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1906631 NEWS Automotive B-15 Calendar A-2 Classified B-11 Community News A-4 Entertainment B-5 Opinion A-16 School News A-14 Sports B-1 OPENS FOR BUSINESS Downtown Crown has officially opened its doors to business with a new Starbucks open and more retailers soon to follow. A-4 SIZE DOESN’T MATTER Rockville High quarter- back lacks traditional size, but is putting up impressive numbers. B-1 Please RECYCLE SPORTS DAILY UPDATES ONLINE www.gazette.net 25 cents The Gazette POTOMAC | NORTH POTOMAC DANCE CARD Comedian Engvall takes break from competition to stop by Strathmore. B-5 Wednesday, October 2, 2013 & Di g ital overnment The first in a two-part series New chapter looms in fight over required government ads in newspapers INSIDE n High-speed Internet access is available to more than nine of every 10 households in the county, making it one of the nation’s most connected communities. A-15 BY ANDREW SCHOTZ STAFF WRITER Lawmakers and government groups are resuming a fight with media representatives over a requirement to buy newspaper advertisements. Known as “legal notices,” the ads are mandatory an- nouncements of certain gov- ernment proceedings, such as public hearings and zoning re- quests. They are a revenue source for newspapers and a longstand- ing way to inform the public. The main questions: Are these ads the best way to pub- licize government workings? Should government bodies be forced to buy the ads? The Maryland Municipal League and the Maryland As- sociation of Counties argue that the current legal-ad system is inefficient and wasteful; gov- ernment bodies have better, cheaper ways to reach constitu- ents. But the Maryland-Delaware- D.C. Press Association, a media DAN GROSS/THE GAZETTE Garrett Park’s official town bulletin board inside the Garrett Park post office. n Sides disagree on most efficient ways to get information to the public See ADS, Page A-15 n First bell would ring at 8:15 a.m. BY LINDSAY A. POWERS STAFF WRITER High school students in Montgomery County Public Schools may be one step closer to getting more time to sleep be- fore they wake up for school. Superintendent Joshua P. Starr announced Tuesday his recommendation to move the start time for the school system’s high schools back 50 minutes, from 7:25 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. Starr is also recommend- ing adding 30 minutes to the elementary school day to match the length of the high school and middle school days, and moving middle schools’ start time 10 minutes earlier to 7:45 a.m. Start and end times would not change until the 2015-16 school year at the earliest, Starr said. Starr said at a press confer- ence Tuesday that the school system will study the feasibility and practicality of his recom- mendation, partially through engaging students, families, staff and the community and par- tially through estimating costs. “We’ve heard from some but not all of our community,” he said. He said there’s “a clear link” between sleep and students’ Starr recommends later high school start time n Hundreds likely furloughed in county in wake of government shutdown BY KATE S. ALEXANDER AND KEVIN SHAY STAFF WRITERS Thousands of federal jobs and employees call Montgom- ery County home, but many were 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 were forced to stay home was unclear, but most agencies in the county were slashing operations and mandating that most employees stay home. Employees who are furloughed are required to not work and will not receive pay. Montgomery is also home to many companies that contract with the government. Those companies could see employ- ees furloughed and delays in contract bids and awards. Eighteen federal agen- cies and installations are in the county, including the Food and Drug Administration, the De- partment of Energy, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Na- tional Institutes of Health. When Congress failed to pass legislation to fund the gov- ernment Monday night in an impasse over the health care reform law, it triggered plans for agencies to halt all but essential operations. For the Silver Spring-based Food and Drug Administration, 45 percent of its 13,000-mem- ber work force was scheduled for furlough, spokesman Steven Immergut said. Most of those reporting to work Tuesday are paid with user fees, money out- side the budget, he said. The last time the govern- n William O. Douglas Award for Stewardship from the C&O Canal Trust awarded during Park After Dark event BY PEGGY MCEWAN STAFF WRITER Paul Chod considers the C&O Canal National Historical Park both a personal and a community asset. He rides his bike along the towpath many days for exercise. So when the park needs help, this Po- tomac resident is willing to pitch in. Chod, his son Andy Chod, of Rockville, and their family business Minkoff Develop- ment Corporation received the William O. Douglas Award for Stewardship from the C&O Canal Trust at their Park After Dark fundraiser Sept. 28. ”They really were the go-to guys for both the Trust and the park whenever they needed help with stewardship activities: raising money, recruiting volunteers or do- nating services and supplies,” Mike Nardo- lilli, president of the C&O Canal Trust said. “They also have assisted us in getting the word out about the park and Trust.” Among other projects, the Chods spearheaded a fix-up, clean-up activity at Pennyfield Lock, located along the canal at mile 19.3, about five miles north of Great Falls Park. They are also a sponsor of Canal Pride Day, which encourages volunteerism along the length of the 184-mile park. “At Pennyfield Lock we cleaned up trash and installed a fence,” Paul Chod said. “It was very nice, we had people [help- ing] from our company and some of our contractors.” Minkoff Development Corporation is a privately held real estate development corporation, according the their website. They specialize in industrial, flex and of- fice properties in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties. This was the third year the C&O Canal Trust, the official nonprofit partner of the C&O Canal National Historical Park, has presented the William O. Douglas Award. It is named in honor of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas who is credited with saving the canal and inspiring the ef- Potomac man wins stewardship award Federal agencies in county closed WILLIAM FOX Paul Chod (left) of Potomac was awarded the William O. Douglas Award for Stewardship at the C&O Canal Trust’s annual Park After Dark fundraiser Sept. 28. Michael Nardolilli (right), president of the trust, presented the award. Chod shared the honor with his son, Andy Chod, and their family business, Minkoff Development Corporation. See CLOSED, Page A-13 See START, Page A-13 See AWARD, Page A-13 FALL HOME FALL HOME SERVICES INSIDE SERVICES INSIDE FOCUS ON FOCUS ON LAWN & TREE SERVICES LAWN & TREE SERVICES LOCAL JOBS INSIDE ADVERTISING INSIDE B SECTION
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NEWS Automotive B-15Calendar A-2Classified B-11Community News A-4Entertainment B-5Opinion A-16School News A-14Sports B-1
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DANCE CARDComedian Engvall takes break from competition to stop by Strathmore. B-5
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
&
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.
A-15
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 DAN GROSS/THE GAZETTE
Garrett Park’s official town bulletin board inside the Garrett Park postoffice.
n Sides disagree on most efficient waysto get information to the public
See ADS, Page A-15
n First bell would ringat 8:15 a.m.
BY LINDSAY A. POWERSSTAFF WRITER
High school students inMontgomery County PublicSchools may be one step closerto getting more time to sleep be-fore they wake up for school.
Superintendent Joshua P.Starr announced Tuesday hisrecommendation to move thestart time for the school system’shigh schools back 50 minutes,from 7:25 a.m. to 8:15 a.m.
Starr is also recommend-ing adding 30 minutes to theelementary school day to matchthe length of the high school and
middle school days, and movingmiddle schools’ start time 10minutes earlier to 7:45 a.m.
Start and end times wouldnot change until the 2015-16school year at the earliest, Starrsaid.
Starr said at a press confer-ence Tuesday that the schoolsystem will study the feasibilityand practicality of his recom-mendation, partially throughengaging students, families, staffand the community and par-tially through estimating costs.
“We’ve heard from somebut not all of our community,”he said.
He said there’s “a clear link”between sleep and students’
Starr recommends laterhigh school start time
n Hundreds likelyfurloughed in county inwake of governmentshutdown
BY KATE S. ALEXANDERAND 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. Those
companies 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-
n William O. Douglas Award forStewardship from the C&O CanalTrust awarded during ParkAfter Dark event
BY PEGGY MCEWANSTAFF WRITER
Paul Chod considers the C&O CanalNational Historical Park both a personaland a community asset. He rides his bikealong the towpath many days for exercise.
So when the park needs help, this Po-tomac resident is willing to pitch in.
Chod, his son Andy Chod, of Rockville,and their family business Minkoff Develop-ment Corporation received the William O.
Douglas Award for Stewardship from theC&O Canal Trust at their Park After Darkfundraiser Sept. 28.
”They really were the go-to guys forboth the Trust and the park whenever theyneeded help with stewardship activities:raising money, recruiting volunteers or do-nating services and supplies,” Mike Nardo-lilli, president of the C&O Canal Trust said.“They also have assisted us in getting theword out about the park and Trust.”
Among other projects, the Chodsspearheaded a fix-up, clean-up activity atPennyfield Lock, located along the canal atmile 19.3, about five miles north of GreatFalls Park. They are also a sponsor of CanalPride Day, which encourages volunteerismalong the length of the 184-mile park.
“At Pennyfield Lock we cleaned up
trash and installed a fence,” Paul Chodsaid. “It was very nice, we had people [help-ing] from our company and some of ourcontractors.”
Minkoff Development Corporation isa privately held real estate developmentcorporation, according the their website.They specialize in industrial, flex and of-fice properties in Montgomery and PrinceGeorge’s counties.
This was the third year the C&O CanalTrust, the official nonprofit partner of theC&O Canal National Historical Park, haspresented the William O. Douglas Award.It is named in honor of Supreme CourtJustice William O. Douglas who is creditedwith saving the canal and inspiring the ef-
Potomac man wins stewardship award
Federal agenciesin county closed
WILLIAM FOX
Paul Chod (left) of Potomac was awarded the William O. Douglas Award for Stewardship at the C&O Canal Trust’s annual Park After Dark fundraiserSept. 28. Michael Nardolilli (right), president of the trust, presented the award. Chod shared the honor with his son, Andy Chod, and their family business,Minkoff Development Corporation.
See CLOSED, Page A-13
See START, Page A-13See AWARD, Page A-13
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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 2Grief Support Groups, 6-7:30 p.m., Mont-
gomery Hospice, 1355 Piccard Drive, Rock-ville. One group for children 4 through teenswho have experienced the death of a parentor sibling; parent group meets at the sametime. Free, registration required. 301-921-4400.
Laura Burhenn Concert, 7:30 p.m., Strath-more Mansion, 10701 Rockville Pike, NorthBethesda. $17. 301-581-5100.
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.
Fables and Tables, 5:30-8 p.m., SmokeyGlen Farm, 16407 Riffle Ford Road, Gaithers-burg. An evening of community caring andcompanionship by sharing a humble meal of
soup and bread. $40 in advance. 301-315-1101.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.
Toastmasters in Potomac, 6:45-8:30 p.m.,Potomac Library, 10101 Glenolder Drive, Po-tomac. Gain confidence in public speaking.Free. [email protected].
FRIDAY, OCT. 4Garden Walk: Autumn Tour of McCrillis
Gardens, 1-2:30 p.m., 6910 Greentree Road,Bethesda. $6. Register at www.parkpass.org.
One by One Fundraising Event, 7 p.m., TheSimon Residence, 5330 Chamberlin Ave., ChevyChase. The Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project’s firstannual event. $25 general, $100 VIP. www.nyakaschool.org.
“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 2p.m. Oct. 6. $16 for students and seniors, $18for other adults. 240-314-8690.
SATURDAY, OCT. 5Community Indoor Yard Sale, 8 a.m.-noon,
Lincoln Park Community Center, 357 FrederickAve., Rockville. 240-314-8780.
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].
Down Syndrome Network Buddy Walk, 10a.m.-2 p.m., Hadley’s Park, 12600 Falls Road,Potomac. A 1-mile walk with games, moonbounces, arts and crafts and refreshments. $15for adults, $5 for children. 301-502-2041.
Antique and Collectible Show, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.,Montgomery County Fairgrounds, 16 ChestnutSt., Gaithersburg, same time Oct. 6. Many vendorswith antiques for sale with free verbal antique ap-praisals on Oct. 5. $6. 301-649-1915.
Whitman Cheer Clinic Fundraiser, 1-4 p.m.,Shockwave Allstars, 20 E. Southlawn Court,Rockville. $35. 301-938-2499.
Yoga Salutes Non-violence: 108 Sun Saluta-tions, 2-4 p.m., extendYoga, 12106 Wilkins Ave.,North Bethesda. A charity event to raise aware-ness and support for Betty Krahnke Shelter.Free, donations welcome. 301-881-3330.
Wild Game Dinner, 4-8 p.m., Lois Green/Sligo Chapter of the Izaak Walton League ofAmerica, 8721 Snouffer School Road, Gaithers-burg. $15. 301-869-4943.
Sadie Hawkins Barn Dance, 7-11 p.m.,Alfio’s Restaurant, 4515 Willard Ave., ChevyChase. Transportation provided to Clarksburgfor the Junior Women’s Club of Chevy Chasedance, which benefits A Wider Circle. $25. 240-223-7426.
Haskell Small on Piano, 8 p.m., Westmore-land Congregational United Church of Christ, 1Westmoreland Circle, Bethesda. Performing thecomplete Musica Callada, by Catalan Spanishcomposer Federico Mompou. Free. 301-320-2770.
The Sunrise Quartet, 8-10 p.m., Latvian Lu-theran Church, 400 Hurley Ave., Rockville. [email protected].
SUNDAY, OCT. 6Meet the Composer, 2 p.m., Ingleside at
King Farm, 701 King Farm Blvd., Rockville.Janice Hamer will speak about her new opera,“Lost Childhood,” based on a Holocaust mem-oir. 240-499-9019.
Sunday Afternoon Waltz, 2:45-6 p.m., GlenEcho Park, Bumper Car Pavilion, 7300 MacAr-thur Blvd., Glen Echo. Featuring the ensembleLarry, Elke, & Friends. $10. 202-238-0230.
Prayers for the City, 7-8:30 p.m., AsburyMethodist Village, Roseborough Theater, 409Russell Ave., Gaithersburg. A celebration ofreligious diversity in greater Gaithersburg. Free.301-948-0122, ext. 12.
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.
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Meet the Author Book Signing andPresentation, 7-9 p.m., PotomacPresbyterian Church, 10301 RiverRoad, Potomac. U.S. Navy RearAdm. (retired) Terry McKnight willdiscuss and sign his book “Pirate Al-ley,” about fighting Somali pirates.
$10 suggested donation. 301-527-1235.
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4The Potomac Vintage andArts Festival, 10 a.m.-4p.m., Potomac VillageShopping Center, 10033River Road, Potomac.Raises funds to supportarea charities. Free admis-
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Imagine a rock band fromMaryland’s most diversecounty. What would it look like?
Drop Electric has the an-swer. The four-member bandwhich is releasing an album onOct. 22, self-described as heavyrock meets electric, is made upof children of immigrants fromIndia, Iran, Mexico, Ukraineand Japan.
“We’re all typical children ofimmigrants. We all have grownup with so many different cul-tural influences,” said RamtinArablouei, 31, a graduate ofNorthwest High School in Ger-mantown. “We saw our parentswork hard, trying to build a life.And we work hard; we reallywork hard at music.”
Part of that hard work ismastering more than one in-strument. Arablouei plays thedrums and the piano.
Neel Singh, 30, a graduateof Walt Whitman High School,is a classically trained uprightbass player who can also playguitar. Kristina Reznikov, 26,a graduate of Richard Mont-gomery High School, can playrock, drums and piano, and ShoFujiwara, 27, the only memberwho did not grow up here -- heis from Chicago -- plays thetrumpet.
The band first tasted suc-cess when it was featured onthe National Public Radio show“All Songs Considered.” It hadalso released an instrumentalalbum online in 2010.
The new album, called“Waking up to the Fire” willfeature Reznikov on vocals, butit stays true to the band’s lushelectronic sound.
“A lot of it was written onlaptops, but there are also alot of strings and guitars,” saidArablouei who met bandmateSingh, of Bethesda, when theywere both undergraduates atSt, Mary’s College. The othertwo members were recruitedthrough Craigslist.
Another sign of their im-migrant’s parents views onhard work is that all four mem-bers are gainfully employed,spending their days working innonprofits, in journalism andwaiting tables.
Drop Electric will beplaying at The Fillmore at7:30 p.m. on Saturday. Formore information, visitfillmoresilverspring.com/event/15004B1DDD9473A3.
Deer managementbegins in county parks
Several Montgomery Parkswill be closed intermittentlystarting Oct. 28 through Febru-
ary when the deer managementoperations season begins.There is also a proposal to addCabin John Regional Park to theprogram.
Lottery-based and coop-erative managed deer hunts,as well as park police-basedsharpshooting, will take placein 27 parks in the MontgomeryParks system. For a completeschedule of park closure datesand times, visit: http://ow.ly/phcUy
All of the deer harvestedfrom the program are trans-ported to a processing facilityand the meat donated to localfood disbursement organiza-tions. Last year, approximately16,000 pounds of processedvenison was donated to the Na-tional Capital Area Food Bank.
For more details on thelottery-based programs areavailable at www.parksdeer-management.org.
Cabin John Regional Parkhas seen an explosion in deerrecently — a study indicatedthat 125 to 150 deer inhabit the514 acres of parkland locatedwithin the boundary of Inter-state 270, Democracy Boule-vard and Seven Locks Road,which is three times the densityrecommended for the area. Asa result, Montgomery Parks isproposed adding sections ofCabin John Regional Park to theprogram and is accepting pub-lic comment on the proposalthrough October 25.
Comments must includea valid name and address, andwill be posted online at www.parksdeermanagement.org forpublic review. Comments mayalso be submitted by email toMCP-deermanagement M-
NCPPC Montgomery Parks,Deer Management Initiatives,12535 Milestone Manor Lane,Germantown, MD 20876.
Speaker on immigrationat Chevy Chase
Chevy Chase at Home ishosting Joan Churchill, an im-migration judge, from 2 to 4p.m. on Oct. 15 at the ChevyChase Village Hall. Churchillwill speak on the subject of “TheCurrent Status of a Comprehen-sive Immigration Policy.” Formore information, visit: www.chevychasehome.org
Campus CongratsThree local high school
graduates have started at Ham-ilton College this fall.
Allison R. Donahoe, daugh-ter of Diana and Keith Donahoeof Bethesda, is a graduate ofSaint Andrew’s EpiscopalSchool.
Nicholas V. Sobczyk, sonof Jaculine Koszczuk and Jo-seph Sobczyk of Bethesda, is agraduate of Walt Whitman HighSchool.
Sarah M. Sull, daughter ofAndrea Elfin and Allan Sull ofBethesda, is a graduate of Wal-ter Johnson High School.
They were selected from apool of 5,017 applicants to thecollege, and join a class of 492.
‘21 This Week’ turns 2121 This Week with Casey
Aiken plans to celebrate thetalk show’s 21st Anniversary— and Aiken’s 10 years of host-ing the program — on Oct. 2 at
Bethesda Blues & Jazz SupperClub, 7719 Wisconsin Avenue,Bethesda. The talk show, dedi-cated to the politics of Mont-gomery County, will be tapedlive.
21 This Week is the county’stop rated weekly political newsprogram. Seen on MontgomeryCommunity Media channel 21by nearly 20,000 viewers everyweekend, 21 This Week is themost-watched and longest-run-ning weekly political news pro-gram on community television.For more information about theparty, call: 301-509-4046.
Kensington co-opcelebrates one yearGala Artisan Jewelry & Gifts,
on Armory Avenue in Kensing-ton, celebrated its one-year an-niversary on Sept. 20.
The co-op shop sells jew-elry, art and home furnishings,among other things, all madeby mostly local artisans. Artistmembers staff the store hours,which frees up profits to pay rentin a highly visible location on Ar-mory Avenue in Kensington.
Photo exhibit of D.C.at Glen Echo
Glen Echo’s PhotoworksGallery and PhotographySchool is presenting “The Dis-trict: The Streets of Washington,DC, 1984-1994,” an exhibitionof work by photographer Mi-chael Horsley. The show depictsa different side to the District,one often overlooked by politi-cians and tourists, revealingthe raw character of a city onceravaged by decline, drugs and
crime. The exhibit will be opento the public from 1 to 4 p.m. onSaturdays and from 1 to 8 p.m.on Mondays until Oct. 14. Formore information, visit: http://glenechophotoworks.org.
Walking outof the darkness
Concerned area residentssought to bring suicide out ofthe darkness and into a place toprevent it during a fundraisingin Rockville recently.
The 2013 MontgomeryCounty Out of the DarknessCommunity Walk for suicideprevention took place in Rock-ville’s Town Center Sept. 21.About 350 walkers participatedand helped raise almost $40,000for the American Foundationfor Suicide Prevention.
Jillian Johnson, Miss Po-tomac Outstanding Teen 2013,provided remarks during theopening ceremony. She hasmade suicide prevention theplatform for her reign.
Talent search forMLK Day celebrationMontgomery County is
looking for talented countyresidents to perform at thecounty’s 20th anniversary andtribute to Martin Luther King,Jr. The event will be held on Jan.20, 2014, at the music center atStrathmore in Bethesda.
Performers of the spokenword, musical selections, cre-ative dance, instrumental selec-tions and skits are all welcometo try out at auditions, whichwill be held from 5 to 9 p.m.on Oct. 11 at the music build-
ing’s recital hall at MontgomeryCollege, Rockville Campus, 51Mannakee Street, Rockville.
To schedule an audition,email Rachel Reed at [email protected] by Oct.8. For more information, callCarmen Poston-Farmer at 240-567-5253 or Yvonne Stephens at240-567-4203.
Suburban Hospitalflu shot clinics
Suburban Hospital is of-fering two flu shot clinics thismonth.
The first is from noon to 3p.m. on Saturday at the 23rdannual Come Back to Bethesdaevent, Chevy Chase Acura, 7725Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda.
The second is from 9 to10:30 a.m. on Oct. 15 at theYMCA Bethesda-Chevy Chase,9401 Old Georgetown Road,Bethesda.
No appointment is neces-sary, but only those 18 years orolder can get the shot, whichcost $25. Cash, check and majorcredit cards are accepted. Thehospital cannot bill Medicare/Medicaid. Receipts are availablefor insurance purposes. Formore information, call 301-896-6507 or visit suburbanhospital.org for additional locations andschedule changes.
Send event information,photos and news items for Peo-ple and Places to Agnes Blum [email protected], or call 301-280-3002.
Local band’s eclectic mix
DROP ELECTRIC
Drop Electric is an eclectic electronic band based in Montgomery County made up of Ramtin Arablouei, Neel Singh, Kristina Reznikov and Sho Fujiwara.
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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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n Starbucks alreadyserving customers
BY JENN DAVISSTAFF WRITER
Downtown Crown has offi-cially opened its doors to busi-ness with a new Starbucks openand more retailers soon to fol-low, while the new communityis already home to several fami-lies who moved in over the lastfew weeks.
Starbucks began adding itscaffeine to Crown on Friday,according to Crown spokes-woman Tammy Murphy. A Star-bucks spokesman did not returnphone calls to find out how thenew store is doing.
LA Fitness plans to open its
doors by the end of this yearto capitalize on the post-NewYear’s workout frenzy, and Har-ris Teeter is looking to welcomecustomers in January 2014, Mur-phy said.
Restaurants like Ruth’s ChrisSteakhouse, La Tagliatella, AsianNine and Lime Fresh MexicanGrill will eventually join Star-bucks, according to Crown’swebsite. A few retail stores, likeVerizon Wireless, will also cometo the center soon.
Businesses are not the onlything to have moved into thedevelopment.
Crown West, a residentialsection that lies in the middlethird of the Crown area, is now afunctioning neighborhood withseveral families already movedin, Murphy said. About 50 homes
have been sold so far, and sinceAug. 22, seven households haveclosed on their townhomes,which were the first units to goup in the neighborhood.
“Crown is officially a neigh-borhood now with people oc-cupying some of the homes,”Murphy said.
Work doesn’t stop there,however, as Crown developershave turned their attention tosignage for the mega-center.
At a Gaithersburg PlanningCommission meeting on Sept.25, commissioners unanimouslyapproved a plan that will allowBethesda-based Streetsenseto install three types of signsthroughout Downtown Crown.
According to city docu-ments, one primary monumentsign will be placed at the devel-
opment’s main entrance at theintersection of Fields Road andSam Eig Highway, sitting paral-lel with the highway. Designedwith curved grooves, the 40-footlong sign will have internal light-ing, and the words “Crown” and“City of Gaithersburg” on thefront.
Secondary signs with thesame curved groove design andlight feature will be at Crown’sfour entryways, the intersec-tions of Ellington Boulevard andFields Road, Crown Park Av-enue and Alcott Place, EllingtonBoulevard and DiamondbackDrive, and Sam Eig Highwayand Diamondback Drive. Thesethree-dimensional rectangularprisms will stand about 10 to 15feet high and have “DowntownCrown” etched on all four sides.
Additionally, DowntownCrown’s parking garages willhave mesh or vinyl hangingbanners. At Garages A and B, onCopley Street and Alcott Placerespectively, banners will proj-ect from the side of the buildingwith metal support arms hold-ing them in place. For Garage Con Copley Street, banners willhang flat against the building.
Estimated costs for Crownsignage were not discussed atthe meeting or in city docu-ments.
At the same meeting, thePlanning Commission approveda site plan for a community cen-ter in Crown Neighborhood 3at the intersection of DecoverlyDrive and Crown Park Avenue.
Nestled on 2.35 acres, thecenter will be between 4,800 to
9,500 square feet and likely havetwo swimming pools, three hardsurface areas including bocce balland tennis courts, a playground,community gathering areas and aparking lot, according to city doc-uments. Gardens, walking trailsand bike paths will be placedthroughout the property.
A suggested Homeowner As-sociation fee for the communityamenities was not included inthe proposal.
Developers broke groundon the Crown project, built onthe former Crown farm, in Octo-ber of 2012. Aside from 320,000square feet of retail and com-mercial space, the propertywill eventually be home to over2,000 residential units.
Crown opens for business, welcomes homeowners
n Veterinarian believesvaccine triggeredautoimmune reaction
BY SARAH SCULLYSTAFF WRITER
A dog that was vaccinatedagainst the dog flu has died, andher owners and veterinarianthink the inoculation could beat fault.
Honey, a havanese, was only5 years old when she becamesick last month and died Sept.23. Owner Sara Landy of Po-tomac, an operating room nurseat the MedStar Center for Am-bulatory Surgery, said “this dogwas vibrant and healthy,” untilseveral days after a flu vaccina-tion on Sept. 10 at Canal Clinic.
Landy took Honey back tothe clinic when she appearedsick, and she was given fluid.But on the day that Honey wasscheduled to have her secondbooster for the vaccine, she died.
Dr. Leslie Taylor of the Ca-nal Clinic in Potomac said shebelieved it was likely that the fluvaccine triggered an autoimmunereactionthat ledtoHoney’sdeath.
Landy’s husband, Dr. Mi-chael Landy, a dentist, had alsonoticed that Honey’s gums werebleeding after she became sick,a sign of platelet deficiency, thetype of autoimmune reactionthat Taylor also identified.
Autoimmune reactions canbe caused by vaccines on rareoccasions, Taylor said, addingthat “we had one other case overa year ago with this particularbrand of vaccine.”
They had been using aMerck vaccine, which was theonly dog flu vaccine availablefor some time after it came outin June 2009.
After the first death, Taylorsaid she stopped administeringthe vaccine altogether until thelate August outbreak of dog fluprompted her to give the vac-cine again.
Since August, 21 cases andtwo fatalities have been re-ported, according to Vanessa Or-lando, a Maryland Departmentof Agriculture spokeswoman.But because veterinarians arenot required to report illnesses,it is likely that many have goneunreported.
In comparison, there wereonly three reported cases be-tween 2006 and 2011, Orlandowrote in an email.
Orlando called canine influ-
enza “extremely contagious.”It is airborne and easily passedbetween dogs in close proxim-ity. Symptoms include persis-tent coughing for 10 to 21 days,runny nose and low-grade fever.
With the outbreak, kennelsstarted requiring the vaccine,and Taylor estimates that shehas administered about 300 vac-cinations since late August.
However Taylor does notrecommend the vaccine nor-mally, unless a dog is exposedto a large number of other dogsat kennels, and some dog parksand groomers.
Honey had stayed with aboarder over Labor Day week-end, and Landy took Honey toget the vaccine after the ownersof the boarding house recom-mended it.
While it’s possible thatHoney picked up the flu thereor other factors caused Honey’sillness, Taylor believes that thenature of the autoimmune reac-tion makes it likely that the vac-cine led to Honey’s death.
She also said other cases mayhave gone unreported becausereactions usually occur one totwo weeks after the vaccination.
Canal Clinic since has sentall the Merck vaccines back tothe company. Taylor said Merckalso agreed to assist owners ofaffected dogs with medical ex-penses, however, Landy said shehad not heard about possiblecompensation.
Now Taylor uses a vaccinemade by Zoetis, formerly PfizerAnimal Health. So far, she saidshe has had no problems withthe new vaccine.
Kelly Goss, Merck AnimalHealth director of communica-tions, said that the vaccine had“an excellent safety profile,” intesting and use since its release.
She also said it is difficult totrace the cause of a pet’s illness,but Merck often assists with test-ing and diagnosis costs follow-
Potomac dog dies afterreceiving flu vaccine
n African-American students’scores up; Hispanic scores drop
BY LINDSAY A. POWERSSTAFF WRITER
Montgomery County Public Schools’2013 SAT results showed movement inboth African-American and Hispanic stu-dents’ scores — but in different directions.
African-American students’ averagecombined score rose to 1397 this year —eight points above last year’s score. From2011 to 2012, African-American students’average score increased seven points.
Hispanic students’ average combinedscore, however, fell 32 points this year aftera six-point increase from 2011 to 2012.
Both student groups scored signifi-cantly higher than their state and nationalpeers this year.
The county school system’s overall av-erage combined score fell three points —from 1651 in 2012 to 1648 this year — butwas still 11 points above the 2011 score.
The SAT serves as a college placementexam and has a maximum score of 2400across three areas: critical reading, math-ematics and writing.
African-American students’ scoresimproved in all three areas of the test. His-panic students’ scores fell in all three.
About 61 percent of the school system’s2013 African-American graduates took theSAT and about 47 percent of Hispanic grad-uates took the test — relatively the same aslast year’s participation for both studentgroups.
Superintendent Joshua P. Starr saidin an interview Thursday that school sys-
tem staff will sit down with principals andschools leaders to talk over the scores andevaluate what they did and did not do.
“I’m concerned, I’m really concerned,”Starr said of the decline in Hispanic stu-dents’ scores. “I don’t understand why thatdrop exists.”
Addressing the county school system’soverall combined score, Starr said, “We areessentially stable.”
Starr said the school system has fo-cused efforts toward helping students tra-ditionally underrepresented in colleges,including African-American and Hispanicstudents.
Montgomery County Board of Educa-tion member Michael Durso said he andothers in the school system will need to taketime to determine what these scores mean.
“I think on the surface that’s disturb-ing,” said Durso, addressing Hispanicstudents’ scores. “I think deeper down I’dprobably want to talk to some others andmaybe talk to some people at the schoolsto get their impression.”
He described “the whole SAT score phe-nomenon” as “fluid and unpredictable.”
Durso, a former principal, said that inall three jurisdictions he’s worked in therewere years when SAT scores would changewithout an apparent corresponding changeof the school’s instruction.
“Of all the issues we deal with in educa-tion, interpreting those scores is one of themore challenging ones,” he said.
School board member Rebecca Smon-drowski said she thinks the SAT scores are“one piece of a lot of different things” andthat the SAT data will help the school boarddetermine what questions it needs to ask.
Smondrowski said the school system’s
Hispanic students are “our fastest growingpopulation.”
“I’m not confident that we have the re-sources totally to keep up with the growth,”she said.
She said the school system is workinghard to target achievement gaps, but thatthis time that was not reflected in Hispanicstudents’ scores.
Across the school system, four highschools increased their average combinedscore by 20 points or more, while eight de-creased their scores by 20 points or more.Rockville High School’s score rose 57 pointsto 1582 with the greatest increase and Sen-eca Valley High School’s score fell 75 pointsto 1447 for the greatest decrease.
Rockville High Principal Billie-JeanBensen said the school formed a team lastyear that worked to identify students who,based on their course work and PSAT par-ticipation, would be good candidates forthe SAT but had not yet taken the test.
“We’re certainly continuing that thisyear,” she said.
Marc Cohen, Seneca Valley High’sprincipal, said his initial reaction to thedecrease in his school’s scores was “disap-pointment.” The school, however, saw anearly 110-point increase the year before,he said.
Cohen said he meets with the school’sSAT and ACT committee on a regular basisand that over the next few months they willdiscuss what might have changed to affectthis year’s scores and what interventionsthey believe led to the increase last year.
The SAT data, Cohen said, will “push usto ask questions.”
Montgomery SAT scores show rises, falls
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Honey, a 5-year-old havanese, diedSept. 23 after a flu vaccination thatthe veterinarian believes triggered afatal autoimmune reaction.
Evening comes aspeople arrive on thebarge at Lock 20 ofthe C&O Canal atPark After Dark inPotomac on Saturdayevening.
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Eveningon thecanal
n Gansler officially inDemocratic race
BY KATE S. ALEXANDERSTAFF 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 havea heterosexual, white, maleor Jewish governor, none ofwhich would be a first.
Attorney General DouglasF. Gansler (D) is the latest can-didate to officially throw hishat into the ring, kicking off hiscampaign 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, Harf-ord County Executive Da-vid R. Craig, Del. Ronald A.George (R-Dist. 30) of Arnoldand Charles Lollar of CharlesCounty, the past Marylandstate director of Americans forProsperity, are competing forthe Republican nomination.
As Gansler addressed vot-ers Tuesday, he spoke often ofdiversity — what he has helpedbring to Maryland governmentand what is yet to come, prom-ising an administration that“from top to bottom, will un-apologetically be diverse.”
But his promise was notfar removed from the heatGansler took in August for ac-cusing Brown of relying onrace to get elected.
While some criticizedGansler’s comment as rac-ist, Richard E. Vatz, professorof communication studies atTowson University, said thatwhat Gansler was really sayingwas “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 be-ing asked about being the firstCatholic president.
Vatz said race, as well asreligion and gender, are notpersuasive selling points andovershadow critical issues inan election.
But demographics matterto some voters, said MelissaDeckman, chair and professorof political science at Washing-ton College in Chestertown.
Studies show that African-American and Latino voterstend to support candidateswho are like them, but not allvoters vote for their own, shesaid. For instance, womendo not tend to vote for otherwomen so much as they tendto lean Democratic.
While many African-Americans voted for BarackObama in 2008, isolating racehas proven difficult in empiri-cal political science research,Deckman said.
If elected, Brown would bethestate’sfirstblackgovernor.Butso would Lollar, and to date, Lol-lar’sracehasbeenafocalpoint.
Vatz said demographicsmatter more to Democratsthan Republicans.
“It has to be said that thisis really one sided,” Vatz said.
Deckman agreed.“Republicans, by defini-
tion, do not like to do identitypolitics,” Deckman said.
For candidates in the ma-jority Democratic state, howand when to mention demo-graphics in a campaign is achallenge.
Deckman said it can be a“damned if you do, damned ifyou don’t” situation.
“In some respects, thesewould be important mile-stones for those communi-ties,” she said. “But you alsohave to weigh the general elec-tion and general voters. Youhave to appeal to people in themiddle of the road. Too muchemphasis on identity politicsreally turns off Republicans.”
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. How-ever, 31 percent of those polledwere undecided.
Gubernatorialcontest a studyin demographics
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Attorney General Douglas F.Gansler (D) kicked off his campaignto be Maryland’s next governor
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n Money given for stayingin county, adding jobs
BY RYAN MARSHALLSTAFF WRITER
Six Montgomery Countycompanies will receive moneyfrom the state and county to re-main here.
The business-growth loanscome from the state’s EconomicDevelopment Assistance Au-thority and Fund.
They are geared toward ex-pansion or attraction, eitherhelping companies already inMaryland grow or attractingnew companies to the state,said Karen Glenn Hood, spokes-woman for the Maryland De-partment of Business andEconomic Development, whichoversees the fund.
The Montgomery CountyCouncil voted Tuesday to adoptresolutions endorsing the loans,which include county money,to the six companies, part of theprocess required for the state toprocess the loans.
Each loan is conditional, tiedtobenchmarksthecompanymustmeet to keep the money, she said.
Among the factors the statelooks at when considering aloan is the fundamental healthof a company, whether it has astrong business plan, the com-pany’s bottom line and strongrevenues, she said.
The county wants to seethat a company will stay in thecounty for a specific length oftime, maintain the jobs it haswhen the agreement is signedand create a certain number ofjobs, said Peter Bang, chief op-erating officer for the county’sDepartment of Economic De-velopment.
Much of the county moneyoften is through tax credits, Bangsaid.
The county money can beconverted to grants if a companymeets the terms of its agree-ment, he said. State loans areconditional loans.
The six companies to receiveloans were:
• Meso Scale Diagnosticsof Rockville makes biologicaldetection and measurementequipment for the defense andintelligence industries.
It has 435 employees aroundthe world, about 75 percent ofwhich are based in Montgom-ery, according to a county mem-orandum on the deals.
The company plans to in-crease its local workforce to morethan 438 over the next three years,in exchange for a conditional loanof $1.5 million from the state anda loan from the county’s Eco-nomic Development Fund of upto $1.67 million.
• Social and Scientific Sys-tems of Silver Spring providestechnical, research and manage-ment support for companies inthe health field.
It has 310 employees in thecounty and plans to hire 150more over five years.
The company will receive$650,000 in loans from the stateand $350,000 from the county.
• Sodexo of Gaithersburg, aninternational food services com-pany, employs 900 people in the
county, according to the countymemorandum.
The company will stay at itscurrent location on Washing-tonian Boulevard for 10 moreyears, and will receive a loan of$2 million from the state and$1.5 million from the county.
• Sucampo Pharmaceuticalsof Bethesda will keep its corporateheadquarters and the accompa-nying 55 employees in Bethesdaand receive $300,000 from thestate and $200,000 from thecounty. Sucampo plans to add 55more jobs by the end of 2017.
• Total Wine and More ofPotomac has more than 90 su-perstores in 15 states and about310 employees in MontgomeryCounty. The company plans toadd about 150 more jobs by theend of 2018.
Total Wine and More willget $850,000 from the state and$500,000 from the county.
•Precision for Medicine,which works to commercializescientific research, has moved itscorporate offices and 16 employ-ees to a new location in Bethesdaand will look to add at least 59
more jobs by the end of 2017.The company had previ-
ously been located in a muchsmaller office in Bethesda, Bangsaid.
The company will receive$750,000 from the state and a$200,000 loan from the county.
While the corporate head-quarters will be in Bethesda, abiolab facility will be in Freder-ick.
All of the companies exceptPrecision for Medicine hadleases expiring and were look-ing at moving to other areas,Bang said.
The county can’t offermoney to every company think-ing about leaving, he said, butit has databases and processesto determine which companiesthey attempt to focus on.
Often, it comes down towhat the damage would be tothe county or state if a companyleaves, and the opportunity costif a company stays, he said.
“Our job is not just to playthe real estate game,” he said.
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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 is ar-tificial, is responsible for raisingLDL (bad) cholesterol levels andincreasing the risk of stroke, heartdisease and Type 2 diabetes.
Montgomery County was
the 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.
Beil said most of the viola-tions this year were from first-time offenders. The ban doesnot apply to food served in amanufacturer’s original sealedpackaging.
“Sometimes people don’trealize their product is a viola-tion,” Beil said. “We ask them tofix it and they always do.”
The DoubleTree HotelBethesda 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 hadto be sent back. Eventually, thewholesale venues he buys fromchanged products to match theguidelines.
The county’s environmen-tal health specialists do the in-spections. “They simply look onshelves in the pantry and store-rooms of the restaurant and theyread the labels,” 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 wereto 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 in, trans fat violations persist
n Amazon.com founderalso buys other papers,printing plants
BY KEVIN JAMES SHAYSTAFF WRITER
The $250 million sale of TheGazette, The Washington Postand other properties to a privateinvestment company ownedby Amazon.com CEO Jeffrey P.Bezos was completed Tuesday,executives said.
The sale, announced in Au-gust, ends four generations ofownership of the flagship Postfor the Graham family. The dealis “an exciting — and historic— opportunity” for the Post,Gazette and other entities sold,Donald E. Graham, CEO andboard chairman of The Wash-ington Post Co., wrote Tuesdayin a letter to employees.
Besides The Post and Ga-zette, the sale includes the Ex-
press newspaper, SouthernMaryland Newspapers, theFairfax County Times, the Span-ish-language El Tiempo Latinonewspaper, the Post’s printingplant in Springfield, Va., theComprint printing plant in Lau-rel and several military publica-tions.
The Kaplan education com-pany, Cable One, Slate maga-zine, some television stations,the headquarters building inWashington and some otherholdings will remain with TheWashington Post Co., whichwill be changing its name. Anew name has not yet been an-nounced, and it is not yet knownwhere that company will beheadquartered, Rima Calderon,a spokeswoman for The Wash-ington Post Co., said on Tues-day.
Graham, who will continueas CEO of the new company,wrote that the “future of TheWashington Post Co. is the fu-
ture of Kaplan,” calling the com-pany a worldwide leader that isimproving its profitability while“paying as much attention toimproving student outcomes.”
Graham added that the newcompany will continue to lookfor “good businesses to investin” and “will have a new nameto announce soon.” He saidthe company had a “very, verystrong balance sheet” and “willbe quite a bit stronger in a yearor two when the headquartersbuilding and our Alexandria wa-terfront property is sold.”
Bezos’ investment company,Nash Holdings LLC, is not partof Amazon.com. A spokesmanfor Bezos could not be reachedfor comment on Tuesday.
Bezos, who has a reportednet worth of $25 billion, foundedAmazon in 1994. The companyhad revenue of $61.1 billion lastyear.
Bezos completes purchaseof Gazette, Washington Post
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 adisputed new health care law.
Congress and the WhiteHouse deadlocked over whetherto continue funding the federalgovernment, forcing a shut-down that started on Tuesday.
Another battle is comingsoon: whether to raise the ceil-ing on the country’s debt, Car-din said during an informallunch and discussion.
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 coun-try would run out of emergencyborrowing power by Oct. 17, ac-cording to The Washington Post.
“There is no flexibility here,”Cardin said.
Much of the Sept. 23 talkinvolved the budget showdownthat was percolating in Con-gress, after the House of Repre-sentatives passed a spending billthat did not include money forthe health care system known asObamacare.
Cardin blamed the show-down on about 50 Republican“extremists” in the House ofRepresentatives who refuseto negotiate the differencesbetween individual budgetspassed by the House and Senate.
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n Laws ban sale,consumption of syntheticmarijuana, driving andtalking on phone withouthands-free device
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 tobaccoshop, wreaked havoc on theirson, Eichler’s parents said onMonday.
“He went from a vibrantyoung person to a person strug-gling to stay alive,” said Char-lie’s father, Tony, recalling howhis son 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 seek
to distribute it, he said, explain-ing that the drugs could have amuch stronger high than naturalmarijuana.
“The effect of this drug onthe 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 tobaccoshops or in neighborhood con-venience stores, or masked asincense.
New seat beltand texting laws
Drivers caught talking on acellphone can be pulled over fornot using a hands-free device
and drivers and all passengersin a vehicle will be required towear a seat belt since new lawswent into effect Tuesday.
Driving and talking on acellphone without a hands-free device now is a primaryoffense, meaning police canpull drivers over for that infrac-tion alone, said MontgomeryCounty Police Capt. ThomasDidone.
Didone did not know howmany stops had been made asof Tuesday afternoon.
“I’m happy to say we areseeing a lot more compliance,”he said.
There are a few exceptionsto the new law, he said. Driverscan have phones in their handwhen starting or ending calls,turning phones on or off, or ifdrivers have to call police orrescue services.
Otherwise, “if the vehicle isin 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 pointson their license unless they arealso in a collision, he said.
Distracted driving — failingto pay full time and attention— was one of the main factorscausing crashes in 2012, Di-done said.
“We believe cellphone us-age was a significant contribu-tor to those factors,” he said.
The other law beingchanged is one that now man-dates all people in a vehiclemust wear a seat belt — includ-ing passengers in the back seatwho are over the age 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 in thelaw, people who were over theage of 16 sitting in the back seatwere not required to wear theirseat belts, even though passen-gers younger than 16 or whowere sitting in the front seatwere required to wear theirs.
“You’re not safe in the backseat without a seat belt,” hesaid.
The law is a personal onefor Didone, whose 15-year-oldson, Ryan, died in a car acci-dent in Damascus in 2008.
Ryan wasn’t wearing a seatbelt, Didone said. “That’s whyI advocated the law,” he said,adding that states with blan-ket seat belt laws tend to havecompliance rates that are 20percent higher than states thatdon’t have such laws.
“This law now gives offi-cers the tools they need to takesome action to save lives,” hesaid.
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.
New traffic, drug laws go into effect Tuesday
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Sen. Jennie Forehand (D-Dist. 17) of Rockville speaks at a press conference to announce new laws against talking ortexting while driving. Behind Forehand are Montgomery County Police Chief Thomas Manger and Montgomery State’sAttorney John McCarthy.
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n Each time Hoffmanreached a goal, heset a new one
BY LINDSAY A. POWERSSTAFF WRITER
When Adam Hoffman grad-uated from Montgomery Col-lege in May, his degree markedthe end of a five-year college ex-perience some said he might notbe able 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, major-ing in 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 succeed
than 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 a2006 evaluation that “due to Ad-am’s significant learning issues,a traditional two- or four-yearcollege program will be highlychallenging, and will potentiallygenerate considerable frustra-tion.”
In 2010 — after Adam hadcompleted lower-level com-puter courses at the college — aMontgomery College guidancecounselor recommended thatAdam use skills he had learnedto make himself a better job can-didate.
“Taking additional ad-vanced courses in the ComputerApplications department willrequire increased conceptualskills that, from what I have readin his records and experiencedin my interactions with Adam,he does not have,” the guidancecounselor’s evaluation said, ac-cording to Howard.
Adam certainly faced chal-lenges, starting with what classesto take when he first started.
“I didn’t know what I wasgoing to do at first,” he said.
A few classes, including ageography course, proved too
difficult the first time around.Adam would drop the courseand take — and pass — it thenext semester.
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 he
averaged 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 work
toward 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 a
special-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 strug-gles he faced, “worked hardand pressed hard to achieve hisgoal.”
Kienzle said Adam’s tutorsand others saw him grow overthe five years he attended col-lege.
“He’s one of those guyswho’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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Adam Hoffman is pictured Monday afternoon at the Montgomery College Rockville campus.
The following is a summary of in-cidents in the Potomac area to whichMontgomery County police respondedrecently. The words “arrested” and“charged” do not imply guilt. This in-formation was provided by the county.
1ST DISTRICT
Auto theft• Between 5:30 p.m. Sept. 12 and
9:30 a.m. Sept. 13 in the 12100 block ofParklawn Drive, Rockville.
Commercial burglary• On Sept. 16 between 4:07 and 4:16
a.m. at Dunkin Donuts, 12168 Dar-nestown Road, North Potomac. Forcedentry, took property.
Residential burglary• 1500 block of Rockwood Drive,
Rockville, between 9 p.m. Sept. 11 and7:30 a.m. Sept. 12. Attempted forced en-try, took nothing.
• 9500 block of Watts Branch Drive,Rockville, at 6:53 p.m. Sept. 12. No fur-
ther information provided.• 13500 block of Glen Mill Road,
Rockville, between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.Sept. 14. No forced entry, took property.
Vehicle larceny• Five incidents in Rockville between
Sept. 9 and 13. Took a laptop, jewelry,sunglasses, a stereo system, clothing,coins and gas. Affected streets includeHungerford Drive, Frederick Road, La-dyshire Lane and Rockville Pike.
• 7600 block of Nutwood Court,Rockville, at 1:05 a.m. Sept. 16. Un-
locked door, took cash.
2ND DISTRICT
Graffiti• On Sept. 14 or 15 in the 5200 block
of Nicholson Lane, Kensington. No fur-ther information provided.
Residential burglary• 10400 block of Snow Point Drive,
Bethesda, between 9 a.m. and 8:30 p.m.Sept. 9. Forced entry, took property.
• 5400 block of Grosvenor Lane,Bethesda, at 10 a.m. Sept. 11. Attemptedforced entry, took nothing.
• 9200 block of Bardon Road,Bethesda, on Sept. 11 or 12. Attemptedforced entry, took nothing.
• 9500 block of Newbridge Drive,Potomac, between Sept. 11 and 13.Forced entry, took property.
• 2300 block of Michigan Avenue,Silver Spring, between 7 a.m. and 1 p.m.Sept. 12. Forced entry, took property.
• 4600 block of Cheltenham Drive,Bethesda, at 10:15 a.m. Sept. 14. Un-known entry, took nothing.
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n Started with company38 years ago as a waiter
BY KEVIN JAMES SHAYSTAFF WRITER
While earning a business ad-ministration degree at VillanovaUniversity, Robert J. McCarthystarted waiting tables at a res-taurant inside a Philadelphia-area Marriott hotel in 1975.
Little did he know that Mar-riott would be the only companyhe would work for in a 38-yearcareer.
McCarthy, the Bethesdahotel giant’s COO, will retirein February, company officialssaid this week. The 60-year-oldexecutive has held a wide varietyof positions within the companythroughout his career.
“Bob has been an admiredbusiness leader, sought-aftermentor and trusted colleague,both at Marriott and in the hos-pitality community,” MarriottCEO Arne Sorenson said in astatement. “Bill Marriott has of-ten noted Bob’s career successas a credit to his hard work, butalso as an example of the vital-ity of our company culture thatpromotes opportunity.”
From the waiter position,McCarthy advanced to becomeregional director of sales andmarketing for Marriott Hotels,Resorts and Suites by 1982. Hebecame a vice president foroperations and marketing forthe Fairfield Inn and Courtyardbrands in 1991, then senior vicepresident for the Northeast re-gion of Marriott Lodging in 1995.
McCarthy moved up to ex-ecutive vice president for opera-tions planning and support forMarriott Lodging in 2000, whenthe company operated or fran-chised about 2,000 properties.That number has almost dou-bled since then. He eventuallybecame group president acrossthe Americas and global lodgingservices, overseeing operationsat more than 3,000 hotels and120,000 employees. McCarthyhas remained active in his almamater, as he was appointed toVillanova’s board of trusteesearlier this year. He formerly wasa member of the Dean’s Advi-sory Board at the Villanova Uni-versity School of Business andthe Cornell University School ofHotel Administration.
Last year, McCarthy, whoma spokeswoman said was un-available for comment, made$804,403 in salary and totalcompensation of $4.4 million,which included more that $2million in stock awards and op-tions, according to Marriott’s
most recent proxy statement.The compensation was 22 per-cent higher than in 2011.
Rather than appoint anotherCOO right away, Marriott plansto give several other executivesbroader responsibilities. DaveGrissen, group president, willfocus on global operations andoversee the Americas.
Stephanie Linnartz, execu-tive vice president and chiefbrand marketing and commer-cial officer, will assume leader-ship of technology.
Marriott COO plans to retire in February
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n Last year numberof clients topped 1,200
BY SARAH TINCHERSPECIAL TO THE GAZETTEIn its 35 years, Child Center
and Adult Services in Gaith-ersburg has expanded its cus-tomer base from about 170clients to more than 1,200 lastyear. The nonprofit’s successcan be traced to the devotion of83-year-old founder MaryroseRogolsky and her mission tohelp people.
While at the University ofChicago, Rogolsky — commonlyknown as “Posey” — didn’t in-tend to own a counseling cen-ter. It wasn’t until she was ingraduate school, when she tookher first job in a clinical pro-gram, that she realized what shewanted to pursue as a career.
“The very first day that I sawa patient I thought, ‘This is it,’”she said. “I knew that was whatI’d like to do.”
In 1978, Rogolsky estab-lished Child Center in a smalloffice rented out of the RockvilleSeventh-day Adventist Church.The immediate goal was to cre-ate a continuing education pro-gram for health professionals,focusing on children. With onlythree staff members, the non-profit began by offering ther-apy programs to help childrenwhose problems fell into one ofthree categories: family therapy,sex abuse and having parents incults.
Since then, the organiza-tion has changed the name toindicate its increase in adultpatients, who now account forabout 70 percent of its clientbase. It has expanded its servicesby adding both adult and childtherapy services, community-
based programs and continuingeducation programs.
The center is funded by in-surance and client co-payments,foundation grants, contractswith local governments and an-other nonprofit, donations andcontinuing education fees. Itnow employs about 25 licensedsocial workers, counselors andpsychologists, a big jump fromthe original staff of three in 1978.
In 2012, the staff servedmore than 620 patients of allages dealing with grief from loss;separation or divorce; parentingor work issues; and commonmental health disorders, includ-ing anxiety and depression.
Aside from counseling pro-vided at its Gaithersburg office,the organization also offers
community-based programs.They include a Positive AgingProgram to serve senior citi-zens; Healthy Mothers, HealthyBabies to help pregnant women,new mothers and their childrenwith depression; and programsto assist low-income patients atprimary care clinics.
The agency also offers freesupport groups for people withdiseases such as multiple scle-rosis and six continuing educa-tion programs to train mentalhealth professionals in the area.Through these external pro-grams, it helped an additional600 people, totaling more than1,200 throughout last year.
Child Center and Adult Ser-vices reported revenues of $1.02million in 2011, according to its
most recent available tax return,clearing about $17,000. It fin-ished the year with a balance of$671,262.
Counseling inother languages
The organization continu-ally strives “to make care avail-able to people who otherwisewould not be able to get it be-cause of limitations of insur-ance, income [or] language,”said co-director Nancy Ebb.
“That is truly our mission —to help people ... function in the
world with dignity, with goodrelationships at home and helpthem be able to thrive on theplayground, in school, in theworkplace and in their families,”Ebb said.
Child Center and Adult Ser-vices accepts many forms ofinsurance and offers a slidingfee scale to those who are unin-sured, financed by earmarkedmoney from donors.
“That’s one of the most im-portant, special things about usis that we provide help to manypeople who plain couldn’t find itotherwise,” Ebb said.
The center also emphasizesthe rapidly growing need forservices in several languages,and offers counseling in severalforeign languages, includingSpanish, German and MandarinChinese.
“This is a community whereeither the minority is now themajority or it’s about to be, andwe have many therapists whospeak [other languages],” Ebbsaid.
According to the most re-cent census data, 50.7 percent ofMontgomery County residentsreported being “other thannon-Hispanic white,” which isclassified as “Black or AfricanAmerican, Hispanic or Latino,Asian or Pacific Islander.”
The county’s Latino popula-tion most recently was reportedat 17 percent — a 64.4 percentincrease in the last decade— and the Asian and PacificIslander population at 13.9 per-cent, up 37.5 percent in the lastdecade.
Rogolsky — who in 2003was honored with the Mont-gomery County Volunteer Cen-ter’s annual Neal Potter Path ofAchievement award for extraor-dinary senior citizens in thecounty — said she intends tocontinually expand and reformthe organization to keep it run-ning at least another 35 years.
“The quality of work hereis good and Posey is enormousfun to work with,” Ebb said witha smile. “We help people comealive after they’ve been living inthe shadows, and that is incred-ible work.”
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n ‘There is not a greatdeal of clarity on the law’
BY KEVIN JAMES SHAY
STAFF WRITER
Larry Gross has been pre-paring for Oct. 1 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 beingnew, Gross expects a few bugs
and 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 employerslimit 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 on
income.Kaiser has trained customer
service 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 forGreater 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 protectiontook effect TuesdaySeveral new state laws
passed by the General Assem-bly earlier this year that impactbusinesses took effect Tuesday.
One will give pregnant em-ployees the same rights in manycases 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.
The ban on more semi-auto-matic handguns and rifles alsotakes effect Tuesday. A driverholding a cellphone in his or herhand in a vehicle also will be-come a primary offense in whicha police officer can stop a driver.
Businesses preparing for health care changes
n Urbana teen earnedstudent pilot certificate
BY JENN DAVISSTAFF WRITER
Most teenagers dream ofgetting a car or throwing a bigbash for their 16th birthday. Forhis special day, Youssef Selim sethis sights high: flying an airplanesolo for the first time.
On Monday evening atdusk, the Urbana High Schooljunior flew a PA-28-161 PiperWarrior plane without anyoneelse in the aircraft for two con-secutive takeoffs and landings atMontgomery County Airpark inGaithersburg. The flight, whichincluded two circles around theairport at an altitude of 1,500feet, sealed Youssef’s position asone of the youngest pilots to flysolo in the area, according to hisflight instructor.
Following the flight, morethan 40 friends and family mem-bers waited in the airpark’s cafeto surprise him with a celebra-tory dinner.
“I’m pretty psyched,”Youssef said about his accom-plishment.
After turning 16 on Saturday,the Urbana resident became eli-gible for his student pilot certifi-cate, a document issued to pilots
in training. It is a prerequisite tofly alone in the plane.
To qualify, the pilot mustbe 16 years of age, demonstrateEnglish language fluency andpass a flight physical admin-istered by an aviation medicalexaminer, according to the Fed-eral Aviation Administration’swebsite.
For his solo flight, Youssef’sflight instructor had to endorsethe student pilot certificate,deeming his student competentto fly on his own and giving writ-ten permission for the event toproceed. The FAA’s website saysthere is no minimum numberof flight instructional hours toachieve the certificate or fly solo.
The certificate carries cer-tain restrictions, such as notbeing able to fly at night or takepassengers.
Montgomery County Airparkinstructor Sharif Hidayat, whohas been teaching Youssef sinceJuly 2013, said he was pleasedwith Youssef’s performance.
“I would not have eversigned off on him if I didn’t thinkhe was ready, and he proved hewas,” he said.
Hidayat said he hopedYoussef’s milestone would in-spire other youths to learn aboutaviation and take advantage ofthe opportunities that the smallairpark offers.
Youssef reached this mile-stone at a young age, but it wasyears in the making. The Inter-national Baccalaureate studentsaid aviation has intrigued himsince childhood. He began tak-ing lessons at age 12 at FrederickFlight Center Inc. Twice a weekduring the summer, Youssef at-tended three-hour training ses-sions that were split into groundand in-flight instruction.
After taking lessons for ayear and a half, Youssef took abreak to make more time forschool and football. He startedtraining again this July, spend-ing about three hours each weekat the Montgomery County Air-park with Hidayat.
“I feel free when I’m flying,”Youssef said. “You can see theworld from up there. You can seeit from a different perspective.”
Learning to fly isn’t a cheaphobby, according to Selim’smother, Hwaida Hassanein. Atwo-hour training session runs
about $200 to $250.Youssef belongs to the Oc-
topus Flying Club, a nonprofitorganization at the Gaithersburgairpark. The group has helpedoffset training expenses, Hassa-nein said.
By paying a monthly fee of$75, Youssef gets access to threeplanes at the airpark, which hecan fly at any time. There is still
an hourly rate to use the aircraft,but the price is lower because ofthe club membership.
Hassanein said she is proudof her son, but was glad he wassafely back on the ground.
“I am so relieved,” she saidright after the flight. “I wascounting down the seconds un-til he touched back down.”
The young pilot doesn’t plan
on stopping here. When he turns17, he will be eligible to fly cross-cross country on his own, andcan take another step toward hisultimate goal of making a careerout of his hobby.
“I’d like to become a com-mercial pilot, without a doubt,”he said.
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Youssef Selim of Urbana leaves theground, making his first solo flight.
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n Homeowners needto replace old smoke detectors,
firefighters say
BY SAMANTHA SCHMIEDERSPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
It’s all about the smoke detectors:that was the message Bethesda fire-fighters stressed at their open houseover the weekend when they weren’tentertaining the children who hadturned out to see the department’s fireengines.
Last week, fires in Chevy Chase and
Bethesda caused hundreds of thou-sands of dollars in damages to twohomes and a 63-year-old woman diedin a blaze in Silver Spring.
“There’s fire safety for the kids, butnow there’s the real meat and potatoesfor the adults,” firefighter Fred Silver-man said of the department’s initia-tive. Named the New Normal of SmokeAlarms Program, the initiative aims toinform homeowners about the dangersof inefficient smoke alarms, he said.
Earlier this year, Maryland updatedits fire safety codes to reflect advicepublished six years ago by the NationalFire Protection Association, he said.
Still, many people live in homes
built before 2007, Silverman said, ex-plaining that the safety regulations forthose buildings are out of date, and thathomeowners’ assumptions they aresafe could be wrong.
“They believe that they are pro-tected if they have a smoke alarm, butthat’s an incorrect assumption,” Silver-man said.
“No smoke alarms over 10 yearsold are reliable because the sensors getdirty,” Silverman said.
On Sunday, a fire on KingswoodRoad caused $750,000 in damage to ahome, but the five people inside — andtheir cat — all escaped without injury.Firefighters credit their smoke alarms
with alerting the occupants to the blaze.The New Normal iniative aims con-
sumers toward alarms with a batterylife of 10 years and an interconnectedalarm system or smoke detectors sothat if one alarm sounds, they all do.
The Bethesda Fire Departmentpartnered with Strosniders HardwareStore in Bethesda to spread the word,and educated the store’s employeesso they could handle any questions orconcerns customers had when pur-chasing new fire alarms.
“Fred [Silverman] did an educa-tional seminar with our employeesjust so everyone was on the same pageand they can help people upgrade cor-
rectly,” said Courtney Simmons, themarketing coordinator at Strosniders.
Strosniders also had a table at thefire department’s open house wherethey displayed an old smoke alarm anda new smoke alarm so people could seethe difference between the two, Sim-mons said.
In 2011, more than 2,000 peopledied in house fires according to theNFPA, and high numbers like that upsetSilverman and prompted him to beginthis program.
“That’s wrong, that shouldn’t bethis way. [We] need to figure out whatyou have, and figure out what youshould have,” Silverman said.
Smoke alarms program makes its debut in Bethesda
n Red bikes ready to roll;unveiled Friday at Rockville
grand opening
BY SAMANTHA SCHMIEDERSPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
Fifteen shiny new bikeslined up, ready to roll, as thecounty unveiled its 14 CapitalBikeshare stations Friday.
The first Capital Bikesharestation in Maryland openedin Rockville with city and stateofficials hosting a grand open-ing event at the station, locatedat the corner of Maryland andMontgomery avenues.
The Rockville station is oneof 14 stations opening in Mont-gomery County Friday with51 total planned to span thearea. The expansion of CapitalBikeshare in Washington, D.C.,marks the first bike-sharing pro-gram in Maryland. The networkincludes stations on both sidesof Metro’s Red Line inside theBeltway, and stations clusteredaround the Rockville and ShadyGrove Metro stations.
“The sturdy red bikes arefinally rolling into Bethesda,Rockville, and Silver Spring,”said Councilman Roger Berliner(D-Dist. 1) of Bethesda, chair-man of the Council’s Transpor-tation, Infrastructure, Energyand Environment Committee.“This is a significant step increating a less car-centric cul-ture. We want an environmentthat encourages healthier andgreener mobility options andBikeshare does just that.”
Steve Friedman, a memberof the county’s Pedestrian, Bi-cycle and Traffic Safety AdvisoryCommittee, biked up to the bike-share launch, saying the advisory
committee was happy to put itsweight behind the program.
“We support it and recog-nized the value of it,” Friedmansaid while sitting atop his ownbicycle.
To use the bikes, member-ships for 24 hours or three dayscan be bought with a creditcard directly at the station andmonthly and yearlong member-ships can be purchased onlineor over the phone. Within themembership time, bikes canbe used free of charge as manytimes as necessary for 30-min-ute increments, with longer tripscosting a small fee.
One of the main draws ofthe program is that, unlike tra-ditional bike rentals, bikes don’thave to be returned to the sameplace they were picked up. In-stead, renters can leave the bikeat the most convenient stationto their travels.
Maryland Secretary ofTransportation James Smith at-tended Friday’s event, praisingthe county for taking the initia-tive and saying MontgomeryCounty residents and politiciansalways “show up, stand up andpay up” when they want some-thing done.
“[Residents can] use masstransit to get to a location andthe Bikeshare to get to their ul-timate destination,” Smith said.
Safety was another theme ofthe grand opening, with manyof the speakers commentingon bike paths and lanes and thesafety manuals being handedout. Casey Anderson, a mem-ber of the Montgomery CountyPlanning Board, suggested rid-ers attend a $10 bicycle safetycourse being taught at Mont-gomery College.
A group of Richard Mont-
gomery High School studentspassing by the Bikeshare cel-ebration were interested in theprogram, but not enough to
consider a membership. Thoughthe teens said they didn’t thinkthey would ever really use it totravel anywhere specific, they
all agreed they would considerusing them as a fun group activ-ity for a day.
To learn more about Capi-
tal Bikeshare or to sign up forone of six different membershipoptions, visit www.capitalbike-share.com.
Maryland’s first Capital Bikeshare stations opens in county
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Gaithersburg will gain a neweatery when chef and ownerRobert Wiedmaier opens a sec-ond location of Brasserie Beck inthe Kentlands in early 2014.
With a location already inBethesda, Brasserie Beck isknown for its extensive Belgianbeer list, mussels, beef carbon-nade, steak and frites, tagliatellewith wild boar ragu, and otherentrees.
The restaurant, located at
311 Kentlands Blvd., will occupythe space formerly belongingto O’Donnell’s Sea Grill, whichhad been a longtime commu-nity staple.
City Manager Tony Toma-sello said he thinks the restau-rant will be an exciting addition.
“People are ready for some-thing different,” he said. “Thisrestaurateur has been successfulin other areas, so I think peopleare pretty curious.”
Wiedmaier’s RW RestaurantGroup also includes Mussel Bar& Grille in Bethesda, Arlingtonand Atlantic City, WildwoodKitchen in Bethesda, Brabo inAlexandria, and Marcel’s andBrasserie Beck in Bethesda.
Belgian eatery newestKentlands restaurant
Dignitaries pose on bikes after a ribbon-cutting in Rockville for the CapitalBikeshare station grand opening in Montgomery County.
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Local and state officials cut a ribbon Friday for the Capital Bikeshare stationgrand opening in Montgomery County.
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n Financial aid requestsstill on the rise
BY LINDSAY A. POWERSSTAFF WRITER
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 — isdown 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 is
down 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 hadthe highest undergraduate fallenrollment in the state withnearly 27,000 for-credit studentsin fall 2011.
Similar to the experience ofcommunity colleges around the
country, 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’smindset 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 exceptionof one or two schools — com-
munity colleges are generallyseeing a decline in their enroll-ment this fall.
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 thefact 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.
“Things may be bouncingback, but family incomes arenot as high as they were before,”she said.
Montgomery County has a“fairly high median income,”Gregory said, but many familiesstill fall in the low-income scale.
“Either we’re attractingmore low-income families ormore families are becominglower income,” she said.
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Chris Pagonis, 21, in his second year of general studies at Montgomery College, Rockville, enjoys a cool drink between classes.
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Students wait between classes Thursday in the Montgomery College,Rockville campus’s Science Center.
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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 is-sue.”
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 — whichincludes 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, focusgroups 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 saidthey 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 the
day — 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 to
be 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.
John Matthews, the workgroup’s project manager, saidthat, in addition to formingschool start time options, thegroup also recommended theschool system incorporate“sleep education” into its cur-riculum.
Mandi Mader — a work
group member, a psychothera-pist and a parent advocate forlater start times — said shethinks the recommended de-lay of the high school start timewould make “a huge difference.”
“It gets the high school kidsthat precious 50 minutes,” shesaid.
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ment shut down in 1996, employeeswere eventually repaid for the closure.Whether employees will get back paythis time is up to Congress, said JenniferHuergo, spokeswoman for the NationalInstitute of Standards and Technology.
Reached Monday, Huergo said shewas among those who would be fur-loughed during the shutdown.
During the 1996 shutdown, whichlasted three weeks, contractors werenot reimbursed.
If all of Montgomery County’s resi-dents employed by the federal govern-ment were out of work for one day, itwould cost the county $500,000 in in-come tax revenue, County ExecutiveIsiah Leggett (D) said.
Should the federal government notrepay employees furloughed by theshutdown, he said it will affect actualcounty income tax revenue. To lessenthe blow, Montgomery prepared forboth federal furloughs by lowering itsbudgeted income tax revenue $60 mil-lion in fiscal 2014, he said. Whether $60million is enough cushion, Leggett saidremains to be seen.
In 2011, federal jobs totaled 46,020in Montgomery, according to countydata. The U.S. Department of Laborestimated the number of federal jobs inboth Montgomery and Frederick coun-ties at 51,400 in August 2013.
Many county residents work in fed-eral jobs in Washington, D.C., or North-ern Virginia. Of the county’s 971,771residents recorded in the 2010 U.S.Census, 72,492 worked for the federalgovernment.
Federal agencies preparecontingency plans
The National Institute of Standardsand Technology is part of the Depart-ment of Commerce, which will keeponly about 6,000 of its 46,000 employ-ees on duty during the shutdown, ac-cording the department’s contingencyplan.
Most research at NIST was sched-uled to cease as well as most research asthe National Oceanic and AtmosphericAdministration in Silver Spring.
Officials were meeting Tuesday todiscuss closure, expecting the Gaithers-burg office to close about 3 p.m.
In Bethesda, the National Institutesof Health will continue patient care forcurrent Clinical Center patients andprovide animal care services to protectthe health of its animals, according toinformation from the Office of Manage-ment and Budget.
It will maintain only minimal staffto safeguard facilities and infrastruc-ture and will not admit new patientsunless deemed medically necessary bythe NIH director, and will discontinuesome veterinary services.
Contractors could seefurloughs, bid delays
Lockheed Martin is keeping its fa-cilities open and employees will con-tinue to receive pay and benefits unlessdirected otherwise by customers, com-pany officials said Tuesday in a state-ment.
The impact on operations, workforce and subcontractors during theshutdown “depends on individual con-
tract terms,” Lockheed spokeswomanJennifer Allen said. In fiscal 2012, Lock-heed was the federal government’s larg-est single contractor with $37 billion incontract dollars obligated to the com-pany, according to federal figures.
About $3.7 billion in federal con-tractors to companies in the Wash-ington region, which is more than 20percent, were adversely affected byfunding delays during the 1996 shut-down, according to a CongressionalResearch Service report.
Nymeo Federal Credit Union,which has offices in Frederick, Gaith-ersburg, Germantown and Adelphi,will allow temporary reduced paymentfor loans and even skipped payments tocustomers who are furloughed due to ashutdown. While its offices in federalbuildings such as at the National Insti-tute of Standards and Technology willlikely close, other branches will be openand have increased staff.
Some contracts awarded by federalagencies are specified that awardeeshave the ability to find private fundingfor those projects. That’s the case withRockville-based Standard Solar, whichbuilds and installs solar electric sys-tems, when it was recently selected bythe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engi-neering and Support Center to developphotovoltaic solar systems on Armyfacilities. Standard Solar was one of 22companies to be chosen under the Mul-tiple Award Task Order Contracts pro-gram, which qualifies those businessesto compete for future solar projects.
“The awarded companies havebeen qualified by the U.S. Army tohave the capacity to bring private sec-tor funding to each of the awardedprojects, so funding is not impacted by
government shutdowns or extendedsequestrations,” said John Finnerty,director of business development forStandard Solar.
The Greater Washington Board ofTrade recommends companies thatcontract with the government confirmarrangements with regular contractorsand suppliers in writing, and detaileddocumentation of correspondenceshould be kept in case future disagree-ments arise.
National park visitorsasked to leave
Visitors to national parks, includ-ing the Chesapeake and Ohio Canaland Glen Echo parks in MontgomeryCounty, were asked to leave Tuesday asPark Service employees worked to closeand secure park facilities and grounds.
The park service will suspend allactivities during the shutdown, exceptthose needed to respond to emergen-cies, and will furlough 21,379 of its24,645 employees, according to Man-agement and Budget data.
Adventure Theatre MTC had toabandon its site in Glen Echo Parkbecause of the shutdown, moving allactivities to its Wintergreen Plaza loca-tion in Rockville, according to a newsrelease. Adventure Theatre MTC pro-vides children with theater classes,camps and productions.
Michael J. Bobbitt, producing ar-tistic director, said in a statement thatthe theater was prepared for the effectthe shutdown would have on his orga-nization. But he was also confident thatlawmakers would find a way to fundthe government before it required Ad-
venture Theatre MTC to cancel perfor-mances.
Not all government operationsground to a halt Tuesday, including theoffice of U.S. Rep. John K. Delaney (D-Dist. 6) of Potomac.
The U.S. Constitution mandateslegislative operations continue and inresponse to a “constitutional duty” torepresent District 6, Delaney’s CapitolHill and district offices would remainopen, the office said in a news release.Among the agencies open Tuesday wasthe Nuclear Regulatory Commission,based in Rockville.
The commission had enough un-spent funds from the previous year’sbudget, which ended Monday, to keepit open and operating for one week,spokeswoman Holly Harrington said.
Should the government remainunfunded for longer, the commissionfaced keeping about 90 percent, or allbut 300 of its 4,000 total employees offthe job. Most NRC employees, about3,000, work in Rockville, Harringtonsaid.
The Department of Energy also hadsome money to stay open, spokesmanSteven Thai said.
While Department of Energy em-ployees reported to work Tuesday, Thaisaid how long the agency could sustainoperations was unknown.
Department of Energy employees13,814 workers and has a facility in Ger-mantown. Once its money runs out, theagency plans to keep only 1,113 work-ers on the job along with 3,106 workerswho are paid with funds from outsidethe general budget.
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fort to make it a national park inthe early 1970s. Nardolilli madethe presentation along withKevin Brandt, superintendantof C&O Canal National Histori-cal Park.
“It’s nice to be able to helpthem,” Paul Chod said. “Thecommunity enjoys that park andI can’t think of a better reason tohelp them.”
Park After Dark, the annualfundraiser of the C&O CanalTrust, provided guests with the
rare opportunity to visit HistoricGreat Falls Tavern in Potomacafter sundown. Almost 300 peo-ple enjoyed dinner and drinks,while celebrating the 75th an-niversary of the purchase of theC&O Canal by the federal gov-ernment.
An auction during the eventraised more than $37,000 for theCanal Classrooms EducationProgram which provides forschool field trips to the park forstudents to participate in cur-riculum based environmentalactivities.
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Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Joshua P. Starr talks tothe press about a report from the Bell Times Work Group, which is looking atpushing back school start times.
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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].
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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].
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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
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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.
A region ripefor digitalgovernmentservices
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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
RAISES
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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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n Tight end leaves Good Counsel,basketball behind and quicklyexcels at football
BY DAN FELDMANSTAFF WRITER
Stephon Jacob, who hadn’t played foot-ball in two years, went through the bannerand saw the Damascus High School standspacked with more fans than he’d ever seenfor one of his games.
After playing basketball for two years at OurLady of Good Counsel, Jacob was back homebeside the friends with whom he’d grown up,and he just wanted to savor the moment beforethe 2012 opener against Clarksburg.
“There’s no greater feeling than Fridaynights in Damascus,” Jacob said.
Senior makesa change ofdirections atDamascus
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Stephon Jacob (top, center), on defense, duringDamascus High School football practice on Sept. 25.
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Winston Churchill High School’s Clare Nolan and Bethesda-ChevyChase’s Gigi Jones compete during Monday’s field hockey game.
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Moments later, it got evenbetter.
Jacob recovered a fumbleon the opening kickoff and re-turned it for a touchdown, rais-ing the ball over his head as heran the final 15 yards.
“It was my adrenaline rush-ing, and it was just an amazingfeeling,” Jacob said.
Jacob drew a penalty for
his celebration, showing, for allhis potential, he still had a fewkinks to work out in his first highschool football season.
After beginning the year asa special teamer, Jacob earnedsteady roles as a tight end andoutside linebacker. This season,he’s starting and excelling atboth positions.
“Now, he’s one of the topplayers in Maryland,” Damascuscoach Eric Wallich said.
Jacob transferred to Da-mascus and switched to foot-
ball from basketball to improvehis chances at getting a collegescholarship. So far, he hasn’treceived an offer, but Univer-sity of Virginia, Old Dominion,Appalachian State, Elon, JamesMadison, Richmond, Delaware,Coastal Carolina, Monmouth,Stony Brook, Albany, Duquesne,Towson and New Hampshirehave all shown interest.
Theseniormustprovehimselfto college football coaches whohadn’t heard of him before lastseason. If how quickly Jacob im-
pressed Wallich is any indication,college offers should roll in soon.
“A lot of times, basketballkids, when they haven’t playedfootball, you don’t expect a lot oftoughness from them,” Wallichsaid. “But he actually was verytough, and I think his best qual-ity is how smart he is. You tell himone time, he locks it in his brain.He was like a sponge. He learnedthe offense and defense — prettyamazing for just one year.”
Once Jacob acclimated towearing pads, his talent began to
show, and a list of his best traitson the football field reads like abasketball scouting report:
Athletic.Good hands.Long wingspan.Boxes out well.Ambidextrous. (Jacobs
writes with both hands. Primar-ily, he dribbles and eats with hisright hand and leads with hisright shoulder, and he throwsand shoots with his left handand kicks with his left foot).
By playing basketball and
football, Jacob might have de-layed his first scholarship offer,but Wallich expects one will comesoon. It’s not just that he has seenJacob up close for more than ayear, but Wallich has noticed howMontgomery County opponentshave increasingly paid attentionto Jacob and believes college re-cruiters will follow suit.
“Any school that is scoutingDamascus, he’s not under theradar to them,” Wallich said.
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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 be-came the starting JV quarterbackwhen classmate Spencer Brig-man moved up to the varsity asstarting quarterback.
During that season, Lomaxmet with his players about theirlong-term goals in the program.Seeing Brigman entrenched infrontofhim,ReesetoldLomaxhe’ddo his best as the backup quarter-back the following two seasons.Lomax admired Reese’s maturity,though he agreed the backup pathlooked inevitable for Reese.
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 onits schedule. The other two, Da-mascus and Poolesville, madethe playoffs last season.
Kenton promoted Lomax tovarsity offensive coordinator,and Lomax implemented theup-tempo, four-receiver offen-sive he’d used on JV.
During the summer passingleague, Reese earned the start-ing job and since has helped en-gineer a 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 inti-mated, because I trust my offen-sive line and I trust everybodyaround me to do their jobs.”
That trust with teammateslike Brigman, who has becomeone of Reese’s top targets, wasforged while eating lunch to-gether daily in Lomax’s officelast year.
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 able to reachinto all those guys and be ableto pull them in together and givethem that family feel. That kind ofquality alone is enough for him tolead 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, mak-ing new friends, joking aroundwith everybody.”
But there was no jokingwhile Rockville trailed RichardMontgomery 25-0. Reese said,
“You could obviously seeour fans putting their headsdown, like, ‘Dang it. Not another0-10 year.’” At that point, Lomaxapproached 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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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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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
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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.
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Northwood High School football coach DennisHarris rounds-up his team during a practice.
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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 4. Winston Churchill
n 5. Thomas S. Wootton
Golf
n 1. Walter Johnson
n 2. Winston Churchill
n 3. Walt Whitman
n 4. Thomas S. Wootton
n 5. Quince Orchard
Field hockey
n 1. Thomas S. Wootton
n 2. Sherwood
n 3. Winston Churchill
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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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 concert se-ries, celebrating alumni from the Artist in Residence education program’s firstyear during the venue’s ninth season. The series kicks off at 7:30 p.m. Friday withLaura Burhenn of The Mynabirds. Burhenn, who went on to tour with supergroupThe Postal 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. FRANKLINSTAFF 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 andflaming 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 great
things 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. until4 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 invites
children 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 haunt
the 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 Halloweennight 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
Everything’s coming up haunted! Scary sites around the region
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Jason Robinson, 22, of Olney, in the morgue at Field of Screams.
BY MICHAEL PHILLIPSCHICAGO 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 RonHoward 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 ballwith 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 beginning,“and each year, two die. Whatkind of person does a job likethis?”
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 newest flick, ‘Rush’AT THE MOVIES
RUSHn 2 1/2 stars
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n Cast: Chris Hemsworth,Daniel Brühl, Olivia Wilde
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n Singers King, Parkercelebrate at Bethesdasupper club
BY VIRGINIA TERHUNE
STAFF WRITER
Blues singer/guitaristCathy Ponton King will returnto perform on Saturday at theBethesda Blues & Jazz SupperClub.
The day will mark her birth-day and it will also be a chance forher to perform with special guest,veteran bluesman Bobby Parker.
“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 with
their respective bands at theclub.
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 School
in Hyattsville.“There’ll be a big jar in the
lobby [for donations],” saidKing.
Born in Louisiana, Parkerplayed lead guitar with BoDiddley and toured with SamCooke, Jackie Wilson, ClydeMcPhatter, the Everly Brothersand 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 OrganBlues Bar and Soul Food Res-
taurant in the Adams Morganneighborhood 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 1980
to 1986. She currently performsregularly at Flanagan’s Harp &Fiddle in Bethesda.
King, who writes most ofthe tunes that she performs, hasreleased 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.
Birthday bluesCATHY 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
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.The concert marks King’s birthday and will also be an opportunity to contrib-ute to a scholarship fund established in memory of her cousin, Navy SEALBrendan Looney, who died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan in 2010.
A 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
FROM CATHY PONTON KING
U.S. Navy SEAL Brendan Looney was a 1999 graduate of DeMathaCatholic High School in Hyattsville.
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Bill Engvall is set to bring hisbrand of comedy to Strathmorein between episodes of Danc-ing with the Stars. “It was justsomething I wanted to see if I
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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RANCHO MIRAGEn Recommended for ages 15 and
older due to mature themes andstrong language
n When: To Oct. 20, see website forspecific dates and times
n Where: Olney Theatre Center, 2001Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney
n Tickets: $31-$65
n For information: 301-924-3400,olneytheatre.org
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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501B S. Frederick Ave #3Gaithersburg, MD 20877
301-948-1908
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OCEAN CITY,MARYLAND. Bestselection of affordablerentals. Full/partialweeks. Call for FREEbrochure. Open daily.Holiday Real Estate.1-800-638-2102. On-line reservations:www.holidayoc.com
FREDERICK: 3BR,2.5BA TH nr BallengerCreek, $1300 + utils. +1 mnth sec dep. 202-487-4773
BETHESDA : 3BD,2BA+ den SFH. Deck,off street pkg, rec rm.$2200/mo Avail now!Call: 301-530-1009
DAMASCUS: 3BR$1500/ 2BR $1250+util NS/NP, W/D NewCarpet, Paint, Deck &Patio, 301-250-8385
GAITH/AMBERFLDLux 3lvl EU/TH, Gar2MBR, 2.5BA, LR DR,FR, FP,EIK, Deck$1800. 301-792-9538
GAITHER: 4Br,3.5Ba, TH, HOC H/Wfloors, nr I270, MC, &Metro/Bus, $1800 +util 202-215-8888
GAITHERSBURG3BR, 2.5BA, TH WOBsmnt, Deck, NearMetro $1600/monthAL 301-330-1177
GAITHERSBURG:TH 3BR, 2.5BA, finishbsmt, comm pool, clto Kentlands, $1800 +utils 301-222-7236
G A I T H : HOC OkRenov 5br 2fb 2hb,new paint & carpet,Nr Public Transp$2150 301-254-4878
GAITH: SFH 3BR,2BA, Deck, lrg fncdyrd, nr Goshen & Met-ro, $1800 + utils 301-233-2811 Avail 11/01
GAITH: SFH 4Br 3.5Ba w/new Kitch/applfinsh w/o bsmt. Nrmetro/school $2400 +utils 301-956-0897
GERM: Credit Check& SD req’d, UpdatedTH 3Br, 1.5Ba $1400+ utils no smoking/nopets Nr Metro/Shops.Call: 410-414-2559
OLNEY: TH, 2Br,1.5BA, Excellent con-dition EU w/fpl, Pool,Tennis NS/NP. AvailOct 15 $1550/mnth301-570-4467
POTOMAC: lrg 3 br,2.5 ba, SFH, finishedbasement, living rm,dining rm, den w/fp,deck, carport, com-pletely remodeled,clse to 270, $2800/mnth, One wk free.240-372-8050
ROCKVILLE: 3BR,2BA, newly renovated,h/w floors, fenced ydr,great loc, $1900/mo301-742-1021
S S : brick ramblernear FDA/650/495/29:3 BR, 1.5 BA, unfinbsmt, hrdwd flrs, freshpaint, fireplace, lrgyard, parking, W/D,N/P, N/S, avail now.$1850/mo. 301-774-3779 or [email protected]
HYATTSVILLEBEAUTIFUL HOME INNICE CUL DE SACNEIGHBERHOOD 4BD, 3 BA, NEW CAR-PET & FLOOR, FIN-ISHED BSMT,FENCED BACKYARD,N E A RS H O P S , S C H O O L ,UMCP AND BELT-WAY $2200/MONUTIL NOT INCLD 1MONTH SEC DEP 2YEAR LEASE JOHN(301)384-0067
I Buy HousesCASH!
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703-940-5530
B E T H / K E N S :Bright. Newer, 1 BR.Walk tran. W/D. Park-ing. NS/NP. Avail.Now $1195 Call Janat 301-520-5179
BOYDS/NR Rt # 118bsmt Apt in SFH2BR’s, foyer, bath, allappl, kitchen, pvt entMale/Female. $1500inc util 240-899-1694
LAKESIDE APTSGAITHERSBURG
Half Month FreeLarge 1 or 2 BR Apts
Furn or UnfurnUtilities IncludedGreat Prices
301-830-0046
N . P O T O M A CROCKVILLE: 1 BRApt. $1250 incl util,CATV, Free ParkingAvail now. NS/NPCALL: 301-424-9205
TAKOMA PRK:Unfurn 1Br 1Ba Apt.W/D $1200/mo or bestoffer, nr Metro, offstreet Prkng PleaseCall 301-559-3006
BOWIE: Unfurn BsmtApt in SFH $850/moutils incl Free Cable.Available OctoberCall: 301-509-3050
BETH: beautiful 1400sqft,3br,2fba/den/offic$2200+elec 301-452-3636 [email protected] nr Mont Mall
DMSCUS/GERM:2Br, 1Ba, patio, fpl,fully renov nrbus/shops, $1250/mo+ util 240-508-3497
DMSCUS/GERM:3Br, 1.5Ba, deck,renov nr bus/shops,$1390/mo + utilCall: 240-508-3497
GAITHER: 3Br, +den, 2 Ba, renovated,Sec 8 welcome,$1800/mo inc utilCall: 410-800-5005
GERM: Lux 2BR, 2.5BA Split lvl w/FP, hwdflrs, balc, w/d, nr Bus$1375. Avail Immed.Call 240-350-5392
HYATTS/COLL. PK:High Rise 2BR condow/ lrg bal $1400 allutil. incl. 240-447-5072/ 301-528-1011
MONT VILL: OneBR/BA/by new Library/move in $1200 CallPam 301-916-2929
SS: 2BR Condo W/Drenovated, new car-pet, club house, pool,301-442-8548
GAITHERS: 1BR inSFH unfurn. $650 utilsincl. Male NS/NP, 1mile frm I-270. AvailImmed 240-372-1168
GAITHERSBURG1Br in an Apartment$600/ mo util includedNs/Np, Nr Metro, BusShops. 240-603-3960
GAITHERSBURG:Fully furnished 1BD,1BA in Apt. $550 inclutil. Near Marc Train.301-204-6081
GAITHERSBURG:Lg priv living roomw/1bed, priv ba,shared kitchen. $800incl util. 301-529-2568
GAITHERSBURG:Male, 1Br $299, mas-ter BR w BA $399. NrMetro/Shop . NS. AvailNow. 301-219-1066
GAITH:M BRs $430+440+475+555+ MaidNs/Np, nr 270/370/Busshops, quiet, conv.SecDep 301-983-3210
GAITH/QUINCEORCHARD: 1 Mb,Priv Ba, walk-in clst.Fios/Wifi. $650 utilsincl. 301-674-9300
GAITH: Rm w/pvt BAin SFH $550 Plus Utils1st and Last Month inAdvance Deposit Req.Call 240-606-7259
GE R M: 1 Lrg Br inBsmt w/priv Ba,NS/NP, priv parking,nr Bus, Female, 610 +uti, 240-401-3522
GERMANTOWN:1BR, BA, Shrd Kit.,close to bus & stores,$450/month incl utils.301-366-8689
GE R M A N TO WN2 BR in TH, $485 &$525 both incl utils.N/S, N/P. Avail immedCALL: 240-361-3391
GERMANTOWN:TH, Lg MBR, priv Ba,near bus/I270, NS/NP$600 inc util/int + SDW/D/kit 301-580-6833
GERMANTOWN:Villa TH to share.$650. 1BD w/bath.Avail now. 301-528-8688
K E N S I N G T O N :1BD, 1BA apt/in-lawsuite. Separate en-trance. $850 incl. util.NP/NS. 240-274-6437
MT. AIRY: RoomsFor Rent $500/mo +Sec Dep Req, shareutils pets ok call 301-639-6777
NPOTOMAC: Cleanbsmt w/pvt ent. FBA.Kit. Furn/None. $800+util. N/S, N/P. 1 mo.S/D. 240-603-5280
OLNEY: G R E A TDEAL!! Br, shr Ba,beautiful EU TH,female only $675/mnthw/util, int, cable TV,NP/NS Sec. Dep. 301-774-4654
RIVERDALE: Furn1Br, share Ba in 2brApt $500/mo internetnr Metro, Bus, Shop-ping Ctr 301-254-2965
ROCK: 2 NICE BRBSMT Apt , lvg rm partfurn, prvt kit/ba/entNS/NP, $850/mo +utils 301-424-4366
ROCKVILLE: Furn1Br in SFH, shrd Ba,kit, good for collegestudent, female, $600inc util 240-426-1938
ROCKVILLE: Furn.RM for rent, $500. 1mo deposit, shr utils.Close to White FlintMetro. 301-881-8474
ROCKVL: 1 FurnBR, in TH. $600 allutils included. ShareBA. Near Metro/Bus &Shops. 301-825-4990
SILVER SPRING:1Br w/priv Ba, W/D,shrd kit, quiet neigh-borhood, nr bus, $625+ util 301-438-3357
SILVER SPRING:Rm for rent $600 incldutils; 2BR 2BA Condofor Rent $1650 incldsutils, 240-460-2582
WHEATON: BsmtApt w/1Br 1.5ba pvtentr/kit $1100 util inc.N/s/N/p, 240-398-1337301-649-3905 Lv Msg
WHEATON: Malepref non-smoker, 1BR,shr BA, near metro,$525/mnth util incl+dep 301-933-6804
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Quality Antique & Collectibles for sale
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WANTED TO PUR-CHASE Antiques &Fine Art, 1 item Or En-tire Estate Or Collec-tion, Gold, Silver,Coins, Jewelry, Toys,Oriental Glass, China,Lamps, Books, Tex-tiles, Paintings, Printsalmost anything oldEvergreen Auctions973-818-1100. [email protected]
GAITHERSBURG:7 BR SFH/OUTSIDEFURN. Moving SaleUpscale Items! Entirecontent of house mustgo. 301-977-4123
SILVER SPRING:Moving sale. 11811Indigo Rd. 10/5 - 10/6,10-6pm Furn, Africanart, clothing, books,jewelry, HH items!
SILVER SPRING:Sat 10/5 9a-3p, Furn,HH items glassware,music, books, clothes,shoes, purses, & more10816 Childs Ct,
BIG SALE! SAT.OCT. 5 8am-1pm Mi-crowave TV,H u n t / S p o r tEquip, Clothes,House-hold. 22620C l a r k s b u r gRd, Boyds 20841 (I-2 7 0Exit 121 ClarksburgR d )240.551.7415
CALVARY YARDSALE Sat.Oct. 12, 9-2pm,9545 Georgia Avenue,Silver Spring, MD( e n t e rfrom back on Wood-l a n dDrive). Sponsored byThrivent Financial forLutherans. Contact301-589-4001.
COMMUNITYYARD SALE
SAT 10/5, 8a-1pHH Items, Living RoomFurniture, Art Work,Refrigerator Antiques
and Collectables,Clothes. Wightman to
Bellbluff Road toMainsail Drive
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Saturday October 5th, 9am-2pm. RainDate Sunday October 6th, 9am-2pmGame Preserve Rd off Rte 355. Multi
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EMULTIFAMILYYARD SALE....Lots of items, Dishes,exercise equipment,tools, furniture andmuch more. 8am-2pm.4200 HeadwatersL a n eOlney Md 20832
GAITHERSBURG:Holiday DecorationsYard Sale Sat., Oct5th from 8am til 2 pm.All holidays-inside &outside items. PingPong Table &more. Address: 10Sunnyside Ct,
GAITHERSBURG:Multi Family; Sat. Oct5 8a-3p; wide variety:Belle Grove Rd &Sanders Ln
OLNEY/NORBECKGROVE: 10/5 8-1HH items, furn, toys,games, craft supplies,purses, jewelry 18320Leedstown Way
POTOMAC : HUGESALE - Fri 10/4 , 9am-8pm, Sat 10/5, 9am-3pm, Clothing, Furni-ture, Antiques, More!St. James’ 11815 Sev-en Locks Rd betweenMontrose & Tuck-erman.
POTOMACYard Sale for Charity10th Annual Big Com-munity Event. All pro-ceeds go to Montcounty homeless fami-lies. Sat.10/5 9-312704 Huntsman WayFollow signs frm FallsRoad. Rain Date 10/6
ROCKVILLE: GraceChapel Multi-FamilyYard Sale! 4115Muncaster Mill Road,Sat. 10/5 8am-3pm.Tools, appliances,e x e r -cise equip., toys,games, furniture, babyfurniture, books, jewel-ry, ping pong table, airhockey, drums andmuch more. Refresh-ments.
SILVER SPRING:Multi-Family, Saturday10/05 8-4, HH items,lsrge & small sizeclothes/shoes & muchmore! 14716 Cobble-stone Drive/Stonegate
ADELPHI: 2 JewishCemetary Plots,Mt Lebanon, Total$3000 for both,Call: 410-224-2559(after 11am please)
CARPET INSTAL-LATION TOOLS:Retired Installer sellingPower Stretcher, Iron,Electric Tacker, Kick-er, Roller & more 301-236-5995
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
FREE 2 A/C : workingwindow air condition-ers just come & pickthem up. Call 413-695-4184
FIREWOOD FORSALE
$225/cord$150 per 1/2 cordµ Includes Deliveryµ Stacking Extra
ChargeAsk for Jose301-417-0753301-370-7008
FIREWOOD FORS A L E : Best Offer!You Pickup. OlneyArea. 443-799-5952
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FIREWOOD FOR SALE$180 a Cord
Delivered & Stacked
Call “Joe the Pro”301-538-5470
Mix Hardwood
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
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HAVANESE PUP-P I E S : RAISED INOUR HOME AKC reg-istration, best healthguarantee, UTD onshots, vet checked,started potty trainingand ready to go totheir new home!! www.noah-slittleark.com orcall Duane at 262-993-0460
HAVANESE PUPPIESHome raised, AKC,best health guaranteenoahslittleark.comCall: 262-993-0460
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Work from home!û Free training begins soonû Generous monthly
tax-free stipendû 24/7 support
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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
ADOPT - Lovinghome to provide a life-time of joy & opportu-nity for your baby. Noage or racial concerns.Expenses paid, 1-866-440-4220.
We are looking forlaborers/paintersthat worked for
Dico Constructionin the Baltimore/DC area between1973 and 1974.
Please call888-900-7034
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.
Family Allergy & Asthma CareDr. Jacqueline Eghrari-Sabet
Dr. Gina Dapul-Hidalgo
For more information contact us atwww.familyallergycare.com
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HELPER NEEDEDfor daycare. Friendlyand fun personalitySpk fluent English/Spanish. 301-762-2042
You can care for one or more childrenwhile staying in your own home.
MOMSMOMS
MONDAY MORNING MOMSfor info. 301-528-4616
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Starburst Childcare Lic. #:159882 240-277-2751 20855
Children’s Center of Damascus Lic. #:31453 301-253-6864 20872
Nancy’s Daycare Lic. #:25883 301-972-6694 20874
Little Angels Daycare Lic. #:872479 301-515-3114 20876
Elena’s Family Daycare Lic. #:15-133761 301-972-1955 20876
Ana’s House Daycare Lic. #:15127553 301-972-2148 20876
Affordable Quality Child Care Lic. #:156840 301-330-6095 20886
Holly Bear Daycare Lic. #:15123142 301-869-1317 20886
Filipina Daycare Lic. #:54712 240-643-7715 20886
Kids Garden Daycare Lic. #:139378 240-601-9134 20886
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DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 4, 2013
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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.
LOCKSMITHLiberty Lock & Security inRockville, seeking qualified
technicians. Experience required.Confidentiality assured.
Fax Resume to 301-424-3080,email
LIVE-IN NANNY:Potomac need helpw/3 kids. 5/days /wk.,incl. Sat., must Drive.Call 240-506-4607
AIRLINE CAREERSbegin here - Get FAAapproved AviationMaintenance training.Housing and FinancialAid for qualified stu-dents. Job placementassistance. CALL Avi-ation Institute of Main-tenance 800-481-8974.
MEDICAL OFFICETRAININGPROGRAM! Train tobecome a Medical Of-fice Assistant. No Ex-perience Needed! Ca-reer Training & JobPlacement Assistanceat CTI! HSDiploma/GED & Com-puter needed. 1-877-649-2671
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.
LIVE IN NANNY/HOUSKPR F o rhousehold & children,references are required240-242-5135
LOVING NURSINGASST looking for pvtduty FT. 30 yrs exp.,exc refs, own trans.301-363-8045
OOFFFFEERRSSOFFERSReliable, Insured & Monitored Care in ahome setting for Infants, Toddlers andPreschoolers in Montgomery County
330011--552288--44661166301-528-4616
MMOONNDDAAYY MMOORRNNIINNGG MMOOMMSS®MONDAY MORNING MOMS
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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
ELENA’S FAMILYDaycare
Infants-Up Pre-K pro-gram, computer Lab,Bi-lingual Potty Train.
Lic# 15-133761Germantown301-972-1955
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.
Ê Daytime & Evening Hours AvailableÊ Gaithersburg location
Call John at 301-987-9828
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.
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.
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:
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
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
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.
PayrollSpecialist
Administer payroll & benefits.Opportunity for advancement.
ADP PCPW Payroll &JDEdwards experience
preferred. Send resumes &cover letter to
STYLISTSUpscale salon in
Gaithersburg. Excellentcommission. Booth rentalsavailable. Great work
environment and location.Call 301-693-8504
Dental/MedicalAssistantTrainees
Needed NowDental/Medical
Offices now hiring.No experience?
Job Training& Placement
Assistance Available1-877-234-7706
CTO SCHEV
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TechTrainees
Needed NowPharmacies/ hospi-
tals now hiring.No experience?
Job Training& Placement
Assistance Available1-877-240-4524
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TELECOM PROJECT ENGINEER3CLogic Inc. has Telecom Project Engineer positions available in Rockville, MD(8:30am - 5:00pm, Monday - Friday, 40 hrs/wk) Duties: Gather customer require-ments, produce functional designs for product/cross-platform features, write archi-tectural and engineering specifications, provide technical direction, and train/mentorengineers for 3CLogic’s enterprise product offerings development.Participate in Application Design sessions with business and technical teams. driveissue resolution, create test plans and perform system testing to ensure that the of-fered solution meets customer’s business needs. Interface with vendor/partners (car-riers, service partners), as required, to test interoperability, troubleshoot, escalateand resolve problems and/or outages in service. Implementcomplex engineering prototypes, set up and configure changes of enterprise callcenter projects for new and existing customers. Design and configure theInteractive-Voice-Response for contact centers. Configure network devices for net-work interoperability and carrier provisioning between 3CLogic network and custom-er carrier networks. Perform design reviews on an ongoing basis to maximize per-formance, ensure business satisfaction, and alignment with IT strategy. Some do-mestic and international travel required. Job duties can be performed remotely fromhome. Position requires a Master’s degree or foreign equivalent degree inElectrical/Telecommunication Engineering, Computer Science or related. Knowl-edge of IP suite of protocols, Telecommunications Engineering and web technolo-gies such as HTML gained through experience, training, or course work. Annual sal-ary: $110,989.00/year. (Standard Benefits include: health benefits, sick leave, vaca-tion) Submit resumes to: Recruitment & Employment Office, 3CLogic Inc.,Attn: Job Ref#: CLO42118, P.O. Box 56625, Atlanta, GA 30343.
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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.
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JANITORIAL POSITIONSPrivate School in Rockville seeks:
Janitorial Shift-Leader (PT, Evening).Perform and oversee evening cleaningprocesses.
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.
NOW HIRINGELECTRICIANSResidential/CommercialMin 4 years experience
Call 301-349-2983
RECEPTIONIST/SECRETARYEvening / weekend / holiday part time position availableimmediately. Computer experience a must. Multi-taskenvironment. Call Carolyn (301)929-1700 ext. 3015 orsend resume to fax (301)929-1721. Manor Country Club,14901 Carrolton Road. Rockville, MD 20853
SCHOOL BUSDRIVERS
FT/PT ROCKVILLE area.Must be "EXPERIENCED" &
have a CDL w/PS endorsement.Call 301-752-6551
Warehouse LoaderPart time position available forwarehouse truck loader, Wednesdays.Job responsibilities are to assist driversand carriers loading their vehicles withbundles of newspapers. Must be ableto lift 40 lbs, accurately, count bundlesand able to operate a pallet jack.Wednesday at 4am to 4pm shiftavailable at our Gaithersburg location.
Please contact Ken at 301-670-7350,reference "warehouse loader"position
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Part-Time
Work From HomeNational Children’s CenterMaking calls Weekdays 9-4
No selling! Sal + bonus + benes.
Call 301-333-1900
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$$1133,,9988552010 Toyota Corolla LE........$$1133,,998855$13,985#P8773, 4 SpeedAuto, 25.5K mi, Classic Silver
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Deals andWheels
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