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n Alexander follows natural pathto lead conservation nonprofit

BY AGNES BLUMSTAFF WRITER

Growing up in the Chicago suburbs,Lisa Alexander would follow her motherinto nearby bogs to hunt for pitcher plants.

It was there in those peatlands, huntingthe carnivorous Sarracenia purpurea at hermother’s side, that she developed a love of

nature that has guided her career.“My mom was my first naturalist,”

Alexander said. “Everything was a naturehike with my mom.”

Throughout her career, Alexander hashonored her mother’s tradition of teach-ing about nature, culminating on Oct. 21in her appointment as executive director ofthe Audubon Naturalist Society, one of thearea’s leading environmental educationalnonprofits.

Founded in 1897, the Audubon Natu-ralist Society in Chevy Chase is a mem-

bership-based nonprofit that providesenvironmental education for all ages andadvocates on behalf of clean water, ru-ral lands and smart transportation in theWashington, D.C., area.

In September, Neal Fitzpatrick, whohad served as executive director since 1991,retired, and Alexander beat out about 40other candidates for the job. In her new po-sition, Alexander will oversee 53 employeesand more than 575 volunteers.

n Superintendent: Growingenrollment fuels need

BY LINDSAY A. POWERS

STAFF WRITER

Montgomery County PublicSchools Superintendent JoshuaP. Starr said he prioritized add-ing classroom space in his newlyproposed $1.55 billion CapitalImprovements Program for fis-cal years 2015 to 2020.

“We are bursting at theseams,” he said Monday atHighland Elementary School inSilver Spring, which is at maxi-mum capacity.

Starr said the school sys-tem needs $2.2 billion to coverall of its capital improvementneeds for the six-year period.He is proposing a $1.55 billionprogram, he said, because thecounty is currently facing “fiscalrestraints” and the school sys-tem is not getting the funding itdeserves from the state.

The proposed program isabout $184 million higher than

the current program, which cov-ers fiscal years 2013 to 2018.

Starr said the program ad-dresses the school system’s on-going, significant enrollmentgrowth with a recommenda-tion for 14 new classroom ad-dition projects. The plan alsomaintains schedules for other,previously approved capac-ity projects, including five newschools.

Since 2007, he said, theschool system has grown by14,000 students; another 11,000are expected over the next sixyears.

Even if the program werefully funded, Starr said, 13school clusters are expected tobe over capacity in fiscal 2020.Fifteen school clusters in thesystem are over capacity this fis-cal year.

Most of the school system’sgrowth has occurred in elemen-tary schools, he said.

Of the 14 classroom additionprojects, 12 are proposed for el-

Starr seeks $1.6 billionfor new classroomsand school projects

n Public-private partnershipcuts costs by 90 percent


Partnering with private com-panies to build and operate thePurple Line will save taxpayersabout 20 percent of the cost ofthe whole project, a state trans-portation official told a CountyCouncil committee Monday.

“They’re going to get thework done with fewer people,”said Henry Kay of future con-tractors, known as concession-aires.

Kay was one of several rep-resentatives from the MarylandTransit Authority and the De-partment of Transportation whospoke at the county Transporta-tion, Infrastructure, Energy andEnvironment committee meet-ing, detailing the process behindthe public/private partnershipalso known as P3.

The $2.2 billion Purple Lineis proposed to run 16.2 mileseast-west across Montgomeryand Prince George’s counties.Construction is slated to beginin 2015 and the state says it willbe operational in 2020.

The project has generatedcontroversy for the many prop-erties that will be demolished oraffected along the way, and theclear-cutting of 3 miles of theCapital Crescent Trail to makeroom for the tracks.

Unlike other public/privateventures, such as Beltway HOTlanes in Virginia, the conces-sionaire constructing and run-ning the Purple Line would nothave any control over fares norwould it make a profit fromthem.

Instead, a 30-year contractwould outline exactly what theconcessionaire would be paidin exchange for specific servicesrendered. These payouts arecalled “availability payments”because they depend on theavailability of the services out-lined in the contract.

Any problems or issueswith the Purple Line would behandled by the MTA and not theprivate company, Kay said.

Glenn Orlin, deputy staff di-rector for the County Council,asked what recourse the statewould have if the companystopped running trains as oftenas it had agreed to.

State: Purple Lineplan would savetaxpayer dollars

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PREP SCHOOLMATCHUPColton Rupp of Bethesda’s Landon Schoolcarries the ball as Brian Latham Jr. ofPotomac’s Bullis School gives chase duringSaturday’s game in Bethesda. Bullis won, 24-0.See high school football coverage, Page B-3.

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Lisa Alexander, the Audubon Naturalist Society’s new executive director, in the organization’s Woodend Sanctuary in Chevy Chase.

From bog to woods:AUDUBON’S NEW DIRECTOR DIGS IN

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n Will increase county supplementfor poorer households

BY RYAN MARSHALLSTAFF WRITER

Montgomery County is restoring a taxbreak for low-income working families.

The Montgomery County Councilvoted unanimously Tuesday to approve abill requiring an increase in the county’sWorking Families Income Supplement,

which provides money to taxpayers work-ing at or near the poverty level.

The increase could help people makea car payment they otherwise might havemissed, which could have jeopardized theirability to get to work and put their job atrisk, said Councilman Hans Riemer (D-AtLarge) of Silver Spring, who sponsored thebill.

Many community groups in the countystrongly supported the bill, Riemer said.

A county memorandum on the issuereported that representatives of Catholic

Charities, the Justice and Advocacy Coun-cil of Montgomery County, ProgressiveMaryland and Maryland Hunger Solutions,among other groups, supported the bill at aJuly public hearing.

Councilwoman Nancy Floreen (D-AtLarge) of Garrett Park said she’s alwaysvoted for a full match by the county, andshe hopes the county will be able to domore in the future in other areas.

“I’m fine with this solution, but I’m

Council OKs bill to help low-income families

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County honorsGlen Echo nonprofit

Montgomery College gradu-ate Aisha Kiggundu said she lackedguidance in her life when she cameto the U.S. without her parents.

Kiggundu immigrated to theU.S. when she was 17, leaving herparents behind in Uganda. Shedidn’t know what she wanted ina career, or who would help hersearch, until she heard about theFuture Link program from a friend.

“I didn’t know what I was doingin college, or what I was planningon actually studying,” she said.

Future Link helps disad-vantaged youth in MontgomeryCounty avoid unemployment andhomelessness through individualmentoring. Kiggundu said hermentor helped her discover occu-pational therapy.

“I just felt like this was ... some-thing perfect,” she said.

Her Future Link mentor pushedher to get better grades and stay ontrack while she worked to transferto Towson University.

The Montgomery County Coun-cil presented the Glen Echo nonprofitwith a proclamation this month thatrecognized its fifth anniversary. Ac-cording to Executive Director MindiJacobson, more than 200 youngadults have graduated from its one-year mentoring program.

“My mentor is like family tome,” Kiggundu said.

The program’s staff set upinformational interviews for Kig-gundu and took her on site visitsto local hospitals to help her findthe right career. She lived in Ger-mantown while she was enrolledat Montgomery College, but hassince moved closer to Towson tocontinue her education there. Sheis now training as an occupationaltherapist.

Jacobson said Kiggundu has“taken charge of her life” and con-

tinues to work with her Future Linkmentor to stay on track.

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Bethesda man ischurch music director

Matthew Robertson, who gradu-ated in 2005 from Walt WhitmanHigh School in Bethesda, is thenew director of music ministries atBradley Hills Presbyterian Churchin Bethesda.

The church has nurtured thecareers of several national and localmusicians, including organist Don-ald Sutherland and soprano PhyllisBryn-Julson.

Robertson comes to BradleyHills from Grace Church in Had-donfield, N.J., where he was direc-tor of music and artistic director forthe Haddonfield Center and Schoolfor the Performing Arts.

Robertson holds a bachelor’s ofmusic in organ performance fromOberlin (Ohio) College Conserva-tory. In 2012, he received a master’sof music in choral conducting fromthe Westminster Choir College ofRider University.

Bradley Hills Church has a650-member congregation and anursery school.

Robertson will direct the Brad-ley Hills Friends of Music ConcertSeries, which opens Saturday.

Kensington nonprofithits spaying milestone

Rock Creek Cats, a Kensingtonnonprofit dedicated to helping feraland stray cats, recently reached amilestone by spaying or neuteringits 1,000th cat.

Most of these surgeries have oc-curred during the past few years.

Through a process known astrap-neuter-return, Rock CreekCats humanely traps feral cats, hasthem spayed or neutered and vac-cinated, and returns them to theiroutdoor environment, while ensur-ing they have food and shelter.

The program reduces births,preventing the feral populationfrom getting out of control and re-ducing the number of cats who end

up in overloaded, so-called high-kill shelters.

Scouts launchfood drive this week

It’s time for Scouting for Food.Starting Saturday, Cub Scouts

and Boy Scouts across the countywill deliver empty plastic bags intheir neighborhoods, along witha flier explaining the Scouting forFood campaign.

A week later, on Nov. 9, theScouts will collect filled bags anddeliver them to one of several col-lection points, where they will beloaded into trucks for Manna FoodCenter in Gaithersburg, the main

food bank in Montgomery County.Residents participating in the

collection are asked to place filledbags outside their doors the morn-ing of Nov. 9.

If you have an interesting noteor photo to share about the peopleor an event in the community,please send it to Staff Writer AgnesBlum, The Bethesda Gazette, 9030Comprint Court, Gaithersburg, MD20877, or email to [email protected]. Our fax number is 301-670-7183. Photos should be 1 MB orlarger. Deadline is 5 p.m. Tuesdayfor consideration for the followingweek. All items are subject to spaceavailability.

FRIDAY, NOV. 1Ethnic Food Festival and Bazaar,

11 a.m.-8 p.m., St. Mark OrthodoxChurch, 7124 River Road, Bethesda,also 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Nov. 2 and noon-4p.m. Nov. 3. Free admission. 301-229-6300.

SATURDAY, NOV. 2All-You-Can-Eat Community Pan-

cake Breakfast, 8-10:30 a.m., St. Paul’sUnited Methodist Church, 10401Armory Avenue, Kensington. $6.50adults, $2 children under 12, $18 fam-ily maximum. 301-933-7933.

Senior Health Fair, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.,Brighton Gardens of TuckermanLane, 5550 Tuckerman Lane, NorthBethesda. 301-897-8566.

Bannockburn Craft Show, 11 a.m.-4p.m., Bannockburn Community Club,6314 Bannockburn Drive, Bethesda.Free admission. 301-229-4045.

Ethics, Fairness and Bias in theChanging World of Journalism, 2-3:30p.m., Cedar Lane Unitarian Universal-ist Church, 9601 Cedar Lane, Bethesda.

$10, free for students. 301-493-8300,ext. 207.

Opera at the Plaza with the Wash-ington National Opera, 3-5 p.m., TheShops at Wisconsin Place, 5310 West-ern Ave., Chevy Chase. $10 donationsuggested. 301-841-4000.

Step-Moms Stepping Out, 3-5 p.m.,The Edgemoor Club, 7415 Exeter Road,Bethesda. Free. 202-244-8855, ext. 2.

Come to the Cabaret, 7:30-9:30p.m., Bradley Hills PresbyterianChurch, 6601 Bradley Blvd., Bethesda.$20, $15 for seniors and students. 301-365-2850.

Pianist Finghin Collins, 8 p.m.,Westmoreland Congregational UnitedChurch of Christ, 1 WestmorelandCircle, Bethesda. Free. 301-320-2770.

SUNDAY, NOV. 3Chevy Chase At Home’s Third

Annual Open House, 2-4 p.m., TheWoman’s Club of Chevy Chase, 7931Connecticut Ave., Chevy Chase. Free,registration required. 301-657-3115.

Walking tour, 2-3:30 p.m., ClaraBarton Community Center, 7425 Ma-

cArthur Blvd., Cabin John. A historywalk to sites from the mid-1800s. $5,reservation required. 301-340-2825.

Capital Wind Symphony Concert,3 p.m., Landon School, 6101 WilsonLane, Bethesda. $15 for adults, $10 forseniors and students. 703-822-8282.

“Defiant Requiem” Film and PanelDiscussion, 6-9 p.m., Temple Emanuel,10101 Connecticut Ave., Kensington.A documentary about the prisoners ofTerezin during the Holocaust. $36 peradult, $18 per person under 18. 301-942-2000.

Piano Master Class with FinghinCollins, 8 p.m., Washington Conserva-tory of Music at Glen Echo Park, 7300MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo. Free; do-nations welcome. 301-320-2770.

MONDAY, NOV. 4Mobile Med’s Annual Meeting, 6:30

p.m., Suburban Hospital Auditorium,8600 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda.A catered reception followed bymeeting on “Community Health Op-portunities and Challenges in an Eraof Change.” [email protected].

An Evening with Seth Goldman,6:30-8 p.m., Bethesda-Chevy ChaseHigh School, 4301 East-West Highway,Bethesda. The “TeaEO” of Honest Teawill discuss business lessons. Free. [email protected].

Montgomery Planning CommunityMeeting for Bethesda Downtown Plan,7-9 p.m., Bethesda Chevy Chase Re-gional Services Center, 4805 EdgemoorLane, Bethesda. [email protected].

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Aisha Kiggundu, a recent Montgomery College graduate, was mentored throughFuture Link of Glen Echo.

DEATHSAngelo Mangano

Angelo Mangano, 60, died Oct. 7, 2013. Amemorial service will take place at 2 p.m. Nov.1 at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Aspen Hill. Acelebration of life will follow from 1 to 4:30 p.m.Nov. 2 at Lincoln Park Community Center, 357Frederick Ave., Rockville.

Richard Darnell YoungRichard Darnell Young, 51, of Germantown

died Oct. 23, 2013. Snowden Funeral Home inRockville handled the arrangements.

An Oct. 23 story aboutCommunity Service Weekhad an incorrect Web addressfor the Montgomery CountyVolunteer Center’s website,which is www.montgomery-serves.org.

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n Thieves used stolencredit cards at

pet store, Bethesda mall


Two people swiped a wom-an’s purse from her car in achurch parking lot and used hercredit card to buy a Yorkshireterrier puppy at the Just Puppiesstore in Rockville, MontgomeryCounty police reported Friday.

The victim of the theft,which took place Aug. 11, is a60-year-old woman who was at-tending services at the time at St.Jane Frances de Chantel Catho-lic Church on Old GeorgetownRoad in Bethesda, police said.

Less than two hours later,the two thieves — a man anda woman — used one of thevictim’s credit cards to buy the3-month-old puppy at the Twin-brook Shopping Center store.

The female used a fake driv-er’s licenseduringthetransaction.

Police on Friday releasedvideo footage of the pair in thestore. It can be seen at mym-cpnews.com/2013/10/25/police-investigate-theft-and-credit-card-fraud-puppy-pur-chased/.

This isn’t the first timethieves have targeted the puppyvendor. In April, a womanwalked out the door after stuff-ing a $1,000 Maltese puppy intoher purse.

Yorkshire terriers cost about$950, according to the Just Pup-pies website. No one at the storecould be reached for comment.

Because the original thefttook place in Bethesda, county— rather than Rockville — po-lice are investigating, said Cpl.Rebecca Innocenti, a countypolice spokeswoman.

The thieves continued theirspree at the Nordstrom depart-ment store at the Montgom-ery mall in Bethesda, charging$4,100 worth of clothing to thevictim’s credit card. They alsowere caught on tape at this store;the male can be seen shoppingwhile holding the puppy.

Anyone with informationabout this case or the thieves isasked to call Crime Solvers ofMontgomery County toll-free at866-411-8477 or leave a CrimeSolvers tip at this website: mym-cpnews.com/resources/crime-solvers-2/.

Crime Solvers will pay areward of up to $10,000 for in-formation that leads to an ar-rest and/or indictment for thiscrime. Tipsters will remainanonymous.

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Perpetrators purloinpurse, pilfer puppy

BY VICTORIA ST. MARTINTHE WASHINGTON POST

FrankJ.Muth,aformerpartnerof Muth Bros. builders of Bethesdafor more than 30 years, died Oct.

6 at an assisted living center inDoylestown, Pa. He was 99.

The cause was a stroke, saidhis son Eric Muth.

Frank Muth started the build-ing company with two brothers

in 1946. He managed buildingsites for Muth Bros., which con-structed commercial and resi-dential buildings in MontgomeryCounty. He retired in 1980.

He was born in Sopron,

Hungary, and immigrated to theU.S. with his family in 1921. Hegrew up in Reading, Pa., and at-tended the old Wyomissing (Pa.)Polytechnic Institute. He was anArmy veteran of World War II.

Muth was a longtimeBethesda resident and spentweekends at a family cottage onthe Patuxent River in Hollywood.He moved to Doylestown in 2008.

His wife of 63 years, Irene

Early Muth, died in 2002. Survi-vors include two children, JoeyVance of Bluffton, S.C., and EricMuth of Doylestown; a sister;five grandchildren; and sevengreat-grandchildren.

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This 3-month-old Yorkshire terrierwas purchased with a stolen creditcard at Just Puppies in Rockville.

n 62-year-old store in Chevy Chasedonates proceeds to local charities


At the Opportunity Shop, Joan Filsonruminated on the possibility that the storewould close as she searched for shelf spacefor a stack of hand-painted Victorian bowls.

“This shop is a win-win-win. It’s goodfor consignors, it’s good for buyers and it’sgood for charities,” said Filson, who hasvolunteered at the thrift store on WalshStreet for about 10 years. “It’s a great com-munity resource.”

It’s an affordable option, she added,which is increasingly scarce in theBethesda/Chevy Chase area.

After 62 years, that community re-source — a Chevy Chase shop founded in1951 to benefit local charities — is in trou-ble. Organizers have said they may haveto shutter its doors because there aren’tenough volunteers to help run it.

The small, packed store — sponsoredby nearby St. John’s Episcopal Church — istucked away in a nondescript office build-ing just off Wisconsin Avenue and downthe block from million-dollar homes.

The inside of the shop speaks to an-other world. Brass candlesticks, old linensand china from ages past fill the shelvesand almost every other surface inside.

In the back, a dozen or so volunteerssort through merchandise, tag items andorganize them. Another three or four vol-unteers work the front counters, which arerife with jewelry and crystal.

“It’s a lot of work,” said Mary Chyun,who has managed the shop for eight years.All of it’s done by volunteers.

Last year, the shop raised about$225,000 for charities such as BethesdaCares, The Children’s Inn at NIH and theInterfaith Housing Coalition. Profits aredown from its heyday of the mid-1990s,when the shop would routinely bring in$500,000. But eBay put an end to that.

“Now, our problem is younger women

are not coming behind us to do the job,”Chyun said. She added that the “Op Shop”began in the 1950s, when most womenstayed home and had time to volunteer.

Now, the only people who can stay atthe shop all day on Mondays and Tues-days are retirees, Chyun said. It’s easierto find help for the front counters andregisters on other days the shop is open— Tuesday through Saturday, she said.Finding people who can handle the con-signment business in the back, which isconducted on Mondays and Tuesdays, ismore difficult.

“We need to find people that are com-mitted,” Chyun said.

If the shop found enough people will-ing to make that commitment by the endof the year, the shop might be able to stay

open longer. Otherwise, it will close onMarch 29, when its lease is up.

Many customers are regulars whoshow up at the shop almost every week toconsign. Over the years, relationships de-velop and the back room takes on the at-mosphere of a cafe, with regulars greetingeach other warmly.

Reba Pittman has been coming up fromWashington, D.C., for the past 30 years. Herdaughter, Reba Walker, drove her there thepast five years.

Walker called the trips therapeutic forher 82-year-old mother.

“This is like her extended family,”Walker said.

Of the closing, she added, “We’re heart-broken. It’s like losing a family member.”

Residents have ‘opportunity’ to save thrift shop

PHOTO BY AGNES BLUM

Mary Chyun, who has managed the Opportunity Shop for the past eight years, spends Tuesday morn-ings — along with about a dozen other volunteers — preparing items for consignment.

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Chevy Chase gets new early voting siteThe Montgomery County Board of Elections

approved nine early voting sites for the 2014 pri-mary and general elections.

They include one in Chevy Chase, at theJane E. Lawton Community Recreation Center,and one in Rockville, at the county’s ExecutiveOffice Building.

For information, call 240-777-8526.

Donate Halloween candy to the troopsBethesda nonprofit MoverMoms is planning

its seventh annual Treats-4-Troops candy col-lection Friday through Nov. 10.

This regionwide collection of Halloweencandy gives kids a way to learn about sharing,gets excess Halloween candy out of people’shomes and offices, and provides a treat for U.S.troops abroad, as it is packed into Christmasstockings by Boatsie’s Boxes of West Virginia.All types of wrapped candy and snack foods areaccepted. Here are the drop-off locations in thecounty:

• Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, indriveway on East-West Highway, Bethesda, andWalt Whitman High School, Whittier Boulevard,Bethesda, both from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday.

Friday through Nov. 10, candy can bedropped off at any time at the following loca-tions:

• Whole Foods Market, 5269 River Road,Bethesda.

• 7101 Loch Lomond Drive, Bethesda.• 6423 79th St., Cabin John.• 10801 Larkmeade Lane, Potomac.• 7300 Brookstone Court, Potomac.• 5408 Huntington Parkway, Bethesda.• 8011 Whittier Blvd., Bethesda.• 4900 Fort Sumner Drive, Bethesda.For more information, call 301-367-4815.

Olympic panel honors Katie LedeckyThe U.S. Olympic Committee has named

Bethesda swimmer Katie Ledecky Sports-Woman of the Year.

A 2012 Olympic gold medalist, Ledecky alsowon four gold medals while setting two worldrecords at the 2013 FINA World Championshipsin Barcelona, Spain. She broke world records inthe 1,500- and 800-meter freestyle events, andalso won gold in the 400 freestyle and 800 free-style relay.

She also was awarded the Phillips 66 Perfor-mance of the Year Award for her world-recordperformance in the 1,500, where she eclipsedthe previous mark by more than six seconds.

The Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heartsenior also won gold with an American record inthe 400 freestyle, becoming the first U.S. womanto break the four-minute mark in the event.

Ledecky is just the second woman, and firstAmerican, to sweep the three freestyle races at asingle world championships, earning the FINATrophy as the highest-scoring female swimmerof the meet.

Additionally, she won three national titlesand became the first American woman toqualify for the world championships in the 200-,400-, 800- and 1,500-freestyle events.

The following is a summary of incidents in the Bethesdaarea to which Montgomery County police responded re-cently. The words “arrested” and “charged” do not implyguilt. This information was provided by the county.

Aggravated assault• On Oct. 8 at 1:30 a.m. in the 8600 block of 16th

Street, Silver Spring. The subject is known to the victim.

Commercial burglary• On Oct. 9 or 10 at Hinata Sushi Carryout, 4847 St.

Elmo Ave., Bethesda. Forced entry, took property.• On Oct. 9 or 10 at Woman’s Boutique Consign-

ment, 8118 Woodmont Ave., Bethesda. Unknown entry,took property.

Residential burglary• 7100 block of Marbury Road, Bethesda, on Oct. 8

or 9. No forced entry, took property.• 6900 block of Granby Street, Bethesda, between

2:30 and 8:30 a.m. Oct. 9. No forced entry, took property.

Theft• On Oct. 10 at 4 p.m. at Barnes & Noble, 4801

Bethesda Ave., Bethesda. Took property from the victimwithout his or her knowledge.

• On Oct. 11 at 2:10 p.m. in the 6600 block of Brox-burn Drive, Bethesda. Took property from outside ofresidence.

Vehicle larceny• Six incidents in Bethesda between Oct. 7 and 15.

Took laptops, iPods, GPS units and purses/wallets. Af-fected streets include Cedarwood Drive, Ipswich Road,Kingswood Road and Old Georgetown Road.

• 6100 block of Connecticut Avenue, Kensington, at1:45 p.m. Oct. 8. Unsuccessful attempt.


Melanie Funkhouser of Bethesda takes a photo of her sons Quentin (center), 7, and Roman, 9, as they prepare to take a hayride after picking pumpkins Fridayduring the 33rd annual Pumpkin Festival at Butler’s Orchard in Germantown. The seasonal celebration takes place on weekends every September and October.Last weekend was the final one of the season.

n Republican candidatepursuing District 15delegate seat

BY SYLVIA CARIGNANSTAFF WRITER

Boyds resident Flynn Fickeris drawing on his local experiencefor his campaign as the only Re-publican candidate for District 15delegate.

Ficker, 31, describes himself asa “full-time politician” with politi-cal expertise from working with hisfather at his law office and in hisDistrict 15 campaigns. His father,Robin Ficker, is running for statesenator in 2014. Robin and Flynnhave formed a slate and are cam-paigning as Republicans for Dis-trict 15.

The district stretches along thewestern edge of the county, fromClarksburg to North Potomac. Del.

Kathleen Dumais (D) of Rockville,Del. David Fraser-Hidalgo (D) ofBoyds and Del. Aruna Miller (D)of Darnestowncurrently rep-resent District15.

Robin rep-resented Dis-trict 15 in theHouse from1978 to 1982.Flynn is mak-ing his first run for elected office.

Flynn said he is watchingthe battle over Ten Mile Creek inClarksburg, where environmentalgroups, developers and the countyplanning board are debating thenumber of residential units thatshould be built in the creek’s wa-tershed. The creek flows into LittleSeneca Reservoir, a back-up drink-ing water supply for the Washing-ton, D.C., region.

“If there is development, I want

it to be smart development, notsomething that would damage theenvironment,” Flynn said.

Flynn said he is also concernedabout possible delays to school im-provements, as proposed by schoolsSuperintendent Joshua Starr onMonday. He agrees with Starr thatexpansion is needed, but he is con-cerned that older schools like Pooles-ville High School, which is in District15, will have to wait longer for theirplanned revitalization project.

Flynn said he’s also concernedabout taxes on small businesses,based on what he’s heard fromconstituents. He wants to create atax-friendly environment for smallbusinesses, especially those in theInterstate 270 corridor.

“I wouldn’t vote for any tax in-creases,” he said.

Flynn, who is not married,has been an assistant wrestlingcoach at DeMatha Catholic HighSchool in Hyattsville and a camp

counselor at Valley Mill SummerCamp in Germantown. He also hasworked as a salesperson at the pro-duce stand for his family’s farm andas a deliveryman for a local restau-rant, he said.

Flynn is currently accepting do-nations for his campaign, but saidhe has not planned any fundraiserevents yet. He plans to file with thestate to become a District 15 del-egate candidate early next year.

Dumais, Miller and former del-egate Saqib Ali have filed for the2014 race. Fraser-Hidalgo is serv-ing the remainder of former Del.Brian J. Feldman’s term. Feldman,a Potomac resident, left his dele-gate seat and became the district’ssenator after former Sen. RobertGaragiola (D-Dist. 15) resigned.

Primaries will be held in Juneand the general election will be inNovember 2014.

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Ficker’s platform focuses on schools, small business

Flynn Ficker

n Unity Disposal workersalso to return to work


Workers at Gaithersburg’s Potomac Dis-posal were set to return to work Wednesday af-ter reaching an agreement with the company’smanagement to end a strike that lasted 10 days.

Potomac owner Lee Levine said the com-pany was “thrilled” to have the issue resolved.

The strike was hard on the workers and thecompany, but both sides worked hard and wereable to come to a mutual agreement, Levinesaid.

Nicole Duarte, a spokeswoman for Labor-ers International Union of North America Mid-Atlantic Regional Organizing Coalition, calledTuesday’s agreement “a very fair compromise.”The company agreed to pay raises for workers,one paid holiday and sick and vacation days forworkers, but weren’t able to agree on a plan to

provide affordable health insurance, accordingto a release from the union.

In the release, LiUNA Vice President and Re-gional Manager Dennis Martire said the agree-ment was a good example of what can happenwhen workers stand together to reach a faircompromise with an employer.

But he said he was disappointed that Mont-gomery County Executive Isiah Leggett wouldn’tsupport a plan to offer the workers affordablehealth insurance.

County spokesman Patrick Lacefield saidthe county had been very supportive, holdingmeetings with Potomac and auditing the com-pany to ensure it pays workers a living wage re-quired by the county.

“We have never been asked, by either side, togive more money,” Lacefield said.

If the county adds more money to the con-tract to provide for health care, it could faceissues with companies who had bid for thecontract, claiming the county had changedthe rules in the middle of the game, Lacefieldsaid.

He noted that the seven-year contract hadonly been bid two years ago.

The county has hundreds of contractors,many of whom would probably like moneyadded to their contracts, Lacefield said.

“If you do for one, are you going to have todo for all?” he asked.

Workers at Laurel’s Unity Disposal and Re-cycling, which also provided trash service for thecounty, also were scheduled to report to workWednesday, after an 11-day strike when dozenswere terminated after protesting the firing of anemployee who had helped advocate for a union,Duarte said.

The majority of Unity workers have ex-pressed an interest in being part of a union, butmanagement hasn’t responded to their request,she said.

The company has expressed a willingness toallow the workers back, and they have decidedto return to work while continuing to work to-ward union representation, Duarte said.

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n She helped found all-girlscharter school in D.C.

BY PEGGY MCEWANSTAFF WRITER

Liz Matory said she is not runningagainst the incumbents — she is run-ning for the position.

The Silver Spring Democrat, 33,said she is definitely running for theMaryland House of Delegates from Dis-trict 18 in Montgomery County, thoughshe has not yet filed as a candidate withthe state Board of Elections.

“I’m running to represent the wholedistrict,” Matory said. “Our district ispretty diverse, with the affluence ofsome and the aspirations of others.”

She said she has already startedknocking on doors, introducing herselfand talking to neighbors.

“I’m encouraged and inspired by

everyone I’ve met,” she said. “Peoplesaid it was hard to run against incum-bents, but I use that to energize me.Voters pick incumbents. I need to getthem to remember Elizabeth Matory.”

District 18,which includesKensington, ChevyChase, GarrettPark, Wheatonand parts of SilverSpring and Rock-ville, is representedin Annapolis bystate Sen. RichardMadaleno (D) ofKensington and Dels. Alfred C. Carrof Kensington, Ana Sol Gutierrez (D)of Chevy Chase and Jeffrey D. Waldst-reicher (D) of Kensington.

So far, according to the MarylandState Board of Elections website, onlyCarr has filed as a candidate.

The primary election is June 24, 2014,

and the general election will be Nov.4, 2014. A Washington native, Matorygraduated from Sidwell Friends School in1998, Columbia University in 2002 with adegree in history and Howard UniversitySchool of Law in 2006. She is currentlyworking on her MBA at the Universityof Maryland Robert H. Smith School ofBusiness which she expects to receive inMay 2014. She has lived in MontgomeryCounty for nine years.

Matory’s work experience includeshelping to found the Excel Academy inSoutheast Washington, the first all-girlscharter school in the District.

“I did everything short of teaching,”she said. “Community outreach, mak-ing sure our grants were in and plan-ning field trips.”

After one year at Excel Academyshe returned to Howard Law as direc-tor of development, then worked, mostrecently, as marketing and businessaffairs executive for Altavoz, an en-

tertainment distribution company inRockville.

She said the biggest issue with thepeople she has met so far is the PurpleLine.

“We [in District 18] are big environ-mentalists so we know the need for masstransportation, but we also enjoy na-ture,” she said. “This is a time for transi-tion. [People] want to make sure we havethe least environmental impact.”

Other issues Matory sees facingthe people of her district are enhanc-ing education to meet the needs of adiverse population, assisting the grow-ing numbers of elderly residents findthe resources they need and solving theenergy problem of power outages.

“Energy is always a hot topic,” shesaid. “I’d like to work with other stake-holders to supplement the [power] grid.I’m thinking if we had micro grids, theycould increase resilience to power loss.”

Matory said she has always been

interested in politics but became moreaware of the importance of state officewhile volunteering this past summerwith Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown’s cam-paign for governor.

She decided this would be a goodtime to run.

“I’m single, have no children and Idon’t need to wait for an opening,” shesaid.

She said she hopes to run a grassroots campaign, keeping costs down bynot hiring too much outside help.

As for those costs, she said she hasheard three different numbers.

“I heard $150,000, which I think iscrazy [high],” she said. “A delegate raceshould be $30,000, but I’ve also heardanywhere between 80 and $100,000.”

She said she hopes to finance hercampaign with fundraisers and throughdonations from family and friends.

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n Gwen Ward andSafe Kids Worldwidespeaking out againstdistracted walking


There are no markers, nocross, flowers or stuffed teddybears along Md. 118 in German-town where Christina Morris-Ward, 15, died a year ago afterbeing struck by a car. But part ofher mother’s heart is there.

Gwen Ward is working for pe-destrian safety so no other parentwill go through what she has.

Ward has partnered withthe Montgomery County De-partment of Transportation andwith Safe Kids Worldwide in acampaign against distractedwalking, which Christina wasdoing before she was hit.

The campaign is called “Mo-ment of Silence.” Students areurged to put down or turn offtheir electronic devices as they

are about to cross a street.During school lunch breaks

and after school, she has stoodon the same corner where Chris-tina died to remind students totake that moment of silence andbe aware of their surroundingswhen they cross the street. Shehas passed out reflectors forthem to clip onto their jackets orbackpacks.

“Its been difficult, but itsbeen therapeutic,” Ward said.“[I’m involved] to help preventthis from happening again.”

Ward said she was at workon the morning of Oct. 31 whenher son called to say Christinahad been in an accident and hewas going to the hospital. Thatwas all she knew when she ar-rived at Shady Grove AdventistHospital in Rockville. It was notlong before she heard the badnews that she had died.

“Our kids are precious, andto lose someone that young isreally devastating,” Ward said.“I never expected my daughterwould not come home.”

Ward said that after putting

stories together from witnessesand the police, she learned thatChristina was wearing darkclothes. It was early morning,not quite daylight, when she waswalking to school.

Christinawaslookingdownather cellphone and had earphonesin. She was not in a crosswalk asshe crossed the eight-lane road.

Those conditions and ac-tions increase the chance ofpedestrian collisions, said Jeff

Dunckel, pedestrian safety co-ordinator for the MontgomeryCounty Department of Trans-portation.

“Sadly, she paid the ultimateprice,” he said.

Dunckel said vigilance bydrivers and pedestrians is “atwo-way street.”

“We are trying to get driv-ers to be aware that pedestriansmay not be where they expect tosee them,” he said.

Kate Carr, president of SafeKids Worldwide, a global orga-nization dedicated to prevent-ing injuries to children. saidshe heard about Ward’s workwith Montgomery County’stransportation department andasked if she was willing to helpstudents nationwide by sharingher story.

“She’s been really willing toget involved. We developed ourMoment of Silence campaignwith her in honor of Christina,”said Gary Karton, the director ofcommunications for Safe KidsWorldwide.

The need is great, Carr said.Safe Kids conducted an observa-tional study in 17 states duringthe 2012-13 school year involving34,325 students walking to school.

“One in five high schoolsstudents was distracted by anelectronic device and one ineight middle schoolers,” she

said. “There are a lot of cam-paigns against distracted driv-ing. [We need one] for distractedwalking.”

In Montgomery County,Dunckel said, information from2010 to 2012 shows 172 pedes-trian collisions within a half-mile of Montgomery Countyhigh schools, 30 of them involv-ing high-school-aged kids.

“This is the time of year thatwe have an increase in pedes-trian collisions,” he said. “Wethink it’s because more peopleare out when it’s dark,”

Pedestrians will stand outmore near traffic if they wearlight-colored clothing or haveon something reflective. That iswhy Ward stood on the cornergiving out reflectors and talkingto students.

“I want them to be safe,” shesaid. “I just want to get this mes-sage out.”

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Gwen Ward, pauses at the spot on Md. 118 in Germantown where her daugh-ter Christina Morris-Ward, 15, was struck by a car and killed last Halloweenon her way to Seneca Valley High School. Ward is speaking out throughSafe Kids Worldwide to encourage young people to pause before crossing astreet.

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n To be installed on 25buses to catchillegal passing

BY LINDSAY A. POWERSSTAFF WRITER

Montgomery County Po-lice say new cameras on somecounty school buses will be in-stalled and ready for action byearly January to catch driverswho illegally pass the buses.

The cameras will automati-cally record drivers who pass astopped bus while its stop armis extended with flashing redlights. Violators will have to paya $125 fine, according to an Oct.22 memo from County Councilstaff.

Cameras will be installedon 25 school buses that runroutes with the highest numberof passing incidents. Wiring forthe cameras will be installed onanother 75 buses so the cam-eras can be swapped amongthe buses. County Police ChiefJ. Thomas Manger said the cam-eras will be active by Jan. 3.

The county also has theability to purchase up to 75 ad-ditional cameras during its con-tract, according to the memo.

The County Council en-

acted a law in March 2012 thatenabled police to install and op-erate cameras on school busesto catch drivers who pass thevehicles when they are stoppedand operating their flashing redlights.

Speaking on Thursday ata joint meeting of the CountyCouncil’s education and pub-lic safety committees, Mangersaid a vendor contract was inthe works and the police de-partment had signed a memo-randum of understanding withMontgomery County PublicSchools.

As of the Thursday meeting,the county attorney was still re-viewing the police and schoolsystem’s agreement before ap-proving it, said county spokes-man Patrick Lacefield.

Manger attributed the delayin getting the program up andrunning to the police depart-ment’s unsuccessful attempt tobridge a contract with anotherjurisdiction. The departmenteventually turned to a requestfor proposal process.

The police department alsohad a difficult time finding simi-lar programs in the country toanalyze, he said. Manger saidthe issue was related to the po-lice department’s efforts to ana-

lyze other bus camera programs.“Make no mistake, we were

trying to look at what other ju-risdictions were doing,” he said.“Much of the delay for this hadnothing to do with the procure-ment process.”

Manger said he thinks thecameras coupled with countypolice’s public education cam-paign scheduled to start in De-cember will mean more driverswill be aware of the law.

According to the Oct. 22memo, revenue from the cam-eras will depend on variablesincluding the “structure of thecontract” and the violations thatoccur.

Manger said the cameras arenot about making money.

“It’s about the fact it makesthe roadways safer,” he said.

County Councilman PhilipM. Andrews (D-Dist. 3) ofGaithersburg said he thinks it’simportant the cameras are pub-licized.

“This is a crucial publicsafety measure the public needsto be aware of,” Andrews said.

Andrews said police shouldcast “a large shadow” to helpminimize violations around thecounty, while focusing the cam-eras on the routes where themost violations happen.

County Council Vice Presi-dent Craig Rice (D-Dist. 2) of

Germantown said his daughterwas recently almost hit by a ve-hicle that illegally passed a busand that he had chased downthe driver.

“I’ve seen it firsthand,” Ricesaid, describing some driverswho “disregard” buses signal-ling for them to stop.

County Councilwoman Val-erie Ervin (D-Dist. 5) of SilverSpring — who voiced her frus-tration at the program’s delay inAugust — said it was “astound-ing” to her how many driversdon’t know the rules.

“I see it happening all thetime,” she said.

Todd Watkins, director oftransportation for the schoolsystem, said in a previous inter-view that the new cameras willautomatically detect a violationand send the evidence, whichwill be confirmed by both a con-tractor and the police before aticket is sent out.

Of about 1,270 total buses inthe school system, roughly 400currently have cameras that runcontinuously, he said. If a busdriver believes they were ille-gally passed, the school systemis able to go back and examinethe footage and pass it on to po-lice who can send out a warningnotice.

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n Democrat wants bettergovernment oversight of utilities


Alfred C. Carr Jr. is the first of Dis-trict 18’s three incumbent delegates tofile for re-election, but he expects theother incumbents to run again in 2014,too.

“We work well together and are ac-tually friends outside work,” he said,referring to Dels. Ana Sol Gutierrez (D)of Chevy Chase and Jeffrey D. Waldst-reicher (D) of Kensington.

Carr, who will be 48 on Saturday,has served as a state delegate since2007.

“I enjoy being able to make a differ-ence, to change things for the better,”he said. “I enjoy helping people withconstituent services and I enjoy learn-ing new things.”

Carr, a Democrat, said he tends tofocus on environmental and quality oflife issues and has introduced a numberof bills dealing with transportation, bi-cycle safety, and the environment dur-ing his time as delegate.

He has served on the House Envi-ronmental Matters Committee sincehis election.

If re-elected, hesaid, he would con-tinue working on“better oversight ofutilities — Pepco,WSSC, and Wash-ington Gas. I don’tthink the current[oversight] processhas worked well.

We’ve allowed Pepco’s infrastructureto deteriorate. I don’t think there isenough opportunity for the people toparticipate.”

Carr also said he thinks there ismore work to be done for balancedtransportation policies, through im-

proving Metro and MARC train serviceand building better bicycle routes.

“The old ways of thinking for trans-portation aren’t working anymore,” hesaid.

Carr said he spent a “little less than$100,000” on his last campaign andthinks this one will be about the same.

“I’ve been fortunate that my cam-paign funding comes almost exclu-sively from local, small donors,” hesaid. “I expect I won’t have trouble rais-ing enough to tell people who I am andwhat I’ve done.”

Carr lives in Kensington. His wife,Barrie Carr, teaches nursery school.They have three sons, ages 11, 7 and 3.

He grew up in Cleveland Heights,Ohio, and has lived in MontgomeryCounty for 20 years. He studied elec-trical engineering at the University ofRochester in New York and is now afull-time legislator.

District 18 includes Kensington,Chevy Chase, Garrett Park, Whea-ton and parts of Silver Spring andRockville.

Sen. Richard S. Madaleno Jr. (D)of Kensington, who also representsDistrict 18, filed last week to run for re-election — six days after Carr filed.

The primary election will be June24, 2014, and the general election onNov. 4, 2014.

Carr first incumbent in District 18 to file for re-election

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n County increasing fundsfor local banks to investin small businesses

BY KEVIN JAMES SHAYSTAFF WRITER

Eagle Bancorp of Bethesdaran off its 19th consecutivequarter of a year-over-year in-crease in net income, seeing a 22percent rise in the third quarterto almost $12 million, bank offi-cials reported last week.

But what is even more im-pressive to some in the businesscommunity is EagleBank’s 28percent rise in business com-

mercial and industrial loans andemphasis on U.S. Small Busi-ness Administration lending.

SBA sales activity in the thirdquarter was stronger than thesame period in 2012, said Ron-ald Paul, chairman and CEO ofEagle Bancorp, the second-larg-est bank based in MontgomeryCounty after Sandy Spring Ban-corp.

“We believe SBA lending willcontinue to be a strong part ofour business,” Paul said.

Last week, MontgomeryCounty Executive Isiah Leggett(D) announced that a programformed last year to pump morefunds into local communitybanks to invest in small busi-nesses would receive $25 mil-lion more than the $10 million itgot last year. The Small BusinessPlus program has succeededin helping boost loans madeto small businesses, so it madesense to increase the invest-ment, Leggett said.

Banks have to be headquar-tered in Montgomery County,have assets greater than $200million and less than $5 bil-lion, and meet certain financialsoundness standards. BesidesEagleBank, banks in the pro-gram include Capital Bank, Con-gressional Bank and OBA Bank.

Sandy Spring Bancorp,the Olney parent company ofSandy Spring Bank, increasedcommercial business loans by3 percent in the third quarterfrom a year ago to $332.7 mil-lion. Sandy Spring, which has$1.8 billion in deposits in Mont-gomery County, about $200 mil-lion more than EagleBank, saw a10 percent rise in net income to$12.1 million.

The two main categoriesof commercial loans that sawgrowth in the quarter were in-vestment real estate and owner-occupied real estate, Daniel J.Schrider, president and CEO ofSandy Spring Bancorp, said ina conference call. “As we lookforward, we have a good solidpipeline leading into the fourthquarter,” he said.

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n Halloween display backin court for rulingon whether it mustshut down forever

BY ALINE BARROSSTAFF WRITER

The nearly 2,000 people whosquealed, jumped or gasped atthe Haunted Garden in SilverSpring this fall might be the lastgroup to ever tour the Hallow-een display if a judge’s decisionputs the final nail in the display’scoffin.

An estimated 700 peoplevisited the garden on WorthAvenue on Friday and 1,000 to1,500 on Saturday, according tocounty officials.

On Oct. 15, MontgomeryCounty District Court Judge Pa-tricia Mitchell ruled that SilverSpring real estate agent DonnaKerr, the organizer of the Hal-loween extravaganza, couldopen her 9215 Worth Ave. back-yard for visitors only on Oct. 25and 26, from 6 to 10 p.m., in-stead of five days, as Kerr hadplanned.

The ruling came after 19 ofKerr’s neighbors signed a peti-tion asking the county to shutdown the display because thenarrow roads in their SevenOaks Evanswood communitycouldn’t handle the thousandsof visitors Kerr expected to visither free display.

On Nov. 5, Mitchell is sched-uled to hear a request to closethe display permanently.

At issue is whether thehome-based Halloween displayon Worth Avenue was simply afun way to celebrate the holidayor a real estate marketing effortin disguise.

“I’m feeling good. It is a greatnight,” Kerr said Friday.

Outside, two people con-trolled how many visitors couldenter the garden at a time andtwo were in the back of the gar-den helping people leave thegarden. More Haunted Gardenstaff were on the street directingtraffic.

Volunteers also were spreadaround the backyard to helpvisitors during their tour.

A police officer, paid for byKerr, was at the corner of Worthand Franklin avenues, helpingpedestrians cross the street.

“We have our guys out there.People are doing their jobs. It isorganized,” said Rania Peet, theartist behind the garden’s cre-ations.

Julia Horton, 7, visited thedisplay with friends and said herfavorite part was “the guy in theelectric chair” because “it wascreepy and cool.”

The garden had a kids’ cor-ner with a haunted playground.A 12-year-old actress portray-ing a dead child welcomed littleones, asking if they wanted toplay with her.

Visitors also saw a werewolfcoming from behind the trees, awitch looking for “extra special”children’s hair for her magic po-tion, and a man just out of anelectric chair.

At the end of the experience,guests could stop to have theirpicture taken.

The Haunted Garden hasbeen the subject of a battlebetween neighbors in recentweeks.

“Thanks to the county andjudge’s ruling, and the county’sefforts including fire [marshal]and police, there was a largecounty effort to make this a safeevent,” Jean Cavanaugh, thepresident of the Seven Oaks-Evanswood Citizens’ Associa-tion, which is not involved in thecourt case, wrote in an email toThe Gazette.

Cavanaugh added that onSaturday, there was a line of150 people, and she “witnesseda few children darting into thestreet from behind parked cars.”

“Again, we have no quarrelwith Halloween decorations orneighborhood parties,” Cavana-ugh wrote. “The haunted gardenis fun, people like it, kids like it.Public events of this magnitudeand duration, however, do notbelong in a residential neigh-borhood.”

County officials had shutdown the display with a tem-porary restraining order is-sued Oct. 4, saying the displayviolated the county’s residentialzoning code and caused a publicsafety hazard.

Mitchell’s ruling allowed theevent to continue, but with lim-ited days and hours.

James Savage, an assistantcounty attorney, said in courtthat Kerr sent fliers to an esti-mated 12,000 households pro-moting the Haunted Garden.

But Mitchell did not considerthe event to be commercial.

Diane Schwartz Jones, direc-tor of the Montgomery CountyDepartment of Permitting Ser-vices, said she received com-plaints about traffic, cars parkedon lawns, and children dartingout on the street this year.

“It is a fun activity ... but it isnot a good location for this ac-tivity,” said Schwartz Jones.

She said she sent an inspec-tor for each night, and they re-ported more than 250 vehiclescrossing the intersection be-tween 6:30 and 9 p.m., plus alot of pedestrian traffic. “Thefact that no one was hurt is agood thing but the right thingis to correctly apply the law,”Schwartz Jones said.

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n Teen survives civil warin Sierra Leone to finda place in Potomacschool community

BY SARAH TINCHERSPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE

In talking with MemunaMansaray McShane, a junior atSt. Andrew’s Episcopal School inPotomac with a bright smile anda positive outlook on the world,no one would immediatelyguess what she’s been through.

Though you might be able totell by looking at her.

On Sept. 18, standing in thefront of an auditorium with herteachers and classmates listen-ing carefully, she finally revealedthe answers to so many ques-tions about her life.

Why was she adopted?Where is she from? And whathappened to her arm?

Memuna’s story began 17years prior in Sierra Leone.

In 1996, Memuna was bornamid a civil war between thegovernment and anti-govern-ment rebels had already beenviolently tearing the nationapart for five years. At age 2, sheand her family were hiding ina mosque in Freetown, the na-tion’s capital, when membersof a rebel militia came in withguns and the intent to kill. Themilitants fatally shot Memuna’smother and grandmother whileshe was in her grandmother’sarms. Bullets also shattered Me-muna’s right arm, which doctorswere later forced to amputate.

Little did Memuna knowthat this would be the turningpoint in her life.

She was placed into a refu-gee camp, but not for long.

Little Memuna fit the descrip-tion that the president of SierraLeone was looking for — young,cute and an amputee — to try tobring international attention tothe violence of the war. She wasquickly removed from the camp,and soon became the world-wide poster child for the peacemovement—taking photos withthen-U.S. Secretary of StateMadeleine Albright and formerPresident Bill Clinton, beingshowcased at peace talks andprotesting in the streets of NewYork City all around the age of 3.

Then, Memuna made herway into the United States per-manently when the New YorkRotary Club brought her, alongwith seven other refugees, tothe country for treatment. Shespent the next two and a halfyears living in foster care beforeshe finally found a place shecould call home in 2002, whenKelly and Kevin McShane per-manently adopted 6-year-oldMemuna into their Washington,D.C., home, along with their twochildren Molly and Michael — atransition that Kevin McShanecalled “pretty seamless.”

Memuna said she doesn’tremember much about her lifebefore living with her adoptedfamily. She doesn’t rememberSierra Leone or Madeleine Al-bright, and she certainly doesn’tremember being a monumentalfactor in ending the civil warthat savaged her own home andfamily. In her mind, the war isn’ther story at all; so to Memuna,despite everything she’s beenthrough, being adopted has hadthe largest impact on her life.

“I don’t use the war to guideme through my life,” she said.“I don’t worry about the past,just the here and now and thefuture.”

And for Memuna, the “hereand now” is pretty typical of ahigh school teen: school, friendsand sports, including soccer andbasketball — arm or no arm.

“[Her experiences have]made her a loving and car-ing person, but other than thatshe’s just a normal 17-year-oldgirl,” said Kristin Butler, a soc-cer teammate and close friendto Memuna.

By the time Memuna triedout for the St. Andrew’s soc-cer team as a freshman, shehad been playing the sport eversince she began living with theMcShanes — and it certainlyshowed; she made the varsityteam during her first tryout.

“She made an athletic andemotional impact from dayone,” said head coach GlennWhitman. “Beyond whereshe’s been and what she’s beenthrough, I’ve been truly amazedby what she can do on the field.”

But despite her confidenceand ability to adapt, Memunastill had to deal with the emo-tional stress that inevitablycomes with only having onearm. When she began playingsoccer at St. Andrew’s, Whitmanalmost immediately noticed thatshe constantly wore fleece jack-ets during training to hide her

arm, even in the summertime.But in time, the fear dissipatedand Memuna finally becameconfident and comfortableenough to stop hiding.

“One thing I’ve been proudof both Memuna and the teamfor is she no longer trains witha coat on,” Whitman said. “Thegirls have always treated her likea full person.”

Memuna attributes her abil-ity to be comfortable about thethings that have happened toher throughout her life and tothe welcoming nature of herteammates.

“I had a hard past but thesoccer team has made me feelwelcomed and not like an out-cast,” she said. “I would prob-ably be completely different

person if it wasn’t for them.”According to Kristin, 17, Me-

muna made it easy for the teamto accept her into the group.“She thinks we were welcomingtoward her, but she was wel-coming toward everyone else.She’s part of the team family,”she said.

And Kevin McShane, who isalso the team’s assistant coach,attributes Memuna’s success tothe entire St. Andrew’s commu-nity, not just the team.

“A big part of Memunaopening up about all this is be-ing part of the community,” hesaid. “She feels very safe here toopen up about her story, wearshort sleeves, all of that stuff.”

Although Memuna gives herfriends, family and teammatesthe credit for her perpetualsmile, she isn’t the only one ben-efitting from the experience.

“We always say she’s given usso much more than we could evergive her,” Kevin McShane said.

And according to Whitman,despite the team’s competi-tive nature and constant striveto win, the lasting memory forthem all probably won’t havemuch to do with soccer.

“What we’ll remember mostis what she taught us about adver-sity and never giving up,” he said.

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BY KEVIN JAMES SHAYSTAFF WRITER

For six years, green energybusiness Clean Currents madethe Rockville Innovation Centerabove the downtown Rockvillelibrary its home.

The company enjoyed re-duced costs for spaces and cer-tain services than it would havehad in the general private mar-ket. It had access to shared con-ference rooms, administrative

help, a kitchen and copy ma-chine, all pretty much financedby Montgomery County.

When Clean Currents “grad-uated” last year to reside inlarger commercial space nearthe Silver Spring Metro station,it had grown from two employ-ees in 2007 to about 20.

Officials praised the com-pany as exemplifying the in-tent of the Business InnovationNetwork program to see start-ups blossom into thriving busi-nesses, but they admitted thisweek that the ideal goal is toget such companies out faster,preferably in three years, ratherthan six.

Thus, the county has beenworking on a plan to reorganize

its five innovation centers —once called incubators in refer-ence to their role of hatchingyoung businesses — to betterfocus them and provide moreintensive services that can makethem grow faster.

“We want to rethink thesystem,” Steven A. Silverman,director of the county’s De-partment of Economic Devel-opment, said during a councilcommittee meeting.

Proposal would refocuscenters, close Wheaton

One proposal from Silver-man’s department calls forfocusing the two Rockville cen-ters on data analytics. Thoseinclude the 23,000-square-foot downtown one and the60,000-square-foot Shady Grovecenter that is the oldest, havingopened in 1999. The latter hasmostly life sciences companiessuch as NeoDiagnostix, a can-cer diagnostics company withan emphasis in women’s health.The former has a mix of infor-mation technology, life sciencesand professional services.

The 32,000-square-foot Ger-mantown center, the newestone that opened in 2008 with 45offices and 11 wet labs, wouldretain its life sciences focus.

The 20,000-square-foot

Silver Spring center, whichformed in 2004 and is in theonly building owned outrightby the county, would becomean accelerator, which providesmore intensive programs, in-cluding access to funding, in afixed, reduced time frame. The12,000-square-foot Wheatonfacility, the smallest one whichopened in 2006, would closeonce its lease is up in 2016.

While there would be sav-ings in lease costs, the changeswould likely necessitate in-creased funding for operatingcosts and possibly additionalstaff, said former County Coun-cilman Michael Knapp, CEO ofGermantown consulting firmOrion Ventures, who is workingwith the DED on its proposal.The five centers now have anannual budget of about $4.5million, with about $2.5 millionrecovered in rent, licensing feesand other income.

The current program wasdesigned more to meet real es-tate space needs of startups,while the current best practiceamong incubators and accel-erators is provide more targetedprograms that include invest-ment from venture capital firmsand more intensive mentoring,Knapp said. “The idea is to getaway from real estate manage-ment to partnership manage-

ment,” he said.Transitioning the Silver

Spring center into an acceleratormay result in a steeper learningcurve than thought, said JacobSesker, a senior legislative ana-lyst for the county who gener-ally supported the plan. Closingthe Wheaton facility could alsoprove more difficult and costlyin trying to move current ten-ants into surrounding privatespace, he said.

County Councilman MarcElrich said he would like to seewhat innovation center modelshave been most successful andhow to replicate that success.

The program has gradu-ated more than 100 companiesinto private space since form-ing in 1999. Over the past threeyears, about 50 have graduated,with 40 of those such as CleanCurrents operating within thecounty, said Ruth Semple, acounty business developmentspecialist who oversees theRockville centers.

The proposal is in the initialplanning stages and the DEDwould likely need help from anoutside firm with the realign-ment process, Silverman said.

County moving to speed up the incubator process

n Congressman saysinfrasructure legislation isclose to gaining bipartisansupporters in Senate


One of Rep. John Delaney’sfirst major pieces of legislation,aimed at funding improvementsto America’s infrastructure, con-tinues to move along throughthe legislative process, gatheringsupport from members of bothparties in the House of Repre-sentatives and coming close to asimilar achievement in the Sen-ate.

Delaney’s bill would createnew infrastructure bonds andtry to attract corporate invest-ments by allowing companiesto repatriate some overseasearnings without taxes if theybuy bonds.

Delaney believes the billwould result in a way to fundinfrastructure projects withoutany federal appropriations.

The bill has attracted co-sponsors in the House fromboth parties, Delaney said onOct. 21.

According to a Library ofCongress database, the billhad gained 22 Democratic co-sponsors and 24 Republican co-sponsors.

Delaney (D-Dist. 6) of Po-tomac said it was also close togetting bipartisan support in theSenate.

It’s also gotten support fromchambers of commerce, laborgroups and more than 30 trans-portation groups, Delaney said.

The bill was recently dis-cussed at a forum Delaney at-tended that was sponsored bythe American Enterprise Insti-tute and Third Way, which pro-motes moderate policy ideasthrough “pragmatic solutionsand principled compromise.”

The bill has been assignedto the House’s Committee onTransportation and Infrastruc-ture.

The committee process forthe bill was slowed by the 16-day government shutdown, buthe’s pleased with the progressit’s made, Delaney said.

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Hon. Marie A. Beary,90, of Kensington, Marylandand and Highland Beach,Florida, former Assistant NewYork State Attorney General andpioneering woman lawyer,passed away on September 25.Daughter of Italian immigrants,she overcame discriminationagainst both her gender andethnicity to rise to a top legalposition in New York State. Mrs.Beary graduated cum laude fromSt. John’s University School ofLaw in 1944, into a professionthat accepted women as legalsecretaries but not attorneys. In

the 1950s, her keen interest in politics led her to the local Democraticclub. Denied full membership, she turned to the Republicans, theminority party in Queens, NY, where she then lived, establishing alifelong party loyalty, which included several campaigns for electedoffice. After serving as president of the Queens County Women’s BarAssociation, in 1960, she filed suit against the Queens County BarAssociation, which had denied her membership, ending an 84-yearban against women members. She was the youngest woman of hertime admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1964,Mrs. Beary was appointed Assistant New York State Attorney General,heading litigation in its bureau of mental hygiene. In 1976, Mrs. Bearyreceived the first Woman of the Year award from St. John’s UniversitySchool of Law and the University’s President’s medal in 1994. Shealso received commendation from the National Association of WomenLawyers for her advancement of women’s rights and was nominatedto the Women’s Hall of Fame. Mrs. Beary is survived by her daughtersPatricia, an attorney in Phoenix, and Roberta (Frank Stella) ofBethesda, MD, a haiku poet and attorney; and sons, Kevin, a professorof English at the University of Florence, and David (Diana), a retiredNew York City captain of detectives, currently serving with theRaleigh-Durham Airport police. She also leaves eleven grandchildrenand three great grandchildren. Her husband of 58 years, Patrick Beary,KM, died in 2005. A funeral mass was held at St. Lucy’s CatholicChurch, Highland Beach, Florida on October 4. Memorialcontributions may be made to the Marie A. Beary MemorialScholarship, St. John’s University School of Law, attention: Brian J.Woods, 8000 Utopia Parkway, Queens, NY 11439.


ementary schools.Starr recommended five ad-

dition projects at elementaryschools in the DowncountyConsortium, an area that he saidhas faced the county’s largestgrowth in the last six years.

“While the growth is mostdramatic in the DCC, we’re alsoseeing enormous elementaryenrollment growth across thedistrict,” he said.

The downcounty elemen-tary schools with plannedaddition projects include:Brookhaven, Glen Haven, KempMill, Sargent Shriver and High-land.

The other schools whereaddition projects are plannedinclude Ashburton, Lucy V.Barnsley, Burtonsville, Dia-mond, Kensington-Parkwood,Christa McAuliffe and JudithResnik elementary schools;North Bethesda Middle School;and Bethesda-Chevy ChaseHigh School.

Other previously approvedelementary- and secondary-school capacity projects arescheduled to stay on target inthe program. The projects in-clude classroom additions; newelementary schools to servethe Clarksburg, Northwest andRichard Montgomery clusters;and new middle schools to servethe Clarksburg/Damascus andBethesda-Chevy Chase clusters.

About $725 million — orabout 47 percent — is recom-mended for “revitalizations/ex-pansions.”

“The schools built in the ’60sand ’70s, the ones we’re replac-ing now, were not built to last,”Starr said. “We see that acrossthe county and renovating themis not cost efficient.”

Starr said the recommendedplan includes more than twodozen such projects, addingabout 118 classrooms through-out the system.

The plan, however, pushesback the timeline of 20 of thoseprojects.

Elementary school projectswould see a one-year delay.Middle and high school projectswould see a two-year delay.

“We know that so many ofour school communities are im-pacted by the delay,” Starr said.“They’ve been waiting for manyyears for their aging schools tobe replaced.”

The plan proposes that sixrevitalization/expansion proj-ects continue with their cur-rent completion dates. Theyinclude Bel Pre, Candlewoodand Rock Creed Forest elemen-tary schools; Wheaton and Sen-eca Valley high schools; and theThomas Edison High School ofTechnology.

If the state provides morefunding, Starr said, it may bepossible for some projects toreturn to their original schedule.

The recommended programalso directs about $283 million

toward systemic projects thatinclude security upgrades andHVAC, roof and door replace-ments.

Starr said it’s “starting toshow” that the school systemhas not put budgeted enoughin recent years for infrastructureneeds.

“We’ve been skimping onthat because we’ve had to fundso many other things,” he said.

Starr said he is asking for anincrease of $28 million in bothfiscal 2015 and fiscal 2016 toput toward the school system’sbacklog of HVAC replacementprojects. He added that furtherinvestments will need to bemade “down the road.”

About $155 million wasrecommended for technologymodernization projects such asnew computers.

The county school board isscheduled hold a work sessionon the plan Nov. 7 and two pub-lic hearings on Nov. 11 and 14before it is expected to approveStarr’s request Nov. 18.

The program request thenmoves to County ExecutiveIsiah Leggett (D) and the CountyCouncil.

School board PresidentChristopher S. Barclay said thework session will mark a chancefor the board to start askingquestions.

“Capacity is the biggest issuethat we have,” Barclay said. “Wehave got to figure out how to ad-dress this.”

Highland Elementary Prin-cipal Scott Steffan said the ad-dition planned for his school inthe proposed program hopefullywill enable the school to accom-modate its students withoutneeding to add portable class-rooms.

“I don’t have an open spaceanywhere. We’ve really felt theimpact (of enrollment growth)this year,” he said. “For us tohave the addition is tremen-dous.”

Lynne Harris — vice presi-dent for legislation for theMontgomery County Council ofParent-Teacher Associations —said her son attends HighlandView Elementary School in Sil-ver Spring, which is scheduledto undergo an expansion projectbut at an undetermined time.

While she is disappointedas a Highland View parent thather school will not see construc-tion soon, she said, she seesthat there are needs at everyschool and the school system’scapital budget requires “toughchoices.”

Harris said the school sys-tem needs state funds moreproportionate to the number ofstudents it serves.

Montgomery County stu-dents are getting a good educa-tion, Harris said, but the schoolsystem has to figure out whereto put the growing number ofstudents.

“What are we going to do?”she said. “Put them on the roof?”

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hopeful we can do better in thecoming years depending on theresources available,” Floreensaid.

Council Vice PresidentCraig Rice (D-Dist. 2) of Ger-mantown said he’d like to seethe county take a more com-prehensive approach.

The income supplementitself won’t lift anyone out ofpoverty, and with many federalprograms facing cuts, the countywill have to do more, Rice said.

Maryland residents canclaim a credit for up to half oftheir federal earned income taxcredit, and a refund of up to onequarter of the federal credit, ac-cording to a county release.

In 2000, Montgomerystarted matching 100 percentof the Maryland refund to helpresidents afford the high cost-of-living in the county. But abill passed in 2010 allowed thecouncil to set the county in-come supplement at less than100 percent of the state refund-able credit by passing a resolu-tion each year.

In fiscal 2011, the county

supplement was set at 72.5 per-cent, 68.9 percent in fiscal 2012and 75.5 percent in fiscal 2013.

In May, the council approvedan increase in the supplement to85 percent of the state refundablecredit for fiscal 2014.

The bill passed Tuesday re-quires the county supplementto increase to 90 percent infiscal 2015, 95 percent in fiscal2016 and 100 percent in fiscal2017 and beyond.

According to an analysisby the county’s Finance Office,the funding increase in fiscal2015 will cost the county an ad-ditional $1.016 million.

In fiscal 2011, 33,840 Mont-gomery residents qualified forthe supplement, receiving anaverage of $381.81, according tothe county. Restoring the countymatch to 100 percent would pro-vide an extra $124 per person.

To qualify for the earnedincome tax credit for the taxyear 2013, a resident with threeor more qualifying childrenmust make less than $46,227,or $51,567 if filing jointly witha spouse.

A taxpayer with no quali-fying children must make lessthan $14,340 or $19,680 if filingjointly to qualify for the credit.

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CELEBRATIONSHEALTH CALENDAR

RELIGION CALENDAR

The Gazette prints engagement and wedding announcements, with color photographs, at no charge, as a community service. Copy should be limited to 150 words and submitted in paragraph form.Announcements are subject to editing for space. Please include contact information, including a daytime telephone number. Photos should be professional quality. If emailing photos, file size should bea minimum of 500 KB. Wedding announcements should be submitted no later than 12 months after the wedding. Send to: The Gazette, 9030 Comprint Court, Gaithersburg, MD 20877, or [email protected]. Montgomery County celebrations are inserted into all Montgomery County editions.

PLACING ANANNOUNCEMENT

Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Faris of Gaithersburg announce the en-gagement of their daughter, Victoria Lee Faris, to Mr. Daniel EdwardColes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coles of Burlington, N.C.

The bride-to-be was born in Gaithersburg and is a 2003 graduateof Quince Orchard High School in Gaithersburg. She graduated fromthe University of Mississippi in 2008 with a degree in special educa-tion. She is employed at the Kilmer Center in Fairfax County, Va. Sheis also currently enrolled in George Mason University for a master’sdegree in special education.

The prospective groom was born in Burlington, N.C., and is a2006 graduate of the University of North Carolina with a degree inpolitical science. He is currently an assistant vice president in thelegal department of the Bank of America. His next focus will be anMBA.

A March 2014 wedding is planned at the Audubon Naturalist So-ciety in Chevy Chase.

Faris, Coles

Mr. and Mrs. Karl D. Figert of Silver Spring announce the engage-ment of their daughter, Lynmarie I. Figert, to Michael C. Dudley, sonof Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dudley of Chevy Chase.

The bride-to-be graduated from University of Maryland, CollegePark, in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in community health and fromHoward Community College with a degree in nursing in 2010. Sheis currently employed as a registered nurse at the R Adams CowleyShock Trauma Center in Baltimore.

The prospective groom graduated from Salisbury University in2006 with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and in 2007 with a Mas-ter of Business Administration degree. He is currently a developmentaccountant for StonebridgeCarras in Bethesda.

A June 2014 wedding is planned in Washington, D.C.

Figert, Dudley

Bill and Ginger Fisher of Silver Spring announce the engagementof their daughter, Ashley E. Fisher, to Drew B. Abbamonte, son ofTom and Debi Abbamonte of Damascus.

The bride-to-be graduated from Blake High School in 2004. Sheattended Coastal Carolina University and received a degree in nurs-ing from Howard Community College. She currently is employed bySheppard Pratt in Ellicott City.

The prospective groom graduated from Damascus High Schoolin 2003. He graduated from McDaniel College in 2006 and earneda bachelor’s degree in sociology. He currently is employed by theMontgomery County Police Department.

They will be married in Spring of 2014.

Fisher, AbbamonteGail and Steve South of Derwood announce the engagement of

their daughter, Danielle Vincenza South, to Matthew Thomas Mas-sullo of Morgantown, W.Va.

Danielle is currently working on her master’s degree in Spanishat West Virginia University and expects to receive her degree in May2014. She is also provisionally certified as a sign language interpreter.

Matthew holds his bachelor’s degree from WVU and is currentlya specialist in the U.S. Army, getting ready to enter Special Forcestraining.

A late 2014 wedding is planned. The couple plan to reside inNorth Carolina, or wherever the Army tells them to live.

South, Massullo

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 30Prostate Cancer Survivor-

ship Series, from 7-8:15 p.m. atSuburban Hospital, 8600 OldGeorgetown Road, Bethesda.After undergoing treatmentfor prostate cancer, men mayexperience a range of issuesthat affect their sexual health.Decreased libido, erectile dys-function and anxiety can allimpact quality of life. StephenGreco, radiation oncologist,will talk about reducing the se-verity of these side effects, andwhat you can do to improveintimacy with your partner.Free. www.suburbanhospital.org.

THURSDAY, NOV. 7Complete Childbirth

Preparation at MedStar Mont-gomery, Nov. 7 to Dec. 19 atMedStar Montgomery MedicalCenter, 18101 Prince PhilipDrive, Olney. Six-week com-plete childbirth preparationprogram prepares couples fora positive birthing experience.The program is designed tohelp expectant couples planfor labor, delivery and howto care for a newborn. $150.www.montgomerygeneral.org.

ONGOINGNew Mothers Postpartum

Support Group, 10-11:30 a.m.

Mondays at MedStar Mont-gomery Medical Center, 18101Prince Philip Drive, Olney.Ever wonder if you are theonly one feeling stressed andalone now that a baby hasjoined your family? Wasn’t itsupposed to be easier? If youare finding yourself feelingsad, anxious, angry or irritable,group support can help. Groupled by two therapists whospecialize in the postpartumperiod. Babies are welcome.Free; registration required.301-774-8881, www.mont-gomerygeneral.org.

Senior Fit, meets from9-9:45 a.m. once a week atMedStar Montgomery Medi-cal Center, 18101 Prince PhilipDrive, Olney. Free 45-minuteexercise program designed forseniors age 55 and older. Se-nior Fit focuses on increasingstrength, flexibility, balance,coordination, and cardiovas-cular endurance. Exercise is animportant factor in preventingfalls, managing chronic ill-nesses and improving qualityof life. Classes are ongoing anda physician’s consent form isrequired to participate. Freefor people over the age of 55.301-774-8881, www.mont-gomerygeneral.org.

A Diabetes Support Group,11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. the firstSaturday of every month atSuburban Hospital, 8600 OldGeorgetown Road, Bethesda.

UPCOMINGNeelsville’s Alternative Gift

Market, Nov. 3 in the church’sFellowship Hall, 20701 Fred-erick Road, Germantown.The church will also observeOrphan Sunday that day. Allare welcome. Services are heldat 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sun-day mornings. Sunday Schoolfor all ages at 9:40 a.m. www.Neelsville.org

A new and prospectivemember Shabbat, 9:30 a.m.Nov. 16 at Torah Synagogue,10 Ridge Road, Greenbelt.Shabbat will feature services,kiddush lunch and an oppor-tunity to meet rabbi, educationdirector and members. RSVPappreciated but not requiredto [email protected]. Free. 301-474-4223.

ONGOINGDamascus United Method-

ist Church, 9700 New ChurchSt., Damascus, offers tradi-tional Sunday morning wor-ship services at 8:15 a.m., ayouth contemporary worshipservice at 9:30 a.m. and a ser-vice of liturgy and the word at11 a.m. with Sunday school at9:30 a.m. for all ages during theschool year.

Liberty Grove UnitedMethodist Church, 15225 OldColumbia Pike, Burtonsville,conducts Sunday morningworship services at 8:30, 9:30and 11 a.m. Sunday school,nursery through adult, is at9:30 a.m. 301-421-9166. For aschedule of events, visit www.libertygrovechurch.org.

“MOPS,” a faith-basedsupport group for mothers ofchildren, birth through kinder-garten, meets from 9-11:30 a.m.the first and third Wednesdaysof the month at the FrederickChurch of the Brethren, 201Fairview Drive, Frederick.Childcare is provided. Thisyear’s theme, “A Beautiful Mess:Embracing Your Story,” focuseson remembering that beautycan come out of chaos and thatyour past, present and futurecan be used for good with God’slove. For more information call301-662-1819. Email [email protected].

Neelsville PresbyterianChurch, 20701 Frederick Road,Germantown, has returned toits Fall worship schedule, withservices at 8:30 a.m. and 11a.m. Sundays. Sunday Schoolfor all ages at 9:40 a.m. www.Neelsville.org.

Providence United Method-ist Church, 3716 KemptownChurch Road, Monrovia, con-ducts a contemporary serviceat 8 a.m. followed by a tradi-tional service at 9:30 a.m. Sun-day mornings, with children’sSunday school at 9:30 a.m.and adult Sunday school at 11a.m. For more information,call 301-253-1768. Visit www.kemptownumc.org.

Trinity Lutheran Church,11200 Old Georgetown Road,North Bethesda, conductsservices every Sunday, withchild care from 8 a.m. to noonand fellowship and a coffeehour following each service.301-881-7275. For a scheduleof events, visit www.Trinity-ELCA.org.


SCHOOL LIFE

Willing to weed: Studentsclean school courtyard

About a dozen sixth-graders,10 volunteers from Home De-pot and a few staff and facultymembers worked to clean up acourtyard at Montgomery VillageMiddle School on Oct. 22.

“I think the outside shouldbe pretty. When we are walk-ing through the hall, we shouldbe able to see flowers and all,”said Tamyiah Starnes, 11. “Andif there are bugs, they need ahome.”

The group pulled weeds,cut back overgrown shrubsand picked up trash, collecting12 large bags of waste for thedump. Then, they planted newplants, spread mulch and sweptthe walkways.

In less than two hours, thecourtyard was transformed withplants that would last throughthe winter, including burningbush shrubs, named for theirbrilliant fall foliage, and varie-gated liriope, an ornamentalgrass showing green and whiteagainst the dark brown mulch.

“I think it is really cool be-cause this is helping the school,we get [student service learn-ing] hours and it’s helping na-ture,” said Jade Pinkowitz, 11.

Along the way, the studentslearned about planting, prun-ing, mulching and even how touse a push broom.

“As we go along, we teachthem how to plant and what’s aweed,” said John Roberts, man-

ager of the Germantown HomeDepot store.

Roberts spearheaded theproject, a repeat of a cleanup atthe school two years ago.

“The Home Depot Founda-tion is all about giving back tothe community,” Roberts said.“We volunteer because it’s im-portant to us.”

Christian Bergman, 11, saidhe has helped with yard work athome and enjoys it because itkeeps the environment clean.

“It’s fun getting all theweeds out of the dirt,” he said.“It’s making it look nice.”

Richard Montgomerystudent wins green award

Jessica Li, a senior at Rich-ard Montgomery High Schoolin Rockville, won the inaugural

Next Generation Award, oneof the 2013 Maryland CleanEnergy Awards, at the MarylandClean Energy Summit on Oct.15 and 16.

As president of theschool’s EnvironmentalAwareness Club, Li organizedFriday afternoon energy shut-downs during which studentsgo around the school turningoff lights, printers, computersand monitors. She has orga-nized presentations duringfirst-period classes on energyconservation and alternativeenergy, coordinated a T-shirtdesign contest, an energy-focused “Jeopardy!” game, a“Watt’s Up” poster contestand a “Why Use AlternativeEnergy” essay contest to boostawareness of energy issues.

For the past two years,Li has given presentations at

Rockville Science Day on thebenefits of energy conservationat home. She also was invited topresent her research on woodbatteries at the 2012 USA Sci-ence and Engineering Fair andhas worked with the county’sSchool Energy and RecyclingTeam program to advance ef-fective, local strategies thatschools can use to reduce en-ergy consumption.

The Clean Energy Awardsrecognize individuals, com-panies and organizations thathave demonstrated leadership,partnership, advocacy andentrepreneurism in a distinctcommitment to advancingclean energy, energy effi-ciency and job creation, KathyMagruder, executive drectorof the Maryland Clean EnergyCenter, said in a statement.

“When I read the nomi-nation for Jessica Li, I felt asthough there is hope for theplanet with remarkable youngpeople like her coming up inthe world,” Magruder wrote.

Blair High seniors honoredby Hispanic programFour seniors at Montgom-

ery Blair High School in SilverSpring were selected Sept. 25to be honored in the 2014 Na-tional Hispanic RecognitionProgram, which recognizes aca-demically outstanding Latinohigh school students.

The seniors are SabrinaBradford and Jared Collina of

Takoma Park, Sadie Isakower ofBethesda and Ivan Reimers ofSilver Spring.

Each year, the programhonors about 5,000 of thehighest-scoring students frommore than 250,000 Latino ju-niors who take the PreliminarySAT/National Merit ScholarshipQualifying Test. The studentsare from the U.S., including itsterritories, plus Americans at-tending schools abroad.

“I feel honored to havereceived this award,” Isakowersaid in a statement. “Being partof the Blair Magnet has beenan awesome experience, and Iwill never forget the wonderfulteachers and friends I’ve metat Blair. The Magnet has totallychanged how I think about realworld problems, and I feel thatbecause of this, my peers andI are at a definite advantage aswe enter college.”

School food forum isSaturday in Silver Spring

Montgomery County’sinaugural school food forum,“Creating a Vision of Fresh, RealFood in Montgomery CountyPublic Schools,” will be heldfrom 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Satur-day at the Lutheran Church ofSt. Andrew, 15300 New Hamp-shire Ave., Silver Spring.

The forum will feature re-gional and national experts onnutrition and diet, food educa-tion, and sourcing fresh, localfood for school systems.

Keynote speaker Tony Ger-aci is a nationally known schoolfood reformer, former fooddirector for Baltimore City Pub-lic Schools, current director ofnutrition services in the ShelbyCounty Schools in Memphis,Tenn., and subject of the film“Cafeteria Man.”

Presenters include MarlaCaplon, director of the Mont-gomery County Public SchoolsDivision of Food and NutritionServices; Lisa Y. Lefferts, seniorscientist with the Center forScience in the Public Interest;endocrinologist Shivani Nara-simhan of Annapolis; KathyLawrence, director of strategicdevelopment, School Food Fo-cus; Jill Coutts, science resourceand horticulture teacher,Sherwood High School in SandySpring; Karla Kratovil, PTA vicepresident and school gardencoordinator at Flower Hill El-ementary School in Gaithers-burg; and county CouncilmanGeorge L. Leventhal (D-At large)of Takoma Park.

There will be a nutritious,locally sourced lunch, with atalk by Ype Von Hengst, COOand executive chef of SilverDiner.

The forum is co-hosted byReal Food for Kids-Montgom-ery and Montgomery VictoryGardens.

Registration, includinglunch, is $25. For more infor-mation and to register, visitrealfoodforkidsmontgomery.org.

EDUCATION NOTEBOOK


Sixth-graders at Montgomery Village Middle School work with volunteersfrom Home Depot to clean up one of the school’s courtyards Oct. 22.

n School districtcelebrates program’s50th anniversary

BY PEGGY MCEWAN

STAFF WRITER

Looking for a better way toreach some of his students, JoeHoward, then principal of FourCorners Elementary School inSilver Spring, launched a pro-gram that still touches the livesof thousands of students everyyear.

That was 50 years ago. How-ard is retired now and FourCorners Elementary no longerexists.

But his idea, outdoor educa-tion, is still going strong.

Montgomery County PublicSchools celebrated the 50th an-niversary of its outdoor educa-tion program Saturday with anopen house at the Lathrop E.Smith Environmental EducationCenter in Rockville.

“The motivation camewhen we were building an out-

door trail at [Four Corners] andfound that the ‘problem’ kidswere not problems when work-ing outdoors,” Howard said.“So we tried to find things in thecurriculum that we could teachoutdoors — things like studyingthe ecosystem, the forest com-munity, ponds and streams andmeadows.”

Howard took the very firstclass of outdoor education stu-dents, fifth-graders from FourCorners, to Camp Greentop inThurmont in 1962. About 20 ofthose students attended Sat-urday’s open house for a mini-reunion. A photo of them hangsin the meeting hall of the SmithCenter.

“It was just one class, a pi-lot program,” said KathleenCochran of Chevy Chase, whowas part of the pilot program.“The next year Mr. Howard tookabout 90 kids, the very first classto do outdoor ed.”

Howard eventually becamethe school district’s first super-visor of outdoor education pro-grams, he said, serving in thatposition from the mid-1970s

until he retired in 1988.“To me it was a more effec-

tive way of teaching, learning bydoing,” Howard said. “We didn’tjust tell them what was going onin a pond, we showed them.”

The school district openedthe Smith Environmental Edu-cation Center on 10 acres inRockville in 1974, built to ac-commodate all the district’ssixth-graders as they attendedthe five-day residential program.

Smith, who lived from1902 to 1971, was a Montgom-ery County Council president,board of education president,farmer and conservationist.

“[He was the] driving forcefor the preservation of the RockCreek valley to save it from massdevelopment of residentialcommunities,” Laurie Jenkins,current supervisor of the pro-gram, wrote in an email.

Over the years, with budgetcuts and population growth,Howard said, the residentialprogram has been cut from fiveto three days. And the programneeds to rent other facilities tohandle all the sixth-graders, Jen-

kins said.“We can get about 40 to

45 percent of our sixth-gradeschools in but we also use twoother sites, Summit Lake [Camp]in Emmitsburg and Skycroft

[Conference Center] in Middle-town,” Jenkins said.

According to the Smith Cen-ter website, the Outdoor Envi-ronmental Education Program“serves over 20,000 students

each year in two major pro-grams: the Residential Programin which every Grade 6 studentparticipates and the Day Pro-gram in which [pre-K]-12 stu-dents explore and investigatethe natural environment. At allprograms students participatein curriculum-based environ-mental investigations.”

The staff also provides pro-fessional development in envi-ronmental education to morethan 500 teachers annually.

Outdoor education was cel-ebrated Saturday by more than300 people, Jenkins said. Theday included a formal newsconference, a birthday cake andhands-on activities at 24 learn-ing stations.

Brandon Hebert, 8, a third-grader at Lois P. Rockwell El-ementary School in Damascus,said his favorite activity was theconfidence course.

“It makes you stronger andyou have to think before you useit,” Brandon said.

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Chris Jansson, a physical education teacher at Cedar Grove ElementarySchool in Germantown, shows his son C.J., 4, a solar-powered plastic bugat an open house Saturday at the Lathrop E. Smith Environmental EducationCenter in Rockville.

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One of the most telling quotes from Attorney Gen-eral Douglas F. Gansler, as his gubernatorial candidacybecame mired in controversy last week, was: “I’m a bigboy.”

Gansler was declaring that he can admit when he’swrong. But the line works equally well in summarizing hisdecision-making, as shown in two examples recently dis-covered by area newspapers.

A few weeks ago, The Washington Post reported oncomplaints by Maryland State Police troopers assigned todrive him around. The troopers alleged that Gansler di-rected them to use lights and sirens so he could get placesquickly. Sometimes, Gansler got antsy and flipped on thelights and sirens himself — or he’d take the wheel, thePost reported.

More recently, The Baltimore Sun published a storyand photo showing Gansler standing among a roomful ofteenagers at a party at a Delaware beach house.

Instead of focusing on whether he’s qualified to gov-ern Maryland, voters have been sucked into dissecting hisinclinations for driving fast and permissive parenting.

Gansler has denied the driving allegations, claiminga state police “henchman” is generating political fodder.(Wouldn’t that require a conspiracy among troopers filingfalse statements?)

But Gansler couldn’t refute a picture of what lookedlike a raucous party, possibly with alcohol.

Never mind that Gansler, 50, sounds like a teen try-ing to talk himself out of a grounding by his parents. Thequestions that accompany these controversies are realand worth debate.

Should the attorney general initiate and condone po-tentially illegal behavior?

Gansler might dismiss the driving controversy as dirtypolitics, but he should pledge unequivocally to obeyingthe laws of the road and not interfering as troopers do thesame as part of their jobs.

As for the teen party, even outside of his jurisdiction,the attorney general should be a legal and moral model.It’s hard to fathom him knowingly participating in a planto give teenagers free rein — likely with beer — at a rentedhouse.

This is questionable behavior as a parent, but un-thinkable as the state’s top legal officer. Gansler, com-mendably, has spoken out in the past against underagedrinking, but he loses credibility with his regrettable per-missiveness.

We look forward to returning to the issues of the gu-bernatorial campaign, of which there are many. First,Gansler has soul-searching and explaining to do.

Gansler’s soulsearching

LET TERS TOTHEEDITOR

David Hauk’s Oct. 16 letter urges “a ro-bust bus rapid transit network” because “theway to solve gridlock is to move people, notcars.” [“Bus plan looks to the future, not anauto-centric past”]

I grew up in Cleveland when it had anexceptional streetcar/bus system. That wasfine to get to and from work. It was improb-able to use when going shopping, going toa dress-up event, etc. Also, public transpor-

tation presents problems for people withphysical impairments, despite special de-vices to help passengers getting on and off.

The White Flint development plannersallege area residents will be able to walk toall kinds of stores, office buildings, enter-tainment venues, restaurants, etc. They failto take into account the hordes of “outsiders”who will also want to take advantage of thosestores, office buildings, entertainment ven-

ues, restaurants, etc. Also, there are servicepeople and their small trucks who are vital toany community.

Then, there is the weather — whether itbe rain, intense heat, snow, etc. Using publictransportation is a challenge then.

The reality is there will always be a needfor vehicular traffic. At least, keep that inmind in development plans.

David H. Brown, North Bethesda

We can’t eliminate all vehicles

Among the numbersMDOT most often uses todefine the Purple Line are70 trains per day and 51,200passengers per day in theopening year, 2020. They sayit will grow to 74,160 ridersper day on the same 70 trains20 years later. Thus the start-ing average load carried byeach two-car train calculatesto 731 passengers/train andgrows to 1,059 in a couple ofdecades.

Nearby property ownerswho dread the passing of 70trains a day in each directionneed not fear an increase inthat figure.

MDOT is fond of point-ing out that trains will travelthe length of the Purpleline in barely over an hour.They emphasize that travel-ing between Bethesda andNew Carrollton by bus todaytakes more than an hour anda half. (You have to travelinto downtown Washington,D.C., and back out).

Not too long ago, pri-vate bus companies soughtroutes which might attracta very profitable 50 passen-gers per mile per day. If therewere even 800 daily riders, abus route would have beenestablished long ago.

The Purple Line is notreplacing a Bethesda-NewCarrollton bus route be-cause bus operators nevercould find sufficient riders.How will MDOT support anexclusive right of way (de-signed to handle 200 trainsper day) with a daily rider-ship that might be closer to800 than 51,200?

Robert J. Riker, Chevy Chase

Purple Linewill not

get enoughriders

The budget of the Montgom-ery County Public Schools for FY2015 is in the early stages of for-mulation. This budget of over $2billion is close to 50 percent of thetax-supported budget of Mont-gomery County. So who are theplayers who will influence thisbudget at this critical stage?

It is the Budget SteeringCommittee. The members ofthis committee are the deputysuperintendents, the employeeunion leaders representing theMontgomery County Associationof Administrators and Principals,the Montgomery County Educa-tion Association (teachers), theService Employees InternationalUnion Local 500, and the Mont-gomery County Council of ParentTeachers Associations.

These are all undoubtedlyimportant players and representimportant sectors of the Mont-gomery County Public Schools.Every member of this commit-tee has a vested interest in in-creasing the budget for manyand various reasons.

Why is the school board not

represented? It is true that theywill eventually get the budget forapproval but they do not havethe analytical capability at thatlate stage to ask the hard ques-tions. Also a little known fact: Thecharter of the board allows onlythose questions to be asked of theschool administration if all mem-bers have an interest. Individualquestions from individual boardmembers are not entertained —and this for a $2 billion budget.

Now that the maintenanceof effort law has stripped theCounty Council of its operatingbudget oversight role, virtuallyturning the council into a spec-tator with power of the purseonly over capital spending, thereis even greater need for outsiderepresentation. Matching MCPSresource requirements withother county priorities no longertakes place in public. In effectthe formulation of the MCPSbudget is left to folks with an in-herent conflict of interest.

Would the committee gainfrom the inclusion of other mem-bers such as those who might

question the long-range implica-tions of Budget Steering Commit-tee decisions, who might inquireabout the effective and efficientuse of current dollars, who mightask about the crosswalk betweenstrategies and funding and be-tween funding and performance?

Could the MCPS budgetprocess be improved with morecitizen-group participation?Could an independent study ofthe MCPS budget, as we pro-posed to the superintendent lastSpring, be beneficial?

We suggest that the com-mittee be expanded to includerepresentatives from the CountyCouncil, the office of the countyexecutive and even, perhaps,from a civic group. Because whatis missing from the equation arethe interests of the MontgomeryCounty taxpayer. It is telling thathe who pays the MCPS piperdoes not call the tune.

Joan Fidler, BethesdaThe writer is the president

of the Montgomery County Tax-payers League.

He who pays the piper

About 30 years ago, many radio stations adoptedthe “classic rock” format, a term that entered the publiclexicon without much recognition that it’s an oxymoron.As a style of music, rock ’n’ roll is rooted in rebellion andrejecting the status quo. Would Jerry Lee Lewis want to becalled “classic”?

A debate in Wheaton could take oxymoronic musi-cal genres to new heights with the creation of “historic

rock.” A number of peoplethink the Wheaton RecreationCenter should receive a historicdesignation, in part, becausein 1969, before anyone knewwho they were, Led Zeppelinplayed there. Maybe that’s true,or maybe that’s an urban leg-end. Many people believe theassertion though there’s littleevidence to support the bandactually played there.

But since when has rock ’n’ roll been about bricks andmortar? Elvis Presley shook his hips to outrage middleAmerica. Long after hip-shaking became passé, rockfound other ways to shock, including Led Zep’s ever-increasing volume and sensuality on stage.

If indeed the band played in Wheaton — and even ifthe assertion is false, who doesn’t want to believe it? —preserving the rec center is no way to honor that event.The building has a leaky roof and mold. A kitchen stovehas only two burners that work. There’s a lump on thebasketball court that defies attempts at repair.

Beyond the tenuous connection to popular culture,others want the building preserved because of its Asian-influenced modern design architecture. Even so, there’snot much to preserve. To most people, the buildingwould be a universally endorsed candidate for demoli-tion.

The community desperately needs the new rec cen-ter-library that’s planned to be constructed in its place.The Planning Board should approve the request to razethe building.

And if there are people who want to honor one of theband’s first performances, a music festival might be moreappropriate. Or possibly a plaque on the new building:“Robert Plant might have slept here.”

Rec center blues

The remediation plan touse a latex-modified concrete(LMC) overlay being adopted byMontgomery County’s Build-ing, Design, Construction & theDivision of General Services andthe “ad hoc working group,” ac-cording to Foulger-Pratt is “ill-advised and ill-conceived.”

Way back when, Ike Leggettsecretly hired KCE StructuralEngineers (Ike didn’t inform theCounty Council) to study andreport back on Transit Center’sflawed construction. KCE re-ported serious issues with theTransit Center’s design, construc-tion, concrete strength & testing,etc.

And now, we have EarnestLunsford Jr., the administrator

of the county’s building designand construction division, andDavid Dise, the director thecounty’s General Services Divi-sion (who were both involvedwith this project in its initialstages) suggesting that ByrantFoulger hire a contractor to doa Band-Aid fix using the LMCmethod — instead of demol-ishing and replacing the flawedconcrete ramps and areas thatare not on spec for this project.

The gentlemen from thecounty are consulting with Wag-man for using the LMC method,but there isn’t any proof thatthis latex-modified concrete willhold up over the long term thattaxpayers will need to guaran-tee — because we all know that

Metro isn’t going to accept thecounty’s fix unless we (Mont-gomery County taxpayers) agreeto pay the costs for subsequentrepairs in the years to come!

The fix oughta be:1. Fire all the county engi-

neers who placed their P.Engstamp on the flawed structuraldrawings.

2. Redesign the weak rampsand parking slabs.

3. Foulger-Pratt uses a dif-ferent concrete placement com-pany, and Facchina pays thecosts for concrete replacement.

The county needs to do thisproject right! The time it takes torebuild the flawed areas is notthe issue.

Steve Cullen, Silver Spring

Latex-modified concrete isn’t the answer

PRESERVINGWHEATON

SITE WOULDNOT HONOR

ITS TIES TOROCK

CLASSIC CURTIS


As Maryland’s state electionsbegin warming up we’re enteringthe phony opinion survey seasonwhen candidates release so-called“polls” they’ve commissionedshowing “political momentum.”Such polls should be taken withlarge grains of salt.

That’s why it’s helpful whena legitimate, independent pollingservice like Gonzales Research andMarketing gives us some reliableinsight into the voters’ mood.

Last week Gonzales released itspoll takenduring thefirst twoweeks of Oc-tober survey-ing a crosssection ofvoters demo-graphicallyweighted toreflect whoshows up onElection Day.Here are thehighlights:

M o s tpeople are not yet paying atten-tion to a primary election that’s stilleight months away. When asked tojudge the two Democratic front-runners for governor, 56 percentof Democratic voters were either“neutral” or didn’t recognize An-thony Brown and 72 percent werethe same about Doug Gansler. Athird candidate, Heather Mizeur,was unknown to 79 percent ofMaryland Democrats.

Conversely, Maryland vot-ers widely recognize Gov. MartinO’Malley and have no reluctancejudging his job performance.

Among all voters, O’Malley’s fa-vorable is 47.7 percent, his unfavor-able is 48.1 percent, his worst ratingsince January 2008 (49 percent),just after he engineered the biggesttax hike in state history. O’Malley’srating is far behind PresidentObama, who gets a 58 percent fa-vorable, 40 percent unfavorable inthe same poll.

Compared to a January 2013Gonzales poll, O’Malley’s positivesare down 6 points while his nega-tives are up 7 points among all vot-ers. But the big story is the intensityof O’Malley’s negatives.

Only 19 percent of Mary-

land voters “strongly approve”of O’Malley, while 34 percent“strongly disapprove” (comparedto 25 percent strong approval and24 percent strong disapproval inJanuary 2013).

The intensity shift is dramaticamong independent voters: “strongapproval” dropped from 25 percentto 15 percent while “strong disap-proval” increased from 23 percentto 29 percent over the past eightmonths. And it’s even more pro-nounced among African-Americanvoters, where, between Januaryand October, “strong approval”dropped from 47 percent to 28percent and “strong disapproval”hiked from 4 percent to 17 percent.

So what’s driving O’Malley’sbad showing, and how does it im-pact this election, where O’Malleyis not a candidate but where boththe primary and general electionswill likely be referendums on theO’Malley record?

Patrick Gonzales thinksO’Malley’s problem is the same asback in 2008 — taxes. According tothe poll, the 83 percent gas tax hikeO’Malley pushed through the legis-lature remains vastly unpopular: 22percent favorable, 76 percent unfa-vorable (with 59 percent “stronglyopposed”). And you wonder whyGansler is running against the gastax?

Add to this the infamous “raintax” and O’Malley’s 38 other taxesand fees, which amount to $3.1billion a year in new taxes sinceO’Malley became governor.

O’Malley’s quixotic WhiteHouse bid appears unpopular aswell. When Gonzales asked Mary-land voters back in January ifO’Malley should run for president,only 25 percent said “yes,” while58 percent said “no.” O’Malley ig-nored them, and now, apparently,many jilted Marylanders believeO’Malley cares more about his ca-reer than about them.

So, does this bode poorly forBrown, O’Malley’s lieutenant gov-ernor, who is running as O’Malley’sprotege against Gansler, theO’Malley/Brown alternative?

No, because only Democraticvoters will decide the Brown vs.Gansler primary and, amongDems, O’Malley remains popular(favorable 67 percent, unfavorable29 percent). True, among Demo-

cratic voters O’Malley’s favorable isdown 6 points and his unfavorableis up 9 points, but running againstthe O’Malley record in a Demo-cratic primary is uphill for Gansler.

Things might be different forBrown in the general electionagainst an attractive Republican.But this is where Brown’s race —African American — becomes sucha huge factor.

In 2002, Lt. Gov. Kathleen Ken-nedy Townsend had everything go-ing for her: first woman governor,uncontested primary, overwhelm-ing party and media support. Buther campaign lapses and, more im-portantly, voter animosity againstParris Glendening, the incumbentgovernor, cost her the election.

Like KKT, Brown is battlingvoter fatigue, his boss’s declin-ing popularity and, in addition,a strong primary opponent. Butrunning as Maryland’s first Afri-can-American governor in a statethat’s 30 percent African Americanis Brown’s ace in the hole. Or, putit this way; if Brown was white, hisprospects would look a whole lotmore like KKT’s.

One possible game changerin this nascent governor’s race isObamacare. O’Malley put Brownin charge of designing and master-minding Maryland’s Obamacareprogram. It’s Brown’s signature ac-complishment as lieutenant gov-ernor, and if it implodes, so doesBrown.

The Gonzales poll, taken dur-ing the first days of the Obamacarerollout, shows wide popularity: 57percent favorable, 39 percent un-favorable. But will these numberschange if the “glitches caused bythe website’s early popularity”prove systemic and if the entireprogram goes into a “death spiral”?

As Maryland’s elections un-fold we’ll depend on Gonzales tokeep us up to date on who’s happy,who’s angry and why.

Blair Lee is chairman of theboard of Lee Development Groupin Silver Spring and a regularcommentator for WBAL radio. Hiscolumn appears Fridays in theBusiness Gazette.

His past columns are availableat www.gazette.net/blairlee. Hisemail address is [email protected].

Intel from Gonzales

MY MARYLANDBLAIR LEE At the Oct. 14, mayor

and council meeting, Rock-ville’s representatives voted3-2 to allow the demolitionof the historic “Pink Bank”at 255 N. Washington St.

This vote was accom-plished through the use ofa flaw in Rockville’s historicdesignation process, whichallows the mayor and coun-cil to cut short the normalpublic hearing process,preventing public hearingsbefore both the PlanningCommission and the mayorand council.

I urge the citizens ofRockville to review themeeting’s discussion andultimate decision online asI believe the decision madethat evening has implica-tions for how the public’svoice will be heard in Rock-ville in the future.

However, this is onlya symptom of a larger is-sue: the misuse of historicpreservation in Rockville.Several council membersclaim to be in favor of his-toric preservation, yet theiractions indicate not an in-terest in preservation ofhistory, but rather, preser-

vation of specific architec-tural styles that meet theirown tastes.

This is a devastatingway to view historic pres-ervation, as we should havelearned during the guttingof our town center throughurban renewal in the 1960s.By eliminating one of thelast physical reminders ofthat era, we are also engag-ing in a whitewashing of ourhistory, and as we all shouldknow by now, to forget pastmistakes is to be doomed torepeat them.

Furthermore, the citywill miss out on a key eco-nomic development oppor-tunity. In 30 years, I expectwe will be gutting our towncenter again, when the cur-rent architectural and plan-ning trends fade.

The Pink Bank repre-sents something unique inour community that couldset the city apart for years tocome.

In fact, the MarylandEconomic Development As-sociation’s fall conferencethis year focused on place-making. According to MD-BIZ News, a publication of

the Maryland Departmentof Business & Economic De-velopment that covered theconference, two takeawaysfrom this gathering of theregion’s top economic de-velopers were that “a com-munity’s uniqueness fuelsgrowth because ‘the moreyour community looks likeeveryone else’s, the lesspeople will want to go there’(Ed McMahon, Urban LandInstitute)” and “investing inhistoric preservation yieldslasting long-term results infostering place, but it needsto follow a long-term plan.”

Rockville’s Historic Re-sources Management Planstates as its goal: identifyand protect the Historic Re-sources as visual and physi-cal reminders of the themesand periods in the city’s de-velopment.

Therefore, I ask Rock-ville’s citizens to considerthese important issues, andmake their voices heard.

Jessica Reynolds, RockvilleThe writer is a Rockville

Historic District Commis-sioner, and an economicdevelopment professional.

Historic Pink Bank set to be demolished

I am grateful for the en-dorsement of my candidacyfor the Rockville City Coun-cil by The Gazette [“ForTeam Rockville,” editorial,Oct. 23]. The endorsementnoted that there could beconcerns regarding my ef-fectiveness as a county gov-ernment senior managerand a Rockville City electedofficial.

There are very few oc-casions when my work withthe county will overlap withthe business of the city. Inthose rare instances whenthere could be a concern,I pledge to recuse myselffrom any vote that may beperceived as a source ofconflict. It should be noted

that I am no longer with thecounty’s Office of Manage-ment and Budget whereresource allocation recom-mendations are made to thecounty executive. More im-portantly, it is precisely mylong-standing professionalrelationships with countyelected officials, countygovernment appointed andmerit leaders which willpermit me to build bridgesfor improved dialog anddecision-making to reachconsensus ... while advocat-ing for city interests.

I believe that my 24years of service with Mont-gomery County Gov-ernment as well as myexperience as a member of

the Rockville City Board ofSupervisors of Elections,a graduate of LeadershipMontgomery and RockvilleUniversity as well as mycurrent chairmanship ofMontgomery Hospice willbe an excellent foundationfor serving as a member ofthe Rockville City Council.

Beryl L. Feinberg, RockvilleThe writer is a candi-

date for the Rockville CityCouncil.

A pledge to recuseOther letters on theRockville City Councilelection appear onwww.gazette.net/opinions

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Kay said withholding pay-ments was how the state wouldmotivate the company to fol-low its contractual obligations.Whatever company ends uptaking on the role, Kay said,would have incurred debts that

needed repayment and there-fore would be unlikely to jeop-ardize getting regular paymentsfrom the state. He likened thearrangement to taking out amortgage.

“You want them to haveenough debt so they are moti-vated to take care of the asset,”Kay said.

Councilwoman Nancy Flo-

reen (D-At large) of Garrett Park,pressed him, and Mike Maddenof MTA, about how much thecounty would be responsible for— not including the cost of theCapital Crescent Trail, whichwill cost the county about $16million.

Kay said Prince George’sand Montgomery counties wereresponsible for 10 percent of the

total $2.2 billion, making Mont-gomery County’s share $110million.

However, the county hasalready made contributions— such as rights of way — thatwill be taken into account whenthe final tallying is complete,he said, so no final number wasavailable.

The state is expecting about

$900 million in federal fundingand the concessionaire’s con-tributions could be from about$400 million to $900 million forconstruction.

The state will know forsure about the federal fundingby February, Kay said, whichwill be key before issuing a re-quest for qualifications from companies.

“No private partner willinvest if we don’t have federalfunding,” Kay said.

The MTA will present the

P3 idea before a state Board ofPublic Works meeting Nov. 6.The board consists of the Gov.Martin O’Malley (D), Comp-troller Peter V.R. Franchot (D)and Treasurer Nancy Kopp.Franchot and Kopp both repre-sented Montgomery County inthe General Assembly.

“We need for this to work,”Berliner said. “We’ve invested alot of time. We’ve invested a lotof our own resources.”

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Alexander brought to Audu-bon her passion for connect-ing young people to nature,co-workers say, launching in 2005the Green Kids program, a grant-funded outreach program thatpartners with local public schoolsto foster environmental literacy.Alexander became the directorof Environmental Education andthen deputy director of the soci-ety in 2011.

“Lisa has such a huge vision,”said Diane Lill, who now runs theGreen Kids program, which hasraised more than $1 million tosupport environmental science atlocal schools. “She’s a wonderfulleader, very easy to talk to. She’sour biggest cheerleader.”

For Alexander, 51, the new jobis akin to coming home. Whenshe graduated from Cornell Uni-versity, where she studied forestecology, she got a job at Audubonteaching children and review-ing children’s science books.She lived on the third floor ofAudubon’s Woodend Mansion,an example of Georgian Revivalarchitecture built in the 1920s byJohn Russell Pope, architect of theJefferson Memorial and NationalGallery of Art, for Captain ChesterWells and his wife Marion Leigh.The mansion, on the NationalRegister of Historic Places and theMontgomery County Master Planfor Historic Preservation, housesthe nonprofit’s offices and alsois the setting for many weddings

and parties.Without a car, she got to know

the 40 acres of the Woodend Sanc-tuary well. The property is one ofthe few remaining old estates inChevy Chase and dates back to1699. The Wells Family donatedthe Woodend Mansion and prop-erty to the Audubon NaturalistSociety in 1968.

Kathryn Mitchell, the devel-opment director, said she was ec-static to learn Alexander had beenchosen to the leadership post.

“I see Lisa’s leadership as byexample. She doesn’t ask for oth-ers to give unless she has doneso herself,” Mitchell said. Thatdoesn’t just go for financial con-tributions either, she said.

“Unless she has physicallyput boots on the ground or in thecreek, she won’t ask you to do ityourself.”

This past weekend, Alexan-der was part of a team restoringa meadow by planting 1,000 na-tive plants. And when she’s notdigging at work, she’s likely to befound fussing around in her owngarden at her Chevy Chase home,where she lives with her husbandand son. Another son is in college.

During her tenure as director,Alexander hopes to help spreadthe word about Woodend, whichshe calls a jewel inside the belt-way.

“We have so much going onhere,” Alexander said in her of-fice at Woodend. “We have a lotof stories to tell. We tend to hideour light under a bushel.”

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TWELVE COUNTY FOOTBALL TEAMS STILL ELIGIBLE FOR PLAYOFF BERTHS, THREE HAVE CLINCHED, B-3

n Raptors open playoffs asNo. 2 team in U.S.

BY KENT ZAKOURSTAFF WRITER

Three months ago, GabrielNdiaye was not in the UnitedStates. He was back home, inGambia, a West African country,getting ready to move across theAtlantic Ocean for college.

Now, he is the most prolificgoal-scorer in the country forthe second-ranked NationalJunior College Athletic Associa-tion Division III men’s soccerteam heading into postseasonplay. Ndiaye’s MontgomeryCollege (19-1) squad earned afirst-round bye in the Region XX

tournament (hosted by PrinceGeorge’s Community Col-

lege) and is scheduledto play in the semifinalround Thursday. The

national tournament isscheduled for Nov. 14-17 at

Herkimer County Commu-nity College in New York.

“This is why we play

this game,” Raptors second-year coach Pedro Braz said. “Weplay to go to the postseason andmake a run. Last year was a sur-prise, but this year we have a tar-get on us being the No. 2 team inthe country. Opponents expectus to be good; we expect it and[Ndiaye] is one of the reasonswhy.”

Ndiaye came to Montgom-ery College, admittedly, veryraw on the soccer field. He grewup playing unorganized soccerfrom a very young age. So, afterenrolling at Montgomery Col-lege, he attended the Raptors’open tryout sessions and imme-diately impressed the coachingstaff.

“The first thing we noticedis he was a very talented naturalgoal scorer,” Braz said. “But hejust didn’t have a lot of experi-ence playing in an organizedsetting. He played a lot of streetsoccer back home and he strug-gled at the beginning and was areserve, but now that he under-stands, he’s just doing what he is

MC star came for books,leads nation in goals

n Curry, Panthers set to face Sherwood Fridayin game with playoff implications

BY DAN FELDMANSTAFF WRITER

Paint Branch High School football coach Mike Nesmith and se-nior receiver Javonn Curry said they have a similar exchange when-ever they pass each other in the hallway.

“Are you going to make any bigplays at all this year?” Nesmith asks.

“I got you, coach,” Curry says af-ter laughing. “It’s going to come.”

“I hope so,” Nesmith says. “Theyear’s almost over. Make a play.”

Of course, Nesmith is just takingadvantage of one of his favorite Curryattributes, his ability to take a joke.Curry has 41 catches for 600 yardsand 11 touchdowns entering No. 6Paint Branch’s game against No. 8Sherwood on Friday.

Really, Nesmith expected thistype of production last season fromCurry. But caught on a team with in-ternal issues, Curry was limited.

The year before, Curry led PaintBranch to a championship in theFreaks in Cleats 7-on-7 tournamentat Towson when several top olderplayers were out with injuries. Ever

since, Nesmith was sky high on the player who’d already impressedhim as a freshman on junior varsity.

“We’ve seen those flashes that, when he was on — in that passingleague tournament, he was on — no one would stop him,” Nesmithsaid. “He’s got great size. You’re not going to have a lot of defensive

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Paint Branch High School widereceiver Javonn Curry.

Paint BranchHigh School widereceiver JavonnCurry (right)catches a passduring teampractice Thursdayat the school inBurtonsville.

Scoring: Not a one-person deal anymoren Twenty-plus goal

scorers have become a rarityin county girls’ soccer

BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN

STAFF WRITER

Montgomery County’s 25 publichigh school girls’ soccer teams have col-lectively scored an average of 27 goalsapiece in 2013. Up until recently, thatlikely would’ve been the handy work ofjust one player.

In the fall of 1998, a Watkins Mill

freshman by the name of Noelle Kes-elica scored an unprecedented 35 goalsand averaged 25 a year over a four-yeartenure. Walter Johnson’s all-time lead-ing scorer, Caroline Miller, graduatedin 2009 with a 22-per-year goal scoringaverage and Bethesda-Chevy Chase’srecent string of four consecutive statetitles was propelled by go-to scorerssuch as Hannah Cooper (Class of 2009,four straight 18-plus goal seasons) andVic Gersh (20 goals scored in 2009-10).

Gone are the days, for the most partit seems, of such dominant scorers. Butthe trend is in no way a sign of troublefor the county’s soccer teams. In fact,

coaches agree it’s symptomatic of in-creased talent county-wide. As more andmore elite level clubs have popped up allover the region and attracted youngerand younger athletes, experienced play-ers are filling out teams’ depth charts inall areas of the county, not just the tra-ditionally strong Bethesda and Potomacareas, Walt Whitman coach Greg Herbertsaid. Case in point, Gaithersburg’s recentascent into the county’s upper echelon.

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Eliza Doll (left) of Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School loks to shoot the ball near thegoal of host Walt Whitman during a game this fall.

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n Girls’ soccer team’ssystem predicated oninterchangeable athletes

BY JENNIFER BEEKMANSTAFF WRITER

When played at a high level,soccer can be a beautiful game ofcreativity that allows players a cer-tain kind of freedom in space —high school soccer fields range inlength from 100 to 120 yards and50 to 80 in width — that athletesin other sports are not granted.There are no timeouts, very littleinteraction between coach andplayer during the course of agame, and while coaches do drawup game plans, there are few spe-cific designed plays that playersare limited to.

Walt Whitman girls’ soccermight embrace that freedom bet-ter than any Montgomery CountyPublic School team.

TheVikingsstarteachgameinparticular positions but they don’ttypically last long. Ninth-year Vi-kingscoachGregHerbert’ssystemis predicated on a group of versa-tileplayersthatcanbecalleduponto fill in any field position whenneeded, and play it effectively.

Whitman (11-1-1) boasts amarquee player in every area ofthe pitch. Rice University recruitAliza Wolfe, whom Herbert de-scribed as the most all-aroundgifted player to come through theprogram,andEmory-boundAnnaGurney, perhaps the most techni-cal and crafty, control the center.Junior Emma Anderson is an ex-

Whitman doesn’tmind being outof position

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doing, which is score.”Ndiaye, who appeared soft-

spoken and thoughtful duringMonday’s practice, deflected thepraise to his teammates. He’smade 15 starts and appeared in19 games this fall.

“I owe it all to them and coachbecause they make sure I’m inthe right place and their skills areamazing. I mean, Nick Castrohas assisted on half of my goals,”Ndiaye said. “The atmosphere isjust amazing here and we have alot of diverse cultures, but we allhang out, call each other and staytogether as a team.”

The 20-year-old freshman,who lives in Silver Spring, hasbeen enjoying his time immers-ing himself in American culture.His favorite thing is all of the fastfood establishments.

“The food is the best here,”Ndiaye said. “McDonalds, Chi-potle, Burger King — I try every-thing.”

Ndiaye, who is studying busi-ness and economics, moved tothe United States primarily foreducation, but said he couldn’tgive up his favorite sport.

“It was a little tough to move,but the education system is somuch better here than back

home,” he said. “I’ve loved play-ing soccer since I was little — youask for soccer balls for Christmasevery year back home — but theeducation is my first goal.

Montgomery College is aver-aging 6.2 goals per game with a.729 shot percentage while allow-ing just 0.9 goals per game. TheRaptors, who don’t feature muchheight, are extremely technical,focused on ball control and makequick passes and swift move-ments.

“We don’t like the ball in theair a lot,” Braz said with a laughand smile.

Sophomore center back andSherwood graduate Sergio Na-varrete agreed.

“It’s a lot of team play. Theline between starters and thereserves is becoming more andmore blurred,” he said. “The levelof play is great.”

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goals. B-CC has 19 players withat least one goal and no one withmore than six. Damascus seniormidfielder Steph Cox is currentlythe county’s leading scorer with18goalsbuttheSwarmin’Hornetshave outscored their opponents64-5 and still have 15 players withat least one goal. Even defend-ing Washington Catholic AthleticConference champion Our Ladyof Good Counsel lacks one par-ticular scorer with 12 contributorsand none with more than 12 goals— in 2011 two Falcons scored 22-plus goals.

“The trend [of more balancedscoring] is definitely there,” saidChurchill coach Haroot Hako-pian, who has been coaching inthe county for two decades. Inthose times you had solid playersand one outstanding player takeit upon themselves to score. Now

you have several teams acrossthe county with girls with six to10 scorers. That means whenthey get the opportunity to finish,they’re finishing.”

The county is in no shortageof star power capable of pepper-ing the stat sheet. If Whitmanmidfielder Aliza Wolfe played inthe front field and put more em-phasis just on scoring, Herbertand Hakopian agreed, her num-bers could sky rocket. Thoughmore comfortable in the set-uprole, Hakopian said B-CC seniorand Colgate University recruitEliza Doll has the ability to takeover games in a similar manner.

The recent trend has alsobeen boosted by the type of playerbeing developed at a young age,Hakopian said, and the brandof soccer it enables high schoolteamstoemploy.Playersaremoreversatilethesedaysthantheywere10 to 15 years ago, Hakopian said,and can play various roles on thefield depending on where they’re

needed. Teams are generally ableto efficiently execute a prettier,more possession style of soccerthat lends itself to more balanceamong scoring options, coachesagreed.

Kurtz joked after the Barons’2-1 win over Whitman earlier thismonth that he would pay to havethe high-scoring numbers he wasaccustomed to in the mid-2000s— one-goal decisions can bestressful — but the recent lack ofdominant scoring signifies a newlevel of competition in Mont-gomery County girls’ soccer.

“You don’t see those playersanymore who are ripping home25 goals,” Kurtz said. “HannahCooper scored 18 goals for us fouryears in a row, I’d be paying herif she did that for us now. But thegood thing is we’re getting it froma lot of different players.”

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Gabriel Ndiaye (right) practices with the Montgomery College men’s soccerteam Monday at the campus in Rockville.

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Our Lady of Good Council High School’s field hockey team raises the championship trophy after beating HolyCross. 2-1 in overtime, to win the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference championship Thursday at the Univer-sity of Maryland, College Park.

n Holton-Arms wins ninthISL tennis title in 10 years

Our Lady of Good Counselfield hockey coach Theda Bag-don had a simple message forher players prior to Thursdaynight’s Washington CatholicAthletic Conference champion-ship game, the fifth straight yearthe Falcons matched up withAcademyoftheHolyCrossintheseason finale.

“Everybody has to try just alittle bit harder, do just a little bitbetter, think just a little deeper,work just a little longer,” she said.

It’s former gymnast MaryLou Retton’s quote, and fromthelooksofhowthegameturnedout, with Good Counsel shed-ding the runner-up moniker thathas haunted it for the past halfdecade, it did just the trick.

When the Tartans tied it up1-1 in the second half, they dugjust a little deeper, holding onto extend the game to overtime.When Holy Cross fired in 12shots on goalie Caroline Camp-bell, the keeper tried just a littlebit harder. And when Elaine Mc-Cabe deked Holy Cross goalieKathleen Mauck with 2 minutes,58 seconds remaining in over-time,GoodCounselrosejustonenotch higher.

“I told them, I said, ‘Everysingle time you feel one ounce ofpulling back, think I have to worka little harder, I have to think alittle deeper,’” Bagdon said. “Thechemistry and the heart of thisteam, and the undying supportfor each other, there’s no girl —it’s awesome. There’s no divi-sion.”

The victory has been a longtime coming for Good Counsel.Bagdon watched her team relin-quish a 2-0 second-half lead lastyeartolose3-2inovertime,andaplayer was sent off during the ex-traperiod,makingitsevenonsix.The 2009 championship went toextra minutes as well, and thatone ended in a 1-0 overtime vic-tory in Holy Cross’s favor. Twoyears later, the title was decidedby another one-goal margin, a2-1 Tartans victory.

“I am so happy right now,”

Campbell said. “We have beento so many championships andwe have worked so hard in theoff-season and regular seasonand this team is so close and wewanted it so badly. We put it allon the field and we’re so happy.”

Just down the road at JamesH. Blake there was anotherpostseason tilt providing somefree field hockey. The Bengals,hosting Springbrook, went toovertime before knocking in thegame-winner. They advanced totop-seeded Sherwood on Mon-day night (results came in afterdeadline). In the round previous,in which Col. Zadok Magruderand Gaithersburg were the lonegame in the 4A West, the Tro-jans took two additional framesto finally top the Colonels. No.1 seeded Quince Orchard pro-ceeded to knock them out in theensuing round, 5-0.

While Stone Ridge’s 2-1 vic-tory over St. Stephen’s/St. AgnesonThursdaywasn’tquitethewa-tershed win being had by GoodCounsel, it was similar in nature.TheSaintsaretheownersof10ofthe past 11 Independent SchoolLeague titles, and though it wasonly a regular season matchup,the win certainly raised an eye-browortwo,especiallywithplay-offs just a week away.

Cross countryA pair of Good Counsel run-

ners had a banner day Satur-day in the WCAC cross countrychampionships at Lake FairfaxPark in Reston, Va. SophomoreMegan Crilly took home thegirls’ individual championshipby running the course in a timeof 20:55.06, while senior CollinCrilly won the boys’ race with atime of 16:27.57. Overall, GoodCounsel’s girls finished secondat the meet with 47 points, sevenbehind Bishop O’Connell as Co-sette Riley (21:13) finished fourthandCassidyBurke(21:15)placedfifth, The Falcons boys won theteam title by two points overGonzaga, as they had five run-ners finish in the top 12 (Crilly,Jack Wavering, Tyler Richards,Matt Lopez, Kevin McGivern).Even the two runners who didn’tscoreperformedremarkablywellas Miguel Alonso and Jeff Moxleyfinished 16th and 17th, respec-tively.

TennisHolton-Arms School junior

No. 1 singles player Lilly Lynhammight not have physically wonher match against Bullis’ InesVias in Thursday’s season-end-ing Independent School League“AA” Division tournament finalbut her just being on the courtat Madeira (Virginia) was vital toHolton’s ninth title in 10 years.

Lynham was rather sickThursday but this year’s ISLtournamenttookonanewstruc-ture — dual matches rather thanseparate brackets per position. IfLynham sat out Thursday’s final,everyone down the Panthers’ladder would have to move upa spot. Holton, which defeatedSt. Stephen’s/St. Agnes (6-1) andNational Cathedral School (4-3)in the first and second roundswon the final, 5-2 Thursday.

“I was very tempted notto play [Lynham] because shewas in pain but she asked meto play in the last match so sheplayed at her request, not mine,”Holton coach Yann Auzoux said.“In this particular format, thatmakes a big difference. Last yearit wouldn’t have made a big dif-ference because we probablywould’ve been in good positionin every other position.”

Bullis won the top twosingles courts — last year’s ISLNo. 1 singles champion Viasavenged a regular-season loss toLynham with a win Thursday —but Holton won third and fourthsingles and swept the doubles.Maya Das’ win at No. 3 singlesThursday capped an undefeated2013. Jillian Lawler won at No.4. Holton’s No. 1 doubles teamconsisted of Karsyn Lawler andElise Lovett and Susan Darvishiand Sophie Gary won on the sec-ond doubles court. The team’sonly two seniors, Lauren DiFranco and Lauren Ahn won thethird doubles match.

Auzoux credits Holton’sdominance of the league thepast decade with the programsthat have been implemented foryounger athletes at the school,helping prepare them to feedinto the varsity squad.

“Ithinkwhatwe’vemanagedto do is establish a good systemfor the girls to go through,” Au-zoux said.

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cellent target forward. Senior Em-ily Martin is a tremendous outsideback with an attacking mindset anability to move forward in spacebut recently took over as centraldefender when stalwart back Ba-har Ulusan (committed to Emory)went down with an ankle injuryand junior Clare Severe, a naturaloutside back with incredible skilland speed on and off the ball, hasbeen an invaluable utility playersince she was a freshman. Severesaid playing different positionshelps prevent her from gettingcomplacent.

Theinterchangeabilityamongthese players and their support-ing cast provides Whitman with auniquedynamic.Bethesda-ChevyChase coach Rob Kurtz deemedWhitman the county’s most tech-nically talented team earlier in theseasonandtheoverall teamspeedwith which the Vikings can imple-

ment their style of play — freemovement through the course ofa game — just creates additionalmatch-up problems.

“It’snicewhenagirlsaysshe’llplay somewhere to help her teambut to do so and excel, that’s a lux-ury,” Herbert said. Such a conceptis magnificent in theory but ex-ecuting it requires a lot more thanpure soccer talent. The Vikings’system is reliant on cohesion,communication and trust amongathletes — many of these playershave been playing together forfour or more years as they cameup through Herbert’s Pyle MiddleSchool program — as well as a su-perior level of soccer knowledgeand on-field awareness.

“The girls are knowledge-able of the game and now how toadapt,” Herbert said. “They’re notonly in tune to their opponent butto each other. They reach eachother so well.”

Perhaps the most importantpart of the equation is that thereare no egos. Players are willing to

sacrifice their own statistics to dowhat’s best for Whitman soccer.

For all the Vikings’ recentregular-season success — in 2011they didn’t give up a single goal toMCPS’ opponents — Whitmanhasn’t been able to get out of theClass 4A West Region since its2005 run to the state final as de-fending champion. Anderson saidstayingcomposedinthebiggestofsituations might be what’s stoodbetween the Vikings and theirsecond state title. A 3-0 win overnationally-ranked Our Lady ofGood Counsel this month shouldhelp Whitman realize the brand ofsoccer it’s capable of producing,Herbert said.

“I told the girls after the winthat they should not be surprisedby that win,” Herbert said. “Thisshould be the expectation. Theyknow they have the technical abil-ity, it’scantheymatchthattechni-cal ability with mental toughnessand grit.”

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n Rockville QB tosses forstate-best 480 yards, 8touchdowns vs. Magruder

Rockville High School quar-terback Chuck Reese threw for480 yards and eight touchdowns— marks that best MarylandPublic Secondary Schools AthleticAssociation single-game records— in Rockville’s 64-41 win Fridayagainst Col. Zadok Magruder.

Rockville fell behind 35-8 inthe first quarter as Magruder readRockville’s signals. After chang-ing signals during halftime, Reesefound immediate success to beginthe third quarter.

“Then, his confidence wasthrough the roof,” Rockville offen-sive coordinator Jason Lomax said.“After that, they couldn’t evenslow him down.”

USOC honors KatieLedecky

One month after being named2013 USA Swimming Athlete ofthe Year, Stone Ridge School ofthe Sacred Heart junior KatieLedecky was honored as UnitedStates Olympic Committee Sports-Woman of the Year at an awardsceremony in New York Tuesdaythat was part of the 100 Days OutCelebration, counting down to thiswinter’s Olympic Games in Sochi.

A year after winning herfirst Olympic gold medal in the

800-meter freestyle in London,Ledecky claimed four gold medals— 1,500-meter freestyle, 800-me-ter freestyle, 400-meter freestyle,800-meter freestyle relay — atthis summer’s 2013 FINA WorldChampionships in Barcelona,Spain. Ledecky’s time of 15 min-utes, 36.53 seconds crushed theprevious 1,500-meter freestyleworld record by more than six sec-onds; she set another world markin the 800-meter freestyle and anAmerican record in the 400-meter

freestyle. With her time of 3:59.82,Ledecky became the first Ameri-can woman to eclipse the 4-min-ute mark in the event and first U.S.woman, second overall, to sweepthe three individual distancefreestyle events at a single WorldChampionships.

Ledecky, who follows in thefootsteps of such athletes as JanetEvans and Natalie Coughlin, be-came the first women’s swimmerto be named USOC SportsWomanof the Year since 2008.

n Three schools haveclinched berths

Maryland Public Second-ary Schools Athletic Associa-tion determines the four teamsthat advance to the postseasonin football through a points

system that rewards schools fordefeating good teams. Here’sa look at the race for playoffberths with two regular-seasongames to be played:

4A WestQuince Orchard High

School has clinched a playoffberth and controls its own des-tiny for the No. 1 seed. It’s pos-sible Quince Orchard clinchesthe No. 1 seed this weekend.

Gaithersburg has alsoclinched a playoff berth andcontrols its destiny.

Northwest controls its des-tiny for a top-three seed andwould clinch a playoff berthby winning either of its lasttwo games (Quince Orchard orSpringbrook).

Clarksburg controls its des-tiny for making the playoffs.

Whitman must win at leastone of its remaining two games(Churchill and Blair) to have achance of qualifying.

If Wootton loses to Rock-ville and Clarksburg beatsMagruder this week, Woottonwould be eliminated. If Woot-ton beats Rockville, Woot-ton will enter Week 10 with achance to make the playoffs,but even a final-week victoryover Quince Orchard wouldn’tguarantee a postseason berth.

Blair can possibly remainin contention with a loss toBlake this week. But Blair can-not overcome a loss to Whit-man the following week.

4A NorthPaint Branch controls its

own destiny for receiving atop-two seed. Paint Branchwould clinch a playoff berthwith any one of the follow-ing outcomes in the next twoweeks: Paint Branch overSherwood, Paint Branch overGaithersburg, Woodlawn overKenwood, Parkville over Ken-wood, Bethesda-Chevy Chaseover Richard Montgomery,Churchill over Whitman,

Einstein over Seneca Val-ley, Franklin over Dundalk,Patapsco over Landsowne,Bethesda Chevy-Chase overWalter Johnson, Blair overWhitman, Blake over SenecaValley, Churchill over Damas-cus, Einstein over WatkinsMill, Kennedy over Sherwood,Springbrook over Northwest,Franklin over Catonsville,Towson over Dulaney, PerryHall over Dundalk or MilfordMill over Woodlawn.

Sherwoodwouldguaranteea playoff berth by winning ei-ther of its final two games (PaintBranch or Kennedy).

Springbrook must win itsfinal two games (Kennedy andNorthwest) to have a chanceof reaching the playoffs. IfSpringbrook beats Kennedy,either of two sets of outcomeswould eliminate Springbrookthis week: First, Howard overRiver Hill and Sherwood overPaint Branch; second, Howardover River Hill, Whitman overChurchill, Northwood overWatkins Mill, Quince Orchardover Northwest, Magruder overClarksburg, Richard Mont-gomery over Bethesda-ChevyChase, Seneca Valley over Ein-stein and Springbrook overKennedy.

3A WestDamascus has clinched a

playoff berth. If it wins its finaltwo games, Damascus couldfinish with the No. 1, No. 2 orNo. 3 seed.

The loser of Friday’s Sen-eca Valley-Einstein game willbe eliminated. Both teams willbe eliminated if South Hager-stown wins a game.

Rockville must win its fi-nal two games (Wootton andPoolesville) and South Hag-erstown must lose its finaltwo games (Williamsport andNorth Hagerstown).

2A WestPoolesville, currently

ranked third, controls itsown destiny for making theplayoffs. If Poolesville beatsBoonsboro and one or bothof the two teams directly be-hind Poolesvile (Catoctin andOakdale) lose this weekend,that alone would not guaran-tee Poolesville a playoff berth.With wins in both its finalgames, Poolesville could fin-ish with the No. 1, No. 2, No.3 or No. 4 seed.

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STANDINGSMontgomery 4A South DivisionTeam All Div. PF PAWootton* 4-4 4-1 207 139Whitman 5-3 3-1 169 135R. Montgomery 2-6 2-2 178 196B-Chevy Chase 2-6 1-2 106 235Churchill 1-7 1-3 46 247Walter Johnson* 1-7 1-3 43 227

Montgomery 4A East DivisionTeam All Div. PF PAPaint Branch 7-1 4-0 324 79Sherwood 6-2 3-0 199 140Springbrook* 4-4 2-2 159 91Blair 4-4 1-3 149 133Kennedy 3-5 1-2 133 129Blake 1-7 0-4 36 222

Montgomery 4A West DivisionTeam All Div. PF PAQuince Orchard 8-0 3-0 324 26Gaithersburg 7-1 3-1 182 84Northwest 6-2 1-2 274 113Clarksburg* 5-3 1-2 139 104Magruder 1-7 0-3 89 337

Montgomery 3A DivisionTeam All Div. PF PADamascus 7-1 5-0 240 82Seneca Valley 5-3 4-1 233 85Einstein 4-3 3-1 178 205Rockville 5-3 3-3 296 246Watkins Mill 2-6 1-3 84 238Wheaton 1-7 0-4 104 271Northwood 1-7 0-4 60 313

Montgomery 2A IndependentTeam All PF PAPoolesville 6-2 181 122

Private schoolsTeam All PF PABullis 7-1 255 88Good Counsel 6-4 226 121Avalon 5-4 252 158Georgetown Prep 4-4 232 190Landon 2-5 142 154

* Includes forfeit result

Last week’s scoresPoolesville 23, Wheaton 20Blair 34, Einstein 18Damascus 16, Seneca Valley 14Wootton 24, R. Montgomery 20Whitman 28, Walter Johnson 3Springbrook 35, Churchill 7P. Branch 54, B.-Chevy Chase 14Clarksburg 14, Northwest 13Rockville 64, Magruder 41Q. Orchard 41, Gaithersburg 6Sherwood 32, Blake 16Spalding 28, Georgetown Prep 24S. Hagerstown 42, Watkins Mill 0Avalon 60, KIPP 14Good Counsel 35, O’Connell 10Kennedy 49, Northwood 13Bullis 24, Landon 0

LEADERSTop rushers

Carries Yards Avg. TDsKhalil Wilson, Einstein 140 1412 10.1 13Dage Davis, Geo. Prep 159 1285 8.1 17Zac Morton, Whitman 186 1224 6.6 11Charles Lyles, Poolesville 171 1145 6.7 9Isaac Boyd, Avalon 110 1126 10.2 22Devonte Williams, Bullis 147 1122 7.6 17Chris Dawson, G. Counsel 157 978 6.2 12E. Spottswood, Sherwood 112 803 7.2 11Kevin Joppy, Q. Orchard 94 671 7.1 13D. Sims, Wheaton 116 649 5.6 6

Top passersCmp-Att. Yards Int. TDs

Chuck Reese, Rockville 216-343 2465 11 33Sam Ellis, Wootton 159-304 2221 12 18G. Cooper, P. Branch 128-217 1751 5 24Renzo Farfan, R. Mont. 118-217 1324 6 14Mike Murtaugh, QO 73-118 1275 4 15Marvin Galdamez, Ken. 82-137 1027 5 5C. Reighard, Seneca 81-146 1015 5 11Nick DeCarlo, G’burg 59-104 977 5 7Evan Smith, Whitman 63-127 819 9 7Raymond Burtnick, Blair 53-115 770 5 7

Top receiversCatches Yards Avg. TDs

Jibri Woods, Wootton 55 791 14.4 5Trevon Diggs, Wootton 62 762 12.3 9Joey Cornwell, Rockville 53 655 12.4 7Ryan Stango, P. Branch 39 625 16.0 8Louison Biama, Rockville 33 623 18.9 6Javonn Curry, P. Branch 41 600 14.6 11Michael Scott, Kennedy 41 581 14.2 1Anthony Albert, Rockville 46 524 11.4 8Steven Kelly, B-CC 21 486 23.1 5Phil Osborn, R. Mont. 39 465 11.9 8

Also receiving votes: Whitman 1.

BEST BETSherwood at Paint Branch,

6:30 p.m. Friday. Both teamswill likely make the playoffs inthe 4A North Region, but onlythe winner is guaranteed aberth. Sherwood has won eightthe past nine games in therivalry, including a 35-0 vic-tory last season. QuarterbackGaston Cooper leads the PaintBranch offense.

FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK

B Y D A N F E L D M A N

HOW THEY RANKThe 10 best football teams in MontgomeryCounty this week as ranked by The Gazette’ssports staff.

Rank School Record Points

1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.8.10.

Quince Orchard 8-0 60Cougars

Good Counsel 6-4 54Falcons

Bullis 7-1 48Bulldogs

Damascus 7-1 42Swarmin’ Hornets

Gaithersburg 7-1 36Trojans

Paint Branch 7-1 28Panthers

Clarksburg 5-3 22Coyotes

Sherwood 6-2 17Warriors

Northwest 5-3 17Jaguars

Seneca Valley 5-3 5Screaming Eagles

JenniferBeekman

117-27228-53

Watkins MillSeneca ValleyWoottonDamascusWhitmanGaithersburgR. Mont.Q. OrchardClarksburgSpringbrookPaint BranchBlair

BoonesboroGeo. PrepBullis

DanFeldman

121-23235-46

Watkins MillSeneca ValleyWoottonDamascusWhitmanGaithersburgB-CCQ. OrchardClarksburgSpringbrookPaint BranchBlairPoolesvilleGeo. PrepBullis

KenSain

121-23236-45



KentZakour

112-33119-62

Watkins MillSeneca ValleyWoottonDamascusWhitmanGaithersburgB-CCQ. OrchardClarksburgSpringbrookSherwoodBlair


NickCammarota

118-26233-48



TravisMewhirter

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FEARLESS FORECASTS

The Gazette sports staff picks thewinners for this week’s gamesinvolving Montgomery football teams.Here are this week’s selections:

Montgomery County recordAll games

Northwood at Watkins MillEinstein at Seneca ValleyWootton at RockvilleWheaton at DamascusChurchill at WhitmanGaithersburg at Walter JohnsonBethesda-Chevy Chase at R. MontgomeryNorthwest at Quince OrchardMagruder at ClarksburgKennedy at SpringbrookSherwood at Paint BranchBlake at BlairBoonesboro at PoolesvilleGeorgetown Prep at LandonBullis at Episcopal


Rockville High School quarterback Chuck Reese throws against Watkins Millduring a football game earlier this season. Reese threw for 480 yards andeight touchdowns last week against Col. Zadok Magruder.

KEEPING IT BRIEF

backs that can cover a 6-[foot]-3wide receiver in high school that’sgot very good speed and is goingup to catch balls with his hands.We knew that, if he played to hispotential, that he could be whathe’s become.”

Curry never played orga-nized football before high school,though he said he was prettygood in pick-up games with hisfriends. As he learned to wear

pads and run plays, he was still atleast somewhat unsure of himselffor his first couple seasons.

He wasn’t unconfident. Hejust wasn’t confident.

“I didn’t really have any,”Curry said of expectations whenhe joined Paint Branch’s footballprogram. “I knew I could catch,and I was pretty fast. I was justgoing out and trying to see if I ac-tually could be good.”

He is. Still, Curry has noscholarship offers, though Tow-son has shown interest ever sincethat 7-on-7 tournament in the

summer of 2011. Since, PennState, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, RobertMorris and Stony Brook have ex-pressed interest.

Discussing Curry’s prospectsof landing a scholarship offer,Nesmith uses the knowledge hefeigns lacking in the Paint Branchhallways.

“It’s going to pick up for him,”Nesmith said. “I really think, asthe year goes on and if we’re ableto have success in the playoffs,once people start looking at hisfilm, they’re going to realize thiskid is a pretty special talent.”

BIG PLAYContinued from Page B-1


n Led by senior libero,Falcons vying for statechampionship

BY TRAVIS MEWHIRTER

STAFF WRITER

During a match against Da-mascus High School earlier thisyear, Sarah Kenneweg hit thefloor to save a Madison Wyattkill attempt. Later, the Poolesvillesenior stuck an arm out to turnan Annika Schwartz spike into adeftly placed pass for teammateand setter Allyson Convers todivvy out to her own hitters.

Kenneweg is everywhere— her libero-distinguished jer-sey allows her to be — thinkingahead of hitters, getting to spotsthat looked open just seconds agoare now taken up by a diving, slid-ing or perfectly-positioned Ken-neweg, frustrating the county’sbest and most powerful hittersover and over again.

“That is the worst feeling,”Schwartz said. “That’s a feelingI always feel when we play Pool-esville. I’ve played club with herand she’s always there and I hateher for it. That’s the feeling andshe obviously loves it and it’s sofrustrating.”

There isn’t much glory aboutbeing a libero, aside from the in-

trinsic satisfaction of trumpingan outside hitters’ best shot. Be-ing a hitter is glamorous, crowd-

pleasing and fun. Being a liberois arduous and stressful, a test ofany forearm’s durability to with-

stand hit after hit. Naturally, theposition wasn’t Kenneweg’s firstchoice — it was her only one.

She’s small enough where,when asked for her height, sheargued for quarters of an inch— “I’m like 5-[foot]-and a half,maybe 5-and-three quarters,5-foot-1 with shoes on!” she said.This, along with a tremendousknack for passing a volleyball,adds up to one perfectly pack-aged libero.

“I was kind of put into thisposition because of my height,”she said. “I didn’t really have achoice.”

Had she been presented anoption, there’s no telling whatposition she would have chosen.But she’s made the most out ofwhat she’s been given. She maybe the one libero in the countywho has found a way to catch theeye of every single coach who hasplayed Poolesville this season,more-so than the vast majority ofthe hitters.

Col. Zadok Magruder coachScott Zanni said in an email:“There shouldn’t be any debate— she is the best libero in thecounty. Only libero who is goingto play D1 vball next year (SetonHall) and is far and away the bestskilled of all the liberos.”

Damascus coach Becky Ron-quillo: “Not sure of stats — butone heck of a player! So fast in de-

fense and will pick up everythingand has a fantastic attitude onand off the court.”

It’s no accident Kenneweghas garnered such rave reviewsfrom around the county. Her bigsister, Megan, who is now an as-sistant coach, was slotted at hitterfor Poolesville, but Sarah has for-ever been a defensive specialist.Falcons coach Fran DuVall firstsaw the future Seton Hall Univer-sity recruit when Sarah was justeight years old, small for her ageeven then, and the bright-eyedgirl approached the coach with arequest: “‘Hey coach Fran, showme what to do with a volleyball,’”she said.

From then on, DuVall re-called, “every time she cameup to me, she had always askedme for something to do and theamazing thing was, every time I’dsee her, she was doing the thing Ishowed her last time I saw her.”

When Kenneweg didn’t havea partner to pepper with, she al-ways had a wall that would returnit every time. And then somethinghappened: she fell in love withpassing a volleyball, not hitting itas many youths would. It didn’ttake long for her to be a diggingmachine. But the best part forDuVall is that Kenneweg doesn’tjust get a hand on a hit, she dead-ens it into an easily settable passfor Convers, who can turn around

and set up Rosie Barry or EmilyAgate for a hit of their own.

“For whatever reason, we’venever really had size at Pooles-ville,” DuVall said. “So ball con-trol is huge, it’s absolutely huge.And she frustrates hitters. Whenyou’re used to getting the balldown — when she’s back there,you’re not going to get one swingand be done. I just think she frus-trates people. She covers a lot ofthe court.”

Now in her senior season,Kenneweg is the core to an unde-featedPoolesvilleteam,onewhichhas dropped a set only to Damas-cus,agroupthatrecentlysnappedSherwood’s 68-match winningstreak. As far as their record goes,there’s no improving that. Butthere’s still one demon remain-ing that Kenneweg is determinedto exorcise before she graduates:matching her sister with a statetitle of her own. The Falcons lastwon in 2008 and reached thesemifinals when Kenneweg wasa freshman, but that’s the closestthey’ve been in the libero’s four-year starting career.

“[Megan] would always teaseme about not winning my fresh-man year because I’ve made it tosemis,” she said. “But it would beawesome, for both of us to havewon a state title.”

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Poolesville’s libero helps make Falcons a state contender

n Year of unpredicatable resultscontinues in boys’ soccer

If it seemed like the Thomas S. Woot-ton High School girls’ soccer team didn’tknow what it was doing, or what kind ofteam it wanted to be, early this season,it didn’t. During a 2-6 start first-year Pa-

triots coach Andrew Ratti, a 1989 Woot-ton graduate, said it’s possible the teamimplemented a different formation inevery game.

“The first part of the season, theywere figuring me out, I was figuring outour personnel,” Ratti said. “We playedalmost every formation trying to figureout what works best for us.”

The Patriots found it in an offensive-minded 3-4-3 rooted in a possessionstyle soccer and have turned a corner inthe last month, just in time to positionthemselves as a dangerous floater in theClass 4A West Region tournament thatstarted a week ago. Wootton is unde-feated in its last seven games, includinga 3-2, first-round win over Col. ZadokMagruder. The Patriots faced the region’sbottom section’s second seed, Gaithers-burg, Tuesday night but the game endedtoo late to be included in this edition ofThe Gazette.

Whatever the result, Ratti said, thepositive strides taken this fall will onlycontinue to benefit the program nextyear as the 1998 state champion Woot-ton tries to regain its spot in the county’selite.

“One of the things, I look back atwhat Dave Greene did with the program,we were a powerhouse when I playedand after I left and I want to try and get

the girls back to where we’re not losingin the first or second round of playoffsand a better record than what we’ve had[recently],” Ratti said. “It’s not a one-yearprocess. We’re on our way.”

Boys’ soccerIn what likely was a surprise to no-

body, there were upsets in the openinground of the Maryland Public Second-ary Schools Athletic Association boys’soccer tournament across all classifica-tions.

One result, however, was particu-larly surprising, even when one takesinto account how unpredictable thisseason has been.

On Saturday afternoon, RichardMontgomery beat Winston Churchillin a 4A West first-round match, 3-2.

Now, the context. Churchill, whichfeatured one of the deeper rosters inthe county, is bolstered by dynamic

goal-scorers in J.J. Van Der Merwe andNathan Ferdowski and finished first inthe 4A South Division during the regu-lar season. The Bulldogs went 10-3-1(4-1-0 in division) and scored 32 goalswhile allowing 12. The Rockets, on theother hand, were last in the 4A South.Plagued by an inability to score all sea-son, Richard Montgomery only foundthe back of the net nine times and al-lowed 22 goals. They went 3-10-1 (1-4-0in division) and lost to Churchill, 2-0, onOctober 17.

Oddly enough, that was the scoreat halftime of Saturday’s match. Butsomehow, as if county coaches neededa reminder as to the volatile parity inthe league this year, the Rockets ralliedto score three goals — one third of theirprevious total on the season — to up-end the Bulldogs.

“I’ve been at RM 10 years now andthis has been the most parity I’ve everseen,” said Rockets coach Chamy Wi-

jeratne. “We’ve had some bad luck thisyear and we haven’t scored as manygoals as we needed to, but the guys keptbelieving and none of the players gaveup.”

Of the Montgomery County gamesthat were played in the 4A bracket inthe first round, four went into overtime.One such game was between WalterJohnson and Bethesda-Chevy Chasewhere Nicholas Montes scored the win-ner in the first overtime.

“I cannot recall a season where itwas so open,” Wildcats coach HectorMorales said. “I feel like the first playoffgame is like the first game of the regularseason, you’ve just got to get that firstone under you.”

The other matches that took extratime to decide: Walt Whitman edgedKennedy in penalty kicks, Sherwoodbeat Springbrook also in PKs and Woot-ton downed Northwest in overtime.

Wootton girls figure things out just in time for playoffs

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Poolesville High School’s Sarah Kenneweg goes on to the court againstSpringbrook on Oct. 23.

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& The Gazette’s Guide toArts & Entertainment

www.gazette.net | Wednesday, October 30, 2013 | Page B-5

COLD ‘COUNSELOR’ The cast is stunning, but Ridley Scott’s latestcould use an intervention. www.gazette.net

MOVIEREVIEW

British Rock bandHeaven’s Basement willperform at the FillmoreSilver Spring on Sunday.

JAMES MINCHIN III.

CHRISTINE ALEXANDER

(From left) Frank Vince, Christian Sullivan, Steve LaRocque, Ted Schneider, Genevieve James, Carolyn Kashner, Frank Britton, Tiffany Garfinkle, ManoloSantalla, Ken Lechter and Steve Beall rehearse for “The Iceman Cometh.”

MozartMAN

Like Mozart, Irish pianist Finghin Col-lins started playing the piano at theage of 3. And, like Mozart, he has anolder sister who also plays.

Unlike Mozart, Collins did nothave musical parents. They grew up

in rural Ireland, met at the university in Cork andbecame scientists — his father, an agriculturalscientist, and his mother, a chemist.

Nor were there musicians in the family, mak-ing the sudden emergence of musical talent sur-prising.

However, Collins’ eldest sister, 10 years hissenior, started piano lessons at age 7 and loved it.She passed along her enthusiasm to her siblingsincluding Collins, the youngest of four children.

“We all took to it like fish to water,” said Col-lins.

“It just seems to have sprung from nowhere,”he said. “They love what we do, but they neverhad a lesson, never played a note.”

Now in his 30s, Collins travels the world play-ing the works of Mozart and other classical com-posers as part of a solo career that also includesdirecting two music festivals in Ireland.

Collins will be performing pieces by Mozart,Debussy, Brahms and Schubert on Saturday atthe Westmoreland Congregational UCC Churchin Bethesda.

He will also be holding a masterclass open tothe public on Sunday for three students with theWashington Conservatory of Music in Glen EchoPark.

Irish pianist performs inBethesda on Saturday

BY VIRGINIA TERHUNESTAFF WRITER

Classical pianistFinghin Collinsfrom Dublin willperform worksby Mozart,

Debussy, Brahmsand Schubert onSaturday at theWestmorelandCongregationalUCC Church inBethesda. Hewill teach a

masterclass onSunday inGlen Echo.

PHOTO BY COLM HOGAN

PIANIST FINGHIN COLLINSn Concert and Master Class

n Concert: 8 p.m. Saturday

n Master class: 3 p.m. Sunday. Open to the public.

n Where: Concert at Westmoreland Congregational UCCChurch, 1 Westmoreland Circle, Bethesda; Masterclass at

Washington Conservatory at Glen Echo Park, 7300 MacArthurBlvd., Glen Echo

n Tickets: Free, donations accepted.

n For information: 301-320-2770, washingtonconservatory.org

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n Latest from Quotidian examinesperspective, pipe dreams

BY CARA HEDGEPETHSTAFF WRITER

Through November, audiences will

have a rare opportunity to see the scarcelyperformed “The Iceman Cometh,” by Pu-litzer Prize-winning playwright EugeneO’Neill presented by Quotidian Theatre inBethesda.

“It’s considered a masterpiece of theaterbut is very rarely performed,” said “Iceman”director Michael Avolio.

With a reputation for staging the under-stated, “Iceman” falls in line with Quotid-ian’s repertoire.

“I enjoy the fact that they do realisticpieces,” said actress Carolyn Kashner. “Theyreally engage you emotionally.”

Through rose-colored glasses

HEAVENON EARTH

Q U O T I D I A N T H E A T R E | B E T H E S D A

F I L L M O R E S I L V E R S P R I N G

British hard rock band Heaven’sBasement will play the Fillmore Sil-ver Spring on Sunday as a part oftheir eight-week-long North Ameri-can tour. The band is opening forAmerican rockers The Pretty Reck-less.

Heaven’s Basement —made up of vocalist Aaron

Buchanan, guitarist Sid Glover, bassplayer Rob Ellershaw and drummerChris Rivers — recently wrapped aheadlining tour of the U.K. Oncetheir U.S. run ends in December,

Heaven’s Basement will

head right back out on the road in2014 with stops in Australia, NewZealand and Japan.

“That’s the best way for bands todo it,” Rivers said. “Touring.”

But while many bands tour,Heaven’s Basement has

HEAVEN’SBASEMENT

n When:7 p.m. Sunday

n Where: Fillmore SilverSpring, 8656 Colesville

Road, Silver Spring

n Tickets: $24.50 n For information:301-960-9999,

fillmoresilverspring.com

n British rock band prefers life on the road

BY CARA HEDGEPETHSTAFF WRITER

See HEAVEN, Page B-8

See MOZART, Page B-8

See QUOTIDIAN, Page B-8

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“Inspired by Nature,” featuring turned wood bowls by PhilBrown of Silver Spring, ceramics by Bethesda artist RebeccaRavenal, photographs by Jack Rosenberg of Potomac, water-colors by Silver Spring artist Madeline Wikler and collages byPatricia Zannie of Silver Spring, opens with a reception from11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at Gallery Har Shalom, 11510 FallsRoad, Potomac. Although each participating artist has a per-sonal artistic vision, each is inspired by nature. The exhibit isfree and open to the public. For more information, visit www.harshalom.org.

Awe inspiring

JACK ROSENBERG

Jack Rosenberg’s “Angry Sea.”

The AFI SilverTheatre and CulturalCenter will celebratethe 40th anniversaryof Norman Jewi-son’s hit film, “JesusChrist Superstar,”with an exclusiveWashington, D.C.-area screening of therock opera at 2:15p.m. Saturday at theSilver Spring theater.Jewison’s 1973 ad-aptation of Tim Riceand Andrew LloydWebber’s Broadwaysmash tells the storyof Christ’s finalweeks told entirelyin a series of daz-zling songs, imagesand music. Star TedNeeley will be pres-ent to participatein a Q&A before thefilm, and will signmerchandise in thelobby following thescreening. For moreinformation, visitwww.neeleytour.com. Visit www.afi.com/silver.

‘Superstar’

AFI SILVER THEATRE AND CULTURAL CENTER

“Jesus Christ Superstar” will screenSaturday at the AFI Silver Theatre andCultural Center in Silver Spring. Leadactor Ted Neely will be present to helpcelebrate the film’s 40th anniversary.

The juried exhibit “small wonders” opens Friday at the Capitol Arts Network Gallery in Rockville, showcasing works measuring 12inches by 12 inches or smaller from regional artists. As part of the exhibit, “A Stitch in Time Saves Nine” will spotlight 21 miniature as-

semblage sculptures by Roanoke, Va., artist Page Turner, utilizing women’s dress forms andgarments hand-sewn from antique sugar, flour and salt sacks, personal objects,

and domestic tools housed under bell jars and glass domes. Growingup in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia in a devout Mormon

household, Turner was taught domestic traditions and skills fromwomen in the family and community. Each of her sculptures

is a totem of a specific woman who helped to forge Turner’sidentity. An opening reception is set for 6-9 p.m. Friday.

The exhibition runs to Nov. 25. Also opening Friday willbe the Washington School of Photography’s “Ethio-

pia From the Heart,” featuring guest photographerAndarge Asfaw of Washington, D.C., and “I WillWin — The War,” a presentation of a painting aboutlove and peace by internationally renown Dutchartist Erik Van Loon. The painting is Loon’s ninthin his “I Will Win” series for the New York CityMarathon. For more information, visit www.capi-tolartsnetwork.com.

Country music legend Travis Tritt is setto perform at 8 p.m. on Friday at the MusicCenter at Strathmore in North Bethesda.Famous for songs such as “Here’s A Quar-ter (Call Someone Who Cares),” “Help MeHold On,” and “T-R-O-U-B-L-E,” Tritt willperform many of his platinum-selling hits.Lyndsey Highlander is slated to open forthe country crooner. For more informa-tion, visit www.strathmore.org.

Nashville star

STRATHMORE

Country music icon Travis Tritt is set to play atthe Music Center at Strathmore at 8 p.m. onFriday.

‘wonders’never cease

Artist Page Turner’s “Headmistress Harpie.”

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n Award-winning playbrings up many questions

BY WILL C. FRANKLIN

STAFF WRITER

In 2003, “The Pillowman”by Irish playwright Martin Mc-Donagh was staged in Londonfor the first time. Within 10years, the show would premierein eight other countries and wina slew of awards, including theLaurence Olivier Award for BestNew Play and multiple TonyAwards.

Silver Spring Stage will stageits production of “The Pillow-man” with opening night slatedfor Friday.

“This show is unlike anythingthat I’ve ever seen on a stage,”said Chad Fornwalt, who playsKaturian in the show. “It’s just a

really interesting combination oftopics … it takes you on an emo-tional roller coaster. Just whenyou think you’re going to under-stand where we’re going with thestory, it takes another little turnand sends you in a completelydifferent direction.”

The play revolves aroundthe killings of children. Katurianis arrested by the police becausehis stories closely resemble theatrocities committed against thechildren. What follows is a seriesof questions and stories.

Lars Klores, who plays de-tective Tupolski, said this isn’t ashow for everybody.

“There’s lots of heavy lan-guage and some disturbing im-ages there,” Klores said. “Peoplewho ask me what the show’sabout, I have a little line for themthat I think pretty much sumsit up — It’s like a nightmarish

Kafka-esque episode of ‘Law &Order’ written by the BrothersGrimm and directed by QuentinTarantino. That pretty much haseverything in it.”

Although the subject matteris fairly dark, neither Fornwaltnor Klores said they were un-comfortable doing the show.

“What I’ve felt uncomfort-able about is me trying to putmyself in other people’s shoes,”Fornwalt said. “… I definitely dothink about what other peoplemight think. I really hope thatwhen people come in, that theycome in with a completely openmind and to not look at thingsthe way maybe they always have.On face value, it would be easyto say ‘Oh, there’s somethingwrong with this show. It’s tooviolent, it’s too dark.’ But if theycan just give us a chance and gowith us, there’s a lot more to this

story than what is on the cover.”Klores, meanwhile, said that

while there really is no messagefor the audience to take awayfrom the show, the play itself isabout storytelling and the re-sponsibility, or lack thereof, ofthe storyteller.

“There’s no message, perse, or at least I don’t think it canbe distilled into a single mes-sage, but I will say like all greatpieces of art, I do think ‘The Pil-

lowman,’ is a great piece of art,”Klores said. “It leaves you with alot of questions and it leaves youwith a lot of things about art andabout life that aren’t immedi-ately apparent, but become ap-parent in your head as you startthinking about the play and itballoons for you. What I wantto make sure audiences know isthat, despite there being violenceand despite there being horror

… this is a play that gives you alot to think about and discuss.”

Fornwalt believes that all ofthe characters in the show arerelatable, no matter what some-one has dealt with personally.Overall, he said, the play isn’tabout the violence or the darkmaterial.

“There’s just so much moreto it,” Fornwalt said. “I just wantpeople to come into it with anopen mind and really under-stand what this piece is about.”

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PHOTOS BY CHRIS DAILEADER

Chad Fornwalt plays writer Katurian in the upcoming Silver Spring Stageproduction of “The Pillowman.”

THE PILLOWMANn When: 8 p.m. Fridays and

Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays,Nov. 1-23

n Where: Silver Spring Stage,10145 Colesville Road, SilverSpring

n Tickets: $18-$20

n For information: 301-593-6036; ssstage.org

THEATER

‘The Pillowman’: an uneasy rest

n Songs heighten emotionsin Leo Frank murder trial

of 1913

BY VIRGINIA TERHUNESTAFF WRITER

The musical “Parade” isbased on an ugly anti-Semiticincident in American history,but the songs and the way theyexpress emotion are anythingbut ugly.

“For a very dark [story], it’s gotbeautiful music,” said Craig Petti-nati, director of the show for theKensington Arts Theatre (KAT).

With a cast of 15 actors anda 10-piece orchestra, the musi-cal is running to Nov. 16 at theKensington Town Center.

“Parade” is based on thetrue story of Leo Frank, a Jewish-American man with a degree inmechanical engineering fromCornell who married a Jewishwoman from Atlanta whosefamily owned a pencil factory.

In 1913, police accusedFrank of murdering Mary Pha-gan, a 13-year-old employeeof the factory. Frank was con-victed and spent years appeal-ing, eventually reaching theSupreme Court.

Directed by Hal Prince, “Pa-rade” debuted on Broadway in1998. Librettist Alfred Uhry, whogrew up in Atlanta and wrote“Driving Miss Daisy,” won a Tonyaward for Best Book of a Musical.

Jason Robert Brown, whowrote the music and lyrics, wona Tony for Best Original MusicScore. KAT has also performedtwo of Brown’s other shows,“The Last Five Years” and“Songs for a New World.”

“I see it as a story aboutpride,” said Bobby Libby, whoplays the part of Frank. “There’sthe pride that the Southernershave, and he has his own senseof pride. They sense that andturn on him.”

The musical opens with ayoung soldier heading off tofight for the South during theCivil War, singing goodbye tothe girl he loves.

“It’s so beautiful, you can’thelp but be moved,” Libby said.

The scene then shifts fivedecades ahead to 1913, wherethe people of Atlanta continueto take great pride in their his-tory and culture, participating

in a parade to honor Confeder-ate soldiers who died in the war.

Frank, who doesn’t under-stand the event, is viewed as anoutsider, and the animosity ismutual.

“As a protagonist, he’s kindof unsympathetic,” said Libby.“He doesn’t like where he lives.He doesn’t like the people or thecommunity.”

Frank’s wife, Lucille (Em-ily Zickler), tries to help himfit in, but “their relationship isstrained,” said Libby, and Lu-cille wonders if she married theright man.

Frank, meanwhile, can’tunderstand how his wife canbe both Jewish and culturally aSoutherner.

“He’s been living in theSouth a few years, and he’s re-acting badly to all of it,” Libbysaid. “He loses sight of howmuch he loves this woman.”

After Phagan is murdered,prosecutor Hugh Dorsey (Mi-chael Nansel) is told by theGeorgia governor to get to thebottom of the sensational case.

Initial suspicion is cast onNewt Lee, the black night watch-man (Ian Anthony Coleman),but Lee is released.

Eager to get his name in theheadlines, Dorsey decides togo after Frank, tapping into thecommunity’s distrust of him.

Dorsey makes a deal with thefactory janitor, Jim Conley (alsoplayed by Coleman), who testi-fies against Frank at the trial.

Mary’s boyfriend, FrankieEpps (Harrison Smith), alsotestifies, claiming that Frankhad an eye for the female work-ers. Three factory girls testifyunder coercion from the pros-ecutor, performing a seductivedance with Frank in a fantasysequence.

Also among the characters

is Tom Watson (Brad Carnes-Stine), who writes for a right-wing newspaper, and Britt Craig(Patrick McMahan), a reporterwho sees the trial as a way tomake a name for himself andwho promises to support Dorseyif Dorsey runs for governor.

“You see in the show howFrank was set up,” said Petti-nati. “In the courtroom scene,you see the corruption and theordeal that he went through.”

The only thing that keepsthe show from descending intothe depths of despair is Lucille,said Libby. The deepening con-nection between she and Frankis the focus of the musical.

“It’s his wife and her strengthand the beauty of that relation-ship,” he said. “They find a deepwell of love, a love which theyalways had.”

“It’s a very beautiful piece oftheater,” Libby said.

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A mob mentality begins to form in the musical “Parade” presented by theKensington Arts Theatre to Nov. 16. The show is based on the true story ofLeo Frank, a Jewish-American man who was accused of murdering a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta in 1913. Holding the Bible is Brad Carnes-Stine as journal-ist Tom Watson.

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had the unique opportunity to cover mul-tiple continents in the span of just a fewmonths.

“A lot of bands have focused on one areabefore focusing on another but we’re doingEurope, Canada and the U.S. at the sametime,” Rivers said.

From their inception in 2008, Heaven’sBasement, who is now signed with Red BullRecords, has always spent time out on theroad. The band gained a reputation for play-ing underground venues and then workingtheir way up to larger stages. But no matterthe size of the crowd, Rivers said he and theother members of Heaven’s Basement havealways loved performing live.

“It was quite hard to get shows in big cit-ies so we’d play smaller places in the south-east [of England] and eventually startedheading over to places like Germany,” Riverssaid. “Anywhere that would have us.”

Rivers and Glover are the only original

members of the band remaining. Rivers saidother musicians have come and gone overthe years but it was a matter of “meetingpeople with the same ambition.”

That ambition was to play great music,at any cost.

Other than a fleeting desire to drive atractor at age 3, Rivers said he’s never con-sidered another career path.

“It was about discovering what you’reinto and sticking with it,” he said. “We neverbalanced the band with having other jobsand stuff. We just wanted to be a band rightaway.”

And the one-track mindset has startedto pay off. Heaven’s Basement’s single “Fire,Fire” from their debut album, “Filthy Em-pire,” released in February, has been climb-ing the U.S. Active Rock Chart, recentlyreaching No. 11.

But it’s not the record sales that drivethe members of Heaven’s Basement. It’sthe need they feel to fill a void on the musicscene.

“You have an indie scene and stuff likethat and we’ve never fit into any of that,”Rivers said. “We’ve just been doing our own

thing and hope that it sparks something.”As for their own influences, Rivers said

the members of the band aren’t too picky.“We’re fans of music and anyone who

has stuff to say,” he said. “We’ll listen to any-thing from the heaviest music to the softestmusic. It ranges from old-school bands tonew bands.”

However, Rivers does name some old-school bands, including The Beatles, Metal-lica and Led Zeppelin, as favorites.

For Heaven’s Basement fans waiting onthe release of the band’s second album, Riv-ers said they could be waiting a while.

“We’re touring all of next year as well,through 2015,” Rivers said. “It’s going to bea while before we do the next album.”

But that’s the way Rivers and his bandmembers like things.

“We’re always up for going places,” Riv-ers said. “There’s a whole world still to goand tour.”

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HEAVENContinued from Page B-5

Kashner returns to Quotidian after her de-but with the company in last year’s produc-tion of James Joyce’s “The Dead.”

“Iceman” is set in 1912 New York inthe barroom of a hotel. Here, a group ofdrunks exchange stories as they await thearrival of charismatic salesman Hickey(Steve LaRocque), who typically providesmuch-needed levity with his dirty jokesand free drinks. However, when Hickeyarrives, he brings with him a sad truth thatmakes his friends closely examine theirown failings.

“At face value I thought, ‘OK, this isabout a bunch of alcoholics,’” said Kashner,who plays a “tart” named Margie. “But it’sabout failed pipe dreams, being confrontedwith your own morality.”

Pipe dreams, Kashner said, are people’s“self-delusions.”

“People have either had a glorious pastor aspire to a glorious future,” she said.“They’re all in denial of their alcoholism andtheir feelings ... People might not want to re-flect on that in real life.”

While Quotidian audiences may notidentify with the “Iceman” characters’drinking habits, Avolio said they will be ableto find common ground.

“[O’Neill] views them with such hu-manity that it’s easy to relate to them even

though they’re so different from us,” Avo-lio said. “ ... He is unafraid of looking at thedarker side of humanity and probing deeperinto the human soul.”

“The major events in your life, if youlook back at them and when you try toexplain them, you come up with differ-ent stories,” added actor Steve Beall, whoplays Larry Slade. “As they go through theirlives, they look at it from a different per-spective.”

Like other O’Neill pieces, “Iceman”touches on some heavy subject matter. ButAvolio and his cast insist the show is not alldarkness and gloom.

“To me, there is this beautiful balance ofshowing this makeshift community of kind-ness and civility of a certain kind and thenwhat happens to it when this guy Hickeyshows up,” Beall said.

It’s a balance, Beall added, that’s beenmissing in other productions of “Iceman”

he’s seen.“I had seen a couple performances of it

and ... those productions all seemed to focusso much on the dark part of this play and itbecame imbalanced,” he said.

Conversely, Beall said Avolio has beenable to extract the lighter moments andeven some of the humor from the “Iceman”script.

“Michael has this ability to see what’sfunny and use it as a way to play up the hu-manity of the character,” Beall said. “They’renot just bums. They’re people with hopesand dreams and memories.”

Avolio said it was actually his sense ofhumor that helped him approach some ofthe play’s darkest moments.

“There’s a lot of raucous comedy in theplay and I think that’s a way people have ofdealing with situations when they’re downand out,” Avolio said. “There’s often a gal-lows humor you have about things.”

While Kashner, who has appeared in twoother O’Neill plays, acknowledges the play-wright’s style is not for everyone, she saidhe had a unique ability to urge audiences tolook introspectively.

“I think Eugene O’Neill forces us tolook at aspects of our lives that we don’tnecessarily want to deal with,” Kashnersaid. “It’s something we all should be do-ing but I understand why we might notwant to.”

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QUOTIDIANContinued from Page B-5

THE ICEMAN COMETHn When: To Nov. 24; 8 p.m. Fridays and

Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays with anadditional matinee performance on Nov.23

n Where: The Writer’s Center,4508 Walsh St., Bethesda

n Tickets: $25-$30

n For information: 301-816-1023Classicalpianist Fin-ghin Collinsfrom Dublinwill performworks byMozart,Debussy,Brahms andSchubert onSaturday atthe Westmo-reland Con-gregationalUCC Churchin BethesdaPHOTO BYCOLM HOGAN

The events are free butdonations are welcome, saidKathy Judd, executive and ar-tistic director of the conserva-tory.

In 1999 as a teenager, Col-lins won first prize at the ClaraHaskil International PianoCompetition in Switzerland. Healso studied with Irish pianistJohn O’Conor at the Royal IrishAcademy of Music in Dublin.

O’Conor presently teachesat Shenandoah University inWinchester, Va. Judd is one ofhis friends, which is how shecame to invite Collins to per-form for the Washington Con-servatory.

Collins also studied at theGeneva Conservatory andserved a three-year residencyas the first-ever associate art-ist of the RTE National Sym-phony Orchestra in Dublin.

During the residency withthe orchestra, he performedall of Mozart’s 23 concertoslive over the radio. In May,four of them were released ona double CD.

For the past decade, Col-lins has been branching outin some new directions, do-ing more conducting andalso serving as director of two

music festivals in Ireland, theNew Ross Festival and Musicfor Galway.

“I enjoy creating the sea-son and choosing the artists,”he said.

For the concert inBethesda, Collins will be per-forming Mozart‘s “Sonata inD major K. 284” and Debussy’s“Estampes” with its threemovements — “Pagodas,”“The Evening in Granada” and“Gardens in the Rain.”

“It’s a little collection ofthree evocative pieces, veryatmospheric,” said Collins.

For the second half ofthe program, he will performBrahms’ “Rhapsodies Op. 79,”which Brahms composed to-ward the end of his life, andSchubert‘s “Drei KlavierstückeD. 946.”

“They’re two of the greatcomposers for the piano,”said Collins. “[These pieces]go very well together.”

Collins said he is also look-ing forward to the masterclasson Sunday in Glen Echo.

“It’s nice to be meetingpeople and to maybe givethem something different tothink about,” said Collins.“I remember from my ownyouth, it was nice to play forsomeone different.”

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Leasing ProfessionalResidential Property Mgmt. Co. in Bethesdais seeking full-time leasing professional. Must be

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HOME CARE AIDEPer Diem/As Needed/Variable Shifts

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For the sixth time, MedStar Health was named a"Best Place to Work" by the Baltimore BusinessJournal and ranks 5% over the national average

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PSYCHOLOGIST I / IISeeking Full-Time Psychologist - 40 - Hours perweek, M- F. Possession of Maryland Licensure, 3-years experience treating children andadolescents. Member of multidisciplinary team incommunity based adolescent day/residentialtreatment program in Montgomery County. Mustbe able to supervise trainees; perform clinicaltreatment for individuals, families and groups.Candidate must have excellent clinical skills andan understanding of developmental issues.Additional experience working with court orderedadolescents desirable. Generous paid leave andMD State Benefits. JCAHO accredited facility.Mail Resume and cover letter along with salaryrequirements to Personnel Dept., John L.Gildner RICA, 15000 Broschart Road, Rockville,MD 20850 or Fax to (301) 251-6815 or e-mail [email protected] EOE

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VET. TECH & RECEPTIONISTAfternoon Position; Will Train, Friendly staff!!301-963-0400, grovecentervet.com

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admin duties. Proficient in Microsoft Word,Excel,Outlook and medical info system.

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Please e-mail resumes to [email protected]

Seasonal

Bell RingersThe Salvation Army is nowhiring Bell Ringers inMontgomery County for thisChristmas Season. $8.25 perhour. Apply in person on M-Ffrom 10am - 12pm and 1pm -3pm at 20021 Aircraft Drive,Germantown, MD 20874

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Your neighborhood bakery-café, is currently seeking ALL POSITIONS for ournew Bethesda location (on Wisconsin Ave next to Modell’s). We are lookingfor cashiers, sandwich/salad makers, prep associates, dishwashers and diningroom crew as well as catering coordinators.

Ideal candidates will be experienced in dealing with the public in a customerservice capacity, bring enthusiastic energy, and capable of multi-tasking.Flexible full and part-time positions available for shifts ranging from earlymornings and mid-days to evenings and weekends. We offer a competitivehourly wage and other employee benefits.

To apply, please go to: www.panerabread.jobs for an application, searchHourly Associate Candidates and specify location 203779 Bethesda.Qualified candidates will be contacted directly by the hiring manager. EOE

NEW Bakery-CaféOpening

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ACCOUNTING/BILLING CLERKLeisure World of Maryland, has an immediate need for a Part Time

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REGISTERED NURSE CHARGEPart-Time/20-hrs p/Week - Overnight Shift - 10:45 p.m. - 7:15 a.m.,Fridays & Saturdays & alternating Sundays to fill shift rotation. Partof multi-disciplinary team working w/ emotionally disturbedadolescents. Nurses work closely with other members of atreatment team (counselors, psychiatrists, therapists andeducators.) Psychiatric experience w/adolescents required. CurrentMaryland Nursing License required. Generous paid leave & otherMD State benefits. Salary negotiable pursuant to experience + shiftdifferential. Send resume w/cover memo to: John L. GildnerRICA, HR, 15000 Broschart Road, Rockville, MD 20850 - Fax :301-251-6815 Or e-mail to: [email protected]

SALESNeed reliable people to set appts at local Sears

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