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Cheryl Kagan (right), candidate for state senate in District 17, greets voter Meg Thale (left) of Rockville on primary election day at the Carver Educational Services Center in Rockville on June 24, 2014. Looking on is retiring state Sen. Jennie Forehand, who is endorsing Kagan.
Former delegate Cheryl Kagan was leading Del. Luiz R.S. Simmons in the Maryland Senate District 17 seat left open by Sen. Jennie M. Forehand’s retirement, according to incomplete but unofficial results from the Montgomery County Board of Elections.
With 25 of 33 precincts reporting, Kagan drew 55 percent of the vote while Simmons drew 45 percent. “I am honored and delighted by the results thus far,” she said. “I think the people of Rockville and Gaithersburg have spoken and clearly want someone as their senator who can build coalitions, work with others and be a progressive voice in Annapolis.” Kagan represented District 17, which includes Gaithersburg and Rockville, in the House from 1995 to 2003. The Rockville Democrat ran for Senate in 2010 and narrowly lost to incumbent
MARYLAND SENATE DISTRICT 17 Democrats (top 3 advance):
Cheryl Kagan 2,507 Luiz R.S. Simmons 2,117 27 OF 33 PRECINCTS REPORTING; RESULTS ARE UNOFFICIAL
Forehand. She has worked for a variety of nonprofits, most recently as the director of community engagement for BBYO, a Jewish teen leadership and ser-
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Leggett leads Duncan, Andrews in bid for third term
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County Executive Isiah Leggett looked Tuesday to be on his way to the November elections. Leggett led former County Executive Douglas M. Duncan and Councilman Philip M. Andrews for the Democratic nomination for county executive Tuesday with more than half of precincts reporting, according to incomplete but unofficial election results. With 140 of 252 precincts reporting, Leggett led with
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Philip M. Andrews 11,590 20,357 votes. Duncan trailed with 13,483 votes while Andrews was not far behind with 9,898 votes, according to unofficial results. However, as of 8:30 p.m., 7,755 absentee ballots had been issued in Montgomery County, of which about 4,000
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Incumbent Montgomery County Executive Isiah “Ike” Leggett arrives to address supporters at his Cloverly campaign headquarters on Tuesday night.
Gaithersburg Mayor Sidney Katz looks to be one of the new faces on the Montgomery County Council this January. Katz led Gaithersburg Councilman Ryan Spiegel and two others Tuesday for the Democratic nomination for the District 3 seat, according to incomplete but unofficial election results. With 140 precincts reporting Tuesday, Katz led in the race for district 3 with 3,286 votes,
Sidney A. Katz 3,593 Tom Moore 2,610 Ryan Spiegel 1,894 Guled Kassim 281 50 OF 60 PRECINCTS REPORTING; RESULTS ARE UNOFFICIAL
according to unofficial election results. Not far behind was Tom Moore with 2,309 votes. Spiegel
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Footage for documentary about the area to be collected at event BY JENN DAVIS STAFF WRITER
Some might be surprised to learn of the rich history that resides at the Pleasant View Historical Site, a part of the historic Quince Orchard community that still shares the stories and memories of a more than 100-year-old society. The Pleasant View Historical Association will hold its annual June Festival on Saturday to honor the heritage and ancestry of the community. “The JuneFest has been happening for the better part of 30 years where members of that community come
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back to celebrate the commitments and investments that were made to acquire the property,” said Jason Green, who serves as the counsel to the association. “The celebration is a recommitment to the property.” The Pleasant View site, 11810 Darnestown Road in Gaithersburg, houses three original structures that all date back to the late nineteenth century. Pleasant View Methodist Episcopal Church, Pleasant View Cemetery and Quince Orchard Colored School are still standing. Beginning at 1 p.m. Saturday, attendees can enjoy food, music and other activities as part of the celebration. The historic church and school buildings will also be open to tour. Green, a descendant of the Quince Orchard community and a current
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North Potomac resident, also will use the event as an opportunity to collect more footage for “The Quince Orchard Project,” the documentary he and his sister, Dr. Kisha Davis, are producing about the area’s history. The project was conceived after Green and Davis had a conversation with their 95-year-old grandmother, Pearl Green, about her memories. During the conversation, the siblings’ grandmother talked about how much she missed the community she had grown up in, Quince Orchard. Green and Davis were surprised to learn that Quince Orchard had once been a community of its own, separate from Gaithersburg and other surrounding towns. “Here was this place that had made some significant investments in educa-
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tion, religion and community service, and we never knew it as a place,” Green said. “‘The Quince Orchard Project’ is an effort to recapture some of that story.” The documentary includes an entire timeline of history from the Civil War era to the present, as well as the perspectives from those who were part of the community. Green and Davis have been working on it for almost a year. Green said he has also found interesting material in the responses he hears from younger generations who are now just learning about the history of Quince Orchard. At the festival, he’ll be conducting interviews people who want to share their thoughts for the film. Through various interviews and
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9701 Main St., Damascus. Learn about the animals that live in tropical rainforests. Sponsored by The Friends of the Library, Montgomery County, Inc. Free, tickets required. 240-773-9444.
Bethesda Big Train Baseball Game Vs. FCA Herndon Braves, 7:30 p.m., Shir-
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THURSDAY, JUNE 26 Kiss and Make-Up Party, 7-9 p.m.,
Hilton Hotel and Executive Meeting Center, 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville. The Woman’s Democratic Club presents the fifth quadrennial post-primary event. $25 in advance, $30 at the door. www.womansdemocraticcub.org.
Glen Echo Park Partnership Summer Concert Series, 7:30 p.m., Bumper Car
Pavilion, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo. Clarence “The Blues Man” Turner performs; carousel will operate during the concert. Free admision and parking; carousel $1.25 per ride. 301-634-2222. Free for All in the Parks, 7:30-8:30 p.m., Montrose Community Center, 451 Congressional Lane, Rockville. Reggae group The Shifters will perform; bring a blanket, lawn chair, bug repellant and dinner. www.rockvillemd.gov/arts.
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p.m., Center for Tobacco Products, US Food and Drug Administration, 9200 Corporate Blvd., Rockville. Occurs on the second and fourth Fridays of the month. Free for first-time guests. 240-671-7141. Local Author Book Signing, 5-7 p.m., Pinky & Pepe’s Grape Escape, 223 Kentlands Blvd., Gaithersburg. Author Sharon Allen Gilder will appear for the launch of her historical romance novel, “The Rose Beyond.” Free signing; copies available for purchase. www.sharonallengilder.com.
SATURDAY, JUNE 28 Montgomery County Heritage Days: Underground Railroad Experience Trail Guided Hikes, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Woodlawn
Manor Cultural Park, 16501 Norwood
Road, Sandy Spring. Part of this year’s Heritage Days Celebration, hosted by Heritage Montgomery. Learn about various techniques that “freedom seekers” used to elude trackers, find food and navigate their way north to freedom. Free. 301-650-4373. Harper 1870’s Homestead Free Tours and Activities, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Brookside
Nature Center, 1800 Glenallan Ave., Wheaton, also 1:30-4:30 p.m. June 29. Part of this year’s Heritage Days Celebration, hosted by Heritage Montgomery. Experience how one family lived in the postemancipation period by raising chickens, grinding their own grain and living off of the environment. Free. 301-650-4373. Montgomery County Heritage Days: Oakley Cabin African American Museum and Park Tours, noon-4 p.m., 3210
Brookeville Road, Olney. Part of this year’s Heritage Days Celebration, hosted by Heritage Montgomery. Guided tours, living history demonstrations, crafts and activities for children. Free. 301-650-4373.
Kingsley Schoolhouse Open House and Tours, noon-4 p.m., Little Bennett
Regional Park, 23701 Frederick Road, Kingsley Parking Area off of Clarksburg Road, Clarksburg. Part of this year’s Heritage Days Celebration, hosted by Heritage Montgomery. Learn what school was like in Montgomery County back in the 1920s. Free. 301-650-4373. Annual June Festival, 1 p.m., Pleasant View Histroical Site, 11810 Darnestown Road, Gaithersburg. An afternoon of food, music, fellowship and fun celebrating the Quince Orchard community. thequinceorchardproject@gmail.com. Tour of National Park Seminary, 1-3 p.m., 2755 Cassedy St., Silver Spring. $5. 301-589-1715. Saturday Adaptive Technology Sessions Presents Wheelchairs!, 1-3 p.m.,
Rockville Memorial Library, 21 Maryland Ave., Rockville. Sponsored by the Disability Resource Center Library Advisory Committee. Experts from The Wheelchair Society and Independence Now provide information and answer questions to help others effectively plan for, obtain and live with a wheelchair. Free. 240-777-0140. Art Exhibit Opening Reception, 2-4 p.m., Hyattstown Mill, 14920 Hyattstown Mill Road, Hyattstown. Show runs through Aug. 2. Free. 301-874-2452. Bethesda Big Train Baseball Game Vs.
SUNDAY, JUNE 29 Park, 11420 Old Georgetown Road, North Bethesda. Part of this year’s Heritage Days Celebration, hosted by Heritage Montgomery. Retrace the footsteps of Reverend Josiah Henson from his enslavement to escape on the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada. Parking for Josiah Henson Park is available only at the Kennedy Shriver Aquatic Center, 5900 Executive Blvd., North Bethesda. Free. 301-650-4373.
Arts for the Aging 24th Annual Mixed Doubles Tennis Tournament, 1 p.m.,
Bretton Woods, 15700 River Road, Germantown. Round-robin style competitive matches followed by exhibition matches at 5 p.m. and a reception and awards ceremony at 6:30 p.m. $180 for team entry, $140 for single player, $120 for reception only; sponsorship and advertising opportunities are available. www.AFTAarts.org or 301-255-0103. p.m., Glenview Mansion, 603 Edmonston Drive, Rockville. Free. www.rockvillemd. gov/arts.
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TUESDAY, JULY 1 Tuesday Evening Bike Ride, 6:30 p.m.,
King Farm Farmstead Park, 1199 Grand Champion Road, Rockville. Approximately hour-long bike rides at the pace of the slowest rider; occurring through Aug. 25. rockvillebikerides@gmail.com.
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Campus congrats Twenty-five residents from Gaithersburg, Montgomery Village and Derwood recently graduated with degrees from Hood College in Frederick. Stacey Axler, Timea Baranyi, Stephanie Candland, Dawn Fahey, Veronica Leach, Linda Shawen, Ruth Sweet, Eric Diehl, David Lyle, Lydia-Georgina Esipila, Moses Karnga, Indra Adhikary, Mark Foti, Nishant Gurung, Erin McMahon, Kavitha Mohan Jaidas, all of Gaithersburg, earned degrees. Montgomery Village graduates include Emily Kraatz, Ashley Layton, Samantha Tate, Lloyd Thompson-Taylor, Lauren Hydorn, Arthur Burnham and Katherine Decrick. David Parmiter and Dena-Carol Seamon of Derwood also received degrees. Paolo L. Zanello of Darnestown has been named to the spring semester dean’s list at Northeastern University in Boston, Mass. Zanello is currently majoring in business administration. Trevor Davis and Trevor Reed, both of Gaithersburg, have been named to the spring semester dean’s list at Misericordia University in Dallas, Pa.
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Bridge will be structurally modified BY JENN DAVIS STAFF WRITER
The East Deer Park Bridge, also
known as the Humpback Bridge, in Gaithersburg will be closed to traffic this summer beginning at noon on Monday as it undergoes structural modifications, CSX announced Friday. Changes will be made to the bridge, which spans the CSX railroad tracks between Gaithersburg and Washing-
ton Grove, to allow it to meet current standards, according to a news release. Construction will be handled by CSX and is expected to be completed by Aug. 24. During the construction, East Deer Park Drive will be closed between Central Avenue and Railroad
Local author to host book signing at Gaithersburg store Sharon Allen Gilder, an author and freelance writer from Washington, D.C., will hold a book signing Friday for the launch of her newest novel, “The Rose Beyond,” at Pinky & Pepe’s Grape Escape in Gaithersburg. The event will run from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Kentlands store, 223 Kentlands Blvd. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the book signing and the book is available on Amazon. For more information, visit sharonallengilder.com.
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Friends of Whetstone Lake (FOWL) and the Montgomery Village Foundation sponsored a cleanup along the shores of Lake Whetstone last Saturday. Manao Kato and his mother Joy Kato, of Potomac, are recreational users of the park and volunteered for the cleanup project.
Fourth of July fireworks scheduled BY JENN DAVIS STAFF WRITER
In honor of the red, white and blue, the city of Gaithersburg will have an Independence Day celebration July 4 at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds. The event will feature live music, activities and fireworks. It will begin at 5:30 p.m. and fireworks will be launched at dark. Gates open at 5 p.m. Attendees can bring their own food and blankets to have a picnic during the event.
Food will also be sold. For safety reasons, alcoholic beverages, glass containers, roller blades, skates, bikes, pets and fireworks are prohibited. The Montgomery County Fairgrounds is at 16 Chestnut Street, Gaithersburg. Attendees can walk in at the entrances on Chestnut or Dalamar streets. The Perry Parkway entrance will be closed. In the event of rain, fireworks only will be rescheduled for the following day. For more information, call 301-258-6350 or email parksrec@gaithersburgmd.gov.
Gaithersburg Meals on Wheels seeks volunteers BY JENN DAVIS STAFF WRITER
Gaithersburg Meals on Wheels is looking for volunteers to deliver hot lunches and cold suppers to seniors in the area. The meals are prepared at Asbury Methodist Village, 333 Russell Ave., Gaithersburg, and picked up by drivers from 10:45 a.m. to
11:30 a.m. Monday through Friday. Delivery takes about an hour, with eight to 12 clients on each route. Volunteers are asked to drive once every week or every other week, and training is provided. Those interested may call 301-216-4200 or Lisa Koenig at 301-869-0190.
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It was 2007. The economy had just bottomed out, and soon they appeared — men, women and
children of all ages, bundled up, asleep near the dumpsters along Arnold Harvey’s trash-collecting route at 2 a.m. “It just touched my heart, and itfeltlikethere’ssomethingIcould do to ease [their] pain,” said Harvey, a Gaithersburg-based driver for Waste Management, Inc. With help from his coworkers
and wife, Harvey created God’s Connection Transition, a nonprofit that aims to help those in the Washington Metropolitan Area who have fallen into hard times. And after nearly seven years of donating food, clothing and other items to those in need, he has gained national recognition for his work. Harvey, 57, appeared in the June 4 edition of People magazine, in addition to Fortune.com as part of their “Heroes of the 500” series, which featured employees of Fortune 500 companies who have “performed remarkable acts of goodness,” according to the website. God’s Connection Transition started small in 2007 with a company coat drive and bag lunches, donating coffee, tea and blankets, among other items. The organi-
zation was born from Harvey’s desire to help others — a trait instilled in him by his mother, he said. Harvey soon convinced companies such as Safeway and Giant to donate bags of groceries, which would give local families three to four days worth of food. Today, theorganizationhelpsabout5,000 families a month, he said. “God’s Connection is about helping to changing things, moving forward, people helping people,” said Teresa Harvey, Arnold’s wife. Theorganizationalsopartners with about 13 churches, shelters and retirement communities to distribute food out of their Gaithersburg warehouse. Now, they’re looking to expand to another location in Prince George’s County, Harvey said, and they want to pro-
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Waste Management driver Arnold Harvey, 57, was recently featured on Fortune.com and People magazine for his nonprofit, God’s Connection Transition. vide scholarships. God’s Connection Transition connectsretirementcommunities and the Children’s Inn at the National Institute of Health, to build abridgebetweengenerations.The senior citizens have made blankets for the kids, and the kids write letters back, Harvey said. “People love him here,” said Jacqueline Alicea, manager at the Oaks at Olde Towne, a retirement home that Harvey used to work for as a driver. “He’s a very, very nice and humble person, and very sweet with the residents.” God’s Connection Transition also runs “Let’s Ride,” a program headed into its second year that brings bikes into Prince George’s County and teaches people how to ride. Then they donate the bikes. Harvey said he initially just
wanted others to witness the recession’s impact. People who get up at 5 and 6 a.m. don’t know what’s happening because the people who sleep by the dumpsters are long gone by then, he said. Consequently, Harvey tried to document the homeless via photos, but the flash kept waking people up. So he enlisted his brother, who had a video camera with “night vision,” he said. “When we watched it over, I said, ‘Wow, it’s more people than I realized,” Harvey said. He hopes that doors are opening and more people will be willing to help. “We’re looking to catch some eyes, some ears and some heart,” he said. bcheng@gazette.net
POLICE BLOTTER
Complete report at www.gazette.net The following is a summary of incidents in the Gaithersburg area to which Montgomery County police and/ or Gaithersburg City Police responded recently. The words “arrested” and “charged” do not imply guilt. This information was provided by the county and/or the city of Gaithersburg.
Armed Robbery • On June 8 at 10 p.m. in the 400 block of Christopher Avenue, Gaithersburg. The subject threatened the victim with a weapon and took property.
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Sexual Assault • On June 3 at 12:58 p.m. at Forest Oaks Middle School, 651 Saybrooke Blvd., Gaithersburg. The subject, who is known, inappropriately touched the victim. Aggravated Assault • On June 5 at 1:30 p.m. at Rosemont Elementary School, 16400 Alden Ave., Gaithersburg. The subject
is known to the victim. • On June 9 at 11:36 p.m. in the unit block of North Summit Avenue, Gaithersburg. • On June 10 at 9:45 a.m. in the 7600 block of Laytonia Drive, Gaithersburg.
Commercial Burglary • Between 7:05 a.m. June 2 and 3:45 a.m. June 3 at Roberts Oxygen, 17011 Railroad St., Gaithersburg. No forced entry, took property. Residential Burglary • 18600 block of Cross Country Lane, Gaithersburg, at 3:13 p.m. June 10. Vehicle Larceny • Four incidents in Gaithersburg between June 2 and 7. Took wallets, cash, a cellphone and a GPS unit. Affected streets include Chestertown Street, Sandberry Court and Longpoint Way, as well as Cheyenne Road in Darnestown.
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The Maryland Office of the State Prosecutor has subpoenaed Montgomery County school board expense records to investigate the possibility of criminal activity after the office received an allegation related to the expenses. James Cabezas, chief investigator for the state prosecutor office, said that the office does not confirm or deny the existence of any investigation. Cabezas said the office received an allegation related to the county school board’s expenses. “When an allegation comes in, at that point, all we have is information. We don’t know
what’s factual and what’s not,” he said, speaking generally. “An investigative tool is to obtain copies of books and records in order to determine what the truth might be.” The June 10 subpoena asks for documents “for any and all Montgomery County Board of Education issued credit cards” from Jan. 1, 2012 to the present. The documents requested include account statements, billing statements, receipts, invoices and reimbursement records, according to the subpoena. The state’s request comes amid a school board committee review of board members’ expenses and usage of school system-issued credit cards. The committee has developed recommendations for a series of changes to pass on to the full school board. Scrutiny of board members’ expenses was spurred
by the discovery that school board member Christopher S. Barclay used his school systemissued credit card to make multiple purchases totalling nearly $1,500, charges he had to reimburse. Board members have stopped using their cards during the committee’s review. School board President Philip Kauffman said during the board’s June 17 meeting that the state prosecutor’s office made one of many requests the school system received for records of board member expenses and credit card usage. “The board will continue to fully cooperate with the state prosecutor and we have already provided them with the same documents that have been made available to the public which are currently posted on the board of education’s website under the ‘expense reports’ tab,” Kauffman said.
Work is expected to be complete by the end of summer BY JENN DAVIS STAFF WRITER
A fee schedule has already been set up for those who will want to rent out the field one it’s completed, according to Jim McGuire, the recreation and park services division chief for
the city’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Culture. Residents will be charged $100 per hour and non-residents will be charged $120 per hour. Commercial vendors
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Cabezas said, speaking generally, that the office gathers evidence in an investigation to determine whether criminal activity occurred. If the office finds criminal activity, he said, it is sometimes, but not always, appropriate to bring a charge. “That threshold has to be very high,” he said, referring to the point where the office decides a charge is appropriate. Sometimes prosecutors find technical violations but cannot establish criminal intent, he said. “We have to look at why things happen,” he said. Should state prosecutors find no evidence of criminal intent in an investigation, the office has several options, he said, including taking no further action or referring the case to an ethics commission. lpowers@gazette.net
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within the city will have to pay $160 per hour and vendors outside of the city will pay $185 per hour. jedavis@gazette.net
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Mitchell Usatine (left) and Andrew Feinstein, scouts in Cub Scout Pack 1440 of Gaithersburg, roast marshmallows over an open fire while camping with the rest of their pack in early June at the Hanson family farm in North Potomac. Led by Cubmaster Greg Wilson, the scouts hiked, slept under the stars and launched rockets that parachuted back to Earth.
The grass is about to get a lot greener at Lakelands Park in Gaithersburg as construction to install a synthetic turf field is set to kick off in the coming days. Pre-construction work, such as land surveying, has already begun, according to Sean Stevens, project manager for the city’s Public Works department. After having a pre-construction meeting Wednesday, Stevens said he expects “construction should be ramping up significantly.” Hellas Construction of Austin, Texas was awarded a contract by the city in early May to complete the work at the cityowned park, 1368 Main St. The company will be using a type of organic fill for the field called CoolFill, according to Stevens. The product contains 100 percent organic coconut fibers, rice husk and cork, he said. The project also includes a 1,100-foot chain link fence that will surround the field, Stevens said. City staff had previously estimated the cost of the entire project to be $950,000, according to online documents. After working with Hellas on the bid, the final price came in at $942,599. A 12-year warranty comes with the installation, according to Ollie Mumpower, the engineering services division chief with Public Works. Stevens said the plan is to have the project done by Aug. 15 and in time for the beginning of the school year, since nearby Lakelands Park Middle School has a joint-use agreement with the city to allow students and teachers to use the field during the school day. “Our goal has been to have the field completed before Montgomery County Schools return to session on Aug. 26, 2014,” Stevens wrote in an email to The Gazette. “Hopefully the weather cooperates with us this summer and we will meet all of our goals!”
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The Montgomery County school board has asked Superintendent Joshua P. Starr to take another look at other — cheaper — possible plans for changing school bell times. O’Neill, saying she wanted to continue the conversation, put forward a motion at the school board’s June 17 meeting asking Starr to consider other lowercost options for changing school start times that cost $10 million or less. “I guess I have to say I’m disappointed,” O’Neill said. “I really believed that there was the potential of a viable option with this.” Starr announced June 10 that he was stepping way from a plan he proposed in October to start high schools 50 minutes later, start middle schools 10 minutes earlier and have the elementary schools day end 30 minutes later. Starr cited a high estimated price tag for the plan — at least $21.6 million a year due to transportation and other costs — and mixed community feedback on the plan. The proposal centered on starting high schools at 8:15 a.m. instead of 7:25 a.m. to allow high school students to get more sleep.
Between October and Starr’s recent decision to drop the recommendation, school system staff gathered community feedback and assessed the proposal’s financial implications. O’Neill said during the June 17 meeting that $21 million dollars is “impossible” for the school system, but that she wanted to keep exploring other “creative options.” The board unanimously passed O’Neill’s proposal, which calls for another report from Starr by January 2015 when board members begin their discussions on the fiscal 2016 operating budget. School board President Philip Kauffman said he wanted Starr to consider a plan the board considered in 1998 that proposed a split schedule for high schools — some high schools would start at an earlier time and other high schools would start at a later time. School board member Christopher S. Barclay said he was concerned about the estimated cost of the plan Starr had put forward. Barclay questioned, even if the County Council would agree to add the money each year, whether school start times is the right thing to spend about $21 million on. He said he supported the idea of looking into less expensive options. “While 10 million isn’t inexpensive, that seems a little more
reasonable and potentially manageable,” he said. Michael Durso, another school board member, asked school system staff why the county school system’s proposed bell times plan cost more than several plans under consideration in Fairfax County Public Schools. Starr said the school system will look further into Fairfax County’s plans and the outcome of their process to see if anything can be applied to Montgomery County schools. If Fairfax comes up with measures that would fit Montgomery schools, he said, the system would be “happy to follow suit.” O’Neill also raised the issue of the quantity of homework students get, saying the amount might contribute to students’ lack of sleep. “We need to come up with a better handle on this and give some relief on ... that end of the spectrum in addition to the actual start times,” she said. Starr said that, from casual conversations with students, he has heard that students are doing other things — like texting and tweeting — while they’re doing homework. He said that, in addition to homework quantity, he wondered whether students were also losing sleep because they weren’t focused while doing their work. lpowers@gazette.net
Drug drop box located at Gaithersburg Police station BY JENN DAVIS STAFF WRITER
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The Gaithersburg Police Department is now accepting unused or expired prescription medications at its police station year round. The box is located in the
lobby of the police station, 14 Fulks Corner Ave. Citizens can stop by from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. on any day of the week to drop off unwanted and expired medications. Solid pharmaceuticals such as pills, capsules, patches and pet medications can be
put into the box. Syringes or liquids will not be accepted. The service is completely anonymous. For more information, visit gaithersburgmd.gov or call the Gaithersburg Police Department at 301-258-6400.
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Christopher Lawrence Fleming of Olney unexpectedly passed away recently at age 55 at his home. He is survived by his mother, Jean Fleming Friedmann of Frederick and siblings Tara Anderson of NC and Paul B. Fleming and Sharon Cole of G’burg, 5 nephews and one niece as well as his stepdad Paul Friedmann and his loving family. Chris received his Pharmacy degree in 1989 from University of Maryland. Services will be held at Lakeland Community Center in Gaithersburg on Friday June 27, 2014, 5-8 for friends and family.
Obituary Shirley Ann Trout, 71, of Fulks Run, died June 20, 2014 at Sentara RMH Medical Center in Harrisonburg.
On September 29, 1962 she married Joseph L. Trout Sr. who survives. Also surviving are sons; Joseph L. Trout Jr., James Trout and wife Donna both of Fulks Run, daughter; Cindy Trout who lives at home, two grandchildren; Matthew Trout and wife Crissy, Michael Trout; two great grandchildren; Tucker and Travis, sister; Janet L. Sier of Maryland, Dorothy M. Hill of West Virginia, Julia M. Geisier of Stanley, Sandra J. Guynn of South Carolina. She was preceded in death by her sister Betty Llouella Carr. Pastor Donald Bare will conduct a funeral service 10:00 A.M. Tuesday at the Grandle Funeral Home Chapel in Broadway. Burial will follow at the Mountain Grove Cemetery in Fulks Run. The family received friends from 6-8 P.M. Monday at the Grandle Funeral Home in Broadway. Memorial contributions may be made to the Special Olympics, P.O. Box 402 Harrisonburg, VA 22803, or to the HarrisonburgRockingham Arc OPP Shop, 620 Simms Ave Harrisonburg, VA 22802. Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.GrandleFuneralHome.com.
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ROBERT H. GORE, 68, of Gaithersburg, MD passed June 18, 2014, at Casey House Hospice. He was born in Charleston, WV, on June 1, 1946, to James E. Gore, Sr. and the late Beatrice U. Gore. He grew up in the Charleston area and graduated from DuPont High School in 1964. Robert worked for Watkins Johnson for many years until his retirement in 1996. Robert was a member of The Church of the Redeemer for over 30 years, he loved the Lord and his church family. Visitation will be from 11am - 12pm, followed by a service to honor his life at The Church of Redeemer, Gaithersburg, MD on June 26, 2014 at 12 pm with Pastor Steve Homcy officiating. The burial will be at the Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Silver Spring, MD. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial donations in his name be made to Montgomery Hospice Care,1355 Piccard Drive Rockville, MD 20850.
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Nishan Karakashian (80), beloved father, passed away on June 11, 2014 in Gaithersburg, MD, where he resided for 40 years, including 8 years at Asbury Methodist Village. Known to his family and friends as Nish , he is pre-deceased by his wife of 44 years, Eleanor (Kasab) Karakashian, and is survived by his sister, three children, and four grandchildren.
Obituary John Patrick Cannon passed away suddenly on June 5th at his home in Gaithersburg, MD. Predeceased by his parents John and Mary Cannon, John was born in Albany, NY. Raised in Mumford,NY, John graduated from CaledoniaMumford Central School and went on to earn a Bachelor’s Degree from Union College in Schenectady, NY. After college John joined the US Navy where he served 4 years. John worked for many years in the civil engineering field, primarily with LS Associates, and was a longtime resident of Gaithersburg,MD. John loved Ireland (and his yearly trips there), good music, good conversation and baseball. John is survived by his brother Michael, sisters Mary Anne, Catherine and Elizabeth in addition to 3 nieces and 2 nephews and many family and friends. In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made to Doctors Without Borders or the Wounded Warrior Project. Funeral and burial services private. 1908950
Despite recently telling his caregivers he was from Mt. Ararat, Nish was actually born in 1933 in Newton, MA to Armenian parents who had escaped genocide in Turkey. He graduated from Northeastern University in 1957 as a Civil Engineer and was subsequently drafted and served two years active duty in the US Army. As a private in the Army, he graduated at the top of his class in speed radio operations, and continued to serve as a reservist, until he was honorably discharged in 1962. In 1960 he became a traffic engineer with the DC Government, and relocated to the Washington, DC area where he met his wife, Eleanor. In 1981, Nish became a computer systems analyst for the US Government Printing Office where he retired in 1997. Nish was a quiet, gentle person who was an avid amateur photographer and meteorologist. He loved baseball, hockey, gardening, classical music, and to cross-country ski. A memorial service is being planned. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Fund for Armenian Relief (FAR) at http:// donate.farusa.org Contact DeVol Funeral Home in Gaithersburg for more information. 1908949
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Summer has begun and the Red Wiggler Community Farm in Clarksburg will soon start distributing its crop of certified organic tomatoes, eggplant, sweet peppers, potatoes and Swiss chard. Unlike some local farms now selling seasonal produce at roadside stands, the nonprofit Red Wiggler sells shares in each season’s harvest to subscribers as part of its community supported agriculture program. The summer season is sold out, but there are spaces still available for the fall crop, said Executive Director and founder Woody Woodroof. Red Wiggler also sells fresh vegetables to group homes for developmentally disabled people for a nominal fee and to the Manna Food Center, based in Gaithersburg, at a discount. The farm could sell at retail but this is a way that some of the fresh produce reaches low income people, Woodroof
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From left, Program Coordinator Laura Reynolds, grower David Hession and volunteer Maria Hettel, pull weeds from around the beets at Red Wiggler Farm in Clarksburg. planners is to relocate the carousel bequeathed by the Wells family from its temporary location in Wheaton. Planners are also looking
into how to best use the vacant Oliver Watkins House at Red Wiggler farm, one of two historical houses in the park. Many residents have also
said they would welcome a community garden at Ovid Hazen Wells. “We wouldn’t run it, but we could provide program-
ming,” said Woodroof about offering classes or workshops that are consistent with developing the garden. “We could collaborate,” he said. “It’s a very exciting time, and we’re about helping the park become more accessible to everyone,” Woodroof said. About 40 percent of Red Wiggler vegetables go to nonprofits such as Community Support Services in Gaithersburg, the Jubilee Association of Maryland in Kensington, as well as to The Arc Montgomery County and the Jewish Foundation for Group Homes, both based in Rockville. “The agencies serve 100 group homes with more than 300 residents,” Woodroof said. Although it doesn’t regularly run a farm stand, Red Wiggler does participate in events for the general public, such as the annual Montgomery County farm tour scheduled for July 26. For five consecutive Thursdays beginning July 31, Red Wiggler will be selling its produce starting at 9 a.m. at the interfaith chapel in the Leisure World retirement community in Silver Spring. Red Wiggler also runs a job training program focused on farming skills for developmentally disabled people. It presently employs 16 people with disabilities who receive minimum wage or more for their part-time work while also learning life skills and teamwork. The workers, or growers, also have a chance to interact with volunteers, including local high school students who volunteer to earn their Service Learning hours. “They’ll have lunch or take a water break, and that’s how people develop friendships,” Woodroof said. Red Wiggler also offers tours of the farm to private schools in the region, including Sandy Spring Friends School and the Bullis School in Potomac. For the past two winters, Red Wiggler has worked with students from Seneca Valley High School on a pilot project to raise micro greens in the farm’s heated year-round greenhouse. Typically sprinkled on soups or salads, micro-greens are immature versions of herbs, such as basil, and vegetables, such as spinach, cabbage and peas, that typically are high in vitamins with a range of colors and flavors. Red Wiggler built its heated green house and office/activities building “so we could go year round,” Woodroof said. But now the farm has now reached a point in its evolution where it needs to do some long-range planning. “We want to look at how to better run our programs,” said Woodroof who plans to spend some time reassessing community needs while continuing to run the programs. “Are we about vocations and getting jobs or maybe creating a horticultural therapy program, where people could use gardening to develop their fine-motor skills, vocabulary, work with a team or work independently,” he said. Red Wiggler may sound like an odd name for a farm, but there’s a logic behind it, Woodroof said. Red Wigglers are underground worms that create fertile soil by eating decaying organic matter and excreting nutrients, while also digging tunnels that let in water. “They’re the unsung heroes of the garden,” Woodroof said. “They create the conditions for plants to thrive.” The farm, in turn, grows healthy food for people to eat, as well as a place that educates people about the environment and provides jobs. “We [at the farm] create conditions for people to be successful,” Woodroof said. vterhune@gazette
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Adventist HealthCare based in Gaithersburg plans to open a Centra Care center in Germantown by the end of the year, followed by centers in Rockville and Laurel in early 2015.
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Adventist HealthCare based in Gaithersburg expects to begin hiring within the next few weeks to staff the first of three new Centra Care centers in the region. The first center is scheduled to open in Germantown by the end of 2014, followed by centers in Rockville, and also Laurel in Prince George’s County, in early 2015. The new center in Germantown near the Fox Chapel shopping center will be built at the southeast corner of Frederick Road (MD 355) and Middlebrook Road on the site of a longvacant Tiger Mart gas station. Adventist plans to break ground in July for the Rockville center to be built on a vacant parking lot at 750 Rockville Pike (MD 355), which is a block north of Wootton Parkway/1st Street. The Laurel center is on a site on Route 1 north of Contee Road in Laurel. Needed will be doctors, nurses, radiologists and front desk employees, said Brandon Robertson, director of Centra Care operations. “We’ll be hiring locally,” said Robertson about the centers, officially called Centra Care, Adventist Urgent Care, which will serve residents and also local businesses and Workers’ Compensation patients. The Centra Care centers are something new for Adventist HealthCare, which has contracted with Centra Care based in Maitland, Fla., near Orlando to build the centers. Centra Care runs about two dozen centers affiliated with Florida Hospital, which is part of Adventist Health Systems. Freestanding centers that can handle non-life threatening medical problems provide a way to relieve the burden on hospital emergency rooms, where care is much more expensive, according to an Adventist press release. The number of urgent care centers is also growing around the country, partly in response the federal Affordable Care Act, which will insure more people, according to the Washington Business Journal. Robertson said the new Centra Care centers will be a way for Adventist HealthCare to broaden its reach locally in a competitive environment. One of the county’s largest employers, Adventist HealthCare operates hospitals in Takoma Park and Rockville, as well as the Adventist Emergency Center west of Interstate 270 on Germantown Road (MD 118) less than three miles from the new Centra Care site. The records of anyone treated at a Centra Care center will be entered into the Adventist HealthCare system, making it quicker and easier to use the network’s hospitals and other services in Montgomery County. “It connects people with Adventist, and their medical records follow them,” Robertson said. Competing with the Germantown Centra Care will be the existing Righttime Medical Care office in the Fox Chapel shopping center. Based in Crofton in Anne Arundel County, Righttime also runs centers in Gaithersburg, Rockville and Olney, according to its website. Due to open in the area in October is the new Holy Cross Germantown hospital on Mid-
dlebrook Road east of I-270 on part of the Montgomery College Germantown campus. The walk-in and by-appointment Centra Care centers will be open seven days a week during the day and evening. They will accept most major insurance, private pay or self-insurance plans and also payment upfront with credit card, cash or check, Robertson said. The centers will work with patients who can’t immediately afford to pay, he said. Medical staff will diagnose and treat non-life threatening injuries and illnesses for patients six months and older, Robertson said. Staff will have access to onsite lab work and X-rays and will also provide physicals and immunizations. Conditions for treatment
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Last year, Bethesda’s Katie Ledecky, 17, stunned the world when she broke two world records at the FINA World Aquatic Championships at age 16. There, the two-time All-Met Swimmer of the Year blazed the two world records in five days in Barcelona, Spain. She needed one fewer day to match that feat at a midseason invitational outside Houston this weekend. “I knew I was swimming well, but I didn’t realize until I touched how much faster I was here than in Barcelona,” Ledecky said. “I’d still a bit stunned from this whole weekend. It’s a great feeling.” Ledecky tore down her own world record in the 1,500-meter freestyle Thursday night. She followed up that performance by shattering the world record in the 800 freestyle, also hers, Sunday at the Woodlands Swim Team Senior Invitational in Shenandoah, Texas. For Ledecky, this most recent world record — her fourth in less than a year — feels like the first all over again. “I think I may have reacted more here than in Barcelona,” Ledecky said. “There weren’t really any expectations this weekend, but going a best time is always good, right?”
Ledecky, a rising senior at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, touched in a time of 8 minutes 11.00 seconds to shave nearly two seconds off the previous record of 8:13.86, set last year at the FINA World Championships in Barcelona. This came just days after shattering the 1,500 freestyle world mark by 2.3 seconds. According to Ledecky, neither record was expected. “I sort of had it in the back of mind that [breaking the record] was a possibility after the 1,500, but never really let that into my head leading up to the race” said Ledecky, who spent 18 days training at altitude with the Nation’s Capital Swim Club at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., before this meet. “I just tried to swim my own race and not to let the crowd influence me too much.” That’s easier said than done when the capacity crowd has seen a world record set just days earlier. “I could really hear the crowd on the back half of the race, so I knew I was at least close to record pace,” Ledecky said. Coach Bruce Gemmell “and I don’t really communicate during the race, but I could see him waving his arms on deck. He does that when he’s excited, which keeps me at least aware of what’s going on.” Ledecky, who last month committed to swim for Stanford University, swam the back half of her race 0.3 second faster than her first half – which is almost unheard of at this level and points to even faster swims
once she’s rested and tapered. Ledecky now owns three of the four fastest times in the history of the event. The next fastest swimmer ever is Rebecca Adlington of the U.K., who set the world record during her gold medal performance at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Ledecky beat Adlington for the gold at the London Olympics in 2012. Later Sunday, Ledecky won the 100 freestyle in a time of 56.02. It was her seventh individual victory of the meet. In total, she swam 5,300 meters in four days, which is just 100 shy of her total in Barcelona last summer. “It was a pretty tough weekend after 18 days at altitude, but I had a lot of fun swimming different events,” Ledecky said. “I swam the 400 individual medley for the first time in three years and I dropped almost 17 seconds.” For the record, Janet Evans, the previous queen of American distance swimming, won gold in the 400 individual medley in 1988. Could this be the next step in her already illustrious swimming career? “I don’t know about that,” Ledecky said with an amused chuckle. “My current load is more than enough right now. I think I’ll stick to free.” Up next, Ledecky plans to swim an abbreviated schedule at the Potomac Valley Swimming Long Course Championship July 17-20 at the University of Maryland, College Park. That will be her last tune-up before the U.S. Nationals in Irvine, Calif., Aug. 6-10.
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The new county park currently under construction near the BlackRock Center for the Arts and the Germantown library off Century Boulevard will include a pond, interpretive trails and boardwalks, lighting, overlook terraces, a pavilion for events, and enhanced wetland areas. The park is due to open in late 2014 or early 2015. PHOTOS BY VIRGINIA TERHUNE
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Some of the best golfers on Earth will tee off at Bethesda’s Congressional Country Club on Thursday morning, for the first round of the Quicken Loans National, and James Saratis again will be there to watch. Two years ago, the recent graduate of Rockville’s Richard Montgomery High School and former varsity golf team captain stood just feet from a former topranked player in the world. “He was on the first tee box, and I was right in the front, so I was almost in his face,” he said. “That was the first time I saw Tiger Woods.” Yet the front-row spot at the tournament — then called the AT&T National — wasn’t the closest the Rockville native would get to the action. Last year, he earned a place in the event’s annual pro-am tournament. “I’ve been going to that tour-
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Daniel Son (left), 8, of Rockville watches his shot as he practices hitting balls during The First Tee golf program for children at Needwood Golf Course in Derwood on Monday. nament since I was a kid,” said Saratis, 18, “and I was always on the other side of the ropes. “I was really nervous,” he recalled. “When we came up there were these really nice cars, and caddies — I’ve never had a caddie before.” In a sport in which high course fees and expensive equip-
ment often limit kids’ access, Saratis took advantage of a youth program: The First Tee of St. Augustine, Fla., a nonprofit that promotes youth golfing across the country. He first attended a summer camp at Laytonsville Golf Course when he was 7, although the program typically is offered only to golfers at least a year older. He had already been accompanying his father to golf courses, he said, because his family couldn’t afford a baby sitter, and coaches were impressed with his swing. The organization, which provides after-school and summer golf instruction for kids around the world, sets up participants with donated equipment and helps with fees. “When I started out, they provided me with an entire set of clubs,” Saratis said. “I came here with my dad’s iron, and it was way too long for me, and I was playing with it anyway because we couldn’t afford clubs.” The First Tee also allowed him free balls for the driving range and took care of his course fees. Equipment and finances come from donations and several sponsors, including the Tiger Woods Foundation, which benefits from the Quicken Loans National tournament. Last year, the foundation donated 50,000 copies of a swing tracking and analysis app, which costs $9.99 through Apple’s App Store, for coaches and players in the organization to use. Adam Fishman, The First Tee’s PGA assistant professional at Needwood Golf Course in Derwood — or “Coach Adam,” on the course — said the program gives more kids the chance to play golf competitively. “There are a number of participants who would not have access to the game of golf without The First Tee,” Fishman said. “It’s a hard sport, and it’s an expensive sport,” Saratis said. The sport is seeing a decline in interest around the country. Americans played 4.9 percent fewer rounds of golf in 2013 than the year before, according to the National Golf Federation. The percentage of sports fans calling golf their favorite sport has steadily fallen, from 6 percent in 1997 to 2 percent in 2012, according to Harris Interactive polls. A key focus of The First Tee, Fishman said, is to use golf as a vehicle to teach other life skills. Samantha Subin of Rockville, a volunteer with the program, said the organization, and golf in general, help teach kids the importance of not giving up. “I like the values [The First Tee] teaches kids,” she said. “Just to persevere when things get tough.” Fishman said learning golf is particularly valuable for girls, because it can help professional women network or meet clients. “If you know how to play, it opens up new opportunities,” he said. The coaches try to introduce the sport to new golfers through casual mini-games. Alex Yu, 8, joined the program Monday and enjoyed a makeshift putting contest. “I like this course the best,” Alex said, pointing toward the practice putting green, where buoyant pool noodles formed the boundaries of different holes.
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Right now the 45-acre tract near the Shady Grove Metro Station near the Gaithersburg/ Rockville boundary is home to the county’s school bus maintenance yard, bus parking lot and training center, as well as Montgomery Park’s maintenance yard. But later this summer the county’s Department of General Services will pick a developer to convert the tract on the east side of Crabbs Branch Way into a residential complex to be called Jeremiah Park that will include 345 townhouses, 344 apartments, a new elementary school and a four-acre park. Proposals for developing the site are due to the county’s Department of General Services by July 1, according to the department’s Request for Proposal (RFP) issued in January. Ten percent of the residential units in Jeremiah Park must be work force housing units and 15 percent, Moderately Priced Dwelling Units (MPDUs), according the RFP. The developer that is chosen will meet with the local community, which includes residents of Park Overlook and Mallard Cove, before submitting a site plan, wrote Area 2 planner Nkosi Yearwood in an email on Monday. The Jeremiah Park project is a piece of the overall plan to relocate the government main-
tenance and driver training facilities from what has been the County Service Park on both sides of Crabb Branch Way. The facilities will be moved over the next few years to the Montgomery County Multi Agency Service Park, the socalled Webb tract, now under construction east of Snouffer School Road and north of Centerway in Gaithersburg. The overall idea behind the shift is to clear the way for construction of high-density housing near Metro stations to save residents commuting time and to help relieve the heavy car traffic on county roads. The county expects to have a development agreement or a purchase and sale agreement in place by early fall 2014, with the site cleared for the new housing by 2017, according to the RFP. Meanwhile, a 45-acre tract on the west side of Crabbs Branch Way, to be known as Shady Grove Station-Westside, is already being developed by EYA of Bethesda. EYA is expected to break ground later this year to begin building 1,114 apartments, 407 townhouses and more than 40,000 square feet of retail space, setting aside space for a new county library. That complex is expected to have 211 MPDUs and 116 workforce housing units. For more information about the overall development and relocation plan, visit montgomeryplanning.org/community/ shadygrove. vterhune@gazette.net
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Shebra Evans and Jill Ortman-Fouse likely will face off in November for a Montgomery County school board seat after grabbing the most votes in Tuesday’s primary election, according to incomplete and unofficial numbers from the Montgomery County Board of Elections. With 140 precincts reporting, Ortman-Fouse, whose school experience includes PTA and advocacy roles, received
BOARD OF EDUCATION AT LARGE Nonpartisan, top two advance:
Jill Ortman-Fouse 12,660 Shebra Evans 12,422 Edward Amatetti 7,424 Merry Eisner-Heidorn 5,143 48.8% OF PRECINCTS REPORTING; RESULTS ARE UNOFFICIAL
about 33.98 percent of the vote. Evans, who has held leadership positions in the county PTA, received about 32.61 percent of the vote. As the top two vote recipients in the non-partisan race, they will advance to the general election.
Ortman-Fouse’s platform has included a focus on growing Montgomery County Public Schools’ community partnerships and improved responsiveness to community members voicing concern and input. “It feels really good to know that my campaign’s message resonated with so many people in our wonderful community,” Ortman-Fouse said. In her campaign, Evans said she wanted to expand opportunities that teach students job skills and to direct more resources to new and existing initiatives to help close the achievement gap. Evans could not be reached for comment Tuesday evening. Ortman-Fouse and Evans were among four candidates
running for the at-large school board seat. Edward Amatetti, who taught in the county school system for seven years, received about 19.76 percent of the vote. Merry Eisner-Heidorn, who has experience working in the county PTA and school system work groups, received about 13.65 percent. The general election — which will fall on Nov. 4. — will include contests for four board of education seats. In addition to the at-large seat race, three school board incumbents will be vying to keep their positions. lpowers@gazette.net
Outsiders kept out in sheriff, court races Meiklejohn, Popkin lead; Connell losing judge race
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Incumbents and an heir apparent held off their challengers in Montgomery County’s Democratic primary races for court clerk, sheriff and circuit court judge Tuesday. Deputy Clerk Barbara H. Meiklejohn was leading the Democratic nomination for clerk of the circuit court with 61.2 percent of the vote over Alan Bowser as The Gazette went to press. Meiklejohn would face no Republican oppposition and succeed her boss,
SHERIFF Democrats:
Darren M. Popkin 24,373 Tom Falcinelli Jr. 13,434
CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE (TOP 4 ADVANCE) Joan E. Ryon 34,877 Audrey A. Creighton 32,638
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Gary E. Bair 29,597
Barbara H. Meiklejohn 23,350 Alan Bowser 14,706 Loretta Knight, who declined to seek re-election. Sheriff Darren M. Popkin appeared headed for a second term. With 158 of 255 precincts reporting, he had 64.8 percent of the vote, leading Tom Falci-
Daniel P. Connell 24,517 161 OF 255 PRECINCTS REPORTING; RESULTS ARE UNOFFICIAL
nelli Jr., whom Popkin beat in the 2010 Democratic primary. No Republican is running. Daniel P. Connell appeared to be eliminated from the nonpartisan race for circuit court judge, with incumbents Joan E.
Ryon, Audrey A. Creighton, Nelson W. Rupp Jr. and Gary E. Bair all leading. The four will face no opposition in the general election. Connell led all candidates among Republican voters, but received just 16.1 percent of the total vote in the overall five-way race. Unapposed primary winners include incumbent Register of Wills Joseph M. Griffin (D), who will face no general election challenger, and state’s attorney candidates Dan Gaskill (R) and incumbent John McCarthy (D), who will face each other this fall.
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Incumbents take commanding leads BY BRITTANY CHENG SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
Each incumbent U.S. congressman — Reps. John Sarbanes, John Delaney and Chris Van Hollen — is ahead in his party’s primary in his district today, as of 11 p.m. Tuesday. In the District 3 race, Sarbanes is leading with 20,460 votes over Matthew Molyett, who has received 3,498 votes, for the Democratic nomination. Meanwhile Charles A. Long, at 2,598 votes, has a slight edge over Thomas E. Harris, who is chipping away at Long’s lead at 2,501 votes, and Michael Jackson, who has 933 votes, for a tight race among Republicans in District 3. For Republicans in District 6, Dan Bongino was ahead of Harold W. Painter Jr. with 13,249 votes to Painter’s 2,687. In District 8, Van Hollen led the Democrats with 25,747 votes, good for 90.3 percent, and was beating
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Chris Van Hollen - 25,747
Thomas E. Harris 2,501
George English - 1,846
Michael Jackson 933
Lih Young - 915 RESULTS ARE UNOFFICIAL
challengers George English, who has 1,846 votes, and Lih Young, at 915 votes. In Montgomery County, 546 absentee ballots were requested for District 3, 1,411 ballots were requested in District 6, and 3,691 ballots were requested for District 8, as of 8:30 p.m. today.
tiously optimistic about it, but we feel pretty good about where we are.” Surrounded by supporters Tuesday evening at his campaign headquarters in Silver Spring, Leggett waited to declare victory, but he congratulated his opponents on running strong
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and Guled Kassim trailed the field with 1,691 and 241 votes, respectfully. However, as of 8:30 p.m., 7,755 absentee ballots had been issued in Montgomery County, of which 1,421 were issued in District 3.
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races. Duncan and Andrews pulled few punches in the weeks leading up to the June 24 primary, calling into question Leggett’s claims of job growth, county spending and the county’s handling of the Silver Spring Transit Center. Cautiously optimistic about his early lead, Katz said he was grateful for the support of voters as he carefully watched the results roll in. “I’m most thankful and humbled for the support we’ve received,” he said. “I’m looking forward to working with everyone.” Katz said he ran a positive campaign, much as he has in
Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown and former Ehrlich adminstration official Larry Hogan were leading their primaries Tuesday night. Brown was leading Attorney General Douglas Gansler 53 percent to 23 percent. Del. Heather Mizeur had 21 percent. In the unofficial results, Hogan had 41 percent, compared with Harford County Executive David Craig’s 30 percent, Charles County businessman Charles Lollar’s 16 percent and Anne Arundel Del. Ron George’s 12 percent. In the general election, primary winners will also face Libertarian Shawn Quinn, and running mate Lorenzo Gaztanaga. In the Democratic primary of the attorney general race, state Sen. Brian E. Frosh (D-Dist. 16) was beating Del. Jon Cardin and Delegate Aisha Braveboy (D-Dist. 25). Frosh had 47 percent, Cardin had 31 percent and Braveboy had 21 percent. In November the winner faces Republican Jeffrey N. Pritzker and Libertarian Leo Wayne Dymowski, who were unopposed in the primary.
vice organization. Simmons, an attorney who lives in Rockville, has served in the House since 2003 as a Democrat, after serving one term from 1979 to 1983 as a liberal Republican. He considered running for Senate four years ago, but decided against it after Forehand said she would run for re-election. The Simmons’ campaign said Tuesday evening it would not release a statement until the election results are final. If Kagan wins, she will face Steve Zellers, a Gaithersburg Republican, in the November general election. Simmons’ decision to run for the Senate left two
Leggett held strong to his position that the county has not just survived but thrived under his eight years of leadership. He said his campaign worked to give voters a chance to examine the record and compare what the candidates offered. However, this election and the past, and that his was a campaign that voters in District 3 respected. The District 3 seat became open when Councilman Philip M. Andrews (D) declared that he would run for county executive. Katz looks to join all four current Democratic at-large incumbents — Marc B. Elrich, George L. Leventhal, Hans
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Anthony G. Brown, with Ken Ulman 131,882 Doug Gansler, with Jolene Ivey 59,627 Heather Mizeur, with Delman Coates 54,039 Charles U. Smith, with Clarence Tucker 1,999 Cindy A. Walsh, with Mary Elizabeth Wingate-Pennacchia 3,886 Ralph Jaffe, with Freda Jaffe 1,721 Republicans:
Larry Hogan, with Boyd Rutherford 57,275 David R. Craig, with Jeannie Haddaway 42,647 Charles Lollar, with Ken Timmerman 21,135 Ron George, with Shelley Aloi 16,722
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Brian E. Frosh 122,079 Jon S. Cardin 79,952 Aisha Braveboy 51,685 Republicans:
Jeffrey N. Pritzker 113,592 57.6% OF PRECINCTS REPORTING; RESULTS ARE UNOFFICIAL
incumbent delegates and four challengers running for three delegate slots in District 17. Incumbent Kumar P. Barve, of Gaithersburg, led with 26 percent of the vote with 25 of 33 precincts reporting. He has been a delegate since 1991 and Democratic majority leader since 2003. He is the chief financial officer for Rockville-based Environmental Management Services Inc. Second was Andrew Platt with 20.73 percent of the vote. Platt is a Gaithersburg resident and political novice who has most recently worked on Capitol Hill for the House Democratic Caucus. Third was Rockville native and incumbent James W. Gilchrist, with 20.68 percent of the vote. Gilchrist has
served in the House since 2007. He is treasurer on the board of the Potomac Area Council of Hostelling International-USA. With 154 fewer votes than Gilchrist was Susan Hoffmann, a former Rockville mayor and councilwoman, with 19.28 percent. Hoffman ran unsuccessfully for the House of Delegates in 1990. Laurie-Anne Sayles and George Zamora, both Gaithersburg Democrats, earned 10 percent and 3 percent of the vote, respectively. The District 17 House race has no Republican challengers. There were 786 absentee ballots requested in the race as of 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to Montgomery County Board of Elections. jedavis@gazette.net
the one in November are about the future, he said. Leggett said his opponents were “very spirited candidates who offered some very promising ideas for the future” but voters could see his leadership through very difficult times, the promises on which he delivered,
and his vision for the future. The winner of the Democratic primary will face Republican Jim Shalleck in the Nov. 4 general election.
Riemer and Nancy Floreen — on the council. At-large challengers activist Beth Daly and central committeewoman Vivian Malloy trailed the incumbents for the Democratic nomination with 140 precincts reporting Tuesday. Daly was close, only 2,866 votes behind Leventhal with 140 precincts reporting.
The top four Democratic votegetters in the at-large race advance to the Nov. 4 general election where they will face Republicans Robert Dyer, Chris P. Fiotes Jr., Adol T. Owen-Williams II and Shelly Skolnick. Katz will run unopposed in the Nov. 4 general election.
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Officials want service to connect to Shady Grove Metro BY JENN DAVIS STAFF WRITER
The wheels are still turning in regards to talk about a potential bus circulator service in Gaithersburg as city officials hope to find a travel solution that would better connect people to workplaces, activity centers and transit stations. The National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board last summer approved a $45,000
grant for the city to conduct a feasibility study on the bus system. Nelson Nygaard, the San Francisco, Calif., consulting firm that completed the study, presented the findings at Monday’s Mayor and Council meeting. Rob Robinson, the city’s lead long-range planner, said the study’s scope focused on providing a service route that travels east and west through the city since there are already four Ride On routes and several future planned transit projects that have north/south service routes to Shady Grove Metro Station. “Currently, right now on the
The next step is for city staff to begin exploring a possible new study ... books all we have is one Ride On route going east/west,” he said. The first option is to have an 8.4-mile “full loop” circulator, meaning that buses would be traveling clockwise and counter-clockwise along the route.
Running on weekdays only for 15 hours per day, the circulator would come with an estimated yearly operating cost of just over $1 million. A second choice is to have an “out-and-back” circulator, where buses would service a 6-mile route between Metropolitan Grove and Olde Towne, and come back the same way they went. It would carry an estimated operating cost of $757,000 annually. The third alternative involves making modifications to Ride On bus service by rerouting three existing lines to provide better coverage to vari-
ous parts of the city. The estimated annual operating cost is $491,000. After hearing the presentation, several members of the council expressed their desire to see more transit hubs, like Shady Grove Metro Station, be incorporated into the circulator’s route to more easily bring people into Gaithersburg. None of the options presented were chosen. Councilwoman Cathy Drzyzgula said if the circulator route does not stop at major transit hubs, like the Shady Grove Metro, it could result in lower ridership since travelers
from outside of the city would not be able to connect to it directly. “If you don’t live and work in the city, you have to take some other means of transportation to get to the circulator,” she said. Councilman Mike Sesma said that he agreed with Drzyzgula but that the city should also encourage public input to find out exactly what residents want and would use. Robinson said the next step is for city staff to begin exploring a possible new study that would build upon the current one. jedavis@gazette.net
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Christian Zimmerman of Rockville and Yisleni Beatriz Zurita Navarro of Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela, were married on May 19, 2014. Christian’s parents are Laurence and Mirta Zimmerman and Yisleni’s parents are Ramon Zurita and Eunices Navarro.
ONGOING Agape African Methodist Episcopal Church, 7700 Brink Road,
Gaithersburg, conducts Sunday morning worship service at 11 a.m. Sunday School is at 10 a.m. Communion celebration on first Sundays, men leading worship on second Sundays, youth leading worship on third Sundays. “You’ll Get Through This” Bible Study from 7-8 p.m. Wednesdays. 301924-8640; www.agapeamec.org.
Damascus United Methodist Church, 9700 New Church St., Da-
mascus, offers traditional Sunday morning worship services at 8:15 a.m., a youth contemporary worship service at 9:30 a.m. and a service of liturgy and the word at 11 a.m. with Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. for all ages during the school year. www.damascusumc.org. Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 7730 Bradley Blvd., Bethesda, offers services at 8:30 and 11 a.m. each Sunday, with Sunday School for all ages scheduled at 10 a.m. Child care is offered from 8:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. A fellowship and coffee hour follows the 8:30 a.m. service. 301-365-5733, www. elcbethesda.org.
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Hughes United Methodist Church, 10700 Georiga Ave.,
Wheaton, offers an informal Sunday morning worship service at 9 a.m., followed by a traditional worship service at 10:30 a.m. Child care is available from 9 a.m. to noon. Hospitality time is at 9:45 a.m. in the Garden Entrance. El Buen Samaritano offers a Spanish service at Noon. Communion is Celebrated the first Sunday of the month. For more information, call 301-949-8383. Visit www. HughesUMC.org. Kemptown United Methodist Church, 3716 Kemptown Church
Road, Monrovia, conducts a contemporary service at 8 a.m. followed by a traditional service at 9:30 a.m. Sunday mornings, with children’s Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. and adult Sunday school at 11 a.m. For more information, call 301-253-1768. Visit www. kemptownumc.org. Liberty Grove United Methodist Church, 15225 Old Columbia
Pike, Burtonsville, conducts Sunday morning worship services at 8:30, 9:30 and 11 a.m. Sunday school, nursery through adult, is at 9:30 a.m. 301-421-9166. For a schedule of events, visit www.
libertygrovechurch.org. “MOPS,” a faith-based support group for mothers of children, birth through kindergarten, meets from 9-11:30 a.m. the first and third Wednesdays of the month at the Frederick Church of the Brethren, 201 Fairview Drive, Frederick. Child care is provided. For more information call 301662-1819. Email mops@fcob.net. Neelsville Presbyterian Church, 20701 Frederick Road,
Germantown, offers services at 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Sunday mornings, with Sunday School for all ages at 9:40 a.m. Neelsville Presbyterian Church announces a new preschool partnership. Damascus Community Preschool is moving to Neelsville Presbyterian, 20701 Frederick Road, Germantown. Classes to begin in the fall. For sign-up and other information, www.neelsville. org/#/preschool-grand-openingProvidence. Trinity Lutheran Church, 11200 Old Georgetown Road, North Bethesda, conducts services every Sunday, with child care from 8 a.m. to noon and fellowship and a coffee hour following each service. Call 301-881-
Chancel choir auditions and rehearsals, 7:30 p.m. Thursdays
at Liberty Grove Methodist Church, 15225 Old Columbia Pike, Burtonsville. Call 301-4219166 or visit www.libertygrovechurch.org. “Healing for the Nations,” 7 p.m. every first and third Saturday of the month at South Lake Elementary School, 18201 Contour Road, Gaithersburg. Sponsored by King of the Nations Christian Fellowship, the outreach church service is open to all who are looking for hope in this uncertain world. Prayer for healing available. Translation into Spanish and French. Call 301-251-3719. Visit www.kncf.org. Geneva Presbyterian Church, potluck lunches at 11:30 a.m. the second Sunday of each month at 11931 Seven Locks Road, Potomac. There is no fee to attend. All are welcome to bring a dish to share; those not bringing dishes are also welcome. Call 301-4244346.
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Kathryn Strider of Jefferson City, Mo., and James William “Bill” Strider of Gaithersburg announce the marriage of their daughter, Erin Elizabeth Strider, to Andrew Kenneth Roynestad, son of Kenneth and Linda Roynestad of Gaithersburg. The couple were married on Oct. 20, 2013, at the Windmill Winery in Florence, Ariz., with a reception following at the winery. The bride was attended by her two sisters, Meredith and Mallory Strider, and her brother, Kirby Strider. The groom was attended by his sister, Emily Roynestad, and Jason Bayer and Paul Sgueo. The couple honeymooned on the Big Island of Hawaii. They reside in Phoenix.
THURSDAY, JUNE 26 Your Arch Enemy, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. at Rockville Senior Center, 1150 Carnation Dr., Rockville. Learn about common problems that can affect your mobility and comfort from podiatrist, Dr. Danielle Venegonia. Get your questions answered about bunions, hammertoes, fungus and corns. Discussion will also include the importance of foot hygiene and proper shoes. Free. suburbanhospital.org.
TUESDAY, JULY 1 Pre-operative Joint Class, from 9:30 a.m. to noon at Suburban Hospital, 8600 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda. For patients scheduled for joint replacement surgery or directed by their surgeon to attend prior to scheduling. You and your family member (or designated “Coach”) will learn about pre-operative preparation and post-operative care. Free. www.suburbanhospital.org. Nutrition One on One, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Suburban Hospital Lambert Bldg, Second
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Floor, 8710 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda. A registered and licensed dietitian will conduct a thorough health evaluation and create personalized nutrition and exercise strategy to meet your specific health concerns. $70. 301-896-3939 to register.
TUESDAY, JULY 8 Community CPR, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Suburban Hospital Lambert Bldg, Second Floor, 8710 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda. Learn to respond effectively in emergencies. Appropriate for young adults, nannies, au-pairs, lifeguards, and preschool teachers. Class includes Infant, Child, and Adult CPR. Credential course, CPR certification provided. Feel free to bring a light snack. $75. suburbanhospital.org. Breastfeeding Basics, from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, 18101 Prince Philip Dr., Olney. This course is designed to offer advice and support for breastfeeding mothers. A lactation specialist will discuss topics on the health-related benefits of breastfeeding, practical techniques, and
breast-feeding at work. $30. 301774-8881; medstarhealth.org.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 9 Complete Childbirth Preparation, beginning July 9 from 7 p.m.
to 9:30 p.m. at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, 18101 Prince Philip Dr., Olney. Our sixweek Complete Childbirth Preparation program prepares couples for a positive birthing experience. The program is designed to help expectant couples plan for labor, delivery, and how to care for a newborn. It includes sessions on breastfeeding and infant care as well as the birthing process and a tour of the Labor & Delivery Unit. Topics covered include: breathing and relaxation techniques, signs of labor, pain intervention, recovery, and what to expect postpartum. You will need a 75 cm exercise ball, two pillows and a floor mat. Couples should plan to attend a class that begins early in the third trimester. $150. 301774-8881; medstarhealth.org.
THURSDAY, JULY 10 Nothing to Sneeze At, from
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2 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Friendship Heights Community Center, 4433 S. Park Ave., Chevy Chase. Have you been dealing with the irritating effects of allergies? Providing helpful tips on surviving allergy season, Dr. Heidi Isenberg-Feig, allergist with Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, will describe the different diagnosis of a runny nose in seniors, as well as other issues occurring in older adults such as allergic reactions to certain foods and medications. Free. suburbanhospital.org
SATURDAY, JULY 12 Babysitting Plus CPR, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on July 12 and July 19, MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, 18101 Prince Philip Dr., Olney. Babysitting Plus CPR prepares youth with the training every parent wants, including safety, childcare, safe play, first aid and CPR certification. Two-day class for ages 12 to 15. Includes babysitting basics and two-year CPR certification. $65. 301-774-8881; medstarhealth.org.
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Goodbye, Dale Music
When the community loses a business, particularly one that’s been in the neighborhood for more than 60 years, a little part of us is lost as well. That’s how it feels with the loss of Dale Music in Silver Spring. Owner Carol Warden took over the store that her parents, David and Rhoda Barchuk, started in 1950. In some ways, the store is a throwback to that era — shelves of sheet music and an employee, 73-year-old Ed Hardy, who can track down what you’re looking for, even if all you can do is hum a bit of the melody. Dale Music is one more instance of how the Internet has changed the way we shop for music. “I don’t think there will ever be another Dale Music. People don’t shop like that anymore,” Warden said. Internet retailing has claimed many local book stores. Record shops are few and far between. Even the big chains are suffering. Soon, Dale Music will shut its doors for good. There’s a special Sunday sale on June 29, and she hopes to be out of the store by July, selling not just her merchandise, but her shelves and cabinets, too. Warden told our Silver Spring reporter Aline Barros that she’s looking forward to retirement and travel. We’ll miss her shop.
Green Bethesda
For years, some have argued environmental policies kill jobs and others have insisted the policies create jobs. Lyn DeWitt of Bethesda is evidence of the latter. Her company, Solar Mowing, is proving entrepreneurship and an eye for the ecological can go hand in hand. She uses electric mowers, powered by solar panels, to mow her customers’ lawns. And her company is growing: Launched in 2009, Solar Mowing now has six mowers, eight trimmers, three trucks ENVIRONMENTALISM with solar panels and a dozen employees. TAKING ROOT She’s just one sign of the environmental consciousness that has taken root in Montgomery County, particularly Bethesda. Bethesda Green, a public-private partnership that promotes sustainability, houses an incubator for a number of companies among its initiatives. One of the companies is Altenera Technology, which is developing a method of converting wind energy into electricity, without rotating parts. Another is Sustainable Systems International, which makes solarpowered chillers for large companies that collect milk from dairy farms. The organization also is spearheading an effort to build rooftop gardens in downtown Bethesda. Working with architects and structural engineers, Bethesda Green envisions a network of gardens that could supply restaurants with local produce. The gardens also would help control stormwater. Soon, environmental policies could be infused into the streets of Bethesda. Planners are considering the notion of an “ecodistrict,” which incorporates sustainable policies and practices, as they update the Bethesda Downtown Plan. It would include things like more energy-efficient buildings and more pedestrian-friendly shopping districts. Although county planners already think in these terms, planner Elza Hisel-McCoy told Gazette reporter Elizabeth Waibel that ecodistricts form a set of standards that help staff think about sustainability in a structured way. “This is the first plan that we’ve used the ecodistrict as sort of a structure for the recommendations to really focus explicitly on economic, social and environmental sustainability,” Hisel-McCoy said of the Bethesda plan. Bethesda might not answer the larger question of what effect green policies have on the economy, but the community is answering the smaller question that businesses can thrive in that environment.
Brown defeats Gansler When the Gazette poo-bahs moved my weekly column from the Friday Gazette to the Wednesday Gazette my deadline shifted from Thursdays to Mondays. That’s fine except for when an election takes place in between my deadline (Monday) and my publication date (Wednesday). No smart columnist would try analyzing an election that hasn’t happened yet. On the other hand, if people can vote before Election Day (early voting), what’s wrong with analyzing its outcome before Election Day (early writing). So, here’s my analysis of how, tomorrow, Anthony Brown defeated Doug Gansler by a (fill in the blank) margin. Here’s how Brown won:
Timing In 2011 the Maryland legislature switched the primary election from September to June compressing the campaign from five months to two. Brown and Gansler adopted opposite strategies: Brown launched an early campaign (May 2013) and, just as important, quickly converted a likely opponent, Ken Ulman, into his running mate. Gansler chose to delay his launch giving Brown a big head start, undercutting Gansler’s perception as front-runner and adding to his difficulty finding a running mate. Choosing to delay was a judgment call that worked for Larry Hogan in the Republican primary but not for Gansler.
Ganslergate Just as Gansler was beginning to mobilize, he was hit (no coincidence) by revelations (some withheld for months) of his questionable conduct ranging from his state troopers to an Ocean City teen drinking party. That’s how he was introduced to the voters and he never fully recovered. According to a June Washington Post poll, 27 percent of Dem voters said those images were a major factor in their vote. In comparison, only 28 percent of Dems said Brown’s role in Maryland’s Obamacare website fiasco was a major factor. Wow, a $200 million web site disaster and a teenage drinking party have equal impact, what a world.
Brown’s Teflon The O’Malley/ Brown administration suffered two big flubs in 2013, and Brown escaped blame for both. In April the feds busted the Baltimore Brown city jail because it was being run by the Black Guerrilla Family, not by the state corrections department. Then, in October, Maryland’s much ballyhooed Obamacare website crashed, a national embarrassment. Gansler In both cases the Democratic state legislature protected Brown by deferring investigations until after the election or blaming others. Likewise, a friendly media held Brown blameless. The Baltimore Sun refused to Mizeur endorse attorney general candidate Jon Cardin because, when charged with malfeasance “his immediate response was to dodge questions and avoid accountability.” Yet, a week later, the Sun endorsed Brown excusing his website mismanagement by saying “The buck stops with Gov. Martin O’Malley, not Mr. Brown.” Huh?
Contented Democrats No Maryland lieutenant governor has succeeded to the governor’s office because, in most cases, voters are sick of the administration. In 1978 it was Marvin Mandel’s criminal conviction, in 2002 it was Parris Glendening’s personal life scandals and widespread unpopularity. But, this election, Brown benefited from running in a closed Democratic primary where most Dems were happy with the O’Malley record.
The black vote Maryland’s black vote was always Brown’s ace in the hole. Only three states have a higher black population percentage than Maryland (30 percent) and in our closed Dem primary blacks constitute as much as 40 percent of the vote. The June Post poll gave Brown a 23-point lead over Gansler (46 percent to 23 percent) but strictly along racial lines. Gansler led Brown among white Dems, 30 percent to 27 percent, but got swamped among black Dems, 57 percent to 12 percent. Election over. And white and black Dems split dramatically on every qualification question: which candidate is the better manager, will handle taxes better, handle job creation better, health care, crime? In every instance, whites picked Gansler, blacks picked Brown. They even split on the most important issue: whites said taxes, 32 percent, blacks said education, 31 percent. Only 11 percent of blacks picked taxes as the top issue. Other factors were in play. Heather Mizeur’s candidacy pushed Brown to the left: decriminalization of pot, opposed to estate tax reform, big spending programs. And Brown made some mistakes like skipping debates. But, in the end, it was Brown’s election to lose, and he didn’t. In the 1948 presidential election Tom Dewey, like Brown, had a commanding lead in the polls and was the prohibitive favorite to beat Harry Truman. On Election Day, the Chicago Daily Tribune, facing a printers strike, went to press early before the polls closed. The Trib’s first edition, 150,000 copies, ran a banner headline, “Dewey Defeats Truman,” that a grinning Truman held aloft after his victory capturing one of American politics most iconic moments. If, somehow, Doug Gansler upsets Anthony Brown, this column’s headline should come in handy. 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.
LETTERS TOT HE EDITOR
Storage facility fight illustrates city dysfunction
Time to ban lawn chemicals I thought those bright yellow cards on some of my neighbors’ lawns were a one-time occurrence. Turns out their pesticide (poison) application is a fairly frequent deal — much to the detriment of the kids, dogs, birds and other beings unable to discern the danger of trodding on or near their grass. What a shame we all have to be exposed to these harmful products for the sake of an artificial-looking, emerald green, chemical-laden lawn — before they end up in the the Chesapeake Bay, that is. Time to ban this stuff and enjoy natural green lawns and a cleaner environment instead.
Frank J. Finver, Bethesda
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The ezStorage facility has not just united the Maryvale PTA, it has lit in a spark in the East Rockville Neighborhood [“Storage concerns unite Maryvale PTA,” June 18]. This storage facility and our community’s opposition to it, is another symptom of the systemic dysfunction within the City Planning Department, the city staff and elected officials complete dis-regard for city residents. I started the petition online because as the parent of a 2-year-old who will attend Maryvale, I felt compelled to act. I learned from my father that if you want change something in the city, you can’t just complain,
you’ve got to organize. So that’s what we’ve done. Over 120 people have signed the petition opposing the storage facility. So far, the city has completely disregarded our concerns saying that developer can do whatever they want within the zoning. It would appear that the voice of an out-of-town developer is more important than the voice of residents who will be affected by a development. In addition to the safety concerns with increased vehicular traffic during operation, we are deeply concerned about exposure to toxic, cancer-causing asbestos during the de-
molition of the existing structure. The original construction permits the clearly list toxic cancer-causing asbestos containing materials in the plans. When asked about the toxic cancer causing asbestos the developer admitted to not knowing if the building contains asbestos and admitted to not testing. It is completely irresponsible of the city to allow the permitting process to continue unless the developer and the city can guarantee the safety of children and the community during demolition.
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Bell time decision needs all the experts I take exception to the heading of the article “Starr backpedals on plan to let students sleep in.” [June 10] With few, if any, facts presented, Superintendent Starr made the very best decision for all students, parents, and Montgomery County residents by not going forward with the proposed plan to start schools later. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that a teen will quickly adjust to a later bed time knowing there’s a later school start time the next day. Then do we keep extending the schools start time? How about noon? Then, if teens are staying up later, what are the social impacts on the community?
What about the impacts that would be caused by changes to bus schedules, traffic patterns, and parent work schedules? How many students who work after school and parents will lose salary? How much later will after-school activities have to be extended. What are all the economic costs? The surveys and petitions fail to address any of these factors plus many more not mentioned; and therefore, are of little value. There’s no question this issue is very important. However, all the appropriate experts should be involved in order to make the best decision for our kids and taxpayers.
Edward Miller, Damascus
Pepco’s bullying appalling I am probably one of the few people in my neighborhood who sent a letter to Pepco to opt out of having a smart meter installed. So I am one of a rather small group of people who do not currently have a smart meter. I have received a letter from Pepco informing me that if I don’t agree to have a smart meter installed by July 1, I will be charged a $75 fee spaced over three months, plus $14 a month, added to my electric bill every month. I know people who claim that the electro-magnetic radiation from the smart meter interferes with their sleep. Others have raised concerns about other health risks, and increased risk of fire. Still others have privacy concerns. I don’t know to what extent
any of these concerns are valid, but I do not know that they are not valid, either. I suspect that there are some people who are more sensitive than others to the electromagnetic radiation, just as some people are more sensitive to certain chemicals than others. But even if it is only a relatively few people who are affected, we need to be careful to protect those who serve as the proverbial “canaries in the coal mine.” Speaking for myself, my objection stems from the fact that there might be risks, and I don’t want to volunteer to be a guinea pig. And the fees are truly exorbitant. Pepco’s bullying of its customers is appalling.
Deborah Vollmer, Chevy Chase
Picking apart Scripture Ira Weiss, who represented the Jewish Islam Dialogue Society, is quoted in The Gazette as saying, “It is easy to cherry-pick nasty parts of Scripture in any text — they were written thousands of years ago” [“Religious leaders slam anti-Muslim bus ads,” June 11]. There are indeed “nasty parts” of the Quran which call for the oppression of Jews and Christians, as well as “nicer parts” which
call for Muslims to live in peace with Jews and Christians. However, when verses in the Quran contradict each other, Islam follows the practice of abrogation, which simply means that the newer verses replace the older verses. Sadly the “peace” verses in the Quran are the older verses while the newer verses are the ones calling for the oppression of Jews and Christians. It is not a matter of “cherry picking.”
The “oppression” verses replace the “peace” verses. Finally, Mr. Weis’ reference to the age of Scriptural texts is not relevant. Muslims believe the Quran was (and is) the word of God for them, regardless of how long ago it may have been written.
Richard P. Wolohan, Rockville
Applause for EPA’s new carbon dioxide plan The Environmental Protection Agency just proposed a regulation that would cut carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal plants by up to 30 percent by 2030. Interestingly enough, the EPA will let states and utilities meet the new standard with different approaches. Maryland has already started down this path as part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which involves limits on carbon by a nine-state coalition. It’s a breath of fresh air (pun intended)
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to hear that Maryland is taking a strong approach toward emissions from power plants since Maryland families suffer from the worst air quality on the Atlantic Coast and more than 85 percent of Marylanders live in areas that fail to meet the nation’s safe air standards. There is much talk about how corporations will fight these new regulations tooth and nail, which always makes me wonder … why not spend their time and money on
developing the technologies to accomplish these important goals rather than waste it on litigation and lobbying. In the meantime, I urge our Maryland Department of the Environment to stay strong against the opposition and move forward with their strong, health protective limits on pollution from Maryland’s coalfired power plants.
Kristin Cook, Potomac
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A question about Potomac sidewalks I have lived in Potomac for 27 years. When I first moved here in 1987, I purchased a home on Muirfield Court in the Inverness North townhome community. Although I loved the community I always felt restricted by Seven Locks Road. There is no sidewalk along this stretch of Seven Locks and no sidewalk along Bells Mill between Deborah Drive and Seven Locks. Fortunately, when my children started middle school we were able to move across Seven Locks Road. I have often wondered why this portion of Seven Locks Road is one of the only sections that does not have a sidewalk. There are six townhouse developments along Seven Locks between Democracy and Tuckerman Lane. A large number of children live in these communities and all of them and their parents are restricted by Seven Locks Road. As you know, the Scotland Community, which is an historically African-American and low-income community, is located along Seven Locks Road. Many of the residents do not own cars and are dependent on bus transportation. A num-
ber of the residents work at the Cabin John Mall and Shopping Center, and Emeritus Assisted Living. Often, they work late at night after the buses stop running. Afterwards, they often walk home on Seven Locks Road. Wouldn’t it be tragic if a single mom was killed walking home from work? During the last 10 years the sidewalks and intersects along Seven Locks between Tuckerman and Montrose have been significantly improved, particularly at the intersections with Post Oak and Gainsborough. I live in this community so I greatly appreciate the improvements. However, don’t the other communities deserve safe walking also? The residents of Scotland Community have waited far longer for safe walking conditions than anyone else in our community. I hope the county will stop delaying the installation of sidewalks along Seven Locks Road between Tuckerman and Democracy Blvd so more people in our community can walk and ride bicycles safely.
Rosina Perthel, Potomac
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Magruder football coach takes the long view
Soccer will fade away soon enough
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hate soccer. While much of America — ESPN’s record-setting 9.1 overnight rating seems to agree — was gearing up to watch the United States play Portugal Sunday, I — apparently to several of my friends that recently became soccercrazed “fans” — was being a Debbie Downer. As we sat on my patio grillKENT ZAKOUR ing and ASSISTANT SPORTS watchEDITOR ing the pregame festivities on the Mickey Mouse Network, I was busy doing more important things, like dissecting the release of the 2014-15 National Hockey League schedule (in other words, how the Capitals will disappoint again) and the Washington Nationals second straight victory against the Atlanta Braves to reclaim first place in the National League’s Eastern Division. Unfortunately and reluctantly I have to admit that I ended up watching every second of the heartbreaking loss — Oops! I mean tie (more on that later). The U.S. men’s national team’s run in the World Cup will likely end Thursday with a loss to Germany barring some sort of ridiculous agreement to not score so the teams tie and both advance to the knockout stage (apparently some of the experts think this could happen). Living my entire life as a D.C. sports fan has prepared me to epic disappointment, but I still get excited with false hope. That, however, won’t be the case Thursday. I am not part of this so-called surge in soccer interest and fandom. The reason I — and most of you — watched? Patriotism. All of these new American soccer fanatics that have popped up over the past two weeks need to check themselves. I’ve seen interest in soccer spike on social media, traditional media outlets and in water cooler conversation, but it is not because people actually like the sport now. It is because it is the hip and patriotic Flavor of the Month. Sure, the game may be bigger and better than ever than 20 years ago, but it will remain a niche sport, far from the American mainstream conscious outside of a handful of days every few years. I’ve heard friends say, “You don’t appreciate the beauty of the game” or “You need to watch European soccer because it is totally different than the MLS.” No I don’t. Soccer, at any professional level, is still the same boring, low scoring, faking injury sport that encourages ties. I won’t claim to be a know-it-all soccer fan, but I do understand it — I played
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Quince Orchard High School’s football team has been a dominant force in Montgomery County for the past decade, but this summer it’s starting over with a new head coach and very few returning starters. Dave Mencarini took over a
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struggling Quince Orchard team and brought it back to the state championship form the Cougars had when winning their first crown in 1991. Mencarini guided the Cougars to a 107-18 record and the 2007 Class 4A state title in his 10 years at the Gaithersburg school. QO played in two more state title games during the 2011 and 2012 seasons. So, when Mencarini moved to Urbana following last season, Quince Orchard Athletic Director George Awkard wanted
consistency and decided to stay in the Cougar football family by promoting five-year defensive coordinator John Kelley. “Bringing in John, who’s been with the program, has been a terrific advantage for us,” Awkard said. “The kids have that comfortability. Stability was the thing we needed in losing so many great players.” Defense has been the heart of Mencarini’s teams, including last year’s 10-2 squad. Both of those
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Many high school football coaches approach their first year in a program with optimism to rebuild the team within a few years, Col. Zadok Magruder High School first-year coach Ray Fowle is looking considerably more long term. Fowle, a 2004 Magruder graduate who was a three-year starter for the Colonels before playing at Millersville College (Pa.), has been an assistant at his alma mater for the past five seasons. Fowle, who also teaches history at the school, has worked with the offensive line, defensive line, running backs and defensive backs. “Having played offensive tackle for the school and in college and having coached basically all of the position players the past five years, I think I’m ready to be the head coach,” Fowle said. “I’m hoping to revive Magruder first-year coach the program to be Ray Fowle like it was when I played and Ed Ashwell was the coach. I plan to be here for a very long time. I plan to retire here as head coach 26 years from now. I’m not looking to move on.” Magruder has struggled since winning state championships in 1984 and 1986, going 12-0 each of those two seasons. Fowle becomes the Colonels’ eighth football coach since then and only one of his seven had a winning record. Magruder went 1-9 last fall with its lone victory being 4-2 victory against Walter Johnson. “I would like to bring football back to the same level that it once was,” Fowle said. “We have a lot of really good athletic programs here at Magruder — boys’ basketball, girls’ basketball, volleyball — and I want to bring football up to their levels. It’s going to take time, but I’m willing to put in the time, not just this year but many years down the road.” Since 1990 the team has gone 91-138 (.397) and has not had a winning season since 2007 when it was 6-5. “We have a lot of experienced guys back, but it’s really youthful experience,” Fowle said. “We only have five or six seniors and the rest are juniors and underclassmen. We have a lot of guys who played last year who will play for me this year and then play again for me next year. I think the numbers are going to be up this year and I think they’ll continue to improve over the next two or three years and then hopefully well beyond that.”
“I plan to retire here as head coach 26 years from now. I’m not looking to move on.”
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After being rushed into action during the fourth inning with his team holding a 2-1 lead, Sandy Spring pitcher Ryan O’Carroll made the quick transition from playing third base and helped his
squad outlast host Gaithersburg Post 295 for a 3-2 victory at Seneca Valley High School on Wednesday. Sandy Spring Post 68 (6-3) had staked starter Marcus Halstock to an early lead by getting two runs in the first against Gaithersburg Post 295 hurler B.K. Kairn. Halstock threw 41 pitches and allowed just one run when he told coach Matt Cangas that he felt some soreness in his right throwing arm. Not wanting to risk an injury, Cangas said he summoned O’Carroll from third base to the mound. “Anytime any of my guys feels
anything pop, I always tell them to let me know,” Cangas said. “There’s no sense risking a career in a game. Ryan warmed up and then went right in there and did a good job. We got those two runs in the first and that was big. Anytime you can start quickly that always helps.” O’Carroll, a recent Winston Churchill graduate and rising freshman at Salisbury University, struck out the lone batter he faced in the fourth and tossed a scoreless
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Region searches for next PGA golfer Woods to play this week, but no local golfers will BY PRINCE J. GRIMES STAFF WRITER
Tiger Woods will be among the 120 top PGA golfers teeing off this week in the Quicken Loans National at Bethesda’s Congressional Country Club. A Maryland resident, however, will not. Woods, who has not played since March 9 due to a back injury, announced on Friday that he would be returning to play this week. “After a lot of therapy I have recovered well and will be supporting my foundation next week at the Quicken Loans National,” Woods said in a statement. “I’ve just started to hit full shots but it’s time to take the next step. I will be a bit rusty but I want to play myself back into competitive shape.” Takoma Park’s Fred Funk last competed in this tournament, known then as AT&T National, in 2009. There are no Maryland golfers in this year’s field. “They’re coming,” said John Lyberger, PGA director of golf at Congressional. “We have several of our young junior golfers that definitely have that potential and I’m pretty excited just to watch them grow up and play in these junior tournaments and have success, get scholarships, go to college. We’ve had several All-Americans out of our junior golf program at high level universities.” The Quicken Loans National raises
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Potomac resident and Georgetown Prep junior Davis Lamb practices putting Sunday at Congressional Country Club. funds for host Tiger Woods’ foundation and pays tribute to the United States military as 120 of the world’s best golfers compete for a piece of the $6.5 million purse. The first round is scheduled for Thursday with the final round concluding on Sunday. Lyberger says the lack of a Maryland pro isn’t a reflection of the talent level in the state, but rather how difficult it is to actually make it onto the tour. He said the D.C. area has breeded as much tour talent as any area. “There’s some very notable ones like
Steve Marino, Fred Funk, just to name a couple,” Lyberger said. “We have produced, I think, several very elite top PGA Tour and Senior Tour professionals. It’s just that it’s that difficult. If we produce three or four out of our region, there might be one or two out of [the] Atlanta region or either out of [the] California area. It’s just that there’s not really any hot pockets or areas that produce multiple tour players over and over again.” No matter where a player is from, the path of one looking to join the PGA Tour is the same.
The most common route travled is through the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament, also known as ‘Q-school’, which up until 2013 granted the top 25 players exemptions onto the tour. Now it only allows those players to play in the Web.com tour where the top money winners for a given season earn exemptions. Most players don’t have enough golf in them to even make it to the qualifying tournament, let alone beat out hundreds of other players in Q-school where after the competition becomes even more filtered on the Web.com tour where some of the players have already been PGA Tour members at one time or another. Although he can’t completely relate yet, Graham Hutchinson, a rising sophomore golfer at Walt Whitman High School, believes that golf fatigue may be the main factor in why many golfers don’t reach the main tour. “I think it would be a lot from the mental aspect,” Hutchinson said. “Trying too hard — playing so much that you get burned out. If things aren’t going the right way, you can’t let it get to you too much to the point where you’re getting in your own way of pursuing your dreams of playing on the tour.” Hutchinson was the Montgomery County public school’s regular season scoring average leader in 2013 and is a member of Congressional. One of his fellow Congressional members is Kyle Stough, a 2005 graduate of DeMatha Catholic in Hyattsville. Stough is a University of Virgina graduate and currently plays on the Web.com tour. Hutchinson said it helps young play-
ers such as himself to see people who come from the same places have success, citing another local player, Denny McCarthy, as someone who he follows. McCarthy, a Georgetown Prep grad and Virginia student-athlete, is a Burtonsville native and member of the Argyle Country Club in Silver Spring. McCarthy is currently the world’s 26th ranked amateur and is taking a similar route as Stough, Davis Lamb is a rising junior at Georgetown Prep and also a Congressional member and agrees with Hutchinson that it helps to see players succeed from the same background, mentioning Keith Unikel, of Potomac, and Trevor Randolph, who is also a Congressional member, as players he’s admired. “You can hear a lot on TV about guys from other areas that did it, but knowing someone who actually did it and being able to talk to them about it, that’s definitely a huge help,” Lamb said. “I don’t know very much about that whole [qualifying] system but I know it’s very mentally draining because you need to play very good golf for a few years. Another player from the region may emerge on the PGA Tour. But in the meantime, Congressional serves as a landmark that represents how serious this region is about golf. “They’re really only a putt or two away. A stroke per round or two strokes per round from being on [the PGA Tour] consistently,” Lyberger said. pgrimes@gazette.net
Despite losing many players and a long tenured and successful coach, the program will not start completely from scratch. Kelley has been around his current squad since the seniors were freshmen. He will be able to continue to preach the same principles that have been at the forefront of the Cougars’ success over the past decade, rather than reinventing the program. “The young team that we are, the most important thing for us
is to get better,” he said. “Football itself is a process. Right now we’re not the team we’re going to be. Each practice, each session in the weight room, we just have to focus on the little things.” Kelley may want to limit expectations for the young team, but the talent and leadership pool is not empty, particularly on the defensive side. The Cougars return inside linebacker and rising senior Jason Heyn, who is listed at 5-foot-10 and 180 pounds. They
also boast one of the top defensive lineman in the state in defensive tackle and rising senior Adam McLean. The 6-foot-3, 280-pound McLean committed to Penn State. Kelley said he will rely on those two players to help transition the program and anchor the defense. “Right now, we’re developing a commitment to work,” Kelley said. “Work is one of the most important things you can instill in a young player.” Kelley, while remaining heav-
ily focused on the summer workouts and developing his young players, knows what awaits the young Cougars in the fall. He believes that the Montgomery County 4A West Region is one of the most challenging in the state. “Week in and week out, everyone is competitive,” Kelley said. “We probably have the toughest schedule in the county.” A tough schedule and personnel turnover aside, the Cougars expect to head into the 2014
football season with an air of excitement, as they seek to start a new era on a high note. “I think the program is in a really good place,” Awkard said. “We’ve got a lot of kids who are willing to work and do everything they can to be successful. You never know what the season is going to wind up looking like. I think they’re getting there now. They’ve been working hard since the year ended. We accept the challenge in front of us.”
watch paint dry or the grass grow. Nothing will change my stance on a sport that makes National Basketball Association flopping look legitimate and sometimes doesn’t emphasize trying to win. Isn’t the American Way to always have
a winner and loser? Heck, even the NHL got rid of ties. Soccer is only the world’s most popular sport because other countries don’t have the same opportunities as we do. If I had the means, I’d bet a year’s worth of pay that if the rest of the world had regular
access to partake and take in sports such as football, basketball, hockey or baseball, soccer would be an afterthought. The World Cup is fortunate it only happens every four years and in the middle of the summer. It is the dol-
drums of the American Sports Calendar. The NBA Finals and Stanley Cup playoffs are done and the NFL is still a month away. That’s why you are watching soccer. So go ahead and continue to cheer for Team USA. But remember, you aren’t really
becoming a soccer fan, you are showing off your American Pride. Then remember there’s only 71 days left until pro football is back and futbol will be long forgotten.
ily and when Sandy Spring right fielder Brady Hall, a recent graduate of The Heights, bobbled it briefly, Thomas Brauch headed toward third with some incentive. Hall made a good throw to second baseman Gerald Buchanan, who fired a relay throw home to catcher Jake Storch who tagged Thomas Brauch out several feet in front of home plate to deny the tying run. Kairn then hit a soft liner
back to O’Carroll for the final out. Wednesday’s setback continued a trend that Gaithersburg Post 295 coach Pete White would like to end quickly. His team’s 3-2 setback to Sandy Spring marked the squad’s fourth straight one-run loss. In two of those games, unearned runs that Post 295 allowed have been the difference. “I know that I probably should not have sent him,”
White said of Thomas Brauch, who was attempting to score from first on Carroll’s double. “I saw their right fielder bobble the ball and I thought we could score. I knew it would take two good relay throws to get him and they made them.” O’Carroll, who allowed one run on two hits in 3 1/3 innings of work to get the win in relief of Holstock, admitted the key to being ready for emergency relief duty was just staying
composed. “When Marcus came out, I just took a deep breath and headed out there,” O’Carroll said. “In the last inning when they got two runners on, I left a two-seam [fastball] up a little and their guy got it. But our guys made a great relay to prevent the tying run from scoring. I just took a depp breath after that and came back with a good pitch.” Kairn was a tough-luck
loser on Wednesday, allowing three runs, one earned, on only three hits. Sandy Spring scored two runs in the top of the first on an error, walk, single and two-run double by Zach Thibodeau. Sandy Spring added another unearned run in the sixth on two throwing errors by catcher Josh Levy that would eventually allow Hall to score.
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ATHLETES OF THE YEAR
Stephanie Davis
Col. Zadok Magruder Freshman, 200
Col. Zadok Magruder
Ayanna Lynn, Freshman Bethany White, Senior Keila Robertson, Soph. Stephanie Davis, Freshman
Ran personal best of 24.47 seconds to win state title, one of four state crowns. She also took home gold in the 100, 400 relay, and 800 relay. She contributed to 40 of Magruder’s 50 points at the state championships and helped her team complete the come-from-behind victory.
The Colonels won the county, region, and state championships.
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Urgy Eado
Wootton Senior, 800
Gaithersburg
Marc Smith, Senior Vicco Bedell, Senior Jamal Leonard, Junior Solomon Vault, Senior
Undefeated this season. Saved his personal best of 1:54.88 to add a state title to county and region wins. He owns the fastest 800 in the state this season and earned bronze in state 1,600 and helped his team to a second in the 3,200 relay. Eado scored a total of 24 points at the state meet.
County and region champion earned silver at state championships.
BOYS’ FIRST TEAM
GIRLS’ FIRST TEAM
800 RELAY
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Gaithersburg
Col. Zadok Magruder
Jamal Leonard, Junior Vicco Bedell, Senior Kelvin Masanga, Freshman Solomon Vault, Senior
Ayanna Lynn, Freshman Stephanie Davis, Freshman Shelby Trout, Sophomore Bethany White, Senior
Martha Sam
Went on to win region and state championships after silver at county meet.
Olufunmilayo Daramola
Blake Junior 100
1,600 RELAY
Paint Branch Senior 400
County and region champ took home silver in this event at state meet.
James H. Blake
Kaela Jones, Junior Sarah Moore, Senior Martha Sam, Junior Elizabeth Adesanya, Soph.
County champion took home silver at state championship meet.
Clare Severe
Walt Whitman Junior 800 Undefeated season includes county, regional, and state titles.
Kiernan Keller
W. Johnson Junior 1,600 Earned silver at the state championships. Gold at county and regionals.
Solomon Vault
Jalen Walker
Gaithersburg Senior 100
Northwest Junior 200
County and region champ captured silver at state championship.
Earned silver regional and bronze county medals.
Tavis Holland
Clarksburg Junior 400 County and region champion.
Diego Zarate
Northwest Junior 1,600 State champion holds fastest time ran in Maryland this season.
The Wildcats, who won the state championship in cross country last fall, won state in this event.
Nora McUmber B-CC Junior 3,200
County champion ran a personal best time to also win state title.
Alexus Pyles
Laila Ismail
Clarksburg Sophomore 100 hurdles
B-CC Senior 300 hurdles
State champion captured regional title and silver at county meet.
Undefeated season ended with a state championship title.
Naja McAdam
Clarksburg Junior High jump Earned gold at county and regional championship meets.
Kendra Meredith
Northwest Senior Long jump State champion holds the state’s second best distance of 18.7 feet.
Chase Weaverling Poolesville Senior 3,200
County champion went on to capture state and region titles.
Devon Hairston
Kennedy Senior 110 hurdles Captured county and regional titles.
Alan Banks
Wootton Senior 300 hurdles County and region champ saved his best time of 38.57 to win state title.
Austin Castleberry Northwest Senior High jump
High jumper improved to eventually claim gold at state meet.
Michael Scott
Kennedy Senior Long jump Owns the state’s second longest distance. Won state championship.
Col. Zadok Magruder Got the best out of his team when it mattered the most. Magruder trailed for most of the state championship meet but completed a comeback in the final events to win it.
Jamal Leonard, Junior Vicco Bedell, Senior Zach Smith, Sophomore Kelvin Masanjo, Junior
Richard Montgomery
Stephen Alexander, Senior Emmanuel Porquin, Junior Matt Agboola, Junior Adam Jung, Senior Fastest team in the state won county, region, and state championships.
COACH OF THE YEAR
COACH OF THE YEAR Lubin Hernandez Palomino
Gaithersburg
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Katriane Kirsch, Freshman Melanie Cirillo, Junior Emily Murphy, Sophomore Kiernan Keller, Junior
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County and region champions had the highest finish of any county team at states.
State champions also took home gold at 4A North Region meet and silver at county meet.
Walter Johnson
Silver at county and state championships. Won 4A West Region.
Kara Huie
Claudia Ababio
Ozioma Edokobi
Andrea Christmas
Matthew Adedeji
DeVonte Johnson
David Kaplan
Timothy Santosa
County, regional, and state champion.
State champion holds the longest distance thrown in the state this season.
State champion didn’t place lower than second at any meet.
Won regional gold by tying personal best distance of 8 feet.
Set a personal best at county meet then won the state crown.
Undefeated on the season with county, regional, and state titles.
County and region champion earned silver at state meet.
Earned silver at state meet. Won gold at county and regionals.
Wootton Senior Triple jump
Clarksburg Senior Shot put
R Montgomery Senior Discus
Northwest Senior Pole vault
Clarksburg Senior Triple jump
Paint Branch Senior Shot put
Second Team and Honorable Mentions are online at Gazette.net
KEEPING IT BRIEF Gaithersburg batters hitting well The Gaithersburg Giants of the Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League might be in a mild funk at 7-7, but its two top hitters are enjoying stellar seasons. Brandon Grove, a Burtonsville native who played last spring at Catonsville Community College, is hitting .429 (9 for 21) with two doubles and four runs batted in. Brady Acker, a rising freshman at George Mason University, is hitting .400 (10 for 25) with five doubles and owns a solid .600 slugging percentage. Gaitherburg native Danny Freshley, a rising senior at Shenandoah University, is batting .292 (7 for 24), which is third best on the team.
— TED BLACK
Good Counsel grad competes against country’s best swimmers Fresh off a remarkable freshman campaign with the University of Texas men’s swimming and diving team, 2013 Our Lady of Good Counsel High School graduate and Rockville resident Jack Conger lived up to his reputation as one of the country’s top young up-andcoming talents at the Arena Grand Prix at Santa Clara over the weekend. In the biggest meet before this summer’s National Championships, according USA Swimming’s website, Conger finished fourth in the 100-meter butterfly, just 1.41 seconds behind the event’s winner, 22-time Olympic medalist Michael Phelps. Conger, who might be best known for his backstroke but is a versatile, multi-event athlete, finished fifth in the 200-meter backstroke won by Russian National Team member Arkady Vyatchanin and second in the “B” final of the 100-meter backstroke.
— JENNIFER BEEKMAN
Paint Branch, Avalon excel at UMD tournament The Paint Branch High School football team had a busy weekend, playing two 7-on-7 tournaments and 11 games over a two-day span. The Panthers participated in the University of Maryland 7-on-7 Tournament Saturday in College Park, going 3-2 and losing to Arundel in the playoffs. On Sunday, Paint Branch went 4-2 in a tournament at Westfield High School in Virginia. “It was pretty trying,” Paint Branch coach Michael Nesmith said. “We had a number of kids out [Sunday] but we had the backups that still played at a high level. It was a very good teaching opportunity so to speak. Some of these kids don’t get an opportunity to compete like this.” Paint Branch is 25-9 overall in passing league this summer, according to Nesmith. Avalon went 7-1 in the University of Maryland tournament, losing to Calvert Hall in the championship.
— ERIC GOLDWEIN
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Gaithersburg Giants’ Jose Cuas leaps above Bethesda’s Logan Farrar as he steals third base during Sunday’s game at Kelley Park in Gaithersburg.
Fullwood to announce college decision Rising Our Lady of Good Counsel High School senior defensive end and four-star recruit (Rivals. com) Darius Fullwood is scheduled to announce his college decision Saturday according to an email sent to The Gazette by Chris Konrad, the Falcons’ Director of Football Operations. The No. 18-ranked strong-side defensive end in the country according to Rivals.com has been sifting through offers from 25 high profile programs. Ohio State is rumored to be among his top choices.
— JENNIFER BEEKMAN
McCarthy repeats as Maryland Amateur champion Georgetown Prep graduate and University of Virginia junior Denny McCarthy won a second straight Maryland State Golf Association Amateur Championship. He scored an 8-and-7 match play victory against Chris Baloga on June 8 at the Baltimore Country Club, continuing to establish himself as one of the best amateur’s in the world (No. 26). McCarthy is just the ninth player in the 93-year history of the event to win multiple titles.
— PRINCE J. GRIMES
Ekpone helps Texas A&M win title Former Northwest High School student-athlete Olivia Ekpone helped Texas A&M University win a national track and field championship on June 14. She won gold as the anchor of the Aggies’ 400-meter relay team by closing the gap that the University of Southern California created before she received the baton.
— PRINCE J. GRIMES
Churchill Senior Discus
Clarksburg Junior Pole vault
Kellie Redmond Wootton
Although her team was stripped of it’s county title due to ineligibility reasons, the Patriots still managed to have the best finish of any county team at the state championships at Morgan State University.
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Clarksburg High School football player Tavis Holland traveled four-plus hours and more than 200 miles for the Monmouth University Football One Day Prospect Camp. The Coyotes’ rising senior arrived on a Saturday, stayed at a hotel, and on June 15, a Sunday, took part in the threehour, $50 camp. And while he didn’t come home with a scholarship offer, he said the trip was worth making. “I go there to show them my talents, but mostly to get better,” Holland said. “If I get something, I get something.” One-day football camps are becoming part of the sum-
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Clarskburg High School rising senior Tavis Holland is one of many college football prospects that have attended one-day summer football camps in hopes of improving their recruiting prospects. mer routine for prospective college players such as Holland, who use the sessions not
only to make connections with college coaches, but also to hone their skills.
Clarksburg coach Larry Hurd, entering his ninth season, said that the one-day summer camps are gaining in popularity and that 17 of his players have attended or plan to attend these sessions so far this offseason. “You’ll see Seneca Valley kids out there, you’ll see Damascus out there, you’ll see Quince Orchard’s,” Hurd said. “... There are some kids out there that are on the road the entire summer.” Holland, a second team All-Gazette returner, has also attended camps at Towson and Delaware and plans to attend about five more, including Maryland and Villanova. “The only thing I worry about, and some of our coaches worry about, is what is too much?” Hurd said. For the colleges, the camps are an opportunity to meet the athletes, record their times and measurements, and watch
them play in person. “The main thing about the camps are, all of the colleges, especially your mid-level and [NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision] schools, they really want to see the kids,” Hurd said. “They know the kids they’re interested in from the film, but they really want to see the kids on campus.” Most schools with football teams run these one-day events — not just Division I programs. That wasn’t always the case, Frostburg State (Div. II) assistant Tye Hiatt said. “Even 10 years ago, when I played, there weren’t that many prospect camps like this,” said Hiatt, who helped organize Frostburg State’s June 28 camp. Albert Einstein coach Neal Owens said that about five of his players have attended camps this offseason. “I really feel like that’s
where you get recruited now, where they can see you up close,” Owens said. “It’s funny because with HUDL (a video scouting website) and everything we can do with sending out film, [we thought] that it’d be easier. But now it’s become even harder because so many kids have access to that, that they really need to see these kids up close and personal to make that decision.” Joseph Nacci, Clarksburg’s senior quarterback, has been attending camps since he was a freshman and has about four scheduled for this summer. “It’s not really tiring. I love going to them,” Nacci said. “It’s great to show these coaches what your skill is, what you show, what you bring to the table.” egoldwein@gazette.net
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The vibe in Washington Spirit’s postgame huddle after Saturday’s loss to the Alex Morgan-led Portland Thorns FC in front of 3,806 spectators at the Maryland SoccerPlex in Boyds was not necessarily what one would expect following a 6-1 loss. The team was disappointed, sure, but there also seemed to be a hopefulness peering toward the future, coach Mark Parsons said. Fourteen games into 2014 as most teams are settling into the season, Washington finds itself in a bit of a transitional period with some newly acquired athletes and players taking on new roles thanks to the change in personnel and a
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Tori Huster (front) heads the ball in front of the Portland goal during Saturday’s game at the Maryland SoccerPlex in Boyds. wave of injuries. While Saturday’s fairly one-sided result wasn’t the welcome the Spirit would’ve liked to give its newcomers, Parsons said, he was still pleased with
performances from new defenders Alex Singer and Nikki Cross and speedy Australian striker Lisa DeVanna. Washington played without
starting goalkeeper Ashlyn Harris and attacking defender Crystal Dunn Saturday; captain and central defender Ali Krieger sustained a foot injury in the first half and though she stayed on for the remainder of the period, didn’t return for the second half. “I think the vibe was, someone said, that score was one of the most embarrassing they’ve seen but they’ve never been so excited,” Parsons said. Saturday was Washington’s third consecutive loss after the team seemed to find its rhythm during a four-game win streak. The Spirit lost, 2-0, at Portland last week but both teams were missing several players due to U.S. and Canadian women’s national team call-ups. With Saturday’s win, Portland (6-4-2), which trailed Washington (6-7-1) by two points in the National Women’s Soccer League standings usurped Washington’s fourth-place position. The top four teams make the playoffs. The Spirit, who are 0-4 against Portland dating back to last season and have been outscored 12-2 by the Thorns, now trail Portland by one point, 20-19. “That was a big one in terms of points and making playoffs,” Parsons said. “We’ve got 10 games
and we have to win eight to nine of them and it starts [Saturday] in Houston. We have no doubt we can make playoffs, we just put ourself in a more difficult position.” Washington might have been better off if Saturday’s kick-off was at 6:40 p.m. rather than 6:30 p.m. In what Parsons could only describe as the “craziest 10 minutes I’ve ever seen,” the Spirit fell behind, 2-0, quickly on goals from Canadian National Team forward Christine Sinclair (fifth minute) and U.S. National Team forward Alex Morgan (11th). Morgan, who is coming off a lengthy ankle injury and scored her first two goals of 2014 in the USWNT’s 2-2 draw with France Thursday in Connecticut, finished with two goals Saturday (one in each half). Washington recovered from the slow start and played quite well for the remainder of the first half. The Spirit created a number of scoring chances — Portland outshot Washington 20-12, 13-6 on goal — but struggled to get a good final touch or to finish. That forward momentum carried into the second half and Washington finally capitalized in the 62nd minute when Christine Nairn buried a left-footed shot right into the middle of the net.
The Spirit’s sometimes inconsistent and already depleted backline held up quite well early in the second as Washington continued to press — Parsons said he was confident Washington would score again — but Morgan’s second goal, in the 71st minute off a failed clear from goalkeeper Chantel Jones right to the dangerous striker’s feet, seemed to sap Washington,anditsfans,ofallitsenergy and will. To add insult to injury Morgan’s substitute, Jessica McDonald, scored two quick goals after entering the game, in the 85th and 87th minute and Allie Long added a sixth score in stoppage time. “To steal the words from one of the players, everything that could’ve gone wrong for us in the box did, everything that could’ve gone right for them in the box, did,” Parsons said. “I think we’ve won games playing a lot worse than that. It was one of those strange days. ... We have three new players who have done really, really well and we’re excited about them. It’s a shame they had to come in, in a crazy, a wild game like that. But we’re excited.” jbeekman@gazette.net
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The Northwest High School football team returned to M&T Bank Stadium for the first time since December, and though the weather was warmer, the crowd was quieter, and the games were less physical, the result was the same. Playing in the Baltimore Ravens 7-on-7 Football Tournament, the defending Class 4A state champion Jaguars defeated their three opponents, capping off the tournament with a victory against defending Class 1A state champion Fort Hill in the title game. “The most important thing is that it helped us develop ... it’s helped us work on our communication,” Northwest coach Mike Neubeiser said. “... We try not to dwell too much on the victory but we really try to concentrate on the details of it.”
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Northwest scored with ease in Saturday’s eight-team touch football tournament, compiling 22 touchdowns in the three games. The Jaguars found the end zone in all but one possession in its 7-4 quarterfinals victory against Kent County, then defeated Broadneck 8-5 in the semifinals. “I feel better this summer,” said rising junior quarterback Mark Pierce, a second-year starter. “Last year we were trying to figure ourselves out and who we were. It took time during the season to figure out what we had to do to win but I feel like this season we know ourselves a lot better and we know what our team can do.” The Jaguars graduated several key contributors on offense, including Josh Gills and Matt Watson, but returning players such as E.J. Lee, Troy Lefeged, Aaron-David Beidleman and Brandon Williams are taking on greater roles, Pierce said. “It’s hard to lose those guys, but we have a lot of people stepping up,” Pierce said. egoldwein@gazette.net
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Boston strong
GOOD PEOPLE n When: June 27 through July 20, call for specific times n Where: Silver Spring Stage, 10145 Colesville Rd., Silver Spring
Tony Award-winning show brings back memories for director BY
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For Michael Kharfen, directing a play set in Boston is bringing out his roots — and his Boston accent. “I grew up in the Boston area, so the characters, the setting, are very familiar to me,” Kharfen said. He also joked that coaching the actors through the dialogue has brought out his longdormant accent, which he finds himself slipping into more frequently. An intimate show that uses just six actors,
“Good People,” written by David Lindsay-Abaire, won significant acclaim in 2011, as well as Tony nominations for Best Play and Best Leading Actress in a Play, the latter of which was won by Frances McDormand. It runs from June 27 through July 20 at the Silver Spring Stage. It follows the story of single mother Margie Walsh, who grew up in a tough Boston neighborhood. Kharfen said he was drawn to “Good People” after reading it, though he’d never seen it performed. He said the play references specific events, like court-ordered busing in schools in the 1970s, that he experienced first-hand as a junior
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high and high school student. “I saw all of that going on at that time and the impact that it had on the city,” he said. “Some of the ugliness that was going on with respect to the racial conflict in the city. Over the years, I have seen how that has changed dramatically.” Kharfen said Lindsay-Abaire’s play is about economic class, and the idea that working hard equals success, which isn’t always true for everyone. He said one of the significant challenges to putting on “Good People” is the staging, as the
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PHOTOS PROVIDED BY LENNIE MAGIDA
Above, right: From left, Roxanne Fournier Stone (Margaret), Kevin Dykstra (Mike), and Tanya Baskin (Kate) have an argument during a scene from Silver Spring Stage’s upcoming production of “Good People.” Above, left: From left, Declan Cashman (Dottie), Roxanne Fournier Stone (Margaret), and Marianne Meyers (Jean) share a laugh.
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14th Annual County Appreciation Day & Heritage Day Sunday June 29th 10:30 - 4:00
Come visit our field. Enjoy a day of exciting entertainment.
Directions: From I-270, take Clopper Rd (Rt 117) west to Schaeffer Rd (first left past Rt 118). Continue on Schaeffer Rd approximately 2 miles. Pass the soccer fields; take first left after the bridge into airfield.
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Good beer starts with good water BREWS BROTHERS STEVEN FRANK AND ARNOLD MELTZER It all starts with water, the primary component of beer, which usually accounts for 85-95 percent of the beer volume with much of the remainder being alcohol. The characteristics of the water can affect the malting, mashing, the resulting malt flavors, the selection of hop varieties and the hopping schedule that pairs best with the style flavors. Areas where naturally occurring local water has affected styles include: Burton-On-Trent for Pale Ales; London and Dublin for Mild Ales, Porters and Stouts; Munich, Vienna and Bavaria for lagers; and Pilsen for Pilsner lager. Beers usually made with hard water (water high in calcium and magnesium sulfates and bicarbonates) are used to produce ales including pale ales, porters and stouts and are found naturally through the gypsum deposits at Burton-On-Trent and chalkiness below London. Dortmund, Germany has hard water rich in carbonate and chloride and its brews are darker and sharper tasting that the standard lagers of Pilsen or Bavaria.
Soft water tends to give rise to mild and sweet flavored beers, and is especially well suited for lagers. Munich water is low in sulfates and chloride but contains carbonates which are ideal for brewing darker, mellower lagers. The soft water at Pilsen is the base for the city’s pale, hoppy Pilsners. Although brewers have been modifying brewing water for hundreds of years, with advances in brewing science, brewers began to understand the importance of the water constituents, and that by modifying the water they could achieve brews that are similar to the styles where the water naturally occurred. Brewers far from Burton-On-Trent started adding calcium sulfate to their water, in a process that became known as Burtonizing, to make Pale Ales. This promotes protein coagulation during boiling, allows high hop rate usage, and promotes yeast growth. Today most municipal water used by brewers has been chlorinated and must first be returned to a neutral state before the brewing process can begin, usually by filtering and through boiling. Distilled water will not work because the trace elements in natural water are needed to produce a lively flavored brew. Original Munich Premium
Lager (4.9 percent alcohol by volume, ABV) is produced by the Paulaner Brewery of Munich, Germany. Paulaner’s very smooth Munich Premium Lager has a honey, malt, and earthy nose that introduces a sweet malt front which continues in the middle, joined by notes of honey. The finish adds a light floral hop with all the flavors continuing into the aftertaste. Ratings: 8/7.5. Pedigree (5.0 percent ABV) is brewed in Burton-On-Trent, England by Marston’s Brewery. The floral, sweet malt and toffee aroma presages a muted toffee and malt front that glides into the very smooth middle and finish where there is a slight increase in toffee. Restrained noble hops are added in the aftertaste as a touch of dryness appears with the hops and dryness lingering. Ratings: 7.5/7.5. Fuller’s London Pride (4.7 percent ABV) is made by Fuller, Smith and Turner at the Griffin Brewery in London, England. London Pride opens with a floral hop and orange peel bouquet. The soft sweet malt and gentle orange front grows a pinch in the middle and continues into the finish. The floral hops increase a modicum in the aftertaste melding with a slight dryness. Ratings: 7.5/7.5.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT DANCES Hollywood Ballroom, June 27, West Coast Swing Dancing with Dance Jam Productions at 9 p.m. Drop in lessons 7:30 p.m. until 9 pm. ($15); June 28, Latin Night with Mr. Mambo, 8 p.m. until 10 p.m. workshops, 10 p.m. until 2 a.m. dance ($18 for workshop and dance; $15 for dance only after 10 p.m.); June 29, Social Ballroom Dance at 8 p.m., free Tango lesson at 7 p.m. ($16); July 2, Social Ballroom Dance at 8:30 p.m., “step of the evening” Salsa mini-lesson at 8:15 p.m. ($16); July 3; Tea Dance from 12:30 p.m. until 3:30 p.m. ($6); A Red, White and Blue Celebration - Social Ballroom Dance at 9 p.m. (Free), July 4; Social Ballroom Dance at 8 p.m., free Rumba lesson at 7 p.m. ($16), July 6; Social Ballroom Dance at 8:30 p.m., “step of the evening” Fox Trot mini-lesson at 8:15 p.m. ($16), July 9; Tea Dance, 12:30 p.m. until 3:30 p.m. ($6), July 10; 2126 Industrial Highway, Silver Spring, 301-326-1181, www.hollywoodballroomdc.com. Scottish Country Dancing, 8-10 p.m. Mondays, steps and formations taught. No experience, partner necessary, T-39 Building on NIH campus, Wisconsin Avenue and South Drive, Bethesda, 240505-0339. Glen Echo Park is at 7300 MacArthur Blvd. Blues, Capital Blues: Thurs-
days, 8:15 p.m. beginner lesson, 9-11:30 p.m. dancing to DJs, Glen Echo Park’s Spanish Ballroom Annex, $8, www.capitalblues.org. Contra, June 27, Bob Isaacs with Last Exit with Laurie Tupper on flutes, Christopher Jacoby on mandolin, guitar and accordion, Doug Healy on guitar, bass and djembe and Ross Harriss on sax and guitar, 8:30 p.m. until 11:30 p.m., Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $10, www.fridaynightdance. org. Contra & Square, June 29, Bob Isaacs with Last Exit, 7:30 p.m., Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $12 for general, $9 for members, $5 for students, www.fsgw.org. English Country, June 25; Special Newcomers Evening led by caller Susan Taylor 8 p.m., Glen Echo Town Hall (upstairs), www. fsgw.org. Swing, July 12, Boilermaker Jazz Band, lesson at 8 p.m., dancing at 9 p.m., Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $15, www.flyingfeet.org. Waltz, June 29, Addison Bleufonte, lesson from 2:45-3:30 p.m., dancing to live music from 3:30-6 p.m., $10, waltztimedances.org.
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play involves just six scenes, but five different locations. “The playwright is writing for a much bigger stage,” he said. “... So trying to put that into a stage that is 25 feet by 25 feet poses some creativity. We have a great set designer who’s new to the stage, so it’s been great working with him to see how we can fit all those different places on this relatively intimate stage.” Despite the staging challenges, Kharfen credits his cast with making the show work so well.
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VISUAL ART Adah Rose Gallery, “Wavelengths: A Poetic Synthesis of Sound and Art,” to July 13, 3766 Howard Ave., Kensington, 301922-0162, www.adahrosegallery. com Glenview Mansion, Han Mee artists, June 29 to July 25; The Friday Group, Aug. 3 to Aug. 29, Rockville Civic Center Park, 503 Edmonston Drive, Rockville. www. rockvillemd.gov. Marin-Price Galleries, The Great American Landscape, to July 14, 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, 7022 Wisconsin Ave., 301718-0622, www.marin-price.com. VisArts, Gibbs Street Gallery; RIPPLE: Cloth, Community and Connectivity, to Aug. 17; Bobbi Shulman: Pipe Dreams in Black and White, to July 13, 155 Gibbs St., Rockville, 301-315-8200, www. visartsatrockville.org.
Adventure Theatre, “Pinkalicious,” to Aug. 31, call for prices, times, Adventure Theatre MTC, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo, 301-634-2270, www.adventuretheatre-mtc.org. Imagination Stage, “The BFG,” June 25 to Aug. 10, call for prices, times, Imagination Stage, 4908 Auburn Ave., Bethesda, www. imaginationstage.org. Olney Theatre Center, “Avenue Q,” to July 6, call for prices, times, 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney, 301-924-3400, www.olneytheatre.org. The Puppet Co., “The Wizard of Oz,” to July 20; Tiny Tots @ 10, select Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, call for shows and show times, Puppet Co. Playhouse, Glen Echo Park’s North Arcade Building, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., $5, 301634-5380, www.thepuppetco.org. Round House Theatre,
Birch, to June 29, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, second floor, 8230 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, www. washingtonprintmakers.com.
“It’s been a great joy working with the cast,” he said. “We have six super talented actors, several who are new to the Silver Spring Stage and it’s great to see both new people and people who have been at the theater before, so it’s just been a great experience.” One of those cast members is Roxanne Fournier Stone, who’s playing the lead role of Margie. It’s Stone’s second appearance with the Silver Spring Stage, after “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” in 2006. She said she saw “Good People” at Washington, DC’s, Arena Stage in 2012, and was immediately struck by it, moving it
to the top of her “performance bucket list.” “[I thought] if I ever ever had the opportunity to work on this show, to do this role, it would be one of the most incredible roles that any actress could hope to do in their professional lifetime,” she said. Stone said the role is such a dream because of the complexity of Margie and her life. “She’s a nice person; she’s a good person,” she said. “The play’s about good people at their core, who sometimes do things that are not so nice. She is quite a dichotomy because she’s struggling. Life has really dealt her a bad hand.”
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Give’em Mel!
Seattle teacher-musicians Recess Monkey comes back to Strathmore for two shows as part of its Backyard Theater for Children event on Thursday.
Mel Brooks’ classic movie-turned-Broadway hit, “The Producers,” will have its final stagings this weekend at the Arts Barn in Gaithersburg. Sandy Spring Theatre Group presented the area premiere of the hilarious comedy on June 13. The show follows two guys who try to swindle money from investors by producing a huge Broadway bomb, “Springtime for Hitler.” Tickets cost $16, $18 for non-Gaithersburg residents. For more information, visit sandyspringtheatregroup.org.
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The Seattle trio of musical teachers known as Recess Monkey will be bringing their popular children’s songs back to Strathmore for two shows — 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. — on Thursday as part of its Backyard Theater for Children series in North Bethesda. Recess Monkey, which just released its 11th album on June 17, create “singable, danceable ‘kindie’” songs that are enjoyable for both parents and their children.
Just a Pipe Dream VISARTS
Bobbi Shulman’s “Acting Out,” and several other of her pieces, are on display at VisArts in Rockville until July 13.
Artist Bobbi Shulman’s “Pipe Dreams in Black and White,” exhibit is now on display at the VisArts gallery in Rockville. Shulman, who has spent most of her career as a journalist, started painting professionally in 2003. Her works feature abstracts, still life, landscapes and plein air paintings. The exhibit, which is free and open to the public, is on display now until July 3. For more information, visitvisartsatrockville.org.
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23,980
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$
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2012 Fiat 500 M/T Crossover
#P9012, Manual, 13k Miles, 1-Owner
9,980
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17,980
$
2011 Infiniti G25 Sedan
21,980
$
2008 BMW 335XI Coupe
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25,980
$
2004 Volvo V70 2.5T..............................................................$9,980 2010 Volvo S80 Turbo Sedan.................................$23,980
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2005 Ford Explorer XLT ................................................$9,980 2011 Land Rover LR2........................................................$23,480
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#P8964, Auto, HSE SUV
2012 Ford Focus SE............................................................$13,990 2012 Volvo S60 T5 Sedan............................................$24,998
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#P9037, Silver, 1-Owner, Auto, 2.5L 5-Cyl Turbocharged
2011 Hyundai Sonata LTD.........................................$15,988 2012 Mercedes Benz C250.......................................$25,480
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2011 Subaru Forester 2.5X Ltd.. $19,990 $19,990 #467110A, 69K Miles, Automatic
2011 Honda Civic LX............. $14,990 $14,990 #464008A,Auto, 32K Miles
$21,990 2011 Nissan Murano........... $21,990 #477422A, 55K Miles, CVT Transmission
2013 Kia Soul.................... $16,990 $16,990 #467126B, 19K Miles, Automatic
2013 Honda Odyssey EXL..... $27,990 $27,990 #460117A,Auto, 19K Miles, 1 Owner
2012 MiniCooper Hardtop....... $17,990 $17,990 #477449A, 26K Miles, Automatic 2013 Hyundai Sonata Limited... $18,990 $18,990 #470517A, Automatic, 21K Miles
2013 Beetle MT/CPO.....#V063133A, Black, 7,112 Miles...........$16,994 2013 Beetle CPO.......#V000536A, Black, 10,333 Miles.............$17,492 2010 CC Sedan........#V043167A, Island Gray, 65,572 Miles..........$17,991 2012 Jeep Liberty 4WD.....#V6113A, White, 26,187 Miles.........$17,496 2011 Tiguan SE............#VP0062, Red, 30,864 Miles.................$18,991 2011 Jetta TDI.............#VP0059, Black, 41,750 Miles................$18,992 2012 Jetta TDI MT......#V273915A, Red, 40,603 Miles...............$18,992 2009 BMW 3-Series. .#V070130A, Gray, 41,804 Miles..............$19,491 2013 Passat SE...........#VPR0060, White, 6,093 Miles...............$21,912 2013 GTI HB..................#V010407A, Red, 8,460 Miles............$24,991 2012 Honda CR-V EX-L.....#V274812A, Silver, 34,278 Miles.......$25,995
$23,990 2013 Toyota Prius Plug-in..... $23,990 #478000A, 18K Miles, CVT Automatic Transmission 2012 Toyota Tacoma DBL Cab. #467137A, 4x4,Auto, 96K Miles
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MSRP $27,730
OURISMAN VW WORLD AUTO CERTIFIED PRE OWNED 1999 Golf HB......#V207101A, Red, 89,501 Miles........................$5,991 2004 Saturn ION CPE......#V239376B, Silver, 107,624 Miles.......$5,994 2005 Golf TDI.............#V284611A, Silver, 165,405 Miles...........$7,992 2011 Jetta S....#V250705A, Black, 67,998 Miles................$11,491 2008 Ford Mustang....#V088075A, Black, 82,755 Miles....$13,991 2010 Jetta...............#VP0061, Silver, 48,370 Miles............$14,491 2011 Jetta SE.....#9106430A, Black, 54,780 Miles..................$14,591 2012 Honda Civic LX.....#V535112A, Blue, 43,615 Miles........$14,591 2012 Honda Civic CPE.....#V290663A, Black, 37,609 Miles....$14,991 2013 Passat CPO. ....#VPR0053, Maroon, 46,478 Miles...........$15,992 2012 Beetle CPE........#V230683A, Black, 19,974 Miles..............$16,492
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2014 NISSAN ALTIMA 2.5 S
MSRP: Sale Price: Nissan Rebate: NMAC Bonus Cash:
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2007 Honda Accord SE
13,495
#434238B, Automatic, Sedan
17,695
#13114 2 At This Price: VINS: 903606, 903629
2011 Nissan Rogue S
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2009 Toyota Camry LE #447505A, Automatic, Sedan
$
16,977
#446107A, Automatic, $ 1-Owner, SUV, Certified
$22,960 $19,995 -$1,000
23,995
18,977
$
#P8983, Automatic, Leather, 1-Owner, Sunroof
18,995
2011 Lexus CT
$32,500 $27,995 -$3,500 -$500
$
2011 Nissan Altima 2.5L SL
24,977
$
#P8993, FWD, Automatic, Sunroof, 1-Owner
2011 Nissan Maxima 3.5SV
24,977
$
#P8976, Automatic, Navigation, Pano Roof, Premium Pkg, 1-Owner
#16114 2 At This Price: VINS: 474864, 474800
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2013 Audi A4 Premium #E0341, Sunroof, Automatic, 1-Owner
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$
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$
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