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HE WILL GOALL THE WAYDevonte Williams of Potomac’s Bullis School finds anopen lane on his way to a late first-half touchdown inSaturday’s 24-0 defeat of Landon School in Bethesda.See high school football coverage, Page B-3.

n Teen survives Sierra Leone’scivil war to find a place inschool community in Potomac

BY SARAH TINCHERSPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE

In talking with Memuna MansarayMcShane, a junior at St. Andrew’s Epis-copal School in Potomac with a brightsmile and a positive outlook on theworld, no one would immediately guesswhat she’s been through.

Though you might be able to tell bylooking at her.

On Sept. 18, standing in the frontof an auditorium with her teachers andclassmates listening carefully, she finallyrevealed the answers to so many ques-tions about her life.

Why was she adopted? Where is shefrom? And what happened to her arm?

Memuna’s story began 17 yearsprior in Sierra Leone.

In 1996, Memuna was born amid acivil war between the government andanti-government rebels had alreadybeen violently tearing the nation apartfor five years. At age 2, she and her fam-ily were hiding in a mosque in Freetown,the nation’s capital, when members of arebel militia came in with guns and theintent to kill. The militants fatally shotMemuna’s mother and grandmotherwhile she was in her grandmother’sarms. Bullets also shattered Memuna’sright arm, which doctors were laterforced to amputate.

Little did Memuna know that thiswould be the turning point in her life.

She was placed into a refugee camp,but not for long. Little Memuna fit thedescription that the president of SierraLeone was looking for — young, cute

n Superintendent saysenrollment growthfuels space crunch

BY LINDSAY A. POWERS

STAFF WRITER

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

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

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

The proposed program isabout $184 million higher thanthe current program, which cov-

ers fiscal years 2013 to 2018.Starr said the program ad-

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

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

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

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

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

Starr recommended five ad-dition projects at elementaryschools in the Downcounty

Starr: $1.6 billionneeded for newschool projects

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Memuna Mansaray McShane is a varsity athlete at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Potomac.

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n First of four forumsheld Monday atPaint Branch High

BY ALINE BARROSSTAFF WRITER

More than 150 people at-tended the first of four commu-nity forums about changes toschool start and end times heldMonday at Paint Branch HighSchool in Silver Spring.

Parents, students, andteachers were given the oppor-tunity to share their opinionsabout Montgomery CountyPublic Schools SuperintendentJoshua P. Starr’s recommenda-tions to move the start time forthe school system’s high schoolsback 50 minutes, from 7:25 a.m.to 8:15 a.m.; move the middleschool first bell from 7:55 a.m. to7:45 a.m., and keep elementaryschool start times the same, butextend the day by 30 minutes.

“We can’t charge up andmake changes without hearingpeople’s opinion and how it

impacts them,” said John Mat-thews, chairman of the 2013 BellTimes Work Group. The group,formed in December 2012, stud-ied the bell times’ impact on stu-dents’ sleep habits.

“First we want to find outwhat they think. Then next, wewant to find out what is the im-pact on them,” Matthews said,adding that the goal is to findout if the impacts are going to besignificant enough to “make uswant to do something differentor supportive enough to makeus want to continue with a planlike this.”

During the meeting, some ofthe challenges mentioned by thecommunity were the impact onparents who rely on older chil-dren to take care of their siblingsbefore they come home fromwork; loss of family quality timefor very young children; parentsof high school children who willhave to stay home for an ad-ditional hour, and safety issueswith more adolescents driving

Parents, students airconcerns on proposedchanges to start times

n Will increase county supplementfor poorer households

BY RYAN MARSHALLSTAFF WRITER

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

The Montgomery County Councilvoted unanimously Tuesday to approve abill requiring an increase in the county’s

Working Families Income Supplement,which provides money to taxpayers work-ing at or near the poverty level.

The increase could help people makea car payment they otherwise might havemissed, which could have jeopardizedtheir ability to get to work and put their jobat risk, said Councilman Hans Riemer (D-At Large) of Silver Spring, who sponsoredthe bill.

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

A county memorandum on the issuereported that representatives of CatholicCharities, the Justice and Advocacy Coun-cil of Montgomery County, ProgressiveMaryland and Maryland Hunger Solutions,among other groups, supported the bill at aJuly public hearing.

Councilwoman Nancy Floreen (D-AtLarge) of Garrett Park said she’s alwaysvoted for a full match by the county, and

Council OKs bill to help low-income families

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

Big Book Sale, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.,Rockville Memorial Library, 21 Mary-land Ave., Rockville. Free admission.301-984-3187.

Holiday Marketplace and SilentAuction, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., CovenantUnited Methodist Church, 20301Pleasant Ridge Drive, Montgomery Vil-lage. Free admission. 301-926-8920.

Swedish Bazaar, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.,Parish Hall, St. James EpiscopalChurch, 11815 Seven Locks Road, Po-tomac. Free. 703-734-0319.

Ethics, Fairness and Bias in theChanging World of Journalism, 2-3:30p.m., Cedar Lane Unitarian Universal-ist Church, 9601 Cedar Lane, Bethesda.$10, free for students. 301-493-8300,ext. 207.

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

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

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

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County honorsGlen Echo nonprofit

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Bethesda man ischurch music director

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kensington nonprofit hitsspaying milestone

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

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

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

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

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

Scouts launchfood drive this week

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

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

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

food bank in Montgomery County.Residents participating in the

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

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

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

DEATHSAngelo Mangano

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

Richard Darnell YoungRichard Darnell Young, 51, of Germantown,

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

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

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Linda Rieger (left), beautification chairwoman of the River Falls Community Association and president of the Potomac Village Garden Club, educatesTiffany Rodney and her children Isabelle and Rainier Johnson about invasive plant species that threaten the native plants and trees in their RiverFalls community. About a dozen neighbors in the Potomac community spent the early morning hours Saturday cleaning the forest conservation areaof their community and finding real treasure as they worked — silver dishes stolen in a nearby residential burglary.

n Unity Disposal workersalso to return to work


Workers at Gaithersburg’sPotomac Disposal were set toreturn to work Oct. 30 afterreaching an agreement with thecompany’s management to enda strike that lasted 10 days.

Potomac owner Lee Levinesaid the company was “thrilled”to have the issue resolved.

The strike was hard on theworkers and the company, butboth sides worked hard andwere able to come to a mutualagreement, Levine said.

Nicole Duarte, a spokes-woman for Laborers Interna-tional Union of North AmericaMid-Atlantic Regional Organiz-ing Coalition, called Tuesday’sagreement “a very fair compro-mise.” The company agreedto pay raises for workers, onepaid holiday and sick and va-cation days for workers, butweren’t able to agree on a planto provide affordable health in-surance, according to a releasefrom the union.

In the release, LiUNA VicePresident and Regional Man-ager Dennis Martire said theagreement was a good exampleof what can happen when work-ers stand together to reach a faircompromise with an employer.

But he said he was disap-pointed that MontgomeryCounty Executive Isiah Leggettwouldn’t support a plan to offerthe workers affordable healthinsurance.

County spokesman PatrickLacefield said the county had

been very supportive, holdingmeetings with Potomac and au-diting the company to ensure itpays workers a living wage re-quired by the county.

“We have never been asked,by either side, to give moremoney,” Lacefield said.

If the county adds moremoney to the contract to pro-vide for health care, it could faceissues with companies who hadbid for the contract, claiming thecounty had changed the rules inthe middle of the game, Lace-field said.

He noted that the seven-year contract had only been bidtwo years ago.

The county has hundredsof contractors, many of whomwould probably like moneyadded to their contracts, Lace-field said.

“If you do for one, are yougoing to have to do for all?” heasked.

Workers at Laurel’s UnityDisposal and Recycling, whichalso provided trash service forthe county, also were scheduledto report to work Wednesday,after an 11-day strike when doz-ens were terminated after pro-testing the firing of an employeewho had helped advocate for aunion, Duarte said.

The majority of Unity work-ers have expressed an interest inbeing part of a union, but man-agement hasn’t responded totheir request, she said.

The company has expresseda willingness to allow the work-ers back, and they have decidedto return to work while continu-ing to work toward union repre-sentation, Duarte said.

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n Fifty years ago,a congregation askedfor a church

BY PEGGY MCEWAN

STAFF WRITER

At Potomac PresbyterianChurch, it’s all about the peopleand has been for 50 years, sincethe congregation formed.

“Usually, churches areplanted by the presbytery, butin our case, the Presbyterians ofPotomac went to the presbyteryand asked for a church,” PastorSean Miller said.

That was in 1963. The con-gregation is celebrating its 50thanniversary this year with ananniversary dinner Friday and aspecial service Sunday.

“The dinner is celebratingour past,” Miller said. “The wor-ship service is about God lead-ing us into the future.”

The church held its first ser-vice on Jan. 27, 1963, at PotomacElementary School, next to thecurrent church building at 10301River Road, and met there untilthe spring of 1967, when thechurch was completed.

Miller said he likes stories of

the early days of the church thatshow its beginning was “a littlemessy.”

“They were determined tomake the church a reality,” hesaid.

The church was built onland donated by the Hyde fam-ily, he said, but was told it mightbe too wet to build on. Evidently,it was not; the church has stoodfirm since 1967, though Millersaid it does sometimes havetrouble with mold.

“I’ve heard stories of brideswalking in on planks of woodto keep their dresses [out of themud],” Miller said.

Alice Smith, 87, who now

lives at Asbury MethodistVillage in Gaithersburg, thinksshe has been a member of thechurch longer than anyone elsestill there.

She and her husband joinedin 1966. She still attends regu-larly.

“It’s home,” she said. “It’swhere your friends are andwhere your children wereraised.”

She said she likes that thecongregation is made up ofpeople from different cultures,it’s a place for young people to

come together and all ages arewelcome.

“Even though I am a widow,I don’t feel left out,” she said.

Over the church’s 50 years,Potomac Presbyterian, with 420current members, has had fivesenior pastors, including KerryStoltzfus, a pastor emeritus whoserved from 1985 to 2009.

“When the congregationfirst started, all the energy wasfocused on the congregationand its people,” Stoltzfus said.“As the years go on, it lookedmore outside itself, [developing]ministries.”

The church was a foundingmember of Community Min-istries of Montgomery County,now Interfaith Works, he said,and hosted a group of homelessmen and women for one weekeach year. They came each dayfor dinner, spent the night withthe men in the church hall andthe women in the educationwing, and left the next day afterbreakfast.

“The most amazing week,”he said, “was one week whenwe got one of the most amazingblizzards. Our guests couldn’tleave, nothing was moving, andthe people who were preparingthe food couldn’t get out either.

We used everyone’s four-wheeldrive to pick up food and de-liver it and we all played gamesand talked. It’s one of the eventsthat’s still talked about. It was agreat experience.”

Stoltzfuss said three thingshe thinks keep the church vi-brant and growing: it’s family

friendly, it offers a traditionalworship service and there is anemphasis on mission outreach.

He said he thinks those char-acteristics will keep the churchvibrant in the future.

“I don’t think the need willchange. People look for that,”he said.

Nancy Tietjen — whosehusband Bob and his first wifeShirley were original members— said it’s the people who mat-ter the most.

“Our church family is whatbrings me here,” she said.

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Kendra Grams, associate pastor of Potomac Presbyterian Church, chats with Potomac residents and church membersPhilip and Sharon Shively and their son, Robert, 9, during a celebration Sunday of the church’s 50th anniversary.

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

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

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

For information, call 240-777-8526.

Donate Halloween candy to the troopsBethesda nonprofit MoverMoms is planning

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

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

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

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

• Whole Foods Market, 5269 River Road,Bethesda.

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

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

Bethesda swimmer Katie Ledecky Sports-Woman of the Year.

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

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

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

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

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

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

1ST DISTRICT

Armed robbery• On Oct. 10 at 9:45 a.m. at Twinbrook Metro, 1600

Chapman Ave., Rockville. The subjects assaulted thevictim and unsuccessfully attempted to take property.

Auto theft• On Oct. 8 between 9 a.m. and noon in the 15000

block of Gretna Dreen Drive, Darnestown. No furtherinformation provided.

• On Oct. 11 between 5 and 11:30 p.m. in the 5600block of Fishers Lane, Rockville. No further informationprovided.

Auto theft and commercial burglary• On Oct. 12 between 3:43 and 4:18 a.m. at a BP sta-

tion, 1910 Rockville Pike, Rockville. Forced entry, tookproperty and a vehicle.

Drug and weapons offense• On Oct. 11 at 10:28 p.m. in the 12300 block of

Triple Crown Road, North Potomac. Police arrested sixmen.

Residential burglary• 400 block of Autumn Wind Way, Rockville, on Oct.

14 or Oct. 15. Took property from a garage.

Vehicle larceny• 5900 block of Vandegrift Avenue, Rockville, be-

tween 12:05 and 9:30 p.m. Oct. 8. Took a backpack.

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BY PEGGY MCEWANSTAFF WRITER

Liz Matory said she is not run-ning against the incumbents, she isrunning for the position.

The Silver Spring Democrat, 33,said she is definitely running for theMaryland House of Delegates fromDistrict 18 in Montgomery County,though she has not yet filed as acandidate with the state Board ofElections.

“I’m running to represent thewhole district,” Matory said. “Ourdistrict is pretty diverse, with the af-fluence of some and the aspirationsof others.”

She said she has already startedknocking on doors, introducingherself and talking to neighbors.

“I’m encouraged and inspiredby everyone I’ve met,” she said.“People said it was hard to runagainst incumbents, but I use thatto energize me. Voters pick incum-bents. I need to get them to remem-ber Elizabeth Matory.”

District 18, which includes

Kensington, Chevy Chase, GarrettPark, Wheaton and parts of SilverSpring and Rockville, is representedin Annapolis by state Sen. RichardMadaleno (D) of Kensington andDels. Alfred C. Carr of Kensington,Ana Sol Gutier-rez (D) of ChevyChase and Jef-frey D. Waldst-reicher (D) ofKensington.

So far, ac-cording to theMaryland StateBoard of Elec-tions website, only Carr has filed asa candidate.

The primary election is June 24,2014, and the general election willbe Nov. 4, 2014. A Washington na-tive, Matory graduated from SidwellFriends School in 1998, ColumbiaUniversity in 2002 with a degreein history and Howard UniversitySchoolofLawin2006.SheiscurrentlyworkingonherMBAattheUniversityof Maryland Robert H. Smith Schoolof Business which she expects to re-ceive in May 2014. She has lived inMontgomery County for nine years.

Matory’sworkexperienceincludeshelping to found the Excel Academy in

SoutheastWashington,thefirstall-girlscharterschoolintheDistrict.

“I did everything short of teach-ing,” she said. “Community out-reach, making sure our grants werein and planning field trips.”

After one year at Excel Acad-emy she returned to Howard Lawas director of development, thenworked, most recently, as market-ing and business affairs executivefor Altavoz, an entertainment dis-tribution company in Rockville.

She said the biggest issue withthe people she has met so far is thePurple Line.

“We [in District 18] are big envi-ronmentalists so we know the needfor mass transportation, but we alsoenjoy nature,” she said. “This is atime for transition. [People] wantto make sure we have the least en-vironmental impact.”

Other issues Matory sees fac-ing the people of her district areenhancing education to meet theneeds of a diverse population, as-sisting the growing numbers of el-derly residents find the resourcesthey need and solving the energyproblem of power outages.

“Energy is always a hot topic,”she said. “I’d like to work with other

stakeholders to supplement the[power] grid. I’m thinking if we hadmicro grids, they could increase re-silience to power loss.”

Matory said she has alwaysbeen interested in politics butbecame more aware of the im-portance of state office while vol-unteering this past summer with Lt.Gov. Anthony Brown’s campaignfor governor.

She decided this would be agood time to run.

“I’m single, have no childrenand I don’t need to wait for anopening,” she said.

She said she hopes to run agrass roots campaign, keeping costsdown by not hiring too much out-side help.

As for those costs, she said shehas heard three different numbers.

“I heard $150,000, which I thinkis crazy [high],” she said. “A del-egate race should be $30,000, butI’ve also heard anywhere between80 and $100,000.”

She said she hopes to financeher campaign with fundraisers andthrough donations from family andfriends.

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n Democrat wantsbetter governmentoversight of utilities


Alfred C. Carr Jr. is the first ofDistrict 18’s three incumbent del-egates to file for re-election, but heexpects the other incumbents torun again in 2014, too.

“We work well together and areactually friends outside work,” hesaid, referring to Dels. Ana Sol Guti-errez (D) of Chevy Chase and JeffreyD. Waldstreicher (D) of Kensington.

Carr, who will be 48 on Satur-day, has served as a state delegatesince 2007.

“I enjoy being able to make adifference, to change things for the

better,” he said. “I enjoy helpingpeople with constituent servicesand I enjoy learning new things.”

Carr, a Democrat, said he tendsto focus on en-v i r o n m e n t a land quality oflife issues andhas introduceda number ofbills dealingwith transpor-tation, bicyclesafety, and theenvironment during his time asdelegate.

He has served on the HouseEnvironmental Matters Committeesince his election.

If re-elected, he said, he wouldcontinue working on “better over-sight of utilities — Pepco, WSSC,and Washington Gas. I don’t think

the current [oversight] process hasworked well. We’ve allowed Pepco’sinfrastructure to deteriorate. I don’tthink there is enough opportunityfor the people to participate.”

Carr also said he thinks there ismore work to be done for balancedtransportation policies, through im-provingMetroandMARCtrainserviceand building better bicycle routes.

“The old ways of thinking fortransportation aren’t working any-more,” he said.

Carr said he spent a “little lessthan $100,000” on his last cam-paign and thinks this one will beabout the same.

“I’ve been fortunate that mycampaign funding comes almostexclusively from local, small do-nors,” he said. “I expect I won’thave trouble raising enough to tellpeople who I am and what I’ve

done.”Carr lives in Kensington. His

wife, Barrie Carr, teaches nurseryschool. They have three sons, ages11, 7 and 3.

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

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

Sen. Richard S. Madaleno Jr.(D) of Kensington, who also repre-sents District 18, filed last week torun for re-election — six days afterCarr filed.

The primary election will beJune 24 and the general electionNov. 4, 2014.

Carr first District 18 incumbent to file for re-election

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Cousins Samary Morales (left), 10, and Abigail Bermudez, 10, both of Gaithersburg, gather pumpkins from the field Friday afternoon during the 33rd annualPumpkin Festival at Butler’s Orchard in Germantown. The seasonal celebration is held on weekends every October. Last weekend was the last of the season.

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n Gwen Ward andSafe Kids Worldwidespeaking out againstdistracted walking


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

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

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

The campaign is called “Mo-ment of Silence.” Students areurged to put down or turn offtheir electronic devices as theyare about to cross a street.

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

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

Ward said she was at workon the morning of Oct. 31 whenher son called to say Christinahad been in an accident and he

was going to the hospital. Thatwas all she knew when she ar-rived at Shady Grove AdventistHospital in Rockville. It was notlong before she heard the badnews that she had died.

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

Ward said that after puttingstories together from witnessesand the police, she learned thatChristina was wearing darkclothes. It was early morning,not quite daylight, when she waswalking to school.

Christina was looking downat her cellphone and had ear-phones in. She was not in acrosswalk as she crossed theeight-lane road.

Those conditions and ac-tions increase the chance ofpedestrian collisions, said JeffDunckel, pedestrian safety co-ordinator for the MontgomeryCounty Department of Trans-portation.

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

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

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

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

“She’s been really willing to

get involved. We developed ourMoment of Silence campaignwith her in honor of Christina,”said Gary Karton, the director ofcommunications for Safe KidsWorldwide.

The need is great, Carr said.Safe Kids conducted an observa-tional study in 17 states duringthe 2012-13 school year involv-ing 34,325 students walking toschool.

“One in five high schoolsstudents was distracted by anelectronic device and one ineight middle schoolers,” shesaid. “There are a lot of cam-paigns against distracted driv-ing. [We need one] for distractedwalking.”

In Montgomery County,

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

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

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

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

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n ‘It’s part of ourdefense structure’

BY SARAH SCULLYSTAFF WRITER

William Hill of German-town wanted a way to supportthe military, but as a civil-ian. He found it in Septemberby joining the MontgomeryCounty Draft Board.

Although the draft hasbeen inactive since the Viet-nam War, Hill is one of about11,000 volunteers who makeup local, district and nationalboards in case Congress callsfor a draft.

Montgomery Countyboard member Don Libes saidthe primary function of thedraft board today is to visitpost offices to ensure thatthey have proper materialsand posters to help men fulfilltheir requirement of register-ing with the Selective ServiceSystem upon turning 18.

“It’s part of our defensestructure,” said Matthew Tit-tmann, public affairs specialistwith the Selective Service Sys-tem. “To maintain this com-plex system and ensure equity,we need to register men. Youcan’t start the system on dayone and expect it to be opera-tional shortly after that.”

Hill saw an ad for the po-sition and decided to apply.He has served as detachmentcommander for the Sons ofthe American Legion, and nowis the organization’s NationalSergeant-at-Arms.

Many members of Hill’sfamily have served in the mili-tary, including his father inWorld War II. Recently, Hillsaid, he also was appointed tothe board of directors of theMaryland Center for Veter-ans Education and Training, aBaltimore-based organizationthat helps homeless veteransand other veterans with train-ing and services.

Men ages 18 through 25who are U.S. citizens or im-migrants living in the UnitedStates are required to registerwith Selective Service, accord-ing to the agency’s website.

Maryland has 273,861 menwhohaveregisteredforthedraft,according to the Selective Ser-vice System 2012 report to Con-gress. Nationwide, that numberis nearly 15.7 million men.

In the case of a draft, theboard is charged with decidingwho would be exempt. Partof the board’s work includestraining sessions in which theypractice various scenarios,Libes said.

Exemptions from militaryservice include men who arehospitalized, incarcerated ordisabled; those who have a de-pendency status; and those whoare conscientious objectors.

Conscientious objectorsmust oppose all war, ratherthan have political oppositionto particular military actions.

To qualify, draft board vol-unteers must be U.S. citizens,registered with the SelectiveService, if male; 18 years orolder; not be employed withany law enforcement occupa-tion; not be an active or retiredmember of the armed forces;and not have a criminal record.

Current and former mem-bers of the military cannotserve on the boards, said DickFlahavan, associate director forpublic and intergovernmentalaffairs with the Selective Ser-vice System. In World War I,the military was responsiblefor the draft. After the conflict,the government sought a thirdparty to organize the draft be-cause “they wanted an honestbroker between the civiliansand the military.”

Margaret Stilke, a Selec-tive Service program analyst,said that when recruiting newboard volunteers, the SelectiveService looks for “community-minded people, free of bias,with good leadership skills.”

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n Congressman says bill isclose to gaining bipartisansupporters in Senate


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The bill was recently dis-cussed at a forum Delaney at-tended that was sponsored bythe American Enterprise Insti-tute and Third Way, which pro-

motes moderate policy ideasthrough “pragmatic solutionsand principled compromise.”

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

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

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n Republican candidatepursuing District 15delegate seat

BY SYLVIA CARIGNANSTAFF WRITER

Boyds resident Flynn Fickeris drawing on his local experi-ence for his campaign as theonly Republican candidate forDistrict 15 delegate.

Ficker, 31, describes himselfas a “full-time politician” withpolitical expertise from workingwith his father at his law officeand in his District 15 campaigns.His father, Robin Ficker, is run-ning for state senator in 2014.Robin and Flynn have formeda slate and are campaigning asRepublicans for District 15.

The district stretches alongthe western edge of the county,from Clarksburg to North Po-tomac. Del. Kathleen Dumais(D) of Rockville, Del. DavidFraser-Hidalgo (D) of Boydsand Del. Aruna Miller (D) ofDarnestown currently representDistrict 15.

Robin represented District15 in the House from 1978 to1982. Flynn is making his firstrun for elected office.

Flynn said he is watchingthe battle over Ten Mile Creekin Clarksburg, where environ-mental groups, developers andthe county planning board aredebating the number of residen-tial units that should be built inthe creek’s watershed. The creekflows into Little Seneca Reser-voir, a back-up drinking watersupply for the Washington, D.C.,region.

“If there is development,I want it to be smart develop-ment, not something that woulddamage the environment,”Flynn said.

Flynn said he is also con-cerned about possible delays toschool improvements, as pro-posed by schools Superinten-dent Joshua Starr on Monday.He agrees with Starr that expan-sion is needed, but he is con-

cerned that older schools likePoolesville High School, whichis in District 15, will have to waitlonger for their planned revital-ization project.

Flynn said he’s also con-cerned about taxes on smallbusinesses, based on what he’sheard from constituents. Hewants to create a tax-friendly en-vironment for small businesses,especially those in the Interstate270 corridor.

“I wouldn’t vote for any taxincreases,” he said.

Flynn, who is not married,has been an assistant wrestlingcoach at DeMatha Catholic HighSchool in Hyattsville and a campcounselor at Valley Mill SummerCamp in Germantown. He alsohas worked as a salesperson atthe produce stand for his fam-ily’s farm and as a deliverymanfor a local restaurant, he said.

Flynn is currently accept-ing donations for his campaign,but said he has not planned anyfundraiser events yet. He plansto file with the state to becomea District 15 delegate candidateearly next year.

Dumais, Miller and formerdelegate Saqib Ali have filed forthe 2014 race. Fraser-Hidalgo isserving the remainder of formerDel. Brian J. Feldman’s term.Feldman, a Potomac resident,left his delegate seat and be-came the district’s senator afterformer Sen. Robert Garagiola(D-Dist. 15) resigned.

Primaries will be held inJune and the general electionwill be in November 2014.

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n County officials met withWall Street firms in New York


The judgment of three Wall Street bondrating agencies will allow MontgomeryCounty to retain the highest possible creditrating offered by the firms.

The rating agencies Fitch, Standard &Poor’s and Moody’s each gave the countya AAA rating, the highest one possible, ac-cording to a county release.

County Executive Isiah Leggett’s officeannounced the ratings Monday.

Fitch praised the county’s “multi-yearfiscal plan that balances current resourcesagainst spending,” while Moody’s predictedthat Montgomery’s “sizable and diverse taxbase will continue to remain strong goingforward,” according to the release.

Standard and Poor’s was quoted assaying it viewed the county’s managementposition as strong, with “strong financialpolicies and practices in place,” accordingto the release.

The bond rating lets the county sell long-term bonds at the most favorable rates, andis also factored into other financial transac-tions to allow the county to pay lower rates.

Leggett (D) said the AAA rating affirmshis decisions to close gaps in the budget,change county health and retirement ben-efits and boost financial reserves, and wouldlet the county make its government more ef-fective and create economic opportunitiesin the future, according to the release.

County Council President Nancy Na-varro (D-Dist. 4) of Silver Spring said therating demonstrated a proactive approachby the council and Leggett during hard eco-nomic times.

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n Maryland Historic Trustdetermined the sight to beeligible for designation in 1996

BY JENN DAVISSTAFF WRITER

Summit Hall Farm could soonland on the National Register of His-toric Places.

Matt Bowling, Gaithersburg’sstaff liaison to the city’s HistoricDistrict Commission, said the city isplanning to submit an applicationto Maryland Historical Trust to havethe Summit Hall Farm property inBohrer Park be added to the NationalRegister of Historic Places. The actioncame from the direction of the mayorand council at an Aug. 12 city work-session during which city staff andelected officials toured the smoke-house on the site.

A spot on the national registerwould be beneficial for the property,helping to secure additional avenuesfor funding, according to Bowling.

“If we’re filling out a grant ap-plication, sometimes one of the firstquestions is ‘Is the property listedon the National Register of HistoricPlaces?’” he said. “We’d love to beable to say ‘yes.’”

With more money flowing in, thecity would be able to implement atreatment plan — whether it be stabi-lization, rehabilitation or restoration— for the site’s tenant house, smoke-house, barn and other structures,Bowling said.

In 1996, the Maryland Histori-cal Trust issued a recommendationfor eligibility for Summit Hall Farmto be added to the national register.However, to complete the process ofdesignation, the city has to give in anofficial application. Bowling said thecity plans to do so by year’s end.

The Determination of Eligibilityform, or DOE document, explainedthat the 57-acre property qualified for

the designation because it met two ofthe agency’s four criteria. Accord-ing to the document, the farm wasdeemed to have made a significantcontribution to history in general andembodies the look of several historicperiods with the characteristics of itsexterior.

“In its 230-year history, SummitHall has been associated with signifi-cant events in such diverse fields aspioneer settlement, Civil War history,experimental agronomy, astronomyand the area’s social and physicaldevelopment,” the form states. “Ar-chitecturally Summit Hall combines

early 19th century hewn log con-struction, late Federal/Victorian eraadditions and a 1937 Classical Revivalfacade.”

While the terms of the documentstate that the entire property and allof its structures are eligible, it waswritten before Bohrer Park’s activ-ity center was built. Bowling said thefuture application would exclude theactivity center from the eligibilityboundaries.

“We’re hoping that they [Mary-land Historical Trust] will look at thisin conjunction with the determinationthat was made in 1996,” Bowling said.

If the Maryland Historical Trustapproves the designation of the site,it would become the fifth property inGaithersburg to be added to the na-tional register. Other properties in-clude the Gaithersburg InternationalLatitude Observatory, Gaithers-burg MARC (formerly B&O) station,Thomas and Company Cannery andJ.A. Belt Building, according to theNational Register of Historic Placesdatabase.

“It’s really an important fixture inour landscape,” Bowling said.

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

BY ALINE BARROSSTAFF WRITER

The nearly 2,000 people whosquealed, jumped or gasped atthe Haunted Garden in SilverSpring this year might be thelast group to ever tour the Hal-loween display if a judge’s deci-sion puts the nail in the display’scoffin.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But Mitchell did not considerthe event to be commercial.

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

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

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

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BY SYLVIA CARIGNANSTAFF WRITER

Attorney General DouglasF. Gansler said he should haveinvestigated whether teenswere drinking alcohol at a partyhis son attended in June.

“I didn’t go over and stickmy nose in [the cups] and see,but maybe I should have,”Gansler told about a dozen re-porters at a Silver Spring pressconference Thursday.

Gansler, a Democrat who isrunning for governor in Mary-land, called the press confer-ence to address a BaltimoreSun story about the party.

According to The Sun,Gansler’s son and other stu-dents from the Landon Schoolin Bethesda attended a party inSouth Bethany, Del., on June 13to celebrate their graduation.A few of the students’ parentspaid for a weeklong vacation ata beach house where the partywas held.

In The Sun’s photo, Gansleris shown holding up his cell-phone in the center of a largegroup of dancing teens.

Gansler said he dropped bythe party to tell his son when

they would leave Delaware todrive to Pennsylvania in themorning, but he did not pay at-tention what his son’s friendswere drinking.

The Sun reported that twoparty chaperones, parents ofthe students, were at the eventto enforce the house rules:bedroom doors must stay openand teens may not drink hardliquor or drive.

Gansler told The Sun thathe was concerned about hisown son, and not necessarilythe contents of the teens’ redplastic cups. But at the pressconference, he said that was amistake.

Gansler is aware there wasbeer at the party, but he said in-vestigating underage drinkingwas not his priority that night.

“I didn’t buy the beer,” hesaid. “I showed up, talked to myson and left.”

At the press conference,Gansler also addressed ques-tions about his use of his cellphone, which he appears to beholding at an arm’s length. Heverified that he was in the pho-tos, and said he was not tak-ing pictures, but was walkingthrough the party while tryingto read a text message.

The gubernatorial candi-date said he did not see anyonein immediate danger, using

drugs or getting hurt, and hismain concern was to talk to hisson. Gansler noted he was notone of the chaperones, and didnot take part in the lease for thebeach house.

“What I could have done isinvestigate whether there wasdrinking going on, and takeaction,” he said. “I probablyshould have done that.”

Gansler said he has strongrelationships with his sonand his son’s friends, many ofwhom he has coached sincethey were children.

“I’m a very, very involvedparent,” he said.

This is the second time thismonth Gansler has been forcedto answer questions about hisconduct after a news story. TheWashington Post reported thatpolice assigned to drive Gansleraround have alleged that he di-rects them to drive aggressivelyand unnecessarily use lightsand sirens. Gansler has dis-puted the allegation.

Gansler is one three Demo-crats seeking the gubernato-rial nomination next year. Theothers are Lt. Gov. AnthonyG. Brown and Del. Heather R.Mizeur.

Gansler was first sworn inas Maryland’s attorney generalin 2007. He was re-elected in2010.

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n To be installed on25 buses to catchillegal passing

BY LINDSAY A. POWERSSTAFF WRITER

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

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

Cameras will be installedon 25 school buses that runroutes with the highest num-ber of passing incidents.Wiring for the cameras willbe installed on another 75buses so the cameras can beswapped among the buses.County Police Chief J. ThomasManger said the cameras willbe active by Jan. 3.

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

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

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

As of the Thursday meeting,the county attorney was still re-viewing the police and schoolsystem’s agreement before ap-

proving it, said county spokes-man Patrick Lacefield.

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

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

“Make no mistake, we weretrying to look at what other ju-risdictions were doing,” he said.“Much of the delay for this hadnothing to do with the procure-ment process.”

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

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

Manger said the cameras arenot about making money.

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

County Councilman PhilipM. Andrews (D-Dist. 3) of Gaith-ersburg said he thinks it’s impor-tant the cameras are publicized.

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

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

County Council Vice Presi-dent Craig Rice (D-Dist. 2) ofGermantown said his daughterwas recently almost hit by a ve-hicle that illegally passed a busand that he had chased downthe driver.

“I’ve seen it firsthand,” Rice

said, describing some driverswho “disregard” buses signal-ling for them to stop.

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

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

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

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

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

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


BY SAMANTHA SCHMIEDERSPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE

Rockville’s Forrester Con-struction Co. has been awarded$59.1 million from the ArmyCorps of Engineers to developabout 27 acres for the Millen-nium Project to increase burialspace at Arlington NationalCemetery in Virginia.

This will be Forrester’sfourth project at ArlingtonNational, the most recent be-ing Columbarium Court No. 9,

which opened in May.“It’s such a pleasure and

privilege to be able to work onthat site,” said Frank Pinto, For-rester’s director of project devel-opment.

Without the most recentaddition, Arlington officials be-lieved the cemetery would havequickly run out of burial spacefor military veterans and theirfamilies. The plans for this proj-ect will add pre-set crypts forin-ground burial; columbariumstructures, which are vaults

lined with recesses for urns; andin-ground cremains sites. In ad-dition to the much-needed newburial spots, a great amount oflandscaping will be needed aswell as the construction of re-taining walls, security walls, andvehicle and pedestrian roadsand walkways.

The company was picked forthe project through competitivesolicitation that started in thespring. The Army Corps of Engi-neers looked through proposalsfrom different companies that

included their pricing and qual-ifications and decided Forresterwas the best option.

“The Corps requires near-perfect finishes and we have atrack record of doing it in thepast; our price was pretty com-pelling as well,” Pinto said.

Though the contracting se-lection process involves sensi-tive information that cannot bepublicized in too much detail,Patrick Bloodgood, the ArmyCorps of Engineers’ Norfolk Dis-trict spokesman, said that previ-

ous work was one of the manycriteria looked at when choosingthe company.

Although there has beensome public protest about theconstruction as a whole be-cause it would mean removingabout 900 trees, some of whichhave been there since the cem-etery was opened, the Corpsis planning to protect selecttrees as well as plant more tobalance out what had to be re-moved.

“We’re doing a ratio of newtrees greater than one-to-one,”Bloodgood said, adding thatplans call for planting 800 treesand more than 1,000 each of treeseedlings and shrubs.

“There’s going to be a num-

ber of environmental improve-ments,” Pinto said.

He explained that Forresterwill be shaping the landscape toprotect and preserve the naturalhabitats of native species, plusfill in a stream that runs throughthe property.

While the project has no for-mal groundbreaking planned,Pinto said the company will bemobilizing on-site within thenext two months and plans towork into 2016. He said For-rester will take the appropriatetime to do the project right andachieve the best result possible.

“We don’t want speed overquality,” Pinto said.

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n Simmons says politicsbehind ethics allegation;former opponentfiled complaint


State Del. Luiz R.S. Simmonsbelieves politics is driving anethics complaint about his send-ing state Department of Trans-portation maps to constituents.

Simmons (D-Dist. 17) ofRockville said he obtained themaps from the state and paidfor envelopes and postage tosend them, something he’s donethroughout his 12 years in theGeneral Assembly.

The state Department ofTransportation prints the mapsand makes them available tolegislators who ask for them, ac-cording to Simmons.

“This is apparently the be-ginning of the political season,”he said.

Gaithersburg resident DanCampos, who ran unsuccess-fully as a Republican in the 2010District 17 House of Delegatesrace, sent a complaint on Oct. 13to a co-counsel for the GeneralAssembly’s Joint Committee onLegislative Ethics.

He said he’s since changedhis party affiliation to Democrat,and has no plans to run again forany political office.

Campos complained thatSimmons was sending residentsmaps with his name, title, dis-trict office telephone numberand House email address, usingstate government materials topromote his political career.

Campos said he’s gottena letter saying his complaintwould be considered at a fu-ture ethics committee meeting,

which hasn’t been scheduled.Deadra Daly, an ethics coun-

sel for the General Assembly,said Thursday that she wasn’table to comment on whether acomplaint had been received.

Simmons said he could un-derstand the complaint if hewere directing the state to printthe maps so he could use them,but he didn’t do that.

He said he hands maps outwhen he goes canvassing door-to-door or at various events. “Isee nothing wrong with it,” hesaid Thursday.

Simmons said he oftenspends his own money on vari-ous constituent services, such asa separate phone line and a legalresearch database. He estimatedhe’s spent about $75,000 duringhis legislative career.

In an email on Friday morn-ing, Simmons wrote that hespent $603.95 in postage and$1,300 for special window enve-lopes — all of it his own money.

Campos said the complaintwasn’t politically motivated,and candidates should be freeto send out whatever informa-tion they like.

“Just not courtesy of the tax-payers,” Campos said.

Simmons said he’s consid-ering a run for the state Senate,and is “inching toward” an-nouncing whether he’ll run forthe Senate or for re-election tohis House seat.

The District 17 Senate seatcurrently is held by Jennie M.Forehand (D), who said thismonth that she is “seriouslythinking” of running again.

As of Thursday, the only del-egate candidate who had filed inDistrict 17 for the 2014 electionwas Gaithersburg Democrat An-drew Platt.

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n County increasing fundsfor local banks to investin small businesses

BY KEVIN JAMES SHAYSTAFF WRITER

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

But what is even more im-pressive to some in the businesscommunity is EagleBank’s 28percent rise in business com-mercial and industrial loans andemphasis on U.S. Small Busi-ness Administration lending.

SBA sales activity in the thirdquarter was stronger than thesame period in 2012, said RonaldPaul, chairman and CEO of EagleBancorp, the second-largest bankbased in Montgomery County af-ter Sandy Spring Bancorp.

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

Last week, MontgomeryCounty Executive Isiah Leggett(D) announced that a programformed last year to pump morefunds into local communitybanks to invest in small busi-nesses would receive $25 mil-lion more than the $10 million it

got last year. The Small BusinessPlus program has succeededin helping boost loans madeto small businesses, so it madesense to increase the invest-ment, Leggett said.

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

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

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

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she hopes the county will beable to do more in the future inother areas.

“I’m fine with this solution,but I’m hopeful we can do betterin the coming years dependingon the resources available,” Flo-reen said.

Council Vice President CraigRice (D-Dist. 2) of Germantownsaid he’d like to see the countytake a more comprehensive ap-proach.

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

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

In 2000, Montgomerystarted matching 100 percentof the Maryland refund to helpresidents afford the high cost-of-living in the county. But abill passed in 2010 allowed thecouncil to set the county incomesupplement at less than 100percent of the state refundablecredit by passing a resolutioneach year.

In fiscal 2011, the countysupplement was set at 72.5 per-cent, 68.9 percent in fiscal 2012and 75.5 percent in fiscal 2013.

In May, the council ap-proved an increase in the sup-plement to 85 percent of thestate refundable credit for fiscal2014.

The bill passed Tuesday re-quires the county supplementto increase to 90 percent in fiscal2015, 95 percent in fiscal 2016and 100 percent in fiscal 2017and beyond.

According to an analysis bythe county’s Finance Office, thefunding increase in fiscal 2015will cost the county an addi-tional $1.016 million.

In fiscal 2011, 33,840 Mont-

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“She made an athletic andemotional impact from dayone,” said head coach GlennWhitman. “Beyond whereshe’s been and what she’s been

through, I’ve been truly amazedby what she can do on the field.”

But despite her confidenceand ability to adapt, Memunastill had to deal with the emo-tional stress that inevitablycomes with only having onearm. When she began playingsoccer at St. Andrew’s, Whitmanalmost immediately noticed thatshe constantly wore fleece jack-ets during training to hide herarm, even in the summertime.But in time, the fear dissipatedand Memuna finally becameconfident and comfortableenough to stop hiding.

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

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

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

ably be completely differentperson if it wasn’t for them.”

According to Kristin, 17, Me-muna made it easy for the teamto accept her into the group. “Shethinks we were welcoming to-ward her, but she was welcomingtoward everyone else. She’s partof the team family,” she said.

And Kevin McShane, who isalso the team’s assistant coach,

attributes Memuna’s success tothe entire St. Andrew’s commu-nity, not just the team.

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

Although Memuna gives herfriends, family and teammates

the credit for her perpetualsmile, she isn’t the only one ben-efitting from the experience.

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

And according to Whitman,despite the team’s competi-

tive nature and constant striveto win, the lasting memory forthem all probably won’t havemuch to do with soccer.

“What we’ll remember mostis what she taught us about ad-versity and never giving up,” hesaid.

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CELEBRATIONSHEALTH CALENDAR

RELIGION CALENDAR

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

PLACING ANANNOUNCEMENT

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

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

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

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

Faris, Coles

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

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

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

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

Figert, Dudley

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

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

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

They will be married in Spring of 2014.

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

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

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

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

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

South, Massullo

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 30Prostate Cancer Survivor-

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

THURSDAY, NOV. 7Complete Childbirth

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

ONGOINGNew Mothers Postpartum

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

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

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

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

UPCOMINGNeelsville’s Alternative Gift

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

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

ONGOINGDamascus United Method-

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

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

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

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

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

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


SCHOOL LIFE

Willing to weed: Studentsclean school courtyard

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ager of the Germantown HomeDepot store.

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

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

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

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

Richard Montgomerystudent wins green award

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

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

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

For the past two years,Li has given presentations at

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

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

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

Blair High seniors honoredby Hispanic programFour seniors at Montgom-

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

The seniors are SabrinaBradford and Jared Collina of

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

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

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

School food forum isSaturday in Silver Spring

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

EDUCATION NOTEBOOK


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

n School districtcelebrates program’s50th anniversary

BY PEGGY MCEWAN

STAFF WRITER

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

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

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

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

“The motivation camewhen we were building an out-

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

kins said.“We can get about 40 to

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[email protected]

For a half-century, sixth-graders have taken to the great outdoors


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gansler’s soulsearching

LET TERS TOTHEEDITOR

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

David H. Brown, North Bethesda

We can’t eliminate all vehicles

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

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

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

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

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

Robert J. Riker, Chevy Chase

Purple Linewill not

get enoughriders

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

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

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

Why is the school board not

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joan Fidler, BethesdaThe writer is the president

of the Montgomery County Tax-payers League.

He who pays the piper

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rec center blues

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

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

And now, we have EarnestLunsford Jr., the administrator

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

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

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

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

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

2. Redesign the weak rampsand parking slabs.

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

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

Steve Cullen, Silver Spring

Latex-modified concrete isn’t the answer

PRESERVINGWHEATON

SITE WOULDNOT HONOR

ITS TIES TOROCK

CLASSIC CURTIS


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Only 19 percent of Mary-

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Intel from Gonzales

MY MARYLANDBLAIR LEE At the Oct. 14, mayor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jessica Reynolds, RockvilleThe writer is a Rockville

Historic District Commis-sioner, and an economicdevelopment professional.

Historic Pink Bank set to be demolished

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

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

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

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

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

Beryl L. Feinberg, RockvilleThe writer is a candi-

date for the Rockville CityCouncil.

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Consortium, an area that he saidhas faced the county’s largestgrowth in the last six years.

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

The downcounty elementaryschools with planned additionprojects include: Brookhaven,Glen Haven, Kemp Mill, SargentShriver and Highland.

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

North Bethesda Middle School;and Bethesda-Chevy Chase HighSchool.

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

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

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

is not cost efficient.”Starr said the recommended

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

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

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

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

The plan proposes that sixrevitalization/expansion proj-ects continue with their cur-rent completion dates. Theyinclude Bel Pre, Candlewood

and Rock Creed Forest elemen-tary schools; Wheaton and Sen-eca Valley high schools; and theThomas Edison High School ofTechnology.

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

The recommended programalso directs about $283 milliontoward systemic projects thatinclude security upgrades andHVAC, roof and door replace-ments.

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

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

Starr said he is asking for an

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

About $155 million was rec-ommended for technology mod-ernization projects such as newcomputers.

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

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

School board PresidentChristopher S. Barclay said thework session will mark a chance

for the board to start askingquestions.

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

Highland Elementary Prin-cipal Scott Steffan said the addi-tion planned for his school in theproposed program hopefully willenable the school to accommo-date its students without need-ing to add portable classrooms.

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

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

While she is disappointedas a Highland View parent thather school will not see construc-tion soon, she said, she sees thatthere are needs at every schooland the school system’s capitalbudget requires “tough choices.”

Harris said the school systemneeds state funds more propor-tionate to the number of stu-dents it serves.

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

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

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later in the afternoon duringrush hour.

Suzanne Paholski, who hastwo kids in high school, said sheis “not in favor of it.”

“By pushing back the starttime you push back everythingin the day. Not just school, butafter-school activities, familytime, and bed time,” Paholskisaid, adding that her children goto sleep at 10:30 p.m. and get upat 6:30 a.m.

“I don’t have problems get-ting them up in the morning,”she added.

Gabriel Coxson, 14, whogoes to Sherwood High Schoolin Sandy Spring, said that start-ing school later will not helpstudents, especially high schoolstudents.

“The only benefit is goingto be for people who actuallygo home, and actually get rightto homework, and go to sleep...Iam not one of those people.”

But not everyone was com-pletely against the proposal.

Dorothy Gardner, a Mont-gomery County Public SchoolESOL teacher and parent, saidshe asked her students to speakwith their parents about belltimes and came representingthem.

“I did have one class whereparents were really for the timechange because it is dark [in themorning], and it is really early,”Gardner said.

Gardner’s older high schoolclass spoke about a completelydifferent issue.

“They have to pick uptheir brothers and sisters,” theteacher said, adding that shesees the benefits on both sides.

Schools officials said a finaldecision won’t be made untilall the community input hasbeen gathered on the recom-mendations, and full cost andoperational impacts have beendetermined.

“We don’t want ignore any-body,” said Matthews.

The next community forumis scheduled to take place onDec. 16 in Rockville at RichardMontgomery High School, lo-cated at 250 Richard Montgom-ery Drive.

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n Powerupmontco, AARPto host event meantto educate candidates

BY KATE S. ALEXANDER

STAFF WRITER

Only candidates for elected officeand the media will be welcomed to at-tend a November forum on Montgom-ery’s electricity reliability woes.

The county’s primary supplier of

electricity, Pepco, is not invited.Abbe Milstein said her organiza-

tion, Powerupmontco, is hosting theforum in North Bethesda on Nov. 6 toeducate potential future lawmakers onMontgomery’s issues with the Mary-land Public Service Commission andelectric reliability.

Candidates will be there to listenand ask questions, not to speak, shesaid.

The forum, she said, is intended toeducate the candidates, not the generalpublic.

Milstein formed Powerupmontcoin response to the June 2012 derechothat left her and thousands of otherresidents without power for days.

Through the organization, Milsteinsince has lobbied in Annapolis and in-tervened as a party in Pepco’s last ratecase, in which it was awarded $27 mil-lion in higher rates and $24 million innew fees.

Both Democratic and Republicanincumbents and candidates for stateoffice (including the General Assem-bly) will be invited to the Nov. 6 forum,

which is sponsored by the AARP, shesaid.

Milstein said she will be joined bySomerset Town Councilwoman CathyPickar and representatives of AARP inMaryland in addressing the candidatesand fielding their questions.

Milstein said she received an emailfrom Pepco’s regional vice presidentJerry Pasternak detailing that a reporter— who was not identified — told himPepco was invited to the forum.

Pasternak wrote that he “plans on at-tending and looks forward to seeing you.”

Milstein said Pepco is not welcometo attend and that she has told thePepco the same.

The forum also is not open to thegeneral public, she noted.

Rather than comment on the situ-ation, Pepco authorized Pasternak toforward the Business Gazette his emailresponse to Milstein.

Pasternak expressed disappoint-ment at Milstein’s decision to not wel-come Pepco to the forum.

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

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

BY KENT ZAKOURSTAFF WRITER

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

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

tournament (hosted by PrinceGeorge’s Community Col-

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

national tournament isscheduled for Nov. 14-17 at

Herkimer County Commu-nity College in New York.

“This is why we play

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

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

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

MC star came for books,leads nation in goals

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

BY DAN FELDMANSTAFF WRITER

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Paint Branch High School widereceiver Javonn Curry.

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

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

scorers have become a rarityin county girls’ soccer

BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN

STAFF WRITER

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

In the fall of 1998, a Watkins Mill

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

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

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

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

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n Junior has scored 65times for the Lions in her

two seasons

BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN

STAFF WRITER

There are times when 10th-year St. Andrew’s EpiscopalSchool girls’ soccer coach GlennWhitman said he thinks Lionsstriker Jarena Harmon mightmake an excellent contortionist.

“If she doesn’t put the ballin the net with her foot, it’s anypart of her body from ankleto head,” Whitman said of hisleading scorer. “She has tre-mendous control of her body.And she doesn’t get rattled infront of the goal. As someonewho gets pushed and proddedevery game, she never loses her

composure.”The junior, who transferred

from National Cathedral Schoola year ago, may have caught afew opponents by surprise dur-ing a 31-goal 2012 campaign,but Harmon has been the maintarget for every team’s defensein 2013. Yet somehow the Divi-sion I recruit seems completelyunfazed by the added pressurewith 34 goals in 12 games thisfall — the Lions face Stone RidgeSchool of the Sacred Heart thisafternoon in the first round ofthe season-ending IndependentSchool League “A” Division girls’soccer tournament.

“People are going to defendher, teams come up with defen-sive packages against her,” the10th-year coach said. “[We just

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sophomore center back andSherwood graduate Sergio Na-varrete agreed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

n Holton-Arms wins ninthISL tennis title in 10 years

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

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

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

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

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

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

“I am so happy right now,”Campbell said. “We have been

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

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

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

Cross countryA pair of Good Counsel

runners had a banner daySaturday in the WCAC crosscountry championships atLake Fairfax Park in Reston,Va. Sophomore Megan Crillytook home the girls’ individualchampionship by running thecourse in a time of 20:55.06,while senior Collin Crilly wonthe boys’ race with a time of16:27.57. Overall, Good Coun-sel’s girls finished second atthe meet with 47 points, sevenbehind Bishop O’Connell asCosette Riley (21:13) finishedfourth and Cassidy Burke(21:15) placed fifth, The Fal-cons boys won the team titleby two points over Gonzaga,as they had five runners finishin the top 12 (Crilly, Jack Wa-vering, Tyler Richards, MattLopez, Kevin McGivern). Eventhe two runners who didn’tscore performed remarkablywell as Miguel Alonso and JeffMoxley finished 16th and 17th,respectively.

TennisHolton-Arms School junior

No. 1 singles player Lilly Lyn-ham might not have physicallywon her match against Bullis’Ines Vias in Thursday’s season-ending Independent SchoolLeague “AA” Division tourna-ment final but her just being onthe court at Madeira (Virginia)was vital to Holton’s ninth titlein 10 years.

Lynham was rather sickThursday but this year’s ISLtournament took on a newstructure — dual matches ratherthan separate brackets per posi-tion. If Lynham sat out Thurs-day’s final, everyone down thePanthers’ ladder would have tomove up a spot. Holton, whichdefeated St. Stephen’s/St. Agnes(6-1) and National CathedralSchool (4-3) in the first and sec-ond rounds won the final, 5-2Thursday.

“I was very tempted not toplay [Lynham] because she wasin pain but she asked me to playin the last match so she playedat her request, not mine,”Holton coach Yann Auzouxsaid. “In this particular format,that makes a big difference. Lastyear it wouldn’t have made a bigdifference because we probablywould’ve been in good positionin every other position.”

Bullis won the top twosingles courts — last year’s ISLNo. 1 singles champion Viasavenged a regular-season loss toLynham with a win Thursday —but Holton won third and fourthsingles and swept the doubles.Maya Das’ win at No. 3 singlesThursday capped an unde-feated 2013. Jillian Lawler wonat No. 4. Holton’s No. 1 doublesteam consisted of Karsyn Lawlerand Elise Lovett and Susan Dar-vishi and Sophie Gary won onthe second doubles court. Theteam’s only two seniors, LaurenDi Franco and Lauren Ahn wonthe third doubles match.

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

“I think what we’ve man-aged to do is establish a goodsystem for the girls to gothrough,” Auzoux said.

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played a team] who boxed herin. They put four girls with a boxaround her, almost like a box-and-one in basketball. It waseffective for a while but she’sgoing to get through.”

Looking at Harmon’s statis-tics the past two years it would beeasy to make two quick assump-tions, that she either racks up aton of goals against weaker teamsor is averse to involving her team-mates. But it’s quite the contrary,Whitman said. Harmon just hap-pens to have a knack for scoringthat is a rarity among high schoolathletes these days and joined aSt. Andrew’s program in need ofa go-to scorer.

It was obvious on Harmon’sfirst touch of the ball at 2012 try-outs that she was going to be aspecial player for the Lions, Whit-man said. In addition to superiortechnical ability, Whitman said,she possesses speed with and

without the ball like no one hehas worked with in 20 years ofcoaching. And she is a remark-ably consistent performer. Har-mon has scored at least once in11 of 12 games played this season,including eight hat tricks (threegoals or more).

Though Whitman said hebelieves in honoring individu-ally talented players’ skill leveland ability to take on the op-position — soccer is a game offreedom and creativity — Har-mon has never lost sight of thefact that she is not one versus11, he said. Becoming part ofHarmon’s scoring has become asource of pride among the Lions,Whitman said, and the Lions’leader — only the third juniorteam captain during Whitman’stenure — strives to involve thosearound her. Kristin Butler (nineassists) and second-leadingscorer Memuna McShane (threegoals, eight assists) are two ofthe Lions’ biggest playmakers.

The thing to remember, Whit-mansaid, isHarmondoesn’tneed

high school soccer as she playsyear-round at an extremely highlevel with the nationally-rankedMcLean Youth Soccer 96 ForceElite Clubs National League. ButHarmon said she relishes theopportunity to represent St. An-drew’s on the pitch, an attitudeWhitman said he admires.

Harmon carries a muchheavier load at St. Andrew’sthan with McLean but that hashelped her grow as an overallsoccer player, she and Whitmanagreed. But she’s always had thecomposure in the offensive thirdto be a top scorer, Whitman said.

“Last year she was a very tra-ditional striker,” Whitman said.“Now she has learned to pullherself away from traffic, awayfrom tight marking, she canscore from 30 yards out, she canwithdraw back to the midfieldwhen necessary. With her soccerIQ she makes those adjustmentswithout direction. ... SometimesI feel like she is a contortionistwith how she puts the ball intothe net.”

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

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

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

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

USOC honors KatieLedecky

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

A year after winning herfirst Olympic gold medal in the

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

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

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

n Three schools haveclinched berths

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

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

4A WestQuince Orchard High

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

Gaithersburg has alsoclinched a playoff berth andcontrols its destiny.

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

Clarksburg controls its des-tiny for making the playoffs.

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

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

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

4A NorthPaint Branch controls its

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

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

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

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

3A WestDamascus has clinched a

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

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

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

2A WestPoolesville, currently

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

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12 county teams still have playoff hopesHIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Includes forfeit result

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

LEADERSTop rushers

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

Top passersCmp-Att. Yards Int. TDs

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

Top receiversCatches Yards Avg. TDs

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

Also receiving votes: Whitman 1.

BEST BETSherwood at Paint Branch,

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

FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK

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

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

Rank School Record Points

1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.8.10.

Quince Orchard 8-0 60Cougars

Good Counsel 6-4 54Falcons

Bullis 7-1 48Bulldogs

Damascus 7-1 42Swarmin’ Hornets

Gaithersburg 7-1 36Trojans

Paint Branch 7-1 28Panthers

Clarksburg 5-3 22Coyotes

Sherwood 6-2 17Warriors

Northwest 5-3 17Jaguars

Seneca Valley 5-3 5Screaming Eagles

JenniferBeekman

117-27228-53

Watkins MillSeneca ValleyWoottonDamascusWhitmanGaithersburgR. Mont.Q. OrchardClarksburgSpringbrookPaint BranchBlair

BoonesboroGeo. PrepBullis

DanFeldman

121-23235-46

Watkins MillSeneca ValleyWoottonDamascusWhitmanGaithersburgB-CCQ. OrchardClarksburgSpringbrookPaint BranchBlairPoolesvilleGeo. PrepBullis

KenSain

121-23236-45



KentZakour

112-33119-62

Watkins MillSeneca ValleyWoottonDamascusWhitmanGaithersburgB-CCQ. OrchardClarksburgSpringbrookSherwoodBlair


NickCammarota

118-26233-48



TravisMewhirter

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FEARLESS FORECASTS

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

Montgomery County recordAll games

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


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

KEEPING IT BRIEF

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BIG PLAYContinued from Page B-1

THE GAZETTEPage B-4 Wednesday, October 30, 2013 r

n Led by senior libero,Falcons vying for statechampionship

BY TRAVIS MEWHIRTER

STAFF WRITER

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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n Year of unpredicatable resultscontinues in boys’ soccer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Boys’ soccerIn what likely was a surprise to no-

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wootton girls figure things out just in time for playoffs

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

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& The Gazette’s Guide toArts & Entertainment

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

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

MOVIEREVIEW

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

JAMES MINCHIN III.

CHRISTINE ALEXANDER

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

MozartMAN

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Irish pianist performs inBethesda on Saturday

BY VIRGINIA TERHUNESTAFF WRITER

Classical pianistFinghin Collinsfrom Dublin willperform worksby Mozart,

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

masterclass onSunday inGlen Echo.

PHOTO BY COLM HOGAN

PIANIST FINGHIN COLLINSn Concert and Master Class

n Concert: 8 p.m. Saturday

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

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

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

n Tickets: Free, donations accepted.

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

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n Latest from Quotidian examinesperspective, pipe dreams

BY CARA HEDGEPETHSTAFF WRITER

Through November, audiences will

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

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

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

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

Through rose-colored glasses

HEAVENON EARTH

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

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

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

Heaven’s Basement —made up of vocalist Aaron

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

Heaven’s Basement will

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

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

But while many bands tour,Heaven’s Basement has

HEAVEN’SBASEMENT

n When:7 p.m. Sunday

n Where: Fillmore SilverSpring, 8656 Colesville

Road, Silver Spring

n Tickets: $24.50 n For information:301-960-9999,

fillmoresilverspring.com

n British rock band prefers life on the road

BY CARA HEDGEPETHSTAFF WRITER

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See MOZART, Page B-8

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“Inspired by Nature,” featuring turned wood bowls by PhilBrown of Silver Spring, ceramics by Bethesda artist RebeccaRavenal, photographs by Jack Rosenberg of Potomac, water-colors by Silver Spring artist Madeline Wikler and collages byPatricia Zannie of Silver Spring, opens with a reception from11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at Gallery Har Shalom, 11510 FallsRoad, Potomac. Although each participating artist has a per-sonal artistic vision, each is inspired by nature. The exhibit isfree and open to the public. For more information, visit www.harshalom.org.

Awe inspiring

JACK ROSENBERG

Jack Rosenberg’s “Angry Sea.”

The AFI SilverTheatre and CulturalCenter will celebratethe 40th anniversaryof Norman Jewi-son’s hit film, “JesusChrist Superstar,”with an exclusiveWashington, D.C.-area screening of therock opera at 2:15p.m. Saturday at theSilver Spring theater.Jewison’s 1973 ad-aptation of Tim Riceand Andrew LloydWebber’s Broadwaysmash tells the storyof Christ’s finalweeks told entirelyin a series of daz-zling songs, imagesand music. Star TedNeeley will be pres-ent to participatein a Q&A before thefilm, and will signmerchandise in thelobby following thescreening. For moreinformation, visitwww.neeleytour.com. Visit www.afi.com/silver.

‘Superstar’

AFI SILVER THEATRE AND CULTURAL CENTER

“Jesus Christ Superstar” will screenSaturday at the AFI Silver Theatre andCultural Center in Silver Spring. Leadactor Ted Neely will be present to helpcelebrate the film’s 40th anniversary.

The juried exhibit “small wonders” opens Friday at the Capitol Arts Network Gallery in Rockville, showcasing works measuring 12inches by 12 inches or smaller from regional artists. As part of the exhibit, “A Stitch in Time Saves Nine” will spotlight 21 miniature as-

semblage sculptures by Roanoke, Va., artist Page Turner, utilizing women’s dress forms andgarments hand-sewn from antique sugar, flour and salt sacks, personal objects,

and domestic tools housed under bell jars and glass domes. Growingup in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia in a devout Mormon

household, Turner was taught domestic traditions and skills fromwomen in the family and community. Each of her sculptures

is a totem of a specific woman who helped to forge Turner’sidentity. An opening reception is set for 6-9 p.m. Friday.

The exhibition runs to Nov. 25. Also opening Friday willbe the Washington School of Photography’s “Ethio-

pia From the Heart,” featuring guest photographerAndarge Asfaw of Washington, D.C., and “I WillWin — The War,” a presentation of a painting aboutlove and peace by internationally renown Dutchartist Erik Van Loon. The painting is Loon’s ninthin his “I Will Win” series for the New York CityMarathon. For more information, visit www.capi-tolartsnetwork.com.

Country music legend Travis Tritt is setto perform at 8 p.m. on Friday at the MusicCenter at Strathmore in North Bethesda.Famous for songs such as “Here’s A Quar-ter (Call Someone Who Cares),” “Help MeHold On,” and “T-R-O-U-B-L-E,” Tritt willperform many of his platinum-selling hits.Lyndsey Highlander is slated to open forthe country crooner. For more informa-tion, visit www.strathmore.org.

Nashville star

STRATHMORE

Country music icon Travis Tritt is set to play atthe Music Center at Strathmore at 8 p.m. onFriday.

‘wonders’never cease

Artist Page Turner’s “Headmistress Harpie.”

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THE GAZETTEWednesday, October 30, 2013 p Page B-7

n Award-winning playbrings up many questions

BY WILL C. FRANKLINSTAFF WRITER

In 2003, “The Pillowman”by Irish playwright Martin Mc-Donagh was staged in Londonfor the first time. Within 10years, the show would premierein eight other countries and wina slew of awards, including theLaurence Olivier Award for BestNew Play and multiple TonyAwards.

Silver Spring Stage will stageits production of “The Pillow-man” with opening night slatedfor Friday.

“This show is unlike any-thing that I’ve ever seen on astage,” said Chad Fornwalt, whoplays Katurian in the show. “It’sjust a really interesting combi-nation of topics … it takes youon an emotional roller coaster.Just when you think you’re go-

ing to understand where we’regoing with the story, it takes an-other little turn and sends youin a completely different direc-tion.”

The play revolves aroundthe killings of children. Katurianis arrested by the police becausehis stories closely resemble theatrocities committed against thechildren. What follows is a seriesof questions and stories.

Lars Klores, who plays de-tective Tupolski, said this isn’t ashow for everybody.

“There’s lots of heavy lan-guage and some disturbing im-ages there,” Klores said. “Peoplewho ask me what the show’sabout, I have a little line for themthat I think pretty much sumsit up — It’s like a nightmarishKafka-esque episode of ‘Law &Order’ written by the BrothersGrimm and directed by QuentinTarantino. That pretty much haseverything in it.”

Although the subject matteris fairly dark, neither Fornwalt

nor Klores said they were un-comfortable doing the show.

“What I’ve felt uncomfort-able about is me trying to putmyself in other people’s shoes,”Fornwalt said. “… I definitely dothink about what other peoplemight think. I really hope thatwhen people come in, that theycome in with a completely openmind and to not look at thingsthe way maybe they always have.

On face value, it would be easyto say ‘Oh, there’s somethingwrong with this show. It’s tooviolent, it’s too dark.’ But if theycan just give us a chance and gowith us, there’s a lot more to thisstory than what is on the cover.”

Klores, meanwhile, said thatwhile there really is no messagefor the audience to take awayfrom the show, the play itself isabout storytelling and the re-

sponsibility, or lack thereof, ofthe storyteller.

“There’s no message, perse, or at least I don’t think it canbe distilled into a single mes-sage, but I will say like all greatpieces of art, I do think ‘The Pil-lowman,’ is a great piece of art,”Klores said. “It leaves you with alot of questions and it leaves youwith a lot of things about art andabout life that aren’t immedi-

ately apparent, but become ap-parent in your head as you startthinking about the play and itballoons for you. What I wantto make sure audiences know isthat, despite there being violenceand despite there being horror… this is a play that gives you alot to think about and discuss.”

Fornwalt believes that all ofthe characters in the show arerelatable, no matter what some-one has dealt with personally.Overall, he said, the play isn’tabout the violence or the darkmaterial.

“There’s just so much moreto it,” Fornwalt said. “I just wantpeople to come into it with anopen mind and really under-stand what this piece is about.”

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PHOTOS BY CHRIS DAILEADER

Chad Fornwalt plays writer Katurian in the upcoming Silver Spring Stage production of “The Pillowman.”

THE PILLOWMANn When: 8 p.m. Fridays and

Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays,Nov. 1-23

n Where: Silver Spring Stage,10145 Colesville Road, SilverSpring

n Tickets: $18-$20

n For information: 301-593-6036; ssstage.org

THEATER

Uneasy rest

n Architecture serves as basisfor World War II suspense novel

BY ELLYN WEXLERSPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE

Charles Belfoure believes morefolks should “take a crack at fiction.”

“Most books are written by literarytypes, people with MFAs. It’s intimi-dating,” the 59-year-old architect-author acknowledged. “But even latein life, people who don’t necessarilyhave training in writing can applytheir backgrounds to telling stories.If [it turns out] they have a knack forwriting, it may open up a whole newavenue.”

Belfoure speaks from experience.The Baltimore-bred son of an immi-grant single mother said he had no lit-erary influences while growing up. Evennow, he rarely reads fiction; notableexceptions include Baltimore-basednovelist Anne Tyler’s body of work, anda few legal thrillers by John Grisham,who provided the model for applyinghis profession to fiction.

Despite his background, Belfoure’sdebut novel, “The Paris Architect,” aWorld War II story about an architecthired to design spaces in which Jews

could hide from the Gestapo, was re-leased Oct. 8. The author co-opted theidea of priest holes, hiding places builtinto manor houses so clerics could cel-ebrate Mass during the 16th centurywhen English law persecuted Catholics.

Architecture was Belfoure’s secondcareer choice. He started off studyingillustration, but switched gears as a re-sult of a visit to a modern architectureexhibit fortuitously titled “Transforma-tions” at New York City’s Museum ofModern Art.

“I hadn’t given much thought to ar-chitecture before. I paid no attention toit [while growing up] in Baltimore, butat MOMA, I was struck by the wonder-ful forms,” he recalled.

Belfoure pursued the new field atPratt Institute and Columbia Univer-sity, while reveling in the craftsmanshipand detailing of the city’s historic archi-tecture. His master’s thesis also led himto recognize he enjoyed the researchand writing process.

During the ensuing years, Belfouredeveloped a practice focused on his-toric preservation, and now works asan architect as well as a historic pres-ervation consultant with a specialtyin historic tax credit consulting. TheWestminster resident has several cur-rent projects in Baltimore.

Before taking on the novel, Bel-foure wrote nonfiction in his field, co-authoring the books “The BaltimoreRowhouse” and “Niernsee & Neilson,Architects of Baltimore,” and going soloon “Edmund G. Lind: Anglo-AmericanArchitect of Baltimore and the South,”“Dying by Design” and “Monuments toMoney: The Architecture of AmericanBanks.” He also has contributed free-lance pieces to The Baltimore Sun andThe New York Times.

There is method to Belfoure’s fic-tion. He begins with a basic one- ortwo- sentence outline, defines the pro-tagonist and starts with “a chapter todraw the reader in. … [Then] I write asI go, discovering different plotlines andcharacters while I write.”

The fledgling novelist has advice forthe non-writers he encourages to followin his footsteps.

“If you haven’t done somethingbefore, you need to buy all the equip-ment and you need someone withexperience to give you brutally hon-est advice,” he said. That person, headded, should be qualified to offeropinions on whether the book haspotential as well as whether a chaptershould be moved or a character morefully delineated.

Belfoure hired a freelance editor forfeedback on his first go-round, becausehe felt the manuscript must be “as pol-ished and professional as possible.”

Still, he said, writing is not the big-gest challenge for a new author.

“The economics of selling and mar-keting are far more daunting,” Belfouresaid. “There’s the hard reality of findingan agent, and a publisher who has to re-ally like the book.”

So far, it appears that Belfoure’sstrategy is working. Publishers Weekly

called his characters “well-rounded andintricate,” and noted that “heart, reluc-tant heroism, and art blend together inthis spine-chilling page-turner.” AndBooklist praised his “unadorned, zippystyle and broad-brush characters” andcompared him to “an up-and-comingKen Follett.”

Belfoure said that the book hasbeen sold in Italy, Israel and Brazil.Random House bought the audiorights and film companies have initi-ated contact.

He has written a rough draft of asecond novel, a crime-thriller with anarchitect as protagonist. And because ofdelays in financing on his architecturalprojects, he has ample time to adhereto a five-day-a-week schedule of writingfive to six hours a day.

As for the future, Belfoure said hehas one or two other stories to tell. Hetook a crack, and it seems he has theknack.

Charles Belfoure will read and signbooks at 7 p.m. Nov. 6 at the AlexandriaLibrary, Beatley Branch|Alexandria,5005 Duke St., Alexandria, Va. Call703-746-1702.

Write what you know: Author explores fiction based on career

CHARLES BELFOURE

Charles Belfoure, author of “The ParisArchitect.”

IN THE ARTSDANCESHollywood Ballroom, Oct. 30,

free International Quickstep Rou-tine lesson at 7:30 p.m., Social Ball-room Dance at 8:15 p.m., ($16);Tea Dance from 12:30–3:30 p.m.($6); Nov. 8, drop-in lessons from7:30-9 p.m., West Coast SwingDancing with Dance Jam Produc-tions at 9 p.m. ($15 cover); Nov.9, Latin Night with Mr. Mambo,workshops from 8-10 p.m., danc-ing from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. ($18for workshop and dance; $15 fordance only); Nov. 10, free Hustlelesson at 7 p.m., Social BallroomDance at 8 p.m. ($16); Nov. 13, freeInternational Waltz Routine les-son at 7:30 p.m., Social BallroomDance at 8:15 p.m. ($16); Nov. 14,Tea Dance from 12:30–3:30 p.m.($6), 2126 Industrial Highway,Silver Spring, 301-326-1181, www.hollywoodballroomdc.com

Glen Echo Park is at 7300 Ma-cArthur Blvd.

Blues, Capital Blues: Thurs-days, 8:15 p.m. beginner lesson,9-11:30 p.m. dancing to DJs, GlenEcho Park’s Spanish Ballroom An-nex, $8, www.capitalblues.org.

Contra, Nov. 1, Anna Rain callsto Nor’easter; Nov. 8, Dave Cole-stock with the fabulous Glen EchoOpen Band; Nov. 15, Greg Frockcalls to The Avant Gardeners; Nov.22, Eric Black with Gallimaufry;Nov. 29, Nils Fredland calls toElixir, 7:30 p.m. lesson, 8:30 p.m.dance, Glen Echo Park SpanishBallroom, $10, www.fridaynight-dance.org.

Contra & Square, Nov. 3, AprilBlum calls with Cabaret Sauvi-gnon; Nov. 10, Valerie Helbertcalls with Ari & Mia; Nov. 17, TedHodapp calls with Dance du Jour;Nov. 24, Eric Black calls with DeadSea Squirrels, 7:30 p.m., Glen EchoPark Spanish Ballroom, $12 forgeneral, $9 for members, $5 forstudents, www.fsgw.org.

English Country, Oct. 30, Caller:Marth Siegel; Nov. 6, Caller: CarolMarsh; Nov. 13; Caller: Tom Spils-bury; Nov. 20, Caller: StephanieSmith; Nov. 27, Caller: Bob Farrall,8 p.m., Glen Echo Town Hall (up-stairs), www.fsgw.org.

Now and Then Dance Stu-dio, Saturday Ballroom dances,second and fourth Saturdays,beginner group lesson at 8 p.m.,open dancing at 9 p.m., $10 cash

at door (all men admitted at halfprice throughout October), 10111Darnestown Road, Rockville. 301-424-0007, www.nowandthendan-cestudios.com.

Scottish Country Dancing, 8-10p.m. Mondays, steps and forma-tions taught. No experience, part-ner necessary, T-39 Building onNIH campus, Wisconsin Avenueand South Drive, Bethesda, 240-505-0339.

Swing, Nov. 9, WWII CanteenDance with the Eric Felten JazzOrchestra; Dec. 14, Daryl Davis,lesson at 8 p.m., dancing at 9 p.m.,Glen Echo Park, $15, www.flying-feet.org.

Waltz, Nov. 3, Cabaret Sauvi-gnon; Nov. 17, Rhapsody, 2:45-3:30 p.m. lesson, 3:30-6 p.m.,dance, $10, www.waltztimed-ances.org.

MUSIC & DANCEBethesda Blues & Jazz Supper

Club, First Annual Grand Mas-querade with Doc Scantlin, 8 p.m.Oct. 31; Eddie Palmieri’s Latin JazzSeptet, 8:30 p.m. Nov. 1-2; AvonLucas, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 3; Emman-

uel Trifilio Tango Trio, 7:30 p.m.Nov. 6; Familiar Faces, 8 p.m. Nov.8, call for prices, 7719 WisconsinAve., Bethesda. 240-330-4500,www.bethesdabluesjazz.com.

BlackRock Center for the Arts,Della Mae, 8 p.m. Nov. 2; ThomasPandolfi, 3 p.m. Nov. 3; DistrictComedy, 8 p.m. Nov. 8; call fortickets, 12901 Town CommonsDrive, Germantown. 301-528-2260, www.blackrockcenter.org.

Fillmore Silver Spring, CristianCastro with special guests Lazaro,8 p.m. Oct. 30; Jessie Ware — FallTour 2013 with special guestMikky Ekko, 8 p.m. Oct. 31; Houseof Blues 20th Anniversary PresentsThird Eye Blind, 8 p.m. Nov. 1; ThePretty Reckless, 7 p.m. Nov. 3; ReelBig Fish, Five Iron Frenzy, Beauti-ful Bodies, Beebs & Her MoneyMakers, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 6; NewFound Glory/Alkaline Trio withH20, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7; Jake Miller,7 p.m. Nov. 8, 8656 ColesvilleRoad, Silver Spring, 301-960-9999,FillmoreSilverSpring.com, www.

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tions — Takoma Park, A Civil WarScrapbook: CD Release with Hes-perus & Maggies Music, 7:30 p.m.Nov. 13; Takoma Park CommunityCenter, call for prices, times, Ta-koma Park Community Center,7500 Maple Ave., Takoma Park,301-960-3655, www.imtfolk.org.

Institute of Musical Tradi-tions — Rockville, Rafe & CleliaStefanini CD Release, 7:30 p.m.Nov. 4; Alasdair Fraser & NatalieHaas, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8, Saint MarkPresbyterian Church, 10701 OldGeorgetown Road, Rockville, callfor prices, www.imtfolk.org.

Strathmore, Afternoon Tea, 1p.m. Oct. 30, Nov. 5-6, Nov. 9, Nov.19-20; Voice, 7 p.m. Oct. 30-31;Chris Thile, 8 p.m. Oct. 30; Voice;Bootsy Collins, 8 p.m. Oct. 31; JuliaNixon: Tribute to Carole King, 7:30p.m., 9:30 p.m. Nov. 1; Travis Trittwith opener Lyndsey Highlander,8 p.m. Nov. 1; Jazz Vocal Intensive:Scat Singing 101, 10 a.m. Nov. 2;

AIR Mentor: Cathy Fink with guestsBrad Kolodner and Amadou Kouy-ate, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 6; Luis Bravo’sForever Tango, 8 p.m. Nov. 7; BSO:Off the Cuff — The Planets, 8:15p.m. Nov. 8; National Philharmonic:Lost Childhood, A Concert Opera,8 p.m. Nov. 9; Kids EuroFestival:Leiutajateküla Lotte — Lotte fromGadgetville Vanemuine Theatre, 10a.m., 1 p.m. Nov. 10; call for venue,Locations: Mansion, 10701 Rock-ville Pike, North Bethesda; MusicCenter at Strathmore, 5301 Tucker-man Lane, North Bethesda, 301-581-5100, www.strathmore.org.

ON STAGEAdventure Theatre, “The

Twelve Days of Christmas,” Nov.15 to Dec. 30, call for prices, times,Adventure Theatre MTC, 7300MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo, 301-634-2270, www.adventuretheatre-mtc.org.

Imagination Stage, “Luluand the Brontosaurus,” to Oct.27; “Lyle the Crocodile,” Nov. 20to Jan. 10, call for prices, times,Imagination Stage, 4908 AuburnAve., Bethesda, www.imagination-stage.org

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had the unique opportunity to cover mul-tiple continents in the span of just a fewmonths.

“A lot of bands have focused on one areabefore focusing on another but we’re doingEurope, Canada and the U.S. at the sametime,” Rivers said.

From their inception in 2008, Heaven’sBasement, who is now signed with Red BullRecords, has always spent time out on theroad. The band gained a reputation for play-ing underground venues and then workingtheir way up to larger stages. But no matterthe size of the crowd, Rivers said he and theother members of Heaven’s Basement havealways loved performing live.

“It was quite hard to get shows in big cit-ies so we’d play smaller places in the south-east [of England] and eventually startedheading over to places like Germany,” Riverssaid. “Anywhere that would have us.”

Rivers and Glover are the only originalmembers of the band remaining. Rivers saidother musicians have come and gone overthe years but it was a matter of “meetingpeople with the same ambition.”

That ambition was to play great music,at any cost.

Other than a fleeting desire to drive atractor at age 3, Rivers said he’s never con-sidered another career path.

“It was about discovering what you’re intoand sticking with it,” he said. “We never bal-anced the band with having other jobs andstuff. We just wanted to be a band right away.”

And the one-track mindset has startedto pay off. Heaven’s Basement’s single “Fire,Fire” from their debut album, “Filthy Em-pire,” released in February, has been climb-ing the U.S. Active Rock Chart, recentlyreaching No. 11.

But it’s not the record sales that drivethe members of Heaven’s Basement. It’sthe need they feel to fill a void on the musicscene.

“You have an indie scene and stuff likethat and we’ve never fit into any of that,”Rivers said. “We’ve just been doing our ownthing and hope that it sparks something.”

As for their own influences, Rivers saidthe members of the band aren’t too picky.

“We’re fans of music and anyone whohas stuff to say,” he said. “We’ll listen to any-thing from the heaviest music to the softestmusic. It ranges from old-school bands tonew bands.”

However, Rivers does name some old-school bands, including The Beatles, Metal-lica and Led Zeppelin, as favorites.

For Heaven’s Basement fans waiting onthe release of the band’s second album, Riv-ers said they could be waiting a while.

“We’re touring all of next year as well,through 2015,” Rivers said. “It’s going to be

a while before we do the next album.”But that’s the way Rivers and his band

members like things.“We’re always up for going places,” Riv-

ers said. “There’s a whole world still to goand tour.”

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HEAVENContinued from Page B-5

Kashner returns to Quotidian afterher debut with the company in last year’sproduction of James Joyce’s “The Dead.”

“Iceman” is set in 1912 New York inthe barroom of a hotel. Here, a group ofdrunks exchange stories as they awaitthe arrival of charismatic salesmanHickey (Steve LaRocque), who typicallyprovides much-needed levity with hisdirty jokes and free drinks. However,when Hickey arrives, he brings withhim a sad truth that makes his friendsclosely examine their own failings.

“At face value I thought, ‘OK, thisis about a bunch of alcoholics,’” saidKashner, who plays a “tart” namedMargie. “But it’s about failed pipedreams, being confronted with your

own morality.”Pipe dreams, Kashner said, are peo-

ple’s “self-delusions.”“People have either had a glorious

past or aspire to a glorious future,” shesaid. “They’re all in denial of their al-coholism and their feelings ... Peoplemight not want to reflect on that in reallife.”

While Quotidian audiences may notidentify with the “Iceman” characters’drinking habits, Avolio said they will beable to find common ground.

“[O’Neill] views them with such hu-manity that it’s easy to relate to themeven though they’re so different fromus,” Avolio said. “ ... He is unafraid oflooking at the darker side of humanityand probing deeper into the humansoul.”

“The major events in your life, ifyou look back at them and when youtry to explain them, you come up with

different stories,” added actor SteveBeall, who plays Larry Slade. “As they gothrough their lives, they look at it from adifferent perspective.”

Like other O’Neill pieces, “Iceman”touches on some heavy subject matter.But Avolio and his cast insist the show isnot all darkness and gloom.

“To me, there is this beautiful bal-ance of showing this makeshift com-munity of kindness and civility of acertain kind and then what happensto it when this guy Hickey shows up,”Beall said.

It’s a balance, Beall added, that’sbeen missing in other productions of“Iceman” he’s seen.

“I had seen a couple performancesof it and ... those productions allseemed to focus so much on the darkpart of this play and it became imbal-anced,” he said.

Conversely, Beall said Avolio has

been able to extract the lighter mo-ments and even some of the humorfrom the “Iceman” script.

“Michael has this ability to seewhat’s funny and use it as a way to playup the humanity of the character,” Beallsaid. “They’re not just bums. They’repeople with hopes and dreams andmemories.”

Avolio said it was actually his senseof humor that helped him approachsome of the play’s darkest moments.

“There’s a lot of raucous comedy inthe play and I think that’s a way peoplehave of dealing with situations whenthey’re down and out,” Avolio said.“There’s often a gallows humor youhave about things.”

While Kashner, who has appearedin two other O’Neill plays, acknowl-edges the playwright’s style is not foreveryone, she said he had a uniqueability to urge audiences to look intro-

spectively.“I think Eugene O’Neill forces us to

look at aspects of our lives that we don’tnecessarily want to deal with,” Kashnersaid. “It’s something we all should bedoing but I understand why we mightnot want to.”

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QUOTIDIANContinued from Page B-5

THE ICEMAN COMETHn When: To Nov. 24; 8 p.m. Fridays

and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays withan additional matinee performanceon Nov. 23

n Where: The Writer’s Center,4508 Walsh St., Bethesda

n Tickets: $25-$30

n For information: 301-816-1023

Classicalpianist Fin-ghin Collinsfrom Dublinwill performworks byMozart,Debussy,Brahms andSchubert onSaturday atthe Westmo-reland Con-gregationalUCC Churchin BethesdaPHOTO BYCOLM HOGAN

n Songs heighten emotions inLeo Frank murder trial of 1913

BY VIRGINIA TERHUNE

STAFF WRITER

The musical “Parade” is based onan ugly anti-Semitic incident in Ameri-can history, but the songs and the waythey express emotion are anything butugly.

“For a very dark [story], it’s gotbeautiful music,” said Craig Pettinati,director of the show for the KensingtonArts Theatre (KAT).

With a cast of 15 actors and a10-piece orchestra, the musical is run-ning to Nov. 16 at the Kensington TownCenter.

“Parade” is based on the true storyof Leo Frank, a Jewish-American manwith a degree in mechanical engineer-ing from Cornell who married a Jew-ish woman from Atlanta whose familyowned a pencil factory.

In 1913, police accused Frank ofmurdering Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old employee of the factory. Frank wasconvicted and spent years appealing,eventually reaching the Supreme Court.

Directed by Hal Prince, “Parade”debuted on Broadway in 1998. Libret-tist Alfred Uhry, who grew up in Atlantaand wrote “Driving Miss Daisy,” won aTony award for Best Book of a Musical.

Jason Robert Brown, who wrotethe music and lyrics, won a Tony forBest Original Music Score. KAT has alsoperformed two of Brown’s other shows,“The Last Five Years” and “Songs for aNew World.”

“I see it as a story about pride,”said Bobby Libby, who plays the partof Frank. “There’s the pride that theSoutherners have, and he has his own

sense of pride. They sense that and turnon him.”

The musical opens with a youngsoldier heading off to fight for the Southduring the Civil War, singing goodbyeto the girl he loves.

“It’s so beautiful, you can’t help butbe moved,” Libby said.

The scene then shifts five decadesahead to 1913, where the people ofAtlanta continue to take great pride intheir history and culture, participatingin a parade to honor Confederate sol-diers who died in the war.

Frank, who doesn’t understand theevent, is viewed as an outsider, and theanimosity is mutual.

“As a protagonist, he’s kind of un-sympathetic,” said Libby. “He doesn’tlike where he lives. He doesn’t like thepeople or the community.”

Frank’s wife, Lucille (Emily Zickler),tries to help him fit in, but “their rela-tionship is strained,” said Libby, andLucille wonders if she married the rightman.

Frank, meanwhile, can’t under-stand how his wife can be both Jewishand culturally a Southerner.

“He’s been living in the South a fewyears, and he’s reacting badly to all ofit,” Libby said. “He loses sight of how

much he loves this woman.”After Phagan is murdered, prosecu-

tor Hugh Dorsey (Michael Nansel) istold by the Georgia governor to get tothe bottom of the sensational case.

Initial suspicion is cast on Newt Lee,the black night watchman (Ian AnthonyColeman), but Lee is released.

Eager to get his name in the head-lines, Dorsey decides to go after Frank,tapping into the community’s distrustof him.

Dorsey makes a deal with the fac-tory janitor, Jim Conley (also played byColeman), who testifies against Frankat the trial.

Mary’s boyfriend, Frankie Epps(Harrison Smith), also testifies, claim-ing that Frank had an eye for the femaleworkers. Three factory girls testify un-der coercion from the prosecutor, per-forming a seductive dance with Frankin a fantasy sequence.

Also among the characters is TomWatson (Brad Carnes-Stine), who writesfor a right-wing newspaper, and BrittCraig (Patrick McMahan), a reporterwho sees the trial as a way to make aname for himself and who promises tosupport Dorsey if Dorsey runs for gov-ernor.

“You see in the show how Frank was

set up,” said Pettinati. “In the court-room scene, you see the corruption andthe ordeal that he went through.”

The only thing that keeps the showfrom descending into the depths of de-spair is Lucille, said Libby. The deepen-ing connection between she and Frankis the focus of the musical.

“It’s his wife and her strength andthe beauty of that relationship,” he said.“They find a deep well of love, a lovewhich they always had.”

“It’s a very beautiful piece of the-ater,” Libby said.

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Prejudice on ‘Parade’

ERNIE ACHENBACH

A mob mentality begins to form in the musical “Parade” presented by the Kensington Arts Theatre to Nov. 16. The show is based on thetrue story of Leo Frank, a Jewish-American man who was accused of murdering a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta in 1913. Holding the Bible is BradCarnes-Stine as journalist Tom Watson.

PARADEn When: 8:15 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays,

3 p.m. Sundays, Nov. 1-3, 8-10,15-16.

n Where: Kensington Town Center(formerly the Armory), 3710 MitchellStreet, Kensington

n Tickets: $13-$20

n For information: 206-888-6642,katonline.org

The events are free butdonations are welcome, saidKathy Judd, executive and ar-tistic director of the conserva-tory.

In 1999 as a teenager, Col-lins won first prize at the ClaraHaskil International PianoCompetition in Switzerland. Healso studied with Irish pianistJohn O’Conor at the Royal IrishAcademy of Music in Dublin.

O’Conor presently teachesat Shenandoah University inWinchester, Va. Judd is one ofhis friends, which is how shecame to invite Collins to per-form for the Washington Con-servatory.

Collins also studied at theGeneva Conservatory andserved a three-year residencyas the first-ever associate art-ist of the RTE National Sym-phony Orchestra in Dublin.

During the residency withthe orchestra, he performedall of Mozart’s 23 concertoslive over the radio. In May,four of them were released ona double CD.

For the past decade, Col-lins has been branching outin some new directions, do-ing more conducting andalso serving as director of two

music festivals in Ireland, theNew Ross Festival and Musicfor Galway.

“I enjoy creating the sea-son and choosing the artists,”he said.

For the concert inBethesda, Collins will be per-forming Mozart‘s “Sonata inD major K. 284” and Debussy’s“Estampes” with its threemovements — “Pagodas,”“The Evening in Granada” and“Gardens in the Rain.”

“It’s a little collection ofthree evocative pieces, veryatmospheric,” said Collins.

For the second half ofthe program, he will performBrahms’ “Rhapsodies Op. 79,”which Brahms composed to-ward the end of his life, andSchubert‘s “Drei KlavierstückeD. 946.”

“They’re two of the greatcomposers for the piano,”said Collins. “[These pieces]go very well together.”

Collins said he is also look-ing forward to the masterclasson Sunday in Glen Echo.

“It’s nice to be meetingpeople and to maybe givethem something different tothink about,” said Collins.“I remember from my ownyouth, it was nice to play forsomeone different.”

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MOZARTContinued from Page B-5

JAMES MINCHIN III

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SS: SFH, 1br in Bsmtw/prvt entr., shr Ba &Kitch. $600 incl util.Security Deposit Req’dCall 240-643-4674

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

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experience in day-to-day operations including overseeingmaintenance staff and coordination with residential leasingdepartment. Active CPM, ARM or RPA desired. Excellent

interpersonal skills, full knowledge of Microsoft Office and Jenarkpreferred. The Company offers a competitive salary and benefit

packages. Please send resumes [email protected]. EOE

Experienced Chrysler Techs WantedUp to $10,000 SIGNING BONUS!!!

A large MD Chrysler dealer in Prince George County has immediateopening for experienced Chrysler technicians. We are offering up toa $10,000- signing bonus for qualified applicants. We have recordsales and more work than we can handle. Must have ASECERTIFICATIONS and CLEAN DRIVING RECORD. PLEASECALL 1-866-772-7306.

BRICKLAYERS$22.00/hr. Min. 5 yrs

commercial exp. Job inAshburn, VA. Bilingual aplus. Drug-free workplace

EOE, E-Verify301-662-7584

Claims ManagerManages 4 supervisors who

supervise 35+ employees in theclaims dept. Resp. for direction,

coord., & eval. of mail room,claims processing, & audits;

interview, hire, & trainemployees; plan, assign, & direct

work; appraise performance,reward & discipline employees;address complaints & resolve

problems. Resp. for compliancereq’s. for med. claims for U.S. &

int’l claims for sister co. Req:Master’s deg. in Health Care

Mgmt. 3 years’ exp. in alt.occupations of health care mgr,health ins. or claims admin. or

any combo thereof. Reqs: Hands-on concurrent exp. w/int’l claimsprocessing & admin.; mgmt of24/7 front-line prof. nursing &

cust. srvc health sector reps; &HR mgmt of paramedical staff.Exp. w/bus. process re-engg;

srvc as QA officer leading org. toISO cert.; & emp. in health care,health ins., & hospital settings.

Must be eligible for Producer Lic.(all U.S. & terr.) & Adjuster Lic.(all U.S. & terr. that req. same).

Job in Bethesda, MD. Onlyapps sending cvr ltr, CV, sal.

reqs and refs to EuropAssistance USA, Inc., Attn:Angela Kinsella, 4330 East-

West Hwy, Ste 1000, Bethesda,MD 20814 will be considered.

Entry Level InstallerCable Team Leader (5 yrs exp) forvoice, data, audio visual & security lowvoltage wiring systems. All positionsare FT in Mont. County, surroundingcounties in MD/DC. Company offerscomprehensive benefits package aswell as in house BICSI & ManufacturerTraining - Certification. Please Applyonline at: gazette.net/careers.

Extension Program Assistant4-H Youth Development Program with University ofMaryland Extension, Montgomery County. HS diplomarequired, 1 year post high school training preferred, three yearsexperience working with youth and adults. This is a full-time (40hours/week) position focused on supporting 4-H educators whoprovide educational activities related to 4-H Youth Development.This position also involves coordination of enrollment and mayrequire evening and weekend hours. Background check required.Apply at https://jobs.umd.edu/. Call 301-590-2804 formore information. Closing date 11/01/2013 or until filled.AA/EOE

ExperienceTruck MechanicNeeded for ALWAYS busyshop. Very high flat rate paywith experience!! Marylandtruck inspector welcomed,Diesel mechanic welcomed

Light Truck Services inRockville

contact Ken at 301-424-4410

Foster ParentsTreatment FosterParents Needed

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tax-free stipendû 24/7 support

Call 301-355-7205

HairstylistBusy salon and spa in Olneylooking for a fun, energetic,

experienced hairstylist to join ourteam. Full time only, please.Must have a valid Maryland

license. Following is a plus, butnot a must. Benefits and sales

commission offered. Emailresume to [email protected].

House CleaningRockville. Looking for 1 Full

Time (30-40 hrs per week) HouseMaid to join our Company for

Residential Cleaning. Mon-Fri. 8am-5 pm. Must have DriversLicense, excellent cleaning

experience, must speak someEnglish and be legal to work in

U.S. Pay $10.00 p/hr.301-706-5550.

Insurance CSRWell-established State Farm

agency in Gaithersburg lookingfor fully licensed professional.Salaried position. Experiencew/SF agency office systems aplus. Email/Fax resume [email protected];

1-301-975-9426

DIRECTORPerforms a variety of complex professional administrative

duties as well as oversees the department’s fiscal andprogrammatic affairs. Responsibilities include supervising,

organizing, planning, coordinating, and evaluating the work ofstaff. Send a resume and cover letter to the City Manager

or apply in person at 2000 Marbury Drive, DistrictHeights, MD 20747. Min. of a 4 year degree is required. A

masters degree is preferred. Previous experience ismandatory. EOE

MASON TENDERSMin. 1 yr exp. in commercial masonry. Job inAshburn, VA. Bilingual a plus. $12 to $14/hr.

based on exp. Drug-free workplace.EOE & E-Verify 301-662-7584

Leasing ProfessionalResidential Property Mgmt. Co. in Bethesdais seeking full-time leasing professional. Must be

available to work weekends. Candidate must haveresidential leasing experience, marketing

knowledge, resident retention, strong computerskills and working knowledge of Jenark.

Please e-mail resumes [email protected]; EOE

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Med Techfor Cardiology Practice in

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Plumbing Mechanics & GasFireplace Service Technicians

Hiring individuals with some gas work experience to do installationsof gas fireplaces, generators, gas grills, fire pits, and servicing gasfireplaces. Knowledge and exp using tools of the trade and runninggas lines a plus! Must work well with customers and be professional.Drug testing/background checks required. Excellent pay, healthinsurance, and a great work environment! Call Sharon at 240-446-6166 or e-mail [email protected].

HOME CARE AIDEPer Diem/As Needed/Variable Shifts

Montgomery County

For the sixth time, MedStar Health was named a"Best Place to Work" by the Baltimore BusinessJournal and ranks 5% over the national average

for healthcare companies in employeesatisfaction. Home Care Aides at MedStar VNACare Partners make a positive difference in thelives of our patients. High school diploma orequivalent, CNA licensure, current DL and

insured vehicle, CPR certification and one year ofexperience in acute care or home health

required.

Apply online at: medstarvna.org/careersEOE

Housekeeper/Nannyneeded to start work immediately for a busy

family. Duties includes taking care of a 4 year oldkid and few household chores. Payment is $480

weekly.

Send resumes to [email protected]

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at Country Club!!The Chevy Chase Club, a

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MaintenanceTechnician I

Seeking quality entry leveltechnicians to train as full time

field maintenance technicians tomaintain hydraulic and electricalvehicle barrier equipment in the

DC/NOVA and surroundingareas. For details and to apply

go to gazette.net/careers

Medical

RECEPT/TECHFor Family Practice in Rockville.1 yr exp with front office/tech.Patient appt scheduling, filing,chart prep, prescriptions,insurance verification. Multi-tasking. Email Resume to:[email protected]


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PSYCHOLOGIST I / IISeeking Full-Time Psychologist - 40 - Hours perweek, M- F. Possession of Maryland Licensure, 3-years experience treating children andadolescents. Member of multidisciplinary team incommunity based adolescent day/residentialtreatment program in Montgomery County. Mustbe able to supervise trainees; perform clinicaltreatment for individuals, families and groups.Candidate must have excellent clinical skills andan understanding of developmental issues.Additional experience working with court orderedadolescents desirable. Generous paid leave andMD State Benefits. JCAHO accredited facility.Mail Resume and cover letter along with salaryrequirements to Personnel Dept., John L.Gildner RICA, 15000 Broschart Road, Rockville,MD 20850 or Fax to (301) 251-6815 or e-mail [email protected] EOE

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VET. TECH & RECEPTIONISTAfternoon Position; Will Train, Friendly staff!!301-963-0400, grovecentervet.com

Orthopedic Technician/Athletic TrainerFor a busy orthopedic practice in Rockville. Excellent pay

and benefits. Must be experienced, have the ability to multi-task and communicate effectively. Orthopedic experience

and casting skills are required, no exceptions. Pleasesend resume to [email protected]

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

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301.588.9065 or email [email protected]

PAINTERSHELPERS

Cochran & Mann seekingexperienced painters

"helpers" All applicants musthave transportation. If

interested contact our officeat (301)948-1471 ext 201.

EOE

Referral CoordinatorBusy psychiatrist office in Rockville, Md seeking FT

Administrative Assistant to process referrals,schedule appointments, answer phones and other

admin duties. Proficient in Microsoft Word,Excel,Outlook and medical info system.

Organized, responsible, professional, reliable with agreat attitude. Experience in a doctor’s office/medicalsetting a plus. Prior office experience a must. Proven

record of multi-tasking, juggling job duties, helpingstaff members, being very computer detail oriented in

a busy office and having an excellent attendancerecord.

Please e-mail resumes to [email protected]

Seasonal

Bell RingersThe Salvation Army is nowhiring Bell Ringers inMontgomery County for thisChristmas Season. $8.25 perhour. Apply in person on M-Ffrom 10am - 12pm and 1pm -3pm at 20021 Aircraft Drive,Germantown, MD 20874

Support SpecialistTo work as part of our Community &

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supporting individuals withdevelopmental disabilities related tocommunity living, housing, money

management, insurance, employment,etc, as a stepping stone towardpersonal independence. Go to

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Your neighborhood bakery-café, is currently seeking ALL POSITIONS for ournew Bethesda location (on Wisconsin Ave next to Modell’s). We are lookingfor cashiers, sandwich/salad makers, prep associates, dishwashers and diningroom crew as well as catering coordinators.

Ideal candidates will be experienced in dealing with the public in a customerservice capacity, bring enthusiastic energy, and capable of multi-tasking.Flexible full and part-time positions available for shifts ranging from earlymornings and mid-days to evenings and weekends. We offer a competitivehourly wage and other employee benefits.

To apply, please go to: www.panerabread.jobs for an application, searchHourly Associate Candidates and specify location 203779 Bethesda.Qualified candidates will be contacted directly by the hiring manager. EOE

NEW Bakery-CaféOpening

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ACCOUNTING/BILLING CLERKLeisure World of Maryland, has an immediate need for a Part Time

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orders, generating invoices and resolving customer inquiries.Accounting Clerk will research accounts, maintain a log of batch

reports, run and edit invoices, monitor aging A/R, and follow up withcustomers for payment collection of overdue balances. The scheduleis flexible, Monday through Friday, 4 hours between 8:30 a.m. - 4:30

p.m. To apply for this position please send a resume to:[email protected] or fax# 301-598-1061 website:

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REGISTERED NURSE CHARGEPart-Time/20-hrs p/Week - Overnight Shift - 10:45 p.m. - 7:15 a.m.,Fridays & Saturdays & alternating Sundays to fill shift rotation. Partof multi-disciplinary team working w/ emotionally disturbedadolescents. Nurses work closely with other members of atreatment team (counselors, psychiatrists, therapists andeducators.) Psychiatric experience w/adolescents required. CurrentMaryland Nursing License required. Generous paid leave & otherMD State benefits. Salary negotiable pursuant to experience + shiftdifferential. Send resume w/cover memo to: John L. GildnerRICA, HR, 15000 Broschart Road, Rockville, MD 20850 - Fax :301-251-6815 Or e-mail to: [email protected]

SALESNeed reliable people to set appts at local Sears

stores in Bel Air, Gaithersburg, Cockeysville,Parkville, Frederick & Columbia. Earn up to &

over $14-$16/hr (base+bonus).Part-time. No telemarketing. Email

[email protected] orcall 407.551.5556. Seniors welcome! EOE/AA.

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Work From HomeNational Children’s CenterMaking calls Weekdays 9-4

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