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DigitalovernmentThe first in a two-part series

New chapter looms in fight over required government ads in newspapers

INSIDEn High-speed Internet access

is available to more than nineof every 10 households inthe county, making it one ofthe nation’s most connectedcommunities.

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BY ANDREW SCHOTZSTAFF WRITER

Lawmakers and governmentgroups are resuming a fight withmedia representatives over arequirement to buy newspaperadvertisements.

Known as “legal notices,”the ads are mandatory an-

nouncements of certain gov-ernment proceedings, such aspublic hearings and zoning re-quests.

They are a revenue sourcefor newspapers and a longstand-ing way to inform the public.

The main questions: Arethese ads the best way to pub-licize government workings?

Should government bodies beforced to buy the ads?

The Maryland MunicipalLeague and the Maryland As-sociation of Counties argue thatthe current legal-ad system isinefficient and wasteful; gov-ernment bodies have better,cheaper ways to reach constitu-ents.

But the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association, a media

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Garrett Park’s official town bulletin board inside the post office.

n Sides disagree on most efficient waysto get information to the public

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German bands, German beer and leder-hosen may have been on stage at thevery first Oktoberfest Saturday, but it

was the Sandy Spring Museum that was thestar of the show.

About 150 people attended the festival atthe museum campus, located at 17901 Bent-ley Road. The event raised about $25,000 for

programming and projects at the museum,according to Allison Weiss, executive directorof the Sandy Spring Museum.

“For the first-time event, I think our goalswere achieved. I think it was everybody’s in-tention to be an annual fall event,” she said.

— KRISTA BRICK

n Federal agenciesslash operations,national parks close

BY KATE S. ALEXANDER

AND KEVIN SHAY

STAFF WRITERS

Thousands of federal jobsand employees call Montgom-ery County home, but manywere not working Tuesday af-ter Congress’ inability to com-promise on the federal budget,shutting down most govern-ment operations.

Exactly how many Mont-gomery County residents wereforced to stay home was unclear,but most agencies in the countywere slashing operations andmandating that most employeesstay home. Employees who arefurloughed are required to notwork and will not receive pay.

Montgomery is also home tomany companies that contractwith the government. Thosecompanies could see employ-ees furloughed and delays incontract bids and awards.

Eighteen federal agen-cies and installations are in thecounty, including the Food andDrug Administration, the De-partment of Energy, the NuclearRegulatory Commission, theNational Institute of Standardsand Technology and the Na-tional Institutes of Health.

When Congress failed topass legislation to fund the gov-ernment Monday night in animpasse over the health carereform law, it triggered plans foragencies to halt all but essentialoperations.

For the Silver Spring-basedFood and Drug Administration,45 percent of its 13,000-mem-ber work force was scheduledfor furlough, spokesman StevenImmergut said. Most of thosereporting to work Tuesday arepaid with user fees, money out-side the budget, he said.

The last time the govern-ment shut down in 1996, em-

ployees were eventually repaidfor the closure. Whether em-ployees will get back pay thistime is up to Congress, said Jen-nifer Huergo, spokeswoman forthe National Institute of Stan-dards and Technology.

Reached Monday, Huergosaid she was among those whowould be furloughed during theshutdown.

During the 1996 shutdown,which lasted three weeks, con-tractors were not reimbursed.

If all of Montgomery Coun-ty’s residents employed by thefederal government were out ofwork for one day, it would costthe county $500,000 in incometax revenue, County ExecutiveIsiah Leggett (D) said.

Should the federal govern-ment not repay employees fur-loughed by the shutdown, hesaid it will affect actual countyincome tax revenue. To lessenthe blow, Montgomery pre-pared for both federal furloughsby lowering its budgeted incometax revenue $60 million in fiscal2014, he said. Whether $60 mil-lion is enough cushion, Leggettsaid remains to be seen.

In 2011, federal jobs totaled46,020 in Montgomery, accord-ing to county data. The U.S.Department of Labor estimatedthe number of federal jobs inboth Montgomery and Freder-ick counties at 51,400 in August2013.

Many county residents workin federal jobs in Washington,

Mass furloughsexpected inMontgomery


One of the gates to the NationalInstitute of Standards and Technolo-gy is closed Tuesday afternoon afterfederal workers were furloughed.

n First bell would ring at 8:15 a.m.

BY LINDSAY A. POWERS

STAFF WRITER

High school students in MontgomeryCounty Public Schools may be one stepcloser to getting more time to sleep beforethey wake up for school.

Superintendent Joshua P. Starr an-nounced Tuesday his recommendation tomove the start time for the school system’shigh schools back 50 minutes, from 7:25a.m. to 8:15 a.m.

Starr is also recommending adding 30minutes to the elementary school day to

match the length of the high school andmiddle school days, and moving middleschools’ start time 10 minutes earlier to7:45 a.m.

Start and end times would not changeuntil the 2015-16 school year at the earliest,Starr said.

Starr said at a press conference Tues-day that the school system will study thefeasibility and practicality of his recom-mendation, partially through engagingstudents, families, staff and the communityand partially through estimating costs.

“We’ve heard from some but not all ofour community,” he said.

Starr wants later high school start time


Montgomery County Public Schools Superinten-dent Joshua P. Starr talks to the press about areport from the Bell Times Work Group, which islooking at pushing back school start times.

Having a good stein

At right, The Blaskapelle AlteKameraden “Old Comrades”German Band performed at theSandy Spring Museum’sOktoberfest fundraiser.

Below, Doug Farquhar is in theOktoberfest spirit, wearing, as heputs it, his thrift store lederho-sen, with Lisa McKillop of High-land (center) and Julie Thomas ofLeisure World at the fundraiser.

PHOTOS BY GEORGE P. SMITH/FOR THE GAZETTE

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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 2The History of Turkish Cuisine and the Sul-

tan’s Kitchen, noon-1 p.m., Sandy Spring Mu-seum, 17901 Bentley Road, Sandy Spring. Free.301-774-0022.

Bloody Orators Toastmasters Club, 6-7p.m., American Red Cross-Jerome H. HollandLaboratory, 15601 Crabbs Branch Way, Der-wood. Develop public speaking and leadershipskills in a positive, friendly environment. Freeto guests. [email protected].

THURSDAY, OCT. 3Getting a Job in the Age of Social Media,

10:30 a.m.-noon, Aspen Hill Library, 4407 As-pen Hill Road, Rockville. Free. 301-610-8380.

Red Cross Blood Drive, 1-7 p.m., DamascusUnited Methodist Church, 9700 New ChurchSt. Damascus. Free. 1-800-733-2767.

Guide to Local Gardening Series SessionTwo: Regionally Adapted Plants, 2-3:30 p.m.,Brookside Gardens Visitors Center, Adult Class-room, 1800 Glenallan Ave., Wheaton. Exploreplants that can take clay soil, deer, and/or peri-ods of drought. $18. Register at www.parkpass.org.

Evening Grief Support Group, 6:30-8 p.m.,Hughes United Methodist Church, 10700 Geor-gia Ave., Wheaton. A six-week group for anyonegrieving the death of a loved one. Free, registra-tion required. 301-921-4400.

Norbeck Toastmasters, 7:30-8:30 p.m.,Sandy Spring Bank, 17801 Georgia Ave., Olney.For those interested in becoming a more effec-tive communicator. 301-570-8318.

FRIDAY, OCT. 4“The Nerd” by Rockville Little Theater, 8

p.m., F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, 603 Edmon-ston Drive, Rockville, also 8 p.m. Oct. 5 and 2

p.m. Oct. 6. $16 for students and seniors, $18for other adults. 240-314-8690.

SATURDAY, OCT. 5Scrapbooking and Stamping Yard Sale,

8 a.m.-1 p.m., Damascus United MethodistChurch, 9700 New Church St., Damascus. Ben-efits the Damascus Y Women’s Relay for LifeTeam. Free admission. 240-388-3117.

Walk for Food Allergy, 9 a.m., Rockville CivicCenter Park, 603 Edmonston Drive, Rockville.Funds food allergy research, education, advo-cacy and awareness. Free. [email protected].

Preschool Fair, 9 a.m.-noon, Sandy SpringFriends School, 16923 Norwood Road, SandySpring. Meet with preschools and educationalconsultants. Free. 301-774-7455, ext. 208.

Saturday Morning Story Time, 10 a.m.,Brookside Gardens Visitors Center, 1800 Gle-nallan Ave., Wheaton. Participate in and listento nature and seasonal stories. Ages 3-6. Free.301 962-1400.

53rd Candle Festival, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., St.Luke’s Episcopal Church, 1001 Brighton DamRoad, Brookeville. Homemade goods withgames and a silent auction. Free admission.301-570-3834.

Teen Writers’ Workshop, 3:30-5:30 p.m.,Aspen Hill Library, 4407 Aspen Hill Road, Rock-ville. Discover techniques and exercises for cre-ative writing and receive feedback and revisiontips. Free. 240-773-9410.

SUNDAY, OCT. 6Mushroom Fair, noon-5 p.m., Brookside

Gardens Visitors Center, 1800 Glenallan Ave.,Wheaton. Sponsored by the Mycological Asso-ciation of Washington Inc. Free. 301-962-1400.

Open House, 1-3 p.m., St. John’s EpiscopalSchool, 3427 Olney-Laytonsville Road, Olney.Serves preschool through eighth-grade stu-

dents. Free. 301-774-6804.

MONDAY, OCT. 7Time2Talk Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse

Prevention Forum, 6:30-9 p.m., Richard Mont-gomery High School Auditorium, 250 RichardMontgomery Drive, Rockville. A resource fairfollowed by presentations and a Q&A. 301-279-3100.

TUESDAY, OCT. 8Homeschool Day Nature by Design, 10-11

a.m., Sandy Spring Museum, 17901 BentleyRoad, Sandy Spring. Students will play gamesand go on a nature hike to gather materials tointerpret their own meaning of nature throughcreative artwork. $6 for nonmembers, $3 mem-bers. 301-774-0022.

Dig Pink, 5:30-8 p.m., Sherwood HighSchool, 300 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, SandySpring. Raises money for breast cancer re-search. $5. 301-370-4682.

Greater Olney Toastmasters, 7:30 p.m.,MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, 18101Prince Philip Drive, Olney, every first, third andfifth Tuesday. Improving communication skills.www.greaterolney.toastmastersclubs.org.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 9History as Beer: Recreating Local Tradi-

tions, 6:30-8 p.m., Sandy Spring Museum,17901 Bentley Road, Sandy Spring. Learn thehistory of brewing in Washington, D.C., andhow historical records can be used to recreatea delicious past. Ages 21 and up. $10. 301-774-0022.

Jazz Concert Series, 7:30-9:30 p.m., AspenHill Library, 4407 Aspen Hill Road, Rockville.Featuring Raddy and the Cats. Free. 301-871-1113.

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Some familiar sections inThe Gazette have new homes.Our B section combines theSports and Arts & Entertain-ment sections. The A sectionincludes the School Life page.Next week, Celebrations (ourfree listings of weddings, en-gagements and anniversaries)moves into the A section, aswell.

Our goal is to make the pa-per easier to use, moving com-munity features like schoolnews and milestones into thelocal A section.

If you have trouble find-ing any of our regular features,feel free to call me at 301-670-2040.

— DOUGLAS TALLMAN,EDITOR

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Ashley Foster, 17, ofBrookeville, and her horseCharade, a 12-year-old Warm-blood gelding, recently receivedthe Maryland Horse IndustryBoard’s Touch of Class Award,presented by Lt. Governor An-thony Brown.

Joining him in the presenta-tion were Agriculture DeputySecretary Mary Ellen Settingand board chairman Jim Steele.

“I am pleased to present theTouch of Class award to Ashleyand Charade, an accomplishedrider and horse who representthe best of our equine indus-try’s past, present and future,”said Lt. Governor Brown in anews release. “Maryland has along tradition of horsemanship,and today we have more horsesper square mile than any otherstate. I congratulate this teamfor being such outstanding rep-resentatives of our state on thenational level.”

Foster and Charade, trainedby Foster’s aunt Mary Lisa Lef-fler at Rolling Acres Farm inBrookeville, were championsin the Large Junior Hunter di-vision for riders ages 16-17 atthe Washington InternationalHorse Show, the Capital Chal-lenge Horse Show, the NationalHorse Show, and placed firstnationally in the U.S. Eques-trian Federation’s 2012 Horseof the Year Grand Championfor Junior Hunters 16-17. Thisdivision attracts thousands ofcompetitors at horse showsthroughout the United States.The pair also collected multiplechampionships at shows inFlorida, Virginia, New York andVermont. Foster was the re-cipient of many special awardsincluding the Frances RoweAward for Junior Exhibitor ofthe Year by the Virginia HorseShows Association and the TadCoffin Equitation Champion-ship.

She will attend Auburn Uni-versity in January as a freshmanand will be a member of theschool’s Equestrian Team.

The Maryland Horse In-dustry Board, a program withinthe Maryland Department ofAgriculture, presents the Touchof Class Award monthly to rec-ognize Maryland horses andpeople who achieve nationaland international success.

Fire department newsAn open house, yard sale

and promotions announcedThe Sandy Spring Volunteer

Fire Department has begun itsannual fund drive.

President Michael Valentesaid residents would soon re-ceive a packet in the mail ask-ing them to contribute to thedepartment.

“The department asks thatour residents be generous,as the department no longerreceives direct tax funds fromMontgomery County,” he said.

The mailing will also in-clude details about the upcom-ing open house, and providecontact information for those

interested in joining the depart-ment as volunteers.

The department’s annualopen house is scheduled to beheld from 1 to 4 p.m. on Oct. 6at Station 40, located at 16911Georgia Ave. The free event willfeature a variety of activities forall ages, including apparatus ondisplay, demonstrations of firerescue operations and fire andhealth safety.

Valente also announcedsome personnel news. De-partment member MitchellDinowitz has been promotedto Fire Rescue Captain. Severalmembers recently graduatedfrom the spring and summertraining courses: EmergencyMedical Technicians-DavidDrucker, Ryan Hash, SamanthaKauffman, Sean Musgrove andNicholas Park; paramedic-KellyRobinson and firefighter I andII-Sean Musgrove.

The Sandy Spring VolunteerFire Department will be hold-ing a yard /craft and vendorsale from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. onOct. 19th at Station 40. Spaces,which include a table, are avail-able for $15. Call 240-372-8435or email [email protected] for more info. Proceedsbenefit the department.

For more fire department in-formation, go to www.ssvfd.com.

Preschool fairThe Olney Moms Group and

Sandy Spring Friends Schoolare hosting a Pre-School Fairfrom 9 a.m. to noon on Satur-day. Meet with representativesfrom area preschools, as wellas educational consultants.There will also be fun activitiesincluding a moon bounce, facepainting, a bubble table, andrefreshments.

The event takes place at

Sandy Spring Friends School,16923 Norwood Road. For in-formation contact SuzannahHopkins, director of Lower &Middle School Admission, at301-774-7455, or [email protected].

Meet the artistsMonthly open houses to be

heldThe Sandy Spring Museum

Artisans are scheduled to hosttheir first open house from 11a.m. to 3 p.m on Oct. 5th.

During the open houses,which will take place the firstSaturday of each month, visi-tors are invited to see the mu-seum’s resident artists at work.Many of the artists incorporatematerials and inspiration fromthe museum’s collection in thecreation of their pieces, and useboth historic and modern tech-niques in their craft.

Resident artists includepainter Eileen K. Crowe, Sil-versmith EunJu Lee, quilterLauren Kingsland, enamelistSusana M. Garten, and fivemembers of the Museum’sPotters’ Cooperative: KarenBlynn, Rikki Condon, JeanFletcher, Robin Ziek, and Pa-mela Reid. There will also belive music, refreshments, andspecial sale items. The openhouses are free.

The museum is locatedat 17901 Bentley Road. Formore information about themuseum or upcoming pro-grams, call 301-774-0022 or goto www.sandyspringmuseum.org.

Spook-tacular funFair Hill shopping center

presents free fall fun for thewhole family at its Spook-

tacular event on Oct. 6 from 1 to4 p.m. featuring performancesby children’s entertainers,Rocknoceros at 1 p.m., and twoshows by Blue Sky Puppet The-atre at 2:45 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.Children can also enjoy themoon bounce, a balloon artist,glitter tattoos, trick-or-treatingat Fair Hill retailers, and PetValu is presenting a pet cos-tume parade. Located at 18169Town Center Drive in Olney.For information, go to www.fairhillshops.com.

Chili cook-off returnsto the market

The Olney Farmers andArtists Market will hold a chilicook-off at 11 a.m. on Sunday.Market Founder and PresidentJanet Terry said that there willbe celebrity judges, and thegrand prize will be a $100 giftcertificate to Fogo de Chaorestaurant in Washington,D.C.

Those wishing to enter thecompetition must drop off theirchili at the Chef’s Tent by 10:45a.m. There will be several cat-egories, including vegetarian.Following the judging, samplesof the chili will be available forsale.

The market takes place onSundays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.on the old hospital groundsat Md. 108 and Prince PhillipDrive, through Nov. 3. For moreinformation go to www.olney-farmersmarket.org.

Warriors dig pinkThe Sherwood High School

Volleyball team will sponsor aDig Pink fundraising event onOct. 8 in the school’s gymna-sium. Sherwood takes on the

Paint Branch Panthers, withthe junior varsity game at 5:30p.m. and varsity game at 6:30p.m.

The team will be sellingconcessions, pink necklaces,Warrior Nation car decals andWarrior Nation T-shirts in alimited edition pink color.There will be basket raffles anda candy guess game.

The proceeds raised fromthe events will benefit the SideOut Foundation, which fundsBreast Cancer awareness andresearch projects

Donations can also bemade at www.side-out.org/cb/campaigns/campaign/7403.

Shaare Tefila honoredThe Jewish Foundation for

Group Homes recently honoredShaare Tefila with its 2013 Syn-agogue Inclusion Award.

Barbara Harkaway ofBethesda, a member of ShaareTefila for over 50 years, andformer president and first ladyof the foundation, presentedthe award to the synagogue. Inher remarks, she praised ShaareTefila and its members for hav-ing “embraced, supported andincluded group homes resi-dents as members of the com-munity.”

She cited numerous exam-ples of Shaare Tefila’s providingextensive levels of support atthree different time periods inits history—at its previous Sil-ver Spring location, during theyears that it lacked a permanentlocation, and now at its newhome in Olney.

Examples of the supportto the group homes offered byShaare Tefila included host-ing residents for High HolidayDay services, monthly Shab-bat dinners; a Bar/Bat Mitzvah

service; holiday parties andcelebrations.

On campusSeveral local residents re-

ceived degrees from SalisburyUniversity at its spring 2013commencement ceremony.

They are: Adetoun Adewoleof Ashton, B.S., respiratorytherapy; Elana Warsaw ofAshton, B.A., communicationarts; Christopher Everett ofBrookeville, B.A., conflict anal-ysis and dispute resolution;Jamil Saah of Brookeville, B.A.,communication arts; AmandaChacon of Laytonsville, B.S.,elementary education; SeanSingh of Laytonsville, B.S.,biology, cum laude; PatrickBergmann of Olney, B.S. fi-nance; Colleen Fordham ofOlney, B.A., history; BryanGoldberg of Olney, B.A., com-munication arts; ChelseaJacobs of Olney, B.S., nursing;Victoria Knorr of Olney, B.S.,elementary education, magnacum laude; Sean Morley of Ol-ney, B.A., conflict analysis anddispute resolution; VitumbikoNgwira of Olney, B.S., account-ing; Adrian Tombini of Olney,B.S., finance; Kevin Vaughan ofOlney, B.S., exercise science.

If you have an interestingnote or photo to share about thepeople or an event in the com-munity, please send it to StaffWriter Terri Hogan, The OlneyGazette, 9030 Comprint Court,Gaithersburg, MD 20877, oremail to [email protected] fax number is 301-670-7183. Photos should be 1 MBor larger. Deadline is 5 p.m.Tuesday for consideration forthe following week. All items aresubject to space availability.

Brookeville teen and her horse earn state equestrian award

PEOPLE & PL ACESTERRI HOGAN

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR

Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown presented Ashley Foster of Brookeville with the Maryland Horse Industry Board’s Touch of Class Award at Rolling AcresFarm in Brookeville. Pictured are (left to right): Maryland House Industry Board Chair Jim Steele, Patty Foster (Ashley’s mother), Ashley Foster, Brown andMaryland Department of Agriculture Deputy Secretary Mary Ellen Setting.

DEATHS

Roger B. GregoryRoger B. Gregory, 79,

of Germantown, died Sept.22, 2013. A memorial ser-vice will take place at 10a.m. Oct. 12 at GaithersburgPresbyterian Church, 610 S.Frederick Ave., Gaithers-burg. Roy W. Barber Fu-neral Home in Laytonsvillehandled the arrangements.

Julia H. MoxleyJulia H. Moxley, 95, for-

merly of Gaithersburg, diedSept. 25, 2013. A memorialservice will take place at 10a.m. Oct. 26 at HomewoodCrumland Farms, 7407 Wil-low Road, Frederick. RoyW. Barber Funeral Home ofLaytonsville handled the ar-rangements.

Shirley L. WhippShirley L. Whipp, 72,

of Rockville, died Sept. 28,2013. A funeral service willtake place at 11 a.m. Oct. 3at DeVol Funeral Home inGaithersburg.

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CCOOMMMMUUNNIITTY NY NEEWWSSCOMMUNITY NEWSThe Gazette

Sunday marked theofficial launch of theconstruction project

to modernize and expandthe Laytonsville DistrictVolunteer Fire Depart-ment station at 21400 Lay-tonsville Road. The projectincludes an expansion ofalmost 2,800 square feet,with the renovation of thecurrent 3,000-square-footstation’s living and work-ing areas. Construction isexpected to be completedby summer 2014.

— TERRI HOGAN

Fired upto build

LDVFD MEMBER MIKE RUSS

From left to right: Clark Beall, Chief Murphy Richards, Chief Stanley “Buddy” Sutton, Ken Wingate of NorthPoint Builders, PresidentMathew Bowles, Laytonsville Mayor Dan Prats, Joe Greenville of Damascus Community Bank, Del. Eric Luedtke (D-Dist. 14) ofBurtonsville, Sen. Karen S. Montgomery (D-Dist. 14) of Brookeville, and Del. Craig J. Zucker (D-Dist. 14) of Brookeville help turn thefirst shovels of dirt on the site of the new Laytonsville District Volunteer Fire Department station.

n Project kicked off fiveyears ago; end isnot yet in sight

BY ALINE BARROS

STAFF WRITER

The opening date of the Sil-ver Spring Transit Center so farhas been a crapshoot. Now, atransportation advocacy groupis also making it a contest.

Action Committee for Tran-sit is holding a tongue-in-cheekcontest to attract members andspark discussion about whenthe transportation hub — thesubject of a fight about its con-struction — will open its doorsto commuters.

On Thursday morning,group members handed outcontest entry forms to passersbyto celebrate the fifth anniversary

of the 2008 groundbreaking ofthe Silver Spring Transit Center.

The form reads: “When willthe Silver Spring Center open?Guess the date and win a free din-ner for two at 8407 Kitchen Bar.”

But the committee makes nopromise about when the prizewill be awarded — that dependswhen the center opens.

“Nobody knows when thatday is, so we thought to have acontest. ... We cannot award theprize until the transit center isopen,” said Tina Slater, presi-dent of the Action Committeefor Transit. “We were very frus-trated that the transit center istaking so long since the 2008groundbreaking, which was go-ing to take only two years — ex-cept now it is five years and westill don’t know when it is goingto open.”

The long-delayed centergroundbreaking was in 2008.

The $112 million project, on thecorner of Colesville Road andWayne Avenue, was expected toopen in 2011. When open, thetransit center will be a three-level transit hub that connectsMARC commuter trains, Metro,taxis, and Ride On and intercitybuses.

A March 2013 report by KCEStructural Engineers showed theproject had a series of cracks inthe middle and upper levels ofthe structure. The county andits contractor have had publicdisagreements over how to fixthe center.

Slater did not know howmany entries were submittedso far.

“I’ve heard about 20 peoplesaying ‘never,’” she said. “I didhear somebody say ‘next cen-tury.’ A few people said ‘not inmy lifetime.’

“But my favorite was this

man who came up and said, ‘Ithink they should open next yearon April Fool’s Day.’”

James Freeman, who worksin front of the transit centerproject selling newspapers tocommuters rushing to get towork, has followed the project’sconstruction.

“I was here when they had aplace for the buses to come in. Iwas here when they tore down. Iwas here when they were build-ing this,” he said. “So your guessis good as mine.”

Slater and her group of vol-unteers handed out entry formsfrom 6:30 a.m. until about 10:30a.m. and encouraged each per-son to make a guess.

One passerby quickly re-sponded, before running tocatch the Metro, “Never. It iswhat feels like, anyway.”

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n African-Americanstudents’ scores up;Hispanic scores drop


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Montgomery County PublicSchools’ 2013 SAT results showedmovement in both African-Ameri-can and Hispanic students’ scores— but in different directions.

African-American students’ av-erage combined score rose to 1397this year — eight points above lastyear’s score. From 2011 to 2012, Af-rican-American students’ averagescore increased seven points.

Hispanic students’ averagecombined score, however, fell 32points this year after a six-point in-crease from 2011 to 2012.

Both student groups scoredsignificantly higher than their stateand national peers this year.

The county school system’soverall average combined score fellthree points — from 1651 in 2012to 1648 this year — but was still 11points above the 2011 score.

The SAT serves as a collegeplacement exam and has a maxi-mum score of 2400 across three ar-eas: critical reading, mathematicsand writing.

African-American students’

scores improved in all three ar-eas of the test. Hispanic students’scores fell in all three.

About 61 percent of the schoolsystem’s 2013 African-Americangraduates took the SAT and about47 percent of Hispanic graduatestook the test — relatively the sameas last year’s participation for bothstudent groups.

Superintendent Joshua P. Starrsaid in an interview Thursday thatschool system staff will sit downwith principals and schools leadersto talk over the scores and evaluatewhat they did and did not do.

“I’m concerned, I’m really con-cerned,” Starr said of the decline inHispanic students’ scores. “I don’tunderstand why that drop exists.”

Addressing the county schoolsystem’s overall combined score,Starr said, “We are essentially sta-ble.”

Starr said the school systemhas focused efforts toward help-ing students traditionally under-represented in colleges, includingAfrican-American and Hispanicstudents.

Montgomery County Board ofEducation member Michael Dursosaid he and others in the schoolsystem will need to take time todetermine what these scores mean.

“I think on the surface that’sdisturbing,” said Durso, addressingHispanic students’ scores. “I think

deeper down I’d probably want totalk to some others and maybe talkto some people at the schools to gettheir impression.”

He described “the whole SATscore phenomenon” as “fluid andunpredictable.”

Durso, a former principal, saidthat in all three jurisdictions he’sworked in there were years whenSAT scores would change withoutan apparent corresponding changeof the school’s instruction.

“Of all the issues we deal within education, interpreting thosescores is one of the more challeng-ing ones,” he said.

School board member RebeccaSmondrowski said she thinks theSAT scores are “one piece of a lotof different things” and that theSAT data will help the school boarddetermine what questions it needsto ask.

Smondrowski said the schoolsystem’s Hispanic students are“our fastest growing population.”

“I’m not confident that we havethe resources totally to keep upwith the growth,” she said.

She said the school system isworking hard to target achieve-ment gaps, but that this time thatwas not reflected in Hispanic stu-dents’ scores.

Across the school system, fourhigh schools increased their aver-age combined score by 20 points

or more, while eight decreasedtheir scores by 20 points or more.Rockville High School’s score rose57 points to 1582 with the greatestincrease and Seneca Valley HighSchool’s score fell 75 points to 1447for the greatest decrease.

Rockville High Principal Billie-Jean Bensen said the school formeda team last year that worked toidentify students who, based ontheir course work and PSAT partici-pation, would be good candidatesfor the SAT but had not yet takenthe test.

“We’re certainly continuingthat this year,” she said.

Marc Cohen, Seneca ValleyHigh’s principal, said his initialreaction to the decrease in hisschool’s scores was “disappoint-ment.” The school, however, saw anearly 110-point increase the yearbefore, he said.

Cohen said he meets with theschool’s SAT and ACT committeeon a regular basis and that over thenext few months they will discusswhat might have changed to affectthis year’s scores and what inter-ventions they believe led to the in-crease last year.

The SAT data, Cohen said, will“push us to ask questions.”

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n Attack took place inWoodley Park Metro Station

BY ST. JOHN BARNED-SMITHSTAFF WRITER

A Prince George’s man pleaded guilty Wednesday inD.C. Superior Court to killing an Olney man last Novem-ber at the Woodley Park Metro Station in a fight over ajacket.

Chavez Myers, 18, made a deal with prosecutors tohave him serve 30 years in prison, according to a state-ment from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for D.C.

Olijawon Griffin, 18, a Sherwood High School gradu-ate, football player, and Olney native, ran into Myerstwice in the early morning of Nov. 17. The second con-frontation led to Griffin’s death.

After Griffin died, investigators learned he had runinto his attackers in the early morning of Nov. 17 in Ad-ams Morgan, when they robbed him near a gas stationon Adams Mill Road. The robbers took his black HellyHansen jacket, hat, and an iPhone, according to thestatement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Griffin then ran into the robbers on the platform ofthe Woodley Park Metro Station at about 1:15 a.m. Hefought with the robbers, trying to get his possessionsback. One attacker, later identified as Myers, snuck upbehind Griffin and stabbed him in the chest, accordingto the statement. Griffin died shortly after.

Police initially arrested nine people. Six have nowbeen charged as adults, while two were charged as juve-niles.

Muquan Cawthorne, 16, of Mount Ranier; Deon Jef-ferson, 18, of Landover; Gary Maye, 17, of Hyattsville; Im-manuel Swann, 18, of Brentwood; and Gary Whittaker,20, of Hyattsville have pleaded guilty to their roles in thecrime.

According to the statement from the U.S. Attorney’sOffice, Cawthorne pleaded guilty to voluntary man-slaughter while armed, armed robbery, and a firearmsoffense.

Likewise, Jefferson has pleaded guilty to voluntarymanslaughter while armed and armed robbery. Mayepleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter while armed,armed robbery, and robbery. Swann has also pleadedguilty, to voluntary manslaughter while armed and twocounts of armed robbery. And Whittaker pleaded guiltyto voluntary manslaughter while armed, assault with adangerous weapon, conspiracy, and a firearms offense,according to the statement.

Prosecutors said Myers is the sixth person chargedas an adult to plead guilty to Griffin’s murder or relatedcrimes. Two others were previously charged as juveniles.

Myers and the other five people charged as adultswill be sentenced in December.

Janet Mitchell, Myers’ public defender, could be im-mediately reached by phone Thursday.

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n Measures targetsynthetic marijuana,phoning while driving

BY ST. JOHNBARNED-SMITH

STAFF WRITER

Colesville’s Tony and SandyEichler said that before his deathjust a few months ago, their sonCharlie, 22, was a vibrant andhappy young man living in NewYork and acting.

But that was before Eichler,a drug addict who was trying towean himself off of methadone,began using synthetic mari-juana, called “Spice” or “K-2,”to get through the withdrawalsymptoms of the methadone.

But the drugs, which hebought legally at a tobacco shop,wreaked havoc on their son,Eichler’s parents said on Mon-day.

“He went from a vibrantyoung person to a person strug-gling to stay alive,” said Charlie’sfather, Tony, recalling how hisson lost feeling in his fingers,how he couldn’t sleep, lost theability to walk and had to useadult diapers.

“Every time I wake up,there’s something else wrongwith me,” he remembers Charlietelling him.

Charlie eventually com-mitted suicide, his parents saidMonday, the day before newdrug laws went into effect inMaryland, banning syntheticcannabinoids like the onesEichler used. The law bans thesale of substances that invokea cannabis-like response in thebrain.

Montgomery County State’sAttorney John McCarthy saidletters would be sent to differentstores in Montgomery Countyinforming retailers about theban. Prosecutors can seek asentence of up to four years forpossession of the drug, and upto 20 years for those who seekto distribute it, he said, explain-ing that the drugs could have amuch stronger high than natural

marijuana.“The effect of this drug on

the receptors of the brain can be800 times more powerful than aTHC high in a marijuana ciga-rette,” he said.

Synthetic cannabinoids areusually made from plant mate-rial that has been treated withchemicals similar to the drugsin marijuana, said Leah King,technical leader of the ForensicChemistry Unit in MontgomeryCounty Police’s Crime Labora-tory.

The drugs are sometimespackaged to appeal to youngusers. Police have come acrossversions of the drug with nameslike “Mr. Nice Guy” or “ScoobySnacks.”

Part of the danger of syn-thetic drugs is that there is noquality control and no way toverify what’s actually in thedrugs, she said.

“It’s dangerous — like smok-ing gasoline-treated vegetation,”she said. The drugs have beentough to prosecute in the past;laws outlawed specific drugs,and chemists could change thedrug’s chemical make-up by justa molecule, creating a new, legalsubstance that elicited a similarhigh, she said.

“The effective gist is, theseare products that were legal, andnow are not,” said MontgomeryCounty Councilman George L.Leventhal (D-At Large), explain-

ing that the law closes previousloopholes and that the new lawcovers any drug that invokes a“cannabinoid-like” response ina user’s brain.

Authorities said the drugshave been sold in tobacco shopsor in neighborhood conveniencestores, or masked as incense.

New seat beltand texting laws

Drivers caught talking on acellphone can be pulled over fornot using a hands-free deviceand drivers and all passengers ina vehicle will be required to weara seat belt since new laws wentinto effect Tuesday.

Driving and talking on acellphone without a hands-freedevice now is a primary offense,meaning police can pull driversover for that infraction alone,said Montgomery County PoliceCapt. Thomas Didone.

Didone did not know howmany stops had been made as ofTuesday afternoon.

“I’m happy to say we areseeing a lot more compliance,”he said.

There are a few exceptions tothe new law, he said. Drivers canhave phones in their hand whenstarting or ending calls, turningphones on or off, or if drivershave to call police or rescue ser-vices.

Otherwise, “if the vehicle is

in motion and a phone in yourhand, you will get a citation,”he said. Police will issue an $83fine for the first offense, a $140fine for the second offense, anda $160 fine for the third offense.Drivers will not receive points ontheir license unless they are alsoin a collision, he said.

Distracted driving — failingto pay full time and attention —was one of the main factors caus-ing crashes in 2012, Didone said.

“We believe cellphone usagewas a significant contributor tothose factors,” he said.

The other law being changedis one that now mandates allpeople in a vehicle must wear aseat belt — including passengersin the back seat who are over theage of 16.

“Now everyone in the carmust wear seat belts,” he said,adding that it is illegal for pas-sengers to “double buckle,” orput one seat belt around twopeople. Before the change inthe law, people who were overthe age of 16 sitting in the backseat were not required to weartheir seat belts, even though pas-sengers younger than 16 or whowere sitting in the front seat wererequired to wear theirs.

“You’re not safe in the backseat without a seat belt,” he said.

The law is a personal one forDidone, whose 15-year-old son,Ryan, died in a car accident inDamascus in 2008.

Ryan wasn’t wearing a seatbelt, Didone said. “That’s whyI advocated the law,” he said,adding that states with blanketseat belt laws tend to have com-pliance rates that are 20 percenthigher than states that don’thave such laws.

“This law now gives officersthe tools they need to take someaction to save lives,” he said.

The offense will be a “sec-ondary enforcement” violation,meaning it cannot alone be thereason officers pull over a car.

It carries a fine of $83, hesaid.

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n Senator says debt limitdefault could permanentlydamage U.S. economy

BY RYAN MARSHALL

STAFF WRITER

U.S. Sen. Benjamin L. Car-din (D) warned the MontgomeryCounty Council on Sept. 23 thateven more fiscal problems couldbe on the horizon — beyond thegovernment shutdown over a dis-puted new health care law.

Congress and the WhiteHouse deadlocked over whetherto continue funding the federalgovernment, forcing a shutdownthat started on Tuesday.

Another battle is comingsoon: whether to raise the ceilingon the country’s debt, Cardin saidduring an informal lunch and dis-cussion.

If no agreement is reachedand the country defaults on itsdebt, Cardin said the U.S. econ-omy could suffer permanentdamage this month.

Treasury Secretary Jack Lewsaid on Sept. 25 that the countrywould run out of emergency bor-rowing power by Oct. 17, accord-ing to The Washington Post.

“There is no flexibility here,”Cardin said.

Much of the Sept. 23 talk in-volved the budget showdown thatwas percolating in Congress, afterthe House of Representativespassed a spending bill that did notinclude money for the health caresystem known as Obamacare.

Cardin blamed the show-down on about 50 Republican“extremists” in the House of Rep-resentatives who refuse to ne-gotiate the differences between

individual budgets passed by theHouse and Senate.

Several Senate Republicanshe’s talked to think the idea ofpursuing a strategy to shut thegovernment down is crazy, hesaid.

Cardin and the council alsodiscussed pressures created bythe federal government’s budgetsequestration.

Cardin said the good news isthe country’s economy is slowlyrecovering.

“All the numbers are pointingin the right direction,” he said.

Montgomery County is hometo federal facilities that use sub-contractors who are laying offworkers or are reluctant to hireuntil the budget situation be-come more clear, said CouncilVice President Craig Rice (D-Dist.2) of Germantown.

Cardin said he’s worried thebudget issues would cause bright,young researchers at employerssuch as the National Institutes ofHealth to move to other areas orother fields.

CouncilmanPhilAndrews(D-Dist. 3) of Gaithersburg called thepicture painted by Cardin “trulydepressing.”

Cardin said he’s talked tomany businesses concernedabout the uncertainty caused bysequestration. He said he, Sen.Barbara A. Mikulski (D) and Con-gressmen Christopher Van HollenJr. (D-Dist. 8) and John Delaney(D-Dist. 6) are committed to end-ing automatic budget cuts as soonas possible.

“We are never going to acceptsequestration as the new norm,”Cardin said.

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Sen. Jennie Forehand (D-Dist. 17) of Rockville speaks at a news conferenceto announce new laws against talking or texting while driving. Behind Fore-hand are Montgomery County Police Chief Thomas Manger and MontgomeryState’s Attorney John McCarthy.

Cardin braces councilfor even more federalbudget tensions ahead

A man who robbed frombanks in Silver Spring and Ger-mantown earlier this year is be-hind bars, police say.

According to a police state-ment released earlier this week,detectives from the Montgom-ery County Police Major CrimesDivision arrested 28-year-oldPierre Ramon Washington ofTemple Hills on Friday.

They believe he robbed fromtwo Capital One banks — one inWhite Oak on May 22 and one inGermantown on July 24.

Police said an anonymoustip they received on Sept. 25helped them link Washington tothe crimes. Video surveillancecaptured photos of a man whowore thick-rimmed glasses and

his hair in long dreadlocks.According to police, Wash-

ington has been charged withtwo counts of robbery and iscurrently being held in theMontgomery County DetentionCenter on $20,000 bail for thecharges against him in Mont-gomery County.

He also faces theft and rob-bery charges for cases in AnneArundel and Prince George’scounties. For those charges, heis being held on an additional$40,000 bail.

A lawyer for Washington wasnot listed in online court recordsas of Tuesday afternoon.

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n ‘There is not a greatdeal of clarity on the law’

BY KEVIN JAMES SHAY

STAFF WRITER

Larry Gross prepared forTuesday for quite awhile.

That day marked the open-ing of Maryland’s new healthcare exchange system, a key partof the federal Affordable CareAct. Individuals and familiescould start shopping for healthinsurance Tuesday, while smallbusinesses with from two to 50full-time employees in Mary-land can start applying Jan. 1.

“We’ve actually been pre-paring for this for a couple ofyears now,” said Gross, execu-tive director of market develop-ment for Rockville-based KaiserPermanente of the Mid-AtlanticStates.

Kaiser is one of severalhealth care companies offeringplans through the exchange,called Maryland Health Con-nection. With the system being

new, Gross expects a few bugsand delays, though it’s hard toknow what to expect.

“We don’t know how manypeople will sign up when openenrollment begins [Tuesday],”Gross said. “The coverage won’tbegin until Jan. 1. ... We hopepeople will evaluate the optionsand make sure they make theright choices of what is best forthem.”

Maryland has been ahead ofthe curve in many ways in build-ing its own health insurance ex-change and preparing for openenrollment, Gross said. Mary-land is one of 16 states, alongwith Washington, D.C., operat-ing their own exchanges. Otherssuch as Virginia are allowing thefederal government to run theirexchanges.

“The idea for us is to keepit as simple as possible,” Grosssaid. “Maryland is limiting theplans to make them as simple aspossible, so people can under-stand what they are getting andcompare choices.”

While many employers

limit health plans to one or twochoices, the idea for the ex-change is to increase the pool ofplans and perhaps the costs willdrop. For a 50-year-old non-smoker in Maryland, premiumsrun from $278 a month to $470,depending on which plan is se-lected. Tax credits and other as-sistance are available based onincome.

Kaiser has trained customerservice employees in case theyare called about the exchanges,Gross said. Individuals can signup for plans directly with Kaiser,but won’t be able to get the cred-its and assistance in most casesunless they apply through anexchange, he said.

The system will allow formore choices for employers aswell as employees, Gross said.

“Rather than have an em-ployer pick the plan, employ-ees get to select the carrier theywant,” he said. “We think that isa great idea, both for individualsand small-group employers.”

Eric Feldstein, businessbanking market manager for

Greater Washington, CentralMaryland and Virginia withM&T Bank, said small-businessclients he deals with in seekingloans are still uncertain aboutaspects of the law.

“It’s a top-of-the-line issuewith clients,” Feldstein said.“There is not a great deal of clar-ity on the law.”

Pregnancy protection tookeffect Tuesday

Several new state lawspassed by the General Assem-bly earlier this year that impactbusinesses took effect Tuesday.

One gives pregnant em-ployees the same rights in many

cases as disabled workers if theircondition is considered a dis-ability.

Maryland employers whoemploy 15 workers or moremust make “reasonable accom-modations” to a woman whoexperiences limitations due toher pregnancy, said GlendoraHughes, general counsel for theMaryland Commission on CivilRights.

Those accommodations canbe as simple as being able to getmore bathroom breaks, or canlead to a change to less strenu-ous job duties, she said.

“It’s up to a negotiation be-tween the employer and the em-ployee as to what is reasonable,”Hughes said. “The law providessuggestions. ... The intent wasto provide as much guidance aspossible.”

Employers can require cer-tification from a medical physi-cian to the same extent as anytemporary disability, she said.

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n Farm operators inMontgomery are, onaverage, getting older

BY SYLVIA CARIGNAN

STAFF WRITER

Chuck Fry’s voice is tingedwith sadness when he talksabout the future of his family’sfarm.

“I’m worried, worried,” hesaid.

Fry, the Maryland Farm Bu-reau’s first vice president, runsa dairy farm in Tuscarora, Md.,in southern Frederick County.Across the state, the averageage of farmers is edging up-ward — and it’s even higher inMontgomery County.

According to the U.S. De-partment of Agriculture’s cen-sus, the average age of farmoperators in Maryland is 57.

It has reached 60 in Mont-gomery County, up from 57 in2002.

“It’s hard to get that next

generation to follow,” Fry said.Farming at Metro’s Edge

— a group assembled by localbusiness owners, elected of-ficials and agricultural stake-holders — held a conference inJanuary about the future of ag-riculture in Montgomery andFrederick counties.

In the group’s subsequentreport, released Sept. 16, farm-ers voiced their concerns aboutregulations, economic devel-opment and a lack of agricul-ture education for the generalpublic.

That worry extends to ag-ing farmers in MontgomeryCounty, where some familiesand owners are looking towarduncertain futures.

“There is great concernover the sustainability of theagricultural economy,” thereport stated. Attracting newindividuals into the farmingprofession, and training themin ever-changing local, stateand federal regulations, is achallenge, the report said.

“Typically, everyone thinks

of agriculture as it was two orthree years ago, as just a mom-and-pop operation,” said Lau-rie Adelhardt, spokeswomanfor the Maryland Grain Pro-ducers Association. “It doesn’tlend itself to being as attractivea career.”

Wade Butler, farm man-ager at Butler’s Orchard inGermantown, said Montgom-ery County poses its own chal-lenges for new farmers lookingto get into the business.

“It’s really tough in Mont-gomery County; land is expen-sive,” he said.

He runs his 300-acre farmwith his sister and a core staffof about 20, which grows toover 100 during busier seasons.

Butler said farmers atsmaller and midsize opera-tions often rely on spouses toprovide health care and in-come.

Fry admitted the work isn’tglamorous.

“You work long hours.Your pay scale is not what thegovernment can pay nearby,”

he said. “It’ll make you a poorman quick.”

According to the Depart-ment of Agriculture’s 2007census, Montgomery Countyhas 561 farms, totaling about67,000 acres. The average sizeof a farm has decreased from130 acres in 2002 to 121 acresin 2007.

But with high demand forcommunity-supported agri-culture, Butler said, there is anopportunity for new, part-timefarmers to start their own smallbusiness.

The Farming at Metro’sEdge report notes the grow-ing popularity of community-supported agriculture andfarmers markets. With com-munity-supported agriculture,customers pay for a share of afarm’s produce, which is thenregularly delivered to a homeor centrally located commu-nity facility. The county has 12CSAs.

Brookeville resident JoanRiser and her husband, Ger-ald, run Avianmead Produce, asmall CSA built from the largegarden on their five-acre prop-erty. They grow tomatoes, pep-pers, eggplant, lettuce, spinachand other produce.

“We’ve enjoyed it,” Risersaid. “It doesn’t make a wholelot of money, but it keeps usgoing.”

The Risers, both 75, areeasing out of the produce busi-ness. After they started the CSAin 1996, they hit a peak of 25customers, but only had 12 thisyear. They delivered their lastorder of the season on Sept. 26.

With her husband in poorhealth, Riser said they’re notsure how much longer they’llcontinue to run the CSA. Thecouple’s children, who live inother states, are unlikely totake it on.

“They love coming outhere, but they’re not interestedin doing this kind of thing,” shesaid.

Montgomery County’sNew Farmer Pilot Program,launched in August 2012, is ex-perimenting with ways to sup-port agricultural entrepreneurswho are new to the business.Similar to an incubator pro-gram, farmers start growing ona shared space for about threeyears, then find a site of theirown.

But unless more youngfarmers get involved in thebusiness, the average age willcontinue to increase.

Butler said his three chil-dren, in their late 20s and early30s, are interested in continu-ing Butler’s Orchard.

But Fry said his childrenhave moved away from agricul-ture. Though he has farmed allhis life, he’s not sure who willtake on the farm that has beenpassed down through his fam-ily since 1883.

“There comes a pointwhere we get beyond 57 —we’re old farmers now,” Frysaid. “I worry about our family,and our family’s history.”

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Aging farmers face uncertain futuren Officials: Extra repairwork won’t cost taxpayers

BY ALINE BARROS

STAFF WRITER

Gaps between bricks in thesidewalk at the corner of Geor-gia Avenue and Ellsworth Drivecould be a future public hazard,according to the Silver SpringUrban District Advisory Com-mittee.

The committee met onSept. 19 for its monthly meetingand spoke about unacceptableconditions left by State HighAdministration contractors.

“State Highway is doing amuch-needed project repav-ing Georgia Avenue. ... We arehappy to have them doing it... but I don’t think it has beendone as well it should be,” saidMelvin Tull, chair of the SilverSpring Urban District AdvisoryCommittee.

Tull is concerned that raised

bricks can cause people to falland said contractors are notmeeting county standards.

“When you have thosebricks gaps filled with sand ...the rain washes out the sand,”Tull explained.

The sidewalk restorationsare part of a $4.02 million proj-ect to repave Georgia Avenuefrom the Washington line upto 16th Street, according to theState Highway Administration.

F.O. Day, a site develop-ment contractor based in Rock-ville, did not return four callsand one email for comment.

Officials said the sidewalkconstruction was not a big mis-take, but contractors shouldhave done it right the first time.

“Our inspectors are on topof them ... and it will definitelybe done,” said David Buck, aState Highway Administrationspokesman. He said the countywill not spend extra to fix thegaps since it was not a countymistake.

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n County has not had toimpose $50-per-offensefine, official says

BY IAN ZELAYA

SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE

Five years after MontgomeryCounty imposed a ban on transfats in food establishments,nearly 10 percent of restaurantinspections are turning up vio-lations.

During fiscal year 2013,there were 308 trans fat viola-tions out of 3,238 inspections,said Clark Beil, a senior adminis-trator for the county’s Licensureand Regulatory Services.

If a restaurant is found touse cooking products with morethan 0.5 grams of trans fat orwithout labels, it’s considered aviolation of the countywide ban.

Trans fat, most of which isartificial, is responsible for rais-ing LDL (bad) cholesterol levels

and increasing the risk of stroke,heart disease and Type 2 diabe-tes.

Montgomery County wasthe first county in the country toban trans fat in restaurants andsupermarkets.

The ban started in 2008 forvegetable oils, shortenings ormargarines for frying, pan fryingand grilling, or for spreads, andtook effect in 2009 for oils andshortenings for deep frying cakebatter and yeast dough.

It applies to any place “inwhich food or drink is preparedfor sale or for service on or offthe premises,” according to acounty fact sheet on the ban.

Beil said most of the viola-tions this year were from first-time offenders.

The ban does not apply tofood served in a manufacturer’soriginal sealed packaging, thefact sheet says.

“Sometimes people don’trealize their product is a viola-tion,” Beil said. “We ask them to

fix it and they always do.”The DoubleTree Hotel

Bethesda received a trans fatviolation in 2012, but was incompliance with the regulationfor its two inspections this year.

Mente Lawson, the execu-tive chef of Share Wine Lounge& Small Plate Bistro at the Dou-bleTree, said that when the banwas implemented in 2008, theonly product he had to replacewas frying oil.

At first, the only issue waspurchasing products differently,Lawson said. Most chefs buythrough wholesale. Some prod-ucts containing trans fat had tobe sent back.

Eventually, the wholesalevenues he buys from changedproducts to match the guide-lines.

Lawson said trans fat can befound in many processed meals,but he makes most of his dishesfrom scratch.

Lawson believes the county-wide trans fat ban is beneficial.

“A lot of foods have transfat leading to obesity,” he said.“Anything that comes back towhat the body can break downnaturally is better for us in thelong run and short run.”

The county’s environmentalhealth specialists do the inspec-tions.

According to Beil, the in-spections are not complicated.

“They simply look on shelvesin the pantry and storerooms ofthe restaurant and they read thelabels,” he said.

If an establishment is foundto have a first-time violation fora product, specialists ask thosein charge to replace the product.

Beil said restaurants usuallyreplace products immediately.The director of the MontgomeryCounty Department of Healthand Human Services can sus-pend an establishment’s licensefor up to three days if the busi-ness has “knowingly and repeat-edly” violated the ban, the factsheet says.

“Obviously, if someone were

to repeatedly not replace a prod-uct, we have the ability to issue acitation,” he said.

An offense is a Class C civilviolation, carrying a $50 fine.Each day in which the establish-ment is in violation is consid-ered a separate offense.

However, “I don’t recall any-one every being fined,” Beil said;offenders comply quickly.

Beil said no restaurants haveappealed the inspectors’ find-ings.

Five years into Montgomery trans fat ban, violations persist

n Gansler officially inDemocratic race

BY KATE S. ALEXANDER

STAFF WRITER

When choosing among aracially and demographicallydiverse field of gubernatorialcandidates, voters are likely toconsider more than just the is-sues next year, experts say.

The state could have its firstblack governor, its first femalegovernor, or its first openly gaygovernor. It also could have aheterosexual, white, male orJewish governor, none of whichwould be a first.

Attorney General DouglasF. Gansler (D) is the latest can-didate to officially throw his hatinto the ring, kicking off his cam-paign Tuesday.

In the 2014 Democraticprimary, he faces Del. HeatherMizeur (D-Dist. 20) of TakomaPark and Lt. Gov. Anthony G.Brown (D) of Mitchellville.

Across the aisle, HarfordCounty Executive David R.Craig, Del. Ronald A. George (R-Dist. 30) of Arnold and CharlesLollar of Charles County, thepast Maryland state director ofAmericans for Prosperity, arecompeting for the Republicannomination.

As Gansler addressed vot-ers Tuesday, he spoke often ofdiversity — what he has helpedbring to Maryland governmentand what is yet to come, promis-ing an administration that “fromtop to bottom, will unapologeti-cally be diverse.”

But his promise was not farremoved from the heat Ganslertook in August for accusing

Brown of relying on race to getelected.

While some criticizedGansler’s comment as racist,Richard E. Vatz, professor of

communication studies at Tow-son University, said that whatGansler was really saying was“get to the issues.”

Demographics shouldn’tmatter in an election, Vatz said.

“It is not relevant,” he said,quoting the late President JohnF. Kennedy’s response to beingasked about being the first Cath-olic president.

Vatz said race, as well asreligion and gender, are notpersuasive selling points andovershadow critical issues in anelection.

But demographics mat-ter to some voters, said MelissaDeckman, chair and professor ofpolitical science at WashingtonCollege in Chestertown.

Studies show that African-American and Latino voterstend to support candidates whoare like them, but not all voters

vote for their own, she said. Forinstance, women do not tend tovote for other women so muchas they tend to lean Democratic.

While many African-Ameri-cans voted for Barack Obama in2008, isolating race has provendifficult in empirical politicalscience research, Deckman said.

Ifelected,Brownwouldbethestate’s first black governor. But sowould Lollar, and to date, Lollar’srace has been a focal point.

Vatz said demographicsmatter more to Democrats thanRepublicans.

“It has to be said that this isreally one sided,” Vatz said.

Deckman agreed.“Republicans, by definition,

do not like to do identity poli-tics,” Deckman said.

For candidates in the major-ity Democratic state, how andwhen to mention demographics

in a campaign is a challenge.Deckman said it can be a

“damned if you do, damned ifyou don’t” situation.

“In some respects, thesewould be important milestonesfor those communities,” shesaid. “But you also have to weighthe general election and generalvoters. You have to appeal topeople in the middle of the road.Too much emphasis on identitypolitics really turns off Republi-cans.”

A poll commissioned byBrown’s campaign showedthe lieutenant governor lead-ing among Democrats with 43percent. Trailing behind wereGansler with 22 percent andMizeur with 5 percent. However,31 percent of those polled wereundecided.

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n Red bikes ready to roll;unveiled Friday atRockville grand opening

BY SAMANTHA SCHMIEDER

SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE

Fifteen shiny new bikes lined up,ready to roll, as the county unveiled its14 Capital Bikeshare stations Friday.

The first Capital Bikeshare station inMaryland opened in Rockville with cityand state officials hosting a grand open-ing event at the station, located at thecorner of Maryland and Montgomeryavenues.

The Rockville station is one of14 stations opening in MontgomeryCounty Friday with 51 total planned tospan the area. The expansion of CapitalBikeshare in Washington, D.C., marksthe first bike-sharing program in Mary-land. The network includes stations onboth sides of Metro’s Red Line inside theBeltway, and stations clustered aroundthe Rockville and Shady Grove Metrostations.

“The sturdy red bikes are finally roll-ing into Bethesda, Rockville, and SilverSpring,” said Councilman Roger Ber-liner (D-Dist. 1) of Bethesda, chairmanof the Council’s Transportation, Infra-structure, Energy and EnvironmentCommittee. “This is a significant stepin creating a less car-centric culture. Wewant an environment that encourageshealthier and greener mobility optionsand Bikeshare does just that.”

Steve Friedman, a member of thecounty’s Pedestrian, Bicycle and TrafficSafety Advisory Committee, biked upto the bikeshare launch, saying the ad-visory committee was happy to put itsweight behind the program.

“We support it and recognized thevalue of it,” Friedman said while sittingatop his own bicycle.

To use the bikes, memberships for24 hours or three days can be boughtwith a credit card directly at the stationand monthly and yearlong member-ships can be purchased online or overthe phone. Within the membershiptime, bikes can be used free of charge asmany times as necessary for 30-minuteincrements, with longer trips costing a

small fee.One of the main draws of the pro-

gram is that, unlike traditional bikerentals, bikes don’t have to be returnedto the same place they were picked up.Instead, renters can leave the bike at the

most convenient station to their travels.Maryland Secretary of Transpor-

tation James Smith attended Friday’sevent, praising the county for takingthe initiative and saying MontgomeryCounty residents and politicians always

“show up, stand up and pay up” whenthey want something done.

“[Residents can] use mass transit toget to a location and the Bikeshare toget to their ultimate destination,” Smithsaid.

Safety was another theme of thegrand opening, with many of the speak-ers commenting on bike paths and lanesand the safety manuals being handedout. Casey Anderson, a member of theMontgomery County Planning Board,suggested riders attend a $10 bicyclesafety course being taught at Montgom-ery College.

A group of Richard MontgomeryHigh School students passing by theBikeshare celebration were interestedin the program, but not enough to con-sider a membership. Though the teenssaid they didn’t think they would everreally use it to travel anywhere specific,they all agreed they would consider us-ing them as a fun group activity for aday.

To learn more about Capital Bike-share or to sign up for one of six differ-ent membership options, visit www.capitalbikeshare.com.

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County Council members (from left) Roger Berliner (D-Dist. 1) of Bethesda, Valerie Ervin(D-Dist. 5) of Silver Spring and Hans Riemer (D-At large) of Silver Spring pose on bikes inCourthouse Square in Rockville before a ribbon-cutting for the Capital Bikeshare stationsopening in Montgomery County.

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Montgomery College saw aslight decline in its fall enroll-ment this year in what a spokes-woman called a “leveling off.”Previously, during a recession,there was a boom in enrollment,she said.

Total fall enrollment at thecollege — which has Rockville,Germantown and Takoma Park/Silver Spring campuses — is

down about 4.7 percent com-pared to last fall’s enrollment,according to Sept. 18 enrollmentdata from the college’s website.

Elizabeth Homan, the col-lege’s director of communi-cations, said the college hasexperienced growth over the lastdecade and record enrollmentduring the past couple years.

“We’re seeing that level offthis year,” she said. “We rec-ognize that once the economychanges, that can impact ourenrollment.”

More than 26,000 studentsenrolled in for-credit classes atthe college this fall, Homan said,

though she added the numberis not yet official. Enrollment isalso expected to grow during thespring semester, she said.

Homan said the fall enroll-ment numbers are close to whatthe college saw in fiscal 2011.

According to the online fallenrollment report, the college’sRockville campus is down 6 per-cent in unduplicated students,its Germantown campus isdown 4 percent and its TakomaPark/Silver Spring campus isdown 0.8 percent.

The slight decline comes af-ter the college had its highest fallenrollment of nearly 27,500 for-

credit students last year.Montgomery College had

the highest undergraduate fallenrollment in the state withnearly 27,000 for-credit studentsin fall 2011.

Similar to the experience ofcommunity colleges around thecountry, Homan said, Mont-gomery College saw an increasein enrollment during the reces-sion as students turned to moreaffordable college opportunities.

In fiscal 2009, annual enroll-ment rose to about 35,600 stu-dents in for-credit classes and infiscal 2010 rose to about 37,500.

“It changes an individual’s

mindset when you’re dealingwith an economic recessionversus a more robust economy,”she said.

Homan said the college isrenewing its focus to retentionof its students.

Bernard Sadusky, executivedirector of the Maryland Asso-ciation of Community Colleges,said that — with the exception ofone or two schools — commu-nity colleges are generally seeinga decline in their enrollment thisfall.

Last year, Sadusky said,statewide community collegeenrollment was generally flator slightly down after aboutfive years of “unprecedentedgrowth.”

This year, average enroll-ment is down about 3 percentfrom last year, he said.

Sadusky said he thoughtone of a couple reasons for theenrollment decline is tied to the

fact that “the economy seems tobe picking up.”

“For us, that has the oppo-site effect on enrollment,” hesaid — an inverse relationshipthat has existed for the past fewdecades.

Yet Montgomery Collegestudents’ requests for financialaid are not mirroring the enroll-ment trend.

Melissa Gregory, the col-lege’s financial aid director,said that for each of the pastfive years the college has seenbetween 15 and 20 percent in-creases in financial aid requests.

As of around mid-Septem-ber, the college was still upabout 5 percent in its financialaid applications.

The college offers its ownfinancial aid and participatesin a variety of financial aid pro-grams, including the federal PellGrant program as well as stateprograms.

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n Each time Hoffmanreached a goal,he set a new one

BY LINDSAY A. POWERSSTAFF WRITER

When Adam Hoffman grad-uated from Montgomery Collegein May, his degree marked theend of a five-year college experi-ence some said he might not beable to complete.

Adam, 25, of Rockville hashigh-functioning autism, adisability that made college achallenge for him. But — as heproved by earning a degree — itdidn’t take a college educationout of his reach.

He received an associate de-gree in applied science, majoringin computer applications.

Adam said he knew hewanted to go to college to learnabout technology.

But others were concerned.According to evaluations

provided by his dad, HowardHoffman of Bethesda, severalexperts said Adam likely wouldfind college a frustrating experi-ence.

“His disability is such thatconceptual thinking is morechallenging for him,” Howardsaid.

But, he said, he saw his sonhighly motivated to attend col-lege. He thought it was betterfor Adam to try and not succeedthan to not try and “lose an op-portunity.”

Howard Hoffman describedhis son as having “a knack” forlearning computer software.

“We weren’t sure how far hecould get,” Howard said. “Theidea was to try and see how itwent.”

A psychologist wrote in a 2006evaluation that “due to Adam’ssignificant learning issues, a tra-ditional two- or four-year collegeprogram will be highly challeng-ing, and will potentially generateconsiderable frustration.”

In 2010 — after Adam hadcompleted lower-level computercourses at the college — a Mont-gomery College guidance coun-selor recommended that Adamuse skills he had learned to makehimself a better job candidate.

“Taking additional advancedcourses in the Computer Appli-cations department will requireincreased conceptual skills that,from what I have read in his re-cords and experienced in myinteractions with Adam, he doesnot have,” the guidance counsel-or’s evaluation said, according toHoward.

Adam certainly faced chal-lenges, starting with what classesto take when he first started.

“I didn’t know what I was go-ing to do at first,” he said.

A few classes, including a ge-ography course, proved too diffi-cult the first time around. Adamwould drop the course and take— and pass — it the next semes-ter.

He needed to take someclasses outside his major, suchas biology and English — eachobstacles in their own right,Howard said.

“It was more of a stretch asthe semesters went on,” he said.

Yet, Adam graduated witha 3.2 GPA and made the dean’slist a few times. Adam said heaveraged about three courseseach semester over the five yearswhile also working part time asan administrative assistant dur-ing most of his time in college.

“I think some other peoplemay have become discouraged,”Howard said. “He never got thatway.”

Adam’s goals progressed ashe would reach one and take onanother.

After he passed severalcourses, Adam decided to worktoward a certificate. When thecertificate was within reach, hedecided to go for an associatedegree.

“I found out I was headingtoward it,” he said of the cer-tificate. “I thought it would be agreat thing to have.”

He had the same thoughtprocess when he went for thedegree, he said.

Adam worked hard duringhis time at the college, but alsohad the benefit of several sup-porters, Howard said.

“It takes a village to send aspecial-needs child to college,”Howard said, putting a spin onthe familiar phrase.

Adam said he received helpfrom several tutors and otherassistance from College Learn-ing Experience, an organizationthat provides support servicesto college students with autism,Asperger’s syndrome and otherdisabilities.

Ric Kienzle, director of theCollege Learning Experience’sRockville location, describedAdam as “a wonderful youngman” who, despite the struggleshe faced, “worked hard andpressed hard to achieve his goal.”

Kienzle said Adam’s tutorsand others saw him grow overthe five years he attended col-

lege.“He’s one of those guys

who’s driven,” he said. “He re-ally wanted to get it done and hedid.”

Adam said his favorite classwas graphic design, but hedoesn’t know if he wants to workin the field.

He still works as an admin-istrative assistant and said hisnewly earned degree has helpedhim in his job.

“It’s great to have everythingdone and more opportunities,”he said.

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n Urbana teen earnedstudent pilot certificate

BY JENN DAVISSTAFF WRITER

Most teenagers dream of getting acar or throwing a big bash for their 16thbirthday. For his special day, YoussefSelim set his sights high: flying an air-plane solo for the first time.

On Monday evening at dusk, theUrbana High School junior flew aPA-28-161 Piper Warrior plane with-out anyone else in the aircraft for twoconsecutive takeoffs and landings atMontgomery County Airpark in Gaith-ersburg. The flight, which included twocircles around the airport at an altitudeof 1,500 feet, sealed Youssef’s positionas one of the youngest pilots to fly soloin the area, according to his flight in-structor.

Following the flight, more than 40friends and family members waited inthe airpark’s cafe to surprise him with a

celebratory dinner.“I’m pretty psyched,” Youssef said

about his accomplishment.After turning 16 on Saturday, the

Urbana resident became eligible for hisstudent pilot certificate, a document is-sued to pilots in training. It is a prereq-uisite to fly alone in the plane.

To qualify, the pilot must be 16years of age, demonstrate English lan-guage fluency and pass a flight physicaladministered by an aviation medicalexaminer, according to the Federal Avi-ation Administration’s website.

For his solo flight, Youssef’s flightinstructor had to endorse the studentpilot certificate, deeming his studentcompetent to fly on his own and giv-ing written permission for the event toproceed. The FAA’s website says there isno minimum number of flight instruc-tional hours to achieve the certificate orfly solo.

The certificate carries certain re-strictions, such as not being able to flyat night or take passengers.

Montgomery County Airpark in-

structor Sharif Hidayat, who has beenteaching Youssef since July 2013, saidhe was pleased with Youssef’s perfor-mance.

“I would not have ever signed off onhim if I didn’t think he was ready, andhe proved he was,” he said.

Hidayat said he hoped Youssef’smilestone would inspire other youths

to learn about aviation and take advan-tage of the opportunities that the smallairpark offers.

Youssef reached this milestone at ayoung age, but it was years in the mak-ing. The International Baccalaureatestudent said aviation has intrigued himsince childhood. He began taking les-sons at age 12 at Frederick Flight CenterInc. Twice a week during the summer,Youssef attended three-hour trainingsessions that were split into ground andin-flight instruction.

After taking lessons for a year and ahalf, Youssef took a break to make moretime for school and football. He startedtraining again this July, spending aboutthree hours each week at the Montgom-ery County Airpark with Hidayat.

“I feel free when I’m flying,” Youssefsaid. “You can see the world from upthere. You can see it from a differentperspective.”

Learning to fly isn’t a cheap hobby,according to Selim’s mother, HwaidaHassanein. A two-hour training sessionruns about $200 to $250.

Youssef belongs to the OctopusFlying Club, a nonprofit organizationat the Gaithersburg airpark. The grouphas helped offset training expenses,Hassanein said.

By paying a monthly fee of $75,Youssef gets access to three planesat the airpark, which he can fly at anytime. There is still an hourly rate to usethe aircraft, but the price is lower be-cause of the club membership.

Hassanein said she is proud of herson, but was glad he was safely back onthe ground.

“I am so relieved,” she said right af-ter the flight. “I was counting down theseconds until he touched back down.”

The young pilot doesn’t plan onstopping here. When he turns 17, hewill be eligible to fly cross-cross countryon his own, and can take another steptoward his ultimate goal of making acareer out of his hobby.

“I’d like to become a commercialpilot, without a doubt,” he said.

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D.C., or Northern Virginia. Ofthe county’s 971,771 residentsrecorded in the 2010 U.S. Cen-sus, 72,492 worked for the fed-eral government.

Federal agencies preparecontingency plans

The National Institute ofStandards and Technology is partof the Department of Commerce,which will keep only about 6,000of its 46,000 employees on dutyduring the shutdown, accordingthe department’s contingencyplan.

Most research at NIST wasscheduled to cease as well as mostresearch as the National Oceanicand Atmospheric Administrationin Silver Spring.

Officials were meeting Tues-day to discuss closure, expectingthe Gaithersburg office to closeabout 3 p.m.

In Bethesda, the NationalInstitutes of Health will continuepatient care for current ClinicalCenter patients and provide ani-mal care services to protect thehealth of its animals, accordingto information from the Office ofManagement and Budget.

It will maintain only minimalstaff to safeguard facilities andinfrastructure and will not ad-mit new patients unless deemedmedically necessary by the NIHdirector, and will discontinuesome veterinary services.

Contractors could see fur-loughs, bid delays

Lockheed Martin is keepingits facilities open and employeeswill continue to receive pay andbenefits unless directed otherwiseby customers, company officialssaid Tuesday in a statement.

The impact on operations,work force and subcontractorsduring the shutdown “dependson individual contract terms,”Lockheed spokeswoman Jen-nifer Allen said. In fiscal 2012,Lockheed was the federal govern-ment’s largest single contractorwith $37 billion in contract dol-lars obligated to the company, ac-cording to federal figures.

About $3.7 billion in federalcontractors to companies in theWashington region, which ismore than 20 percent, were ad-versely affected by funding delaysduring the 1996 shutdown, ac-cording to a Congressional Re-search Service report.

Nymeo Federal Credit Union,which has offices in Frederick,Gaithersburg, Germantown andAdelphi, will allow temporaryreduced payment for loans andeven skipped payments to cus-tomers who are furloughed dueto a shutdown. While its officesin federal buildings such as at theNational Institute of Standardsand Technology will likely close,other branches will be open andhave increased staff.

Some contracts awarded byfederal agencies are specified thatawardees have the ability to findprivate funding for those projects.That’s the case with Rockville-

based Standard Solar, whichbuilds and installs solar electricsystems, when it was recentlyselected by the U.S. Army Corpsof Engineers, Engineering andSupport Center to develop pho-tovoltaic solar systems on Armyfacilities. Standard Solar was oneof 22 companies to be chosenunder the Multiple Award TaskOrder Contracts program, whichqualifies those businesses to com-pete for future solar projects.

“The awarded companieshave been qualified by the U.S.Army to have the capacity to bringprivate sector funding to each ofthe awarded projects, so fundingis not impacted by governmentshutdowns or extended seques-trations,” said John Finnerty, di-rector of business developmentfor Standard Solar.

The Greater WashingtonBoard of Trade recommendscompanies that contract with thegovernment confirm arrange-ments with regular contractorsand suppliers in writing, and de-tailed documentation of corre-spondence should be kept in casefuture disagreements arise.

National park visitorsasked to leave

Visitors to national parks, in-cluding the Chesapeake and OhioCanal and Glen Echo parks inMontgomery County, were askedto leave Tuesday as Park Serviceemployees worked to close andsecure park facilities and grounds.

The park service will suspendall activities during the shutdown,except those needed to respondto emergencies, and will furlough21,379 of its 24,645 employees,

according to Management andBudget data.

Adventure Theatre MTC hadto abandon its site in Glen EchoPark because of the shutdown,moving all activities to its Winter-green Plaza location in Rockville,according to a news release. Ad-venture Theatre MTC provideschildren with theater classes,camps and productions.

Michael J. Bobbitt, producingartistic director, said in a state-ment that the theater was pre-pared for the effect the shutdownwould have on his organization.But he was also confident thatlawmakers would find a way tofund the government before it re-quired Adventure Theatre MTC tocancel performances.

Not all government opera-tions ground to a halt Tuesday,including the office of U.S. Rep.John K. Delaney (D-Dist. 6) of Po-tomac.

The U.S. Constitution man-dates legislative operationscontinue and in response to a“constitutional duty” to representDistrict 6, Delaney’s Capitol Hilland district offices would remainopen, the office said in a news re-lease. Among the agencies openTuesday was the Nuclear Regula-tory Commission, based in Rock-ville.

The commission had enoughunspent funds from the previousyear’s budget, which ended Mon-day, to keep it open and operat-ing for one week, spokeswomanHolly Harrington said.

Should the government re-main unfunded for longer, thecommission faced keeping about90 percent, or all but 300 of its4,000 total employees off the job.Most NRC employees, about

3,000, work in Rockville, Har-rington said.

The Department of Energyalso had some money to stayopen, spokesman Steven Thaisaid.

While Department of En-ergy employees reported to workTuesday, Thai said how long theagency could sustain operationswas unknown.

Department of Energy em-ployees 13,814 workers and has afacility in Germantown. Once itsmoney runs out, the agency plansto keep only 1,113 workers on thejob along with 3,106 workers whoare paid with funds from outsidethe general budget.

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He said there’s “a clear link”between sleep and students’health and well-being, an areaof focus for the school system.

“Anything we can do to pro-mote the well-being and healthof our kids, we will try to do,” hesaid.

In a news release from theschool system, Starr called sleepdeprivation among adolescents“a public health and safety issue.”

After studying the issue for10 months starting in January,the 2013 Bell Times Work Groupdeveloped a report includingdifferent options for the schoolsystem regarding start and endtimes.

The work group — which in-cludes parents, students, prin-cipals, department leaders andothers — gathered informationthrough meeting with experts,studying experts’ research andexamining what other compa-rable school systems have done,among other methods.

Starr made his recommen-dation based on a combinationof two options.

Starr said in a letter to theschool board dated Oct. 8, 2013,that “data indicating that chang-ing bell times increases studentachievement is inconclusive.”

The school system will askfor feedback to the recommen-dation through avenues in-cluding public meetings, focus

groups and surveys before a fi-nal decision is made. Starr saidin the Oct. 8 letter that inputfrom low-income families andothers who would potentially be“disproportionately affected” bythe changes will be an importantpart of the system’s outreach.

The school system will alsolook into what the changeswould cost and how they mightaffect the system’s operations.

The work group’s reportcites a preliminary figure ofabout $11.5 million as the netannual transportation cost as-sociated with one option Starr isrecommending.

A full cost analysis is ex-pected by spring 2014, accord-ing to the release.

The recommendation tomove middle school start timesearlier would help the systemuse the same buses for severaldifferent routes, Starr said at theconference.

The county school systemcurrently has four different starttimes so it can reuse buses.

Lengthening the elementaryschool day is “not just a logisticalissue,” Starr said, but will alsoadd more instructional time forthe students that currently seethe second-shortest elementaryschool day in the state.

Starr and members of thework group will speak on the is-sue at the Oct. 8 county schoolboard meeting.

About 70 percent of highschool parents who respondedto a school system survey said

they considered the current highschool start time “too early,” ac-cording to the report. About 69percent of those parents saidthey wanted the start time 30minutes or one hour later in themorning.

Looking at a school systemsurvey of high school students,the report says that students getan average of about 7 hours orless of sleep each night, com-pared to the nine hours thatexperts cited in the report rec-ommend.

“Important brain functionsthat are part of the learning pro-cess—the ability to completeabstract and complex tasks,develop working memory, andconsolidate memories of in-formation gathered during theday — are affected negativelyby sleep deprivation,” the reportsaid.

The work group’s report alsosays sleep deprivation is associ-ated with obesity, psychologicalproblems and traffic accidents.

One study of 18 Minnesotaschool districts that the workgroup reviewed said “less afflu-ent” families were more likely tobe affected by school start timechanges in areas such as trans-portation and childcare. Thesefamilies also often needed tochange jobs.

The report continues that,based on a spring 2013 schoolsystem survey, some studentssaid they thought that, if schoolstarted later, it might be harderfor them to get a job and par-ticipate in after-school activitiesand athletics.

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n Amazon.com founderalso buys printing plants

BY KEVIN JAMES SHAY

STAFF WRITER

The $250 million sale ofThe Gazette, The WashingtonPost and other properties to aprivate investment companyowned by Amazon.com CEOJeffrey P. Bezos was completedTuesday, executives said.

The sale, announced inAugust, ends four generationsof ownership of the flagshipPost for the Graham family.The deal is “an exciting — andhistoric — opportunity” forthe Post, Gazette and otherentities sold, Donald E. Gra-ham, CEO and board chair-man of The Washington PostCo., wrote Tuesday in a letterto employees.

Besides The Post and TheGazette, the sale includes theExpress newspaper, South-ern Maryland Newspapers,the Fairfax County Times, theSpanish-language El TiempoLatino newspaper, the Post’sprinting plant in Springfield,Va., the Comprint printingplant in Laurel and severalmilitary publications.

The Kaplan educationcompany, Cable One, Slate

magazine, some television sta-tions, the headquarters build-ing in Washington and someother holdings will remainwith The Washington PostCo., which will be changing itsname. A new name has not yetbeen announced, and it is notyet known where that com-pany will be headquartered,Rima Calderon, a spokes-woman for The WashingtonPost Co., said on Tuesday.

Graham, who will con-tinue as CEO of the new com-pany, wrote that the “future ofThe Washington Post Co. is thefuture of Kaplan.”

Graham added that thenew company will continueto look for “good businesses toinvest in” and “will have a newname to announce soon.” Hesaid the company had a “very,very strong balance sheet” and“will be quite a bit stronger ina year or two when the head-quarters building and our Al-exandria waterfront propertyis sold.”

Bezos’ investment com-pany, Nash Holdings LLC, isnot part of Amazon.com. ABezos spokesman couldn’t bereached for comment Tuesday.

Bezos, who has a reportednet worth of $25 billion,founded Amazon in 1994.

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Twylah Grandfield Mader, 98, of Shenandoah Junction, WV,passed away on Saturday, September 28, 2013 at Reeders MemorialHome in Boonsboro, MD.

Born June 12, 1915 in Howard Lake, MN, she was the daughter ofthe late Edwin H. Grandfield and Jessie Blanch Kiser Grandfield.

She attended Kansas State College.

She was a member of the Ashton Methodist Church andHomemakers Club, both in Olney, MD. She was an avid gardenerand belonged to the Gardener’s Exchange Group of Shepherdstown.

She is survived by two sons, Larry Merton Mader of Lummi Island,WA, Steve Lyle Mader of Shenandoah Junction; two daughters,Bonnie Sue Briscoe of Hollywood, MD, Sherry True Fletcher ofSurry, ME.; four grandchildren, Erica Fletcher, Carrie Fletcher, AdamBriscoe, Andrew Mader; five great grandchildren; and a sister, OraMae Kirkendall of Manhattan, KS.

In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by herhusband, Lyle Wilber Mader, her first husband, Merton Emmert, adaughter, Sandra Lou Clipsham, a brother, Keith Grandfield, and asister, Alice Manuel.

Services and interment will be private.

Arrangements by Brown Funeral Home.

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SSCCHHOOOLOLLLIIFFEESCHOOLLIFEThe Gazette

Andrew Leddy is an English teacherat Springbrook High School in SilverSpring. He was interviewed at theschool Sept. 25.

In an email you sent, you stressedthe importance of reading for highschool students. You wrote, “Simply put,

we are in the midst of a reading andknowledge crisis.” Can you tell me moreabout this?

[The students] are not reading, theysimply don’t read. So I created a Spring-brook Reading List. Last spring I askedevery English teacher: tell me what youthink are the most important books [forstudents] to read in high school. Therewere 18 teachers. This list is limited tonovels. We need another for plays, po-ems and speeches.

So you turned the list into a poster[listing 60 books] and that is in everyclassroom?

The English Department created

the graphic. The larger the type size [onthe poster], the more frequently thenovel title was mentioned by teachers.

This isn’t an absolute, its represent-ing a real nice foundation in literature,a core of books we think are really im-portant.

Have you presented this to yourclass?

Oh yeah! The problem is, it’s asthough they didn’t know these bookswere out there. What I didn’t want wasfor a kid to get out of school and say no-body ever told me to read. If they lookat all the people who made this list andtalk to them about it or ask why, that’s a

start. My biggest problem is boys, theyjust don’t read. As a teacher I know theyare cutting themselves short, stuntingtheir progress.

Do you think the schools are ignor-ing reading for STEM [Science, Technol-ogy, Engineering and Math]?

Sure we do. I really think we needto up our requirements and give themmore reading of the classics and em-phasize writing on what they read.

Do you have a favorite book on thislist?

So much of what I’m into is thingsthat are culturally significant. Whenthey miss reading them they miss outon cultural allusions. Take Franken-stein [by Mary Shelley]. The idea of anexperiment overtaking us. That’s rel-evant when you talk about science, ge-netically modified seed. It seems smallbut I think it’s big, the beginning of in-dustrial agriculture, worries and fears.At the end it’s just a great chase story.Who is the monster? The creator or thecreated?

What is your plan for the list?At Back to School Night get every

English teacher to talk about it. I wantthis to be schoolwide, to get parentsto know the way to get into IB [Inter-national Baccalaureate] and AP [Ad-vanced Placement], you need to read.I only have 45 minutes a day [with thestudents] so it’s about impressing onthe student the need to read.

I read a lot of books, one is “TheShallows” [by Nicholas Carr] aboutwhat the Internet is doing to our brains,

another is “The Dumbest Generation”[by Mark Bauerlein]. The evidence isthat despite all the information [youngpeople] have at their hands, they aren’tsmart.

I don’t want to be Chicken Littlehere, but I don’t want to understate iteither.

So what is the role of parents?I can’t say it enough, parents need

to be impressing upon students howimportant [reading] is. I defy the worldto find a Nobel Laureate that did notstart off with books. It’s about curiosity,it’s of enormous cultural importance,it’s a big deal. Everybody is saying theyare going to college but I can say theywould do much better [in college] ifthey start here.

Is this a new mission for you?In a sense it is. I’m getting really

worried about this generation. We’renot getting the best citizens we couldhave. I would like to challenge otherteachers, other schools, to come upwith their own lists. It would be inter-esting to see [them], every school wouldbe different.

To see the Springbrook Reading Listvisit www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/springbrookhs.

“Voices in Education” is a twice-monthly feature that highlights themen and women who are involved withthe education of Montgomery County’schildren. To suggest someone youwould like to see featured e-mail PeggyMcEwan at [email protected].

VOICES IN EDUCATION

BILL RYAN/THE GAZETTE

Andrew Leddy, an English teacher at Springbrook High School, Silver Spring, in his class-room on Friday.

AndrewLeddy

n Age: 53

n Job title: English teacher,Springbrook High School, SilverSpring

n Hometown: Colorado Springs,Colo.

n Education: Bachelor of Arts,Russian Studies, University ofVirginia, 1982; Master of Arts,Slavic Languages and Literatures,UVA, 1986; Masters of Teaching,Johns Hopkins University 2006

n Favorite activity/vacation spot:Avid runner; Colorado mountainclimber

n Lesson to live by: “The imaginationwill not perform until it has beenflooded by a vast torrent ofreading.” Petronius (27-66 A.D.)

EDUCATION NOTEBOOKBaker students get

firsthand career knowledgeEighth-grade students at

Baker Middle School in Damas-cus got a head start makingcareer choices at the school’sannual Career Day on Sept. 27.

Almost two dozen parents,teachers and communitymembers spent the morn-ing at the school talking tostudents about what they doand the training it took to getwhere they are.

Students selected five talksthey would like to attend. Theygot to attend three of theirchoices. Each session lasted 30minutes.

“It was a fabulous day.We had a good bunch of pre-senters,” said Cindy Loweth,counseling secretary at Baker.“They kept the kids involvedand answered lots of ques-tions.”

Among the 21 career pro-fessionals speaking with thestudents were teachers, medicalprofessionals, business people,engineers, public safety chiefs,accountants, contractors andcomputer specialists.

Residents encouragedto participate inWalk to School Day

County’s focus school forthe event will be KensingtonParkwood Elementary School

Students, parents and com-munity members throughout

Montgomery County will cel-ebrate International Walk toSchool Day Oct. 9 by walking orbicycling to school as a healthyway to start the day.

Walk to School Day wasfounded in 1997 as a way tobring community leaders andchildren together to promotemore walkable communi-ties, safer streets for walkingand biking, healthier habitsand cleaner air. It become“International” in 2000, whenCanada and the United King-dom joined with the U.S. tocelebrate. Around the globe,International Walk to SchoolMonth brings together more

than 40 countries in recogni-tion of the common interestin walking to school. Thefirst-ever National Bike toSchool Day took place on May9, 2012, as part of NationalBike Month. Nearly 1,000 lo-cal events in 49 states acrossthe U.S. encouraged childrento safely bicycle or walk toschool.

Last year, 47 schools inMontgomery County par-ticipated in Walk to SchoolDay and this year all schoolsare encouraged to organize anevent. Students who would liketo participate but live too farfrom school are encouraged to

carpool part of the distance andwalk the rest of the way.

This year, the county’s fo-cus school for the event will beKensington Parkwood Elemen-tary School, 4710 Saul Road,Kensington.

For more information aboutWalk to School Day or organiz-ing an event at a local school,contact Nadji Kirby, 240-777-7169 or [email protected] or visit thecounty’s website.

Discussion on mindfulnessto be held at Whitman HS

Walt Whitman High SchoolStressbusters Committee in-vites parents and students of allages to learn about and experi-ence mindfulness and medita-tion at 7:30 p.m. Monday atthe Walt Whitman High Schoolauditorium, 7100 Whittier Blvd.,Bethesda.

Tara Brach, founder of In-sight Meditation Communityof Washington, and U.S. Con-gressman Tim Ryan, (D-Ohio),author of “A Mindful Nation,”will lead a discussion: Cultivat-ing Resilience: How Mindful-ness Training can BenefitStudents and the Adults whoNurture Them.

They will share the grow-ing body of empirical andanecdotal evidence on the ben-efits of mindfulness for youth,educators and parents both inthe classroom and out, as wellas how to use mindfulness tomanifest our full potential and

in responding to life’s stressorswith clarity and balance. At-tendees will be able to exploremeditation practice first-hand.Suggested donation for the eve-ning is $10, cash or check only.No reservations are necessary.For more information call 301-675-3177.

MCPS to host forum onalcohol and drug abuse

preventionMontgomery County Public

Schools, in collaboration withcounty and nonprofit partners,is scheduled to host a commu-nity forum on youth substanceabuse and prevention from6:30-9 p.m. Monday at RichardMontgomery High School,250 Richard Montgomery Dr.,Rockville.

The event, titled “Time toTalk: Alcohol and other DrugAbuse Prevention Forum,” isbeing coordinated by MCPS,the Montgomery County PoliceDepartment, the MontgomeryCounty Collaboration Council,the Montgomery County Al-liance to Prevent Youth Sub-stance Abuse and the Brave andBold Coalition. There will bea resource fair, presentations,and a question-and-answersession.

“Recognizing and prevent-ing substance abuse in our chil-dren is a very important topicfor our schools, our families,and our community at large,”said Superintendent of SchoolsJoshua P. Starr in a statement.

“It is an issue that will requireus to collaborate on solutionsthat will help our young peoplemaking healthy choices, sothey can lead productive lives.”Among those expected to speakat the event are Starr and otherMCPS staff members, as wellexperts in the area of substanceabuse and prevention, includ-ing: Dr. James M. Bjork, pro-gram officer, National Instituteon Drug Abuse; Dr. RaymondCrowel, chief, MontgomeryCounty Behavioral Health andCrisis Services; and Sgt. KeithMatthis, Montgomery CountyPolice Department.

To register for the forumvisit www.montgomeryschool-smd.org.

Norwood to hostSecondary School Fair

The 15th Annual SecondarySchool Fair is scheduled to beheld from 6-8 p.m. Thursdayat Norwood School, 8821 RiverRoad, Bethesda.

Admission representativesfrom more than 100 day andboarding schools will be avail-able to answer questions as wellas provide information on theapplication process, tuition andfinancial aid, curricular and ex-tracurricular offerings, class sizeand what makes their schoolsunique.

Admission to the fair is free.For more information con-

tact Cathy Russo at NorwoodSchool, 301-841-2101, or [email protected].


Jennifer McCloskey (far left), a civil engineer with the Department of Energy,gets ready to place a fifth tuna can on a structure built from toothpicks andsoft candy by John T. Baker Middle School eighth-graders (seated at table,from left) Blake Schmaltz, 14, Jordan Anderson, 13, Jacob Hamrick, 14, andRyan Commarota during a career day activity at the school. Algebra teacherKaren Emmerick (far right) points out the inevitable collapse, which is aboutto occur.

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DigitalovernmentThe first in a two-part series

n Competition boosts availability

BY LLOYD BATZLERSTAFF WRITER

The suburbs are wired.High-speed Internet access is available

to more than nine of every 10 households inMontgomery County, making it one of thenation’s most connected communities.

“Government [online] services will gowhere the technology enables,” said GaryH. Arlen, whose Bethesda-based researchcompany Arlen Communications LLC hasmonitored industry and government infor-mation-technology trends for more thantwo decades. “We are one of those rare mar-kets with multiple sources for broadband,both wired and wireless.”

The Federal Communications Commis-sion’s annual look at broadband penetra-tion found cable-television services werewithin reach of 93 percent of Montgomery’shouseholds and newer, fiber-optic conduitswere available to 78 percent of the county’shomes last year.

Commercial Internet service providersclosely guard customer subscription data,but analysts say the pace of broadband ac-cess connections is accelerating nationwide.

Seventy percent of adults have an Inter-net connection at home, up 4 percent froma year earlier, according to a survey fromthe Pew Internet & American Life Projectreleased in late August.

As wireless phone companies upgradetheir networks and adjust pricing, morecustomers are expected to access the Inter-net with wireless smartphones, tablets andother portable devices, analysts say.

At the same time, gaps remain becauseof escalating monthly costs, the location ofcables and transmission towers.

“Anecdotally, there are places in myhouse where my wireless service doesn’twork, and I’ll walk 20 feet to another roomand it does,” Arlen said. “Those are infra-structure issues that are beyond the grasp oflocal governments.”

Reliability is improving. A separate fed-eral study published last winter confirmedmost Internet providers were delivering onthe guarantees of speed — about 96 percentof the time, the advertised speed was beingmet during prime-use hours, when demandis greatest.

As performance increases, so do prices,even in markets with fierce competition. Thatposes a problem for government services on-line, since some families have limited access,having to rely on often-crowded libraries orgovernment centers for Internet-connectedcomputers. A springtime Commerce Depart-ment report showed less than half of U.S.households with incomes less than $25,000 ayear had broadband connections.

“Clearly, there is the question of afford-ability,” Arlen said. “The poor can get ex-ploited and can’t get access.”

Maryland is one of six states participat-ing in a test program funded by the FCC toprovide wireless broadband access to thepoor, similar to a generations-old “lifelineservice” that subsidized dial-up telephoneservice. Findings are due within a year.

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Garrett Park Mayor Peter Benjamin straightens items on the official town bulletin board inside the Garrett Park post office.

trade group, says newspapers arewidely read and their websites visitedfar more often than local governmentsites.

The debate is destined to rekindlein January, when the Maryland Gen-eral Assembly reconvenes for its 2014session.

Government groups have an allyin Del. Jeffrey D. Waldstreicher (D-Dist. 18) of Kensington, whose 2013session bill would have let local gov-ernments post most legal notices ontheir own websites. Similar bills inthe legislature failed in 2010, 2011and 2012.

Several Montgomery Countystate legislators have signed on topast versions of the bills.

Conversely, Sen. Karen S. Mont-gomery (D-Dist. 14) of Brookevillehelped defeat a proposal in a Senatecommittee in 2011. She said in a re-cent interview that printed newspa-pers are valuable and more reliableresources than the electronic world,especially for older people.

This year, the House Environmen-tal Matters Committee referred Wald-streicher’s bill to “summer study,” orfurther discussion after the session.

Waldstreicher said a compromisecould come by figuring a reasonabletransition from print to online, al-though he wasn’t ready to be specific.

Jack Murphy, MDDC’s execu-tive director, can’t imagine a middleground if it means pulling back onnewspaper notices. The association

firmly believes printed notices are ef-fective in relaying information.

“They just don’t come to gripsthat newspapers have far greaterreadership than government web-sites,” said Murphy, a former editorof The Gazette.

Karen Acton, the president andCEO of Post-Newsweek Media LLC,which includes The Gazette, saidsome rural areas still use dial-up In-ternet access.

Minorities and senior citizens,with less Internet access, would bedisproportionately inconveniencedif they had to get information online,she said.

Legal notices cover an array ofgovernment-related proceedings andproposals, such as annexations, char-ter amendments and zoning regula-tions. They give the public a chance toreact and participate in the process.

Lawmakers who support a shiftin notices have proposed accom-modations for those needing printedinformation. Governments would berequired to mail printed copies of le-gal notices to anyone who signs up,at no charge.

In addition, governments wouldhave to annually buy a newspaper adtelling the public where to find futurelegal notices.

Garrett Park Mayor Peter Ben-jamin backs Waldstreicher’s legal-notice bill. He thinks the currentstructure unfairly imposes a one-size-fits-all requirement.

Residents there have several waysto stay apprised of their government:by email, an online listserv, a townnewspaper, the town’s website, Ben-

jamin said.In addition, Garrett Park, with

a population of about 1,000, has nohome mail delivery. So, people regu-larly go to the post office, where thetown hangs notices, Benjamin said.

He objects to small governmentsbeing directed to spend money on anad buried in the back of a larger re-gional newspaper.

Listservs in small communi-ties “are essentially the digital townsquare that much of the communityis engaged with,” Waldstreicher said.

But Murphy said larger municipal-ities need a good central repository forinformation. Legal notices in newspa-pers reach people who might not evenknow to look for them, he said.

Money is an undercurrent in thebattle.

But Acton said communication,not money, is the driving force. ForThe Gazette, legal notices coveredunder the bill make up less than 2percent of the newspaper’s advertis-ing revenue. They’re sold at a lowerrate than other ads.

Other types of required legal no-tices in newspapers, such as for fore-closure auctions or people legallychanging their name, come from pri-vate entities — usually lawyers — andare excluded from the bill. Those no-tices make up most of the ads in TheGazette’s business and politics edi-tion, known as the Business Gazette.

A Maryland Association of Coun-ties chart shows that 15 counties andBaltimore City spent $1.9 million topublish legal notices in fiscal 2010.Spending from the other eight coun-ties was not available.

Costs didn’t necessarily corre-spond to size. Montgomery Countywas listed at $213,894, about half asmuch as Anne Arundel County, de-spite having about twice Anne Arun-del’s population.

A Maryland Municipal Leaguechart shows total legal-notice ex-penses for some municipalities cov-ering fiscal years 2008 to 2010. Amongthem: Rockville ($41,000), Poolesville($9,792) and Kensington ($4,000).

Waldstreicher said his goal is “tosave my municipalities money.”

Sen. Montgomery, though, saidnewspapers are local businesses,too, and wondered why governmentwouldn’t help them survive.

In written testimony earlier thisyear, Candice Donaho, MML’s direc-tor of governmental relations, won-dered why newspapers claim to bethe best source of information whiletheir circulation drops “drasticallyyear after year” and people turn moreto the Internet.

Media representatives counterthat newspapers also post legal no-tices on their websites, which havemany times more visits and clicksthan government websites get, andon the press association’s website.

The press has an essential civicduty of being a watchdog and ensur-ing transparency, said Acton, a for-mer MDDC board president.

Murphy sees an inherent flaw inthe cost-saving claim driving recentbills: If everyone who reads legal no-tices asks for mailed printed copies,“it would be ferociously expensive.”

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“They just don’t come to grips thatnewspapers have far greaterreadership than government websites.”

[Listservs in small communities]“are essentially the digital townsquare that much of thecommunity is engaged with.”

Jack Murphy,Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association executive director Jeffrey D. Waldstreicher, state delegate

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As state’s attorney and as sher-iff for Montgomery County we re-view numbers and statistics daily.However, there is no number ofwhich we are more proud thanthe number zero. That’s becausewe experienced zero domesticviolence related homicides in thiscounty in the entire calendar yearof 2010 and the same so far thisyear.

As a long-time prosecutor anda career sheriff, we are both pain-fully aware of the fact that all toooften, if a woman living in thiscounty were the victim of a homi-cide, it likely would have occurredduring the course of a domesticviolence incident.

It is with this in mind, andbecause of our joint concern, wecame together to attack this prob-lem with innovative and holisticapproaches; not only to addressmurders but also to address theassociated problems of domesticabuse.

On April 29, 2009, Montgomery

County opened the doors of theFamily Justice Center and changedthe way we, as a county, respond todomestic violence victims. No lon-ger do victims have to travel fromplace to place, retelling their sto-ries (often with children in tow) inorder to seek protection, counsel-ing, investigations of criminal acts,emergency and legal services. Thenew FJC relocated these services inone family-friendly space.

Domestic violence is the lead-ing cause of injury to women inthe United States. The U.S. Depart-ment of Justice estimates that inmore than half of families affectedby domestic violence, children wit-ness the abuse. These children areat greater risk of entering child pro-tective services, the juvenile justicesystem and later in life; the adultcriminal justice system.

The FJC has served nearly5,000 victims and their children.[“County volunteers provide 24-hour support to victims of sexualassault,” Sept. 4] These survivors

seek a life without abuse. The ma-jority of them return multiple timesfor services. This program is meet-ing the needs of these families.

The Montgomery County FJChas become the model of servicesfor the entire mid-Atlantic regionwith innovations such as videolinks to the courts for protectionorders, collaborations with pri-vate nonprofits and the gener-ous support of more than 1,000donors from the community andthe corporate world to the FJCFoundation.

We realize that the FJC may beour finest example of how publicand private partnerships can to-gether help us build a safer andmore caring community. We wouldlike to extend our appreciation toVerizon and Kaiser Permanente,among others, for their continuedgenerosity and support of our ef-forts through the FJC Foundation.The Annual FJC Foundation’s Ben-efit Gala will be held from 5 p.m. to9 p.m. Oct. 13 at the Bethesda Hy-

att Regency (registration at www.mcfjcfoundation.org). This is thepublic’s chance to see how bene-factors and practitioners collabo-rate to help survivors.

Our daily mission with the FJCremains simple yet challenging —saving lives. We are committed tothat goal.

And with further publicawareness, more resources andcontinued community and cor-porate commitment we can makeevery month (not just October)less about domestic violenceabuse and more about the num-ber zero — zero murders, zerodomestic violence victims andzero tolerance of domestic abuse.

John McCarthy, Rockville

Darren Popkin, Olney

The writers are, respectively,the Montgomery County state’sattorney and the MontgomeryCounty sheriff.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month

I refer to the news item, “Montgomeryprogram tries to discourage donations topanhandlers” [Sept. 9]. These panhandlerspace along the median strips for severalhours each day with a cardboard sign inhand.

They are actually working long hourssupporting themselves under difficult per-sonal circumstances. Just look across themedian strip to the sidewalk and one willfind young people twirling signs asking peo-ple to visit a furniture store, or a gold jewelryshop, or some other commercial enterprise.

This second category are paid by the busi-nesses and from the economy point of view,they are contributing to society. Then, how dowe convert the effort of the first category intoan economic activity? The county (or city),businesses, and charities (representing do-nors) form a partnership and do the following:

• Ban panhandling.• Give them jobs doing the same thing,

i.e. pacing while holding a card board sign— but with a different message.

• Pay them wages to compensate theearnings they would have made by theirdiscontinued profession, viz., panhandling.

For example, they can stand about 500feet ahead of a red light camera or a speed-zone camera warning drivers that there issuch a camera. Another cardboard sign mightsay, “stop using cellphones while driving.”

In general, we should look for ways toconvert them into beneficial workers. Hold acontest and people will give ideas on how touse their skills in ways beneficial to the society.

Som Karamchetty, Potomac

Turn panhandlersinto workers

President George W. Bushfamously admonished hispolitical foes, “Don’t messwith Texas.” But Texas nowis messing with Maryland.Texas Governor Rick Perry isfilling Maryland’s airwaveswith 60-second spots aimedat luring many of Maryland’sresidents and business own-ers to the Lone Star state.

What is Texas’s allure?It certainly is not the cli-

mate. Maryland has four realseasons, with glorious springsand unforgettable autumns.Texas has two — hot and hot-ter (and more humid).

It certainly is not theschools. K-12 public schools inMaryland, particularly in Mont-gomery and Howard counties,are some of the top rated in thecountry. Texas’s schools, with afew exceptions, are inferior.

It certainly is not the col-leges. Johns Hopkins and theUniversity of Maryland systemare second to none in highereducation, and they certainlyare not second to any collegesand universities in Texas.

It certainly is not transpor-tation. Maryland is served bymultiple world class airports andinterstate highways that connectthe state with the largest markets

and population centers in thecountry.Marylandhasoneofthebest ports (the port of Baltimore)inthewholecountry,connectingMaryland with the commerce oftheworld.Texas’stransportationsystem does not measure up.

It certainly is not the cul-ture. Maryland’s cultural op-portunities in the arts andsports compare very favorablyto those in Texas. The Rangersand the Cowboys have nothingon the Orioles and the Ravens.

But Texas trumps all ofMaryland’s advantages in cli-mate, culture, transportationand education with a singleconcept: Opportunity. Oppor-tunity to start a business. Op-portunity to grow a business.Opportunity to keep more ofwhat that business earns.

For the past five years,Maryland’s taxes have beenincreasing, and its businessregulations have been multi-plying. This business unfriendlyenvironment has forced thou-sands of residents and smallbusinesses to seek shelter outof state.

Many of Maryland’s over-taxed upper bracket earnershave moved across the riverto more business-friendlyVirginia, saving thousands in

yearly taxes, while reducingtheir businesses’ regulatoryburdens. Indeed, between 2001and 2010, more than 66,000Marylanders fled the “FreeState” (or more aptly, the “feestate,” as Gov. Perry refers toMaryland in his radio ads).

Thousands more Mary-landers are planning to followsuit this year, as some Marylandcounties, like Montgomery, flirtwith even more egregious busi-ness regulations, like a $15 min-imum wage and even highertaxes on upper bracket earners.All the while, Texas’s businessclimate has become increas-ingly business-friendly, and itcharges no state income tax. AsMaryland has lost $5.5 billionin state income, as it has shedthousands of upper bracketearners and their businesses,Texas has gained $17.6 billion.

While Texas understandsthat you can collect the goldeneggs (jobs and tax revenues)produced by the golden goose(business), Maryland is aboutto learn that when you chokethe golden goose, there are nomore golden eggs.

Dan Bongino, Severna ParkThe writer is a Republican

candidate for Maryland’s 6thCongressional District.

Texas has nothing onMaryland, except opportunity

Each year, before “American Idol” kicks itssinging competition in high gear, the show fo-cuses on the people who audition to be a part ofthe show. Though viewers see a number of tal-ented singers progress, the show has capitalizedon the clueless contestants who miss the highnotes, who can’t keep a beat, who don’t know thelyrics.

Something similar is playing out at the Coun-cil Office Building in Rockville. The MontgomeryCounty Council has received a proposal to in-crease the salaries of the county executive andthe nine members of the council. It is, sadly, an

excellent example ofpolitical cluelessness.

Under the pro-posal — submitted by acommission seated toconsider the compen-sation levels of electedofficials — the countyexecutive’s pay would

increase from $180,250 to $190,000 per year, a5.4 percent increase. For the next three years ofthe executive’s term, he or she would get a payincrease equal to inflation. A council member’ssalary would climb from $104,022 per year to$125,000, a 20 percent increase. Likewise, councilmembers also would receive annual inflation-based raises for the remaining years of the term.

The council president, elected by membersof the council to one-year terms, would continueto receive a 10 percent increase over the councilmember’s base pay.

Current officeholders would not see the raisesunless they are re-elected in the November 2014elections. And the raises are not a done deal. Thecouncil can accept the recommendations as theyare, lower them or reject them. They should berejected.

According to the report that came with thecommission’s recommendations, the countyexecutive deserves the raise because of the com-plexity of running the county. It also noted thatthe Prince George’s County executive is paidmore.

“Both counties are part of the Washington, D.C.,metropolitan area and share similar characteristics,but Montgomery County has a higher population;fairness dictates that the salary of the County Ex-ecutive for Montgomery County be comparable toor slightly high than the County Executive salary forPrince George’s County.”

In a perfect world, the comparison mightmake sense. But in this imperfect world, such acomparison just means the two counties will getinto an endless cycle of one executive’s salary in-crease justifying the next one’s.

For the council members, the same panellooked through the opposite end of the telescope.What other jurisdictions pay their legislative bodywas ignored in favor of far less tangible consider-ations: “The Councilmember salary should moreaccurately reflect the scope, complexity, and lead-ership responsibilities of the job and the value andthe demands placed on the position by the com-munity.”

Curiously, while the commission believesMontgomery County Council members deserveto be paid $125,000 a year, it barely acknowledgesthat Fairfax County, Va., pays its supervisors$75,000. That county is a bit larger, and equallycomplex. By its earlier logic, the panel should berecommending the same salary, or slightly lower.

No one should object that a county executiveor County Council member should be well paid.It is a tough job. But such large pay increases now,when the region hasn’t convincingly escaped theGreat Recession, is not much better than a tonedeaf “American Idol” contestant. Except with theTV show, viewers can change the channel and suchsilliness is soon forgotten. These recommendationswill be around, possibly for four more years, andtaxpayers can’t switch them.

Then there’s Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.), whoshared last month he felt “stuck” making $172,000a year in Congress. There’s no reason to believeany of our council members feel similarly “stuck,”but Councilwoman Valerie Ervin (D-Dist. 5) of Ta-koma Park did say many people choose not to runfor office because of concerns over whether theycan make it work financially. The salary commis-sion’s report says the county’s median householdincome is $95,000. Anyone interested in serving thepeople of Montgomery should be able to providefor his or her family comfortably.

The council should recognize that they andthe county executive are already paid hand-somely. If they feel compelled to approve anyincrease, leave it to cost of living. That’s a tunealmost everyone can sing.

An off-keysalary proposal

COMMISSIONMISSES NOTESIN EXECUTIVE,COUNCIL PAY

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There was considerable rejoicing inBaltimore city this week when GeorgeMason University released a study say-ing that, compared to Detroit, Pitts-burgh, Chicago, Providence and SanBernardino, Baltimore is on “reason-ably solid financial footing” and is dem-onstrating “financial resiliency.”

Of course those other five cities areall basket cases (two are in bankruptcy),so being best of the lot isn’t so hot.

The Baltimore Sun highlightedthe parts ofthe reportcrediting Balti-more’s successto sound citymanagementprovided by astrong-mayorsystem whichlets the city’sBoard of Es-timates (con-trolled by themayor) writethe city budgetand run thecity’s finances without interferencefrom the City Council, which can onlylower the spending levels, not in-crease them.

But if you actually read the GeorgeMason report it tells a much differentstory. What’s really keeping Baltimoreafloat isn’t its mayor or its charter, it’sthe billions of dollars the state of Mary-land pours into the city every year.

Baltimore runs on OPM: otherpeople’s money. Much of what taxpay-ers in Maryland’s 23 counties send toAnnapolis is recycled to Baltimore asdirect and indirect state aid. Thanks tothe city’s political muscle, decades ofgovernors who were former Baltimoremayors (Schaefer, O’Malley) or city pol-iticians (Mandel, Hughes) and a liberalstate legislature, Baltimore now is themost subsidized city in America.

State taxpayers pick up the tab forthe city’s community college (othercommunity colleges are mostly lo-cally funded); for the city’s metrorail,metrobus and light rail operating andcapital costs; for the city jail’s con-struction and operating costs (countyjails are locally funded); 71 percentof the city’s K-12 school budget (thefeds pay another 10 percent); all of thecity’s social services costs; most of thecity’s road/bridge maintenance costs($134 million a year); the operating

and capital costs of what used to bethe city’s port and airport (Friend-ship); annual grants to run the city’szoo, museums, theaters, concert hallsand libraries; and now the city wantsthe state to pay for its courts, as well.

To help boost the city’s economy,the state located a host of state agen-cies and departments in Baltimore;paid for the Ravens and Orioles sta-diums, the Convention Center, theAquarium expansion, the ScienceCenter, the Meyerhoff concert hall,the Hippodrome Theater, the Chris-topher Columbus Center, the Lyric,Center Stage, a new $1 billion schoolconstruction deal ($20 million a yearfor the next 30 years) and a new $2.5billion light-rail system. Meanwhile,the city wants the state to participatein a $900 million convention center/hotel/arena project in hopes that anNBA or NHL team will come if they(the state) build it.

Then there are all the hidden statesubsidies: historic tax credits to rehabcity buildings (the city gets more thanhalf), enterprise zone tax credits (Balti-more gets 61 percent of the state total),a special city cut of the state’s casino tax,a $79 million annual “disparity grant,”special police aid grants and impact aidthat the counties don’t get, using statepolice to supplement the city’s policeforce, rebuilding the city’s failing waste-water treatment plants and scores ofother subsidies embedded in state law.

Ironically, on the same day thatthe George Mason study was released,so was an account of the city’s failedReginald Lewis Museum of MarylandAfrican American History and Culture,which the state built for $30.6 million.The state also pays half ($2 million) ofthe annual operating costs and nowis paying an additional $450,000 ofthe other half because the museum isa dud (the 150,000 estimated annualattendance turned out to be 38,000).

But the city isn’t chipping in, andBaltimore state Sen. Bill Ferguson said,“The state has an obligation to ensurethat the Reginald Lewis Museum con-tinues to function.” An obligation?

That’s the city’s pervasive attitude— the state owes us. When MartinO’Malley was mayor, the city foolishlyspent $305 million building a HiltonHotel that’s now going broke, costingthe city $28 million a year by 2023.

When asked recently about the Hil-ton boondoggle, O’Malley blamed it

on former Gov. Bob Ehrlich. Why? Be-cause, said O’Malley, “You may recall, atthe time, that we asked (and) we weretold ‘no’ by the then-governor.”

In other words, when O’Malleyand the city tried to get the state topay $305 million to build a loser hotelthat private investors wouldn’t touch,Ehrlich dared saying “no.”

You see, in Baltimore’s view, thecity is entitled to special status. Balti-more doesn’t owe the state taxpayersany gratitude; state taxpayers owe Bal-timore more assistance. When stateand city assessors recently miscalcu-lated city residents’ historic tax cred-its, costing them huge new taxes, citypoliticians argued that state taxpayersshould pay the costs.

And the city is lobbying Annapolisto shift city residents’ high auto insur-ance burden to suburban motorists.The audacity is stunning: When De-troit went bankrupt this summer, TheBaltimore Sun editorialized “Why Bal-timore Isn’t Detroit,” citing the city’swillingness “to make difficult deci-sions” without one word about thecity’s massive state bailouts — the realreason why Baltimore isn’t Detroit!

The city has benefited, so far, fromthe largess of liberal Montgomerystate legislators who don’t mind rais-ing Montgomery taxes and cutting itsstate aid to help the city, from P.G.lawmakers with whom the city sharesthe loot and from Baltimore Countylawmakers who feel linked to the cityas long as the city’s problems don’tflow across the county line.

But things are changing: The city’spolitical muscle is dwindling (only 11percent of the state’s population and8.5 percent of the statewide vote), forthe first time in memory there’s no Bal-timore candidate running for governor,and federal spending cuts are squeezingthe D.C.-area counties, which may notfeel so charitable in the future.

Living on other people’s moneyonly works until the “other people”decide differently. When that hap-pens, what’s Baltimore’s “Plan B”?

Blair Lee is chairman of the boardof Lee Development Group in SilverSpring and a regular commentatorfor WBAL radio. His column appearsFridays in the Business Gazette. Hispast columns are available at www.gazette.net/blairlee. His email addressis [email protected].

Why Baltimore is not Detroit

MY MARYLANDBLAIR LEE

LET TERS TOTHEEDITOR

I was appalled to read the letter fromMichael Gooden and Margaret Nolanabout Metro’s refusal transfer the valueof unused (and unusable) farecards ofseniors who are medically unable to usethe fares remaining on their paper cardsto the current Smartrip cards. No “freeride” or refund was requested.

The writers obviously understandthat they, or other family members whowould receive such a transfer, would haveto expend it at the going rate for riders ingeneral, with no senior discount. And it isclear that the owners of the unusable tick-ets have no objection to such a transfer.

The most benign explanation forMetro’s response is that some inexpe-rienced staff member simply saw the“no refunds” policy and jumped to anincorrect conclusion. Equally plausible,unfortunately, is the conclusion thatMetro is just looking for a quick windfall

in the form of unused cards. Responseto the writers’ appeals suggests the lat-ter scenario is closer to the truth.

I don’t use public transportationextensively because my ability to walkand drive is, thankfully, fine at this time.My late husband could not drive, andhis ability to get around on foot, Metro,and Ride On was legendary.

I do use and appreciate the SeniorSmartrip card when it is the most efficientor most economical way to get around.Based on Metro’s policy, I have con-cluded that at no time will I carry morethan $10 on my Senior Smartrip card sothat my family will not have to go througha similar frustrating dialogue with Metro.

So I ask: Was Metro’s ruling finan-cially sound, humanely equitable, orgood public relations?

Mary L. Miers, Bethesda

Appalling policy on unusable fares

When considering the merits of therecommendation to raise by 17 percentthe salaries of County Council mem-bers from $106,394 to $125,000, Mont-gomery County citizens might ask thefollowing questions. When they do,they will certainly see that the answeris “no raise.”

• The proposal, in effect, treats coun-cil membership as merely a “job” atwhich someone “works” for a “salary”which must be “raised” if not “adequate.”Is this in our country’s best traditions?Isn’t elected office in these United Statesnot a “job” but a position of trust in whicha citizen is placed by his or her fellowcitizens to represent them? If we treatelected office as something less, are wetrivializing the ideals of democracy andrepresentative government on which ourcountry is built? Will that cause us to losethem? $106,394 is more than enough toserve as our representative.

• When considering the merits of this“raise,” citizens in this miserable econ-omy — assuming they even have a job —should ask themselves when the last timewas that they received a “raise,” a raise of

17 percent no less? If county governmentis so large that council members must de-vote more time to it, might the answer benot to pay them more but to reduce thesize of government?

• Should so-called “constituentservices” be factored into the equationsince they are little more than election-eering on the taxpayer’s dime?

• Finally, given that the council’smembership has been completelyDemocratic since 2006 and that the“citizens panel” which recommendedthe 17 percent increase consisted of sixDemocrats and one Republican, doesit reflect and help maintain a healthy,two-party democracy if Democrats donothing more than recommend moremoney for Democrats? Having suf-fered through Democrats gerryman-dering themselves into control acrossMaryland government at all levels,must citizens also suffer through thembootstrapping raises for themselves inMontgomery County? How much one-party dictatorship is enough?

Paul Schilling, Bethesda

Questions to ask beforecouncil gets pay raise

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n Rockville junior goes fromJV scout team to throwing for1,300 yards, 16 TDs in four games

BY DAN FELDMAN

STAFF WRITER

Since last season, the Rockville High Schoolfootball team moved its starting quarterback toreceiver, made the 5-foot-8, 140-pound junior var-sity quarterback the varsity starter and completelychanged its offense.

By halftime of its first game, Rockville had

scored zero points.Rockville coach Seth Kenton said he scanned

the locker room’s many concerned faces until hiseyes met new starting quarterback Chuck Reese’s.

Reese winked, Kenton said.That’s the moxie that convinced the coach to

start Reese, and the junior has rewarded its faith,starting with leading a season-opening comebackwin against Richard Montgomery. Reese is 116-for-179 (65 percent) for 1,306 yards with 16 touch-downs and just four interceptions this season.

“If you were to come to a game or come topractice, you would say which one is Chuck?” Ken-ton said. “It’s not going to be the first person youpick and go, ‘Oh, it’s that guy.’ It’s not that guy.”

As a freshman, Reese joined Rockville’s juniorvarsity team as an undersized and position-lessplayer. He tried slot receiver, safety and even kicker.Eventually, he became the scout-team quarterback.

“He ran our scout team to try to beat our first de-fense every day of practice,” said Jason Lomax, whowasthentheJVoffensivecoordinator.“Andyoucouldsee the fire and the drive. It was just in that little body.

“There were many frustrating days for the first-team defense, because he would go out there, andhe would audible at the line, and he would do thingsthat a normal, prototypical scout-team quarterbackis not going to do. He’s out there literally like he’s

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Rockville High School quarterback Chuck Reese throws a pass during the first half of Rockville’s game at Wheaton.

Big numbersFROM AN UNEXPECTED SOURCE

n Despite not starting the year there,senior excels in the backfield

BY HARVEY VALENTINESPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE

Montgomery Blair High School seniorDarron Cumberbatch is a fast learner. He’salso a pretty fast runner.

Since being made the starting runningback in Week 2, Cumberbatch has thrived,helping the 2-2 Blazers already equal theirwin total from a year ago.

Over the past three games, Cumberbatchhas rushed for 319 yards and a touchdown. Inaddition, he’s averaging 27 yards on five kick-off returns, including an 82-yard touchdownagainst Northwood Sept. 20.

“He’s having an outstanding year. He’saveraging about seven yards a carry,” coachAndrew Fields said. “He started the year off atreceiver and outside linebacker. We kind oftransitioned him into the running back role,and he’s really learning on the fly and gettingbetter every week.

“Just a great, great kid. He’s a better per-son than he is a player, which says some-thing.”

Blair runningback thriveswinging it

n Nolan has made the difference inthree one-goal games for Churchill

BY TRAVIS MEWHIRTER

STAFF WRITER

Clare Nolan said she honestly didn’t re-member the first one, the lone goal in a 1-0season-opening win over Quince OrchardHigh School. She did remember the nexttwo, the second against Walt Whitman andthe third to top Poolesville, which ran her to-tal to three game-winning goals in WinstonChurchill’s opening five field hockey games.Simply put, the senior has an undeniable

nose for the goal.“The best word to describe Clare is hus-

tle,” Churchill coach Cay Miller said. “Shealways goes all out and she’s dependable inhigh-pressure situations.”

Keeping tune with Miller’s assessmentof the tireless midfielder, it was Nolan’shustle that landed her in the right place atthe right time against the three teams whichshe struck. Though she claims not to recallthe game’s lone goal when Churchill handedQuince Orchard its first of four one-goallosses thus far, the stats say she took a passfrom Carly Kabelac and Annie Moshyedi,

Surviving on close calls

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See SURVIVING, Page B-2 See BLAIR, Page B-3

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Winston Churchill High School’s Clare Nolan and Bethesda-ChevyChase’s Gigi Jones compete during Monday’s field hockey game.

n Dozier plays with USA Volleyball’sWomen’s National Team

BY KENT ZAKOURSTAFF WRITER

When Kristen Dozier was in middleschool she attended high school volleyballtryouts at St. John’s College High Schoolwith her older sister Jourdan. But neither ofthem — initially — wanted to be there.

Their mother Patrice, who grew up play-ing the sport in high school and elementaryschool, felt that volleyball would be a greatoutlet for the two budding athletic stars.

“They were all pretty much basketballplayers and never interested in volleyball,but I always wanted them to play and giveit a chance,” Patrice said. “For the first fewdays [of tryouts] they were furious with mesaying, “Oh my God! Mom this is dumbestsport ever.’ Well Jourdan ended up makingthe team and she was even angrier at me be-cause she had to commit to it.”

Chasing anOlympicdream

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OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS

Sandy Spring resident and Ohio State graduateKristen Dozier is working out with USA Volleyball’sWomen’s National Team.

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found a way to get her stick onit and redirected it into the cage.

The next came three gameslater against visiting Whitman,though this one came early, just18 minutes into the first half.Junior forward Isabel Manganfound her so wide open on across that, despite Nolan fum-bling around with the trap for afew seconds, she still managedto get a decent enough drive offto beat the Viking keeper.

“She’s just on her game allthe time,” said keeper SophieAscher, who had allowed just fivegoals in six games as of Sunday.

Nolan wasn’t quite done yet.Her final clutch moment camevia the rebuilding Falcons inovertime, and she “didn’t evenlook at the goal.”

“I just drove it and it wentin,” she said. “I remember whenwe were going into overtime. Isaid, ‘We got this. We’re going toget this.’”

And, as she always has thisyear, she did. Without Nolanworking to get to where herteammates needed her to be,Churchill could have just as eas-ily been 2-4 as it was 5-1 priorto Monday’s matchup withBethesda-Chevy Chase, whichvery nearly upset Walter John-son earlier in the week.

“She’s similar to [Churchill

graduate] Jennifer Shim,” Millersaid. “When everybody is out ofgas,Clarekeepsgoing.That’sClare.She hustles as much as any of thebest players that I’ve coached.”

Ascher may not have to gothrough a lung-searing workoutevery game like her teammatedoes, but the goalie has been ev-ery bit as valuable to Churchill’searly season success. Therewould have been no Nolan game-winner had Ascher not stuffed ev-ery last one of Quince Orchard’sshots. There would have been noNolan game-winner had Aschernot kept Whitman scoreless. Andthere would have been no Nolangame-winner had she not limitedPoolesville to just two goals afterthe Falcons pounded in 16 in the

two games prior.“We wouldn’t be the same

team without Sophie,” Nolansaid. “She’s unbelievable. It’s justsuch a nice feeling to know thatwe have Sophie back in goal.”

The funny thing is thatMiller didn’t know who wouldbe starting in goal less than sixweeks ago. Ascher had trans-ferred from Brighton High inupstate New York, and Millerdidn’t know all that much abouther. She sifted through a fewnewspaper articles online butthat was the extent of her knowl-edge. Compiling onto that wasthe new heat rules that prohibitkeepers from dressing in fullpads for much of the preseason.But Ascher did enough to earn

the starting spot by the firstgame, and she vindicated Mill-er’s choice with four consecutiveshutouts to open the season.

“Sophie has been incred-ible,” Miller said. “She’s a verystrong player and she’s beenstepping up this year.”

One of the most impor-tant aspects of goalkeepingthat Ascher has brought withher is not necessarily her abil-ity to keep shots out of the net,but her penchant for keepingher defense constantly awareof where they need to be at alltimes. When Ascher first earnedher starting spot, her platoon ofdefenders approached her andtold her to be vocal, to make surethey are in the right position for

the attack she sees unfolding.“They know I’m not being

mean when I tell them some-thing,” Ascher said. “It’s just whenI tell them that they have to move,they know they have to move.”

Miller, while she said sheis getting better at handlingthe stress of the overwhelmingamount of close games, has ad-mitted that the anxiety has dieddown a bit since the beginningof the year. But, just in case, howmany game winners does Nolanhave left in her?

“I don’t know,” Nolan saidwith a laugh. “I hope enough toget us to 9-1.”

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playing in a game. He wants towin every day and everything wecover.”

The next year, Reese becamethe starting JV quarterback whenclassmate Spencer Brigmanmoved up to the varsity as start-ing quarterback.

During that season, Lomaxmet with his players about theirlong-term goals in the program.Seeing Brigman entrenched infront of him, Reese told Lomax

he’d do his best as the backupquarterback the following twoseasons. Lomax admired Reese’smaturity, though he agreed thebackup path looked inevitable forReese.

But this offseason, Kentonrealized his team needed anedge after 1-9 and 0-10 seasons.Rockville has a lower enrollmentthan eight of the 10 schools on itsschedule. The other two, Damas-cus and Poolesville, made theplayoffs last season.

Kenton promoted Lomaxto varsity offensive coordinator,and Lomax implemented the up-

tempo, four-receiver offensivehe’d used on JV.

During the summer passingleague, Reese earned the startingjob and since has helped engineera 2-2 start.

Reese’s diminutive buildstands in even starker contrast toopposing defenders now that he’son varsity. Is that intimidating?

“No!” Reese said. “I’m notnormally that easily intimatedperson. I don’t feel that intimated,because I trust my offensive lineand I trust everybody around meto do their jobs.”

That trust with teammates

like Brigman, who has becomeone of Reese’s top targets, wasforged while eating lunch to-gether daily in Lomax’s office lastyear.

In the summer, Reese hostedteammates at his house for videogames, and they walked to work-outs together afterward.

“At Rockville, we have sucha diverse background. We haveAsian kids, Hispanic kids, blackkids, white kids. And they allcome from different economicbackgrounds. They all come fromall different kinds of religions. It’sjust a melting pot at our school,”

Lomax said. “And Chuck is ableto reach into all those guys and beable to pull them in together andgive them that family feel. Thatkind of quality alone is enoughfor him to lead our team.”

Said Reese: “I’m just friendlywith everybody. There’s not onetype of person I wouldn’t wantto talk to. For me, it’s always funbeing social with people, makingnew friends, joking around witheverybody.”

But there was no joking whileRockville trailed Richard Mont-gomery 25-0. Reese said,

“You could obviously see our

fans putting their heads down,like, ‘Dang it. Not another 0-10year.’” At that point, Lomax ap-proached him and said it wastime to step up.

“He nodded. He said, ‘OK,we’re going to go score rightnow.’ And that’s what he did,”Lomax said. “From there, it wasjust a snowball going downhill. Itjust kept getting better and betterevery time he touched the ball.”

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After a few weeks, however,Jourdan and Kristen, who at-tended many of the Cadets’practices just for the experienceuntil she enrolled at the Wash-ington, D.C., private school theensuing year, fell in love withvolleyball. The rest, as the ad-age goes, is history.

“Mom is always right,” Pa-trice said with a laugh.

“She would say somethinglike that,” Kristen counteredwith. “We did give her a hardtime, but she turned out to beright.”

Now, Kristen, who went onto play at perennially nation-ally-ranked Ohio State Univer-sity, is one of the best women’svolleyball players in the entirecountry, having received anopportunity to train with USAVolleyball’s Women’s NationalTeam. She has also playedprofessionally in Puerto Rico,Israel and Spain. Jourdan alsoplayed collegiately at GeorgeMason and professionally, al-beit briefly, in Argentina. Theiryounger sister, Darian, cur-rently plays at South Carolinaand their cousin, Sherwoodgraduate Alex Holston, is afreshman at Florida.

“I would love to say I wasthe lead volleyball player andhad a wonderfully successfulcareer and inspired them to fol-low my footsteps, but that cer-tainly wasn’t the case,” Patricesaid. “They got off to such a latestart in really learning and un-derstanding the game. I mean,Kristen didn’t start playing clubball until she was a sophomorein high school and Jourdan as ajunior.

“They are just so athletic,coachable and competitive.It’s a testament to them andthe kind of athlete they are thatthey ended up getting Division Ischolarships.”

Last winter, Kristen sentmatch film to U.S. Women’s

National Team Coach KarchKiraly and in the spring, shereceived an email back ask-ing her to a two-week tryout inLos Angeles. Shortly thereaftershe found out she made it andwas invited back to train withthe team over the summer andcompete for a spot on the 2016Olympic team. She’s now backhome in Sandy Spring, waitingto see where she will spend thefall and winter playing overseas.

“This is everything I’veworked for in my sports careerand dreamed of for my wholelife,” Kristen said. “It’s kind ofa big deal! Representing ourcountry at the highest level andbiggest competition and wear-ing the flag on your heart, chestand sleeve is just amazing.”

During her down time,Kristen, along with Jourdan,founded Dozier PerformanceVolleyball, which offers privatelessons and team volleyballcamps. They want to give backto the area and are offering aclinic on Oct. 26 at ChampionsField House in Rockville. Moreinformation can be found atwww.dozierperformance.net.

“In 2010, my sister and I justnoticed a big void in the marketin training for volleyball andfor team camps,” Kristen said.“We started small scale withemails and brochures to peoplewe knew and ended up havingpretty decent turnouts. … Lastyear, it really started to takeoff and we’ve had some realgrowth.”

While Patrice and her hus-band, Eric, a former college bas-ketball player at Tulane, havetraveled around the countyfrom gymnasium to gymna-sium watching their daughtersplay, the whole family hopesthey may have the opportunityto go to Brazil in three years.

“This is all just so surreal,”Patrice said.

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Sandy Spring resident and former Ohio State University women’s volleyball player Kristen Dozier (center) is working out with USA Volleyball’s Women’s Nation-al Team in hopes of making the 2016 Olympic team.

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n After kidney failure,Gladiators’ Harris hopes to raiseawareness for organ donations

Football coaches, by nature, tend tobe control freaks who obsess over everylittle detail. Many carefully organize teamactivities to the second.

Northwood High School coach DennisHarris plans to give up some of that care-fully thought-out control Friday night be-

fore his team’s homecoming game againstRockville.

What’s so important to disrupt rou-tine? Organ donations.

Harris intends to wrap up his team’spre-game warm-ups a little early, leavinghimself time to speak shortly before kick-off to the crowd about kidney donations.He’ll tell his own story, how his kidneysfailed him during the 2011 season and howhis wife donated him one of her kidneys inJuly 2012. Most of all, he’ll encourage fansto join the Maryland Donor Registry.

“If you’re able to be a donor, be a do-nor,” Harris said, “because the second

chance that people can get from that. Witha kidney, you can function perfectly withone, so if there’s anybody that you canhelp, whether it’s a person that you knowor don’t know, just being able to providethat person with a second chance is some-thing that you cannot put a price tag on.”

Harris said the National Kidney Foun-dation will be on hand, potentially pro-viding green pom poms for cheerleadersand green wristbands for fans. Most im-portantly, there will be forms provided

for people to register during the game asorgan donors.

“I want to do something to show howthankful I am to have a second chance atlife and to encourage everyone to registeras an organ donor and consider giving aloved one or even a stranger a gift of life,”Harris said in a statement announcing theevent, which he became committed to cre-ating once his own experience taught himabout the issue.

Good Counsel, good defenseDespite its uncharacteristically me-

diocre record, Our Lady of Good Counsel(3-3) has held five of six opponents belowtheir season average for points scored.

During the lone exception, a Sept. 20game against Gonzaga, defensive endJesse Aniebonam, who committed toUniversity of Maryland, College Park, andsafety Kobe Walker (Kentucky) suffered in-juries that knocked them from the contest.

Walker, whom Good Counsel coachBob Milloy called “a great player,” re-turned in a 21-0 loss to DeMatha Catholicon Friday, registering 3.5 tackles.

“He’s a leader back there in that sec-ondary, so I just hope he’s still healthy,”Milloy said.

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Good CounselLandonRiv. Baptist

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KennedySpringbrookRockvillePaint BranchWhitmanB-CCQ. OrchardNorthwestMagruderWoottonDamascusSeneca ValleyGeo. PrepCatoctinBullis

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Good CounselEpiscopalRiv. Baptist

FEARLESS FORECASTS

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

Montgomery County recordAll games

Kennedy vs. WheatonSpringbrook at Watkins MillRockville at NorthwoodPaint Branch at EinsteinRichard Montgomery at WhitmanBlair at Bethesda-Chevy ChaseChurchill at Quince OrchardBlake at NorthwestWalter Johnson at MagruderWootton at GaithersburgDamascus at ClarksburgSeneca Valley at SherwoodSt. Albans at Georgetown PrepPoolesville at CatoctinBullis at Cape Henlopen (Del.)Good Counsel at McNamaraEpiscopal at LandonAvalon at Riverdale Baptist

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

STANDINGSMontgomery 4A South DivisionTeam All Div. PF PAR. Montgomery 1-3 1-0 97 118Wootton* 3-1 3-1 149 34Whitman 2-2 1-1 72 85B-Chevy Chase 1-3 1-2 59 105Churchill 1-3 1-2 36 120Walter Johnson* 1-3 1-2 28 134

Montgomery 4A East DivisionTeam All Div. PF PAPaint Branch 4-0 3-0 153 25Sherwood 3-1 2-0 84 75Blair 2-2 1-2 81 59Springbrook* 1-3 1-2 66 50Blake 1-3 0-1 20 108Kennedy 0-4 0-2 25 96

Montgomery 4A West DivisionTeam All Div. PF PAGaithersburg 4-0 2-0 110 20Quince Orchard 4-0 2-0 140 13Northwest 3-1 2-1 121 52Clarksburg* 2-2 0-2 64 56Magruder 0-4 0-2 38 169

Montgomery 3A DivisionTeam All Div. PF PADamascus 3-1 3-0 147 42Seneca Valley 3-1 2-0 124 55Einstein 2-1 2-1 111 84Watkins Mill 2-2 1-1 78 97Rockville 2-2 1-2 137 149Northwood 0-4 0-2 20 155Wheaton 1-3 0-3 62 164

Montgomery 2A IndependentTeam All PF PAPoolesville 3-1 104 54

Private schoolsTeam All PF PABullis 3-1 92 70Good Counsel 3-3 130 80Avalon 2-3 103 91Landon 1-2 63 49Georgetown Prep 1-3 76 133

* Includes forfeit result

Last week’s scoresSeneca Valley 42, B-CC 20Einstein 41, Northwood 0Damascus 49, Watkins Mill 7Wootton 43, Whitman 20Poolesville 41, Walter Johnson 6Sherwood 28, R. Montgomery 15Quince Orchard 56, Magruder 0Springbrook 26, Blair 6Paint Branch 48, Churchill 0Clarksburg 24, Blake 0DeMatha 21, Good Counsel 0Bullis 37, John Carroll 8W. Wilson (D.C.) 21, Kennedy 7Landon 49, Annap. AC 11Avalon 41, Chavez 6Rockville 54, Wheaton 22Gaithersburg 26, Northwest 6

LEADERSTop rushers

Carries Yards Avg. TDsKhalil Wilson, Einstein 53 809 15.2 8Charles Lyles, Poolesville 89 675 7.6 6Zac Morton, Whitman 89 541 6.1 5Dage Davis, Geo. Prep 59 519 8.8 7Devonte Williams, Bullis 67 472 7.0 7Liam Duffy, R. Mont. 79 454 5.7 2Chris Dawson, G. Counsel 75 448 6.0 6Perry Stefanelli, G. Counsel 89 442 5.0 2Kevin Joppy, Q. Orchard 53 428 8.1 6E. Spottswood, Sherwood 72 424 5.8 5

Top passersCmp-Att. Yards Int. TDs

Sam Ellis, Wootton 93-145 1319 4 13Chuck Reese, Rockville 116-179 1306 4 16G. Cooper, P. Branch 56-100 685 3 7Renzo Farfan, R. Mont. 55-95 676 2 8Mike Murtaugh, Q. Orch. 39-61 633 1 9Evan Smith, Whitman 35-65 516 4 3Nick DeCarlo, G’burg 37-57 671 2 3Raymond Burtnick, Blair 37-78 528 5 5S. Morningstar, Pooles. 34-56 415 4 3C. Hennessey, N’wood 41-77 364 2 2

Top receiversCatches Yards Avg. TDs

Joey Cornwell, Rockville 35 425 12.1 5Jibri Woods, Wootton 31 412 13.3 4Darrell Blue, Blair 31 411 13.3 4Trevon Diggs, Wootton 32 402 12.6 7Anthony Albert, Rockville 23 330 14.3 4Michael Scott, Kennedy 20 281 14.1 0Ryan Stango, P. Branch 18 264 14.7 3Elliott Davis, Q. Orchard 9 226 25.1 4Keon Paye, G. Counsel 8 224 28.0 3Javonn Curry, P. Branch 18 220 12.2 3

Also receiving votes: Whitman 2 points;Sherwood 1 point.

BEST BETWootton vs. Gaithersburg,

6:30 p.m. Friday at RichardMontgomery. Both teams areundefeated on the field andeyeing the playoffs after miss-ing them last season. Sam Ellis,Trevon Diggs and Jibri Woodslead Wootton’s offense. Gaith-ersburg’s Solomon Vault’shealth, who didn’t play lastweek, could be crucial.

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 Quince Orchard 4-0 60Cougars

2 Good Counsel 3-3 54Falcons

3 Damascus 3-1 47Swarmin’ Hornets

4 Bullis 3-1 42Bulldogs

5 Gaithersburg 4-0 37Trojans

6 Wootton 3-1 30Patriots

7 Paint Branch 4-0 24Panthers

8 Northwest 3-1 18Jaguars

9 Seneca Valley 3-1 12Screaming Eagles

10 Poolesville 3-1 3Falcons

Cumberbatch isn’t astranger to running back. Hewas a wing last season whenBlair ran the Wing-T. Instead oflining up near the tight end ashe did in the Wing-T, he’s nowin the backfield in the new Blairoffense.

“I think it’s worked out great.I’ve actually learned a bunchfrom my running backs coachand Coach Fields, stuff that Inever would have imagined,”he said. “They’ve showed me abunch of techniques that I’veactually used in a game and itmakes a huge difference.”

Cumberbatch said Fields, inhis first year at Blair, told his newplayers over the summer to ex-press an interest if they wantedto try a certain position. Cum-berbatch, who was working as areceiver, spoke up. In the mean-time, as he learned the receivers’role in the offense, he said healso tried to memorize the run-ning back assignments.

“[He’s a] smart guy. Andathletically, he’s probably ourbest all-around athlete in termsof strength and size and speed,”Fields said. “He’s just a dynamicguy with the ball in his handsand so we figured, ‘Hey, let’smake him the guy.’”

In his first game as thestarter he rushed for 77 yardson 13 carries against Sherwood.Then he ran for 151 yards on 13rushes against Northwood andadded the kickoff return touch-down.

“Our offense is not easy,”Fields said. “It’s not like we justline up and say, ‘Run right or runleft.’ There’s a lot of terminologyand a lot of individual workingparts. And he came in and justpicked things up pretty quicklyand that’s been a huge bonusfor us.”

Friday night was a toughertest. Springbrook defeated Blair26-6 and held Cumberbatch tofive yards in the first half. He

rebounded after intermission tofinish with 83 yards, including a14-yard score.

“I think it was actually morethem than us,” Fields said ofCumberbatch’s struggles. “Idon’t think he was having a hardtime, I think it was more Spring-brook was being more physicalthan us and more aggressive.”

Cumberbatch said he hasn’tfelt the pressure of being a focalpoint of the offense.

“It would only be more pres-sure if I didn’t know what I wasdoing or if I wasn’t confident inmy abilities,” he said.

He even seemed surprisedto hear that now he’s one ofthe players other teams have to

think about when they preparefor Blair.

“I don’t know if teams haveto do that, but if they did it wouldbe awesome,” he said. “Just forthem to take a minute and noticeme would be pretty cool.”

As the midpoint of his finalhigh school season approaches,Cumberbatch said playing foot-ball in college is “definitely”something he’s interested in.

“My way to get into college isthrough academics,” he said. “Ifa college were to show me sometype of interest, my first thingwould be to look at the school,see if they have my major (me-chanical engineering) and see ifI can get in academically.”

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Montgomery Blair High School running back Darron Cumerbach pops throughthe Springbrook line on Friday.

FILE PHOTO

Northwood High School football coach DennisHarris rounds-up his team during a practice.


n Magruder’s Argueta earnsexceptional opportunity

It’s five games into the season andQuince Orchard High School girls’ soccercoach Peg Keiller is still a bit unsure of exactlywhat type of team she’s got.

The Cougars’ record is good, of course,as they were 4-0-1 as of Monday night. But

the meatiest portion of QO’s schedule hasyet to hit, which leaves Keiller wonderingwhat will happen during the season’s busi-est stretch.

“It is a bit weird,” Keiller said. “Especiallythat fact that our first game was [a 0-0 draw]against [Walt] Whitman and to have such anincredible opponent and such a nail-bitinggame followed by a bit of cruising throughthe next four games makes it a very odd feel-ing.”

Quince Orchard, which lost to Bethesda-Chevy Chase in the 4A West Regional semifi-nals last season, has scored 18 goals throughthe first five matches and allowed only two(both in a 4-2 victory against Paint Branch).Four of the Cougars’ five games have resultedin clean sheets from the defense — bolsteredby strong performances by center backs SamSullenger and Sarah Gutch and goalkeepersRicki Shultz and Rachel Hollander.

Keiller said the early-season schedulehas allowed her to better evaluate her play-ers’ performances and focus on things thatneed fixing once the matches become moreintense.

“You can tell what’s going to workagainst the higher competition and what’snot,” Keiller said. “We’ve still seen manythings we need to work on and improve andwe definitely know it’s going to be a battlefrom here on out.”

Special honor for Magruder playerThanks to an 11-goal outburst against

Northwood, Col. Zadok Magruder’s boys’soccer team has scored 17 goals this sea-son in seven matches and allowed six. Still,despite the favorable goal differential, theColonels, like so many other teams in Mont-gomery County, are 4-3-0 this season andsitting in the middle of the pack.

One player, however, who’s steppinginto the spotlight is sophomore forwardBryan Argueta. The multi-talented striker inApril was a national finalist with D.C. Unitedin Major League Soccer’s Sueño competition— a program that affords players ages 14-18the opportunity to earn a week-long trialwith their host club’s developmental acad-emy — and two weekends ago, he competedin the national finals of Sueño Alianza at StubHub Center in Carson, Calif.

According to Magruder coach Juan Go-mez, Argueta impressed many onlookers atthe event, which was capped by a scrimmageagainst Liga MX side Club Tijuana’s youthteam. Argueta also piqued the interest ofMLS’s Chivas USA and reportedly has beeninvited to go on trial with the Los Angeles-based club.

“He’s a playmaker and has great foot-work,” Gomez said. “It’s like a lottery. InMaryland, how often do you receive someattention like that? He’s a good student froma humble family.”

Argueta didn’t play last season because

he was recovering from a broken leg, but hasscored three goals and assisted another so farthis year.

400 victoriesThe Our Lady of Good Counsel High

School girls’ soccer team’s 3-0 win over Inde-pendent School League power National Ca-thedral School Thursday was the program’sand 26th-year coach Jim Bruno’s 400th sincethe program’s inception in 1987.

The eight-time Washington CatholicAthletic Conference champion Falcons (6-0-3) have never endured a losing season in thattime and have proved incredibly consistentwith an average of 16 wins in each of the past25 seasons.

Good Counsel achieved Thursday’s

milestone win with relative ease despitemissing one of its best playmakers, mid-fielder Imani Dorsey, who was on her officialvisit to Duke University, where she gave herverbal commitment to play on scholarshipin 2014-15 a year ago. But tthat perfectly ex-emplified what impresses Bruno so muchabout this year’s squad, he said.

WIthoutadominantscorerBrunosaidheexpected more players to get involved, offen-sively. But even he couldn’t predict how trulyspread out scoring would be. Through ninegames, 10 players have two goals or more.Sophomore Nia Dorsey leads the way withsix goals. Sister Imani has five to go with herseven assists. Thursday’s win was also GoodCounsel’s third shutout in four contests.

“I’m a little surprised,” Bruno said. “I feltlike we would be getting contributions froma lot of people but this has surpassed myhopes and expectations. I’m really pleased.”

PerfectionDamascus is the only remaining team

with a perfect record. While the Swarmin’Hornets’ success is often attributed to itsless competitive Montgomery 3A/2A WestDivision, their 7-0 start to 2013 includeswins over five-time defending Class 4AWest Region champion Bethesda-ChevyChase, defending 4A North championSherwood and perennial county powerWalter Johnson. Montgomery CountyPublic Schools’ most productive offensewith 27 goals is lead by Steph Cox and Ka-tie Kirschenmann, who have scored eightgoals apiece.

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Quince Orchard High School’s Sam Sullenger warms up before a scrimmage with the Academy of theHoly Cross in August.

n Quince Orchard fieldhockey spreads it out

Since the first day of vol-leyball tryouts, the overarchingtheme of the 2013 season hasbeen one of parity and questionmarks.

Coaches couldn’t quite pindown what team would be thetop prospect, though the defacto leader in the public ranks

will always be Sherwood HighSchool, the three-time defend-ing state champs, until provenotherwise.

Through the first threeweeks, very little light was shedon how the new hierarchy wouldshake out. Until last week, No.3 Poolesville, Damascus, Col.Zadok Magruder, No. 2 Sher-wood, No. 4 Winston Churchill,and No. 5 Thomas S. Wootton —the relative consensus for whichpublic school teams would likelybe the front runners — hadn’thad much of a chance to provethemselves against opponentsof equal or better talent.

Some of that changed lastweek, when then-No. 4 Pooles-ville came back from down twosets to top then-No. 3 Damascusin the county’s first big clash ofthe season. This week portendsa wave of volleyball equally asexciting.

It begins tonight, whenLizzi Walsh and Magruder hostMakayla Roy and Sherwood. Thetwo have met before, in Magrud-er’s annual early-season tourna-ment, and the Warriors took a2-0 win over the Colonels, butthat was also a three-set match.Had Poolesville and Damascusplayed under that same three-set format, the Falcons wouldn’thave been the ones with the ear-to-ear smiles afterwards.

Then, on Friday, Sherwoodwill match up with newly rankedNo. 5 Churchill, which surviveda 3-2 squeaker against Wheatonbut has otherwise been operat-ing with smooth sailing all year.

“This type of schedule is re-ally difficult because it simulateswhat the playoffs will be like,”Sherwood coach Brian McCartysaid. “It’s good for the players inpractice to prepare for a quickturnaround.”

As he has already playedMagruder, McCarty knowswhere his best blockers will beassigned: Walsh.

But Friday will be hisfirst time seeing undefeatedChurchill, which boasts threetalented hitters in Kaitlyn Hill-ard, Sarah Chang, and OliviaChao.

“They’re tough,” he said.

“They’re really good. They don’thave any holes. They’re a teamthat doesn’t beat themselves.”

So, for the first time all year,there may be some clarity at thetop. Or, depending on what hap-pens, even more confusion.

And it’s not just the elitesthat are getting a crack at trulyestablishing themselves.

Northwest and Watkins Mill,who combine for a 9-4 record,will match up on Wednesdayand the Jaguars host Damascuson Monday for a potential upset.

Field hockeyAnother week, another bi-

zarre scoring line from QuinceOrchard. On Sept. 25, visitingsenior-laden Springbrook, theCougars posted five goals fromfive different players — two be-ing freshmen — for their fourthwin in the past five games.

Dani Tapiero, Skylar Saffer,Ashley Plante, Rachel Feidelmanand Sarah Husted all found thenet in the victory over the BlueDevils.

That type of spread efforthas been the theme all seasonfor Quince Orchard. Four scoredin a 6-1 win over Paint Branch,two did to top Gaithersburg 3-0,and there was a new Cougarfinding the net for each of thethree goals in a shutout againstNorthwest.

“That’s the good thing aboutthis team,” coach Alicia Vin-centy said. “I don’t really haveany superstars. We’re very wellrounded. It’s very hard to defendbecause you can’t just focus onone girl.”

Girls’ tennisThough Thomas S. Wootton

girls’ tennis coach Nia Creshamwas clearly proud of her team’smonumental 5-2 win over Win-ston Churchill, she spent a largeportion of Wednesday’s matchvocally worrying about the twoflights that lost.

No. 2 singles player AishuIyer missed the previous twodays of school with an illnessand still wasn’t 100 percentduring her loss to Hayley Keats.Cresham repeatedly suggestedIyer consider retiring, the worryetched all over the coach’s face,but Iyer had none of it and fin-ished her match.

At No. 4 singles, HannahHwong fell to the court multipletimes with cramps, the last latein the second set.

After a stoppage to stretch,Hwong returned to court neartears as she limped through thefinal points of a lost game thattied the match at one set apiece.

Her opponent, Churchill’sAlissa Le suggested a shortertiebreaker to determine thematch, but Hwong insisted on afull third set. Before they couldcomplete the final set, the matchwas delayed due to darkness asHwong’s teammates rushed toher, clearly impressed by herresolve.

“She’s very quiet. She’s verysweet,” Cresham said of Hwong.“But she’s one of those peoplethat has that inner steel, becausewhen she’s made up her mind,you can’t push her one way orthe other. She just won’t stop.”

Gazette reporters TravisMewhirter and Dan Feldmancontributed to this report.

Volleyball hierarchystarts to take shape

HOW THEY RANKGirls’ soccer

n 1. Good Counsel

n 2. Walt Whitman

n 3. Winston Churchill

n 4. Damascus

n 5. Bethesda-Chevy Chase

Boys’ soccer

n 1. Georgetown Prep

n 2. Northwest

n 3. Walter Johnson

n 4. Montgomery Blair

n 5. Gaithersburg

SOCCER NOTEBOOKB Y N I C K C A M M A R O T AA N D J E N N I F E R B E E K M A N

HOW THEY RANKVolleyball

n 1. Holy Cross

n 2. Sherwood

n 3. Poolesville


n 5. Thomas S. Wootton

Golf

n 1. Walter Johnson


n 3. Walt Whitman


n 5. Quince Orchard

Field hockey


n 2. Sherwood


n 4. Walter Johnson

n 5. Clarksburg

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A NEED FOR SPEED

Bill Engvalland partnerEmma Slaterfinish theirroutine onthis season’s“Dancing withthe Stars.”

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OLNEY THEATRE CENTER

The cast of Olney Theatre Center’s “Rancho Mirage.”

Ron Howard’slatest directorialeffort is certainly a‘Rush,’ but it feelsa little hollow.

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n Puppeteer, actor work together tomake beloved story come to life

BY CARA HEDGEPETHSTAFF WRITER

When describing his works of art, puppe-teer Matthew Pauli resembles a father talkingabout his newborn child.

“There have ac-tually been times inthe past, and I expectit’ll happen again,where I look at it andit becomes difficult tobelieve that I actuallyhelped make it,” Paulisaid.

Pauli’s newestbaby has a head that’s2 1/2 feet wide anda neck that’s 15 feetlong. The puppeteeris the designer andcreator of Mr. B, thebrontosaurus in Imag-ination Stage’s firstshow of the 2013-2014season, “Lulu and theBrontosaurus.”

“Lulu” is the firstbook in a series by Ju-dith Viorst, the authorof “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, NoGood, Very Bad Day.” Viorst also wrote the lyr-ics for “Lulu’s” stage adaptation.

Dynamicdino duo

BLAKE ECHOLS/IMAGINATION STAGE

Casie Platt as Lulu and Vaughn Irving as Mr. B’svoice and puppeteer in “Lulu and the Brontosaurus”now showing at Imagination Stage.

THEATER

LULU AND THEBRONTOSAURUSn When: 10:30 a.m.

Tuesdays throughFridays; 1:30 p.m.and 4 p.m. Saturdaysand Sundays,11 a.m. selectSaturdays, to Oct.27 (special 7 p.m.performance on Oct.25)

n Where: ImaginationStage, 4908 AuburnAve., Bethesda

n Tickets: $12-$25

n For information:301-280-1660,imaginationstage.org

n Local director, playwrightcollaborate on ‘Rancho Mirage’

BY CARA HEDGEPETHSTAFF WRITER

On Thursday, the Olney Theatre Cen-ter kicked off the National New Play Net-work Rolling World Premiere of StevenDietz’s black comedy “Rancho Mirage.”

The network is a cohort of nonprofittheaters dedicated to the evolution of newplays. Their Continued Life of New Plays

Fund allows multiple theaters to producethe same new play within the same one-year period. The program results in a Roll-ing World Premiere where several artisticteams, directors and actors develop thenew work for their respective communi-ties.

“The idea behind it is that if we allagree to do this play before any of the re-views come out, we are taking a real riskand launching it into the cannon of Ameri-can plays,” said Jason Loewith. Loewith

BEST KEPT SECRETS

ill Engvall is aman of manytalents. He’s asuccessful co-median, a lov-ing husbandand a dotingfather. Engvall,

however, is not known forhis dancing prowess.

So why did the 56-year-old entertainer decide tojoin a TV show such as“Dancing With the Stars?”

“I don’t know,” Engvallsaid. “You know what, Ijoke about it but I do know.When they called andasked me I actually said,‘Let me think about it for aday.’ I thought, you know,this is something that I’venever done before andI probably won’t have ashot to do this again. I al-ways like to try things thatI haven’t tried before toprove to myself that I coulddo it.”

Engvall is still dancingon the show, but he’ll taketime away from the dancefloor to bring his standuproutine to Strathmore fortwo shows on Sunday.

“I don’t know how longthis will last,” Engvall said.“If I get bumped on thefirst night of elimination, Iwas proud of what we did.I don’t think anybody ex-pected anything out of us.”

Engvall avoided elimi-nation the first night— former NFL wideoutKeyshawn Johnson waskicked off the show — buthe’s under no illusionsabout his time on the showand knows he’ll eventuallybe done.

“[I don’t worry aboutit] because I know mylife’s not going to change,”

Blue-collarballroomBY WILL C. FRANKLIN | STAFF WRITER

n Comedian set to play inBethesda between dance shows

BBBILLENGVALLn When: 4 p.m.

and 8 p.m.Sunday

n Where: MusicCenter atStrathmore,5301TuckermanLane, NorthBethesda

n Tickets: $28-$68

n For information:301-581-5200;strathmore.org

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“The Body Beautiful,” ajuried exhibit highlightingthe human figure in variousforms, opens Friday at the TheCapitol Arts Network gallery inRockville. Featuring painting,photography and mixed media,October’s featured artist willbe Baltimore’s Jessica Damen,acclaimed for her ability to cap-ture youthful emotion in herimages. An opening reception isscheduled from 6-9 p.m. Friday.The exhibit runs throughout themonth. For more information,visit www.capitolartsnetwork.com.

Celebratingthe human

form

JESSICA DAMEN

Jessica Damen’s “Hold on Tight, Thisis Gonna Hurt Like Hell” will be onview throughout October as part of“The Body Beautiful” exhibit at theCapitol Arts Network in Rockville.

Renowned pianist Haskell Small will kick offhis national tour, “Journeys In Silence,” with a freeconcert at 8 p.m. Saturday at Westmoreland Con-gregational UCC Church, 1 Westmoreland Circle,Bethesda. Presented by the Washington Conser-vatory of Music, Small will perform the complete“Musica Callada,” by Catalan Spanish composerFederico Mompou. This rarely performed work,a delicate set of 28 miniatures, was composed be-tween 1959 and 1967. Its title refers to a poem by theSpanish mystic St. John of the Cross, who expressedthe idea of music as the voice of silence. For more in-formation, visit www.washingtonconservatory.org.

The soundof ‘Silence’

SARAH SMALL

The Washington Conservatory of Music will present pianistHaskell Small in concert at 8 p.m. Saturday at Bethesda’sWestmoreland Congregational Church. For more informa-tion, visit www.washingtonconservatory.org.

The Bach Sinfonia will present“100 Feet of Brass” at 8 p.m. Saturdayat the Cultural Arts Center in SilverSpring. A pre-concert discussion isscheduled for 7:20 p.m. The programwill include rarities from 17th and18th centuries such as Johann ErnstAltenburg’s brilliant concerto forseven trumpets and timpani, solosonatas, and works for four, five andseven trumpets by Biber, Zelenka andothers. For more information, visitwww.bachsinfonia.org.

Sinfoniasensation

BarryBaugass

and the restof Bach

Sinfonia willperform onSaturday atthe CulturalArts Centerin SilverSpring.

BACH SINFONIA

Strathmore will introduce a month-long retrospective AIR Alumni concertseries, celebrating graduates from the venue’s Artist in Residence education pro-gram, now in its ninth season. The series kicks off at 7:30 p.m. Friday with LauraBurhenn of The Mynabirds. Burhenn, who went on to tour with supergroup ThePostal Service, will share new material during Friday’s intimate concert at theMansion. Upcoming performances include Latin American sounds from JamieSalazar and Gato + The Palenke Music Co.; an album release from rock cellist Lo-ren Westbrook-Fritts and Primitivity, and eccentric jazz duo The Mancuso-SuzdaProject. For a complete schedule, visit www.strathmore.org.

DP MULLER

Singer-songwriter Laura Burhenn will kick off Strathmore’s AIR Alumni Concert Series at 7:30 p.m. tonight.

STRATHMORE

Jaime Salazar (Gato + The Palenke Music Co.) willfollow Burhenn on Oct. 9 at Strathmore. For moreinformation, visit www.strathmore.org.

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BY WILL C. FRANKLIN

STAFF WRITER

It’s about that time again.The air gets a little chilly andfolks are a little more susceptibleto a good fright. … Boo!

OK, maybe not that suscep-tible, but a good haunted house,field or even hospital can makethings downright creepy for themost stoic of Halloween fans.

This year, Montgomery andPrince George’s counties arefilled with things that go bumpin the night. Here is just a smallsampling of what’s around. Besure to visit our website at ga-zette.net for updated hauntedattractions in the area.

Montgomery CountyMarkoff’s Haunted Forest

(19120 Martinsburg Road, Dick-erson, 301-216-1248, Oct. 4-5, 11-12, 17-19, 24-26, Oct. 31 to Nov. 2,$20 and up) — Much like with thehot sauces with the little skull andcrossbones on the label, you’llhave to sign a waiver to wanderthrough Markoff’s Haunted For-est. You don’t have to be a con-noisseur of the macabre to enjoyyour time there, however. Mar-koff’s will have a variety of attrac-tions, from zip-lines, strongmanchallenges, concessions, highwire acts, carnival games and

flaming flying Frisbees. Care-ful with that last one! markoff-shauntedforest.com

Field of Screams/ScreamCity (4501 Olney-LaytonsvilleRoad., Olney, now through Nov.2, $10 - $84) — One of the greatthings about this time of year isthe selection of different scareshorror enthusiasts get to enjoy.At Field of Screams, folks canchoose from a haunted hayride,a haunted house, a haunted trailor a haunted paintball apoca-lypse with zombies — any wayyou look at it, it’s haunting!screams.org

Fall Frolic (Glen Echo Park,7300 MacArthur Blvd., GlenEcho, 301-634-2222, Oct. 27, ad-mission is free) — While someenjoy the heart-stopping shrieksfrom ghosts and ghouls, othersprefer their spookiness to be asminimal as possible, especiallyif there are children involved.Glen Echo Park has you coveredwith its Fall Frolic. Visitors of allages are invited to participate inHalloween activities, crafts andeven a costume parade. Adultsmight enjoy visiting the park’sopen studios and galleries.There is a small fee for pumpkindecorating ($1) and face paint-ing ($1-$2). Otherwise the eventis free and runs from 1 p.m. until

4 p.m. glenechopark.org

Halloween at the MedicalMuseum (National Museumof Health and Medicine, 2500Linden Lane, Silver Spring, 301-319-3303, Oct. 26 from 10 a.m.until noon, free) — Contraryto what some adults might say,Halloween really is a great timeof year for children. The folksover at the National Museumof Health and Medicine under-stand that some children mightbe intrigued by the “creepiness”of skulls! The museum inviteschildren and family members ofall ages to participate in a morn-ing dedicated to all things skulls.medicalmuseum.mil

Prince George’s CountySix Flags America Fright

Fest (13710 Central Ave.,Largo, $34.99-$49.99, 301-249-1500) — Evil clowns, terrify-ing roller coasters and sinisterzombies … what else do youneed for a great Halloween? SixFlag America’s yearly FrightFest has more events than youcould possibly shake a full bagof candy at — from the timeyou walk into the park untilthe time you leave. The festivi-ties begin on Saturday and runthrough Oct. 27, so get yourgoosebumps before it’s over.

frightfest.sixflags.com

Nightmares (4101 CrainHighway, Bowie, $15 in ad-vance, $17 at the gate) — What’sscarier than a haunted house?How about a haunted minorleague baseball stadium? Haveyou ever been inside a base-ball stadium when no one wasthere? It can be a little creepy.Tack on the ghosts that hauntthe place and yeah, you’ll havenightmares. That’s pretty muchwhat the folks at Prince George’sStadium are going for. The TulipGulch’s Nightmares HauntedHouse, which they rate a PG-13experience, features live actorsand takes about 20 minutes towalk through — 20 minutes ofevil! Gates open at 6:30 p.m. andthe show runs until 11 p.m. Thehaunted house is entirely in-doors so you don’t have to worryabout the rain. The event startson Oct. 4 and runs every Fridayand Saturday from then untilOct. 26, and then Halloween

night until Nov. 2. baysox.com

Haunted Hangar (CollegePark Aviation Museum, 1985Cpl. Frank Scott Drive, CollegePark, 301-864-6029, Oct. 26, $4,$3 seniors 60+, $2 ages 2-18, 1and under free) — Halloweenfun can be had by all at the Col-

lege Park Aviation Museum. TheHaunted Hangar event, from 7-9p.m., will have arts and crafts,hayrides and spooky fun for thewhole family. collegeparkavia-tionmuseum.com

[email protected]

Everything’s coming up haunted! Scary sites around the region


Jason Robinson, 22, of Olney, in the morgue at Field of Screams.

IN THE ARTSDANCESHollywood Ballroom, Oct. 2, free

International Quickstep Routinelesson at 7:30 p.m., Social BallroomDance at 8:15 p.m. ($16); Oct. 4,Drop-in lessons at 7:30 p.m., WestCoast Swing Dancing with DanceJam Productions at 9 p.m. ($15);Oct. 6, free Rumba lesson at 7 p.m.,Social Ballroom at 8 p.m. ($16);Oct. 9, free International QuickstepRoutine Lesson at 7:30 p.m., SocialBallroom at 8:15 p.m. ($16); Oct. 10,Tea Dance from 12:30–3:30 p.m.($6), 2126 Industrial Highway, SilverSpring, 301-326-1181, www.holly-woodballroomdc.com

Glen Echo Park is at 7300 Ma-cArthur Blvd.

Blues, Capital Blues: Thurs-days, 8:15 beginner lesson, 9-11:30p.m. dancing to DJs, Glen EchoPark’s Spanish Ballroom Annex,$8, www.capitalblues.org.

Contra, Oct. 4, Sargon de Jesuscalls to Devine Comedy; Oct. 11,April Blum with the fabulous GlenEcho Open Band; Oct. 18, SteveGester calls to Triple Helix; Oct. 25,Will Mentor with Perpetual Emo-tion, 7:30 p.m. lesson, 8:30 p.m.dance, Glen Echo Park SpanishBallroom, $10, www.fridaynight-dance.org.

Contra & Square, Oct. 6, BrianHamshar calls with Larry Ungerand Elke Baker; Oct. 13, Ann Falloncalls with Devine Comedy; Oct. 20,Jean Gorrindo with Crab Apples;Oct. 27, Costume Dance withPerpetual e-Motion, Will Mentorcalling, 7:30 p.m., Glen Echo ParkSpanish Ballroom, $12 for general,$9 for members, $5 for students,

www.fsgw.org.English Country, Oct. 2, Caller:

Michael Barraclough; Oct. 9,Caller: Dan Gillespie; Oct. 16,Caller: Stephanie Smith; Oct. 23,Special Guest Jacqueline Schwabon piano; Oct. 30, Caller: MarthSiegel, 8 p.m., Glen Echo TownHall (upstairs), www.fsgw.org.

Scottish Country Dancing, 8-10p.m. Mondays, steps and forma-tions taught. No experience, part-ner necessary, T-39 Building onNIH campus, Wisconsin Avenueand South Drive, Bethesda, 240-505-0339.

Swing, Nov. 9, WWII CanteenDance with the Eric Felten Jazz Or-chestra; Dec. 14, Daryl Davis, lessonat 8 p.m., dancing at 9 p.m., GlenEcho Park, $15, www.flyingfeet.org.

Waltz, Oct. 6, Larry, Elke andFriends; Oct. 20, Gigmeisters,2:45-3:30 p.m. lesson, 3:30-6 p.m.,dance, $10, www.waltztimed-ances.org.

MUSIC & DANCEBethesda Blues & Jazz Sup-

per Club, The Johnny Artis Band,8 p.m. Oct. 4; Cathy Ponton Kingwith Bobby Parker, 7:30 p.m. Oct.5; Perry Conticchio Quintet, 7:30p.m. Oct. 6; Cloudburst, 7:30 p.m.Oct. 9; New West Guitar Group,7:30 p.m. Oct. 10; Lavay Smith &Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, 8 p.m.Oct. 11; The Soul Crackers withTommy Lepson, 8 p.m. Oct. 12;Blue Moon Big Band, 7:30 p.m.Oct. 13; Abbe Buck, 7:30 p.m. Oct.16; Ingratitude: A Tribute to Earth,Wind & Fire, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 18; The

Fabulous Hubcabs, 8 p.m. Oct. 19;Deaf Dog and the Indictments &Feels So Good Band, 7 p.m. Oct.20, call for tickets, 7719 WisconsinAvenue, Bethesda. 240-330-4500,www.bethesdabluesjazz.com.

BlackRock Center for the Arts,Red Molly, 8 p.m. Oct. 4; Eddiefrom Ohio, 8 p.m. Oct. 5; Buskin &Batteau, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 17; Furever(film), 8 p.m. Oct. 18; The SpookyMagic of Joe Romano, 1 p.m. Oct.19; Carolyn Malachi, 8 p.m. Oct. 19;Julie Fowlis, 8 p.m. Oct. 25-26, callfor tickets, 12901 Town CommonsDrive, Germantown. 301-528-2260,www.blackrockcenter.org.

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n Singers King, Parkercelebrate at Bethesdasupper club

BY VIRGINIA TERHUNE

STAFF WRITER

Blues singer/guitarist CathyPonton King will return to per-form on Saturday at the BethesdaBlues & Jazz Supper Club.

The day will mark her birth-day and it will also be a chancefor her to perform with specialguest, veteran bluesman BobbyParker.

“When management askedme who I’d like to share thestage with, that’s who I named,”said King, who grew up in Hy-attsville and now lives in North-ern Virginia.

“He’s an unbelievable guitarplayer,” King said about Parker,who lives in Upper Marlboro.

The two will perform withtheir respective bands at the club.

The performance will alsohonor the memory of King’scousin, U.S. Navy SEAL BrendanLooney, who died in a helicoptercrash in Afghanistan in 2010.

Looney’s family has estab-lished a scholarship fund tocover tuition at his alma mater,DeMatha Catholic High Schoolin Hyattsville.

“There’ll be a big jar in thelobby [for donations],” said King.

Born in Louisiana, Parkerplayed lead guitar with BoDiddley and toured with SamCooke, Jackie Wilson, ClydeMcPhatter, the Everly Brothers

and Buddy Holly in the 1950s.In 1961 he recorded the sin-

gle “Watch Your Step,” the inspi-ration behind the 1964 Beatleshit song “I Feel Fine.”

Now in his 70s, Parker playsregularly at Madam’s Organ BluesBar and Soul Food Restaurant inthe Adams Morgan neighbor-hood of Washington, D.C.

King said she will be per-forming with longtime band-mates drummer Pete Ragusa,guitarist Andy Rutherford, key-boardist Bill Starks, saxophon-ist Bruce Swaim and bassist JanZukowski.

King, who went to the Uni-versity of Maryland, CollegePark, came under the spell ofMuddy Waters in the 1980s.

She started a blues band ofher own called Rhythmasters,touring the East Coast from 1980to 1986. She currently performsregularly at Flanagan’s Harp &Fiddle in Bethesda.

King, who writes most ofthe tunes that she performs, has

released three CDs: “Lovin’ YouRight” in 1993, “Undertow” in2007 and “Crux” in 2012.

She recently released twonew songs on an extended playCD, “Quartet/Duet.”

One song, “That’s Whena Woman Calls the Blues byName,” is a joint effort withfriends Sista Pat, Mary Ann Red-mond and Caz Gardiner.

“It’s four women testify-ing the blues,” King said on herwebsite.

The second song, “FamousLast Words,” is a duet with JoeTriplett with the Rossyln Moun-tain Boys.

“I never stop writing,” saidKing, who is working on songsfor her next CD, “No Friction,No Fire.”

“I’ll be walking down thestreet, and I’ll think of a newsong,” she said.

[email protected]

Birthday bluesA popular student and athleteat DeMatha Catholic HighSchool in Hyattsville, BrendanLooney, class of 1999, gradu-ated from the U.S. Naval Acad-emy in 2004.

Looney, who lived in Owings inCalvert County, was a lieuten-ant with the Navy SEALs anddied in a helicopter crash inAfghanistan on Sept. 21, 2010,at the age of 29.

His family has establishedin his memory the BrendanLooney Scholarship Fund tohelp students cover DeMathatuition costs.

Costs currently run $14,500 ayear, said Thomas Ponton, De-Matha’s development director.

Anyone who would like todonate may contribute cashat the Cathy Ponton King andBobby Parker blues concerton Saturday at the BethesdaBlues & Jazz Supper Club.

Contributors may also senda check to Brendan LooneyScholarship Fund, c/o De-Matha Catholic High School,4313 Madison St., Hyattsville,MD 20781.

Donations are tax deductible.

— VIRGINIA TERHUNE

BRENDAN LOONEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND

CATHY PONTON KINGAND BOBBY PARKERn When: 8 p.m. Saturday.

Doors open 7:30 p.m.

n Where: Bethesda Blues &Jazz Supper Club, 7719Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda

n Tickets: $20

n For information: 240-330-4500, bethesdabluesjazz.com, cathypontonking.com,bobbyparkerblues.net

FROM CATHY PONTON KING

U.S. Navy SEAL Brendan Looney was a 1999 graduate of DeMathaCatholic High School in Hyattsville.

ALAN GROSSMAN

Singer/guitarist Cathy Ponton King and her band will perform with BobbyParker and his band at the Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club on Saturday.

BY MICHAEL PHILLIPS

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

It’s big, brash and dramati-cally it goes in circles. The firsttwo may be enough for mostpeople, especially if they’re intoFormula One racing, to overlookthe third.

With “Rush,” director Ron

Howard brings a long, earnestcareer’s worth of expertise to bearon a two-headed Formula Onebiopic, dramatizing the rivalrybetween dashingly louche Eng-lishman James Hunt, played byChris Hemsworth, and the rigid,cautious Austrian ace Niki Lauda,portrayed by Daniel Brühl. TheGrand Prix competition betweenHunt and Lauda in the 1976 rac-ing season, full of tense reversalsand scary track conditions all overthe world, is more than enoughmovie for a movie. On a technicaland atmospheric level, Howardand his collaborators have a ball

with the 1970s-ness of everything,from the hair to the clothes to thewidescreen, supersaturated im-ages of blazing color.

For Howard, who started outdirecting features 36 years agowith “Grand Theft Auto,” “Rush”ushers him back into his ownpast (he was acting on “HappyDays” on TV during this time)while allowing him to exploit hisfilmmaking knowledge. There’sa fair amount of digital effectswork in the racing sequences,designed to push you ever closerto the high-velocity death lurk-ing around every hairpin curve.

If “Rush” feels a little hollow,the reason lies with screenwriterPeter Morgan, whose play “Frost/Nixon” Howard filmed, to pleas-

ing results. Morgan has longprovedhimselfadeptat intertwin-ing, interdependent biographi-cal studies. In “The Queen,” forwhich Helen Mirren won her Os-car, the character of British PrimeMinister Tony Blair (played byMichael Sheen) achieved equalnarrative importance.

In “Rush,” Morgan treatsthe men jockeying for positionthroughout as contrasting pen-cil sketches of ‘70s-era princesbehind the wheel. One is a so-ber, meticulous character, theother a carouser who must betaught, by life and circumstance,to respect his rival. “Twenty-five people start Formula One,”Lauda explains at the begin-ning, “and each year, two die.What kind of person does a joblike this?”

A gut-wrenching crash playsa major part in this story, byfactual necessity, though to besure Howard is not making adocumentary here. (For a ter-rific Formula One documen-tary, do yourself a favor and seedirector Asif Kapadia’s “Senna,”about the Brazilian Grand Prixracer Ayrton Senna and his ri-val, Frenchman Alain Prost.) Bynature a cautious and tidy dra-matist, screenwriter Morgan’ssensibility is at odds with thematerial. The writer doesn’t domuch of anything with Lauda,establishing him as a by-the-book prig and leaving it at that.Also, the multilingual Brühl (“In-glourious Basterds”) works hard,but he’s pretty dull on screen.

If the film finds an Ameri-can audience, it’ll be becauseof Hemsworth, best known forswingin’ the hammer in “Thor.”Hunt, a charismatically recklessparty boy, is the kind of guy (ac-cording to the script, if not reallife) who proposes to modelSuzy Miller (Olivia Wilde, in aswank variety of enormous hats)mere seconds after they meet.Hemsworth lives for excess, andjust as Hunt brought a boozysort of panache to the sport,Hemsworth conveys genuineenthusiasm for whatever he’sdoing on screen without goingover the top.

Where the events of 1976took these two is fascinatinghistory. But “Rush,” while neverdull, rarely feels dramaticallyalive; it hits its marks dutifullyand darts onward.

One foot on the brake in Ron Howard’s ‘Rush’AT THE MOVIES RUSH

n 2 1/2 stars

n R; 123 minutes

n Cast: Chris Hemsworth,Daniel Brühl, Olivia Wilde

n Directed by Ron Howard

Chris Hems-worth as thecharismaticEnglishmanJames Huntand DanielBruhl asdisciplinedAustrian

perfectionistNiki Lauda in“Rush.”

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could do,” Engvall says.STRATHMORE

n Gaithersburg women’s groupwelcomes novelist Maggie Anton

BY ELLYN WEXLERSPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE

Maggie Anton prefers reading bookswith happy endings. And she writesbooks that appeal to readers with likeminds.

“There’s enough real tragedy in theworld. You can see that in the news,” the63-year-old Los Angeles native said. “Iwant my readers to feel uplifted, happy,and glad to have spent their hours read-ing.”

Each of Anton’s four published his-torical novels — the “Rashi’s Daughters”trilogy and “Rav Hisda’s Daughter: Ap-prentice” is “a combination of a hero-ine’s quest, romance and the Talmud,”the author said. “Rav Hisda,” the mostrecent, was a 2012 National Jewish BookAward Fiction finalist and a Library Jour-nal choice for Best 2012 Historical Fic-tion.

All of Anton’s characters come fromthe Talmud.

“The Talmud is one long conversa-tion between hundreds of rabbis. Some-times they tell stories and sometimesthey argue Jewish law,” she said.

Her process offers numerous sce-narios. “I choose which scenes to use,”Anton said, noting ruefully that toomany must be left on the cutting roomfloor. She then creates “a broad outlineand a historical timeline for each char-acter.”

The “Rashi’s Daughters” trilogy,set in 11th-century France, is about thedaughters — Yocheved, Miriam and Ra-chel — of the Talmud scholar known asRashi. Anton said she was motivated totell their stories upon discovering thatthese women were learned. To her sur-prise, they studied Torah, the first fivebooks of the Hebrew Bible, and taught itto other women in the town. After theirfather suffered a stroke, they transcribedwhat he dictated to them. “I suspect theyanswered the simpler questions them-selves,” Anton said.

“Rav Hisda’s Daughter” is set in thirdcentury Babylonia, after the destruc-tion of Jerusalem’s Holy Temple, wherea handful of rabbis, among them theprominent Rav Hisda, began creatingthe Talmud.

“I chose to write about his daughterHisdadukh after encountering a fasci-nating passage in the Talmud where RavHisda brings his two best students beforeher,” Anton said. “Though she is merelya child, he asks which one she wants tomarry, and astonishingly, she replies,‘Both of them.’ Even more astonishingly,that is what eventually happens. … Any

girl who declares that she wants to marryboth her suitors deserves to have herstory told.”

During her research, Anton learnedthat sorcery was prevalent during this pe-riod. Magic was used mostly for “healingthe sick, protecting children and preg-nant women from harm, and guardingagainst demons and the Evil Eye,” shesaid. As such, her heroine, Hisdadukh,forbidden from reading Torah becauseof her gender, studies instead to becomean enchantress.

Writing is Anton’s second career.Equipped with a degree in chemistryfrom UCLA, she spent 32 years work-ing for Kaiser Permanente. She beganwriting at age 47, while still working fulltime, self-publishing the first volume of“Rashi’s Daughters” eight years later, inJuly 2005.

“I knew I had an audience,” Antonsaid. “[Anita Diamant’s] ‘Red Tent’ [abestselling novel about a female char-acter from the Book of Genesis] had justcome out, and all the women I talked towere interested.”

Her prediction was accurate.“Eighteen months out, the book

had sold 26,000 copies and the publish-ers came a calling,” she said. “I retired[from my job as a chemist] in 2007 whenthe advance check from Penguin didn’tbounce.” The second book had alreadybeen written, and with book three, thenin outline form, due to the publisher in2009, a full-time commitment was nec-essary.

Vocation has not been the only dra-matic change for Anton. Earlier in life,

she also evolved from her secular Jew-ish upbringing into becoming observantas well as a Talmud scholar. Anton saidlearning about the Holocaust inspiredstrong feelings for her heritage. At aboutage 11, she read Leon Uris’ “Exodus,”then William L. Shirer’s “The Rise andFall of the Third Reich.”

“These books had a huge impact onme. I learned that being Jewish is morethan lighting Hanukkah candles,” shesaid. “Everyone I knew would have beenexterminated.”

A second impetus came during col-lege, when she accepted her future hus-band’s proposal of marriage, along withhis promise to convert to Judaism. Real-izing “I would never convert to any reli-gion for anyone,” Anton said the classesshe had to take with him gave her thereligious education she did not get inchildhood.

When the couple relocated to a sub-urb with few Jewish residents, they be-came active in its synagogue for socialreasons. As her husband Dave, a part-ner in a patent law firm, became moreinvolved in his adopted religion, Antonsigned up for a women’s Talmud classled by a feminist theologian. She hascontinued to study since 1992, in classes,with partners and individually.

“Discussion is important, that’s howyou learn Talmud,” Anton said. “Thereare so many voices, arguments, discus-sions. It’s not monolithic: thou shalt orshalt not. We don’t have the answerssometimes.”

Anton works — answering mail, do-ing research and writing — nearly everyday, typically starting in late afternoonand going on until midnight. She hascompleted the first draft of Book Twoof “Rav Hisda,” subtitled “The Enchant-ress,” and is now editing, with an ex-pected release date in the fall of 2014.Readers of Book One can look forward toa resolution to the cliff hanger that endedthe book. “The Enchantress,” Anton said,does not end with uncertainty, but shecould write a third book by proceedingto the next generation. Still, Anton saidshe has several ideas for both fiction andnonfiction projects. With hundreds ofrabbis telling stories, finding compellingnew subjects in the Talmud is likely topose no problem.

The Sisterhood of Kehilat ShalomSynagogue, 9915 Apple Ridge Road,Gaithersburg, will present Maggie Antonon Oct. 13. Check-in is at noon, with apresentation and question-and-answersession at 1 p.m., and a book signing anddessert buffet at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $18,$15 for Sisterhood members. Reserva-tions must be made by Friday. For moreinformation, call 571-276-8142 or [email protected].

Happily ever after for author of historical novels

MAGGIE ANTON

Maggie Anton, author of “Rav Hisda’sDaughter,” will speak to the The Sisterhoodof Kehilat Shalom Synagogue on Oct. 13 inGaithersburg.

was the executive director for the net-work for three years. In February, hewas named artistic director at Olney,and “Rancho Mirage” marks his direc-torial debut with the theater company.

“For the first three days, we had thethree other companies that are produc-ing the piece [at rehearsal] ...” said actorJames Konicek. “They got to hear ourread and our input. It’s really a greatluxury ...”

The New Repertory Theatre in Bos-ton, Curious Theatre in Denver andPhoenix Theater in Indianapolis arethe other three companies that will pro-duce “Rancho Mirage” later this year orearly in 2014.

“Rancho Mirage” follows Nick(Konicek) and his wife Diane (TracyLynn Olivera), as they host a dinnerparty for two other couples and long-time friends. As the night unfolds, each

couple reveals their secrets — whetherit be divorce, adoption or financialwoes.

“These can sort of be seen as ‘first-world problems,’” Konicek said. “Butit’s relative. When you’re in it, they canbe life-ruining. To [the characters], theyare devastating.”

In addition to the $7,000 grant fromthe network as a part of the Contin-ued Life of New Plays Fund, Olney wasalso granted $21,000 from the Edger-ton Foundation New American PlaysAwards for “Rancho Mirage.” The grantallows for an extended rehearsal period.

“The American theater business isvery cookie-cutter oriented,” Loewithsaid. “Doesn’t matter if you’re doinga three-hour play ... or you’re doing atwo-act play. It’s 2 1/2 weeks and thentech rehearsals. It does [new plays] agreat disservice to put them throughthat same cookie-cutter process.”

“A lot of times you get into techweek feeling like you’ve been shot outof a cannon,” added Olivera. “And in

this case ... instead of trying to hastilythrow everything together during techweek, we got to be complete duringtech week ...”

The extra week of rehearsal meantmore time to spend with the represen-tatives from the other theaters and evenmade it possible for Dietz himself to workwith Olney’s cast and artistic team.

“It’s an incredible gift and can onlymake the end result that much better,”Loewith said.

“It made for a much more creativeenvironment for all of us,” added PaulMorella, who plays Trevor. “When Ste-ven spoke to the group ... [he] createdan open, accessible and generous dy-namic.”

As Olney’s production is “RanchoMirage’s” world debut, not even theplaywright had seen his work live.

“He’s only heard it, so it’s a great in-cubator as well,” Konicek said.

According to the “Rancho Mirage”actors, the time to develop a piece ofwork alongside its playwright is rare.

And to do it with a playwright like Dietzis even more rare.

“It was brilliant for me to have aplaywright in the room to help ...” Loe-with said. “It’s like having a living ency-clopedia ... Steven is such a veteran ...he really understood how to be collab-orative without being overbearing.”

“Some playwrights are very protec-tive of what they’ve written,” Olivera

added. “Steven is super open ... he’sup for discussion ... You never have towonder what he meant. He’s right thereso you can ask him your damn self,” shelaughed.

Though the “Rancho Mirage” ac-tors had the luxury to ask Dietz ques-tions, Olivera said the key to his playcan be found in a note on the first pageof the script: “This play is a comedy un-til it is not.”

“Comedy can come out of dire situ-ations,” Konicek said. “It doesn’t neces-sarily have to be farce or what we wouldnormally think of as comedy. There’s afine line between tragedy and comedy,laughter and disaster.”

“If [Dietz] wrote a drama about thissubject, no one would go see it becauseit’s self-indulgent rich people com-plaining about nothing,” added Olivera.“When they fall apart, it means more. Itfalls farther when we’ve all been laugh-ing with them.”

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Engvall said. “... If I do get bumped,what’s the downside for me? I getto continue doing what I was do-ing, which is a great career doingstandup and acting.

“If I get to keep going, it’s agreat weight-loss program!”

Engvall is quick to point outhe’s not doing the show for themoney or the silver disco ball tro-phy the winner of “Dancing Withthe Stars” receives.

“It was just something I wantedto see if I could do,” Engvall said.“And obviously, for my partnerEmma [Slater], I’d like for us togo as far as we can. I understand,though, that this is a tough crowdthis year. There are three or fourcelebrities on this show who havedanced professionally. I’m underno pretense that I’m one of thesegreat dancers. I think I did a veryreputable job — I didn’t embar-rass myself. I’m probably the leastknown of anyone in this group.”

While it’s true this year’s“Dancing With the Stars” groupis filled with celebrities such asElizabeth Berkley (“Saved By TheBell,” “Showgirls”), Valerie Harper(“Mary Tyler Moore Show”), Am-ber Riley (“Glee”) and even BillNye (yep, they even got the ScienceGuy), Engvall’s status as a star wasnever in question.

Best known for his work part-nering with Jeff Foxworthy, Larrythe Cable Guy and Ron White,Engvall spent six years touring aspart of the Blue Collar Comedygang. The group was responsiblefor several DVDs, a television showon Comedy Central and a satelliteradio show. The group reached outto millions and sold out auditori-ums everywhere they went.

Be that as it may, the guys areall doing their own things now.Foxworthy has hosted several TVshows, Larry the Cable Guy doescommercials and was the voiceof Mater in Disney/Pixar’s “Cars,”and White is a New York Timesbest seller and created his own re-cord label.

Engvall admits the chances ofthe guys doing a Blue Collar touragain is slim to none.

“I think [it’s over] and I say thatin a positive way,” Engvall said.“We went out on top. You don’twant to go back out — and I thinkthat’s where some artists make themistake — you don’t want to go toa city that you sold 8,000 ticketsand all of a sudden you’re selling2,000 or 1,000. Unfortunately withcomedy, nobody assumes you’vewritten anything new, so it’d belike ‘Oh, we saw him last time. Weprobably won’t see him again.’Why even put yourself in that po-sition?

“It was a wonderful run whileit lasted. It is literally the reasonwhy if I wanted to retire tomorrowI could. I made great friendshipswith the guys — we were alreadyfriends, but we became just like

brothers. Everybody’s got theirown project now and they’re do-ing stuff. Listen, if they decidedthey wanted to get back in, wouldI be in? You betcha. But I wouldn’thold my breath on it.”

Before the Blue Collar tour,Engvall reached celebrity status asa comedian with his “Here’s YourSign” routine. Much like Foxwor-thy’s “You Might Be a RedneckIf …” bit, Engvall made it easy tolaugh at the stupidity of others.Still, he doesn’t get bothered byfans who constantly say to him,“Here’s your sign!”

“The honest answer is no,”Engvall said when asked if hegrew tired of it. “You know why?That’s what got me … to comeinto Maryland and do a show. Ittakes two seconds out of my life.I don’t say this as an artist [beinginterviewed], it’s that I’ve neverunderstood why people get in thisbusiness and turn into jackasses. Idon’t get it. I always say if you wantpeople to stop acting that way, stopasking them for their autograph.Stop buying their records. Stopgoing to their movies. I guaranteeyou they’ll change. When they go,“What’s wrong? Why aren’t peoplegoing to my movies?” Well, it’s be-cause you’re a jackass, man.

“This isn’t going to go on for-ever. I’m under no guise that this willlast. It’s already lasted 25 years lon-ger than I thought it would. When itdoes [end], I don’t want to leave thisbusiness with people saying, “Man,he was a jerk!” I want them to say,‘You know, he was always nice tome. He always signed something forme. Or if I wanted to say hi or take apicture, he did it.’ That’s the legacy Iwant to leave behind.”

Until that day comes, though,Engvall still has comedy andhe’s still dancing with an incred-ibly attractive partner. Luckily forEngvall, his wife Gail doesn’t mind.

“Gail and I have been marriedfor 30 years,” Engvall said. “Shealso knows that I’ve got 32 years onEmma. It’s not even sexual. It’s likedancing with my daughter. I wouldbe like that creepy guy where you’dgo, ‘Oh my god!’ I love Gail — she’sbeen with me from Day 1 of thiscareer and I’m sure not going tothrow all this away just becauseof one little cute girl that I dancewith.”

Engvall does have some wordsof advice to younger guys outthere: If you think girls won’t goout with you because you dance— here’s your sign.

“I was telling my kids the otherday, if I knew then what I knownow, I’d be in a dance class everyday,” Engvall said. “Girls love guyswho can dance. I was always theguy who was like, ‘Oh, guy danc-ing, that’s sissy, whatever.’ I’mgoing to tell you right now — guysthat can dance see girls you and Idon’t see. I tell every young guy outthere to get in a dance class.

“It’ll get you further than a six-pack of beer.”

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Unlike the defeated Alexander, Luluis a spunky little girl who wants noth-ing but a brontosaurus for her upcom-ing birthday. After her parents reject theidea based on its shear impracticality,Lulu heads off into the forest to get thedinosaur for herself.

When she discovers the perfect petin Mr. B, there’s only one problem: thebrontosaurus finds Lulu to be the perfectpet for him.

For actor Vaughn Irving, who voicesand operates Mr. B, the task of playinga dinosaur isn’t so different from anyother, human role.

“The process of creating the char-acter, at the heart, it’s the same,” Irvingsaid. “But then you just throw in otherstuff on top of it like, alright, now I’m thesize of a mountain.”

Irving, who also plays the snake,added he approaches any part the sameway: through the eyes of the other char-acters.

“The first step for me is looking at thescript at what all the other characters sayabout your character,” he said. “Becauseeven if it’s a brontosaurus, he could be 10different kinds ... with any of the anthro-pomorphized animals, it’s always better

to start from the human perspective andthen sort of add those animalistic quali-ties to them.”

As Irving worked to develop a per-sonality for his character, Pauli workedon a puppet that would reflect that per-sonality.

A professional actor, clown and pup-peteer, Pauli spent six years touring withthe Big Apple Circus and is now a mem-ber of the Big Apple Clown Care Unit, acommunity outreach program that visitshospitalized children in 16 pediatric fa-cilities across the country. He is return-ing to Imagination Stage after buildingthe bunny puppet for the theater’s 2004production of “Bunnicula.”

Pauli said the months-long processof constructing a puppet Mr. B’s sizestarts with sketches and lots of meetings.

“You have to think like an actor anddirector and what you want the charac-ter to be able to do as a performer andthen you have to design something thatyou think will be able to do that,” Paulisaid. “Logistically, what will work? Andthen you go through the process of actu-ally building it.”

Once the construction is done, thencomes the ongoing task of adjusting andreadjusting.

“The process of building a puppetis in many ways like an ongoing nego-tiation with reality,” Pauli said. “Once

you’ve got [it] all put together, you get togo back to the beginning and figure out,now that I’ve actually built this thing,what does it actually do?”

According to Pauli, the biggest chal-lenge with the brontosaurus puppet is itsoverwhelming size.

“The easiest description I’ve come upwith is that the brontosaurus is bronto-saurus-size,” he said.

As a result, Pauli used lightweightmaterials such as foam padding andspandex velour to construct Mr. B.

Even after the curtain went up onWednesday, Pauli’s work was still notcompletely done.

“At that point I become essentially apuppet paramedic,” Pauli said. “In thecourse of activity of performance, actorsmay get bumps and bruises and they willheal; puppets will not. So my job is to beon call if the puppet develops any bumpsor bruises so that I can come in and get ittouched up.”

But for the most part, after openingnight, Pauli gets the chance to sit backand watch his masterpiece in action.

“Mostly when the show opens, I getto be the audience,” he said. “Once it’staken on a life in somebody else’s hands,I get to be as amazed by it as I hope therest of the audience is.”

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ADOPT - Lovinghome to provide a life-time of joy & opportu-nity for your baby. Noage or racial concerns.Expenses paid, 1-866-440-4220.

BRICKLAYERSMin. 5 yrs commercial exp.Job in Silver Spring, MD.Bilingual a plus. $22.00/hr.

A Drug-free workplaceEOE, E-Verify301-662-7584

CLEANINGEarn $300-$500/wk. M-F,

No nights or wknds.Must have own car & valid.

Drivers lic. Se Habla Espanol.

Merry MaidsGaithersburg 301-869-6243Silver Spring 301-587-5594

FOR SALE: Spapedi chair light blueleather, full facial chair& equip, massagetble/massage heaterstones 301-674-0569

TWO-PERSON HOTTUB HOT SPRINGruns good, new lid,new filter, new headrest. $200. Call 301-349-2468

BURTONSVILLE:Antq oak table/leaves$595, Antq oakpressed back chairs,$169/ea 301-879-0732

FOR SALE 65" Work-ing TV $95 Must havemeans of taking largeheavy TV out ofhouse. 301-602-8920

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Fashion Eye Glass FittersMeds Techs & Opticians

Exp or will train. Good hand eye, mustown car, F/T including Sat. Salary $12-$24/hr + benefit. Apply in person forlocation call Doctors On Sight,301-540-1200 or 703-506-0000

House CleaningRockville. Looking for 1 FullTime House Maid to join our

Company for ResidentialCleaning. Mon-Fri. 8 am-5 pm.

Must have Drivers License,excellent cleaning experience,

must speak some English and belegal to work in U.S. Pay $10.00

p/hr. 301-706-5550.

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Dr. (Mrs.)V.A.E.

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Spring, MD

Help us to test an investigationalimmunotherapy tablet for dust miteallergy. Participants may be eligible forthis study if they are 12 years of age orolder and have been taking allergymedications for dust mite allergysymptoms during the past year.Medical history and other criteria willbe reviewed at the first study visit,including a skin prick allergy test andblood test. The study lasts up to 2years and requires 9 clinic visits. Allstudy-related office visits, medicalexaminations, and investigationalimmunotherapy treatment will beprovided at no cost to qualifiedparticipants.

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On Call SupervisorGreat job for students, retirees and

stay at home moms. Work fromhome! Answer and handle phone callsfrom 5pm to 9am two evenings twicea month for staffing agency or one

weekend a month. Must have Inter-net access, and a car. Fax resume to

301.588.9065 or email [email protected]

Restaurant Staffµ Wait Staff µ Buss Persons

µ PM Line CookFull & Part time shifts available

Apply In Person:Normandie Farm Restaurant

10710 Falls Rd, Potomac

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UNEMPLOYED?VETERANS? ASPECIAL TRAININGGRANT is now availa-ble in your area.Grant covers Comput-er, Medical or Micro-soft training. Call CTIfor program details. 1-888-407-7173.

ELENA’S FAMILYDaycare

Infants-Up Pre-K pro-gram, computer Lab,Bi-lingual Potty Train.

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preferred. Send resumes &cover letter to

[email protected]

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Lawns Plus Landscape located inSilver Spring. Experience

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CONVALESCENTCARE Needed PTLive-in/wkends & FTTue-Thur. CPR Cert.202-446-5849 [email protected]

I AM A HOUSE-KEEPER: Live-out,25 yrs exp, exc & localref, reasonable rates,US citizen & spksEnglish well! Pleasecall 240-440-2657

POTOMAC FAMILYASSISTANT:Legal. Educated. DriveCook. PT: morningsMon-Th, Sat. 2 yrs +exp. 301-887-3212

R O C K V I L L E :HSKPR/DRIVERLive-in priv spac apt+ salary in exchangefor several hrs of ltduty for pastors wife,301-871-6565 lv msg

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APPOINTMENT SETTERSEarn $750 to $1000 a week.

Come generate appointments for a Top Inc500 remodeling Co.

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Call John at 301-987-9828

Clerical

Courtroom ClerkDistrict Court for Montgomery County

Perform specialized clerical work at the advancedlevel assisting the judge in courtroom proceduresand dockets. Prepare/generate paperwork for thejudge’s and/or defendant’s signatures.Responsible for assisting the judge in themaintenance, operation, and organization of thecourtroom. Work is performed with considerableindependence and is evaluated for efficiency,effectiveness, timeliness and compliance withprocedures. Resolve a variety of unprecedentedor unusual problems. Ability to work overtime, asneeded without prior notice. Maybe called induring emergencies, e.g. inclement weatherconditions and staff shortages. For full details andinstructions on how to apply, visit the court’swebsite www.mdcourts.gov EOE

CONSTRUCTIONResidential Builder/Remodeler needs experiencedworking superintendents, carpenters, andpainters to work in the DMV area. Must have

impeccable references. Start immediately! Salarybased on qualifications, plus benefits.

Send resume to [email protected] fax 301-721-9899.

Concrete Pump Operator,Dump Truck Drivers,

Loader OperatorModern Foundations (Woodbine, MD) islooking for: Experienced concrete pump operator,Dump Truck Drivers, Residential ConstructionLoader Operator. Qualified applicants call410-795-8877.

DENTAL RECEPTIONISTPeriodontal office (Shady Grove) FT, with at least 2 years ofexperience and excellent communication skills. Benefits andsalary based on experience. Please email resume [email protected]

Interior Decorating/Residential Design

Growing national firm seeks experienced salespersonswith passion for decorating. Permanent positions

available; various opportunities in booming market.Send resumes to [email protected]

or call 301-933-7900

CPA/ACCOUNTANTCPA firm, Olney, MD has multiple positions open.

Tax supervisor/manager - 10+ yrs exp,General ledger accountant - 5+ yrs exp,

F/T, P/T, flexible hours.For immediate consideration please email:

[email protected]

Software BusinessSystem Analyst

CYNCZ LLC (Clarksburg, MD & occasional workin Rockville, MD). Dvlp address booksynchronization system. Dsgn, integrate, monitoradvanced d/base mgmt system & complexcommunication network. Position reqs Bachelor’sdeg or equiv in Comp Sci, Comp Applics or rltd &1 yr s/ware dvlpmt exp, utilizing communicationsprotocol, Apple IOS, Google’s Android, Researchin Motion’s Blackberry, & Microsoft Windows’Mobile platform. Mail resume to Jaya Pandey,11905 Kigger Jack Lane, Clarksburg, MD 20871.

Vice President,Production Factual

Discovery Communications, LLC seeks to fill theposition of Vice President, Production Factual inSilver Spring, Maryland to develop and maintainrelationships with the production and developmentgroups of the various US networks. Bachelor’sdegree in Film or Television, or related and 8 yrs.prog. exp. rq’d. To apply, submit resumes tohttp://careers.discovery.com, click on the mapand search for Vice President - ProductionFactual in Silver Spring Maryland.

MASON TENDERSMin. 1 yr exp. in commercial work. Job in Silver

Spring, MD. Bilingual a plus. $12 to $14/hr.based on exp. Drug-free workplace.

EOE & E-Verify 301-662-7584

Sales

We are looking for AMAZING sales people!!!

The Gazette, a Post Newsweek Media company, is looking forenthusiastic, self-motivated people to take our sales territories to thenext level. If you value autonomy, but can work well in a team thatvalues integrity, respect and growth, this may be the job for you.

The mission of the Advertising Sales Consultant is to develop newbusiness while servicing and increasing existing business. Positioninvolves cold calls, interviewing potential clients, developing andpresenting marketing plans, closing sales and developing strongcustomer relationships. Candidates should possess persistence,energy, enthusiasm and strong planning and organizational skills.

We offer a competitive compensation, commission and incentives,comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, pension,401(k) and tuition reimbursement.

To become part of this high-quality, high-growthorganization, send resume and salary/earnings requirementto [email protected].

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environment and location.Call 301-693-8504

JANITORIAL POSITIONSPrivate School in Rockville seeks:

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Janitorial Worker (PT, Temporary)Perform afternoon cleaning processes.

Must have prior experience. Criminalbackground check required. Pleasee-mail [email protected] or callBuilding Services at 301-962-9400x5101.

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technicians. Experience required.Confidentiality assured.

Fax Resume to 301-424-3080,email

[email protected]

STYLISTSNew Hair Cuttery SalonOpening Oct 5th! Stylist

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$$1166,,9900002012 Toyota Camry LE.........$$1166,,990000$16,900#E0230, 6 SpeedAuto, 37.9k miles, Cosmic Gray

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2003 FordWindstarAC, PW, PL, PS......................$4,9952007 Nissan Sentra6 Spd, AC, PW, PL, CD..........$8,9502006 Buick LaCrosse CXV6, PW, PL, PS, CD...............$8,9502004 Pontiac Bonneville GXPLeather, Sunroof..................$10,4952005 Chevy Impala58k, V6, PW, PL, PS, Sunroof....$10,525

2008 Scion XB6 Spd, AC, PW, PL, CD.........$11,7502009 Pontiac VibeAWD, PW, PL, CD...............$12,9502007 Pontiac TorrentAWD,57k,NewTires,PW,PL,CD. $13,4502012 Nissan Altima29K, PW, PL, CD.................$16,9252013 Chevy Cruze16K, 4 CYL, PW, PL, CD......$17,5502013 Dodge Grand Caravan20K, PW, PL, 7 Pass.............$19,9752013 Chevy EquinoxAWD, 14K, PW, PL, PS, CD....$25,900

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2000 Isuzu Rodeo LS.........................6,988#KP17054, 4WD, 3.2L, Clean! LTHR, PW/PL, AC, MD INSP’D

2005 Chevy Impala LS.......................6,990#KP65991A, AT, AC, PW/PLC, Easy Terms!

2005 Dodge Caravan SXT..................6,990#KP12424, QUADS, PSET, PW, DON’T MISS!

2008 Suzuki Reno H/BK ....................7,288#AP03775A, Pampered, 35K!, AT, AC, PW, FSC WARR

2001 Toyota Sequoia SR5 4WD .........7,988#KP09664A, PSEAT, PW/PLC, CASS/CD Combo, Great Value

2004 Chevy Trailblazer LT 4X4..........7,988#KP27447, MNRF, PSEAT, PW/PLC

2005 Mazda Mazda 6........................7,997#KP25777, PW/PLC, CC, CD, 5SPD, Gas Saver.

2006 Chrysler PT Cruiser GT..............7,998#KP0810, SHARP! Turbo, AT, P/Options

2004 Dodge Caravan S&T..................7,998#KP11470A, Nice, DVD, LTHR, PWR DR/Gate

2005 Chrysler Twn & Cntry Ltd..........8,488#KP27304,DVD/Leather, $2,428 OFF KBB

2005 Dodge Magnum SXT..................8,970#KP14663, PSEAT, ALLOYS, PW/PLC, CD

2001 Toyota Highlander Sport...........8,970#KP11507, 4WD, MNRF, LTHR, CD CHGR/CASS, PSeat\

2005 Chrysler Pacifica TRNG............8,990#KR02313, 3RD SEAT, PRISTINE! PSEATS, CD, P/OPTIONS

2008 Saturn Astra XE........................8,998#KP59427, Beauty! Panoramic, MNRF, AT, P/Options

2007 Jeep Compas Ltd......................9,745#KP87612A, Gorgeous! Chrm Whls, Nav, Mnrf, Lthr

2005 Hyundai Tuscon GLS AWD..........9,788#KP34280, NICE! PW/PLC/PMR, CC, CD

2001 Dodge Dakota Club Cab............9,997#KN99557A, Pampered 55K!! P/Options

2007 Ford Escape XLT.......................9,988#KP27730, Nice! MNRF, LTHR, CD, PW

2006 Buick Lucerne CXS.................10,470#KP37654, Luxury!, LTHR/HTD/Mem Seats, Harman KardonCD, SAB

2008 Chrysler Sebring Cnvtb’l.........10,470#KP23531, OFF-SEASON, $2,082 OFF KBB

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

2009 Mitsubishi Gallant..................10,745#KP01845, Ralliart Nav, MNRF, LTHR, Don’t Miss!

2005 Toyota Avalon XL....................10,988#KP15848, GORGEOUS! MNRF, PSEAT, CD, ALLOYS

2005 Dodge Durango Limited..........10,988HEMI, Sunroof, Leather, DVD Nav, One Owner

2006 Volvo S80 2.5T.......................11,470#KP38876, AWD, Pampered! MNRF, LTHR/PWER Seat, SAB

2007 Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer......11,870#47651KP, 4WD, Beauty! 3rd Seat, LTHR, MNRF, RNG BDS

2006 Subaru Legacy Outbk 2.5XT. . .11,988#KP09074, MNRF, LTHR, AT, CD-6, WELL KEPT!

2004 Acura MDX AWD.....................11,988#KP62182, SHARP! DVD, MNRF, LTHR, DON’T MISS!

2008 GMC Savana Cargovan...........11,988#KR11890, AT, AC, Tradesman

2009 Toyota Corolla LE...................12,588#KP65389, CLEAN, 50K! AT, PW/PLC, CD

2008 Toyota RAV 4..........................12,990#KP64756, Beauty! PW/PLC/PMR, CC, CD

2009 Toyota Corolla LE....................12,990#KP24515, ALL THE TOYS! NAV, MNRF, LTHR, PWR OPTS

2007 Caddy STS..............................12,990#KP24575, ALL THE TOYS! NAV, LTHR, PWR OPTS

2007 Honda Accord EX-L V6............14,488#KP32745, Clean! MNRF, LTHR, CD CHGR

2011 Chevy Impala LT.....................14,770#KN88726, MNRF, LTHR/PWER SEATS, CD, ALLOYS, P/Opts, CD Chgr

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

2005 Nissan Armada.......................14,988#KP6061, AWD, NICE! ALLOYS, RNG BDS, P/OPTIONS

2010 Dodge Charger SXT.................16,988#KN46874, PSeat, Alloys, PW/PLC, CD, Fac Warr

2010 Ford Econoline XLT.................19,745#KN77515, 15 PASS, PW, CC, CD, Park Sense

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

2012 Dodge Grand Caravan SXT......20,488#KN41054, DVD, Backup CAM, PDRS/Gate, PSeat

2009 Chevy Silverado 1500.............20,570#KG36062, Crewcab, 4WD, Meticulously Maintained!

HUNDREDS of USED CARS, TRUCKS, VANS & SUVsAll Makes & Models! Visit FitzMall.com Today!

1994 Ford Explorer 4x4.....................1,450#KP10186A,AC,AT,ABS, BEST VALUE!, “HANDYMAN”

1995 BMW 5-Series..........................1,988#KP58509, AUT, LTHR, MNRF, “HANDYMAN”

2001 Ford Winstar SEL.....................2,450#FP39852A, 7 Pass LTHR/PWER Seat, PWER OPTS,Don’t Miss “HANDYMAN”

2001 Mazda MPV LX.........................2,488#KP39139A, DVD, RAC, PWR OPTIONS, “HANDYMAN”

2000 Chevy Camaro Z28...................3,950#KP56784A, “CLASSIC” T-Top HANDYMAN” 3,218 OFF KBB

2003 Olds Alero GL...........................4,488#KP84551, Clean! AT, AC, P/Options, MD Insp’d

2002 Hyundai Sonata LS...................4,988#KD13463, Beauty! MNRF, LTHR, P/OPTS, MD INSP’D

2003 Jeep Grand Cherokee..............4,988#KP26952, 4WD, MNRF, P/Options, 2-Tone, Sharp!“HANDYMAN”

2000 Toyota Camry LE......................4,998#KP01579, Best Buy! AT, PW/PPLC, MD Insp’d

2000 Buick Lesabre LTD...................5,955#KP05316A, LTHR/HTD/PWER Seat, P/Options

1998 Toyota Camry LE......................5,988#KP03265, AT, AC, P/Options, Best Buy!

2003 Saturn L-200............................5,990#KP59757, Super Sharp! Alloys, ABS, AT, PW/PMR, CD

2006 Subaru Legacy WGN.................6,970#KP01702, AWD!, Nice!, PSeat, HTD Seats, P/Options

2002 GMC Sonoma SLS.....................6,988#KP53863, CREW CAB, 4WD, AT, PW, CD, CC, MUST SEE!

2005 Nissan Sentra 1.8S..................6,988#KP95439B, Clean! 92K, AT, AC, PW/PLC

UNDER $10,995 UNDER $10,995

‘01 Toyota Corolla LE $2,988

#KP48326A , CLEAN!, AT, PW,#KP48326A , CLEAN!, AT, PW,“HANDYMAN” $1,527 OFF KBB“HANDYMAN” $1,527 OFF KBB

#KP59757, SUPER SHARP! 90K, AT, PW#KP59757, SUPER SHARP! 90K, AT, PW

WWHHEEAATTOONN UUSSEEDD VVEEHHIICCLLEESSWHEATON USED VEHICLES

‘03 Saturn L200 $5,990

#KP09644A, 4WD, $726 OFF KBB#KP09644A, 4WD, $726 OFF KBB

‘01 Toyota Sequoia SR-5 $7,998

#KP06061, 4WD, WELL-KEPT, 83K!#KP06061, 4WD, WELL-KEPT, 83K!$2,166 OFF KBB$2,166 OFF KBB

‘05 Nissan Armada SE $14,988

#KN46874, PWR SEAT, ALLOYS, $1,048 OFF KBB#KN46874, PWR SEAT, ALLOYS, $1,048 OFF KBB

‘10 Dodge Charger SXT $16,988

#KP86231, NAV & MOONROOF, $4,285 OFF KBB#KP86231, NAV & MOONROOF, $4,285 OFF KBB

‘07 Ford F150 Super Crew Lariat $22,470

#KP15848, GORGEOUS! MOONROOF#KP15848, GORGEOUS! MOONROOF

‘05 Toyota Avalon XL $10,988

#KP71702, PAMPERED, 62K!!#KP71702, PAMPERED, 62K!!

‘07 Chrysler Crossfire $11,988


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