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Sewer system repairs to begin in Fell’s Point and Butchers Hill By gianna decarlo EDITOR@BALTIMOREGUIDE.COM

Parts of the Southeast are getting new sewer lines that will replace the city’s century-old sewage infrastructure. Starting within the next month, the Department of Public Works will begin rehabilitation and replacement upgrades to the sanitary sewer system in the Upper Fell’s Point, Butchers Hill, Patterson Park, and Greektown neighborhoods. “It’s an old system, so what we’re going to do to improve sewage flow and pipe capacity is replacing the pipes themselves,” said Linzy Jackson, the DPW’s community liaison. There will be two methods to the sewer improvements. The first is cured-in-place lining (CIPP), the least invasive of the two repairs. With CIPP pipes, the original pipe is not removed but rather replaced. “We go into the pipe and we basically put a pipe inside the pipe, so we don’t have to cut up the first pipe to put a new one in. We just go in, and the new pipe hardens and we keep it moving,” said Jackson. “It’s a good alternative if you think about it. Digging up an entire street is a lot.” The new pipe is hardened and heated, usually with steam, until it expands enough to fit the dimensions of the old pipe. The other method is ‘open cut repairs’, the traditional method when the old pipe is removed. Open cut repairs often require the street being dug open in order to access the pipe. In these cases, – CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 –

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At approximately 9 p.m. on Wednesday, May 4, two senior citizens were followed home, assaulted, and robbed at gunpoint. The victims were an 82-year-old man and 70-year-old woman who lived on the 100 block of Rochester Place in Patterson Park. According to the victims, the suspect was a heavy-set African-American male in his early 20s who was 6 foot tall. He reportedly was wearing a navy blue sweatshirt and darkcolored pants. The victims told police that they were walking out of their home when the suspect walked up to them and pushed them back into the house. The suspect pushed them on the floor and pointed a long-barrel gun at them, demanding money. The male victim gave the suspect his wallet and the female victim handed over money and her cell phone. When the victims insisted that it was all they had, the suspect said, “That’s not enough, I want more.” He then pointed the gun at the male victim and stated, “I’m going to kill your wife.” At this, the victims reiterated that they didn’t have anything else and the suspect ran out the door as the female victim hit him with a cane. One of the victims’ neighbors heard the commotion and witnessed the suspect fleeing the scene on a bike. The victims refused medical treatment and are grateful to have survived such a terrifying ordeal with minimal injuries. Police, the victims, and other residents in the neighborhood are urging people to keep an eye out for the suspect. “We’re going to put every effort we can into capturing them and we hope the community is just as outraged because it is different when we’re talking about vulnerable victims,” said T.J. Smith., a spokesperson for Baltimore Police spokesperson.

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D.O.T. seeks community feedback before Charm City Bikeshare rolls out rental program this fall by GIANNA DECARLO EDITOR@BALTIMOREGUIDE.COM

global phenomenon, it’s a little embarrassing that it took Baltimore so long.” He said that most major metropolitan areas have already had successful bike share programs in place for years. For example, Washington D.C. has had bike share since 2010. “Bike share represents an affordable and healthy addition to our city’s existing transportation options. We are excited to invest in our communities by providing this safe and sustainable way to travel in Baltimore, and this will build on my administration’s efforts to make Baltimore more bike friendly. For Baltimore, expanding our network of sustainable transportation options is critical both to retaining our residents and attracting new families into our city,” said Mayor Rawlings-Blake during last month’s announcement. The DOT said they are hoping that the bike share program has the same success as ZipCar in taking cars off the streets. The rentable bikes will be best suited for short-term trips through urban environments. “It’s a bike share system for Baltimore but it’s going to be by Baltimore,” said Decker.

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In March, it was announced that 500 new rentable bikes will be hitting the streets this fall as part of a city-wide bike share program. The $2 million program will make the specialized bikes available at stations throughout the city for a small price per hour. The Department of Transportation is currently in the stages of gathering community feedback on where the bikes should be located and how much the service should cost. Representatives for the DOT met with residents at Patterson Park as one part of this planning process on Tuesday, May 3. Jay Decker, the Bike Share Coordinator for the DOT, explained that the community will also be able to give feedback online at www. bikeshare.com. The website has surveys on pricing and virtual maps where you can pinpoint the locations where you think a bike station should go. At the event, there was a map of the city where people could mark where they wanted a bike station to be. Once completed, there will be 50 bike stations total. Baltimore’s bike program is unique in that 40-50% of the bikes in the fleet will have electric pedal assistance. “When we launch, we’ll actually be the largest electric bike share fleet in the Western hemisphere,” said Decker. The pedals work by providing power per every rotation you make on the bike. Decker explained that a precise algorithm that was created just for the program does about 70% of the work and knows when to increase the speed and power when approaching hills or rough terrain. Basically, the harder you push the pedals, the more power and speed the bike will generate. This feature is meant to make biking more accessible. “It really just lowers the barriers to using it. It’s no longer just for someone who’s fit and wants to burn calories. It’s about someone who is afraid of tackling the hills, it’s someone who is overweight or hasn’t worked out in a while, it’s someone recovering from an injury, or when it’s August and 100 degrees and you have to get to work. It makes it easy for them,” said Decker. The bikes can reach speeds of approximately 15 mph. “A better question is why hasn’t it been brought to Baltimore sooner?” said Decker when asked about the motivation for bringing these bikes to Baltimore. “Bike share is a

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DEADLINE: noon on the Friday before publication WEDNESDAY, MAY 11 Fell’s Prospect Community Association Meeting: 7:30 p.m., American Legion Hall, 1746 Fleet St. THURSDAY, MAY 12 Hampstead Hill Nights: 5:30-8 p.m. Hampstead Hill Academy, 500 S. Linwood Ave. A family-fun evening with live music and food. Bring blankets and lawn chairs. Info: 410396-9146. Hampstead Hill Community Association Meeting: 7 p.m. Gallery Church Hall, 3115 Eastern Ave. Buena Casa, Buena Brasa: Todos los jueves. Canciones, rimas, cuentos, y juegos, para los niños (0-3 años) y los padres o cuidadores. 11 a.m. at the Southeast Anchor Branch, Enoch Pratt Library, 3601 Eastern Ave. Info: 410-396-1580. FRIDAY, MAY 13 Patterson Park Charter School Bingo: 6-10 p.m. Patterson Park Public Charter School, 2726 E. Baltimore St. $15 to play, includes 3 bingo cards, a dauber, and a 50/50 raffle ticket. Cash prizes and food will be available. Proceeds benefit the school. Tiny Tots in Patterson Park: 10:30-11:30 a.m., meets at picnic tables on the northeastern shore of the Boat Lake. $5 donation is suggested per child. Presented by the Audubon Center. Info: 410-558-2473. SATURDAY, MAY 14 Butchers Hill Flea Market and Craft Fair: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Northwest corner of Patterson Park. Over 120 vendors will be selling clothes, furniture, art, food, toys, and much more. Proceeds will benefit the Butchers Hill Association Meeting and the neighborhoods’ schools. Canton Food Truck Rally: 5 p.m.-10 p.m. St. Brigid’s Catholic Church, 900 S. East Ave. Nosh on some specials from local food trucks, bet on some game wheels, dance to music, and imbibe on beer and wine at this fundraiser for St. Brigid’s. $2 per person. Baltimore Wine and Food Festival: 12-5 p.m. Rash Field at the Inner Harbor. An all-youcan-drink selection of international wines, beers, and spirits along with samples and live cooking demos from chefs. Info: www.bmorewine.com. Kerplunk! Family Art Drop-In: An all ages events where children are encouraged to explore the art exhibit and delve into their own creativity with help from the art supplies around the building. Saturday, 12-3 p.m., at the Creative Alliance, 3134 Eastern Ave. FREE. Info: www.creativealliance.org/events/2015/kerplunk-free-family-art-drop. SUNDAY, MAY 15

BikeJam: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Patterson Park. An all-day biking event featuring live music, food trucks, and bike races. Info: www.bikejam.org. MONDAY, MAY 16 Highlandtown Community Association Meeting: 7 p.m., Salem United Methodist Church, 3403 Gough St. TUESDAY, MAY 17 Library Square Meeting: 6 p.m. Patterson Park Enoch Pratt Library, 158 N. Linwood Ave. Little Italy Property Owners Association Meeting: 7 p.m., St. Leo’s Church Hall, 227 S. Exeter St. Upper Fell’s Point Improvement Association Meeting: 7 p.m., Wolfe St. Academy, 245 Wolfe St. WEDNESDAY, MAY 18 Mother Goose Baby Steps: Mondays, 11 a.m. An interactive nursery rhyme program with music and movement. For children up to 36 months of age with their caregivers. Southeast Anchor Branch, Enoch Pratt Library, 3601 Eastern Ave. Info: 410-396-1580.

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typically one-day activities. So, we can literally put in 70 feet of pipe or 1000 feet of pipe in one single day if it’s all adjacent to one another. Typically it’s an 8-hour operation and then we’re done. You usually can’t even tell we were there except for the patch on the ground,” Peake said. Jackson said the community can help the process go more smoothly with a few precautions, like reducing water use and reporting concerns to the City before they break ground. “The work is primarily located within city right-of-ways such as streets, alleys, and sidewalks, and only occasionally within yards that have dedicated utility easements. Expect to see contractor work vehicles such as box trucks and excavators along with traffic control personnel,” states a release from the DPW. Baltimore’s infrastructure is between 80-100 years old; as a result, the sewage system is prone to back-ups and overflows. The city entered a consent decree with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Maryland Department of the Environment, where they are to improve the system through these repairs, reducing sewage leaks and overflows into private property and the city’s waterways. Much of the pollution and bacteria growth is a result of sewage being released into the water during heavy rainfall. The DPW will be starting in the west, in the Butchers Hill area, before moving north towards Eastern Ave. and I-95. This is a citywide project and the DPW is aiming for a 2018 completion date. This pipe repair project has been in the works for over five years. Other repairs within this project’s scope include manhole rehabilitation, new manhole installations, excavated point repairs, and excavated mainline replacements. Over 2600 acres of pipes in Dundalk area have recently been renovated. Construction will occur on weekdays from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. If residents have any questions or concerns, they should contact 410-396-4700.

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“Force Continuum” explores police brutality and community tensions through three generations of African-American cops by GIANNA DECARLO

Force continuum is a practice taught to law enforcement officers. It’s a hierarchy of the type and amount of force an officer can use to restrain suspects. Deadly force should be the last resort and used only when an officer has exhausted all their other options. Through the headlines, protests, and outrage we’ve seen over the past few years, it appears as if that continuum has been broken. We see it in the cases of Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, and of course, Baltimore’s Freddie Gray, all citizens at the receiving end of the final step of the continuum. “Force Continuum” is a play by Kia Corthron, directed by Rosiland Cauthen, and performed by the Cohesion Theatre Company that focuses on the ripple effect these police-involved deaths have on the officers, the community, the families, and culture as a whole. “Force Continuum”, written by Corthron in 2001 before these wide-spread and wellknown cases, is about Dece, played expertly by Terrance Fleming. Dece is a 24-year-old rookie cop who comes from two generations of police officers. Dece is also black. As an African-American cop, he is smack-dab in the middle of both sides of this taut cultural tension and national debate where lives are literally on the line. As the play progresses, we see Dece grappling with the two sides of who he is. He wants to do good, but the weight of his actions when a woman dies in his custody and the inherent discriminatory practices within the department has him wondering if he’s a “traitor to his race.” “I found that one of the complexities of the story that really pulled me in is this young cop who is African-American. As a black person, you’re seeing how your own people are being treated but he also has a job to do,” said Cauthen. The performance isn’t about good vs. evil. Such black-and-white thinking doesn’t translate into the corrupt system that inflicts pain on all rungs of society. Dece is at the crossroads between two very complex and very troubled sides. The killer cops and the unarmed innocent victims in the news are more than just what appears in the headlines after a riot. The play shows off how interconnected these lives are by having every actor play both a cop and a civilian at one point of the show.

“I think it is in grappling with these tough issues and peeling back the layers and telling some truth about what’s really going on that we can start to get to the healing,” said Cauthen. Flashbacks of Dece’s childhood are interspersed throughout the play, showing his wide-eyed idealism of police and his desire to take after his father, played by Malcolm Anomnachi, who is quickly rising in the ranks as an officer. The first step of force continuum is verbal persuasion. The need for communication is a common theme throughout the play. When young Dece asks his grandfather, played by Josh Thomas, if he can be a cop, he responds, “Do you like people?” Dece’s grandfather and mother were community-based officers. They knew everybody’s name and spoke to them with respect and humanity. That’s another theme of “Force Continuum”, the need for officers that are from the neighborhoods they are patrolling. Cauthen directs the play in a way where the police aren’t set up as antagonists, but victims of a corrupt system, just as Dece and his other community members are. For example, the performance tackles the high suicide rate of police officers and why this isn’t an issue that is often discussed. “We’re keeping it all the family,” says the grandfather with a sigh. Following the play, Cohesion would host talks with a variety of guest speakers to touch on the issues “Force Continuum” brought up. Thaddeus Street plays the character Dray, a young painter who is shot by police when Last week, two officers spoke about how they think his paint brush is a gun. | Photo courtesy of the Cohesion Theatre Company the play touched on their experiences policing in such an intense and uncertain “It deals with some very serious issues, but this is really happening to people. This time. with the police and the community and a lot type of harassment and brutality is for real.” “They talked about how they got of the things we see locally and nationally There’s a hushed silence from the goosebumps because it reminded them of plays out. Even though it’s a tough subject audience as the play completes. Cauthen certain things that happened to them.” matter, we think it’s an important subject said that once the initial shock of the play’s The first act of the play is rife with matter,” said Cauthen. events wears off, she wants the audience to tension. Dece’s patrol is almost going too Performed at United Evangelical Church, continue the dialogue. well and the audience is wound up tight, the set is simple, a living room scene or an “It’s a discussion we need to have a holding its breath and clenching its fists, empty bar, but large partitions decorated group,” she said, calling for better waiting for the tragedy that will inevitably with collages of headlines and newspapers communication and community occur. about police brutality break up the set and involvement from residents, politicians, and In the second act, things fall apart. The put the slice-of-life family scenes we see officers. “We can change it, in our personal flashbacks take a grim tone as Dece’s once into the larger, more disturbing, narrative. lives, in the lives of our family, in the lives proud father crumbles as he is pressured to “It’s a tough play, y’all. We’ve been living of our neighbors. We can help the situation go along with his department’s unethical with this play for two months. Seeing these in our ways.” actions. When he is goaded into beating a images night after night, this language, and “Force Continuum” ran from April 22 to 16-year-old to death, the bubble bursts. knowing that, for me, it’s a play, it’s fictional, May 8.

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HOMICIDE N. Decker St., 600 block, May 8 at 2:26 a.m. Officers responded to the location and found the victim, a 38-year-old AfricanAmerican male in the alley underneath the bumper of a white car with several gunshot wound to his chest. Medics pronounced the victim dead. No suspect information is available. ROBBERY Fleet St., 1600 block, May 2 at 11:20 a.m. Victim was H&S Bakery. The victim stated that an African-American male entered the store wearing a dust mask, a yellow construction vest and safety goggles. He was armed with a black handgun and stated “Give me all the money from the register.” The suspect then took the money and fled. N. Linwood Ave., 200 block, May 2 at 5:29 p.m. Victim was Orleans Market. The victim was working the register when an AfricanAmerican male in his 20s entered the store armed with a knife. He took money from the register and cigarettes. S. Bethel St., 400 block, May 4 at 6:40 p.m. One of the victims was sitting in the car, a black 2011 Jeep Patriot, when the suspects, two African-American males pulled up in front of him in a grey Hyundai. The suspects asked him for directions and when he said he didn’t know, the suspects produced guns and demanded the victim’s property. They took two phones and a wallet and one suspect got into the victim’s car and drove away in it. Rochester Place, 100 block, May 4 at 9:27 p.m. The victims reported that they were walking out of their door when an AfricanAmerican male pushed them back into the house. The suspect pulled out a long barrel gun and demanded money. The victims handed over money, a wallet, and a flip phone. The suspect said “That’s not enough, I want more” and threatened to kill the female suspect. When the victims stated they didn’t have anything else, the suspect fled on a bike. N. Highland Ave., unit block, May 4 at 9:20 p.m. The two victims were working in an empty house when two African-American males, one 25-years-old and one 35-yearsold, came into the location armed with a knife. They took the one victim upstairs, placing the knife by his neck. When he screamed, the second victim ran up the stairs when one suspect stabbed him in the back. The suspects grabbed a phone and fled the house.

Jefferson St., 2800 block, May 4 at 9:55 p.m. The victim stated that she walked to the corner store and was pushed from behind by an 18-year-old African-American male. The suspect snatched her purse and fled. S. East Ave., 400 block, May 5 at 1:07 p.m. The suspect reported that two AfricanAmerican males robbed him at gunpoint and took his cell phone, money, and a pack of cigarettes. S. Broadway, 200 block, May 6 at 4 p.m. The victim reported that he was in the laundry mat when he was approached by two AfricanAmerican males in their 20s. Suspect #1 grabbed the victim around his neck in a chokehold while Suspect #2 took his cell phone and money. A third suspect was acting as a lookout. The suspects fled the scene, going northbound on E. Pratt St. S. Grundy St., 600 block, May 6 at 3:24 a.m. The victim reported that he was sleeping in bed when he was attacked by his friend, a 40-year-old Caucasian male, and another unknown suspect. The known suspect stabbed the victim in the right side of his head and his right arm. The suspects took his wallet and medication and fled. The known suspect was located and arrested. AGGRAVATED ASSAULT Eastern Ave., 6500 block, May 3 at 5:35 p.m. Victim #1 stated that he was doing a window repair for Victim #2 and the suspect, a 32-year-old Hispanic male, in the Home Depot parking lot. After a dispute over payment, the suspect got into his car struck both victims with his vehicle. The suspect was arrested. BURGLARY S. Ann St., 100 block, May 2 at 3:15 p.m. The victim stated that she heard a knock at her rear door. A witness observed the suspects, two African-American male juveniles, enter the victim’s garage and flee with two bikes. The suspects were spotted on the 1600 block of Gough St. and dropped one of the bikes while being chased by police. S. Ponca St., 700 block, May 2 between 9:40 a.m. and 3;20 p.m. An unknown suspect forced open the rear basement door, gained entry, and took a TV, a PlayStation, and a pair of shoes. S. Lehigh St., 300 block, May 3 between 7 a.m. and 5:40 p.m. An unknown suspect entered the location through an unlocked rear window, gained entry, and took shoes and a laptop.

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Machado took the full-count pitch and deposited it over the left-center field wall to wrap up the scoring at 11-3. For the day, Machado was 2 for 4 with those two home runs and six runs batted in. On the season, Machado is batting .350 with a .403 on base percentage to go along with his nine home runs and 22 runs batted in. One interesting split for Machado is that he is batting .425 at home with a .475 on base percentage. Note to opposing teams: try something new, because whatever they’re doing to Machado isn’t working. What makes this lineup so special is that pitchers have to pitch to Machado because after him in the batting order is Chris Davis, so they need to figure things out. As it sits right the O’s have a half game lead in the AL East but there is still a lot of baseball yet to play.

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BALTIMORE CITY BA9551177 Beautiful updated home close to Johns Hopkins! 3 bedrooms with optional 4th in finished basement. 2 updated baths, new kitchen with stainless steel appliances. New roof with warranty. This is a must see!!!

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