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than other executives’

BY KEVIN JAMES SHAY

STAFF WRITER

After falling to second placein 2013, DiscoveryCommunica-tions CEO David M. Zaslav wasagain thehighest-paid executiveof a public company in Mont-gomery County in 2014.

That’s according to a reviewof publicly traded companies’proxy statements recently filedwith the U.S. Securities and Ex-change Commission.

The chief executive of theSilver Spring media giant addeda new wrinkle in easily surpass-ing 2013’s most highly com-pensated CEO in the county,Martine Rothblatt of SilverSpring drugmaker United Ther-apeutics.

This week, Zaslav toppedthe list of the 200 highest-paidCEOs nationally, compiled bycompensation data firm Equilarfor The New York Times. That’sthe first time he has led those

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n Montgomery schoolboard to resume search

process in January

BY LINDSAY A. POWERSSTAFF WRITER

Larry A. Bowers will remainMontgomery County PublicSchools’ interim superinten-dent as the county school boardcontinues to search for a newpermanent leader.

The board unanimouslyappointed Bowers to the rolea second time on Wednesday,a few days after its top choiceto become the school system’snext superintendent withdrewhis name.

State schools Superinten-dent LillianM.Lowery approvedthe appointment, according toWilliam Reinhard, a spokesmanfor the Maryland State Depart-ment of Education.

Bowers, who has worked inthe district for about 37 years,has served as the interim leadersinceFebruary andnowwill stayuntil June of next year. FormerSuperintendent Joshua P. Starrresigned in February before hisfour-year contract would haveexpired this summer.

During a school boardmeet-ing Wednesday, Bowers, whohad been set to retire at the endof June, said he hadn’t plannedto stay in the post, but was “will-ing to step in.”

“I’m very committed to thissystem and what we’ve beendoing, and I want to make sureit continues,” he said.

Bowers’ appointment wasmet with clapping and cheer-ing from the audience in thecrowded school board meetingroom.

“I think you can tell that theMCPS staff is very happy thatthere will be stability and posi-tive direction,” school boardPresident Patricia O’Neill toldBowers.

O’Neill said after the meet-ing that the board is “taking apause” in its superintendentsearch and plans to resume inJanuary.

On May 14, the board an-nounced it had picked AndrewHoulihan, chief academic offi-cer of the Houston IndependentSchool District, as its “preferredcandidate” out of a pool of 25people it considered. HoulihaninformedO’Neill in aMay17 let-ter that he was withdrawing hisapplication.

“While I believe that myleadership would be an asset toMontgomery County, I also feelthat at this point in time, suchleadership is not the right fit for

Bowersto stay asinterimleader

n Student speakers sharepast journeys, future goals

BY LINDSAY A. POWERS

STAFF WRITER

With roots in four partsof the world and eyes on foursets of goals, student speak-ers at Montgomery College’sFriday graduation ceremonycelebrated a shared moment ofsuccess.

The four speakers, all re-cipients of top college awards,were among more than 3,500students earning degrees andcertificates in the college’s classof 2015. About 950 graduateswalked at Friday’s commence-ment.

Montgomery College Presi-dent DeRionne P. Pollard saidthe graduates who were cel-ebrated Friday made up theinstitution’s largest graduatingclass.

Fidelis Mariae A. Militante,a nursing major at the college,was one of three graduatesnamed a 2015 Board of Trust-ees Scholar. She representedthe Rockville campus.

“It is a significant milestonein my life’s journey, a journeyfilled with difficult obstaclesand joyous achievements, ajourney not unlike your jour-ney,” Militante, of Rockville,

Montgomery College gradhighlights student diversity

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Antony M. Musembi, a Board of Trustees Scholar, addresses MontgomeryCollege’s 68th commencement at the Rockville campus on Friday.

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James Blake’s Martha Sam wins the girls 100 dash in the 3A/4A State Track Championship meet in Baltimoreon Friday. See story, Page B-1.

Victorious

n Silver Spring couple allowedchildren to walk on their own

BY DONNA ST. GEORGE

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A Maryland couple investigated forneglect after they let their two youngchildren walk home alone from localparks have been cleared in one of two

such cases, according to the family’s at-torneys and documents.

The new Child Protective Servicesfinding, which follows an appeal, comesas the experiences of “free-range” par-ents Danielle and Alexander Meitiv havedrawn national attention, sparking de-bate about parenting choices and howfar local officials should go to enforcelaws designed to protect children.

It overturns a previous CPS decision

that held the Meitivs responsible for“unsubstantiated” child neglect, a find-ing typically made when there is con-flicting or insufficient information for amore definitive conclusion.

The change came as a welcome sur-prise to the Meitivs, who were informedin letters they received May 18 that ne-glect was “ruled out” in the case, whichdates to their children’s December walkfrom Woodside Park.

“Itwas anenormous relief andvindi-cation,” Danielle Meitiv said in a Wash-ingtonPost interview, the family’s first insix weeks. “Of course there’s no neglecthere. There never was. There was nevereven a hint of it.”

The CPS letter gave no further ex-planation, leaving open the question ofwhether CPS has changed its approach

‘Free-range’ parents cleared in investigation

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p.m.,Wheaton Library, 11701 GeorgiaAve. Volunteers from Service Corps ofRetired Executives offer advice. One-hourappointments onMondays,Wednesdaysand Thursdays: 240-777-0678. Free.

Honor and Praise, Navy Band BrassQuartet, 2 p.m., Lakeside Commons Club-house, Riderwood, 3140 Gracefield Road,Silver Spring. Free. 301-572-1300.

Zumba, 6:30-8 p.m., 111Geneva Ave.,Silver Spring. [email protected]. $10.

A “First-Person Account” of the LincolnAssassination, 1 to 3 p.m., Holiday Park Se-nior Center, 3950 Ferrara Drive,Wheaton.Mike Robinson, a volunteer with Ford’sTheater, will be in period dress, portrayingan eyewitness to history. Sponsored byNational Active and Retired Federal Em-ployees andHoliday Park. Free. 301-871-6734 or [email protected].

Nepal fundraiser, 7-9:30 p.m., SeekersChurch, 276 Carroll St., Takoma, D.C.,across fromMetro station. Concert featur-ing The BlackJacks,Mary Amato, LEA, Ne-pali singer Ramesh Pariyar. Jitman Basnetof Nepal will speak. Requested donation$10-$100. [email protected] or301-466-0183.

THURSDAY, MAY 28Silver Spring Village lunch and presen-

tation, 11:45 a.m.-1:45 p.m., Gwendolyn E.Coffield Community Center, 2450 Lyttons-ville Road, Silver Spring. Learn about the“village” concept, which helps with trans-portation, chores andmore. 301-503-7401or [email protected].

FRIDAY, MAY 29Amelia White with Sergio Webb and

Walter Egan, 8:30-10:45 p.m. SligoCafe, 923Sligo Ave., Silver Spring.No cover charge.301-565-2233 or [email protected].

SATURDAY, MAY 30Strathmore/Bel Pre community yard

sale, 9 a.m.-noon, Strathmore/Bel PrePool, 13914 Bethpage Lane, AspenHill.Rain date is June 6. 301-460-0497 [email protected].

Jazz featuring the Bruce KrohmerTrio, 7:30 p.m., Takoma Park CommunityCenter, 7500Maple Ave., Takoma Park.

With a short talk about the local jazzscene and the history of jazz. [email protected].

35th Washington Folk Festival, noon-7p.m., Glen Echo Park, 7300MacArthurBlvd. Same timeMay 31.Musicians, story-tellers, dancers, crafters. Free shuttle busfromGeico parking lot, 5260Western Ave.Free. 301-526-8558 or [email protected].

Doonya (Bollywood) for Nepal, 2-3 p.m.,ProFITClub, 304 E.DiamondAve., Gaith-ersburg. $10 donationswelcome to supportNepal earthquake relief efforts. 301-602-8142 or [email protected].

Colesville Lions Club Flea Market, 8a.m.-2 p.m., Southern States Turf Farm,1409 Spencerville Road, Spencerville. Ven-dor cost is $15. [email protected].

Sundari, 6:30 p.m., KennedyHighSchool, 1901 Randolph Road, SilverSpring. Dance interpretation of the Cin-derella tale. $15; children younger than 10admitted free. knsdance.com.

SUNDAY, MAY 31“Sweet-T” 5K Benefit Walk, 2-5 p.m.,

Covenant Life School, back lawn, 7501MuncasterMill Road, Gaithersburg. Tobenefit the Teressa FrenchMemorialScholarship Fund. www.TeressaFrench.myevent.com or 301-602-9224.

Rent: The Concert Version, 7-9:30p.m., CongregationHar Shalom, 11510Falls Road, Potomac.Musical follows ayear in the life of artists andmusiciansstruggling to survive and create. $20 perperson, including dessert reception. www.harshalom.org or 301-299-7087.

Gandhi Brigade Youth Media Festival,noon-8 p.m., Silver Spring Civic Building,One Veterans Place. Juried competition, afour-hour video competition, social justiceandmedia workshops, and performances.Free. tinyurl.com/kbpknml or [email protected].

Disc Golf for Beginners, 11 a.m., SenecaCreek State Park, 11950Clopper Road,Gaithersburg. $3 per person forMarylandresidents, $5 per person for others. 301-924-2127 or [email protected].

MONDAY, JUNE 1Citizenship Preparation Program, 9

a.m.,Montgomery College,WestfieldSouth Office Building, 11002 VeirsMillRoad, Suite 306,Wheaton. 240-567-8839or [email protected].

American Red Cross Blood Drive,2:30-8 p.m., Liberty GroveUnitedMeth-odist Church, 15225 Old Columbia Pike,Burtonsville. Call 800-733-2767 for an ap-pointment.

TUESDAY, JUNE 2African American Book Discussion, 7

p.m., Praisner Library, 14910 Old Colum-bia Pike, Burtonsville. Copies available atinformation desk. [email protected].

Renters Meeting, 7-8:45 p.m., St. Paul’sUnitedMethodist Church, 10401 ArmoryAve., Kensington.MontgomeryCountyRenters Alliancewill discuss rental housingconcerns. Free. [email protected].

Blood and food drive, 8 a.m.-3 p.m.,Montgomery County Public Safety Head-quarters, first-floor conference room, 100Edison Park Drive, Gaithersburg. Foodand food coupons available. Food pantrydonations accepted. 240-773-5030.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3Senior Connection volunteer open

house, 9:30-11 a.m., Holiday Park SeniorCenter, 3950 Ferrara Drive, Silver [email protected] or301-942-1049.

Mystery Book Discussion, 7 p.m., Prais-ner Library, 14910 Old Columbia Pike,Burtonsville. Copies available at informa-tion desk. 240-773-9460.

AARP Smart Driver Course, 12:30-5p.m.,Wheaton Library, 11701 GeorgiaAve., Wheaton. Registration required;limited to 25. $15 AARPmembers, $20nonmembers. 240-777-0678 or [email protected].

Holiday Park Senior Prom, 5:30-7 p.m.,Holiday Park Senior Center, 3950 FerraraDrive,Wheaton. Light dinner starts at 5:30p.m.With Night andDay band. 240-777-4999 or [email protected].

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Students honoredfor their artwork

Two Silver Spring resi-dents have been recognizedin an annual art competitionwithin Maryland’s 8th Con-gressional District in Con-gress.

Alexis Faleder, a sopho-more at Melvin J. BermanHebrew Academy in Rock-ville, and Jirawat “Paul”Khumbungkla, a freshmanat Northwood High in SilverSpring, were among the sixrunners-up.

Alexis submitted a ball-point pen work entitled “Why?”

Jirawat submitted anacrylic and colored pencilwork entitled “Tradition.”

U.S. Rep. ChristopherVan Hollen Jr.’s office said ina press release that 251 stu-dents from 31 schools withinthe 8th District entered.

The winning work wasan ink-and-pastel piece byPeter Stubin, a senior at Wal-ter Johnson High School inBethesda.

Jurors selected 94 entriesthat were in an exhibitionat Washington ArtWorks inRockville in April and May.

From the 94 entries in theexhibition, 16 were selectedfor special recognition.

Silver Spring student getsKing’s College degreeLucas E. Crock of Silver

Spring has received a degreefrom King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Crock received a bachelorof science degree in psychol-ogy.

Takoma Park authorwrites book on jazzEdward Allan Faine of Ta-

koma Park has a new bookcalled “The Best Gig in Town:Jazz Artists at the White House1969-1974.”

A description of the booksays it’s about 13 jazz-relatedperformances at the WhiteHouse. The musicians in-cludes singers Pearl Bailey,Peggy Lee and Frank Sina-tra; pianist Henry Mancini;and instrumental groups theModern Jazz Quartet and theWorld’s Greatest Jazz Band.

The book offers a rare viewof “a White House at play with[President Richard] Nixon asgenial and gracious host,” thedescription says.

The book was publishedby IM Press and is availableon Amazon.

Faine’s other books in-clude “Ellington at the White

House 1969,” “PrisonerChaser” and the children’sstory “Bebop Babies.”

Library grant going toHarmony Hills Elementary

The Laura Bush Founda-tion for America’s Librariesis giving more than $875,000grants to 131 school librariesthis year, including one in Sil-ver Spring.

Harmony Hills Elemen-tary School in Silver Spring isgetting a $7,000 grant.

The money will be used tobuy books for the media cen-ter to support students whoare learning English, accord-ing to Holly L. Buchanan, amedia specialist at the school.

Harmony Hills is the onlyschool in Maryland to win agrant.

Silver Spring studentsgraduate from Macalester

Two students from SilverSpring have graduated fromMacalester College in St. Paul,Minn.

Paul Babinec received aliberal arts degree in econom-ics. Babinec, a graduate ofBlair High in Silver Spring, isthe son of Paul Babinec andKarin Malm of Silver Spring.

Phineas Rueckert gradu-ated magna cum laude witha liberal arts degree in politi-cal science and internationalstudies.

Rueckert, a graduate of St.Albans School in Washington,D.C., is the son of Janet Hul-strand of Silver Spring andStephen Rueckert of SilverSpring.

County honorsrecycling efforts

As part of the county’s16th annual Recycling Aware-ness Week, the MontgomeryCounty Department of Envi-ronmental Protection’s Divi-sion of Solid Waste Servicesrecently recognized outstand-ing achievements in recycling,waste reduction, reuse, buy-ing recycled-content prod-ucts, backyard compostingand grass-cycling and educa-tional efforts.

Local businesses, orga-nizations, multifamily apart-ment and condominiumproperties, residents and in-dividuals were honored May20 at the county conferencecenter in North Bethesda fortheir efforts to help the countymeet its goal to recycle 70 per-cent of all waste by 2020. Lo-cal winners include:

• Multi-Family Property

Excellence in Recycling: Wil-low Manor at Colesville, SilverSpring

• Multi-Family PropertyOutstanding Effort in Recy-cling: Riderwood Village inSilver Spring

• Outstanding Achieve-ment in Recycling, Business:Banneker Ventures, SilverSpring; Briggs Chaney Walk-In Clinic, Silver Spring; Cha-pala Restaurant, Burtonsville;Merry Maids, Silver Spring;RCT Endodontics, SilverSpring; Takoma Park Co-op;Unique Thrift Store, SilverSpring

• Outstanding Achieve-ment in Business Recycling,Individual: Luis Alvarado,Peterson Cos., Silver Spring;Brittany Frankel, PetersonCos., Silver Spring; TieshaHackley, Brookfield OfficeProperties, Silver Spring;Kathy Oates, Site RealtyGroup, Silver Spring; JosueOrtiz Maltez, ABM, SilverSpring; Digna Sorto, ABM, Sil-ver Spring; Chris Yorro, JonesLang LaSalle, Silver Spring.

Students to conductresearch in Israel

Six local high school ju-niors were awarded Dr. IstvanMadaras SciTech Scholar-ships to conduct scientificresearch this summer at theTechnion-Israel Institute ofTechnology in Haifa.

They are Yashodhar Go-vil, Nathan Zimmerberg, SamWasserman and Sam Wenger,all of Bethesda and WhitmanHigh School in Bethesda; andGabriel Swagel of Chevy Chaseand Mikhael Hammer-Bleichof Silver Spring, students atCharles E. Smith Jewish DaySchool in Rockville.

The SciTech Summer Sci-ence Camp, which will runfrom July 20 to Aug. 13, is aresearch program for juniorsand seniors with an interestand ability in mathematics,science or computer technol-ogy, a news release says.

Art Association closingWheaton gallery

The Montgomery Art As-sociation is closing its galleryin the Westfield Wheaton mallafter more than four years atthe site.

The organization will havea closing party Friday from6:30 to 9 p.m. in the upperlevel near Costco.

The arts group hopes toopen a gallery “again some-time in the future and [is] cur-rently exploring options withWestfield,” according to itswebsite.

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n Outdoor pools, includingseveral in Silver Springarea, open for season

BY KEVIN JAMES SHAY

STAFF WRITER

Following an extended cam-paign by pool users, the Mont-gomery County Council agreedon Thursday to provide moneynext fiscal year to operate andmaintain the pool at PineyBranch Elementary School inTakoma Park.

The final vote came justbefore the popular swimmingseason, as seven outdoor poolsopened for the season Saturday.Those included the Long Branchone on Piney Branch Road in Sil-ver Spring, Martin Luther KingJr. on Jackson Road in WhiteOak and Wheaton/Glenmonton Dalewood Drive in Wheaton.

Four other outdoor poolsopened in Bethesda, German-town, Gaithersburg and Pools-ville.

In March, County ExecutiveIsiah Leggett released a fiscal2016 budget proposal that rec-ommended cutting out main-tenance and operations fundsfor the Takoma pool. He recom-mended that the pool, which isinside the school, be closed andre-evaluated for needed capitalimprovements.

Those who lobbied to keepthe pool open while the mat-ter is studied included parentsof students at the Takoma Parkschool, Piney Branch teacherand swim coach Emily Rawson

and Takoma Park Mayor BruceWilliams.

At Piney Branch, some stu-dents wrote letters that werepresented by student SarahBlum to the County Council inmid-April during a public hear-ing.

“We are thrilled,” Sarah’smother, Wendy Kent, who alsotestified during that meeting,said Friday. “It’s great to see ourefforts pay off.”

Testifying during the budgethearings among dozens of otherpeople gave Kent a better ideaof the extent of programs andneeds in the county. “We knowthey are all important,” she said.“We knew it wasn’t a given thatwe would get the funding.”

In a meeting of the council’sPlanning, Housing and Eco-nomic Development committeein late April, County RecreationDepartment Director GabrielAlbornoz said the Takoma poolwas a “wonderful communityamenity,” but it ran a “fairly sig-nificant deficit” and was in needof substantial repair.

Council President GeorgeL. Leventhal (D-At Large) ofTakoma Park said the pool pro-vided an important service to an“economically challenged” area,and he didn’t mind there beinga deficit. “I don’t think we haveany other option” but to fund it,Leventhal said.

Councilwoman Nancy Flo-reen (D-At Large) of Garrett Parksaid in the committee meetingthat, according to a county leg-islative memo, there were otherpools in the county “that weremore of a drain on the system.”

For instance, the Upper Countypool in Gaithersburg had a bud-get of $116,073 and actual rev-enue of $25,131 in fiscal 2014,according to county figures.

The Piney Branch pool hada budget that year of $155,000and revenue of $85,748, accord-ing to the county. Floreen said“it would be good to not havethis conversation [about PineyBranch pool] every single year,”as officials have in recent years.

Kent said the Takoma pool is“not unsafe,” but was in need ofcertain upgrades. It would helpfor the pool to have better publicaccess, since users now have togo through the school, she said.

The council agreed to add$145,000 to the fiscal budget foroperations, which are managedthrough a county recreation de-partment contract by AdventistCommunity Services, an agencyof the Seventh-day AdventistChurch.

The county also budgeted$15,000 for maintenance.

In recent years, MontgomeryCounty has funded the main-tenance and operations of thepool, while the school districtpays for costs such as utilities,janitorial upkeep and security.The facility is the only Olympic-sized pool inside a MontgomeryCounty school, according toPiney Branch’s website.

The process has providedan interesting civics lesson forKent’s daughter and other stu-dents. “But I hope we don’t haveto go through this again nextyear,” Kent said.

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Carlos Reyes of Langley Park teaches his daughter Allison, 5, to swim at the Long Branch Outdoor Pool in SilverSpring on Sunday afternoon.

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n Rider dies after May 9accident in Wheaton

BY VIRGINIA TERHUNE

STAFFWRITER

A Silver Spring motorcycledriver who was seriously in-jured in a May 9 collision witha pickup truck in Wheatondied on Saturday, according topolice.

The rider was ThomasSteven Rose, 59, of the 11300block of Cloverhill Drive in Sil-ver Spring, according to a Po-lice Department news release.

Detectives continue to in-vestigate the accident, whichhappened about 9 p.m. at theintersection of Randolph Roadand BusheyDrive.

A preliminary investiga-

tion indicates that Mario EvertCarrascoGonzales, 43, of SilverSpring wasdriving a 2005FordF-150 pickup truck south onBusheyDrive.

Gonzales attempted tocross Randolph Road and col-lided with a 2002 Yamaha mo-torcycle driven by Rose, whowas traveling west on Ran-dolph Road, according to therelease.

No further informationwas available from police as ofTuesday.

Investigators with thedepartment’s Collision Re-construction Unit are askinganyone who saw the accidentto call them at 240-773-6620.Callers may remain anony-mous.

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n Loiederman to hostmusical gala Fridayat Wheaton High

BY KEVIN JAMES SHAY

STAFFWRITER

A decade ago, officials re-named Belt Middle School af-ter the late businessman andarts advocate A. Mario Loi-ederman and rebranded theSilver Spring-area school as anartsmagnet.

This week, students, fac-ultyandalumniarecelebratingthe school’s 10-year anniver-sary with a series of events.That includes a musical galaFriday at 7 p.m. at WheatonHighSchool,which isnear Loi-edermanMiddle School.

Performers will includemembers of the WashingtonNational Opera, National Phil-harmonic Orchestra and Loi-ederman staff and students,said administrative secretaryDenice Wepasnick. There willbe an a cappella group andbarbershop quartet, as wellas the Loiederman chamberchoir.

Admission is $5 for adultsand $3 for children.

“This is an event designedfor current and past Loieder-man students, staff and theirfamilies to celebrate the past10 years,” Wepasnick said.“But anyone who is interestedin our school is welcome to at-tend.”

While the arts play a cen-tral role in the school’s mag-net curriculum, with electivecourses in visual art, choralmusic and theater, all studentstake regular courses such asEnglish, math, science, worldstudies and physical educa-tion. Sixth-graders take an in-troductory arts course.

Loiederman schedulesplays, art shows and musicand dance concerts featuringstudent performers through-out the year.

A first-time event is a stu-dent film festival on Wednes-day evening at the school onGoodhill Road. “They are allshort films directed by stu-dents,”Wepasnick said.

There also will be a barbe-cue on Thursday.

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Loiederman Middle School is celebrating its 10th anniversary this week.Above, sixth-graders Molly Merlocoyne and Skylar Williams paint sets fora play last fall at the school.

n Parking, Metro andmoney are hurdles

BY KATE S. ALEXANDER

STAFFWRITER

A proposed arena in Mont-gomery County is no closer toopening than it was a year ago.

Without a space to ac-commodate most high schoolgraduation ceremonies, manyMontgomery County PublicSchools seniors and their fami-lies again will trek elsewhere,such asWashington, D.C.

Despite years of working tobuild anarena in the county thatcould host events, the projectremains stymied by Washing-ton Metropolitan Area TransitAuthority (WMATA) and lackscounty financial support.

As an arena site, developershave been eyeing about eightacres of WMATA land currentlyused for parking at the ShadyGroveMetro Station.

Montgomery Countyawarded developer D&A Sportsand Entertainment the projectmore than six years ago.

But the progress both thecounty and the developer ex-pected last May has not hap-pened.

County Executive IsiahLeggett said the county cannotfinancially support the projectnow because of a tight budgetand difficult fiscal outlook.

Leggett (D) said the projectalso faces challengeswithMetro

and “its willingness to be a partof it.”

Asked for comment,WMATA spokesman Mike Tol-bert emailed this statement:“Metro is supportiveof this proj-ect. However, we require thatany commuter parking that isdisplacedby theproposedarenabe replaced. As an end-of-linestation, Shady Grove is a busystation and its parking facilitiesare often at or near capacity.”

No one, Leggett said, is in aposition to come up with a plan

that satisfies all of the concerns.“It’s a long, long ways from

anything concrete happeningout there,” he said.

Tom Doyle of D&A Sportsand Entertainment could not bereached for comment.

Last year, Doyle said thequestion of how much parkingwouldhave tobeprovidedat thearena was the only thing stand-ing between the project and agreen light fromWMATA.

But while the county hopedto have the issue resolved lastJuly, a year later, Leggett said,the project still does not haveWMATA approval.

Most Montgomery Countyhigh schools will hold com-mencement at the Daughtersof the American Revolution’sConstitution Hall in Washing-ton, D.C.

Once built, the arena in thecounty will be available eachyear for graduation ceremonies,Doyle said previously.

“That is a mandatory re-quirement of this whole projectfor us,” he said in 2014. “I wentto public school inMontgomeryCounty and everybody beforeand after me has had to sufferwith going somewhere else.”

Leggett said he, too, is eagerto stop hosting graduations out-side the county.

“It’s something I want tochange,” he said. “I’ve gonedown to Constitution Hall toomany times, fighting throughthe traffic, forcing our residentsgo through the traffic. We haveto change that. Hopefully, thatwe can get it done. It’s just ques-tion of timing at this point.”

Even if Metro approvesplans for the arena, the countystill could require amaster-planor zoning amendment for theproject. If the master plan mustbeamended,minormaster-planamendments are the county’squickest process and those cantake about a year to complete.

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Another year, still no arena in county

LOIEDERMAN MIDDLESCHOOL TEN-YEARANNIVERSARYMUSICAL GALAn When: 7-9 p.m. Friday

n Where: Wheaton HighSchool auditorium, 12601Dalewood Drive

n Cost: $5 adults, $3 children

n More information: www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/loiedermanms

“I went to public school inMontgomery County and everybodybefore and after me has had to suffer

with going somewhere else.”Tom Doyle, D&A Sports and Entertainment

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n Leggett says Thursday’smeeting with Hogan,Baker was productive

BY KATE S. ALEXANDERSTAFFWRITER

A last-ditch meeting to con-vince Gov. Larry Hogan of theneed to keep the Purple Line ontrack went well, MontgomeryCounty Executive Isiah Leggettsaid.“I don’t say that lightly,” he

said.Leggett (D) met behind

closed doors Thursday withHogan (R) and Prince George’sCounty Executive Rushern L.Baker III (D) to talk about thePurple Line, specifically the eco-nomic reasons for building it.Proposed to connect

Bethesda to NewCarrollton, the16-mile light-rail line has beenprojected to bring more than27,000 jobs to the regionandbil-lions in economic development.But Hogan, a strong sup-

porter of road transportation,has questioned the project’s$2.45 billion price tag and askedstate transportation officials totake a closer look.Asked if themeetingaffected

the governor’s thinking on theproject, Hogan spokeswomanErin Montgomery wrote in anemail: “The governor will makea decision on the Purple Lineonce he receives final recom-mendations from Transporta-tion Secretary Pete Rahn.”Rahn said earlier thismonth

that the project could be builtfor 10 percent less, The Wash-ington Post reported.Rahn told The Post the Pur-

ple Line construction savingshisagency found would result fromchanges in the project’s “scope”and “commercial terms.”Hogan was expected to

make a decision on the PurpleLine this month, but Leggettsaid he left the meeting Thurs-day with the impression thatHogan would not decide untilafter a scheduled trip to Asia,likely in early June.“My effort today was to get

him to accept the project isworth having and we should doit,” Leggett said Thursday.Unwilling to say whether he

expects Hogan to keep the proj-ect on track, Leggett character-ized themeeting as productive.Leggett and Baker sought to

show thegovernorhow theproj-ect is consistent with Hogan’sdesire for economic develop-ment growth inMaryland.“My point was: This is con-

sistent with his mandate tocreate jobs and expand our taxbase,” Leggett said, adding thathe approached the conversationby presenting realistic figures toHogan.Hogan has questioned fig-

ures showing the project willbring thousands of jobs and bil-lions in growth, but even if thePurple Line does not bring asmany jobs or asmuch growth asexpected, what comes will be aboon, Leggett argued.Federal lawmakers are also

pushingHogan to keep theproj-ect on track.In a letter Friday,Maryland’s

Congressional delegation—mi-nus U.S. Rep. Andrew P. Harris(R-Dist. 1) of Cockeysville — re-iterated support and commit-ment to the Purple Line, as wellas the $2.9 billion Red Line pro-posed near Baltimore.“Both systems will create

needed transit connections be-tween population centers andemployment, reduce conges-tion in area roadways, and fos-ter community and economicdevelopment,” the letter said.The federal government has

earmarked $100 million eachfor the Purple Line and the RedLine in fiscal year 2015 and upto $900 million each toward fullconstruction.But the delegation warned

that money won’t be availableforever and if it isn’t spent onthe Purple or Red lines, it won’tgo to other projects in the state.“We urge you tomove expe-

ditiously to finalize plans for theRed and Purple Lines and bringMaryland theeconomicbenefitsand jobs they will provide,” thedelegationwrote.

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Decisionon PurpleLine mightbe in June

n Girl Scouts came upwith idea, raised fundsas Bronze Award project

BY TERRIHOGANSTAFFWRITER

Most people have timeswhen they could use a friend,and a new Buddy Bench at Clo-verly Elementary School in Sil-ver Springmakes it a little easierto connect with one.The bench was the idea of

Junior Girl Scout Troop 1340,which has seven fifth-gradersled by parents Tracy Kiras ofSilver Spring and Amy Creel ofAshton.Last year, the girls started

thinking about a communityservice project for their GirlScout Bronze Award.While researching ideas,

they stumbled upon the BuddyBench, a concept started by asecond-grade boy at his Penn-sylvania school.The idea is simple: When

children are lonely, they sit onthe bench. When others seethem on the bench, they invitethem to play with them.Kiras said the decision to

pursue the bench was unani-mous, because the girls hadall witnessed classmates feel-ing lonely on the playground,especially new students at theschool.“The Buddy Bench is a way

to eliminate loneliness at theplayground, for kids who mayhave troublefindingkids toplaywith or making new friends,”said Kiras’ daughter Addy, 10.

“It also leaves a legacy, sincethis is our last year at Cloverly.”The Buddy Bench appears

to be serving its purpose.Girl Scout Jordan Clif-

ford, 10, said the bench builds

friendships on the playground.“Some kids walk around theplayground with nothing todo,” she said. “They sit on thebench andpeoplewill ask themto come play.”

“The purpose of the BuddyBench is to ensure that all stu-dents are given the opportunityto socialize with their peersduring recess,” said PrincipalMelissa A. Brunson. “We are

hoping that the Buddy Benchwill provide opportunities tostrengthen, renew and createnew friendships between stu-dents while keeping them ac-tively engaged during recess.We aim to ensure that no childis left alone.”The troop raised $900 for

the project through bake sales,a 50-50 raffle and aGoFundMeonline campaign.The bench arrived in

March, but it couldn’t be in-stalled until earlyMay, after theweather warmed up. A contrac-tor with ties to the school of-fered to assemble and install itat no charge.Kiras said one of the most

important parts of the projectis that the girls did much of thework themselves.They made a presentation

for the administration, whichsupported the idea.They also made a presenta-

tion to the school, including askit, which featured “do’s anddon’ts” about how to use thebench for its true purpose— tobuild and enhance friendships.“The girls learned to do

research, gained communica-tions skills, presentation skillsand to give back to the commu-nity, while leaving a legacy attheir school,” Kiras said.They also learned how it

feels tomake a difference in thelives of others.“I am really happy that the

Buddy Bench is being put touse and that people are gettingmore friends,” Jordan said.

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Bench fosters friendships at Cloverly Elementary

PHOTO FROM AMY CREEL

Daisy Creel of Ashton, a member of Junior Girl Scout Troop 1340, tries out the new Buddy Bench at CloverlyElementary School in Silver Spring.

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n Fire station on way atRandolph Road-GeorgiaAvenue intersection

BY KEVIN JAMES SHAYSTAFFWRITER

Northern Silver Springresidents and motorists shouldprepare for construction at theintersection of Georgia Avenueand Randolph Road to last lon-ger thanexpected.

“As is the case with majorprojects such as this,” the com-pletion date for a $74.8 millioninterchange project there hasbeendelayedaboutayear to thespring of 2017, Charlie Gischlar,a Maryland State Highway Ad-ministration spokesman, wrotein anemail Tuesday.

“This includes landscap-ing and minor items,” Gischlarwrote. “Thebenefit tomotoristswill be realized sooner than thespring 2017 total completiondate.”

About a year ago, workersstarted on the interchange proj-ect, with completion expectedto be the winter of 2016. Theyare lowering Randolph Road23 feet to allow vehicles to passunder Georgia Avenue, whichtransportation officials say willhelp alleviate traffic congestionand improve safety.

The project also will add alane onGeorgia Avenue, as wellas new turn lanes, ramps, side-walks and signals. The Glen-mont Greenway Trail on thewest side of Georgia Avenue isslated to be extended 900 feet.The signalized intersection nowsees more than 86,000 vehiclesdaily.

The federal government iskicking in $42.8million—morethan half of the money for theinterchange. The state’s share is$17.6 million and MontgomeryCounty’s is $14.4million.

The busy intersection isseeing more construction, in-cluding a new fire station that

is expected to be done by thesummer of 2016. That projectis being coordinated with theinterchangework, but the com-pletiondate for thefirestation isnot expected to be affected bythe interchange project’s delay,Lucille Baur, a spokeswomanfor Montgomery County, saidTuesday.

The 23,133-square-footGlenmont Fire Station No. 18is being erected at the site ofthe former Glenmont Elemen-tary School near that intersec-tion. The original station acrossGeorgia Avenue—which datedto1953—waspurchasedby thestate and demolished last yearto make way for the fresh inter-change there.

The new station, which wascommemoratedwith a ground-breaking lastweek,will bemorethan three times as large as theoldone.Therewill be fourmod-ern drive-through apparatusbays, decontamination and in-formation technology rooms,and environmentally friendlyfeatures.

“The facility will strengthencriticalemergencyservices inanarea that continues to see tre-mendous growth,” Acting FireChief Scott Goldstein said in astatement.

An interim Glenmont firestation is being operated onGrandviewAvenueaboutamilesouth in the former home ofthe Wheaton Volunteer RescueSquad.

The construction cost forthe new station is budgeted for$8.5 million. The project’s totalbudget of $14.8million includesdesign, furniture and interimstationcosts, amongothers.

In most cases, firefightersremain in the original buildingwhile a new one is built, Baursaid.

“That was not possible inthis case due to the [state] roadconstructionproject,” she said.

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Workers recently broke ground on the new Glenmont Fire Station No. 18in Silver Spring. It is slated to be completed in the summer of 2016. Thisrendering gives an idea of how the station will look.

n Fiscal 2016 spending willrise almost 2 percent


Montgomery County onThursday formally adopted itsfiscal year 2016 operating bud-get, a $5.07 billion spendingplan up almost 2 percent fromthe current year. The countyalso adopted its updated capitalimprovements program.

County Council memberstentatively set theoperatingplanthepreviousweek, adding about$17 million for council priori-ties, and adopting tax rates forthe next year. Thursday’s formalvote sets theplan for the comingfiscal year that starts July 1.

The total operating bud-get funds county government,MontgomeryCollege, the schoolsystem and the Maryland-Na-tionalCapital Park andPlanningCommission.

“The county executive sentus a good budget, and we havestrengthened it in ways that areimportant to our community,”Council President George L.Leventhal said, reading from astatement.

County government em-ployees will get 2 percent raisesin the new fiscal year, as well as3.5 percent step increases andlongevity increases — whichvary by bargaining unit and areoffered to employees who reach20 years with the county. In to-tal, the pay increases add about$18million to the bottom line.

Of the total revenue, $393millionwill go into reserves.

“We know from our fiscalplan that next year’s budget willpresent a serious challenge,”Leventhal (D-At Large) of Ta-koma Park said.

The reserve provides forcontingencies like aMay 18U.S.Supreme Court decision thatwill cost the county millions, hesaid.

The dim fiscal outlook keptthe county’s overall spendingincrease low and will likely keepnext year’s low, aswell as poten-tiallymean a tax increase.

The county did not fullyfund any agency’s 2016 request.

County Executive IsiahLeggett said he faced a $238mil-lion gap for fiscal 2016 with in-come tax revenue and revenuefrom the transfer of propertiesbringing in less than expected.

Leggett (D) recommendedproviding only maintenance ofeffort funding to the schools.State maintenance of effort lawrequires the county provide atleast the same funding per stu-dent as the year before.

A total of $2.318 billion willgo to the school system’s fiscal2016 operating budget — $75.1million less than the system’srequest, according to councilfigures. This includes countymoney, andstateand federal aid.

However, money from an-other fund in the county’s bud-

get alsowill go the school systemto fund retiree health benefitsand will provide flexibility thatwould effectively lower the gap.

Based on how the schoolsystem has decided to use theadditional flexibility in its bud-get so far, the system shows agap of roughly $53million.

Leventhal warned that thefiscal outlook calls for cautionand “frames the conversation”on employee contracts andschool funding for future bud-gets.

Leggett’s budget also rec-ommended not fully fundingMontgomery College’s budgetrequest.

For fiscal 2016, the collegeproposed a total current fund of$253.8 million. Leggett recom-mended $247.8million.

The council provided $251.5million, adding roughly $7.9mil-lion more than Leggett recom-mended to the college’s budget,in part, to avoid a large increasein tuition.

County passes budget in ‘difficult year’

n Final gap dependson board decision


Fiscal constraints preventedMontgomery County from fullyfunding the school system’sbudget request.

But, in part, by identify-ing other money that can bedirected to schools, the countyshrank the gap between whatthe system asked for and what’savailable for instruction.

A total of $2.318 billion willfund the school system’s fiscal2016 operating budget — $75.1million less than the system’s re-quest, council figures show.

The appropriation includes$632.1 million in state aid, $71.9million in federal aid, $10.8 mil-lion in other funds and $62.8million in enterprise funds.

It also includes $1.51 billionof county funds, of which $44.4million will fund teacher pen-sions costs. Maryland lawmak-ers shifted theburdenof teacherpensions from the state to thecounties starting in fiscal 2013,phasing it in over four years.

While the county allocationto the school system’s operatingbudget is $75.1million less thanrequested, funding from othersources closes the gapmore.

Council staff found thatup to $45 million in additionalfunds could go to instructionif the council provided moneyfromadedicated fund for retireehealthbenefits andassumedad-ditional state aidand if theboardreduced pension contributions.

Should the council approveand the board of educationmake full use of it, county docu-ments from early May showedenough flexibility to shrink thegap to about $39.7million.

The final budget reflects $2million more in federal aid and$7.8million instateaid thanwhatCounty Executive Isiah Leggettrecommended, shrinking the$84.7 million gap from the pro-posedbudget to $75.1million.

More state money becameavailable when the General As-sembly fully funded an educa-tion formula.

However, the county’s finalbudget also has $27.2million forthe school system from theCon-solidatedRetireeHealthBenefitsTrust for retireehealth insuranceclaims in fiscal 2016. Leggett (D)recommended this inhis budgetand the council agreed to pro-vide it to the district.

While the $27.2millionmustbeusedexclusively topay retireehealthbenefit claims, theappro-priation lets the school systemuse up to the same amount inits operating budget toward in-structional purposes, effectively

reducing the gap further.The district plans to use the

retiree health benefits moneyto help fill the gap, spokesmanDana Tofigwrote in an email.

Based on how the board ofeducation has decided to usethe additional budget flexibilityto date, the system shows a gapof roughly $53million.

Neither the final countybudget nor Leggett’s proposedbudget reflect a reduction in thedistrict’s contribution towardpensions, but it’s an option thatcould further reduce the gap.

The board was planning toprovide about $85 million forpension funding, but is nowlooking at providing only $75million, Tofigwrote in an email.

Providing less to pensionswould free up another $10 mil-lion to help reduce the gap fur-ther, he wrote.

Staff Writer Lindsay A.Powers contributed to this report.

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The following is a summary of incidentsin the Silver Spring area to whichMontgomery County police respondedrecently. The words “arrested” and“charged” do not imply guilt. This infor-mation was provided by the county.

Armed robbery• Fenton Street and Bonifant

Street at 2:03 a.m. onMay 12. Twoadult victimswere approached bythe subject who displayed a hand-gun and demandedmoney. Bothvictims complied; cashwas taken.

Robbery• 3700 block of Bel Pre Road, just

aftermidnight onMay 9. Two adultmale victimswere approached andassaulted by fourmale subjects. Noweapons used, property taken.

Strong-arm robbery• BP Gas Station, 10226New

Hampshire Ave., at 8:08 a.m. onMay7. Subject approached the employeeand demanded cash. Noweaponsused, took nothing.

Indecent exposure• 8500 block of Piney Branch

Road at 6:@1 p.m. onMay 7. Subjectexposed himself.

Residential burglary• 11200blockofOakleaf drive,

between thehoursof 2:30p.m.onMay4and9:35p.m.onMay8.No forcedentry, tookproperty.

• 3000blockofKilkennyStreet,between8:30-11 a.m.onMay4.Noforcedentry, tookproperty. 300blockofUniversityBoulevardWest, between11:30 a.m. and2p.m.onMay6.Noforcedentry, tookproperty.

• 9200blockofWendell Street be-tween1and3p.m.onMay8. Forcedentry, tookproperty.

• 300blockofEastMelbourneAve., between1:30 and2p.m.onMay8. Forcedentry, tookproperty.

• 2800blockofDenleyPlace,between1and8p.m.onMay8.Noforcedentry, tookproperty.

• 3300blockofHamptonPointDrive, between7a.m. and3p.m.onMay11. Forcedentry, tookproperty.

• 9000blockof FairviewRoad inthe earlymorninghoursofMay12.Forcedentry, tookproperty.

• 400blockofMansfieldRoadonMay12. Forcedentry, tookproperty.

Vehicle larceny•Three thefts fromvehicles in

the early-morninghoursofMay7.Af-fected streets includedSt. LawrenceDrive, PortlandPlace andPenwoodDrive.No forcedentry, tookproperty.

•Two thefts fromvehicles in theearly-morninghours ofMay8.Af-fected streets includedHuttingPlaceandCroydonCourt.No forcedentry,tookproperty.

n Leggett also appointsGoldstein fire chief;

Green to lead corrections


Former County Council-woman Cherri Branson has beennamed to lead MontgomeryCounty’s new Office of Procure-ment.

County Executive IsiahLeggett announced his choice onMay14,alongwithotherappoint-ments.

Leggett (D)alsonamedactingFire Chief Scott E. Goldstein firechief and Rob Green, the interimcorrectionalandrehabilitationdi-rector,directorof theDepartmentofCorrectionandRehabilitation.

All three appointments aresubject toCountyCouncil confir-mation.

The county separated pro-curement from the Departmentof General Services this year. In2008, the county created the De-partment ofGeneral Services andmoved procurement under itsumbrella, according to countydocuments.

Legislation passed in Marchre-establishes the Office of Pro-curement as a principal office inthe executivebranch.

Branson served on theCounty Council just shy of oneyear, takingover the remainderofformerCouncilwomanValerieEr-

vin’s term in 2014. Ervin (D-Dist.5) of Silver Spring left the councilto lead the Center for WorkingFamilies. Bransonwas appointedto the remainder of the term inJanuary 2014, agreeing to not runfor the seat in the2014election.

Branson’s resume includesnearly a quarter-century onCapitolHill— includinghermostrecent job as chief counsel for

oversight totheHouseHomelandSecurity Committee — beforecoming to the council.

During her time as a countylawmaker, she helped pass legis-lationaimedatremovingemploy-ment barriers for former convictsandworkedto improvesmall,mi-nority- and women-owned busi-ness contracting — somethingshe will oversee if confirmed to

head the procurement depart-ment.

Green has been acting direc-tor of Correction and Rehabilita-tion sinceMarch.

He joined the county govern-ment in 2000 as a division chiefand as warden at the Montgom-ery County Correctional Facilityin Clarksburg and the DetentionCenter in Rockville, according to

a countynews release.He took over the department

on an interim basis following theretirement of former DirectorArt Wallenstein in March. Priorto coming to the county, Greenspent 15 years with the FrederickCounty Sheriff’s Office and is anational leader in the field of cor-rections, the release said.

Goldstein has spent nearly

25 years with the county. He hasbeen acting chief since Jan. 1,when he took over from retiredChief SteveLohr.

Before taking over leader-shipof thefireand rescue service,Goldstein was division chief ofoperations, the second-highestposition in thedepartment.

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Leadership Montgomeryclass to graduate Friday

The 2015 Emerging Leadersclass at LeadershipMontgomeryis graduating this week. A com-mencement is planned for Fri-day at the Montgomery CountyConference Center in NorthBethesda.

Leadership Montgomery isa program in which communityleaders study and discuss localissues.

Graduates fromSilver Springare:

• Dana M. Davidson of TheDistrict CommunicationsGroup

•Warren T. Hansen, a seniorlegislative aide for MontgomeryCounty Councilman Roger Ber-liner

• ShaylaA.HinesofAFISilverTheatre &Cultural Center

• Tiesha Smith of the JewishFoundation for GroupHomes

• Michael J. Spitzer of XOCommunications.

County: Loan programgenerated 380 jobsAMontgomery County busi-

ness development program thatlaunched in 2012 with a $50 mil-lion county investment yielded$103 million in new small-busi-ness loans and 380 new jobs in2014, the county reported lastweek.

Small Business Plus! is a col-laboration between the countyand community banks withheadquarters in the county.County funds are deposited inthe banks, which agree to at leastmatch each dollar with an equalamount in new small-businessloans.

In addition to helping createthe new jobs, the program re-turned to the county more than$117,000 in interest on its depos-its.

Eligible county banks musthave assets of $200 million to $5billion and meet the program’s

safety and soundness criteria.Among the participating banksareCapitalBankofRockville, andCongressional Bank and Eagle-Bank, bothof Bethesda.

PTA group honors SchoenMike Schoen, founder and

president of AtoZ Directories inRockville, recently received thePartners for Education Awardfrom the Montgomery CountyCouncil of PTAs.

The award recognizes in-dividuals or organizations thathave formed an organization oralliance to support education.Schoenwas honored for launch-ing AtoZ in 2009 to help PTAsproduce school directories, ac-

cording to a news release.The directories also work as

fundraisers and have a mobileapp with information such asschool calendars, lunch menusand contacts.

EYA starts selling newtownhouses in Bethesda

Bethesda developer EYAplans to start selling townhousesin its new Montgomery Row de-velopmentnextmonth.

The 168-residence complexis on 10 acres on FernwoodRoadbetween Rock Spring and Rock-ledgedrives inBethesda.

StartingJune6,EYAwillbeginsales of the three- and four-level,

1,700- to 2,600-square-foot units.Prices will range from about$750,000 to$1.12million,accord-ing to a companynews release.

The development will alsoinclude 21 moderately priceddwelling units, per county regu-lations.

The first move-ins are ex-pectednext spring.

Arxan nameschief tech officer

Arxan Technologies ofBethesda named Sam Rehmanchief technology officer.

Previously, Rehman waschief technology officer forEpam Systems and also workedfor Oracle.

Ruppert Landscapenames IT director

Ruppert Landscape of Lay-tonsville named Dan Spruill of

Finksburgdirector ofinformationtechnology.

Spru i l lholds abachelor’sin engineer-ing sciencefrom Loyola

UniversityMaryland.

Pebblebrook pays$186M for Florida resort

Pebblebrook Hotel Trust ofBethesda purchased LaPlayaBeachResort and LaPlaya BeachClub for $185.5million.

The 189-room, waterfront,luxury resort and private mem-bers club are on 6 acres on theGulf ofMexico inNaples, Fla.

Last year, guests paid an av-erage of $337 per night to stay atthe resort.

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n Facility first in networkto offer pediatric care

BY PEGGY MCEWANSTAFFWRITER

Holy Cross Health cele-brated the opening of its fourthhealth center in MontgomeryCounty, on May 20 in German-town.

The center will provide pri-mary care for the upcounty’sunderserved and poor, saidpresident and CEO Kevin Sex-ton at the grand opening cer-emony.

Holy Cross Health operatesthree other health centers in thecounty: in Silver Spring, AspenHill and Gaithersburg.

More than 100,000 peopleinMontgomery County lack ac-cess to health care, Sexton said.

More than 30,000 patientsper year visit the three existinghealth center sites, he said, andthe Germantown center willhelp meet the needs of evenmore.

“We take care of peoplewhoqualify by not having health in-surance,” Sexton said. “And wemake [that care] good.”

The new center at 12800Middlebrook Road takes upmuch of the second floor ofan office building across from

Seneca Valley High School. It isthe only one of the Holy CrossHealthCenters to offer pediatriccare.

“It is adults only at the otherthree centers,” said Carol Lake,a family nurse practitioner atthe Germantown center.

Eight of the center’s 15 ex-amining rooms are equippedfor working with children, Lakesaid, pointing out child-sizedblood pressure cuffs and otherinstruments and the colorfulroom decor.

Dr. Elise Riley, medical di-rector for the Holy Cross HealthCenters, said she thinks it is veryimportant to be able to pro-vide access to medical care forcounty residents.

“There’s a lot of people withillnesses that, if not treated, willbecome [greater problems],”she said. “[Our care]is a benefitfor the patient and for the com-munity.”

Riley said the health centertakes Medicare patients andthose who do not have insur-ance. They also help eligiblepatients get into programs, shesaid.

“Its the right thing to do, tocare for our community,” saidAnne Gillis, CFO for Holy CrossHealth.

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Carol Lake, a family nurse practitioner, shows the smaller-size blood pressure bands that are used in the children’s examination rooms at the Holy CrossHealth Center in Germantown.

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Any person desiring to be heard on saidapplication should appear at the time andplace fixed for said hearing.

BY: Kathie DurbinBoard of License CommissionersDivision Chieffor Montgomery County, Maryland

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Montgomery County hu-man services officials, reachedMonday, referred calls to thestate Department of HumanResources. State officials didnot respond to calls or e-mailson the holiday. County Execu-tive Isiah Leggett (D) also couldnot be reached for comment.

“What we’re hoping thismeans is that they recognizewe never should have been ontheir radar,” Danielle Meitivsaid. “Nothing we have doneshould have triggered an in-vestigation.”

The development does notend the family’s troubles.

The Meitivs are still underinvestigation by CPS for ne-glect related to their children’swalk home April 12 from a dif-

ferent park in Silver Spring.The Meitiv children — Rafi, 10,and Dvora, 6 — were held bypolice and CPS for more thanfive hours that day.

The Meitivs hope the re-cent CPS decision suggeststhey soon will be cleared in theApril case. They expect a find-ing from CPS in coming weeks.

“We’re hopeful it will be re-solved in the same way,” Dani-elle Meitiv said. “The facts ofthe two are the same. They’rethe same kids, we’re the sameparents. They were walkingin the same neighborhood. . . .Neither case is neglect so we’rehopeful that CPS will just seethat and move on.”

County officials have saidthat CPS could look for guid-ance to a state law on unat-tended children that sayschildren younger than 8 mustbe with a reliable person whois at least 13. The law mentionsbuildings, vehicles and en-closed spaces; it does not men-tion children playing outdoorsor on a walk.

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told her fellow graduates.After coming to the U.S.

from the Philippines when shewas 11, Militante said, she felta lack of motivation and direc-tion and watched her parentsstruggle in a new country. Theyworked multiple jobs to helppropel her to higher education.

Educationis“thecornerstoneof my life,” said Militante, whoplans to earn a bachelor’s degreein nursing and become a doctor.

Student speaker AntonyM. Musembi, another Board ofTrustees Scholar, representingthe Takoma Park/Silver Springcampus, greeted family mem-bers watching the ceremony inhis home country Kenya, whichhe left about 26 years ago.

From that point to Friday’sceremony, he said, his journeyhas been “extremely difficultand, at the same time, abso-lutely wonderful.”

Montgomery College helpedhim discover his passions, saidMusembi, of Silver Spring. Hisplans include starting an organi-zation for disadvantaged youthandearningabusinessdoctorate.

“Graduates, at [Montgom-ery College], we have beenbestowed with the abilities,knowledge and power to act, solet’s go forth and make a differ-ence!” he said.

Pavanjot Singh Guraya ofGermantown, a business ad-ministration major, said in hisspeech that three communitieshave played important rolesfor him: the United Kingdom,where he was born; the U.S.; andMontgomery College.

Guraya, a Board of Trust-ees Scholar representing theGermantown campus, said hedid not focus on academics as ayoungerstudentandwasrejectedby multiple universities in 2013.He instead found his academicdrive at the college, where hejoined the Macklin Business In-

stitute. Now, he said, he’s headedto Georgetown University to con-tinue studying business.

In his speech, LeRoy JohnFriend Jr. of Germantown saidhe sought stability as an HVACtechnician after years as a coalminer in West Virginia. In thatdangerous post, he said, he wit-nessed accidents and injuries.

Friend,whoworksforShapiro& Duncan Mechanical Contrac-tors, participated in a four-yearapprenticeship program and re-ceived the 2015 ApprenticeshipTrusteeScholarAward.Hesaidheis thefirst inhis familytocontinueeducation beyond high school.

The graduates and other at-tendees heard from two com-mencement speakers, wife andhusband Cokie and StevenRoberts, journalists and authorsfrom Bethesda.

“Anyone who doubts theenormous contribution that im-migrants make in this countryevery single day, you only haveto be here this morning, andthey would understand that,”Steven said.

Cokie encouraged graduatesto consider a public service roleto “make waves” and affect lives.

The diverse college showsthat people in the country don’tshare a common ethnicity, reli-gion, heritage or language, Cokiesaid. They are brought togetherby something else, she said.

“What we have is our gov-ernment and its institutions,”she said.

Steven said Pollard foundsupport when she was youngfrom “sister mothers,” a groupof women at her church. He saidhe had a “brother father” whileworking for James Reston at TheNew York Times.

“Be a sister mother, be abrother father, be a pebble in apond,” he said. “And if you dothat, those ripples in your lifewill reach shores you will never,ever see and touch lives you willnever know.”

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annual rankings. His previous highestranking was fourth two years ago, ac-cording to Aaron Boyd, director of gov-ernance research for Equilar.

Zaslav had total compensation of$156.1 million last year, most of which— $145 million — was in stock and op-tion awards to be vested over severalyears. That arrangement ties most of hiscompensation to the performance ofthe company’s stock, which has dippedabout 11 percent in the past year andcould be different when the shares arecashed.

His base salary was $3 million andhe received a $6.1 million cash bo-nus. Zaslav’s perks included $296,930for personal use of corporate aircraft,a $16,800 annual car allowance and$16,619 for personal security services,according to Discovery’s proxy filing.

Early last year, Zaslav signed a new

six-year contract. Stock and optionawards were specifically designed to behigher the first year of the contract, ac-cording to the filing.

“A significant amount of [Zaslav’s]equity awards are made in the first year,vesting over time, with smaller awardsfrom 2015 to 2018,” executives wrote.

The contract requires Zaslav to holdat least 60 percent of the stock equityuntil the agreement’s end, and to use“significant portions” of any cash pro-ceeds to buy Discovery stock through2019. “At the end of his contract, Mr.Zaslav will own a substantial amountof equity of Discovery, which reinforceshis alignment with our shareholdersand encourages long-term ownershipof our stock,” according to the proxy.

Under Zaslav, who took over as CEOin 2007, Discovery’s market capitaliza-tion — the total dollar value of all listedshares — has risen from $5 billion to$20 billion. The number of worldwidesubscribers tuning in to Shark Weekprograms and other shows has grown

from about 280 million to roughly 2.6billion, according to the filing.

The company’s revenue also in-creased from $3.4 billion in 2008 to $6.3billion last year.

A Discovery spokeswoman said thecompany did not have any comment onZaslav’s compensation beyond what isin the proxy statement.

Zaslav’s previous high in compen-sation was $52.4 million in 2011, whichdropped to $49.9 million in 2012 and$33.3millionin2013.Hewasthecounty’shighest-paid CEO from 2010 to 2012.

Zaslav’s compensation last year wasthe highest on Equilar’s annual list sincethe $378 million listed for Apple CEOTimothy Cook in 2011, Boyd wrote in anemail.MichaelFriesofLibertyGlobalwassecond this year with $111.9 million.

Equilar’s list does not include pri-vately held companies, such as the tophedge fund firms whose chief execu-tives made more than Zaslav, accordingto Institutional Investor’s Alpha maga-zine. Last year’s top hedge fund earner,

Kenneth C. Griffin, CEO of Citadel inChicago, received $1.3 billion in fees,dividends and interest. Privately heldcompanies aren’t required to discloseexecutive compensation to the SEC.

CEOs at Lockheed, UnitedTherapeutics second, thirdMarillyn A. Hewson, CEO of

Bethesda military and aerospace giantLockheed Martin, was second on theMontgomery list with 2014 compensa-tion of $33.7 million. That was 33 per-cent more than she earned in 2013.

Almost half of Hewson’s totalwas attributed to a change in pensionvalue, a total that could change by thetime she uses those funds. About $9million was in stock awards. Her perksincluded $73,362 for personal securityand $218,568 for use of a corporate jet.

Rothblatt’s total of $33.2 millionlast year was 13 percent less than shereceived in 2013. Some $29 million was

in stock options and share trackingawards. The latter allow her to receivecash equal to the appreciation in thecompany’s stock.

Most of the other highest-paidCEOs in Montgomery County last yearsaw increases from 2013. Daniel J. Ab-dun-Nabi, CEO of Gaithersburg biode-fense company Emergent BioSolutions,earned $4.1 million, almost doublewhat he received in 2013.

Donald C. Wood of Federal RealtyInvestment Trust in Rockville receivedabout 1 percent less than he did in 2013,with $8.4 million.

The only other CEO in the top 15 tosee a decline was Ronald Paul of EagleBancorp in Bethesda, whose $4.0 mil-lion in compensation was some 51 per-cent lower than in 2013.

Meanwhile, the median annual sal-ary paid to a worker in MontgomeryCounty last year was $50,324, accordingto state labor figures.

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me, my family or the system asa whole,” he wrote in the letter.He did not elaborate further onhis reasoning.

Houlihan has not returnedmessages left for him at hishome in Texas and through theHouston school system.

About 17 county entitieswere represented in a commu-nity panel that talked privatelywith Houlihan. They includedthe district’s three employeeassociations, the Montgom-ery County Council of Parent-Teacher Associations andvarious minority organizationsfocused on social and educa-tion issues.

O’Neill said board mem-bers were disappointed Houli-

han bowed out.“Anyone making a move

to a new area, a new job, hasto consider their family, theirprofessional circumstances, arethey the right fit, and he madethat determination,” she said.

Union officials saidWednesday that they supportBowers’ appointment as thesearch continues.

“I think everyone is ex-tremely excited about the levelof leadership and the level ofstability that Mr. Bowers hasbrought and will continue tobring,” said James Koutsos,president of the MontgomeryCounty Association of Admin-istrators and Principals.

Doug Prouty, president ofthe Montgomery County Edu-cation Association, said theboard will now have more timeto find “a really quality superin-

tendent candidate.”“I’m actually very enthusi-

astic about this,” Prouty said. “Ithink it’s exactly the right thingto do at this time.”

A letter on Monday to theschool board written on behalfof 29 high school principals ex-pressed support for Bowers tostay for the next school year.

Walt Whitman High SchoolPrincipal Alan Goodwin, whowrote the letter, said in an in-terview that he and other prin-cipals agreed that appointingBowers would allow the schoolboard to slow down the searchprocess and take more time tofind a new superintendent.

Byron Johns — educa-tion chair of the MontgomeryCounty branch of the NationalAssociation for the Advance-ment of Colored People — saidan interim leader was the best

of the board’s next options afterHoulihan withdrew.

It wasn’t evident that Hou-lihan had the necessary expe-rience for the job, Johns said.The board now has more timeto revisit its search process andinclude community membersearlier on and more extensively,he said.

Bowers has done “an amplejob” in the past few months, hesaid, but now needs to “movethe agenda forward” as he takeson a full school year.

In the next year, Bowerssaid, the district will focus onmath, literacy and closing itsachievement gap.

“I think the message is thatwe’re going to stay on the sametrack but we have some hardwork to do,” he said.

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trades were treated as art forms to be mastered. He and his wifewere married on June 16, 1958 in Hammel, Denmark and they cameto the United States that same year. He earned his US citizenship in1977. Jens owned and operated The Paint Shop in Gaithersburg,MD, applying the skills of his trade with pride and dedication rarelyseen in modern society. Mixing and matching colors before the ageof computers, Jens was commissioned by the White House, BlairHouse and State Department to expertly match their historicpalettes. An ordained minister, member of the Masons and chaplainof his lodge, Jens was a gentle, loving philosopher. He had kindwords for everyone, whether it was his wife, children or themailman. He loved to talk and tell stories, no matter how manytimes he told them before. His family used to lovingly tease himfor telling the same stories again and again. Services will be held inconjunction with the regular church service on Sunday, May, 31,2015 at 11 AM at Self-Revelation Church of Absolute Monism,4748 Western Ave, Bethesda, MD 20816. Reception to follow onchurch grounds. To honor his love of color, please wear yourfavorite color on the day of his service. In lieu of flowers, pleasemake a contribution to the charity of your choice.

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I just finished reading theMay 20 Gazette article by RyanMarshall titled “Soon, hensmay not run a-fowl of the lawin city.”

I want to let you know thatmany Rockville residents, in-cludingmyself, are not in favorof having chickens in the cityof Rockville. We have enoughproblems with stray cats anddogs in our neighborhoodsand need to focus our limitedresources on taking care ofthose animals first. The chick-enswould be an added burdenthatwe cannot afford.

I actually attended the firstmeeting of the animal ordi-nance revisions held by Coun-cilwoman Julie PalakovichCarr in a tiny conference roomin City Hall. The meeting was

also attended by numerouspro-chicken individuals fromoutside the city of Rockville.

I have attended everymeeting held on the animalordinance revisions since thatfirstmeeting.

From the outside lookingin, it seems that this is a donedeal before it even started.It seems that no matter howmuchwe are against the chick-ens in the city of Rockville,Councilman Tom Moore andCouncilwoman Julie Palakov-ich Carr are bent on pushingforward with the plan to allowchickens.

Please note that themajor-ityofRockville residentsarenotin favor of chickens.

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Chicken advocates aren’theeding the majority’s wishes

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Freedom Ranger chickens drink water at Rocklands Farm in Poolesville.

The latest setback ina search for thenextMontgomeryCountyPublic Schoolssuperintendent feels like apratfall. Schoolboardmembers stepped in for ahand-shakewith their favoredcandidate, butwipedoutonabananapeelwhenhepulledhishandaway.

Boardmembershave conducted theirsearch for JoshuaP. Starr’s successor inprivate, narrowing25applicationsdownto sevenfinalists they interviewed inper-son.

OnMay14, they announcedAndrewHoulihan, a rising administrator fromHouston, as their “preferred” choice.HoulihanvisitedMontgomeryCounty,metwith representatives fromseveral lo-cal groups—and immediatelywithdrewfromconsideration.

It’s easy to speculateonwhy—thequestioningwas aggressive, thedistrictwasnotwhatheexpected, snowdayswouldbeabear.

Allwehave is a vague “no thanks” let-ter fromHoulihan, declaring thathis lead-ership style is strong, but “not the rightfit”forMontgomery.

Weempathizewithparents andob-servers frustratedbyanothermysteriousbreakup. Starr, amuchballyhooedhire,wanted to serve a second four-year terminMontgomery, butwaspushedoutbe-forehisfirst four-year contractwasover.TheboardandStarrwon’t explainwhatwentwrong.

At times like these, our thoughtswander longingly toFlorida,which isat theopposite endof the spectrumofopenness. For example, consider aVeroNews story about a school superintendentsearch in IndianRiverCounty, southeast

ofOrlando.AsofMarch, the school sys-templanned interviewsandmeetingswith eachof fourfinalists.Onemeetingwith eachcandidatewas for the commu-nity, one for theboard.

Boardmembers alsowould take eachcandidateout for ameal in amore relaxedsetting.

Theprocesswould concludewith aspecialmeeting tomakeadecision.

The interviewswereopen towhom-everwanted toattend, rather thanbyinvitationonly.

The school boardannouncedwhichofthe four candidates it likedbest andwhy.

Is Florida anunattainabledreamlandfor transparency?Not exactly.

Nothing stopsMaryland school sys-tems frombeingequally transparent,other thanaphilosophy that values theprivacyofpersonnel discussionabovede-tailed communicationwith thepublic.

Discretion is understandable. Stateandnational school boardassociationstoldus that full openness, fromapplica-tion todecision,would chase away top-tier superintendent candidates. They’dbalk at tipping their hand to their presentemployers that they’re trying for a jobelsewhere.

Also, it couldbeembarrassingnottobe chosen for that other job.Kristen

Amundson, executivedirector of theNationalAssociationofBoardsof Educa-tion, recalledher timeas chairwomanoftheFairfaxCountyBoardofEducation inVirginia,when itwas looking for a super-intendent in the1990s.

Fairfax kept its searchprivateuntilagreeingon threefinalists,whosenameswere announced.One runner-up inFairfaxwas forcedoutof the job sheheldwhenwordgot out abouther job search,Amundson said.

Perhapshighlyqualified superinten-dents skipFloridabecauseof aversion toa sunshine-infusedprocess. Butnot allare afraid—theVeroNews reported that69 candidates applied tobe IndianRiverCounty’s superintendent. The fourfinal-ists—andafifthwhodroppedout—allcame fromFlorida school systems.Maybeopenness comesnaturally there, andthey’reused to it.

AmundsongaveMontgomeryCountyhighmarks for the inclusivenessof its pro-cess,when sheheard that about 17 countygroups andentitieswere represented inan interviewsession—whichwas closedto thepublic,withparticipants keepingthediscussion to themselves.

WhatMontgomeryisdoingisn’tabnormalin Maryland, but we’d like to see the boardtake a chanceand swingopen thedoorson itssearch. This would allow for helpful scrutinyandmaketheprocessmorethoroughandcol-laborative— just as voters choose an electedleader.

Openness might be uncomfortable forsome, but we suspect that bright, skilled edu-cation professionals still would pursue one ofthenation’s best public-school posts.

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Savvy Internet users can avoid links withNSFW in the title, but the audienceof “NSFW”at the Round House Theatre will descendinto a world of lies, gray areas, and scandal— whether they’re willing or not.

“It pulls you in and implicates youfor being pulled in, which is the trueimplication for media and advertisingtoday,” said the play’s director Mere-dithMcDonough. “It’s adark comedythat really makes you think and chal-lenges what you assume every dayabout image, what you see in print— what is true and what is false.”

Lucy Kirkwood, a British play-wright and telewriter for “Skins”among others, took the title of her2012 play from the acronym mean-ing “Not Safe For Work.”

In the play, journalists at a men’smagazine objectify one of their un-derage sources when they publish araunchy photo spread of her. Layers ofscandal unfold before the audience, whomust distinguish truthful characters fromcrooked ones, including equally unethicaljournalists at a women’s magazine.

“We keep laughing at how badly these peopleare behaving,” said McDonough, “You think, ‘Ohmy God. This is what I’m inundated with every day.’”

When Round House Artistic Director Ryan RiletteshowedMcDonough “NSFW,” it struckher as a timely

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Alex Gambal has been able to fulfill thedream of living abroad better than most. An ex-Washingtonian who “got the bug” by hangingout in wine stores, (primarily Mayflower Wines

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commentary on the exchangebetweenmedia and audience.

“I found it true to what’shappening right now with theway we look at women in thiscurrent moment — photoshop-ping people who are nearly per-fect, and the way we hold ourown identities [as a result],”Mc-Donough said.

McDonough shows the au-dience this relationship by put-ting them in themiddle of it.

“You are pretty bombardedwith image in the play,” shesaid. “There’s a lot of pictures ofwomen. It asks you to go, ‘Did Ifirst appreciate the female formof this figure? Or did I questionthe age of the person picturedfirst?’”

Theplay also explores issuesthat resurface again and againin history, such as the pressureto build ameaningful career in ajob drought.

“Part of what the play is do-ing is that half of the charactersare recent collegegraduateswhoare trying tofindwork in this en-vironment,”McDonough said.

Sam, McDonough’s favoritecharacter in “NSFW,” personi-fies this crisismost in the play.

“He’s the everyman who’sjust out of college and is trying todo his best,” she said. “You have

a warmness in your heart forthis kid who can’t get a leg up.There’s this pressure of, ‘I haveto hold on to this job,’ when thestakes are so high. That’s whatmakes the play true.”

Truth is another muddledmess that the audience wadesthrough in “NSFW.” Decipher-ing the characters’ true inten-tions and balancing truth andlies made “NSFW” a fun outlierfromplaysMcDonoughdirectedin the past.

“There’s a version whereeveryone’s equally evil, and wewerenot interested indoing thatversion, and there’s a versionwhere everyone’s equally naive,and we were not interested indoing that version,” said Mc-Donough. “In aplay that’s aboutlies and scandal and versions ofthe truth, not letting one parttake over too much was a care-ful calibrating act forme.”

Interpretation was ever-evolving forMcDonoughduringrehearsal, too.

“Even last night watchingthe run-through, I had a hugerealization,” she said. “I thoughtwith one character, ‘Oh, I thinkhe’s lying much earlier in thescene.’ It’s like solving a puzzle,andwe’ve laughed a ton.”

McDonough changed vir-tually nothing in her version ofKirkwood’splay for anAmericanaudience— save for a hand ges-ture or two.

“The greatest barrier be-tween the U.S. and the U.K. is infact the English language,” saidMcDonough, who worked witha dramaturg to fully understandKirkwood’s English jokes. “Wedon’t have the right to changethe play and there aren’t reallyU.S. versions of the jokes, sosometimes actors do gestureswith certain words, and thenyou’re like, ‘Oh, that’s what itmeans.’”

McDonough may repre-sent the misrepresented in her“NSFW,” but that didn’t exempther from scandal.

“I emailed back and forthwith the set designer for themain image, and we looked ata lot of pictures of naked andscantily clad women,” she said.“He’d sendme an email to workwith the subject ‘NakedWomenAttached,’ so it was like our ownversion of NSFW.”


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Strathmore, Arts & TheMind:BirdWhale Bug,May 28; BSO: ATribute to JohnWilliams,May 28;National Philharmonic: Faure’sRequiem,May 30; Feria de Seville,May 31; 5301 Tuckerman Lane,North Bethesda, 301-581-5100,strathmore.org.

ON STAGEAdventure Theatre-MTC, “Gar-

field theMusical,” June 19 throughAug. 23, call for prices, times,Adventure TheatreMTC, 7300Ma-cArthur Blvd., Glen Echo, 301-634-

2270, adventuretheatre-mtc.org.F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, 603

EdmonstonDrive, Rockville. 240-314-8681

Imagination Stage, “Sinbad:TheUntold Tale,” throughMay29, call for prices, times, Imagi-nation Stage, 4908 Auburn Ave.,Bethesda, imaginationstage.org.

Olney Theatre Center, “ThePrice,” through June 21, call forprices, times, 2001 Olney-SandySpring Road, Olney, 301-924-3400,olneytheatre.org.

The Puppet Co., “Cinderella,”through June 21; Tiny Tots @ 10,selectWednesdays, Saturdays andSundays, call for shows and showtimes, Puppet Co. Playhouse, GlenEcho Park’s North Arcade Build-ing, 7300MacArthur Blvd., $5, 301-634-5380, thepuppetco.org.

Rockville Musical Theatre,“Best LittleWhorehouse in Texas,”July 10 through July 26, Arts Barn,311 Kent Square Road, 301-258-6394, r-m-t.org.

Round House Theatre,“NSFW,”May 27 through June21, call for show times, 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. Ticketsrange in price from $10 to $45 andseating is reserved. 240-644-1100,roundhousetheatre.org.

Lumina Studio Theatre, SilverSpring Black Box Theatre, 8641Colesville Road, Silver Spring, 301-588-8277, luminastudio.org; [email protected].

Silver Spring Stage, “On TheRazzle,”May 29 through June20,Woodmoor Shopping Cen-ter, 10145 Colesville Road, SilverSpring, seeWeb site for showtimes, ssstage.org.

Randolph Road Theater, 4010Randolph Road, Silver Spring, bel-cantanti.com,

Cafe Muse, FriendshipHeightsVillage Center, 4433 South ParkAve., Chevy Chase; 301-656-2797.

VISUAL ARTAdah Rose Gallery, Sum-

mer Group Show, 3766HowardAve., Kensington, 301-922-0162,adahrosegallery.com

Glenview Mansion, RockvilleArt League, JuriedMembers’ Showvariedmedia, throughMay 29;Rockville Civic Center Park, 503EdmonstonDrive, Rockville. rock-villemd.gov.

Marin-Price Galleries, “An Ex-hibit of New Acquisitions;” 10:30

a.m. to 7 p.m.Monday throughSaturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday,7022Wisconsin Ave., 301-718-0622,marin-price.com.

Montgomery Art Association,Janet Fox, throughMay 31;West-fieldWheatonMall, 11160 ViersMill Road,Wheaton,montgom-eryart.org.

VisArts, Greg Braun: Sharp-ened, June 3 through July 5;“TheseMirrors are Not Boxes,”June 6 through July 12; RobHack-ett, June 12 through July 12; BobbyColeman: re-build, July 15 throughAug. 16; Gibbs Street Gallery, 155Gibbs St., Rockville, 301-315-8200,visartsatrockville.org.

Kentlands Mansion Art Gallery,320 Kent Square Road, Gaithers-burg, 301-258-6425.

Gallery B, Bethesda Paint-ing Awards, June 3 through June27; 7700Wisconsin Ave., Suite E,Bethesda, bethesda.org.

Washington Artworks, ProjectYouth ArtReach’s AnniversaryExhibition, through June 1; Open-ing Reception of “DrawingUponExperience”, an exhibition of workbymilitary veterans, June 5; 12276Wilkins Ave., Rockville, washing-tonartworks.com, 301-654-1998.

ET CETERAThe Writer’s Center, 4508

Walsh Street, Bethesda, 301-654-8664, writer.org.

The NIH Philharmonia, seasonfinale “National Pride,” June 6.The concert is free to the publicandwill take place at St. ElizabethCatholic Church in Rockville. Call240-888-6781 with questions.

La Galeria at Ranazul is host-ing an exhibit, “Signs of Summer”,featuring creations of 18 artistsfromOlney Art Association begin-ningMay 31 and running throughJune 27. There will be a receptionopen to the public on June 7 tomeet the artists. ranazul.us; olney-artassociation.org.

Washington ArtWorks, two gal-lery exhibition openings, June 5.“DrawingUpon Experience” anexhibition of artwork created bymilitary veterans from their uni-formswill open in theWashingtonSchool of Photography Gallerywhile the Urban byNature Gallerywill host, “A Selection of Artists”,a group exhibition ofWashingtonArtWorks Resident Artists.

IN THE ARTS

‘NSFW’n When: May 27 through

June 21

n Where: Round HouseTheatre, 4545 East-WestHighway, Bethesda

n Tickets: $25-$50

n More Information:roundhousetheatre.org;240-644-1100

not friendly to strangers. Gambalclaims that, “Actually itwas fairlyeasy formebut remember I didnot comehere to ‘makewine.’ Icamehere to livewithmy familyandbecausewewerehere as afamily, in the local schools, thekids on the local sports teams,etc., wewerenot seen as inter-lopers or carpetbaggers.”

He currently lives full-time inBurgundy, hasmoved into anewwinery inBeaune (with a tast-ing room) andhas been slowlyincreasinghis holdings. In 2003,hebecameoneof the few “out-siders” able to purchaseBur-gundianproperty and in 2011hebecame thefirst foreigner toownaportionof theGrandCruBâtard-Montrachet vineyard.

Gambal nowowns 30 acresof vineyards via several recentacquisitions including amergerwithDomaineChristopheBuisson.Hiswines are now80

percent domaineproducedwiththe remaining grapes coming vialong-termcontractswith smallsuppliers. The vineyards are allorganic andbiodynamicallyfarmed.He expects his total 2015production tobe 6,000 cases(75,000bottles).

There is anunderlyingpreci-sion toGambal’swines. Eachdemonstrates a respect for thespecificBurgundian terroirwithclarity and grace. The teamatMaisonGambal is clearly fo-cused solely on creating thebestwines possible fromsomeof theworld’s finest sites. AsGambalsays, “If Iwanted tobemakingmoney, Iwouldbeparking cars.”

Here is a look at a fewexam-pleswithinGambal’s splendidportfolio:

As a longtime fanof thisvineyard, it is especially pleasingto taste theAlexGambalCham-bolle-Musigny LesCharmes2012 that shows a lovely, femi-nine character beginningwithred cherry anddark fruit aromaswhichprogress into complex

layers of soft, spice accentedblackberry, raspberry and earthyflavorswith aprolonged, bal-ancedfinish. The 2011 versionhas anotable smokiness and theflavors are a bit sharper, but itstill remains an exquisitewine.

More affordable is the verytasty AlexGambalChorey-lès-Beaune 2012with raspberryand cherry flavors in amediumframeandgoodbalancewhilethe 2011 from the samevineyarddemonstrates a bitmoredepthandmorenoticeable oakinessduring thefinish.

When consideringGambal’swines, donot ignore thewhites,including theAlexGambalPuligny-Montrachet 2012with anotableminerality intermingledwithin the toasty peach, lime,apple andhazelnut notes. Alsodelightful is thehoney andfloralscentedAlexGambalChassagne-Montrachet 2012whose aromasextend into thebrioche, peach,grapefruit and spiced apple fla-vors during thepersistent, spiceinfusedfinish.

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BlackRock Center for the Artspresents the exhibition “PrecariousBalance” featuringMaryland artistsSabine Carlson, Nancy Frankel, andBobbi Shulman in The KayGallerythrough Saturday. Admission to theexhibit is free and open to the public.

Carlson explores conflictedmobility in paintings layeredwithfragmented and unexpected detailsthatmove in and out of view. Frankelmanipulates space and form in sculp-turesmade from steel, cast stone andwood that suggestmovement, shift-ing balance, and playfulness. Shul-man captures the play of light andshadow in expressive and spontane-ous abstract paintings inspired by ob-servations in a changing landscape.

Surprise and a sense of wonderare part of Carlson’s process, as shecreates paintingswhich describeplaces at the intersection betweendoing too little and going too far.Carlson, a resident of College Park,uses imagery inspired by the observa-tion ofmotionwithin the landscape,particularly details that appear anddisappear while walking at a slowpace.

A sense of balance, precariousyet centered, is integral to Frankel’ssculptural work. Exploring space,either encapsulated or activated, andusingwhat she calls “organic geom-etry,” her abstract sculptures reflecther love of nature and architecture.Frankel, a Kensington resident, worksin a range ofmaterials, castingwithDesign-Cast (aman-made stone),welding steel and carvingwood.

Rhythmand color dominateShulman’s abstract paintingswherebold planes and lines intertwine. Ges-tural brushstrokes define energeticspaces and playful layers of colorflow into one another as she createsboth pleasing harmonies and strik-ing contrasts. Shulman, a resident ofPotomac,MD, employs a bright andfresh palette and relies on the versa-tility of acrylic to allow additions andsubtractionswhile building layers ofpaint. In this new series of works onpaperwhich have beenmounted onpanel, she usesmixedmedia spar-ingly, relying predominately on freshand bright acrylic paint to build depthwith shapes and patterns.

Balancing act

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Bobbi Shulman’s “Written on the Wind,” is on display as part of the “Precarious Balance”exhibit at BlackRock.

JohnWilliams has composed somany award-winningmovie scores,it’s hard to think of what he hasn’tdone. Here’s a brief rundown: “StarWars,” “Jaws,” “Close Encountersof the Third Kind,” “Superman,”“Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “E.T.,”“Schindler’s List,” “Amistad,” “SavingPrivate Ryan,” “Harry Potter,” “WarHorse,” “Lincoln,” and I seriouslycould continue.

As for awards, he’s been nomi-nated 49 times for Academy Awards(winning five of them), 25 GoldenGlobe awards (winning four) and awhopping 65 Grammy Awards (takinghome 22 trophies). Beat that, Kanye.

The Baltimore Symphony Orches-tra will be honoring the work of themultiple award-winner under the ba-ton of Jack Everly at theMusic Centerat Strathmore on Thursday. Ticketsare $55 to $110. Formore information,visit strathmore.org; bsomusic.org orcall 877-BSO-1444.

Music youknow, love

PHOTO BY MICHAEL TAMMARO

Jack Everly will conduct the BaltimoreSymphony Orchestra as they pay tribute tocomposer John Williams at Strathmore.

In themusical “Chess,” the an-cient game becomes ametaphorfor romantic rivalries, competitivegamesmanship, super power politicsand international intrigues.

The Kensington Arts Theatre willbring its run of “Chess” to a close thisSaturday at 8:15 p.m. A talkback withthe cast and artistic staff is slated forFriday.

The pawns in this drama form alove triangle: the loutish Americanchess star, the earnest Russian cham-pion and a Hungarian-Americanfemale assistant who arrives at the

international chessmatch in Bang-kok with the American but falls forthe Russian.

From Bangkok to Budapest theplayers, lovers, politicians, and spiesmanipulate and aremanipulatedto the pulse of amonumental rockscore, written by Tim Rice and BjornUlvaeus, that includes “One Nightin Bangkok” and “HeavenHelpMyHeart.”

Tickets for the show are $17 to$25. Formore information, visitkatonline.org or call 240-621-0528.

Pawns playing kings

Olney Theatre Center decided tohonor playwright ArthurMiller thebestway they could, by doing one ofhis shows to celebratewhatwouldhave beenhis 100th birthday.

“The Price,” is currently running atOlney Theatre now through June 21.

Miller’s 1968work focuses on theprice of family, the price of furnitureand the price of our choices. The playis centered around twobrothers, Vic-tor andWalter, whomeet in aNewYork apartment to sell the remainderof their deceased father’s belongings.

Victor andWalter took very dif-ferent paths in life after their fatherlost his fortune due to theGreatDe-pression. Victor chooses to become apolice officer, whileWalter strugglesthrough school andbecomes a sur-geon.

When the brothersmeet to selltheir father’s belongings, they haveconflicting views aboutwhat shouldbe done,which results in contentionbetween the two.

Tickets for the showare $35-$55.Formore information, visitolneytheatre.org or call 301-924-3400.

Honoring a legend

STAN BAROUH

Conrad Feininger stars as Gregory Solomonin Olney Theatre Center’s production ofArthur Miller’s “The Price.”

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My family celebratedMother’sDaya bit past the brunch rush this year.Mybrother arrived fromwork in Switzerlandat noon and I picked himup fromDullesAirport to surprisemom.Halfway there Irealized I forgot to set theDVR for theU.S.Women’sNationalTeam’s friendlyagainst Ireland, onein a send-off seriesfor the upcoming2015 FIFAWomen’sWorldCup inCanada.Fret not, dad

to the rescue—watching onmyparents’ giant flatscreenwas a nicebonus. Thendadaskedme, “Sincewhendo you care somuch aboutwomen’s soccer?”Since June 1999, whenMiaHammand

Company embarked on their historicalWorldCup championship journey. Al-though I never played soccer growing up,I became enamoredwith the creativity ofthe sport, with that teamand the storiesbehind those amazing athletes, everythingthey stood for. But I can’t help but find itodd that I actually seem to bemore inter-ested inwomen’s soccer thanmy friendswhowere actual high-level players or eventhe national-caliber high school athletes Iwrite about.I’m just jealous. Growing up, compet-

ing on theU.S. Tennis Association juniorcircuit, playing professionallywas nevera consideration. But that didn’t—andstill hasn’t— stoppedme fromwatchingcountless hours ofwomen’s tennis. Thankyou, The Tennis Channel, for being born. Ilovewatchingmen’s tennis, but I’ve alwaysbeenmore drawn towomen’smatchesbecause that’s what I play. If I could beon court level watchingworld class tennisplayers in person on aweekly basis andhave the chance to interactwith themaftermatches, I would be doing that everychance I got.Butmy soccer playing peers, current

high school and college soccer players,have been on awomen’s professional soc-cer roller coaster ride. TheBoyds-basedWashington Spirit plays in theNationalWomen’s Soccer League,which is the thirdinstallment of a professional league.Nei-ther of the previous two lastedmore thanthree years—NWSL is in its third. There’slittle visibility for the sport, so if soccer fanswant towatch good soccer—or football— their attention is on the English PremierLeague orMajor League soccer. That’swhat they’re used to and that’s where theirloyalties lie.But changemight be on the horizon. As

TeamUSA is scheduled to begin its pursuitfor its firstWorldCup since 1999 on June 8against Australia, interest in thewomen’sgame is again peaking. In its first twohomegames, the Spirit exceeded last year’s aver-age attendance, according toDirector ofSales RobBartlett. And league-wide atten-dance is up 16 percent. After theUSWNTreached the 2011WorldCupfinal, teams intheNWSL’s predecessor league doubled,Bartlett said.This year all 52WorldCup games are

scheduled to be broadcast live on FoxS-ports channels.More than 200 hours ofcoverage are expected.U.S. Soccer hasdone a great jobmarketing its players’ re-latability and they have availed themselvesto their fans.In the past two-plus years almost every

player on the 23-personnational team—aswell as international talent—has cometo virtually play in our backyard. But it’smore than just those players thatmake thiswomen’s professional soccer thingwork.Spirit players have immersed themselves inthis soccer-rich community. The stands atgames are packedwith young girls in youthteam jerseyswhowant to be the next Chris-tineNairn or the next ToriHuster. Andthat generation, perhaps, is whowill reallychange the culture ofwomen’s soccer.

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Good Counsel, Churchill seniors lead All-Gazette lacrosse teams. B-3

PASSING LEAGUE: Quince Orchard’s Carson Knight(pictured) and many of county’s other top quarterbackscompete in the Blair Summer Passing League Saturdaymorning at Blair.

BASEBALL: Bethesda Big Train at Rockville Express,7 p.m. Tuesday in Cal Ripken season opener.

n Collegiate baseball seasonopens Tuesdayagainst Rockville

BY PRINCE J. GRIMESSTAFFWRITER

Since the inaugural season of theCal Ripken Collegiate Baseball Leaguein 2005, theBethesdaBig Train haswonthe regular season title six times out of10 seasons, four league championshipsand the 2011 national title.Last summer, Bethesdamatched its

secondbestwin total, going31-9, andal-though the team failed towin the leaguechampionship for the third year in arow, there’s no reason to think it won’tbe in contention again this summer.“Every one looks at us as the New

York Yankees of summer baseball,”Bethesda coach Sal Colangelo said.The Big Train also had a lot of suc-

cess prior to 2005 in the Clark GriffithLeague. Despite that success, the Balti-moreRedbirdshavebeatenBethesda inthe league championship three straightyears.“They haven’t won the regular sea-

son, and that’s our goal first and fore-

most, and then the playoffs. In playoffs,anything can happen in the tourna-ment, especially summer ball. We’vebeen snake bitten with some arms thatgot hurt throughout the summer.”The league most valuable player in

2014, middle infielder Brandon Loweof the University of Maryland, CollegePark, does not return to Bethesda thissummer, but Colangelo said the teamhas plenty of firepower to replace him,including formerDeMathaHighSchoolcatcher Justin Morris, another Mary-land player.

Big target on the Big Train

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Former DeMatha Catholic High Schoolcatcher Justin Morris is one of thetop players scheduled to play for theBethesda Big Train this summer.

n Majority of countybasketball teams will playin MPA Hoops league

BY ADAM GUTEKUNSTSTAFFWRITER

Kevin Jones’ three-year planworked to perfection. The St. An-drew’s Episcopal School’s boys bas-ketball coach saw his tireless hoursof practice, player development, re-cruiting and game planning come to

fruition on Feb. 23, when the Lionsdefeated Flint Hill (Va.) and capturedtheir first ever conference title.So naturally, heading into his

fourth season at the helm of the pro-gram, Jones would like to stick to thegameplan — the same blueprint thatgot St. Andrew’s to heights never be-fore reached. But there’s one ratherlarge hiccup in the Lions’ summerplans— a 43,000 square foot one.Just one year removed from start-

ing up a largely popular and success-ful summer league, St. Andrew’s will

be forced to take a one-year hostinghiatus due to a $16 million studentcenter being built on campus.“I looked into some gym spaces,

but that started to be too much,”Jones said, who noted that thoughone court is available for play, hostinga league in the middle of a construc-tion site certainly wouldn’t be ideal.Instead, the Lionswill hit the road

this summer, attending college teamcamps suchas theUniversity ofMary-land, College Park’s, in the hopes thatthey can rebuild the chemistry and

rekindle the grit that sparked theirchampionship run last winter.But the task will be tall. While St.

Andrew’swill return a goodportionofits frontcourt, including athletic for-ward Anthony Duruji (10.5 points pergame), center George Muresan (6.7)and forward Tyler Stewart (9.3), Joneswill certainlymiss thebackcourt com-binationofMarcusAdkison (13.4) andMyles Law (9.6) — two first team all-conference selections last season.

St. Andrew’s to take its summer tour on the road

n Paint Branch, Blake athletes winindividual state championships

BY ADAM GUTEKUNSTSTAFFWRITER

As Clarksburg High School senior Alexus Pylesbroke theplaneof thefinish line towin the 300-me-ter hurdles Saturday, she effectively tripledher goldmedal output from a season ago, adding to her100-meterhurdle (14.49)win fromearlier in thedayandher triple jump (39-03.75) title fromFriday. Butfor asmuchas shehadaccomplished, therewas stillone title on Pyles’ mind.“Itwouldbenice towin states becausewe’ve all

beenworking sohard,” Pyles said. “… I know it’ll bedisappointing if it doesn’t turn out right.”Fourhours later, Pyles andher teammateswere

spared that disappointment, as the Coyotes (78points) captured their first outdoor title with rela-tive ease, completing an unbeaten season.“Everybody thinks it’s easy because everyone

is so talented, but it’s tough because they feel a lotof pressure,” coach Scott Mathias said. “So, some-times it’s tense and things, but the thing about thisgroup is that every opportunity to step up in ameetthat mattered, they did; the whole team, across theboard.”The Bowie boys’ season seemed to be in ques-

tion three weeks ago, when star senior AntonioColeman was deemed ineligible for what turnedout to be the remainder of the season. That’s whenBulldogs juniorMaxwell Willis took over.The Bowie speedster matched his county and

regional trifectas, capturing gold in the 100 me-ters (10.69), 200 meters (21.27) and the 400 meters(48.18) to help propel Bowie to back-to-back statechampionships.“It shows the makeup of this team,” Bowie

coach Rich Andrulonis said. “… The young kidscame through. A lot of young kids are going to haveto take over next year for the seniors. They camethrough. I’m so proud of them and the coaches.

Clarksburggirls win firststate track title


Paint Branch’s Bethlehem Taye turns to look at all the other runners who are behind her, in the girls 4A 3200, in 3A/4AState Track Championship meet in Baltimore on Friday.

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They didwhat I [thought] wemightnot be able to do.”

Flowers (59) finished second inthe Class 4A boys competition, fol-lowed by Oxon Hill and Northwest(54points).TheGermantownschool,onemany considered favorites com-ing in, were without standout seniorDiego Zarate, who was sick. In Class2A, Douglass finished second (75)in boys competition. Blake (56) andFlowers (48) finished second andthird,respectively inthegirls4Acom-petition.

As rare as Willis’ three-gold daywas, his accomplishment was one-upped Saturday, as Frederick Dou-glass standout Rico Gomez earnedfour gold medals in the 100, 200,400 and 400-meter relay. Gomez’sday got off to a shaky start in the 2A100-meter final, when the first at-tempt was blown dead, negating asluggish start for the Eagles star. Therestart,as it turnedout,was thanks toGomez’s sliding blocks, explaininghis slow start — a slipup he quicklynegatedwith awinning timeof 11.01seconds,whichkickedoffhishistoricafternoon.

“Coach always told me the last[race] is the best one,” Gomez said.“So, I was really holding nothingback.”

Saturday’smeetwas also the lastchance for Whitman senior Clare

Severe to accomplish somethingshe hadn’t been able to do since hersophomoreyear: runa subfive-min-ute 1,600. Last year, Severe said, shedidn’t have the confidence to breakthemark.ButSaturday,Severefinallyrediscovered her edge, posting theonly sub-five time (4:58.48) in the 4Ato earnafirst placefinish.

“Iwas really happy,” Severe said.“Mygoal todaywas to breakfive andI was like, ‘As long as I break five, it’sgoing to be a good day.’ It’s my lasthigh school race ever, possibly oneof my last races ever and last times Irun themile. So, I was really just try-ing to go out there and leave it all onthe track.”

The only local 3A winner of theday was perhaps the least surprisingof any champions, as Watkins Millsenior Billy Emerson continued hisdominance in the discus, throwing161-00 to cap off a magical seasonwith a state title—a reward that hadthe Wolverines star overcome withglee.

“I could go out there right nowand run an 800 right now and stillplacefirst,”Emersonsaid.“It’samaz-ing. It’s one of the best feelings I’veprobably everhad inmy life.”

Though Emerson coasted to avictory out of the first seed, Central’sMary Foday entered the day seededsecondinboththe1A100metersand200 meters — a position the Eaglesjunior said she used as motivationfor her pair of wins (12.40/25.31) af-

ter nearly completing the sweep atlast year’smeet.

“Finding out I was in lane fiveahead of everybody just motivatedme to stay out, keep going and [not]breakmyform,”Fodaysaid.“…Iwaswaiting for this moment, traininghard and trustingmy trainer. Perfor-mance is easy, but training is hard.’

Other Prince George’s Countystate champions crowned Saturdayincluded Surrattsville junior KhaaleaCollins (100-meter hurdles; 15.65),Bowie senior Taylor Williams (400meters; 56.17), Flowers senior Ed-ward Anderson (300-meter hurdles;38.66), Parkdale’s Obichi Onwukwe(800meters;2:16.67),OxonHill’sEliz-abethShodiya (long jump; 18-10.50),Surrattsville girls 400-meter relay(49.77), Largo girls 400-meter relay(49.81), Douglass boys 400-meter re-lay (43.18), Central boys 1,600-meterrelay (3:28.67), Largo boys 1,600-me-ter relay (3:24.67) andOxonHill boys1,600-meter relay (3:22.21)..

Montgomery County’s statechampions also included Blakesenior Martha Sam (100 meters;12.04), Clarksburg senior Naja Mc-Adam (high jump; 6-04), Magrudersophomore Stephanie Davis (200meters; 24.41),WhitmanseniorEvanWoods (1,600meters; 4:18.01), PaintBranch girls 400-meter relay (48.36),and Blake girls 1,600-meter relay(3:52.36).

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The Ripken League will have anew format this summer, dividing its10teamsintotwofive-teamdivisions—theNorthand theSouth.

Three of the four MontgomeryCounty teams — the GaithersburgGiants, Rockville Express and SilverSpring-Takoma T-Bolts — are inthe North Division with the leaguechampion Redbirds. Bethesda is intheSouthDivision.

With the new alignment, the toptwo teams fromeachdivisionqualifyfor the playoffs and the next twoteams with the best overall records,regardlessofdivision.

Division teams will play one an-other five times. Out-of-division foeswill play four times.

“I don’t think it changes much,”Rockville coach Rick Price said,agreeing with the sentiments ofothercoaches.Asinotherseasons,sixteamswill stillqualify for theplayoffs.“They pretty much play everybodyanyway.”

Rockville is scheduled to openthe season against Bethesda, 7 p.m.Tuesday at Montgomery College.

TheExpressfinishedthirdlastseasonandwill field a team Price expects tobeadeptatpitching.FormerGeorge-town Prep pitcher and current Lib-erty University player CoreyHowardreturns to Rockville for another sea-son.

“The boys will find out real earlywhat we’re up against,” Price saidabout starting the season againstBethesda. The Express finished thirdlast seasonwitha24-16 record.

The Gaithersburg Giants,coachedby Jeff Rabberman,finishedfourth in their secondRipkenLeagueseason last year. In its first season,Gaithersburg finished third to be-come the first expansion team tomake theplayoffs in itsfirst year. TheGiants will look to continue progressthis season with a pitching rotationfull of localplayers. Sherwoodgradu-ates Matt Chanin and Brady Adamwill likely be starting pitchers forthe Giants, as well as Riverdale Bap-tist graduate and current MarylandrightyRyanSelmer.

“We’vehadtworeally,reallygoodseasons thus far,” Rabberman said.“And I think roster-wise, you look atwhat we have, I put us right up therewithanybodyinthe league. I’mreallyexcited about the roster thatwewere

abletoputtogetherforthissummer.”SilverSpring-Takomawill look to

get out of the basement this seasonafter finishing with a 13-27 recordlast season. Coach Doug Remer saidthe team didn’t have ideal depth, anissuehefeelshasbeenaddressedthissummer.

“I think this year I just have a lotof depth, where everybody I put inis a really good ball player,” Remersaid. His local prospects include2013 RichardMontgomery graduateoutfielder Tyler Coleman. RiverdaleBaptist graduating senior and Vir-ginia Commonwealth recruit BrodyCook will also be joining the teamthis summer.

Each team also fields several ofthe top baseball players from otherstatesandcountries.Allof theseplay-ershaveenjoyedsuccessatonepointor another, but teams turn over a lotfrom year-to-year, so chemistry candecide games early on. Coaches saidtheywon’treallyknowhowtheteamswillgelandwhichplayerswillemergeas starsuntil the seasondrawscloser.

The T-Bolts are scheduled toopen the seasonagainst theGiants, 7p.m.TuesdayatKelleyPark.

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Replacing two guards of Adkison — theschool’s all-time leading scorer—andLaw’stalents simply isn’t a reasonable expectationat the moment, Jones said. Instead, the Li-ons will look to fill the backcourt void witha congregation of burgeoning talent. Risingsenior Austin Allen has been having a solidoffseason in theAmateurAthleticUnioncir-cuit, according to Jones, and will be lookedto for veteran leadership at the guard spot.A pair of versatile rising juniors, DominicDoyel and Chris Smalls, will look to fill insome of the shooting holes around the pe-rimeter, while rising freshman Heru Bligenwill battle for some playing time in his firstvarsity season.

“[They] have their own strengths andit’s going to be our job to collectively moldthem and utilize the strengths of our team,”Jones said. “They’reup for the challengeandthey’re working hard right now. They’re notgoing to be Marcus and Myles, but they’regoing to be themselves and that’s going tohelp us compete.”

The majority of county teams will beplaying in the MPA Hoops summer leaguehosted by Spencerville Adventist Academy— a 16-team league beginning June 1 thatfeatures 15 Montgomery County PublicSchool teams.

Of all the teamscompeting in the league,perhaps no group has a bigger void to beginfilling this summer than Magruder, whichlost standout Joe Hugley to graduation.

Hugley, a 6-foot-7 centerwho recently com-mitted to play next season at RobertMorris,not only dominated play in the paint, buthad the rare ability to also stepout and scorefrom the perimeter. But it’s not Hugley’s of-fensive contributions that longtime coachDanHarwood is concernedwith replacing.

“We’re going to miss him defensively,”Harwood said. “He blocked 88 shots. It’smore the rebounding on the defensiveend because we have no natural rebound-ers in our program and Joe averaged ninerebounds. ... We’re going to go from ourleading shot blocker having 88 to havingsomeone next year get about 10 or 12. It willbemore of a concern defensively.”

Without Hugley’s 6-foot-11 wingspanlooming in the paint, Harwood said, theteam will require a stricter defensive disci-pline, whereas in the past they could oftenget away with a gamble here and there. InHugley’s absence, Harwood will look to6-foot-7 junior NicoWolff, a raw talent whorarely played last season, todevelopmoreofa defensive prowess over the summer.

Onoffense, theColonels’ opponentswilllikely see a lot more of rising junior BrianBoehlert, who good moments last seasonplaying behind the likes ofHugley andRon-ald Hammond.

“I think this year he’ll be really comfort-able,” Harwood said. “Without Joe there, Iexpect Brian to have a big summer for usand thennext year I’mhopinghe’ll beoneofthe better offensive players in the county.”

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St. Andrew’s Episcopal School boys basketball coach Kevin Jones will spend the summer attempting tobuild team chemistry with an entirely new backcourt.

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ColtonRuppLandonSeniorAttack

Cornell re-cruit had 49goals, tyingsingle-seasonrecord.

HunterSellsLandonSeniorGoalie

Third-yearstarterstopped63.67 percentof all shots.

StevenShollenbergerBullisJuniorAttack

Drexel recruithad 37 goalsand 25 assistsas key play-maker.

AndrewFowlerLandonSophomoreDefense

Anchoreddefense thatheld teams to5.59 goals pergame.

JackOlsonGeo. PrepSeniorMidfield

Won 67percent offaceoff at-tempts, 87ground balls.

DrewPetkevichBullisSeniorMidfield

Prolificscorer andplaymakernotched 65goals.

MylesRommWoottonSeniorMidfield

Hewas keytoWoottonoffense, with37 goals and18 assists.

DelaneyMuldoonHoly CrossSeniorMidfield

Notched 43goals whileleading Tar-tans in drawcontrols.

AlexisRieuG. CounselJuniorMidfield

Duke recruitwas one of ar-ea’s top drawspecialists,winning 98.

KateTaylorHoly CrossjuniorMidfield

Boston Col-lege recruitled Tartans inscoring with61 goals.

AbbyWilsonG. Counsel,JuniorDefense

She forced 29turnovers,stopped18shots to leadthedefense.

OliviaLeeHolton-ArmsSeniorDefense

Anchored thebackline whilealso register-ing 46 goalsand 13 assists.

TaylorMcDanielsG. CounselSophomoreAttack

UNC recruitregistering 68goals and 23assists for theFalcons.

DelaneyMcMenaminSherwoodJuniorMidfield

Part of domi-nantmidfieldon county’sbest publicschool team.

RichieBartozziThe HeightsJuniorDefense

He had 141ground ballswhilemark-ing area’s topplaymakers.

JakeChristensenQ. OrchardSeniorAttack

Cougars’playmakernotched 69goals and 42assists.

FinnDunneGeo. PrepSeniorDefense

Locked downopposition’stopmidfield-ers; had 67ground balls.

JackieBranthoverHoly CrossSeniorGoalie

Registered 147saves (50.8percentage)and namedteamMVP.

MaddieCarrStone RidgeJuniorMidfield

Notre Damerecruit carriedthe Gators of-fense, tallying48 goals.

HalleGrahamG. CounselSophomoreDefense

Virginia re-cruit had 44ground ballsand caused 38turnovers.

CaitlynGunnG. CounselJuniorAttack

Loyola recruithad 42 goals,48 assists,leading area’stop offense.

LACROSSE

GIRLS’ FIRST TEAM

Second Team and Honorable Mentions are online at Gazette.net

PLAYER OF THE YEAR

COACH OF THE YEAR

BOYS’ FIRST TEAM PLAYER OF THE YEAR

COACH OF THE YEAR

Louis DubickChurchill, SeniorAttack

Heart and soul of a Bull-dogs team that reachedits first state champion-ship game. Carried the of-fense since his freshmanyear. Registered 55 goalsand 77 assists this springand leaves the Potomacschool as the state’s all-time leading point scorer.

Jenny StainesGood Counsel, SeniorMidfield

Guided Falcons toWCACtitle and one of best sea-sons in school history byscoring 72 goals and add-ing 39 assists. Monmouthrecruit was key part ofan offense that scoredat least nine goals eachgame facing a schedulefilled with nationally-ranked opponents.

Kristen ColemanHoly Cross

Led Tartans to 16-4 cam-paign and aWCAC finalsappearance in secondseason as coach. HolyCross finished strong,winning 13 of last 15 anddefeating Bishop Iretonin the semifinals beforefalling to Good Counsel.

Jeff FritzChurchill

Led Bulldogs to one ofgreatest seasons inMont-gomery County history.Churchill finished 17-2,going undefeated againstcounty public schoolcompetition under thelongtime coach.

n American Legion team islooking for help


There will be no Gaithers-burg Post 295 American Legionbaseball team this summer,third-year coach Pete Whitesaid explaining he didn’t havethe manpower required to runa team and was forced to cancelthe season.White’s pitching coach

stepped down after last seasonand so did another, youngermemberofhis staff. The75-year-old White was unable to puttogether a staff in time for whathe said was an April 1 deadline,which was extended to April 15.In addition, the team’s homefield at Seneca Valley HighSchool was no longer availableto them, leaving White with an-other issue to worry about whiletrying to put together a staff.“I put the word out,” White

said of his efforts to find help. “Ican’t be pitching batting prac-

tice, cutting the grass, paintingthe lines and it’s 100 degrees, bymyself. But nobody stepped upto say they’d like to help.”Post 295 which pulls from

Northwest, Poolesville, QuinceOrchard and Seneca Valleyhas enjoyed tremendous suc-cess over the years, including11 county championships. Theteam won state championshipsin 2003, 2004 and 2008.In 2013, White’s first season

with Gaithersburg, the teamcontinued that trend as one ofthe top legion teams in the area.Last season, the team took aslight step backwards, finishingbelow .500.White, ahall of famecoachat

Georgetown Prep, also coachesjunior varsity baseball at Ein-stein. The lack of a team thisseason bothers him to the pointwhere he questions his own ef-forts, he said, even though hesaid he did all he could.“I hadplayers callme, ‘When

are the tryouts going to start Mr.White?’ I didn’t want to say weweren’t going to have a team,”White said. “Maybe you can saywe took the easy way out. I don’t

know. I’d hate to think that, but Iguess we did, in a sense that wecouldn’t make things fall intoplace. I’m real unhappy about it,butmaybe I didn’t do enough.”Post 295 General Manager

Rick Price, who coaches theCal Ripken Collegiate BaseballLeague’s Rockville Express, saidthe issue of a field had beensolved as the team was going toplay its games at Watkins Mill.But he said despite efforts to findhelp for White, that was the big-gest issue.“We couldn’t get any help,”

said Price, who coached at Post295 for 28 years. “It’s too muchfor one person. You really needat least three.“It is painful. Those kids that

played forus, threedecades, theyjustgaveeverything to theLegionprogram. Theywere there every-day. Nobody played harder than295, I can tell you that right now.I just feel likewe left a hole there.It’s sad that no-one will step upand take that. We’ll just keeplooking.”Pricesaidhe is stillheavily in-

vested in the program he helpedbuild. He and White are hopeful

for the team’s return to competi-tion next season.After a stellar 2014 season,

Damascus Post 171 is expectedto be the team everyone is look-ing to knock off. Laurel Post 60won the Montgomery County

title last season. Gaithersburgwill have to wait at least anotheryear before it can get back intothemix.“I contacted a lot of ex-play-

ers,” Price said. “We’re hopefulthat we’re only going to be out

a year. That’s the plan at thispoint. We’re hoping that a for-mer player steps forward andwants to take this team. The kidsare there and theywant to play.”

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Sherwood grad earns Rookie of the YearFormer Sherwood High School baseball standout

Matt Chanin, who recently finished his freshmanseason at the University of Maryland, BaltimoreCounty, was named 2015 America East ConferenceRookie of the Year at the annual awards banquetheld May 20 in Lowell, Mass.He became the first Retriever to ever earn this

honor, according to a news release sent to The Ga-zette.Chanin led the America East with a 1.60 earned-

run average in league play and was second to team-mate and the league’s Pitcher of the Year, ConradWozniak, with a 1.85 overall ERA.He tallied 38 strikeouts in 58.1 innings of work

and held opposing offenses to a .249 batting averageen route to a 5-2 record.

— JENNIFER BEEKMAN

Good Counsel grad makes national rosterGood Counsel High School’s all-time leading

scorer for girls soccer, 2013 graduate Margaret“Midge” Purce (101 goals), was namedMay 20 to theU.S. Under-23 Women’s National Team’s 22-personroster for a four-team tournament scheduled forWednesday through Sunday in Norway.Harvard University’s leading scorer in the fall for

the second straight season, Purce was a member ofthe U.S. U-20 WNT that lost in penalty kicks to Ko-rea DPR in last summer’s FIFA U-20 Women’s World

Cup. As a freshman in 2013.Purce became the first rookie to be named Ivy

League Player of the Year — she was also Rookie ofthe Year that season.This past fall, during which Purce earned All-

Ivy first team honors and was selected to the 2014NSCAA/Continental Tire All-Mid-Atlantic FirstTeam, she scored a team-high 10 goals, two of whichcame in the Ivy League-clinching win over Colum-bia on Nov. 9.

— JENNIFER BEEKMAN

County stars All-American Bowl inviteThree players from county schools were nomi-

nated to participate in the 2016 U.S. Army All-Amer-ican Bowl.Those players, Trevon Diggs of The Avalon

School, Dwayne Haskins of Bullis, and KeandreJones of Good Counsel were among 14 players se-lected fromMaryland. Considered to be one of thepremier showcase games for high school seniors,the U.S. Army All-American Bowl is scheduled to betelevised on NBC.“The U.S. Army All-American Bowl is a unique

event designed to showcase and recognize the tal-ents of America’s youth while celebrating the teamthat makes a difference every day for the Nation—the U.S. Army,” said Mark S. Davis, deputy assistantsecretary of the Army for marketing.

—PRINCE J. GRIMES

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n One-time marching bandmember now blocks on

the offensive line for Divas

BY JENNIFER BEEKMANSTAFFWRITER

The closest 2003 Gaith-ersburg High School gradu-ate Lauren Chesley got to thefootball field in high schoolwasduring the marching band’shalftime show.

“When Iwas in high school,the only girls sports that werebig were soccer, basketball,field hockey and softball, andI wanted more of a contactsport,” Chesley said. “I wasn’tgood at basketball because I’mnot tall (5-foot-6).”

Football was what Chesleyreally wanted to do, she said.But even if she wanted to tryout, she said she took one lookat the Trojans squad and knewit wouldn’t be safe. So she gother football fix watching theNational Football League in-tently everySundayandplayingbackyard ball with her familyand friends.

But on April 11, Chesleymadeherwomen’sprofessionaltackle football debut with thePrince George’s County-basedD.C. Divas. Currently in their15th season, theDivas, a peren-nial postseason contender inthe 43-teamWomen’s FootballAlliance, are undefeated (5-0),which includes a 32-27 victoryover longtime rival Boston ear-lier thismonth.

“I’m not going to lie, I wasscared,” Chesley said. “I waslike, ‘Youwantme out there?’”

When Chesley showedup for Divas tryouts over thewinter — she overheard twoplayers talking about the teamduring a flag football game lastfall — she said she had no ideawhat position she should play.She figured the coaches wouldput her wherever they saw fit,she said. It never occurred toher that might be the offensiveline.

But Divas coach AlisonFischer said she saw somethingin this new player. While Ches-

ley might not have the stereo-typical build of a linewoman— though she said she hasdone specific training to buildmore muscle mass — she hadgood footwork and agility andperhaps more importantly themental capacity necessary toplay such an intricate position.

“It’s a difficult positionto play, especially if you’re arookie because the mental partis very challenging,” Fischersaid. “You have a lot to learn, asfar asplays. She seemed tohavethe whole package. Lauren is areally hard worker, which isgreat to have, especially in arookie. If you want to play onthe offensive line, you have tostudy because mentally thereis so much to it. It’s tough ona rookie to learn so much, notjust physically, but mentally.And she is progressing verywell.”

While most attention istypically paid to the skill posi-tion players, the quarterbacks,running backs andwide receiv-ers who pepper the stat sheet,the offensive line is vital to ev-ery yard of offense those play-ers gain. And while her workmight sometimes go unnoticedby the average spectator, there

is something rewarding aboutthat, Chesley said. The well-be-ing of her teammates workingbehind the line is essentially inher hands.

In thepast couple of games,Fischer said, the Divas have ac-crued more than 500 yards.Chesley said the offensive line,which she likens to a familyunit, has a bet with the runningbacks coach that if his playershave 2,000 rushing yards thisseason, he takes the linewomento dinner.

“And feeding the O-line issome serious business,” Ches-ley said. “The O-line — we’rekind of like the unsung hero. Ididn’t realize how much work,both mentally and physically,would go into it. But I enjoy it.The rushing yards, all dependon us. If there’s a sack, it’snever just one person. It’s notlike, ‘Oh, the tackle didn’tmaketheir block.’ It’s that the O-linebroke down. Even if we’re allgoing in the wrong direction, ifwe’re pushingpeople out of theway together, [we can get thejob done]. ... I’m a protectiveperson anyway, but especiallyonce you see your mistakesand sometimes you can seethe impact. If I block the wrong

person or go in the wrong di-rection, someone could getcrushed.”

Fischer said while it’s dis-appointing to know there arepeople like Chesley who hadnever heard of the Divas orwomen’s tackle football, it’sexciting to know there is still alot of unknown talent out thereto recruit. And Chesley saidshe hopes through her par-ticipation she not only bringsawareness to women’s tacklefootball — which is played atthe international level — butto the opportunities out therefor women athletes after highschool and college.

“It’s not even that I wantgirls to know they can playfootball, it’s any sport,” Ches-ley said. “I think we only seepart of the professional sportsworld which is the male side.But there are so many differentavenues that you can go into tokeep playing sports after highschool and college that womendon’t know about or think theycan’t do. I want to get out thereso everyone can see us andwhat we are doing.”

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n Coaches say they see benefitsof program, athletic trainers

BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN

STAFFWRITER

A year ago, President Barack Obamaspoke on the subject of head injuriesat the Healthy Kids and Safe SportsConcussion Summit held at the WhiteHouse. Thanks to an invitation from aformer student-athlete who now worksat the White House — longtime Whit-man High School football coach JimKuhnwas there.

“Basically, I was sittingwith a bunchof neurosurgeons so I was pretty out ofplace but the biggest message was thatconcussionsareapartof life,”Kuhnsaid.“You can be an athlete or you could tripwhile walking down the street and hityour head. It’s not that we should not letour kids play sports, because there arelarger problems, things like diabetes. It’srealizing if you get a concussion,when isit safe to get back.”

That question is one that has not yetbeen fully answered but with twomajororganizations, the military and the Na-tional Football League, pouring moneyinto research, according to Kuhnper thePresident’s speech, new developmentsseem to be surfacing at a more rapidpace in recent years. And in this age ofInternet and social media, news reachesthemasses quicker than ever. Therefore,Montgomery County Public Schools Di-rector of System-wide Athletics, William“Duke” Beattie said, it was important forthe county to react and take the propersteps topromote student-athlete safety.

Saturday’s conclusion of the Mary-land Public Secondary Schools AthleticAssociation events not only signified theendof the 2014-15 athletics calendar butthe second full year since MCPS imple-mentedmandatory baseline concussiontesting for all student-athletes and thepilot year for its program that providesall 25 MCPS athletic departments withanathletic trainer, staffed for about 25 to30hours perweek.

The latter took the effectiveness ofthe former to awhole new level, coaches

said, Whitman was one of nine MCPSschools that offered self-fundedbaselineconcussion testing for its athletes priorto 2013 but Kuhn said having an athletictrainer to work with through the entireprocess— fromdiagnosis to recovery—has had twomajor benefits: a direct lineto doctors and proper care and an im-portant educational component.

The upcoming 2015-16 will be an-other big testing year, Beattie said, asresults are only good for two years. Aconcussion isa force tothebrainthatcancause a change in its function. Baselineconcussion testing can be used to de-scribecomputerizedneurologicalexami-nations that measure memory, reactiontimes and cognitive processing. The dis-crepancy between the pre-injury results— the baseline — and scores followinga head injury, help determine when it issafe for an athlete to return toplay.

In2013,all student-athletes ingradesnine through 12 underwent testing — itwas required before athletes took partin competition. Last September onlyfreshmen were tested. This fall, incom-ing freshmen along with current sopho-

mores and juniors whose tests will haveexpired, will undergo baseline testing.Beattie said schools likely learned fromthe first year how to better compensatefor larger testing numbers and attentionto scheduling required.

Beattie said he didn’t have particu-lar statistics but addedwhile it’s unlikelythere has been a rise in occurrence ofhead injuries, there hasmore than likelybeen an increase in reported concus-sions since testing began. In turn, moreathletes will be subject to the propertreatments and recovery process.

Beattie was quick to add, however,that baseline concussion testing can innoway prevent concussions. Head inju-riescannotbepreventedbutunlikemostother injuries, concussions can also notbe detected on image screening. Theneurological examinations can thereforebeused to aid indecidingwhere athletesare in their recovery timeline — return-ing to competition tooquickly can resultin severe and longtermdamage.

But it’s important, Kuhn said, not tobe solely reliant on the cognitive testing.Whether or not student-athletes have

“figured out” how to heed the results inbaseline testing that will get them backon the field, all of Whitman’s athletesmust then undergo a physical examina-tionby theirathletic traineraswell—it isnot possible to fakebalance, Kuhn said.

There is still much to be learnedabout detection of head injuries, treat-ment and recovery butwith informationspreadingmorequickly thesedays,Beat-tie said it’s important to stay at the fore-front of new discoveries. He and Kuhnsaid as more and more informationsurfaces regarding concussions — andwith the education athletic trainers havebrought toprograms—student-athletes’attitudes seem tobe changing aswell.

“Education is extremely important,”Beattie said. “Concussion awareness isone of [the areas we stress]. I think kidsare starting to realize, you’re not a sissyif you don’t report [a concussion]. Wetell them it doesn’t just affect their well-being, it affects their playing ability. Thatusually gets through to them.”

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Gaithersburg High School graduate Lauren Chesley (right) blocks during a Donna Wilkinson run for the D.C. Divaswomen’s professional football team.

n Churchill, Wootton, B-CCwin championships on final

day of state tournament

BY ERIC GOLDWEIN

STAFFWRITER

There was no shortage ofstate tennis championship ex-perience between them. SriyaMovva won the 2013 and 2014girls doubles tournament play-ing alongside Hayley Keats. Ka-tie Gauchwas a two-timemixeddoubles title winner—first withher brother, Michael Gauchand then last year with ElliottThacker.

But this time around, theChurchill High School girls ten-nis seniors — and close friends— wanted to win together. Soback in the fall, they teamed upandwona region title, qualifyingfor the tennis state champion-ships. After an extended break— they only started practicingtogether again twoweeks ago—they picked up right where they

left off, cruising through thegirls doubles draw and cappingoff their state title runwith a 6-0,6-1 victory against Sherwood(Molly Halprin/KaitlynHeo).

“I think we played reallywell. It’s kind of like one of thosepartnerships where we have thechemistry,” Gauch said.

“Especially with our lasthigh schoolmatch, to get to endit with my best friend. It’s reallynice,”Movva said.

Churchill (Potomac) wasoneof fourMontgomeryCountygold medalists at Saturday’sstate tennis championships attheUniversity ofMaryland, Col-lege Park.

Wootton sophomore Mi-randa Deng won the girlssingles tournament, defeatingAtholton’s Victoria Kogan (6-2,6-3) in straight sets, winning thetitle for the second straight sea-son.

“It’s definitely different be-cause I feel like everyone’s like‘oh, you’re the defending cham-pion. So it’s nice to win,” Dengsaid.

The Patriots also took goldin mixed doubles, with JakeGordon and Kelly Chen defeat-ing teammates I-Shiun Kuo andRuchi Nanda (6-2, 6-4) in an all-Rockville school finalsmatch.

In boys singles, Poolesville’sDennis Wang lost to SevernaPark’s Alex Cauneac (2-6, 6-1,6-4) in a lengthy, back-and-forthfinals match. It was the secondthree-setter of the day for theFalcons senior, who defeatedBel Air’s Michael Quang (3-6,6-3, 6-2) in the semifinals.

Seniors Luke Blackman andEric Dubrow gave Bethesda-Chevy Chase its first boys dou-bles title since 2001, defeatingWhitman’s Andrew Leung andJack Welch (7-6, 5-7, 6-2). It wasa grudge match for the Baronsduo, which lost to the Vikings instraight sets (6-4, 6-0) in the re-gion championship.

“As both being seniors thisyear, we just really wanted toend it well. We needed it,” Du-brow said.

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n Trojans defeat SevernaPark to win their firstbaseball championship


For the first time, theGaithersburg High Schoolbaseball team is the MarylandClass 4A state champion, de-feating Severna Park 5-3 onFridaynight at Ripken Stadiumin Aberdeen.

Trojans starting pitcherAnthony Felitti allowed a com-bined six hits through the firstthree innings, but he didn’tallow another from the fourthinning up until he was pulledafter the sixth with a 5-1 lead.

He earned the win forGaithersburg to finish theseason at 10-0 with two saves.After postgame celebrations,with his teammates huddledaround him, Felitti shaved thebeard he grew over the courseof the entire season.

“I said I wasn’t going to

shave until we won a statechampionship, so I shaved to-night,” Felitti said. He gave upjust one earned run throughsix innings, allowed six hits,and struck out two. “It soundsweird, but my glove was mytrigger tonight. Whenevermy glove was nice and tight,my ball was just staying niceand low and out. Once I justchanged my mechanics a littlebit, I just started cruising.”

Felitti was backed by adefense that didn’t make anerror. Severna Park left sevenrunners on base through thefirst three innings, including inthe second when it threatenedto score on a single by secondbaseman Brendan Clark intoright field. Dylan Lenart wassignaled to round third only tobe thrown out on a relay throwAaron Vargas made to BradleySawyer, who then hit catcherTrey Martinez just in time totag Lenart.

“Remarkable,” Gaithers-burg coach Jeff Rabbermansaid of the job Felitti did. There

was a moment in the third in-ning when Rabberman sent apitcher to thebullpen towarm-up. “I don’t think he necessar-ily had his best stuff tonight,but that kid just competes andbattles his rear end off.”

In the bottom of the sec-ond, Grant Mixell got thingsstarted for the Gaithersburgoffense driving in the first runof the game on a single. Hewent 3-3 at the plate with twosingles, a double, and threeruns batted in.

Severna Park tied the gameat 1-1 in the third inning withtwo, two-out doubles fromSte-phen Boushell and Kody Mil-ton. Gaithersburg respondedin the bottom of the third withthreemore runs.

The first run scored ona wild pitch by Severna Parkpitcher Spencer Dietrich. Theother two came on a two-RBIsingle by Mixell with runnerson second and third and twostrikes.

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n Warriors defeatNorthwest, extend staterecord with 83rd straight

BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN

STAFFWRITER

If there’s one thing the Sher-wood High School softball teamhas proven over the past fourundefeated years — in additionto its sheer superiority, of course— it’s that the Warriors are notgoing to beat themselves. Eventhe best teamshave baddays butSherwood at 80 percent is argu-ably still better than any team inthe state.

So, if Northwest had anychance at ending Sherwood’sstate record winning streak inSaturdaynight’s all-MontgomeryCounty Class 4A state final heldat the University of Maryland,College Park, the first-time statefinalist Jaguars were going tohave toplaybetter than theirbestand hope for Sherwood to givethem an opening. Neither hap-pened during the Warriors’ 4-0win, though Northwest did staycloser to the Warriors than anycounty team this spring. In fact,Sherwood won the teams’ previ-ousmeeting, 9-2.

“There’s no doubt we weregoing to have to do a great jobtakingcareof theballandnotgive[Sherwood] any extra chances,”Jaguars coachKevinCorpuz said.“We didn’t play flawless andSherwood is just that good.”

Saturday’s victory, whichwas by the smallest margin asidefrom Tuesday’s one-run, statesemifinalwin over Leonardtown,wasSherwood’s83rdstraightwindatingback toMay2011.OnMay4 the Warriors (21-0) broke thestate record for consecutive vic-tories with their 78th, a 7-0 winover Blair — the last team to de-feat Sherwood — in the regularseasonfinale.

“Credit goes to the girls whostarted this in the past and the

girlswhohavekept it goingnow,”Warriors coach Ashley Barber-Strunk Said. “It’s all their hardwork and dedication that gotthemhere.”

Sherwood junior pitcherJaime Schmier — who had aperfect game going through fiveinnings — struck out seven in atwo-hitter. The Warriors talliedfivehitsandwerealsoable to takeadvantage of three costly North-west defensive errors — in addi-tion to a few defensive miscues.Northwest juniorhurlerBridgetteBarbour earned five strikeoutsagainst a batting order that hasproduced 270 runs this spring.

“I think Jaime threw a won-derful game, I couldn’t haveasked for any better,” Barber-Strunk said. “She was fired upand ready to go. She was in itfrom thebeginning.”

Understandably, both teamsappeared a bit nervous at thestart. But the Warriors settledin a bit after going ahead, 1-0,in the bottom of the second in-ning. After stranding the state’sall-time home run leader, seniorshortstop Nicole Stockinger onthird base in the first inning, ju-nior McKenzie Bina scored ona passed ball. The run was un-earned,however,asBinareachedonanerror.

Northwest had its firstglimpse of a possible hit in thetop of the fourth inning onChloeHickman’s ball looping towardleft center field. But Stockingermade a backhanded catch leap-ing toward the outfield.

It was a three-run fifth in-ning that all but clinched thewin. Junior Marisa Mancini ledoff with a double and scored onsenior second baseman JulieSwarr’s double to center field. Af-ter Stockinger was intentionallywalked she drew a throw to sec-ondbase by taking a big lead andsophomore right fielder AmandaBerkley headed home when theball traveled into center field.

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3371 Fort Meade Road, LaurelOurisman VW of Laurel

All prices & payments exclude tax, tags, title, freight and $300 processing fee. Cannot be combined with any previous advertised or internet special. Pictures are for illustrativepurposes only. Special APR financing cannot be combined with sale prices. Ends 06/1/15.

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2007 Rabbit...............................#V033452A, Black, 117,967 Miles..............$5,991

2008 Dodge Caliber...............#V293674A, Silver, 130,404 Miles................$5,999

2006 Touareg...........................#V001597A, Black, 78,489 Miles.................$8,991

2011 Toyota Prius...................V283821B, Red, 112,390 Miles.................$11,593

2011 Nissan Sentra...............#V298174B, Silver, 83,127 Miles................$11,791

2011 Toyota Camry SE..........V0125A, Black, 61,476 Miles.....................$11,995

2014 Nissan Versa.................V309714A, Gray, 7,485 Miles.....................$13,772

2013 Passat..............................#VPR0138, Maroon, 44,978 Miles..............$14,991

2014 Chrysler 200 LX............#VPR0139, Grey, 33,534 Miles...................$14,991

2013 Nissan Altima...............V303606A, Silver, 49,926 Miles..................$15,871

2013 VW Beetle.......................V801398, Yellow, 16,020 Miles...................$16,293

2011 Jetta TDI..........................#V005099A, Black, 71,951 Miles...............$16,991

2013 Passat SE.......................#V080993A, White, 29,626 Miles...............$17,391

2012 CC.....................................#V820490A, Black, 47,400 Miles...............$17,491

2013 Jetta TDI..........................V320148A, Black, 31,444 Miles.................$17,492

2013 GTI Conv..........................V297056A, White, 31,734 Miles.................$17,993

2014 Jeep Patriot...................VP0134, Black, 9,454 Miles........................$18,692

2013 Beetle..............................#V591026A, Black, 35,857 Miles...............$18,791

2013 Passat TDI SE................V033935A, Gray,28,762 Miles...................$19,955

2004 Honda S2000 Roadster..V255772A, Gray, 36,661 Miles...................$19,792

2013 Jetta Sportswagen TDI. .V055283A, Black, 30,101 Miles.................$20,992

2012 Chevrolet Equinox AWD...#V099935A, Blue, 38,419 Miles.................$21,991

2014 Routan SEL.....................VP0130, Blue, 18,268 Miles.......................$25,993

2013 CC VR6 4Motion............VP0131, Black, 33,105 Miles.....................$25,993

2015 PASSAT LIMITED EDITION

#9088106, Automatic, Keyless Entry, Leather Seats,BackupCamera, Front/Side Airbags, ABS Brakes

BUY FOR$21,999

OR $319/MO for 72 MONTHS

MSRP $25,135

2015 TIGUAN S 2WD

#13096839, Automatic, ABS Brakes,Power Locks, Keyless Entry, Backup Camera

BUY FOR$24,999


MSRP $27,120

2014 CC SPORTLAST 2014 AVAILABLE!

#9539247, Navigation, Backup CameraFront/Side Airbags, 2.0 Turbo, Bluetooth

BUY FOR$26,999


MSRP $35,060

2015 JETTA SEDAN TDI S

#7262051, Bluetooth, 1 Yr. car CareMaintenance, Loaner Car For Life

BUY FOR$18,998


MSRP $23,880

#7271256, Front/Side Airbags, AluminumWheels, Keyless Entry, Auto, Stability Control

MSRP $19,245

2015 JETTA S

BUY FOR$16,995


2015 BEETLE 1.8L

#1647049, Bluetooth, Keyless Entry, Auto, TouchScreen Radio, iPad Adapter, I Yr. Car Care Maintenance

MSRP $21,105

BUY FOR$17,837


2015 GOLF SPORTWAGEN S

#5500964, Automactic. I Yr. Car Care Maintenance,Bluetooth, Keyless Entry, BackupCamera

MSRP $23,995

BUY FOR$20,995


2015 GOLF GTI 2D HB S

#5501562, Manual, ABS Brakes, AudioStreaming, Keyless Entry

BUY FOR$20,599


MSRP $23,315

2015 GOLF 2D HBLAUNCH EDITION

#3025420, Bluetooth, I Yr. Car CareMaintenance, Auto, Keyless Entry

MSRP $18,815

BUY FOR$16,599


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G560929


#P9367, Only 21K Miles!!Gorgeous1-owner, Leather, Nav, Rear Cam,Sunroof,

$33,750

2012 Hyundai Equus Signature

2013 Hyundai Sonata SE

#P9371, 1-OWNER,Heated Front Seats,Bluetooth, Alloys $16,995

DARCARS VOLVO15401 Frederick Rd, Rockville, MDwww.darcarsvolvo.com

1.888.824.9165

DARCARS VOLVO OF ROCKVILLE

YOUR GOOD CREDITRESTORED HEREDARCARS

See what it’s liketo love car buying.

#526571C, 1-Owner, Leather, HEATEDSEATS, Panoramic roof, Alloys,Beautifully Kept!

$16,995

2012 Volvo S60 T5 Moonroof

#P9356, Certified,1-Owner,Turbo, Lthr, Homelink, FacWarr., Only 26K miles!

$19,980

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#P9384,CERTIFIED!! Only 23KMiles,Nav, Rear Camera, Leather,Sunroof, Premium Sound,

$29,980

2011 Volvo XC90 AWD Platinum

2012 Honda CRV EX-L AWD

#P9369, 1-Owner, Leather,Sunroof, Alloys , Only 32KMiles!

$23,950

#P9279A, Automatic,Clean Inside and Out $6,995

2002 Honda Civic EX

2010 Volvo XC70 Premium AWD

#527021A, CERTIFIED!!,Only 23k Miles!, Leather,Sunroof.

$24,980

2007 Mitsubishi Eclipse GT

#P9232A, 6 spd Manual 3.8V6 Convertible, Only 35KMiles, Fun Car!!!

$13,995

#G0063,ONLY 54K mi,2.4L 4cyl,Auto

$15,995

2010 Camry Hybrid2012 Acura TSX Wagon

#527003A, 1-Owner! Only 27KMiles. Leather, Sunroof, Bluetooth, Alloys

$21,950

2011 GMC Terrain SLE-1

#P9276A, Auto, Locally Ownedand Well Maintained, $14,995

2008 Mercedes C-300 4Matic.............................. $13,995#526593A, AWD, Nav, Leather, Alloys, Clean-Well Maintained

2012 Hyundai Elantra Limited............................$14,750#P9372, Automatic, Low Miles!!, Leather, Sunroof, Alloys

2014 Kia Optima LX........................................................... $15,995#E0730, Automatic, Fac Warranty, Leather, Alloys

2010 Volvo XC60 3.2L..................................................... $17,950#P9263, 1-Owner, Only 52K Miles! Panormic Moonroof, Well priced and clean!

2010 Volvo XC60 3.2L...........................$18,950#P9277, 1-Owner, Leather, Moonroof, Bluetooth

2012 Volvo S60 T5 Turbo......................$19,980#P9315, CERTIFIED!! Only 30K Miles, Leather, Sunroof, Homelink

2012 Volvo XC60 AWD 3.2 Premier.......$24,980# P9295, Only 34K Miles! CERTIFIED! Leather, Blind spot, Park Assist,

2012 Volvo XC90 Premier Plus...........$25,980#429033A, 1-OWNER, CERTIFIED Leather, 3RD Row seat, Moonroof, Well Maintained

2013 KIA Optima SX Turbo

DARCARSNISSAN of ROCKVILLE15911 Indianola Drive • Rockville, MD (at Rt. 355 across from King Farm)

888.805.8235 • www.DARCARSNISSAN.comBAD CREDIT - NO CREDIT - CALL TODAY!

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G560899

$15,977#547519A, 1-Owner, BeautifulInside&Out,WellMaintained

2011 Mazda CX-7

$16,977#548505A, LowMiles!!, V6, Auto,Leather, Alloys

2008 Nissan 350 Z Touring

$12,977#548043B, Automatic,Less than 1000KMiles, Extra Clean

2005 Nissan Frontier 4WD SE

$16,977#548040A, 1-Owner, Loaded,Sunroof, Leather, Clean!!

2011 Hyundai Sonata Limited

$15,977#P9327, ONLY12KMILES!!Certified, Auto, LooksNew!

2012 Nissan Leaf SL NAV Hatchback

$14,977#532188C, Nav, Leather,Sunroof, Loaded

2010 Chevy Equinox LTZ

$5,977#442076A, Automatic, Gently DrivenandPriced toMove!

2001 Nissan Quest GXE

$12,977#E0686, Automatic, Leather, Fold-DownRear Seat, FactoryWarranty

2014 Jetta SE

$16,777#541161A, Hard-to-Find, 1-Owner,Loaded, Leather, Sunroof

2010 Mercury Mariner Hybrid

$8,977#541206B, Automatic, Gently drivenand clean!

2006 Nissan Sentra 1.8S

$14,977#541214A, 1-OWNER,Only 74KMiles,Well kept!!

2008 Nissan Xterra S 4WD

$12,977#442078A, Only 5KMiles!!!,Automatic,WhyBuyNew?

2014 Chevrolet Sonic LS


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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 06/01/2015.

DARCARS NISSANTWO LOCATIONS

Rockville15911 Indianola DriveRockville, MD 20855

888-797-1831

College Park9330 Baltimore Ave

College Park, MD 20740888-693-8037

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2015 NISSANVERSA NOTE SV

MSRP: $17,600Sale Price: $14,895

Nissan Customer Cash: $500Nissan Holiday Bonus Cash: $500

NMAC Bonus Cash: $500

$13,495

MODEL #11615

4AT THISPRICE $0 DOWN

$159/MO36 MO LEASE12K MILES/YR

OR

2015 NISSANALTIMA 2.5 S


Nissan Customer Cash: -$1,000Altima Bonus Cash: -$500NMAC Bonus Cash: -$1000

$16,995MODEL #131154 at this price



OR

2015 NISSANNV200


Nissan Customer Cash: $750

$17,495

MODEL #67115



OR

MODEL #17015

$0 DOWN

MSRP: $32,000Sale Price: $27, 995

NMAC Bonus Cash: $3,500

$24,495$229/MO36 MO LEASE12K MILES/YR

OR

2015 NISSANLEAF S

4AT THISPRICE

with chargerpackage

2015 NISSANPATHFINDER 4X4 S


Nissan Rebate: $1,500NMAC Bonus Cash: $500

$25,995

MODEL #250154

AT THISPRICE

$0 DOWN


OR

$0 DOWN


2015 NISSANSENTRA SV


Nissan Customer Cash: $1000Nissan Holiday Bonus Cash: $500

NMAC Bonus Cash: $250

$14,495

MODEL #12115

OR4AT THISPRICE

2015 NISSANVersa S Sedan MSRP: $14,685

Sale Price: $11,395Nissan Rebate $400

$10,995automatic

transmissionMODEL #11115



OR

2015 NISSANMURANO S AWD MSRP: $33,045

Sale Price: $28,495NMAC Bonus Cash: $500

$27,995

MODEL #23015



OR

0% APR X 72 MONTHSAVAILABLE ON BRAND NEW:

2015 ALTIMAS, 2015 SENTRAS, 2015ARMADAS, 2015 TITANS, 2015 LEAFS!

DARCARS See what it’s like tolove car buying

15625 Frederick Rd (Rte 355) • Rockville,MDOPEN SUNDAY

VISIT US ON THEWEB ATwww.355Toyota.com

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% APRFINANCING UP TO 60 MONTHS TO QUALIFIED BUYERS THRU TOYOTA FINANCIAL SERVICES. TOTAL FINANCED CANNOT EXCEED MSRP PLUS OPTIONS, TAX, ANDLICENSE 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 MILESPER YEAR WITH $995 DOWN PLUS $650 ACQUISITION FEE, NO SECURITY DEPOSIT REQUIRED. LEASES FOR COROLLA AND CAMRY ARE 24 MONTHS WITH $0 DOWNPLUS TAX, TAGS, FREIGHT, PROCESSING AND $650 ACQUISITION FEE. SEE DEALER FOR COMPLETE DETAILS. EXPIRES 6/02/2015.

1-888-831-9671

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0% FOR60 MONTHS+On 10 Toyota Models

2 AVAILABLE: #455033, 4550442014 SCION XB

4 CYL.,4 DR., AUTO

$149/

2 AVAILABLE: #564390, 564421NEW 2015 RAV4 4X2 LE

4 CYL.,AUTOMATIC

AFTER $750 REBATE

$20,890

2 AVAILABLE: #570653, 570694NEW 2015 COROLLA L

$14,590AFTER $750 REBATE

2 AVAILABLE: #572183, 572233NEW 2015 CAMRY LE

AUTO,4 CYL., 4 DR$159/MO**

$0DOWN

2 AVAILABLE: #570369, 570341

4 DR., AUTO,4 CYL

2015 COROLLA LE

$139/MO**

$0DOWN

MANUAL,4 CYL

2 AVAILABLE: #567181, 567184NEW 2015 TACOMA 4X2 XTRACAB

$18,890

4 DR., AUTO,4 CYL. INCL.

NEW 2015 YARIS#577009

$13,590AFTER TOYOTA $1,000 REBATE

3 AVAILABLE: #572159, 572171, 572172NEW 2015 CAMRY LE

4 CYL.,AUTO

$18,990AFTER TOYOTA $750 REBATE

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MO**

$0DOWN

355 TOYOTA2 AVAILABLE: #578023, 578024NEW 2015 AVALON XLS

V6,AUTO, 4 DR

$26,900

2 AVAILABLE: #577491, 5774602015 PRIUS C II

4 CYL., AUTO,4 DR

AFTER TOYOTA $750 REBATE

$0DOWN

$149/MO**

3 DR. H/BK,MANUAL TRANS

AFTER $1500 REBATE


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