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Town’s election is Tuesday BY
ELIZABETH WAIBEL STAFF WRITER
Parks, the Purple Line and responding to growth in nearby Bethesda were big issues for discussion at a town of Chevy Chase forum Thursday evening. The candidates forum was held in the run-up to the May 6 town election. Seven candidates have filed to fill three council seats. At the forum, several candidates said the town is strong, but will face challenges and
changes in the future. Grant Davies, who owns a management consulting business, said the town needs a unified voice to influence decisions on changes near its borders, like the Bethesda downtown plan and the Purple Line. Right now, he said, no one is satisfied with how town officials have handled Purple Line issues. “We can effect the changes, but we have to be smart,” he said. Donald Farren, a retired curator and library administrator, said the town needs diverse thinking on the council, and he would work on reconciling the opposing views held by residents.
Councilman Al Lang, who is seeking re-election, said the town has strong basic service, but challenges ahead. He said that if re-elected, he wants to look into turning some parking lots into parks. “It’s going to be quite an endeavor to pull it off,” he said. Kathie Legg, a member of the town’s Long-Range Planning Committee, also said the town should look into whether some of the parking lots at the town’s edges could be turned into parks, especially with the possibility of more dense development in downtown Bethesda.
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Dillon Papier, 11, of Frederick works on his time skills with Julianne Fuchs-Musgrave, director of the National Institutes of Health Children’s School at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda.
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It’s a one-room schoolhouse that serves students in kindergarten through 12th grade, but there is nothing oldfashioned about it. Attached to one wall is a large-screen TV for watching science shows or communicating via Skype with classes around the country or even around the world. There are two computers, bookcases full of reading material, shelves of school supplies and a large work table in the center of the room. Another thing about this school: Called the NIH Children’s School, it is in the pediatric unit of the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda. Besides
‘Farmer Tim’ ELIZABETH WAIBEL STAFF WRITER
When Vickie Baily went to her local farmers market, she found a story and a new subject for her photography. Baily got to know Tim Derstine — a Pennsylvania farmer and part of the Tuscarora Organic Growers Cooperative — by visiting his farmers market in Garrett Park. “I was already a person who loved farmers markets, and his market is less than a block from my house,” she said. “... It’s fantastic.” For several years, Baily had
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visited the market that Derstine sets up in town most Saturdays. She then asked him if she could visit his farm to photograph where the food comes from. The four trips she took over the course of 2013 resulted in a photography exhibit on display in Garrett Park this spring. An opening reception is planned for Saturday — next to Derstine’s market. Baily’s training is in fiction writing, but she has captured many of the same things that interest her about writing in her photos.
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At top: Tim Derstine checks on zucchini growing on his Pennsylvania farm. Derstine sells his produce at a farmers market in Garrett Park on Saturdays. Above: Derstine (right) is pictured at his dinner table with family and friends.
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tissues and a box of face masks plus the IV poles the students often drag in with them, there is no medical paraphernalia to be found. “The school here provides an important service to pediatric patients,” Dr. John I. Gallin, director of the NIH Clinical Center, said in an email. “It contributes to their care as these young patients aren’t forced to choose between falling behind in their education or their treatment,” Gallin said. “They keep a familiar routine, connect with other children who face similar challenges, and transition easier when they get home — all of which supports their healthy development, well-being and continued participation as patients in the life-saving research happening here.” Since 1953, the year the center opened, teachers from
Visitors to the Shops of Wisconsin in Bethesda these days will see construction workers and some heavy equipment overhauling the front of the building on Wisconsin Avenue. But despite the flurry of activity, the eclectic mix of
stores in the shopping center, including Trader Joe’s, FITology, Gymboree Play & Music and T.K. Martial Arts, is still open for business. Shannon Jones, a spokeswoman for Douglas Development, which owns the property, said the construction is part of a multimilliondollar facade renovation. “[It’s] under construction now, and we’re trying to keep the impacts to shoppers minimal,” she said. The shopping center, at
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