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INDEXVolume 27, No. 54Two sections, 24 PagesCopyright © 2014The Gazette
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TRAIN FATALITIESTwo people killed in separate incidents. A-5/A-7
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n Acre parcel needed forClarksburg Village access
BY VIRGINIA TERHUNE
STAFF WRITER
The county plans to use the powerof eminent domain to take about anacre of the Yegher farm in Clarksburgfor a right-of-way needed to completethe extension of Snowden Farm Park-way from Clarksburg Village east toMd. 27 (Ridge Road).
Under current plans, SnowdenFarm Parkway will extend fromEmerald Green Drive southeastacross Morning Star Drive, theYegher driveway and the still-
to-be-developed Butz propertyto connect with Md. 27.
The parkway would serve as theeastern entrance to Clarksburg Vil-lage, a community of about 2,700housing units, according to countyreports.
Land targeted forparkway extension
About 30 educators gainnew status; Gaithersburg among
areas represented
BY LINDSAY A. POWERS
STAFF WRITER
About 30 Montgomery Countyteachers have earned a new status thatcould help propel them to leadershiproles in schools and projects.
The educators were named “lead
teachers” as part of a county educa-tion Career Lattice program, which isfocusing on 58 high-need schools thisacademic year.
The teachers, who applied for thestatus, are considered “master teach-ers” and demonstrated leadership “andthe potential for more leadership” intheir work with students, other staff,parents and community members, saidDoug Prouty, president of the Mont-gomery County Education Association.
First ‘lead teachers’ groupapproved in Montgomery
SNOWDEN FARMPARKWAY EXTENSIONn For more information, visit
montgomeryplanning.org/community/plan_areas/rural_area/master_plans/clarksburg/historic_clark.pdf.
See EXTENSION, Page A-6
See TEACHERS, Page A-6
n Neil Simon addscomedy to Chekhov
BY VIRGINIA TERHUNE
STAFF WRITER
Michael Abendshein acted the partof the narrator in Neil Simon’s “TheGood Doctor” when he was a senior atGaithersburg High School in 1999, andhe never forgot the play.
Years later, he’s directing the com-edy for the Upcounty Theatre in Ger-mantown.
The play runs for two weekends onFriday and Saturday and Jan. 16 and 17at the BlackRock Center for the Arts inGemantown.
A community theater founded in2010, the Upcounty troupe presentstwoproductions a year atBlackRock inexchange for volunteering to hand outprograms and perform other servicesat BlackRock events.
“The Good Doctor” is a series ofscenes based on characters from Rus-sian writer Anton Chekhov’s short sto-ries.
“It’s an exploration of humanity,
‘Good Doctor’ playing at BlackRock
‘THE GOOD DOCTOR’n When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; Jan. 16-17
n Where: BlackRock Center for the Arts, 12901 Town Commons Drive, Germantown
n Tickets: $16 for students, seniors 60 and older; $18 for general admission.Available online or at the door.
n For information: upcountytheatre.org; facebook.com\upctheatre; twitter.com/UpCTheatre
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Autumn Orme plays a prostitute, with Michael Sigler as a father taking his son, portrayedby Rebecca Korn (back center), to a brothel in Neil Simon’s “The Good Doctor.”
See THEATER, Page A-6
n Starr says board should onlyconsider ‘no-cost’ plans
BY LINDSAY A. POWERS
STAFF WRITER
Superintendent Joshua P. Starr onTuesday released several possible waysto change bell times to help Montgom-ery County high school students getmore sleep.
Four main options that Starr pro-posed involve different strategies forshifting bell times; a fifth option callsfor no changes. Instead, the districtwould study other potential changesthat couldmeanmore shut-eye for highschool students.
The school board’s Jan. 13 meetingwill include a presentation on the pro-posals.
The latest bell times options stemfrom the school board’s request thatStarr come up with ideas that cost lessthan a recommendation Starr made inOctober 2013.
Starr’s original plan would have
started high schools 50 minutes laterand middle schools 10 minutes earlier.The elementary school day would havebeen 30 minutes longer.
Starr stepped back from his origi-nal recommendation in June, saying itwould cost toomuch, about $21millionper year. He also said community feed-back on the plan was inconclusive.
The board said the new optionsshould cost $10 million or less. All fourof Starr’s new ideas for change came inwell below that figure.
Most of the annual costs are relatedto transportation, according to the dis-trict.
High schools currently start at 7:25a.m., a time that some say does notallow students to get enough sleep.Middle schools start at 7:55 a.m. and el-ementary schools, which are split intotwo tiers, start at 8:50 and 9:15 a.m.
The options Starr released Tuesdayvary in cost. Starr said he thinks theboard should consider only the optionsthat don’t require spending.
New options forbell times changes
See SCHOOL START, Page A-6
BY VIRGINIA TERHUNE
STAFF WRITER
Transportation improvements, af-fordable housing and maintenance ofsocial services for low-income peopleand seniors were among the prioritiesresidents want to see addressed in thecounty’s next operating and capitalbudgets.
County Executive Isiah Leggett
sought input from residents at a bud-get forum on Monday night at theBlackRock Center for the Arts in Ger-mantown. It is the first of five he ishosting around the county in the nextfew weeks.
Leggett will present his operatingbudget in March to the County Coun-cil, which will review it and vote on itin the spring.
Leggett said increased funding for
programs in the $5 billion operatingbudget is unlikely, as the county is fac-ing a gap of $238 million between pro-jected revenues andexpenses for fiscalyear 2016, which starts July 1.
The estimated shortfall takes intoaccount the possibility of losing theWynne case, a double taxation casenow before the Supreme Court that
Facing a $238M deficitBILL RYAN/THE GAZETTE
Isiah Leggett hosted a FY 2016 budget forum, accepting input from the general public, on Monday night at BlackRock Center for the Artsin Germantown.
Leggett holds first of five budget forums in Germantown
See BUDGET, Page A-7
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p.m.,Westfield Building South, 11002VeirsMill Road, Suite 700,Wheaton. Thiscourse is taught by an attorney, a tax CPAand a commercial insurance professional.Learn how to legally define a business andregister the business name, keep properfinancial records and report taxes, and as-sess the insurance requirements neededto safeguard business and personal assets.$55. [email protected].
Adult Irish Set and Ceili Dance Class, 7p.m., Argyle Park Activities Building, 1030Forest Glen Road, Silver Spring. LearnIrish social dancing in a relaxed setting.Sponsored by the GreaterWashingtonCeili Club. $40 for the season. www.gwcc-online.org.
Maintaining Physical and Mental Well-ness, 7:30-9 p.m., National Alliance onMental Illness, 11718 ParklawnDrive,Rockville. Learn small steps that can helpwith the journey to wellness. [email protected].
FRIDAY, JAN. 91st Maryland Small Business Innova-
tion Research Conference, 8:30 a.m.-4p.m., JohnsHopkins UniversityMont-gomery County Campus, Gilchrist Hall,9601Medical Center Drive, Rockville. Net-work andmeet other business owners. Gettips on how towin awards and hear aboutchanges in the agencies’ funding and pro-curement programs. $50. [email protected].
SATURDAY, JAN. 10Junior Jams Featuring Grandson’s
Jr. Wild Music for Wild Kids, 10:30 a.m.,FNDTNGallery and Liveroom, 3762How-ard Ave., Kensington. Enjoy livemusic forchildren at the first Junior Jams showof theseason. $8. www.fndtnarts.com/events.
Chevy Chase Daughters of the Ameri-can Revolution, 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.,Lawson Community Center, 4301WillowLane, Chevy Chase. Gail Sansbury, direc-tor of the Chevy ChaseHistorical Society,is the featured speaker. Public is welcome.Free. 301-951-3535.
Open House and Saturday Sampler,1-3 p.m., Norwood School, 8821 RiverRoad, Bethesda. Families can tour theschool and talk with teachers, students,parents, division heads and the head ofschool. The Saturday Sampler allowsparents looking at kindergarten andfirst grade to observe their child inmini-classes. [email protected].
Why Don’t My Kids Listen To Me?.3-4:30 p.m., Parent Encouragement Pro-gram, 10100Connecticut Ave., Kensington.For parents of children age 2½ to 18. Free,registration required. 301-929-8824.
Capitol Tap’s 5th Anniversary Gala,7-10 p.m., Silver Spring Civic Center, 1
Federal Place, Silver Spring. CelebrateCapitol Tap’s fifth anniversary at a galawith a silent auction, live auction, horsd’oeuvres and a special performance byCapitol Tap. The evening will include apresentation honoring Knock OnWoodTap Studio co-founder Yvonne Edwards,as well as an award presentation to Capi-tol Tap’s assistant artistic director, BaakariWilder. $50. www.capitoltap.com.
SUNDAY, JAN. 11MAA Gallery January Show Reception,
1-5 p.m.,Montgomery Art AssociationMAAGallery,WestfieldWheatonMall,11160 VeirsMill Road,Wheaton. Featur-ing artist of themonth Terry Pellmar,a digital artist who also createdmixed-media pieces. On display through Feb. [email protected].
Widowed Persons Service of Mont-gomery County Meeting, 2-4 p.m.,Whea-ton Library, 11701 Georgia Ave., Wheaton.Daniel Sanders, CEO of Four Sales Ltd.,will talk about “Downsizing Your Homeand Staging for House Sales.” $4 suggesteddonation. 301-949-7398.
“From Beyond the Arch” Art ShowReception, 2–4 p.m., Goldman Art Gallery,6125Montrose Road, Rockville. Artworkcreated by the upper andmiddle schoolstudents of theHelene Berman Seiden-feld Visual Art Center at the BermanHe-brew Academy.Works will be on displaythrough Jan. 28. Free admission. www.jccgw.org.
The Blue Rhythm Boys at the Tree ofLife Cafe, 7-9:30 p.m., UnitarianUniversal-ist Congregation of Rockville, 100WelshParkDrive, Rockville. TheBlue RhythmBoyswill play an original, smokymix ofhot jazz, blues, andhokum tomelt awaythewinter chill. Special cameo appearanceby singer/songwriter Steven Lapham. $15suggested donation, food anddrinkwill beavailable. [email protected].
The Collapse of Civilizations in 1177BC and the Emergence of Israel, 7:30p.m., B’nai Israel Congregation, 6301Montrose Road, Rockville. Learn about thecosmopolitan and globalized world-sys-tem in theMediterranean region duringthe Late Bronze Age. $5-$10. [email protected].
MONDAY, JAN. 12St. Raphael Nursery School and St.
Raphael School Double Open House, 9:15a.m.-noon, 1513Dunster Road, Rockville.Nursery school begins at 9:15 a.m., whileSt. Raphael School starts at 10:45 a.m.Each open house starts with a presenta-tion followed by a tour. The school is K-8and specializes in tailored academics,small-group instruction, integrated tech-nology and differentiated learning. Free.301-762-2143.
Native Plants for a New AmericanCottage Garden Talk, 8-9:30 p.m.,Mont-
gomery College Takoma Park/SilverSpring Campus, 7977 Georgia Ave., SilverSpring. Hosted by Silver Spring GardenClub. This traditionally British form canbe easily adapted for American gardensusing American plants. Free. [email protected].
TUESDAY, JAN. 13Afternoon Grief Support Group, 1:30-3
p.m., North BethesdaUnitedMethodistChurch, 10100 Old Georgetown Road,Bethesda. For anyone grieving the deathof a loved one. Free, registration required.301-921-4400.
Hands-On STEM Fun, 4-5 p.m.,Whea-ton Library, 11701 Georgia Ave., Wheaton.Learn and play with drop-in science-based crafts and/or experiments. Grades 1through 6. Free. 240-777-0678.
I Heart Storytime, 4-5 p.m., Charles E.Smith JewishDay School, 5901 E. JeffersonSt., Rockville. In partnership with SifriyatPijama. Amonthly programwhen teach-ers will read stories in Hebrew or Englishcentered on Jewish values to [email protected].
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 14Getting Fit for the New Year, 2-4 p.m.,
Silver Spring Civic Building, 1 VeteransPlace, Silver Spring. Featuring representa-tives from awide range of exercise pro-grams in the Silver Spring area that caterto seniors. Hear what programs are avail-able andwhat they involve, includingWil-low Street Yoga, the Silver Spring Y, HolyCross’ Senior Fit, Bone Builders and SilverSneakers. Free. [email protected].
Homework Help, 4-6 p.m.,WheatonLibrary, 11701 Georgia Ave., Wheaton.Teen volunteers help students in gradesK-6 with their homework assignments.Students who need helpmust sign up atthe children’s information desk beginningat 3:30 p.m., and each help sessionwill be30minutes long. Free. 240-777-0678.
Trials and Errors of Corridor CitiesPlanning, 5:30 p.m., PlanningDepartmentHeadquarters, 8787Georgia Ave., SilverSpring. Part of the speaker series “AOnceand FutureCounty: Lessons onHowPlan-ning Politics ShapedMontgomeryCounty”andhosted byRoyceHanson, formerchairmanof the county’s planning board.Free. www.montgomeryplanning.org.
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n Hands-on workshopsbring creatures to life
BY SAMANTHA SCHMIEDERSTAFFWRITER
At the Germantown Library,families can do research, checkoutbooksandevenbuild robots.
On Saturday, Baltimore-based group FutureMakers of-fered fourdifferentworkshopsatthe library, allowing children inkindergarten throughfifth gradeto construct and keep their ownwiggling, blinking creations.
FutureMakers, a “mobilemakerspace,” brings children inWashington, D.C, Virginia andMaryland the materials, toolsand expert guidance they needtomakecrafts andmore compli-cated projects of their very ownto take home. The experts, whoare called coaches at Future-Makers, according to its founderMatthew Barinholtz, come fromdifferent backgrounds andfieldsand bring their unique knowl-edge and skills to every work-shop.
Robot City was offered at 10a.m. and 4:30 p.m. and Wiggle-bots was offered at noon and2:30 p.m.
“Primarily, the workshopswe’ve done at Germantown inthe past have focused on tweens
and teens, so they ranged fromkinetic creatures to 3-D model-ing and printing,” Barinholtzsaid.
Barinholtz explained thatthese workshops are focusedmore on younger children and
their families, hopefully bring-ing parents and children in towork together on the project.
“Kids grow when they haveother people around them whoencourage them to follow apassion. Young people’s expe-
riences go beyond what theirparents do,” Barinholtz said.“We need to make sure thatfamilies are sort of developingthese interests and skills.”
During Robot City, childrenmadeglowing sculptures, and in
Wigglebots, children made botsthat walk and drive.
“Tobemore andmore readyto take on design thinking anddesign challenges that they aregoing to have when they arein high school and college andbeyond that, they need to startearly,” Barinholtz said.
Barinholtz said that the bestpath to learning is for parents toencourage experimentation andto work with their children as ateam.
“We feel the most fun iswhen family creative learningtakes place. Parents are ableto learn and explore alongsidetheir child without doing it fortheir child,” Barinholtz said.“Children explore and try andfail without [their parents] res-cuing themunnecessarily.”
Children and their parentsgathered supplies from tubs inthe front of the room rangingfrom cardboard boxes to color-ful pipe cleaners and blinkinglights.
Jonathan Oglesby, of Ger-mantown, brought his five- andeight-year-old sons to themorn-ing Robot City workshop.
“We’re frequent library visi-tors. When I saw the posting, Iknew this would be a great thingfor our kids,” Oglesby said ashis children happily built theirrobots.
Oglesby said that his familyloves being involved with theMontgomery County librarysystem and thinks it’s great thatthey offer programs like Future-Maker’s workshops.
“It’s always fun to trick kidsinto learning,” Oglesby said.
The room was full of chil-dren building, cutting andlearning. One little girlmadeherrobot into a cat.
“[The kids] go home withsome awesome things thatwe’ve made sort of come alive,”Barinholtz said.
Karen Miller, the German-town Library branch manager,said theywere very lucky tohavethe Friends of the Library Ger-mantown Chapter sponsor theFutureMakers workshops.
“What’s nice about [Future-Makers] is theyoffer quality pro-grams, topics that everyone isinterested in right now,” Millersaid.
Children had to sign up forthe program’s limited spots andall four workshops quickly filledup. Miller said they opened upa waiting list for anyone whowanted to try to get into a work-shop if someone canceled.
“You know, who doesn’twant toplaywith robots?”Millersaid.
Robots wiggle and blink at Germantown Library
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Nathan Chadwick (center) and his daughter, Harper Chadwick, 5, (right) of Derwood celebrate after working togetherto assemble a “wigglebot” — a robot composed of a motor, batteries, LED lights, a plastic cup and markers — duringa workshop for children at the Germantown Library on Jan. 3. Presented by the educational organization, FutureMak-ers, the event was designed to teach children about electrical and mechanical engineering.
The following is a summary of inci-dents in the Germantown area towhich Montgomery County policeresponded recently. The words “ar-rested” and “charged” do not implyguilt. This information was provided bythe county.
Auto theft• 13600 block of SpinningWheel
Drive, Germantown, between 3 and4:20 a.m. Dec. 20.
Commercial armed robbery• Kerala Café, 385Muddy Branch
Road, Gaithersburg, at 3:33 p.m. Dec.19. The subject threatened the victimwith a weapon and took property.
Sexual offense• Near Unity of Gaithersburg
Church, 111 Central Ave., Gaithers-burg, at 3:15 p.m. Dec. 16. The sub-ject exposed himself to the victim.
Strong-arm robbery• 13200 block of CloppersMill
Drive, Germantown, at 2:35 p.m.Dec. 17. The subjects forcefully tookproperty from the victim.
• 400 block of Palmspring Drive,Gaithersburg, at 11:46 p.m. Dec. 17.The subject is known to the victim.
Aggravated assault• 500 block ofWest Diamond
Avenue, Gaithersburg, at 12:10 p.m.Dec. 16. The subject is known to the
victim.• 10000 block of Hellingly Place,
MontgomeryVillage, at 10:42 p.m.Dec. 18. The subject is known to thevictim.
• 12100 block of Brittania Circle,Germantown, at 2:30 a.m. Dec. 20.The subject is known to the victim.
•WeisMarket, 26075 RidgeRoad, Damascus, at 8 a.m. Dec. 21.
• 19000 block ofMills ChoiceRoad,MontgomeryVillage, at 5:58p.m. Dec. 21. The subject is known tothe victim.
• 100 block ofMaryland Avenue,Gaithersburg, at 7:25 p.m. Dec. 21.The subject is known to the victim.
• Clopper andMateny roads,
Germantown, at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 22.The subject assaulted the victim andfled.
Commercial burglary• Francis O. Day Company
Inc., 20768 Crystal RockDrive, Ger-mantown, betweenDec. 19 and 22.Forced entry, took property.
Residential burglary• 300 block ofWest Side Drive,
Gaithersburg, between 6 a.m. and 8p.m. Dec. 18. Unknown entry, tookproperty.
• 400 block of Amberfield Lane,Gaithersburg, at 11:23 p.m. Dec. 18.The subject is known to the victim.
• 18200 block of Swiss Circle,
Germantown, between 7 a.m. and6 p.m. Dec. 19. Forced entry, tookproperty.
• 20300 block of Cider BarrelDrive, Germantown, at 12:50 p.m.Dec. 19. Unknown entry, unknownwhat was taken.
• 19300 block of Ranworth Drive,Germantown, onDec. 20 or 21. Thesubjects entered the victim’s vehicleand garage and took property.
• 9300 block ofWillow CreekDrive,MontgomeryVillage, between3 p.m. Dec. 20 and 12:15 p.m. Dec.21. Forced entry, took property.
• 9900 block of Tambay Court,MontgomeryVillage, at 1:24 a.m.Dec. 22.
• 20300 block ofMill PondTer-
race, Germantown, between 11 a.m.and 5:30 p.m. Dec. 22. Forced entry,took property.
• 8400 block ofMountain LaurelLane, Gaithersburg, at 3:55 p.m.Dec. 23.
Vehicle larceny• Six incidents in Germantown
onDec. 20 or 21. Took cash, videogames, toys, jewelry, medicine, a GPSunit and a skimask. Affected streetsinclude Lullaby Court, SaturnWay,Lullaby Road, Briarwick Street andTattershall Drive, Germantown.
• Four incidents on Summer andWinterWalk drives in GaithersburgonDec. 21 or 22. Took cash, loosechange and an ID.
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Damascus Legionhonors baseball team
Members of AmericanLegion Post 171 in Damascushonored its 2014 MontgomeryCounty youth baseball teamand coaches at a banquet at onDec. 28, 2014, at the post.
The program featured apresentation by John Philbin,head strength and condition-ing coach for the WashingtonNationals, said post liaisonGeorge Bolling in a press re-lease.
Philbin explained the rig-orous year-round trainingregimen he developed for theNationals players and also re-counted some of the team’smost memorable experiencesin recent years, according tothe release.
Post 171 team coachJimmy Stone presented theMost Valuable Player award toCameron Frazier of Damascus,who was also recognized for“his extraordinary devotion tothe team,” said Bolling in therelease.
Drew Whalen of Damascusreceived the Post’s AuxiliaryUnit award for his dedica-tion as a team player, and theaward for best pitcher went toEric Janss, also of Damascus.
Dan Johnson of Olney re-ceived the best offensive playeraward, and Joe Lozupone, alsoof Olney, was recognized asthe best defensive player.
The Coaches Award waspresented to Lucas Kraft ofClarksburg.
Keith Martin, incomingchairman of the post’s Base-ball Committee, led a tributeto Legionnaire Bob Bellisonof Damascus for “his extraor-dinarily successful service asthe Post’s Baseball Chairman
since 2004,” said Bolling in therelease.
A former scout for theBaltimore Orioles and retiredMontgomery County physicaleducation teacher, Bellisonhas coached the Post team andserved on the Baseball Com-mittee for more than 20 years.
Diamond Elementary torename media centerafter former principal
Diamond ElementarySchool in Gaithersburg plansto host a dedication ceremonyMonday for its media center,which will be renamed “TheCarole Lange Media Center”in honor of a longtime leader.
Carol Lange served asprincipal at Diamond Elemen-tary for 16 years and retiredfrom her post at the end oflast school year. She was aMontgomery County PublicSchools employee for a total of26 years.
The ceremony will begin at6:30 p.m. in the school’s mediacenter, at 4 Marquis Drive. Theevent is open to the publicand Bar-T will provide drop-inchild care in the school’s all-purpose room.
For more information,email Beth Kennington [email protected] orShannon Phelan at [email protected].
Gaithersburg-Germantown chambernames new chairman
The Gaithersburg-Ger-mantown Chamber of Com-merce has named JerryTherrien, president of Ther-rien Waddell Inc., chairman ofits 2015 Board of Directors.
Therrien has been a boardmember for five years.
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n Roberto Clemente Middlehosts Africa day
BY VIRGINIA TERHUNESTAFF WRITER
The seventh-graders at Ro-berto Clemente Middle Schoolin Germantown recently cel-ebrated all things African as partof the school’s focus on globalcultures.
The students celebratedDec. 18 as “Journey ThroughAfrica: Exploring Cultures” day,listening to African drums, play-ing African games, eating Afri-can food and telling African folktales.
“I really liked hearing the dif-ferent stories [about characterslike] Anansi the spider,” saidstudent Erinma Onyewuchi ofGaithersburg.
“It was really interesting tosee all the diverse cultures,” shesaid.
The middle school is in theprocess of revamping its cur-riculum and revising its teachingmethods to become an Inter-national Baccalaureate WorldSchool.
“Roberto Clemente is cur-rently a Middle Years Pro-gramme candidate school — wewill apply for authorization inthe fall of 2015,” said Molly Mur-ray, Clemente’s InternationalBaccalaureate coordinator, inan email.
Based in Geneva, Switzer-land, the International Bacca-laureate program authorizes theuse of its name by primary, mid-dle and high school programsaround the world that foster aninterdisciplinary approach toteaching along with the studyand analysis of issues from aglobal perspective.
“The MYP at Roberto Clem-ente Middle School encouragesstudents to consider points ofview from a variety of culturesand perspectives,” Murray said.
Coordinated classes andteacher training focus on de-veloping 10 attributes in stu-dents so they become inquirers,knowledgeable, thinkers, com-municators, principled, open-minded, caring, risk-takers,balanced and reflective, accord-ing to the IB Learner Profile.
“Critical thinking skills areexercised when students areasked to use their knowledgeto solve problems in unfamiliarsituations,” Murray said. “Whiledoing so, students practice howto become better communica-tors, thinkers, inquirers and risk-
takers.”All grades at Roberto Cle-
mente are involved in the pro-gram, but the Africa day wasspecifically for seventh-graders,Murray said. A China day isplanned for sixth-graders inMarch and a Maryland day foreighth-graders in May.
Students also may continuethe program when they moveon to Seneca Valley High Schoolin Germantown, which is an au-thorized International Baccalau-reate school.
On Africa day, the seventh-graders learned about tradi-tional games including kudoda,a pickup game akin to jacks;senet, a board game from an-cient Egypt; and mancala, which
involves moving seeds or mar-bles between pits in a board.
“I learned a lot about strat-egy,” said Maansi Suvarna ofClarksburg, about playing man-cala.
Playing the games not onlytaught students about Afri-can cultures but also fosteredthe use of logic and problem-solving skills, as well as readingand following directions, saidseventh-grade science teacherGreg Young.
Students also were treated toa drumming and dancing per-formance, with several studentsmentioning how it captivatedthem and drew them in.
“You could tell the drum-ming was something they had
practiced for all their lives,” saidSophia Athanas of Gaithersburg.“It showed how much muscle ittook to [play] fast on the drums.”
Ashlynn Battle of German-town liked one of the Africanstories about a man who wentout to hunt and died, but hissons brought him back to life,leading to a big celebration.
Students not only learnedabout African stories in Englishclass but also retold them inclass, learning about the griottradition in West Africa.
“They told stores using theirknowledge of folk tales,” Murraysaid.
Aaron Aben of Gaithers-burg appreciated hearing froma guest speaker who had spent16 years in Africa and spoke fourlanguages in addition to English.Even so, he also learned that wasonly a fraction of the hundredsof languages spoken there.
“Africa is so diverse,” Abensaid.
Students also sampled friedfish, curried chicken, lentils andplantains provided by the Swa-hili Village restaurant in Belts-ville for lunch, but the feast wasnot only a taste of different cul-tures.
Earlier in the day studentsused their math skills to cal-culate the nutritional value ofsome African foods, which, likeplaying the games, was anotherexample of studying a subjectfrom different perspectives andusing different skills.
“When students see the con-nections between their differentsubject areas, their thinking be-comes more fluid,” Murray saidin an email.
Germantown school goes global
PHOTO BY LAILA WASI
Drummers and dancers with the Urban Foli troupe engaged seventh gradersand teachers at Roberto Clemente Middle School in Germantown during acelebration of African cultures on Dec. 18. The school has applied to becomean International Baccalaureate school with a focus on critical thinking andlearning about other cultures.
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BY GAZETTE STAFF
Gaithersburg’s Arts on theGreen is set to host its first everChildren’s Movie Sing-Alongand Royal Tea event on Jan. 24.
Children of all ages andtheir families can sing their fa-vorite animated movie tunes.Young attendees are invitedto come dressed in their favor-ite costume. Members of theKentlands Community Choruswill lead the singalong.
Afterward, tea will beserved. The menu includes
small sandwiches, bakedsweets, fruit and lemonade.
The singalong will begin at1p.m.at theArtsBarn,311KentSquareRoad.Theteawill followat 2 p.m. at Kentlands Mansion,320 Kent Square Road.
Tickets are $8 for thesingalong only and $20 forboth the singalong and tea.Advance purchase is recom-mended for the singalong andrequired for the combinedsingalong and tea. Call 301-258-6394 for tickets.
Children’s singalong and tea eventplanned in Gaithersburg Jan. 24
n Business owner knewwork status of employees,hired them anyway
BY JENNDAVISSTAFFWRITER
A Gaithersburg man wassentenced to two days in federalprison and 60days of homecon-finement Dec. 29 after he wasfound guilty of knowingly hiringunauthorized aliens to work forhis pool business.
According to his plea agree-ment,RaymondScottVincent,47,wastheownerofRSVPools,apoolservice company that providedlifeguards and pool maintenanceto pools in theWashington, D.C.,metropolitan area. Vincent hiredat least 12 unauthorized aliensfromJanuary 2009 to June2013 towork for thecompany.
Vincent approved the em-ployment of each unauthorizedworker and at that time he knewat least three of them were notlegally authorized to work inthe country, the plea agreementsaid. The other nine employeeswere legally authorized for em-ployment when theywere hired,but theirwork statusexpiredandthey continued to work for RSVPools, which Vincent knew. Hepaid four of the unauthorizedworkers in cash so that they didnot appear on his company’sbooks, the plea agreement said.
In 2012 and 2013, Vincentalso permitted at least three ofthe workers to rent a companyapartment, which led him toprofit from the rent payments,according to thepleaagreement.
U.S. District Judge Paul W.Grimm sentenced Vincent toprison time and home confine-ment as part of 18months of pro-bation, according to a statementfrom the U.S. Attorney’s office.Grimm also ordered Vincent toperform 80 hours of communityservice, pay a fine of $36,000 andforfeit $42,262.60, the statementsaid.
As part of Vincent’s pleaagreement, neither he nor hiscompany can apply for visas orwork permits for any foreignworkers for three years.
n Police: Conductor calledfor help Friday morning
BYDANIEL LEADERMANSTAFFWRITER
A pedestrian struck by atrain in Germantown early Fri-day morning died of his injuriesat the scene, according topolice.
Officers responded at about1:37 a.m. to the GermantownMARC station at 19330 MatenyHill Road and found that manhad been walking in the area ofthe tracks when he was struck bya train, according toMontgomeryCountypolice.
Police identified the man asWilliam Alexander Buendia Ro-driguez, 20, of the 18900 blockof Pine Ridge Lane in German-town, and investigators do notsuspect foul play.
He was struck by a CSXfreight train, a CSX spokesmanconfirmed.
The incident caused delaysonMARC’sBrunswick line,whichhad to be closed temporarily Fri-daymorning, according topolice.
The reason Rodriguez waswalkingnearthetrackswasstillun-der investigationTuesdayevening.
The train’s conductor con-tacted emergency services afterthe man was struck, police said.Anyone with information shouldcall the police nonemergency lineat 301-279-8000.
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n Youth thinks fast, putsCPR training to use
BY SAMANTHA SCHMIEDERSTAFFWRITER
When Germantown nativeRandy Gibson, 16, was facedwith a life-or-death situation,he used the skills he learned atthe Milton Hershey School inPennsylvania to save a life.
Gibson, a junior, attendsthe Milton Hershey School inHershey, a free private schoolfor pre-kindergarten throughtwelfth-grade students whosefamilies are income-eligible.Students from throughout thecountry live on campus withhouseparents and eight to 12students of the same age groupand gender.
OnSept. 8, houseparent JimSmith collapsed while on a runpast Gibson, who was hangingoutside with his friends. Every-one discovered later that Smithcollapsed due to a heart attack.
“I was sitting on a bridge.[Smith] came jogging along, Iwas having a normal conver-sation, then all of a sudden hefalls on the ground,” Gibsonrecalled.
Gibson ran over to Smith’s“sort-of-unconscious body”and noticed he was breathingheavily. At that point, a friendcalled 911 and Gibson beganperforming CPR, which everystudent in the school is taughtin tenth grade, to try to resus-citate Smith. While everyonewaited for emergency person-nel to arrive, a teacher and vol-unteer firefighter who was oncampus saw the commotionand took over for Gibson untilan ambulance arrived.
Gibson said that afterwardhe just sat down on the grass tocompose himself.
“People were coming near
me and patting me on the backand saying, ‘Good job,’” Gibsonsaid.
Now, a fewmonths after thefall, Smith is doing well and ev-eryone is able to reflect back onthe event as a live-saving, life-changingmoment.
“I have no memory what-soever about the whole thing,”said Smith, who has been ahouseparent with his wife atthe school for six years.
He explained that when hefound out a student had beenthe first to step up to the plateto performCPR, hewas “blownaway.” Though the two kneweach other in passing from see-ing each other on campus, theyhad never really spoken.
“Randy was taught CPR inhis tenth-grade health classand was certified. Our teachersrecognize that it is such an im-portant part of the curriculum,”said Keri Straub, media rela-tionsmanager at the school.
When the health teacherwho taught the teens CPRfound out that Gibson put hiscertification to use, Straub saidshe actually teared up because
she was so touched.“I just can’t begin to express
my appreciation for Randy andhis willingness to use his skillshe learned,” Smith said. “Hehad other friends encouraginghim and I include them on mysaving team.”
Gibson was given theHeartsaver Hero Award fromthe American Heart Associa-tion for his quick thinking.
“It’s very humbling be-cause the American Heart As-sociation, they gave me thisawesome award for somethingI did. I tried to save someone,”Gibson said.
After learning CPR, Gibsonsaid he never thought he wouldever have to use it. He creditshis “fairly decent memory” fornot forgetting the steps, some-thing for which Smith is grate-ful.
“[It is an] awesome thing forme as a houseparent, besidesthe fact that I was the recipient,to see our kids do this,” Smithsaid.
Local teen looks back on lifesaving momentJim Smith, housepar-ent at the HersheyMilton School,poses with German-town native RandyGibson, 16, whoreceived a Heart-saver Hero Awardfrom the AmericanHeart Associationfor performing CPRafter Smith suffereda heart attack.
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appreciation forRandy and hiswillingness to
use his skills helearned.”Jim Smith,
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“As time goes on, our hopeis that the numbers will startbuilding,” Prouty said.
The application process isongoing and teachers can con-tinue to seek the status, he said.
The new lead teachers hailfrom 20 elementary,middle andhigh schools, 15 of which are intheSilver Springarea.Other rep-resentedareas includeGaithers-burg, Rockville and Bethesda.
New lead teacher DarylAlston is heading a project atNorthwood High School in Sil-ver Spring. He wears many hatsas an English teacher, yearbookadviser, literary magazine spon-sor and head of the school’s Hu-manities, Art &Media Academy.
Alstonsaidhewasmotivatedto apply for the status after hear-ing from students who neededmore support on their capstoneprojects. Students complete theoptional projects in their senioryearbasedona subject area they
are interested in pursuing afterhigh school.
“It’s a good opportunity tojust see the students kind of tak-ing a passion of their own andgoing in their owndirectionwithit,” he said.
Several schools have twolead teachers; GaithersburgHigh School has seven.
The county teachers unionhasworkedon theCareerLatticeprogram jointly withMontgom-ery County Public Schools. Theprogram’s scope currently cov-
ers 58 schools, including about32 Silver Spring-area schoolsand other schools mostly in theGaithersburg, Germantown andRockville areas.
As of around mid-Decem-ber, about 140 teachers had ap-plied for the status, Prouty said.That figure includes those whohave started but not completedtheapplicationprocess.Roughly60 teachers who applied did notreceive the status.
A panel of teachers, princi-pals and an associate superin-tendent evaluates applicationsfor the lead teacher status.
Once a teacher earns thestatus, he or she can apply fora leadership position — such asresource teacher or staff devel-opment teacher — or proposea project such as a homeworkclub or community outreach.
Program teachers in lead-ership positions or running aproject receive a $2,000 salaryincrease. Those directing proj-ects also receive a budget of$1,000 to $3,000.
Three lead teachers havesubmitted project proposals,Prouty said, one of which wasapproved. The other two arepending.
Alston, who is leading theapproved project, saidhewas theonlypersonhelpingeightstudentsfrom his academy through theirprojects last school year, he said.Starting this semester, six men-tors — including Alston — willhelp guide 10 students throughtheprocess.
Each student will work witha mentor knowledgeable aboutthe student’s area of interest. Theproject budget includes stipendsto compensate mentors for theirworkafter school.
With the new mentors onboard, Alston said, students aremore enthusiastic about theirprojects and willing to take riskstheymight not have taken with-out the added support.
He said he’s excited to bepart of the county’s new leadteacher group and hopes towork with the other educatorsand see what they’re doing.
The Career Lattice programgives teachers an opportunity tobe acknowledged for their work,he said.
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The County Coun-cil’s Transportation, In-frastructure, Energy andEnvironment committee is setto discuss the issue on Mon-day morning before the mat-ter goes to the full council fora vote.
“Completion of the re-maining portion of this mas-ter-planned roadway is a validpublic use, and the remainingright-of-way is immediatelynecessary to allow for con-struction of the road to pro-ceed,” said Deputy CouncilAdministrator Glenn Orlin inan Oct. 29 memo to the coun-cil.
Members of the Yegherfamily did not return a call forcomment, and the family’s at-torney could not be reached onMonday.
The Yegher property is partof what was once the 124-acreHowes dairy farm.
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with all the crazy characters,”said Abendshein, who ap-proached the Upcounty boardabout directing it.
“It’s not produced very of-ten .... and I wanted people tosee it,” he said.
In this production, Up-county Theatre president Jef-frey Smith of Germantownplays the narrator, who repre-sents Chekhov telling his ownstories.
Simon adds a comic spin toChekhov’s tales, but never losessight of the writer’s regard forhis characters.
“I think Simon added thehumor to it, but I don’t thinkhe betrays them,” Smith said.“When you strip [the humor]away, that’s the Chekhov partof it.”
The Russian writer cher-ishedhis characters, Smith said.
“Some of them are absurd,sad, even destructive, [but] tohim, they express the absurdityof life and the value ... of life,”he said. “That’s just life — it
what’s we do — but it’s worthliving.”
One scene – “Quiet War” –is about two retired military of-ficers who meet in the park inthe afternoon and argue aboutfood and what’s for dinner,
Smith said.In “Too Late for Happi-
ness,” a widow and widowersing a cappella about the pos-sibilities of finding love.
The “Defenseless Creature”features actress Joni Donlon of
Germantown, who is perform-ing in a Simon play for the firsttime.
“It’s a Neil Simon adapta-tion, so it’s very funny,” shesaid. “There’s such levity inmost of the scenes.”
A native of Long Island,Donlon is familiar with theplaywright’s work.
“I’m a big Neil Simon fan. Ilove his humor,” she said.
Part of the Upcounty The-atre company since 2011, Don-lon also said this productionhas attracted some new actors.
“New people have joinedthe cast. It’s fun to have somenew faces, and it’s exciting toshare this [play] with them,”she said.
Upcounty Theatre plans topresent a change of pace forits next production in August,Smith said.
Scheduled is “Next Fall,”which was written by GeoffreyNauffts and nominated for aTony award in 2010.
The play is about a gay cou-ple who must deal with friendsand family when one of them isinvolved in a serious accident.One man is devoutly religious,and the other is an atheist.
“There are some controver-sial social issues, [including] re-ligion and sexual orientation,”Smith said.
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Jeffrey Smith is the narrator in the Upcounty Theatre presentation of Neil Simon’s “The Good Doctor.”
He said in an interviewTuesday that, while he sup-ports moving bell times, hedoesn’t think the school systemcan afford to spend money onchanges, given thefiscal climateat the county and state levels.
One option without a pricetag would shift all school startand end times by 20 or 35 min-utes. Starr said in a memo tothe school board that he backsthe 20-minute plan, the “mostpracticable of the no-cost op-tions.”
“Although 20minutes is notideal for extending sleep time, itis a move in the right direction,and it will allow the potentialfor some extended sleep for allinvolved,” he said in thememo.
A20-minute shift is “not sig-nificantly disruptive” to countyfamilies or school operations,he said in the interview.
School board President Pa-
tricia O’Neill said she doesn’tthink 20 more minutes of sleepwould solve the problem, butshe will seriously consider theoption.
“When I first read it, Ithought it’s somewhat akin tojust hitting the snooze buttonon your alarm clock,” she said.
O’Neill said she under-stands Starr’s concern aboutfinancial challenges and shedoesn’t think there is roomin the next budget to pay forchanges.
“There’s a lot of uncertaintyon the fiscal side and I think itwould be extremely difficult tobe addingmoney to the budgetfor bell times when we may bechallenged just to protect oursameservices thatwehave rightnow,” she said.
In a secondoption, elemen-tary schools would start aheadof high and middle schoolsrather than after. Starr laid outfour versions of this option,ranging in cost from $2.6 mil-lion per year to $5.2 million per
year.The versions also are dif-
ferent based on potential startand end times. Under two ver-sions, the elementary schoolday would be extended by fiveor 10minutes, respectively, andthemiddle school daywouldbeshortened by 10minutes.
Starr described in a thirdoption how the district couldchange his original recommen-dation in one of twoways.
Under the first, whichwould cost $5.2million, middleschools would start first at 7:35a.m., pushing the high schoolstart time to 8:15. The elemen-tary schooldaywouldbe shiftedlater, but would stay the samelength.
The second version, costing$5.85 million per year, wouldstart middle schools first at7:30 a.m. and the first tier of el-ementary schools at 8 a.m.Highschoolswould start at 8:45 a.m.,then the second elementarytierwould start at 9:30 a.m. Thisversionwould shorten themid-
dle school day by 15 minutesand lengthen the elementaryday by 10minutes.
The final option to changebell times would divide highschools into one group startingat 7:25 a.m. and a second groupstarting at 9:05 a.m. Studentswho start their school day latercould not take a school systembus.
Elementary and middleschool bell times would not beaffected.
The school system doesn’tknow yet howmuch this optionwould cost, according to a sum-mary of the options.
Based on the fifth optionthat would keep bell times thesame, the district could lookinto alternative changes, suchas increasing the availabilityof shorter schedules for highschool students, letting themstart later or leave earlier, ac-cording to the Bell Times —Analysis of Additional Optionsreport released Tuesday. Thedistrict also could expand op-
portunities for online courses.Mandi Mader, a psycho-
therapist who is chair andfounder of Start School Later’sMontgomery chapter, said theorganization is “disappointed”in Starr’s 20-minute recom-mendation. That shift wouldnot give students the sleep theyneed, she said.
Inadequate sleep is tiedto suicide, substance abuse,and poor mental and physicalhealth, Mader said. She thinkschanging bell times is worththe cost.
“If it was really a priority toDr. Starr, he wouldn’t even betalking about the money,” shesaid.
The school board will holdtwo public hearings Jan. 22about the options—one at 3:30p.m. and the second at 6:30p.m.
The district will acceptwrit-ten testimony at [email protected] until Feb. 2.
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n Fundraiser startedby Silver Spring mothercollects nearly $500,000
BY JENN DAVIS
STAFF WRITER
After hearing the news inearly December that three peo-ple from a Gaithersburg fam-ily died when wreckage froma plane crash set their homeablaze, Jenifer Miller of SilverSpring sprang into action tohelp the two surviving familymembers.
Miller launched a Go-FundMe (http://www.go-fundme.com/gemmellfamily)account on Dec. 8 to help raisemoney for the Gemmell fam-ily. The fire that engulfed theirDrop Forge Lane home earlierthat day killed Marie Gemmell,36, and her sons, Cole Gem-mell, 3, and Devin Gemmell, 1½months.
Ken Gemmell, Marie Gem-mell’s husband, and theirdaughter, Arabelle, were nothome at the time of the crash.
In the last month, the fund-raising campaign has collectednearly $500,000 from more than10,000 donors across the coun-try. The money will help pay forfuneral expenses and other costsincurred by the family, Millerwrote on the campaign website.
The Gaithersburg CityCouncil applauded Miller forher efforts and presented herwith a certificate of recognitionat its Monday evening meeting.Mayor Jud Ashman called thefund’s success “simply amaz-ing.”
“After all, what does a com-munity do when we’re hurt?When we’re down?” Ashmansaid. “We help each other, andthis is a tremendous, outstand-ing example of how one ordi-nary person like you and I cando extraordinary good for thecommunity.”
Miller previously said sheknew the Gemmell familyslightly from serving them atthe Dogfish Head Alehouse inGaithersburg, according to anearlier Gazette story.
At the meeting, Millerthanked the City Council forthe honor and explained thatshe didn’t start the fundraiserin search of recognition.
“I’m just an ordinary per-son doing something that Iwould hope that someonewould do for everyone in myfamily if heaven forbid some-thing like that happened tous,” said Miller, who also is amother of five children.
Miller concluded her re-marks by pledging to continueher work in the community.
“I’ll continue to do whatI can to help everyone in mycommunity as much as I can,”she said.
City recognizeswoman’s work to helpplane crash victims
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A GoFundMe site launched by JeniferMiller of Silver Spring has raisednearly $500,000 for the survivingmembers of the Gemmell family inthe wake of a December plane crashinto their Gaithersburg home thatkilled Marie Gemmell and her twosons, Cole and Devin.
Man struck, killed by train in Gaithersburgn Police say death doesnot appear suspicious
BY DANIEL LEADERMANSTAFF WRITER
A man was struck and killedMonday by a train travelingwest from the GaithersburgMARC station.
It happened along East Di-amond Avenue, between Md.355 and Summit Avenue, at ap-proximately 4:15 p.m.
Police identified the man as18-year-old Mario Ernesto Her-nandez of the 700 block of WestSide Drive in Gaithersburg. In-vestigators do not suspect foulplay, according to county po-lice.
The reason Hernandez waswalking near the tracks was stillunder investigation Tuesdayafternoon. The operator of theMARC train sounded the hornand applied the brakes and toldinvestigators Hernandez waswearing a hood that may haveobstructed his peripheral vi-sion, according to police.
Hernandez died at thescene.
The incident halted trainservice on the MARC BrunswickLine as well as CSX train activ-ity Monday evening, accordingto Pete Piringer, spokesmanfor Montgomery County Fire &Rescue Service.
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A pedestrian was struck and killed by a train along East Diamond Avenuebetween Md. 355 and the Gaithersburg MARC station on Monday.
challenges Maryland’s practiceof not giving credits on localtaxes for taxed income earnedout of state.
IfMarylandwinsthecase,thecounty shortfall will be smaller,but if it loses, the county mightneedtopay$100millioninaone-time retroactive payment andlose tax revenue in future years,Leggett said.
Also uncertain is the degreeto which Republican governor-elect Larry Hogan will fundcounty capital priorities such asthe planned Purple Line, Corri-dor Cities Transitway and BusRapid Transit systems.
The state is facing a $1 bil-lion shortfall, and Hogan hassaid his priorities are roadsand bridges, which may pleasesome Upcounty residents whowant Interstate 270 widenedand the MidCounty Highwayextended north to Clarksburg.
However, Leggett saidmany of the major planned de-velopments in the county, suchas White Flint, White Oak andthe Great Seneca Science Corri-dor, will not go forward withoutmore transit systems.
Leggett said he hopes Ho-gan will view transit as a majorfactor in economic develop-ment and job growth, which isone of Hogan’s top priorities.
“[Transit projects] will rely agreat deal on state action,” saidLeggett, who has proposed that
the county establish a TransitAuthority, pending state ap-proval, to fund such projects.
“Right now, we’re at a se-vere disadvantage about whatwe can borrow and how to fi-nance [projects],” he said.
Daisha New, of Poolesville,
asked what Leggett could doabout restructuring the coun-ty’s procurement system to al-low more small businesses toparticipate.
Leggett replied that con-tracts are being broken downinto smaller pieces, which will
allow small companies to bidon them.
The county needs to domore to provide affordablehousing for people, said TomCowley of Gaithersburg.
“We’re not making a lot ofprogress,” Cowley said.
Leggett replied that he hascommitted money to maintainthe number of affordable unitsbut acknowledged that demandfor more units far outstrips sup-ply.
The lack of affordable hous-ing and the number of home-less are regional problems, andneighboring jurisdictions mustdo their share to help solvethem, he said.
“We can’t become the epi-center for trying to deal withall these [challenges],” Leggettsaid.
In response to a request formore staff for the Council onAging, Leggett said it is unlikelythat he can increase funding forprograms.
After committing money forschools, public safety, debt ser-vice and meeting basic humanneeds, there isn’t much leewayto increase programs, he said.
“Maintaining essential pub-lic services is where we are now,increases are secondary to that,”Leggett said. “We have to waitand see what the governor does.”
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FOUR MORE BUDGET FORUMSCounty Executive Isiah Leggett hosted a budget forum in Ger-mantown on Monday and will hold four more forums at regionalservice centers around the county.
The purpose is to answer questions from residents and learnmore about their priorities for the operating budget now beingdeveloped for Fiscal Year 2016, which begins July 1.
All forums start at 7 p.m. and run to 8:30 p.m.
n Jan. 14: Silver Spring Regional Service Center, Silver SpringRegional Center, Silver Spring Civic Building, One Veterans Place,Silver Spring 20910; 240-777-5301.
n Jan. 20: Eastern Montgomery Regional Service Center, 3300Briggs Chaney Road, Silver Spring 20904; 240-777-8414.
n Jan. 22: MidCounty Community Recreation Center, 2424 ReedieDrive, Wheaton 20902; 240-777-8101.
n Jan. 26: Bethesda Chevy Chase Regional Service Center, 4805Edgemoor Lane, Bethesda 20814; 240-777-8200.
Leggett is expected to recommend his proposed operating budgeton March 16, with County Council approval expected at the endof May.
An explanation of the budget process by the county’s Office ofManagement and Budget can be found at montgomerycountymd.gov/omb.
The FY15 operating budget can be found at montgomerycoun-tymd.gov/OMB/FY15/appr/index.html.
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n New assessments showhome values in east,central county up $4B
BYKATE S. ALEXANDERSTAFFWRITER
Home values in eastern andparts of central MontgomeryCountyrosemorethan$4billionsince they were last assessed bythe state.
Maryland’s Department ofAssessments and Taxations re-assesses property values everythreeyears, evaluatingone-thirdof the county each year.
The 2015 assessment lookedat properties in Colesville, Bur-tonsville,Gaithersburgandpartsof Rockville.
Since 2012, residential prop-erty values in those communi-ties rose from $37.77 billion to$42.12 billion, an increase of$4.35 billion.
Commercial values in-creased $6.01 billion, from$17.46 billion to $23.47 billion.
Property values across thecountyareon the rise, accordingtostatedata,with the last twoas-sessments showing increases inthe rest of the county, aswell.
However, the jump for 2015is the largest since a market up-swing in 2013. The total increaseinpropertyvalues in that sectionof the countywas 18.7 percent.
“It absolutely is good news,”County FinanceDirector JosephBeach said. “It positively reflectson property values both in theresidential and nonresidentialsector.”
“The latest property tax as-sessment numbers in large partare a reflection of the progresswe continue to make in themid and east county,” Council-woman Nancy Navarro (D-Dist.4) of Silver Spring said in a writ-ten statement to The Gazette.She represents much of thecounty that was assessed in thelatest round.
Since her election in 2009,Navarro said, she has workedto “change the narrative andperception of this part of thecounty.”
She said thenewly approvedWhite Oak Master Plan is oneway to transform the areas intoa job center.
“I hope this assessment is
a harbinger of greater thingsto come for the mid and eastcounty,” she said.
Montgomery County is stillfacing a revenue shortfall for therest of the currentfiscal year andthe next one, which starts July1. Lower than expected prop-erty sales or transfers and lowerthanexpected incometaxcollec-tions areblamed for the revenueshortfall.
Beach said the county is stillcrunching the numbers to un-derstand exactly how the higherproperty values will affect thenext fiscal year budget.
For some property own-ers, the latest assessment couldmean lower taxes, he said.
Property value only partiallydetermines a tax bill, accordingto the state. Tax bills are calcu-lated with the tax rates Mont-gomery County will set in thespring.
Montgomery County is lim-ited inhowmuch it can increaserevenue each year by a cap inthe charter that voters passed in2008.
Beach said that limit couldmeanthecountyhas toadjust itstax rate to account for thehigherproperty values and stay withinthe revenue cap.
Any increase inpropertyval-ues is phased in over three yearsuntil the property is assessedagain, according to the state.
Property values climb in county
n Appointees includesitting District Court
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BYDANIEL LEADERMANSTAFFWRITER
Maryland Gov. MartinO’Malley (D) has made fourappointments to the bench inMontgomery County, two tothe circuit court and two to thedistrict court.
Montgomery County Dis-trict Court Judge Karla Nata-sha Smith and county DeputyState’s Attorney John MichaelMaloney were appointed tothe circuit court bench, fillingvacancies created by the retire-ments of JudgesMichael J. Algeoand EricM. Johnson, O’Malley’soffice announcedDec. 30.
Zuberi Bakari Williams,currently an administrative lawjudge, and lawyer Holly DavidReed III were appointed to thedistrict court bench, filling va-cancies created by the eleva-
tion of Smith and Judge AudreyCreighton to the circuit courtbench, according to a state-ment from O’Malley’s office.
Creighton was elevatedfrom her previous post on thedistrict court bench in April.
Smith, who has served onthe district court since 2012,previously spent 16 years asa Montgomery County assis-tant state’s attorney. Maloneyhas spent seven years with theMontgomery County State’sAttorney’s office; Williams pre-viously worked as a trial lawyerin Washington, D.C.; and Reedhas had a solo law practice inSilver Spring — specializingin civil litigation, criminal de-fense, family law and domesticviolence — since 1999, accord-ing to the governor’s office.
The new appointees wereselected from a pool of ap-plicants in November by thecounty’s 13-member JudicialNominating Commission.
O’Malley appointsfour to the benchin Montgomery
“The latest property tax assessmentnumbers in large part are a reflection ofthe progress we continue to make in the
mid and east county.”Nancy Navarro,
D-Dist. 4, Silver Spring
n Former headretires, departmentveteran steps up
BYDANIEL LEADERMAN
STAFFWRITER
The new year brought achange in leadership for theMontgomery County Fire andRescue Service, as former FireChief Steve Lohr retired Dec. 31andanacting chief tookover Jan1.
Acting Chief Scott Gold-stein is a 23-year veteran of thecounty fire department andmost recently served as the chiefof the department’s OperationsSection, which oversees thefield delivery of fire, medicaland emergency response crews.Goldstein also spent four yearsas chief of thedepartment’s Spe-cial Operations Section, whichresponds to situations involvinghazardous materials, water res-cues and bomb threats, amongother situations.
Lohr ended his service withthe department under the De-
ferred Re-t i r e m e n tO p t i o nPlan, whichallows em-ployees toc o n t i n u eworking forup to threeyears aftertheir sched-
uled date of retirement but ac-crue retirement benefits, as wellas their regular pay, during thatperiod.
Lohr’s DROP period endedat the endof 2014.Hedidnot re-spond to requests for comment.
Montgomery County Ex-ecutive Isiah Leggett (D) saidin a statement that Lohr was aconsummate professional. “Hisleadership has made a differ-ence in making our Fire & Res-cue Service evenbetter,” Leggettsaid in a statement.
The county has not yet be-gun the search for Lohr’s per-manent successor, according toPatrick Lacefield, a county gov-ernment spokesman.
Montgomery Countygets a new fire chief
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ObituaryJohn Brooks Rison, 76, of Laytonsville, MD, formerly of Saunderstown, RIdied December 26, 2014 at Montgomery General Hospital in Olney, Maryland.He was the husband of Marion (Jonnie) Chesley Rison.
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, a son of the late Clarence H. Rison, theformer president of Grinnell Corp., and the late Ebba E. (Rydberg) Rison, helived in Providence during his youth.
Mr. Rison founded and was Chairman of The Marketing Programs and ServicesGroup, Inc., a telecommunications consulting firm in Gaithersburg, Maryland,from 1970 until his retirement in 1989. He previously held managementpositions with Western Electric, AT&T, New York Telephone, Dictaphone andExecutone in the New York City area.
He attended Moses Brown School in Providence and Choate School inWallingford,Connecticut, and was a 1959 electrical engineering and businessadministration graduate of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
For a number of years Mr. Rison was active in the Boy Scouts of America,receiving the Woodbadge Award and Scouting’s highest adult award, the SilverBeaver. He also served as a National Officer of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.He was a member of The Dunes Club in Narragansett, Rhode Island.
Family and friends will be received for John’s Funeral Service and Interment onSaturday, January 3, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. at All Faith Parish, 38885 New MarketTurner Road, Charlotte Hall, MD 20622, with Reverend Byron Broughtofficiating.
Memorial Contributions may be made to: The Boys Scouts of America in lieu offlowers.Address: 1325 West Walnut Hill Lane, Irving Texas 75015-2079 or online.
Condolences may be made to the family at: www.brinsfieldecholsfuneral.com
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Mrs. Helen Reintzel, 92, died December 20, 2014 atCypress Glen Retirement Community.Amemorial service will be held Friday, January 2 at 3 pm
in the Brown Chapel at Cypress Glen. Interment will be inArlington National Cemetery at a later date.Mrs. Reintzel was a native of Washington, DC, and a
resident at Cypress Glen Retirement Community since 2006.Helen’s life revolved around family, church, and music. Hermusical talent was recognized when she was a young child,resulting in her studying piano. She was passionate aboutmusic, and studied with well-known musicians. She wasinvited to study at Sherwood Music School in Chicago (nowpart of Colombia College) while still in high school. Sheearned her Bachelor of Music from Sherwood in February1944. After her marriage to Army officer and World War IIveteran Malcolm F Reintzel, Helen taught piano andfrequently served as organist for churches at which theywere members. She once won an award for two originalhymns she composed. In addition to music and church, Mrs.Reintzel devoted her life to her family. She stayed close toher brother and parents throughout their lives, and stayedhome while raising her children, engaging them in familygames such as Scrabble, Checkers, and Michigan Rummy.Mrs. Reintzel also loved to travel. She meticulously plannedand then documented in her journals three family campingtrips across the continent. These journeys gave her childrenthe gift of visiting sights such as Yellowstone, Glacier, andZion National Parks; the Grand Canyon and Petrified Forest;Lake Tahoe, the Great Salt Lake, and much more.Helen was preceded in death by her husband of 61 years,
Malcolm Reintzel, in 2007. She is survived by twodaughters, Janet Cooper and husband, Richard, ofWashington, NC; and Alice Phillips and husband, Gary, ofCrawfordsville, IN.; grandchildren, Kirsten Cooper Jonesand husband, Wesley; Derek Cooper, Kendra Cooper Ratliffand husband, Tim, all of Washington, NC; Jessica PhillipsRohlfing of New York, NY; Brooke Phillips of Valencia, CAand Benjamin Phillips of Brooklyn, NY:. greatgrandchildren, Rebecca andAlice Jones, and Julia Ratliff, allof Washington, NC; Jonah and Malcolm Rohlfing, both ofNewYork, NY.In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to NationalAlzheimer Association, Benevolence Fund of Cypress Glen,100 Hickory Street, Greenville, NC 27858, or the charity ofone’s choice. Arrangements by Wilkerson Funeral Home &Crematory, Greenville. Online condolences atwww.wilkersonfuneralhome.com
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ObituaryCharles BradyA beloved husband, father and grandfather,Charles “Charlie” Lynch Brady, 87, of CocoaBeach, FL crossed to his heavenly home onDecember 16, 2014, surrounded by those heloved.Charlie was born December 13, 1927, in IredellCounty. NC, and was the son of the late Escarand Sallie Brady of the Bradford CrossroadCommunity. He graduated from Scotts HighSchool prior to serving in the U.S.MarineCorps. He subsequently graduated from
Mitchell College and Appalachian State University. Charlie taught and coached atCentral High School in Statesville, NC, before relocating, in 1957 to the Washington,DC area. There he taught and coached at Gaithersburg High School in MontgomeryCounty, MD, for 34 years. He was also a charter member and Deacon of GaithersburgPresbyterian Church.
Also in 1957, he married Martha Jean Templeton and they enjoyed 57 years togetherliving in Laytonsville, MD. Upon retirement in 1992, they relocated to Cocoa Beach,Florida, and joined the First Baptist Church of Merritt Island. Charlie’s enormousservant’s heart was seen in his service to the needy at the House of Hope Food andBike Ministry where he was known especially for his generosity, and kindness to thechildren.
He is preceded in death by six brothers: Escar Jr, Ray, Coyte, Trent, Frank and BillBrady; and three sisters: Virginia Brady, Edna Claire and Celeste Colson.Besides his wife, Charles is survived by three children: Joan Brady Coye (Wade), andScott Charles Brady (Pamela) of Orlando, and Paul Christopher Brady (Jennifer) ofKnoxville, TN. He is also the proud grandfather of eleven grandchildren: Austin,Brady and Parker Coye; Abby, Lydia, Sarah and Hannah Brady and Meredith, Davis,Garrett and Hayden Brady.
Charlie will be honored at a memorial service at 1:00 pm on Saturday, January 3,2015, at the Union Grove Christian Church, Union Grove, NC 28689. Visitation withthe family will be one hour prior to the service. Burial will follow in the churchcemetery with military honors being accorded by the Harmony Legion Post 113.
Condolences may be sent to the family online at www.bunchjohnsonfuneralhome.com.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be given to the House of Hope Ministry at the FirstBaptist Church of Merritt Island, 140 Magnolia Avenue Merritt Island, FL 32952.Bunch-Johnson Funeral Home, Statesville, NC, is entrusted with the arrangements.
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The proper response to the recenttragedy in Gaithersburg is not a stepped-up public relations campaign on the greatcharitable service theMontgomery Countyairport provides. The proper response is todo what could have been done before thetragedy to prevent it fromhappening.
First, abolish touch and go’s. We don’tknow what caused the crash, but profes-sional jet pilots will say one of their biggestworries is getting through the spider webof prop plane traffic piloted by amateurs inand around general aviation airports.
Comparatively low-budget propplanesdo not have the sophisticated electron-ics and collision avoidance systems onmost jets, nor do pilots receive the levelof training and experience required byprofessional jet pilots. The unwarrantedcongestion from amateur pilots’ incessantpracticing is viewed as a nuisance to legiti-mate commercial traffic.
Second, in a way that meets FAA re-quirements for being “non-discrimina-tory,” ban jet takeoffs and landings that donot have a qualified co-pilot.
Because of the close proximity ofdensely populated residential communi-ties abutting theairport, pilots take chanceswith the lives of people on the ground evenmore thanwith their own. Airportmanage-ment needs to consider the safety of thepeople on the ground.
Third, there is no compelling benefitto justify the county owning and operatingan airport, so there is no need to relocate it.Just close it and sell the landor redeploy theland formore productive purposes.
What benefit does the airport bring tothe county that is worth the lives of eventhree of its citizens?
Is it jobs? Less than 50 full-time equiva-lents are employed on the property, andeven less than that number actually live inthe county and pay taxes to it. The county
seemed to have no concern about jobswhen it seized the private property of sixneighboring businesses and forced themout by eminent domain a few years ago, toexpand operations at the airport, so biggerjets could land here.What did that get us?
Is it revenue to provide other servicesfor county residents? The opposite is true.The county subsidizes the airport in theamount of aquarter tohalf amilliondollarsper year. The countywould see an immedi-ate increase in tax revenue of a half milliondollars per year without the airport.
Is it thederivative benefit of an amenityto business owners to locate here? WithFrederick Airport 20 minutes up the road,can this really be a plausible argument?
Anyone involved in the managementof the airport laments that operations have
decreased steadily since2000,whenprojec-tions were for a substantial increase. Anec-dotal evidence suggests thatmany airplaneowners have chosen tobase their aircraft atother airports becauseof higher risk factorsat Gaithersburg. Similarly, business traffichas relocated.
We, the citizens of MontgomeryCounty, are the owners of this airport.
Why do we want to own a business weget nothing out of, except liability? Can wesleep with that on our conscience? I forone would prefer not to. It is my hope thatenough of the rest of us would see likewiseto stand up for acknowledging that it is fi-nally time to remove this menace from theheart of a residential community.
Brian Benhaim, Montgomery Village
It’s time for real reforms after Gaithersburg plane crash
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Montgomery County Fire & Rescue workers spray foam onto part of an aircraft that crashed Dec. 8into a neighborhood on Drop Forge Lane in Gaithersburg, less than a mile from the end of the runwayat Montgomery County Airpark.
OUROPINIONS LET TERS TOTHEEDITOR
I read the article by Kate Alexanderand Lindsay A. Powers in the Dec. 17Gazette (“Schools want more money;county has less”) within which youtouched upon many issues surround-ing the Montgomery County PublicSchools’ annual fleecing of the countytaxpayers. I use such a harsh term giventhe following:
• MCPS creates and presents theirbudget which, per the state’s “Mainte-nance of Effort” rule, can never be lessthan the previous year’s.
•MCPS bears zero responsibility forraising the funding.
• MCPS never turns away a studentdue to crowding and then.....
• MCPS resorts to adding manufac-tured/temporary rooms to the back ofschools.
I suggest the following to addressthe problems:
a) End the “Maintenance of Effort”fiasco so that the county (and othercounties) may exercise some savings tothe taxpayers.
b) Assign specific line items in thebudget to MCPS for which they mustidentify funding sources (No funding,no item!).
c) Close a school(s) — just as MCPSdoes for a couple of inches of snow —to further enrollments if the school hasreached the maximum safe popula-tion as judged by the local fire marshal.Think “maximum seating” signs in res-taurants and “lot full” signs at Metroparking lots.
d) Allow builders/developers to bidon the design, construction, fundingand owning of schools, then negotiate arental agreement between the builder-developer-landlord and MCPS for a 20-to 30-year term, after which MCPS canrenegotiate a new lease with improve-ments or leave for a different school/location. Bonds do not have to be writ-ten and sold! Upfront costs are built into the lease.
Let’s at least try this on a schoolexperiencing a remodeling/improve-ment. If it works, then apply the modelto a brand new school. This would ne-gate the needs for MCPS to “raid” othercounty treasuries (i.e., the teachers’insurance and retirement programs)and to grovel at the foot of the state ofMaryland.
I hope this idea gets to Gov.-elect[Larry]Hogan for reviewanddiscussion.
Dale Boyd, Gaithersburg
A plan for fixingschool crowding
During the holiday season,most of us are fortunate enoughto celebrate, rest, and relax withfamily and friends. For individu-als with Alzheimer’s disease andtheir lovedones, this isnotneces-sarily the case. As an Alzheimer’sAssociation advocate, I applaudCongressman Chris Van Hol-len for his leadership on issuesimportant to people living withAlzheimer’s disease and theirfamily caregivers in Maryland’s8thCongressionalDistrict.
My mother started showingsymptomsofdementiawhenshewasonly inher50s.Momlostherstruggle with Alzheimer’s at theage of 74. Due to Alzheimer’s,there were many trips she andmydad never took,many grand-children she never met, andmany Christmases she never en-joyedwith our family.
In Maryland, over 286,000Alzheimer’s and dementiacaregivers bear the devastatingemotional and financial impactof this debilitating disease. Al-zheimer’s is the most expensivecondition in thenation, andcan-not be prevented, cured, or even
slowed.ImetCongressmanVanHol-
len at a Coffee with Congress,along with Alzheimer’s Asso-ciation National Capital AreaChapter and Greater MarylandChapter staff and volunteers.
I am grateful for Rep. VanHollen’s co-sponsorship of theHealthOutcomes, Planning, andEducation (HOPE) for Alzheim-er’s Act to increase diagnosis ofAlzheimer’s disease and relateddementias.Healsoco-sponsoredthe Alzheimer’s Accountabil-ity Act of 2014, which will helpensure funding of the NationalAlzheimer’s Project Act. Thesebills will go a long way to assistfamilies, both through better di-agnoses and care and increasedcommitment to research.
Because of the importantwork of the Alzheimer’s Associa-tionandvital supportof itseffortsby public servants like Rep. VanHollen, I am confidentwe are onour way to meeting our goal of aworldwithout Alzheimer’s.
Formore information,pleasevisit www.alz.org/nca.
Sue Wronsky, Potomac
Alzheimer’s Association thanksVanHollen for his support
I amwriting in response to recentpublicanti-police rhetoric.
Mydad served this county as apoliceofficer in the 1960s and ’70s. I remembersimilar anti-police sentiment then. Iwasostracized at schoolwhen “some” studentsfoundoutwhatmydad for a living; how-ever, Iwas so very proudof him.
Inmiddle school, Iwas called “cop-per” and “pig” by kidswhosedadshadregular jobs,whowerehomeSaturdays andSundays andhadholidays off (especiallyChristmas).Mydadwasn’t always homeChristmasmorning.
Mydadalmost alwaysworked a secondjob asnightwatchmanonconstructionsites, paintedhouses, drove limousines forfuneral homes, anddelivered flowers forflorists, to namea few, tomake endsmeet.Wedidn’t live extravagantly.My folksweremarried at least 10 years before they couldafford their first home—aduplex.
Goingback tomiddle school, on a cold,snowyFebruarynight,mydad stoppedhome for a chili dinnerwithus.Hewasworkingwith a rookie officer.He returnedtowork after 7:30 p.m.
Before 8:30,HolyCrossHospital calledto saymydadwas shot andmymomneeded to get to thehospital ASAP.Mymomran to a friend’s house for a ride (shedidnot have adriver’s license). Thenextdoor neighbor babysat us. Iwas 12 yearsold, the oldest of three children.
Itwas almost certain thatmydadwouldn’t survive emergency surgery toremove thebullet.Hewas shot point-blankona traffic stop, not knowing that the twomenhe stoppedhad just robbed a grocery
store. The shotwas very close tohis heart.Withinminutes, his picture flashedon
thenews as abreaking story.Our out-of-town relatives learnedof the shooting in thisfashion. Twouniformedofficers came toour door to informmymom.Onehad cutsandbloodonhis face.Hewaswithmydadduring the shooting. They toldmewhat abravemanmydad “was.”
By the grace ofGod,mydad survived.He retired several years later as a direct re-sult of the shooting.
I have lived ever so grateful to still havemydadbut angrywhen I hear anti-policeranting.Whenapolice officer goes toworkeachday, he or shemight not returnhome.Theydealwith goodpeople, yes, but alsoa lot of “scumof the earth.”When they re-spond to a 911disconnect call or a domesticdispute, theydon’t knowwhat’s on theother side of that door.Or as inmydad’scase,who’swaiting to shoot themduring atraffic stop.
Mydad recently had a stroke. Iwas ex-cited to showhimmynewT-shirt that says,“I amaPoliceOfficer’sDaughter. Somepeoplewait theirwhole lives tomeet theirhero.Mine raisedme.”He grinned ear toear.
Slowly, the smile left his face.WhenI askedwhatwaswrong, he saidmaybe Ishouldn’twear it.When I askedwhy, he re-plied, “Youmight get shot.”
Susie Brown-Butler, GermantownThe writer is the daughter of Raymond
J. Brown Jr., a retired Montgomery Countypolice corporal.
Before criticizing the police,considermy father’s service
I saw a sign at Target [in December]thatmademepause. It said, “MerryChrist-mas.” In the samebustling shopping area, Iheard a band playing Christmas carols.
It seems to me that MontgomeryCounty could learn something from ourlocal merchants, indeed merchants acrossthe globe, at this time of year.
Why do we find such an outpouring ofChristmas wishes in shopping venues? Be-cause themerchants knowwhat thepeoplewant and are quite happy to give it to them— for a price, of course.
We pay increasing taxes every year to
a government that doesn’t seem to realizethat the vast majority of people here want“Christmas” left in our vernacular. Instead,they create such fear of contempt or repri-mand should we use the “C word,” as mychild’s public school teacher referred toit, that we quietly, sadly hide our thoughtsandwishes.
When will “we the people” return towhat it truly wasmeant to be—by, for andof the people? And can we please have our“Christmas party” back?
Teril Butler, Gaithersburg
Merchants understand;why can’t government?
Asopponents and supporters of thePurple Line awaitwordonwhat kindof amphipodswere found lastmonthnear thepathof theproposed light-rail project inRockCreekPark, it’shelpful to keep things inperspective.
DavidCulver, an environmental scienceprofessor at Ameri-canUniversity, alongwith twoof his graduate students, combedthemuckypark grounds inChevyChase oneday in searchof thetiny crustaceans. Culverwas commissionedbyopponents of the
$2.45 billion, 16-mile project thatwould linkBethesda andNewCarrollton.
The colorless, blind am-phipods—which are about aquarter-inch long and subsist ondecayed vegetation andanimalfeces—could throwamajorwrench in the transit project
plans, dependingon their yet-to-be-determined species.Ostensibly, project opponents hope thehandful of am-
phipods contains at least oneof two species, theHay’s springamphipodor theKenk’s amphipod. The former is listed on thefederal endangered species list, while the latter is likely to belisted soon, according toCulver.
They are known to live only inRockCreekPark andhavebeen found inWashington,D.C.Whether they live in theChevyChase sectionof thepark remains to be seen; the specimens arebeing examined todetermine their species.
If they areHay’s spring orKenk’s amphipods, foes of thePurple Linewill have fresh ammunition in their battle to stop itin its tracks.
Protecting the environment is vital, and given the intercon-nectedness of life, eliminating or just reducing thenumber ofeven themostminuscule of bio-cogs can throwanecosystemout ofwhack. But just about every humanendeavor has envi-ronmental ramifications, and it’s crucial to put them in context.
So, yes, it’s possible that building thePurple Line couldresult in destroying thehabitat of a handful of rare amphipods—and thatwouldnot be good for the environment.However,that damagemust beweighed against thepotential goodof thePurple Line, including its environmental benefits.
Chief among these: State officials estimate itwill eventuallycut automobile trips by 17,000per day, saving about 1milliongallons of gasoline annually. Thatmeans that 9,800 tons of car-bondioxide that otherwisewould enter the atmosphere andcontribute to global climate changewill be eliminated. That’sthe equivalent of almost 10millionpounds of coal not beingburned each year.
That’s oneof the reasons citedby the SierraClub two yearsagowhen it called thePurple Line oneof thenation’s 22mostworthwhile transportationprojects to pursue.
Andbesides cutting greenhouse gas emissions, “a partialmulti-use trail will be completed alongside thePurple Line,providingwalking andbiking options,” the environmental non-profitwrote. Furthermore, itwill be on “grass tracks” rather thanpavement, reducing stormwater runoff andheat gain.
Every constructionproject, froma single-family house to amixed-usemega-complex, involves environmental andothertradeoffs. Atwhat point is thedestructionof rare amphipodhab-itatworth the cost? Is saving 1million gallons of gasoline a yearworth it?Howabout 2million gallons? Fiftymillion? Ahundredmillion? There’s no easy answer, but in seeking one, governmentofficials, thepublic—andyes, the courts, if it comes to that—must do sowith their eyes open to see the greater good.
Save amphipods– at what cost?
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n The Devil Makes Threehas played together
for more than a decade
BY KIRSTY GROFFSTAFF WRITER
The devil lost a fiddling con-test after he went down to Geor-gia, but bluegrass-rockabillygroup The Devil Makes Threeis sure to win over Silver Springwhen they come to The Fillmoreon Friday.
The trio combines a little bitof everything into their sound:blues with punk, ragtime withfolk, country with jazz. Sincetheir start in Santa Cruz, Calif.,in 2001, the lineup has includedguitarist/vocalist PeteBernhard,upright bassist Lucia Turino andguitarist Cooper McBean.
For Bernhard, the idea ofbecoming a musician startedin childhood, growing up witha musical family in Brattleboro,Vt.
“I think at a very young age, Iknew I wanted to do it,” he said.“My brother was a guitar player,my father was a guitar player, soI just felt like it was a great thingto do. It was all a family experi-ence.”
Turino and McBean wereraised in Brattleboro, as well,and they connected over timethrough mutual interest in play-ing “a lot of old music no oneelse liked at that age,” accordingto Bernhard.
Almost a decade and a halflater, and in spite of Turino andBernhard moving back to Ver-mont, the group has continuedon in their unique musical style.
Dance with the deviln Mias are high
on everyone’s list
Among the many reasons Spainhas become a source of some of theworld’s best wine values is their in-novative spirit. For many decades,Spanish wines were mired in old-fashioned techniques and inferior,obsolete equipment. These harshand unappealing wines ignored thetremendous potential in their indig-enous varietals and they became thesecond-rate cousins to other Euro-pean winemaking regions.
The renaissance of Spanishwinemaking began with an infu-sion of capital for new facilities andequipment coupled with a willing-ness to adopt modern techniques.The results have been dramatic andnow the country that gave us suchground-breaking artists as Gaudiand Picasso is also the place to findinventive approaches to satisfy wineconsumers.
An example is the latest line ofvalue-priced wines produced by theFerrer family, owners of Freixenet,one of the premier producers of theSpanish sparkler Cava. Their storybegan as simple grape farmers andwinemakers in the 16th centuryeventually expanding despite thetravails of the Spanish Civil War, 2world wars and the Depression. Nowthe Ferrers own 18 wineries in eightcountries on four continents produc-ing a wide range of red, white, andsparkling wines.
While their cava is made in thetime-honored “Méthode Champe-nois,” the Ferrer family is not boundby tradition. Recognizing that alarge market persists for flavorful,value-priced wines, they spent manymonths focusing on which types ofwines would be the most appealingto consumers and finding the best
way to market them. The result is“Mia” (Spanish for “mine,”) a seriesof still and sparkling wines that rangefrom $10 to $15 per bottle but haveas much flavor and interesting com-plexity as wines costing significantlymore.
Mia’s winemaker is Gloria Col-lell, who has worked for Freixenetfor many years. She is from a wine-making family and was part of themarketing team that developed theconcept and branding for Mia. So itseemed natural to the Ferrers thatGloria be put in charge of their proj-ect. Vivacious and engaging, Gloriaintuitively grasps what consumers’desire in a wine and is also willing tobend a few rules.
Moscato is currently one of themore popular sparkling wines, eversince the hip-hop star Drake sangabout it in 2009. It would seem natu-ral to use the same techniques thatFreixenet utilizes for their sparklingwines to make the Mia version. ButGloria recognized that the style de-sired did not exactly fit with theircurrent methodology so she visitedItaly and, risking disapproval fromher employers, eventually adopted adifferent (and ultimately acceptable)approach to create the Mia version.
Another innovation is the Miafront labels which tell buyers what toexpect from within the bottle. Thusthe front of the 100% Tempranillo“Mia Red” says that it is “Fruity andFull-Bodied,” while the “Mia White”made from Macabeo, Xarello andParallada is appropriately describedas “Aromatic and Fruity.”
The wisdom in their labelingapproach is seen best with the Mia
Ferrer family benefits fromSpanish wine renaissance
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They’ve released four studio albumsand two live recordings, with no plansto slow down any time soon.
“We’ve been playing together for solongnow thatwe’re incredibly comfort-able,” he said. “Everything comes to-gether as it’s supposed to. You developthis almost psychic relationship withthe people you play with.”
Over the course of recording theirlatest album, 2013’s “I’m A StrangerHere,” The Devil Makes Three devel-oped an appreciation for time in thestudio, however, there’s still a stronglove for performing live and the enthu-
siasm of their audiences.“We love the energy of touring —
the crowd makes or breaks the show,”he said. “If you have a great audience,the show is even better. When you playan acoustic show where everyone’s si-
lent, it’s just not the same.”They’ve turned to live albums as a
way to capture the best of both studiorecording and liveperformances.WhileBernhard says the group has yet to fullycapture the concert experience on analbum, they get closer every time.
“We’re always trying to get thatlightning in a bottle,” he said. “We al-ways come a little bit shy, but we’re go-ing to keep trying.”
Fans should keep an eye out for fu-ture live recordings as well as new ma-terial. TheDevil Makes Three has somenewsongsandare trying toput togetheran album, and they also have hopes forreleasing some tribute albums for someof theirmusical heroes.
The Devil Makes Three are also
workingongetting a 7-inchvinyl recordout containing two songs that didn’tmake their last album—Bernhard saysthey hope to have it in time for the Fill-more concert. Vinyl is a format they tryto incorporate frequently, as anothertribute to their years listening to punkmusic.
Their last stop in the area was asold-out showat the 9:30Club inWash-ington, D.C., whichmeant a lot to themconsidering their interest growingup inthe localmusic scene.
“Being from Vermont, that was thefirst punk stuff wewere exposed to,” hesaid. “Fugazi andDischordRecordswasa huge inspiration. It made us feel like,if youwant to do something and you’rewilling to do the work anything is pos-
sible.”That approach has come across in
how theymanage theirmusic. They callthe shots anddecidewhen theywant towork, ensuring that they release songswhen they’re ready for thepublic ratherthan on a deadline from a record label.Taking ownership of their own workhas helped then grow a steady follow-ing over the years.
“We’ve enjoyed some years betterthan others, but it’s always been a slowburn forus—we’venever really burnedout,” he said. “We’re all pretty tightfriends and have known each other along time, so that’s a pretty good foun-dation.”
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DANCESSocial Ballroom Dance, 2126 Industrial
Highway, Silver Spring, 301-326-1181, hol-lywoodballroomdc.com.
Scottish Country Dancing, 8 to 10 p.m.Mondays, steps and formations taught. Noexperience, partner necessary, T-39 Build-ing onNIH campus,Wisconsin Avenueand SouthDrive, Bethesda, 240-505-0339.
Glen Echo Park is at 7300 MacArthurBlvd.
Blues, Capital Blues: Thursdays, 8:15p.m. beginner lesson, 9 to 11:30 p.m. danc-ing toDJs, Glen Echo Park’s Spanish Ball-roomAnnex, $8, capitalblues.org.
Contra, Jan. 9, fridaynightdance.org,Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, 7:30p.m., $10, fridaynightdance.org.
English Country, Jan. 7, CarolMarshcaller, 8 p.m., Glen Echo TownHall (up-stairs), fsgw.org.
Swing and Lindy, Jan. 10, The RadioKingOrchestra, $18, $12, 17 and younger.Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, flying-feet.org.
Waltz, Jan. 18,Marty, Steve, John &Alexander withMarty Taylor (winds,concertina), Steve Hickman (fiddle), JohnDevine (guitar, vocals), AlexanderMitchell(fiddle); waltztimedances.org.
MUSICBethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club,
LandauMurphy Jr., Jan. 9, The Vi-Kings,Jan. 10; Cameo, Jan. 16; Redmond, Lan-gosch&Cooley, Jan. 17; The Soul Serenad-ers plusMarkWenner’s BluesWarriors,Jan. 18; call for prices, times, 7719Wiscon-sin Ave., Bethesda. 240-330-4500, bethesd-abluesjazz.com.
BlackRock Center for the Arts, VictoriaVox andUnified Jazz Ensemble, Jan. 24;12901 TownCommonsDrive, German-town. 301-528-2260, blackrockcenter.org.
Fillmore Silver Spring, TheDevilMakes Three, Jan. 9; Led Zeppelin 2; Jan.10; Seether and Papa Roach, Jan. 14; 8656Colesville Road, Silver Spring. fillmoresil-verspring.com.
Strathmore, LouisWeeks, Jan. 9; BSO:The Rite of Spring, Jan. 9; call for venue,times. Locations:Mansion, 10701 RockvillePike, North Bethesda;Music Center atStrathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, NorthBethesda, 301-581-5100, strathmore.org.
ON STAGEArts Barn, “The 39 Steps,” Jan. 9
through Jan. 25, Sandy Spring TheatreGroup, $20, $12 for 14 and under, 311 Kent
Square Road, 301-258-6394Adventure Theatre-MTC, “Petite
Rouge—ACajun Red RidingHood,” Jan.30 throughMarch 8, call for prices, times,Adventure TheatreMTC, 7300MacArthurBlvd., Glen Echo, 301-634-2270, adven-turetheatre-mtc.org.
Imagination Stage, “101Dalmatians,”through Jan. 11, call for prices, times,Imagination Stage, 4908 Auburn Ave.,Bethesda, imaginationstage.org.
Highwood Theatre, 914 Silver SpringAve., thehighwoodtheatre.org, 301-587-0697.
Olney Theatre Center, “Disney’s TheLittleMermaid,” through Jan. 11, call forprices, times, 2001Olney-Sandy SpringRoad, Olney, 301-924-3400, olneytheatre.org.
The Puppet Co., “Circus!,” Jan. 16through Feb. 15; Tiny Tots@ 10, selectWednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, callfor shows and show times, Puppet Co.Playhouse, Glen Echo Park’s North ArcadeBuilding, 7300MacArthur Blvd., $5, 301-634-5380, thepuppetco.org.
Rockville Musical Theatre, FitzgeraldTheatre, 603 EdmonstonDrive, Rockville,240-314-8690, r-m-t.org.
Round House Theatre, “Rapture, Blis-ter, Burn,” Jan. 28 through Feb. 22, callfor show times, 4545 East-West Highway,Bethesda. Tickets range in price from$10to $45 and seating is reserved. 240-644-1100, roundhousetheatre.org.
Lumina Studio Theatre, Silver SpringBlack Box Theatre, 8641 Colesville Road,
Silver Spring, 301-588-8277, luminastudio.org; [email protected].
Silver Spring Stage, “Orson’s Shadow,”Jan. 9 through 31,Woodmoor ShoppingCenter, 10145 Colesville Road, SilverSpring, seeWeb site for show times,ssstage.org.
Randolph Road Theater, 4010 Ran-dolph Road, Silver Spring, belcantanti.com, 240-230-7372.
VISUAL ARTAdah Rose Gallery, “YourMemories,
Your Sentiments, YourWishes, Your Se-crets,” JimCondron andKristen Liu, Jan.15 through Feb. 28, 3766Howard Ave.,Kensington, 301-922-0162, adahrosegal-lery.com
Glenview Mansion, F/1.4 PhotographyGroup exhibit, “Richly Black andWhite,”featuring JareeDonnelly, CraigHiggins,Timothy Lynch, andMargeWasson. Rock-ville Civic Center Park, 503 EdmonstonDrive, Rockville. rockvillemd.gov.
Marin-Price Galleries, March Avery,through Jan. 28, 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.Mon-day through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sun-day, 7022Wisconsin Ave., 301-718-0622,marin-price.com.
Montgomery Art Association, TerryPellmar, Jan. 6 through Feb. 1,WestfieldWheatonMall, 11160 ViersMill Road,Wheaton,montgomeryart.org.
VisArts, Steve Pearson:Manipular,through Jan. 18; HappyNOT Sappy,through Jan. 18;WilliamPeirce, through
Jan. 18; Gibbs Street Gallery, 155Gibbs St.,Rockville, 301-315-8200, visartsatrockville.org.
Washington Printmakers Gallery, Pyra-mid Atlantic Art Center, second floor, 8230Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, washington-printmakers.com.
Kentlands Mansion, Artwork of theGaithersburg Camera Club, through Jan.23, 320 Kent Square Road, Gaithersburg,301-258-6425.
Arts Barn, 311 Kent Square Road,Gaithersburg, 301-258-6394
“White,” a juried gallery exhibition inboth ofWashington ArtWorks’ formalgalleries will open Jan. 2. Photography,painting,mixedmedia andmore will bedisplayed. Exhibition runs through Jan. 31.Washington ArtWorks, 12276Wilkins Ave.,Rockville. 301-654-1998; washingtonart-works.com
“From Beyond the Arch,” Jan. 8through 28. Reception 2 to 4 p.m. Jan. 11.Artwork created by theUpper andMiddleschool students of theHelene Berman Se-idenfeld Visual Art Center at the BermanHebrew Academy. The artists will presentand talk about their artwork during the re-ception at 2:30 p.m. Goldman Art Gallery,6125Montrose Road, Rockville. [email protected], 301-348-3770, jccgw.org. Openwhen JCCGW is open; free admission.
ET CETERAThe Writer’s Center, 4508Walsh Street,
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Rosé that ismade fromBobal,an unusual varietal grown inValencia, Spain. Rather thanfeature the name of the grapeon the label whose unfamiliar-ity could be discouraging, theyinstead increase appeal bydeclaring the wine as “Delicateand Floral.”
The label descriptions aresimplistic but inherently ac-curate including the “Fruityand Sweet”MiaMoscato, the“Fresh and Crisp”Mia whitesparkler and the “Delicate andSweet”Mia PinkMoscato. EachMia wine is remarkably wellmade for their price and is foodfriendly with good balance andlength. Creative both insideand out, the novel and enjoy-ableMia wines are poised for abright future.
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BOYS BASKETBALL: Quince Orchard at Gaithersburg,7 p.m. Friday. Anthony Tarke and the Trojans battle theCougars, who entered this week undefeated.
BOYS BASKETBALL: Whitman at Richard Montgomery,5:15 p.m. Friday.
GIRLS BASKETBALL: Bethesda-Chevy Chase atChurchill, 7 p.m. Friday.
BY PRINCE J. GRIMES
STAFFWRITER
On Jan. 3, prior to Quince Orchard HighSchool’s wrestling match against Seneca Valley,Kyle Bollinger was recognized by the Gaithers-burg school for reaching the 100-victorymark. The152-pound senior achieved the milestone on Dec.29 at the Cougar Claus Dual Holiday Tournament,and — after winning eight matches in two days —he finished the tournament with 104 wins.
“It definitely means a lot,” Bollinger said. “Ilovewrestling, and getting 100wins—especially inMontgomery County — you don’t usually get a lot
ofmatches thatmost other schools do.”But reaching 100 wins was not atop the list of
accomplishments forBollinger to achieve this year,he said. Coming into the season with 86 wins, heknew he would probably eclipse the 100-win total.Winning a state title, he said, was his biggest goalcoming into the season.
“I’vedefinitelybeenprogressingover these fouryears, andmy overall goal is towin the states,” Bol-linger said.
The senior’s journey to become one of the topwrestlers in the county has been the type of ascentthat coaches constantly strive to get their athletesto achieve. Just as they look for progress from their
wrestlers from match to match, coaches expect tosee improvement from season to season. Bollingerhas personified those ambitions.
As a freshman, although he had beenwrestlingsince age 4, Bollinger said he had to adjust to thenuances and style changesof high schoolwrestling.The season ended onematch away fromplacing atcounties.
The next year, he returned to counties and fin-ishedas the120-pound runner-up.Healsofinishedsecond at the 4A/3A West Region tournament andqualified for states.
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Quince Orchard High School wrestler Kyle Bollinger (top) defeated Seneca Valley’s Jerry Hernandez during Saturday’s match.
Backwhen Iwasanewseditor inPrinceGeorge’sCounty, I didsome freelancing forthe sportsdeskcover-inggames.
Then-sports edi-torSethElkinoncegotonmycasebecause Ididn’twant to spendmoneyat theconces-sionstand.
“It’s onlya fewbucks, and theydesperatelyneed themoney.Quitbeing socheap.”
Properly scolded, thathasbecomemymission.Whenever I attendagameImakeit apoint tobuysomething fromthesnackbar. For thepast threeyears, I’vedoneabest/worst list onmyTwitter account (@GazSptsEd). I’mexpanding it forprint.
Hereare thebest andworstmomentsofcoveringhighschool sports inMontgomeryandPrinceGeorge’s counties last year.
Most overpriced hot dog:Churchill. Iknowthebooster clubhas topay for thatvideoscoreboard,but$3.50?Thesearehighschool students.Most schools charge$1.50or$2.Churchill andDamascushad themostexpensive.
Best hot dog:Surrattsville.Maybe itwasjust good timing,but thebunwas freshandthedoggrilledperfectly.
Most improved concession stand:DuVal.Last year, it opened in the secondquarteronmyvisit and theydidn’thaveanyhot food,just chipsandsoda. Imade itmyworstof2013.This year, hotdogsweredelicious.
Worst concession stand:FlowersduringtheBowiegame.Thehotdogswerenotreadynear theendof thefirsthalf.
Most improved concession stand in oneseason:Flowersduring theSuitlandgame.Probablybecause itwashomecoming,buttherewere fourorfive standsofferingagreatvarietyof food, fromfish tochicken.
Best winter concession stand:Poolesville.Itwasacombinationof great-tasting foodwith the lowestprices I’ve seen.
Best winter pep band: Largo.Greatbrassandpercussionsections;hardcombinationtobeat.
Best overall concession stand:Douglasshaswon this theprevious threeyears, andthemenu isoutstanding, fromItalian sau-sagewithpeppersandonions tofishandchips toNorthCarolinachoppedbarbeque.
However, I can’t give thema fourthstraightnod.Thehotdogat thePotomacgamewasamong theworstof theyear.Thenewsnackbar champ isDamascus.Thefoodwasgreat and theyhadanicevariety.Onlynegative is theprice.
Best basketball game I saw:ClarksburgatGaithersburgboys in the4AWestRegionsemifinals.Coyoteshad to rally to tie thegameat theendof regulationona tip-inatthebuzzer. Inovertime, theTrojans tooka7-point lead, andonceagain theCoyotesrallied towin it, 64-63.
Best football game I saw:GwynnParkatSurrattsville. TheYellow Jacketshadbeenhumbledwithan0-4 start to their rebuild-ing seasonagainst a toughscheduleand theHornetswere topClass1Acontenders.
Therewere41points scored in thefourthquarterof aback-and-forthgame,thefinalpoints comingwith5.8 secondstoplayona27-yardAaronParkerpass toAntoneMcIntoshasGwynnParkpulledofftheupset.
Worst game:QuinceOrchardatNorth-west football (regular season). Forall thepre-gamehype,whata letdown.The Jaguarswouldgoon toavenge the loss in theplay-offs and thenwin their secondstraightClass4Astate title.Atonepoint theywerea scoreaway frombeing runningclocked in thisone, losing52-27.
Most dominating team:First reaction istogo forDouglass football, butuponreflec-tion,EleanorRoosevelt girlsbasketball.Undefeatedstate champs,winningplayoffgamesbymore than30pointspergame.
Bringon2015—I’mready formore.
The best, andworst of 2014
SPORTS EDITORKEN SAIN
Winning a championship is the last hurdle for 152-pound senior
n Freshman center leads Falcons girlsbasketball team to 6-2 start
BY ERIC GOLDWEIN
STAFFWRITER
The Poolesville High School girls basketball teamhas size, and its players— though less experienced thanlast season’s—haven’t been afraid to use it.
Playing with three new starters, the Falcons are ona five-game winning streak and are 6-2 through Mon-day, climbing atop theMontgomery County standings.They’re playingwith toughness andphysicality, but notjust during games.
“We throw elbows at practice and we just shoveeach other in the paint,” freshman center Erin Greensaid. “... And that’s a good thing.”
Poolesville has been running its offense throughthe post, something it did less of in previous seasons.
Poolesville girlsready to play rough
n Colonels guard gets a hand from hersister, a former county star
BY ERIC GOLDWEIN
STAFFWRITER
Three times a week this past summer, HopeRandolph would head to Redland Park in Der-wood for an early morning workout. She de-scribed the routine as if it were a job. For twohours, she’d work on her shooting, off-hand, andother aspects of her game.
“It was never a fun thingwaking up at 6 a.m.,”she said.
But the Magruder High School senior wasn’t
Magruder stillwinning withHope, little Faith
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Poolesville High School’s Erin Green practices withteammates on Friday morning.See POOLESVILLE, Page B-2 See MAGRUDER, Page B-2
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in it alone. By her side was herolder sister, Faith Randolph,who knows a thing or two aboutwhat it takes to excel in Mont-gomery County girls basketball.After all, she did earn the 2012All-Gazette Player of the Year asa senior at Good Counsel. Andnow, she’s a starting guard onthe University of Virginia wom-en’s basketball team.
“She comes home from col-lege and all we do is play basket-ball,” Hope Randolph said. “... Ifeel like she’s definitely taughtme, you’re never good enough.You cannever be goodenough.”
Hope Randolph has beengood enough to lead the Colo-nels to a 5-3 start this winter.The 5-foot-8 shooting guard hasupped her scoring from nine to17 points, helping the reigning4AWest Region champions pickup where they left off last year,despite graduating two seniorcaptains (Janel Brown, AdjowaPinkrah) and beginning thisseason without its starting cen-ter, senior Hannah Barr.
“She works well by herselfbut she’s also an amazing cap-tain so you can rely on her tostep up and take over a gamewhen you need her to,” Barrsaid. “She knows how to sharethe ball and she knows how tocommunicate. She’s a teamplayer.”
One major development inRandolph’s game: her finishing.She’s a lefty, and as a freshman,most of her shots would comefromher stronghand.Now,Barrsaid, “you can’t even tell which
hand shesusesbecause sheusesthemboth equally.”
“Her game, it was good butit was kind of two-dimensional.She definitely didn’t have ev-erything she has now … it’s anincredible transition,” Barr said.
She’s also added a jumper.In the season-opener againstSherwood, a 64-53 loss, Ran-dolph carried the shorthandedColonels with a game-high29 points, even hitting a rare3-pointer. She’s been a play-
maker on defense, too, averag-ing seven rebounds, 2.4 stealsand 1.5 blocks.
“She’s taking [the team] onher shoulders as a true leaderout there,” coach Erin Borsodysaid.
Hope Randolph, the young-est of five, said she started play-ing as a kindergartner on FaithRandolph’s third-grade clubteam. She said she began tak-ing the sport seriously inmiddleschool after seeing her older
sister playing as a freshman atGood Counsel. Hope Randolphsaid her goal this winter is toplay as well as Faith Randolphdidduringher senior year,whenshe averaged 16.6 points and2.5 steals for the Olney privateschool.
FaithRandolph said she seesa lot of similarities between herand her sister’s playing styles.
“She can do a lot of things,”Faith Randolph said. “She’s notjust a shooter she’s not just adefender she’s not just a passer.She does multiple things in or-der for her team towin.”
The older sister remainsthe more accomplished bas-ketball player. At Virginia, she’sbecome one of the top scorersin college basketball, averaging17.4 points. And in their weeklyone-on-one games at the end ofthe Friday workouts, Faith Ran-dolph would win most, if notevery time.
But Hope Randolph is get-ting there. She’s a late-bloomer,Faith Randolph said, and she’sdemonstrating that as the lead-ing scorer of her varsity team.College basketball could be inthe Magruder senior’s future,but for now, she said she’s fo-cused on getting her team backto the 4A state semifinals.
“My goal definitely is to leadthe team and make sure thatwe all know how great we canbe,” Hope Randolph said. “…Leaving our seniors last year,Janel and Adjowa, we just hadan opinion of ourselves that weweren’t good enough. So defi-nitely keeping that motivationthat we’re going to be great.”
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Magruder High School’s Hope Randolph practices with teammates Friday morning.
MAGRUDERContinued from Page B-1
Green, 6-foot-2, has been a keyto the new-look Falcons’ earlysuccess, giving the team an in-terior presence on both ends ofthe floor. The first-year varsityplayer is averaging 9.5 points,showing an ability to not onlyscore, but pass out of double
teams and create opportunitiesfor her teammates.
“She’s just able to keep upwith the fast-paced game re-ally well,” senior captain AnnaMurgia said. “I think she’s onlygoing to get better from here.... She has a good mind for thegame. She is able to connectwith us and her teammates re-ally well and see the court.”
Green is also leading the
team in rebounds and blocks.But even when she doesn’t gether hands on the ball, she’smaking an impact.
“She causes opponents toalter shots and pass up shotsthat they’d normally be able tomake,” coach Jamie Jamisonsaid.
Green, junior Karyn Com-fort and junior Kristen Darraghare part of a deep frontcourt
that has helped Poolesville be-comea strong rebounding team.The offense has been balanced,with junior guardCaseyHarkinsscoring a team-high 10.6 pointsper game and four other play-ers averaging more than sevenpoints.
“I think the biggest thingwith our team this year iswe have a lot of depth,” saidMurgia, who has been sidelined
with a knee injury. “Every com-bination we have on the court isa good one.”
Jamison, a Poolesville grad-uate (Class of 2005), is in herfirst season as varsity coach. Shetook over for longtime coachFred Swick, who stepped downbecause of health problems butremains involvedwith the team.The Falcons, who last seasonwent 18-6 and lost to Century
(Sykesville) in the second roundof the playoffs, are trying toreach the state semifinals for thefirst time in school history.
“We do have the potential.We have the depth and we havethe players who are willing toworkhard,”Murgia said. “I thinkit’s just going to take every indi-vidual personworking hard.”
POOLESVILLEContinued from Page B-1
Last season, Bollinger con-tinued his maturation on andoff themat.Oncehis sophomoreyear ended, he took on a biggerrole as one of the team’s leaders
and helped to keep the team intact following the departure offormer coach Chris Tao. Bol-linger said he, along with otherteam leaders, rallied aroundnew coach Rob Wolf. Bollingerthen proceeded to capture bothcounty and region titles and
placed sixth at states.“He’s technically very
sound,” said Wolf, whose Cou-gars are 8-0 this season. “Hebasically goes out there with nofear. It doesn’t matter who he’sgoingagainst,heexpects towin.”
“[My style is] definitely of-
fensive, aggressive,” Bollingeradded.HewonhismatchagainstSeneca Valley by fall to remainundefeated in regular seasoncountymatches. “Protectmyselfat all timesof course, but I gooutthere towin.When I step on thatmat, I don’t care who’s on the
line across from me. I know 100percent that I’mgiving itmy all.”
If the upward trend of Bol-linger’s time at Quince Orchardcontinues, the next step andlast phase in his progression isthe state title. To win it, he said,wouldmean a lot.
“It’s definitely been my No.1 goal for the past four years,”Bollinger said. “I’ve been gettingcloser andcloser every year. Thisis my last shot. I’ll do anything Ican to get it.”
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BEST BETn Bethesda-Chevy Chase at Churchill, 7 p.m. Friday:
Japria Karim-Duvall and the Bulldogs take on theup-and-coming Barons in a matchup featuring two ofthe county’s top Class 4A teams.
BEST BETn Quince Orchard at Gaithersburg, 7 p.m. Friday:
Cougars put their undefeated record on the lineagainst a talented Trojans team hungry for a winafter struggling early this season.
BASKETBALL HOW THEY RANK
Also receiving votes: Takoma Academy, 7;Gaithersburg, 1.
The Gazette sports staff ranks the top 10 high school basketball teams inMontgomery County.
BoysRank School Record Points
1. St. Andrew’s 11-0 58
2. Montrose 10-2 55
3. Bullis 9--3 49
4. Q. Orchard 7-0 41
5. R. Montgomery 9-0 35
6. Springbrook 6-1 31
7. Geo. Prep 8-5 18
8. Blake 5-3 15
9. Magruder 4-4 12
10. Kennedy 5-3 8
GirlsRank School Record Points
1. Whitman 6-0 59
2. Good Counsel 9-5 53
3. Paint Branch 8-0 50
4. W. Johnson 7-1 42
5. Holy Child 8-2 35
6. Wootton 5-2 31
7. Churchill 5-3 21
9. Damascus 5-2 17
8. B-Chevy Chase 6-2 14
10. Magruder 5-3 8Also receiving votes: Jewish Day, 3;
Sherwood, 1.
LEADING SCORERSPlayer, school Games Points Avg.Nate Peterson,WashingtonChrisitan 3 80 26.7Anthony Tarke, Gaithersburg 6 157 26.2JonathanMustamu, Kennedy 8 192 24.0Jauvenel Leveill Jr., Northwood 5 110 22.0Aaron Byrd, Landon 9 195 21.7Bryan Knapp, JewishDay 4 83 20.8JoeHugley,Magruder 8 152 19.0DuaneDavis, Damascus 6 106 17.7Daniel Kuhnreich, JewishDay 4 69 17.3Dylan Salmon, TheHeights 8 133 16.6Obi Patrick,WatkinsMill 5 83 16.6
LEADING SCORERSPlayer, school Games Points Avg.DaisaHarris, Paint Branch 8 202 25.3Danielle Durjan,WatkinsMill 8 164 20.0DominiqueWalker,WatkinsMill 8 160 20.0Daphne Lerner, JewishDay 6 111 18.5Hope Randolph,Magruder 7 126 18.0Khadijah Pearson, Kennedy 7 121 17.3Nicole Enabosi, GoodCounsel 13 224 17.2Kaylan Jackson, Clarksburg 7 114 16.3JordanOdom,QuinceOrchard 8 124 15.5Sheri Addison,Wootton 7 108 15.4AbbyMeyers,Whitman 6 89 14.8
Coaches and team statisticiansmay email season team statistics to [email protected] before noononMondays to be included.
Springbrook football coach resignsAdamBahr has resigned as the football coach at
SpringbrookHigh School for personal reasons, ac-cording to the school’s athletic director, RobWendel.He is expected to remain the Blue Devils girls lacrossecoach.
An attempt to reach Bahr by phoneMondaymorning was not immediately returned.
In three seasons, Bahr guided the Blue Devils to a12-18 record, including a 3-7 record last fall. It was theprogram’s worst finish since going 2-7 in 2002.
In September, Springbrook had to reschedule agame against Sherwood due to skin irritations suf-fered by several players. At the time, Bahr said theincident was caused by an “appropriate disinfectant,inappropriately used” on equipment. A half-dozenplayersmissed the Sept. 22 game, a 56-6 loss.
Wendel said the best case scenario in the searchfor a new coachwould be to find someonewho is “inthe building,” but the hiring process is still in its earlystages.
—PRINCE J. GRIMES
MVSA team captures football state titleThe 14-year-old unlimited weightMontgomery
Village Chiefs finished their season 14-0 with a 26-20victory over the Kettering LargoMitchellville SteelersatMT&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore onDec. 20 to
win the National GridironMaryland State Champion-ship. The Chiefs recorded a number of titles en routeto their perfect season, including the Capital BeltwayLeague championship, the Prince George’s Boys andGirls Club championship and theMid-Atlantic Su-per Bowl championship. The team’sMost ValuablePlayer, quarterback/defensive back Grant Jackson,threw for four touchdowns in the state title game.Jackson is considering a handful of high schools toattend next year, including Good Counsel, St. John’sCollege High (D.C.), Bullis, DeMatha andMagruder.
—ADAM GUTEKUNST
Ledecky, classmates to be honored atfinal home meet
Three years ago, 2012 Olympic goldmedalistKatie Ledecky was just a 14-year-old standout on theStone Ridge swimming and diving teamwith a wholelot of potential to become an international star. Sheachieved that status rather quickly. Saturdaymorn-ing Ledecky, alongwith five of her classmates, arescheduled to be honored as they swim their lastmeeton home turf. Despite Ledecky’s travels and com-mitments to TeamUSA, her dedication to the Gatorsnever wavered, something coach RobertWalker hasrepeatedly commended. Ledecky currently holds theworld’s best times in the 400-, 800- and 1,500-meterfreestyle events.
— JENNIFER BEEKMAN
n Competing in offstrokes can helpprevent monotony
BY JENNIFER BEEKMANSTAFFWRITER
If it seemed like the highschool winter swim season juststarted when teams — Mont-gomery County Public Schoolsprograms, anyway — went onhiatus for the winter break,there are now only four weeksuntil the start of championshipseason. So, one might thereforeassume now would be the timefor the county’s top athletesto settle into whatever eventsthey’re planning on racing dur-ing the season’smost importantmeets, but that’s not necessarilythe case.
Swimming can be a sport ofmonotony. The county’s mosteliteathletescantrainuptonineor10timesaweekfor18ormorehourswith their club teamsand,as yardage is a key componentto dropping time, practice canget rather redundant. Whileeven the most versatile swim-mers have their strengths whenit comes to competition days,whether it’s racing the indi-vidual medley — an event thatcombines all four strokes — orsticking to one or two particu-lar disciplines, county coachesagreed that plugging kids intooff events during the course ofthe season actually producesbetter races in their strongerevents come championshipseason. This, in turn, could alsohelp athletes in USA Swimmingeventsbecause they’re less likelyto veer from their strengths intopnationalmeets.
Coaches walk a fine line,however, between craftingwinning lineups, making sureathletes qualify for importantmeets such as the WashingtonMetropolitan InterscholasticSwimming and Diving Cham-pionships in early February andthe season-ending state compe-tition with good times, and giv-ing their top swimmers variety.
“Our ‘A’ lineup may neverhappen during the dual-meetseason,” Georgetown Prepcoach Matt Mongelli said. “I’mone that believes that if you
swimthesameeventeveryweekanddo it [in competition], timesduring the year, by the 10thtime, it’s just old hat. You’ve lostyour focusandmaybeyoudon’thave aquality swim.”
Mongelli said his goal everywinter is for each of his swim-mers, especially his top scor-ers, to swim every event at leastonce. While not every coach inMontgomery County has thatsort of flexibility — the LittleHoyas are arguably the Wash-ington, D.C. area’s top squad—manycoachessaid theydotry tomix their lineups up asmuch astheir personnel allows them to.The benefits can be both men-tal and physical, Holton-ArmscoachGrahamWesterberg said.
Progress is tangible inswim-ming and while swimmers arenot likely to post a personalbest time in every race, they dotend to drop substantial timethrough the course of the win-ter season.Hitting a plateau canthereforebequite frustrating,al-most paralyzing at times. That’swhen switching events, at leastfor a couplemeets, can bemosthelpful, Bethesda-Chevy Chasecoach JasonBlanken said.
“If you’re not seeing besttimes, sometimes the impact isnegative,” Blanken said. “Givingkids a chance to do other thingsthey don’t swimnearly as often,theexpectationis lowerandital-lows them to swimabit looser.”
Encouraging athletes toventure outside of their comfort
zones, inbothpracticeandcom-petition, also helps strengthendifferent muscle groups. In ad-dition to benefitting techniqueitself, it can also help preventoveruse injuries, Westerbergsaid. Not all swimmers are will-ing to spend time on a stroke heor she is not comfortable withbut it’s important, he added.
While all strokes are similarin certain ways — everythingworks the core and legs, WalterJohnson coach Jamie Grimessaid — they each hit differentareasharder. Freestyle is theup-per back, Grimes added, breast-strokeworksthetricepsandusesthe legs in a uniqueway and thedolphin kick of the backstrokeand butterfly requires more ab-dominalmuscles.
StoneRidgeseniorandmul-tiple world-record holder KatieLedecky said earlier this seasonthat balance is important andshe enjoys the opportunity thehighschoolseasonaffordsher tocompete in some of the eventsshe doesn’t often get to contestat the international level.
“I like putting a kid in thebreaststroke who is a butterflyor backstroke swimmer, or tak-ing a sprint freestyler and say-ing, ‘I challenge you to swim the500 [freestyle],’” Mongelli said.“They have to be mentally pre-pared for anything, especiallywhen they get to thenext level.”
Swimmers mix it up to focus
Jewish Day’s streak continuesThe JewishDay School girls basketball teamhas
gone a full year— 20 games—without losing. And ifthe Lions have their way, that streak could run into2016. The reigning Potomac Valley Athletic Confer-ence champions are 6-0 this winter, playing the samestyle, andwithmost of the same players, that wereresponsible for the 16-1 campaign last season. TheRockville school has been dominant, with double-digit victories against all but one of its opponents,Grace Brethren.
All five starters are back, including junior DaphneLerner, who is averaging a team-high 18.5 points pergame. The defense remains impressive. Not only isit shutting down opponents— the Lions have heldfour teams under 20 points—but it’s also creating
turnovers that lead to easy buckets, much like it didlast season.
One of themajor differences, though, is YairaKalender. Themulti-position senior has been startingsince her freshman year, but is playing some of herbest basketball this winter. She’s gettingmoremin-utes at the five and four than she has in past seasons,anchoring some of JewishDay’s smaller lineups. She’sshowing off her improved jumper too, averaging 10.8points and hitting a team-leading nine 3-pointers.
“She’s beenworking all offseason and she’s beennailing shots all over the court,” second-year coachRebecca Silberman said.
JewishDay’s bid for an undefeated season is set tocontinue Tuesday againstWashington Christian andThursday against Edmund Burke.
—ERIC GOLDWEIN
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KEEPING IT BRIEF
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Georgetown Prep swimmer Carsten Vissering competes in the 100 breaststroke during last year’s WashingtonMetropolitan Interscholastic Swimming Championship in Germantown.
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Sherwood High School’s Morgan Hill competes in the 100 freestyle duringthe 4A/3A state swimming championships last February in College Park.
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n Cougars move to 8-0after 58-46 victory
BY ADAM GUTEKUNST
STAFF WRITER
Buried deep in the halls ofQuince Orchard High School,longtime coach Paul Foringercouldn’t help but be frank withhis now 8-0 Cougars follow-ing Saturday’s 58-46 win overClarksburg. After his assistantsshared their thoughts andpraises, Foringer was quickto the point when it came histurn to speak.
“I love watching you guysplay,” he said. “It’s so funwatching you guys play.”
The Cougars had absorbedthe blow of a late Clarksburgrun after carrying a 43-31 leadinto the final quarter. Thepasses got a little sloppy, thedefense got a little loose andthe Coyotes got a lot closer,using a two-minute, 9-0run to cut the deficit to five.Clarksburg would get withinfour points before Quince Or-chard regained control of thecontest for good, relying onits patience and poise in thebackcourt to create easy shotsand stretch the lead back todouble digits.
“That’s the thing I loveabout them,” Foringer said.“The Blake [game] was thesame deal. We got a lead, theycame out and started com-ing back, but we held on atthe end. Tonight, we actuallypushed it out at the end andthat was nice that we were ableto do that because I respect[Clarksburg] a lot — they havegreat talent.”
The Coyotes started ina pressure man-to-man de-fense, an approach they main-tained from the opening tipto the final whistle. On madebaskets, Clarksburg wouldshow soft full-court pressure,bringing players up and thenhaving them fall back into anextended halfcourt man-to-man where they sought to trapthe Quince Orchard wings.
Though it gave them trou-
ble occasionally, the Cougars’guards dissected their op-ponent’s defensive pressurewith a steady diet of calculatedpasses, methodically swingingthe ball around the perimeteruntil they got the kind of shottheir offense was designed toget.
“They’re very, very bright,”Foringer said. “They under-stand the concept [of] what theoffense is supposed to give us... We have offenses where wewant to get a layup and theyknow that, so they don’t shoot.They’ll pass the ball until weget a layup ... they understandwhat exactly we’re supposedto get from the things we do.”
“In practice we work reallywell on just moving the balltogether,” sophomore JohnFierstein said. “We’ve all beentogether for so long. We’vegot really good chemistry andwe’re good with getting theball to each other.”
Many of the Cougars’ of-
fensive sets endedwith the ballin the hands of Fierstein, wholed all scorers with 22 pointsand added everything fromthunderous drop steps downlow to laser passes from atopthe key.
“He was awesome today,”Foringer said. “He handled theball great and he handled theoffense great when he was outfront.”
Though Clarksburg cameout on the short end of thescoreboard, not all was lost forthe Coyotes, as junior AndrewKostecka made his season de-but after missing over a monthwith a upper leg injury. TheHoly Cross recruit scored ateam-high 14 points on 5-of-12shooting, eight of which cameduring the Coyotes’ fourth-quarter push.
Still, as Clarksburg coachG.J. Kissal pointed out, it wasthe tough “weight room fin-ishes” on offense and intenseman-to-man defensive pres-
sure that let the Coyotes down.“We got a lot of good looks
and we didn’t convert today,”said Kissal, whose Coyotesshot 19-of-50 (38 percent)from the floor. “The otherthing was ourman-to-man de-fense. We couldn’t stay in frontof guys today ... two things wetry to believe as hallmarks ofthe program, weren’t there forus.”
Quince Orchard will putits undefeated season on theline Tuesday at home againstWootton. Andwhile Saturday’sscare certainly made the Cou-gars better, Fierstein notedthat there may be many moreto follow.
“We responded well,” Fi-erstein said. “It’s the first test.There will be a lot more tocome.”
Quince Orchard holds off Clarksburg to stay perfect
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Quince Orchard High School’s John Fierstein holds the ball during Saturday’s home game against Clarksburg.
n It’s no surprise theRockets are playing
well at 9-0
BY ADAM GUTEKUNSTSTAFF WRITER
Richard MontgomeryHigh School boys basketballcoach David Breslaw saidhe remembers the summerleague meeting last year atMiller’s Ale House in Rock-ville, where coaches of teamscompeting in St. Andrew’sSummer League met to talkover how the organizationwould work.
Coaches from differentschools were coming up toBreslaw, whose Rockets hadgone 11-13 in the 2013-2014campaign, and sharing theirexpectations.
“Everyone was comingup to me and saying, ‘So youguys are going to be the teamto beat,’” Breslaw said, smil-ing as he reminisced in thehalls of the Rockville schoolafter Friday’s early morningpractice.
Though Richard Mont-gomery ultimately didn’tprove to be the top dog ofthe league, the Rockets havemade their case as one ofthe county’s best in 2014-15,carrying a 9-0 record into thenew year.
And while the fast starthas taken some by surprise,the Rwockets early seasonsurge may have been yearsin the making.
Last season’s team car-ried a 5-1 record into theholidays but suffered arough start to 2014, going 3-6in January.
But the Rockets turnedthe corner late in the sea-son, challenging some of thearea’s top teams.
Breslaw’s group tookSpringbrook to the wire onJan. 31, before falling 54-50.Richard Montgomery thenavenged a regular seasonloss to Churchill with a 46-45 win against the Bulldogsin the first round of the 4A
West Region tournament.Then, on March 5, the
Rockets had eventual state fi-nalist Whitman on the ropes,carrying an eight-point leadinto the final quarter beforefalling 40-37.
It was the second-closestany playoff team got to beat-ing the Vikings on the roadto the 4A state champion-ship game.
Yet even before lastyear’s late season push, Bre-slaw said he knew this teamwould be special.
When the Rockets’ cur-rent senior class, includingleaders Nick Jackson andRenzo Farfan, played juniorvarsity, their team lost acombined four games in twoseasons.
The pieces were all inplace for the dangerous teamthat has emerged this seasonat Richard Montgomery.
“I had high expectationsfor us because we were allwaiting for our senior year todo big things,” Farfan said.“Now it’s our time to finallystep on the court and showwhat we could do.”
The Rockets’ eight-mansenior class is led by Farfan(9.2 points per game) andJackson, a versatile 6-foot-5center averaging a team-high 14.1 points per game.
The duo is the only re-turning starters from Bre-slaw’s 2013-14 team andhave been integral in fusingtogether the various piecesto create a formidable on-court group.
“We played together andthe chemistry just kind ofcame together,” Farfan said.
The Rockets started theseason off by defeating ri-val Rockville, 77-70. Since,no team has come close toscoring 70 points against theRockets. In fact, no team hasscored more than 47 points.
A flawless start at RM
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- ANNOUNCEMENT -MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLANDis seeking applications from individuals ororganizations who wish to lease space forchild care services at 2 County owned
sites.
These sites are currently leased to privatechild care providers. Under the terms ofthe County Child Care Policy, space mustbe re-bid at the expiration of existing li-
cense terms. These spaces will be availa-ble for new licenses in July 2015. Appli-cants may bid for one or more of thesespaces. Current tenants may re-apply for
the same or additional spaces.
SITE LOCATIONS∂ Potomac Community Center:
11315 Falls RoadPotomac, Maryland 20854∂West Diamond Avenue:112 West Diamond AvenueGaithersburg, Maryland 20878
SITE DESCRIPTIONPlease see website below for complete de-tails and to download the application andother paperwork regarding the available
spaces.http://bit.ly/1B3juUa
APPLICATIONS ARE DUEFEBRUARY 6, 2015 BY 4:00PM
(1-7-15)
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WSSC will hold two public hearings on the FY’16 Preliminary Proposed Capital and Op-erating Budget. The hearings will be held on the following dates:
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 - 7:30 p.m. Thursday, February 5, 2015 - 7:30 p.m.Montgomery County Prince George’s CountyStella B. Werner Building RMS Building7th Floor Council Hearing Room Room 308100 Maryland Avenue 1400 McCormick DriveRockville, MD 20850 Largo, MD 20774
Please contact the Commission as soon as possible at 301-206-8200 if your attendanceat a meeting will require an accommodation under Title II of the Americans with Disabili-ties Act.
The FY’16 Preliminary Budget document will be available upon request and posted onour website (www.wsscwater.com) by January 15, 2015. Persons desiring to speak ateither of the hearings should contact the WSSC’s Budget Group at (301) 206-8110 to beplaced on the list of speakers in advance of the hearings. Persons who wish to submit awritten statement for inclusion in the record of the hearings should send the statement toMs. Letitia Carolina-Powell, Acting Budget Group Leader, WSSC, 14501 Sweitzer Lane,Laurel, MD 20707 or email [email protected]. The public hearing recordwill remain open until February 17, 2015.
NOTE: If either public hearing is rescheduled due to inclement weather conditions, apublic hearing will be held as follows:
February 11, 2015 - 7:30 p.m.Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission
Richard G. Hocevar BuildingAuditorium - Level "L"14501 Sweitzer LaneLaurel, MD 20707
(1-7, 1-8-15)
NOTICEThe Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) is seek-ing applicants to fill a vacancy on its Board of Ethics (Board). Thevacancy is for the Board member to be nominated by the PrinceGeorge’s County, MD Commissioners. The Board is currentlycomprised of three public members and an alternate member.Each member is appointed by the WSSC Commissioners to athree-year term.
The Board administers the WSSC Code of Ethics (Code), issuesadvisory opinions, responds to requests for waivers of Codeprohibitions, acts on Code-related Complaints and periodically re-views the adequacy of the Code. A background in workplace eth-ics is preferred. The Board generally meets from 2:00 p.m. to4:00 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month in the WSSCCommissioners Conference Room at 14501 Sweitzer Lane, Lau-rel, Maryland 20707. Each Board member receives a $200 sti-pend for each regular monthly meeting attended.
Please send letters of interest and resumes to the WashingtonSuburban Sanitary Commission, Attn: Internal Audit Office, 12thFloor, 14501 Sweitzer Lane, Laurel, Maryland, 20707 by the closeof business January 22, 2015. All qualified applicants will receiveconsideration for interviews.
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NOTICEArcher Western and Maryland Purple LinePartners are soliciting subcontractor andsupplier quotes for The Purple Line Projectbetween Washington, DC and Baltimore,Maryland. The Purple Line Project is a16.2 mile east-west Light Rail Transit lineextending inside the Capital Beltway fromNew Carrollton in Prince George’s Countyto Bethesda in Montgomery County, Mary-land.
Fax all quotes to 404-495-8701 prior toJanuary 30th, 2015.
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Quotes will be evaluated on scope, price,experience, financial condition, and otherpertinent factors.Equal Opportunity Employer(Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran)
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ESTATE CARE-TAKER NEEDED:Driving, cleaningerrands & light gar-dening, must haveown car & Drivers Lic240-499-6013 [email protected]
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Warehouse ManagerLocal lighting company is seeking a candidatethat has experience, excellent communicationskills and be able to multi-task. Must provide acurrent driving record and valid Driver’s License.We offer a Competitive salary + benefitspackage. Must have the following:
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2014 Jetta Sedan.........VPR0112,Black,6,921 Miles.....................$17,9922011 GTI........................V040108A,Black,45,589 Miles................$18,2512013 Golf Sedan...........VPR0098, Black,7,392 Miles....................$18,2962012 GTI........................VP0107,Red,54,244 Miles.......................$18,5332012 Tiguan..................V511462A,Black,37,637 Miles................$18,6732011 Tiguan..................V520327A,Pearl, 69,623 Miles................$18,9932013 Passat..................VO#017623A,Black,53,252 Miles............$19,2542013 CC Sedan.............V011054A, Black, SPT, PZE, 40,066 Miles...$19,5912014 Passat..................VPR0110,Silver,7,578 Miles.....................$20,5922014 Passat..................VPR0109,White,5,375 Miles....................$20,5922014 Passat..................VPR0111,Black,10,500 Miles..................$20,5222014 Passat..................VPR0108,Silver,9,040 Miles.....................$20,7722013 Tiguan..................V006405A,Gray,17,099 Miles..................$21,9532014 Passat..................V044301A,Gray,15,182 Miles..................$23,9912013 Honda Accord.....V035061A, Silver, V6 EX, 21,234 Miles....$18,993
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