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Clarksburg Elementary School Principal Sunny Lee helps guide students to their classrooms on the ﬁrst day of school Monday. This is Lee’s 17th year as principal at Clarksburg Elementary.

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PEGGY MCEWAN STAFF WRITER

Montgomery County Public Schools held its annual Backto-School Fair on Saturday, but students didn’t leave the fair this More year in Rockville scenes with new backpacks slung over from their shoulders. school That’s beopenings cause this year n Page A-4 backpacks were sent directly to schools to be distributed. “We thought empowering

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Sessions focus on drugs, gangs, other threats BY

RYAN MARSHALL STAFF WRITER

Detective Ed Wilcher faced a darkened room, clicking through his presentation on the youth gangs in Montgomery County. His audience Friday at Northwest High School in Germantown was about 20 school security staff from Montgomery County Public Schools, who were there to get an update on some of the groups they’d be partly responsible for monitoring when school opened on Monday. Wilcher, of the Montgomery County Police Department, said police are currently tracking 33

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Lt. Matthew Trivett, a ﬁre and explosives investigator with the Montgomery County Police Department, gives county school security guards a look at two types of pipe bombs during a daylong security seminar Friday at Northwest High School in Germantown.

Businesses in Clarksburg will have a new local voice to represent their interests with the formation of the new Clarksburg Chamber of Commerce. Joe Buffington, co-owner of Bennigan’s restaurant in Clarksburg, said he is starting the chamber to make sure local businesses have a say in the debate over the final phase of growth in the community. Buffington and nine other businesses or individuals already belong to the Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce, which supports growth in Clarksburg. However, Buffington said, local businesses should be able to speak for themselves. “I think Clarksburg needs to be represented by the people here,” he said. “Gaithersburg and Germantown have a different historical perspective, different geography. Clarksburg needs its own group.” Buffington said has received a charter from the state and plans to host a breakfast meeting at 8 a.m. Sept. 4 at Bennigan’s on Md. 355 to talk to interested people and begin setting up a structure, dues and board of directors for the new chamber. Coming up are important public hearings about three major projects proposed for Clarksburg. The county Planning Board is scheduled to meet Sept. 10 to consider amending the Clarksburg Master Plan to accommodate a Tanger fashion outlet center east of Interstate 270 and a Pulte Homes development of 1,000 homes within the Ten Mile Creek watershed in Clarksburg and Boyds. Also under review in a separate process is a proposed Premium fashion outlet west of I-270 in the Cabin Branch watershed in Boyds. A hearing about whether to allow more retail space on the site is scheduled to resume Sept. 4 before the county hearing examiner. Buffington said he personally favors the Tanger outlet plan, which is close to his restaurant, and also said he believes that “Pulte should go forward.” Marilyn Balcombe, president and CEO of the Gaithersburg-Germantown chamber, said she supports the formation of a Clarksburg chamber. “I think that having a chamber or business association is fantastic,” said Balcombe, who said members will sometimes belong to several chambers depending on their business interests.

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Franchot won’t endorse in gubernatorial primary ‘I’m going to be like Switzerland’

RYAN MARSHALL STAFF WRITER

Maryland Comptroller Peter V.R. Franchot says he won’t endorse a candidate in the state’s 2014 Democratic primary for governor. Franchot (D) said he has worked with and likes Democratic candidates Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, Del. Heather

Mizeur (D-Dist. 20) Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler, and doesn’t plan to pick a favorite in the June 2014 primary. “I’m going to be like Switzerland,” he said. Franchot said he does plan to endorse the Democratic candidate for governor in November’s general election. Franchot considered a run for the governor’s mansion himself, but announced in December that he wouldn’t seek the ofﬁce, calling the comptroller’s position his “dream job.”

He was in Damascus on Thursday to present a proclamation to the Damascus Volunteer Fire Department for its service to the town’s residents. Volunteers such as those at the ﬁre company represent oldfashioned Maryland values, he said. Darron Long, who has been chief of the Damascus ﬁre company for 32 years, said the recognition was nice because it lets the members know their work is being noticed. It also meant a lot that Fran-

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chot came to deliver the honor personally. “It’s been really well appreciated,” Long said. Franchot also presented a proclamation to Damascus’ Jimmie Cone restaurant, recognizing it for more than 50 years of providing ice cream and serving as a center of the community. Franchot said he presents many proclamations to restaurants because they offer a lot of jobs in communities around Maryland. Franchot said he remains

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concerned about the effect the government’s budget sequestration cuts have had on the state. While there have been some small areas of recovery in Maryland, the state is not in a full economic recovery and sequestration adds to the anxiety of families and businesses, he said. “We have a lot of angst,” he said. But Franchot said he’s not

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Chief Darron Long of the Damascus Volunteer Fire Department chats with Maryland Comptroller Peter V.R. Franchot, who spoke at Station 13 in Damascus on Thursday.

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p.m., Black Hill Visitor Center, 20926 Lake Ridge Drive, Boyds. Monarch butterﬂyrelated activities including tours of the way station and insect hunt. Free. Register at www. parkpass.org.

Campﬁre and Nature Walk with Naturalist,

6:30-7:30 p.m., Locust Grove Nature Center, 7777 Democracy Blvd., Bethesda. $6. Register at www.parkpass.org. Mary Shaver Band Blues Concert, 6:30 p.m.-2 a.m., Rockville Rooftop Live, 155 Gibbs St., sixth ﬂoor. Ages 21 and older. $10. nicole@ rockvillerooftoplive.com. Outdoor Movie Night, 7:30 p.m., Seneca Creek State Park, 11950 Clopper Road, Gaithersburg. Campﬁre, s’mores and family-friendly movie. $2. scspnaturalist@gmail.com.

SATURDAY, AUG. 31

“Paint the Town” Art Show and Plein Air Event,

10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Kensington Armory and Town Hall, 3710 Mitchell St. Local artists set up easels around town to paint. Free. 301-260-9701. Beautiﬁcation Day, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Monocacy Cemetery, 19801 West Hunter Road, Beallsville. Help clean gravestones and bring food to share with other volunteers. Free. monocacycemetery@gmail.com. Adult Music Student Forum, 3-4 p.m., Rockville Memorial Library, 21 Maryland Ave. Classical piano performances. karen.logsdon@ montgomerycountymd.gov.

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Annual Sept. 11 road race is Damascus man’s brainchild PEOPLE & PL ACES KIRSTY GROFF

Among the many annual commemorations of Sept. 11 nationwide is the Damascus Freedom 5K/10K, which is entering its fourth year. Runners and others interested in attending can come to Damascus Regional Park beginning at 7:30 a.m. on Sept. 8 for the two longer courses, a quarter-mile kids run, a DJ, magician, moonbounce and food provided by local businesses. It all benefits local and national organizations dedicated to serving active military personnel, veterans and their families. The idea for the Damascus Freedom 5K/10K was born several months before the ninth anniversary of Sept. 11, when founder and director Seth Gottesman of Damascus and some of his friends noticed that Sept. 11 that year fell on a Saturday — a convenient day to hold community events. “I felt like there was an opportunity there,” he said. “We had just moved to Damascus and thought the town would support something like that. We had no budget, just an idea.” When Gottesman began posting signs and spreading the word for the inaugural 5K, he wasn’t even sure if three people would show up; 114 people ended up participating the first year. The numbers have grown over the years, and though they haven’t topped the 199 registered runners in the second year when the 10K was added, the number of people who come out to show their support has continued to rise. Several 5- and 6-year-olds will participate in the 5K as a result of an informal youth running program Gottesman organized this summer. Any young children not participating in the races, however, can choose between two moonbounces and play on the playground. There also will be balloon animals, magician Roger Lindsay and an Elvis impersonator. K-Sef Entertainment will provide music, and J&P and Jimmie Cone will have pizza and ice cream available, respectively. Gottesman doesn’t have plans to add much more to the event. While he says he is open to new ideas to add to the meaning and impact of the event, he doesn’t want anything to potentially take away from the day itself. “My overall goal is trying to have a really good, appropriate event to mark the occasion, to give back to those who deserve it,” he said. “I don’t want anyone to feel like we have a hand in their pocket — just to have a good time. The number of organizations receiving the proceeds has grown from one in its inaugural year to five this year: the Wounded Warrior Project,

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Runners in last year’s Damascus Freedom 5K/10K. This year’s race, which commemorates 9/11, is Sept. 8. Fisher House, USO, Disabled American Veterans and Hero Dogs. While the groups help service members and their families across the country, Gottesman keeps the funds local; Fisher House bases its operations in Rockville and Hero Dogs is in Laytsonsville, and the USO funds will go to the Metropolitan Washington chapter. By keeping the event to the basics and choosing a variety of beneﬁciaries, he hopes the sacriﬁces of the nation’s veterans will be properly honored. “You can’t really put a price tag on what our heroes do for us every day and I think we have an obligation to give back in a meaningful way when we can and to get with people who have common values and are interested in supporting what we do,” Gottesman said. “This event is way bigger than me.” The registration fee includes the race, a shirt, with $5 extra for an upgrade to a technical shirt, and food. The cost is $28 until Saturday; $35 Sunday through Sept. 5; and $38 on race day. Visit www.damascusfreedom5K.com for more information or to register.

Damascus fair returns this weekend The 68th Damascus Community Fair is returning to town from Sept. 6 to 8 at the Damascus Volunteer Fire Department

Activity Center and along Lewis Drive. Exhibits will be open to the public from noon to 9 p.m. on opening day, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sept. 7, and 9 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. Sept. 8. The three days will be a Kids Day, Parents Day and Grandparents Day, respectively. This year’s fair queen and king will be crowned at 7 p.m. Sept. 6. Bidding on livestock — and cake — will be at 7 p.m. Sept. 7. Anyone interested in participating in the 25th annual Sandy Spring Bank Kids Fun Run at 8 a.m. Sept. 7 can register at www.damascusfair.org. The activity center is at 26334 Ridge Road; other fair activities will take place along Lewis Drive. Admission is free. Visit the website or contact fair Secretary Randy Conlan at r.conlan@damascusfair.org for more information.

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to open Sept. 23, with open houses planned from 10 a.m. to noon every Saturday. Interested parents can visit the school to meet staff members, tour the facilities, learn how the school works and register. The Clarksburg location is the ﬁrst in the organization to have one building for infants through kindergarteners and a separate facility for pre- and after-school programming for older children. The school is at 22010 Frederick Road. Call 301-540-1231 for more information.

The Damascus Community Recreation Center is closed through Monday for cleaning and other facility projects. The center will reopen Tuesday following work on the portable walls, lighting in the outdoor parking lot and interior, and the ﬂoors. In the meantime, recreation center membership can be used at other centers, such as the Upper County Recreation Center at 8201 Emory Grove Road,

Community Recreation Center is closed until Sept. 8. After reopening, the Damascus center will take on any interested after-school program participants. Buses from Rockwell, Clearspring and Damascus elementary schools will bring children to the center for homework study, art, sports, guest speakers and ﬁeld trips. The program has a teacher-student ration of 1 to 15 and accepts anyone ages 5 to 14; students at Baker Middle School can walk to the center. The cost is $60 per month for care from 2:45 to 6 p.m. Contact the center at 240777-6930 for additional information.

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Local nonproﬁt seeking donations

Center seeks old electronics for fair

Damascus Help is looking for several large furniture items as well as smaller appliances and fixtures. Sought-after items include a crib, a refrigerator, dressers, dining room and kitchen tables and chairs, clean beds, bed frames, curtains and other linens, vacuum cleaners, microwaves and clean sofas. The volunteer nonprofit’s mission is to provide assistance to needy individuals and families in the upper Montgomery County in the form of emergency food, holiday food baskets and gifts, transportation, furniture and emergency financial assistance, according to its website. Contact the nonprofit at 301-253-4100 or dh20872@aol. com for more information or to set up a donation.

Get rid of your old computers and gadgets while helping children learn about electronics by donating your old electronic devices to the Rockville Science Center. The center is hosting an exhibit Sept. 29 at the Silver Spring Mini Maker Faire where kids can take apart electronic devices such as old computers, video recorders, cellphones and CD players so they can see what goes on inside them. Once the children reduce the gadgets to wires and boards, they can hot glue parts together to make a junk sculpture to take home with them. Old computers and other devices can be dropped off at the center’s ofﬁce in the VisArts building at 155 Gibbs St., Rockville. Donors also may contact the center to arrange pickup by calling 240-386-8111 or emailing info@rockvillesciencecenter.org.

Bingo returns to American Legion Weekly cash bingo returns Sept. 5 to Damascus American Legion Post 171. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the games begin at 7 p.m. The post is at 10201 Lewis Drive. Call 301-253-0769 for more information.

Adult literacy program seeks volunteers The Literacy Council of Montgomery County will hold information sessions for volunteers interested in helping adults learn to read, write or speak English from 10:30 a.m. to noon Friday and from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Monday at the Rockville Library, 21 Maryland Ave. After completing orientation, volunteers can select a two-part training session that ﬁts their schedules. No foreign language skills are necessary. Tutors work one-on-one or with small groups, and typically meet with students in libraries or community centers at mutually convenient times. For details call 301-6100030, email info@literacycouncilmcmd.org, or visit literacycouncilmcmd.org.

Labor Day closures across Montgomery County Many offices and facilities across the county will close or reduce open hours Monday for Labor Day. All Montgomery County government offices and libraries are closed all day as well as Montgomery County Public Schools administrative offices, state offices and courts. Parking is free at public garages, lots and curbside meters, and Ride On, Metrobus and Metrorail will follow Sunday schedules. The TRiPS Commuter Stores in Silver Spring and Friendship heights will not open. Metro Red Line stops Silver Spring, Takoma and Brookland will be closed for repairs from 10 p.m. Friday until 1 a.m. Tuesday. WMATA plans to offer

free shuttle buses between Forest Glen and Rhode Island Avenue. Local buses will stop at Silver Spring, Takoma, Fort Totten and Brookland while limited-stop buses will only stop at Silver Spring. Visit www.wmata.com for more information. All Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration and Vehcile Emissions Inspection Program locations will be closed Friday through Monday in accordance with the state budget reduction plan. Residents can visit outdoor pools and other aquatic facilities from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; while the Olney and Martin Luther King Jr. indoor swim centers will stay open normal hours, all other county in-

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door pools will close all day. Recreation department administration ofﬁces, senior centers and community centers will also be closed. Labor Day is a recycling and trash collection holiday; there will be no county pickup, and collection will take place one day later for the remainder of the week. The Shady Grove Processing Facility and Transfer Station will also close for the holiday. All county retail liquor stores will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. For a complete list of closures, visit www. gazette.net. — KIRSTY GROFF

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Motorcycle show includes rescue demonstrations America’s Capital Chapter of Nam Knights Motorcycle Club will host Emergency Services Appreciation Day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 7. The motorcycle show, with Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service demonstrations and junior firefighter training, will be held at Battley Cycles at 7830 Airpark Road, Gaithersburg. The show is open to owners with bikes of all makes and models. Trophies will be awarded in the following categories: Best Custom, Best in Show, Best Sport, Best Touring, Best Oldie but Goodie and Best Paint. Entrants should arrive by 11 a.m. Judging will begin at 1 p.m. Admission is free and there is no entry fee for the motorcycle show. Free food and balloon sculptures will be available. Country music will be provided by Sweetwater Band. Donations will be accepted to support Nam Knight charities, which support emergency services personnel and their families when in need. Nam Knights’ mission is, in part, to honor the memory of U.S. veterans and police officers who have died while on duty, according to the nonprofit’s website. For more information, contact the Capital Chapter at 301919-1460.

DEATHS Robert A. Schaaf Robert “Rob” A. Schaaf of Rockville died July 9, 2013. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery in Akron, Ohio.

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Students head back to school

Damascus Elementary chosen for new network

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Stephanie Kramer, a sixth-grade reading and English teacher at Rocky Hill Middle School in Clarksburg, leads her class through the halls on the ﬁrst day of school Monday.

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Leslie Dantzler brings her daughter Tia Dantzler, a fifth-grader, for the first day of school Monday at Damascus Elementary School. At right, students arrive for the first day of school at John T. Baker Middle School in Damascus.

At Neelsville Middle School in Germantown, Principal Vicky Lake-Parcan said she sees students facing obstacles to their emotional well-being. Some students have been in seven or eight schools before reachingNeelsvilleMiddle.Others have parents working two or three jobs. Still others come from families experiencing housing issues. In an effort to help these students and others, Lake-Parcan said, the school has joined nine others in Montgomery County Public Schools’ new Interventions Network, in which the schools will work together and with the school system’s central ofﬁce staff to address each school’s speciﬁc needs and close achievement gaps. Superintendent Joshua P. Starr announced the first 10 schools to enter the network during the county Board of Education’s Aug. 21 meeting, with participating elementary schools including Damascus, College Gardens in Rockville, Dr. Charles R. Drew in Silver Spring, Meadow Hall in Rockville, Twinbrook in Rockville, Waters Landing in Germantown and Whetstone in Gaithersburg. The network also includes Benjamin Banneker Middle School in Burtonsville and the John L. Gildner Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents in Rockville. The school system plans to expand the network to 60 schools by the 2014-2015 school year, and to all schools by the 2015-2016 school year, said Dr. Monique T. Felder, the school system’s interventions director who will oversee the network. Felder said the school system will work with network participants to answer two main questions: how the school is responding when students are “not learning” — those who might need more time and support — and how they respond when students are “demonstrat-

ing mastery” — those who could delve deeper into the lessons. “We know we have students in both camps,” she said. Representatives from the 10 schools and central ofﬁce staff will meet every six to eight weeks to help develop their intervention efforts and toss ideas around. Among other approaches including personalized learning plans and professional training, Felder said schools will also incorporate a system in which they can identify struggling students at an early stage. “It’s not about waiting for students to fail,” she said. For Neelsville students, Lake-Parcan said, the emphasis lies in “a need to build this kind of foundation in terms of their emotional well-being and feeling comfortable to be here in school.” Helping the students mentally and socially will also have a positive impact on their academic achievement, she said. At Damascus Elementary, Principal Sean McGee said there is room for growth when it comes to the school’s math instruction. The school’s leadership team was “intrigued” when it heard about the network, he said, and jumped at the chance to gain exposure to new ideas. McGee said that while schools meet in clusters at times, the network provides a unique opportunity for schools from across the county to meet and pick each other’s brains. While he thinks the school does a good job with its reading instruction, McGee said the network will provide the school a chance to “steal ideas” that can help them with their math instruction. The elementary school is currently shifting from wholegroup math instruction to a model involving smaller groups of varying levels — and it wants to do more. “You’ve got a wide variety of elementary schools and middle schools that are looking at different strategies,” McGee said. “We’re trying to kind of piggyback on what they’re doing,” he added.

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The family of a Germantown man who died in August 2011 after suffering repeated head injuries in college football practices at Frostburg State University blame his coaches’ “utter incompetence” for the student’s death, according to a lawsuit they ﬁled last week. Ken and Kristen Sheely, the parents of football player Derek Sheely, along with Derek’s sister Keyton, are suing Derek Sheely’s coaches, the NCAA and the parent company of Schutt Sports, the manufacturer of the helmet he wore. They are seeking more than $1.5 million in damages, according to the lawsuit, which was

ﬁled Thursday in Montgomery County Circuit Court. Sheely, 22, died six days after collapsing at practice and falling into a coma, according to the lawsuit, which said that he fell victim to “second impact syndrome,” where he suffered a second head injury Sheely after an initial concussion. The lawsuit claims that coaches Thomas Rogish and Jamie Schumacher created an atmosphere in which players were punished if they disclosed injuries and that injured players were ridiculed for being “gripers.” “The Defendants, unfortunately, played by their own rules and disregarded laws and

the fundamental tenants [sic] of coaching,” according to the lawsuit, ﬁled by Towson lawyer Stephen J. Nolan on behalf of the family. In the days leading up to Sheely’s collapse, Frostburg coaches ordered players to engage in more than 13 hours of practice, which involved “virtually unlimited, full contact, helmet-to helmet collisions” and one exercise — called “The Drill” — that was known for being “ridiculously dangerous,” in which players were required to smash into each other at full speed, according to the suit. Two of Sheely’s teammates had suffered concussions just days before his collapse, the Sheelys claim. Calls and emails to Sheely’s coaches were not answered, and messages left with the coaches and Michael Sweitzer, a trainer named in the suit, were not returned either. The lawsuit claims Sheely told Sweitzer two days before he

collapsed that his head hurt. “Instead of investigating whether Derek was suffering from a concussion, [Sweitzer] and his staff merely bandaged Derek’s forehead and allowed him to return to play,” according to the suit. The Sheelys also allege that the trainers allowed Sheely to play despite having a bruise on his forehead and that he had a cut on his forehead that bled profusely. On the day he collapsed, the lawsuit claims, Sheely told Schumacher he had a headache, and was told “stop your b*tching and moaning ... and get back out there.” A hit after that incident triggered a “second-impact” concussion, and Sheely slipped into a six-day coma from which he never emerged, the suit claims. Frostburg State University spokeswoman Liz Medcalf declined to comment on the lawsuit. The lawsuit also claims that Sheely chose the helmet

he wore, a Schutt Sports DNA Pro Plus helmet, after one of the company’s representatives told the team that “Schutt’s new technology can prevent head injuries.” “Like many of his other teammates that day, Derek relied upon, and was deceived by Schutt Sports. Strapped with a new sense of false security, Derek reasonably believed that his new armor could prevent head injuries,” the lawsuit states. Schutt Sports spokesman Glenn Beckmann declined to comment on the speciﬁcs of the lawsuit. After Sheely’s death, Frostburg coaches gave linebackers blocking shields to protect themselves during “The Drill,” the lawsuit states. The Sheelys also claim that the NCAA shirked its legal responsibility to protect studentathletes and was a cause in Sheely’s death. After being contacted by The Gazette, the NCAA issued this

statement: “We were saddened by this student-athlete’s death in 2011 and continue to extend our sympathies to the family. Nonetheless, we disagree with the assertions and allegations made against the NCAA.” In October 2012, before a ceremony to honor Sheely, his father told The Gazette that Sheely had a sly sense of humor and liked to pull pranks. “Derek could really think on his feet — even with us, he was always having us in stitches,” Ken Sheely said at the time. The Sheelys did not return a call seeking comment about the lawsuit. In a statement issued on behalf of the family by their lawyers, Sheely’s parents said, “We are haunted by the knowledge that Derek’s death was preventable, and we feel an obligation to share lessons that could prevent other children from suffering Derek’s fate.” sjbsmith@gazette.net

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Group says Molotov song contains anti-gay lyrics BY

KATE S. ALEXANDER STAFF WRITER

Protesters gathered outside The Fillmore Silver Spring on Monday with a message for Mexican rock group Molotov and its fans: Words matter. Passing out cards, holding signs and circulating a petition, a group of about eight people from Equality Maryland, Casa Ruby and the Latino GLBT History Project formed an informational picket to educate concertgoers on the harm they say is caused by the lyrics of Molotov. The band’s booking at the county-owned venue met with strong opposition over its 1997 song “Puto” that many claim has anti-gay lyrics. In July, County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) asked tenant Live Nation to cancel Monday’s performance, saying the song verged on “hate speech.” Molotov performed as planned. As concertgoers filed into the venue, Stephanie Steele, general manager of The Fillmore Silver Spring, said the concert was going to be very well attended. Monday was Molotov’s first performance at The Fillmore Silver Spring and also the first protest staged outside the venue, Steele said. While the controversy stems from band’s lyrics, not everyone agrees that the words are a slur against the lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual community. Hugo Sanchez, a native of Mexico who came to the concert from Philadelphia, said the song’s title means “rat” — as in someone who rats out another — and that as he interprets it, does not attack gays.

The song uses slang that has many different meanings, he said, also noting that it was written 16 years ago when it likely held different meaning. In a July statement emailed by band contact Julio Arellano, Molotov expressed respect and gratitude for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. In the statement, the band said the song was never meant to disrespect the gay community. “We as a band and as individuals express our respect and support to the gay community. We celebrate the freedom of expression, the freedom of choice and the freedom to love whoever you want. As long as we stay playing together, the message from our music will always be positive and committed to our fans,” the statement read. Ruby Corado, founder and executive director of Casa Ruby, was among those protesting Monday. Corado said the word is derogatory no matter how it is used. “It’s a hateful word,” she said. “It is never used positively.” Despite those who say that the song is being misinterpreted, even outside the venue, the word was being used. One man called out the word as he passed Travis Ballie, a protester from Silver Spring. “I’m used to it,” said Ballie, a member of the Montgomery County Young Democrats. Ballie might have a thick skin, but he said he worries about the person who is afraid to come out or faces violence because of words like those in Molotov’s song. “That type of language has an impact on people,” Ballie said. “I feel less safe in Silver Spring with this band playing.” Corado said she also heard the word directed at her as she greeted concertgoers and of-

fered them a handout Monday. And it is the same word the hate crime victims she works with hear, she said. Casa Ruby is a multicultural center and safe space serving the Latino LGBT communities of any race, color or economic background in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia, according to its website. kalexander@gazette.net

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As new ﬁscal year nears, Cardin vows to end federal sequestration ‘I’m tired of seeing federal workers be made the scapegoat for every budget battle’ n

KEVIN JAMES SHAY STAFF WRITER

Before several hundred employees of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, U.S. Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin pledged Monday to do “everything in my power” to put an end to federal sequestration budget cuts that have hit federal agencies and contractors throughout Montgomery and Frederick counties. “Government has already been cut substantially in recent years,” Cardin said. “I’m tired of seeing federal workers be made the scapegoat for every budget battle.” While many agencies have avoided layoffs and furloughs of employees by delaying services or cutting grants, the effect of the across-the-board budget cuts has been devastating for those workers who have lost jobs, Cardin said at the NRC’s Rockville headquarters after a short meeting with employees. “It has been as bad as we thought it would be,” he said. The NRC saw a 5 percent budget cut for ﬁscal 2013, or $52 million, and avoided furloughs through delaying research and licenses, and cutting upgrades to its IT system.

“About half our cuts are about evenly divided between delays in, and reduced support for, new reactor licensing and delays in long-term or discretionary research,” NRC spokesman Scott Burnell said. The agency is also delaying systemwide computer upgrades and slashing education grants and employee training. About 2,400 civilian employees at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda have taken 11 unpaid furlough days since early July, causing reductions in the number of operating rooms and other services at the military hospital, which treats wounded soldiers. But the furloughs are ending, and services are “back to normal operations,” according to Walter Reed’s website. The National Institutes of Health in Bethesda saw its 2013 budget cut about 5 percent, or $1.6 billion, from last year and is avoiding furloughs by awarding fewer research grants to companies and nonproﬁts. The National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg is also cutting grants, contracts, and maintenance and equipment procurements, as well as deferring hiring to avoid furloughs. Montgomery and Frederick counties have about 51,300 federal workers between them, 35 percent of the total federal employees in Maryland, according to state labor ﬁgures. While the

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number of workers declined by 300 in the two counties in the past year, it actually rose by almost 1,000 from two years ago. The start of ﬁscal 2014 is Oct. 1, and Cardin said he knows he has his work cut out for him on this matter. “We must replace sequestration with a realistic budget before facing even more dire cuts in the year ahead,” he said. After his meeting at the NRC, Cardin went to Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring to meet with medical leaders and partners from across Montgomery County and the region to discuss implementation of the Affordable Care Act. He said Maryland might be well ahead of the curve when it comes to implementing the act, but he has concerns that misinformation, unclear costs and a complex registration process could impact the state’s ability to sign up its uninsured. Medical leaders said residents are hearing misinformation about the ACA. Some even believe it has been repealed. Coupled with the state not yet releasing its application or publishing a breakdown of the plans and the rates that will be available, when enrollment opens Oct. 1, Maryland could face challenges signing up residents. Politics continues to embroil the law and has made it hard to get a clear, accurate message out to the public, Cardin said. He encouraged those

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VA, formerly of Gaithersburg, MD went to Our Dear Lord on Friday, August 23, 2013, at Our Lady of the Valley nursing home in Roanoke.

Born on March 30, 1926 and raised in Gaithersburg, MD, she was the youngest child of the late Dr. Frank J. Broschart and Sarah M. Broschart. She was a graduate of the Visitation Academy in Frederick, MD in 1945 and was married on May 4, 1946 to the late Eugene W. Cissel, Jr. “Jimmy” until his death on March 10, 1983 Also preceding her in death were her daughter Teresa K. Cissel, brothers William E. Broschart, Francis J. Broschart and Lawrence M. Broschart. Surviving members of her family, who loved her and will deeply miss her, are sister Catherine B. Sommerville of Montgomery Village, MD and three daughters; Suzanne C. Brodt of New Market, MD., Dorothy C. Marshall of Hardy, VA., and Laura C. Barnas of Natrona Heights, PA., and one son; L. Matthew Cissel of Waynesboro, PA. She is also survived by and will be missed by 8 grandchildren and 9 greatgrandchildren as will as numerous nieces and nephews. A Mass of will be said at St. Mary’s Church in Rockville, MD followed by burial at St. Mary’s Cemetery, Old Baltimore Rd., in Rockville, MD. No date has been set at this time. 1894318

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Continued from Page A-1 the schools to meet the needs of their students was a positive,” school system spokeswoman Gboyinde Onijala said. More than 41 schools were selected to receive backpacks, mostly Title I schools as identiﬁed by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. “The legislation provides federal funds to help students in schools with high economic needs achieve high standards. The specific objective of the Title I program is to enable all students to meet state and local student performance standards and for schools to achieve the Annual Measurable Objectives targets set by the Maryland State Department of Education,” Onijala wrote in an email. That meant no long lines of hopeful parents and students snaked around the fair held in the large parking lot at Carver Educational Services Center, as in prior years. Rather than ask for dona-

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Continued from Page A-1 gangs, ranging from major organizations such as the Crips, Bloods and MS-13 to smaller neighborhood crews that operate within small local territories. Friday’s information session was one of two that the county’s school security staff will have, said Alyson Baber, one of six security coordinators for Montgomery County Public Schools. There will be another in January after winter break. Along with Wilcher’s presentation on gangs, security staff received briefings on drugs, bombs and an introduction on how to conduct investigations, among other things, Baber said. Each of Montgomery’s 25 high schools has one security team leader and ﬁve assistants, except for Montgomery Blair

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Continued from Page A-1 “There are a lot of benefits to it,” she said. “I wish them well.” Balcombe has written letters on behalf of the Gaithersburg-Germantown chamber to county officials supporting the Pulte project and will speak in favor of it at the Sept. 10 Planning Board hearing. Balcombe also has testified on behalf of the GaithersburgGermantown chamber in favor of the Premium outlet plan before the hearing examiner. Balcombe said the chamber invited the Peterson Cos., developers of the proposed Tanger outlet site, to a meeting of the chamber’s economic development committee on Sept.

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Continued from Page A-1 sure it’s fair to blame July’s loss of about 9,300 jobs on sequestration, pointing out that nearby Virginia gained jobs during the same period. Maryland Labor Secretary

“It was pretty busy, always a bit of a line, but most kids did well on vision screening,” Cuong Vu of Bethesda, retina surgeon tions of supplies and backpacks, this year the school district asked for donations of money to purchase them. District officials said they hoped to raise enough money from corporate and private donations to distribute 50,000 backpacks, enough for almost one-third of the 151,000 students expected to attend county schools this year. Each of those backpacks, filled with supplies, costs $10. Some people still donated supplies and backpacks, Onijala wrote. Although the effort fell well short of that goal, 13,390 backpacks filled with school supplies were provided, up from 8,000 last year, Onijala said in her email.

Onijala said some people came to the Back-to-School Fair looking for backpacks but most knew ahead of time that the supplies would not be part of the festivities. Some were disappointed. Erika Ferreras of Takoma Park, who has three children at Rolling Terrace Elementary School, said she came to the fair looking for backpacks but really didn’t care that they were not available. “That’s ﬁne,” she said. “It’s good for the family to get together. The kids can have fun and I get a lot of information, like the name of an eye doctor close to where we live.” The fair did include health screenings, including eye

High School in Silver Spring — the largest school in the county with more than 2,800 students — which has more, she said. Middle schools generally have two security officers, Baber said. There are also 15 school resource officers, police officers stationed in schools to help deal with security issues. While security officers are based out of the high schools, they often visit other schools as part of their rounds, Baber said. Each member of the staff wore a dark blue shirt Friday with “Security” written across the back in block letters. The security teams are required to wear their uniforms whenever they’re working, and they’re introduced at school orientations along with members of the administration, Baber said. “We want that visibility,” she said. The security teams handle a wide variety of responsibilities,

from student fights and investigating reports of misbehavior to escorting disruptive students to administrators’ offices and directing traffic in the morning, Baber said. In one classroom, Lt. Matt Trivett of the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue bomb squad showed examples and videos of various types of pipe bombs to demonstrate their power and effectiveness. He also had a replica of a device taken from Columbine High School in Colorado, site of an infamous 1999 massacre of students and faculty, that had two pipe bombs strapped to the top of a cylindrical propane tank. He also talked to the security staff about how to handle more mundane but still serious issues. By Wednesday or Thursday they’d probably have their first fire in a school restroom, probably a middle or high school boys’ restroom, Trivett said.

17 to discuss its plans. The board will then decide whether to support it, she said. “The chamber can indeed support both projects,” she said. “It’s not the chamber’s decision to decide which project should be built.” The County Council will make the ﬁnal decision about what projects to support, as it continues to hear arguments from those who support growth to fulﬁll the promised build-out of Clarksburg and those who oppose growth because of fears it will degrade the relatively clean Ten Mile Creek watershed, which flows into Little Seneca Lake, a backup drinking water supply. vterhune@gazette.net Leonard Howie said Monday the sequestration cuts likely had “some impact” on the job numbers. “All I know is, there’s a lot of jobs we need to create in Maryland, and they’re not appearing right now,” Franchot said. rmarshall@gazette.net

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RYAN MARSHALL STAFF WRITER

A strain of “highly contagious” canine influenza has emerged in Montgomery County, although the virus isn’t believed to be capable of spreading to humans. The virus has been identified in six dogs in the county since mid-August, two of which have died, according to an Aug. 22 bulletin released from the state Department of Agriculture to veterinarians and health and government officials. The disease comes in two varieties — a mild form with a cough and a more severe form that can cause potentially deadly respiratory disease, according to the bulletin, which calls it “highly contagious.” The cough in the more mild variety can last from 10 to 21 days despite treatment by antibiotics, while the more severe form has responded best to treatment by a combination of antibiotics and intravenous fluid therapy to keep the dog hydrated. One of the problems of recognizing canine influenza is that the early symptoms of coughing and sneezing can be caused by any of about a dozen illnesses, said Mike Berbert, a veterinarian at Gaithersburg Animal Hospital. But it also can develop into pneumonia, characterized by symptoms such as fever, weakness, lethargy and loss of appetite, he said. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, some dogs can have virtually no symptoms from canine influenza while others’ reactions can be severe, but the number of dogs that die generally is very small. The state bulletin said previ-

ous outbreaks have seen a fatality rate of 1 to 5 percent of dogs who get the disease. “It is too early in the reporting of this disease event to provide good epidemiological data,” according to the bulletin. The virus can be spread by sneezing or coughing of other dogs, contact with objects that have been contaminated or by people who deal with both sick and healthy dogs. There have been no reported cases of the disease spreading from dogs to humans, according to the CDC. While they wouldn’t want anyone whose dog sneezes to bring their dog to the vet, owners should be alert, especially if their dog has been around areas with other dogs such as dog parks, grooming parlors or kennels, Berbert said. Montgomery County will keep the ﬁve dog parks it maintains open, but has posted signs in the park letting dog owners know the symptoms of the dog flu, said Melissa Chotiner, a spokeswoman for the MarylandNational Capital Park and Planning Commission. Dog owners also may want to temporarily avoid places where large numbers of dogs gather, b.j. Altschul, a spokeswoman for the Montgomery County Humane Society, said in an email Tuesday. They should make sure that any boarding facility is extremely clean and has a way to isolate any dog that begins showing symptoms, she said. Berbert said he wasn’t aware of any previous cases in Montgomery County, although because the symptoms look so much like those of other illnesses, the virus may have been seen without anyone knowing it. The ﬂu’s uniqueness means many dogs haven’t built up an immunity to it, he said. “This is a pretty new organism,” he said.

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Rep. Christopher Van Hollen Jr. has joined with political watchdog groups to challenge in federal court a tax loophole that allows nonproﬁts to make undisclosed

political contributions in federal elections. Van Hollen (D-Dist. 8) of Kensington, together with Democracy 21, the Campaign Legal Center and Public Citizen, ﬁled suit Aug. 21 in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the IRS regulations that govern eligibility for tax-exempt status as a section 501(c)(4) “social welfare” organization. TheIRSdeclinedtocomment. VanHollensaidinatelephone press conference that the long-

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www.atyourdooronline.com Ride On Montgomery County Transit Notice of Public Forum On Proposed Service Changes/Additions Montgomery County hereby notifies the general public and other interested parties that a public forum will be held on Thursday, September 26, 2013, starting at 6:30 p.m. and ending after the last speaker at the Upcounty Regional Center, located at 12900 Middlebrook Rd, Germantown, MD. In case of inclement weather, the public forum will be held on October 3, 2013. Ride On is a community-oriented transportation service, providing convenient and accessible public transportation service to the residents of Montgomery County. As part of our continued goal to provide the best transit service possible, we are proposing the following changes/additions to service: Route 83 - Extend existing service to future Holy Cross Hospital - Germantown. The existing Route 83 goes between Germantown Transit Center and Milestone Park & Ride Lot via Dorsey Mill with some service to Germantown MARC Station. To serve the future Holy Cross Hospital-Germantown, the route will be extended from its current routing along Observation Drive through Montgomery College/ Germantown to the Hospital. Route 94 – Meet the MARC. In order to address a greater demand in the Upcounty region and to connect with MARC commuter train service to Rockville, Silver Spring and Washington, DC, a new routing of the Route 94 Meet the MARC is being proposed to serve residents of the Clarksburg community. The new Route 94 will originate in the morning in Clarksburg and operate via Clarksburg Rd., Snowden Farm Pkwy., Little Seneca Pkwy., Meadow Mist Rd., Skylark Rd, Ridge Rd., Father Hurley Blvd., Dawson Farm Rd., Liberty Mill Rd. and end at the lower level of Germantown MARC Station. The last day of service for the existing Route 94 will be Friday, October 18, 2013. For additional information prior to the public forum regarding these proposed changes, please access the Ride On web site at www.rideonbus.com and click “Transit Updates”. Individuals and representatives of organizations who would like to speak at the public forum are requested to furnish in writing, on or before September 23, 2013, their name, home address, telephone number, e-mail address and organization to Division of Transit Services, Ride On Public Forum, 101 Monroe Street, 5th Floor, Rockville, Maryland 20850. Individuals who have signed up to speak must bring two (2) printed copies of their testimony for the record. Sign language interpreter services will be provided only upon request with notice as far in advance as possible but not less than three (3) business days prior to the date of the forum. Large print format is available upon request. All comments, including alternatives, will be considered before any changes are finalized. Comments may be written, faxed or e-mailed on the proposed service additions to the Division of Transit Services by October 3, 2013. Send your comments to: Division of Transit Services Ride On Public Forum 101 Monroe Street, 5th Floor Rockville, Maryland 20850 (240) 777-5801 (fax) TTY 301-251-4850 mcdot.rideonpublicforums@montgomerycountymd.gov Call 311 or from outside the County 240-777-0311 Title VI: Montgomery County assures that no person shall, on the grounds of race, color, or national origin, as provided by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Civil Rights Act of 1987, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be otherwise subjected to discrimination under any program or activity. 1865115

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Competing interests — environmental protection and development — are fighting it out in what will likely be Montgomery County’s last frontier: Clarksburg. Ground Zero is a 538-acre tract west of Interstate 270. The property includes the Ten Mile Creek watershed, which feeds into Little Seneca Creek, a backup drinking water source for the region. Pulte Homes has proposed building 1,007 housing units on the land — 704 single-family homes and 303 townhouses. The staff of the Montgomery County Planning Board has proposed cutting the project back to about 217 homes. The Save the Ten Mile Creek Coalition believe the staff report still didn’t go far enough to preserve the watershed. Two other factors are mixing with the debate. One is the resentment of NEW HOMES CAN current ClarksCOEXIST WITH burg residents. ENVIRONMENTAL Many believe they haven’t gotten the PROTECTION amenities they were promised years ago. And the other is the possibility that the community will have separate outlet shopping malls. For a growing area that still doesn’t have a grocery store, it seems sad residents might soon instead have their choice of retail establishments for designer goods. Pulte fired its own shot to foment the anxiety of current Clarksburg residents. In July, it released a report estimating the millions that wouldn’t be spent by new consumers if the county proceeds to scale back its plans. “In a community like Clarksburg that is already desperate for successful retail services, it is hard to reconcile how planning staff justifies this outcome. There’s nothing in the staff report that addresses the realities of lost spending and lost jobs, which are absolutely essential to the vitality of Clarksburg,” wrote Lewis Birnbaum, president of Pulte’s mid-Atlantic division. The Clarksburg residents would no doubt respond that they were promised retail services long before Pulte’s plan entered the fray. The matter is now before the five-member Planning Board. The board a hearing scheduled for Sept. 10. Work sessions will follow, and a decision is to be sent to the County Council in October. The council still has to vote on an update to the master plan, which might not happen until next spring. Although the supporters of more restrictive development won’t agree, the Pulte plan has merits. For one, the plan follows land-use guides written in the 1994 master plan. Protecting the environment was as strong a motivator then as it is now, and the authors considered development and preservation to produce a master plan that serves both. Of the 538 acres, about 240 acres of that is forest. Pulte says about 167 acres of forest will be preserved. About 87 acres of open space will be reforested. Which means after development, there could be more trees on the property. Their plans spell out efforts to preserve streams, including environmental site design to address stormwater runoff. A secondary merit to the plan is that it provides much-needed housing. Montgomery lacks sufficient affordable housing — a look at the flow of commuter traffic out of Frederick County demonstrates that. Following county regulations, the Pulte plan adds 126 moderately priced dwelling units to the county’s housing stock. Finally, the plan has merit because Pulte followed the rules. The builder used the 1994 master plan as a guide to proceed. The company purchased TDRs — the transfer of development rights, reducing the development of one tract to increase development elsewhere. What Pulte needs now is the reliability that the county will stick to a master plan, even one that was drafted 19 years ago. The Planning Board should proceed with its hearings and work sessions. It will hear that Pulte can build its homes and preserve the area’s unique environmental concerns. The board should then recommend the council give its blessings to the project. Residents will see that environmental protection and new housing do not have to be mutually exclusive.

The Gazette Karen Acton, President/Publisher

LETTERS TOT HE EDITOR

Predatory traffic enforcement hurts businesses I own a picture framing business in Wheaton that has been operating in the same location since 1958. I have owned it since 1978 having purchased it from the original owners. As most people know it’s getting more difficult for small businesses like mine to survive. A pleasant shopping experience has been something my customers have enjoyed for decades. Now we get to the point. Last Saturday my first customers were a couple that have been working with me for over 30 years. They came into my shop carrying items for framing. The first thing the husband did was hand me a dollar and asked for change for the parking meter. As I handed him four quarters I glanced up to see a

meter enforcement person about to put a ticket on my customer’s windshield. I hurried out, my customer following, to alert the meter person as to what was happening. Explaining the circumstances I expected him to excuse the ticket and wish us a pleasant day. No such luck. He said once the ticket was written that was it. I don’t think that’s true. The meter guy must have seen my customer park and go toward my shop. The predatory practice of not allowing someone a minute or two to get change for the meter is an example of the problems consumers face while trying to bring us their business. This attitude fosters ill will and resentment and contributes to the nega-

tive image so many people have about Wheaton. Businesses failing because of unreasonable rent demands, construction noise and road closures, terrible commuter traffic and a tremendous influx of non-English speaking residents needs a less predatory and punitive attitude toward the people who have loyally patronized our local small business community for years. It takes a special form of misanthropy to enjoy financially punishing people for their lack of having spare change immediately ready to feed the meter.

Bert Walker, Columbia The writer owns Ray Picture Framing, Wheaton.

Bottle the bottle bill

Taking a stand against athletic transfers It’s time for MCPS to take a stand regarding transfers of athletes from their home school district to another. Coach Fred Kim was on target stating how ﬁdelity to one’s village and school has given way to becoming the next LeBron James [“Coaches see an increase in athletes switching high schools,” Aug. 14]. Permitting these transfers out of local district is a disservice to the students, and I stress the word student. In 2011 there were about 854,000 senior athletes. Approximately 5 percent of these made their college teams and less than 1 percent received athletic scholarships. Many of these never learned academic basics, were “used” by their college’s athletic department, and subsequently ﬂunked out without a degree. Thus, our

primary concern should be the purpose for which schools exist — education. Placing emphasis on education should be simple. To transfer a student should meet two requirements. First, the school to which they intend to transfer must have an academic program not offered at the local school. Second, the transferring student must have at least a B average in the academic discipline (i.e. science, English, mathematics, etc.) for which they desire transfer. Note that yards per carry, points per game, batting average, etc., play no part in the decision to grant a transfer. As a further deterrent to transfer, the transferring student may not participate in any sport during the academic year in which the transfer becomes effective to ensure the aca-

demic program which was the basis of transfer receives total immersion by the student. Of course, as it was when I was in school, move of the family residence from one local district to another remains a valid reason for a transfer. If a transfer is essential to a student’s future it seems logical parents would be willing to uproot their families, moving them into the desired district. Let’s put the emphasis back onto education and make athletics what is intended: an extracurricular activity. Give local districts and the villages in which they are located an identity. Stop the lunacy of transfer that prevents schools from achieving their primary purpose.

Bob Schaefer, Montgomery Village

Saving Ten Mile Creek There is a saying: “The deﬁnition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results.” The developers who want to build on the clean headwaters of Ten Mile Creek depend on this form of “insanity.” Brochures with pictures of pretty green trees do not change the facts. Damage is damage. And once water is polluted it will never be clean again — no matter how many chemicals they put in it. Massive amounts of paved surfaces will cause runoff pollution that will end

up in Little Seneca Lake, an emergency drinking water reservoir for the Washington, D.C., area. This lake straddles Black Hill Park and is widely enjoyed by ﬁsherman, boaters and thriving wildlife — including bald eagles. Why is it necessary to build an outlet mall on the only clean creek in Montgomery County when the promise to build a Clarksburg Town Center has not been fulﬁlled? Residents are now being told that the town center somehow depends on the commercial devel-

opment on the headwaters. Developers take a huge risk when they buy protected wetlands. The residents of Clarksburg and Germantown residents shouldn’t have to pay for that gamble. We need to put the right kind of development, at the right scale, in the right place. Services have been long promised to Clarksburg residents. Clarksburg Town Center is the right place to locate needed projects — not Ten Mile Creek.

Julia Vickers, Germantown

Jordan Newmark’s letter to the editor [“Support for a bottle bill to clean up our playgrounds,” Aug. 21], embraces a poorly thought out plan that will lead to a more expensive and more complicated recycling system for Maryland. The writer doesn’t grasp that the bottle deposit scheme, which would assess Marylanders a fee, say 5 or 10 cents on every bottle or can of water, soda, beer or juice they buy, will cause more problems than it is worth. Today, we have better ways to recycle. Here’s why bottle deposits add hassle and expense to recycling: • It boosts fuel emissions by requiring individuals to transport empty containers to redemption locations. • It requires a heavy investment in infrastructure and commercial vehicles to collect empty containers from redemption locations and transport them to processing facilities. • It competes with existing curbside recycling programs in Maryland counties that rely on the revenue from beverage container material. • It levies yet another tax on residents and threatens local jobs. Maryland’s porous borders with four neighboring states and Washington, D.C., none of which have deposit laws, would present a huge problem. A deposit system would not complement our existing curbside recycling system. It would instead undercut curbside recycling’s effectiveness and efﬁciency. Earlier this year, a group pushed a bottle deposit proposal before Maryland’s legislature, but they failed to move it forward with a consensus view that curbside recycling is not only effective, but popular and widely available — 90 percent of Marylanders have access to curbside recycling. There are smarter ways to recycle, unfortunately, some continue to trot out ideas that just don’t work.

Ellen Valentino, Annapolis The writer is executive vice president of the Maryland-Delaware-DC Beverage Association.

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Marchers say similar problems and solutions persist today BY

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Ruby Reese Moone left her Charles County home early on Aug. 28, 1963, about the same time James Macdonell headed out from Bethesda. Both were on their way to the National Mall in Washington, where they would join an estimated 250,000 others from across the country for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was a seminal event in the civil rights movement, one intended to bring the needs of the black community before the country and where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. “We were so excited,” Moone said of herself and her late husband, James Clark Moone. “We were looking forward to a better life.” Moone, who now lives in Rockville, is considered a “foot soldier” in the movement, for her work in Atlanta helping organize buses for the march. She and her husband moved to Maryland from Georgia that August. “We were teachers and back in those days [in Georgia] they didn’t give black employees a contract, so we had to be careful about civil rights work,” Moone said. “My husband and I thought, Why shouldn’t we live in freedom?, so we decided to move.” Macdonell went to college in Chicago and heard King speak there on the theological doctrine of man. “He nearly knocked our socks off. No one know who he was, but as soon as he started to speak he was mesmerizing,” Macdonell said. “I knew we would hear from him again.” Macdonell was pastor of St. Mark Presbyterian Church in Bethesda for 38 years, retiring in 1997. After the March on Washington, where he stood just ﬁve rows from King at the Lincoln Memorial, he, too, became a “foot soldier” for civil rights, he said. He marched with King from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., in 1965, responding to King’s call for pastors from all over the country to come and support the effort for equal voting rights there. “He was my mentor,” Macdonell said. “He motivated us to [act].”

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Crowds gather at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on Aug. 28, 1963. Civil rights leaders decided 1963 was the time for a major national event, said Alonzo Smith, a history professor at Montgomery College in Rockville. They chose Washington to be symbolic of the nationwide need. “The Emancipation Proclamation had been signed 100 years earlier, [President John F.] Kennedy had given a State of the Union speech in January 1963 where he basically said black and white relations were America’s No. 1 domestic problem,” Smith said. “He announced that he would introduce Civil Rights Act legislation.” Current civil rights leaders organized two marches on the National Mall to mark the 50-year anniversary of the 1963 march. One was held Saturday; the other is scheduled for Wednesday: Aug. 28, the same date as the original march. Moone was at Saturday’s march and intends to go again Wednesday. She said she feels there is still much

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work to be done in the area of equal rights. “Fifty years ago, the original march was for jobs, justice and peace,” she said. “How many black people are unemployed today compared to white? Look at how many black men and women are in prison. Have conditions changed in 50 years? Look at education. Blacks have lower test scores and more dropouts.” Macdonell, 80, agrees there is more work to do, although he said he is no longer marching because of his age. “I think the divisions in our society are greater than the time of civil rights,” he said. “ I think King would say, ‘Get back to work, we have a lot to do.’ We’ve gone too far to go back but a lot of effects are being reversed: ID cards, some states are requiring people who vote to have ID cards. These are subtle things to keep people from voting. One of the great beneﬁts of democratic society is

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech. the right to vote.” Smith said he was in the Peace Corps in Africa in 1963 but attended Saturday’s gathering. “It was about the same thing [as the 1963 march]: jobs, the economy, peace, freedom, civil equality,” he said. “But this time the concept of civil rights had expanded to include immigrant rights, same-sex marriage, voting rights for

D.C. and criticism of the government for policies that do not forward the concept of freedom.” King, Smith said, believed civil rights issues touched on the whole community, and that people need to respect each other to build a democratic society. “That was the theme then and that is the theme now,” he said.

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Almost 1,000 people came out to watch players participate in a Wounded Warriors Soccer game Saturday at the German-

patients undergoing treatment at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, according to Goubeaux. The game was a way to thank the U.S. military for disaster relief, he said. Goubeaux, who refereed that game, decided to establish a formal way for wounded warriors and their families to play soccer. In creating Wounded Warriors Soccer, Goubeaux, with the help of sponsors, hosts a free soc-

cer clinic each Sunday on a ﬁeld provided to him by the Landon School in Bethesda through the fall. The clinic includes coaching and all the equipment the warriors and their families need to play the game. So far about 24 kids show up weekly to the clinic, he said. “When Wounded Warrior Soccer reached out to us and askedtouseourﬁelds,theLandon community embraced the idea

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Popular swing band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy will be performing at 8:30 p.m. Saturday at the Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club. TMA PUBLICITY

BIG BAD VOODOO DADDY n When: 8:30 p.m. Saturday n Where: Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club, 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda n Tickets: $35 n For information: 240-330-4500; bethesdabluesjazz. com

Donna McKechnie will present her one-woman cabaret “Same Place, Another Time” Sunday night and will hold a masterclass for aspiring dancers on Monday. OLNEY THEATRE CENTER

Popular swing band to perform at Blues and Jazz Supper Club

ack in the mid-1990s, you couldn’t swing your partner without hitting someone listening to swing music. Songs such as “Jump, Jive and Wail,” from the Brian Setzer Orchestra, “Zoot Suit Riot,” from Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, “Hell” from Squirrel Nut Zippers and “You & Me & The Bottle Makes 3 Tonight,” from Big Bad Voodoo Daddy were in constant rotation on radio stations and blaring throughout college parties across the country. Time wasn’t kind to the then-crowned sultans of swing. Most of the bands from that genre have

broken up. A few, such as the Brian Setzer Orchestra and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, are still swingin’. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is set to perform at 8:30 p.m. Saturday at the Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club. The band, which celebrated 20 years together, will play songs from throughout their career, including tunes off their last album “Rattle Them Bones,” which was released in 2012.. For trumpet player Glen “The Kid” Marhevka, two decades together doesn’t seem so surprising. “The funny thing is as soon as I joined the band, I kind of thought this was going to be a great thing,” Marhevka said. “I always thought this was something we could do for a long time. I’m happy to have

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HALF-EMPTY n Comedic trio breaks out on tour of their own BY

CARA HEDGEPETH STAFF WRITER

After years opening for comedian Kevin Hart, comedy trio the Plastic Cup Boyz are now performing on their own. The group stops by the Fillmore in Silver Spring on Saturday night. Na’im Lynn, Will “Spank” Horton and Joey Wells kicked off their 20-city tour in Cleveland in March. The three comedians, especially New Jersey native Lynn, are not strangers to life on the road. In addition to traveling the country with his own stand-up routine, Lynn has toured with Hart for the last 12 years. Lynn, Horton and Lavar Walker are the three comedians who typically perform with Hart. They came up with the name Plastic Cup Boyz about three years ago. “We would have red plastic cups in our green room and we would drink out of them,” Lynn said. “And next thing we knew we’re taking them with us to the club so that we wouldn’t be drinking out of the same thing as everybody else.” A Temple University graduate, Lynn met Philadelphia native Hart on the city’s comedy network. “We both came up on the Philadelphia comedy scene and I basically met him through that,” Lynn said. “And we just got cool and I started working with him ...” Lynn has been on every tour Hart has ever done, including 2012’s “Let Me Explain” tour, the backdrop for the 2013 movie by the same name, which grossed more than $30 million this summer. Growing up, Lynn said he remembers watching

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PLASTIC CUP BOYZ n When: 7 p.m. Saturday n Where: 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring n Tickets: $25-35 n For information: 301-960-9999, ﬁllmoresilverspring.com

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(From top) Joey Wells, Will “Spank” Horton and Na’im Lynn.

BROADWAY STAR DONNA MCKECHNIE TAKES A WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE WITH LATEST SHOW

CARA HEDGEPETH STAFF WRITER

In the midst of its unprecedented production of “A Chorus Line,” Olney Theatre Center welcomes one of the show’s original stars, Tony Award-winner Donna McKechnie, this weekend. McKechnie will perform her latest one-

woman show, “Same Place, Another Time,” on Sunday, followed by a masterclass for aspiring and veteran dancers on Monday morning. “Same Place, Another Time,” which debuted in New York in January, is McKechnie’s third one-woman show. “It is based on a déjà vu experience that I had when I went to see this new club called 54

Below,” McKechnie said. “ ... [The club] is on the same spot as Studio 54 and I remember it took me right back there. I remember what occurred to me; I thought there may be some idea there to go back to it and revisit not so much the time, but the music of the time, the writing of the time

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Play some ‘Zeppelin’! Rock documentary “Led Zeppelin Played Here,” will enjoy an encore presentation at 9:15 p.m. Friday at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring. In 1969, man was on the moon, Sesame Street was on the tube and Richard Nixon was en route to the White House. And Led Zeppelin supposedly performed in the gym of the Wheaton Youth Center on Georgia Avenue in Montgomery County, in front of 50 confused teenagers. Filmmaker Jeff Krulik’s take on the enduring local legend features interviews with rock writers, musicians and fans, and several who claim they witnessed history on Jan. 20, 1969. Krulik will be present and all tickets are $5. For more information, visit www.aﬁ. com/silver.

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The Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington will showcase 44 photographs by world-famous Israeli photographer Rudi Weissenstein from Sept. 1 to Oct. 13 at the center’s Goldman Art Gallery in Rockville. The exhibit, “Your Fortunate Eyes,” is free and open to the public. Primarily taken between the 1930s and the 1970s, Weissenstein’s photographs capture a multifaceted Israel during the early years of its formation, documenting the arrival of Jewish immigrants, the construction of new settlements and industries, the kibbutz collectives and Bedouin Arabs, as well as military parades, cultural events and scenes from everyday life. The exhibit was curated by Ben Peter, Michal Amram & Andreas Grau-Fuchs, Pri-Or PhotoHouse Tel Aviv, and supported by The Kaplan Family Foundation. For more information, visit www.jccgw.org.

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The works of Israeli photographer Rudi Weissenstein will be on view at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington in Rockville from Sept. 1 to Oct. 13. Pictured: Miriam Weissenstein, 1940.

The 43rd Annual Labor Day Art Show will return to Glen Echo Park’s historic Spanish Ballroom this weekend. Sponsored by

the Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture, the exhibition and sale runs from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday to Tuesday. Admission is free. A reception is scheduled for 7-9 p.m. Friday, with many participating artists expected to attend. The exhibit will showcase the work of more than 250 artists from the midAtlantic region, many with a connection to Glen Echo Park, either as instructors or students. The non-juried show includes original works from artists of all ages and skill levels. Guests can also enjoy an Irish Music & Dance Showcase from 1-6 p.m. Saturday and again on Monday in the Bumper Car Pavilion. The historic 1921 Dentzel carousel will operate from noon to 6 p.m. throughout the holiday weekend. For more information, visit www.glenechopark.org.

The 43rd Annual Labor Day Art Show returns to Glen Echo Park’s Spanish Ballroom this weekend. GLEN ECHO PARK

‘Conversation’ starter “Longing to Eavesdrop on the Conversation,”

featuring the works of Randall Lear and Ellyn Weiss, will be on view to Oct. 6 at the Adah Rose Gallery, 3766 Howard Ave., Kensington. An opening reception, featuring music by the Blackberry Blonde, is scheduled for Sept. 21. Lear’s paintings, sculptures, and installations blur the lines between all three disciplines, his playful palettes and compositions providing a glimpse into a whimsical space where graphic forms mix and mingle. With their bright, bold palettes shaped into primordial forms, Weiss’ encaustic sculptures evoke a sense of immediacy, but offer a world of intricate details upon closer inspection. Gallery hours are 1-5 p.m. Tuesday, noon to 6 p.m. Thursday through Sunday and by appointment. For more information, visit www. adahrosegallery.com.

An example of Randall Lear’s whimsical work. ADAH ROSE GALLERY

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Batter up at The Grilled Oyster Company The signature dish on the menu of a restaurant is the one that most prominently features the name of that restaurant, and should be the go-to dish to order. Therefore, grilled oysters are a must at The Grilled Oyster Company. Here, grilled oysters come in at least four different presentations. Grilled oyster Rockefeller is a large oyster on the half shell smothered in cooked spinach, parmesan cheese, applewood smoked bacon, and ﬁnished with Pernod flavored cream sauce. While this may seem like gilding the

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BRIAN PATTERSON lily, the tasty morsel of oyster is not over shadowed by the garnish. Rick’s special grilled oyster comes with barbecue sauce and a chilled cucumber relish; a finer dice with the chef’s knife would make these more appealing to look at and eat. The grilled southwestern oyster is a shot of gumbo on a shell, with diced andouille sausage, spinach, and butter rich hollandaise dosed with green chilies. And a single oyster piled with lump crab and lemon butter sauce comes in at $4.95 a pop, and is worth every penny. Technically, these oysters are broiled rather than grilled, meaning they are scorched by heat from a gas element above the food, rather than cooked over an open flame grill; but let’s not mince words, the results are delicious. All of these amuse bouches are loaded; they are cumbersome and delicious and messy to eat. The French would blush. Moving on to other shared appetizers, the fried calamari is tender and well made, and drizzled with a flavorful emulsified lemon and butter sauce, I just wish that sauce was served on the side for dipping. Fried oysters themselves are freshly shucked, then breaded and fried at the right temperature so they are greaseless when served. They are finished with a civil amount of salt and served with a dill-spiked tartar sauce. Fried okra served on the side is the

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Open since September 2012, The Grilled Oyster Company is the concept of Valerie and Rick Dugan.

n Appetizers (for sharing): $9 to $19

sleeper hit of the shared appetizers. Between the broiling and the deep frying, I’m wondering if this place shouldn’t be called the Battered Oyster Company rather than the Grilled Oyster Company. Barbecued shrimp is straightforward, messy and delicious. Some people may be taken aback when the deep fried legs and claws of a soft-shell crab spill out from the perimeter of a big bun stacked with lettuce, tomato and spicy mayonnaise. But a great soft-shell crab sandwich is a unique Maryland delicacy, and The Grilled Oyster Company nails it. The abundance of accoutrements and dressings do not upstage the freshness and delicacy of the soft shell crab. Give me just a little more spicy remoulade on that crisp and tender crustacean. Whoever is working the fryer is masterfully cooking the fries as well as the seafood. And while the oyster stew is good in ﬂavor, the celery and

n Greens and sandwiches: $8 to $17

carrots are raw and crunchy. Sweat the hard vegetables before adding the broth! Also, a wedge of iceberg lettuce should be doused in creamy dressing. This iceberg is high and dry, and it’s missing adequate dressing. Open since September 2012, The Grilled Oyster Company is the concept of Valerie and Rick Dugan, veterans of,

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among other places, O’Donnells Sea Grill, the original Bethesda anchor of seafood eateries in 1970s and ’80s. The 12-squarefeet of sidewalk directly in front of the restaurant is transformed into a lounge, defying its suburban strip mall surroundings with a eating-on-the-water atmosphere. The bar proudly squeezes juices fresh for drinks

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like margaritas, which rock here no matter which shelf the tequila comes from. And The Grilled Oyster Company supports the Chesapeake Bay Foun-

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Art galore! Three-day sale starts Saturday More than 500 works for sale over Labor Day weekend

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Like ﬂowers in a ﬁeld, painters and their easels will again be scattered around Kensington on Saturday as part of the annual outdoor plein air contest sponsored by the Montgomery Art Association. The event is part of the annual three-day “Paint the Town” art exhibit and sale from Saturday to Monday in the Kensington Armory/Town Hall.

The art sale coincides on Monday with the Town of Kensington’s Labor Day festival and parade. “They bring their own canvas or paper … and they have from sun-up to 3 p.m. [to paint a scene],” said Halprin about the outdoor event on Saturday. After judges choose the winners, there will be an awards ceremony and free reception with drinks and hors d’oeuvres from 6-7:30 p.m. when the public can meet the artists. The exhibit and sale is expected to feature more than 500 paintings by more than 100 artists throughout the region, including Frederick County and

Painter Debra Halprin’s “Kensington Station 2013” is one of more than 500 paintings, sculptures and other artwork for sale in Kensington’s “Paint the Town” art show over Labor Day weekend.

PAINT THE TOWN n When: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday n Where: Kensington Armory/ Town Hall, 3710 Mitchell St., Kensington

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Virginia, said Halprin. “This is our 19th year, and it’s getting bigger and bigger,” she said. “There are artists entering that I’ve never heard of before — the show has become so popular.” To be eligible, submissions had to have been created in the past two years and also never exhibited before. “It’s all brand new,” Halprin said. The submissions are not juried, which means anyone can enter, but they are judged for a variety of cash prizes, the top award being $250. “There are separate prizes for still lifes, landscapes, portraits, abstract works, sculptures,” she said. This year, children younger than 18 will also be able to compete in the plein air contest for the ﬁrst time, she said. Last year two 10-year-olds joined in, accompanied by their art teachers,

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Artist Marian MacKerer’s “Apples” is one of more than 500 paintings, sculptures and other artwork for sale over Labor Day weekend in Kensington’s “Paint the Town” art show.

and one of the paintings sold. Because original paintings can be expensive, there will also be prints of some of the originals for sale at lower prices. Halprin also said that each

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Painter Julie Smith’s “Off Road” is one of more than 500 paintings, sculptures and other artwork for sale over Labor Day weekend in Kensington’s “Paint the Town” art show. artist’s submissions must include at least one work about something in Kensington. “People are excited about

their town, and they love to have images of it,” she said. vterhune@gazette.net

IN THE ARTS DANCES Hollywood Ballroom, Aug. 28, free International Tango Routine lesson at 7:30 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8:15 p.m. ($16); Aug. 29, Tea Dance from 12:30-3:30 p.m. ($6), Aug. 30, Drop in lessons from 7:30-9 p.m., West Coast Swing Dancing with Dance Jam Productions at 9 p.m. ($15); Aug. 31, free Samba lesson at 8 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 9 p.m. (featuring Helmut Licht Trio; $25); Sept. 1, free East Coast Swing lesson at 7 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8 p.m. ($16); Sept. 4, free International Waltz Routine lesson at 7:30 p.m.,

Social Ballroom Dance at 8:15 p.m., 2126 Industrial Highway, Silver Spring, 301-326-1181, www.hollywoodballroomdc.com

Glen Echo Park is at 7300 MacArthur Blvd. Blues, Capital Blues: Thurs-

days, 8:15 beginner lesson, 9-11:30 p.m. dancing to DJs, Glen Echo Park’s Spanish Ballroom Annex, $8, www.capitalblues.org. Contra, Aug. 30, Louie Cromartie with Honeysuckle Rose; Sept. 6, Chris Weiler calls to KGB, Sept. 13, Gwyn Williams with the fabulous Glen Echo Open Band; Sept. 20, Beth Molaro calls to Tidal Wave; Sept. 27, George Marshall

with Wild Asparagus, 7:30 p.m. lesson, 8:30 p.m. dance, Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $10, www. fridaynightdance.org. Contra & Square, Sept. 1, Seth Tepfer with Treble Makers; Sept. 8, Chris Weiler calls with Lars Prillaman and Friends; 7:30 p.m., Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $12 for general, $9 for members, $5 for students, www.fsgw.org. English Country, Aug. 28, Caller: Carol Marsh; Sept. 4, Caller: Rich Galloway; Sept. 11, Caller: Anna Rain; Sept. 18, Caller: Tom Spilsbury; Sept. 25, Caller: Joseph Pimentel, 8 p.m., Glen Echo Town Hall (upstairs), www.fsgw.org.

Scottish Country Dancing, 8-10 p.m. Mondays, steps and formations taught. No experience, partner necessary, T-39 Building on NIH campus, Wisconsin Avenue and South Drive, Bethesda, 240505-0339. Swing, Sept. 21, The Craig Gildner Big Band; Nov. 9, WWII Canteen Dance with the Eric Felten Jazz Orchestra; Dec. 14, Daryl Davis, lesson at 8 p.m., dancing at 9 p.m., Glen Echo Park, $15, www. ﬂyingfeet.org. Waltz, Sept. 1, Waltz Du Jour; Sept. 15, KGB, 2:45-3:30 p.m. lesson, 3:30-6 p.m., dance, $10, www. waltztimedances.org.

MUSIC & DANCE Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club, Gotta Swing Dance Night w/

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All Wheel Jive, 8 p.m. Aug. 28 (beginner lesson at 7:30 p.m., $10); Project Natale, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 29 ($10); King Soul, 8 p.m. Aug. 30 ($10); Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, 8:30 p.m. Aug. 31 ($35); Maggie Rose, 8 p.m. Sept. 6 ($15); The Kelly Bell Band, 8 p.m. Sept. 7 ($15); 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, 301-634-2222, www. bethesdabluesjazz.com The Fillmore Silver Spring, One Koast Entertainment Presents: The Best of The Beltway Series, 6 p.m. Aug. 30; Kevin Hart’s Plastic Cup Boyz, 8 p.m. Aug. 31; Cher Lloyd with Special Guest Fifth Harmony, 8 p.m. Sept. 6; Local Talent Showcase, 7 p.m. Sept. 7; 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, 301-960-9999, FillmoreSilverSpring.com, www. livenation.com. Institute of Musical Traditions — Rockville, Cillian & Niall Vallely, with

Alan Murray, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 9, Saint Mark Presbyterian Church, 10701 Old Georgetown Road, Rockville, call for prices, www.imtfolk.org. Strathmore, 2013 Paciﬁc Miss Asian American Beauty Pageant Final Competition, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 6; Dariush, 9 p.m. Sept. 7; BSO: 2013 Strathmore Season Preview Concert, 8 p.m. Sept. 11, call for venue, Locations: Mansion, 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda; Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, 301-581-5100, www.strathmore.org.

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Victorian Lyric Opera Company presents an island paradise Gilbert and Sullivan satirize business in ‘Utopia, Limited’ n

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Gilbert and Sullivan’s musical satire “Utopia, Limited” tells the story of a South Paciﬁc island that takes the unlikely step of turning itself into a Britishstyle limited liability company. Needless to say, laughter and romance ensue as the plot unfolds. “We’ve now done all 13 shows that they wrote,” said Joseph Sorge, conductor and music director for the Victorian Lyric Opera Company, which will present “Utopia, Limited” on Thursday and Saturday in Rockville. A free lecture will precede the Saturday show. “Utopia, Limited” is the highlight among the 13 operettas being presented this weekend during the VLOC’s fifth

Great Gilbert and Sullivan Sing Out gathering of local and outof-town fans. All but “Utopia, Limited” are concert versions that feature the songs accompanied by piano but without dialogue or a full stage production. “Utopia, Limited,” however, will feature an orchestra, as well as dialogue and suggestions of costumes. Tickets cover blocks of two or three performances at different times during the weekend. Saturday night’s admission, for example, will feature songs from “The Pirates of Penzance,” accompanied by piano, following the “Utopia, Limited” presentation. Sorge said “Utopia” is one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s lesser known shows partly because of its size. “With 14 principal characters, it’s difﬁcult to cast,” he said. “People tend to avoid it, because they think it’s too difﬁcult.” But the show, which premiered in 1893, is also one of

UTOPIA, LIMITED n (concert format with dialogue and orchestra) n When: 8 p.m. Thursday; 7 p.m. Saturday (lecture at 6:30 p.m. Saturday) n Where: F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, 603 Edmonston Drive, Rockville n Tickets: $24 for adults; $20 for seniors 65 and older; $16 for students n For information: 240-3148690, vloc.org* n *Visit website for times and prices for Sing Out performances.

the last by librettist Gilbert and composer Sullivan, and it reﬂects their experience. “As a musician, it’s interesting to see Sullivan’s progress as he got better at writing for chorus and principals,” Sorge said. In the show, Gilbert and Sullivan satirize British institutions —

in particular, the limited liability company of their day, which enabled its members to escape the responsibilities associated with individual business owners. The island of Utopia is ruled by King Paramount (G. Stephen Stokes), who sends his oldest daughter, Princess Zara (Hilary LaBonte), to a university in England to learn British ways. Princess Zara returns with six Flowers of Progress — a group of English government and military ofﬁcials and a company comptroller — who assist the king in reorganizing Utopia as an LLC to “improve” life on the island. Plotting to overthrow King Paramount are two island judges — Phantis (Blair Eig) and Scaphio (Gary Sullivan). There are also suitors who court Princess Zara, including Captain Fitzbattleaxe (Michael Brown) of the First Life Guards, as well at suitors for her two younger sisters. Sorge said the concert format works well during the Sing Out, because performers don’t

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A South Paciﬁc island transforms itself into a limited liability company with humorous and romantic results in Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Utopia, Limited” on Thursday and Saturday at the F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre in Rockville. Rehearsing (from left) are Hillary LaBonte as Princess Zara, G. Stephen Stokes as King Paramount, Tracy Davidson as Princess Kalyba and Meredith Marano as Princess Nekaya. have to learn the music and the dialogue as they would for a full staged production. “They’re easier to put together because you’re on book — you don’t need to memorize,”

he said. “The semi-staged shows are a lot of fun to do, and they can be done [relatively] quickly. They’re pretty successful.” vterhune@gazette.net

British import ‘The World’s End’ is like a reunion, with an open bar BY

MICHAEL PHILLIPS CHICAGO TRIBUNE

AT THE MOVIES

Zippy, kinetic and brashly funny, “The World’s End” comes to the U.S. from its native England hard on the heels of “This Is the End,” an American comedy about ordinary mortals (comedians, actually, so maybe not so ordinary) manning up to deal with apocalyptic plot developments. “World’s End,” a collaboration among director Edgar Wright, co-writer and star Simon Pegg and co-star Nick Frost, joins the trio’s earlier genre scrambles “Shaun of the Dead” (zombie invasion plus rom-com) and “Hot Fuzz” (“Bad Boys”-brand action movie plopped down in Miss Marple land).

For a while you think you’ve wandered into the wrong movie. Every trailer, poster and short-hand description of “The World’s End” in existence mentions the alien robot “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” angle, yet for a good while Wright’s ﬁlm is simply the story of a 40ish London bloke Gary King (Pegg) struggling with his alcohol addiction yet determined to reunite the old gang for another go at the 12-pub crawl that defeated them at age 19, back in their green, gray hometown of Newton Haven. Upon their return, everything’s slightly off. The pubs have all been stan-

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Continued from Page A-13 and what it was like in New York City.” Originally from Michigan, McKechnie moved to New York City as a teen in the early 1960s. “I always loved New York,” McKechnie said. “When you’re young and you come up to New York, for me it was like Oz, you know?” Despite what she calls the “romantic allure” of the city, McKechnie said living and working in New York wasn’t always so easy. “It was rough. I was able to work and support myself, barely,” McKechnie said. “It was rough and it was dirty ... there was a lot more crime; I mean, it was scary.” But at the time, a then bright-eyed McKechnie said none of that fazed her. “When I think about it, I go, ‘Oh my gosh, how did I survive?’” McKechnie said. “But I was just a young hopeful so nothing seemed to bother me ... I think I was so naive that when serious situations might occur, dangerous ones, I think I just didn’t even get it ... I was able to slip by because I was just so naive.” In the 1970s, McKechnie was a part of choreographer/director Michael Bennett’s interviewstyle workshops that became the basis for “A Chorus Line.” McKechnie was eventually cast

SAME PLACE, ANOTHER TIME n When: 7 p.m. Sunday n Where: 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney n Tickets: $55 n Masterclass n When: 10 a.m. Monday n Where: 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney n Tickets: $20 n For information: 301-9243400, olneytheatrecenter.org

as overqualiﬁed dancer Cassie, the role that earned her the 1976 Tony for Best Actress, though McKechnie said much of her own life story was used for another character. “Most of my material is in the character of Maggie,” McKechnie said. In the show, Maggie is an experienced dancer from California, and a bit of a dreamer. “Cassie is more fictionalized.” McKechnie’s personal experience, along with some songs from “A Chorus Line” have found their way into “Same Place, Another Time.” “The heartbeat of [the show] and the centerpiece is when I’m able to kind of pay tribute to Marvin Hamlisch,” McKechnie said. “I share with the audience the true stories of my life that were written into the show, ‘A

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Continued from Page A-13 it hit 20 years — I was kinda hoping for it.” Mutual respect has gone a long way with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. The group collaborates on new projects and each member brings thoughts of new song ideas to everyone’s attention. “We’ve been doing this for a long time and everyone really puts in 110 percent all the time and that was the great thing about this band from the very beginning,” Marhevka said. “Everybody was really committed to it and we sort of hand-chose each guy in the band as we formed it. They’re all great guys. I think the camaraderie we have with us all being great friends, everybody just sort of ﬁt in when we were adding guys to the band. We don’t always get along. It’s inevitable that you’re going to clash on things, but I think everybody has a great respect for each other and, in general, we have a great time doing what we do.”

dardized (“Starbucked,” as one of the guys puts it). Old drinking acquaintances fail to recognize Gary and his mates, played by a marvelous quartet of actors. Frost portrays the reformed pub conqueror, now a well-to-do, soft-spoken investment type, whose proximity to Gary spells a probable tumble off the wagon. Martin Freeman (“The Hobbit”), Eddie Marsan and Paddy Considine ﬁll out the dance card, along with Rosamund Pike as the one Gary adored once upon a time. The movie is madly, wonderfully at odds with itself. As with “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz,” the multiple personalities of the project pay off. This one’s also grown-up enough to look at Gary’s arrested development as not simply a charming boy-man quirk

Chorus Line.’” Monday’s masterclass in dance is something McKechnie said is unlike anything she’s done before. “I teach acting and musical performance, I don’t teach dance but I choreograph,” McKechnie said. On Monday, six dancers will present performances and McKechnie will work with them and the others attending the class on how to “perform songs from an acting standpoint.” “We’ll do emotional exercises about what this is really about,” McKechnie said. “How can you individually personalize that?” While she’s in town, McKechnie said she plans to see the Olney production of the show she helped make famous. “I’m very proud of it but I don’t feel like I have ownership or am territorial about it at all,” McKechnie said. “I feel like once you put it out there ... it’s not your business what they think. It’s your job to tell the story as well as you can and communicate your artistic interpretation and hope people get it.” While McKechnie may not feel ownership over “A Chorus Line,” she said she does still feel a connection to the role she originated. “I want to see Cassie done well,” McKechnie said. “I want to see the actress really do it and do it well.” chedgepeth@gazette.net

Before the release of “Rattle Them Bones” in 2012, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy released their homage to Cab Calloway in 2009 called “How Big Can You Get? The Music of Cab Calloway.” For “Rattle,” the band wanted to go back to a more original sound. “We were ready to do another original album and do more original music and also do some stuff based on our inﬂuences in our travels and things that we’ve been listening to,” Marhevka said. “I think everybody sort of brought different ideas of songs and styles. Scotty Morris is our main songwriter and I think he had a lot of original ideas he had been working on and building on in his head. “We did a lot of different styles — we did traditional New Orleans jazz … that’s a style we love just listening to all the traditional musicians from New Orleans. There’s a tune called ‘5-10-15 Times,’ which has more of a modern Big Band sound, like 1960s were you might possibly hear the Duke Ellington Band or Count Basie Band during that time. We just got all those tunes together and

THE WORLD’S END n 3 1/2 stars n R; 109 minutes n Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan, Paddy Considine, Rosamund Pike n Directed by Edgar Wright

but something holding him back. (In this regard “The World’s End” is the opposite of the “Hangover” movies.) When decapitated, or limb-lopped, the robot replicas taking over the town bleed blue goo, which is an interesting sight. Wright stages the ﬁght sequences

(one too many, I’d say) as Jackie Chaninspired melees, with the fearsome fivesome clobbering the aliens with anything and everything available, including pub stools. At this stage in their careers, Pegg and Frost have done so much together on screen, and so smoothly and well, their communication skills border on the surreal. I do wish Pegg had found more variations on the theme of popeyed mugging to pull in the early scenes; Gary is meant to be a bit tiresome, the party boy who won’t stop, but Pegg is, in fact, a better, subtler actor than you see here. Nonetheless, he’s the spark plug of Wright’s party. “The World’s End” has the blithe, skillful air of: Take it or leave it.

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Continued from Page A-13 comedians like Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence on TV. After he was well-received during a talent show in college, Lynn said he began thinking seriously about pursuing comedy as a profession. “I felt like it was something that I could possibly do full time some day so I just stuck with it,” Lynn said. Lynn has come a long way from the college kid who did his first routine for a room full of his peers. “At 20 years old, I didn’t have much to talk about,” Lynn said. “It was really just whatever I could come up with that was funny and relatable ... just random stuff any 20-year-old would talk about ...” Now Lynn said he has found his footing thanks to shows at venues like Madison Square Garden and the Staples Center. He’s even performed on Showtime at the Apollo and at the Essence Festival for an audience of 65,000. “With repetition in anything, you’re going to get better,” Lynn said. “I’m just better at delivering now because I’ve found my pocket.” Lynn said the Plastic Cup Boyz differ in their styles of comedy, which keeps the tour fun. “There’s no bumping of heads at all on this show,” he said. “We’ve just got very different styles ... Lavar’s comedy is character driven. Spank and I, we both talk about relationships ... I get a little bit nastier, I’m a little filthy on stage.” On top of his own experience, Lynn has also had a front-row seat to the explosion of Hart’s career over the last few years. Although Lynn’s not at all surprised by his friend’s success. “He’s always said he was going to do this,” Lynn said. “He didn’t do it as fast as he said he would; he said he would be like Chris Tucker by the time he was 25 or something and he definitely didn’t get it that fast but he’s there now and I’m not surprised. I’ve seen what he’s done

recorded it. It was a great experience.” Marhevka is no stranger to music. His father played the saxophone and, although he worked a normal day job, he would play the sax almost every weekend, according to Marhevka. So why did Marhevka pick the trumpet? “I really have no idea why I chose that, but I adamantly wanted to play the trumpet,” Marhevka said. “I started playing a trumpet in ﬁfth grade … in a school band program. … It took me several months to convince [my dad] to let me get a trumpet, but he did.” Marhevka said he was a quick study when it came to the trumpet and he hasn’t put it down since. “I never looked back,” Marhevka said. “I’ve had some great teachers along the way. When I hit junior high school, I had three amazing teachers — one was my private teacher who taught me how to play trumpet, and my other two were band directors who both were trumpet players as well. I just had such a great experience in those years. I played any style of music anywhere I

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Comedian Naíim Lynn has been touring with Kevin Hart for the last 12 years. from the beginning ... There’s nothing surprising about it to me. It’s nothing that makes me say ‘wow’ because I saw it the whole time.” Lynn is hoping for a similar trajectory with his own career. “Years from now, and especially if I get something rolling with my career, I’m going to look back and say, ‘Wow, look at the things we’ve done,’” Lynn said. “Because sometimes when you’re in the middle of it, you don’t look up and even appreciate it. It’s just happening.” chedgepeth@gazette.net

possibly could. It’s what I’ve been doing my whole life.” Talk to most rock stars and they will tell you about their collection of guitars — new and old. The same can be said about Marhevka. Although he doesn’t have an exact number, he does collect trumpets and other musical instruments. “I don’t have a huge collection,” Marhevka said. “A few years ago, I kind of went through and let a few horns go that I wasn’t using. I’d rather have other people using them. I gave one to one of my cousins who’s in high school band. I’ve just let some stuff go over the years. … I have some trumpets, I have some ﬂugelhorn … just a lot of different styles of trumpets.” Although most of the big swing bands from the 1990s have split up, Marhevka said Big Bad Voodoo Daddy has never once entertained the notion of not playing together. Besides, they weren’t playing to be part of pop culture. “We decided to be a band and play our style of music before it was any sort of fad,” Marhevka said. “We just did it because we loved it and it grew into

what it was. It got super popular in the pop scene, but we just kept doing our thing. That wasn’t the reason we did it. … I think the band’s a great live band, personally. I would say it’s just a great show band and everybody’s a great performer and we just love being on stage. We just kept doing our thing and we didn’t really care about any of that stuff. We’ve played, I think, over 3,000 concerts. We’ve built up a great fan base over the years and we’re always out there doing what we love.” The band is set to release a new Christmas album on Nov. 1, according to Marhevka. Afterwards, they’ll start a holiday tour on Thanksgiving to promote the new record. “That’s pretty much our project right now,” Marhevka said. “I think all the stuff has been recorded and it’s being mixed right now.” As for the title of the album ... “I don’t think we’re allowed to release that information yet,” Marhevka laughed. wfranklin@gazette.net

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Gamechangers N Gaithersburg High School running back and Northwestern University recruit Solomon Vault.

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These players make you hold your breath whenever they touch the football

BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN STAFF WRITER

FL fans in Washington watching Week 1 of the 2013 preseason probably hated to see Tennessee Titans running back Chris Johnson cut back to the inside of the ﬁeld for an unchallenged 58-yard touchdown run, but they’ll probably want to nab him quickly for their fantasy football roster. Johnson is a gamebreaker, that guy who makes you hold your breath whenever might get the ball. Here’s a look at some Montgomery County football players capable of changing the complexion of a game in a single play:

Jalen Christian

recruit Zach Bradshaw, Christian will be the Swarmin’ Hornets’ No. 1 wide receiver this fall.

Damascus junior defensive back/wide receiver

As a freshman two years ago, Jalen Christian lined up for his ﬁrst varsity football play and was faced with the mammoth task of covering former 6-foot-2 Clarksburg wide receiver Stefan Houston, the Coyotes’ one-man show and former University of Maryland, College Park recruit. It was not a big deal. “They threw a swing pass to [Houston] and Jalen came up and just laid him out,” Damascus coach Eric Wallich said. The 5-foot-10 wide receiver makes things happen on offense, defense and special teams — a 37-yard punt return is child’s play. If possible, he might actually change direction quicker than he runs straight and with the graduation of University of Virginia

Trevon Diggs

Thomas S. Wootton sophomore wide receiver

Six-foot-1 high school sophomores are supposed to be learning how to control their recently lengthened limbs. Instead, Trevon Diggs is so in command of his body that he, basically on repeat, sprints full speed into perfectly-timed leaps that result in things such as one-handed 85-yard touchdown receptions. “He has the uncanny ability to play the ball in the air,” Wootton coach Tyree Spinner said. “Most kids at this level do not have

See GAMECHANGERS, Page B-7

Doormat to powerhouse: Bullis completes transition

In Cilento’s fourth season, No. 3 Bulldogs are better than ever BY

KENT ZAKOUR STAFF WRITER

In the Bullis School’s weight room — above the triceps machine — the words “Bullis Football: We Are Champions” are painted on the wall. Elsewhere, the phrase “Dominate your opponent” is inscribed. Those phrases are what senior offensive and defensive lineman Justin Herron aspires to live his football life by. Herron, who has verbally committed to Rutgers (N.J.) University, is part of a group of student-athletes at Bullis that is expected to be the ﬁrst graduating class to

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Bullis sophomore quarterback Dwayne Haskins, Jr. throws a pass during practice on Aug. 15.

play all four years of its high school tenure under fourth-year coach Pat Cilento. “It’s gone by so fast,” said Herron, who plans to major in business and ﬁnance and

See BULLIS, Page B-7

Quince Orchard High School senior wide receiver Kevin Joppy (left, played for Seneca Valley last year). FILE PHOTO

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Knights, Trojans face challenges of playing ‘home’ games off-campus BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN STAFF WRITER

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Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School’s Somto Ndubisi practices on Aug. 21. The Barons open the season next week, trying to qualify for the playoffs for the third straight year.

B-CC develops a

Playoff state of mind

Barons look to build on two consecutive appearances in region tournament

TRAVIS MEWHIRTER STAFF WRITER

The core of the team that brought some semblance of tradition to Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School football may be all but gone — the coach has left, the quarterback has graduated along with the top two rushers and receivers — but one thing that cannot be lost to graduation, transfers or coaching retirement is enthusiasm for a program that has made two of its three total playoff appearances in the past two seasons. The trickle-down effect the upstart success has wrought has been noticed by ﬁrst-year varsity coach Josh

Hanifee has been promoted to ﬁll in for David Hogan’s starting spot at quarterback. Singer, who coached the junior varsity team the past three seasons, said he noticed early in the offseason that Hanifee would be the “de facto leader of the team.” But it wasn’t until the team went down to Harrisonburg, Va. for a camp at James Madison University that Singer ofﬁcially handed the keys to the team over to his new signal caller. “He told me what he wanted from me at camp and what he wanted for the rest of the season and I think that’s when I realized that we got to step up and show the younger guys what we’re all about and continue what we started here when we came here,” Hanifee said. “It’s really exciting. I’m really excited for this year. It’s my senior year, I think coach really brought a lot more family values to the team than there has been in

previous years and it’s really making us closer.” Given the Barons’ well-known triple-option style of offense, Hanifee’s arm won’t necessarily be the most useful weapon in his arsenal. Hogan threw just 25 times all last season compared to the team’s 343 total rushing attempts. Helping Hanifee run the ball are Nana AmankwahAyeh, who took 53 carries for 351 yards last season (6.7 average) and Somto Ndubisi. “Just staying in the weight room, conditioning and stuff like that,” Amankwah-Ayeh said of how he plans on keeping his legs under him late in the season. “Even with the graduation losses I feel that guys, we have enough guys to step up, take control. We’ll be ﬁne.” tmewhirter@gazette.net

McLean ﬁnds a ‘beautiful home’ at QO Junior transfer says he’s enjoying his ﬁrst year as a Cougar

TRAVIS MEWHIRTER STAFF WRITER

Life, in the words of Adam McLean, is a beautiful thing. His new team at Quince Orchard High School, the program’s culture, the talent surrounding him on defense and the immense recruiting hype surrounding the 6-foot3, 275-pound junior defensive tackle are beautiful blessings. In just a four-minute interview, McLean used the word beautiful ﬁve times. A 20-second clip goes something like this: “Everything is beautiful, you know, the coaching staff — it’s really up-tempo. I’m learning so much from the day I got here until now. I’ve learned so much from the guys and the chemistry, it’s unbelievable. It’s a great community, great people, great teachers, it’s

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Quince Orchard High School varsity football player Adam McLean practices on Aug. 21. beautiful.” McLean is pleased with his decision to transfer out of AvalonSchoolfor“familyreasons,” and then brieﬂy to Friendship Collegiate, where he has family membersnearby,beforeﬁnally landing on the Gaithersburg public school. “I’m just trying to bring effort and a little bit of what

I know to the team,” he said. “I’m just trying to bring everything that I possibly know — my talent, and just trying to help the team get a state championship. That’s the plan.” Coach Dave Mencarini knows plenty about getting to M&T Bank Stadium for the state championship. As he would point out several times,

however, McLean, no matter how many high Division I scholarship offers (ﬁve) he has, does not. It’s a process that McLeanwillhavetogothrough to assimilate into the Cougar program, and it’s one that has predictably come with a bit of turbulence along the way. “They’re bumps that are all correctable,” Mencarini said. “It’s just getting used to how we do things here from practice expectations to a schematic expectation. He’s really talented. He’s going to become a good football player. I’m hard on my guys. I have high expectations for them. I think what he’s done a really nice job of is; he’s really into what we’re all about — the system, the program. “What he and others have to keep in mind that to get to a state championship, there are very few guys here who know how hard that is. He doesn’t know. He has no idea what it takes. There are very few guys who understand how hard it is to get there and it’s a process

and Adam’s going through that process right now.” Part of that process, as it turns out, is getting booted out of practice, as McLean was on Aug. 20 in what Mencarini called“oneoftheworst”collective team practices he’s seen in a decade. But no preseason is perfect, even if it is a two-time defending state ﬁnalist bursting with talent at nearly every position. “I don’t want to be a good football team now,” the coach said. “I want to be a good football team in November.” By November, McLean will likely have settled into his standardroleoftackle,andanother, rather unique one as an eligible tackle on the goal line package (he caught a touchdown during drills during preseason practice). Up until that point, however, he will continue eating six meals a day, “cutting it up” in the weight room and going through the process. tmewhirter@gazette.net

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Singer, who said the program has the best offseason participation he’s ever witnessed. “A lot of that is just the kids,” Singer said. “And it comes from making the playoffs the past two years and kids are seeing that maybe they aren’t the starter at their position or maybe they’re not playing a name role or getting their name in the paper, but by being in the weight room they’re contributing to our success. Deﬁnitely when you make the playoffs two years in a row you keep that in the back of your mind.” So yes, the Barons and the Bethesda community seem to be rallying around its boys of fall. But while enthusiasm goes a long way in the morale department, offensive and defensive schemes need replacements for the heavy graduation losses. After taking the ﬁrst team reps all summer in the passing league, Jack

Ask any high school football player to describe the experience of playing a home game on a Friday night and his face will likely light up like the floodlights that brighten the gridiron. Montgomery County isn’t Dillon, Texas (fromthetelevisionshow‘FridayNightLights’), but home football games are a staple in the culture of high school in all of America. For a football player, there is something special about running out onto a familiar stadium field in front of a crowd filled with family and friends, thegut-wrenchingcompetitionforcommunity pride. AsGaithersburgandWheatonhighschools undergo modernization, their football teams will be without a home field this year, the teams’ seniors denied the chance to play their final high school “home” game at home in the truest sense. “That is truly regrettable but beyond our control,” longtime Trojans coach Kreg Kephart said. Gaithersburg is being displaced for the second time in three years. Construction of the school started nearly two years ago and the Trojans were afforded the opportunity to play on their newly installed turf field in 2012, but demolition to the old building as construction continues will make it unsafe and illogical to host football games, Kephart said. On the other end, Paint Branch will play on the school’s campus for the first time since 2009. Panthers coach Mike Nesmith said he feels for Wheaton and Gaithersburg. “Our seniors, this is the first time they will ever play at Paint Branch,” Nesmith said. “I feel for the teams going through it now. It does affect [the kids], it’s something they miss out on, the experience of being at home with the raucous crowd energy.” Gaithersburg will play its home games at Richard Montgomery, Wheaton travels to Montgomery Blair. Both locations are within six miles but the teams, and fans, will have to add at least 20 minutes and possibly more considering rush hour. Fans used to walking will have to find another means of transportation. Wheaton’s Ernie Williams and Kephart said they are hopeful their support systems will still make the trip to help facilitate a “homey” atmosphere. While a big portion of home field advantagemightbepsychological,thereissomething to be said about the familiarity of a field you’ve played on every day. Williams said it’s good to know where the divots are and which areas collect water. But playing on the road for an entire season can also be a logistical nightmare. Williams said his team could leave as early as 4:20 p.m. for road games. The Knights must rush to fit in their pre-game team meal, suiting up and loading all the necessary equipment onto the bus into the two-hour window between the final bell and that departure time. “If we’re playing at home, we don’t get dressed until 4:15, you get on the field at 5:15,” Williams said. “Every week having that long checklist of items you need to bring [is going to be the toughest part]. I won’t be able to be like, ‘Oh, I forgot something,’ and then go run in and get it.” While Gaithersburg will practice on campus, Wheaton will have to get on a bus and travel two-plus miles to its practice field. Being on the road every day, for games and practices, can take its toll on a team, Nesmith said. The Panthers also didn’t have access to their weight room last year — they brought some equipment outside scorching summer heat each day — something Nesmith said he believes impacted a subpar 2012. Gaithersburg and Wheaton will face extenuating circumstances this fall but Kephart and Williams agreed that if they want to keep their fanbases interested, the Knights and Trojans need solid seasons. The two coaches agreed that will be a major motivating factor this fall. “We hope to be interesting enough to watch so people won’t mind driving that extra [few miles],” Kephart said. “Hopefully we’ll put a good product on the field.”

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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PRESEASON RANKINGS The 10 best football teams in Montgomery County this week as ranked by The Gazette’s sports staff.

Rank

School

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Record Points

0-0 59 0-1 55 0-0 48 0-0 41 0-0 35 0-0 26 0-0 25 0-0 14 0-0 10 0-0 7

Quince Orchard Cougars Good Counsel Falcons Bullis Bulldogs Seneca Valley Screaming Eagles Damascus Swarmin’ Hornets Churchill Bulldogs Sherwood Warriors Northwest Jaguars Gaithersburg Trojans Wootton Patriots

Also receiving votes: Blake 6; Paint Branch 2; Whitman 2.

2012 LEADERS Top rushers Khalil Wilson, Einstein* Rachid Ibrahim, Avalon Zac Morton, Whitman* Solomon Vault, G’burg* Nikolay Henze, P’ville Dorian O’Daniel, GC Ayinde Warren, Wheaton Adeon Patterson, Knndy* Moses Vines, Sherwood James Jones-Williams, SV

Top passers Matty Callahan, N’west Sam Ellis, Wootton* Stefan Sigwalt, Blake Brendan Marshall, GC Calvin Reighard, SV* Chase Williams, Dam.* Gaston Cooper, PB* Jonathan Lee, Churchill Steven Burchett, RM Gus Gill, WJ

Carries 195 179 245 188 247 142 178 129 154 124

Yards 1567 1435 1357 1251 1240 1029 991 970 952 886

Cmp-Att. 164-291 138-256 136-236 81-143 113-184 88-155 86-197 75-155 66-118 102-183

Yards 2211 1786 1576 1468 1420 1285 1283 1238 1167 1139

Avg. 8.0 8.9 5.5 6.7 5.0 7.2 5.6 7.5 6.2 7.1

TDs 12 19 12 22 15 15 10 8 17 17

Int. 12 10 10 4 6 2 10 11 10 10

TDs 24 15 15 13 16 12 10 8 12 19

Top receivers

Catches Yards Avg. TDs Trevon Diggs, Wootton* 37 769 20.8 7 Ryan Markush, N’west 47 729 15.5 8 Kendall Fuller, GC 33 523 15.8 4 Javonn Curry, PB* 25 506 20.2 6 Charlie Barry, WJ 28 500 17.9 11 Dontay Hears, Wat. Mill 30 492 16.4 9 Nobel Mussie, Einstein* 14 419 29.9 3 Kyon Giles, Northwood* 38 407 10.7 4 Jose Ortiz, RM 15 420 28.0 4 Miles Green, Wootton 31 404 13.0 4 * Denotes a player who returns this year.

2012 STANDINGS

FEARLESS FORECASTS The Gazette sports staff picks the winners for this week’s games involving Montgomery and Prince George’s counties football teams. Here are this week’s selections: Montgomery County record All games

St. John’s College at Bullis Potomac (Va.) vs. Avalon Good Counsel at Immokalee (Fla.) Pallotti at John Carroll Mount St. Joseph at McNamara Georgetown Prep at Fork Union (Va.) Godby (Fla.) vs. DeMatha

Montgomery 4A South Division Team

Dan Feldman

Ken Sain

Jennifer Beekman

Nick Cammarota

Kent Zakour

Travis Mewhirter

1-0 4-0

1-0 3-1

0-1 3-1

Bullis Potomac Immokalee Carroll McNamara Fork Union DeMatha

Bullis Avalon Good Counsel Carroll McNamara Geo. Prep DeMatha

Bullis Potomac Immokalee Carroll MSJ Fork Union DeMatha

St. John’s Bullis Bullis Avalon Avalon Potomac Good Counsel Good Counsel Good Counsel Carroll Carroll Carroll MSJ McNamara McNamara Fork Union Fork Union Fork Union DeMatha DeMatha DeMatha

County tries to end its longest title drought BY

DAN FELDMAN STAFF WRITER

Here are the top 10 questions we expect the 2013 high school football season to answer: 1. Can Montgomery County break its state-title drought? No Montgomery County team has won a championship since 2008, when Sherwood claimed the Class 4A title. Only once before, 1982 and 1983, had the county gone even two consecutive years without a championship. 2. Will Quince Orchard break through its runner-up ceiling? Quince Orchard has narrowly lost the last two 4A state championships, and again, the CouGARS APPEAR POISED TO ADVANCE DEEP INTO

the playoffs. Add wide receiver/running back Kevin Joppy and defensive lineman transferring in, and Quince Orchard is a favorite to win its third state title. 3. Is the county’s best team a public or private school? Usually, Good Counsel holds the title of the county’s, if not the state’s, top team. But hit heavily by graduation, Good Counsel showed vulnerability in an opening-week loss to Gilman. Quince Orchard might have enough talent to outrank Good Counsel’s recruits. Private Bullis is a wildcard that could be ready to assume the crown if Good Counsel and Quince Orchard falter. 4. What level has Bullis reached? Pat Cilento, in his fourth season at the helm, continues to lift Bullis into the upper echelon of the area’s football scene. Prior to hiring Cilento, Bullis went 4-26 in its previous seasons. This season, Bullis is ranked No. 3 by The Gazette in Montgomery County. 5. Will Damascus maintain its playoff streak? Damascus has made the play-

Falcons score twice early, but then not again BY

DAN FELDMAN STAFF WRITER

Quarterback Bryan Strittmatter stood beside Leo Ekwoge on the sideline early in their first game as full-time varsity starters, a nationally televised contest, and tapped the running back on the chest. “I just had to get mine first,” Strittmatter told Ekwoge, the Our Lady of Good Counsel High School football players smiling at each other. Set up by C.J. Carroll’s 86yard return of the opening kickoff, Ekwoge had just seen his touchdown run called back due to a questionable penalty, and on the next play, Strittmatter threw a 20yard touchdown pass less than a minute into the 2013 season. After Good Counsel’s defense earned a stop, Ekwoge got his, a 53-yard touchdown run on the first play of the next drive. Unfortunately for Good Counsel, those were its last points in a 20-14 loss to Gilman on Friday. Good Counsel, which opened the season ranked No. 1 in the state media poll, held its lead into the game’s final five minutes. But Gilman, ranked No. 3 in the state poll, threw a 16-yard touchdown pass, and Good Counsel’s final drive fell just short. It was Good Counsel’s first loss to a D.C.-area team in 26 games. Afterward, Strittmatter wandered aimlessly near Good Counsel’s post-game huddle before settling into a crouch in the back of the group. In his first attempt during a post-game interview, Strittmatter got choked up as he began to describe the game. “It was — I can’t talk,” Strittmatter said. “I’m sorry.” But Strittmatter stayed on

the field, composed himself and eventually spoke about Good Counsel’s 14-0 start on just three offensive plays. “It was maybe one of the best moments of my life,” Strittmatter said. “So much doubting on the offense, especially on all the new starters. Nobody thought we had the firepower. “I felt like this was our game.” Good Counsel coach Bob Milloy declined comment as he left Johnny Unitas Stadium at Towson University, which hosted the ESPNews-televised game. Good Counsel’s fortunes began to turn midway through the first half, when Ekwoge suffered a left-knee injury that kept him out the rest of contest. Ekwoge said he plans to get an MRI as soon as possible. “If I was in, I thought we would have won the game, because they couldn’t stop our rushing offense,” said Ekwoge, who ran for 72 yards on five carries. “We were just clicking on all cylinders.” Perry Stefanelli ran for 90 yards on 21 carries in relief, and fullback Chris Dawson took a

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7-4 4-6 7-3 5-5 3-7 3-7

5-0 4-1 3-2 2-3 1-4 0-5

PF PA

237 155 195 213 175 236 159 169 186 244 133 252

Montgomery 4A East Division Team

All Div.

Sherwood Blake Springbrook Paint Branch Blair

9-3 6-5 4-6 3-7 2-8

4-0 3-1 1-3 1-3 1-3

PF PA

371 175 196 230 66 164 200 188 52 255

Montgomery 4A West Division Team

Quince Orchard Northwest R. Montgomery Gaithersburg Clarksburg Magruder

All Div.

12-2 8-4 6-4 3-7 2-8 1-9

5-0 4-1 2-3 2-3 2-3 0-5

PF PA

514 101 375 274 223 213 195 255 141 215 27 413

Montgomery 3A Division Team

Damascus Seneca Valley Watkins Mill Einstein Rockville Northwood

All Div.

10-1 10-2 7-3 6-4 1-9 1-8

5-0 4-1 3-2 2-3 1-4 0-5

PF PA

384 134 332 176 265 143 234 230 135 350 124 238

Montgomery 2A Independents Team

Poolesville Wheaton

Private schools offs the last 15 years, the longest streak ever. However, competing in a deep 3A West and having several question marks could leave the Swarmin’ Hornets on the outside looking in. Last season, two 7-3 teams and an 8-2 team missed the playoffs in the region. This year, the region could be just as deep, though perhaps not quite so top heavy. 6. Will Damascus or Seneca Valley — or any other Montgomery County team — win the 3A West? Damascus and Seneca Valley held the top two seeds in the 3A West the past two years, only to see a Frederick County team win the region title. A region championship here would be a point of pride for Montgomery County. 7. Which teams will join Quince Orchard in the 4A West playoffs? Quince Orchard seems like a playoff lock. Churchill and Northwest appear to have good chances, too. Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Gaithersburg, Wootton, Whitman and Richard Montgomery are also part of a deep field of contenders. 8. Can Gaithersburg turn around? In the past five years, five Montgomery County teams — Quince Orchard, Damascus, Seneca Valley, Sherwood and Gaithersburg — have won a region title. In that same span, those five teams have combined for two losing seasons: Gaitherburg’s 5-6 2011 and Gaithersburg’s 3-7 2012. With Northwestern recruit Solomon Vault at running back, the county’s

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All Div.

Churchill Wootton B-Chevy Chase Whitman Walter Johnson Kennedy

larger load with Ekwoge out, running 15 times for 55 yards. With an effective defense led by defensive end Jesse Anniebonam — whose commitment to the University of Maryland, College Park, was announced during the game — that was enough to keep Good Counsel ahead most of the night. But eventually, Good Counsel could no longer contain Gilman quarterback Kai Locksley, who threw for 128 yards and ran for 100. After Gilman scored its final touchdown with 4:46 left, Carroll returned the kickoff 32 yards to start Good Counsel’s final drive. Thanks to Strittmatter’s 18yard completion to Myles Robinson on a fourth-and-10, Good Counsel reached the 10-yard line inside the final minute. Stefanelli ran for 3 yards on first down, and Strittmatter spiked the ball on second down. On third down, Strittmatter ran for a yard on an option play. Fourth down repeated the same play, but Strittmatter pitched to Stefanelli, and Gilman sniffed out the run and won the game.

most bipolar team could again stand with the Cadillac programs of the area. 9. How will a new coach affect teams already on the rise? Sherwood (6-4 to 9-3), Bethesda-Chevy Chase (6-5 to 7-4), Richard Montgomery (5-5 to 6-4) and Montgomery Blair (0-10 to 2-8) all improved their records from 2011 to 2012. All also hired new coaches following last season. Chris Grier, Josh Singer, Joshua Klotz and Andrew Fields are wrinkles to already-intriguing programs. 10. Are any coaches still establishing their programs ready to break through? Several coaches entering their second or third season at the helm, to varying degrees, are still trying to make their mark. Mike Neubeiser (5-5 and 8-4 at Northwest) has won a playoff game, but not a region. William Gant (4-6 and 7-4 at Poolesville) has reached the playoffs, but not won a postseason game. Kevin Watson (4-6 and 7-3 at Watkins Mill) and Jermaine Howell (4-6 and 6-4 at Einstein) have a winning season, but not a playoff berth. Tyree Spinner (4-6 at Wootton), Ernie Williams (4-6 at Wheaton), Adam Bahr (4-6 at Springbrook), Kevin Bernot (1-9 at Magruder), Seth Kenton (1-9 at Rockville) and Carlos Smith (3-7 and 3-7 at Kennedy) don’t have a winning season under their belts. All will attempt to change that in 2013. dfeldman@gazette.net

Team

Good Counsel Bullis Landon Avalon Georgetown Prep

All

7-4 223 274 4-6 138 247

All

11-1 8-2 6-3 6-4 4-5

303 331 214 342 190

128 65 179 268 199

Last week’s score

Gilman 24, Good Counsel 20

BEST BET

St. John’s College at Bullis, 7 p.m. Friday. SJC reached the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference semiﬁnals last year, falling to eventualchampion Our Lady of Good Counsel, 21-7. The Cadets (1-0) opened this season with an impressive 17-7 victory against Calvert Hall, usually one of the top programs in the Baltimore area. Bullis (0-0) was dominating opponents last season, jumping out to a 7-0 record by averaging more than 40 points per game. But quarterback Danny Copeland’s wrist injury was too much to overcome in a loss to rival Landon, which went on to claim the Interstate Athletic Conference crown.

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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL AVALON Coach: Tad Shields Last year: 7-4 Returning starters: 12 of 24 2012: avg. PF/PA: 31.1/24.3 Last playoff appearance: 2012

Isaac Boyd

2013 Schedule Aug. 30

Potomac

Sept. 6

SM Ryken

Sept. 13

at MSD

Sept. 21

John Carroll

Sept. 27 Oct. 4

Chavez at Riv. Baptist

Oct. 11

Perry Street

Oct. 18

at Options

Oct. 25

KIPP

Avalon plays its home games at either George Mason High School, or Riverdale Baptist.

With Avalon School, the name of the game is quality, and not quantity. With just 25 players on its opening day roster, the Black Knights will attempt to defend their Presidents Cup with half of their starters from last season lost to graduation, including skill position stars Jacquille Veii (University of Maryland) and Rachid Ibrahim (University of Pittsburgh). Senior Isaac Boyd will inherit the role of workhorse running back for Avalon this fall. A 6-foot-1, 185-pound senior, both he and fellow senior Berthin Mayo (OT/DE) have generated some interest from FBS and FCS football programs, according to coach Tad Shields. Senior Wyatt Karem is back at the starting quarterback position, and junior fullback James Chase also returns. Mayo will receive help on the offensive and defensive lines from seniors Aspen Feldman, Kenny Dove and Cody Schwartz. Seniors Kyle Pleet and Michael Herbert bolster the team’s defensive backﬁeld.

New direction at Blair

Montgomery Blair High School football player Raymond Burtnick practices at the Silver Spring school on Thursday. The Blazers have a new coach this year, Andrew Fields, former coach at Northwest. Blair was 2-8 in 2012 and the Blazers return 11 starters for this season. TOM FEDOR/THE GAZETTE

— JOHN HARRIS III

BETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE Coach: Josh Singer Last year: 7-4 Returning starters: 7 of 24 2012: avg. PF/PA: 17.8/21.5 Last playoff appearance: 2012

Jack Hanifee

2013 Schedule Sept. 6

Churchill

Sept. 12

Wootton

Sept. 21

at Whitman

Sept. 27

at Seneca

Oct. 4

Blair

Oct. 11 Quince Orchard Oct. 18

at Clarksburg

Oct. 25

Paint Branch

Nov. 1

at R. Mont.

Nov. 8

at W. Johnson

Coach: Andrew Fields Last year: 2-8 Returning starters: 11 of 24 2012: avg. PF/PA: 5.2/25.5 Last playoff appearance: N/A

There are a lot of unknowns about B-CC football this year. There are six new coaches on staff, including first-year head coach Josh Singer. Opposing teams will be unfamiliar with the replacements scheduled to fill in for quarterback David Hogan, leading running backs John Sieber and Cory Applequist, and top receivers Marquel Lee and Alexander Shapiro. Though he has expressed full confidence, Singer can’t truly know how Jack Hanifee will do in his first year as a full-time starting QB. Running back Nana Amankwah-Ayeh is a touch less of a mystery, given his two touchdowns, roughly 150-yard breakout performance against Rockville in Applequist’s stead and his consistent performance on defense last season. The one real consistency from last year to this is the Barons’ traditional triple-option, though Singer said there may be a few wrinkles thrown in here and there to keep the opposing defense honest.

Raymond Burtnick

2013 Schedule Sept. 6

Kennedy

Sept. 12

at Sherwood

Sept. 21

Northwood

Sept. 27 at Springbrook Oct. 4

at B-CC

Oct. 11

Wheaton

Oct. 18 at Paint Branch Oct. 25

at Einstein

Nov. 1

Blake

Nov. 8

Whitman

— TRAVIS MEWHIRTER

2013 Schedule Sept. 6

at B-CC

Sept. 12

W. Johnson

Sept. 20

Wootton

Sept. 27 at Paint Branch Oct. 4 at Quince Orchard Oct. 11

Gaithersburg

Oct. 18

at R. Mont.

Oct. 25

Springbrook

Nov. 1

at Whitman

Nov. 8

Damascus

A new season brings a new start for the Montgomery Blair High School football team under new coach Andrew Fields. Back on the sidelines after four years as a county administrator, Fields will attempt to turn around a team with a 2-18 record over the past two seasons. Quarterback Raymond Burtnick and wide receiver Darrell Blue will be counted on to produce on offense. Brothers Walter and Yonis Blanco will lead the defense. Gladimir Gulbis and D.J. Anderson will also contribute defensively. “We certainly have had our down times at Blair,” Fields said. “We are marching very diligently and are trying to rebuild the program on the foundation of hard work and family. If I didn’t know any better I would have never guessed these guys have struggled for so many years. These players are really putting forth the effort to turn the tide at Blair.”

Devin Cannon

2013 Schedule Sept. 6

Whitman

Sept. 12 at Paint Branch Sept. 20

at Magruder

Sept. 27

Clarksburg

Oct. 4

at Northwest

Oct. 11

Springbrook

Oct. 18

Kennedy

Oct. 25

at Sherwood

Nov. 1

at Blair

Nov. 8

Seneca

— JENNIFER BEEKMAN

Tavis Holland

2013 Schedule Sept. 6

at Q. Orchard

Sept. 12

Springbrook

Sept. 20

Gaithersburg

Sept. 27

at Blake

Oct. 4 Oct. 11

at Clarksburg at Wootton

Oct. 18

B-CC

Oct. 25

at Northwest

Nov. 1

at Clarksburg

Nov. 8

at R. Mont.

After two consecutive winning seasons, Nazzaro said he believes his team will not revert back to the team of the past decade, where it recorded six consecutive losing seasons. Looking forward to a third consecutive winning campaign, the Bengals return senior skill players Marquis Robinson, Devin Cannon and Tayahd Campbell (running backs) and wide receiver Mark Davis. Senior Carlos Macalino and junior Wyatt McInturff are the two veterans returning to the offensive line. The quarterback position is being decided between four players. Defensively, Cannon and Campbell are back at linebacker, while Davis and Robinson retain their opposing cornerback positions. Pierre St. Amand is the lone returning starter on the defensive line. “I deﬁnitely feel good about the kids in the program,” said Nazzaro, who enters his 12th season at the Silver Spring school. “The key [for this year] will be how the new guys will assimilate themselves into the [starting] lineup.”

Justin Herron

2013 Schedule Aug. 30

St. John’s

Sept. 12

at St.M Anp.

Sept. 20

Spalding

Sept. 27

J. Carroll

Oct. 4

SS/SA

Oct. 18

St. Albans

Oct. 26

at Landon

Nov. 2

at Episcopal

Nov. 8

at Geo. Prep

Stephon Jacob

2013 Schedule Sept. 6

at Einstein

Sept. 12 at Northwood Sept. 20 Quince Orchard Sept. 27 Oct. 4 Oct. 11

Watkins Mill at Clarksburg Whitman

Oct. 17

Rockville

Oct. 25

at Seneca

Nov. 1

Wheaton

Nov. 8

at Churchill

— JOHN HARRIS III

Coach Pat Cilento enters his fourth year at Bullis. He is likely ﬁelding his most talented squad. The 2011 Interstate Athletic Conference champions will enter the fall as the conference favorite once again. Junior running back and Division I recruit Devonte Williams is back and prepared to shoulder a heavy workload with lofty goals for the Bulldogs. “We want an undefeated championship and I think I can get 1,500 yards rushing and receiving,” he said. Williams should be helped on offense by sophomore New Jersey transfer quarterback Dwayne Haskins and a veteran offensive line, including senior Rutgers recruit Justin Herron. The defense, which allowed just over a touchdown per game last fall, should be stout once again with eight starters returning. Herron will anchor the defensive line along with Julian James. Senior linebacker/fullback Chris Aust and defensive back Tyamonee Johnson are also expected to make signiﬁcant contributions.

— KENT ZAKOUR

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Coach: Eric Wallich Last year: 10-1 Returning starters: 9 of 24 2012 avg. PF/PA: 34.9/12.2 Last playoff appearance: 2012

Clarksburg paid the price for its youth last season, as half of the Coyotes’ 22 starters consisted of sophomores. As these players move up to junior status, coach Larry Hurd hopes their experiences will help them to get over the .500 mark for the ﬁrst time in four seasons. “Everyone is stronger, faster, and you can tell that right now there is even more comraderie on this team than there was last year. They are much closer as a unit.” Hurd said. Junior left-handed quarterback Joey Nacci is back after starting as a sophomore. The Coyote backﬁeld offers a speedster in junior running back Tavis Holland and wide receiver-defensive end Bruno Anyangwe — who is being looked at by Division I-AA programs such as Towson and Stony Brook (NY) universities. Center Zach Thompson anchors the Coyotes’ offensive line. “We took our lumps last year, so this year, I hope we learned from that,” Hurd said.

at Cape Henl.

Oct. 11

DAMASCUS

Coach: Larry Hurd Last season’s record: 2-8 Returning starters: 16 of 24 2012 avg. PF/PA: 14.1/21.5 Last playoff appearance: 2009

It’s easy to look at some of Churchill’s losses — 6-foot-3, 330-pound offensive lineman Darrion Locke and playmaking running back Malik Harris in particular — and be concerned. But the Bulldogs should be just ﬁne. Churchill returns a veteran offensive line that includes 6-8, 230-pound A.J. Coleman. Junior running back Blake Dove will take on a more prominent role behind that line. A combination of power and speed make Dove hard to knock down. A standout on junior varsity last fall, Andrew Zuckerman will provide another backﬁeld option. The Bulldogs are looking at the tallest quarterbacks in coach Joe Allen’s fouryear tenure. Six-foot-3 Good Counsel transfer Sean Strittmatter and sophomore Colin Smith (6-2) are still vying for the role, but both make passing a more viable option for Churchill this fall. Junior receiver Jesse Locke (6-2, 196) will be waiting. Dove (linebacker) and defensive lineman Julian Grose will anchor the 4-3 base defense.

Coach: Pat Cilento Last year: 8-2 Returning starters: 17 of 24 2012 avg. PF/PA: 33.8/7.5 Last playoff appearance: N/A

— JOHN HARRIS III

CLARKSBURG

Coach: Joe Allen Last season’ record: 7-4 Returning starters: 12 of 24 2012 avg. PF/PA: 23.0/12.1 Last playoff appearance: 2012

BULLIS

Coach: Tony Nazzaro Last season’s record: 6-5 Returning starters: 11 of 24 2012 avg. PF/PA: 19.6/23.0 Last playoff appearance: 2012

— KYLE RUSSELL

WINSTON CHURCHILL

Blake Dove

JAMES H. BLAKE

MONTGOMERY BLAIR

Coach: Jermaine Howell Last season’s record: 6-4 Returning starters: 13 of 24 2012 avg. PF/PA: 23.4/22.4 Last playoff appearance: 1998

Graduation losses hit the Swarmin’ Hornets pretty hard, but expectations are still high. The program, which has won seven state championships and qualified for the postseason for a state record 15 consecutive years, routinely fills its vacated positions with a pipeline of talent, and this year is no different. Stud junior defensive back/wide receiver Jalen Christian, one of the top college prospects in the country, will do a little bit of everything for coach Eric Wallich. Senior quarterback Chase Williams returns and will look to get the ball into the hands of playmakers (Christian and senior tight end Stephon Jacob). With no proven talent, running back will be filled by a committee of four or five players. Left tackle/ defensive lineman Chris Whalen is the lone returning veteran in the trenches. The defensive secondary is young and the linebacker corps is expected to be headlined by Ari Cacapardo.

— KENT ZAKOUR

Khalil Wilson

2013 Schedule Sept. 6

Damascus

Sept. 12

N. Harford

Sept. 20

at Rockville

Sept. 27 at Northwood Oct. 4

Paint Branch

Oct. 11

at Kennedy

Oct. 18

vs. Wheaton*

Oct. 25

Blair

Nov. 1

at Seneca

Nov. 8

Watkins Mill * at Blair

Last season, the Titans put together their best season in 12 years. In 2013, Einstein returns ace running back and senior Khalil Wilson, who rushed for a county-best 1,567 yards and 12 touchdowns last season. He will have the luxury of running behind returning linemen, including senior left tackle Gil Reynolds (6-foot-5, 300 pound), senior center Brian Angel (61, 255) and junior right tackle Spencer Fye (6-0, 240). The Titans have a close competition going on at quarterback between senior John F. Kennedy transfer Roy Russell IV and sophomore Stefano Rodriguez. Coach Jermaine Howell says Russell (6-5, 215) is blessed “with a big arm,” while Rodriguez showed his ability at the junior varsity level last season and has had a solid preseason camp. Joel Ruﬁno, a 6-4, 210-pound defensive end and University of Toledo recruit, is a defensive stalwart for the Titans. Linebackers Brian Velasco (senior) and Damien Monroe (sophomore) are back.

— JOHN HARRIS III

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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL GEORGETOWN PREP

GAITHERSBURG Coach: Kreg Kephart Last year: 3-7 Returning starters: 18 of 24 2012 avg. PF/PA: 19.5/25.5 Last playoff appearance: 2011

OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL

Coach:Dan Paro Last season’s record: 5-5 Returning starters: 14 of 24 2012 avg. PF/PA: 20.0/22.7 Last playoff appearance: 2003

Kreg Kephart says this year’s team is his most talented since the Trojans won the region title and advanced to the 2010 state semiﬁnals. Star running back and Northwestern recruit Solomon Vault is one of the top players in Maryland. Classmate quarterback Nick DeCarlo also returns with senior speedy wide receiver Smit Solomon Vicco Bedell being a top target. Both will be assisted by a veteran 2013 Schedule offensive line led by seniors Avery Taylor (LT), Anthony Combs (LG) Sept. 7 Sherwood and Tinashe Gwashavanhu (RG) Sept. 12 at Watkins Mill and junior Blake Toomer (C). The offense should be able to score, Sept. 20 at Clarksburg but if the Trojans are going to Sept. 28 Northwest make the playoffs this year they must shore up their defense, Oct. 4 Wootton which allowed 25 points per game last fall. “You aren’t going Oct. 11 at Churchill to win games like that,” Kephart Oct. 18 at Magruder said. “The secondary will be the key.” Seniors Marc Smith and Oct. 25 Q. Orchard Jake Thomas are expected to start Nov. 1 at W. Johnson at safety with Xaviyer Mosley as the top cornerback. Junior KaNov. 9 Paint Branch monte Carter is also expected to start at tight end and weakside Gaithersburg’s home games linebacker. at R. Montgomery/WJ

Kelsey Boland

2013 Schedule Aug. 31

at Fork Union

Sept. 6

McNamara

Sept. 14

at Gonzaga

Sept. 20

McDonogh

Oct. 4

St. Albans

Oct. 11

Reg. Lewis

Oct. 19

at Anacostia

Oct. 25

Spalding

Nov. 2

at Landon

Nov. 8

Bullis

— KENT ZAKOUR

Coach: Bob Milloy Last season’s record: 11-1 Returning starters: 14 of 24 2012 avg. PF/PA: 29.3/10.7 Last playoff appearance: 2012

The year 2012 was the tale of two seasons for the Little Hoyas. The young squad started the season 0-5, with four losses coming during the final drive. Then Georgetown Prep found its groove and finished the season with a fivegame win streak. This year, more than half of the players who played important roles are back for 2013. The one who won’t be able to return to the field is standout tight end/defensive end Andrew Caskin, who suffered a knee injury while participating in a football camp in Ohio. Instead, he will serve as an unofficial assistant coach, hoping to bring along the talents of an all-senior offensive line including tackles Kelsey Boland and David Forney, guards Gus Basanes and Kyle Kadamian, center Pat Stewart and tight end Steven Johnson. Basanes, Kadamian, Boland and Stewart will also start on the defensive line. Senior quarterback Corey Howard is the team captain.

Leo Ekwoge

2013 Schedule Aug. 23

lost to Gilman

Aug. 30

at Immokalee

Sept. 6

St. Frances

Sept. 14 at Calvert Hall Sept. 20

Gonzaga

Sept. 27

at DeMatha

Oct. 5

at McNamara

Oct. 11

St. John’s

Oct. 18

Carroll

Oct. 26

O’Connell

— JOHN HARRIS III

WALTER JOHNSON Coach: Jon Kadi Last year: 3-7 Returning starters: 7 of 24 2012: avg. PF/PA:18.6/24.4 Last playoff appearance: N/A

Good Counsel remains one of the state’s top teams, but lost every major offensive skill-position player from last year’s squad to BCS-conference colleges. Add in DeMatha’s resurgence and that puts a couple streaks in jeopardy. Good Counsel has won the last four WCAC titles and 22 straight conference games. This year’s edition will be led by its lines, featuring Sam Mustipher (Notre Dame) and Sam Madaras offensively and Jesse Aniebonam and Jemal Averette defensively. Running back Leo Ekwoge (Western Michigan recruit) and quarterback Bryan Strittmatter rise from backups to starters. “He’s done well,” Milloy said of Strittmatter. “He’s young, and he’s got a long way to go, but we’re very happy.” Milloy also called fullback Chris Dawson “a very pleasant surprise.” Kobie Walker (Kentucky) and DaSharnte Thompson have impressed at linebacker. Milloy said his team “doesn’t have that real Stefon Diggs/Kendall Fuller star power. It doesn’t have that. But not too many people do.”

Victor Rivero

2013 Schedule Sept. 6

at Wootton

Sept. 12

at Churchill

Sept. 20

R. Mont.

Sept. 27 Oct. 4

Poolesville at Magruder

Oct. 11

Fort Hill

Oct. 17

at Northwood

Oct. 25

at Whitman

Nov. 1

Gaithersburg

Nov. 8

B-CC

— DAN FELDMAN

Walter Johnson’s 2012 football record was a bit deceiving. The Wildcats led at halftime in seven of their games and were easily within striking distance of a possible 7-3 campaign. Because of that, closing out games has been a major focus this fall, coach Jon Kadi said. Getting in that position to begin with might be a bit tougher this fall because of the loss of talent. Walter Johnson legitimately lost an entire team’s worth of players — 25 — to graduation. But fortunately for the Wildcats their few returning starters are skill-position players. Getting the ball to those guys’ hands will be crucial, Kadi said. Senior Victor Rivero will take over as quarterback. Six-foot, 2-inch returning junior Jacob Pitsenberger is a multifaceted player who can line up at both running back and slot receiver. Sophomore wide receiver Christian Campbell (6-3) also has the potential to be a playmaker. The Wildcats open the season against two playoff contenders so they’ll ﬁnd out early if they can compete.

— JENNIFER BEEKMAN

JOHN F. KENNEDY Coach: Carlos Smith Last season’s record: 3-7 Returning starters: 13 of 24 2012 avg. PF/PA: 13.3/25.2 Last playoff appearance: 2007

Greg Jackson

2013 Schedule Sept. 6

at Blair

Sept. 12

Poolesville

Sept. 20

Paint Branch

Sept. 27

at W. Wilson

Oct. 4

vs. Wheaton*

Oct. 11

Einstein

Oct. 18

at Blake

Oct. 26

Northwood

Nov. 1

at Springbrook

Nov. 8

Sherwood * at Blair

Senior quarterback Marvin Galdamez has the position to himself this fall after Roy Russell transferred to Albert Einstein during the summer. Junior Tavon Sanders is expected to be the Cavaliers’ best playmaker and do a “little bit of everything” for coach Carlos Smith as a slot receiver, running back, defensive back and return man. Senior Mike Scott is scheduled to start at free safety and is a “freakish athlete” that Smith says he’s counting on to make plays on both sides of the ball. Classmate Alonte Evans, who hasn’t played in two years and transferred in from James H. Blake according to Smith, should contribute at fullback and linebacker. Senior linemen Greg Jackson, who may also line up at linebacker, and Farah Shahid return after starting both ways last fall. “Inexperience and lack of depth makes us go game by game,” Smith said. “Hopefully we can build off our three wins.”

Options to go by air, or land

Northwest High School’s Josh Gills carries the ball against Sherwood during a scrimmage Friday at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda. Gills is expected to share the quarterback job and also play running back and receiver this year for the Jaguars, who are trying for their second straight playoff berth. TOM FEDOR/THE GAZETTE

— KENT ZAKOUR

LANDON

COL. ZADOK MAGRUDER Coach: Kevin Bernot Last season’s record: 1-9 Returning starters: 10 of 24 2012 avg. PF/PA: 2.7/41.3 Last playoff appearance: 2007

Coach: Paul Padalino Last season’s record: 7-3 Returning starters: 10 of 24 2012 avg. PF/PA: 23.5/16.2 Last playoff appearance: 2012

Kyle Hartman

2013 Schedule Sept. 7

Boys Latin

Sept. 12 Mt. St. Joseph Sept. 20 Sept. 27 Oct. 5

at St. Paul’s at Annap. AC Episcopal

Oct. 11

at Woodberry

Oct. 19

at SS/SA

Oct. 26

Bullis

Nov. 2

Geo. Prep

Nov. 9

at St. Albans

The Bears return nearly half the starters from their 2012 Interstate Athletic Conference championship team for this season. Senior quarterback Kyle Hartman is back for his senior year, and will be joined by cornerback and receiver Dominique Seagears and guard Mike Lorallo. Junior running backs Jamal Francois and Johari Johnson also return. Unfortunately, tight end Austin Ritter along with fellow University of Virginia lacrosse recruit Jack Falk are likely to miss the entire season due to injuries incurred during the lacrosse season. The Bears do return three linemen, senior Andrew Mitchell, junior Kolby Williams and senior Jules Desroaches. Senior Brandon Johnson returns as a defensive back. “Our [junior varsity] team was very successful last year, they won the IAC as well,” Padalino said. “We’ve had a great camp so far, we’ve got 89 players in the entire program, so we have depth.”

— JOHN HARRIS III

Bryan Juarez

2013 Schedule Sept. 6

Northwest

Sept. 12

vs. Wheaton*

Sept. 20

Blake

Sept. 27

at Q. Orchard

Oct. 4

W. Johnson

Oct. 11

at Sherwood

Oct. 18

Gaithersburg

Oct. 25

Rockville

Nov. 1

at Clarksburg

Nov. 9 at Randallstown * at Blair

RICHARD MONTGOMERY Coach: Josh Klotz Last season’s record: 6-4 Returning starters: 5 of 24 2012: avg. PF/PA: 22.3/21.3 Last playoff appearance: 2005

Last fall could not have gone any worse for the Colonels, who put up one of the worst statistical seasons in county history. They were shut out six times and failed to score more than nine points in a single game. They surrendered more than 31 points nine times and 41 or more on eight occasions. But there is optimism in Magruder’s camp under second-year coach Kevin Bernot. “We all were very concerned and depressed about our output offensively and defensively,” he said. “We played a lot of young guys, but it will start paying off.” Magruder has simpliﬁed its 5-2 base defense and multiple formation offense. Sophomore wide receiver/ defensive back Bryan Juarez should be one of the team’s best playmakers along with senior transfer all-purpose player Shawon Nunes. Senior defensive end/left guard Kurtland Elliott and junior wing back/linebacker Brent Martin are also expected to make signiﬁcant contributions.

— KENT ZAKOUR

Renzo Farfan

2013 Schedule Sept. 6 Sept. 12

Rockville at Northwest

Sept. 20 at W. Johnson Sept. 27

Sherwood

Oct. 4

at Whitman

Oct. 11

at Poolesville

Oct. 18

Churchill

Oct. 25

at Wootton

Nov. 1

B-CC

Nov. 8

Clarksburg

The Richard Montgomery High School football team is in new hands as it looks to build on last year’s first winning season in recent history. A former member of the two-time defending state finalist Quince Orchard coaching staff, Josh Klotz certainly has seen what it takes to get to the top of state football. It starts, he said, with adopting the mentality of a champion, expecting to dominate whenever the team is on the field. Additionally, he added, a strong ground game and the ability to stop the run is imperative at the high school level. And that is what Richard Montgomery is built around this year. Klotz said he hopes they’ll be competitive this season. Alex Fehlinger and Liam Duffy are expected to lead the way at running back for the Rockets this year. Klotz said opposing defenses will have to pay attention to a slew of talented senior receivers. Junior quarterback Renzo Farfan has proven he can hit his targets, which include seniors Phil Osborn and Marcus Foster.

— JENNIFER BEEKMAN

NORTHWEST Coach: Mike Neubeiser Last season’s record: 8-4 Returning starters: 7 of 24 2012 avg. PF/PA: 29.7/19.4 Last playoff appearance: 2012

Josh Gills

2013 Schedule Sept. 6

at Magruder

Sept. 12 R. Montgomery Sept. 20

Seneca

Sept. 28 at Gaithersburg Oct. 4

Blake

Oct. 11 at Paint Branch Oct. 18

Wootton

Oct. 25

Clarksburg

Nov. 1

at Q. Orchard

Nov. 8

at Springbrook

The Jaguars’ high-powered offense from last season was hit hard by graduation, as was the defensive unit. However, Northwest is banking on a new group of athletic players to help them stay among the county’s elite. Josh Gills is the favorite to take over the reigns at quarterback. The senior will also more than likely play some wide receiver to allow for sophomore Mark Pierce to take some snaps as well. Coach Mike Neubeiser is also high on speedy junior running back E.J. Lee, and classmate Brandon Williams, a big wide receiver who received plenty of playing time last season on defense, and enjoyed a productive spring in varsity passing leagues. Other key seniors include lineman Brandon Hungerford and defensive backs Luke Pierce and Rodney Snider. Luke Pierce is a three-year starter at the position. “Our strength this season is speed. Our weakness is inexperience,” Neubeiser said.

— JOHN HARRIS III

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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PAINT BRANCH

NORTHWOOD

Coach: Mike Nesmith Last season’s record: 3-7 Returning starters: 12 of 24 2012 avg. PF/PA: 20.0/18.8 Last playoff appearance: 2011

Coach: Dennis Harris Last season’s record: 1-8 Returning starters: 13 of 24 2012 avg. PF/PA: 13.7/26.4 Last playoff appearance: 1982

Zephaniah Langley

2013 Schedule Sept. 6

at Poolesville

Sept. 12

Damascus

Sept. 21

at Blair

Sept. 27

Einstein

Oct. 4

Rockville

Oct. 11

at Seneca

Oct. 17

W. Johnson

Oct. 26

at Kennedy

Nov. 1

at Watkins Mill

Nov. 8

Wheaton

There is optimism at Northwood that the Gladiators will improve their win total. The team returns three players who earned all-county spots from coaches in senior lineman Lucas Kane (6-foot-5, 260 pounds), senior cornerback Zephaniah Langley (5-9, 155) and punter Christian Reyes (6-1, 265). Charles Hennessey returns as a four-year starter at quarterback. Reyes, a junior, anchors the defensive front at tackle. Coach Dennis Harris said that at this point Hennessey is like having another coach on the ﬁeld. “He knows what I’m going to say before I say it, it’s become second nature,” Harris said. He said Langley loves playing against the top playmakers. “He came to me and said he wants to play against [Damascus receiver Jalen] Christian. He loves facing the top threats, and that’s what you love to see as a coach.” Harris said this year’s team has potential. “We think we can compete with anyone.”

Gaston Cooper

2013 Schedule Sept. 6 at Springbrook Sept. 12

Blake

Sept. 20

at Kennedy

Sept. 27

Churchill

Oct. 4

at Einstein

Oct. 11

Northwest

Oct. 18

Blair

Oct. 25

at B-CC

Nov. 1

Sherwood

Nov. 9 vs. Gaithersburg* * at W. Johnson

— KEN SAIN

2013 Schedule Sept. 6

at R. Mont.

Sept. 12

Seneca

Sept. 20

Einstein

Sept. 28

vs. Wheaton*

Oct. 4

at Northwood

Oct. 11

Watkins Mill

Oct. 17

at Damascus

Oct. 25

at Magruder

Nov. 1

Wootton

Nov. 8

Poolesville * at Blair

Rockville football isn’t too far off its back-to-back postseason runs in 2009-10. But the Rams are living in a completely different world. Those were the days when one guy — Crusoe Gongbay — almost single-handedly carried Rockville down its winning path. Stars like that don’t come along too often, though, which is why second-year Rams coach Seth Kenton said his focus has been on building a strong core of players. If a standout like Gongbay happens to enroll, the Rams can dream even bigger. Returning junior Spencer Brigman took over as quarterback last fall out of necessity — his athleticism was Kenton’s best option. The arrival of junior quarterback Chuck Reese, who ran Rockville’s current playbook at the junior varsity level in 2012, means Brigman can be a major playmaker in the Rams’ spread. Rockville will look to counter its size disadvantage by stretching opponents from sideline to sideline and vertically to open up space.

Calvin Reighard

2013 Schedule Sept. 6

Wheaton

Sept. 12

at Rockville

Sept. 20

at Northwest

Sept. 27

B-CC

Oct. 4

at Sherwood

Oct. 11

Northwood

Oct. 17 at Watkins Mill Oct. 25

Damascus

Nov. 1

Einstein

Nov. 8

at Blake

at Frederick

Sept. 12

Gaithersburg

Sept. 20

Wheaton

Sept. 27

at Damascus

Oct. 4

Springbrook

Oct. 11

at Rockville

Oct. 17

Seneca

Oct. 25 at S. Hagerstown Nov. 1 Nov. 8

Northwood at Einstein

Sept. 6

Northwood

Sept. 12

at Kennedy

Sept. 20 S. Hagerstown Sept. 27 at W. Johnson Oct. 4

at Catoctin

Oct. 11 R. Montgomery Oct. 18

Brunswick

Oct. 25

vs. Wheaton*

Nov. 1

Boonesboro

Nov. 8

at Rockville * at Blair

— JOHN HARRIS III

Michael Patterson

2013 Schedule Sept. 6

at Seneca

Sept. 12

Magruder

Sept. 20 at Watkins Mill Sept. 28

Rockville

Oct. 4

Kennedy

Oct. 11

at Blair

Oct. 18

Einstein

Oct. 25

Poolesville

Nov. 1

at Damascus

Nov. 8

at Northwood

Wheaton plays its home games at Blair.

Mike Murtaugh

2013 Schedule Sept. 6

Clarksburg

Sept. 12

at Whitman

Sept. 20

at Damascus

Sept. 27

Magruder

Oct. 4

Churchill

Oct. 11

at B-CC

Oct. 18

Sherwood

Oct. 25 vs. Gaithersburg* Nov. 1

Northwest

Nov. 8

at Wootton

* at R. Montgomery

As usual, Seneca Valley expects to contend for a region title, a goal that hasn’t been reached since 2008 and became only harder to achieve with the transfer of Kevin Joppy to Quince Orchard. Seneca Valley’s strength should be defense. All four starting linebackers return — third-year starter Austen Herbert and Edward Maxwell on the outside and Pacom Tsague and Kris Platt on the inside. Senior Jovon Burriss moves from safety to cornerback to replace Joppy, and senior Brandon Harris and Davon Parker start at safety. Daniel Appouh is back at defensive tackle, though there are still holes around him on the line. Offensively, Joppy will be more difﬁcult to replace. Quarterback Calvin Reighard joins offensive guard Michael Elbert as the only offensive starters. “He’s responsible for carrying the load on offense,” Kim said of Reighard, whose top receivers are Korey Platt and Maxwell, who stepped up at receiver once Joppy left.

Elijah Spottswood

2013 Schedule Sept. 7 vs. Gaithersburg* Sept. 12

Blair

Sept. 20

Springbrook

Sept. 27

at R. Mont.

Oct. 4

Seneca

Oct. 11

Magruder

Oct. 18

at Q. Orchard

Oct. 25

Blake

Nov. 1 at Paint Branch Nov. 8

at Kennedy

* at R. Montgomery

— DAN FELDMAN

When a former offensive lineman for West Virginia University claims his high school football team’s best strength to be the offensive line, it’s usually a good idea to listen. First-year coach Chris Grier, a former Sherwood standout under Bob Milloy, will have to adjust to losing quarterback Jordan Larsen, running back Moses Vines, safety Rich Dipietro and ﬁrst-team All-Gazette kicker Jake Ryder, but he has a big-bodied line on both sides of the ball as a baseline. Expected to be running behind that line is Elijah Spottswood, who tore his anterior cruciate ligament back in April, but he says he is already up to full speed again. Who gets the starting nod at quarterback is currently up in the air, options being Neven Sussman, Tyler Beatty and Shawn Bliss, who took the majority of ﬁrst-team reps during 7-on-7 passing leagues. Paris Atwater, son of NFL star Steve Atwater, will be one of the keys on defense.

Coach: Adam Bahr Last season’s record: 4-6 Returning starters: 9 of 24 2012 avg. PF/PA: 6.6/16.4 Last playoff appearance: 2010

Alexander Evans

2013 Schedule Sept. 6

— JENNIFER BEEKMAN

Paint Branch

Sept. 12 at Clarksburg Sept. 20

at Sherwood

Sept. 27 Oct. 4

Blair Watkins Mill

Oct. 11

at Blake

Oct. 18

Whitman

Oct. 25

at Churchill

Nov. 1

Kennedy

Nov. 8

Northwest

— TRAVIS MEWHIRTER

Coach: Jim Kuhn Last year: 5-5 Returning starters: 9 of 24 2012 avg. PF/PA: 15.9/16.9 Last playoff appearance: 2010

Zac Morton

2013 Schedule Sept. 6

at Blake

Sept. 12

Q. Orchard

Sept. 21

B-CC

Sept. 27

at Wootton

Oct. 4 Oct. 11

R. Mont. at Damascus

Oct. 18 at Springbrook Oct. 25

W. Johnson

Nov. 1

Churchill

Nov. 8

at Blair

It’s no secret Walt Whitman’s football team wants the ball in senior running back Zac Morton’s hands. But that doesn’t mean it will be any easier to stop the county’s third-leading rusher from a year ago. Incredibly quick feet and lateral movement make Morton (20 touchdowns in 2012) one of the county’s more elusive backs. That style of running has enabled him to be quite durable — he touched the ball more than 35 times in most games last fall. Joe Granger’s recently broken arm will be a big hit to Morton’s protection but the Vikings hope to ﬁnd ways to create mismatches and sneak him the ball. Max Sessions’ return from a knee injury will help. Junior Evan Smith is the team’s ﬁrst truly trained quarterback in three years. Returning 6-foot-2 tight end Antony Casey and 6-1 wide receiver Nick Newsham are great options, and don’t be surprised to see Morton catch a few, either.

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The Springbrook High School football team returns a few key players on both sides of the ball, as the Blue Devils look to improve on last year’s 4-6 record under second-year coach Adam Bahr. Quarterback Neiman Blain returns after a broken leg prematurely ended his sophomore season. Julian Granby, who finished out the final three games of last year as the starter, is also back to push Blain. No matter who is throwing the football, however, Isaiah Eisendorf will give them a big target down the field as one of the team’s top wide receivers. Defensively, Bahr said he is expecting big things from defensive end Alexander Evans, who committed to play at East Carolina University on Aug. 13. “We will know a lot after the first month of the season,” Bahr said. “We’ve got Paint Branch Week 1 and Sherwood in Week 3, and Clarksburg sandwiched in between. Our schedule is brutal to start.”

— KYLE RUSSELL

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Getting teen-aged boys to buy into yoga class is difficult. Just ask Wheaton football coach Ernie Williams. But many college and professional teams have bought into its benefits and so have the Knights. They have been attending yoga classes twice a week in the hopes that improved flexibility will help prevent injuries — with a 28-person roster, Wheaton can ill afford losing players. Mental lapses or one bad quarter proved costly for Wheaton, which was on the cusp of playoffs, last fall. Focus is another major benefit of yoga, Williams said. Six-foot-1 dual-threat quarterback Michael Patterson provides physicality at the position and has six starts under his belt. A dynamic backfield — three running backs with varying styles — will give opposing defenses different looks. Wheaton moves up a class to compete in loaded 3A West Region in 2013, but the Knights have stepped outside the box to prepare themselves for the challenge.

Quince Orchard has arguably been the state’s best publicschool team over the past two years, reaching the Class 4A state final both seasons. “The expectations don’t change around here,” Mencarini said. “We’re going to keep doing what we’ve done, and what we haven’t done well, we’re going to try to do better.” The only thing to do better is win a state title, and this team could. Quarterback Mike Murtaugh, who missed most of last season with an injury, is back and “even better,” Mencarini said firmly. Murtaugh works with a talented group of playmakers: receivers Malcolm Brown and Elliott Davis and Seneca Valley transfer running back/receiver Kevin Joppy. When Joppy splits out wide, sophomore Shawn Barlow steps in at running back. Another transfer, Adam McLean from Avalon, joins Connor Tilton on the defensive line. Brown and Davis will also start at cornerback, helping strong safety Kyle Gregory form a sizable defensive backfield.

SPRINGBROOK

Coach: Chris Grier Last season’s record: 9-3 Returning starters: 8 of 24 2012 average PF/PA: 33.9/12.17 Last playoff appearance: 2012

Coach: Ernie Williams Last season’s record: 4-6 Returning starters: 15 of 24 2012: avg. PF/PA: 13.8/24.7 Last playoff appearance: 1996

The Wolverines seem to have a good-news bad-news scenario working for them this season. Gone are skill position standouts Patrick Schlosser (QB), Quinton Littlejohn (RB) and Dontay Hears (RB) — all three playing football at the collegiate level. Watkins Mill, however, does return the majority of its offensive and defensive lines, including veteran seniors Anthony Brigante, Adrian Adams and Jonathan Placido. Coach Kevin Watson is confident that this unit can make holes for players such as senior running back Quinton Schaired and provide protection in the passing game for sophomore quarterback candidates Jaron Woodyard and Joseph Maddox. Woodyard started as a defensive back last season as a freshman. Watson is also confident in the athleticism of Maddox, who will also receive time in the defensive backfield and may play some wide receiver as well. “I’m not going to say that we’re starting over, but we’re regrouping,” Watson said.

Senior running back Charles Lyles will step into a more prominent role this fall to lead the Falcons’ attack. He has a veteran offensive line to run behind, particularly on the left side with junior tackle Jon Bateky (6-4, 230) and senior guard Sweekar Shrestra (5-10, 200) returning. New quarterback Steven Morningstar should rely on veteran receivers Joe Cho, Sean Parker, Joel Hessels and tight end Cody Zinnser in the passing game. Sweekar and Bateky are expected to also lead the defensive line with Steven Pancrazio manning the middle linebacker slot in between outside backers Nic Fisher and Lyles. Parker, Morningstar and Cho are expected to start and provide leadership in the secondary. Just a season removed from qualifying for the postseason for the ﬁrst time since 2005, the Falcons hope the momentum will continue. “Every team is different,” coach Will Gant said. “But this team saw what it took.”

— KENT ZAKOUR

WHEATON

Coach: Kevin Watson Last season’s record: 7-3 Returning starters: 7 of 24 2012 avg. PF/PA: 26.5/13.5 Last playoff appearance: 1999

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2013 Schedule

Charles Lyles

Coach: Dave Mencarini Last season’s record: 12-2 Returning starters: 8 of 24 2012 avg. PF/PA: 36.7/7.2 Last playoff appearance: 2012

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Coach: Fred Kim Last season’s record: 10-2 Returning starters: 8 of 24 2012 avg. PF/PA: 26.8/14.7 Last playoff appearance: 2012

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Quinton Schaired

Paint Branch football coach Mike Nesmith says his senior quarterback, Gaston Cooper, has a great arm, maybe too good of an arm. “He had a gunslinger mentality [last year], he was sure he could make any throw,” Nesmith said. That led to 10 interceptions, one of the things that went wrong in 2012. Nesmith said in summer passing league Cooper started making better decisions, and that should pay off. Cooper has a nice target in three-year starting receiver Javonn Curry (6-foot-3, 171 pounds). Sophomore Malcolm Littlejohn is expected to lead a deep tailback position, joining his older brother Johnny as a key player. Other top returning players: cornerback Samuel Etuaful (5-9, 160) and linemen Chris Young (6-0, 250), Emmanuel Ohene-Akonner (6-4, 240) and Roger White (5-10, 215). Nesmith, for the ﬁrst time in eight years, won’t be focusing on the offense. He gave that up to lead the defense.

SENECA VALLEY

Coach: Seth Kenton Last season’s record: 1-9 Returning starters: 10 of 24 2012: avg. PF/PA: 13.5/35.0 Last playoff appearance: 2010

QUINCE ORCHARD

Coach: Will Gant Last season’s record: 7-4 Returning starters: 12 of 24 2012 avg. PF/PA: 20.7/24.9 Last playoff appearance: 2012

— KEN SAIN

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Spencer Brigman

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THOMAS S. WOOTTON Coach: Tyree Spinner Last season’s record: 4-6 Returning starters: N/A 2012: avg. PF/PA: 19.5/21.3 Last playoff appearance: 2008

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Wootton went through some growing pains in 2012, courtesy of the young team coach Tyree Spinner intentionally opted for. But that has left the Patriots ready to make a run at playoffs this fall. The Patriots now have a multitude of second- and third-year players who have built chemistry and have gotten rid of bad habits together so the team can run like well-oiled machinery in 2013, Spinner said. At the center of the mechanism is junior quarterback Sam Ellis. The county’s second-leading passer (15 touchdowns) last fall and 6-foot-1 sophomore receiver Trevon Diggs (769 yards, 7 TDs), made for one of the county’s most productive scoring tandems. Teams will have to pay attention to Diggs, but Wootton has other options, such as receiver Max Etocke (6-3). Jake Koplin will man the backﬁeld. At middle linebacker, he and sophomore lineman Patrick Bernardo (6-0, 225 pounds) will provide major obstacles on the defensive end.

—JENNIFER BEEKMAN

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Continued from Page B-1 minor in information technology at Rutgers. “I came here from Sligo Middle School to originally play basketball. So it wasn’t until freshman year on [junior varsity] when I played football, but I am glad I did because we’ve really put Bullis football back on the map.” As Bullis, ranked No. 3 in The Gazette’s preseason poll, has won — 23 victories over the past three seasons — the talent level has improved as well. This fall, 17 starters return, including several potential college-level players. Junior running back and Division I-Football Bowl Subdivision recruit Devonte Williams could be the top rusher in the state when the season ends. Sophomore quarterback Dwayne Haskins Jr. moved down from New Jersey and should be a dual threat this fall. Eight defensive starters, including defensive lineman Julian James, linebacker Chris Aust and defensive back Tyamonee Johnson also return to lead a unit that allowed just over a touchdown per game last year. “It’s not just getting better on the ﬁeld — that’s a big part and the most important — but our weight room is so much nicer now,” Herron said. “It used to be terrible and now it is upgraded with a lot more free weights. It’s little things like that, having nice facilities, good academics, a nice campus, a family-orientated atmosphere that makes you feel like you are in a real program to attract people.” Added Williams, who is from Howard County: “It’s been a tremendous turnaround since I’ve been here. Everybody is all acclimated to our system and keeping

Bullis Coach Pat Cilento gives instructions to his team during the Aug. 15 practice at the Potomac school. Bullis opens its season Friday. everything running smooth.” When Cilento took over the Bulldogs just prior — in late July — to the 2010 season, he inherited a private school program in need of a shot in the arm. In the

Bullis School junior running back Devonte Williams.

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the body coordination or psychology to be able to manipulate their body midstride.”

Blake Dove Churchill junior linebacker/running back

Run in Blake Dove’s direction. He dares you. Defensive players don’t always get noticed in the same way as 50-yard scampers, but Dove certainly makes his presence known. “Blake is definitely a ball hawk,” Churchill coach Joe Allen said. “He has a nose for the ball and great instincts.” Dove will also be the Bulldogs No. 1 option out of the backﬁeld this fall. Once he reaches his second gear, there’s really no catching up to him, Allen said.

Kevin Joppy Quince Orchard senior wide receiver

This guy was not on any of the county’s top 10 statistical lists last fall because he’s rarely in the same place two plays in a row. Joppy scored nine touchdowns for Seneca Valley on a combined 830 passing, receiving and rushing yards. “He single-handedly beat our team last year,” Quince Orchard coach Mencarini said. “The whole game they had him up at receiver, then he was in the backﬁeld, he was all over the place and he made the big plays.” Joppy’s ability to perform anywhere on the gridiron makes him a nightmare matchup for defenses.

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three seasons prior to his arrival, Bullis was 4-26 — a major drop for a program that went 27-9 from 2001 to ’04. Since and under the Sherwood High graduate’s guidance, Bullis has posted

three consecutive winning seasons — 6-4, 9-1, 8-2 — and won the 2011 IAC championship, which was the program’s ﬁrst since 1979. “That first year, we came

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Damascus High School junior wide receiver/defensive back Jalen Christian.

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in late, but were able to go 6-4 and have the ﬁrst winning season and get the ﬁrst conference win in quite some time,” said Cilento, who previously led Sherwood during the 2009 sea-

son to a 10-3 mark and a berth in the Class 4A state semiﬁnals. He also was the Warriors offensive coordinator from 2007-08 and was the quarterback when the school won a state title in 1995. “We brought in some new things and a different approach. I’ve had a lot of great young [assistant] coaches and the kids have fed off it. We’ve made a lot of strides, but it gets tougher to win each season because the ultimate goal is to put out a great product on Friday nights.” As Bullis has improved, so has its strength of schedule. Cilento, who still worries about the depth of talent on the team, said he has added more quality non-conference opponents over the course of three years, but he added that nine potential opponents have dropped his program from their schedule. The Bulldogs open up the 2013 season at home on Friday against Washington Catholic Athletic Conference foe St. John’s (D.C.) College High, which defeated Calvert Hall last week. Bullis is also scheduled to play notable nonconference opponents St. Mary’s Annapolis, Archbishop Spalding and Cape Henlopen (Del.) “I’ve seen a lot more people — fans and opponents — get ﬁred up when they talk about Bullis football over the past few years,” Herron said. “A lot more people are interested in how we do and that means we have a little bit more of a target on our backs. But that is good and we just have to keep working. “We want to go undefeated. I mean, we got to take every game one game at a time, but the standard around here now is to win every game and win championships.” kzakour@gazette.net

Walt Whitman High School senior running back Zac Morton.

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Zac Morton Walt Whitman senior running back

The county’s third-leading rusher with 20 overall touchdowns last fall, Morton’s shiftiness and ability to change direction on a dime make even the county’s best defensive players look clumsy. He was given the ball on about 60 percent of Whitman’s offensive plays last fall. That number is not likely to decrease, but Morton won’t be limited to the backﬁeld. His great hands make him a viable target for quarterback Evan Smith.

Devonte Williams Bullis junior running back

Can one be listed as a running back and rack up 500 receiving yards? To be fair, Williams did rush for nearly 1,000 yards as well. Williams has breakaway potential — he scored at least six touchdowns on runs of 50 yards or more last fall. The scary part is he’s only a junior.

Solomon Vault Gaithersburg senior running back

There are generally three types of running backs: Those who run straight through the line, backs who run by defenders and those who run around defenders. A good running back usually possesses two of those traits, Mencarini said. Vault can do all three. “Solomon Vault scares me to death. I’m not looking forward to coaching against him but I love watching that kid play,” Mencarini said. jbeekman@gazette.net

Thomas S. Wootton High School sophomore wide receiver Trevon Diggs.

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The teachers at Westover Elementary School in Silver Spring wear staff shirts with the definition of hope on the back. As a noun, it reads, hope is a feeling of confidence, expectation. As a verb, to hope is to look forward to something, believing it will happen. As a person, the embodiment of hope is fifth-grade teacher Mary Hawkins-Jones, who received the Most Hopeful Teacher in America award Aug. 21 from Gallup at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. “It’s not me — I’m just a symbol of Westover,” Hawkins-Jones said. “It’s Westover, it’s all of us. We have the scores to show hope happens.” Westover was identified by Gallup as a “high-hope” school after students took a Gallup survey of school climate in October. Of the 1,700 schools surveyed nationwide, 192 were identified as high-hope schools. The vast majority of students at those schools believe that the future will be better than the present and that they have the power

to make it so, Shane Lopez, a senior scientist at Gallup who researches hope, wrote in an email. “It’s a matter of resilience,” Principal Patricia Kelly said. “When students come up [against] an obstacle, what do you do to help them? It’s a matter of making sure [help is] realistic.” Kelly pointed to one way by which Westover works to instill hope. Each year the school identifies students who “aren’t making it” and assigns to each a good friend who is a member of the staff or faculty. That friend never identifies himself as having been assigned to the student, but just says hello every day and lets the child know he is important to the school community. When asked by Gallup to name one teacher at Westover who was most hopeful, Kelly named Hawkins-Jones, although, she said, there are several staff members at Westover who “fit the bill.” “I have witnessed Mary, however, sustaining that hopeful compassion of hers over the course of 20 years,” Kelly wrote in an email. “So, no matter whatever ‘ups and downs’ were going on around her, she still focused on the students’ needs. She is truly one of a kind! “She also has willingly shared her expertise and ‘can-do’ attitude with

others in several leadership roles, [for example] grade level chair, team leader, committee chair, leadership team member, etc. This is the ‘ripple of hope’ effect that Shane Lopez ... talks about in his book, ‘Making Hope Happen.’ So, Mary does all this while simultaneously holding high expectations for her students and then teaching them well,” Kelly wrote. Hawkins-Jones said that to her, hope is like a light that starts a glow and as you get closer to the light it gets brighter. “If you don’t have hope it’s like sitting in a dark room,” she said. “What are you going to do in a dark room?” She keeps her students in that light by getting to know them, she said. “I conference with every student, try to get them to think beyond fifth grade, let them know there are a lot of options,” Hawkins-Jones said. “Hope helps you move forward.” Those are also the findings of Lopez, who helped select the Most Hopeful Teacher, a first-time award from Gallup. “Mary Hawkins-Jones knows that everyone wants ‘something more’ out of life,” Lopez wrote. “She helps children discover who they can be and teaches them how to make that vision

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Mary Y. Hawkins-Jones, a ﬁfth-grade teacher at Westover Elementary School in Silver Spring and the Most Hopeful Teacher in America, according to Gallup, greets Connor Zaytoun, 10, and his mother, Rebecca, during an orientation at the school Friday. a reality. She turns wishes into hopes.” Matthew Hladiuk, who also teaches ﬁfth-grade at Westover, works closely with Hawkins-Jones and said he has learned a lot about hope from her. “With her guidance I’ve been able to set goals for students,” Hladiuk said. “You never know what’s inside a child.” Hawkins-Jones said that after she was nominated for the national award she was asked to submit test scores. “Gallup is all about data,” she said. She was then asked to take part in

an interview. “My philosophy on education is that mistakes are opportunities to learn,” she said. “We need to allow students to make mistakes and give them an opportunity to learn. [Instead] we try to save them.” One final message on hope can be found on the bulletin board in her classroom. It reads, “Hope is an amazing gift.” pmcewan@gazette.net

EDUCATION NOTEBOOK Schuylar Johns, an eighthgrader at St. Raphael School in Rockville, won over the judges with her interview skills, poise and presentation to become the 2013 National American Miss Maryland Pre-Teen on Aug. 10. Schuylar, who turned 13 on Friday, will represent Maryland at the National American Miss pageant at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., in November. There she will have the opportunity to win cash, scholarships and prizes. During the state competition, Schuylar, the daughter of Byron and Lynn Johns of North Potomac, also took home top awards for community service, speech, spirit and photogenic qualities. “You have to write a speech and present it,” Schuylar said. “Mine was ‘Be Your Unique Self,’ about self-conﬁdence and self-acceptance. I said, ‘Be a ﬁrst-rate version of yourself, not a second-rate version of someone else.’” Schuylar documented more than 2,000 community service hours in the past three years. Her favorite project is an annual Christmas party she holds, asking guests to bring gifts for pediatric patients at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville. “It’s so much fun. I get to hang out with my friends and do community service at the same time,” she said. She also said she thought

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Schuylar Johns, an eighth-grader at St. Raphael School in Rockville, is crowned Miss Maryland Pre-Teen. the competition was fun and a great learning opportunity. “There were so many great girls,” she said. “When I got called I couldn’t process that it was me at ﬁrst. You feel like you are on top of the world.” During her year as Miss Maryland Pre-Teen, Schuylar will make appearances throughout the state. “I don’t think of it as a responsibility,” she said. “I think of that as a privilege.”

Area Catholic schools announce new principals When schools opened for the new year Monday, four Montgomery County elementary schools in the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington had

new principals at the helm. Brother Gerald S. Hopeck Jr. is the co-principal of St. Francis International School

in Silver Spring. He was the school’s vice principal and tuition ofﬁcer since May 2011. Hopeck is a native of Bridgeport, Conn., and graduated from Kings College in WilkesBarre, Pa., with a bachelor’s in theology and history. He earned a master’s in theology from LaSalle University in Philadelphia. He has more than 12 years of experience as an educator in several Catholic schools. Stephen Lamont comes to St. Bartholomew School in Bethesda from Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington, D.C., where he was assistant principal this past school year. Earlier, he taught math at Car-

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roll for ﬁve years. He has nine years of experience as an educator and holds a bachelor’s in economics from Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., and a master’s in educational leadership and administration from George Washington University. Christie Anne Short, new principal at St. Patrick School in Rockville, has spent her 14-year teaching career in the Archdiocese of Washington. After four years at St. Elizabeth School in Rockville, she joined the team of teachers and staff who opened St. Patrick School to its ﬁrst students in 2004, and has taught there since. She has taught second, third and fourth grades and was named the school’s Teacher of the Year in 2007. She holds a bachelor’s in elementary education from Loyola University and a master’s in special education from John Hopkins University. Andrew Piotrowski comes to St. Martin of Tours School in Gaithersburg from New Jersey, where he has spent his teaching career. He most recently was vice principal of Clifton (N.J.) High School for 12 years. He also was principal of Woodrow Wilson Middle School and Christopher Columbus Middle School, both in Clifton. He is currently studying for a doctorate in educational leadership and holds a master’s in urban educational leadership from New Jersey City University and a bachelor’s in special education from William Paterson University in Wayne, N.J.

Parent orientation at middle school Parents of all students at

Montgomery Village Middle School are invited to parent

orientation from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday. The evening is an opportunity to become familiar with the school and meet with teachers, counselors and administrators. The school is at 19300 Watkins Mill Road, Gaithersburg. For more information, call 301-840-4660.

Volunteers needed to help pack Smart Sacks Manna Food Center of Gaithersburg and Whole Foods Market are celebrating a Kids Day of Service on Sept. 7 to pack Smart Sacks that will be given to students in need the following weekend. Smart Sacks provide Montgomery County schoolchildren at risk of hunger with backpacks full of kid-friendly food every Friday so they have food on the weekends, when there are no school meals for them. The program runs in more than 50 elementary schools, feeding more than 2,200 children each week. The packing events will be held from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Greenridge Baptist Church, 21925 Frederick Road, Boyds, and at Asbury Methodist Village, 333 Russell Ave., Gaithersburg. Volunteers must 8 or older,

with an adult and able to pack groceries, A salad lunch and water will be provided and student service learning hours are applicable. To register, call 301424-1130. Manna Food Center is the main food bank in Montgomery County. Founded in 1983, the nonproﬁt strives to end hunger in Montgomery County through education, advocacy and food distribution.

Pianist spent summer at Tanglewood Alexandra Bartol, a senior at Thomas S. Wooton High School

in Rockville, was invited to participate this summer in the Boston University Tanglewood Institute music program in Lenox, Mass. Bartol has studied piano for 13 years and music composition for seven. She studied both at the institute. The program is part of of the School of Music at the College of Fine Arts at Boston University. This year’s students, selected through an application and audition process, were from the U.S., Europe, South America and Australia. The institute’s Young Artists Orchestra, Wind Ensemble and Chorus performed a series of concerts from July 13 to Aug. 10 in Ozawa Hall on the Tanglewood estate. Bartol is the daughter of Nadya and Tim Bartol of Potomac.

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HEALTH CALENDAR THURSDAY, AUG. 29 CPR for Friends and Family, from 5-8 p.m. at Suburban

Dillingham Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Dillingham Jr. celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary July 20, 2013, with their family and friends at Dave’s Smokehouse in Lexington, Tenn. They were married July 19, 1963, by Dr. E.E. Deusner at First Baptist Church in Lexington. The special event was hosted by Patsy Dillingham’s sisters: Jeannetta Tignor, Katie Foster and Linda Gray. Tom and Patsy have two daughters, Mechelle Quaglietta of Houston and Shannon Keeper and husband Stephen of Frederick; and two grandsons, Chad and Erik Quaglietta of Maryland. Tom and Patsy have resided in Poolesville for 32 years. Patsy is the daughter of Opal Hall White of Lexington and the late Murray Arlen White. Tom is the son of the late Mary Baker of Gates, Tenn., and the late Thomas B. Dillingham Sr. of Ripley, a WWII Purple Heart recipient.

Gonzalez, Quinn Diane and Chris Tillery of Boyds and Martin and Mary Ellen Quinn of Leesburg, Va., announce the engagement of their son, Kyle Brayden Quinn, to Brittany Dawn Gonzalez, daughter of Anibal and Donna Gonzalez of South Amboy, N.J. Both the bride-to-be and the future groom are 2010 graduates of East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C. Brittany is an alumna of Alpha Phi sorority and earned her bachelor’s degree in fashion design and merchandising/business. She is currently employed as a children’s fashion designer at BMGM in New York City. Kyle is an alumni of Chi Phi fraternity and earned his bachelor’s degree in management information systems. He is currently employed as a systems administrator at BAE Systems in Arlington, Va. A 2015 wedding is being planned.

Hospital, 8710 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda. Receive instruction for adult, child and infant CPR and choking rescue. AED will also be discussed. Designed for the general public who want to learn how to save a life. Noncredential course. www.suburbanhospital.org. CPR and AED, from 6:309:30 p.m. at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, 18101 Prince Philip Drive, Olney. The Heartsaver class teaches basic CPR, rescue breathing, and relief of choking for adults, infants and children and Automated External Deﬁbrillator use. After successful completion, the student will receive a Heartsaver AED card from the American Heart Association. This class is for the lay community and is not adequate for individuals who have or will have patient care responsibilities. This class is not designed for health care providers. Health care providers should register under BLS and CPR for Healthcare Professionals. $80; Registration required. www.montgomerygeneral.org.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 3 Infant Care, from 7-9:30 p.m. at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, 18101 Prince Philip Drive, Olney. Class offers a complete head-to-toe look at how to care for your little one and provide you with hands-on experience. Topics include bathing, feeding, diapering, safety issues and much more. $30; Registration required. 301-774-8881, www.montgomerygeneral.org.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 4 Mommy and Me Club, from 10 a.m. to noon, Wednesdays to Sept. 25, at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, 18101 Prince Philip Drive, Olney. Fourweek program of education and support for new mothers and their babies. Discuss with a registered nurse the practical changes that occur after a new baby arrives. Topics include adapting to your new role, breastfeeding/feeding issues, infant development, how to calm a fussy baby and get more sleep to name a few. Program geared for infants to six months. $40; Registration required. 301-774-8881, www.montgomerygeneral.org.

RELIGION CALENDAR ONGOING Damascus United Methodist Church, 9700 New Church St.,

Damascus, offers traditional Sunday morning worship services at 8:15 a.m., a youth contemporary worship service at 9:30 a.m. and a service of liturgy and the word at 11 a.m. with Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. for all ages during the school year. Liberty Grove United Methodist Church, 15225 Old

Hughes, Wendel Kris and Jeff Hughes of Gaithersburg announce the engagement of their daughter, Brooke Alexandra Hughes, to Brian Scott Wendel, son of Jeff and Karen Wendel of Olney. Brooke, a 2002 graduate of Magruder High School, received her bachelor’s degree from East Carolina University in 2006 and in 2011 received a bachelor’s degree in Dental Hygiene from the University of Maryland Dental School in Baltimore. She is currently a registered dental hygienist at a private practice in Germantown. Brian is a 2002 graduate of Magruder High School and received his bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Delaware in 2006. He recently passed the CPA exams and is in the process of becoming a licensed CPA. The wedding date has been set for Oct. 4, 2014.

PLACING AN ANNOUNCEMENT

Lipson Edna and Steve Lipson will be celebrating 50 years of marriage on Sept. 1, 2013. The couple met as medical professionals at the formerly named Baltimore City Hospital and married in Baltimore on Sept. 1, 1963. After brief stints in New York and Oklahoma, they have made their home in Rockville for the past 44 years. More recently, they have enjoyed spending winters at their second home, a condo in Sarasota, Fla. The couple have three grown children, Lisa, Leigh and Leslie; and four grandchildren, Toby, Clara, Maxwell and Liam. In early August, the Lipsons celebrated with family on a ﬁve-day anniversary cruise to Bermuda, one of their favorite vacation destinations.

Columbia Pike, Burtonsville, conducts Sunday morning worship services at 8:30, 9:30 and 11 a.m. Sunday school, nursery through adult, is at 9:30 a.m. 301-421-9166. For a schedule of events, visit www. libertygrovechurch.org. “MOPS,” a faith-based support group for mothers of children, birth through kindergarten, meets from 9-11:30 a.m. the ﬁrst and third Wednesdays of the month at the Frederick Church of the Brethren, 201 Fairview Drive, Frederick. Childcare is provided. This year’s theme, “A Beautiful Mess: Embracing Your Story,” focuses on remembering that beauty can come out of chaos and that your past, present and future can be used for good with God’s love. For more information call 301-662-1819. Email mops@

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Providence United Methodist Church, 3716 Kemptown

Church Road, Monrovia, conducts a contemporary service at 8 a.m. followed by a traditional service at 9:30 a.m. Sunday mornings, with Children’s Sunday School at 9:30 a.m. and adult’s Sunday school at 11 a.m. For more information, call 301-253-1768. Visit www.kemptownumc.org. Trinity Lutheran Church, 11200 Old Georgetown Road, North Bethesda, conducts services every Sunday, with child care from 8 a.m. to noon and fellowship and a coffee hour following each service. 301-8817275. For a schedule of events, visit www.TrinityELCA.org. Chancel choir auditions and rehearsals, 7:30 p.m.

Thursdays at Liberty Grove Methodist Church, 15225 Old Columbia Pike, Burtonsville. Call 301-421-9166 or visit www.libertygrovechurch.org. “Healing for the Nations,” 7 p.m. every ﬁrst and third Saturday of the month at South Lake Elementary School, 18201 Contour Road, Gaithersburg. Outreach church service sponsored by King of the Nations Christian Fellowship. Translation into Spanish and French. Call 301251-3719. Visit www.kncf.org.

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

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great loc, quiet neighborhood, newly renov TH. 3BR 2.5 BA, all new appliances, flooring, & deck w/great bck yrd $1750 Call: 301-775-1912

N.POTOMAC: 2br

3br, 2.5ba TH, fpl, fin bsmt, $1725 + utils, avail 8/15 No pets. 202-236-4197

GERM:Large TH 4br,

OLNEY: 4br, 2.5ba, 3 finished floors,NP, pool/tennis ct, w/d. $1875/mo + utils. Avl 09/01. 301-774-2913

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$379,000

DAMACUS:

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GAITH: 3br, 2.5 newly rmd ba 3lvl th fin bsmt xtra bd, hrwd flrs, $1875 4BR with gorgeous hardwood floors! Neat as a pin and ready for move-in! Deck off FR with fireplace. Great Curb Appeal. MC8080751 Gail Lambers, Realtor (301) 497-1613 Direct Gail.Lambers@verizon.net Gail.Lambers@Lnf.com Office: (301) 384-8700 x 227 www.GailLambers.com G558762

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Hoc OK 240-372-0532

GAITH: 3br, 3.5ba, fin-

ished bsmt, spacious back, close to 200/270 Avail Now $1600 + utils 301-570-8924

GAITH: 5-6BR 4BA,

2 fin lvls. SG Metro. Shops. NS/NP. $2095 Cr chk 240-751-7154 8103 Shady Spring Dr.

GAITHERSBURG:

SFH, 4Br, 2.5 bath , newly renovated, walk out basement, walking dist. to metro. 301806-0292

GAITHERSBURG:

TH 3BR, 2.5BA, finish bsmt, comm pool, cl to Kentlands, $1950 + utils 301-222-7236

GAITH/SENECA 3 BR, HWY/370:

2.5BA TH with W/D, Avail Now. $1600/mo + utils 301-774-2496

GAITH: TH for Rent

in Desirable Communi 4Br 3.5Ba fin bsmt $1750 + utils 301-9771169 or 301-275-2626

GERM:

2.5Ba fpl, deck, wlk out bsmt wlk to Twn cnter nr 270/Bus HOC $1795. 240-383-1000

GERM: SFH 4Br/2Ba

fin bsmt, h/w floors, fenced yard, fireplace. Near 270. $2450. 301-442-5444

4BR, GERM/TH: 2.5BA, wew carpet, paint, deck. Ready to Move In. $1750/mo + utils HOC Welcome 301-972-1788 lv msg

MONT VILL: SFH, 2

Br, fireplace, beautiful setting, needs work, $1495/mo, good credit Call: 410-997-9045 M V : All new remod 3br, 2.5ba, 3 lvl TH, deck, pool NS, NP, $1,550 + utils. Avail Sept 1. 301-990-9294

MV/GAITH:

3br 2.5ba, TH fen yd w/d , AC, renov, $1475+utils nr sch. 301-279-9328 or 206-992-5206

1.5ba 2lvl end unit TH huge back yrd, Lg liv rm, dinrm, eat-in-kit, wood fpl, new carpet paint/Appl.Wootton HS $1,550 301-221-0697

OLNEY: TH, 3Br, 2.5

Ba, fin bsmt, grg, deck, pool/tennis, great nbhd, NP/NS, avl 09/01, $1950 + util Call: 301-938-4587

POTOMAC: lrg 3 br,

2.5 ba, SFH, finished basement, living rm, dining rm, den w/fp, deck, carport, completely remodeled, close to 270, $3100/ month 240-372-8050

ROCK/OLD GTN VILLAGE: EU TH, painted & cleaned and ready to move into! 3 Br, 3.5 Ba, updated kit, sep DR, den, FR, w/o bsmt, grg, CAC $3100/per month Call: 301-540-3985 Huston & Associates

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N.POTOMAC ROCKVILLE: 1 BR

Apt. $1185 incl util, CATV, Free Parking Avail now. NS/NP CALL: 301-424-9205

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BELTSVILLE: 1Br shared Ba w/ a male $400 +util in SFH quiet neighborhod. Avail Now. 301-538-8575

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Male, 1Br $299, master BR w BA $399. Nr Metro/Shop . NS. Avail Now. 301-219-1066

lux apt 1BR, nr bus/shop/lib, pool, fit rm, $585 utils incl, dep 240-477-0622

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3Br, 1.5Ba, deck, renov nr bus/shops, $1450/mo + util Call: 240-508-3497

GAITHER: 1Br & Ba, renovated, nr bus, stores etc, $1200/mo inc util, Avl now Call 301-926-0163

Rm in beautiful SFH, NS/NP Avl Sept 1st, $550/mo w/util inc Call: 301-509-3050

GAITH: basment apt.

Pvt entr, pvt kit & BA, $900/mo inclds util & FIOS. Storage. 301370-7508 Avail 8/1

GAITHERS: 1BR in

SFH unfurn. $650 utils incl. Male NS/NP, 1 mile frm I-270. Avail Immed 240-372-1168

GAITH/MV: 2Br/2Ba Condo w/patio, W/D GAITHERSBURG: Comm Pool $1350/mo 1Br, 1Ba, Shr Kit, + utils, conv location cable/int, N/S N/P, Call: 240-477-0131 $550/month includes utils 240-643-4122 GERM: 2BR/2FB, W/D Newly renovated, near 270/Middle Brook Inter GAITHERSBURG sect. $1400/mo HOC 1 furn room $400 & 1 OK 301-455-8440 rm $500 util incl. nr Metro. Male. 240-305H Y A T T S V I L L E : 2776 or 240-602-3943 2br, 1ba, pvt balc, 2 wlk in closet, upgraded kit, prkng. $1415 GAITHERSBURG 1 utils incld 301-642- rm in TH, nr Ride On, 3203 Michael Rhim $550 Sec Dep. Deck/fp. Avl Immed Beautiful move-in ready CALL: 301-440-4189 2 level, 2 bedroom, 1 and 1/2 baths condo in N. Potomac. GAITHERSBURG: 2 furn. BD, w/shared ROCK: 1Br, newly BA. Close to 270/355. upgraded $1200/mo $500 & $550 utils incl. utils incl excpt electric, & inter access. Parknr metro & I-270. N/S ing. Available now! & N/P Avail Now 240-418-8785 Call: 301-461-0629 ROCKVILLE/KING FARM: 2 BR, 2 FB,

den, balc, W/D, D/W, N/S, N/pets, $1,600, 10/1 301-3713190.

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Lrg Rm in SFH, Pool, full privlgs, Vegetarian, NS. $600 + 1/4 elec Call: 301-482-1425

GAITH:M BRs $430+ 440+475+555+ Maid Ns/Np, nr 270/370/Bus shops, quiet, conv.Sec Dep 301-983-3210 GAITH/MUDDY BRANCH: 1Br, shr

Ba/Kit new carpet, NS/NP, $475/month +utils 240-271-6776

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GLENMONT:

n r ROCKVILLE/OLNEY metro/bus, MBR w/pvt Lrg Single Fam Home BA $650, BR $525 Lrg BR w/priv entr, shrd ba. Utils Incld. shr/bath kit all utils, NP. 301-949-9381 cbl & int incl $725 No pets, no smoking LAUREL: 1 BR baseAvailable Now! ment in TH, prvt bath, 301-924-1818 share kit $650/month utils incl. Close to 95 SILVER SPRING: 202-903-6599 1 BR furn $600. MONT VILLAGE: Access to Metro. Bsmt w/2 Br, priv kit, Includes utilities. Ba & entr, LR, Call: 301-346-9518. $1k/mo + 1/3 util, SPRING C A T V / i n t . 2 4 0 - 6 4 3 - SILVER 2343 or 301-222-7327 Furn rm on 1st flr, shrd kit, lvng rm, Male MONT VILLAGE: util/Internet cbl includFemale for room in ed. 240-882-7458 apt, pvt ba, shrd kit, W/D $550/mo utils incld 301-221-2513

in SFH $550 Plus Utils NORTH POTOMAC: 1st and Last Month in Cheery basement Advance Deposit Req. furn/unfurn w/full Ba & Call 240-606-7259 Br, $975/mo inc util GE RMA NT OWN : Call: 301-529-8632

LG Furn BR in uppr lvl $500 util & laundry included. Sec. Dep Req. Call: 301-605-5199

GERMANTOWN

Mature Male , 1 Furn BR. All utils included. Near 61 Bus Line. Maria 240-671-3783

GE RMA NT OWN :

rm for rent in condo, nr bus/shops, utils, cable, incld $500 301-9724535 Available 9/1

GERM: Furn Br in EU TH near twn cntr DOE & MC $500 inc util NS 240-912-7900 Call: 8-Noon or aftr 5pm GERM: Room in TH.

Partial furnished. Near shops,bus& 270. $500 incl util, catv. NS/NP 301-760-7474

GERM: TH 1 room

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Bsmt w/2BR, 1BA, Prvt Entr patio $1200 incl utils, cbl 301-2319390 / 240-644-2221

SS:Female only 1Br

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furn bsmt rm with priv entr, single person, shr kit/Ba, $700/mo inc util Call: 240-432-4751 ROCKVILLE: NS/NP, part furn nice 2 Br Bsmt Apt, with private entrance $850/mo + utils 301-424-4366

in 2Br/2Ba Condo share common area $450/mo utils included NS/NP 240- 418-2209 for rent. $650 Incl Wifi/parking N/s, N/p. Nr Bus & Metro 301221-7348

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BR, Female, 5min to Metro On Veirs Mill Rd $650 uti incl. NS/NP Call: 240-447-6476

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Huge Holiday Garage Sale. Fri 8/30 - Mon 9/2; 9am-6pm. Furn, HH items, clothes, toys and much more! By text message ONLY 240-426-2247

NANNY/HOUSKPR:

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GAITHERSBURG:

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ELENA’S FAMILY Daycare Welcomes Infants-

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PUBLIC NOTICE WSSC Adopts New Regulation to Reimburse Expenses for Volunteer Board Members On August 21, 2013, the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) voted to adopt new regulation titled REG-ADM-CS-2013-002 - Reimbursement of Expenses for Volunteer Board Members to establish procedures under which Volunteer Board Members may be reimbursed for mileage and dependent care expenses incurred in attending official Commission Board meetings. THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THESE NEW REGULATIONS IS OCTOBER 1, 2013. The new regulation will be available in hard copy at the WSSC Commissioner’s Office on the Lobby Level of the WSSC Headquarters Building, 14501 Sweitzer Lane, Laurel, Maryland, or may be downloaded from the WSSC website at http://www.wsscwater.com/. For more information or for questions related to new regulations, please contact WSSC Corporate Secretary, Sheila Finlayson, Esq., sfinlay@wsscwater.com or 301-206-8200. (8-28, 8-29-13)

DRIVER/HSKPR:

To pick up kids in SS area and do light housekeeping 4:006:30 PM Mon & Wed @ $16/hr. Call Denise 301-905-7302

Daycare Directory

HOUSEKEEPER NEEDED: FT Mon-

August 7, 2013

Fri in Potomac. Clean/ Cook, refs req. some Engl. 240-620-6848

Children’s Center of Damascus Olive Branch Daycare Nancy’s Daycare Bright Ways Family Daycare Ana’s House Daycare Debbie’s Daycare Miriam’s Loving Care Zhilla Daycare Center Steller Care Holly Bear Daycare Blue Angel Family Home Daycare Cheerful Family Daycare

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FURNITURE FOR SALE: b o o k s h e l f GOLDEN RETRIEVwith lighting $250 ER PUPS: b o r n

OBO, home office desk and chair $89 for set, sleep sofa $150, living room tables set $25. and more. Please to contact me at 240.899.6549. Thanks

NOTICE Crown Castle is proposing to install additional antennas on an existing rooftop telecommunications facility at the following site: 9701 Fields Road in Gaithersburg, Montgomery County, MD at Latitude 39° 06’ 53.8"N and Longitude 77° 11’ 57.8"W. Crown Castle invites comments from any interested party on the impact of the proposed action on any districts, sites, buildings, structures or objects significant in American history, archaeology, engineering or culture that are listed or determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Specific information regarding the project is available by calling Lisa Heise at 904-737-1034 during normal business hours. Comments must be received at 8823 San Jose Boulevard, Suite 103, Jacksonville, FL 32217 by September 27, 2013. (8-28-13)

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ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT

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GERMAN TEACHER

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MEDICAL ASSISTANTS Multi-specialty practice located at Rockville is seeking experienced Medical Assistants (at least 2 years). The candidate must be able to work in fast paced environment with frequent interruptions. Email your resume to Advancement Opportunities. jobs@montgomerymedical.com

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District Court Clerk I/II The District Court of Maryland for Montgomery County is seeking a District Court Clerk I/II to work in the Criminal/Traffic and/or Civil divisions. Responsibilities involve specialized clerical work involving court proceedings. Data entry. Filing. Sorting mail. Greeting and assisting the public, law enforcement and attorneys with case information. For more information visit our website www.mdcourts.gov. EOE

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Busy Orthopaedic practice in Kensington has 2 immediate full time openings for a registration/insurance specialist with disability form data extraction experience. We are looking for a customer service driven and enthusiastic individual to join our team. We offer competitive salary and benefits package. 1 to 2 yrs. experience preferred. Please fax resume to: 301-962-7450

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Great job for students, retirees and stay at home moms. Work from home! Answer and handle phone calls from 5pm to 9am two evenings twice a month for staffing agency or one weekend a month. Must have Internet access, and a car. Fax resume to 301.588.9065 or email to cc2439@yahoo.com

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Looking for FT Maint. Tech for residential apt. community in Rockville, MD. Must have min. 3 years exp. in residential maintenance. Knowledge of plumbing, electrical, carpentry, HVAC exp and certification required. Must be available to take emergency calls on wknds. Health benefits available. Please fax resume with salary requirements to 301-424-1288. EOE

MEDICAL ASSISTANT For busy pediatric practice in Mt Airy area with several satellite locations in Frederick County. Intermittent evenings and weekends as well as possible travel to satellite facilities. Previous pediatric exp. preferred. Fax resume with salary req to Clinical Coordinator @301-6952823, mail to 1475 Taney Avenue Suite 201/ email smueller@thepedcenter.com

VETERINARY HOSPITAL

Laytonsville Veterinary Practice has opportunities for full time experienced veterinary technicians. Busy multi doctor practice. Generous wages, health benefits and retirement available. Send resume to laytonsvillevet@aol.com WE’RE HIRING WEEKEND CNAS, GNAS, AND HHAS!

Provide non-medical care and companionship for seniors in their homes. Personal care, light housework, transportation, meal preparation. Must be 21+. Must have car and one year professional, volunteer, or personal experience www.homeinsteads.com/197 Home Instead Senior Care To us it’s personal 301/588-9023 Call between 10am-4pm Mon-Fri

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Execute and document test plans; Document, develop & track all identified defects & test strategies. US Citizenship, HS Diploma/GED, AA Degree or higher, Strong written skills, Valid Driver’s License w/ excel driving record, strong technical diagnostic skills, computer literacy, the ability to interpret documents, setup/monitor computer equipment, and follow maintenance instructions. Ap p l y through gazette.net/careers

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Montgomery County Department of Transportation seeks individuals for full-time and part-time substitute Bus Operators as part of the County-operated transit system (Ride On). Employees’ starting salary will be $17.83 per hour plus any overtime earned. Work schedules vary depending upon work assignment, and are based on seniority. Interested applicants need to be able to read and write, have three years of driving experience, at least one year of direct customer service, 21 years of age, possess a valid driver’s license, and no more then 1 point on their driving record (equivalency will be applied to non Maryland residents). Experience driving a transit bus is a plus. Resumes must be submitted online by September 18, 2013. To view entire job announcement and apply online, visit www.montgomerycountymd.gov/careers IRC12124. EOE M/F/H Job Assistance Fair Information: If you require assistance in the application process, you may join us on Saturday, September 7, 2012 - 9am to 1pm or Monday, September 9, 2012 - 10am to 2pm at the Council Office Building, 100 Maryland Ave., Rockville, Maryland, 1st floor auditorium.

Residential Counselor

Residential Treatment Center for severely emotionally disturbed children & adolescents. Seeking team oriented, focused individuals to help us meet our mission of quality care. Superior benefits, supportive atmosphere. Must be available for day and evening and some weekend shifts. Minimum of 60 college credits w/ 6 in psychology required. Entry level salary approx $31,000. Send resume to : John L. Gildner RICA - HR, 15000 Broschart Road, Rockville, MD 20850; Fax: 301.251-6815; or email to: demetra.swarr@maryland.gov EEO

Volunteer Activities Coordinator

BA Degree in Social Science, Journalism or PR from an accredited college + 2 yrs experience directing & coordinating volunteer activities. Public relations, communication skills experience helpful; computer savvy a must. Position supports nationally recognized program for children & adolescents. Generous paid leave & MD State benes. Starting Salary $28 - $32,000 annually depending on experience. Send resume & cover letter to: JLG-RICA, HR, 15000 Broschart Road, Rockville, MD 20850 or Fax to 301-2516815 or email to demetra.swarr@maryland.gov EOE

Teaching - Instructional Assistant

FT/Contractual - State of MD position at JLG-RICA in Rockville. Must be HS Graduate w/2-Years experience assisting teachers in a classroom setting for adolescent. Instructional Assistant assigned to population of seriously emotionally disturbed adolescents ages 12-18. Candidate works closely w/other members of treatment team, i.e. Educators, Psychiatrists and Therapists. Duties include assisting teacher in providing instruction to special needs students w/range of learning styles/behaviors; Ability to modify plans as required to meet student needs; $15 p/hr. M - F daytime hours. Send resume with cover letter to: JLG-RICA HR, 15000 Broschart Road, Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301-251-6815 EEO

TRAVEL CONSULTANTS Sundance Vacations, a national travel co, in Washington DC is looking for enthusiastic team members. Earn $1000+ wkly. Health benefits, 401(k), paid vac and discount travel. No experience necesary. Will train. Evening and weekend hours. Call for an appt today: 1-877-808-1158

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