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BY JENNDAVISSTAFFWRITER
The city of Gaithersburg and theKentlands Downtown Partnershiphosted a communitymeetingDec. 16to discuss the possibility of applyingto have the Kentlands arts commu-nity designated as an Arts and Enter-tainment District.A program of the Maryland State
Arts Council, the districts are de-signed to help develop and promotecommunity involvement, tourismand revitalization through tax-re-lated incentives that attract artists,arts organizations and other creativeenterprises, according to a city press
release.Pamela Dunne, a program direc-
tor at the Maryland State Arts Coun-cil, attended the meeting and gave apresentation on the Arts and Enter-tainment District program. Amongother things, she talkedabout the ele-ments that make districts successful,the tax incentives that they carry andhow they provide an overall benefitto the community.
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n Police say he wantedofficers to shoot him
BYDANIEL LEADERMANSTAFFWRITER
A Gaithersburg man is facingassault charges after police say hethreatened his wife and her family,barricaded himself in the basementof a house and tried to get police toshoot him Sunday evening.A Germantown woman called
police at about 7:15 p.m. Sunday toreport that her husband had threat-ened to kill her and somemembers of
her family, and that he had access tofirearms, according to county police.About 10 minutes later, county
police and Gaithersburg city policewere sent to 25 Maryland Ave. inGaithersburg, where the husband —53-year-old Jeffrey Allan Flaherty —was believed to be staying. Flahertywas in thebasement, andwhilepolicewere on the staircase that connectedthe kitchen to the basement, therewas an encounter between Flahertyandpolice duringwhich a countypo-lice officer fired his weapon. No onewas injured, according to police.
Gaithersburg man chargedwith assault after barricade
BYDANIEL LEADERMANSTAFFWRITER
When Santa Claus cruised throughMontgomery County on Dec. 17, hetraded in his crew of trusty reindeer,preferring to roll with a brigade ofmorethan two dozen county police on mo-torcycles.Santa — portrayed by Officer Rob-
ert Ladany of the department’s Ger-mantown station — was astride a hogof his own. He led the pack as he tra-versed the county for the annual SantaRide, a multistop tour that ends with aparty at The Children’s Inn at NIH, aresidential facility for seriously ill chil-drenat theNational Institutes ofHealth
in Bethesda.Santa’s troupe began its ride at the
county police station in Germantown,making its first stop at the PeppertreeChildren’s Center, a day-care centerand preschool at the UpCounty Re-gional Services Center, also inGerman-town.Agroupof children,noneolder than
5,waited at the curb to greet theman inred. After quizzing the tots on whetherthey’d been listening to theirmommiesand daddies, Ladany took a knee for alarge grouphug, then followed the chil-dren inside for picture taking.Angela Snider,who teachespre-Kat
the center, said the level of excitementamong her students had been “out of
control” in advance of Santa’s arrival.For days, students had been decoratingher classroomwithvariousholiday craftprojects, includingpaper snowmenandmenorahs, she said. “They know it’scoming.”The Santa Ride tradition dates back
decades. Ladany said he’s been doingthe ride for seven years, while his wife,Jackie Ladany, as Mrs. Claus, has beenjoining him for two years. She rodealong in an unmarked police cruiser.“I don’t know how I became Santa,
whether I volunteered or somebodyasked me,” Ladany said, smiling. “Wego around, we say hi, and they smile.
Santa roars into townTOM FEDOR/THE GAZETTE
Montgomery County Police motor squad’s Santa Ride 2014, to benefit The Children’s Inn at NIH, stops at the Olney town center plaza onDec. 17. Officer Robert Ladany and wife, Jackie, portray Santa and Mrs. Claus. Santa’s troupe began its ride at the county police station inGermantown.
n Warehouse worth of donationsis ready in time for Christmas
BY SAMANTHA SCHMIEDERSTAFFWRITER
InGermantown,HenriqueVissotto,a Spanish teacher at Clemente MiddleSchool, andhis students collectedmorethan200 toys forMontgomeryCounty’sToys for Tots.“Iwanted todomore forour school,
so I asked my students, ‘What can wedo?’” Vissotto said. “A couple of the stu-dents said, ‘Why don’t we collect toysfor some kids who don’t have toys?’”Vissotto spoke to Montgomery
County’s Toys for Tots coordina-tor and was told to bring whateverwas collected to the warehouse in
Toys for Tots gathers in Gaithersburg
TOM FEDOR/THE GAZETTE
Volunteer Kaniria Scott, 9, of Gaithersburg sorts incoming Toys for Tots donations forredistribution at a Gaithersburg warehouse.
n Mixed-use complex underwayon Watkins Mill Road
BY VIRGINIA TERHUNESTAFFWRITER
The two Paramount apartmentbuildings west of Frederick Road(Md. 355) are open and leasing, andwork has begun on construction ofthe five-storyMajestic building in theSpectrumproject on thenorth side ofWatkinsMill Road in Gaithersburg.The name Spectrum refers to the
variety of services offered on the site,said Peter Henry, managingmemberof Henry Investment Partners, in anemail.Henry Investment Partners
joined Kline & Associates to formBP Realty Investments based in Po-tomac,which is developingSpectrum
as part of the overall Watkins MillTownCenter project.The Paramount at Watkins Mill
includes 224 apartments in twobuildings with underground parkingand a retail area that includes a Cali-fornia Tortilla restaurant that openedonDec. 13.The restaurantwas ahitwithRaul
Llerena of Germantown, who worksnearby at the Great Beginnings store,and with wife Katherine Llerena wholikes the food.“You can mix what you want,”
she said.The Majestic building now un-
der construction will include moreground-floor restaurants and fourstories of residential units, Henrysaid.The Spectrum development also
Spectrum site on therise in Gaithersburg
St. Nick trades sleigh and bells for sirens and wheels
See BARRICADE, Page A-8
See DISTRICT, Page A-8
See CONSTRUCTION, Page A-8
See SANTA, Page A-7
See TOYS, Page A-7
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 24Kosher Style Comedy, 6:30-9:30 p.m.,
Ted’s 355 Diner, 895 Rockville Pike, Rock-ville. Featuring four stand-up comics,including Mark Matusof headlining. $15.301-652-0580.
FRIDAY, DEC. 26The Nutcracker, 7 p.m., Robert E. Pa-
rilla Performing Arts Center, MontgomeryCollege, 51 Mannakee St., Rockville. Also 1and 5 p.m. Dec. 27 and 28. Celebrating the25th anniversary of the Maryland YouthBallet’s performances of the holiday clas-sic. There will be a Nutcracker Q&A for GirlScouts at 3 p.m. Dec. 27 and Dec. 28 to gotoward the Nutcracker badge. $30-$35 forperformances. marylandyouthballet.org.
SATURDAY, DEC. 27Tour of National Park Seminary, 1-3
p.m., 2755 Cassedy St., Silver Spring.Guided walking tour of the historic formerschool for women, now a residential com-munity. $5. www.saveourseminary.org.After Holiday Wine Down, 6-9 p.m.,
The Winery at Olney, 18127 Town CenterDrive. With tastings, light appetizers,poetry and music. $25. [email protected] Christmas Tree, 7 p.m., Damas-
cus United Methodist Church, 9700 NewChurch St. 70-voice choir and orchestrapresent concert of Christmas anthems andcarols, with sing-along hymns to celebrate12 days of Christmas. $10. 301-253-0022.
SUNDAY, DEC. 28Grandparents Gone Wired Tech Café,
11 a.m.-1 p.m., Beth Sholom Congrega-tion, 11825 Seven Locks Road, Potomac.Tech training for older adults provided byteens. Free. [email protected].
MONDAY, DEC. 29STEM Mini-Makers, 3-4 p.m., Damas-
cus Library, 9701 Main St. Create a hands-on project while learning about science,technology, engineering or math. Spon-sored by Friends of the Library, DamascusChapter. Ages 2-8; siblings welcome. Free;no registration required. 240-773-9444.
TUESDAY, DEC. 30Preschool Film Fest, 10:30-11:30
a.m., Damascus Library, 9701 Main St.,Damascus. Short films based on chil-dren’s picture books featured each weekin one-hour program. Ages 2-6; siblingswelcome. Free. 240-773-9444.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 31New Year’s Eve Labyrinth Walk, 6-9
p.m., Cedar Lane Unitarian Church, 9601Cedar Lane, Bethesda. Indoor candlelitlabyrinth walk with Meg Baker playingpiano and harp. Free; donations accepted.240-476-2219.
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n Religious leaders spent yearsadvocating for Gross’ freedom
BY DANIEL LEADERMAN
STAFF WRITER
After serving five years in a Cubanprison because authorities said he wasa spy, Potomac resident Alan Gross re-turned to the U.S. on Dec. 17, sparkinga celebration from those who had beenadvocating for his release.
“There’s nothing except sheer hap-piness that we feel at the release ofAlan,” Ronald Halber, executive direc-tor of the Jewish Community RelationsCouncil of Greater Washington, toldThe Gazette that day.
“The nicest thing I can think of is thatAlanwillbeable to light [Hanukkah]can-dles tonight with his wife,” Halber said.
Gross,65,wassentencedto15yearsinprison in 2009 for helping a Jewish com-
munity in Cuba improve its access to theInternet. At the time, he was working forthe U.S. Agency for International Devel-opment. In prison, Gross reportedly lostmore than 100 pounds and suffered fromarthritis and problems with his vision.
His release Wednesday came aspart of a prisoner exchange betweenCuba and the U.S. and a move by Presi-dent Barack Obama to normalize rela-tions between the two countries.
Among those who flew back withGross from Havana to Joint Base An-drews were his wife, Judy, and Rep. ChrisVan Hollen Jr. (D-Dist. 8) of Kensington.
“This day would not have been pos-sible without the tireless advocacy ofAlan’s wife, Judy, who never gave up,”Van Hollen said in a statement.
Rabbi Arnold Saltzman, who helpedorganize vigils for Gross outside the Cu-ban Special Interests Section — Cuba’sversion of an embassy in Washington— said he was grateful for Gross’ release
and that the day’s news was good forGross and good for the Cuban people.
“We were all very excited when weheard that Alan was on his way home,”Saltzman said.
Rabbi Gerry Serotta, executive di-rector of the Interfaith Conference ofMetropolitan Washington, anotherorganization that had worked to freeGross, also noted that Gross’ release co-incided with the first day of Hanukkah.
“It enables the entire community tohave the increased feeling of light andhope” that Hanukkah represents, Se-rotta said.
Serottasaidhewasawarethatserious,informal discussions regarding Gross’ re-lease were occurring behind the scenes,but didn’t know Gross was coming homeuntil he heard it on the radio that day.
“I cheered and said, ‘Hallelujah’ inmy car,” he said.
Release from Cuban prison hailed
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Away in a manger
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Above: Ivan Attiogbe and Addison Moncak, both 10, of Gaithersburg play shepherds watch-ing over their flock as it tries to eat the manger decorations during a live Nativity stagedby eight Gaithersburg churches.At left: Caroline Kaelin, 6, of Gaithersburg plays an angel watching over Mary, played byBillie Ray, 15, of Gaithersburg, and baby Jesus, played by Jace Kaelin, 4 months, ofGaithersburg.On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, a mix of members for the participating congregations —Gaithersburg Presbyterian, St. Martin of Tours, Epworth United Methodist, Good ShepherdLutheran, Grace United Methodist, Church of the Ascension, First Baptist Church and MizoPresbyterian — dressed up to portray those who were present at the birth of Jesus. Thelive Nativity took place in the open field at the intersection of Desellum and S. Frederickavenues in Gaithersburg.
The following is a summary ofincidents in the northern area towhich Montgomery County policeresponded recently. The words “ar-rested” and “charged” do not implyguilt. This information was providedby the county.
Armed robbery• HiltonHotel, 620 Perry Park-
way, Gaithersburg, at 4:15 p.m.Dec. 5. The subject threatened thevictimwith a weapon and tookproperty.
• Bus stop at Clopper andMateny roads, Germantown, at9:45 p.m. Dec. 6. The subjectsthreatened the victimwith aweapon and took property.
Auto theft• 20800 block of Amber Ridge
Drive, Germantown, betweenDec.3 and 5.
• 18700 block ofWhite SandsDrive, Germantown, between 2and 4:30 p.m. Dec. 4. Dirt bike sto-len from victim’s backyard.
• 20400 block of Apple HarvestCircle, Germantown, between 8and 11:30 a.m. Dec. 5. Attemptedtheft of unlocked vehicle.
Sexual assault• 300 block ofWest Deer Park
Road, Gaithersburg, at 10:20 a.m.Dec. 2. The subject exposed him-self to the victim.
• Parking lot of LA Fitness,602 Quince Orchard Road, Gaith-ersburg, at 8:20 p.m.Dec. 3. Thesubject inappropriately touchedthe victim.
• 20700 block of Crystal RockDrive, Germantown, between 5 and9 p.m.Dec. 8. The subject is knownto the victim.
Commercial burglary• Salvation Army Store, 18705
N. Frederick Ave., Gaithersburg,between 8 p.m.Dec. 2 and 7:45 a.m.Dec. 3. Forced entry, took property.
Indecent exposure•McDonalds, 465N. Frederick
Ave., Gaithersburg, at 3:50 p.m.Dec.6. The subject exposed himself tothe victim.
Peeping Tom• 700 block of QuinceOrchard
Boulevard, Gaithersburg, at 8:40p.m.Dec. 7. The subject was look-ing through thewindow.
Aggravated assault• 100 block of Duvall Lane,
Gaithersburg, at 4 p.m.Dec. 3. Thesubject is known to the victim.
• SenecaValleyHigh School,
19401 Crystal RockDrive, German-town, at 11:15 a.m.Dec. 4. The sub-ject is known to the victim.
• 19000 block of SawyerTer-race, Germantown, at 2 a.m.Dec. 5.The subject is known to the victim.
• 19600blockofCrystalRockDrive,Germantown,at 8:30p.m.Dec.7.Thesubject is knownto thevictim.
Residential burglary• 700 block of QuinceOrchard
Boulevard, Gaithersburg, between4:30 and 7 p.m.Dec. 3. Attemptedforced entry, took nothing.
• 9700 block of LeatherfernTer-race,MontgomeryVillage, at 9:10a.m.Dec. 4. Attempted forced entry,took nothing.
• 9600 block ofMarston Lane,Gaithersburg, at 1 a.m.Dec. 7. At-tempted forced entry, took nothing.
• 2300blockofDancrestDrive,Clarksburg,between2and6a.m.Dec. 7.No forcedentry, tookprop-erty.
• 18900 block of SmoothstoneWay,MontgomeryVillage, at 10:42a.m.Dec. 9.
Vehicle larceny•Two incidents on Airpark
Road andOldeTownAvenue,Gaithersburg, betweenDec. 1 and9.Took a catalytic converter, awheel and hubcaps.
•Two incidents onTravis Laneand Falling River Drive, Gaithers-burg, betweenDec. 1 and 9.Tookcash, a cellphone andGPS unit.
• 19800 block of Century Bou-levard, Germantown, between 6and 8 p.m.Dec. 2. No forced entry,took cash and credit cards.
• 300 block ofWest SideDrive,Gaithersburg, onDec. 3 or 4. Un-known entry, took a speaker, ID andglasses.
• 13000 block ofThunderheadDrive, Germantown, onDec. 3 or 4.Unknown entry, took nothing.
• 20100 block of ClubHillDrive, Germantown, atmidnightDec. 4. Unknown entry, tookchange.
• 100 block of Lake Park Court,Germantown, between 5:30 and 10a.m.Dec. 4. No forced entry, tookpurse and prescriptions.
• 300 block ofWest SideDrive,Gaithersburg, at 1:44 a.m.Dec. 6.Unknown entry, took cash.
• 13500 block of Station Street,Germantown, onDec. 7 or 8. Noforced entry, took cash and creditcards.
• 12800 block of Locbury Circle,Germantown, betweenmidnightand 4 a.m.Dec. 8. No forced entry,took a nebulizer.
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n Poolesville seniors impresswith science, math andcomputer presentations
BYSAMANTHASCHMIEDERSTAFFWRITER
One by one, seniors dressedin business-professional attire inthe Science, Math and ComputerScienceHouseatPoolesvilleHighSchoolwentup in front of packedclassrooms to present to theirpeers the extraordinary researchtheyeachhadtirelesslyworkedonduring their summer internships.
Mark Curran, the head of theSMCS House, explained that thiswas the fourth year of the SMCSSenior Research Convention,which is hosted for two days forfourperiodsthroughouteachday.This year, the convention was onDec. 16 and Dec. 18, from 8 a.m.to 12:30 p.m. A committee ofabout eight juniors in the depart-ment were in charge of planningthe day’s events, designing andprinting the schedules and mak-ing sureeverything ransmoothly.
Each student in the science,mathandcomputersciencemag-net program at Poolesville HighSchool is encouraged tocompletean internship in the summerbetween their junior and senioryear in a research laboratory oftheir choosing inorder to get a re-search endorsement on their de-
gree,accordingtoPatriciaMiller,abiology teacher and the senior re-search coordinator. Students alsomust enter national competitionswith their research, such as theSiemens Competition in Science,Math&Technology.
“We prepare the studentsstartinginninthgradeforthis,giv-ingthemtheskills tobesuccessfulin a laboratory setting,” Curransaid.
After their research, the stu-dents must prepare a writtenreport about their work and find-ings and then present it to theirclassmatesduringtheconvention.
“[The convention] allowsstudents to have the platform toshow this research and show thatthey can do this in high school,”Curransaid.
Umesh Padia, 17, completedan internship at the National In-stitute of Diabetes and Digestiveand Kidney Diseases at the Na-tional Institutes of Health, whereheurgedtheuseofcomputationalwork to aid research. Padia’s pre-sentation was titled “The Discov-ery of a Novel TRH-R1 Agonist:A Drug Candidate for TreatingDepression, Graves’ Disease andHypothyroidism.”
“I decided to intern there be-cause I always loved computerscience, but I wanted [my work]to have a humanitarian compo-nent,” Padia said, explaining thathe doesn’t just want tomake cell-phones a couple seconds faster,
hewants tohelppeople.Padia, of Germantown, is a
Siemens semifinalist.Yogith Tupakula, 17, interned
with the U.S. Army Research Labandhis researchpresentationwastitled “Development and Integra-tionofSmartFeaturesandAlarmsinto Various Sensors.” Tupakula,of Clarksburg, explained that hiswork connected remote sensorswith the researchers monitoringthemwirelesslysothat theydidn’thave to check on them for data asconsistently.
Tupakala explained that dur-ing his research he and the re-search team set up a sensor fourhours away, and when they wentto go check on it four weeks later,the battery wasn’t working prop-erly, meaning they didn’t gatheranydata.Tupakula thoughtbeingable to get notifications about theactivityofthesensorswouldmakeexperiments runmore smoothly.
“[The information] gets sentout in a text or email. ‘Hey yourexperiment isn’t working right,youmightwanttogocheckonit,’”Tupakula said.
For Tupakula’s internship,he needed a security clearance.Miller explainedwith a laugh thatshe doesn’t have a security clear-anceashighashisandhadtowaitfor the Army to declassify the re-search before she was able to seeandgradehispaperandpresenta-tion.
Curran said the companies
and organizations that take onPoolesville students as interns areglad to have them there becausethey are quick learners who areexcited about being able to par-ticipate in research. Miller saidthat some companies see thesehigh school students as compa-rable to college or graduate levelresearchers.
“As a biology teacher, I try toget themreallyexcitedaboutbiol-ogy,” Miller said, adding that thephysics teachers and computerscience teachers try to get themexcitedabout theirfield, too.
In the end, Miller said thesubject that the students want tostudy is completelyup to them.
Miller said that while manystudents had local internships,many others had internships lo-cated out of town. One studentworkedinMassachusetts,anothercommuted by bus to Baltimoreand one student’s parents rentedhimanapartmentinorderforhimtoworkinBaltimore.ShantaMur-thy,17,ofGaithersburghadtouseWhite’s Ferry to travel to GeorgeWashington University’s Virginiacampus for her internship eachday.
Miller said the commitmentof theparentswasastounding,es-pecially regarding travel.
“We do it for sports; whywouldn’t we do it for science?”Miller said.
Convention shows students’ potential
n Project is expected totake about 14 months
BY SAMANTHA SCHMIEDER
STAFFWRITER
County Executive IkeLeggett and County Council
member Craig Rice came outon Thursday morning to par-ticipate in the ground break-ing ceremony of phase twoof Churchill Senior Living onFather Hurley Boulevard inGermantown.
Phase one, which con-sisted of 121 affordable apart-ments, opened in 2001. Phasetwo will add 133 units with121 of those available to thosewith an income at or below 60percent of the area median,and 12 units at market price.
“I like coming to groundbreaking ceremonies, but Ilove coming to ribbon cut-tings,” Leggett said, explain-ing that the ribbon cuttingmeans all the hard work isover and the project is fin-ished and ready to use.
After Leggett said a fewwords, Rice took to the po-dium and spoke about thefact that seniors are the num-ber one rising demographicin the county and providingthem with safe and afford-able places to live is key to thecommunity’s success.
“Many people don’t un-derstand that this county hasinvested in a senior agenda,”Rice said.
Leggett, Rice and JosephParreco, theCEOof developerOakwood Properties, as wellas a handful of other peopleinvolved in the approval anddevelopment of the project,headed to the back of thebuilding to break ground. Thebuilding will reach from theexisting building to thewoodsbehind the property.
“The thing that I ammosthappy and proud of is thisproject adds to the fabric ofthe community,” Parreco saidafter the ceremonial tossingof the dirt.
Parreco explained thathaving affordable housingavailable for seniors in Mont-gomery County keeps themin the county and near theirchildren or grandchildrenwho live around the area.Keeping seniors in the com-munity means keeping thefamily ties.
“Those ties are more im-portant than money or unitsor anything,” Parecco said.
Director of Churchill Se-nior Living Matthew Pareccosaid that the second buildingwill attach to the already ex-isting building and enclose anoutdoor courtyard.
“Phase two is connectedto phase one, they won’tneed to go outside to get toit,” Matthew Parreco said.
He explained that theseniors already living in thephase one building, which hesaid is just about at capacity,will not have to relocate dur-ing construction and it won’taffect their living conditions.The project is expected totake 14months and there willalso be a phase three at somepoint in the future.
“Like everybody touchedon, we are adding units forthose who are 62 and oldergiving them the ability to stayin the county and be closer totheir children or grandchil-dren,” Matthew Parecco said.
Churchill breaksground for phase two
Eight festive nights
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Katie Joyce, 6 of Gaithersburg, makes a Hanukkah card at theChabad Lubavitch of Upper Montgomery County annual “ChanukahWonderland” in the Kentlands Shopping Center.
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n Advisory group formingfor Clarksburg-Boyds
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The Washington SuburbanSanitary Commission is lookingfor citizen input to recommendabare-bones sewer plan to servefuture growth on nearly 1,000acres inClarksburgandBoyds.
The plan will show the loca-tion of future pumping stations,forcemainsandmainsewerlanestoservedevelopablesitesonbothsidesof Interstate 270, saidDavidLake, special assistant with thecounty’sDepartmentofEnviron-mental Protection, during a Dec.17 informationalmeeting hostedby theWSSCinClarksburg.
Based in Laurel, theWSSC isforming an advisory committeeto work with property owners,developers, residents and envi-ronmentalists over the next fewmonths to comeupwith recom-mendations.
Major developable areas in-clude the Pulte Homes site andcounty jail west of I-270, and theMiles Coppola, Egan andClarks-burg Historic District sites eastof I-270, said Kenneth Dixon, amember of the WSSC planningteam,during themeeting.
Officials hope to bring a rec-ommended plan to the county’sPlanning Board in March andthen to the County Council forfinal approval.
Anyone interested in servingon the committee should emailDixon at [email protected].
Inaddition,Lake is forminga
separatecommittee toworkwithproperty owners in the Clarks-burg Historic District, wheresome owners need sewer con-
nections todevelop their sites.The regional sewer plan
for the Clarksburg-Boyds areawouldprovidesomecertaintyfor
developers, who are required tobuild sewer lines as part of theirprojects.
A regional plan also is moreefficient for the WSSC and thecounty, officials said.
A centrally located pumpingstation that serves several prop-erties, for example, is better thanhaving four or five developerseach locate their own pumpingstations, Lake said.
“You get a proliferation ofvery inefficient infrastructure,”Lake said. “It’s better to be de-fined on the master plan wherethe sewerswill be.”
Depending on terrain,wastewater can sometimes har-ness gravity to flow downhillto the Crystal Rock treatmentplant in Germantown; however,sometimes pumping stationsand force mains are needed topump sewage up and over hillsasneeded to reach theplant.
WSSC has drafted five pos-sible plans for pumping stationsin the Clarksburg-Boyds areabut has eliminated the first twobecause of disruption to the TenMile streamnetwork.
The remaining three optionsvary in their mixes of pumpingstation locations, tunnel andstreamcrossings,andcapitalandoperatingcosts.
TheDec. 17WSSCpresenta-tionandthe42-pagedraftClarks-burg Area Sewer Facility Studyare posted at wsscwater.com/home by entering “Ten MileCreek” in the searchbox.
To provide input or com-ments regarding the sewer al-ternatives and the posted draftreport, email theWSSC commu-nications office at [email protected].
n Officers engage withyouth during Gaithersburg
shopping spree
BY JENNDAVISSTAFFWRITER
When 12-year-old NicoleYanque hit Lakeforest mall inGaithersburg foraholidayspend-ing spree on Thursday, she wasjoined by an unlikely shoppingpartner—apolice officer.
Yanque and sevenother chil-dren in the city were selected toparticipate in the GaithersburgPolice Department’s first ever“Shop with a Cop” event. It washosted in partnershipwith Lake-forest mall, which donated one,$100 gift card to each child inneedso that theycouldpurchaseholiday gifts for themselves andtheir familymembers.
The families involved werechosen from amongst referralsto Gaithersburg’s Holiday Giv-ing program.
Ten police officers repre-senting both the GaithersburgandMontgomery County PoliceDepartments were paired withthe children and accompaniedthem as they made their way tothe various shops.
Gaithersburg Police officerDave Bower was linked up withYanque and her mother, Maria.The trio made their first stop atZumiez, where Yanque bought apair of aqua blue Vans shoes anda similar colored scarf for herself.
Forever 21 was the next storeon the list, and there Yanque car-ried on her aqua theme by pick-ing out amatching shirt. She alsochose tobuyablackpeacoat-stylecoat andapairofdressyflats.
Going into the event, Yanqueof Gaithersburg said she wasn’texactly sure what she was look-ing for.
“When I was going into thestores, I didn’t knowwhat toget,”Yanque said, adding that shecontemplated many differentpurchases as she shopped.
It was “weird” at first to shopat themall with a police officer intow, Yanque said, but it becamemore comfortable as time wenton.
Bower said he enjoys partici-pating in events like “Shopwith aCop” because it gives officers theopportunity to engage in a posi-tive activity with area children.He said it’s important to make aconnectionwith local youth sincetheyoftenhaveagoodgraspofthegoings-on in their community.
Dan Lane, a GaithersburgPolice officer and spokesman,echoed Bower’s remarks. Manyinteractions that children havewith the police involves enforce-ment, like in situations of callsfor service and traffic stops, Lanesaid. Having one-on-one interac-tion with the children in a non-enforcement atmosphere givesthe officers a chance to get toknow them on a relaxed, friendlylevel, he said.
The Gaithersburg Police De-partment hopes to turn the eventinto an annual tradition, Lanesaid.
After shopping, the childrenand their parents were treated byLakeforestmalltoamealatnearbyRed Robin. While they were eat-ing,membersof theMontgomeryCountyPoliceExplorersPost1986wrapped their gifts. Explorers are
a group of teens who learn aboutlaw enforcement careers throughvolunteeropportunities.
To cap off the night, theGaithersburg Police Foundationgavethechildrentheopportunitytohave aphoto takenwith Santa.
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Tatianya Koenigh, 11 of Gaithersburg, picks out shoes with help fromMontgomery County officer William Drew.
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WSSC developing sewer plan
Financing sewer lineconnections to propertiesthat still use well and septicsystemshas becomeprohibi-tively expensive in the region,especially for businesses inthe Clarksburg Historic Dis-trict.
“The system has failed,”said David Lake, special as-sistant with the county’s De-partment of EnvironmentalProtection, at an informa-tional meeting hosted by theWashington Suburban Sani-tary Commission in Clarks-burgonDec. 17.
To help solve the prob-lem, the county is forming acitizens advisory committeespecifically for the HistoricDistrict to explore solutions,Lake said.
The WSSC, which servesbothMontgomeryandPrinceGeorge’s counties, requiresdevelopers to help pay forpumping stations and mainlines, but the agency does nothave funds to help propertyowners pay for local connec-tions,Lakesaid.
Clarksburg Historic Dis-trict owners had expected totie into a line with the devel-opment of theMiles Coppolasite between the district andInterstate 270 north of Clarks-burgRoad(Md.121).
TheCountyCouncil,how-ever, down-zoned the prop-erty and other sites to protectthe Ten Mile Creek system,whichmeans owners on welland septic in theHistoric Dis-trict cannot currently tie intoa developer-financed sewerline.
Lake said currentpossiblealternatives include buildinga temporary pumping stationon the south end of the His-toric District or a permanentone further south that wouldbepartofaregionalsewersys-tem for the Clarksburg-Boydsareanowbeingplanned.
Anyoneinterestedinserv-ingon theClarksburgHistoricDistrict advisory committeeshould contact Lake at [email protected].
County officials in Mont-gomery and Prince George’scounties have also been talk-ing with WSSC about how tofinance sewer connections intheregiongenerally.
Members of the Mont-gomery County Council’sTransportation, Infrastruc-ture,EnergyandEnvironmentcommitteeareexpectedtotalkabout the issue at their Jan. 12meeting.
— VIRGINIA TERHUNE
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California Tortilla opensnew Gaithersburg storeCalifornia Tortilla is now
bringing its Mexican cuisineto Gaithersburg with the Dec.13 opening of a new location
at Paramount at Watkins MillTownCenter in Gaithersburg.
The fast-casual chain servedfree burritos and a beverage forboth lunch and dinner serviceon opening day, according to acompany news release. The first20 customers in line also wonfree burritos for one year.
California has more than 40locations along the East Coast.For more information, visit cali-
forniatortilla.com.
Gaithersburg hosts BlackHistory essay contestIn celebration of Black His-
tory Month in February, thecity of Gaithersburg’s Multicul-tural Affairs Committee is host-ing an essay contest for third-,fourth- and fifth-grade students
at Gaithersburg elementaryschools.
The theme for the essaycontest is: “What lessons canwe learn from the life of NelsonMandela?” Essays, which mustbe between 100 and 300 words,should be typed and doublespaced. The student’s name,grade and school must be in-cluded in the essay’s heading.
Entries must be submit-
ted by email to [email protected], with “MAC EssayContest 2015” in the subject line.The deadline for submissions isJan. 16.
The top three essay winnerswill read their essays and receiveawards during a special recep-tion on Feb. 18 at the BohrerPark Activity Center.
For more information, con-tactAndiRosati at 301-258-6350,
ext. 128, or [email protected].
Free cab rides aim toreduce drunken drivingThe Washington Regional
Alcohol Program is offering freetaxi rides to people now throughNew Year’s Day in hopes of dis-couraging drunken driving.
Each night from 10 p.m. to6 a.m., people who have beendrinking alcohol in the area cancall 800-200-TAXI and get a freecab ride valued at up to $30. Thegroup says that 1,877 people inthe area used the service, calledtheHoliday SoberRideprogram,last December.
New Strathmore venuestarts ticket sales
The AMP by Strathmoreconcert venue in White Flint’sPike & Rose development hasannounced its first shows whenit opens in the spring.
The venue, opening inMarch, has a concert lineup andticket information at ampbys-trathmore.com.
The performers confirmedso far include a Frank Sinatratribute band, folk and bluegrassmusicians, a stand-up come-dian, an ambient electronic art-ist and a winner of “Australia’sGotTalent,” according to anewsrelease from Strathmore. Thevenue also will serve food.
Jack and Jill donates toys,school supplies
The Jack and Jill chapter ofMontgomery County has do-nated toys and school suppliesto the National Center for Chil-dren and Families in Bethesda.
Jack and Jill of America is ablack family organization, com-prisingmothers of children ages2 to 19. It has more than 230chapters, representing morethan 40,000 family membersnationwide, according to thegroup’s website.
Olney begins search forAthena winner
Nominations are now be-ing accepted for the 10th An-niversary Greater Olney-SandySpring Athena Award.
Presented in memory ofBrookeGroveRetirementVillagefounderEleanorHoweMarston,the program recognizes andhonors women for communityservice and professional andpersonal leadership.
Nominations are dueMarch6. Nominees will be honoredand the recipient announced atan award tea onMay 1.
The Olney Chamber ofCommerce and Brooke Grovewebsites have more informa-tion, along with nomination,sponsorship and tribute forms.
Proceeds benefit the BrookeGrove Foundation Sue HoweMemorial and Olney ChamberofCommerce scholarship funds.
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n Report will focus onhow to implement system
on Md. 355
BY JENNDAVISSTAFFWRITER
Gaithersburg officialsagreed on Dec. 15 to spend upto $105,000 to study how a busrapid transit linewould best fitin the city’s five-mile stretch ofMd. 355.
John Schlichting, Gaith-ersburg’s director of planningandcode administration, saidcity staff knows that mak-ing physical improvementsto the Frederick Avenue cor-ridor is a major priority. But,he said, staff also believes thatplanning for bus rapid transitshould be the first step in re-vitalizing the corridor.
“Once we have a plan[from the study], then we willbe able to determine whatphysical improvements wecould do to the corridor thatwon’t preclude or won’t cre-ate any issues with plans forBRT,” Schlichting said.
The city study would alsoserve as a guide for the state,which has put aside morethan $6 million in its fis-cal year 2016 ConsolidatedTransportation Program for atwo-year study of Md. 355 forfuture bus rapid transit.
“We want to be proactiveand get ahead of the state inorder to ensure that city pri-orities are met and decisionsare made that are in the bestinterests of the city,” Schlicht-ing said.
Part of the studywill focuson the “choke point” at thebridge where Md. 355 crossesover the CSX railroad tracksin Gaithersburg. For thatstudy area, the report wouldinclude an inventory of theexisting conditions, an analy-sis of strengths, weaknessesopportunities and threats, aseries of possible alternativesfor the system’s operation inthat spot, and recommendedcross-sections and rights-of-way for various operationscenarios, according to Schli-chting.
Another section of thestudy will give guidance on
right-of-way policy and sta-tion locations relative to thecity’s five-mile section of thecorridor, he said.
To fund the study, Schli-chting suggested that themoney come from a sectionof the city’s fiscal year 2015Capital Improvements Pro-gram called “355 CorridorPlan Improvements,” sincehe said the study would helpto guide future improvementprojects on Frederick Avenue.The section included $50,000for design and $70,000 forconstruction.
Council members gen-erally agreed that the studywas important and shouldbe done, but also said theywanted to see improvementsto the Frederick Avenue corri-dor using funds originally setaside for that purpose.
Councilwoman CathyDrzyzgula said she was “alittle disturbed” that themoney for those corridorimprovements had not yetbeen touched almost halfwaythrough the budget year. Shesaid making changes to areassuch as the corridor cannotcontinually be put off be-cause of concerns that theymay conflict with future de-velopment.
Hoping to find a happymedium, Councilman RyanSpiegel asked City ManagerTony Tomasello if there weremoney elsewhere in the bud-get to use for the study, so themoney allocated for the Md.355 improvements could beused for its intended purpose.
Tomasello said contin-gency funds could be used tosupport the cost of the study.
Schlichting said the planis to have the request for pro-posal posted by early Januaryand schedule a study kickoffmeeting for late February. Thegoal is to have the study com-pleted by early summer, so itcanbe sent to the state aroundthe same time that a similarstudy in the city of Rockville isto be submitted.
City gives green light tobus rapid transit study
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Gaithersburg by Dec. 18. Clem-ente made it a schoolwide driveand many students brought intoys and were excited to partici-pate.
This holiday season, PaulGunther, the Toys for TotsMontgomery County coordi-nator, is using a donated ware-house inGaithersburg as Santa’sworkshop to gather, organizeand store toys for the county’sneedydonatedbyClemente stu-dents andmanyothers through-out the area.
Standard Properties, aWashington, D.C.-based realestate developer, generouslydonated warehouse space forthe 2014 holiday season onMet-ropolitanCourt inGaithersburg.
Gunther, a retired Navycorpsman and a member of theMarine Corp League in MountAiry, used to help with Toys forTots in Frederick.
Up until a few years ago,toy donations in Montgom-ery County were distributedthrough Toys for Tots entities inAnacostia for the southern partof the county and Frederick forthe northern part. Eventually,Gunther was asked to take overMontgomery County’s distri-bution and he was more thanhappy to do so.
“I’m retired; I have nothingbetter to do,” Gunther said witha laugh.
The first year Gunther wasin charge he said he collected30,000 toys and about $2,000or $3,000 in checks and moneydonations. Each year he usesthe money to get toys for theage groups that don’t receiveenough gifts from the toy dona-tions.
“There’s not a lot of infantandnot a lot of older [toys], usu-ally the in between [receive themost],” Gunther said.
Last year, Gunther had a dif-ferent warehouse in Gaithers-burg, but could only use it untilthe beginning of January, justlike the one he is using this year.
“I had 10,000 leftover. How
do I go about dispersing theseitems to people who needthem?” Gunther said.
He decided he could reachout to families who missed thedeadline to sign up to receivetoys for their children, but real-ized that may not be the fair-est approach, because manypeople missed the deadline andit would be hard to track all ofthemdown.
In Montgomery County,residents must sign up to re-ceive donations for their chil-dren or family members by acertain date. A Wider Circle, agroup thatworks to endpoverty,serves as the coordinator for theMontgomery County HolidayGiving Project, which has con-tacts throughout the countywith social workers, at churchesand with various communitygroups. Those in need applythrough these various groupsand their names and needs areentered into a database to keep
everything organized.Gunther then receives or-
der sheets detailing the numberof boys and girls as well as thenumber of each gender in everyage group.
“If I had a permanent ware-house I could keep toys in thewarehouse for the next season,”Gunther said.
Gunther said he is lookingfor space every day, whether heis just driving along or droppingoff or picking up Toys for Totsitems.
“We don’t have a whole lotof money; everything we get isfor the kids. If someone givesus $1,000 I’m going to use thatmoney to buy toys for nextyear,” Gunther said.
While he is happy to have aspace to use seasonally, he doeswant to upgrade.
“My dream goal would be topurchase a warehouse or buildone, but Toys for Tots is an en-tity — we can’t own anything,
it takes a nonprofit to do that.I’m looking into it to see what itentails to make it a nonprofit,”Gunther said.
He explained that the ware-house gets very busy about 10days before Christmas as all ofthe donations come pouring in.
“[Volunteers are] out pick-ing up toys, sorting them andbagging them for the agencies,”Gunther said.
Vissotto was very proud ofwhat his students accomplishedand was happy to add to thewarehouse with Clemente’s do-nations.
“My job is to try to teach thekids Spanish, but also open uptheir mind and see what is hap-pening around theworld. Teachthem about being caring, help-ing,” Vissotto said.
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Some of them cry, becausethey’re scared.”
The most rewarding part,Ladany said, was seeing otherofficers interact with the pa-tients at The Children’s Inn atthe party at the end of the ride.
“Most of these motorcyclecops are pretty tough guys,” hesaid. “When you look at one ofthese tough guys, that woulddie for people, getting their facepainted by a little sick kid, orwrapping a gift with them,man,it’s like— it’s amazing.”
Ladany added that he andhis wife are cancer survivors,and liked to do something to
give back.“They have arts and crafts
planned, we have Santa meetevery child, and it’s just a funevening to take their minds offtheirmedical appointments thatthey’ve been through during theday,” said Laura King, senior di-rector of volunteer and commu-nity outreach for The Children’sInn. “During the holidays, the
last thing you want is to have achild that’s sick and The Chil-dren’s Inn is there for those chil-dren and their families.”
Santa and his posse alsowere collecting donations oftoys and pledges of future mon-etary donations for The Chil-dren’s Inn, King said.
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n Work begins soonat MARC station
BY VIRGINIA TERHUNE
STAFFWRITER
Construction is expected tobegin in mid-January to replacethe pedestrian bridge over theCSX Transportation tracks atthe Germantown MARC stationwith a bridge that is three feethigher.
Doing so will enable freighttrains to carry a container unitstacked on top of another con-tainer unit, saidCSX spokesmanRobDoolittle in an email.
Clark Construction based inBethesdawill be doing thework,which will take place Mondaythrough Friday during regularworking hours, he said.
The CSX project, whichcould last five months depend-ingonweather,will not interfere
with commuters continuing touse the bridge, he said in theemail.
It will also not affect theground-level track crossingto the south of the pedestrianbridge that connects a parkinglot east of the tracks to the Ger-mantownMARC station west ofthe tracks.
The project will involve re-placing the existing pedestrian
bridge with a single-span steeltruss bridge, Doolittle said inthe email.
Crewswill saw-cut the exist-ing bridge along the length ofthe span, temporarily creatinga narrower pedestrian walkwaywith protective barriers, he said.
Crews will then demolishtheotherpart of the spanand, inits place, build the new bridge.
“Once the new span is in-stalled and opened for pedes-trian traffic, the other portionof the old span will be demol-ished,” Doolittle said in theemail.
The Germantown projectis part of the National Gatewayprogram to lower tracks or raisebridges to accommodate thedouble-stacking of containers.The program is financed with$575 million in CSX funds and$280million in funds from state,federal andother partners,Doo-little said in the email.
“[It’s] a multi-year public-private effort to improve theflow of rail traffic throughoutthe nation by increasing theuse of double-stack trains, cre-ating more efficient rail routesthat linkmid-Atlantic ports withMidwesternmarkets,” he wrote.
Montgomery County ownsthe Germantown bridge but isnot contributing funds for its re-placement, he wrote.
In late August, CSX com-pleted the raising of the EastDeer Park bridge, also known astheHumpback bridge, that con-nects Gaithersburg and Wash-ington Grove.
CSX also completed twoother Gateway projects in Aprilin Prince George’s County thatinvolved lowering the tracks be-neath Kenilworth Avenue andI-295 in Hyattsville, Doolittlesaid in an email.
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ObituaryWilliam F. True, 88, of Chapin, SC, husband of the late MaryEllen Dalrymple True, died Friday, December 12, 2014 inColumbia, SC.Born on November 5, 1926 in Washington, DC, he was a son thelate Harry S. True and Lucy L. Withers TrueMr. True was a U.S. Army Air Corps veteran of World War IIand worked as a carpet salesman for Ken’s Karpet Korner inWheaton, MD for over 30 years.He lived in Germantown, MD, Sebring, FL and most recently inChapin, SC.Mr. True was very proud of his military service and enjoyed hisprofessional career. He also enjoyed golf, fishing, hunting,traveling, but his favorite time was vacationing with his family.Mr. True is survived by his children, Donna Ann Magrogan(Bill) of Columbia, SC, Judy Ellis (Ron) of Boonsboro, MD, andDaniel E. True (Diane) of Boyds, MD; brother, James EdwardTrue of Ojai, CA; 3 grandchildren; and 5 great grandchildren.Besides his wife and parents, he is predeceased by his siblings,Harry, Louis, Charles, and Mary.Funeral services and entombment will be in Arlington NationalCemetery at a later date.Online condolences may be sent to the family atwww.whitakerfuneralhome.com.Whitaker Funeral Home of Chapin, SC is assisting the family.
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Henry declined to namepossible tenants for the restau-rants.
“It has been our practice toallow the tenants to announcetheir leases,” he said in theemail.
The Watkins Mills TownCenter project also includes aplanned Urban Core sectionwest of Interstate 270 betweenthe Parklands residential com-plex,which isalmost fully leased,and theCSX rail linewhich stopsat Metropolitan Grove.
Planned are 650 condomini-ums, office space, restaurants
and a hotel.Connecting the two sites
will be the new Watkins Mill
interchange estimated to cost$165 million, with $4.9 millioncontributed by the county for
design.Construction is expected
to start in 2016, and the inter-change will open to traffic in thefall of 2018, said spokeswomanEsther Bowring with the coun-ty’s Department of Transporta-tion, in an email.
“The Watkins Mill TownCenter project has been en-visioned as a complete multi-modal, transit-orienteddevelopment utilizing ‘smartgrowth’ design principals,” saidHenry in the email.
“It will feature the collec-tion of the MARC rail station,the Corridor City Transitway,the new Watkins Mill freewayinterchange off I-270, the Ride-On bus system and the new BusRapid Transit (BRT) system,” hesaid.
Tim and Faye Rowe of Da-mascus announce the marriageof their daughter, BrittanyRowe,to Mr. Scott Edward Sankar, sonof Dr. and Mrs. S. G. Sankar, onNov. 15, 2014, at The FrancisMarion Hotel in Charleston,South Carolina.
Brooke Gensch, the bride’ssister, servedasmatronofhonorand Alicia Gonzalez was maidof honor, both from Bethesda.Bridesmaids, all from California,were Frances Ellington, MarjorySnell and Megan Murphy andMaria Bigelow from Urbana.
The groom’s bestmen werehis brother, Michael Sankar, ofMt. Pleasant, South Carolina,and cousin, Eddie Duszlak fromChicago. Groomsmen includedChris Miller from Greenville,North Carolina; Justin William-son from Boulder, Colorado;Matt Teague from Apex, NorthCarolina; and Wes Noblet fromCharlotte, North Carolina.
The ceremony was followedby a cocktail hour and receptionin the hotel’sCarolinaBallroom.The couple honeymooned in St.Lucia and reside in Mt. Pleasant.
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Flaherty hid in the base-ment for several hours whilenegotiators tried to makecontact with him, and even-tually he agreed to surrenderpeacefully and was taken intocustody at about 10:47 p.m.Police recovered multiple fire-arms from the home, includ-ing a handgun hidden in thebasement ceiling, accordingto police.
Flaherty reportedly toldofficers he’d pointed some-thing at them to try to forcethem to shoot him, accordingto police. He is charged withfour counts of first-degreeassault, according to online
court records.Montgomery County Dis-
trict Court Judge Jeannie E.Cho kept bail at $250,000 at ahearing Monday.
Flaherty’s sister, who de-clined to give her name, toldThe Gazette after the bail re-view hearing that the weaponshe kept were registered andkept in cases because Flahertywas preparing to sell them.
Police say the investigationinto the incident is ongoing,and have identified the officerwho fired his weapon as Offi-cer Scott Feldman, a 24-yearveteran of the department.Feldman has been placed onadministrative leave while theinvestigation continues.
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Twenty-two Arts and En-tertainment Districts have al-ready been designated acrossthe state, with MontgomeryCounty currently home to thoseinWheaton,Bethesda and SilverSpring.
Gaithersburg submitted itsintent to apply for the districtin early 2013, proposing theboundary area to center aroundMain Street in the Kentlands,
according to Tom Lonergan, thecity’s economic developmentdirector. While Maryland StateArts Council staff determinedthat the Kentlands communityhad many good qualities, therewere still several issues they feltneeded to be addressed first.
Having an engaged commu-nity is an important factor for asuccessful district, according toDunne, but it was one that sheand her colleagues felt was lack-ing in the Kentlands area.
“That was one where we feltmaybe the Kentlands wasn’t
quite up to speed because wedidn’t get the sense that the en-tire community knew what anArts and Entertainment Districtwas, understood what it wouldmean to the community and re-ally bought into it,” Dunne said.
Another significant issue inthe Kentlands area is the lim-ited amount of studio and gal-lery space for artists to live andwork, Dunne said.
Should Gaithersburg andthe Kentlands community de-cide to submit another intentto apply for the district, Loner-
gan said the city would first lookto strengthen its partnershipwith the Kentlands DowntownPartnership “to better under-stand their management andbudget plans for it.” He said thecity would also work to addressother issues, including lack ofaffordable live/work space forartists.
“We would want to have allour ducks in a row,” Lonergansaid.
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Construction is now underway on the five-story Majestic retail/residentialbuilding in the Spectrum development on Watkins Mill Road in Gaithersburg.In the background are the two Paramount apartment buildings that arealready open and leasing.
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WRITE TO USThe Gazette welcomes letters on subjects of local interest. No anonymous letters are printed. Letters are printed as space permits. Includeyour name, address and daytime telephone number. Send submissions to: The Gazette, attention Commentary Editor, 9030 Comprint Court,Gaithersburg, MD 20877; fax to 301-670-7183; or email to [email protected].
Costco’s mega station gets “ThumbsDown” and the Kensington Heights com-munity gets “Thumbs Up” for having cou-rageously fought, these past years, for theright to live in a safe environment awayfrom imminent pollution. The WestfieldWheaton mall and its heavy traffic is pol-luted enough as it is!
Costco has shown no mercy or sym-pathy towards the Kensington Heightscommunity who, for years, struggled tokeep the mega gas station and its pollutionaway from its residents, the Stephen KnollsSchool for the disabled and the Kenmontswim club.
There’s no need for a mega gas stationin the Wheaton/Kensington area, whichis already blessed with 14 additional gasstations and 3 supermarket stores givingpoints used for purchase of discountedgas. These stores are: the Wheaton Giantand both Safeway stores in Wheaton andKensington.
Let’s hope that justice prevails andthat the Kensington Heights community isspared pollution and the agony and loss ofvaluable time due to corporate greed!
Viviane Pescov, Kensington
Community doesn’t need a Costco gas station
GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
The Costco store at the Westfield Wheaton mall.
The county executive’s plansfor a development ombudsmanto shorten permitting time isa fig leaf for the real problem.Business and prospective em-ployers can clearly see that theMontgomery County is inca-pable of correcting the prob-lems development has alreadycreated. You can be businessfriendly, but you still have to becapable of delivering a livableenvironment with a functioningtransportation infrastructure toattract new enterprise.
The county created an ineptAdequate Public Facility ordi-nance. But it has far too liberalcriteria for overcrowded schoolsand congested highways. Result:We got overcrowded schoolsand congested highways.
The ordinance allows a five-year look ahead to improve-ments that are budgeted, butin reality they may never cometo pass. The 120 percent schoolcapacity overage threshold failsbecause by the time you are 20percent too far down the road,you are still five to 10 years awayfrom the bricks and mortar
needed to correct the problem.Traffic congestion studies
are meaningless because theworst offenders are the statenumbered highways, which arereally not under MoCo control.So MoCo pleads, via its priorityletter, with [the State HighwayAdministration] to address is-sues for which SHA does nothave the necessary resources.So expensive, formal planningefforts only identify problemsand no solutions are available orforthcoming.
Read the MoCo Mobilityreport and count how manytimes the phrase “no correctiveaction is currently planned” ap-pears and you clearly see thatthe county is incapable of actingin a timely fashion even whenit knows disaster is coming ourway. It is all too apparent to aprospective business.
Maybe instead of an om-budsman, we need a formal“maker of the excuses” to attractnew business?
Art Slesinger, Darnestown
Accelerated clockand ombudsman won’t
solve development woesAbout the rising cost of fixing the Silver Spring Transit
Center, let me get this straight. First, the county is planningto front the extra money for the fix, an additional $21 million,which is on top of a previous county expense of $7.5 millionfor prior work.
Second, our re-elected county executive says the taxpay-ing public will not be liable for any additional costs. And whyis this? Because Mr. Leggett assures us that the county will re-cover all fronted money in a lawsuit to come later.
This is just not credible. Maybe the county (all of us) re-ally will recover all of our upfront costs. Maybe not. After all, itseems reasonable to expect the prime contractor, its subcon-tractors, and the design firm each to be represented by well-paid attorneys. And, the county government does not come tosuch a lawsuit with fully clean hands.
One unsurprising outcome might turn out to be a settle-ment prior to trial which would result in only partial paymentto the county (after its own lawyers and expert witness arepaid).
It seems to me to be disingenuous of Mr. Leggett to pre-tend we, the taxpayers, will not ultimately pay for fixing thisstructure. An honest statement can only be that his adminis-tration will try to recover those millions of dollars that we areabout to pay to fix this facility.
Mr. Leggett is just beginning a third term and will likelynot be in government by the time his lawsuit is tried or settled.By then, he will not have to pay a political price if it turns outthat we citizens are not compensated for this disaster.
It is up to the press to maintain a critical eye as this storydevelops.
Bernard Bloom, Silver Spring
Taxpayers will beon the hook for
transit center repairs
This week, we focus on goodwill toward humankind.From our box seat on life in Montgomery County, we see a
great deal of altruism and charity woven into the community.In our pages and on our website, we cover stories of goodnessthat show the caring acts of our cities and neighborhoods.
As we review the waning year and look ahead to the nextone, there’s no better time than this season of religious, cul-tural and spiritual celebration to highlight and commendsome of these selfless acts, such as:
• Kindergartners at Norwood School in Bethesda set a goalof collecting 5,000 boxes of colorful, cartoonish and other-wise fun bandages for pediatric cancer patients at MedStarGeorgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C. Theyended up with 7,130 boxes, which were added to what MaterDei School in Bethesda collected, for a total of about 10,000boxes.
• A member of the Moms Club of Kensington Park starteda toy drive when her children realized that some familiesdon’t have money to buy gifts. The Moms Club worked thisyear with Kensington Baptist Church, collecting an estimatedseveral thousand dollars’ worth of new and used toys.
• Some Indian restaurants in the area helped raise morethan $1,000 for a free clinic for survivors of the deadly 1984Union Carbide industrial accident in Bhopal, India.
• For an organization called Canine Companions for Inde-pendence, Byron Mason of Bethesda has volunteered to raisea Labrador retriever-golden retriever mix who will be trainedas an assistance dog for a person with disabilities.
• Contributions from Montgomery County and well be-yond poured into a fundraising account to help Ken Gem-mell, who lost his wife and two sons when a plane crashedinto their Gaithersburg home. The money flowed in, soaringclose to a half-million dollars in less than two weeks. Otherpeople and businesses in the community have chipped inwith their own fundraising efforts. Gemmell’s employer setup a separate college fund for his surviving daughter.
• Lorig Charkoudian of Takoma Park ran 67 miles fromBaltimore to Hagerstown during a two-day period afterThanksgiving. The trek symbolized the distance Baltimorefamilies travel to be with their relatives in state prison, as theytake part in a conflict resolution program that helps inmatesheal fractured relationships and become better people. Char-koudian raised money for the program.
• Employees of Montgomery County’s Office of Man-agement and Budget held a bake sale and made individualdonations to help the BrightFocus Foundation, a Clarksburgorganization that says it “works on diseases of mind andsight.”
• Employees of branches of The Greene Turtle Sports Bar& Grille pledged to donate all of the tips they made on Dec.10 to Toys for Tots, a Marine Corps Reserve program that col-lects and distributes gifts for children in low-income families.
There are countless other examples of local altruism justin the last few weeks. To everyone who organizes these effortsor participates in even the smallest way, we offer a heartfeltthanks.
We are heartened by anyone who makes giving and col-lecting a standard practice for the holiday season — groupssuch as Alternative Gifts of Greater Washington, which hostsa Takoma Park Alternative Gift Fair.
The shopping list there is infused with beneficence. Giftshave nothing to do with electronics or hot trends; they’re giftsof charity, honoring friends and relatives by giving to note-worthy causes on their behalf. For example, a $60 donation toAfrican Mothers Health Initiative means an orphaned infantin Malawi will get a month’s supply of formula.
Or donate $7 so a homebound Takoma Park resident canget lunch and dinner through Meals on Wheels.
As we’re reminded so often by the actions of people andorganizations we cover, there’s no limit to the kindness in ourhometowns.
Let’s celebrate that spirit in this season and make it ahabit all year long.
Make goodwilla habit
Montgomery County is currently requesting more police offi-cers for a stronger presence in Clarksburg.
Yes, I know it was inevitable, all of those thousands upon thou-sands of new and HUD dictated homes and housing has broughtwith it, along with a lot of good folks, the dregs of society, too. Theonce almost serene Clarksburg area is now a place where peoplenow have to lock their doors, windows, car doors and even theirsheds. We also have to be ever vigilant when shopping, going fora walk or jog or even going to the park, for fear of being a victim ofa crime.
While I do realize crime is going to happen no matter where youare, I dearly miss those long gone days when we had to worry verylittle about the crime problems here in Clarksburg and the uppercounty areas.
David Starr, Clarksburg
Crime in Clarksburghas gotten worse
Tragedy has struck again. The busi-ness jet that crashed into the houses onDrop Forge Lane in Gaithersburg on Dec.8 took the lives of not only the pilot and thepassengers, but also killed a mother, hertoddler, and her newborn child. A familyripped apart in a flash.
If this aircraft had been able to pull upanother 100 feet, it might have gone intothe Army Reserve center, where quite a fewreservists were present at that time. And ifit had gone even further, it could have hitthe newly built Montgomery County main-tenance facility on the Webb Tract.
In 1982 or ’83, a small Piper PA-28crashed on the Webb Tract exactly wherethe new PSTA (public service training acad-emy) is going to be built, killing a father andhis son. A horrible scene. I know because Iwas on the medic unit from GaithersburgVolunteer Fire Department, with past ChiefTom Carr as paramedic.
I shake when I think about what willhappen when a plane hits the Public Ser-vice Training Academy with police cadetsand firefighters all in class rooms.
Back when we were having the hear-ings regarding the county’s purchase of theWebb Tract, a head of the planning firmfrom Rockville shrugged his shoulders andsaid that nothing would or could happenwith aircraft landing and taking off over thecounty PSTA, school kitchen and mainte-nance shops. No problem, he said! I stoodup and tried to explain the “when” vs. “if”concept.
We hear the old argument that the air-park was there before the houses in Hunt-ers Woods and the East Village, but whenthis airfield was built, the air traffic wasminimal compared to today, and withsmaller airplanes.
I have lived in my house for 20 yearsnow and I am nervous. I am the first housea plane taking off from Runway 32 will flyover, and the last house they will fly overlanding on Runway 14.
What we see today is an unendingstream of “touch-n-go” aircraft, as well as“overflow” business jets from National Air-port, where only a specific number of bizjets are allowed to land each day. Inbound
aircraft often have trouble getting into thepattern, and the much faster jets that comein on a long final approach have to hopethat there is a hole they can fit into.
In this latest tragic incident, it may ap-pear that there was not enough room forthe jet, causing the pilot to attempt to slowhis approach by making “S” turns and pull-ing power back. This of course is just myguessing, and, yes, I am a pilot and havejust recently retired from a major airline.
Today, all kinds of business aircraft,from turboprops to big jets, like Gulf-streams and Falcon Jets, come in to ourlittle airfield.
So what can be done? I propose a land-ing fee for every aircraft that touches down.TAG (touch-n-go) aircraft should pay everytime their wheels touch the runway. Onlytake off from Runway 14 and only land onRunway 32. The flyway to the south east isa lot longer and safer, with less to no resi-dential area.
Mr. Leggett, are you listening?
Hans J. Bjarno, Gaithersburg
Concerns about airpark have been around for years
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n ‘Devastating’ childhoodloss turns into funny adult
remembrances
It’s truewhat they say: Theholidays are about spendingtimewith family and friends.Getting presents ismerely sec-ondary.Sure, as an adult I can say
that. Heck, as an adult, I caneven agreewith it— to a certainpoint.When you’re a child,though, the order is reversed.Whatever Santa brings is themost important part; it doesn’tmatter what they teach in Sun-day School.As a child, I never didwith-
out for Christmas. I didn’t getevery single thing I wanted,but therewere always presentsunder the tree.Mostly actionfigures, such asMasters of theUniverse (hey, He-man ruledwhen Iwas a kid), but everyonce in awhile, therewould bea “big-ticket” item forme.There is one particular
Christmas I’ll always remember,not for what I got that year, butfor what I almost had.I was probably 9 or 10 that
year. I woke upwell before anyreasonable personwould andtried towakemy parents. “Goback to bed,” was the answerI received. By then, it was ex-pected since I’d heard it everyyear for the past several Christ-mases. Anxiety comes early tochildren, beingmade to stay inbed, knowing you had “Santapresents” just down the hall.And “Santa presents” were thebest because he got you thegood stuff!Finally, after what seemed
like an eternity,my parentsdeemed it time to get up and
getmoving. I was just aboutto sprint down the hallway—which, if you know anythingaboutme, should be hilariousbecause I’mnot sprinting foranything—whenmyparentscontinued to delay the inevi-table. “Hold on, I’ve got to getthe camera ready!” Are theyfor real?? Imean, come on! Ihonestly believed it was someformof parental torture,makingtheir childwait andwait to seeSanta’s bounty.The time finally came and
I probably could have beatenThe Flash down the hallway(again, it’s OK to laugh). Andthere, right beside the tree, wasan inflatable GI Joe tent. Greenwith camouflage and theworld-famous “GI JOE” logo on theside, this babywas big. As I waspreparing to dive into it, I heardmy parents say, “Hold on, weneed to get ready because yourgrandparentswill be here soon.”So I had towait to get into
my new inflatable GI Joe tent.My grandparents arrived
shortly afterward, bringing hugsand kisses and the usual holidaycheer. I don’t quite rememberwhat all was said, and soon, Iwouldn’t even care.I don’t knowwhat pos-
sessedmy grandfather to “tryout”my tent. It was a decent-sized tent, butmore for a child,not a grown-up. Still, he tried it.Before I had a chance to do somyself.There are lots of sounds
Sometimes badChristmas memories
become good
WILL C. FRANKLIN
See MEMORIES, Page A-11
n New Year’s Eve parties can befound all around Montgomery,
Prince George’s counties
BY KIRSTY GROFFSTAFFWRITER
For those looking towatch theball dropand celebrate the dawn of a new year out-side of the comfort of their own home, theDC metropolitan region has several NewYear’s Eve celebrations planned across allprice points.
MONTGOMERYThe Ball of Bethesda New Year’s Eve Gala
The details: Dance Bethesda hosts thisblack-tieoptional eventwithacocktail hourat 7p.m. followedbydinnerat 7:45p.m.andsocial dancingandentertainment from8:45p.m. to 1 a.m.
When: 7 p.m.-1 a.m.Where: Kenwood Country Club, 5601
River Road, BethesdaAdmission: $145For information: dancebethesda.com
New Year’s Eve 2015 British Invasion BallThe details: Hors d’oeuvres until 10
p.m., with a DJ, Dancing Fireball Ice Luge,raffle, champagne toast and party favors
When: 7 p.m.-2 a.m.Where: Union Jack’s, 4915 St. Elmo
Ave., BethesdaAdmission: $21.20For information: unionjacksbethesda.
com
New Year’s Eve Swing FestThe details: Featuring the Tom Cun-
ningham Orchestra from 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m.followingabeginner swing lessonwithTomand Debra at 8 p.m. Expect hats and noise-makers, a conga line, balloons and desserts
When: 8 p.m.-12:30 a.m.Where: Glen Echo Park, 7300 MacAr-
thur Blvd., Glen EchoAdmission: $25For information: glenechopark.org
New Year’s Eve Wine DinnerThe details: Five-course wine dinner
with music and dancing, a deluxe roomwith champagneandbreakfast thenext day
When: 7 p.m.-1:30 a.m.Where:HiltonWashingtonD.C.North–
Gaithersburg, 620 Perry ParkwayAdmission: $299 for full room and din-
ner package; $200 for wine dinnerFor information: 301-591-9911
La Tasca’s New Years Eve GalaThe details: Make reservations for be-
tween 8:30 and 10 p.m. to experience un-limited tapas, a bottle of wine, party favorsand music and dancing. Menu also avail-able from 5:30-7 p.m. for those with otherplans
When: 8:30 p.m.Where:LaTasca,141GibbsSt.,Rockville
Let the revelry commence
DAN GROSS/THE GAZETTE
There are many places around the area where you can find food, entertainment, and some bubbly toring in the New Year.
See NEW YEAR’S, Page A-11
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DANCESSocial Ballroom Dance, 7 p.m.
to 11 p.m., Dec. 25, $16; 2126 In-dustrial Highway, Silver Spring,301-326-1181, hollywoodball-roomdc.com.
Scottish Country Dancing, 8to 10 p.m.Mondays, steps andformations taught. No experience,partner necessary, T-39 BuildingonNIH campus,Wisconsin Av-enue and SouthDrive, Bethesda,240-505-0339.
Glen Echo Park is at 7300 Ma-cArthur Blvd.
Blues, Capital Blues: Thursdays,8:15 p.m. beginner lesson, 9 to11:30 p.m. dancing toDJs, GlenEcho Park’s Spanish BallroomAn-nex, $8, capitalblues.org.
Contra, Dec. 26. Bob Isaacscalls to Contranella withMeganBeller on fiddle, JohnWobus onkeyboard andCharley Beller onpercussion., Glen Echo Park Span-ish Ballroom, 7:30 p.m., $10, friday-nightdance.org.
English Country, Dec. 31, 2014GalaNewYears Eve EnglishDance,6:30 p.m., TheWoman’s Club ofBethesda, fsgw.org.
Swing and Lindy, Dec. 27, DarylDavis. $18, $12, 17 and younger.Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom,flyingfeet.org.
Waltz, Dec. 28, Gigmeisterswith DaveWiesler (piano), Alex-anderMitchell (fiddle), Paul Oorts(button accordion,mandolin,banjo & guitar), Ralph Gordon(bass); waltztimedances.org.
MUSICBethesda Blues & Jazz Sup-
per Club, Deanna Bogart Band,Dec. 26; The Chuck BrownBand,Dec. 27; TheNighthawks, Dec.28; NewYear’s Eve Party: Chop-teeth Afrofunk Big Band plusJunkyard Saints, Dec. 31; call forprices, times, 7719Wisconsin Ave.,Bethesda. 240-330-4500, bethesd-abluesjazz.com.
BlackRock Center for the Arts,Victoria Vox andUnified JazzEnsemble, Jan. 24; 12901 TownCommonsDrive, Germantown.301-528-2260, blackrockcenter.org.
Fillmore Silver Spring, L!ssen,Dec. 26; Yacht Rock Party with TheRegal Beagles, DJ Billy BarnacleandCapt. Scott, Dec. 27; TheWhitePanda, Dec. 29; Steel Panthers,Dec. 31; 8656 Colesville Road,Silver Spring. fillmoresilverspring.com.
Strathmore, BSO: Beethoven’s9th, Jan. 3; Salute to ViennaNewYear’s Concert, Jan. 4; LouisWeeks,Jan. 9; BSO: The Rite of Spring, Jan.9; call for venue, times. Locations:Mansion, 10701 Rockville Pike,North Bethesda;Music Centerat Strathmore, 5301 TuckermanLane, North Bethesda, 301-581-5100, strathmore.org.
ON STAGEAdventure Theatre-MTC, “Tiny
Tim’s Christmas Carol,” throughJan. 1, call for prices, times, Adven-ture TheatreMTC, 7300MacArthurBlvd., Glen Echo, 301-634-2270,adventuretheatre-mtc.org.
Imagination Stage, “101Dal-matians,” through Jan. 11, call forprices, times, Imagination Stage,4908 Auburn Ave., Bethesda, imag-inationstage.org.
Highwood Theatre, 914 SilverSpring Ave., thehighwoodtheatre.org, 301-587-0697.
Olney Theatre Center, “Dis-ney’s The LittleMermaid,” throughJan. 11, call for prices, times, 2001Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney,301-924-3400, olneytheatre.org.
The Puppet Co., “TheNut-cracker,” throughDec. 30; TinyTots@ 10, selectWednesdays,Saturdays and Sundays, call forshows and show times, Puppet Co.Playhouse, Glen Echo Park’s NorthArcade Building, 7300MacArthurBlvd., $5, 301-634-5380, thepup-petco.org.
Round House Theatre,Bethesda, “TheNutcracker,”throughDec. 28, call for showtimes, 4545 East-West Highway,Bethesda. Tickets range in pricefrom$10 to $45 and seating is re-served. 240-644-1100, roundhous-etheatre.org.
Silver Spring Stage, “Orson’sShadow,” Jan. 9 through 31,Wood-moor Shopping Center, 10145Colesville Road, Silver Spring, seeWeb site for show times, ssstage.org.
VISUAL ARTAdah Rose Gallery, “Notes,
References andMiscellaneousDe-bris,” BrianDupont, throughDec.28, 3766Howard Ave., Kensington,301-922-0162, adahrosegallery.com
Glenview Mansion, Rockville
Art League JuriedMembers’ Show,through Jan. 2. F/1.4 PhotographyGroup exhibit, “Richly Black andWhite,” featuring JareeDonnelly,CraigHiggins, Timothy Lynch,andMargeWasson. Rockville CivicCenter Park, 503 EdmonstonDrive,Rockville. rockvillemd.gov.
Marin-Price Galleries, JeremiahStermer, throughDec. 31, 10:30a.m. to 7 p.m.Monday throughSaturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday,7022Wisconsin Ave., 301-718-0622,marin-price.com.
Montgomery Art Association,Gordon Lyon, through Jan. 4,WestfieldWheatonMall, 11160ViersMill Road,Wheaton,mont-gomeryart.org.
VisArts, Steve Pearson:Ma-nipular, through Jan. 18; HappyNOT Sappy, through Jan. 18;Wil-liamPeirce, through Jan. 18; GibbsStreet Gallery, 155Gibbs St., Rock-ville, 301-315-8200, visartsatrock-ville.org.
Washington Printmakers Gal-lery, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center,second floor, 8230Georgia Ave.,Silver Spring, washingtonprint-makers.com.
Kentlands Mansion, Artworkof theGaithersburg Camera Club,through Jan. 23, 320 Kent SquareRoad, Gaithersburg, 301-258-6425.
Arts Barn, 311 Kent SquareRoad, Gaithersburg, 301-258-6394
“You Are Here,” exhibit byDaveMontgomery, now throughJan. 4. Takoma Park CommunityCenter, 7500Maple Ave., TakomaPark. photoartbeyond.com; 301-215-9224.
“White,” a juried gallery ex-hibition in both ofWashingtonArtWorks’ formal galleries willopen on Friday, Jan. 2, from 6 p.m.until 9 p.m. Photography, paint-ing,mixedmedia andmore will bedisplayed for this exhibition. Ex-hibition runs from Jan. 2 until Jan.31.Washington ArtWorks, 12276Wilkins Ave., Rockville. 301-654-1998; washingtonartworks.com
ET CETERAThe Writer’s Center, 4508
Walsh Street, Bethesda, 301-654-8664, writer.org.
Reading, novelist-poetMichaelBoylan and poet Holly Karapet-kova will read from their workfrom 7 to 9 p.m. Jan. 5, at Friend-shipHeights Village Center, 4433South Park Ave., Chevy Chase.The evening starts with classicalguitar and includes refreshments.An openmic follows the featuredreaders. Free. Formore informa-tion, call 301-656-2797.
IN THE ARTS
Admission: $99 for seatingthrough midnight; $59 for earlyoption
For information: latascausa.com
New Year’s Eve at Bar LouieThe details: Champagne
toast, live entertainment, cock-tails from8p.m. tomidnight anda breakfast buffet frommidnightto 2 a.m.
When: 8 p.m.-2 a.m.Where: Bar Louie, 150 Gibbs
St., RockvilleAdmission: $50For information: barlou-
ieamerica.com
New Year’s Eve Beer DinnerThe details: A five-course
meal, with each dish pairedwitha particular Dogfish Head beer.Two seatings, with the later oneincluding a midnight cham-pagne toast.
When: 7-9 p.m. for first seat-ing, 10p.m.-midnight for second
Where: Dogfish Head Ale-house, 800 West Diamond Ave.,Gaithersburg
Admission: $55-$65For information:dogfishale-
house.com
PRINCE GEORGE’SBig Night DC New Year’s Eve
ExtravaganzaThe details: Fifteen themed
party areas, five dance floors,
livemusic and several DJs, partyfavors and food. Velvet rope andVIP options available
When: 9 p.m.-2:30 a.m.Where: Gaylord National
Hotel andResort, 201WaterfrontSt., National Harbor
Admission: $119 andup, de-pending on option
For information: big-nightdc.com
New Year’s Eveat The New Deal Cafe
The details: Music by Vin-tage #18, champagne at mid-night and a buffet includingsoup, salad, roast beef, chickenand chocolate cake. Reserva-tions requested byDec. 27
When: Food starts around 7p.m., music begins roughly at 8p.m.
Where: New Deal Café, 113Centerway, Roosevelt Center,Greenbelt
Admission: $55For information: newdeal-
cafe.com
New Year’s Eve CelebrationThe details: A buffet from
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children like to hear during theholidays— songs and carols,laughter, the phrase, “Oh, weforgot, you have a lotmore pres-ents to open up.…” Fromex-perience, allowme to sharewithyou one sound children don’twant to hear.
POP!……..WHHHEEEEZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
My grandfather had poppedmy tent. To the point where it
couldn’t be fixed. I never evengot to sit in it,man! The roomwas still filledwith that new tentsmell (whichwas just the smellof plastic, but whatever), and al-ready it was gone. Of course, hewas apologetic and very sorry,but the deedwas done.
Don’t worry, though. Laterin the spring I sprayed him goodwith thewater hose, so I guesswewere even.
I laugh about it nowbe-cause it is funny. Sure, it wasn’tfunny for 9-year-oldme, butit’s a familymoment I’ll always
remember.My grandfather is gone now,
but thememories arewhatmake holidays enjoyable. Theinflatable tent that never wasis probably one ofmy favoritememories ofmy grandfather.
I wish you and your familya very happy holiday. Hopefullyyou’ll allmakememories toshare for decades to come.
Just keep the grown-upsaway from anything thatmightpop.
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WRESTLING: Damascus Holiday Tournament, Sunday
BOYS BASKETBALL: Championship game of theSpringbrook Holiday Tournament, Tuesday
n First-year coach takesover father’s program during
emotional time
BY ADAM GUTEKUNSTSTAFFWRITER
When the 2013-14 boys basket-ball season at Covenant Life Schoolcame to a close, then-assistant coachTim Snyder packed up his things andheaded off to Oklahoma, where he
had accepted a construction job. Theseason had been an emotional rollercoaster for Snyder, he said, and theCovenant Life families.
On Jan. 22, Sue Snyder, motherof Tim and wife of then-coach AlanSnyder, lost her lengthy battle withbreast cancer. Two days later, 16-year-old Teressa French, a girls basketballplayer at Covenant Life, was fatallystruck by a vehicle on Muncaster MillRoad.
It appeared the Snyders’ legacy at
the smallGaithersburgprogramwouldbe coming to a close.
Alan Snyder said he could no lon-ger handle the time demands of beinga coach now that he was a single par-ent and had five of his seven childrenstill at home.
Tim Snyder, who said his decisiontomove toOklahomawas to stepawayfrom everything and also to pursue amore lucrativeposition,wasover 1,000miles southwest. And Kevin Snyder,the point guard on the Cougars’ 2013-
14 PVAC championship team, hadgraduated.
For thefirst time innearly 13 years,it appeared there would not be a Sny-der involved with Covenant Life Acad-emy basketball.
But twomonthsbefore the2014-15seasonwas set to begin, Covenant Lifewas without a boys basketball coachand decided tomake a play at keepinga Snyder in charge, this time offering
Family keeps its ties to Covenant Life
Eighty-ninefree throws.That’s exactlyhowmanyfoul shots twogirls basketballteamscom-bined forduringa32-minutegame lastweek.That’s anaver-ageof 2.8 freethrowseveryminute. Frommyexperience, highschool basketball gamesgoprettyquick.But this contest—admittedly I didn’tattend—betweenLargoandCrossland,whichwas coveredby longtimeGazettefreelancerTerronHampton (he called it“veryugly”), draggedon formore thantwohours.
While thenatureof PrinceGeorge’shigh school basketball is traditionallymorephysical—and thus sometimesofficiateddifferently—than inMont-gomeryCounty, 89 free throws is anabsurd total. Tomakemattersworse,the teamscombined tomake just 34ofthem.At all levels of basketball, innouncertain terms, contact betweenop-posingplayers is illegal.
Theunwrittenguidelines,whichare for thebettermentof the game,however, vary fromgame togameandfromofficial toofficial. Fans andmediamembersdon’twant to sit around forthreehourswith everypoint of contactwhistled for andcalleda foul.
There’s afine linebetweenenforc-ing rules andallowing thegame toflow.I don’t envy theofficials’ job.
But this column isn’t to rail on theteamsor theofficials, but to simplypoint out a trend.Thiswinter, I’veno-ticed thepaceofplayhas slowed someinhigh school basketball.
And it is due to a simple rule change(or clarification for some)madebytheNational Federationof StateHighSchoolAssociations,whichMaryland,for themostpart, abidesby.
In recent years, theNBAandNCAAhave taken steps to increase scoringandpromoteoffense and freedomofmovementbynot allowingmuch, if any,contact on theperimeterbetweenade-fender andoffensiveplayer.
This season, theNFHSdid the same;it essentially has eliminatedall contacton theperimeter. Like anynew, clarifiedor altered rule, there is anadjustmentperiod for all parties involved. Playerseventually learnwhat they canandcan’tget awaywith.
Here’swhatwas announced inMayby theNFHS:
“In aneffort to eliminate excessivecontact onball-handlers anddribblersoutsideof the lanearea, the committeeaddedArticle 12 toRule 10-6oncontact.As a result, the followingactswill con-stitute a foulwhencommittedagainstaball-handler/dribbler: 1) placing twohandson theplayer, 2) placinganex-tendedarmbaron theplayer, 3) placingandkeepingahandon theplayer and4)contact theplayermore thanoncewiththe samehandor alternatinghands.”
“What they are really trying tochange is to allow for freedomofmove-ment andcutting through the lane;that’swhere a lot of complaintswere,”said longtimeMagruderboys coachDanHarwood. “I don’t thinkhand-checkingis amajor thing.Watching somegames,just like college last year, there’s beenafewmore foul shots.”
Basketballwill openup like the ruleintended, but there couldbe some longandugly games fanswill have to sitthrough.
Rule changeleads tougly games
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Covenant Life School boys basketball coach Tim Snyder watches his team Dec. 17 during practice.
ASSISTANT SPORTSEDITOR
KENT ZAKOUR
n Former Good Counsel standout set to play inSaturday’s Military Bowl
BY ERIC GOLDWEINSTAFFWRITER
Now that Kendall Fuller is a college football player, theNavy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium is just another sta-dium, he said. But that wasn’t the case five years ago. Then,he was just a freshman at Good Counsel High School. And
WCAC football rivalsunite at Virginia Tech
VIRGINIA TECH ATHLETICS
Good Counsel High School graduate Kendall Fuller in one of the bestdefensive backs in the country at Virginia Tech.
See SNYDER, Page B-2
See RIVALS, Page B-2
n Senior linebacker, defensive backplay well in all-star game
BY KYLE RUSSELLSPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
On Sunday, more than 100 high schoolsenior football players, representing 63schools from across the state,met atMcDan-iel College for the seventh annual MarylandArmy National Guard Crab Bowl.
The all-star showcase pitted TeamWash-ington against Team Baltimore, with bothsquads outfitted in Under Armour uniforms— all-black gear for Washington, all-whitegear for Baltimore. The only ways to deter-minewhich school a player representedwereto check in the program, or check his helmet.
Two players, defensive back Grant Ibehand linebacker Bryan Castillo, sportedgolden helmets with the black “A” of theBlack Knights of Avalon, which has gainedattention since top recruit Trevon Diggs,the younger brother of University of Mary-land star and Good Counsel graduate StefonDiggs, attends the Gaithersburg school.
Over the past few years the program haschurned out a surprising amount of talent,despite its small size. Both Ibeh and Castillowere honored to participate in the event, theysaid, and both reveled in TeamWashington’s31-21 victory. And they share a similar storyof how they ended up at the all-boys school.
“Yeah I actually did transfer [to Avalon],”
Ibeh said. “I was at [Thomas S.] Wootton. Ilived, actually, around Wootton, so I trans-ferred to Avalon. Avalon is not that far fromWootton, so it wasn’t a big transition. Itworked out, because I like Avalon a lot.”
Like Ibeh, Castillo said he lives “15 min-utes away” from Avalon, so the change incommute wasn’t as much of an adjustmentas the change in the classroom.
“It’s not just for the football,” Castillosaid. “Academically, I love it. It’s a smallerclassroom so I can focus more on that. ... Allthe teachers are great. I love them. They re-
Avalon transfers happy they switched
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Poolesville High School’s Jon Bateky (left) and Ava-lon’s Bryan Castillo (right) stop a Baltimore runnerduring Saturday’s game.
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the position to Tim Snyder.Tim Snyder turned down
the offer. He said he had longdreamed of following in hisdad’s footsteps and becominga coach ever since his days as astandoutpointguardatSt. John’sCollegeHighSchool inWashing-tonD.C. But hehadmovedon.
A month later, with a moredesperate tone to their offer,Covenant Life tried to woo TimSnyder again. This time, afterthinking it over, Snyder decideditwas time to comebackhome.
“This is it,” Snyder said,standing in the narthex of thechurch as his team waited topractice onDec. 17. “Iwouldnothave left the job inOklahoma if itwasn’t this building, this schooland this team.”
“He wanted to come backand [coach],”AlanSnyder saidofhisson.“Sothere’ssomethingre-demptive inhimcomingback.”
Despite his enhanced re-sponsibilities at home, Alan Sny-der still has managed to remaina part of the program, servingas amentor for his son, who hasno head coaching experience.Alan Snyder, who said he triesto mold the mentor-mentoreerelationship after the dynamicfirst-yearNewYorkKnickscoachDerek Fisher shares with team
president Phil Jackson, does notattendpractices.Hecoached theteam for three weeks while hissonwasfinalizing hismovebackto Maryland, but tries to remainrelatively invisible now that hehashanded the reignsover tohisson.
Where Alan Snyder does hismentoring is off the court. Everynight, he and Tim Snyder talkabout practice, go over gamesand strategies. Alan Snyder hashelped his son with the non-basketball responsibilities thatcomewithbeinga coach—call-ing the parents, dealingwith theschool and any player issues.
“It’s been very challenging,”TimSnyder said. “But especiallywith dad here, it helps balancethat a little bit.He kindof guidesme as well as guides the teamthrough thewhole [process].”
As it turnsout,AlanSnyder’sguidance is needed this seasonmore than ever, they said. Overthe offseason, the Cougars losttheir top seven contributors toeither graduation or transfer,including Brandon Thompson,a Citadel recruit. When TimSnyder inherited the team inDecember, there was just oneplayer from the 2013-14 teamthat saw any playing time: se-nior JoshMerryman.
But for all the departuresthat depleted the Cougars’lineup, it’s been an additionthat hasCovenant Life contend-
ing yet again. Six-foot-5 juniorBobby Arthur-Williams, a do-it-all transfer from Churchill,has taken the Potomac ValleyAthletic Conference by storm,averaging 21.2 points, 11.2 re-bounds and 4.3 assists throughthe team’sfirst 10games.Butona team that has somany inexpe-rienced pieces, Arthur-Williamshas been forced to run the pointguard position, something AlanSnyder said will benefit theCougars’ big man when he ul-timately moves on to play incollege, where he will likely be awing. But regardless ofwhat po-sition he plays, Arthur-Williamshas been a welcomed additionat Covenant Life.
“With a young team, hav-ing a guy that can dominate thegame in every aspect is prettybig,” Tim Snyder said.
Still, Covenant Life will faceits challenges piecing togetheran inexperienced group with afirst-year coach at the helm.
But Tim Snyder, motivatedto uphold his father’s legacy,said he will make sure that pe-riod of transition is fleeting.
“It’s definitely etched inmy mind,” he said. “Not onlybecause it’s this school but be-cause it’smydad. Iwant to keepgoing with the coaching basket-ball legacyof theSnyder family.”
SNYDERContinued from Page B-1
ally, actually care aboutme, notlike in public school where theyreally don’t care about you.”
Castillo also came to theBlack Knights fromWootton forhis senior season. The pairweretwo of over a dozen transfers to
Avalon, six of which came fromWootton, where Black Knightscoach Tyree Spinner coachedfor two years prior to his dis-missal in January 2014.
“Coach Spinner, he movedover there, so I had to go withhim,” Castillo said. “I was luredto him, and I love being aroundhim. He’s like a father figure tome.”
Avalon is a private schoolwith kindergarten through 12thgrade and a total enrollment ofaround 200, with roughly 100 atthe high-school level. It openedin 2003, and is located in FirstBaptist Church on West Dia-mond Avenue.
The Black Knights do nothave a football field to call theirown, and practice at Mill Creek
Towne Local Park. But thathasn’t stopped Avalon fromsuccess on the gridiron. TheBlack Knights claimed threestraight Capitol Area FootballConference titles from 2010through 2012 under previouscoach Tad Shields, and are ex-periencing a new surge in inter-est under Spinner.
Playing against some of the
top talent in the state on Sun-day, Castillo (interception) andIbeh (two passes defended, twotackles) showed that those suc-cesses are likely to continue oninto the future.
The players said Avalon isexperiencing a new surge ininterest under Spinner. TheBlack Knights should have noshortage of deserving repre-
sentatives at showcase eventslike the Crab Bowl for years tocome, even if many of thoseplayers don’t know they’ll bewearing an Avalon helmet yet.
“I know there’s going to beso many kids coming in,” Ibehsaid. “I know there are kidscoming in to Avalon. They willbe very, very good next year.”
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it was a big deal then, becauseplaying on the Jack StephensField meant playing for a Wash-ington Catholic Athletic Con-ference championship.
“In high school I might’vethought of it differently be-cause that was always ourchampionship,” Fuller said.
But it didn’t take long forFuller, a 2013 Good Counselgraduate, to get used to largecrowds and big stadiums. With
the Falcons, he went to the An-napolis field for the WCAC titlegame all four years, winning iteach time. And now, as a soph-omore at Virginia Tech, he’llhead there again as the Hokiestake on the Cincinnati Bearcatsin the Military Bowl, scheduledfor 1 p.m. Saturday.
Fuller, of Baltimore, grewup in a football family. His sib-lings Kyle, Corey and Vincent(now retired) Fuller all playedat Virginia Tech and then theNational Football League.Kendall Fuller was a five-starrecruit and named U.S. Army
All-American Defensive Playerof the Year andMarylandGato-rade Football Player of the Yearas a senior at the Olney school.The accolades kept coming atVirginia Tech. As a freshmanhe was the Atlantic Coast Con-ferenceDefensive Rookie of theYear. This season, the 6-foot-1cornerbackwas a first-teamAll-ACC selection.
“I think he’s just a studentof the game. He’s very techni-cally sound,” freshman team-mate Cameron Phillips said.“Sometimes he knows whichroute is coming before I even
run it.”Phillips, a receiver, at-
tended DeMatha and was the2013 Prince George’s CountyAll-Gazette Player of the Year.He competed against Fullerseveral times in high school,recalling one play during the2012 season when he got ajump at the line of scrimmagebefore Fuller caught up and de-flected the pass. The two wentagainst each other in the 2012WCAC championship, a gamethat Fuller, who also played re-ceiver, finished with 125 yardsand three touchdown recep-
tions to lead the Falcons to a26-14 victory.
“I’d like to say [I outplayedhim] but he has the champion-ship ring to speak for it,” Phil-lips said.
At Virginia Tech, the two gohead to head in practice.
“I get him one time and hemight getme the next,” Phillipssaid.
For the Hokies (6-6) to fin-ish their season with a win overthe Bearcats (9-3), they’ll lookfor contributions from all theirformer WCAC standouts — se-nior kicker Michael Branthover
is also a graduate of DeMatha(2011).
“I’m happy to go out andplay in Annapolis in front offamily and friends,” Branthoversaid. “I think this is a great op-portunity.”
The game is being shownon ESPN andWatchESPN.
“[I’m looking forward to]just getting out on the field,competing with my team onelast time,” Fuller said. “Justtrying to send the seniors outright.”
RIVALSContinued from Page B-1
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Covenant Life School junior Bobby Arthur-Williams holds the ball Dec. 17 at practice.
n Team Washington beats TeamBaltimore by 10 points in all-star
football game
BY KYLE RUSSELLSPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
Bullis School runningbackDevonteWilliams’ capped of his prep footballcareer with another outstanding per-formance on Sunday, this one comingin the seventh annual Maryland CrabBowl held atMcDaniel College inWest-minster.
Williams amassed 133 all-purposeyards and scored three touchdowns inthe senior all-star game to lead TeamWashington to a 31-21 victory overTeam Baltimore. It was Washington’sfifth win in the series.
“It was just a great experience hav-ing the ability to compete with a lot ofthe top players in Maryland,” Williamssaid. “I just had funwith it.”
The fun started early for Williams,who scored the first touchdown of thegame just over three minutes into thecontest, hauling in a 32-yard pass fromBrandon Battle (North Point) to giveWashington the early lead. The Mar-shall University recruit then added a9-yard rushing touchdown on Wash-ington’s next possession, propellingthe team to a 24-14 halftime advantage.
Williams’ final score came late inthe game as he took a handoff andheaded to the right from five yards out,but then reversed field and wound upcrossing the goal line just inside the leftpylon. The scoring play was set up by atremendous 59-yard reception by Wil-liams from quarterback Tyler Crowe(Patuxent).
Riverdale Baptist defensive line-man Rashad Manning, who had anoutstanding game himself with fourtackles-for-loss, including two sacks,said he had taken note ofWilliams’ big-play ability during a film session earlierin the season.
“In the regular season our team[was] watching film of another team,but Bullis — the team he plays for —they were going against that team,”Manning said. “He was runningaround, and we were like, ‘Who is that
kid?’ Thatwasn’t even the teamweweresupposed to be looking at, but coachsaid he was real good and I actually gotto see formyself tonight.”
Several other area players madecontributions to the win for the Wash-ington squad. Keon Paye (Good Coun-sel) caught an 83-yard touchdown passfrom Battle, stiff-arming a would-betackler to the ground in the process.Linebacker Isaiah Ryans (Friendly)came up with a big tackle in the flat ona screen pass to help thwart the Balti-more comeback attempt, and also reg-istered a huge hit on the ball carrier ona fourth down conversion attempt latein the contest. Brian Castillo (Avalon)came up with an athletic, diving inter-ception during the third quarter.
“Playing in this game was just agreat opportunity to show my talent tothe whole entire nation, and the wholestate,” Castillo said. “I loved it, and itwas an honor to play.”
The 54-player Washington squadfeatured 12 participants from Mont-gomery County, including MylesRobinson (Good Counsel), Roger Rich-ardson (GoodCounsel), AndrewAshley(Good Counsel), Grant Ibeh (Avalon),Tavis Holland (Clarksburg), David For-ney (Georgetown Prep), Jonathan Hol-land (Bullis), Jon Bateky (Poolesville)and Gil Reynolds (Albert Einstein).Gaithersburg’s Kamonte Carter re-corded a sack and two tackles-for-lossas the lone county representative onTeamBaltimore.
Team Washington also featured 11players from Prince George’s County,including TimothyWomack Jr. (Forest-ville), Tolu Adeboyeku (DuVal), JaisonYoung (Riverdale Baptist), Jaire George(DeMatha), Kesean Strong (Potomac),David Rose (Potomac), Isaac Jackson(Riverdale Baptist), Demetrius Boyd(FairmontHeights),DeAndreKelly (De-Matha) and KeironHoward (Potomac).
“To play against all these greatplayers in the state is really an honorbecause I know growing up I was like,‘Man, I want to play in the Crab Bowl,’”Ibeh said. “Going through practice andeverything, you see how good kids areand it’s just amazing to see the talent inthese practices, and then you saw it inthis game. So, yeah, it’s beenanhonor.”
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PHOTOS BY BILL RYAN/THE GAZETTE
Bullis School senior running back Devonte Williams dives into the end zone for his second touchdown during Sunday’s Crab Bowl.
Good Counsel High School receiver Keon Paye runs towarda touchdown after making a catch during Sunday’s CrabBowl at McDaniel College in Westminster.
Clarksburg High School’s Tavis Holland runs for yardage during Sunday’s CrabBowl at McDaniel College in Westminster.
Sherwood, Holy Crossgrads earn honors
University of Florida sophomore AlexHolston was named a first team All-Americanby the American Volleyball Coaches’ Associa-tion and teammate and Holy Cross alumnaRhamat Alhassan was named to the secondteam. The Gators advanced to the Elite Eight
this fall, finishing at 28-4 and won their 21stSoutheastern Conference title in 24 years.
Holston (3.83 kills per set), a right-side hit-ter, was also named the SEC player of the yearand Alhassan (2.66 kills, 1.32 blocks) a middleblocker, was the conference’s freshman of theyear.
— KENT ZAKOUR
KEEPING IT BRIEF
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Georgetown Prep’s Jack Olson (left) fights for the puck with Bullis’ Patrick Leasure during Friday’s game.
n Little Hoyas easilydefeat IAC rivalin ice hockey
BY JACOB BOGAGESPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
It was a long time coming,but Jack Olson finally scoredhis third goal of the night late inthe third period Friday for theGeorgetownPrepatorySchool icehockey team. He camped out infront of the net with a little morethan aminute to play and the re-bound trickled on to the tape ofhis stick with Bullis goaltenderWill Gansler sprawled out on allfours.
What else was he supposedtodo?
Olson, Prep’s (5-1-1, 3-0-1IAC) prized senior center, flickedawrist shot almost apologeticallyinto theunguardednet forhishattrick and the icing on the LittleHoyas’ 10-1 win at Rockville IceArena.
“It was just one of thosedays,” Bullis (1-6, 0-2 IAC) coachJackKinder said.
Olson’s first two tallies camewithin four minutes of one an-other in the first period, beatinghismandown the rightwing andpopping a layuppastGansler.
“Speed kills,” Olson said.“You play defense first, but thenit’s off to the races.”
“He’s ananimal,” Prep coach
Paul Fritz said. “He can put thepuck in thenetwhenhehas to.”
Inagamethat lopsidedOlsonsaid he wasn’t looking for a thirdgoal. It’s better to distribute thepuck, he said. That didn’t seemto be a problem. He tallied threeassists aswell.
“We just want to move thepuck a lot and crash the net,” hesaid. “When somebody shoots,everybody goes to the net. That’swhatwepractice.”
Olson’s line had eight of theHoyas’ 20 points on the evening.Wingers JohnMacMulera, soph-omore, and Riley Backenstoe,senior, combined for three goalsthemselves and anassist.
That chemistry emerged byaccident, said Fritz. In a suddenchange situation two weeks ago,Olson and Mulera — or “JonnyHockey” to the Prep student sec-tion that serenaded the Bulldogsall game long — skated togetherandmovedthepuckwell.They’retwo of the team’s fastest skaters,assistant coachNickBliss said.
“Coach Bliss and I looked ateach other and said, ‘These twohave to stay together,’” Fritz said.
Fritz addedBackenstoe to in-ject some grit in the unit, and theHoyas had a new first line, onethat’s been producing withoutcompare, Fritz said.
It also evened out George-town Prep’s lower lines, said Ol-son. TheHoyas are still awaitingthe return of five players from
injury, themajority of whomwillgarner major minutes on the ice,according toBliss.
“We’ll just have the plugthem inwherever we see a spot,”he said. “You have to work yourwayback in.”
To many a high schoolhockey team, that’s depthcoaches dream about. Not so forGeorgetown Prep, said Fritz. Itmay have been enough for theIAC rivalry, but teams like Gon-zaga and Landon run three tofour lineswith ease.
“In the past your have fouror five guys who can play and itmakes itdifficultwhentheycomeoff the ice,” Fritz said.
Moving Olson and Muleratogether helps, he said, but itdoesn’t solve defensive prob-lems. Bullis scored on an anemicshot from the point that slippedpast an unsuspectingWill Boggs,Prep’s freshmannetminder.
He started the year as the Lit-tleHoyas’ thirdgoalieandmovedinto thestartingslotafter injuries.He had 14 saves Friday night.Prep’s depth means sometimesdefenders can get awaywith sac-rificingonfundamentalsat times,said Fritz.
“Your physical speed andstrength and power are impor-tant, but when we get up by twoor three goals, guys start to slowdown,” he said. “Those are thelittle things that will help us windown the stretch.”
Georgetown Prep glides past Bullis
n Point guard focuses on next step
BY KENT ZAKOURSTAFFWRITER
As Blake High School senior guard Aly-shia Allison took shots in the Silver Springschool’s gym prior to practice last week,she wore a blue sweatshirt with the word‘UCONN’ sewnacross it.
While the 5-foot-6 guard most likelywon’t be offered a scholarship by the pre-mier program inwomen’s collegebasketball— Allison is a legitimate Division I recruitaccording to Bengals coach Patti Gilmore— she wears the University of Connecticuthoodiewithpride.
“It’s not my dream school but it’s a pro-gram I’m really fond of,” Allison said duringan interview at the school last week. “Theway they work, they’re disciplined and thewaytheyplayareallgoodthingstoaspire to.”
Allison’ journey to Blake is a worldlyone. She was born in London and has livedin Bethesda, Washington state, Hawaii, Ja-pan (twice), Tennessee and Silver Spring.She says the travels are a normal part of herfamily life—her father is in theNavy—andshe’s adjusted, but it has hurt her ability toachieve one of her goals: receiving a collegescholarship.
“I’ve grown to like it and accustomed tothe lifestyle,”Allisonsaid. “I think it’sallowed
metobecomeaperson that canadapt todif-ferent environments and situations quickly.Me, being a military brat, that’s what youlearn, to adapt to change.”
During her sophomore and junior sea-sons, Allison played for Nile C. KinnickHighSchool while living in Yokosuka, Japan. Sheearned player of the year honors andhelpedthe school win the 2012-13 Asian Pacific Di-vision I Far East championship, which is theequivalent towinning a state title.
“Getting recruited is hard becausecoaches go with what they know,” said Al-lison, who wants to major in sports man-agement or business, attend law schooland possibly become a sports agent. “Theyhaven’t seenme so it’s a lot of go-getting for
me. I reach out to coaches and show themwhat I have. It’s coming along; just got tohavepatience.”
Added Gilmore: “Another college callsevery day and shows interest. It will all workout.” Allison, who said the hardest part ofplaying basketball outside the U.S. was thelanguage barrier, began playing the sport inelementary school, and said it was the oneactivity she’s always wanted to work at andget better in.
“I cheered, played soccer and tried toplay football,” said Allison, who is averaging13 points per game, including 17-point per-formances against Einstein and Clarksburg.“But I always cameback tobasketball.”
This winter, she’s helped the Bengals (4-2) develop into a potential 4A North Regiontitle contender. With an experienced teamalready returning, including senior CitianaNegatu, Gilmore said Allison, who sees thefloorwell andcanassist or score, has run thepoint guardpositionwithprecision.
“I’m calling it my early Christmas pres-ent,”Gilmore said. “It’s huge.Weweregoingto be pretty good anyway, but Alyshia justpushes it over the top. She gives us a chanceto contend with the better teams in Mont-gomeryCounty.”
Blake is set to playWise onMonday in atournament at LaurelHigh School.
‘Military brat’ finally finds a home at Blake
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n Coyotes have beenfinding positives in aperiod of struggles
BY ADAM GUTEKUNSTSTAFF WRITER
Five games into the 2014-2015 season, Clarksburg HighSchool basketball coach G.J.Kissal stood propped upagainst a Carolina blue door,explaining why he wanted, “topunch [himself] in the gut.”The Coyotes had just droppedtheir second game in threedays, a 54-37 loss to RichardMontgomery, and Kissal foundhimself reiterating a phrasehe’s used ad nauseam.
“This is our journey,” Kissalsaid,matter-of-factly. “I’ve saidit, and it must be maddeningfor the kids to hear me say it.”
That was the locker roommessage Kissal delivered tohis group, a message aimed tosoften the blow of a start thatwas anything but expected forlast season’s 4A West Regionrunner-up.
Early on in a preseasonscrimmage against GoodCounsel, Clarksburg juniorAndrew Kostecka caught anerrant knee to the quad as hedrove to the basket for a la-yup. Kostecka, a Holy Crossrecruit, headed to the sidelinewith what he thought was justa deep bruise.
“It happens,” Kosteckasaid. “Stuff like that happens.”
But the injury worsened astime wore on. The guard’s legbegan to swell more and more,prompting a trip to the doctorthat revealed a quad hema-toma, defined as “a collectionof blood outside a blood ves-sel” by WebMD.
“It was pretty bad,”
Kostecka said. “I’ve brokenbones, but this is way worse.”
The original recovery win-dow was scheduled for any-where from four days to sixweeks, according to Kostecka,who said he was aggravated bythe uncertainty of his injury’sextent. Now, nearly four weeksafter the injury, Kostecka is onthe verge of coming back, aim-ing for a Saturday return.
Even in Kostecka’s ab-sence, Kissal was adamant thatthe Coyotes still have to be ableto find positive points in thejourney he so often refers to.
“It’s hard but I firmly be-lieved that this would help usin the long run,” Kissal said ofthe junior’s absence. “It wouldforce other guys to step up,get more comfortable, assertthemselves and grow into roles... other guys get opportunitiesto explore their game in his ab-sence and get confident.”
Those opportunities haveplayed out over Clarksburg’sfirst five games, in which ahandful of inexperiencedpieces have beenmaking someprogression, though it’s notalways pretty, Kissal said. TheCoyotes lost three seniors — agroup Kissal said dominated alot of the possessions — fromlast year’s team, and Kosteckawas expected to soften the blowof such a substantial departure.At the end of the first quarter ofthe Dec. 17 game with Rich-ard Montgomery, the Coyotesfaced a 15-2 deficit. There were3-pointers bricked off the back-board, costly turnovers in thebackcourt and head-scratchingdefensive lapses.
But as the game wore on,signs of progress becamemore and more evident. Ballmovement improved and thedefense tightened. Breaking
down the Rockets’ pressurebecame less and less of a chorefor Clarksburg’s backcourt, asthe transition game picked upand the shots began falling.Midway through the fourthquarter, the Coyotes managedto narrow the deficit to 12, afeat that brought Kostecka tohis feet as he clapped furiously,encouraging his teammates heso longed to be with.
“Obviously it sucks. I don’twant to sit on the bench ever,”Kostecka said of being rel-egated to the sideline. “But
sometimes it’s good to see [a]different aspect. ... When youwatch from the bench you geta different perspective.”
In Kostecka’s absence, theCoyotes have turned to seniorsDevinne Greene and AustinDuffy, both contributors fromlast year’s group, to pace theteam.
“There’s some lag in termsof execution, things thatthey’remissing because there’sa lot they’re asked to learn,”Kissal said of Clarksburg’s newpieces. “There are nuances
that, through years of playingin the program, you pick upon.”
“We have the ability to doit,” Duffy said of the team. “It’sjust once the mental side andall the tiny details click intoplace and everyone starts to doeverything right, it’s going to begood.”
Though a 3-2 start is cer-tainly not what Kissal and theCoyotes expected this season,it’s not unfamiliar territory.Last season’s team got off tothe exact same start before get-
ting hot at the right time, ridingthe momentum into the regionfinal. And although his rostermay have a different look fromlast season, Kissal said expecta-tions have not changed.
“None whatsoever,” Kissalsaid firmly. “We expected towin [Dec. 15] and we expectedto win tonight ... we fully feellike at some point this seasonit’s going to click and we’re go-ing to be a team that has to beaccounted for.”
Clarksburg’s basketball ‘journey’ clearing up without star
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Clarksburg High School senior Andrew Kostecka, a Holy Cross recruit who has been out with a leg injury, encourages teammates playing Dec. 17 againstRichard Montgomery.
n Swarmin’ Hornets’lower weights dominate
BY KYLE RUSSELLSPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
The Damascus HighSchool wrestling team cruisedto a 55-21 victory over visitingGlenelg Wednesday to im-prove to 4-0 this season.
The Swarmin’ Hornetsdominated the lower weightclasses, taking the first sevenbouts en route to a 37-0 lead.Mikey Macklin (113 pounds),David Creegan (126), MichaelWilkerson (132), Brendon Par-ent (138) and Owen Brooks(182) each recorded first-pe-riod pins.
Scotty Obendorfer (120)posted a technical fall over hisopponent, while T.J. Macklin(106) and Corey Obendorfer(145) each secured major de-cisions.
“I expected us to do prettywell against them,” Damas-cus coach John Furgeson said.“What I like to see is now thefootball players are starting to
get into shape. ... with a littlebit more time, hopefully afterChristmas break they’ll takecare of that issue, but they aregood kids and they are work-ing and putting in the time tocatch up.”
Both Ari Cacopardo, a statecompetitor at 182 poundswitha 39-6 record last season, andLane Hunt (285) are still re-cuperating after the footballteam’s run to the 3A statechampionship game less thantwo weeks ago.
The Gladiators (3-1)earned a pair of falls in the toptwo weight classes, as well asat 152 pounds. Glenelg’s MikeBudock (160 pounds) ekedout a 8-6 victory over ColinMcLaughlin in the sudden-victory period, an outcomethat Furgeson said he saw as apositive despite surrenderingthree team points.
“It was good to see Colingo the distance with Budock,because he is a really goodwrestler,” Furgeson said. “Iwas excited that he was in aposition to win it, but unfortu-nately we came out on the los-
ing end of it in overtime.”The Swarmin’ Hornets
have a quick turnaround be-fore heading out to the Ap-palachian Duals this weekendat Skyline High School in Vir-ginia. Damascus is the onlyMaryland school in the event,and should face some of thetop programs in Virginia, in-
cluding Lake Braddock, Battle-field and the host Hawks.
“We’re going to go see howsome Virginia guys wrestle,”Furgeson said. “Hopefully weget our butts kicked a little bitand learn something about ourtoughness, then bring it backto the practice room and getready to go.”
Damascus grapplers roll past Glenelg
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Damascus High School’s Scotty Obendorfer (right) wrestles Glenelg’s ColinSilk Wednesday at 120 pounds.
n Senior’s 14 points,free throws help Barons
to a 43-33 victory
BY KYLE RUSSELLSPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
Led by 14 points fromMar-iama Tunkara, the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School girlsbasketball team overcame anearly deficit on Friday to post a43-33 victory over host Mont-gomery Blair.
The Barons (4-1 overall,1-0 Montgomery County 4ASouth Division) trailed for al-most three quarters until a pairof Shantal Perez free throwstied the score at 27-27 late inthe third quarter. A Tunkarafree throw gave B-CC its firstlead of the contest with 6 min-utes, 45 seconds remainingthe fourth quarter. The seniorcaptain finished 6-for-8 fromthe line in the fourth quarter.
“In past games I haven’tbeen so strong from the free-throw line, so I knew thatthat would be the difference,”Tunkara said. “I just kept kindof talking to myself at the free-throw line, saying, ‘It’s free.It’s free. It’s free. All you haveto do it make it.’”
The free points weren’t aseasy to come by early in thecontest. The Barons made just2-of-6 attempts in the first half,and 7-of-15 through the thirdquarter. B-CC coach RyanIngalls was pleased with thefourth-quarter performancefrom the stripe — the Baronsshot 16-for-22 as a team in theframe — but she knows that itis something her squad needsto work on.
“It’s something that wehave struggled with,” she said.“We’ve done it in practice,but it’s very hard to simulategame-like situations with freethrows. It’s something we’llcontinue to work on, becausein the closer games it’s goingto be the difference.”
The Blazers (4-1, 0-1)jumped out to an early 8-2 leadby the end of the first quarterthanks to some hard workon the offensive glass. Blairgrabbed four offensive re-bounds in the frame which setup five second-chance points.
Lauren Frost led the Blaz-ers with 10 points and seven
rebounds, while Camille Estrinscored eight. Blair coach ErinConley liked what she saw inthe first half, but thinks heryoung squad started makingsome questionable decisionsdown the stretch.
“B-CC came out muchstronger defensively [in thesecond half], and I think ourguards had a little bit of a hardtime handling that pressure,”Conley said. “When we wereattacking the basket, we wouldhave a hard time handlingit when they would collapseon us — we didn’t make theright decisions, make the rightpasses and we sort of falteredunder the pressure.”
The Barons forced 23 turn-overs in the game, including13 in the second half. AlexisHopkins led the B-CC defensewith five steals, while Tunkaraadded three takeaways.
“They were playing muchharder than us in the firstquarter, and it showed,”Tunkara said. “At timeoutsand the breaks I talked tomy team, and we just kind ofpulled together. We knew thatwe wanted it more.”
With the victory, the Bar-ons have nearly equaled theirsix-win total from last season.Tunkara believes the early-season victories are settingoff a positive feedback loopthat should lead to future suc-cesses.
“This is definitely momen-tum into our game onMondayversus [Richard Montgomery],and the rest of the season,” shesaid. “Last season we didn’thave a strong season, and nowwe are starting off way betterthan we did last year. I thinkthat gets our energy up moreand more, just to know thatwe are here, and we have fourwins, and we just have to pushthrough.”
B-CC 43, Blair 33SCORINGB-CC: Mariama Tunkara
14; Shantal Perez 10; Char-lotte Lowndes 6; Daisy Leahy5; Caitlin Clendenin 5; AlexisHopkins 3.
Blair: Lauren Frost 10; Ca-mille Estrin 8; Breanna Camp6; Liza Curcio-Rudy 6; AlexisMoses 3.
B-CC girls comeback to defeat Blair
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Blake High School senior guard Alyshia Allison(right) looks to pass against Springbrook.
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MSRP $23,185
2006 Jetta Sedan...#V021107A, Blue, 106,666 Miles...................$9,9912011 Jetta Sedan...#VLP0105, Black, 47,803 Miles....................$10,9512012 Golf HB..#V026462A, Gray, 66,571 Miles..................................$11,9942013 Ford Fiesta...#V034406A, Platinum, 35,310 Miles....................$12,7532012 Mazda Mazda3...#VP0117, Black, 31,363 Miles...............$12,9712012 Jetta S Sedan..#LP0118, Silver, 33,694 Miles.........................$12,9912012 Jetta Sedan...#VP0106, White, 32,563 Miles...........................$13,9912012 Beetle CPE PZEV...#V621679A, Silver, 22,689 Miles.........................$13,9912011 Dodge Charger...#VPR0100A, Silver, 60,717 Miles..................$14,9912010 GTI HB PZEV AT..#V020596A, Gray, 41,813 Miles....................$15,8452012 Mini Cooper S...#V034678A, Red, 33,011 Miles...............$15,9942014 Ford Focus..#V329220A, Black, 38,811 Miles..........................$16,9912010 Routan CPO...#VP0102, Brown, 30,797 Miles..........................$17,491
2012 Jetta Sedan TDI...#V615887A, Silver, 26,804 Miles.................$17,9712014 Jetta SE CPO PZEV..#VPR0113, Silver, 5,825 Miles.................$18,3212013 Golf...#VPR0098, Black, 7,392 Miles.........................................$18,5942012 GTI HB MT...#VP0107, Red, 54,244 Miles.................................$18,9912012 Tiguan SE...#V511462A, Black, 37,637 Miles..........................$19,5912011 Tiguan SEL...#V520327A, Pearl, 69,623 Miles.........................$19,9912013 Passat SEL LTD...#V017623A, Black, 53,252 Miles.................$19,9942014 Passat Wolfsburg CPO..#VPR0110, Silver, 7,578 Miles..........$20,6312014 Passat Wolfsburg CPO..#VPR0109, White, 3,375 Miles..........$20,6312014 Passat Wolfsburg..#VPR0108, Silver, 9,040 Miles...................$20,6312013 Tiguan SE...#V006405A, Gray, 17,099 Miles............................$22,3912013 Beetle Convertible...#V009351Z, Black, 9,202 Miles..............$23,9912014 Passat SE..#V044301A, Gray, 15,182 Miles.............................$23,991
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$10,977#541043A, Automatic, 1-Owner,Silver, Sedan, 68Kmiles
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$11,977#541010C,Manual, Convertible,35KMiles, 1-Owner
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$12,995
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#G0044A, SpecialEdition, 1-Owner,38k Miles
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$25,950
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$14,995
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$22,950
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$21,7502012 Volvo C30T5 Coupe........................................ $21,950#526126A, 1-Owner, 29k Miles, 2.5L DOHC Turbo I5 Enfine
2009 Acura MDXTech PKG SUV................. $22,950#526536B, Automatic, 59k Miles, 2.7L VTEC V6 Engine
2012 Ford Super Duty................................................... $24,950#526078A, 1-Owner, 34K Miles, SRW XL Pick-Up
2012 BMW 3 Series............................................................ $33,950#P9213, 1-Owner, 34K Miles, 335i Convertible, Navigation
#526547B, VolvoCertified, Automatic,36K miles
$17,995
2011 Volvo S40 T5 Sedan
2009 Volvo S60............................................................................. $13,995#426058A, Automatic, 2.5T AWD, Sedan
2008 Volvo C70 Coupe.................................................... $14,995#N0553, Auto, Black, 1-Owner, 2.5L Turbo Engine
2008 Mercedes Benz ML350............................... $20,950#526113A, Capri Blue, 59k Miles, 3.5L V6 SUV
2012 Volvo S60 T5 Sedan......................................... $20,950#P9203, 1-Owner, Automatic, 20k Miles, 2.5L 5-Cyl
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Prices include all rebates and incentives. DARCARS Nissan DOES NOT Include college grad or military rebates in price! NMAC Bonus Cash require financing through NMAC with approved credit. Prices exclude tax,tags, freight (Cars $810, SUVs and Trucks $860-$1000) and $300 processing charge, Lease payments are calculated with tax, tags, freight, $300 processing charge and first payment due at signing, and are valid with
tier one approval through NMAC. Prices and payments valid only at listed VINS. See dealer for details. Offer expires 01/02/2015.
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888-797-1831
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College Park, MD 20740888-693-8037
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$13,495w/automatictransmission
MODEL #11515
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OR
2014 NISSANSENTRA SV
MSRP: $19,165Sale Price: $15,495
Nissan Rebate: $1,000NMAC Bonus Cash: $500
Nissan Holiday Bonus Cash: -500
$13,495w/bluetooth
MODEL #12114$0 DOWN
$139/MO36 MO LEASE12K MILES/YR
OR
2015 NISSANALTIMA 2.5 S
MSRP: $23,845Sale Price: $19,745
Nissan Rebate: -$1,250NMAC Bonus Cash: -$1,000
Nissan Holiday Bonus Cash: -$1,000
$16,495
MODEL #13115
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$149/MO36 MO LEASE12K MILES/YR
OR
2014 NISSANROGUE SELECT AWD MSRP: $23,050
Sale Price: $19,495NMAC Bonus Cash: $500
$18,995w/bluetooth
MODEL #29014
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$189/MO36 MO LEASE12K MILES/YR
OR
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$22,995
MODEL #23214
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OR
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MSRP: $13,170Sale Price: $10,995
$10,995
MSRP: $32,000Sale Price: $28,495
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$24,995
$0 DOWN
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OR
2014 NISSANMAXIMA 3.5 S MSRP: $33,265
Sale Price: $28,495Nissan Rebate: $4,500
NMAC Bonus Cash: $500
$23,495Limited Editionpkg, moonroofMODEL #16114
4AT THISPRICE $0 DOWN
$299/MO39 MO LEASE12K MILES/YR
OR
2015 NISSANLEAF S
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AT THISPRICE
w/free Charger
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PRICES AND PAYMENTS INCLUDE ANY APPLICABLE MANUFACTURE’S REBATES AND EXCLUDE MILITARY ($500) AND COLLEGE GRAD ($500) REBATES, TAX, TAGS, DEALER PROCESSING CHARGE ($300) AND FREIGHT: CARS $795 OR $810, TRUCKS, SPORT UTILITY AND SIENNAS $810, $845 AND $995. *0.0% APR & 0% APR FINANCING UP TO 60 MONTHS TO QUALIFIED BUYERS THRU TOYOTA FINANCIAL SERVICES. TOTALFINANCED CANNOT EXCEED MSRP PLUS OPTIONS, TAX, AND LICENSE FEES. 0% APR MONTHLY PAYMENTS OF $16.67 FOR EACH $1000 BORROWED. 0.9% APR 60 MONTHLY PAYMENTS OF $17.05 FOR EACH $1000 BORROWED. APR OFFERS ARE NOT VALID WITH ANY OTHER CASH BACK LEASE OFFER. NOT ALL BUYERS WILL QUALIFY.**LEASE PAYMENTS BASED ON 36 MONTHS, 12,000 MILES PER YEAR WITH $995 DOWNPLUS $650 ACQUISITION FEE, NO SECURITY DEPOSIT REQUIRED. LEASES FOR COROLLA AND CAMRY ARE 24 MONTHS WITH $0 DOWN PLUS TAX, TAGS, PROCESSING AND $650 ACQUISITION FEE. SEE DEALER FOR COMPLETE DETAILS. EXPIRES 12/31/2014.
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0% FOR60 MONTHS+On 10 Toyota Models
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