FL and his brother, Donald S. Akin of Erie, PA. He is survived by: his wife of 33 years, Carolyn Akin; two daughters, Janet Manning of Palm Harbor, FL and Michelle Kruger of Trinity, FL; three sons, Donald Akin of Woodbridge, VA, James Akin and Gregg Akin of Palm Harbor, FL. He is also survived by three grandsons, three granddaughter and two great grandsons. A memorial /celebration of his life service will be held at Grace United Methodist Church in Gaithersburg, MD on Saturday, October 26, 2013 at 1 p.m. Memorial donations can be made to Grace United Methodist Church and Jewish Social Service Agency (JSSA Hospice) in Rockville MD. Online condolences can be left at the Bast Stauffer Funeral Home website: www. baststaufferfuneralhome. com. 1894348

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Deepti Navile stands amid the nearly 500 dolls and other miniature pieces on display in her Potomac home in celebration of the Hindu festival Dussehra. Many of the dolls have been handed down for generations in her family. The dolls, as Navile calls her ﬁgurines, range from tiny glass ﬁgures an inch or two high to a large doll about three feet tall with jointed limbs. The large doll is dressed as Saraswathi, goddess of learning, and is hold-

ing a veena, an ancient Indian stringed instrument. Navile said she invites neighbors and friends over to learn about the festival and enjoy tea and sweets. Shreya said she invites

friends over, too. “They think it’s so cool, the amount of work my family puts into it,” she said. pmcewan@gazette.net

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T-shirt commemorates Wheaton Plaza’s vintage sign Wheaton residents reminisce about the plaza online

SARAH SCULLY STAFF WRITER

For a mall, the old Wheaton Plaza sure has a following. It’s got a Facebook page with 1,182 members and now a commemorative T-shirt. Dan Reed, who grew up in Silver Spring visiting the Wheaton Plaza, is fascinated by architecture, planning and design, topics he writes about regularly on his blog, Just Up the Pike, and as associate editor at Greater Greater Washington. He had designed T-shirts for himself in the past, and decided that shirts would be a fun way to commemorate the history of Wheaton and the open air Wheaton Plaza. He got the idea when he saw the Wheaton Plaza Facebook page cover image – a graphic of the old Wheaton Plaza sign, which Reed said was up throughout the 1960’s and 1970’s.

Reed decided the sign would make a great graphic for his ﬁrst shirt. The sign “not only was a recognizable landmark, but also a really cool piece of mid-century design,” he said. He started selling the shirts in March and has since sold at least 50 just by advertising them on his blog. Customers have included not only Wheaton residents, but people in Texas, Kentucky, Atlanta and Brooklyn. Selling in Brooklyn was a major win. Reed ﬁgured he must be doing something right to catch eyes in the “hipness capital.” He uses Spreadshirt, an ondemand printing company that makes the shirts as people order them. Five different T-shirt styles sell for $17-$20 each, and are only available online. Pete Tan of Silver Spring ordered the shirts for himself and his girlfriend, Boosaba Pananon. Both grew up in Silver Spring and said the Wheaton Plaza was a go-to spot as kids and teenagers. They were also drawn to supporting local

arts and business. Tan said he has been a long-time reader of Just Up the Pike and liked the vintage design when he saw the shirts on Reed’s blog. “I grew up going to Wheaton Plaza with all my friends, and that’s where we would hang out,” Pananon said. She said she recently wore the shirt to a reunion of old friends from the area, who were amused by the shirt and asked where she found it. “They appreciate being able to be proud of where we grew up and the community we’re from,” she said. The open air Wheaton Plaza was the largest mall in the metropolitan area when it opened in 1960. It was enclosed in 1981 and the Westﬁeld Group bought the mall in 1997. Few of the original stores remain, but many nostalgic for the plaza remember shopping, movie-going and meeting up with friends there. The project is completely independent of the Wheaton Westﬁeld Mall. On the Facebook page, Wheaton residents reminisce

about the plaza area and share related photos and thoughts. Comment threads ask people to post about favorite memories, old shoe stores and where

people worked at the old plaza. Reed said for now he won’t pursue selling the shirts anywhere other than online. More commemorative de-

signs are in the works, Reed said, though he wouldn’t reveal what they are quite yet. sscully@gazette.net

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POLICE BLOTTER 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.

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Aggravated assault • On Sept. 26 at 4 p.m. in the 13900 block of Castle Boulevard, Silver Spring. The subjects assaulted the victim with a weapon. • On Sept. 29 at 7:30 p.m. in the 600 block of University Boulevard, Silver Spring. The subject is known to the victim. • On Oct. 1 at 1020 p.m. in the lobby of Holy Cross Hospital, 1500 Forest Glen Road, Silver Spring. Thesubjectisknowntothevictim.

Armed robbery • On Sept. 25 at 10:59 p.m. in the 2800 block of Calverton Boulevard, Silver Spring. The subjects threatened the victim with a weapon and took property.

Commercial burglary • Between 8:20 p.m. Sept. 25 and 6 a.m. Sept. 26 at a construction site at 11700 Cherry Hill Road, Silver Spring. Forced entry, unknown what was taken.

Residential burglary • 9300 block of Piney Branch Road, Silver Spring, between 7 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Sept. 23. Unknown entry, took property. • 3800 block of Cullingworth Road, Silver Spring, between 2:45 a.m. and 12:10 p.m. Sept. 24. Forced entry, took property. • Two incidents in the 13700 block of Colgate Way, Silver Spring, between 4:50 a.m. Sept. 25 and 6 p.m. Oct. 1. Forced entry, took property. • 13700 block of Colgate Way, Silver Spring, at 1:40 p.m. Sept. 25. Unknown entry, unknown what was taken.

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Similar measure failed in 2013 session

LINDSAY A. POWERS STAFF WRITER

Del. John Cluster is having another go at passing a bill that would place a police ofﬁcer in every Maryland public school that does not already have one. Cluster (R-Dist. 8) of Parkville ﬁled a similar bill in the 2013 legislative session that was voted down in the state Ways and Means Committee. The new bill, Cluster said,

addresses concerns about costs by using retired police officers rather than regular police officers to serve as school resource officers who would help protect schools from security threats. Hiring and equipping about 1,135 school resource officers would have cost about $104.7 million, according to an estimate on the 2013 bill from the state Department of Legislative Services. The officers would be paid and equipped through the state’s Education Trust Fund, which includes gambling proceeds.

As of earlier this year, the fund was put entirely toward education programs and funding formulas, though it could be used for other authorized purposes, according to the same Legislative Services report. The bill would have expanded the authorized uses for the fund. “There’s a lot of money coming into the coffers for education,” Cluster said. Cluster, a former Baltimore County police ofﬁcer, said that since the first bill failed, he spoke with county sheriffs and others who suggested hiring re-

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their needs and concerns best, should be able to tell legislators what they think are the best approaches to school safety for them. In a March 6 testimony statement, the Maryland Association of Boards of Education opposed the old version of Cluster’s bill. The association said it appreciated the bill’s intent but disagreed with its proposed use of the Education Trust Fund, which it said was already designated for recipients the association supported. “MABE believes that these designated authorized recipients of Education Trust Fund dollars represent the major building blocks of Maryland’s public education system, and warrant the State’s continued and increased investments,” the written statement said. lpowers@gazette.net

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tired officers. The retired police officers, Cluster said, would either be recently retired or go through training to become a school resource officer and would be classified as special police. They would have the authority to make arrests at the school and carry a gun, he said. Having a resource officer at the school, Cluster said, translates to an immediate response should an incident occur. The retired officers would hold contracted, part-time positions, Cluster said, meaning the state would not pay the salaries or benefits that come with hiring regular police officers. The estimated average salary and benefits for a school resource officer would fall around $78,900, the Legislative Services report said. While he did not yet have an estimate for what the total cost would be under the new bill,

Montgomery County will reopen Glen Echo Park itself on Friday if the county can’t reach a deal with the National Park Service to operate the facility that is currently closed because of the federal government shutdown. The county may perpetrate an “act of civil disobedience” and begin operating the park on Friday if an agreement can’t be reached with the park service by Thursday night, County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) told the Gazette on Tuesday. Although it sits on National Park Service land, Glen Echo is

run by the county and the nonproﬁt Glen Echo Partnership for Arts and Culture. “They operate it,” Leggett said. “The park service does not operate this.” On Monday, Councilman Roger Berliner (D-Dist. 1) of Gaithersburg sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell asking that the park be reopened. “A shutdown at the federal level should not result in the shutdown of a community asset that, in fact, receives no federal funding,” Berliner wrote. The Park Service picks up trash at the facility and provides some security in the park’s parking lots, Leggett said. The county would assume those responsibilities until the shutdown is over. The county has tried to resolve the issue with the Department of the Interior, which

oversees the Park Service, but hasn’t been able to get their attention, Leggett said. The press office for the Department of the Interior is closed because of the shutdown, and an email to an address set up to deal with inquiries during the shutdown was not returned Tuesday. The park’s closure has left businesses at the site unable to get into their offices or even to check their mail, Leggett said. The arts partnership fully supports the move to open the park, which never should have been closed because of the shutdown to begin with, executive director Katey Boerner said. “I’m not looking for confrontation, but we need to be open,” she said. In his letter to Jewell, Berliner said park officials estimated they lost $67,000 in one weekend of being closed. The park’s theater and puppetry facilities normally draw large groups of schoolchildren and others, and the Friday night dance usually brings in about 300 people, Boerner said. The park also offers pottery, photography, glassblowing and other classes that can’t be held while it’s closed. “We can’t survive another weekend of being closed,” Boerner said. Glen Echo Park, with its historic carousel and ballroom, is also a sought-after location for wedding celebrations and several have had to be canceled since the shutdown began Oct. 1. Bride-to-be Tina Poole was supposed to have had her wedding ceremony and reception at Glen Echo Park on Oct. 12. The Alexandria, Va., resident called the park a week after she got engaged in July 2012, and booked the last available Saturday slot in the fall of 2013. After more than a year of planning, Poole learned on Oct. 3 that the venue was unable to host her event. “I was pretty devastated because it [the park] has a lot of sentimental value to me and my fiance,” she said. Her new husband, Jackson Takach, proposed at the site’s bumper car pavilion. Glen Echo Park employees quickly jumped in to help make new arrangements, Poole said. They contacted other venues on behalf of the couple, and arranged for the money that already was paid to the park to be transferred to the new locations. After kicking the planning into high gear, Poole and Takach found new spaces and kept the same wedding date. They booked F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre for the ceremony and used its social hall for the reception, both of which are in Rockville. Kim Haug, the theater supervisor at the venue, confirmed Tuesday that the wedding did take place and ran smoothly. Keeping the same wedding date was important to the couple because they wanted to ensure that all 80 of their guests, many of whom were coming from out of town, could still attend, Poole said. “Luckily we managed to do online invitations and we were able to tell everyone really quickly,” Poole said. jedavis@gazette.net rmarshall@gazette.net

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Gutiérrez arrested at D.C. immigration protest Del. Ana Sol Gutiérrez spent nearly 12 hours in police custody on Oct. 8 after she was arrested during a protest for immigration reform. Gutiérrez (D-Dist. 18) of Chevy Chase said she was arrested for sitting in the street at the protest near Capitol Hill and not getting up.

“I think it really is an effective, nonviolent way of drawing attention to an issue that is having very dire repercussions on human beings,” she said the day after her arrest. Along with more than 200 other protesters, Gutiérrez was restrained and taken to a police detention center in Southwest

Washington, she said. She said she was released about 12 hours later. The protest sought to put pressure on Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform. Gutiérrez was born in El Salvador and a bill waiting consideration in the House would,

among its reforms, give Salvadoran immigrants with temporary protective status a path to permanent residency. Gutiérrez has been arrested several times for protesting issues. — KATE S. ALEXANDER

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From large contractors to hotels, the continued federal government shutdown is having its effect locally. The shutdown, which started Oct. 1, is even causing CEOs of large companies to blog about it. “With the major attractions of the city and government offices closed, tourism and business travel [in the Washington, D.C., region] is declining,” Arne Sorenson, CEO of Bethesda hotel giant Marriott International, said in a post on his LinkedIn page. “Visitors applying for visas to come to the United States for business or pleasure will likely see delays. The e-verify system, which verifies the work eligibility of employees, has been pulled down, leaving employers without a key resource when trying to be sure that a job offer can be extended.” Across the country, hotels collectively are losing more than $8 million a day during the shutdown because of lost tour and travel business, according to the American Hotel and Lodging Association. Sorenson said he is considering not making political contributions to any party and Congress members who have “perfect or near perfect scores” from conservative or liberal groups. “Can we collectively shift the money that is in the political process to politicians who are practical and who are not above doing the work of politics to reach practical solutions, especially in the areas where political philosophies conflict?” he asked. The standoff continues as many congressional Republicans want to see deeper spending cuts and changes to the 2010 health care reform law, like the individual mandate being delayed. Likewise, many congressional Democrats and the Obama administration say there have been enough cuts and they do not want to change the law. Restaurants that rely on federal workers for lunch business and even auto dealers are seeing fewer customers these days, U.S. Sen.BarbaraA.Mikulski(D-Md.) said during an address Thursday on the Senate floor. “Small businesses are what help make America great,” she said. “This ripples through our economy.”

The shutdown is particularly hurting agencies like the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Mikulski said. “It is having a terrible impact on the Maryland economy,” she said. “When you talk to small businesses where these agencies are located, it is just terrible.”

Lockheed starts furloughs Bethesda defense giant Lockheed Martin started furloughing about 2,400 employees companywide on Oct. 7 because of the political standoff. The number of sidelined employees was 600 fewer than what Lockheed officials thought on Oct. 4 they would be furloughing. After Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Oct. 5 that most of the roughly 400,000 civilian employees in that department had been deemed essential for national security, Lockheed officials decided to reduce the number of furloughs. Most of those affected work in civilian programs in the Washington region, said Gordon Johndroe, a Lockheed spokesman. The furloughs at Lockheed — which has about 5,000 employees in Montgomery County — include employees who cannot work because a government facility where they work is closed. It also covers employees whose duties require a government inspection that cannot be completed or whose work site has received a stop order. Lockheed is directing affected employees to use their vacation time to continue to receive pay and benefits. “I’m disappointed that we must take these actions, and we continue to encourage our lawmakers to come together to pass a funding bill that will end this shutdown,” Lockheed CEO Marillyn A. Hewson said in a statement. “We hope that Congress and the administration are able to resolve this situation as soon as possible.” In fiscal 2012, Lockheed was the federal government’s largest single contractor, with $37 billion in contract money obligated to the company, according to federal figures. Lockheed received about 82 percent of its revenue of $47.2 billion last year from the U.S. government, including 61 percent from the Department of Defense, according to its 2013 annual report. Some 17 percent came from international customers and 1 percent from private and other clients.

Another Bethesda company could see effect Bethesda enriched uranium supplier USEC thought it might have to furlough some employees — or at least slow down the work — at an Ohio uranium enrichment project if the shutdown ran past Tuesday, USEC spokesman Paul Jacobson previously said. On Tuesday, however, Jacobson said in an email that the project had sufficient funding and Department of Energy authorization to continue operating through the month of October. USEC is building the $350 million plant to produce lowenriched uranium to make nuclear fuel. The project is about 80 percent funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. The government has provided $227 million for the project. USEC needs about $48 million more to complete the plant and is negotiating with Congress and the administration to obtain the rest of the funding by Dec. 31. The longer the shutdown continues, the more difficult it is to maintain operations, officials said.

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INCREASE Continued from Page A-1 “I know their intentions are good, their timing is terrible,” Godwin said. She said she believes the issue would be better addressed at the state or federal level. Lori Rodman, an owner of Century Distributors in Rockville, which delivers cigarettes, candy and other products to

gas stations and convenience stores, said the county proposal could drive her company out of the county. “It would totally devastate our business,” she said. All of the company’s approximately 180 employees make significantly above the current minimum wage. If the minimum wage rose, the company would want to maintain that differential, so pay for current employeees would go up

proportionately, she said. The move might mean the company wouldn’t contribute as much to proﬁt-sharing arrangements or employee health insurance, or could cause a move to more part-time employees, Rodman said. Century competes for business with companies in other parts of the state, as well as in Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio and North Carolina. Rodman said a higher minimum

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wage would let her competitors provide products more cheaply. “This would deﬁnitely put us at a competitive disadvantage,” she said. She said most people in Montgomery already make much more than the minimum wage. “You can’t even get a babysitter for $7.25 an hour,” Rodman said. But Meaghan Murphy, an owner of Capital City Cheesecake in Takoma Park, said it’s her responsibility as a boss to make sure employees can afford at least the basics needed to survive in the county. Murphy said she supports the measure to increase the wage to the state level of $10.10 an hour, but isn’t sure she could afford $11.50. Ultimately, the county will have to ﬁgure out what a fair

wage is, but it clearly needs to be raised from its current level, Murphy said. “It doesn’t intimidate us,” she said. The business owners she interacts with already pay more than the minimum wage, she said. Capital City Cheesecake employs eight to 12 employees at a given time, Murphy said. They start at $8.25 an hour, but some employees make up to $14 an hour. Del. Anne Kaiser (D-Dist. 14) of Burtonsville said she senses momentum around the state for anincreaseintheminimumwage; it’s a main issue that lawmakers seem to be talking about during the break between sessions. Kaiser said raising the minimum wage would be better as a statewide issue to avoid causing any competitive disadvantage

for Montgomery businesses. However, she pointed out that Elrich is working with ofﬁcials in Washington, D.C., and Prince George’s on their proposals for a regional market with similar pay. Kaiser said there’s an argument that some businesses would leave Montgomery if the minimum wage is increased, but she thinks most businesses are established in the county and would stay. Rodman said a possible move has already come up at Century, mentioning an area that in recent years has gone out of its way to make itself attractive to companies disenchanted with Montgomery’s business environment. “Frederick [County] is only 13 miles north,” she said.

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tor of the county’s Department of Permitting Services, said Wednesday she was confused by the judge’s decision. “Therealissueisapublicsafety issue. If it is a public safety issue for ﬁve nights it is a public safety issue for two nights,” she said. Kerr still will need to apply for certain permits to host the event, Schwartz Jones said. “We will have to evaluate what extraordinary steps we need to take,” she said. Kerr expected the Haunted Garden to be open to the public Oct. 19 through Halloween. She opened her first Haunted Garden in 2010 after decorating her yard for a humane society fundraiser. To get the word out about the garden the next year, Kerr

used her company website Pure Energy Real Estate and email mass mailing list. In 2011, she was cited by the Montgomery County Department of Permits for having her company sign and logo as part of the display in a residential zone. That year an estimated 2,000 visitors came to the garden, Schwartz Jones said. Under county regulations, only two visitors are allowed in a permitted home occupation in a residential zone. Last year, Kerr again hosted the garden and again was cited for hosting a business promotion at her home and violating the county’s zoning ordinance. This year, Kerr said the business won’t be part of the display.

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Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., in 2012, said Bill Wyatt, a spokesman for the university. He said Waugh studied history at JMU and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, the prestigious honor society, last year. The school’s website shows Waugh was an active member of the debate team. That passion began in high school, Waugh’s mother said. Waugh spent a year teaching debate in Daegu, South Korea, before he pursued his degree at Georgetown University, she said. “It’s just a shock. We can’t believe it,” she said. Waugh’s family is setting up a fund in his

memory at JMU for the school’s debate program, she said. She said her family was trying to understand why Gupta might have killed her son. According to the documents made public Tuesday, Gupta told investigators that he believed Waugh and Gould were having a relationship behind his back. “My girl was cheating with my buddy. I walked in on them cheating and I killed my buddy,” Gupta told police, according to his charging documents. Gupta told investigators that he woke up to see Waugh “bleeding out,” sitting next to the bed.

Gupta also told investigators that Waugh had “tried to kill me and my family.” Gould told police that after the last round of drinks the group consumed, she didn’t remember anything, until Gupta’s yells — for her to call police — woke her. According to her account in court documents, Gupta was kneeling over Waugh’s body. Gupta was charged with second-degree murder, which carries a maximum penalty of 30 years. He was in custody in Montgomery County on $2 million bail on Tuesday. Reginald Bours III, his attorney, argued in court Tues-

day that Gupta’s bail should be lowered to $50,000, citing his studies at George Washington University and his otherwise clean criminal history. Bours said Gupta was taking classes toward another degree and had more than $80,000 in student loans, he said. “He has a lot at stake maintaining his career as a student,” Bours said. “He’s on a different path now,” Chaikin said, arguing that Gupta be denied bail. Simmons kept the bail at $2 million. Gupta’s parents, who were at the hearing, declined to speak to media.

In court, Bours disputed portions of the charging documents, noting that Gupta and Waugh had gone out to celebrate, then returned to the same apartment. “There is no situation where he would be coming in and ﬁnding them together,” Bours said. Kathryn Chmura, a neighbor of the Waughs, said in a phone interview that Waugh was “a smart kid” who had three siblings. “They’re all a lovely family,” she said, describing Waugh and his siblings as “polite and professional.”

the Montgomery County Board of Education in November 2012, when it opted not to close school on Muslim holidays after parents and community leaders requested it. School system staff reported at the time there was not a high absentee rate on the holiday in

the past three years. School officials said that, based on case law, the school system needs a secular reason to close schools. Hebatallah said she attended a prayer service at the Maryland SoccerPlex in Boyds in the morning and spent part of

the afternoon celebrating with friends and family at the Damascus home. She encouraged her Muslim friends to stay home for the holiday. “I told them you could make up the work, but you can’t make up the prayer,” she said. Some friends, she said, decided not to skip so they wouldn’t miss a test. Hebatallah said she doesn’t think it’s fair to hold classes on the Eid holidays. She can catch up on work she missed, she said, but teachers don’t repeat the lessons. “I feel like I’m losing valuable education,” she said. The Damascus party was at the home of Galila Ibrahim, 9, who attends Damascus Elementary School. Galila said she stayed up late Monday night helping her mom prepare for the festivities. Skipping school on an Eid holiday is the normal practice for Galila. But she said she missed a school ofﬁcial’s visit on Tuesday with other members of her math program; she had wanted to attend. Galila said she enjoys the Eid holiday because “all of our families and friends come here in this big house and celebrate!” Heidi Wahba of Clarksburg attended the party with her four children, who are homeschooled. Wahba said she thinks more people were at a prayer service she attended Tuesday than last year.

“We went to prayer in the morning and there were a ton of kids there,” she said. The celebration at the Damascus home brought people from around the area, she said, including those from Frederick and Howard counties and from Virginia. Saqib Ali — one of the coalition’s co-chairs and a state delegate candidate — said he attended a prayer service along with about 5,000 others at the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring. With the large number of people present every year, Ali said, it was hard to tell whether

attendance was up from last year. Ali has described the holiday closures as “a civil rights issue.” Samira Hussein — a family service worker for the county school system and a coalition leader — said she was among thousands of people at the service at the SoccerPlex. She said it was hard to tell if attendance was up from last year, but she saw many families who attended with all of their children. “If they had to go to school, it just takes the joy out of the festivities,” she said.

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VOICES IN EDUCATION Kevin Ambrose

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n Hometown: Washington, D.C.

n Hometown: Washington Grove

n Education: University of Maryland, George Washington University

n Education: Attended the University of Maryland n Family: Wife, Susan Van Nostrand, children, Grace, 24, and Myles, 18 n Hobbies: Cooking, reading n Favorite vacation spots: London and Rome

n Family: A husband and two college-age sons n Favorite vacation spot: Tuscany n Lesson to live by: I try to embrace the diversity among my students by taking the time to get to know them as people and learners. Once I understand who they are and what they know, I’m able to match my teaching to their learning.

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Kevin Ambrose volunteered in the ﬁrst-grade classroom of Amy Shapiro at Somerset Elementary School in Chevy Chase for 12 years. The two currently work together at the after-school Homework Club at Travilah Elementary School in North Potomac. Ambrose was given a Distinguished Service to Public Education Award from Montgomery County Public Schools in May. Shapiro and Ambrose were interviewed together in Bethesda on Monday. Can you tell me how this relationship started? Ambrose: My son Miles was in Mrs.

Shapiro’s ﬁrst grade in September 2001 and she asked for volunteers to help with Writers Workshop, a program where students write, edit, rewrite and present their work. I started going in two or three times a week for two and a half hours. How could you do that? Ambrose: I was, and am, Mr. Mom. My

wife and I are both Realtors, but she is better than I am, so I work for her. Shapiro: With Writers Workshop, parents would help with three or four kids each. They were editors as the students went though the process: brainstorming, rough draft, editing, publishing and presentation. Why did you stay with Mrs. Shapiro’s class after your son moved on? Ambrose: The reason I went back

was because one kid didn’t do anything for seven months, then he had a breakthrough. He [wrote] a joke. He was really excited and his mother still loves me [for helping him]. I wasn’t working with kids who were the best students, I really enjoyed it. All the kids got my jokes, Mrs.

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Shapiro got my jokes. Shapiro: It was a great class. The students clicked. The parents clicked. It was just a happy place to be. [Since then,] we have helped so many kids. We did it for 12 years together. Ambrose: I take directions well and check my ego at the door. Why did it end? Ambrose: She moved [from classroom

teacher to reading specialist]. I still go three times a week, working with a second-grade class, and I help Mrs. Shapiro with the Homework Club at Travilah Elementary School two times a week. Shapiro: The Homework Club is an after-school support program. The teachers are all volunteer and the kids are invited to come — mostly those who are not getting their homework done. It meets two days a week from 3:30 to 4:30 [p.m.]. I think the kids like it because they get their homework done. [To Ambrose] Did you ever consider becoming a teacher? Ambrose: No. I’m good for two-and-

a-half hours. It takes a special person to spend six-and-a-half to seven hours a day with a class of kids. You are on your feet all day and talking all day. What is the most interesting part of all of your years of volunteering? Ambrose: It’s been better for me than

for the kids. It’s kept my blood pressure level. This is what I was great at: while Mrs. Shapiro was working with a [specific] reading group, I was able to help the others do their seat work [reading and completing assigned tasks]. I also went on field trips and this is what I learned on my first field trip: each

kid had a piece of fruit in his lunch and no one ate it! [To Shapiro] How about from your standpoint. How was it to have such a consistent volunteer? Shapiro: It requires some planning.

It’s important if you are going to have a volunteer program that you have children for them to work with and they are doing work they want to do. I’ve always thought the more hands I can have in my classroom, the better for my students. That goes for the high learners and those who need the extra help. I really value parents as partners in teaching and learning. When you have the two-way communication between the parents in the community, you can tap into it and do so much more for your students. Mr. Ambrose came as a parent and stayed as a community volunteer. He was willing to help me. It was more than I could do with my two hands. I can’t help think how fortunate my students and I were, over the years, to have beneﬁted from Kevin’s generosity of time and effort. His presence truly helped many of [the] students break through the obstacles that might have stood in the way of their learning. I was just lucky to have met him and just smart enough to have known how to use his service to enhance my instructional program. He truly was an amazing volunteer. “Voices in Education” is a twicemonthly feature that highlights the men and women who are involved with the education of Montgomery County’s children. To suggest someone you would like to see featured, email Peggy McEwan at pmcewan@gazette.net.

EDUCATION NOTEBOOK Superintendent plans meetings with students

County students celebrate International Walk to School Day Students across Montgomery County bypassed their school buses and carpools and walked to school one day last week in celebration of International Walk to School Day. They were joined by County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) and other political leaders at Kens-

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gram at the school: School Pool. The program matches parents and students who would like to share the responsibility of walking students to school using a “walking school bus” or a bike train. “I was very pleased with the turnout, and the event in general,” Principal Barbara Liess wrote in an email. “I don’t have an exact percentage, but almost every child participated. At least 90 percent because we had the buses drop our students off at the starting point of the walk. “We are just starting the School Pool, today was our kick-off to introduce the program,” Liess wrote. “Parents were sent the application last night along with information regarding the program. We are hopeful that our families will participate by creating walking or biking ‘school buses’ and limit the number of cars at arrival and dismissal.” Walk to School Day, orga-

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Kensington Parkwood Elementary School students parade through the Parkwood neighborhood of Kensington on Oct. 9 as part of International Walk to School Day. nized by the Partnership for a Walkable America, began in the U.S. in 1997 as a one-day event aimed at building awareness for the need for walkable communities, according to the website www.walkbiketoschool.org. Other reasons to encourage walking to school, according to the website, are to encourage more healthful habits and promote clean air. In 2000, the event became international when the U.K. and Canada joined the U.S. for the ﬁrst International Walk to School Day. Growing interest in the program led the International Walk to School Committee to shift its promotion to International Walk to School Month, celebrated in October. More than 40 schools across Montgomery County registered

their Walk to School Day activities on Oct. 9 on the website. All are county public elementary schools. The Kensington Parkwood program included a program for students in kindergarten through second grade about safe walking and a video for the older students about safe biking, Assistant Principal Alayna Lynam said. The success of Walk to School Day, as well as continued interest in bicycling to school, created a desire for a national event focused on bicycling to school, according to the website. The ﬁrst National Bike to School Day took place May 9, 2012, in coordination with the League of American Bicyclists’ National Bike Month.

County school Superintendent Joshua Starr will hold six student meetings this school year, with three in high schools and three in middle schools. The ﬁrst meeting will be held from 10:38 to 11:16 a.m. Thursday for students at Poolesville High School. The meetings are an opportunity for students to tell Starr about issues that are important to them. These events will be hosted by Justin Kim, the student member of the Montgomery County Board of Education. They will be archived on the school district’s website and shown on MCPS TV. Dates and locations of the remaining meetings: Nov. 25: A. Mario Loiederman Middle School, Silver Spring. Jan. 28: Northwood High School, Silver Spring. Feb. 27: Rosa Parks Middle School, Olney. March 18: Watkins Mill High School, Gaithersburg. April 24: Herbert Hoover Middle School, Potomac For more information visit www.mcpsstudenttownhall. org.

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free homework assistance from county public school teachers. Students may send text messages or email questions to the hot line from 4 to 9 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays; students also may call in questions from 4 to 6 p.m. Students can ask questions by any of these methods: • Calling 301-279-3234. • Using the hot line website, askhhl.org. • Sending a text message to 724-427-5445. • Emailing question@ AskHHL.org. • Posting a message to Facebook at facebook.com/AskHHL. • Using Twitter, @askHHL. Homework Hotline Live! can be seen on MCPS-TV, on Comcast channel 34, Verizon FIOS channel 36 or RCN channel 89, and on the Web at www. montgomeryschoolsmd.org/ departments/itv/hhl.

Historically black schools focus of college fair Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Rockville will hold its third annual college fair from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday. The focus is on historically black colleges and universities and more than 50 schools were invited to participate. Seminars, open to middle and high school students, include “The ABCs of Financial Aid and Scholarships,” “Writing

the Perfect Essay” and “Choosing a College Major.” There will be onsite admission for select colleges, financial aid consideration and a raffle for a laptop or computer tablet for the first 50 students to arrive. The church is at 608 N. Horners Lane. More information is at mtcbc.org or by email feleciawp@msn.com.

Wootton students to present ‘Little Women’ Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville will present

the Broadway musical version of “Little Women,” with performances at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and at 2 p.m. Sunday in the school auditorium at 2100 Wootton Parkway. Based on Louisa May Alcott’s story of four sisters and their mother during the Civil War, the show chronicles the sisters’ search for love and life’s meaning amidst uncertainty and death in a turbulent time in U.S. history. “The musical is a lovely treatment of a classic story,” director Carla Ingram said in a statement. “It is full of great music, with songs of hope that all will enjoy and embrace.” Tickets are $12 for adults and $8 for students. They may be purchased online at schooltix.org/wootton/ by selecting “Drama: Little Women” at the top of the page. For more information email Carla_A_Ingram@mcpsmd.org.

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HEALTH CALENDAR WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16 Mindfulness Meditation, from 6-7 p.m. Wednesdays to Oct. 30 at Suburban Hospital, Lambert Building (ﬁrst ﬂoor), 8710 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, A Mindfulness Center instructor will guide participants to discover the basics of mindfulness meditation by focusing on posture, breathing and energy work. $45. www. suburbanhospital.org.

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Douglas J. Swift of West Friendship and Debra A. Riley of Seattle, Wash., announce the engagement of their daughter, Bethany Ann Riley, to Sean Macker, son of John and Nancy Macker of Mount Airy. An April wedding is planned at Bethany Beach, Del.

David Wayne Stockton and Debra Lee Langston of Gemantown announce the blissful proclamation of the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Nicole Marie Stockton, to Robert Emmett Doyle IX, eldest son of Robert Emmett Doyle VIII and Deborah Lynn Hagelin of Montgomery Village. The bride-to-be is the granddaughter of the late David Francis and Lucille Marie Stockton, and the late Arthur Lee Langston and Jean Doyle Measell. She is a 2008 graduate of Seneca Valley High School, and currently is employed as a manager at a pool management company. The prospective groom is the grandson of the late Robert Emmett Doyle VII and Helen Lynne Ravenburg, and Bertha Mae Stalling and the late Edward Hoover Hagelin Sr. He is a 1997 graduate of Our Lady of Good Counsel High School and is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. A ceremony and reception have been set for July 2014.

CPR, First Aid and Safety, from 6:30-9:30 p.m. at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, 18101 Prince Philip Drive, Olney. The Heartsaver First Aid course teaches how to manage illness and injuries in the ﬁrst few minutes until professional help arrives. This program is ideal for community members and meets the requirements for Childcare Providers certiﬁcation. After successful completion, the student will receive a Heartsaver First Aid card from the American Heart Association. $55; Registration and payment required. 301-774-8881, www. montgomerygeneral.org.

FRIDAY, OCT. 18 Safe Sitter, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Jane E. Lawton Community Center, 4301 Willow Lane, Chevy Chase. A comprehensive training course

teaching 11- to 13-year-olds the essentials of babysitting. Course includes tactics in handling emergencies basic ﬁrst aid and child-care skills. $95. Registration required. 301-896-2999, www.suburbanhospital.org.

SATURDAY, OCT. 19 CPR, AED and First Aid, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, 18101 Prince Philip Drive, Olney. This is a combination course of the American Heart Association Heartsaver CPR, AED and First Aid classes. $115; Registration required. 301-774-8881, www.montgomerygeneral.org.

MONDAY, OCT. 21 Skin Cancer Screening,

from 6-7:45 p.m. at Johns Hopkins Health Care and Surgery Center, 6420 Rockledge Drive Suite 1200, Bethesda. The American Academy of Dermatology recommends that adults with signiﬁcant past sun exposure or a family history of skin cancer should have an annual skin examination. Join board-certiﬁed dermatologists for one of these free screenings. Open to community members who have not had a skin screening in the past year. Co-sponsored by the Sidney J. Malawer Memorial Foundation. Registration required online. 301-896-3939, www. suburbanhospital.org.

RELIGION CALENDAR ONGOING Damascus United Methodist Church, 9700 New Church

McNamara, Zangueneh Mr. and Mrs. William H. McNamara of Germantown announce the ﬁrst anniversary of their daughter’s wedding Oct. 13, 2012. Mrs. Zangueneh, the former Miss Bridget Ann McNamara, married Mr. David S. Zangueneh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Farhad A. Zangueneh of Germantown, in a nuptial mass at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart in Mount Pleasant. A reception followed at the Sequoia at Washington Harbour in Georgetown. Ms. AnnaRain Menzies-Tobin, friend of the bride, was maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Sabrina Foley, Krista Eschelman and Sherry Zangueneh, sister of the groom. Mr. Paul Withrow, friend of the groom, was the best man. Groomsmen were Martin Leibold, AJ Aquino and Conor McNamara, brother of the bride. Ushers were Neil Bridge, Eric Peluso, Sam DeGuzman and Tyler Teira. The bride graduated from Northwest High School and earned a bachelor’s degree from Florida State University. She is a grants writer at the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C. The groom, also a graduate of Northwest, received his degree from Frostburg State University. He is sales coordinator at Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants in Washington, D.C. The couple honeymooned in St. Lucia and now resides in Washington, D.C.

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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.

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Bob and Rita Wysong were married Nov. 24, 1944, at St. Patrick’s in Washington, D.C., while both were serving in the military. Their daughter, Susan Herron of Montgomery Village, again is hosting the annual family Thanksgiving dinner in honor of her parents’ 69th anniversary. The Wysongs, a Foreign Service couple for 20 years, raised their ﬁve children, Linda, Susan, Mary, Bobby and John, in countries including Mexico, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and the Sudan. Upon their return to the U.S., Bob and Rita held government jobs. This was followed by Rita’s writing a weekly column for The Gazette for seven years and later penning and publishing a book about the family’s life overseas. In July, numerous family members including daughter Linda from Alaska and Mary from New York, with spouses, celebrated the couple’s 90th birthdays at many gala events. Bob and Rita have lived in their home in Montgomery Village for 12 years. They have 14 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.

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

Neelsville Presbyterian Church, 20701 Frederick Road,

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

Providence United Methodist Church, 3716 Kemptown

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

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Maryland newspapers and the leadership of some communities disagree on an issue that goes to the heart of what it means to be a well-informed citizen: How should you find out the actions of your government? The Gazette and other newspapers have reporters who are paid to watchdog the actions of county boards and city councils. Our mission, which we view as sacred, is to ferret out all the news and information you need to stay on top of what your elected officials and municipal employees are doing. State law requires local governments to publish certain information on their own. Tucked in our legal adONLINE vertising section are notices ITEMS about potential annexations, REACH TOO government contract opporFEW PEOPLE tunities and public hearing notices. Lots of times, this information makes our news pages, but sometimes, this could be your only chance to find out about a zoning amendment for your neighborhood. What might seem minor to some folks could be major news at some dinner tables. Some elected officials, including Del. Jeff Waldstreicher, think the cost of publishing these notices puts an unfair burden on strained city and town budgets. He says his goal is “to save my municipalities money.” He suggests communities be given flexibility to use a host of free or low-cost electronic means to reach their citizens. He put forth a bill in the 2013 General Assembly session that loosens the restrictions on public notices, allowing cities and towns to publish them on their own websites. The measure failed to pass but it was put off to “summer study,” meaning a revised version could appear in 2014. The bill might save local governments a few dollars, but it will come at the cost of community engagement. First, going online is still a hurdle for many people. Most of us have Internet links at work and at home, but inexpensive wireless connections still aren’t ubiquitous, as they need to be. The least expensive way for an individual to receive dozens of stories and pictures that can be read virtually anywhere remains printing a newspaper. Until cheap and easy wireless is everywhere, and can be accessed by inexpensive devices, that’s not likely to change. Second, The Gazette asked Montgomery County municipalities about their websites and their web traffic. What we found was that local governments are finding innovative ways of reaching their constituents to provide services. What we didn’t find were traffic reports that showed widespread popularity. Gaithersburg, for example, averaged about 166,000 page views a month over the past year, or about two or three page views per city resident per month. You’d hope that elected officials would see such traffic reports and recognize that their constituents are not getting their news from municipal websites. The result of shifting this information to an online publication could mean fewer people will find out about vital community information. Waldstreicher’s desire to cut government spending has merit, but cutting the cost of legal notices will have unintended consequences.

Remaking the economy Maryland edged Virginia on Saturday in a game that will be the two universities’ last matchup as ACC rivals. Just a few days before, the Old Dominion won a decisive victory over the Free State in a battle neither state wanted to win: which state is affected MONTGOMERY more by the federal NEEDS TO ACT government shutdown. According to the NOW TO SURVIVE folks at Wallet Hub, a NEXT CHALLENGE website that provides ﬁnancial information, Virginia was at the top of the list. Maryland came in at No. 6. No matter what companies make up the mix of Maryland businesses, you’d expect the state to be ranked high on Wallet Hub’s list. A number of federal agencies are based here. Thousands of federal employees and retirees live here. There was no escaping Maryland feeling the brunt of the Democratvs.-Republican cage match. If our state leaders learn anything, they should take a longer view of our economic policies. According to the Baltimore Business Journal, four of the six gubernatorial candidates called for reductions in the corporate income tax rate at a forum on Oct. 4. That’s a good start, but not enough to reshape a state economy to survive future title ﬁghts in Washington.

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Bus plan looks to future, not an auto-centric past The way to solve gridlock is to move people, not just cars. AAA’s approach of continuing to solve our traffic problems by building ever more and wider roads is fatally flawed. Solving our traffic challenges means focusing on moving people, not just cars, and that means using our existing infrastructure most efficiently. By making it attractive to walk, bicycle and take a high-quality bus rapid transit service, we can make the transportation system work better for everyone — especially those who still need to drive. Dedicating travel lanes to transit will provide a better chance for our road network to function more effectively — and will do so at

far less cost to our communities than the other major option: continuing to widen roads. Many jurisdictions around the country that have dedicated roadspace to transit have seen no impact or even an improvement in trafﬁc. Even Los Angeles has dedicated lanes to buses on congested Wilshire Boulevard. The bus rapid transit proposal before the County Council right now is a great opportunity for Montgomery County to provide new transportation choices along major roads like Rockville Pike where new construction is bringing thousands of new residents. Ride On’s route 55 that connects Germantown to Rockville already carries over 7,500 passengers

daily, far more than Eugene, Ore.’s successful BRT line — just imagine how many more would ride if the service were faster and more reliable. To solve our transportation challenges, we must look to the future, not an auto-oriented past that AAA continues to champion. That’s why a diverse coalition of over 36 business, civic, environmental, and social justice organizations have come together to call for a future that includes a robust bus rapid transit network for Montgomery County.

David Hauck, Takoma Park The writer is a member of the Coalition for Smarter Growth.

Your chance to end someone’s homelessness More than 1,000 people are homeless, right here, in our very affluent Montgomery County. One-hundred and twenty-five live between Montrose Road and Friendship Heights alone, and 15 within one mile of Bethesda Row. They sleep on park benches. They eat out of garbage cans. They are right under our noses. Sometimes, we don’t even really see them. Do you avert our eyes when you walk past someone you think may be living on the streets? Many of us do. Why? We all have our own reasons. Because we are embarrassed for them, as they sit at our feet, disheveled? Because we know they are suffering, but we just walk by? Or because we don’t know how to help. We’re writing because the coming weeks offer you a concrete chance to make a difference, a chance to volunteer to be part of something big. For the first time ever, we as a community can make a real inroad into solving

homelessness at our front doors. As humanitarians, we need to house our citizens: We cannot leave anyone to sleep on the ground. As taxpayers, we need to house our citizens: Frankly, keeping someone housed costs less than supporting their lives on the street. We need 300 community volunteers to get this done. We need you. What is coming up? Right now, this month, a massive countywide effort is building to help chronic and medically vulnerable homeless people. Bethesda Cares and Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless, along with County Council member George Leventhal, the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, and many other government agencies and nonprofits are collaborating in the national 100,000 Homes Campaign (www.100khomes. org). 100,000 Homes aims to quickly, permanently house our

community’s most medically vulnerable members — those experiencing chronic homelessness — and providing supportive services to help them after they are housed. We are roaring toward a countywide registration week (Nov. 3-8), with volunteer opportunities starting Oct. 22, in which we will seek to identify every person without a home. Once we identify everyone, we will aim to house the most physically and mentally vulnerable among them the most swiftly. Take a look at www.mcch. net. We have lots of ways you can help during and before registry week. No experience necessary! Which one will it be? Email Herb at mcch.net and sign up.

Many dog owners (myself included) have run into the problem of carrying our dog’s business for a mile or so before ﬁnding another can to dispose of it. Not only is this unpleasant, but it also may discourage pet owners from bothering to pick up after their pets. Lastly, situations such as these pose a threat to small children and pets alike in the park. Stepping on post-barbecue supplies can turn a nice day in the park into a trip to the emergency room.

On Friday, Sept. 27, our library had been 1,000 days into its construction, which demonstrates a disturbing lack of leadership, a breakdown in county project supervision and poor stewardship of a $13 million contract. Who at the county was watching over this project’s timelines when a civil engineer failed to get permits, resulting in a delay of about 15 months? What consequences were exacted from the general contractor, Milestone Construction Services, as a result of this delay? Why was the engineer so delinquent in the performance of his duty and what happened to that civil engineer? Was the delay a deliberate stall due to inadequate manpower and equipment at Milestone? Now that the general contractor is ceasing business operations throughout our region, why did no one at the county sound the alarm sooner? I am grateful that we have a surety bond protecting our interests and am hoping that the library will reopen this year. Also, I appreciate the interim library service at the Longwood Community Center, but that is only a well-intentioned BandAid and not a ﬁx to the systemic problems necessitating an interim solution.

Victoria Benesch, Silver Spring

Jim Goldberg, Olney

Sue Kirk, Bethesda and Susie Sinclair-Smith, Rockville Kirk is the executive director of Bethesda Cares and SinclairSmith is the executive director of the Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless.

Parks need more cans

Silver Spring’s Sligo Creek Park is down the street from me, and I have enjoyed the facilities the park offers for 18 years. Having grown up here, I love seeing children playing in the park when the weather gets nice, birthday parties held there, and smelling the aromas of a weekend family barbecue. With so many events taking place at the park, trash accumulates. Earlier this summer on my usual morning walk to the park with my dog, I noticed that one of the picnic tables had trash spread all over it, including beer bottles

spilled onto the ground. I also noticed that the two trash cans in the park were ﬁlled to the brim, leaving no space for anything else to be disposed of. This wasn’t the ﬁrst instance in which the shortage of trash cans has been brought to my attention, however. Often I’ve observed full trash bags left on the ground beside the overflowing cans. Many times forest animals have gone through the garbage, leaving an unsightly and unsanitary mess. This is a problem with a simple solution — add more cans to the park.

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Make the Purple Line a bus lane Fake houses built in an attempt to disguise noisy electrical substations in residential neighborhoods would not be necessary if decision makers would switch to the less expensive, invasive and intrusive Purple Line option — a dedicated bus lane instead of light rail. My understanding is that long ago, before the ﬁnancial collapse of 2008 changed the economy, the much less problematic dedicated bus line was rejected because, “people don’t like buses.” If that was ever true, it’s changed, especially with the advent of the very comfortable, clean and inexpensive buses that go from the Washington, D.C., area to New York City. I used to be a train-only person, but like everyone I know I’ve changed.

The cost of constructing a dedicated bus line alongside current roads is significantly less than the light rail option, and the result is more flexible and less of a neighborhood blight. Those unpopular electrical stations wouldn’t be needed, and if there was an emergency, or local event, or community building recreational activity (like a bikeathon or marathon) the extra traffic lanes could temporarily be put to good use — not so with train tracks. A dedicated bus lane would also mean less longterm expense and inconvenience. Bus lanes do not require the costly, disruptive kinds of maintenance that train tracks do, so fares could be kept lower, tax revenue could be put to other uses, and passengers would not be inconvenienced while the work on the

tracks and trains is being done. The Metro trains have become expensive to ride and on weekends the system is inconvenient to the point of almost being useless because of maintenance work — all this weekend ﬁve Red Line stations are closed. People are increasingly riding the bus lines we already have instead of the Metro trains. Well-planned and smoothly functioning public transportation is a laudable goal. A dedicated bus lane would serve this purpose, but the Purple Line light rail option is too costly and disruptive in both the short and long term to be good for our neighborhoods.

Jennifer Bellis, Silver Spring

Organizations: Council must help those on brink of poverty Our faith-based, legal advocacy and nonprofit organizations located in or serving Montgomery County applaud the County Council for its recent resolution, “Affirming the Council’s Commitment to Anti-Poverty and Safety Net Programs,” which recently was unanimously adopted. Our mission statements call on us to work with poor, marginalized and vulnerable adults and children living in our communities. We serve them by providing food, clothing, household goods, job training, housing opportunities, medical care and legal advocacy. In addition to our charitable actions, we demand just and fair laws that reflect our moral teachings and result in a more equitable standard of living for our less-fortunate brothers and sisters. We are pleased that the council: • Supports an expansion of the economic safety net for residents who are unemployed and underemployed. • Supports increasing the state match to the federal EITC to 30 percent. • Urges the General Assembly to increase the state minimum wage to at least $10 an hour by 2015. • Affirms its commitment to sup-

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porting the work of county agencies that provide services for Montgomery County’s most economically vulnerable populations. • Reaffirms its support for positive youth development programs targeting youth from low-income families. • Reaffirms its support for health care programs targeting low-income children and families. • Reaffirms its support for maintaining full funding for existing early childhood services from birth through age five and expanding preschool for all children whose family income is at or below 300 percent of the federal poverty level and communities with greatest need. • Reaffirms its support for the Working Parents Assistance Program to make quality child care more affordable by subsiding part of the cost of child care of income-eligible families.

daytime telephone number. Send submissions to: The Gazette, attention Commentary Editor, 9030 Comprint Court, Gaithersburg, MD 20877; fax to 301-670-7183; or email to opinions@gazette.net.

• Reaffirms its commitment to progressive taxation and policies that mitigate the impact of regressive taxes. While the County Council supports a funding match of the state Earned Income Tax Credit through the county’s Working Families Income Supplement at the highest county match possible, our organizations support Councilman Hans Riemer’s bill 8-13, Working Families Income Supplement, which would restore the EITC to its previous level — 100 percent match of the state’s EITC for working families. Because of the high cost of living in Montgomery County, we believe the County Council has a responsibility to provide as much ﬁnancial assistance as feasible to those living on the brink of poverty. Reports have shown that the EITC is the best anti-poverty program in the country.

This is one of the only anti-poverty programs that empowers its recipients to spend the money on what they need most at the time it is received — energy bills, education, child care and home repairs. Our organizations pledge to work with the Montgomery County Council to advance the health and well-being of all county residents. We look forward to working with the council to help eradicate poverty in our communities.

Gustavo Torres, executive director, Casa of Maryland; Walter Woods, chair, Community Action Board; Thomas E. Harr, CEO, Family Services Inc.; Mary Ellen Vanni, executive director, Fuel Fund of Maryland; James Mannarino, executive director, Interfaith Works; Lawrence Couch, chair,Justice and Advocacy Council of Montgomery County; Steven M. Galen, president and CEO, Primary Care Coalition of Montgomery County; Kate Planco Waybright, executive director, Progressive Maryland Debra Gardner, legal director, Public Justice Center; Denise Fredericks, executive director, Stepping Stones Shelter; Gino Renne, president, UFCW Local 1994

Council already makes enough Ryan Marshall’s article about the unconscionable pay increases urged for our already-overpaid elected officials [“Pay hike urged for executive, council,” Sept. 25] highlighted the disconnect between the reality and perception among our so-called county government leaders. The words attributed to Councilwoman Valerie Ervin — the fact that public service is a high calling — and Council Vice President Craig Rice — one of the challenges of public service is sustaining a young family on a public official’s salary — speak to their perception that their positions should afford them a higher standard of living than the majority of residents they represent. I would correct Ervin that public service isn’t a “calling,” but rather a choice. You were not preordained nor anointed for this position. You decided to perform this job, and should not be overly rewarded for doing so. The same statement is made to Rice, with the additional caveat being that many in this county sustain their young families on much less than what you currently make, so it being a challenge for you brings into question your personal budgeting and fiscal skills as well as your ability to adequately handle the county finances that you are entrusted with. The reality is that both the residents and employees of this county have had to get by on less for several years and that should be no different for the members of the council. In fact, I feel that the executive and council’s salaries should be no more than the median income for either the residents or employees instead of increasing each year by the same percentage as the Consumer Price Index for the region. That way, the incentive to positively impact the earning ability of their constituents would be inherent, rather than presumed.

Chris Hester, Olney

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Throughout the 2013 boys’ soccer season, various pieces of Montgomery Blair High School’s starting lineup have been missing for one reason or another. Donald Benamna, a dangerous senior attacker who has started since being called up from junior varsity halfway through his freshman season, has been in and out of the lineup with nagging injuries. Komlan Kouhiko, a tactically superior senior midﬁelder, recently went on a trip to Germany to try out with various youth teams and missed some time. Alex Epstein, a rock-

solid senior center back, has been sidelined the entire year with a hamstring ailment but is expected to return to form ahead of the playoffs. Through all of that — in a testament to the club’s depth and to coach John Haigh’s ability to select a cohesive starting 11 — the Blazers have the best winning percentage in Montgomery County (8-1-0 as of Sunday night) and enter the regular season’s ﬁnal week with lofty expectations. “I think it feels a little different than last year,” Haigh said. “There’s certainly more of an excitement level. This year, we have a closer-knit group. This group of kids, they’re all friends outside of school.” Last season, the Blazers lost to Walter Johnson in the second round of the

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Bullis School’s Devonte Williams watches the Bulldogs’ ﬁrst game this year from the sideline because of an injury. Bullis lost that game to St. John’s College. It hasn’t lost since.

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Devonte Williams’ family gets together for Sunday dinners, and sometimes, while everyone is cooking, someone turns on the music. When his relatives begin dancing, Williams said of course he joins them. “He can put his foot in the ground and go. ... He was so smooth.” Those assessments by Bullis School football coach Pat Cilento of the running back on the football ﬁeld apparently don’t translate to the dance ﬂoor. Devonte’s father, Isaac Williams, is eager

to point out the divergence. “For some strange reason, I just couldn’t dance,” Devonte said. “And he always said I have two left feet. He’s always teasing me with that.” So, Devonte enrolled in a dance class at Bullis his freshman year. He got an A-minus, but his dad still gives him grief for his moves. It’s the type of family support Williams

says he cherishes, and he has an extended network to advise him during his football career. The junior counts two of Isaac Williams’s former Springbrook teammates, Shawn Springs (who played for the Seattle Seahawks, Washington Redskins and New England Patriots) and Omar Evans (who played in the Canadian Football League), as mentors. In fact, Devonte is so close to those two, he calls them uncles. But his dad stands out as a role model. After choosing Bullis over Our Lady of

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Six of Barons’ nine wins this season have been shutouts BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN STAFF WRITER

The Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School girls’ soccer team has boasted some of Montgomery County and the state’s top scorers during the past decade. Still, the ﬁrst thing 14th-year Barons coach Rob Kurtz says he sets his mind to when the team reconvenes each August is solidifying the backline. “Your backline, it’s the base, it’s the foundation of what you’re trying

to do,” Kurtz said. In recent years the Barons’ historically stingy defense has become increasingly vital to their success — B-CC has won ﬁve straight region titles and four state championships during that time — as they adjust to life without one particular top scorer. The Barons’ (9-1-1) 19 goals are in the middle to low end of the county’s scoring spectrum but with wins over traditional rivals Winston Churchill, Walt Whitman and Walter Johnson, they’re on pace to win the competitive Montgomery 4A South Division

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Montgomery Blair High School’s Donald Benamna dribbles the ball against Paint Branch on Oct. 7.

Blake focuses on the little things After two straight winning seasons, Bengals can only hope to ﬁnish .500 this year

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Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School’s Eliza Doll (left) looks to shoot the ball near the Walt Whitman goal during a girls’ soccer game last week in Bethesda.

The James H. Blake High School football team averaged 19.6 points per game during the 2012 season, ﬁnishing the regular season with a 6-4 record and earning a playoff berth for the ﬁrst time in program history. Despite losing that playoff game, the Bengals had posted back-to-back winning seasons, and appeared to be turning the page after six consecutive losing seasons from 2005-2010. Now, six games into

the 2013 campaign, Blake has scored 20 points — total. All 20 points came in the season’s lone victory, a 20-14 win against Col. Zadok Magruder on Sept 20. The ﬁve shutouts this season, including all three home games, already equal the number surrendered over the past four seasons combined for the Bengals. Tony Nazzaro, who has coached at the Silver Spring school through thick and thin over the past 12 seasons, believes the offensive ineptitude comes down to two main factors: discipline and execution. “It is a combination of things,” he said. “We are making a lot of penalties, which puts us behind the chains and puts us in long-yardage

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The 2013 season has been mostly unaffected by inclement weather, but a few drops of precipitation, or almost a week of torrential downpours, at the wrong time can certainly cause a stir. Schedules have morphed in

SOCCER NOTEBOOK BY NICK CAMMAROTA AND JENNIFER BEEKMAN the past decade, longtime Quince Orchard High School girls’ coach Peg Keiller said, and in recent years many division games have been pushed to the latter stages of the regualar season. In one regard, that’s good, as a teams hope to be in midseason form when competing for a division title but with some dicey weather over the past week, many teams have been forced to play three division games in four days. “Most of us have two games a week throughout the season so if it rains and you have to reschedule, that’s three games in a week,” Keiller said. “I wouldn’t want three games a week for playoffs,

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Continued from Page B-1 situations. We are trying to put ourselves in third-and-manageable situations and stay ahead of the chains, but a lot of those mistakes — whether it’s a negative play or a penalty — are putting us in the long yardage situations and is making it tough to sustain drives and ultimately ﬁnish.” Running back Marquis Robinson echoed a similar sentiment. The senior captain pointed to a lack of execution up front, especially when trying to convert those crucial

that can wear on you. But there’s only so much you can do in the regular season with two games a week. And you have to play the division games.” On Monday no division titles were set in stone. By Friday, they all should be. Quince Orchard, on pace to win its ﬁfth consecutive title, plays three Montgomery 4A West Division games this week. Bethesda-Chevy Chase all but clinched the Montgomery South with a brutal four-game stretch that featured Quince Orchard, Winston Churchill, Walter Johnson and Walt Whitman, in eight days. The Barons won all four games. B-CC has in fact won seven straight since a surprise early loss to still undefeated Damascus and is the favorite to beat its two remaining division opponents Richard Montgomery and Kennedy. One thing is for sure, everyone will be competition ready when the region tournaments begin next Thursday. The draws are set to be released on Monday.

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Walt Whitman High School’s Emma Anderson competes in a girls’ soccer game against Winston Churchill last week. The draw for the playoffs is scheduled for Monday.

At the beginning of September, ﬁrst-year Gaithersburg boys’ soccer coach Matt Bowling expressed extreme optimism third down plays that can make or break a drive. “That’s the big difference,” Robinson said. “We had a stronger line last year, so it helped us get those third and shorts, get those nail-biters where you just have to push and ﬁnd that extra strength. You need those big guys to do that, and we lack the size this year on the line, and that’s key to us converting the third down and shorts, the quick passes, a short run to get to the chains. The intensity needs to rise for everyone, not just the line. That is what is going to start a turnaround and have us start getting touchdowns this

year.” Although a third-consecutive winning season is an impossibility for Blake, which sits at 1-5 with four games remaining, Nazzaro remains positive about his team’s chances to get something going on offense. He believes the Bengals are capable of putting these struggles behind them with a continued positive attitude, team-wide focus on execution, and a few less penalties. “It’s a team game, and like I tell the kids, ‘We can have 10 guys do it perfectly, but that one messes up and it’s a bad play,’” he said. “I think it’s just consistency and eliminat-

ing the penalties. We might be the most penalized team in the county this year, and it’s not the huge ones, sometimes even a little 5-yarder can put you in a bad situation. “We’ve just got to stay together and stay close as a team, and try to develop that consistency moving forward. The kids are still working hard in practice and staying positive, giving us good effort, so hopefully we can turn this around a little bit and end on a positive note.”

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considered it, but he put Devonte on junior varsity as a freshman. Devonte remembers running for four or five touchdowns in his first game. Cilento recalls six touchdown runs of at least 60 yards. Either way, Devonte was on the sideline early in the second half and headed to varsity

defense means one or two great scoring plays is good enough to secure a win. The Barons have surrendered just five goals to Montgomery County Public Schools opponents in nine league games. Damascus’ 2-1 win over B-CC on Sept. 16 marked the only time the Barons have given up two goals in a game. Five of their wins have been one-goal decisions and six of nine wins have been shutouts. With three-quarters of last year’s back four returning plus sophomore Naomi Gross, who in 2012 won a national title with the Montgomery Soccer Club Coyotes Green U-14 team, ready to step in for two“I decided to stay with soccer because I liked it a lot better,” Benamna said with a laugh. When he moved to the U.S. in 2009, Benamna didn’t speak English and didn’t know anyone. He stayed in his family’s house for two weeks as he tried to adjust to the culture. In time, Benamna adjusted well to his surroundings, both academically and socially. And, of course, on the soccer field. “Playing soccer in Africa, it’s a battle,” Benamna said. “I’m used to playing with the older people. I never played my own age in Africa because I wanted to get better. And that’s the only way you can get better is by taking on people bigger and more physical than you.” While in Africa, Benamna and his friends played anywhere at any time. He said things are far more structured in the U.S. where ample playing fields are provided and matches are timed. In the process of adjusting to his new lifestyle, Benamna caught the eyes of multiple college coaches and last year accepted a full scholarship offer from San Diego State University to play soccer. ncammarota@gazette.net

the next week after challenging himself to get promoted as quickly as possible. “I love pressure,” Williams said. “Pressure is my favorite thing about the game. It’s funny, because I kind of go in the zone when I’m under pressure. It feels good.” This season, Devonte — who holds scholarship offers from Temple Univer-

year starting goalkeeper Angela White, Kurtz’s main focus this August was finding someone to fill the hole left by the graduation of defensive anchor Zoe Mesirow. On the first day of tryouts he received a gift, 5-foot-10 natural center back Maya Cherry, from Georgia. Right-footed Cherry immediately paired extremely well with returning left-footed central defender Maia Emden (59). In addition to having their dominant feet down the center of the field, both are extremely strong in the air, a rarity in high school girls’ soccer, and good communicators, Kurtz said. Height and strength in the

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sity, Western Michigan and Buffalo and interest from Pittsburgh, Rutgers and Wake Forest — is earning high marks on the football field. Since missing Bullis’ first game, a 42-0 loss to St. John’s (D.C.), he’s helped his team win five straight games while averaging 37 points per game. “Having him really puts a lot of peo-

air is something B-CC’s defense in general can rely on this fall. Whereas players in the midﬁeld and offensive third are technical and crafty players, they’re rather small in stature. B-CC’s back four, which includes 6-foot Rachel Cady and Denali Minnick (5-8), at any given time stands at 5-8 or taller. That coupled with the players’ familiarity with each other after at least a season together and with their own individual roles, Cherry said, makes for quite a formidable opposition. While B-CC prides itself on an aesthetically pleasing style of possession-oriented soccer predicated on passing, Cherry comes from a more physical,

ple at ease out there on the ﬁeld and on the coaching staff,” Cilento said. Including the head coach? “Uh, yeah,” Cilento said. “Yeah. You can give him the ball at any time, and he can take it to the house.

kick-and-run background. Though she adjusted extremely quickly to B-CC’s more technical play, Kurtz said, Minnick said Cherry’s physicality and speed in the back is something the Barons benefit from. Cherry’s arrival gives Kurtz the flexibility of playing Minnick in the midfield, which helps give the offense a boost. “Denali is our X Factor,” Kurtz said. “I don’t want to compare her to [former fouryear starter] Hannah Levin, who played everywhere for us, she used to cause as many problems at right back as she did at forward. But Denali has played a lot of positions for us. She creates a lot of pressure on

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dfeldman@gazette.net teams.” Though Kurtz said he never feels 100 percent confident in any one-goal games, the strength of B-CC’s backline is about as good as it gets this fall and if the Barons can win a sixth straight region title, the defense will certainly play a major role. “Especially because we haven’t been scoring a ton, the ability for us to keep people out of the box, shutouts are really important to everyone on the backline,” Minnick said. “It’s fulﬁlling to know that we haven’t had many goals scored but still come out with wins.” jbeekman@gazette.net

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Class 4A West Region tournament, but beat the Wildcats this September, 1-0. Seniors Ibrahima Kouyate and Keenthy Yeboah have both emerged as go-to players and overall Blair is two wins shy of turning in its fifth-consecutive 10-plus win season. The only thing that’s eluded them throughout this run of success is a trophy. “We just want to bring a new trophy to the building,” said Benamna, who has four goals this season. “We decided this year we wanted to do big things. Everybody has the confidence. If we stay committed, there’s nothing that can break us apart.” While Benamna has been a bit banged up, his value to his club is hard to ignore. After scoring five goals in the second half of his freshman season — just one year after moving to the United States from the Central African Republic — he has steadily proven himself as one of the county’s premiere attacking threats. As a child in Africa, Benamna began playing soccer when he was 5. He learned the sport from his father, Mahamane, who also taught him how to play volleyball.

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something else.” Now, with one week remaining in the regular season and the draw for the MPSSAA state tournament scheduled to be held on Monday, the Trojans are 7-2-0 — good for second place behind Clarksburg in Montgomery County’s 4A West division. They’ve likely surprised everybody with their performance this year. Perhaps even themselves.

Good Counsel and Mount St. Joseph High School, Devonte wanted to join varsity immediately, because his dad never played junior varsity. Cilento

title and earn the No. 1 seed in the Class 4A West Region tournament at the end of the month. The main reason? Defense, Kurtz said. Not to say B-CC isn’t propelled by some of the county’s best playmakers — Colgate University recruit Eliza Doll and Paula Germino-Watnick both scored from outside the 20-yard line in last Wednesday’s 2-1 win over previously undefeated Whitman. But the Barons do not have a true scorer, Kurtz said. They’re trying to create goals and a stingy

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regarding his team this season. A team that, until very recently, had to practice and play all of its matches away from its home stadium, which was under construction. “I don’t want people to take us lightly,” Bowling said before the season. “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

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ﬁelds and forced the postponement of multiple games throughout the week, Gaithersburg made other plans, practicing in a gym one night to ensure they were ready for a tough test Friday against Northwest. True to form — at least the form of the surprising run they’ve been on against top competition in the county — the Trojans topped the Jaguars, 3-2. “We haven’t reached our objectives yet,” Bowling said. “We have the potential to do some stuff that hasn’t been done in a long time at Gaithersburg High School.” Over in the 3A/2A West, the battle for the division championship likely will come down to the ﬁnal days of the season. Both Watkins Mill and Wheaton are 3-0-1 in divisional play and 4-2-2 overall. The clubs played to a 1-1 draw on Sept. 26 and Damascus (3-1-0 in the division) is right on their heels. Meanwhile, the battle for the 4A North crown will come down to the rivalry between Montgomery Blair and James H. Blake. The teams have combined for 17 wins and three losses as of Sunday night and play each other at 7 p.m. Thursday at Blake.

“I love the ﬁght that the guys have. There’s not an ounce of quit in any of them,” Bowling said. “We’ve played against a lot of quality teams, fortunately we’ve come out ahead a little bit here.” In a county where the results have been anything but predictable — every team in the ultracompetitive 4A South division has at least three wins and three losses — the Trojans have only two losses, one against Clarksburg and the other to Walt Whitman. As rain soaked the area’s

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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.

Rank

School

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Quince Orchard Cougars Good Counsel Falcons Bullis Bulldogs Gaithersburg Trojans Damascus Swarmin’ Hornets Northwest Jaguars Sherwood Warriors Paint Branch Panthers Seneca Valley Screaming Eagles Clarksburg Coyotes

Record Points

6-0 4-4 5-1 6-0 5-1 5-1 5-1 5-1 4-2 3-3

60 54 46 43 36 29 24 20 12 5

Also receiving votes: Springbrook, 1.

LEADERS Top rushers Dage Davis, Geo. Prep Zac Morton, Whitman Khalil Wilson, Einstein Isaac Boyd, Avalon Charles Lyles, Poolesville E. Spottswood, Sherwood Devonte Williams, Bullis Chris Dawson, G. Counsel D. Sims, Wheaton Kevin Joppy, Q. Orchard

Carries Yards Avg. TDs 101 1019 10.1 15 128 990 7.7 8 77 919 11.9 8 88 859 9.8 17 110 829 7.5 6 98 723 7.3 9 97 703 7.2 11 115 703 6.1 9 101 599 5.9 6 76 595 7.8 11

Top passers

Cmp-Att. Chuck Reese, Rockville 173-268 Sam Ellis, Wootton 122-227 G. Cooper, P. Branch 86-155 Mike Murtaugh, Q. Orch. 62-96 Renzo Farfan, R. Mont. 92-163 Nick DeCarlo, G’burg 48-74 Evan Smith, Whitman 51-102 C. Hennessey, N’wood 56-115 S. Morningstar, Pooles. 47-90 Raymond Burtnick, Blair 37-78

Top receivers Joey Cornwell, Rockville Jibri Woods, Wootton Trevon Diggs, Wootton Javonn Curry, P. Branch Ryan Stango, P. Branch Anthony Albert, Rockville Louison Biama, Rockville M. Brown, Q. Orchard S. Brigman, Rockville Michael Scott, Kennedy

Catches 49 41 45 32 26 34 25 16 34 24

Yards 1892 1596 1213 1102 967 806 636 596 540 528 Yards 590 548 485 484 454 413 387 310 301 366

Int. 7 7 5 1 4 4 7 2 7 5

TDs 24 14 17 12 10 4 5 5 5 5

Avg. TDs 12.0 7 13.4 5 10.8 7 15.1 9 17.5 6 12.1 6 15.5 4 19.4 6 8.9 5 15.3 1

QO gets tough games before playoffs Coach says difﬁcult matchups will help team prepare for postseason

Kelly catches

Senior receiver Steven Kelly doesn’t get many opportunities in Bethesda-Chevy Chase’s triple-option offense, but he makes the most of them. Kelly had ﬁve catches for 99 yards against Quince Orchard on Saturday, setting seasons highs. “We always knew he had the potential,” B-CC coach Josh Singer said. “I think, this year, he’s really starting to believe in his ability.” The 6-foot-4, 185pounder had a pass bounce GEORGE P. SMITH/FOR THE GAZETTE off his hands Saturday, but Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School wide receiver Steven Kelly pulls down he caught it as he fell to the this pass during Saturday’s game against Quince Orchard. turf. Singer said that was one of several excellent catches by the best, and that’s what we gomery County, you’ve got to Kelly this season, including want, and that’s what we’re beat all the great teams, and one against Montgomery Blair going to get. So, we’ve got there are great teams left on in double coverage that was eight weeks left of the season. “absolutely amazing.” And then state championship, our schedule. I love the big “I’m not surprised when games. I look forward to that. he does things like that,” that’s what it is.” Closing the regular season It’s a chance for our team to Singer said. “He’s proven that with four quality opponents show, hopefully, we’re as good he’s a great athlete when the pleases Mencarini. ball is in the air and he’s going “I wouldn’t want it any as we think we are.” to make a play to secure it.” Said McLean: “The season other way,” Mencarini said. “To be the best team in Mont- begins now.” dfeldman@gazette.net

Quince Orchard High School football coach Dave Mencarini, after his team beat Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, talked to his players about how challenging the rest of the season will be.

FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK BY DAN FELDMAN Their ﬁnal four opponents are No. 7 Sherwood, No. 4 Gaithersburg, No. 6 Northwest and formerly ranked Thomas S. Wootton. Yet, Mencarini spoke about the next eight, not four, weeks. Eight weeks would take Quince Orchard through the regular season and playoffs and through its third straight state championship game. “We like to be positive,” defensive lineman Adam McLean said. “We work too hard to accept anything but

FEARLESS FORECASTS 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

Seneca Valley at Watkins Mill Walter Johnson at Northwood Rockville at Damascus Einstein vs. Wheaton Churchill at Richard Montgomery Sherwood at Quince Orchard Wootton at Northwest Gaithersburg at Magruder Bethesda-Chevy Chase at Clarksburg Whitman at Springbrook Blair at Paint Branch Kennedy at Blake Brunswick at Poolesville Archbishop Carroll at Good Counsel St. Albans at Bullis Georgetown Prep at Anacostia Landon at St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes

Ken Sain

Dan Feldman

Nick Cammarota

Travis Mewhirter

Jennifer Beekman

Kent Zakour

89-20 175-41

88-21 175-41

87-22 171-43

83-26 172-44

86-23 170-46

84-25 165-51

Seneca Valley Northwood Damascus Einstein Churchill Q. Orchard Northwest Gaithersburg Clarksburg Whitman Paint Branch Kennedy Poolesville Good Counsel Bullis Geo. Prep Landon

Seneca Valley Northwood Damascus Einstein Churchill Q. Orchard Northwest Gaithersburg Clarksburg Springbrook Paint Branch Kennedy Poolesville Good Counsel Bullis Geo. Prep Landon

Return of Walter Johnson volleyball hitter makes sizeable impact

Last week, Walt Whitman High School golf coach Karl O’Donoghue said that the county was getting back to its old ways, perhaps not a far cry from its stretch from 2002-2008 in which a Montgomery team won a state title every year. “Overall, I think the county is coming back to as strong as it

PREP NOTEBOOK BY TRAVIS MEWHIRTER always is,” he said. “We’ve been slacking a bit over the past few years.” Well, not last year, when Thomas S. Wootton ended Urbana’s three-year string of state titles. But, from the scores turned in at the district tournament on Monday at Poolesville Golf Course, O’Donoghue appears prophetic. Five teams — Wootton, Walter Johnson, Winston Churchill, Whitman and Quince Orchard — had legitimate state title-contending scores and the county will be losing very little of a supremely talented core of players. The winner of the district tournament, Wootton’s Delaney Shah (68) is only a sophomore, as is second-place ﬁnisher Luke Schaap (70). Shah’s teammate, junior Justin Feldman, already has a state title, Capital Cup bragging rights, and a sub-30 stroke nine hole score under his belt before the start of this fall. The county’s regular season scoring champion, Whitman’s Graham Hutchinson, is just a freshman, while a host of others, namely Quince Orchard’s Colton Christensen, Wootton’s Graysen Bright, and essentially all of Churchill, will be back for

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Thomas S. Wootton High School’s Delaney Shah of watches her shot off the fairway Monday during the Montgomery County District Golf Tournament. at least one more season as well. The future “is very bright,” Wootton coach Paul Williams said. “Even kids like Jordan [Weitz] who are just one or two holes away from being right there. ... I think the future is very bright. They’re going to get better, they’re going to play more competition over the summer, they’re going to get better and better and better as the next couple years go. Three years from now? I’m not sure what I’m looking at.” For now, he can settle on looking ahead two weeks, when his Patriots will begin their state title defense.

Volleyball Walter Johnson didn’t win a match for the first month of this season. It took them three matches just to pick up a set and another five to take a team to a fifth set, which it eventually lost to Bethesda-Chevy Chase. It was a strange start to one of the county’s traditionally strong programs in recent years. But what a difference the return of one of Montgomery County’s

Montgomery 4A South Division Team

Wootton* Whitman R. Montgomery B-Chevy Chase Churchill Walter Johnson*

All Div.

3-3 3-3 1-5 2-4 1-5 1-5

3-1 2-1 1-1 1-2 1-2 1-2

PF PA

166 80 113 119 124 173 73 160 39 178 33 185

Montgomery 4A East Division Team

Paint Branch Sherwood Springbrook* Blair Blake Kennedy

All Div.

5-1 5-1 3-3 3-3 1-5 1-5

3-0 2-0 2-2 1-2 0-2 0-2

PF PA

235 63 160 82 111 56 115 80 20 177 71 116

Montgomery 4A West Division Team

Gaithersburg Quince Orchard Northwest Clarksburg* Magruder

All Div.

6-0 6-0 5-1 3-3 1-5

2-0 2-0 1-1 0-2 0-2

PF PA

136 37 241 13 202 80 104 72 42 233

Montgomery 3A Division Team

Damascus Seneca Valley Rockville Einstein Watkins Mill Wheaton Northwood

All Div.

5-1 4-2 4-2 3-2 2-4 1-5 0-6

3-0 3-0 3-2 2-1 1-2 0-3 0-4

Montgomery 2A Independent Team

Poolesville

All

4-2 124 96

Private schools Team

PF PA

181 60 182 69 224 162 138 156 84 159 69 226 33 257

Bullis 5-1 184 88 Good Counsel 4-4 177 111 Georgetown Prep 3-3 166 154 Avalon 3-4 169 152 Landon 1-4 101 124 * Includes forfeit result

Last week’s scores

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most talented hitters can make. Senior Brigid Morris had been sidelined for the ﬁrst eight matches of the season with a concussion she suffered in a preseason scrimmage with Col. Zadok Magruder. In that span, the Wildcats went 1-7 and won just seven sets combined. Enter Morris, and Walter Johnson is 2-0, beating Clarksburg and the previously 4-1 Watkins Mill. During Morris’ two matches (as of Sunday night), the 6-foot outside hitter has racked up 24 kills, 23 digs, and four blocks, adding a much needed complement to fellow hitter Victoria Ansarah, who is second on the team with 42 kills, and lightening the load of libero Emily Burk. Morris’ return could throw a wrench into a hierarchy that ﬁnally seemed to settle down a bit. Matchups with Paint Branch and Gaithersburg, both teams with winning records, will prove to be a nice barometer of how far Walter Johnson has come since adding Morris back in. tmewhirter@gazette.net

Seneca Valley Seneca Valley Seneca Valley Northwood W. Johnson W. Johnson Damascus Damascus Damascus Einstein Einstein Einstein Churchill R. Montgomery R. Montgomery Q. Orchard Q. Orchard Q. Orchard Northwest Northwest Northwest Gaithersburg Gaithersburg Gaithersburg Clarksburg Clarksburg Clarksburg Springbrook Springbrook Whitman Paint Branch Paint Branch Paint Branch Kennedy Kennedy Blake Poolesville Poolesville Poolesville Good Counsel Good Counsel Good Counsel Bullis Bullis Bullis Geo. Prep Geo. Prep Geo. Prep Landon Landon SS/SA

Woodberry Forest 45, Landon 17 Poolesville 20, R. Montgomery 14 Seneca Valley 51, Northwood 0 Rockville 36, Watkins Mill 0 Clarksburg 28, Wootton 3 Fort Hill 47, Walter Johnson 3 Gaithersburg 6, Churchill 3 Sherwood 62, Magruder 0 Northwest 31, P. Branch 28, OT Springbrook 19, Blake 0 Blair 28, Wheaton 7 Georgetown Prep 48, R. Lewis 6 St. John’s 31, Good Counsel 6 Bullis 50, St. Ste. & St. Agnes 3 Avalon 34, Perry Street 14 Q. Orchard 49, B.-Chevy Chase 0 Einstein 20, Kennedy 18 Damascus 21, Walt Whitman 6

BEST BET Wootton at Northwest, 6:30 p.m. Friday. Northwest is inside the playoff picture, and Wootton is outside. Wootton beating Northwest won’t ﬂip that, but Northwest beating Wootton would go a long way toward solidifying it. Wootton’s high-powered offense looks to get back on track after scoring just three points last week.

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BY TRAVIS MEWHIRTER STAFF WRITER

Christina Ricciuti has become quite the expert at ﬁghting boredom, sitting back and watching as her Sherwood High School teammates run their dizzying offense aroundhelplessdefenses.Ricciuti, however, is no benchwarmer. She’s just the goalie on a team that ensures her job is as monotonous as they come. “I’ve deﬁnitely not been getting as much action as I thought,” said the keeper, who has allowed just seven goals on the year compared to 52 in Sherwood’s favor. “But that’s a good thing. I’m really happy with the way our defense has been shaping up.” So how is it that the senior goalie keeps her mind from wandering while Emily Kenul and Gabrielle Yore blast away at the

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Sherwood High School’s Emily Kenul carries the ball through the Gaithersburg defense on Monday. opposing net 90 yards downﬁeld? Well, it took her a year to really get it down. But now she has turned

into part coach, part goalie, always keeping an eye out for what the Warriors could be doing bet-

ter and what they can learn from other teams. “Even when the ball is on the other side of the field, I just learned to stay focused,” she said. “I’m always looking for things that can be improved upon. It took a fewgamesintotheseason,butI’ve gotten used to it.” It would be difficult not to be used to it at this point. Sherwood was the county’s most potent offense a year ago with Kenul (seven multi-goal games) and Yore’s county-leading 26 goals as the Warriors ran away with an undefeated regular season. This year has been no different. Quince Orchard is the only school to come within one goal of Sherwood, which is outscoring opponents on an average of nearly four goals per game. Thus far, Long Reach is the only one to sneak more than one goal past Ricciuti (3), and the Warriors still left with a comfortable 7-3 win. “It’s definitely really comforting,” Ricciuti said of having such a torrid offense. “Even when sometimes we let a goal in, it’s not that

scary because I know we can just turn around in score in less than a minute.” In fact, according to coach AmyMorse,Kenuloncetookaball down the entire length of the ﬁeld and scored in 18 seconds. “That’s the thing with this team is that even if we get scored on we can get that back right away,” Morse said. “They thrive off of pressure and they know that, theyrecognizethat.Theyhavethis mentality, ‘get it right back,’ and that’s hard to coach.” Morse has been preaching urgency inside the shooting circle all year and the results speak for themselves. Kenul has already eclipsed her 2012 total of seven multi-goal games, highlighted by a season-high four goals against Long Reach (she outscored the Lightning by herself), while Yore has added six multi-goal games, including three hat tricks. According to the Washington Post, each half of the duo ranks in the top ﬁve in the Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia region in goals scored, with Kenul checking in at

third (24) and Yore ﬁfth (19). “We really just have a lot of passion and really like to get out on top early,” said Kenul, who verbally committed to play lacrosse for Johns Hopkins University last spring. “I just try to help the team get ahead.” With her and Yore up top, the team is quite literally never behind, or at least not for long. Col. Zadok Magruder scored ﬁrst in a Sept. 30 tilt. Just minutes later the Warriors were on the board. By the end of the game, they had dismantled the Colonels 5-1 for their sixth victory by at least four goals in eight games. “There’s a chemistry between the two of them that’s hard to beat,” Morse said. “They read each other so well and can predict each other’s moves and the other girls are learning how to read each other. They click and they both have so much speed. No team can really stick with them.” off to the playoffs, where a year ago Sherwood was unexpectedly doused early on by Walt Whitman.

Damascus receiver plays with maturity beyond his years BY DAN FELDMAN STAFF WRITER

Damascus High School junior receiver/defensive back Jalen Christian carries himself with a noticeable aura. His body language, the way he interacts with teammates and how he understands his responsibilities all contribute. Most of all, it shows during games. “He’s playing as a senior, for sure, if

not college level of confidence where he knows he’s the best player on the field most times when he’s out there,” Damascus football coach Eric Wallich said. But Christian sure hopes not. “I never want to feel comfortable,” Christian said. “I never want to settle.” That mindset dates back two years, when Christian joined the high school program after a standout youth career. Wallich, not wanting to put a freshman on varsity but also needing secondary depth, was conflicted about how to handle Christian. Christian was not. He wanted to play junior varsity with

his friends. Varsity could wait a year as far as he considered. But Christian says he beneﬁted from the spending two years prior to the current season on varsity, and Wallich agrees, seeing how much Christian has improved each year. “He’s very intelligent. He understand how to bait a receiver on defense, understands how to set people with routes,” Wallich said. “There are lots of kids with that same athletic ability — not lots, but there’s a handful. But what separates him is putting it all together with the intelligence that he has, too.”

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AWARD-WINNING VOCALIST BLENDS LATIN, JAZZ SOUNDS

Four-time Grammy winner Dianne Reeves recently returned from Japan where she was promoting her latest album, “Beautiful Life.” Friday night, American audiences will get their ﬁrst taste of Reeves’ newest work in a concert at Strathmore. “Beautiful Life,” due out in the States in Febru-

ary, has already been released in Europe. It features 12 tracks, a combination of original songs and covers. “Most of my jazz records are a mixture of covers [and originals],” Reeves said. “That’s kind of the

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Aidan Quinn and Christine Stay make up the folk band Friction Farm, which is set to play at the Sugarloaf Coffeehouse in Germantown on Oct. 19.

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Aidan Quinn and Christine Stay aren’t your typical folk musicians. Stay is quick to point out she earned a degree in engineering, while Quinn has one in geology. So how did the two of them come together to form a band? “Aidan’s been a musician for most of his life,” Stay said. “His family is very musical. I never was. I came from a very quiet household. … I discovered it through him and fell in love with playing and writing. One day we said, ‘What are we waiting for?’ We left our jobs and started doing this.” “This” turned into the folk group Friction Farm, which

will be making a stop on Oct. 19 at the Sugarloaf Coffeehouse in Germantown. Stay said she calls the music the group performs “modern folk” because they draw from the folk tradition of storytelling, but it is modernized because of the types of stories they tell and the melodies they sing. Coming up with the name Friction Farm, however, is a story unto itself. “In that desperate moment of needing a name because we were going to play our ﬁrst show, we were kicking around ideas,” Stay said. “People had commented on the fact that we’re extraordinarily happy people and

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Magician Joe Romano returns to the BlackRock Center for the Arts on Saturday for his third annual Spooky Magic Show. This year’s family-friendly act, which Romano said is suitable for children 5 and older, features some new tricks, including transforming an everyday handkerchief into a ghost and an unsuspecting audience member into a mummy. Halloween is a busy time of year for Romano who also performs the “Stage Fright” show as a part of Six Flags America’s Fright Fest in Upper Marlboro. “Houdini died on Halloween night so a lot of magicians dedicate the month [of October] to him,” Romano said. “Magic week is the last week in October as well.” It was Harry Houdini, the 1920s illusionist famous

for his escape acts, who ﬁrst inspired Romano to explore magic as a profession. “Fourth grade is when I got a book on Houdini and when it got started for me,” Romano said. “ ... I got that book on Houdini and thought, ‘That would be a cool job.’” Even before his introduction to Houdini, Romano

remembers being fascinated by magic. Romano was 3 or 4 years old and living in Guam, where his father was stationed in the U.S. Navy, when he saw his ﬁrst magic show. “I saw a magician at a dinner and that was kind of my ﬁrst experience,” Romano said. “I remember it like it was yesterday.” Later, Romano watched magicians like David Copperfield perform unbelievable stunts and became even more entranced by the world of magic. “When you saw magic being presented in such a cool fashion, that was kind of [an] inspiration for me,” Romano said. Today, Romano, who

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The World of Montgomery Festival returns this year, highlighting the diverse ethnic populations in the area with hands-on programming for kids, families and adults. Pictured is the Chinese Cultural Center dragon.

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Montgomery meets world

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The World of Montgomery Festival returns from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday at Westﬁeld Wheaton, Wheaton Plaza, 11160 Veirs Mill

Road. Organized by the KID (Kid International Discovery) Museum, this year’s theme, “Essentials of Life,” will explore the importance and use of water around the world; an expanded Global Kitchen, featuring hands-on cooking projects for children; a series of art projects reﬂecting family, culture and celebrations, and much more. Additionally, exhibits spotlighting four countries with some of the largest immigrant populations in Montgomery County — China, El Salvador, Ethiopia and India — will feature artifacts, photographs and demonstrations. The festival celebrates the diverse cultural heritages playing an active role in the lives of Montgomery County residents and showcases such diversity via food, music, dance, exhibits and activities. Admission is free. For more information, visit www. worldofmontgomery.com.

The eighth annual Spooky Movie International Horror Film Festival culminates this weekend at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring.

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Organist Paul Jacobs.

Nationally acclaimed organist Paul Jacobs will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday at St. Luke Lutheran Church, 9100 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. The program will include Bach’s “Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 532,” Schumann’s “Canon in A-ﬂat Major, Op. 56, No. 4” and Mozart’s “Andante in F, K. 616,” among others. Tickets are free, but donations will be accepted. For more information, call 301-588-4363.

A big honor

Casie Platt as Lulu in a scene from Imagination Stage’s “Lulu and the Brontosaurus.”

Local author Judith Viorst will be honored with the Imagination Award during Imagination Stage’s 2013 gala, “Stories Make the World Go ’Round,” on Saturday at the Bethesda theater. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. with pre-show cocktails and a silent auction, followed by an original performance by the theater’s students and professional actors. Viorst is the author of “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day,” and “Lulu and the Brontosaurus.” Viorst also penned the musical adaptation of “Lulu” that recently kicked off the 2013-14 season at Imagination Stage. Individual tickets to the gala are $250. For more information, visit www.imaginationstage.org.

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Showcasing the latest in horror cinema from around the globe, the program kicked off Oct. 10 with a screening of Bobcat Goldthwait’s found-footage bigfoot thriller “Willow Creek.” Twenty-two features and 29 shorts were spattered throughout the festival’s ten nights, which comes to a close this weekend with zombie horror ﬂicks like “Halley” and “Buck Wild” on Friday, before putting a stake through the heart of the matter on Saturday with the 1970s classic “Scream, Blackula, Scream,” hosted by none other than local horror host Count Gore De Vol. For a complete schedule, visit www.aﬁ.com/silver.

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The visiting Shanghai Ballet will perform “La Sylphide” on Thursday at Montgomery College in Rockville. The 1832 French ballet was the ﬁrst example of “en pointe” dancing on the tips of the toes, a technique intended to convey an airy, spirit-like quality. The production, designed to evoke the light and spirit-like nature of sylphs, led to the development of the “white ballet,” which evolved with its boxed toes and white tutus into what is today called “classical ballet,” represented by works such as “Swan Lake.” The Shanghai Ballet will perform the two-act work on Thursday at the Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center at the Montgomery College campus in Rockville. Formed in 1979, the awardwinning Shanghai Ballet performs classical Western ballets and original Chinese works. It became internationally known for its production of “White-Haired Girl,” an opera that became a ﬁlm and a ballet about women during the Communist revolution in China. “The Shanghai Ballet is a company with 35 years of experience,” Xin said. “We perform classical ballets to keep the original tradition of ballet alive, but we are also devoted to doing new productions with Chinese themes.” The company has since toured throughout China and in countries around the world,

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including the United States, Canada, France, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Norway and Finland. “La Sylphide” is based on an 1822 novella by the French author Charles Nodier called “Trilby, ou le lutin d’Argail.” It originally was choreographed by Filippo Taglioni and adapted four years later by August Bournonville. Nodier drew on Gothic and other fantastic tales, which inspired writers, musicians and artists during the Romantic period in Europe in the early 1800s. The ballet tells the story of the attraction of a young man named James to an ethereal woman, the Sylphide, living in a forest in Scotland on the eve of James’ wedding to Efﬁe. James is asleep in a chair dreaming when Sylphide kisses him, setting in motion his pursuit of her. Xin said through Le that one of the highlights of the production is the Scottish folk dance in Act I and the group dance in Act II. “The Scottish dance is quite special. ... We hope you enjoy our show,” Xin said. vterhune@gazette.net

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The ballet “La Sylphide” caused quite a stir in 1832 when it was ﬁrst performed in Paris. The reason was because the ballerina wore a reinforced shoe, enabling her to dance on her toes in a style that would become known as en pointe. She also wore a three-quarterlength white skirt, enabling the audience to see her ankles as she danced. “It was shocking, because it was a revolution in costumes,” said Xin Lili, artistic director of the Shanghai Ballet through translator Ye Lihong in an email. “It was the first time you could see the legs of the ballerinas.”

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Hit a home run with a Dubbel Dubbel is a Belgian-style brown ale originally brewed at Trappist monasteries but now produced by many other breweries in Belgium and the United States. For many people Dubbels are their ﬁrst introduction to Belgian beers because of their soft and sweet ﬂavors. These are modern re-creations of beers brewed in the Middle Ages at monasteries.

BREWS BROTHERS STEVEN FRANK AND ARNOLD MELTZER Modern Dubbels were first brewed by the Trappist Abbey of Westmalle in 1856 as a strong version of a brown beer. In 1926 the recipe was reformulated to, among other things, slightly increase its strength. This Dubbel Bruin beer was quickly copied and became widespread. The name Dubbel probably derives from an earlier time with widespread illiteracy, when Belgian Abbey brewers marked their casks with x, xx and xxx, denoting increasing levels of alcohol, but only relative strength was intended. The marks also indicated greater volumes of ingredients in the brewing mash. Eventually the Abbey brewers replaced the various x markings with single, dubbel and tripel. Dubbels and tripels were used for holidays and religious celebrations. Dubbels are brewed with dark candi sugar, a special cane or beet sugar that has been caramelized. Different from most brown beers, which derive their color from roasted malts that add chocolate and coffee flavors, the candi sugar adds the color and flavors of burnt sugar

REEVES

Continued from Page B-5 tradition of jazz; taking famous songs and giving them a jazz perspective.” Reeves was born in Detroit and grew up in Denver. She said in her family, “music was not just entertainment, but a way of life.” Both of Reeves’ parents were musicians and her uncle was a bass player in the Denver Symphony Orchestra. “My uncle was really at the center for a lot of the music for the young people in our family.” That included George Duke, Reeves’ cousin and a renowned jazz-funk keyboardist. Duke passed away in August at age 67. Though she sang with fam-

MAGIC

Continued from Page B-5 lives in Alexandria, Va., spends his days making magic cool for a whole new generation. Though Halloween is his busiest time of year, Romano works year-round performing in schools, at parties

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Continued from Page B-5 think that maybe we don’t have all the pressures and stresses and disappointments in life. We do, of course, have all those things. We have the joy of writing songs about them instead of just internalizing them. From the friction that everyone has in

and raisins. Other flavors come from the use of special Belgian yeasts. Many of the best versions are bottle conditioned. They are dark amber to dark brown, usually with a reddish hue. Dubbels have a medium-full body and an aroma of malty sweetness, and may have notes of chocolate, caramel, dark fruits and occasionally apples or bananas. Flavors including dark fruits (plums, raisins, dried cherries) are common and clove-like spiciness is optional, with the flavors balanced toward malts. Dubbels have a full mouth feel, and a low hop presence (15-30 International Bittering Units), mostly from noble-type floral hops. The alcohol content ranges from 6.25 to 8.5 percent alcohol by volume. Dubbels are robust beers that, among the meats, pair well with barbecue, stews, rib roasts, lamb and duck. They also compliment seared scallops, washed rind and cheddar cheeses, and sweets such as dark chocolate, truffles and chocolate bread pudding. Westmalle Dubbel (6.5% ABV) is brewed by the Trappist Abbey of Westmalle in Westmalle, Belgium. This classic of the style has a wonderful medium sweet malt aroma with a touch of melon. Complex and sherry-like, the Westmalle Dubbel has a muted sweet malt front and a middle of currants, melon and a splash of alcohol. The currants, melon and malt flavors grow in the finish and last into the aftertaste before fading. Ratings: 9/9. Allagash Dubbel (7% ABV), produced by Allagash Brewing in Portland, Maine, has a light, dull raisin nose leading to a medium sweet malt front. The

IN THE ARTS DANCES Hollywood Ballroom, Oct. 16, free International Quickstep Routine lesson at 7:30 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8:15 p.m. ($16); Oct. 17, 24, Tea Dance from 12:30–3:30 p.m. ($6); Oct. 18, drop-in lessons from 7:30-9 p.m., West Coast Swing Dancing with Dance Jam Productions at 9 p.m. ($15); Oct. 20, free Tango lesson at 7 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8 p.m. ($16); Oct. 23, free International Quickstep Routine lesson at 7:30 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8:15 p.m. ($16), 2126 Industrial Highway, Silver Spring, 301-3261181, www.hollywoodballroomdc. com Glen Echo Park is at 7300 MacArthur Blvd. Blues, Capital Blues: Thurs-

Ommegang Abbey Ale hails from Cooperstown, N.Y. raisins burst into the middle, reaching medium, and lasting into the ﬁnish and aftertaste. A touch of bitter hops joins in the aftertaste and lingers. Ratings: 6.5/6.5. Ommegang (8.5% ABV) is made by Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown, N.Y. Its candi sugar, fruit and plum bouquet presages a light sugar front with hints of dark fruit. The effervescent middle displays a moderate dark cherry and with notes of dark plum that continue in the ﬁnish, merging with a light yeast. In the aftertaste, the fruity character lingers, joined by a touch of licorice and a slight alcoholic warmth. Ratings: 8.0/7.5. Peres Trappist Ale (7% ABV), popularly known as Chimay Red, is brewed at the Scourmont Abbey in Chimay, Belgium.

ily for years, Reeves said it wasn’t until junior high school that she realized just how much she loved performing in front of other people. “I was doing a project with our choir,” she remembered. “I had been singing at home but I never sang in front of audiences. And I loved the feeling that I got. It was empowering. I loved that the audience responded the way it did. It was an incredible experience and I thought, ‘I want to do this.’” Reeves pays tribute to some of the artists she grew up with on “Beautiful Life,” including a cover of “I Want You,” by Marvin Gaye. “[I grew up] listening to people like Marvin Gaye and loved ‘The Temptations,’” Reeves said. “Motown music was very much a part of our lives at that time.”

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Chimay Red has a restrained cherry nose. The medium candi sugar sweet front leads into a light sweet cherry middle that lastsintotheﬁnish,whereamodest raisin is added. These ﬂavors continue into the slightly dry aftertaste, where the cherry fades but the raisin and candi sweetness linger. Ratings: 7.5/7.5. Other dubbels include Flying Fish Abbey Dubbel (Somerdale, N.J., 7.2% ABV, 7.5/7.5); Brewers Art Resurrection (Pottstown, Pa., 7% ABV, 6.5/6.5); Dogfish Head Raison D’Etre

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But it was another, perhaps more surprising genre of music that has helped to shape Reeves’ sound over the course of her successful career. “When I first started performing in Los Angeles, I worked on a project with Caldera and with Eduardo de Barrio from Argentina,” Reeves said. Caldera was an American jazz-funk band with a heavy Latin influence. Reeves said she was immediately drawn to Latin music. “I just loved it,” she said. Reeves’ immersion into the Latin genre continued into the 1980s when Reeves caught the attention of Latin-jazz and salsa musician and composer Tito Puente and Brazilian musician Sérgio Mendes. The Latin influence has remained a constant staple

days, 8:15 p.m. beginner lesson, 9-11:30 p.m. dancing to DJs, Glen Echo Park’s Spanish Ballroom Annex, $8, www.capitalblues.org. Contra, Oct. 18, Steve Gester calls to Triple Helix; Oct. 25, Will Mentor with Perpetual Emotion, 7:30 p.m. lesson, 8:30 p.m. dance, Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $10, www.fridaynightdance.org. Contra & Square, Oct. 20, Jean Gorrindo with Crab Apples; Oct. 27, Costume Dance with Perpetual e-Motion, Will Mentor calling, 7:30 p.m., Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $12 for general, $9 for members, $5 for students, www. fsgw.org. English Country, Oct. 16, Caller: Stephanie Smith; Oct. 23, Special Guest Jacqueline Schwab on piano; Oct. 30, Caller: Marth Siegel, 8 p.m., Glen Echo Town Hall (upstairs), www.fsgw.org.

Now and Then Dance Studio, Saturday Ballroom dances,

second and fourth Saturdays, beginner group lesson at 8 p.m., open dancing at 9 p.m., $10 cash at door (all men admitted at half price throughout October), 10111 Darnestown Road, Rockville. 301424-0007, www.nowandthendancestudios.com. Scottish Country Dancing, 8-10

in Reeves’ career and a personal favorite even though she said she doesn’t always understand the lyrics. “Miriam Makeba, Celia Cruz, all of these people that I ended up listening to and hearing them in concert and stuff and not really knowing what they’re saying,” Reeves said. “There were records I would play over and over and over again and started to understand the power of music is beyond words.” Reeves honors the universal language of music in “Tango,” a track off of “Beautiful Life.” “‘Tango’ is a wordless song and it is inspired by all of the records I have in my collection of people’s music who I love ...” Reeves said. While the Latin feel of “Beauti-

p.m. Mondays, steps and formations taught. No experience, partner necessary, T-39 Building on NIH campus, Wisconsin Avenue and South Drive, Bethesda, 240505-0339. Swing, Nov. 9, WWII Canteen Dance with the Eric Felten Jazz Orchestra; Dec. 14, Daryl Davis, lesson at 8 p.m., dancing at 9 p.m., Glen Echo Park, $15, www.ﬂyingfeet.org. Waltz, Oct. 6, Larry, Elke and Friends; Oct. 20, Gigmeisters, 2:45-3:30 p.m. lesson, 3:30-6 p.m., dance, $10, www.waltztimedances.org.

MUSIC & DANCE Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club, Abbe Buck, 7:30 p.m. Oct.

16; Ingratitude: A Tribute to Earth, Wind & Fire, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 18; The Fabulous Hubcabs, 8 p.m. Oct. 19; Deaf Dog and the Indictments & Feels So Good Band, 7 p.m. Oct. 20, call for tickets, 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. 240-330-4500, www.bethesdabluesjazz.com. BlackRock Center for the Arts, Buskin & Batteau, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 17; Furever (ﬁlm), 8 p.m. Oct. 18; The Spooky Magic of Joe Romano, 1 p.m. Oct. 19; Carolyn Malachi, 8 p.m. Oct. 19; Julie Fowlis, 8 p.m. Oct. 25-26, call for tickets, 12901 Town Commons Drive, Germantown. 301-528-2260, www.blackrockcenter.org. Fillmore Silver Spring, Rusko — The Lift Off Tour with Special Guests Roni Size and Dynamite MC, 8 p.m. Oct. 18; Aaron Carter, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20, 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, 301-960-9999, FillmoreSilverSpring.com, www. livenation.com.

Institute of Musical Traditions — Takoma Park, Celtic Voices:

Lisa Moscatiello, Barbara Tresidder Ryan & Loralyn Coles, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 16; Takoma Park Community Center, call for prices, times, Takoma Park Community Center, 7500 Maple Ave., Takoma Park, 301-960-3655, www.imtfolk. org.

ful Life” is nothing new for Reeves, the record’s soulful vibe is. “I wanted a record that had a fresh kind of framework around it,” Reeves said. “Be myself but do something that is new and current ... I had never done a soulful infused record ... it was something different.” Whether it’s her familiar Latin feel or the less familiar soulful sound audiences connect with Friday night, Reeves said she hopes people leave “uplifted.” “When I’m in front of them, I’m uplifted,” Reeves said. “Given the times we’re in ... hopefully it’s a place where they can feel really, really good and forget what’s going on for a minute and have some peace.” chedgepeth@gazette.net

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and corporate events. When school is in session, Romano travels to elementary schools as far north as Long Island, N.Y., and as far south as Richmond, Va., for his program “Books: The Magic is Real!” Romano started the program in 1998 and teaches academic subjects such as reading and math

and character education and conﬂict resolution through illusions and magic tricks. “You have to ﬁnd that balance,” Romano said. “When it comes to the entertainment portion, I’m really looking at the kids and for the educational aspect, I’m looking at the teachers.”

One of the leading school shows in the Northeast, Romano hopes to expand “The Magic is Real!” to schools in other states across the country. “We sold a license [for the show] to someone in Seattle. That’s the ﬁrst step in franchising our show,” Romano said. “I think I’d like to expand our

brand more in other states.” Romano also has his eyes set on TV. “I wouldn’t mind giving ‘America’s Got Talent’ a shot,” he said. While “America’s Got Talent” reaches an older audience, Romano’s already managed to capture the attention of his

younger fans. “I think I know what kids kind of gravitate toward ...” he said. “To keep kids’ attention for 45 minutes is a challenge ... It’s a challenge to combine a message with magic and I like that. It’s a fun thing to do.”

their lives, we farm songs.” Stay and Quinn spent most of last year on the road, traveling from place to place performing. The two read a lot of different books during their travels. “There’s a lot of downtime when you’re on the road and we both like to read,” Stay said. “It’s a small van, so we only have a certain number of books. We were reading the same books

over the course of a week and we’d chat about them. I thought it would just be fun if we saw where those stories took us.” From those conversations came Friction Farm’s latest album, “I Read Your Book,” a collection of songs inspired by those books. The books ranged in theme from “The Voyage of the Beagle” to “Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.”

“[We didn’t do it] with the intent of making a CD,” Stay said. “It was, ‘Let’s make some songs and see what it does for us musically and just put it aside.’ In the end, we came up with … songs based on the books. “It’s not necessarily a straight line from the book to the song.” For those who have never had the chance to see Friction

Farm perform, Stay said nothing can quite compare to a live show. “Obviously, we’re going to play music from this CD and the previous ones,” Stay said. “The reason I think people should come out to a live show, rather than just buy the CD, is that it’s a very different experience. We do a lot of chatting with the audience and talk about where the

songs come from and our life on the road. We sort of feed off their energy in terms of ﬁguring out where the set list is going to go. It’s a very different experience than sitting on your own and listening. It’s more energetic, it’s more spontaneous. It’s very much a cooperative effort with the audience.”

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Lux 3lvl EU/TH, Gar 2MBR, 2.5BA, LR DR, FR, FP,EIK, Deck $1800. 301-792-9538

GAITHER:

4Br, 3.5Ba, TH, HOC H/W floors, nr I270, MC, & Metro/Bus, $1800 + util 202-215-8888

G A I T H : HOC

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Ok Renov 5br 2fb 2hb, new paint & carpet, Nr Public Transp $2150 301-254-4878

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FRED: Nice 4br/4ba

end unit w/fireplace $1570/mo. Custom lease. 301-591-4317

N. POTOMAC: 4BR,

3BA, Wootton district, Quite cul-de sac, $2190+utils 301-2227236 / 301-320-6088

Rice (301) 670-2667 for pricing and ad deadlines.

GERM: great loc, qui- G R E E N B E L T / et neighborhood, new- LANHAM: $1895. ly renov TH. 3BR 2.5 BA, all new appliances, flooring, & deck w/great bck yrd $1650 Call: 301-775-5074

N.POTOMAC: 2br

3BR/3BA Gar TH, Near NASA,,METRO 95&am-p;295. 2-car OSP. Deck, FP. & More. 12 mo. lease min. NO PETS. Deposit & App.Info .Call Mick @ 301-758-2504

BOYDS/NR Rt # 118 bsmt Apt in SFH 2BR’s, foyer, bath, all appl, kitchen, pvt ent Male/Female. $1500 inc util 240-899-1694

DMSCUS/GERM:

DWNTWN BETHESDA: 1/1 Util

GAITH: 1BR + den

3Br, 1.5Ba, deck, renov nr bus/shops, $1390/mo + util Call: 240-508-3497

BELTSVILLE: 1 Lrg

rm w/2 closets in 4BR & 2BA SFH. $550 + utils, dep req. NS.M pref. Nr Public Trans. W/D. Rmmates ages 22-28. 301-448-9064

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Contact Ashby

GAITH:M BRs $430+ 440+475+555+ Maid Ns/Np, nr 270/370/Bus shops, quiet, conv.Sec Dep 301-983-3210

For Rent $500/mo + Sec Dep Req, share utils pets ok call 301639-6777

Spacious Master BR w/pvt ba, 2 closets. nr shops/bus. $700 +elec 240-273-6341

GAITH: Rm w/pvt BA

N. POTOMAC: Lrg

SS: Spacious/Bright Bsmt w/prvt Ent in SFH. BA, Kit, W/D. $1200 + utils. Nr Metro /Shops 301-593-8898

in SFH $550 Plus Utils 1st and Last Month in Advance Deposit Req. Call 240-606-7259

MT. AIRY: Rooms SS/BRIDGE CHNY:

furn basement room, BA, Comcast, gym. Storage, kit and laundry privileges. $875 incl util. 301-529-8632

(possibly 2 BR); prvt FREDERICK: 2BD patio, W/D, Walk to in TH. $375 and $575 1.5ba 2lvl end unit TH Incl 50 App Fee Shops, Nr Metro/Bus, incl all util and interhuge back yrd, Lg liv $1700/mo 1700 DeHOC. 240-383-1000 rm, dinrm, eat-in-kit, HYATTSVILLE net. $200 & $400 deposit 240-723-9448 wood fpl, new carpet BEAUTIFUL HOME IN posit. Free car avail G A I T H : SFH, 3Br, paint/Appl.Wootton HS NICE CUL DE SAC for tenant. Near public 3.5Ba, deck, fenced, OLNEY:1br pvt bath GAITH: 2bd,2ba LAKESIDE APTS $1,550 301-221-0697 trans. Close to FSK finished Bsmt. Open entr in Bsmt ot TH NEIGHBERHOOD 4 renovated,patio, near house 10/20 1p -4pm. $700 + utils, F. Ns/Np Mall. 240-506-2259 BD, 3 BA, NEW CAR- GAITHERSBURG costco,bus,mall,I270 OLNEY: TH, 2Br, Half Month Free nr Bus. 240-277-5963 $1850. 240-418-3919 PET & FLOOR, FIN$1300/mo + utils 1.5BA, Excellent conGAITHERS: 1BR in or 301-370-0916 ISHED BSMT, Large 1 or 2 BR Apts CALL(301)678-9182 dition EU w/fpl, Pool, SFH unfurn. $650 utils GE RMA NT OWN : FENCED BACKYARD, Short/long term leases Tennis NS/NP. Avail incl. Male NS/NP, 1 1BR, BA, Shrd Kit., OLNEY: 2BR ConUtilities Included N E A R Oct 15 $1550/mnth Great Prices GAITHER: 3Br, + mile frm I-270. Avail close to bus & stores, do, fully furn, 3mo SHOPS,SCHOOL, 301-570-4467 Master den, 2 Ba, renovated, Immed 240-372-1168 $450/month incl utils. lease/longer UMCP AND BELT301-830-0046 BR w/BA-$800 or BRSec 8 welcome, G A I T H E R S B U R G 301-366-8689 $2200/MON POTOMAC: lrg 3 br, WAY $700 301-922-1648 $1800/mo inc util 1Br in an Apartment 2.5 ba, SFH, finished UTIL NOT INCLD 1 GERMANTOWN N . P O T O M A C Call: 410-800-5005 basement, living rm, MONTH SEC DEP 2 $600/ mo util included 2 BR in TH, $485 & O L N E Y / R O C K : ROCKVILLE: 1 BR dining rm, den w/fp, YEAR LEASE JOHN Apt. $1250 incl util, Ns/Np, Nr Metro, Bus $525 both incl utils. Great Deal! SFH, deck, carport, com- (301)384-0067 CATV, Free Parking HYATTS/COLL. PK: Shops. 240-603-3960 N/S, N/P. Avail immed ground flr, 1 lrg room pletely remodeled, & eat in kit, furnished. Avail now. NS/NP High Rise 2BR condo GAITHERSBURG: CALL: 240-361-3391 clse to 270, $2800/ Prvt BA/Ent W/D. w/ lrg bal $1400 all Fully furnished 1BD, CALL: 301-424-9205 mnth, One wk free. util. incl. 240-447- 1BA in Apt. $550 incl GE RMA NT OWN : NS/NP. $900 utils & 240-372-8050 TH, Lg MBR, priv Ba, cable incld. Off street 5072/ 301-528-1011 SILVER SPRING : util. Near Marc Train. near bus/I270, NS/NP parking. Call 301-774Dwntwn Flower Ave. ROCKVILLE: 3BR, 301-204-6081 $600 inc util/int + SD 9656 ask for Slava 2br 1ba Apt. 2BA, newly renovated, I Buy Houses Unfurn ROCKVILLE: spa- GAITHERSBURG: W/D/kit 301-580-6833 HOC Welcome $1250 h/w floors, fenced ydr, cious 1 br condo near Lg Bsmt w/BA, $650 ROCKVILLE: Furn CASH! 202-246-1977 great loc, $1925/mo metro Monroe St, utils incld, 1 room GE RMA NT OWN : 1Br in SFH, shrd Ba, 301-742-1021 Quick Sale $1000 +fee 579, uncl $495 . Call 240-848Villa TH to share. kit, good for college parking, util, wash/dry, 4483 or 301-977-6069 $650. 1BD w/bath. student, female, $600 SIL SPRING: 3 LVL Fair Price pool sauna, security, Avail now. 301-528- inc util 240-426-1938 TH; 3BR, 2BA, Deck, 703-940-5530 some furn 301-315- GAITHERSBURG: 8688 W/D, w/o bsmt, Nr SILVER SPRING: Lg priv living room 8075 2404184333 Briggs Chaney/RT 29 BETH: beautiful 1400 Furn Br in End large Room for rent GERM: w/1bed, priv ba, $1450. 240-780-1770 sqft,3br,2fba/den/offic $525 in bsmt shared shared kitchen. $800 unit TH close to twn $2200+elec 301-452incl util. 301-529-2568 cntr DOE/MC $500 inc kit, Ba, W/D, & Utils 3636 bethesdagirl@ util NS Tina 240-912- avail now call 301to advertise juno.com nr Mont Mall GAITHERSBURG: 7900/ 240-481-1900 404-2681 call looking for fem tenants BETH/KENS: Bright. Newer, 1 BR. DMSCUS/GERM: ASPEN HILL: 1 for 2 BD w/shared BA. K E N S I N G T O N : SILVER SPRING: 301.670.7100 Walk tran. W/D. Park- 2Br, 1Ba, patio, fpl, tenant, 1Br w/BA, Close to 270/355. 1BD, 1BA apt/in-law Rm for rent $600 incld or email Separate en- utils; 2BR 2BA Condo renov nr shared kit & living rm, $500 & $550 utils incl. suite. ing. NS/NP. Avail. fully class@gazette.net Now $1195 Call Jan bus/shops, $1250/mo NS/NP, inter access. trance. $850 incl. util. for Rent $1650 inclds $600/mnth & utils, 240-460-2582 + util 240-508-3497 Conv. 301-962-5778 Parking 240-418-8785 NP/NS. 240-274-6437 at 301-520-5179

TWINBROOK:

RMs $650 ea inc Wifi and Bsmt w/priv Ba $800 NS/NP nr Bus & Metro 301-221-7348

WHEATON 1 Large

BR, Female, 5min to Metro On Veirs Mill Rd $650 uti incl. NS/NP Call: 240-447-6476

WHEATON:

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to advertise Realtors & Agents call 301.670.2641

to advertise Rentals & for sale by owner 301.670.7100 or email class@gazette.net

Wednesday, October 16, 2013 s

WANTED Handmade Items Only! Rockville Senior Center

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a Harris Bed Bug Kit. Complete Room Treatment Solution. Ordorless, Non Staining. Available online at: homedepot.com (NOT IN STORES)

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Sale!10/19-10/20 Furniture, clothes, bikes, pool table, TVs Our trash could be your treasure!!! 6 Midsummer Court

Buy Harris Roach Tablets. Eliminate Roaches-Guaranteed. No Mess. Odorless. Long Lasting. Available at ACE Hardware, and The Home Depot.

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An Information Session will be held by NCCF on October 26, 2013 from 12pm - 3pm at White Oak Library, 11701 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD for more information

www.nccf-cares.org

FIREWOOD FOR SALE Mix Hardwood $

180 a Cord

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DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 4, 2013

MOMS

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GP2352

for info. 301-528-4616

I AM A CNA:

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The National Center for Children and Families(NCCF) is currently seeking qualified persons to become foster parents in the Montgomery County area.

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For more info call Chris 301-515-5354 Ext. 16

furniture, toys, clothing, collectibles,books, baby items, HH items and much more. 25921 LaSalle Court

na Cabinet $100. OBO Call 301-585-5234 lv name & phone #

POTOMAC:

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CRAFTERS

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3 301-528-4616 01-528-4616

FT Cook/Housekeeper/ Driver

For children after school, wanted for Potomac family with 2 school age (1215) kids. Must be very responsible, hardworking, honest, love to cook, have exc refs, stable work history, clean record, own car and fluent in English. Please call 240-205-2847. to advertise call home for Seniors in 301.670.7100 Potomac,MD. Will or email Train. 240-506-7719 class@gazette.net

LIVE-IN CARE GIVER Needed for group

CONVALESCENT CARE Needed PT

Live-in/wkends & FT Tue-Thur. CPR Cert. 202-446-5849 oceanp 2006@yahoo.com

I AM A NANNY/HSKPR: 25yrs exp. US Citizen, with great references and own car. 240-507-7283

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Careers 301-670-2500

class@gazette.net CERTIFIED TRANS. REBUILDERS

Career Training

15 yrs Exp. Good references. Salary up to $70,000

Email: leefairleyp@aol.com Fax: 301-877-1926

MAINTENANCE DIRECTOR

Retirement community in Aspen Hill, MD is seeking maint. dir. with strong leadership. Must have HVAC, boiler, & EMS knowledge. Send resume & salary reqs. to

office@homecresthouse.org

NURSING ASSISTANT

TRAINING IN JUST 4 WEEKS

EOE

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Now Enrolling for November 4th Classes

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2006 Subaru Legacy WGN..................6,970

2001 Dodge Dakota Club Cab............9,997

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2001 Toyota Corolla LE.....................2,988

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2003 Saturn L-200.............................5,990

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2007 Ford Escape XLT.......................9,988

2001 Cadillac Deville........................6,988

2006 Buick Lucerne CXS.................10,470

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2000 Isuzu Rodeo LS.........................6,988

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2008 Subaru Outback WGN.............10,688 #KP21097, Pampered!, AT, P/Options, HTD Seat

2005 Dodge Durango Limited..........10,988

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2005 Dodge Caravan SXT..................6,990

2005 Toyota Avalon XL ...................10,988 2005 Cadillac CTS 3.6....................11,488

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2002 Olds Alero GLS.........................4,488

2005 Mazda Mazda 6........................7,997

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2006 Chrysler PT Cruiser GT..............7,998

2006 Subaru Legacy Outbk 2.5XT...11,988

2007 Caddy STS..............................12,990

2008 Hyundai Veracruz Limited AWD.....18,988

2004 Acura MDX AWD.....................11,988

2012 FIAT 500 POP..........................13,970

2010 Ford Econoline XLT.................19,745

#KP43564, NICE!, MNRF, PW/PLC, MD INSP’D

#KP84551, CLEAN 89k! PW/PLC, CC, MD INSP’D

#KP47705, AT, AC, PW/PLC, MD INDP’D, Don’t Miss!

2001 Saturn LW-300 Wagon..............4,488

#KP25777, PW/PLC, CC, CD, 5SPD, Gas Saver.

#KP0810, SHARP! Turbo, AT, P/Options

2001 Toyota Sequoia SR-5 4WD ........7,988

2007 Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer......11,870 #KP09074, MNRF, LTHR, AT, CD-6, WELL KEPT!

#KP62182, SHARP! DVD, MNRF, LTHR, DON’T MISS!

#KP78808, RARE FIND! AT, AC, PW, ALLOYS, CD

#KP09644A, $726 OFF KBB

2008 GMC Savana Cargovan...........11,988

2003 Jeep Grand Cherokee..............4,988

2001 Toyota Highlander Sport...........8,970

2009 Toyota Corolla LE...................12,588

#KP26952, 4WD, MNRF, P/Options, 2-Tone, Sharp! “HANDYMAN”

2006 Chrysler Sebring Touring..........5,745

#KP13090, ABS, CD, CC, Alloys, PW

2000 Buick Lesabre LTD...................5,955

#KP05316A, LTHR/HTD/PWER Seat, P/Options

G559733

UNDER $10,995

#KP11507, 4WD, MNRF, LTHR, CD CHGR/CASS, PSeat

2009 Suzuki SX4 Sport......................8,990

#KP71702B, NAV, P/Options, Fac Warr!

2008 Saturn Astra XE........................8,998

#KP59427, Beauty! Panoramic, MNRF, AT, P/Options

#KR11890, AT, AC, Tradesman

#KP65389, CLEAN, 50K! AT, PW/PLC, CD

2007 Dodge Magnum SXT.................12,770 #KX47343, GORGEOUS!! CHRME WHLS, LTHR/PWR SEAT, P/OPTS

12,990

2008 Toyota RAV 4.......................... #KP64756, Beauty! PW/PLC/PMR, CC, CD

#KP24515, ALL THE TOYS! NAV, LTHR, PWR OPTS

#KP03156, NICE! PW, ALLOYS, STABILITY, CD

2007 Honda Accord EX-L V6............13,990 #KP32745, Clean! MNRF, LTHR, CD CHGR

2009 Mazda 5 Wagon......................14,988 #KP57035, Auto, Sunroof, Leather, 3rd Row

15,985

#KP33232, GORGEOUS COGNAC INTERIOR LTHR, MNRF, P/OPTS #KN77515, 15 PASS, PW, CC, CD, Park Sense

2007 Infinity M35............................19,788 #FP50592, AWD, Pristine! NAV, MNRF, PSEAT, P/OPTS

20,488

2012 Dodge Grand Caravan SXT...... #KN41054, DVD, Backup CAM, PDRS/Gate, PSeat

2007 Ford F150 Super Crew Lariat.....21,970

2005 Nissan Titan LE....................... #KP66997, SUPER SHARP! Brush Guard, Fog LTS, PWR OPTS

#KP86231, NAV & Moonroof, LTHR

#KN03615, WGN, XLT, PW/PLC, RAC,CC, CD, 12 Pass

2010 Chrysler TWN & CNTRY............. #KP51814,SHOWROOM COND!! DVD/NAV/LTHR

2011 Ford Econoline E-350..............18,990

24,470