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EMILIE SHAUGHNESSY

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Bowie police have arrested a teenager in connection with three armed robberies that took place in September. One of the robberies took place on Midwood Lane in Bowie on Sept. 30, shortly before a Bowie High School father was shot and killed near the same location in an unrelated event, police said. The other two incidents took place on Evergreen Parkway and Laurel Bowie Road. Bowie police officers and Maryland state police SWAT team members arrested Marques Davone Clark, 18, of Needlewood Lane in Bowie around noon on Friday, according to a Bowie police report. Clark was arrested at a Fort Washington address, where police also discovered a handgun and property belonging to several of the robbery victims, according to police. “Hopefully this arrest will provide closure for both the victims and the community,” said Bowie police chief John Nesky in a press release. Clark was questioned at the Bowie criminal investigation division office then taken to the Upper Marlboro department of corrections for charging, according to police. He was charged with six counts, including armed robbery and ﬁrst-degree assault, and is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Nov. 13, according to court records. No attorney information was available in online court records. “This was excellent police work,” Bowie Mayor G. Frederick Robinson said in a statement. eshaughnessy@gazette.net

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Cub Scout James Weber, 9, of Joint Base Andrews, chats Saturday about his favorite football team over amateur radio with help from Kenny Courtney, 74, of Clinton during the Jamboree-on-the-Air, an international amateur radio event for Boy Scouts.

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adewryn Fletcher, 11, a Boy Scout from Upper Marlboro said he was nervous to step up to the mic Saturday night and talk to a stranger over amateur radio. But with encouragement from his mother and brother, Cadewryn sat at a picnic table with amateur radio operator Kenneth Greenhouse,

68, of Upper Marlboro and chatted about his favorite color with a Boy Scout in Saskatchewan, Canada. “I think it’s awesome,” said Cadewryn’s mother, Renea Fletcher, 47, “I guess for so many years you tell them, ‘Don’t talk to strangers,’ and now it’s time to talk to strangers.” Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts from Prince

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Town hopes to have better results with outside contractor

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Barry Morton said his neighbors in Marlborough Towne don’t have trouble recycling — the challenge is ﬁlling up and taking out their 64-gallon, Prince George’s County-issued bins ev-

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Ofﬁcials say new vehicles will help save money and the environment BY

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Bowie staff and law enforcement ofﬁcers are taking the city’s push for environmental responsibility to the streets. The Bowie police department is the

first in the state to purchase electric motorcycles for its patrol officers, said Bowie assistant police chief Dwayne Preston, which he said was confirmed by the bike vendor. The two bikes, which will be used to patrol the city’s parks and trails as well as to answer calls for service, were unveiled at an Oct. 21 press event in Bowie. “One of the things [the department] wanted to look at was how can we be green, how can we save fuel, how can we make less of an environmental impact,”

Nesky said. “[The motorcycles are] going to help us cover both trails and the patrol streets. With use of the electric motorcycles, we don’t have to sacriﬁce one for the other.” The e-bike unveiling took place about one week after Bowie council members agreed to purchase a 2015 electric car from a Bowie car dealership for transporting city employees. The car cost approximately $30,000, according to a memo from city manager David Deutsch.

ery week. “It appears to a lot of people that we are not recycling in the neighborhood, but it is a hassle to drag [the bin] around the neighborhood for a couple boxes of cornflakes,” Morton said. Cumbersome recycling bins is one problem Steve Sonnett, the president of the Upper Marlboro town commissioners, hopes to eliminate with the town’s new recycling con-

tractor, Bates Trucking & Trash Removal, Inc, a Bladensburgbased waste management company. “It was a good move and we got a good bid from Bates,” Sonnett said. Sonnett said the town discontinued service through the county to improve the rate and quality of recycling. The deal could save the town up to $7,000 annually, Sonnett said. “It lowers the cost and it

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gives us a direct relationship with the contractor so we can monitor performance better,” Sonnett said. Linda Lowe, a spokeswoman for the county’s Department of Environment, wrote in an email that the department is happy the town is continuing residential curbside collections and it would continue to help the town promote recycling.

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Prince George’s County Public Schools is planning to close one under-enrolled elementary school next year, and is considering converting another into a center for preschool students. The Maryland State Department of Education requested the school system come up with an action plan for Thomas Claggett Elementary School in District Heights due to declining enrollment and lagging performance, said Johndel Jones-Brown, director of pupil accounting and boundaries at a Tuesday meeting at the school. Claggett is currently enrolled at 236, which is 51 percent of its State Rated Capacity, or SRC, which is the number of students the school can hold without impacting learning. Its scores on the 2013 Maryland State Assessment, or MSA, are some of the lowest in the county, with only 35 percent

of students scoring proﬁcient or better in math and 55.1 percent scoring proﬁcient or better in reading. “The option we’ve chosen in regards to that school is to discontinue its use as an elementary school,” Jones-Brown said. Approximately two-thirds of the students currently zoned for Claggett would attend John Bayne Elementary School in Walker Mill. The remaining third would attend District Heights Elementary. John Bayne Elementary is 1.5 miles from Claggett; District Heights Elementary is slightly under one mile. Jones-Brown said both schools could absorb the additional students and still remain under capacity. “I’m very happy about this change,” said Lauren Taylor of District Heights, whose daughter attends the second grade at Claggett. She said she is looking forward to her daughter attending District Heights, which is closer to her home. Sha-Neeka Gordon of Capitol Heights, mother of a second grade student at Claggett said she wished Claggett would stay open, and she is con-

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Bowie Mayor G. Frederick Robinson said the three environmentally-friendly vehicles are part of Bowie’s push to support “green” initiatives. “It all ﬁts into the attempt to balance what we have to do with the most [environmentally-friendly] and cost-efﬁcient way to do it,” Robinson said. “It will give us the opportunity to save fuel and set a change of mindset.”

See MOTORCYCLES, Page A-6 Wanda Leonard, an Upper Marlboro resident, checks her recycling, which does not ﬁll half of the 64-gallon container. She said the town’s new recycling contractor should give residents the option of using a larger or smaller bin. KIRSTEN PETERSEN/ THE GAZETTE

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OCT. 23 Church Florida Fruit Sale Fundraiser, 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., Most Holy Rosary Church Hall at the Intersection of Route 301 and Rosaryville Road, Upper Marlboro. Most Holy Rosary Knights of Columbus and Boy Scout Troop No. 1575 are having a Florida Fruit Sale for Charity. You can place orders until Nov. 9. Call 301-602-8790 or 301-868-6826.

OCT. 24 Xtreme Teens: Trunk N’ Treat, 7 to 10 p.m., Baden Community Center, 13601 Baden Westwood Road, Brandywine. Enjoy a ghoulish Friday night full of s’mores and spooky stories told around a campﬁre. Dress in your favorite goblin or gremlin costume to assist with the children trick-or-treating. Contact 301-888-1500. MAD presents “Fanny” at the Charis Center, 8 to 10:30 p.m., Charis Center for the Arts, 13010 8th St., Bowie. NASA’s Music And Drama club (MAD) presents the musical “Fanny” by S. N. Behrman and Joshua Logan. Cost is $20. For ticket sales and additional information contact 240-475-8800 or go to www.madtheater.org.

OCT. 25 Ardmore Fall Bazaar, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., 9301 Ardwick-Ardmore Road, Springdale. Food, crafts, games, rides, ﬂea market and silent auction. Contact 301-925-1311 or ardmoremdpta@ gmail.com.

Yorktown Elementary School Yard Sale,

9 a.m. to noon at Yorktown Elementary School, 7301 Race Track Road, Bowie. We are selling table space for $15 a space. You need to bring your own table and chairs. Call 301-805-6610 to reserve a space. Glenn Dale UMC Flea Market, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Glenn Dale United Methodist Church, 8500 Springﬁeld Road, Glenn Dale. This family-friendly sale features household items, toys, plants, books, handmade crafts, knick-knacks, Christmas decorations and the ever-popular baked goods table. Contact soniametelsky@hotmail.com.

Friends of the Oxon Hill Library Book Sale, 10 a.m., Oxon Hill Library, 6200 Oxon

Hill Road, Oxon Hill. Get a fantastic bargain at the Friends of the Oxon Hill Library’s Autumn Book Sale. There will be something for the whole family: books, movies, CDs and snacks. Contact 301-839-2400. Quilting Class, 10 a.m., Spauldings

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Library, 5811 Old Silver Hill Road, District Heights. Join us and have fun learning how to hand quilt. Enjoy making new friends while learning how to quilt. Bring ½ yard of 100 percent cotton fabric in light and dark colors to class. Beginner and intermediate levels. Contact 301-8173750. A Healthy Mind, Body, and Soul Workshop, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Oxon Hill Library, 6200 Oxon Hill Road, Oxon Hill. Professionals in various areas will provide information to encourage healthy living and how to keep healthy mentality, physically and emotionally. Visit www.akaupsilontauomega.org. African Headwraps the Easy Way, 11 a.m., Oxon Hill Library, 6200 Oxon Hill Road, Oxon Hill. Participants will practice using traditional African fabric to tie headwraps in a few easy steps. Each may bring their own cloth or use provided fabrics. Contact 301-839-2400. Harvest Fest ‘14, 1 to 4 p.m., Upper Marlboro Community Center, 5400 Marlboro Race Track Road, Upper Marlboro. Prepare yourself for this year’s Harvest. Indulge in a day of carnival games, costume contests, music and treats. Cost is residents: $5; non-residents: $6. Contact 301-627-2828; TTY 301-203-6030. Antarctica and Science: 100th Anniversary of the Shackleton Expedition,

2 p.m., Bowie Library, 15210 Annapolis Road, Bowie. Diane Belanger will visit the Bowie Branch Library, and discuss her research on the scientiﬁc explorations of the 1950’s. Hear how and what science learned and how it has come to affect us all in the present day. Call 301-262-7000. Eddie Kayne Show Indie Concert Series, 3 to 7 p.m., Bowie Town Center

(food court pavilion), 15606 Emerald Way, Bowie. Spend select Saturday evenings with The Eddie Kayne Show for live indie music and dance performances. Contact 301-860-1401. Five Make Art Artist Reception, 3 to 5 p.m., Harmony Hall Regional Center, 10701 Livingston Road, Fort Washington. Contact 301-772-9340 or lizlescault@ gmail.com. The Great Jack O’ Lantern Campﬁre, 7 to 8:30 p.m., Darnall’s Chance House Museum, 14800 Governor Oden Bowie Drive, Upper Marlboro. See a dazzling display of hand-carved illuminated jack o’ lanterns at Darnall’s Chance House Museum. Bask by a fall campﬁre, roast marshmallows, and listen to haunted Halloween tales. Children can hunt for glowing jack o’ lanterns, and everyone can enjoy popcorn, marshmallows and hot cider. Cost is $4 per person. Children 4 and under free. Contact 301-952-8010; TTY 301-699-2544.

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The ﬁfth annual Farm Fest Extravaganza, 11 a.m. to 7

p.m., Prince Georges’ Equestrian Center, 14900 Pennsylvania Ave., Upper Marlboro. Charitable day of fun where families, cowgirls and cowboys come together to raise proceeds beneﬁtting the Howard University Center for Sickle Cell Disease. Cost is $5 per person 10 years old and up. Contact 301-254-9553.

MORE INTERACTIVE CALENDAR ITEMS AT WWW.GAZETTE.NET All You Can Eat Pancake Breakfast, 9 to 11 a.m., The Patuxent River 4-H Center, 18405 Queen Anne Road, Upper Marlboro. Breakfast includes pancakes, bacon, sausage, eggs, coffee and juice. Children who come in costume get a prize. Fall photo background set up, can purchase a picture for a nominal fee. Cost is adults $6, children 3-6 $3, under 3 free. Contact prfourhc@umd.edu.

Tucker Road — Your Health and Wellness Destination., 2 to 4 p.m., Tucker

Road Athletic Complex, 1770 Tucker Road, Fort Washington. Join us for activities that emphasize healthy living this Saturday. Such as Archery (at Bock Road Archery Range), Healthy Grilling, QR F.I.T. Trail Workout, Yoga in the Park. Activities are free unless otherwise noted and will take place rain or shine. We hope to see you there. Contact 301-248-4404; TTY 301-203-6030.

OCT. 27 Fundamentals of Estate Planning and Wealth Transfer, 7 to 9 p.m., Harmony

Hall Regional Center, 10701 Livingston Road, Fort Washington. In this seminar, learn the fundamentals of estate planning and wealth transfer. Long term care insurance issues will be covered and the changes in tax laws relating to estate planning as well. SMARTlink#:1494668. Cost is residents $5; non-residents $6. Contact 301-203-6040; TTY 301-203-6030. Family Game Night, 7 p.m., Accokeek Library, 15773 Livingston Road, Accokeek. Put on your game face and get ready to compete at Family Game Night. Featuring fun and exciting games such as: Uno, Junior Scrabble, Trouble and many more. The games and light refreshments will be provided. Contact 301-292-2880.

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Kaleel Lowry, 7, of Fort Washington rides by one of the grafﬁti boards during an Oct. 18 skateboarding class at the Skate Park at Cosca Regional Park in Clinton.

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One Temple Hills resident has taken what could have been a “concrete jungle” of a skate park at Cosca Regional Park and turned it into a mural garden — all to show how skateboarding and graffiti art can come together to benefit the Clinton community. Shaymar Higgs, 27, an artist and skateboarder himself, spearheaded the effort to have a skate park built in Clinton. The space opened at Cosca Regional Park last May, but what makes it unique, parents and youth say, is the 16 mural panels painted by students and graffiti artists he recruited. “I think the art attracts people to come. It’s bright and nice, instead of a dull park with no pictures,” said Anthony Aiden, 12, of Clinton. Artwork includes There’s Higgs’s “power fist” panel, a fist rising from the grass like a tree that he accented with spray paint doilies. A bright yellow giraffe stretches into a cloudy blue sky, a mural painted by Maryland-based vinyl toy artist Paula Ibey. “Art’s transformative,” Higgs said. “If there was no art in this space, it would just be a concrete jungle.” Higgs, who manages the skate park, said skateboarding and graffiti art both have community cultures as experi-

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enced skaters and artists offer advice to their proteges. Giving youth a safe space to enjoy both legally is extremely important, Higgs said. “I think that’s why graffiti art and skateboarding go hand in hand,” Higgs said. “I wanted to make that system available for Prince George’s County.” La-Juan Lester, an area specialist for Maryland-National Capital Parks and Planning Commission, said she has seen this community culture herself at the skate park. “I’ve seen kids come in on their skateboards not knowing anyone, but they leave with friends,” Lester said. “They all help each other, respect each other.” When graffiti artists visited the park, they signed the grip tape on the students’ skateboards, Higgs said. Lester said she was concerned the panels would be vandalized, but she said there has been an “overwhelming respect for the skate park and the art.” “I’ve always known graffiti to be something it isn’t, so it wasn’t until I was introduced to the art of graffiti by Shaymar I learned it wasn’t negative,” Lester said. “It’s an expression of the artist in a different style.” The panels will be refreshed every four months with art created by new and returning artists, Higgs said. “It’s not graffiti art. It’s great art,” said Anthony and Aiden’s mother, Guildette Williams, 47. “It’s just wonderful.”

Arts, music festival visits school ﬁeld Monday BY JAMIE ANFENSON-COMEAU STAFF WRITER

Bowie High School students received a very special surprise Monday, when their football ﬁeld was turned into an arts venue to host country music artist Dakota Bradley, pop singer Noelle Bean and others. The event was part of the High School Nation tour, a 25city event that brings celebrity performers to high schools across the nation, to help promote education in the arts to and for students. Monday’s event was shrouded in secrecy, both to protect the students and to keep the site from being mobbed by outsiders, said Mary Nusser, vice president of Bowie High’s

Parent, Teacher Student Organization, or PTSO. “This is a huge deal for us,” Nusser said. “When High School Nation rolls into town, they create a buzz, an excitement about the arts amongst the students. It’s fantastic.” Music, hairstyling, visual, creative and performing arts were all on display Monday afternoon, as the Bowie football field was turned into an arts festival. “We’re only one of 25 schools in the nation they’re visiting, so this is huge,” said Aaron Swinson, 14, of Bowie, a freshman at the school. Ariel Allay, 14, also a freshman, said her favorite part was getting to see R&B singer Jacob Latimore perform live at her high school. Jimmy Cantillon of Los Angeles, founder of High School Nation, said one of the goals of the program is to help promote

the arts through publicity and by creating an excitement about the arts at the schools it visits. “We also want to expose students to the idea that there are hundreds and hundreds of rewarding careers in the arts that they can consider once they are done with school,” Cantillon said. Each school on the tour receives a donation of over $10,000 in music and arts equipment and supplies, donated by the tour’s sponsors, Cantillon said. High School Nation also held rafﬂes to give away door prizes, such as guitars, DJ turn tables and backpacks ﬁlled with art supplies. “We feel very lucky to be able to make these donations, in addition to putting on these free events,” Cantillon said. Cantillon said the tour tries to select schools like Bowie High that have a high level of student

Adoptions, vaccinations available at event

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Pets can enjoy Halloween at the Animal Services Facility’s Fall Festival on Saturday. The event, which will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 3750 Brown Station Road in

Upper Marlboro, will feature a low-cost vaccination clinic and Halloween activities for pets, said Rodney Taylor, the associate director of animal management. “Here at the animal management division we’re just excited to try to offer something to say thank you,” Taylor said. “This is our way to tell the community, ‘Thank you for all that you do to adopt our animals.’”

At noon, owners and their pets can compete in a Halloween parade and costume contest, Taylor said. Volunteers will judge the contestants and give awards for the best dressed pet and the most original costume. There will also be a look-alike award for pet and owner pairs, Taylor said. Prizes include pet supplies, such as leashes, food bowls and carriers, Taylor said.

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Pete Charlerie, the owner of SunSplash Farm in Upper Marlboro, checks his pepper plants, which he uses to make a marinade. Cyclists who participate in Saturday’s Crop Hop can see Charlerie’s pepper and sunﬂower plants.

Cyclists to take farm tours in Brandywine, Upper Marlboro Crop Hop highlights Southern Maryland agriculture

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Riding a tractor may be the traditional way to travel around a farm, but this Saturday, Prince George’s County residents will hop on their bikes to tour agricultural establishments in Upper Marlboro and Brandywine. The third annual Crop Hop, a cycling tour organized by the Southern Maryland Agricultural Development Commission, features ﬁve farms with unique offerings, said Jennifer Carnahan, the head organizer of the event. “It’s an experience that not every bike ride would give you and not driving around to farms would give you,” Carnahan said. “You get to experience farms in a completely different way and talk to farmers and people working on the farm.” This is the ﬁrst year the Crop Hop has taken place in Prince George’s County. Previous Crop Hops have been hosted by St. Mary’s and Charles counties, Carnahan said. Crop Hop stops include Romano Winery & Vineyard in Brandywine; P.A. Bowen Farmstead in Brandywine, which features artisan cheeses; Bald Eagle

Farm in Brandywine, which raises Black Angus cattle; fruit and vegetable producer SunSplash Farm in Upper Marlboro and Leighton Horse Farm in Upper Marlboro. “I think it helps people get to know what’s out here and all the wonderful farms we have,” said Sally Fallon Morell, the owner of P.A. Bowen Farmstead. Pete Charlerie, the owner of SunSplash Farm, said participants will get to learn about progressive agricultural techniques, such as plastic mulches, which cover soil beds with plastic to conserve water and protect crops from pests and weeds. He said the tour will help residents understand the origin of their food. “A lot goes into this and we want them to see that,” Charlerie said. This year’s Crop Hop will also commemorate the War of 1812 by starting and ending at Nottingham, a historic site in Upper Marlboro. Some farm stops will feature historic reenactors. At Romano Winery and Vineyard, re-enactors will show participants how wine was produced in the 1800s, said coowner Jo-Ann Romano. “It also brings in a different group of people who were not necessarily aware we were open or there was a winery in Prince George’s County,” Romano said. Participants can choose to

bike one of four routes, which vary in length and number of farm stops. The Silo Century visits all five farms plus the Mount Calvert Historical and Archeological Park over 62 miles, while the Sprout Route skips the farms and heads straight to the Merkle Wildlife Sanctuary. “The roads are absolutely gorgeous with all the changing leaves,” Carnahan said. “They’re very rural routes so there’s not a lot of traffic happening.” Jim Hudnall, a member of the Oxon Hill Bike and Trail Club, said cyclists from the club regularly travel past the farms, but haven’t had a chance to visit. “This is an opportunity to stop at these farms and see what’s going on,” Hudnall said. Carnahan said a portion of each registration fee, which ranges from $20 to $60 depending on the route, will benefit Farming for Hunger. The Charles County non-profit purchases fresh food for Southern Marylanders in need, including some in Prince George’s County. “We are pleased to raise awareness in Prince George’s County this year because that’s an area we’re looking to expand in,” said Priscilla Wentworth, the food programs coordinator for SMADC. kpetersen@gazette.net

Kenmoor advances in Science Bowl Returning champs head to semiﬁnals

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For the ﬁrst time since Science Bowl host Dave Zahren can remember, the student quiz show was ﬂung into a “sudden death” round when two arch-rival teams proved to be a perfect match Tuesday. Kenmoor Middle School of Landover and Walker Mill Middle School of Capitol Heights both produced winning teams during the early seasons of the game’s 29-year history, Zahren said, and their expertise was evidenced during the middle school competition Tuesday when Kenmoor bested Walker Mill in a tie-breaking question about virus mutation. “I cannot remember the last time we had a tie. It’s very rare,” Zahren said. “They didn’t

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give up. To me, that’s evidence of preparation and experience.” Science Bowl is an annual tournament where Prince George’s County elementary and middle schools compete in teams of three and answer Jeopardy-style questions related to science. Kenmoor, who holds the most championships in Science Bowl history with nine middle school victories, beat Beltsville Academy by more than 400 points during round one of Tuesday’s competition, while Walker Mill beat Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School of Laurel by nearly 200 points. Prosun Das, 13, Kenmoor’s team captain who helped clench the 2013-2014 Science Bowl championship title, said he thought the ﬁnal round of competition was nerve-wracking. “That was so close,” Prosun said. “I didn’t think we would make it because they were

pretty fast on the buzzer, but we did.” After tying up the score 225 to 225 at the end of the final round, Zahren announced a rare sudden death match, and that’s when Kenmoor player John Bridgers, 12, said he felt the pressure mount. “My heart was racing,” he said. The other players on the Kenmoor team were firsttime contestant Chimwemwe Chinkuyu and alternates Miracle Ephraim and Jared Norris. Kenmoor will advance to play Nicholas Orem Middle School of Hyattsville at the middle school semi-finals on March 17. Cheryl Diallo, Kenmoor science teacher and Science Bowl team sponsor, attributes her team’s success to extensive practice and review of previous Science Bowl games. “They just practice, practice practice,” Diallo said. “I think they were awesome.” Quickly buzzing in with answers on topics from planets to viruses, Walker Mill students said they felt they played well. “I’m so glad that my team did really well. We practiced teamwork,” said Walker Mill team member Paris Smalley, 13. Lisa Jellison, a first-time judge at Tuesday’s game, said she picked the right day to participate in Science Bowl. Jellison, a science teacher at Robert Goddard Montessori in Seabrook, said some of her students will be competing in Science Bowl for the first time this year, and that she now has a good idea of what they are up against. “I’m impressed, very impressed,” she said. “I can tell these kids are really motivated and have good teachers. They’re learning science.” eshaughnessy@gazette.net

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Children’s book author Cindy Freland (right) of Bowie shows one of her books for sale to Kira McAndrew of Clinton and her son, Jorden McAndrew, 2, during the Saturday vendor showcase and fall festival held by Montpelier Farms in Upper Marlboro.

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be a great opportunity to show our community, our kids, how these things are done.” Freland said her next step will be publicizing her stories and getting them onto store shelves. She plans to give two book readings on Dec. 6 at Blackwater Wildlife Refuge in Cambridge, Maryland — the ﬁctional home of Heather the Honeybee. “There’s more to come,” she said. eshaughnessy@gazette.net

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Susan Beane, Bowie feral cat caretaker 4 Animals and convened the meeting. Carter and her business partner, Teri Stumpf of Bowie, are in the process of launching an animal assistance program that will provide resources and assistance to caretakers and pet owners who need help caring for their animals, Carter said. “What we’re trying to do is group together, share information and that way we can do this correctly and make sure that at least Bowie right now has the cat population under control,” she said. “That’s how we’re going to win — by being a group.” Susan Beane of Bowie is a caretaker for a feral cat and four kittens and said she at-

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Jordan the Jellyﬁsh, Curtis the Crab and Heather the Honeybee may not be real creatures with conveniently coordinated names, but Cindy Freland of Bowie says they can still teach very real lessons about the Chesapeake Bay and its ecosystem. Freland, 57, is an administrative assistant by trade and has spent the last year crafting a series of children’s books about environmental issues in Maryland such as pollution, pesticides and pollination. “I love children and I love animals,” she said. “I guess I’m just a big kid at heart myself. I really enjoy being around kids, listening to them laugh and having them ask questions about the creatures like they’re real.” The books have been a big hit with Maryland children, Freland said. The author said she has led book readings in Prince George’s County and beyond and hopes to expand her series to 10 books with matching merchandise. Freland has partnered with Jon Munson of Bowie, a digital artist who is illustrating the stories. Munson, a former IT consultant, said he has been illustrating for about two years and creates all the images using computer software. Munson said he and Freland decided to partner on the project after networking at a meeting for Bowie-area entrepreneurs.

While Munson’s computerbased work allows him to remotely create work for clients, he said he appreciates working with another local artist like Freland. “I can work with anyone who’s anywhere, but working with someone who’s local, you get the benefit of supporting your community,” he said. Freland, a Little Mermaid fan with a passion for marine biology, said she has selfpublished several books about business and marketing, but that the Chesapeake Bay series combines her love of the water with her love of children. During book readings, Freland said she is impressed with the children’s grasp of the environmental concepts. “They ask me questions about it and they want to know how they can help,” she said. In addition to sharing her stories at book readings and signings, Freland has been teaching community members how they can create their own published work. At a Bowie Community Center open house in October, Freland shared her books with local teens and taught them how they could become self-published authors themselves, said Lora Fitzgerald, community center program director. “She showed her books to the young people that were there and they had an opportunity to see how she did what she did with her own books,” Fitzgerald said. “I love books anyway, so I thought this would

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Following in the pawprints of nearby cities like Laurel and Greenbelt, Bowie cat-lovers are banding together to form a coalition of “caretakers,” or residents who feed and care for feral cat colonies. A group of about 30 residents and animal experts gathered Oct. 15 to discuss forming a robust “Trap-Neuter-Release” program in Bowie. The goal of TNR programs is to capture free-roaming cats, neuter or spay them, then release them back into the wild so that the population eventually decreases, said Bowie animal control ofﬁcer Mike Morreale. There could be as many as 3,800 free-roaming cats in Bowie, based on a formula developed by Phoenix, Az-based Petsmart Charities. In the past, a common response was to capture the animals and take them to a shelter to be euthanized, but animal exerts are discovering this method does not solve the issue, Morreale said. “The cat [complaint] calls are just overwhelming, and it’s not just here in Bowie, it’s everywhere,” he said. “What has been done traditionally is it’s become a euthanasia factory. Does that really solve anything? No. The only effective means of handling cat problems in communities is to decrease the populations, and there’s really only one way to do it and that’s TNR.” The Oct. 15 meeting was the first time cat caretakers met in a coordinated effort to develop a TNR program, said Connie Carter of Bowie, who co-runs the animal charity organization Connie and Teri

tended the meeting to learn more about TNR. “I love those kittens terribly, but I know we can’t take them to the shelter because they’ll kill them — they’re unadoptable,” she said. “It’s just a matter of keeping the foxes away.” Melissa Hamilton of Bowie said her family has been caring for several cats and that she is worried about what will happen to them when she moves in May. “They’re so wonderful I would hate to have them be euthanized or suffer a terrible fate out there if I move and no one cares for them,” she said. “We just needed some resources and this [meeting] was a good place that had practical information we can actually use.” Harmony Dale, Bowie’s second animal control ofﬁcer, said there is no municipal or county feral cat management program in Prince George’s. “We can only tell people, here’s what you can do, we don’t have a program we can do for you,” she said. “We’re very supportive [of community TNR] because we realize our limitations in what we’re capable of doing with feral cat colonies and very appreciative of the people who get involved where we’re unable to do it.”

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Paul Hatheway Terry passed away suddenly at his home in Beltsville, MD on November 18, 2013. Paul was employed as an organic chemist for 25 years at the USDA Agricultural Research Station, Beltsville, MD. For many decades he was an active member of the American Chemical Society, the Chemical Society of Washington, and Toastmasters International. His funeral was held on November 23, 2013 in Fall River, MA. He leaves behind many cousins and friends. Memorial donations can be made in Paul’s name to SOME (So Others Might Eat) or the National Kidney Foundation. A Celebration of Life Service followed by a reception will be held for Paul on Sunday, November 2, 2014, 2-5 pm, at the Banquet Hall of the American Legion Post 136, 6900 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20770 (301-345-0136).

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As more and more national retailers deal with the threats of hacking and security breaches, Prince George’s County officials are doing their best to stay several steps ahead of wouldbe attackers. “We actually have a fulltime team that is looking for vulnerabilities throughout our infrastructure,” said Vennard Wright, chief information officer for the county. “The threats are always changing.” Wright said he made cybersecurity his main priority beginning July 1, after discovering the county’s network had certain vulnerabilities that may have made it prone to attacks from hackers. Although the system has never experienced a data breach, Wright said the fiveperson cybersecurity team now works to ensure the county’s practices are in line with industry standards for safeguarding sensitive information such as credit card payment data and health care records. While October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, protecting sensitive information is a 24-7 task, say

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county cybersecurity experts. Through October, the county is offering online cybersecurity training to its approximately 6,000 employees, as well as doing additional training with department heads regarding potential threats, Wright said. Wright said he is paying particular attention to computer viruses containing malicious links, which may be sent to employees via email and can impact an entire network if the employee clicks on the link. The University of Maryland, College Park, experienced its own cyber attack in February as University president Wallace D. Loh announced that 309,079 Social Security numbers, birth dates, university identiﬁcation names and numbers were exposed in a data breach. UM is in the midst of training the next generation of cybersecurity warriors as part of its Advanced Cybersecurity Experience for Students, or ACES, program. “There’s a lot of applied knowledge of cybersecurity,” said Zhixiang Lin, 20, a UM sophomore, who added he hopes to work in a ﬁeld that merges software engineering and cybersecurity. “That’s not something that you can get from reading textbooks.” Lin is among 112 sopho-

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Kartik Nayak, 25, of College Park, a Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, works Oct. 14 in the Cybersecurity Center’s computer lab. mores and freshmen who were invited to participate in the “living and learning” ACES program when they applied to the university, said ACES director Michel Cukier. The students, who plan to major in fields as diverse as computer science, psychology, engineering, criminology and business, will graduate with diplomas in their respective majors and a citation in cybersecurity. “You have a deficit of people working in cybersecurity, so you need to attract very, very talented people,” Cukier said of the four-year program that launched in 2013 and will continue adding incoming freshmen for the next two years. “What you do is, you reach out, you bring very different people into the field.” At UMD’s Maryland Cybersecurity Center, researchers are working to make public net-

works more secure by studying the behavior of network users. “I think there’s a great realization that the problems of cybersecurity aren’t only technical ones,” said Jonathan Katz, director the Maryland Cybersecurity Center who will co-lead the National Science Foundation-funded study. Katz said the yearlong study will look at the online behavior of Internet users such as doing banking while connected to a public network, whether they visit news sites mostly or whether they try to download harmful software in coffee shops, libraries and other public places that offer Wi-Fi across Maryland. Katz said they will record the information without information which would identify the user. apopovici@gazette.net

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Pfc. Michael Rounds (left) and Cpl. Richard Vargas (right) demonstrate the Bowie police department’s two new electric motorcycles on Oct. 21.

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Continued from Page A-1 Robinson said the two electric motorcycles were approved during the last budget season and said the council may consider requests to add more during the next budget cycle. The Zero brand motorbikes, which cost approximately $22,000 each, are capable of traveling over 90 miles per hour and can run for around 180 miles on a single charge, Nesky said. Six ofﬁcers have received training to operate the bikes, including obtaining a motorcycle license and navigating a special

training course, and the police department will train more officers as needed, Nesky said. Officers will be able to patrol both parks and streets and will not be inhibited by rough terrain, he said. Larry Pierce, director of Bowie’s community services department, which oversees parks and recreation, said the added police presence in Bowie parks will add to public safety efforts within Bowie’s 13 parks. While about six rangers patrol the parks and trails each day, Pierce said reinforcements will be helpful. “We have a large park system and a large trail system so any assistance we can get in patrolling those areas is welcome,” Pierce said. “With the new motorcycles, we’re going to gain additional visibility of public safety.” Nesky said the electric motorcycles have already been deployed several times and received positive feedback from community members. One of the biggest assets of the bikes is their near-silence while running, he said. “The beautiful thing about the electric motorcycles is we’re not disturbing the tranquility of the trails,” Nesky said. “This allows us to patrol those areas without disturbing the sense of calm or peace you find on the trail.” eshaughnessy@gazette.net

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Continued from Page A-1 cerned her son might be sent to John Bayne, which Gordon said has too many students. “John Bayne is too overcrowded, and when there are students who do need help, they probably won’t give them the help that they need, because there are too many,” Gordon said. Bayne officials said Wednesday the school has a capacity of 500 students and has about 450 enrolled. The school system is also considering converting another under-enrolled school,

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Continued from Page A-1 The town’s board of commissioners approved Bates as the new recycling contractor Oct. 20. The yearly contract with Bates will begin Nov. 1 and the company will collect recycling every Thursday, Sonnett said. Sonnett said the town will be purchasing recycling bins from the county, which will enable residents to swap their 64-gallon bins for smaller, yellow bins. “I think there needs to be a dual option — the smaller one if you have a light week and the larger one should you need to

Kenmoor Elementary School in Landover, into an Early Childhood Center, or ECC. The county currently has four ECCs, which serve twoto-four-year olds. Jones-Brown said two ECCs — Frances Fuchs ECC in Beltsville and H. Winship Wheatley ECC in Capitol Heights — are severely overcrowded, and currently utilize 16 and 14 temporary buildings, respectively. Kenmoor Elementary, which is enrolled at 55 percent capacity, is centrally located to both centers. If Kenmoor is converted to an ECC, its students would be sent to William Paca Elemen-

tary in Landover. Mykl Baylor of Glenarden said his son was looking forward to another year at Kenmoor, and he doesn’t want to see the school close. “I feel like putting a large number of kids into classrooms to accommodate these Early Learning Centers is going to hurt the kids in the long run,” Baylor said. Jones-Brown said none of the proposals are set in stone. CEO Kevin Maxwell is expected to make his recommendations to the school board Dec. 15.

put it out,” said Wanda Leonard, a Spring Branch Estates resident. Leonard said the amount of recycling produced by Upper Marlboro homes depends on the size of the household. She said she puts her recycling out every other week because she lives alone, but her neighbors are a large family who use the 64-gallon bin and an additional container. Sonnett said he plans to collaborate with the town’s public works department to launch a door-to-door campaign to educate residents about proper recycling. “In some towns there’s a community expectation among the people there that

everybody is going to recycle,” Sonnet said. “That’s what we’re trying to get done here.” Morton, the Marlborough Towne Home Owners Association president, said the town will need to advertise any recycling restrictions so residents will not get a citation for mistakes on collection day. “You don’t want to come back home and ﬁnd your bag was not taken because you did not follow the letter of the law,” Morton said. “If they can get it right and keep it up, hopefully nothing will be mandatory.”

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Continued from Page A-1 George’s County gathered at the American Legion Southern Maryland District Youth Camp in Cheltenham on Oct. 18 for the 57th annual Jamboree-on-the-Air, an amateur radio event that connected scouts all over the world. Amateur radio, also known as “ham” radio, started out as an experimental communication technology that is now used primarily for emergency situations, said Kenny Courtney, 74, of Clinton, a member of the American Legion Post 275 Amateur Radio Team in Glenarden. “Amateur radio is your last point of communication,” Courtney said. “If you have a catastrophe, the ﬁrst thing that will go down is phone lines. Amateur radio still stays up.” Lenny Wertz, the vice chair of programs for the Prince George’s District of the Boy Scouts of America National Capital Area Council, said scouts could earn a radio merit badge by participating in the Jamboree-on-the-Air

because they may need to use the technology in the future. “Scouts sometimes participate in certain emergency response areas,” Wertz said. “It adds to our goal of building our scouts into solid, participating citizens.” LeRoy Parham, Jr., the Prince George’s District’s commissioner for scouting, said some scouts’ hesitation to talking over amateur radio may be related to the increased use of texting and emailing as ways to communicate. “Kids are texting, kids are emailing. They don’t talk on the phone as much,” Parham said. “I think there’s an unfortunate disconnect with something as broad as amateur radio. They’re not used to that direct interaction.” Cadewryn said he prefers to talk to people face-to-face unless he knows them well already. He said speaking over amateur radio, which involves pushing a button while speaking into the microphone, encourages better communication. “You don’t type. You actually speak and you can’t talk

over each other because it won’t work well,” Cadewryn said. James Weber, 9, a Cub Scout from Andrews Air Force Base, talked over amateur radio about his favorite football team, the St. Louis Rams. “I actually liked it,” James said. “The funny part is you don’t even know who you’re talking to.” Courtney said he first starting using amateur radio 20 years ago and he hopes events like Jamboree-on-theAir will inspire young people to become certified operators. There are more than 700,000 licensed radio operators in the U.S., according to the Prince George’s County Amateur Radio Emergency Service website. “I like telling people about amateur radio because it’s a lot of fun,” Courtney said. “Most operators are people my age and we get young people involved to keep the service from dying out.” kpetersen@gazette.net

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Vitamins and minerals older adults need

Your doctor might suggest that, like some older adults, you need higher doses of a few vitamins, as well as the mineral calcium. It is usually better to get the nutrients you need from food, rather than a pill. That’s because nutrientdense foods contain other things that are good for you, like ﬁber. Look for foods fortiﬁed with certain vitamins and minerals, like some B vitamins, calcium and vitamin D. That means those nutrients are added to the foods to help you meet your needs. Most older people don’t need a complete multivitamin supplement. But if you don’t think you are making the best food choices, look for one sold as a complete vitamin and mineral supplement. It should be well balanced and contain 100 percent of most recommended vitamins and minerals. Read the label to make sure the dose is not too high, avoiding supplements with mega-doses. Too much of some vitamins and minerals can be harmful, and you might be paying for supplements you don’t need.

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Vitamins help your body grow and work the way it should. There are 13 vitamins—C, A, D, E, K, and the B vitamins (thiamine, riboﬂavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, biotin, B6, B12 and folate). Vitamins have different jobs, including helping you resist infections, keeping your nerves healthy, aiding your body with getting energy from food and helping your blood clot properly. By following the dietary guidelines at cnpp.usda.gov/DietaryGuidelines, you will get enough of most of these vitamins from food. Vitamins and minerals are measured in a variety of ways. The most common are: mg–milligram; mc–microgram; and IU–international unit. Micrograms are used to measure very small amounts; there are 1,000 micrograms in a milligram. The size of an international unit varies depending on the vitamin or drug it is used to measure.

Vitamin D If you between 50 and 70, you need at least 600 IU, but not more than 4,000 IU. If you are 70 or older, you need at least 800 IU, but not more than 4,000 IU. You can get vitamin D from fatty fish, fish liver oils, fortified milk and milk products, and fortified cereals.

Vitamin B6 Men need 1.7 mg and women need 1.5 mg daily. You can get vitamin B6 from fortified cereals, whole grains, organ meats like liver and fortified soy-based meat substitutes. Vitamin B12 You need 2.4 mcg every day. Some people over 50 have trouble absorbing B12 found naturally in foods, so make sure you get enough of the supplement form of this vitamin, which can be found in fortified cereals, meat, fish, poultry and milk. Folate You need 400 mcg each day. Folic acid is the form used to fortify grain products or added to dietary supplements. You can get folate from dark-green leafy vegetables like spinach, beans and peas, fruit like oranges (and orange juice) and folic acid from fortified flour and cereals.

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Minerals also help your body function. Some minerals, like iodine and fluoride, are only needed in very small quantities. Others, such as calcium, magnesium and potassium, are needed in larger amounts. As with vitamins, if you eat a varied diet, you will probably get enough of most minerals. Calcium Calcium is a mineral that is important for strong bones and teeth, so there are special recommendations for older people who are at risk for bone loss. You can get calcium from milk and milk products (remember to choose fat-free or lowfat whenever possible), some forms of tofu, dark-green leafy vegetables like collard greens and kale, soybeans, canned sardines and salmon with bones,

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While most of the vitamins and minerals you need should come from a healthy diet, if you’re not making the best food choices, look for supplement containing both vitamins and minerals. and calcium-fortiﬁed foods. Women 51 or older and men 71 or older need 1,200 mg daily. Men 51 to 70 need 1,000. If you’re 51 or older, don’t take more than 2,000 mg in a day. Sodium In most Americans’ diets, the mineral sodium comes primarily from salt (sodium chloride), although it is found naturally in some foods. Sodium is also added to others during processing, often in the form of salt. We all need some sodium, but too much over time can contribute to raising your blood pressure or put you at risk for heart disease, stroke or kidney disease. How much sodium is OK? People 51 and older should reduce their sodium to 1,500 mg each day—about ¾ of a tea-

spoon. That includes sodium added during manufacturing or cooking as well what’s added at the table. Preparing your own meals at home without using a lot of processed foods or adding salt will allow you to control how much sodium you get. Look for grocery products marked “low sodium,” “unsalted,” “no salt added,” “sodium free,” or “salt free.” To limit sodium to 1,500 mg daily, try using less salt when cooking, and don’t add salt before you take the ﬁrst bite. If you make this change slowly, you will get used to the difference in taste. Eating more vegetables and fruit also helps—they are naturally low in sodium and provide more potassium. – National Institute on Aging

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Your mother’s engagement ring. Your extra car. Your workshop full of pricy woodworking tools that you don’t use anymore. You may have a list, or just an idea, of which of your kids and grandkids you’d like to leave these valuable items to after you pass away. And you probably want to avoid the common problem of family members ﬁghting over inheritances. Even the most mild-mannered people, perhaps fueled by their grief, can behave irrationally or get greedy when it comes to inheritances. You don’t want your family to end up fighting in court, battling over that ring, car and drill, fracturing the family and wasting money on legal fees. And you don’t want them angry with you after you’re gone, feeling that you’ve favored one child over another. Some seniors are anxious enough about the inheritance of their belongings to create a plan in advance, gifting their kids and grandkids with a number of items so that their offspring can enjoy them now, and so they can see their kids and grandkids enjoying those beloved items. “I’d love to see my granddaughter wear my mother’s engagement ring,” said retiree Anne Daniels. “What good is it doing in my safe?” The joy of seeing kids and grandkids wearing and enjoying jewelry can make it totally worth the decision to give them the items they otherwise would’ve received via a letter, after you’re gone, when they are sad. “I wouldn’t want that ring to be a symbol of sadness for my

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granddaughter,” Daniels said. Many grandparents enjoy the great family moment of giving a grandchild the keys to their extra car, or giving their kids their RV for a cross-country trip. And then, of course, there’s the financial end of a luxury gift item. Your progeny could sell the car or RV to help finance the start of a business, to put a down payment on a home or to help pay for your grandchild’s college tuition. Before you begin making calls to your kids and grandkids to offer them your possessions, talk to your accountant and tax advisers. While you may resent Uncle Sam’s place in line for the value of your belongings, there are strict tax rules about gifts given to relatives. Ask your tax adviser for the current value limit on tax-free gifts that you can give, so that you always stay within the letter of the law. Tax values of pre-inheritance gifts are different from inheritance taxes and estate taxes, which are configured after your death. These are tax values applied to personal gifts, and you will need professional tax advice to assess and document

each of these gifts before you bestow them. Tax issues aside, think about your kids’ and grandkids’ connections to the items you’d like to leave them to help you decide who gets what. If your daughter was especially close to your mother, she may be the most logical choice to inherit your mother’s engagement ring. Have it professionally assessed for its value, and record that value in your daughter’s “column” on your gift records. Your son, then, may get a gift or gifts of equal ﬁnancial value, if that is how you’d like to divide your presents. Once you’ve decided who gets which pre-inheritance gift, and once the values are recorded and assessed by your tax professionals for your safety, you may enjoy planning the presentation of these gifts to your loved ones. Will you put a big red bow on the car? Give your daughter the ring in your mother’s jewelry box? Before you decide on the presentation, consider that your kids and grandkids may be taken aback by the delivery. It is, after all, difficult for them to even think about

the day when you’re no longer alive, and they might see your gift presentations as a sign that you’re gravely ill, or perhaps depressed. To avoid shocking them, discuss with them ahead of time that you’ve been thinking about giving them some of your precious possessions so that you can enjoy witnessing them enjoy these items. Expect some questions and concern, but once you assure them you’re feeling just ﬁne, you all can look forward to your gestures of generosity. Maybe you’ll give out these items as holiday presents. Once your gifts are given, it’s a good time to talk with your children about your wishes for after your death, how you’d like them to handle your estate and how you’d like them to let you know which other items they feel strongly about. “Once they got comfortable with this macabre conversation,” said retiree George McArdle, “we actually had fun talking about and recording who would like to inherit what, and my sons surprised me by the things they considered most valuable to them—like my fishing poles and crabbing gear—not my wristwatches.” If two of your kids express interest in, say, a painting, talk together to decide now who will inherit it, and put it in writing so that your loved ones don’t wind up wasting their post-tax inheritance money hiring lawyers to get that $50 painting or those ﬁshing poles. It’s not fun talking about death, but clear communication now can help avoid clashes later. –Creators.com

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A positive approach to politics The saying goes that you should never discuss religion, sex and politics in polite company — with the latter topic being the most difficult as the general election nears. With the country struggling to overcome the effects of the recession, many politicians and residents have different views on what the recovery should look like, what spending should be prioritized and what legislative changes should be made. Ideally, discussions on the direction of the country and Prince George’s County should be constructive, but all too often, conflicting views on politics — to include something as minor as party affiliation — lead to personal attacks rather than simply agreeing to disagree. The Gazette is no newcomer to this. When the editorial board endorses Democrats, it is sometimes criticized for being “afraid” of going against the state’s one-party rule. When Republicans are endorsed, the board is occasionally denounced for “betraying” residents. Some even attack the ethics of the newspapers and its employees, simply because they disagree with the company’s endorsements. And that’s fine. Everyone is entitled to their opinion; it’s part of what makes us a great nation. However, political discussions can be much more productive when we stick to the issues and prioritize finding solutions — and focus less on trying to make everyone think the same way. At the polls Nov. 4, there are likely to be children in attendance as their parents or other family members cast ballots. It’s a great opportunity for them to learn the importance of voting and being involved in community decisions. The lessons don’t have to start at the polls, however. Let’s start by having constructive conversations on the topics affecting our communities and understand that differing opinions can be a positive thing — rather than allowing our thoughts on the issues, and the candidates, to divide us.

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has redeﬁned the role of lieutenant governor of Maryland. He is proud that he has worked closely with Gov. Martin O’Malley to advance the Democratic agenda. He says he shares O’Malley’s values and his vision for Maryland. You would expect Brown to take responsibility for his record, but he does not. Brown dismisses undesirable questions about his two terms as lieutenant governor by saying elections are not about the past, but rather the future. He wants voters to ignore his eight-year record of failure and elect him the next governor of Maryland. Now, would you hire a person who refused to provide a resumé because they considered their work history irrelevant? If you vote for Brown, that is exactly what you will be doing. Your vote will say you do not care that the campaign promise of O’Malley and Brown to not raise taxes was an outrageous lie. More than 40 new or increased taxes and fees were imposed on Maryland

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low-income families the hardest. Your vote will say you do not care that Maryland ranked 49th in the nation for economic growth in 2013 and ranks third in the nation for home foreclosures. Your vote will say you do not care that Maryland lost more than 8,000 businesses and 200,000 jobs while the unemployment rate doubled. Your vote will say you do not care that the Maryland health exchange was an epic failure due to Brown’s gross mismanagement. More than $200 million in taxpayers’ money was wasted on a website that was never used. The total cost of the abandoned system has yet to be revealed. Maryland is now at a tipping point where 47 percent of its residents want to leave the state. We need new leadership to turn this around. We cannot afford another four years of the O’Malley/Brown vision and governance.

Janet Beck, Waldorf

Imagine for a moment that some agency, in an attempt to establish the average body mass index for Americans, used players in the NFL as the original “sample.” After carefully establishing the range and the mean for BMI in the entire league, would it be reasonable to look at the rest of the American population and declare that the COMMENTARY human species was KENNETH HAINES shrinking? The absurdity of the proposal is staggering. However, this is the scenario that has been played out for years with the Scholastic Achievement Test when newspapers decry our nation’s “plummeting” SAT scores.

I am a longtime Republican conservative and business owner. While I support personal freedoms and individual rights, I do generally support smoking bans. I also back the Prince George’s college decision to eliminate all tobacco and smoking from the campus. College is an institution where today’s best are being prepared to become tomorrow’s leaders, and tobacco in any form, including chewing tobacco and electronic cigarettes, have no place in such a setting.

Bill Kerschner, Rockford, Ill.

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The validity of this standardized test for anything other than determining the socio-economic status of those sitting for the exam might be the topic of a future article. Cost is listed as one of the major impediments to sitting for the exam. Today, however, alarmist headlines are inexcusable when, for decades, the SAT was normed against and administered to America’s academic elite, the upper quartile of high school students. We are moving, albeit at a glacially slow pace, toward a society that discourages the concept of disposable children. As we come closer to furnishing all children the opportunity to compete against their peers, we are inexorably increasing the sample size. Statisticians will conﬁrm that the “average” score will invariably fall as the sample size increases. Except in the case of a totally randomized sample, it is foolish to expect other-

wise. The SAT has yet to be normed on a random sample across the spectrum of all American students. Yet, such realities do not hinder ideologues from using such erroneous data analysis as political fodder to question the effectiveness of our public schools. Diane Ravitch clearly illustrates in “Reign of Error” that student achievement and academic performance has been steadily improving for decades according to a host of other measures. More students know more about more subjects, and at earlier ages, than ever before in our history. Moving forward will require that irrelevant sound bites and erroneous headlines not drive the debate around educational egalitarianism. Kenneth B. Haines is the president of the Prince George’s County Educators’ Association.

Halloween dirty tricks Larry Hogan, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, has committed the unpardonable sin — he’s closed within striking distance of winning Maryland’s governor’s race. For this he must be punished. No, he must be destroyed. If you think the Democrats and their press corps allies have resorted to distortions, falsehoods, biased reporting and selective factchecking to date, just wait until you see what happens between now and Election Day. By the time they’ve ﬁnished with Larry Hogan, his MY MARYLAND own mother won’t BLAIR LEE recognize him. So far, Democratic candidate Anthony Brown’s antiHogan ads have been breathtakingly unfair and untrue. For instance, Hogan opposes Maryland’s abortion law, even for rape and incest. The source? A 1980 Hogan statement when he was 28 years old and which he revised in 1992. And Hogan is responsible for the 40 percent college tuition hikes that occurred during the Bob Ehrlich administration. Source? Well, says Brown, Hogan was Ehrlich’s patronage chief and some of Ehrlich’s university appointments voted for the tuition hikes. Likewise, Brown holds Hogan responsible for Ehrlich’s “Dream Act” veto. Why? “Larry Hogan was part of that leadership team that vetoed the Dream Act. No governor makes a decision in isolation,” says Brown. Wow, collective culpability! And Brown’s smear-Hogan campaign is getting plenty of help from the “objective” press corps. Baltimore Sun reporters pored over 52 state audits until they found a Hogan mistake that they, and Brown, could twist into an attack ad. Hogan cited as “waste and fraud” $450 million of school construction projects that were not fully supervised.

From this, the Sun and Brown extrapolated that Hogan intends slashing school construction funds. What followed was the usual unscrupulous patty cake between the media and the Dems. The media invents a controversy-creating news story No. 1. Then the Dems use it to attack Hogan, news story No. 2. Then Hogan denies it, news story No. 3. Then come the editorials and columns until the smear is ﬁrmly imprinted on the voter’s consciousness. The same thing with gun control. Washington Post reporters found some gun advocates who claim Hogan said he’d make getting a state police-approved carry permit easier. Working together, the media and the Dems morphed this into Hogan plotting to repeal gun control. It doesn’t matter that Hogan swears he won’t repeal Maryland’s abortion and gun laws, or that he won’t reduce school construction. Nor does it matter that the media and Brown fully understand that, even if Hogan wanted to, he couldn’t get such measures through the Dem-controlled legislature and Board of Public Works. The purpose of the smears is to scare voters away from Hogan’s message: too many taxes and a state heading in the wrong direction. Will it work? Well, it worked like a charm in 1998. A month before the election, Republican Ellen Sauerbrey trailed Gov. Parris Glendening by only two points. Political consultants observed that if the governor didn’t air ads that people talked about soon, he might not win a second term. Glendening’s problem was the black vote, which he won by 95 percent in 1994 but was down to 74 percent in 1998 because the state’s top two local AfricanAmerican leaders, Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke and P.G. County Executive Wayne Curry, were not supporting him. So Glendening ﬁred his long-time media adviser and, at the urging of Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, hired Bob Shrum, a notorious PR hitman.

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College Park is undergoing a major transformation when it comes to pedestrian safety. In addition to numerous traffic measures, the University of Maryland recently even held a Think-A-Thon focused on brainstorming ways to make the area friendlier for walkers. The effort is welcomed given the pedestrian deaths that have occurred along U.S. Route 1. With three so far in 2014, it’s clear something had to be done to address the dangers occurring due to the large mix of pedestrian and vehicular traffic. However, one important piece of the problem seems to be getting overlooked: the congestion. City and state leaders have debated for years how to alleviate the traffic backups along Route 1, and to this day, traveling on the roadway in College Park continues to be a driver’s nightmare. Some residents worried whether the new pedestrianactivated traffic signal at the intersection of Route 1 and Hartwick Road would add to the congestion. Pedestrians needing to cross at that intersection can now push a button, which turns the light red in all four directions to allow for safer passage. Officials say the signal will communicate with other traffic signals to help keep traffic flowing, so traffic congestion shouldn’t get any worse. Hopefully, they are right — after all, any additional challenges could put Route 1 at a complete standstill at certain times of the day. We understand there is no quick fix for traffic backups, but officials should continue to make resolving the congestion a top issue to ensure that residents, businesses and visitors aren’t being forced to simply make the most out of a crowded situation. The city, university and state deserve kudos for their efforts to make the streets safer. It seems they have thought of every possible challenge: adding a fence to prevent jaywalking, reducing the speed limit and promoting a campaign to get pedestrians to “walk smart.” Now that the roads are friendlier to pedestrians, it’s time to make them friendlier to drivers, too.

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Pedestrians cross U.S. Route 1 at Hartwick Road in College Park after triggering the new trafﬁc signal.

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Together, Shrum and Glendening took three obscure votes Sauerbrey cast in the House of Delegates and distorted them into TV ads falsely claiming she would “turn back the clock” on civil rights. The ads were lies: the bills in question included measures killed by Dems, including blacks, because they went too far. None were major civil rights bills and one dealt with gender, not race. But they made great ads for scaring blacks into voting for Glendening. Sort of Willie Horton in reverse. “They put her on the defensive on an issue that gave her a David Duketype smell,” chortled one pundit. As soon as the scary ads hit, Sauerbrey’s numbers began to fall. A few courageous black Dems spoke out. “I will not participate in a campaign to try to persuade people that she (Sauerbrey) is a racist,” said Mayor Schmoke. Del. Tony Fulton, a black Dem, added, “I’m disappointed, disgusted and dismayed by the methods used in this campaign — it’s race-baiting.” But the race-baiting worked, a dead heat became a 12-point Glendening victory thanks, largely, to the unusual black voter turnout that swelled from 12 percent in 1994 to 21 percent in 1998. In Baltimore city, Glendening’s campaign manager, Julius Henson, recalls, “When I said Ellen Sauerbrey was against civil rights, black people were lining up at 10 a.m., they were wrapped around the corner. Black people vote in the evening, and when they were wrapped around the corner at 10 a.m., we knew it was over.” Now, 16 years later, Anthony Brown, like Glendening, desperately needs a big African-American turnout to win a tight race. Will the Dems resort to the same race-baiting that worked in 1998? Count on it. 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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Posted online by 8 a.m. the following day. FOOTBALL: Suitland at Flowers, 2 p.m. Saturday. The fourth playoff berth in the 4A South Region could come down to this game. CHF running back Maurice Wright (left) has 500 rushing yards. FOOTBALL: DeMatha at Gonzaga, 2 p.m. Saturday.

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Prep football court in session On July 7 the Prince George’s County Public Schools athletics office held a hearing to decide if DuVal High School would have to KEN SAIN forfeit its first SPORTS EDITOR football victory of this season. Nearly four months later, we still don’t know. What’s taking so long? Short answer: Lawyers got involved. I’m not a patient man, so I’m appointing myself to make the decision. Giving the Parkdale version of events is Athletic Director Brian Moore: Last spring Parkdale football coach Chuck Pope sent some of his top players to a 7-on-7 combine with other county schools, hoping to give them some exposure with college recruiters who may be in attendance. Almost immediately after the March combine, rumors spread around campus that four Parkdale football players were leaving the Riverdale Park school and transferring to DuVal. Later as the rumors persisted, they learned that the four students went to the Lanham school for an open gym workout while they were still Parkdale students, a clear violation of county rules. Earl Hawkins, director of athletics for PGCPS, was notified and an investigation launched. Of the four Parkdale football players, only two ended up transferring to DuVal and only one is playing on this year’s Tigers team (he is a key player on what appears to be a playoff team). The other is academically ineligible. Offering the DuVal view, Franklin Crispi, former athletic director at the school (new AD Jason Mattern just started this month and wasn’t involved in these events): One of the four Parkdale boys has an uncle who is a volunteer assistant coach at DuVal. More than that, he is the male role model in this boy’s life. Three of the boys processed the paperwork to transfer to DuVal and it was approved. The boys showed up to work out at DuVal, according to Crispi, because they were told they were no longer welcome at Parkdale. DuVal football coach Dameon Powell was not supervising the open gym workout on the day in question. When he heard the Parkdale boys were there, he escorted three of them to the office and had them call family for rides home. The fourth boy, however, worked out with his uncle on the field while the football team was participating in open gym workouts inside. When the football team went outside, the uncle and his nephew went inside. At no time, according to Crispi, did the boy work out with the DuVal football team. That workout, a nephew and his uncle exercising at DuVal’s campus — which is open to the community when not being used for official school business — is the violation, Crispi said. No evidence of recruiting was found. The aftermath: Hawkins decided that DuVal would have to forfeit its first win of this season (which happened to be a 48-0 victory vs. Parkdale) for an open gym violation. DuVal appealed that decision. Hawkins told the Washington Post that the PGCPS Office of Legal Counsel will make a decision on that appeal. He told The Gazette on Tuesday that they are waiting on a reply from Powell’s attorney before issuing a decision. The verdict: Perception matters. Let’s say there was no recruiting, just four friends who wanted to play their final year of high school football with a playoff team. Still, until all the Is are dotted and Ts crossed, if you are a part of the coaching staff at DuVal, you have to be mindful of how it looks if you work out at your school with a student from another school, no matter the relationship. Appeal denied, forfeit stands. DuVal will probably still make the playoffs and at least everyone will have this uncertainty removed. ksain@gazette.net

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When Donell Diggs started playing basketball, he said, he hated it. Now, that notion couldn’t be any further from the truth. The 5-foot-10, 170-pound sophomore point guard, by all accounts, is at the top of his game, preparing to lead the Prince George’s Community College men’s basketball team into the 2014-15 season with high expectations. “To me, I’m being biased because I’m his coach, but he’s the best returning point guard in the Maryland JUCO,” PGCC coach Xavier Joyner said. “He’s very smart, makes the right decisions and rarely turns the ball over. When that happens, you are going to be a good team. He’s developed into a great vocal leader for us; before he just let his play do the talking.” The Takoma Academy graduate and Washington, D.C. native said he didn’t really have a choice about

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Prince George’s Community College sophomore point guard, Donell Diggs, practices with teammates on Tuesday at the school in Largo.

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Balanced rushing attack propels Eagles to another big win on homecoming BY

ERIC GOLDWEIN STAFF WRITER

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Bishop McNamara’s Melanie Stiles directs teammates during Tuesday’s girls soccer game against Elizabeth Seton in Forestville.

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Clemson recruit averages more than 12 saves a game for the Mustangs

It took a quarter for the Frederick Douglass High School football team to get things going in Saturday’s homecoming game. But when the Eagles (7-0) finally did break through the Forestville Military Academy defense, they did so in a big way, scoring 24 points in the second quarter en route to a 37-12 victory over the previously undefeated Knights (6-1). “We kept working hard, and we got better, and got back to putting more points on the board,” said lineman Glenwood Williams, whose second-quarter punt block keyed the scoring barrage. “It was just one of those things,” added Douglass coach J.C. Pinkney. “I felt like if we woke up, got the early success that we’d get ourselves going and roll like that. In the second quarter, we kind of got it going.” After coming up empty in its first offensive possession — a lengthy drive that extended into the second quarter — Douglass got on the scoreboard with an 9-yard rushing touchdown from junior Thomas Myers. Minutes later, junior quarterback Devin Butler ran for a 24-yard score to give the Eagles a 14-0 lead, then Douglass forced Forestville to punt later in the quarter. That’s when Williams, Douglass’ 5-foot-9, 260-pound junior, broke through the Knights’ offensive line and deflected the ball back toward the end zone, resulting in a safety. The Eagles’ ensuing offensive possession lasted less than a minute and culminated in a 37-yard touchdown run by senior Mikale Makle. That was all Douglass and its stingy defense — the Eagles have surrendered 24 points on the season — would need to maintain its perfect record. “That’s when we actually picked it up,” said Makle, who ran for 74 yards. “ ... It seemed like we

“I felt like if we woke up, got the early success that we’d get ourselves going and roll like that. In the second quarter, we kind of got it going.” J.C. Pinkney, Douglass coach didn’t start off fast. We picked it up as we went on.” Pinkney said the key to the game was the blocking. Douglass’ offensive line cleared lanes for the runners and prevented Forestville from getting into the backfield. Butler (124 yards) Makle, Myers and Akiva Wedge combined for 300-plus yards in a game that lasted two-and-ahalf hours and included 30-plus penalties. “The blitz was a nightmare,” Pinkney said. “They got kids that are aggressive. They’re blitzing, they’re coming full speed, and if you don’t pick them up, you’re going to have some [runs through the line], and going to have some major collisions in the backfield. That was our focus all week.” Though Douglass led from the second quarter on, Forestville didn’t go down quietly. Senior Jordan Washington ran for a 5-yard touchdown and junior quarterback James Green had a 21yard score to cut the Eagles lead to 24-12 in the third quarter. But in the fourth quarter, Douglass’ balanced backfield put the game away; Wedge and Denzel Goode had touchdowns, giving the Eagles backfield five different scorers on the afternoon. “It means a lot to me,” Williams said. “They’re a good team. They were 6-0, we were 6-0, and the better team just won today.” egoldwein@gazette.net

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Bishop McNamara High School girls soccer coach Edgar Rauch had a joke last year, he said, that current Mustangs junior Melanie Stiles was a vampire goalkeeper because “she didn’t like crosses.” Unlike some young athletes, who shy away from their weaknesses, the 5-foot-9 Stiles is one to take them head on. This year the Clemson (S.C.) University recruit, already a Gazette first team selection as a sophomore a year ago, is more confident and commanding of the goal area than ever and, in turn, McNamara is having its best season. Tuesday the Mustangs defeated Washington Catholic Athletic Conference rival Elizabeth Seton — who beat them 3-0 Saturday — for the first time in recent history, 2-1. The win likely means McNamara will avoid the WCAC season-ending tournament’s play-in game Monday — for the last two teams in the regular season standings — for the first time in several years. The winner of that play-in game faces the championships’ No. 1 seed the following day, something that’s hurt the Mustangs chances of advancing in the tournament, Rauch said.

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Frederick Douglass High School running back Thomas Myers runs for a touchdown Saturday against Forestville.

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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. 7. 9. 10.

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

Record Points

Douglass DeMatha E. Roosevelt Wise DuVal Potomac Forestville R. Baptist Fairmont Hts. Pallotti

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

60 54 48 42 35 31 22 20 12 5

Also receiving votes: Capitol Christian, 1.

COUNTY LEADERS Rushing Player, school Rushes Amaru Major, Surrattsville 118 Davon Julien, Cap. Christian 83 Mike-Ryan Mofor, E. Roosevelt 97 Anthony McFarland, DeMatha 89 Jeremy Fields, Oxon Hill 85 Jordan Washington, Forestville 93 Christian Paylay, Fairmont Hghts 87 Jaret Patterson, Pallotti 86 Antoine Brooks, DuVal 81 Donte Marks, Cap. Christian 55

Yards 1,226 1,135 1,032 994 891 883 866 804 772 700

Passing Player, school Att.-Cmp. Ramar Williams, McNamara 99-163 Reggie Robinson, Cap. Christ. 45-75 Amir Hall, Riverdale Baptist 99-122 Beau English, DeMatha 60-100 Emil Neugent, Potomac 44-69 Mason Clark, Pallotti 38-64 Robert Harris III, Surrattsville 31-65 Michael Hubbard, Laurel 42-96

Yards Int. TDs 1,550 7 14 1,422 11 13 1,376 5 19 1,011 4 9 756 2 11 719 4 4 617 3 9 581 3 6

Avg. TDs 10.4 8 13.7 12 10.6 14 11.2 10 10.4 10 9.4 13 10.0 8 9.3 7 9.5 14 12.7 9

County 4A League

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Charles H. Flowers High School running back Jose Holloway gets past Northwestern’s defenders during Saturday’s game. Holloway scored a touchdown and rushed for 64 yards on 13 attempts.

FEARLESS FORECASTS

— KYLE RUSSELL

DeMatha heads to WCAC cross country meet The DeMatha Catholic High School cross country team enters Saturday’s Washington Catholic Athletic Conference championship

SOCCER

Continued from Page B-1 “[Stiles] is one of those kids who works on her weaknesses,” Rauch said. “Every time I was out at one of her [Maryland United FC practices] she was always in cross situations. That’s been huge. She’s not afraid of bigger players, she has that conﬁdence that she’s going to be taller than everyone else and just judging the ball, reading the trajectory, not afraid of getting hurt.”

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Eric Goldwein 200-51 85-14

Prince J. Grimes 198-55 84-15

Jennifer Beekman 194-57 85-14

Adam Gutekunst 196-55 78-21

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 Douglass at Largo Georgetown Prep at Riverdale Baptist St. John’s Catholic Prep at Pallotti Parkdale at Bowie Eleanor Roosevelt at Bladensburg Laurel at Wise Fairmont Heights at Potomac Gwynn Park at Central High Point at Oxon Hill Forestville at Friendly Suitland at Flowers Surrattsville at Crossland DuVal at Northwestern St. John’s College at McNamara National Christian at Eastern Shore DeMatha at Gonzaga Capitol Christian at Fort Hill

KEEPING IT BRIEF The Eleanor Roosevelt High School girls’ soccer team earned a second-consecutive county title Tuesday with a 3-0 victory against Frederick Douglass at Prince George’s County Community College. The Raiders (12-1) controlled the contest from the outset, taking a 1-0 lead on Natalie Hanno’s goal in the seventh minute. Hanno wasn’t the only sophomore to make an impact, as classmates Inonge Kaloustian and Olivia Pettyjohn-Robin also tallied scores. “I think that the two big standouts tonight were Natalie Hanno — she played some forward and some midﬁeld — and also Olivia Pettyjohn-Robin, another midﬁelder, who both really shined above and beyond what would be normal,” Roosevelt coach Bob Sowers said. “They really stepped up.” The Raiders held a 20-4 advantage on shots in the contest, and dominated time of possession despite forwards Emma Thrift and Sheyanne Bonnick sitting out with injuries. Getting those two back for the 4A South Region playoff push is of the utmost importance to Sowers, he said.

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All games Pr. George’s Co.

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

Eleanor Roosevelt wins girls county soccer title

Private schools

Season record

Receiving Player, school Catches Yards Avg. TDs Maurice Lewis Jr., Cap. Christ. 25 783 31.3 8 Camari Murray, McNamara 28 605 21.6 6 Deron Smith, Riverdale Baptist 29 476 16.4 6 Jaison Young, Riverdale Baptist 22 464 21.1 6 Darryl Turner Jr., DeMatha 18 389 21.6 5 Alphonso Banks IV, McNamara 24 373 15.5 5 Demetrius Boyd, Fairmont Hts 23 318 13.8 2

meet with its best chance at a Top 3 ﬁnish since 2009. Seniors Joe Graham and Chris Jeletic, who ﬁnished 24th and 25th, respectively, a year ago, anchor an overall deeper team with a good balance of experience and strong youth. Graham (16 minutes, 53 seconds) and Jeletic (17:04) rank 18th and 23rd among Maryland independent school runners, according to athletic.net. The Stags head to WCACs off some good team results, including a win at the Landon Invitational late last month and the Don Stoner Invitational Oct. 2.

— JENNIFER BEEKMAN

Capitol Christian won two games in less than 24 hours On Oct. 17, the Capitol Christian Academy football team defeated Virginia Academy 22-20. The game, which didn’t end until around 9:30 p.m., was just the ﬁrst scheduled that weekend due to a scheduling error. Without much time to rest for their next game against Moyer Academy — 16 hours later, the Warriors still found a way to win 34-6. Capitol Christian coach Chuck Thompson said a couple of players are banged up but overall, things went well. He said the team is resting and getting ready for its big game at Fort Hill (7-0), scheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday. Fort Hill is the defending Class 1A state champion and will be the biggest test for Capitol Christian since its season opener against a defending state champion in North Carolina.

— PRINCE J. GRIMES

Stiles is a uniquely dynamic keeper in that while she is a truly trained goalie who has been playing the position since she was 9 years old — years of experience show in her anticipation, quick hands and knowing where to be and when to come off her line — but she can also be an effective ﬁeld player who Rauch said he would undoubtedly start in the midﬁeld. Her foot skills — Stiles said those are something she continues to try and improve — are superior to many keepers and give the Mustangs confidence in their ability

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

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Continued from Page B-1 playing basketball. His father, Olatunji Turner, introduced him to the sport at a very early age, and after an initial wave of resistance, Diggs said he fell in love with the game. “It’s funny because as a young kid I didn’t really like basketball because my father forced it on me,” said Diggs, who credits Turner the most for developing his ball-handling skills. “My dad is my biggest critic. He comes to every game and we talk after every game, but he never tells me what I’m doing right except once every blue moon. He’s pushing me and never lets me get a big head.” Growing up, Diggs said he idolized retired Philadelphia 76ers point guard Allen Iverson and tried to imitate the former NBA scoring champion’s game. “I started wearing the sleeve and everything,” Diggs said. “I watch a lot of guards that are small like myself like Chris Paul, Brandon Jennings and John Wall.” Over the years, Diggs has ﬁne-tuned his skills at several of the area’s top basketball programs. He played Amateur Athletic Union ball with the now-defunct D.C. Assault and spent his freshman and sophomore high school seasons learning from Stu Vetter at Montrose Christian before

to play back to her. And that opens up a whole new dimension, Rauch said. Passing back to the goalie can be a good way to use up time when ahead, to open up the field or start a counterattack, he added. While Stiles, who is quite humble about her skills as a field player, said the initial appeal when she first moved into goal nearly eight years ago after a teammate was injured was that it required less running, she soon began to truly embrace the leadership aspect of being a keeper. She is a coach on the field,

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transferring to Takoma Academy. “Coach Stu Vetter ran a college-style program and at Takoma ... we turned that into kind of a powerhouse program,” said Diggs, who wants to major in business when he transfers to a four-year university next year. “I kind of knew what to expect coming into the college level. It really helped me playing at the top level of high school because I played against top players all the time.” Joyner raves about his veteran point guard’s skills — ball-handling, speed, penetrating into the lane, ﬁnishing inside and free-throw shooting — and said Diggs has improved tremendously. A season ago, Diggs, who said he is working on improving his jump shot, averaged 14 points, 7.0 assists and 2.1 rebounds per game while leading the Owls to a 20-10 record, a Region XX championship and berth in the District VII tournament. “As a point guard, you have to be the coach on the ﬂoor,” Diggs said. “It’s my job to show my teammates the way.” This winter, expectations are raised for Diggs individually and PGCC’s team success. PGCC, as has become a signature style of play under Joyner, will look to out-run and outshoot its opponents. “We love helter skelter basketball,” Joyner said. “We are a lot quicker than last year and that’s what I enjoy. Our

Rauch said. She sees all, is smart about the game, and is an excellent communicator in directing her teammates, the backline in particular. That, Stiles said, is something she relishes and takes pride in. “She has good experience playing at a high level, [Elite Clubs National League] under a ton of good coaches and she’s just absorbed up all that knowledge and brings it out here every time. She’s a micromanager of our backline. I don’t know what they’d do if they didn’t have her back there. I think they would al-

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

Overall W-L PF 7-0 294 6-1 222 6-1 109 5-2 162 4-3 220 3-4 163 4-3 146 3-4 68 2-5 127 0-7 14

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*Record includes forfeit victory DuVal has appealed the ruling that it must forfeit its firs win vs. Parkdale. Until appeal is decided, records reflect result on the field. Friday’s results Riverdale Baptist 28, Avalon 15 Largo 28, Crossland 6 DeMatha 70, McNamara 32 Pallotti 39, Friends School of Baltimore 0 Capitol Christian 22, Virginia Academy 20 Central Virginia 30, National Christian 12 Saturday’s results Capitol Christian 34, Moyer Academy 6 Wise 18, Suitland 6 Flowers 16, Northwestern 13 Gwynn Park 33, Surrattsville 32 Douglass 37, Forestville 12 Bowie 26, Laurel 13 Eleanor Roosevelt 47, Parkdale 6 Fairmont Heights 18, Friendly 14 Potomac 39, Central 0 DuVal 47, Oxon Hill 0 Bladensburg 45, High Point 8

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Prince George’s Community College sophomore point guard, Donell Diggs, practices with teammates on Tuesday at the school in Largo. objective is to get out in transition on the break and have a three-to-one shot advantage over our opponents. We can’t play like we do if we are not in shape and we are in shape.” Aside from Diggs, three sophomores, who received signiﬁcant minutes last season, are expected to start. Six-foot-3 Robert Tyler II (Riverdale Baptist) returns at shooting guard along with fellow 6-2 guard Greg Reed-LaFortune (Bladensburg) and 6-7 forward Malik Sneed (Springharn in Washington, D.C.). Sophomore forward Brian Speaks, a 6-5 Landover native, trans-

most check out because they have her voice their all the time. She’s a huge leader and a huge personality for us.” The stability in back — Stiles averages about 12 to 16 saves per game, Rauch said — has translated all over the ﬁeld for McNamara this fall. The team no longer has to worry about a ball going over its backline, Rauch said, and that’s been evident in the conﬁdence with which the team has played up top. It’s easy to forget Stiles is still just a junior, she’s arguably one of the best keepers in the state,

ferred in from Division II Northwestern Oklahoma State and is expected to play a major role. “We are a small team so we got to get out on the break and play good press defense,” Diggs said. “We got to be more consistent this year though. We’ve seen what it takes to get to nationals. That’s where we want to go.” The Owls are scheduled to open their season Nov. 2 at the Naval Academy’s junior varsity team. kzakour@gazette.net

public or private school. Her desire to work — Stiles said getting better for Clemson is always in the back of her mind — might be her biggest asset, Rauch said. “My biggest thing is just to self train,” Rauch said. “She puts in the time. She’s more physical, she spends time in the gym when she can getting strong and ﬁt. She has a huge future ahead of her and that’s given her the conﬁdence to know that she’s going to play at that next level and you have to step it up, it’s sink or swim.” jbeekman@gazette.net

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Wishing upon a Starman n One play written by Riverdale Park resident

Embracing the NYCC Comic books, TV shows and acceptance all in abundance at convention

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Winter can be quite a frosty time, but the season brings icy relationships along with the chill and snow in a trio of oneact plays produced by Theater Project Beltsville. “Cold Shoulders” brings together “The Stronger” by August Strindberg, “Fourteen” by Alice Gerstenberg and “Starman, Wish Me Luck” by playwright and Riverdale Park resident Nicole Burton. The one-act plays, separated by decades, are united through both setting and interactions in relationships. Each takes place on or near Christmas Eve and features an aspect of rejection — thus, the “cold shoulder.” Though the plays themselves are new to Theater Project Beltsville, the concept is familiar. The group, which began in Spring 2013, produces its pieces in the sanctuary of Abiding Presence Lutheran Church in Beltsville, a small congregation that holds about 40 people. Franklin Akers proposed the theater group as a means of fun as well as spreading the word about their community. “We’re here to give a gift to the city of Beltsville from our church as an outreach gesture,” he said, “and to enrich the cultural life of the town.” Because there’s no budget for the plays and the group is still relatively unknown, Akers often relies on works in the public domain that are suitable for a smaller cast; the roles are often ﬁlled by congregation members

It’s a bit of a walk down 35th Street to get to the Javits Center after getting off the E train. When walking with Batmen, Deadpools and an occasional Duffman, however, the stroll is a little jauntier. More than 151,000 comic book nerds, sci-fi geeks and literary aficionados attended this year’s New York Comic Con earlier this month. That number doesn’t include the vendors, exhibitors, artists and celebrities working the event. NYCC has always played second fiddle to the San Diego Comic Con, which is known as one of the biggest in the world. However, the numbers brought in during the convention in the Big Apple this year are more than then estimated 130,000

that showed up in San Diego back in July. In short, there were a LOT of people in a little space over a period of four days. You wouldn’t hear any complaints, though. People pushed through the crowds in an orderly fashion, stopping to check out the latest offerings from Marvel, DC, Zenescope, LEGO, et al. Peppered in with all the folks shopping for comic books and action ﬁgures were people dressed up as their favorite characters. Several people donned their best Dark Knight outﬁts. A handful came as the Man of Steel. A lot of people showed their love for the “Merc with a Mouth.” Children as young as 3 years old looked like they were

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Rachel Duda as Contessa and Franklin Akers as Starman appear together in “Starman, Wish Me Luck,” a play by Nicole Burton that appears in the upcoming Theater Project Beltsville production “Cold Shoulders.”

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IN THE ARTS 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 Mur-

der Room,” Oct. 31 through Nov. 15, call for prices, times, Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Drive, Bowie, 301-8050219, bctheatre.com. The Clarice, Cantare!, 8 p.m. Oct. 25; Kronos Quartet, 8 p.m. Oct. 25; UMSO Concerto Competition Preliminaries, 1 p.m. Oct. 26; Negotiating Your Future, 5 p.m. Oct. 27; Big Band Halloween Scream, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27; Divergent Perspectives: Art, Grafﬁti, Society, Oct. 28; 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, “Rebel Yells,” Through Oct. 25, 8 p.m., call for prices, Theater in the Woods, 2001 Bryan Point Road, Accokeek, 240-766-8830, hbplayers. org. Harmony Hall Regional Center, Kids’

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COLD SHOULDERS

Continued from Page B-3 with little to no prior theater experience or by people Akers has met over the years. One such person was Burton, whose plays made their way into his hands following Theater Project Beltsville’s initial production of three Anton Chekhov plays. Her one act, “Starman, Wish Me Luck,” takes inspiration both from a man she would frequently pass on the street in D.C. and her mother’s experience with homelessness in England late in life. “It made me realize that none of us are so well-strung together that a few instances of bad luck or bad decisions couldn’t render us on the streets, as well,” she said. Starman is a homeless person a woman named Contessa frequently encounters in the park. They develop a rapport over time, with Contessa

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— dealing with problems of her own — ending their conversations asking Starman to wish her luck. “They’ve each been through their own hell, and it’s a beautiful play from that standpoint,” Akers said. “The play is so much about our misperceptions of people different from us. We look at people we would cross the street to avoid and discover they’re human be-

ris Puremovement, 8 p.m. Oct. 24 and 25, 5445 Landover Road, Cheverly, 301-2771710, arts.pgparks.com. 2nd Star Productions, “Children of Eden,” through Oct. 25, Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Drive, Bowie, call for prices, times, 410-757-5700, 301-8324819, 2ndstarproductions.com. Tantallon Community Players, “A USO Christmas,” Dec. 6 through 14, Harmony Hall Regional Center, 10701 Livingston Road, Fort Washington, 301-262-5201, tantallonstage.com. Venus Theatre, “Virus Attacks Heart,” coming in November, 21 C Street, Laurel. venustheatre.org.

NIGHTLIFE New Deal Café, Mid-Day Melodies with Amy C Kraft, noon Oct. 23; SAW Open Mic, 7 p.m. Oct. 23; John Guersney, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 24; The 8-Balls, 8 p.m. Oct. 24; Jazz Jam w/Greg Meyer, 1 p.m. Oct. 25; John Guernsey, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 25; IlyAIMy, 8 p.m. Oct. 25; Deaf Brunch, 10:30 a.m. Oct. 26; Jan Knutson, 11 p.m. Oct. 26; Greentop Ramblers’ Halloween Show, 5 p.m. Oct. 26; Allison Shapira, 7 p.m. Oct. 28; Steve Haug, 7 p.m. Oct. 29, 113 Centerway Road, 301-474-5642, 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, old-

ings with needs and feelings.” Though Akers is listed as director for “Cold Shoulders,” his role encompasses so much more, resulting in a balancing act necessary to keep the relatively new theater group up and running. “I’m playing one of the parts myself, which is insane,” he said. “I’m producing and directing and publicizing and troubleshooting and hanging lights — but that’s what it takes at ﬁrst. You have a handful of people who are able to do a lot of things and you start from there.” Even with a space not originally intended for theatrical productions or housing a large audience, Akers manages to create a setting beﬁtting of the plays he chooses. By leaning toward plays with only a few cast members and not many more audience members, he creates an environment conducive to connections between actor and viewer. “’Starman’ plays well when the audience is close to the action, close to the actors,” Burton said, “and it’s such a warm and intimate space over there. I

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The characters in these three plays have experiences rejection in one form or another — a part of the human experience anyone can relate to, whether through the pair of woman acquaintances in “The Stronger,” the family attempting to host a dinner party in “Fourteen” or the odd couple of Starman and Contessa in “Starman, Wish Me Luck.” Yet, at the same time, the events that unfold through the three plays will likely give rise to a new understanding for a formerly foreign occurrence or feeling. “Every play that you see, every book that you read, every piece of art you look at, every ballet or opera or concert you go to — watching these events makes the invisible, visible,” Akers said. “You’re going into the room to experience something about life that’s outside yourself, and that will perhaps increase your ability to understand the human condition.” kgroff@gazette.net

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ends of the spectrum. And, like a barrel full of kryptonite, it hit me. There were no skinny Supermen. There were no fat Wonder Women. No black Robins or Batmen, no Asian Korras and no Hispanic Green Arrows. No disabled Deadpools, either. Just Supermen, Wonder Women, Batmen and Robins, Korras, Green Arrows and Deadpools. Once inside the safety of the building, everyone was the same. No black or white. No thin or fat. No healthy or disabled. No gay or straight. Take a moment to think about that. With the conﬂicts and discrimination that always threaten to drive a wedge into our society, would you believe there was one place where people of all shapes, sizes, colors and creeds were accepted and celebrated? Would you believe that place would be a comic book convention? For years, people have looked down on those who are into comic books and the like. The stereotype is there: Single guys who live in their parents’ basement and spend all day at the comic book store, when they’re not in front of a computer. Chances are,

Continued from Page B-3 ready to go trick-or-treating. Even the older set had representatives dressed as Gandalf the Grey or others. I saw a tall, lanky gent dressed as Superman (the costume almost looked too big for him), a black man dressed as Robin, men with goatees dressed as characters from “Sailor Moon” and more than one larger lady dressed as Wonder Woman, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn. Outside of the Javits Center, people walking by looked at these folks with something more than curiosity. It almost felt like disdain, maybe pity. Why, they seemed to wonder, would you dress up as a comic book character in skin tight outﬁts and make a fool out of yourself in public? Inside, that wasn’t the case. People would stop and take pictures of those in costume. The costumed folks would always stop and pose while the photographer would snap pictures and say, “Thanks.” It was the same no matter what corner of the Javits Center I went to — very polite people on both

you probably have the mental image of the Comic Book Guy from the television cartoon “The Simpsons” in your head right now. Of course, that’s not always the case, considering I spoke with several people who had high-paying jobs in the medical, education and information technology ﬁelds. Why, then, is society so unwilling to accept a culture of folks who are so accepting of others? Perhaps it goes back to the fear of the unknown? People fear what they don’t understand. Maybe they’re afraid they’ll look foolish? All I know is the people who attended New York Comic Con looked happy because they were happy. Maybe we should take a chapter out of the “geek” playbook and become more accepting of not only others, but ourselves? Maybe we should all start dressing up as our favorite superheroes more often. I’ll be Batman and accept folks for who they are, not what they look like. Who will you be? wfranklin@gazette.net

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Automotive

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16,977

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2013 Nissan Altima.....#V093209A, Black, 29,653 Miles...........$16,491 2013 Hyundai Elantra GLS.....#V108013A, Black, 22,543 Miles.$16,591 2012 Jetta TDI Sedan.....#V075706A, Gold, 50,888 Miles..........$16,591 2012 Honda Civic...#V537179C, Blue, 21,194 Miles...................$17,594 2011 GTI...#V009202A, Blue, 56,396 Miles..................................$17,991 2009 Jeep Wrangler Unltd...#V000346A, Red, 73,973 Miles....$20,491 2014 Honda CR-V...#V508233A, Silver, 2,746 Miles....................$20,493 2013 Jetta TDI..#VPR0083, Silver, 10,331 Miles..........................$20,793 2013 CC Sport...#V540344A, White, 33,814 Miles.......................$21,491 2014 Jetta Sportwagen...#V625545A, Black, 34,845 Miles.......$22,591 2012 Toyota Venza XLE...#V822557A, Blue, 38,060 Miles.........$23,991 2013 CC...#V299051A, White, 19,769 Miles.................................$24,591

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8,995

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23,950

27,960

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2009 Chevrolet Colorado............................................. $7,995 2013 Subaru Forester.................................................... $21,950 #526513B, 1-Owner, 2.5X Premium SUV, 35K Miles

#G0034, Automatic, Summit White, Pick Up Work Truck

Mini Cooper CountryMan S............... $21,995 2009 Chevrolet Cobalt....................................................... $9,995 2011 #526051A, Auto, 29K Miles, 1-Owner, True Blue #G0046, Auto, 33K Miles, Gold Mist, 1 Lt Sedan

2007 Acura TL.............................................................................. $15,995 2010 Volvo S40 Sedan................................................... $26,950 #G0040, Auto, 3.2L V6 Engine, Sedan

#G0038, 1-Owner, AWD, R-Design, Auto, 34K Miles

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