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Main Street in Laurel has a two-hour parking limit, which has posed a challenge for some businesses that need parking for employees. Other businesses say the regulations allow more space for customers.

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Enforcement of regulations gets mixed reviews BY

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Employees at Poist Gas Co. on Main Street in Laurel say Sept. 10 was not a pleasant day. Three people who work at the business each received a parking ticket for $25. The gas company employees said they were aware of the city’s two-hour parking limit on Main Street and nearby side streets, but they said the rules had not been enforced until recently — and they received no warning. The business’ parking lot isn’t large enough for staff and company service vehicles, and employees say they are left with few parking options. “How much longer can we continue to operate if our employees have to pay to come to work?” Dana Underwood, an ofﬁce manager at the gas company, said in reference to the parking ﬁnes. “I can totally understand needing to regulate [parking],” Underwood said, “but the businesses need to function too.” Other merchants on Main Street welcomed a more regular enforcement of parking regulations. “Historically, there has not been good enforcement, and I’m glad to see that it is being enforced now,” said Robert Mignon, owner of Minuteman Press on Main Street. “Main Street ought to be available for parking for customers. We want to welcome them here.” Mignon said the lack of parking enforcement on Main Street has been an issue for the past 12 years, on and off. He said he decided to take action recently, after seeing the owner of a nearby business park in front of his store all day.

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period — is ideal for new actors because instead of having to memorize lines, the actors can focus on character development. Rogers, who has been teaching acting at the senior center for about three years, said performing for a live audience adds another dimension to the acting fundamentals learned in

Construction has begun on an $83.1 million replacement high school for the aging Fairmont Heights High School in Capitol Heights. “We are extremely excited about embarking on this journey, about receiving this new facility,” said Principal Torrie Walker during a ground breaking ceremony held Oct. 22. The new school is expected to open in fall 2017, said Melissa Wilfong, vice president of Beltsville-based architectural ﬁrm Grimm + Parker. The new school will be located approximately two miles from the current location, near the bus lot near Columbia Park Road. With an enrollment capacity of 953 students, the 193,000-square-foot school will feature an academic wing for three career academies: Environmental Sciences, Information Technology and Performing Arts, Wilfong said. The current building opened in 1950 and has a long history of importance to the community, having been one of only two high schools blacks were allowed to attend prior to school system desegregation, said Prince

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Brenda Smiley of District Heights and Munro Meyersburg of Laurel rehearse a scene from the play “Love Letters” during drama class at the Laurel/Beltsville Senior Activity Center.

Laurel play puts senior acting students on display BY

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She’s a retired contract specialist and he’s a retired editor, but when acting students Brenda Smiley of District Heights and Munro Meyersburg of Laurel take the stage Nov. 2 at the Laurel Mill Playhouse, they will help bring to life a story of would-be lovers separated by distance.

A.R. Gurney’s “Love Letters,” a play recently performed on Broadway, is the ﬁrst Laurel Mill Playhouse production staged entirely by senior citizens in a drama class taught by Maureen Rogers, the playhouse’s artistic director. Rogers said the play — which unfolds as characters Melissa and Andy sit side-by-side and read aloud letters their characters have written to each other over a 50-year

Local urban legends give generations a good scare Residents share their theories on Goatman, other spooky tales

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A mad scientist mutated into a goat-like creature. A phantom baby crying in the night. An abandoned sanitarium haunted by the souls of long-dead patients. Each Halloween, these stories resurface — Prince George’s County’s own set of fearsome folktales passed

“I think the scariest version is you park your car on the bridge and you see baby handprints on [the car]. Let’s face it, ghost babies are scary.” Barry Pearson, folklorist and English professor down through generations with just enough factual detail to excite listeners’ darkest fears. According to Barry Pearson, a folk-

lorist and English professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, the tales fulﬁll a kind of collective appetite for the frightening or the unexplained.

“Why are some stories told over and over again? There’s something there that we need,” he said. Pearson, a Hyattsville resident, has tracked the history of several local legends over the past few decades, including what he refers to as the most popular ghoul: Goatman. A half-man, half-goat creature that wanders rural areas of the county, some say Goatman was a scientist at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center who experimented on himself,

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Slightly more than half of about 16 residents who spoke at a public fo-

rum on the site selection for College Park’s new city hall Tuesday evening said they preferred moving the public building to a location on Calvert Road as opposed to rebuilding it in its existing location on Knox Road. City ofﬁcials organized the forum to solicit resident feedback on two potential options for rebuilding the

city hall, which needs more space to expand, according to materials presented at the meeting. People who spoke in favor of the 3.73-acre Calvert Road location — the site of a former school which now sits in disrepair — said the project would invigorate the neighborhood and that traveling to the residential location

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would be quicker than to the current city hall, which sits just off of trafﬁccongested Route 1. But others said that the public building belongs on the 1.23-acre site downtown, where ofﬁcials have the option of partnering on a new building with the University

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Halloween Glow Party, 7 to 10 p.m.,

Family Costume Party, 4 to 6:30 p.m., Laurel-Beltsville Senior Activity Center, 7120 Contee Road, Laurel. Looking for something fun to do with the family before you go trick or treating with the kids? Stop by Laurel-Beltsville Senior Activity Center for an evening of fun and games, including a magic show, pumpkin decorating and more. Don’t forget to come dressed in your Halloween costumes. Prizes will be awarded to the family with the best costumes. Contact 301-206-3350; TTY 301-446-3402. Trunk or Treat, 5 to 7 p.m., Our Savior Lutheran Church, 13611 Laurel-Bowie Road, Laurel. This is a free family event with games, moon bounce, decorated cars, candy and hotdogs. Contact 301776-7670, Ext. 512. Halloween Dinner Dance, 6 p.m., College Park Moose Lodge, 3700 Metzerott Road, College Park. Dinner, music, fun, games, Dinner 6-7:30 with music continuing until 11pm. Costumes suggested. Cost is $20 per person. Contact 301-9355525. Youth Programs Manager, 6 to 8:30 p.m., Prince George’s Sports and Learning Complex, 8001 Sheriff Road, Landover. Enjoy an evening of fun youth programs with games, music, moon bounces and other great activities such as a scary house of play and truck or treat. more. Cost is resident: $7; non-resident: $9. Contact 301-583-2400; TTY 301-5832483. Fall Festival at Hope Baptist Church, 6 to 8 p.m., Hope Baptist Church, 8801 Stephens Road, Laurel. Games for preschool and kindergarten to ﬁfth grade, hayride, crafts, moon bounce, face painting, cotton candy, popcorn, and trunk or treat. No scary costumes, please. Contact 301317-8844 or brunyen4@gmail.com. Xtreme Teens: Costume Dance Contest and S’mores, 7 to 10 p.m., Blad-

ensburg Community Center, 4500 57th Ave., Bladensburg. Bring your friends and come dressed in your scariest costume. You’ll dance the night away and also enjoy s’mores with a Park Ranger. Contact 301-277-2124; TTY 301-445-4512. Faith, Food and Fun Fall Harvest, 7 to 10 p.m., New Covenant Church, 3805 Lawrence St., Colmar Manor. Enjoy hay rides, games, desert decorations, s’mores, and dinner with us. Admission is free with a bag of candy or a perishable food item. Contact 240-343-4737 or elandon.ncc@ gmail.com.

Mount Rainier Nature and Recreation Center, 4701 31st Place, Mount Rainier. Get ready for the Halloween Glow Party. Come dressed in costume and enjoy a frighteningly good time. Cost is resident: $3; non-resident: $4. Contact 301-9272163; TTY 301-699-2544.

Wayne K. Curry Sports and Learning Complex, 8001 Sheriff Road, Landover. Resources for all Prince George’s County residents who are homeless or at risk for homelessness. Contact 301-9097063.

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NOV. 1 Fall Yard Sale, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., 3799 East West Highway, Hyattsville. Outdoors will feature the community yard sale, moon bounce and playground, seasonal crafts, bake sale, books and cards, fantastic pork BBQ, homemade soups, pumpkin pie, and more. Inside will be a thrift center from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Contact 301-277-2302. Flu Clinic, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Prince George’s Sports and Learning Complex, 8001 Sheriff Road, Landover. Protect yourself and visit one of Prince George’s County’s Flu Clinics. Contact 301-8837879.

Prince George’s County Veterans StaSlavic Food Festival, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.,

St. Gregory of Nyssa Byzantine Catholic Church, 12420 Old Gunpowder Road Spur, Beltsville. Featured will be popular Eastern European foods, a bake sale including Kolachi and other homemade sweet treats and a rafﬂe. Free admission and parking. Contact 301-552-2434. Free Flu Vaccination Clinic, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., First UMC Laurel, 424 Main St., Laurel. Open to everyone in the community. For further information call Becky Boeckman at 301-725-3093 or becky. boeckman@fumcl.org. First-Time Homebuyer Workshop, 11 a.m., Langley Park Community Center, 1500 Merrimac Drive, Hyattsville. Details How First-Time Homebuyers can access up to $60,000 in down payment and closing costs. Contact 301-883-5456. Around the World with Wilbur Wright, Noon to 3 p.m., College Park Aviation Museum, 1985 Cpl. Frank Scott Drive, College Park. A fun and educational tour of the museum, where you can make your own passport, visit places around the world, and learn a little bit about aviation history. Visit the museum’s front lobby area to get started. Contact 301-864-6029; TTY 301-699-2544.

NOV. 2 College Fair, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Seat Pleasant Activity Center, 5720 Addison

Prince George’s County Veterans Stand Down and Homeless Resource Day, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.,

Road, Seat Pleasant. Contact 301-3362600.

Artful Afternoon — Greenbelt Dances Expo, 1 to 4 p.m., Greenbelt Community

Center, 15 Crescent Road, Greenbelt. This event marks the return of the Greenbelt Dances. Expo with free performances and workshops in a variety of movement traditions. Contact 301-397-2208. Love Letters, 2 p.m., Laurel Mill Playhouse, 508 Main St, Laurel. The piece is comprised of letters exchanged over a lifetime between two people who grew up together, went their separate ways, but continued to share conﬁdences. Cost is $20 general admission and $15 for seniors 65 and over, children 12 and under and active military. Contact 301-617-9906 and press “2.” Megan Van Wagoner: “Comforts of Home,” 2 p.m., Montpelier Arts Center,

9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel. Van Wagoner’s sculptural work captures moments in a narrative and expresses them as artifacts. Contact 301-377-7800 or montpelier.arts@pgparks.com.

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Bowie Community Theatre looks to scare up some laughs with “The Murder Room.” SPORTS Bowie High School’s football team travels to Oxon Hill to play at the county’s newest stadium, including an artificial turf field, against the Clippers. Check online for coverage.

NOV. 3 Homeschool Day, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., College Park Aviation Museum, 1985 Cpl. Frank Scott Drive, College Park. Home-schooled students of all ages and their parent-educators are invited to the museum for a day of learning and adventure. Please call the museum in advance to register. Cost is $4 per person. Contact 301-864-6029; TTY 301-699-2544.

NOV. 4 Savage Bluegrass, 7 p.m., Elsie’s Bar

and Restaurant, US Route 1 South, Laurel. Contact 301-317-7796.

NOV. 5 Prince George’s County District III Coffee Circle, 9 to 11 a.m., Wegmans,

Woodmore Towne Centre, Glenarden. Contact 301-602-6857.

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Laurel resident Halima Adenegan took a while to figure out her career path. She began her quest as an undergraduate student at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she graduated in 2011 — but decided to make changes along the way. “When I got there, I thought I was going to be a pre-med major, but after a while, I realized that wasn’t for me,” said Adenegan, 24, a law student now attending the Washington and Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Va. Her quest not only helped her find a direction for her goals, it also served as inspiration for the 2008 graduate of Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt to create a program that provides mentorship and advice to high school girls at her alma mater. “I was thinking about how much more I could have done if I’d had someone who’d already walked down the same path to give me guidance,” Adenegan said. Adenegan said the mentoring group at Roosevelt is also intended to be a space where girls can feel comfortable discussing difficult issues, which is why it is only open to girls. Adenegan said she spoke with Roosevelt Principal Reginald McNeil about her idea for forming a mentoring group and launched the program in 2012. She named the program Imara Roose — Imara is Swahili for strong and resolute, Adenegan said,

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Student and mentor members of Imara Roose, a mentoring group for female students at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt, pose in Washington, D.C., during a scavenger hunt event. Laurel resident Halima Adenegan, a Roosevelt graduate, created the group to help guide students. while Roose, pronounced “rose,” is a pun on the school’s name and also representative of the ﬂower, which denotes beauty. Adenegan recruited a group of 27 female college students to serve as mentors. The group meets weekly on “Mentor Mondays” with approximately 40 students to discuss a variety of topics. Sham Abraham, 17, a senior at Roosevelt, said she learned about the program from a friend and decided to give it a try. “They talked about a variety of different subjects that are important to our age group,” said Abraham, a Greenbelt resident. “We were just talking about eating disorders, and we talk about relationships, we talk about school and how it affects everything, so I thought it could be a really good outlet for me.” Mentors also meet every other Wednesday with interested students to provide one-on-one guidance and advice on the college application process.

“We come and we mentor and have girl talk with the girls who are seniors, to get them prepared mentally for college,” said Robina Onwonga, 22, of Bowie, a student at the University of Maryland, College Park, and alumna of Roosevelt. “I really wish that I would have had someone like that when I was in high school to guide me and to answer the questions I had, because it deﬁnitely would have made the college process easier.” They also perform community activities that help students meet community service requirements for graduation. “I really like it,” said Kadija Diallo, 17, a junior at Roosevelt. “I’m going to be a senior next year, and I’m on my way to college, and I don’t know what I want to do in college, so they’re going to help me get there, get my community service, help deal with everyday life, stuff like that.” janfenson-comeau@gazette.net

DuVal High to host college fair

Taste of Laurel planned Nov. 2

DuVal High School in Lanham will be hosting a college fair for Prince George’s County Public Schools seniors and juniors and their families from 6 to 8 p.m. Nov. 5. More than 15 colleges and universities, as well as U.S. military recruiters, will be on hand for the event, said Deborah Williams, DuVal’s College and Career Readiness chairwoman. — JAMIE ANFENSON-COMEAU

About 10 restaurants have signed up to participate Nov. 2 in the seventh annual Taste of Laurel organized by the Laurel Historical Society, said Lindsey Baker, the organization’s executive director. “We think it’s a great opportunity for the people in the community to see

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the locally owned small businesses that really care about their community,” Baker said. “It’s our most popular event.” The tasting event will be held from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Laurel Museum, located at 817 Main St. Participating restaurants will each set up a table with food. The cost of admis-

sion to the event is a can of food, which will be donated to a nonproﬁt organization serving people in need, Baker said. Although the specific organization has not been determined yet, she said that in previous years food donations from the event have gone to Laurel Advocacy and Referral Services. apopovici@gazette.net

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Prince George’s County school officials are instituting new programs and strategies to help recruit male teachers and teachers for its specialty school expansions. Deborah Sullivan, director of human resources strategies and workforce development for county schools, said the department has been developing new programs to target the hiring of teachers with backgrounds in Montessori, International Baccalaureate and language immersion following the expansion of those programs this year, as a new grade will be added to each program expansion each year. “We know that Dr. [Schools CEO Kevin] Maxwell has tons of expansion programs, and we ensure that we are looking forward to what the needs will be for FY16,” Sullivan said. “We’ve started making connections with universities and colleges across the nation, specifically targeting bilingual education programs, Montessori programs, language immersion programs.” Sullivan said the school system will also begin a Montessori resident teacher program beginning in 2015. Resident teacher programs help professionals in other fields attain teaching certification. School system spokesman Max Pugh said the Montessori resident teacher program is intended for those who already have their Montessori certification but need Maryland State Department of Education certification to teach in public schools. The first cohort has 15 openings and will begin in June. Sullivan said that one-third of the 1,100 new teachers hired this school year were male, an increase over prior years and part of a targeted focus to bring more men into the classroom.

Sullivan said the school system has targeted male hires by bringing ambassador teachers on recruitment trips to colleges and universities. “I was very excited and pleased to hear about the number of male educators hired,” said appointed school board member Curtis Valentine. “As a former male educator myself in the school system and someone who came to the system as an alternative certiﬁcation candidate, this is something I’m very passionate about.” Valentine said having more male role models in the schools helps decrease the dropout rates among male students. janfenson-comeau@ gazette.net

Sometimes plain talk works best! Our County is the epicenter for determining who represents us; and the time is now to vote. The issues are crucial: our children deserve a first rate education; our working families deserve a high quality of life; our businesses deserve to thrive; and our communities deserve to be safe. Tackling these, and other issues will depend on who is in office. It’s our decision! We will turn our backs and accept the consequences of indifference; or; will we face the task and take what we deserve.

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After seeing large corporations fall prey to hackers, Prince George’s County business owners say they are taking extra precautions to safeguard their customers’ data. “It is a concern for us, with

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Home Depot and Target getting hacked,” said Dana Underwood, ofﬁce manager at Poist Gas Co. on Main Street in Laurel. “You hear about it all the time and you know that, no matter how big or small you are, the threat is out there.” Underwood said the company started offering online payment options to its approximately 4,000 customers in July, and at the time the system was launched, she made sure security protocols were in place.

She said the amount of sensitive information the company collects is minimal, and customers’ information is not saved in the system. Maureen Rogers, administrative coordinator of the Laurel Board of Trade, said she is not aware of breaches or cyber attacks affecting any of its more than 100 members, but added she takes common-sense precautions such as making sure her computer is not unattended and exercising caution when adding new members to the board’s Facebook group. “A lot of times it’s just a front for spamming/advertisement,” Rogers said, referring to some Facebook users who request to be connected on the social network. “We’re aware of emails that come in. ... We learn not to open malicious spam.” At S&M Auto Supply Inc. on Kenilworth Avenue in Bladensburg, owner Stanley Stern said he and his staff are careful about what emails they open and have taken precautions such as installing anti-virus software. Security experts recommend that everyone safeguard personal, ﬁnancial and corporate information online, and are promoting such efforts this month, which is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. For more information on cybersecurity, visit the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s website at www.dhs.gov. apopovici@gazette.net

New software would let residents check on plowing progress BY JAMIE ANFENSON-COMEAU STAFF WRITER

In the event of snow this winter, Prince George’s County commuters may be able to check up-to-the-minute road conditions from their computer or mobile device, thanks to a new software program being developed and piloted by the county. “This winter season, we will continue to work to ensure that our roadways are cleared and safe for the motorists in Prince George’s County, and we will also take a proactive approach to enhance communications with our residents,” Darrell Mobley, director of the county’s Department of Public Works and Transportation, said in a statement. The department is piloting a new online Situational Dashboard, which ofﬁcials hope to make available to the public through personal computers and mobile devices by the ﬁrst snowfall, said Paulette Jones, special assistant to Mobley. The software will provide weather reports and real-time views of major county roads, Jones said, through a partnership with the State Highway

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Paulette Jones, special assistant to the director of the Prince George’s County Department of Public Works and Transportation, demonstrates the new Situational Dashboard the county is piloting this year. Administration, allowing access to their cameras. It will also link with the county’s Automated Vehicle Locator system, which tracks county and contractor snow vehicles to see where they’ve been and where they’re going, Jones said. “We’re really hoping that by having this device, folks won’t have to call in to us, but they’ll ﬁnd out the information ﬁrsthand,” Jones said. Jones said the Situational Dashboard is being developed in-house by the county’s engineers and information technology department. A cost for the program was not yet available. “The cost is also going to depend on what they have to do to put it online, whether ad-

ditional servers are needed,” said Carole Terry, spokeswoman for DPW&T. The department held a dry run of its snow removal procedures on Oct. 27, allowing staff to utilize the new Situational Dashboard and to monitor the progress of snow vehicles as they went on their routes from the Trafﬁc Response and Information Partnership Center in Forestville. Last year, $1.5 million was budgeted for snow removal, but actual costs exceeded that by $6 million. This year, $1.95 million is budgeted for snow removal, Jones said. janfenson-comeau@ gazette.net

Police, fire staff visit Montpelier students Members of the Prince George’s County police and fire departments came to Montpelier Elementary School in Laurel to help promote reading as part of the “Read for the Record” campaign. County officers Jason Wilson and James Beasock, as well as firefighters Frank Nicholson, Luke Gannett, Javon Height and Zach Proffen visited the school Oct. 20 to read to first- and second-graders, said Tiesha Burgess, Montpelier’s reading lead instructional teacher. “It’s important for the students to see community members coming out and talking about the books they read, and the things they read in the course of their work,” Burgess said. “It helps students to see that literacy is important no matter what your career field.” — JAMIE ANFENSON-COMEAU

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New Hope Academy, an international private school in Landover Hills, held its annual Community Service Day on Friday, and students from sixth through 12th grade worked on a variety of projects. Male students worked on service projects at the school, including painting, landscaping, repair and cleaning, said school spokeswoman Michelle Morse. Morse said female students traveled to Washington, D.C., to attend a workshop and a clean up on Georgia Avenue sponsored by Women’s Federation for World Peace, a D.C.-based nongovernmental organization that promotes peace, women’s rights and community service. “By focusing on doing our ‘personal best’ and always leaving the world around us a little better than we found it, we can become the kind of people who help to change the world a little bit every day, in every situation,” New Hope Academy Principal Joy Morrow said in an e-mail. — JAMIE ANFENSON-COMEAU

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Team will face 2013 champion in Feb. 3 competition BY ALICE POPOVICI STAFF WRITER

The extra science books Michael Stroud, 11, and his Science Bowl teammates from Bond Mill Elementary School in Laurel have carried home since September might have made for heavy backpacks — but the students said their hard work was rewarded when they won the final round of the quarterfinal competition Tuesday. “We work really well as a team,” said Michael, captain of the four-member team who would get together to study for the competition during lunch and recess. “This is gonna be our year.” Michael led his team — including Braxton Harsley, 10; Joshua Webb, 10; and Peyton Ridgely, 11 — to a 395-90 victory against Laurel Elementary School during the “Jeopardy”-style competition, now in its 29th year, at the Bonnie F. Johns Educational Media Center in Landover. The team will advance to the semifinal competition on Feb. 3, when they will face opponent Glenarden Woods Elementary School, whose team was the elementary school champion in the 2013 Science Bowl. “They’re sharp, they work well together and they don’t get flustered,” show host David Zahren said of the Bond Mill team. Zahren said the school has sent a team to the Science Bowl every year since the competition began, and that the students owe part of their success to the enthusiasm of their coach, Kathy Jacobs. “She’s very clearly a fan of Science Bowl and she takes it personally,” Zahren said. “And I think the kids sense that.” Thanks to their vocabulary training — which Jacobs had encouraged — the Bond Mill students knew that entomophilous plants are pollinated by bugs because they knew that entomology is the study of insects, Zahren said. They also knew that “migra-

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Joshua Webb, Michael Stroud and Braxton Harsley, fifth-grade students at Bond Mill Elementary School, discuss a question at the Science Bowl. tory” is the opposite of “sedentary.” The team said that focusing on vocabulary helped them figure out the answers to several questions. “Prefixes and suffixes really helped us during the competition,” Braxton said. He and his teammates said that as they prepare to face Glenarden, they will work on their game strategy —

which they did not want to give away. “We’re going to be ready in February,” Michael said. Zahren, who takes the time to learn a little about each student’s interests before the show, said the children who do well on the show are curious and have many interests. For instance, he said that Sean Shackelford, 9, one of the students

on the Laurel Elementary School team, enjoys writing short stories in his free time. Meanwhile, his teammate, Jose Guevara, 9, said he wanted to be on the show so he could learn something. In the ﬁrst round of competition, Laurel Elementary defeated Vansville Elementary School in Beltsville with a score of 215 to 125. Vansville’s team includes captain Ethan Vinodh, 11; Jasmine Ives, 10; and Sammar Jaffery, 10. In the second round, Bond Mill defeated opponent Whitehall Elementary School — whose team includes captain Meghan Rader, 11; Tinuke Alarapon, 10; and Alex Young, 10 — with a score of 275 to 170. “It was a fun afternoon,” Zahren said. “I liked the enthusiasm.” apopovici@gazette.net

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A special Prince George’s County sheriff’s unit tasked with tracking down violent offenders has helped close nearly one-quarter of the outstanding warrants in the county — and counting. At the end of 2012, there were almost 500 open, active warrants for violent felony offenders in the county, 23 of which were related to homicides, said Capt. William Mints of the county sheriff’s department. In July, the number was

down to 377 warrants, with 15 related to homicides, he said. Warrants come to the sheriff’s department if the county police department cannot serve them in a certain period of time, usually 90 days, Mints said. Mints attributes much of the department’s success in tracking down violent criminals to the new Fugitive Apprehension Surveillance Team (FAST), which began as a cold case unit last November and was renamed and expanded in July. “I think in a lot of the aged cases, those [violent felony offenders] may have never been apprehended if it weren’t for the efforts of the FAST team,” said Mints, who oversees warrant operations. “Those are the people the citizens really want

us to pursue and capture.” Before the FAST squad, the number of open violent felony warrants fluctuated, but hovered around 500, Mints said. Ideally, the department would like to see the number whittled down to 350 by the end of the year, he said. The closed warrants mean suspected violent offenders are off the streets and unable to commit future crimes, said John Erzen, a spokesman for the Prince George’s County state’s attorney’s office. “The sheriff’s department has worked really hard to get those [open warrant] numbers down,” Erzen said. “We’re really pleased they’re making a dent in those numbers. Anything we can do as a team that reduces the number of violent offenders we have on the streets is a good thing.” The FAST squad was the brainchild of Lt. Alex Maldonado of the sheriff’s office, who said he spent five years as a deputy sheriff and five years as a U.S. Marshall. Maldonado said he realized the department could be much more effective in closing warrants if it assigned dedicated personnel specifically to that task. “After a lot of effort we put in to find these people, we weren’t able to do so because of the lack of time put in on the cases,” he said. “So what this squad is doing is completely concentrating on one case at a time. We selected the best investigators we have.” While Maldonado no longer works with FAST, he said he is pleased to hear of the progress the squad is making. “They’ve done excellent,” he said. “They always exceed my expectations.” eshaughnessy@gazette.net

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A new marketing campaign is aimed at highlighting the “hidden gems” of Prince George’s County for potential visitors and businesses. The campaign — Experience, Expand, Explore Prince George’s County — launched Monday at National Harbor. “We want folks from around the world to experience the great things we have to offer here in Prince George’s County, from our history to our great new attractions,” said County Council Chairman Mel Franklin (D-Dist. 9) of Upper Marlboro. The ﬁrst phase of the campaign has been budgeted at $500,000 for six months and will run through April, said Barry Hudson, senior policy adviser to County Executive Rushern L. Baker III and manager of the communications division. “This builds on all of the stuff we’ve done over the past four years to change the public perception of Prince George’s County,” Hudson said.

The campaign will feature advertisements on Metro trains and stations, on billboards in the county, during radio trafﬁc reports and at the southwest terminals of Baltimore-Washington International and Reagan National airports, said Gwen McCall, president of the Prince George’s County Economic Development Corp. The advertisement will also be wrapped on a county bus on Route 21, which runs from the New Carrollton Metro Station to Upper Marlboro. McCall said the initial campaign is geared toward attracting businesses and individuals outside the county to see what Prince George’s has to offer, including lower lease rates, close proximity to three major airports and Washington, D.C., as well as being home to Joint Base Andrews, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and several colleges and universities. The campaign will be supported online and through social media through a website, www. experienceexpandexplorepgc.com, as well as through mobile applications. J. Matthew “Matt” Neitzey, executive director of the Prince George’s Conference and Visitor’s Bureau, said tourists spend more than $2.25 billion annually in Prince George’s County. janfenson-comeau@gazette.net

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Continued from Page A-1 Pearson said. Since the days of early Greek mythology, goats have often been the subject of folklore and even cults, but Goatman likely made his first appearance in Prince George’s in the 1960s, Pearson said. “People say goats are cute, but they’re really not if you really look at them,” Pearson said. “They become a manifestation of the root of what our [devil] is with the horns and the hooves.” Mark Opsasnick of Greenbelt spent years writing about unexplained phenomena and was regarded as an expert on Goatman before his research interests changed to rock ‘n’ roll history, he said. As a student at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt in the 1970s, Opsasnick heard some of the earliest versions of the myth, which surrounded Fletchertown Road in Bowie. “Fletchertown Road at the time was just a little country road and it was a really scary, really spooky area,” he said. “We’d get 20 or 30 carloads of kids all driving down Fletchertown Road. That was the big thing: Go to a football game, go to a party, then go look for the Goatman. It became almost a weekly ritual.” Contrary to the popular legend, Kim Kaplan, a spokeswoman for the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, said the center never experimented

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on goats and that scientists at the center don’t give much credence to the idea that one of their former colleagues could be running around the county terrorizing carloads of teenagers. “I mean, come on, don’t you think we would have let a scientist retire by now?” she said with a laugh.

A far cry One of the oldest macabre myths circulating the county is Crybaby Bridge, Pearson said. Some version of the story is told all over the country, he said, with most renditions involving a mother allegedly throwing her newborn over a bridge. “I think the scariest version is you park your car on the bridge and you see baby handprints on [the car],” he said. “Let’s face it, ghost babies are scary.” The legend has been ascribed to several bridges in the county over the years, including Governers Bridge in Bowie — about a mile from where former Bowie resident Bob Kirchoff said he grew up. While Kirchoff said he never witnessed paranormal activity on the bridge, he did notice something strange underneath it. “One thing that was weird to me was I could never catch any ﬁsh — and I ﬁsh in tournaments — within about 40 to 50 feet on either side of the bridge, no matter what I used,” Kirchoff recalled. “This was odd to me because as most experienced

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Glenn Dale Hospital is a former tuberculosis sanitarium that was abandoned in 1981, but urban legends have made up a much more eerie history for the property. fisherman know, fish like to congregate around bridges for cover.”

Dispelling myths One of the newer urban legends in Prince George’s County involves Glenn Dale hospital, a former tuberculosis sanitarium that closed in 1981. “Anytime you have a big abandoned structure, especially a hospital, and if it’s kind of fenced off and guarded but still pregnable, you’re going to get

it to become a haunt for teenagers,” Pearson said. “They’re going to go there and break in. They’re going to do that so they can get scared, so they have to invent some reason it’s a scary place.” While local lore describes the group of buildings as haunted by the ghosts of mentally disturbed patients, Kira Calm Lewis, a spokeswoman for the county’s Department of Parks and Recreation, said the hospital was never a psychiatric facility.

“I think the active imaginations of local teenagers probably turned the Glenn Dale hospital into many things over the years,” she said. “But as far as what the facility was used for, it was only used to isolate tuberculosis patients and then for the indigent.” The Department of Parks and Recreation currently owns the property and is seeking investors to redevelop it, Lewis said. Though Goatman, Crybaby Bridge and Glenn Dale hospital

stories have been circulating the county for decades, Pearson doesn’t attribute the legends’ timelessness to academics like himself, but to a particular demographic of storytellers: teenagers. “A folklorist always looks at who tells these stories, who owns this legend, and all three [of these stories] are generally told by teenagers,” he said. Andrew Hethmon, 20, of Bowie said he grew up in Upper Marlboro hearing stories about the Goatman and Crybaby Bridge, although the version he recounted morphed from those circulating during Opsasnick’s high school years. “What they say is that if you go down to Crybaby Bridge, you’ll hear the sound of children crying because there’s a barn near there where the Goatman steals newborn babies,” he said. “If you go there and park your car, he’ll take you.” Hethmon said he has also heard stories about ﬂoating skeletons in the basement of Glenn Dale hospital. “I can’t pinpoint exactly where I’ve heard it, it’s just one of those things where growing up, you hear about it,” he said. Pearson said hopes the stories don’t end with Hethmon’s generation. “I’d like to see [the legends] stick around,” he said. “People just have been interested, and we kind of like them. I’d hate to see it die out.” eshaughnessy@gazette.net

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Three injured, released from hospital BY JAMIE

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Police are still looking for a suspect who shot three people Friday leaving a restaurant in Hyattsville. According to Hyattsville police, around 8 p.m. Friday, an altercation occurred inside Qdoba Mexican Grill on America Boulevard at the University Town Center in Hyattsville.

One person from the altercation retrieved a gun from his parked car and returned to the restaurant, opening ﬁre on a group of people leaving Qdoba, according to police. Three individuals — two men and one 16-yearold girl — were shot in the leg, said Hyattsville police spokesman Chris Purvis. “All victims have since been released from the hospital with minor injuries,” Purvis said. Purvis said detectives are currently working on the case and reviewing security footage. Anyone with information is asked to call the Hyattsville police at 301-985-5060. 1935276

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Continued from Page A-1 “It took my customers’ parking away,” Mignon said. “That’s when I pushed the city to enforce the two hours.” Laurel police ofﬁcials said that complaints from Main Street business owners and resi-

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Continued from Page A-1 class. The production will be the ﬁrst performance by the class in a theater setting. “You don’t really experience the thrill until you’re onstage,” Rogers said. “It takes you out of yourself ... . You’re so completely focused that it’s

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Continued from Page A-1 George’s County Councilwoman Andrea Harrison (DDist. 5) of Springdale. Delores Brown of Glenarden, a 1954 graduate of Fairmont Heights and daughter of the school’s ﬁrst PTA president, said she was very glad to see the

dents in the last three to four months precipitated more vigorous enforcement of the parking regulation, but the law has always been in place. “Parking enforcement is one of those situations — it’s one of those issues where you can’t please everyone,” said Lt. John Hamilton, services commander for the Laurel Police Depart-

ment. “I’ve heard from both sides.” Hamilton said the two-hour parking limit has been enforced during the entire 15 years he has been with the department, though at times more regularly than other times, based on the number of complaints received. Recently, he said he had heard complaints not only from busi-

ness owners, but from shoppers and from people who live on Main Street and could not ﬁnd parking. Jim Collins, a driver at the Napa auto parts store on Main Street, said he had also been asking the city to enforce parking regulations because the lack of storefront parking is bad for business.

“A lot of people tell me they don’t want to stop here,” Collins said, after pointing out three cars he said had been parked on Main Street at least four hours, in violation of the two-hour parking limit. “There’s no place to park.” But Janeen Butler, a stylist at White’s Barber Co. on Main Street, said that parking enforce-

ment was so stringent on Sept. 12 that not only did she and one of her coworkers get a ticket — one of her customers did, as well. “He was parked right in front of the shop. His daughter was getting her hair done,” Butler said. “Looked out of here and saw the ticket on the dash.”

very relaxing in the end.” Richard Meyersburg, a retired computer analyst who is taking the drama class with his twin brother, Munro, said the play will be challenging because the two characters, who will be seated and reading from a script throughout the play, have to be able to get the story across just by focusing on how they deliver the lines.

“I had the feeling there’s a certain sadness in this, that life has sort of kept them apart,” Meyersburg said of the play’s two characters. “Our job is to make the audience understand what’s going on.” Richard Meyersburg of Laurel and Theresa Joyner of Hyattsville will portray the two characters in the ﬁrst act of the play, followed onstage by

their classmates, Smiley and Munro Meyersburg, who will portray the two characters in the second act. Two remaining students in Rogers’ six-person class will be in charge of costume design, selling tickets and working the concessions stand. Richard Meyersburg, a widower who retired from his job as a government computer

analyst in 1999, said that since coming to the senior center for Rogers’ acting class, he has also started playing pool and has made many friends. “This is a marvelous senior center. The number of people that come through here every day is tremendous,” he said. “I came here to take an acting class, and it opened the door to a whole new life.”

The ﬁrst and only performance of “Love Letters” begins at 2 p.m. Nov. 2 at the Laurel Mill Playhouse, located at 508 Main St. General admission tickets cost $20; tickets for senior citizens, students and active members of the military cost $15.

new school ﬁnally start to become a reality. “It’s a great feeling, and I’m excited to be here,” Brown said. Community activist Emma Andrews of Peppermill Village said she and others had been advocating for a new Fairmont Heights since 2007. “The facility that they are currently using is not conducive to learning, to using new tech-

nology, the kind of things that are needed in the 21st century world,” Andrews said. Mario Williams Jr. of Upper Marlboro, an alumnus of Fairmont Heights who has taught for 20 years at the school, said many alumni have an attachment to the current, 64-year-old facility, but that it can no longer meet the needs of students. “When they first started

talking about building a new Fairmont Heights, a lot of the alumni came out and said they didn’t want the existing building torn down,” Williams said. “But in order for our students to be competitive in the future, they need a facility that will meet the needs of a global economy.” Sarah Woodhead, director of facilities, said the school system’s goal is to modernize or replace one high school every two years.

School system CEO Kevin Maxwell has said that the school system currently has a $2.2 billion backlog of deferred maintenance needs, and that pushing for increased state funding for new school construction would be one of his goals during the 2015 General Assembly. Next on the county’s Capital Improvement Plans list is a $10.5 million request for renovations to Stephen Decatur Middle School in Clinton and a

$10.6 million request for renovations to Tulip Grove Elementary School in Bowie. State Sen. Victor Ramirez (D-Dist. 47) of Cheverly said increased school construction funding was one of his priorities. “This is why we pay taxes, right? To build schools to provide a better education for everyone,” Ramirez said.

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large enough to accommodate a day care or an art space. But Don Schmadel, who lives across the street from the proposed location on Calvert Road, said he likes the “quiet, residential area” and wants to keep the neighborhood the way it is. His comments were echoed by David Dorsch, who also lives on Calvert Road. “This is a residential area,” Dorsch said. “I would not like to see all the trafﬁc that would have to be accommodated down there.” Preliminary cost estimates show a difference of about one million between rebuilding on the Knox Road site — estimated at $8,785,800 million — and building on the Calvert Road site — estimated at $7,668,369

million — said Terry Schum, the city’s director of planning. Councilman Robert Day (Dist. 3), who represents the Calvert Hills neighborhood, said officials would need to hear from more constituents before making a decision. He said ofﬁcials could be making a mistake by not taking advantage of the opportunity to work with the university on a project. “We’ve heard from both sides,” Day said after the forum. “I think there’s more homework that would have to be done by everybody.” The city council will discuss the issue during a worksession Nov. 18.

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Continued from Page A-1 of Maryland. “We lack civic space. We cannot have all our civic space concentrated in downtown College Park,” said Suchitra Balachandran, president of the West College Park Citizens Association. “The space is larger and more things can be done ... we’re looking to maximize the value of [the] taxpayer dollar.” John Rigg, president of the Calvert Hills Citizens Association, said that bringing City Hall to Calvert Road would have “a huge impact on the future of our community and the future of our neighborhood.” He urged city ofﬁcials to consider the location, which he said is

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Giving ex-offenders a second chance Getting criminals off the streets is a vital effort in making Prince George’s County safer, but just as important is establishing programs to aid ex-offenders’ efforts to turn their lives around. Sound re-entry efforts are essential as 14,338 offenders were released from the county correctional facility in 2012, and 14,015 were released in 2013. That’s a significant amount of potential job-seekers, some of whom can’t get a foot in the door once employers see a check on the application form indicating they have a criminal record. It’s why County Council members and nonprofits are wisely intensifying efforts to aid non-violent ex-offenders in finding work. The immediate thought to reject a potential job candidate — regardless of their qualifications — based on past crimes is why County Councilman Obie Patterson (D-Dist. 8) of Fort Washington sponsored a “ban the box” bill to eliminate the application question and put ex-offenders on equal footing in the early part of the job-seeking process. While many employers are understandably cautious about hiring ex-offenders, the bill does provide the safeguard of allowing employers to ask about an applicant’s criminal history at the end of the interview — a request made by the county Chamber of Commerce and other business groups. The bill essentially gives ex-offenders a chance to get their foot in the door and demonstrate their qualifications before ushering in the cloud of doubt a criminal conviction can bring. The proposal by County Councilwoman Karen Toles (D-Dist. 7) of Capitol Heights to mandate that county agencies give hiring preference to non-violent ex-offenders was too far-reaching — non-offenders shouldn’t be passed over simply for not committing crimes — but finding creative ways to give well-meaning ex-offenders a hand is better than ignoring the issue. With few opportunities to make an honest living, the temptation to seek ways to earn money in other manners proves too great for some ex-offenders, said Steven Moore of Clinton, who was released from prison in 2008. The numbers seem to bear that out as, according to the county website, the projected 2013 recidivism number was 5,078, up from the estimated 4,797 in 2012. Beyond the lawmakers, Largo-based People for Change Coalition, an organization representing nonprofit and minority business sectors in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, seeks to ease the re-entry process for ex-offenders seeking employment and is leading community forums to educate business owners on employment issues to erase the stigma of ex-offenders. It’s a commendable effort that will hopefully provide second chances to those aiming to make positive changes in their lives.

Defenders at the cyber-gate Nearly every month, it seems there’s another report of a major retailer announcing a security breach in which hackers have stolen personal data, causing customers to worry about the risks caused by the compromised information. Fortunately, Prince George’s County officials are taking the cyber threat seriously with the vigilant mindset of “it could happen to us,” instead of being shocked like so many other groups after their privacy has been invaded. Vennard Wright, the county’s chief information officer, said he has prioritized cybersecurity since July 1, when he learned the county’s network was vulnerable to hackers. A full-time, five-member team seeks out potential weak spots in the county infrastructure, which is in line with industry standards for protecting valuable information like credit card payment data and health care records. To help the county’s approximately 6,000 employees be more aware of possible cyber attacks, throughout October, online cybersecurity training was offered. Additionally, department heads underwent additional training to learn about potential threats. While cybersecurity is drawing more attention nationwide due to the breaches, Michael Cukier, director of the University of Maryland’s Advanced Cybersecurity Experience for Students program, said there still remains a deficit of people working in the growing field. As a result, the university and others educational institutions are offering courses aimed at combating the threat. But beyond the research and programs, it’s up to everyone who logs on to a computer to consider the potential privacy risks they’re exposing themselves to — whether at home or the workplace — and to take precautions to practice their own form of cybersecurity. To learn more, visit the Federal Trade Commission’s website at www.consumer.ftc.gov and click on the “privacy and identity” tab for more information on keeping your personal information secure.

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Applying common sense to a traffic problem I join you in celebrating the moves made to date to make Route 1 in College Park safer for pedestrians, although I do hope that the plan calls for more fencing in the median, since the one short section installed to date hasn’t done much to curb the students running across between the lights everywhere else on that stretch of road. I also hope the planners work toward making the traffic flow better, as you suggest they should. And in that spirit, here are a couple of simple, costfree suggestions: Ask the police officers who pull people over

for speeding or traffic violations to stop blocking the right lane when they do so. Route 1 is lined with parking lots on both sides, and there is no reason the person in the car being stopped cannot be told to pull into the next available lot. The PA system is great for that. Likewise, the officers could be told to stop allowing armored cars to park in the right lane at every stop they make on Route 1. The banks and stores they serve all have parking lots and back doors. There is no need to block traffic for 20-30 minutes every time they

visit the bank. As to how to get people to understand that the center turn lane is not intended as a place to park diagonally across three lanes while they wait

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A vote for Larry Hogan Here’s why I’m voting for Larry Hogan for governor. I don’t believe that the biggest problem facing Maryland is gun control or abortion. The biggest problem facing Maryland, and its next governor, is Maryland’s stagnant economy. Our economy is inextricably dependent upon federal government spending. For the past century, Maryland has beneﬁtted from its proximity to the nation’s capital. We’re the home of federal employees, federal defense bases, federal agencies, federal contractors, and all the industries and businesses that thrive on the federal presence. But, thanks to the 2010 elections, that economic engine has come to a standstill. The decline of federal employment and federal spending MY MARYLAND has stalled MaryBLAIR LEE land’s economy, which will remain stalled for the next eight years. Here’s why: The 2010 national elections gave rise to the Tea Party backlash against Obamacare, the Wall Street bailouts, the federal stimulus and the national debt. The big news was the Republican takeover of Congress. But equally important, yet underreported, were the state elections where the GOP added eight governorships, 675 legislative seats and gained full control of 25 state governments (Dems controlled only 16). As a result, congressional redistricting following the 2010 census favored Republicans. So, until 2022 (the next congressional redistricting), look for a Congress controlled by anti-tax, anti-spending Republicans ﬁrmly entrenched in “safe seats” thanks to GOP gerrymandering. Maryland’s Democrats and media like to pretend that our state weathered the great recession by heroically reducing spending and by “making tough choices,” but that’s not what happened. Our state

government made itself whole on the backs of its taxpayers, its local governments and its future generations. The O’Malley/Brown administration’s illusionary $8 billion spending cut was really the elimination of vacant staff positions and a reduction in the rate of future spending, not actual cuts. So, if a program’s automatic 5 percent increase was reduced to 3 percent, it was counted as a 2 percent “spending cut.” That’s how the state budget grew 34 percent (from $29 billion to $39 billion) under O’Malley/ Brown. Meanwhile, Maryland families and businesses suffered real spending cuts, not 34 percent budget increases. O’Malley/Brown also increased 40 taxes and fees (mostly regressive) so that, today, Maryland taxpayers pay $3.1 billion more annually than when O’Malley/ Brown took over. But these new tax hikes still weren’t enough to feed state government. So, O’Malley/Brown made crippling cuts to local government aid programs like community colleges, police, highways and teacher pensions. They even cleaned out the local governments’ income tax reserve fund. Then, O’Malley/Brown had the gall to call screwing the locals “state spending cuts.” But cutting local aid by billions still wasn’t enough. So O’Malley/Brown funded the state’s operating budget with debt. Here’s how: They swiped hundreds of millions of dollars from special accounts (Transportation Trust Fund, Bay restoration fund, parks and land conservation fund, etc.) and, instead of leaving these accounts depleted, backfilled them by floating bonds. That’s right, they replaced the money they swiped by borrowing $1.5 billion. As a result, debt service is the fastgrowing item in Maryland’s budget, growing from $233 million this year to $557 in 2019. Maryland now has the largest outstanding bond debt of any AAA state in the nation thanks to an administration that spent eight years complaining about the deficit it inherited back in 2007.

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for an opening, I’m at a loss. I would have thought that was obvious, but experience proves me wrong every day.

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Another ﬁscal time bomb is the state’s employee pension fund, which is 65 percent funded. And, instead of contributing $300 million to the pension fund this year, as promised, the Dems used $200 million for the state’s operating budget. This can’t go on. As the economy sags and state revenues drop, we cannot sustain current spending levels by taxing, borrowing and passing pain to local governments. Yet, Democrats are emotionally incapable of making the adjustment. To them, “making tough choices” means doing anything to avoid putting the state’s ﬁscal house in order. Tax and spend is in their DNA. Larry Hogan has a clear view of a Republican governor’s role in blue-state Maryland. He says he’ll be a “goalie” to the Democratic legislature. He won’t get any bills passed, but he will veto any tax increases which, thanks to moderate Dems, lack enough votes for an override. More importantly, he will submit a balanced budget to the legislature without any tax hikes. Because so much of the budget is mandated spending, he’ll have to slash discretionary spending. That will simply begin his budget negotiations with the legislature (which can neither increase nor transfer budget funds). During the next eight years (two governor’s terms), Maryland’s stagnant economy is on a collision course with its reckless spending habits. But the economy isn’t going to improve, so it’s the spending habits which must change. The longer we ignore this reality, the worse the inevitable consequences. I’m voting for Larry Hogan because Annapolis desperately needs a change agent. Vote Hogan, change Maryland before it’s too late. Blair Lee is chairman of the board of Lee Development Group in Silver Spring and a regular commentator for WBAL radio. His past columns are available at www.gazette.net/blairlee. His email address is blairleeiv@gmail.com.

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City Hall Bulletin Board MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEETINGS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2014* 7:00 P.M. MAYOR AND COUNCIL WORKSESSION THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 7:00 P.M. NEIGHBORHOOD QUALITY OF LIFE PUBLIC FORUM ST. ANDREWS CHURCH, PARISH HALL, 4512 COLLEGE AVENUE, COLLEGE PARK WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2014* 7:00 P.M. PUBLIC HEARING – PETITION REQUEST TO REMOVE TRAFFIC CALMING, 7300 BLOCK RADCLIFFE DRIVE 7:30 P.M. MAYOR AND COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2014 7:30 P.M. MAYOR AND COUNCIL WORKSESSION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2014 7:30 P.M. MAYOR AND COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING *NOTE: WEDNESDAY MEETING & EARLY START TIME All meetings take place in the 2nd floor Council Chambers of City Hall, 4500 Knox Road, College Park, MD unless noted. All meetings are open to the public except Executive Sessions. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at 240-487-3501 and describe the assistance that is necessary. All Mayor and Council meetings can be viewed live on Comcast cable channel 71 or Verizon channel 25. Regular Council Meetings and Worksessions are rebroadcast in their entirety at the following times: Wednesdays at 8pm, Thursdays and Fridays at 6pm, and Saturdays at 10am. Worksessions and Council meetings may also be viewed live over the internet. Those interested in watching the live meetings from their computer should visit the Mayor and City Council page on the City’s website at www.collegeparkmd.gov, and click on the menu item “Council Meetings Video”. You will be redirected to the Granicus, Inc. web site which will host the web streaming and archiving of Council meetings. Meetings that are streamed will also be archived for future viewing through the City’s website. Meeting Agendas are posted on the City’s website on the Friday afternoon prior to the meetings www.collegeparkmd.gov – and are available at the City Clerk’s office. Meeting back-up materials will be posted to the website on the Monday prior to the meeting. Meeting schedule is subject to change. For current information, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at 240-487-3501.

COUNCIL ACTION

At a Special Session held during the regularly scheduled Worksession on October 7, 2014, the College Park City Council took the following actions: • Approved a letter in support of County Bill CB-82-2014, Prince George’s County Nuisance Abatement Board. • Approved a letter in support of County Bill CB-22-2014, Length of Service Award Program for volunteer fire fighters.

At their Regular Meeting on October 14, 2014, the College Park City Council took the following actions (negative votes noted): • Approved a Letter to the State Highway Administration indicating that the City is interested in assuming maintenance of an SHA designed/built retaining wall at the corner of US Route 1 @ Erie Street. • Approved an amendment to the City Manager’s Employment Agreement. • Approved a Letter with City comments on the MDOT Draft FY 20152020 Consolidated Transportation Program. • Approved a Letter to M-NCPPC requesting information about the status of the tree work conducted near the College Park Airport. • Approved a Resolution of the Mayor and Council of the City of College Park, Maryland In Support Of The United States Environmental Protection Agency And Army Corps Of Engineers’ Proposed Definition Of “Waters Of The United States” Under The Clean Water Act. • Approved a Field Use Request by Open Bible Deaf Church for use of parking area and restrooms at Duvall Field on Saturday, October 18, 2014. • Adopted Ordinance 14-O-10, An Ordinance Of The Mayor And Council Of The City Of College Park, Amending The College Park Code By Repealing Chapter 15, “Boards, Commissions And Committees”, Article IX, “Rent Stabilization Board”, §§15-39 Through 15-54, And Chapter 127 “Rent Stabilization”, §§127-1 Through 127-13, In Their Entirety; And By Repealing An Re-Enacting Chapter 110, “Fees And Penalties”, §110-1, “Fees And Interests” And §110-2, “Penalties”, To Delete Those Sections That Comprise The Rent Stabilization Law (Brennan and Stullich opposed; Wojahn abstained). • Approved a letter of support for a College Park City-University Partnership Pre-K through elementary school proposal. • Agreed to voice no objection to the application for a Class B, Beer, Wine and Liquor License, and to support an exemption from the Special Entertainment Permit requirement, for Ben and Brian Games, LLC, t/a The Board and Brew, 8150 Baltimore Ave., College Park, subject to applicant entering into an amended Property Use Agreement with the City (Kabir opposed). • Approved a Letter to M-NCPPC with City comments on the FY ’16 Park and Planning Budget. • Awarded a Contract for Hollywood Commercial District Streetscape Conceptual Design Plan to Floura Teeter Landscape Architects in an amount not to exceed $32,000. • Appointed Councilmember Denise Mitchell, Darlene Nowlin and Chuck Ireton to the Aging-In-Place Task Force, Annie Rice to the Sustainable Maryland Certified Green Team, and Jonathan Plyman to the Citizens Corps Council.

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NOTICE OF FAIR SUMMARY

ORDINANCE 14-O-10 An Ordinance of the Mayor and Council of the City of College Park, Amending the College Park Code by Repealing Chapter 15, “Boards, Commissions and Committees”, Article IX, “Rent Stabilization Board”, §§15-39 Through 15-54, and Chapter 127 “Rent Stabilization”, §§127-1 Through 127-13, In Their Entirety; and By Repealing and Re-Enacting Chapter 110, “Fees and Penalties”, §110-1, “Fees and Interests” and §110-2, “Penalties”, to Delete Those Sections That Comprise The Rent Stabilization Law. This Ordinance was introduced on September 9, 2014, a Public Hearing was held on October 14, 2014, it was adopted on October 14, 2014, and will become effective on November 4, 2014. Copies of this Ordinance may be obtained from the City Clerk’s Office at 4500 Knox Road, College Park, Maryland 20740, by calling 240-4873501 or at www.collegeparkmd.gov.

Around Town! NEIGHBORHOOD QUALITY OF LIFE PUBLIC FORUM

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6 – 7:00 P.M. ST. ANDREW’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 4512 COLLEGE AVE. The Neighborhood Quality of Life (NQOL) Committee will host a Public Meeting, “Working, Living & Learning Together,” at 7:00 P.M. on Thursday, November 6 at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church Parish Hall. The meeting is an opportunity for all residents to discuss strategies to overcome the unique challenges of living in a college town. Committee members will briefly present the NQOL goals on: Code Enforcement and Issue Reductions; Home Ownership; Housing Diversity; Community Building, Incentives and Culture Change; and Expectations and Best Practices for Rental Property Owners. The agenda includes round table discussions and public comment on the goals and strategies. All residents, young and old, new and lifelong, student and nonstudent are encouraged to attend! Limited parking will be available in the church’s Yale Avenue lot; additional metered parking is available in the City Hall lot and the parking garage. For additional information and to RSVP, please email nqol@collegeparkmd.gov.

COLLEGE PARK BLUES FESTIVAL

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8 6:00 P.M. – 11:30 P.M. RITCHIE COLISEUM, 4533 ROSSBOROUGH LANE COLLEGE PARK (ENTER FROM ROUTE 1) FREE! FREE! FREE! Parking and entry is free. Food and beverages, including beer and wine will be available for purchase. The grand raffle prize is a Fender Stratocaster Guitar with case. Get started on your holiday shopping with vendors offering a variety of gifts and crafts for sale. Our 2014 performers are: • M.S.G. Acoustic Blues Trio • Mojo Priests (DCBS 2014 Battle of the Band Winner) • DC Blues Society Band • Jackie Scott & The Housewreckers Brought to you by the College Park Recreation Board and the DC Blues Society. For a list of sponsors and more information visit: http://dcblues.org/index.php?pageRequest=College_Park_Fest

VETERANS DAY PROGRAM

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11 – 11:00 A.M. COLLEGE PARK VETERANS MEMORIAL US ROUTE 1 AND GREENBELT ROAD The public is invited to join Mayor Andrew M. Fellows and the College Park City Council at the 2014 observance of Veterans Day. The program will include music, speakers, and Wreath Laying in fitting tribute to the men and women who have served our country. The event is sponsored by the College Park Veterans Memorial Improvement Committee.

2014 GENERAL ELECTION

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2014 POLLS ARE OPEN: 7:00 A.M. TO 8:00 P.M. Visit https://voterservices.elections.maryland.gov/votersearch to find your polling location. The deadline for electronically requesting an Absentee Ballot Application is Friday, October 31, 2014, no later than 11:59 p.m. at http://www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/sites/elections.

AMERICA RECYCLES DAY TRASH TO TREASURE WORKSHOP!

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 10:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M. DAVIS HALL, 9217 51ST AVENUE College Park Department of Public Works and College Park Arts Exchange are offering a day-long arts workshop for mixed age groups to transform recyclable materials into artful crafts for holiday gift-giving. Bring your recyclables (no glass, please) and ideas of how to make your junk into useful and cherished gifts for family or friends! Space is limited, so please register by Wednesday, November 12. This will be a wonderful workshop for families, scouts, fellowship groups, or any group of friends. To register, or for more information, please contact CPAE (info@cpae.org; 301-927-3013) or Public Works (publicworks@collegeparkmd.gov; 240-487-3590).

COMPLETE THE 2014 RESIDENT SATISFACTION SURVEY!

The College Park resident survey will be online November 1 on our website www.collegeparkmd.gov/survey. It’s quick, easy, and very helpful! This survey is conducted every two years, and the results provide important feedback to the City Council and staff regarding current City services, desired programs, and the overall quality of life in our community. Please complete the survey between November 1, 2014 and December 19, 2014. If you would prefer a paper survey in English or Spanish, call the City at 240-487-3501 to request a copy; or they will also be available at: • City Hall, 4500 Knox Road, Mon-Fri from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. • Davis Hall, 9217 51st Avenue, Mon-Fri from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. • Public Services, 4601-A Calvert Road, Mon-Fri from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. • Youth and Family Services, 4912 Nantucket Road, Mon-Fri from 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

NOTICE OF FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR COMMUNITY EVENTS!

The College Park City Council has provided funds in the FY15 budget to help sponsor small community-based events. These “Micro-Grants” can be used to reimburse up to $500 to a community group or resident for certain eligible activities such as a community picnic in the local park, recreational activities for College Park youth and families, or social events for our senior population. To learn more, please view the policy, application and reporting requirements on the City’s website, or call the Department of Public Services at 240-487-3570.

CITY DEPARTMENTS CLOSED TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2014

All City departments are closed on November 11 in observance of Veterans Day. Refuse and recycling will be collected as follows: Monday routes will stay the same, Tuesday routes will be picked up Wednesday, and Wednesday routes will be picked up Thursday. Brush and special trash will be collected on Friday, November 14 only during this holiday week. You must call or email in advance to schedule a pickup appointment of bulk trash, brush, or electronics. There will be no curbside leaf collection on November 11. Please check the City website for collection schedule updates (http://www.collegeparkmd.gov).

October 30, 2014

From The Public Works Dept... 9217 51st Avenue

240-487-3590

publicworks@collegeparkmd.gov

CURBSIDE LEAF COLLECTION BEGINS NOVEMBER 3

Starting Monday, November 3, the Public Works Department will begin curbside leaf collection with the leaf vacuum. Look for signs posted in your neighborhood for collection dates or visit www.collegeparkmd.gov and click on Curbside Leaf Collection on the left side under Latest News for the collection schedule. Until curbside leaf vacuum collection begins, residents should continue to set out yard waste on regularly scheduled collection days (same day as refuse and recycling collection), using paper yard waste bags or properly labeled reusable containers only (reusable containers must display a yard waste sticker, available to City residents at City buildings). Weekly yard waste collection will end on October 31st. Brush, branches, sticks, and shrubs are collected Thursdays and Fridays by appointment; call 240-487-3590 or email publicworks@collegeparkmd.gov before setting your brush out at the curb. Brush collections will continue throughout the duration of curbside leaf collection. Look for the posted signs to learn when curbside leaf collection is scheduled in your neighborhood. Collection schedules are tentative; please refer to the city website or contact Public Works for the most updated information.

LEAF COLLECTION PROCEDURES

DO: • Rake leaves, grass, flowers, and light clippings to the curb (but not in the street) - you do not need to bag these items • Pile leaves away from cars and storm drains – piles blocked by ` obstacles will not be collected • Watch for the posted signs in your neighborhood to know when to rake your leaves to the curb. Visit the website for updates to the collection schedule. DO NOT: • Include brush, branches, sticks, bamboo, vines, rocks, or debris (litter) in your leaf piles. These items may damage the leaf vacuums and delay collection. • Use plastic bags for leaves and clippings. You also do not need to use paper bags or reusable containers during curbside leaf vacuum collection. • Block storm strains or fire hydrants, as this can lead to storm water and emergency access problems. • Pile leaves in the street. Leaves in the street can create a slipping hazard, parking problems, and clog storm drains.

SMARTLEAF® COMPOST

SMARTLEAF® compost is again available for sale at the Department of Public Works. SMARTLEAF (screened compost) is available for $23.00 per cubic yard (includes tax). Wood mulch remains unavailable. Material may be picked up at Public Works Monday through Friday 8:00 – 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 – 3:30 p.m. Deliveries have been suspended for the season. If you would like to be notified when deliveries resume and/ or when wood mulch is available, sign up for College Park Connected by clicking on the green “Sign Up Now” button on the left-hand side of the City website. For questions and availability, please call 240-487-3590 or email publicworks@collegeparkmd.gov.

TRAFFIC ALERT – UMD SPORTING EVENTS

Please be aware of pedestrians along city roads and expect heavier traffic throughout the day for the following UMD event: Saturday, 11/1: UM men’s basketball vs. San Francisco State (2:00 p.m.) Saturday, 11/8: UM men’s basketball vs. Bowie State (12:00 p.m.)

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COLLEGE PARK DIRECTORY

City of College Park Main Number...........................240-487-3500 CITY HALL, 4500 Knox Road, College Park, MD 20740 Hours: M-F 8am-7pm; Sat. 1-5pm; Sun - Closed City Hall Departments City Manager/City Clerk...........................................240-487-3501 City FAX Number.....................................................301-699-8029 Finance.....................................................................240-487-3509 Human Resources.....................................................240-487-3533 Parking Enforcement Div. (M-F 8am-10pm/Sat. 1-7pm)......240-487-3520 Planning/Economic Development.............................240-487-3538 Housing Authority (Attick Towers) 9014 R.I. Ave....301-345-3600 Public Services Department, 4601A Calvert Rd.........240-487-3570 Animal Control, Code Enforcement, Public Safety and Recreation. Parking Enforcement is at City Hall.

24 Hour Hotline........................................................240-487-3588 For Urgent Code Enforcement, Noise Control, Animal Control Issues.

Public Works Department, 9217 51st Ave.................240-487-3590 Trash Collection, Recycling and Special Pick-ups.

Senior Program (Attick Towers) 9014 R.I. Ave.........301-345-8100 Youth and Family Services, 4912 Nantucket Rd.........240-487-3550 Drop-In Recreation Center........................................301-345-4425

MAYOR AND COUNCIL

Mayor Andrew M. Fellows 5807 Bryn Mawr Road..............................................301-441-8141 Councilmember Fazlul Kabir (District 1) 9817 53rd Avenue....................................................301-659-6295 Councilmember Patrick L. Wojahn (District 1) 5015 Lackawanna Street...........................................240-988-7763 Councilmember P.J. Brennan (District 2) 4500 Knox Road.......................................................301-220-1640 Councilmember Monroe S. Dennis (District 2) 8117 51st Avenue....................................................301-474-6270 Councilmember Robert W. Day (District 3) 7410 Baylor Avenue.................................................301-741-1962 Councilmember Stephanie Stullich (District 3) 7400 Dartmouth Avenue..........................................301-742-4442 Councilmember Alan Y. Hew (District 4) 9118 Autoville Drive.................................................240-391-8678 Councilmember Denise C. Mitchell (District 4) 3501 Marlbrough Way.............................................240-460-7620

OTHER FREQUENTLY CALLED NUMBERS

EMERGENCY: FIRE-AMBULANCE-POLICE................................911 NON-EMERGENCY POLICE SERVICES Prince George’s Co. Police (Hyattsville Station).........301-699-2630 Prince George’s Co. Police Non-Emergency Svcs......301-352-1200 Prince George’s Co. Park Police................................301-459-9088 State Police (College Park Barrack)............................301-345-3101 University of Maryland Police....................................301-405-3555 College Park Community Center.....................................301-441-2647 5051 Pierce Avenue, College Park Branchville Vol. Fire & Rescue Squad...............................301-474-1550 4905 Branchville Road, College Park www.bvfco11.com College Park Vol. Fire Department...................................301-901-9112 8115 Baltimore Avenue, College Park www.cpvfd.org PEPCO - Power Outages, Lines Down...........................1-877-737-2662 WSSC: Water Mains........................................................301-206-4002 Prince George’s County Storm Drains..............................301-499-8523

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SPORTS

GAMES GAZETTE.NET IS STAFFING

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Posted online by 8 a.m. the following day. FOOTBALL: Flowers at DuVal, 2 p.m. Saturday. Both teams are ofﬁcially 5-3 with two weeks to play and trying to keep their playoff hopes alive. Tigers are on a roll, and Jags are coming off a loss. FOOTBALL: Bowie at Oxon Hill, 2 p.m. Saturday.

FOOTBALL: Friendly at Surrattsville, 2 p.m. Saturday.

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Prince of the running game

How we pick All-Gazette The phone calls usually start in midOctober and won’t stop until mid-December. I’ve received two already and another two emails. The quesKEN SAIN tions: How do SPORTS EDITOR we select our AllGazette teams? What do I need to do to make sure my student/athlete is considered? Why are you mixing public school and private school kids? Won’t you consider my daughter, who lives in Bethesda but attends a private school in Washington, D.C.? Thought it might be worth answering the All-Gazette FAQs: 1. How do we select teams? The beat reporter is assigned to do the research, which usually involves reaching out to all the coaches of that sport in both counties we cover and asking for their nominations. They also look at stats, talk to experts, then put together a list. The best way to ensure your athlete is considered is to make sure their coach nominates them. Not all do. If they don’t nominate them, we have to wonder why. They send me the list and I have ﬁnal say on all teams. I usually ask why this person is on and why that person isn’t. The reporters have to convince me before I sign off. 2. What’s the criteria when evaluating athletes? Three things: 1. value to the team; 2. season statistics; 3. future prospects. Sometimes a player doesn’t have the best stats, but they are the most important player on a team that has great success. That should count. Future prospects includes college scholarship offers or other opportunities (say an invitation to train at the U.S. Olympic Training Center). 3. But you took my child’s photo, why isn’t he on the team? Getting the photos we need to do this many teams is a chore. We try to do it during the course of the season for all the players who are contenders. Just because we took a face photo does not mean they are on the team. It probably means that they’re under consideration or that we may do a feature soon. 4. Why are private school athletes on the team? In most sports, public school coaches select their own all-county teams, so selecting a team of only public school athletes would be redundant. The All-Gazette teams are unique in that they combine the two. In many cases, but certainly not all, the private school athletes also live in the county. Their families want to see them honored, too. 5. Why do some teams have honorable mention and others do not? While it would be easy to pack a lot of names onto a list, as a staff we decided that only cheapens the honor. If we don’t think there are enough worthy candidates to justify an honorable mention, we won’t include it. 6. How can you possibly make the right choices? Great question, and there are times we wonder if it might be better not to do All-Gazette teams. We have four reporters who cover eight fall sports in two counties at 96 high schools. My staff can only seen a fraction of the teams play. Therefore, we rely on coaches, objective observers and whatever stats are available. We know how important this is to our readers. We take it very seriously and work hard at getting it right, but this is difﬁcult and we have made mistakes. If there’s a better way to pick these teams, I’m open to ideas. 7. What about athletes who live in the county who attend schools elsewhere? Not going to happen. We struggle to cover the schools in the county. We can’t take on more. 8. What’s the schedule for this fall’s All-Gazette teams? Nov. 19 — Cross-country Nov. 26 — Soccer Dec. 10 — Girls volleyball Dec. 17 — Football Golf and tennis run in the spring. ksain@gazette.net

Raiders have rushed for more than 2,500 yards behind four-star tackle BY

PRINCE J. GRIMES STAFF WRITER

There’s no secret formula to the Eleanor Roosevelt High School football team’s offense. The Raiders (8-0) have remained unbeaten on the season by giving opponents a heavy dose of a run game that has more than doubled the amount of yards Roosevelt has earned passing. Senior running back Mike Mofor has rushed for 1,227 yards this season, with at least 100 yards in every game except two, and as many as 320 yards in one game — against Parkdale. Mofor said everyone, from the receivers to the offensive linemen, does a good job of blocking and giving him room to run. “My offensive line, they do a good job up front,” Mofor said. “They just hold on to the blocks long enough that they let me do what I can do.” That offensive line is led by right tackle Isaiah Prince, who is regarded as one of the top college prospects in the state, as a four-star recruit by Rivals.com. Mofor said in short-yardage situations, the team will convert 95 percent of the time running behind Prince. The 6-foot-6, 280-pound Prince said he enjoys run-blocking as much as Roosevelt likes to run the ball, and his presence along that line is about as imposing as it gets on a high school football team. “He has the potential to be a firstround [National Football League] draft pick at left tackle,” Roosevelt coach Tom Green said. “He finally realized that he has an advantage being so tall. And he has good hips. So he plays low for a tall kid, and he has very long arms, so when he punches and locks out and uses his length, it’s hard as you can get.” This year has been a comeback of sorts for Prince who broke his ankle in the first game of the 2013 season. He

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Isaiah Prince (left) of Eleanor Roosevelt in a game against Gwynn Park in Greenbelt on September 8, 2014. was playing on defense, and another player cut-blocked him on a play that Prince said he wasn’t even involved in. His absence undoubtedly hurt the Raiders, who missed the playoffs for the ﬁrst time since 2007. His return is a big reason why Roosevelt is able to run

the ball so well this year. In addition to Mike Mofor’s yards, his sophomore brother Karl Mofor has rushed for 598 yards. The entire team has 2,550 yards rushing, averaging 8.7 yards per carry. Green said that while Prince was out, it forced someone else to step into

his place and earn valuable experience. Now, that player is also a valuable asset on this year’s offensive line. “It helped us a little more than I anticipated,” Green said. “Because what ended up happening is, Deondre Whyte, who’s our starting left tackle right now, was a back-up, and it forced him into a starting role last year… So now, Isaiah’s back, Deondre has nine games of experience under his belt, and then the two guards started every game last year. Now, we got an experienced line.” Last year’s team went 6-4. Prince said it was difﬁcult sitting out for the ﬁrst time with an injury. “That’s tough,” Prince said. “I’ve never had a major injury before. I had to sit out and not play for an entire season, watching everybody play. So it was tough, but I made it through it.” Prince showed enough ability during his sophomore year that a missed junior season didn’t affect his recruiting status. He already had a number of offers prior to the injury, and estimates his current amount of offers to be at 23, with his top four schools being University of Alabama, University of Florida, Ohio State University, and University of Maryland, College Park. Prince said he didn’t have any lingering effects, physically or mentally, from the injury, and that he got right back to work during offseason workouts. According to both he and Mofor, this is where the team built the foundation for today’s success. “We worked so hard this offseason — everybody,” Prince said. “So, our whole [offensive] line — we rotate both sides of the ball. We’re in shape to do it. I think that helps… We do a great job opening the holes, and Mike and Karl Mofor [have] been making good cuts, reading blocks right. So, every things been going well.” pgrimes@gazette.net

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Falcons’ breakthrough girls soccer season comes to an end BY

KYLE RUSSELL

SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE

The Central High School girls’ soccer team was eliminated from the Class 1A North Region playoffs, falling 7-0 to visiting Maurice J. McDonough (Charles County). The top-seeded Falcons (63-2) struggled to maintain possession throughout the contest, which resulted in fewer offensive chances than the Rams had on Tuesday. “We just didn’t really hold possession very long,” Central coach Timothy Paterniti said. “It was hard to make any kind of attack with it in our end a lot. It was pretty tough.” McDonough came out strong, scoring their first two goals on nearly-identical, perfectly-placed shots from Lizzy Hicks and Drew Anderson. In each case, the scorer lofted a right-footed shot that curved and dipped before finding the top corner of the goal. Morgan Akers converted a leftfooted blast late in the first half, while Julia Lesko added a penalty kick after a hand-ball inside the box by the Falcons. The Rams added to their 4-0 halftime lead quickly, as Anderson and Faith Chambers each found the net within the first five minutes of the second half. Rachel Elmore added the final tally by lobbing the ball into an unguarded net after the Central goalkeeper was forced to leave her line to play a loose ball. Paterniti knew that his team was facing a tough test heading into the match up. McDonough’s 3-10 record entering the contest was more of a reflection of the fact that it is the only 1A school in the Southern Maryland Athletic

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DeMatha Catholic High School’s James Gielen practices with his teammates Friday in Hyattsville.

Playmaking runs in DeMatha family Siblings lead Stags into the WCAC boys soccer semiﬁnals

ERIC GOLDWEIN STAFF WRITER

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Central High School goalkeeper leaps but is unable to block a shot from visiting McDonough during Tuesday’s Class 1A girls soccer playoff game in Capitol Heights. Conference, than a reﬂection of the talent of the program. “This was a pretty tough team to face in the second round,” Paterniti said. “There’s nothing we can do about that, but I thought we fought pretty hard, and we had a really good season.” Seniors Atem Tazi and Kamari Koonce led the Falcons. The two provided the bulk of the offensive opportunities for Central, with Koonce ﬁnishing with the lone shot on goal. Goalkeeper Amivi Amega also performed admirably, recording 22 saves in the

contest. “Every game she always gives 100 percent, and she always keeps us in the game,” Paterniti said. “She did outstanding. That’s not the ﬁrst game she’s made that many saves, I think she made about 25 when we lost 2-0 to Douglass [on Sept 18].” The Rams advance to face Surrattsville in the 1A North Region Section II Finals on Friday. The No. 2 seeded Hornets advanced thanks to a 7-0 victory against No. 3 seed Fairmont Heights.

The preference varies depending on who’s asked, and when. But this fall, with the two boys sharing the pitch at DeMatha Catholic High School, the Gielens are a soccer family. James Gielen and his younger brother Justin Gielen are starters on a Stags team (13-1-4) that’s two wins away from repeating as Washington Catholic Athletic Conference boys soccer champions. On Tuesday, the senior had the game-winner while the freshman scored twice in a 5-0 quarterﬁnals victory against Forestville’s Bishop McNamara. “You’re so used to watching one kid and … it made it a little bit harder to concentrate on either one of them,” said Karin Gielen, a mother of three. “But it’s been so great. I’m so sad that’s it ending.” Athleticism runs in the Gielen family. The father, Michael, was a point guard at DeMatha (Class of 1985) and at Harvard University. Karin, was a midﬁelder on Harvard’s soccer team. Julia Gielen, the older sister, is a cheerleader at the University of Maryland. “It’s always fun to represent the family, and keep the Gielen name going on,” said James, a University of Maryland, Baltimore County soccer

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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HOW THEY RANK

STANDINGS

The Gazette sports staff ranks the top 10 high school football teams in Prince George’s County each week during the season.

County 3A/2A/1A League

Rank School

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Record Points

Douglass DeMatha E. Roosevelt Wise Potomac Forestville DuVal Gwynn Park Surrattsville Fairmont Hts.

8-0 6-3 8-0 6-2 7-1 7-1 5-3 4-4 5-3 5-3

58 56 48 42 36 30 24 18 12 5

Also receiving votes: Capitol Christian, 1.

Yards 1,296 1,227 1,135 1,051 1,034 987 866 804 772 700

Avg. TDs 10.0 8 12.6 16 13.7 12 10.1 10 10.7 10 10.5 16 10.0 8 9.3 7 9.5 14 12.7 9

Passing Player, school Att.-Cmp. Yards Int. TDs Ramar Williams, McNamara 113-182 1,733 8 15 Amir Hall, Riverdale Baptist 112-151 1,674 6 22 Reggie Robinson, Cap. Christ. 45-75 1,422 11 13 Beau English, DeMatha 79-127 1,311 4 12 Anthony Dougherty, Ox.Hill 63-143 960 6 5 Robert Harris III, Surrattsville 40-82 808 3 12 Emil Neugent, Potomac 44-72 756 3 11 Mason Clark, Pallotti 38-64 719 4 4 Receiving Player, school Catches Yards Avg. TDs Maurice Lewis Jr., Cap. Christ. 25 783 31.3 8 Camari Murray, McNamara 33 717 21.7 6 Jaison Young, Riverdale Baptist 29 606 20.9 8 Deron Smith, Riverdale Baptist 34 551 16.2 6 Darryl Turner Jr., DeMatha 20 425 21.3 6 Alphonso Banks IV, McNamara 24 373 15.5 5 Trey Lancaster, Surrattsville 17 353 20.8 6

Coaches and team statisticians may email season team statistics to sports@gazette.net before noon on Mondays to be included.

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Suitland High School’s Reggie Gardner tackles Charles H. Flowers running back Maurice Wright during Saturday’s game.

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COUNTY LEADERS Rushing Player, school Rushes Amaru Major, Surrattsville 130 Mike Mofor, E. Roosevelt 101 Davon Julien, Cap. Christian 83 Jeremy Fields, Oxon Hill 104 Anthony McFarland, DeMatha 97 Jordan Washington, Forestville 94 Christian Paylay, Fairmont Hghts 87 Jaret Patterson, Pallotti 86 Antoine Brooks, DuVal 81 Donte Marks, Cap. Christian 55

Division W-L GB Frederick Douglass 6-0 — Forestville 5-1 1.0 Potomac 5-1 1.0 Surrattsville 4-2 2.0 Gwynn Park 4-2 2.0 Fairmont Heights 3-3 2.0 Friendly 2-4 3.0 Central 1-5 4.0 Largo 1-6 4.5 Crossland 0-7 5.5

Season record All games Pr. George’s Co.

Division W-L GB Eleanor Roosevelt 7-0 — Henry A. Wise 6-1 1.0 DuVal* 5-2 2.0 Charles H. Flowers 5-2 2.0 Suitland 4-3 3.0 Bowie 3-4 4.0 Northwestern 3-4 4.0 Oxon Hill 3-4 4.0 Parkdale* 3-4 4.0 Bladensburg 2-5 5.0 Laurel 1-6 6.0 High Point 0-7 7.0

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Ken Sain 232-52 99-17

Eric Goldwein 227-57 98-18

Prince J. Grimes 226-58 97-19

Kent Zakour 226-58 92-24

Adam Gutekunst 222-62 91-25

Jennifer Beekman 221-63 98-18

The Gazette sports staff picks the winners of this week’s football games involving Montgomery County teams. All games includes picks made in Prince George’s County. Here are this week’s predictions:

This week’s schedule

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Wise at High Point Annapolis Area Christian at Pallotti Riverdale Baptist at Paul VI Gonzaga at McNamara Flowers at DuVal Bowie at Oxon Hill Parkdale at Suitland Potomac at Crossland Bladensburg at Northwestern Friendly at Surrattsville Fairmont Heights at Gwynn Park Douglass at Central Laurel at Eleanor Roosevelt Largo at Forestville Fredericksburg Christ. at National Christ.

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Wise Wise Wise Wise Wise Wise Pallotti Pallotti Pallotti Pallotti Pallotti Pallotti R. Baptist R. Bapt. R. Bapt. R. Bapt. R. Bapt. R. Bapt. Gonzaga Gonzaga Gonzaga Gonzaga Gonzaga Gonzaga DuVal DuVal DuVal DuVal DuVal DuVal Bowie Bowie Bowie Bowie Bowie Bowie Suitland Suitland Suitland Suitland Suitland Suitland Potomac Potomac Potomac Potomac Potomac Potomac N’western N’western N’western N’western N’western N’western S’ville S’ville S’ville S’ville S’ville S’ville G. Park G. Park G. Park G. Park G. Park G. Park Douglass Douglass Douglass Douglass Douglass Douglass Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt F’ville F’ville F’ville F’ville F’ville F’ville Fr. Christ. Fr. Christ. Fr. Christ. Fr. Christ. Fr. Christ. Fr. Christ.

Capitol Christian* Riverdale Baptist St. Vincent Pallotti DeMatha Bishop McNamara National Christian

BY PRINCE J. GRIMES Henry A. Wise has also clinched. Wise can earn home-field advantage with wins in its final two games if Roosevelt loses its final two games. DuVal has clinched a playoff spot as long as its not forced to forfeit a game by Prince George’s County Public School. If so, then DuVal would need to win another game while also having Suitland or Flowers lose a game. If DuVal dropped its final two games,

it would need Flowers to lose two games, and Suitland, Northwestern, and Bowie to lose one game. Flowers can clinch by simply winning its ﬁnal two games. If the Jaguars lose a game, they would need Suitland to also lose a game.

3A South Potomac has all but clinched a playoff spot but can make it ofﬁcial with one more win. The Wolverines clinch home-ﬁeld with two wins, two losses by Chopticon, and one Thomas Stone loss.

Strk W8 W1 W1 W1 W4 L1 L2 L5 L1 L14

Overall W-L PF 8-0 297 6-2 203 5-3 236 5-3 225 4-4 107 3-5 129 3-5 173 3-5 191 3-5 62 2-6 98 1-7 114 0-8 42

PA 63 92 82 188 140 137 150 194 220 258 212 284

Strk W12 W2 W5 L1 W1 W2 L4 W1 L2 L1 L6 L15

Overall W-L PF 9-2 276 6-2 276 7-3 239 6-3 290 3-5 182 3-5 152

PA 173 116 116 231 284 128

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LAST WEEK’S SCORES Friday’s results Douglass 38, Largo 0 Georgetown Prep 27, Riverdale Baptist 24 (OT) St. John’s Catholic Prep 16, Pallotti 14 Saturday’s results Fort Hill 56, Capitol Christian 16 Bowie 26, Parkdale 0 Eleanor Roosevelt 40, Bladensburg 6 Wise 44, Laurel 0 Potomac 43, Fairmont Heights 6 Gwynn Park 40, Central 0 Oxon Hill 46, High Point 0 Forestville 52, Friendly 27 Suitland 21, Flowers 14 Surrattsville 35, Crossland 0 DuVal 27, Northwestern 0 McNamara 31, St. John’s College 15 DeMatha 28, Gonzaga 20 National Christian 42, Eastern Shore (Del.) 0

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2A South

Douglass has already clinched a playoff spot and can clinch home-ﬁeld advantage with one more win.

1A North Forestville has clinched a playoff berth. The Knights can gain home-ﬁeld advantage with one more win and a FAET loss. Surrattsville only needs to win its ﬁnal two games.

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PA 24 132 87 136 159 138 210 191 191 267

*Record includes forfeit result

Five county schools have clinched playoff berths There are only two weeks remaining in the high school football regular season, but a number of playoff spots are still up for grabs. Five Prince George’s schools have already clinched a berth in the postseason, and one more can clinch this week. In total, 11 teams are still playing to get into the playoffs and six have already been eliminated. Home-ﬁeld advantage through postseason region play is also on the line for several teams. 4A South Eleanor Roosevelt has clinched a spot in the playoffs and one more win would earn the Raiders home-ﬁeld advantage in region play.

Overall W-L PF 8-0 332 7-1 274 7-1 152 5-3 255 4-4 203 5-3 168 4-4 173 3-5 68 2-6 127 0-8 14

recruit. Michael said the Gielen brothers’ athleticism comes from both parents. James, a midfielder, plays the same position as his mother, and has many of the qualities that made Michael a Division I point guard, Michael said. “He has a high soccer IQ, he has a lot of poise,” Michael said. “He seems to really settle everybody down whenever he’s on the field.” James is having his best soccer season at the Hyattsville school, continuing to thrive as a distributor, while also becoming one of the area’s top scoring threats. “When he gets the ball he’s really calm with it,” Justin said. “He knows what he’s doing.” And perhaps just as importantly, he’s helped ease his younger brother onto the varsity team. “I don’t have to find a ride to practice, so that’s good,” Justin said. The Gielens, of Edgewater, have been enjoying the Stags dominant soccer season over the past two months. Karin and Michael attend the games with Michael’s father, Mike Gielen, and occasionally Julia. But in the winter, the Gielens could jump on the basketball bandwagon. Justin, a 5-foot10 point guard, said he is trying out for the Stags team. And while James no longer plays basketball competitively, “his shot has never really worn off. He’s got that against me,” Justin said. For now, though, the Gielens are focused on soccer. DeMatha is scheduled to host Bishop Ireton (Alexandria) in the WCAC semifinals 3:30 p.m. Thursday at Heurich Field in Hyattsville. If they advance, they’ll play for the title at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Maryland SoccerPlex in Germantown. “We want to win the championship, without a doubt,” James said. “I definitely think we can.” egoldwein@gazette.net

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Artistic NIH scientist enters literary world “Jellyﬁsh Have Eyes,” ﬁrst novel for Piatigorsky n

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Will Hardy, Liz Dapo, Joel Consolati, Caity Brown, Erica Smith and Brian Binney appear in “The Murder Room.”

Killing me, loudly n

Play revolves around inept murderess BY

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Bowie Community Theatre hopes to scare up some laughs when they take on “The Murder Room,” opening Halloween night. The play follows Mavis Templeton, newly wed to Edgar Hollister, and her attempts to remove her husband from the picture and kill him after he discovers she’s been unfaithful. The mystery farce humorously highlights all of Mavis’ missteps and the mistakes of those around her in trying to ﬁnd out what’s happened to Edgar. Though this is her ﬁrst time directing with Bowie Commu-

THE MURDER ROOM n When: 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday, Nov. 7, 8, 14 and 15; 2 p.m. Sunday and Nov. 9 n Where: Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Drive, Bowie n Tickets: $15 to $20 n More information: BCTheatre.org; 301-805-0219

nity Theatre, Gayle Negri is no stranger to the comedy; she led a production of “The Murder Room” 25 years ago, and the play has stuck with her since, helping to bring her out of a directing hiatus. “There weren’t things I was either appropriate for or

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wanted to do — if you’re spending three or four nights a week it has to be something you’d like to do,” Negri said. “When I saw they were looking to do it, I thought to myself, ‘Well, if it was going to be done, I want to be the one to do it.” The play sets the classic “whodunit” on collision course with a banana peel, mixing slapstick comedy and plot holes galore with fast-paced dialogue in a funny send-up of the genre. “It takes all of the tropes of an Agatha Christie mystery — the wide-eyed ingénue, the exposition-providing detectives, the wealthy widower — and exaggerates them beyond belief,” said Erica Smith, who plays Mavis. When Negri brings in prospective cast members for audition, she doesn’t ask for

monologue pieces or short scenes from other works; instead, actors read directly from the script. From day one of putting the show together, she has been able to see how the performers take on the characters and what they bring to the table in the actual role for which they are auditioning. “It’s kind of a gut reaction,” said Negri. “You could have a gazillion shows on your resume, but if I don’t know you, I’m going off of what I see right now.” One cast member she did know previously, however, was Smith, with whom she has worked on two other productions. As leading lady, Smith has enjoyed the cluelessness of Mavis and everyone else trying to solve Edgar’s disappearance.

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Joram Piatigorsky is somewhat of an anomaly. The Bethesda resident identifies himself as half scientist, half artist. The National Institutes of Health emeritus scientist retired in 2009 as chief of the laboratory he established 28 years earlier. While his impressive credentials — including a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and a doctorate in biology and chemistry from the California Institute of Technology; long-term positions at NIH as chair of the Department of Piatigorsky Biology and Genetics in the Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences, and as head of the Laboratory of Molecular and Developmental Biology in the National Eye Institute; a book about gene expression and evolution as well as a plethora of published papers and awards — are unambiguously scientific, Piatigorsky insists on equal standing for his artistic side. He means artist in two senses: first, in science, as a lifelong creative rather than goal-oriented researcher, and more recently, as a writer of fiction. His first published novel combines these aspects. “Jellyfish Have Eyes” is the “somewhat autobiographical” story of an eminent scientist whose study of jellyfish eyes earns him condemnation rather than ac-

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claim. Piatigorsky’s own work has involved squid, scallop and jellyfish eyes. Among his goals in the novel is initiating discussion of the U.S. government’s role in defining the direction and integrity of scientific research. “Science is increasingly funded specifically to do work that has a direct connection to helping human beings,” Piatigorsky explained. “That is how scientific research is justified to Congress and taxpayers.” Such restriction, he contended, comes at a price. “The question is the line,” he said. “Without creative nondestinational science, we lose the opportunity for interesting new developments, for putting together results in different combinations. That closes off opportunities for creative scientists — and everybody loses.” Piatigorsky sees parallels in basic science research and literature; they converge in the

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Go to www.favoriteteacher.net starting October 22nd to vote for the finalists in The Gazette’s My Favorite Teacher contest. Vote Early. Vote Often. Tell all your friends. And help us spread the word on Facebook and Twitter because voting is open to everyone. The elementary, middle and high school teacher who gets the most votes will win the title and prizes, and will be featured in The Gazette and on Gazette.net in December.

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For a free listing, please submit complete information to wfranklin@gazette.net at least 10 days in advance of desired publication date. High-resolution color images (500KB minimum) in jpg format should be submitted when available. THEATER & STAGE Bowie Community Theatre, “The Murder Room,” Oct. 31 through Nov. 15, call for prices, times, Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Drive, Bowie, 301-805-0219, bctheatre.com. The Clarice, The Narrative Elements of War: An Embedded Conversation, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 30; UMSO Concerto Competition Finals, 7 p.m. Oct. 31, University of Maryland, College Park, theclarice. umd.edu. Hard Bargain Players, Theater in the Woods, 2001 Bryan Point Road, Accokeek, 240-766-8830, hbplayers.org. Harmony Hall Regional Center, Kids’ Day Out: The Pirate of Bully Bay, 10:30 a.m. Nov. 5, 10701 Livingston Road, Fort Washington, 301-203-6070, arts.pgparks.com. Greenbelt Arts Center, “Death by Design,” Nov. 7 through 23, call for prices, times, Greenbelt Arts Center, 123 Centerway, Greenbelt, 301-441-8770, greenbeltartscenter. org. Joe’s Movement Emporium, Happy Hour at Madam’s Organ, 5 p.m. Oct. 30, 3309 Bunker Hill Road, Mount Rainier, 301-6991819, joesmovement.org. Laurel Mill Playhouse, Love Letters, Nov. 2, call for ticket prices, times, Laurel Mill Playhouse, 508 Main St., Laurel, 301452-2557, laurelmillplayhouse.org. Prince George’s Little Theatre, “A Shot in the Dark,” Jan. 9

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through 24, 2015, call for tickets and show times, Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Drive, Bowie, 301-937-7458, pglt.org.

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and Joshua Logan, through Nov. 22, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays at the Charis Center for the Arts, 13010 8th St., Bowie.

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Continued from Page B-3 process. “Both science and writing are adventures exploring the mysterious unknown,” he observed. “Both deal with narratives of one sort or another, and are often surprised at how their narratives unfold.” “Science is a human construct. It is the narrative of nature that is understandable at the time,” he added. From Piatigorsky’s viewpoint, “Science is a thing of beauty, a form of self-expression. It is a narrative every bit as much as art is. The scientist accumulates data, or facts, and there is only one type of possible link between data points that is consistent with what is known and makes sense. Beyond that, the scientist must imagine how they are linked. When someone else gets data that doesn’t quite ﬁt, it creates a new narrative.” He acknowledged the disparity as well. “The fundamental difference between them is that basic research has constraints. You can’t go beyond hard evidence that is known, the rules of nature. You have to be creative.

$20. For ticket sales and additional information, call 240-475-8800 or visit madtheater.org. Publick Playhouse, Midweek Matinee: Page Turner Adventures, 10:15 a.m. and noon Oct. 30; Philadanco Master Class: Modern Dance, 7 p.m. Nov. 6; Platinum Live: Philadanco!, Noon Nov. 7; Philadanco!, 8 p.m. Nov. 7; PRAISE Auditions, 10 a.m. Nov. 8, 5445 Landover Road, Cheverly, 301277-1710, arts.pgparks.com. 2nd Star Productions, “Twelve Angry Men,” Dec. 5 through 30, Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Drive, Bowie, call for prices, times, 410-757-5700, 301832-4819, 2ndstarproductions. com. Tantallon Community Players, “A USO Christmas,” Dec. 6

through 4, Harmony Hall Regional Center, 10701 Livingston Road, Fort Washington, 301-262-5201, tantallonstage.com. Venus Theatre, “Virus Attacks Heart,” Opening Nov. 6, 21 C Street, Laurel. venustheatre.org.

NIGHTLIFE New Deal Café, Mid-Day Melo-

dies with Amy C Kraft, noon Nov. 6; SAW Open Mic, 7 p.m. Nov. 6; John Guersney, 6:30 p.m. Nov. 7; The Moxie Blues Band, 8 p.m. Nov. 7; John Guernsey, 6:30 p.m. Nov. 8; Built 4 Comfort, 8 p.m. Nov. 8; Deaf Brunch, 10:30 a.m. Nov. 9; Not2Cool Jazz Trio Brunch, 11:30 a.m. Nov. 9; S.J. Tucker, 6 p.m. Nov. 9; Double Sharp, 7 p.m. Nov. 11; Rattlesnake Hill, 5 p.m. Nov. 12, 113 Centerway Road, 301-4745642, newdealcafe.com. Old Bowie Town Grill, Wednesday Night Classic Jam, 8 p.m. every Wednesday, sign-ups start at 7:30 p.m., 8604 Chestnut Ave., Bowie, 301-464-8800, oldbowietowngrille. com.

DANCING Ballroom dance and lesson, with instructor Dave Malek at 7 p.m. every Thursday. A beginner’s lesson precedes the dance, which starts at 8 p.m. Cost is $10. The dance is located at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 6111 Columbian Way, Bowie. For more information, email dave@dancin-dave.

In literature, there are also constraints: the necessity to be consistent within a piece of work; there are no natural constraints.” With literature and other arts, Piatigorsky pointed out, “you’re allowed to create rules. Light can be dark. Time can go backwards.” Writing his book on gene sharing “fueled me to think and write short stories. It freed my science,” About 20 years ago, he began writing fiction; it was, he said, “a different and satisfying form of self-expression for me.” Over 10 years, he accumulated some 400 pages, written during “cracks of time” in his busy schedule. He honed his skills in workshops at The Writer’s Center [TWC] in Bethesda. “What a help they have been for helping me make the transition from the world of science to that of fiction and essays!” Piatigorsky said. He now serves on TWC’s board of directors; among his accomplishments is arranging to display the work of Yellow Barn Gallery artists on the building’s bare walls. Piatigorsky wrote the first draft of “Jellyfish Have Eyes” in 1999. It began as a short story, then expanded into a novella. “It sat for many years,” he

com or call 410-370-8438.

DC DanceSport Inferno, one of the largest amateur ballroom competitions on the East Coast, will take place Oct. 31 through Nov. 2 at the Grand Ballroom of the Stamp Student Union at the University of Maryland in College Park. Regular spectator tickets are $10 each for the Saturday and Sunday competitive sessions, $20 for the Sunday evening show, or $30 for the entire weekend. For more information, visit dcdancesportinferno.com.

OUTDOORS Dinosaur Park, Dinosaur Park programs, noon to 4 p.m. ﬁrst and third Saturdays, join paleontologists and volunteers in interpreting fossil deposits, 13200 block Mid-Atlantic Blvd., Laurel, 301627-7755. Mount Rainier Nature Center, Toddler Time: hands-on treasures, crafts, stories and soft play, 11 a.m. to noon Thursdays, ages 5 and younger free, 4701 31st Place, Mount Rainier, 301-927-2163. Prince George’s Audubon Society, Bird Walks, 7:30 a.m. ﬁrst Sat-

urdays, Fran Uhler Natural Area, meets at end of Lemon Bridge Road, north of Bowie State University, option to bird nearby WB&A Trail afterward; 7:30 a.m. third Saturdays, Governor Bridge Natural Area, Governor Bridge Road, Bowie, meet in parking lot; for migrating and resident woodland and ﬁeld birds, and waterfowl. For beginners and experts. Waterproof footwear and binoculars suggested. Free. 410-765-6482.

ET CETERA College Park Aviation Museum, Peter Pan Club, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. second and fourth Thursdays of every month, activities for preschoolers, $4, $3 seniors, $2 ages 2 to 18, 1985 Cpl. Frank Scott Drive, College Park, 301-864-6029, collegeparkaviationmuseum.com.

Women’s Chamber Choir Auditions, by appointment for the con-

cert season of women’s chamber choir Voix de Femmes, 7:45 to 9:30 p.m. Thursdays, 402 Compton Ave., Laurel, 301-520-8921, annickkanter@gmail.com.

said, until 2009 when he retired from NIH and initiated four years of work in earnest. Piatigorsky’s creativity is not surprising, given his parentage. His father was renowned Russian cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and his mother, Jacqueline Piatigorsky, born into the Rothschild banking family in Paris, was a U.S. chess champion, a noted sculptor and a national senior tennis tournament winner. As for the next generations, Piatigorsky and his wife, Lona, a painter, have two sons, a clinical psychologist and a writer, and ﬁve grandchildren. A series of 15 personal essays, “combining things of general interest to my life,” and linked by the theme of transformations, is occupying much of Piatigorsky’s time. Some of them have been published in Lived Experience, a friend’s Canadian journal. Piatigorsky, who credits Marcel’s Proust’s work as his inspiration, plans to put them together as a memoir. Joram Piatigorsky will read from “Jellyﬁsh Have Eyes” (2014, IPBooks.net) as part of a 2 to 4 p.m. event on Sunday at The Writer’s Center, 4508 Walsh St., Bethesda. Admission is free. Call 301-654-8664 or visit writer.org.

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“Mavis Hollister is the most inept murderess you’ve ever seen,” she said, “and I love that she has absolutely no poker face — this woman couldn’t keep a secret in a bucket.” Negri’s approach to directing suits the small, farcical production — her preference for comedies and knowing how to work with the cast to ﬁnd their characters makes for a show full of laughs and unique character quirks that amplify the play’s tone. “She’s a laid-back, funny director, one who’s really organized and prepared in terms of what she wants for characters and blocking,” Smith said. “Plus, it’s always easy to tell when she likes something, because she has an infectious — and loud — laugh.” “I’m not so much into the more serious pieces,” Negri added. “I enjoy comedies more, though not necessarily farces.

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Erica Smith, Will Hardy and Caity Brown rehearse a scene from the upcoming production of “The Murder Room.” I think I can tell how to make people laugh, and the casts have always been very responsive to that.” With a cast that’s on board and into the piece, audiences should be responsive, as well. The enjoyment of the actor on stage translates well in the play, creating an experience fun for everyone involved.

“We’re having a terrific time up there, and that’s going to shine through,” Smith said. “Good actors doing a ridiculous piece and enjoying the hell out of themselves while doing it? What could be more fun to watch than that?” kgroff@gazette.net

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Big on the inside Comedian Kevin Hart is a grown, little man. Seriously. Even his comedy tour in 2009 was called “I’m a Grown Little Man.” He might be little, but his star power right now is gigantic. Movies, TV shows, comedy tours ... the success is blindingly bright right now. Hart will be debuting new standup material at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Cole Field House at the University of Maryland in College Park. As for his ﬁlm career, Hart

has been in ﬁve movies in 2014, including the hits “Ride Along,” “About Last Night,” and “Think Like a Man Too.” He’s slated to do “Ride Along 2” in 2016 and “Captain Underpants” in 2017. Tickets for the show, sponsored by Student Entertainment Events, can be found at umdtickets.com and the Stamp Ticket Ofﬁce in the Stamp Student Union for $25. For more information, visit see.umd.edu or call 301314-8498.

Military matters

Kevin Hart as Ben Barber in “Ride Along.”

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Theater company En Garde Arts has partnered with the corpsmen from the 1st Battalioin/8th Marines to create “BASETRACK Live,” which can be seen at The Clarice in College Park at 8 p.m. Saturday. The show is a multimedia performance piece which examines the cost of war. Teru Kuwayama, who worked as a freelance journalist in Afghanistan for nine years, took the lead as

the project coordinator. Kuwayama sought new ways of visual storytelling, using social media and photojournalists such as Balazs Gardi and Tivadar Domaniczky. “BASETRACK Live” combines the photos with the text used in social media and original music. Tickets for the show vary from $10 to $25. For more information, visit theclarice. umd.edu or call 301-4052787.

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Rich Meyerburg (right) of Laurel and Theresa Joyner of Hyattsville rehearse a scene from the play, “Love Letters,” during drama class at the Laurel/Beltsville Senior Activity Center in Laurel Oct. 22.

Can’t say the folks at Laurel Mill Playhouse don’t like to mix it up a bit! A one-day-only production of “Love Letters” is set to open — and close — this Sunday at 2 p.m. That’s not too much of a surprise, as “Love Letters,” written by A.R. Gurney, was scripted to be easy to perform with a cast of two. Several big-name celebrities have done the play over the years, including Larry Hagman, Carol Burnett, Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Daniels, Elizabeth Tay-

lor and James Earl Jones, just to name a few. The show follows Melissa and Andrew, two friends who have known each other all of their lives and have written letters to each other over the span of nearly 50 years. They read each other’s notes, where they talk about their hopes, dreams, victories and defeats. Tickets for the show are $15 to $20. For more information, visit laurelmillplayhouse.org or call 301617-9906.

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BOWIE: 1 Furn BR bsmt w/priv bath & entr, $900/mo. incl utils, WIFI & CATV, W/D 240-351-0963 BOWIE-Bsmt Apt 2.5 BR/1 Ba, kitch, priv entr, quiet area. $650 per RM, S.D req. 301674-5874 ask for Ola. CLINTON-

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