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Montgomery County police have identiﬁed a man who died while swimming in Triadelphia Reservoir in Brookeville last week as Avery Troix Williams, 19, of Germantown. Williams was last seen on June 4, swimming with a group, officials said. Police said in a news release that Williams began struggling in the water, then went under the surface. His friends called 911 for help. Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service spokesman Pete Piringer said the body was found at about 2:30 p.m. Friday in the area where rescue workers had been concentrating search efforts. The body was located

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about 65 feet from shore, in about 25 feet of water. The Charles County Dive Team and divers from the state Department of Natural Resources were in the water at the time the body was located. Piringer said Williams was swimming near the Greenbridge Recreation Area on June 4 with a group of about a dozen people, all in their late teens and early 20s. Swimming is prohibited in Triadelphia Reservoir. “They attempted to swim across the cove, and he went down and didn’t resurface,” Piringer said. “They were able to call 911 pretty quickly, and units from Howard and Montgomery counties responded.” The search, which used sonar and thermal imaging, continued into the evening until a storm led the operation being suspended. The search contin-

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Early voting stations County cracks down on ‘rip-off’ artists open on Thursday Rockville woman among victims of unscrupulous home contractors

RYAN MARSHALL STAFF WRITER

Jim Crutchfield thought he was doing everything right when he hired a roofer to work on his Cabin John home. The roofer provided references who gave good reports of his work when Crutchfield called them. The contractor said he had a license to do roofing jobs, but Crutchfield didn’t ask to see the

license before the work began in December 2012. Crutchfield said the man made plenty of promises to finish the work but failed to do so, ultimately even removing part of the work that had been done and saying he didn’t have enough money to finish. Crutchfield said the experience that ultimately cost him about $8,000 was frustrating, but he learned a valuable lesson. Crutchfield’s lesson was the same that all homeowners should learn before letting anyone do work on or around their house, said Eric Friedman, director of Montgomery County’s Of-

ﬁce of Consumer Protection. “You really need to make sure they’ve got their license,” Friedman said. On Friday, Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) announced a renewed effort by police and county departments to crack down on “rip-off artists” who target residents with fraudulent offers to do projects such as roof or driveway repair or tree work or removal. “We will not tolerate the victimization of our residents, particularly our seniors,” Leggett said. Leggett appeared with representatives from the Montgom-

ery County Police Department, Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Ofﬁce, Montgomery’s Ofﬁce of Consumer Protection, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the state Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation and police from other jurisdictions. They spoke at the Rockville home of Selma Nootenboom, an elderly woman who was charged $2,000 for tree work despite agreeing to pay only $700. Nootenboom is legally blind and hard of hearing, her nephew Eric Barr said Friday.

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There will be nine early-voting sites in Montgomery County, open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily from Thursday through June 19. County, state and federal races will be on the ballot. More information is at montgomerycountymd.gov/elections/index2. html. The Gazette’s online voters guide, with candidate proﬁles and more, is at gazette.net/ section/vg2014.

Early-voting sites • Activity Center at Bohrer Park, 506 S. Frederick Ave., Gaithersburg • Damascus Recreation Center, 25520 Oak Drive, Damascus

• Germantown Recreation Center, 18905 Kingsview Road, Germantown • Jane Lawton Recreation Center, 4301 Willow Lane, Chevy Chase • Marilyn J. Praisner Recreation Center, 14906 Old Columbia Pike, Burtonsville • Mid-County Recreation Center, 2004 Queensguard Road, Silver Spring • County Executive Office Building, 101 Monroe St., Rockville • Silver Spring Civic Center, 1 Veterans Plaza, Silver Spring • Wheaton Recreation Center, 11711 Georgia Ave., Wheaton

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Bette Bufﬁngton and The Winery at Olney were recognized for their contributions to the community at the Olney Chamber of Commerce’s annual Celebration of Excellence, held on June 5. Bette Bufﬁngton received the Business Person of the Year Award. After a career in nursing, she began her

real estate endeavor in 1979, after moving to the Olney area with her husband “Doctor Joe,” a now retired obstetrician/gynecologist. She opened her first office in 1985, and now has thriving businesses in both Olney and Clarksburg. Buffington credits her husband, her son Joe Buffington and others for making everything possible. “It’s really a great honor, but it is not just me,” she said. “My family has been supportive in everything I have done.” When the Buffingtons opened the Olney RE/MAX Realty Centre, they included

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a community room to help satisfy Olney’s need for meeting space. In 2013 more than 200 classes, meetings, clinics or shows took place in the room, most of them at a greatly reduced nonprofit rate, or pro bono. In December, Buffington learned that Curves, a gym and fitness center for women located in her Olney Building, was closing. She didn’t want to lose a tenant, but also knew how much the members enjoyed it. She and Doctor Joe purchased the business two months ago, joined by one of her agents, Denise Fox.

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Bette Bufﬁngton (left) of RE/MAX Realty is congratulated by Jon Hulsizer, executive director of the Olney Chamber of Commerce, after Bufﬁngton was awarded Business Person of the Year during the chamber’s 2014 awards ceremony June 5 at Manor Country Club in Rockville.

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Chamber installs officers, honors excellence The Olney Chamber of Commerce installed its new officers and board of directors at its annual Celebration of Excellence Awards and Installation Dinner on Thursday. Greg Porter of Brooke Grove Retirement Village is the new president and Suzanne Rosetti of Work Life Destinations will become secretary. Vice President Joe Buffington and Treasurer Jon Turgel will continue to serve in their roles. Benny Bienvenue of Our House, Joe McCall of The Winery at Olney, Fred Silver of the Olney Lions Club and Allison Weiss of the Sandy Spring Museum will join the board of directors. Returning board members are Alison Bawek of the Studio of Ballet Arts, Valle Bonhag of Carl M. Freeman Companies, Toni Davis of Brooke Grove Retirement Village, Ellen Coleman of RE/MAX Realty Centre, Dawn Griffith of Sandy Spring Friends School and Marc Rosendorf of The Law Offices of Marc Rosendorf. “Our new president has past experience with the board and is a great organizer and administrator,” chamber Executive Director Jon Hulsizer said. Also at the event, the Chamber presented $1,000 scholarships to Nicole Lertora of James Hubert

Blake High School in Silver Spring; Andrew Frascella of Our Lady of Good Counsel High School in Olney; and Sandra Chung, Molly Freedman and Jordan Newmark, all of Sherwood High School in Sandy Spring. President’s Awards were presented to Sophie Randolph of Longwood Community Recreation Center and Judy Adler-Reif of Sherwood High School, who are both retiring after years of service to the community. Randolph has not only been instrumental in Chamber events such as Community Night and National Night Out, but has been the guiding force in Longwood’s senior program for more than 20 years. Adler-Reif served as a teacher, counselor, and coordinator of Sherwood’s Hospitality and Internship program. This year, she started an internship program with the Chamber.

Olney artist featured in watercolor exhibit A painting by Olney artist Susan Murphy was accepted in the Mid-

Atlantic Watercolor Exhibition at the University of Maryland. The annual Mid-Atlantic Watercolor Exhibition is sponsored by the Baltimore Watercolor Society and culls paintings offered for jury

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New ofﬁcers were sworn in during the Olney Chamber of Commerce 2014 awards ceremony and installation dinner Thursday at Manor Country Club in Rockville. Shown are (from left) Suzanne Rosetti, secretary; Greg Porter, president; Joe Bufﬁngton, vice president, and Jon Turgel, treasurer. from the seven surrounding states. In “A Quiet Thanksgiving,” Murphy’s sister and son sit at the table waiting for Thanksgiving dinner to start. Her goal was to eliminate detail and bring out the big shapes, making the painting look semi-abstract, and to recreate the warm light and feeling of a late November. The exhibition is on display from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily at the University College Arts Program Gallery, UMUC Inn and Conference Center, 3501 University Blvd., Adelphi. For more information go to

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Brookeville sees higher costs tied to war anniversary

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Spending in Brookeville in the coming fiscal year will rise as the town celebrates the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 and repairs the Brookeville Academy. But Michael Acierno, the outgoing commission president, said the town’s financial situation remains good. “We’ve been very frugal in anticipation of this year,” he said. Acierno said the budget projects revenues of $148,016 and expenses totaling $238,730, creating a deficit of $90,714. The deficit will be taken out of reserves, which total $445,043, he said. The tax rates remain the same — 15 cents per $100 of assessed value for real property, and 45 cents for personal property. The proposed spending represents an increase of about 13 percent, due mostly to capital projects. These include a new roof, an underground propane tank and fire alarm panel replacement for the Brookeville Academy, brick sidewalk repair, and road maintenance. Acierno called road repair, a need exacerbated after the harsh winter, “the elephant in the room.” “With [state] Highway User Funds a fraction of what they once were, the burden of the roads is squarely on our shoulders and we do need to address it in a more intelligent way,” he said. The town commissioners presented a draft of the proposed budget for fiscal year

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dollars and euros in ﬁnancing to businesses and individuals,” the news release says. In return, the Johnsons promised money that they said was in an overseas bank account. The FBI said the plea agreement indicates that Shannon Johnson received about $3.7 million in advance fees, but didn’t provide the promised ﬁnancing. Instead, the Johnsons used the money to buy Bentley, Mercedes-Benz and BMW automobiles; travel on private jets; and fund the mortgage on their Laytonsville home.

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Girl Scout volunteers honored for service FROM STAFF REPORTS Adult Girl Scout volunteers were recognized for outstanding service on June 1 at the Girl Scouts Association 31 spring meeting at Brighton Woods camp. Local recipients of Service Unit 31-2 represent the Olney-Brookeville community, and local schools: Belmont, Brooke Grove, Greenwood, and Olney elementary schools; Rosa Parks and William H. Farquhar middle schools, St. Peter’s Catholic School, St. John’s Episcopal School, and Sherwood High School. • Elizabeth Lakey received a pin to honor her 25 years with Girl Scouts.

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Sandy Spring Museum seeks to replace computers

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Museums are supposed to have artifacts, but not when it comes to technology. The Sandy Spring Museum is trying to raise $2,000 to retire outdated computers and purchase two new work stations. The museum is accepting donations for the new computers at www.power2give.org/ go/o/915. Your gift will go further, since the county will contribute 50 cents for every $1 donated. The matches from the county are part of a program started by the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, through an online crowd sourcing fundraising site called Power2Give. Matches are solicited from the county government and from local businesses to go toward projects. Gifts of any amount will be appreciated. For more information, call 301-774-0022 or go to www.sandyspringmuseum.org.

At right, Sandy Spring Museum member Lorne Garrettson sells strawberries dipped in chocolate at the museum’s 33rd annual Strawberry Festival on Saturday. Below, Konrad Oles, 10, of Olney asks Christina Hernandez, 15, of Damascus about the goats in the 4-H tent at the festival. PHOTOS BY BILL RYAN/THE GAZETTE

GOCA oversees banners The Greater Olney Civic Association is reminding the public that it oversees the banners directly behind the Sherwood High School sign at the corner of Georgia Avenue and Md. 108. The banner space is intended for use by nonprofit organizations whose missions directly benefit the Olney community. To reserve banner space, review the GOCA banner policy and fill out the application form available at www.goca.org/banner-policy.

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It was around lunchtime last July 22 when Rockville Police Ofﬁcer Chad Bates got a call to respond for a shoplifting incident at a gas station at the corner of Rockville Pike and Dodge Street. When Bates got there, he found the suspected thief, a woman he had talked to only about 10 minutes earlier about a separate incident, about a half-block from the gas station. He approached her. The woman was belligerent, and the situation escalated even as he tried to calm her down, Bates said. As she came closer, he warned her to step back, and ﬁnally the woman pulled a metal object out of a bag she was carrying. Bates said he initially thought it was a machete, but it turned out to be a sort of metal pole or spike with a serrated edge. He used his Taser on her and the woman fell, dropping the weapon. The whole confrontation lasted about two minutes.

“People don’t realize how hard it is to think when stuff like that happens,” Bates said. Your first reaction in that type of situation is just to move, he said. He thought about drawing his gun and shooting the woman, and isn’t exactly sure why he didn’t. “I had a split second to understand that I had a small window of opportunity to do something different,” he said. Bates recalled the incident just before he received the Citation for Bravery for these actions at the annual Rockville Public Safety Awards presentation June 4 at Lakewood Country Club. The ceremony recognizes outstanding work by members of the Rockville City Police Department, Rockville Volunteer Fire Department, Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office and Montgomery County Department of Correction and Rehabilitation. In all, 47 people were recognized for their work at the ceremony. Among those honored were four members of the sheriff’s office who in December tracked down a woman who was believed to be suicidal. Deputies Lindsey Swinford, Zachary Buttrey and Andrew Tucker, and

The following is a summary of incidents in the Olney area to which Montgomery County police responded recently. The words “arrested” and “charged” do not imply guilt. This information was provided by the county.

Sexual assault • On May 26 at 12:30 p.m. in the 2400 block of Jones Lane, Silver Spring. Strong-arm robbery • On May 23 at 3:15 p.m. in the 1500 block of Hanby Street, Silver Spring. The subjects assaulted the victim and took property. Aggravated assault • On May 25 at 1:08 p.m. in the 4800 block of Aspen Hill Road, Rockville. The subject is known to the victim. • On May 25 at 3 p.m. in the 12800 block of Parkland Drive, Rockville. Burglary • On May 24 at 6:31 p.m. at Loiderman Middle School, 12701 Goodhill Road, Silver Spring. Commercial burglary • On May 26 at 6:15 p.m. in the 11000 block of Veirs Mill Road, Silver Spring.

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Rockville Police Chief Terry Treschuk presents Ofﬁcer Chad Bates with the Citation for Bravery at the 25th annual Rockville Public Safety Awards presentation on June 4 at Lakewood Country Club. Lt. Eric Runion followed several leads over a period of about 48 hours before ﬁnding the woman at a Rockville hotel, Sheriff Darren Popkin said. They forced their way into her room and found her near death from having swallowed too many pills, he said. The officers administered first aid until an ambulance could take her to a hospital. They received dis-

tinguished service citations June 4 for their work. The successes that police and ﬁre personnel have every day aren’t always recognized or celebrated as much as they should be, Popkin said. That’s why ceremonies such as the one last week are so important, he said. rmarshall@gazette.net

Residential burglary • Three incidents on Marlin Street, Rockville, on May 23. Unlocked sheds, took bicycles. Five incidents of vehicle larceny, as well. • 3400 block of Norbeck Road, Silver Spring, at 8:05 p.m. May 23. • 18500 block of Hickory Meadow Way, Olney, at 1:15 a.m. May 24. No forced entry, took property. • 2300 block of Blueridge Avenue, Silver Spring, at 6:21 p.m. May 24. No forced entry, took property. • 1800 block of Brighton Dam Road, Brookeville, at 3:46 p.m. May 26. • 100 block of Ashton Oaks Drive, Ashton, at 8:04 p.m. May 26. Vehicle larceny • Three incidents in Silver Spring on May 20 or 21. Unlocked vehicles, took cash, coins, an iPod and CDs. Affected streets included the 10500 block of Tenbrook Drive and the 800 block of Kerwin Road.

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From Station 40 (Olney Station): • On May 20 at 3:56 p.m., Georgia Ave and KingWilliam Drive for a motor vehicle collision. One person was transported to a local hospital. • On May 20 at 9:28 p.m., units responded with Kensington Station 25 to 3100 block of Adderley Court to assist the Kensington Fire Department with a house ﬁre. No ﬁre found when units arrived to the scene. • On May 22 at 11:38 a.m., 3400 block of Morningwood Drive for a motor vehicle collision. One person was transported to a local hospital. • On May 23 at 12:54 p.m., 3800 block of International Drive for a motor vehicle collision. • On May 24 at 12:04 p.m., Nor-

beck and Collidge roads for a motor vehicle collision. • On May 25 at 4:30 p.m., 17100 block of Georgia Avenue for a motor vehicle collision. • On May 26 at 8:09 p.m., 3700 block of International Drive to investigate an odor of smoke. • On May 26th at 9:59 p.m., 4100 block of Morningwood Drive to investigate an odor of smoke. Nothing was found when crews arrived. • On May 27 at 6:27 p.m., 19100 block ofWillow Grove Road to investigate a gas leak. • On May 28 at 3:42 p.m., 17100 block of Georgia Ave for a motor vehicle collision. One person was transported to a local hospital. • On May 28 at 9:11 p.m., 3200 block of North LeisureWorld Boulevard for an apartment ﬁre. No ﬁre found when units arrived to the scene. • On May 28 at 10:36 p.m., 15100

block of Interlachen Drive to investigate an odor of smoke. • On May 30 at 7:09 p.m., Georgia Avenue and Bel Pre Road for a property damage collision. • On June 1 at 3:35 a.m., Georgia Avenue and Goldmine Road for a property damage collision. • On June 3 at 5:08 p.m., 3200 block of Olney Sandy Spring Road for a property damage collision. • On June 3 at 6:17 p.m., 15400 block of Georgia Avenue for a property damage collision. • On June 4 at 11:57 a.m., 19400 block of Olney Mill Road to investigate a gas leak. • On June 4 at 3:48 p.m., Georgia Avenue and Bel Pre Road for a motor vehicle collision. One person was transported to a local hospital.

From Station 4 (Sandy Spring Station): • On May 17 at 9:56 p.m., 1700

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increasing library hours, infrastructure repair and the number of school resource officers, police officers who are stationed in the county’s schools. Andrews would also like to BY RYAN MARSHALL increase the staff of the county STAFF WRITER Inspector General’s office, whose current staff he said isn’t On tables in the back room big enough to sufficiently moniof Philip M. Andrews’ Rockville tor the county’s government. campaign headquarters are As a member of the County thousands and thousands of Council for 16 years, Andrews letters, about 30,000 in all. They has been a consistent critic of are each written by campaign the labor contracts the county volunteers to their friends, fam- signs with unions representing ily and neighbors asking them its workers. to support Andrews He criticized in his run for county Leggett and Duncan executive. for labor decisions The attempt to made when each was contact Montgomexecutive, and said ery County voters that as executive, he is an outgrowth of would work to keep Andrews’ campaign, the contracts more which has been parreasonable. tially based on perAndrews also Andrews sonal contact with does not take camresidents. paign contributions Since January 2013, An- from unions and other interest drews said he has knocked on groups. about 20,000 doors around the Andrews’ parents grew up county, talking with thousands during the Great Depression, of Montgomery residents about and taught him the value of betheir concerns for the county. ing careful with money. Andrews said he was very “Fiscal responsibility and aware that he was on the voter’s progressive values go hand-intime when he came to their hand,” he said. home, that he might be interAndrews grew up in Kensrupting dinner or some other ington, graduating from Einpart of the daily routine. stein High School in 1977. But his experience has been Recruited to Bucknell Unioverwhelmingly positive. versity to play tennis, Andrews “Almost everybody’s po- moved to Philadelphia after lite,” he said. graduation to work for the Andrews will try to use the League of Conservation Voters. recognition his visits have genHe moved back to Maryerated in the June 24 Demo- land in 1988 and spent six years cratic primary against current as the executive director of County Executive Isiah Leggett Common Cause Maryland. and former executive Douglas After a failed bid for the M. Duncan. council in 1994, he worked as The primary winner will the county’s Americorps direcface Republican James Shalleck tor until running again in 1998, in the Nov. 4 general election. when he was elected. Early voting in the primary Andrews said he’s accomstarts Thursday. plished much of what he set out Andrews said the most to do on the council. common concern he heard He led the effort on a bill to while talking to voters was ban smoking in restaurants in that it’s too expensive to live in the county, as well as one to reMontgomery County. quire county contractors to pay Many retirees told him employees a living wage. they’re thinking of leaving the The council is currently county, other people told him considering a bill by Andrews to their children can’t afford to allow public financing of future come back to Montgomery, county executive and council and working families are being candidates’ campaigns. stretched thin, Andrews said. His time on the council has If he’s elected, Andrews given him good understanding said he would try to increase the of how the county’s governcounty’s effectiveness in An- ment works, he said. napolis and get back a higher It’s a trait he acknowledges percentage of the taxes that that he shares with his two priMontgomery residents and mary opponents, and hopes voters will compare their rebusinesses pay to the state. “We can’t afford to not be spective times in office. “We all have experience, we more involved in Annapolis,” all have records that people can Andrews said. He also strongly supports examine,” Andrews said.

Duncan looks to return to top slot Executive hopeful focuses on accomplishments, goals n

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Douglas M. Duncan has a long history in Montgomery County politics. The fifth of 13 children, Duncan, 58, grew up accompanying his mother as she got involved in Rockville politics and county Democratic politics. His mother always told him that religious service was the highest calling, followed by political service, he said. He worked on Charlie Gilchrist’s campaign for county executive in 1978, and four years later earned a spot on the Rockville City Council on a platform of getting more affordable housing in the city. He became mayor in 1987, and immediately found that people looked at him differently. They wanted to know what he had accomplished and what he planned to do, and held him ultimately responsible for getting things done, he said. Being an official in Rockville allowed him to give back to a community that had such an impact on him and his family, he said. And his time in office had an added benefit. “It was perfect training to be county executive,” he said. Duncan turned that training into three terms in the executive’s office, serving from 1994 until 2006. Now he’s trying to reclaim the executive’s office against current Executive Isiah Leggett and challenger Councilman Philip M. Andrews (Dist. 3) of Gaithersburg in the June 24 Democratic primary. Early voting in the primary begins Thursday.

Executive candidates take on county issues Four men address business climate, Silver Spring Transit Center n

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The three men trying to unseat County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) zeroed in on the county’s business climate and the debacle over the Silver Spring Transit Center in a Saturday debate televised by Montgomery Community Media. Jim Shalleck, the only Republican seeking the position, called for a federal criminal grand jury investigating the project, which is years overdue and its cost has swollen to $120 million. “We need answers, and we’re not going to get it from the Democrats in this county,” Shalleck said. A grand jury could subpoena witnesses and records to look for kickbacks, or whether political contributors won contracts. County Councilman Phil Andrews (D-Dist. 3) of Gaithersburg and former county executive Doug Duncan (D) both criticized the project. Duncan focused on the Leggett administration and the County Council

for changing its story the cost, who will pay for it and when the center will open. Leggett, however, deflected the criticism. He said he rejected the transit center because he wasn’t satisfied. “I wouldn’t think this is a failure of county government. It’s a failure of the contractors,” he said. Each of the challengers said Montgomery wasn’t business friendly. Duncan faulted the county’s permitting services department and called for the economic development department to be revamped. Andrews attacked the county’s tax rates, particularly the energy tax, which Leggett doubled in 2010. Andrews promised to phase out that increase by the end of his first term. Shalleck, too, faulted county tax rates, particularly the county’s bag tax. Each candidate said they opposed the M-83, a 5.7-mile highway from Montgomery Village Avenue to Ridge Road. Casey Aiken moderated the debate. The debate can be seen at www.mymcmedia.org/ debate. Teddy Amenabar contributed to this report.

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The winner will has been the subject face Republican of construction flaws James Shalleck in the and cost overruns. Nov. 4 general elecThe full rebirth tion. of Silver Spring has Duncan said it’s been stalled by the gratifying to see how transit center delays, many people are faand Leggett and the miliar with his time County Council have in office and what he no credibility reDuncan accomplished during maining on the projthat time. ect, he said. Among his higher-profile The county needs a achievements, he lists Mont- hands-on executive to make gomery’s establishment as a economic development, transglobal biotechnology center, portation and streamlining the the revitalization of downtown county’s permitting process Silver Spring and construction priorities in the next term, of the AFI Silver Theatre and Duncan said. the construction of the Music Despite his longtime presCenter at Strathmore in North ence in Montgomery politics, Bethesda. Duncan said he’s running as a But one of the accomplish- challenger to the county’s curments he’s proudest of was rent leadership. his ability to push through Leggett and Andrews have Montgomery government’s both been in office for a long tendency to study and debate time, Duncan said. problems rather than act to Before serving two foursolve them, with “paralysis by year terms as county exanalysis” a recurring phrase at ecutive, Leggett was on the Duncan’s appearances at cam- County Council from 1986 unpaign events and candidate fo- til 2002. Andrews has been on rums. the council since 1998. It’s one of the areas in “They are the status quo,” which he’s been most critical Duncan said. of Leggett, particularly on projDuncan left the executive’s ects such as the Silver Spring office in 2006 to challenge Transit Center, the long-de- then-Baltimore Mayor Martin layed transportation hub that O’Malley in Maryland’s Dem-

ocratic primary, before dropping out of the race to deal with depression. Depression is a horrible illness, but his illness made him more patient and understanding, Duncan said. His experience also opened his eyes to the needs of Montgomery’s special needs community, and what the county is doing to provide better access to mental health treatment. It’s also allowed him to serve as a model for some people by showing them that you can get better, he said, and he ends many of his appearances with a plea for others to get help for themselves or someone they know who is suffering from depression. He spends much of the rest of these events trying to persuade voters to make a change in the county’s leadership and give his leadership another try. “I’m running for county executive because the status quo isn’t good enough,” he said. rmarshall@gazette.net

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Van Hollen motivated to continue congressional run n

Democrat seeks seventh term

KATE S. ALEXANDER STAFF WRITER

The son of a foreign service ofﬁcer, Rep. Christopher Van Hollen Jr. spent much of his childhood abroad, growing up in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India and Turkey. Living abroad developed in Van Hollen an interest in foreign affairs and national security, issues that he said would eventually lead him to run for Congress in 2002. During his six terms in the House of Representatives, Van Hollen (D-Dist. 8) of Kensington has played a key role in legislation such as the Affordable Care Act, the Farm Bill — which established a grant program to help farmers reduce agricultural runoff into the Chesapeake Bay — and the Conquer Childhood Cancer Act. As ranking Democratic member of the Budget Committee, he was deeply involved in ending the government shutdown in 2013 and in passing the bipartisan budget compromise last year. The budget compromise deferred sequestration cuts and should avoid future furloughs and shutdowns, he said. “That was a low point for Congress, it should never have

happened,” he said ments, he said the of the “unnecessary, federal government unproductive and can close tax loopshameful” shutdown holes that encourage last summer. American companies Van Hollen also to send jobs overseas helped pass legislaand that allow comtion that reduced panies to take tax student loan rates deductions on interand that protected national investments Van Hollen whistleblowers. before profits are reVan Hollen is running for turned. his seventh, two-year term in “We want to create jobs,” the House. he said. “Period.” In the June 24 primary, he In connection with creatfaces George English of Kens- ing jobs, he also supports the ington and Lih Young. The win- current push to raise the fedner of the Democratic primary eral minimum wage to $10.10 faces Republican Dave Wallace per hour and index the wage — who is running unopposed to inflation. He said he also — Independent Steven Had- supports ongoing negotiations dox and unaffiliated candidate with Iran to avoid it developAndrew Jaye Wildman in the ing nuclear weapons and U.S. November general election. involvement in trying to bring “I am somebody who is just a peace agreement between Istrying to make this community rael and Palestine. and this country and this world Van Hollen is also an ada little better place,” Van Hollen vocate for campaign finance said. reform. He has proposed The As he campaigns for re- Disclose Act, a bill that would election, creating jobs tops Van prevent secret donations. No Hollen’s platform. limits would be placed on how “The biggest issues remain much could be contributed but moving the economy forward contributors would be required and trying to encourage job to disclose who they are and creation,” he said. how much they are spending, Investing in infrastructure he said. and providing low-cost financ“I just think the public has a ing to spur growth of clean en- right to know who’s bank-rollergy companies are just two of ing these political campaigns,” the ways Van Hollen said Con- he said. gress can help create jobs. To pay for those investkalexander@gazette.net

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Seeks to better inform, involve parents

LINDSAY A. POWERS STAFF WRITER

Larry Edmonds took his ﬁrst step into a parent-teacher association when the principal at his daughter’s elementary school asked him and another man to help lead the dad-less group. “I heard all the nightmare stories about PTAs,” he said, but he accepted the offer. Since that first PTA vice president role, Edmonds has continued his involvement all the way to the county level. He has served in the past as the vice president of legislation for the Montgomery County Council of Parent-Teacher Associations and as a member of its delegates assembly that helps link the countywide council and local PTA groups. He currently serves as the county PTA’s legislative committee chair and the area vice president of the Northeast Consortium. Edmonds is now looking to make the move from PTA leader to Board of Education member. The Silver Spring resident is seeking the board’s District 5 seat currently held by Michael Durso, who is running for a second term. Edmonds — a commercial development director for a pest control company — said he is

up efforts to reach running for the school board seat because he out to parents and thinks he can provide the county organizasome needed change. tions in which they are In addition to his members. PTA roles, Edmonds “Parents give you was also one of the pretty good insight” original members of on how things can be the school system’s best accomplished, he Parent Advisory Counsaid. “They’re in the Edmonds cil. trenches every day.” One of his priorities should Edmonds said he thinks the he be elected, Edmonds said, in- school board did not handle volves better informing parents the latest capital improvements about the opportunities avail- program budget well. able to help their children sucSchool ofﬁcials waited too ceed, whether the goal is college long to talk to members of the or a vocation. Maryland General Assembly Students need to hear more about the funds they needed at home about the value of their for the school system’s overeducation and informed parents crowded, aging buildings, he can help pass that lesson along, said. The county should have he said. also asked for money by itself, Edmonds said he sees ar- rather than partnering with eas of the county where parents Prince George’s and Baltimore could be engaged more and en- counties, he said. couraged to participate more in Edmonds said he thinks the schools, especially parents of school system should have diAfrican American and Hispanic verted more money in the past students. to capacity-building construc“We’re not getting into those tion projects rather than to porzones and saying, ‘Look, this is tables. what’s important,’” he said. Edmonds gave the current The school board should schoolboardaBminusforitswork. also be more “open,” Edmonds The board members need to said. “speak up more,” he said, and He said he has heard from come up with more ideas for parents who say the board has change. Now, he said, he sees made decisions in the past that board members more often parents had not been aware consider changes that others were on the table. propose. A solution, Edmonds said, lpowers@gazette.net is for the school system to ramp

School expense reports released

Records include Starr, school board members

LINDSAY A. POWERS STAFF WRITER

Montgomery County Public Schools released on Friday expense reports for Board of Education members and other top officials related to their school system-issued credit cards. The school system records include expense reports for county school board members from the last five years and expense reports for four administration officials, including Superintendent Joshua P. Starr, from the last three years. County school board members are holding meetings to review the board’s policy on the credit cards amid questions over their usage. An ad-hoc committee was formed in April to review “the board’s processes and guidelines regarding reimbursable expenses,” according to a Monday statement from school board President Philip Kauffman and Vice President Patricia O’Neill. The committee’s members include Kauffman, O’Neill and school board member Michael Durso, who serves as chair of the board’s fiscal management committee. School board members, who are given credit cards for business-related expenses, have stopped using the cards while the committee performs its review. School board member Christopher S. Barclay (D), who is running for the Montgomery County Council’s District 5 seat, has lost two political endorsements after it came to light that he used his school system credit card to make nearly $1,500 in personal purchases that he was required to reimburse. The Montgomery County Education Association, which represents about 12,000 teachers and other educators, announced Wednesday that it had withdrawn its support for Barclay “in light of the recent news and financial disclosures.” SEIU Local 500 announced Wednesday that it now backs Del. Tom Hucker (D). 1909158

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New ads on Metro buses with a photo of Adolf Hitler and a prominent Muslim leader represent the “bigotry and hate” that divide people and spur hatred, religious groups said Monday morning. “These ads are trying to say the Quran calls for hatred of Judaism,” said Ira Weiss, who represented the Jewish Islam Dialogue Society, which works to bring together Muslims and Jews. “It is easy to cherry-pick nasty parts of Scripture in any text — they were written thousands of years ago,” Weiss said at a news conference in Rockville. “These words used in the ads are like the devil using Scripture against its religion.” The ads, created by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, feature a photo of Hitler speaking to Haj Amin al-Husseini, who was grand mufti of Jerusalem at the time. They ask people to stop aiding Muslims in an attempt to “end racism.” The ads, which are on 20

Metro buses, declare that “Islamic Jew-hatred” is “in the Quran,” adding the “two thirds of all US aid goes to Islamic countries.” The Montgomery County Faith Community Working Group — which represents the county’s Baha’i, Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish, Protestant, Roman Catholic, Sikh, Unitarian Universalist and Zoroastrian communities — organized the news conference and rally, which drew about 100 people to the Rockville Metro station. James Stow, director of the county’s Ofﬁce of Humans Rights, said he was happy to support the religious protest against the ad. “Freedom is not free,” Stow said. “It’s heavy lifting.” He said he recognized that the group that bought the ads enjoys freedom of speech, but it should use that freedom to speak against hate. Meanwhile, Pamela Geller of New York, who leads that pro-Israel group, said she was surprised by the protest because she has not heard of other protests against what she called the teachings of the Quran. “I am surprised that these same Muslim leaders are not

protesting the anti-Semitic texts and teachings in the Quran,” Geller wrote in an email to The Gazette. “Instead they protest those of us that oppose such hate speech.” The ads concern U.S. aid to other countries, Geller said. “So if that is the issue, why didn’t these protesters protest against the American Muslims for Palestine ad?” she asked, referring to that group’s ads on Metro buses in April. Those ads read: “We’re sweating April 15 so Israelis don’t have to! Stop US aid to Israel’s occupation.” The message was superimposed over a tax return form, next to a picture of Uncle Sam waving an Israeli ﬂag. “As for bringing in religion where it is not needed, that is not my doing,” Geller wrote. “The Islamic jihadists have done that, impeding peace in Israel with their genocidal religion-based hatred, as Hamas so memorably expressed recently when they said on their Aqsa TV channel: ‘Killing Jews is worship that draws us closer to Allah.’ It is chilling that anyone in the U.S. would protest against an attempt to draw attention to that hateful and violent ethos.” Those who attended Mon-

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Majam Shaikh (center) and Humaira Khan (right), both from the Islamic Center of Maryland, hold signs during Monday’s news conference in Rockville. day’s rally called the protest a good step forward. Imam Faizul Khan, an administrator with the Islamic Society of the Washington Area and co-chairman of the Faith Community Advisory Council, said he came because he was “concerned with the message of division, bigotry and hate.” “I came today to help bring awareness to the community,

and bring unity,” Khan said. “I believe the best next step is to create an infection of love in Montgomery County and continue our momentum.” Weiss said he realizes that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, which runs the Metro bus and rail systems, did not want to place these ads on its buses, but the advertising space has been ruled by

the courts as a public forum protected by the First Amendment. “We may not decline ads based on their political content,” WMATA said in an email to The Gazette. “WMATA does not endorse the advertising on our system, and ads do not reﬂect the position of the Authority. There is a disclaimer statement printed on the advertising stating this.”

Challenger in sheriff’s race says department is spread too thin Says stafﬁng is pushing duties onto county police

TIFFANY ARNOLD STAFF WRITER

As Thomas R. Falcinelli Jr. sees it, the biggest problem in the Montgomery County sheriff’s office is staffing. “Numbers, working bodies, that’s your first priority,” said Falcinelli, who’s challenging incumbent and fellow Democrat Darren Popkin in this year’s sheriff’s race. In the June 24 primary, vot-

ers will decide who to Falcinelli accused advance to the general the current leadership election in November, of creating top-heavy when there will be no stafﬁng at managerial Republican challenger. levels while leaving Falcinelli, 54, of other aspects of the deSilver Spring, has a partment understaffed. 29-year career in law The effect, he said, is a enforcement. He’s a sheriff’s department Montgomery County that’s spread too thin, Falcinelli police sergeant and an causing some of the attorney. sheriff department’s responsibiliOutside of policing, he is ties — such as the late-night transthe director of ofﬁcials for the port of inmates — to be shifted to Indoor Football League and is a Montgomery County police. former referee for the National If elected sheriff, Falcinelli Football League. said, he would refocus the de-

partment’s priorities back to its core duties — serving orders, transporting inmates and protecting the court. Ofﬁcers would be pulled from temporary assignments that didn’t involve the department’s core functions until stafﬁng numbers improved, he said. Falcinelli said he would preserve the sheriff department’s commitment to help staff the Family Justice Center, a one-stop

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program that works with a range of agencies to help victims of domestic violence ﬁnd shelter and other resources to protect themselves and their children from abusive partners. But Falcinelli said that even the Family Justice Center has had bloated stafﬁng from the sheriff’s department, a situation he described as “overkill.” “That’s an important, worthwhile effort,” Falcinelli said of the

Family Justice Center. “But there has to be balance.” Falcinelli unsuccessful ran for sheriff in 2010, the year Popkin was elected. He said he hadn’t considered running during this election until he was approached by deputies who said they wanted change. Falcinelli said he wants to “provide these guys an option.” tarnold@gazette.net

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Ride Allegheny invites cyclists to train for fundraiser October trip from Pittsburgh to Gaithersburg beneﬁts wounded veterans n

VIRGINIA TERHUNE

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The annual 300-mile bike trip between Pittsburgh and Gaithersburg may be more than three months away, but local bicyclists are already starting to train for the Ride Allegheny fundraiser for wounded veterans. Based in Gaithersburg, Ride Allegheny is hosting training rides near Dickerson on Saturday followed by a free lunch, music and wine tastings at Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard in hopes of boosting the number of participants this year. The group is also hosting a ride on June 22 along the C&O Canal towpath between Potomac and Arlington National Cemetery and back, with a cruiser bike auction and Moab beer specials at the Wine Harvest store in Potomac afterward. “[We’re] trying to get folks excited about our event and get them signed up to do the ride in October,” said organizer Clark Wagner of the Kentlands in Gaithersburg. This year the ride runs from Oct. 2 through 5, with the option to join halfway through in Cum-

berland. Since 2005, the group has donated all the proceeds from the fall ride to Operation Second Chance, a nonprofit founded by Cindy McGrew of Clarksburg that helps wounded veterans make the transition back to civilian life by offering financial help, organized retreats and family activities. Operation Second chance, which also offers counseling on Fridays, recently moved into first-floor office space on Century Boulevard in Germantown donated by the building manager, Matan real estate company. “This is our biggest fundraiser,” said McGrew, who made part of the bike trip herself one year. “It’s an amazing ride. ... I got up to Eastern Continental Divide,” she said. “Everyone can go at their own pace.” Last year, riders making the full trip from Pittsburgh to Gaithersburg spent the first night in Confluence, Pa. This year they will be staying in the Pennsylvania white water rafting town of Ohiopyle, a name derived from the Native American word for “ohiopehhla,” which means white frothy water. “It’s a big change,” said Wagner, who hopes that stopping

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Bicyclist Dennet Oregon of Rockville, who lost both legs in Afghanistan, participates in Ride Allegheny, a bike trip from Pittsburgh through Cumberland to Gaithersburg. Ride Allegheny raises money for Operation Second Chance, a nonproﬁt founded and run by Cindy McGrew of Clarksburg, that helps wounded veterans transition back to civilian life. in Ohiopyle, which has a larger number of rooms to accommodate more riders, will help raise the number of bicyclists from 85 to 120 this year. “In 2005 we were just getting off the ground,” Wagner said. “We raised $32,000 then, and each year, we’ve gone up.” Last year Ride Allegheny raised $300,000, and this year the goal is $350,000, he said. Bicyclists also have the option of joining the group in

Cumberland for a two-day ride, with everyone ending up for dinner at Smokey Glen Farm Barbequers in Gaithersburg. The two-day ride at 159 miles is slightly longer,than the ﬁrst leg, but it is ﬂatter, as Cumberland is east of the Divide. The cost is $225 to participate in the four-day ride and $150 for the two-day trip. The cost includes some meals but does not include rooms. “It’s a balancing act – we

don’t want to charge too much,” said Wagner, who said the cost is less than that typically charged by outdoor stores but enough to bring in funds for Operation Second Chance. Riders who sign up can also help by not using credit cards, which charge processing fees. “If you want 100 percent to go to the vets, send a check,” McGrew said. Most of the bicyclists each year are civilians but some veterans also ride, including Army veteran Dennet Oregon of Rockville, who lost his legs serving in Afghanistan in 2005. Oregon, who plans to participate again this year, said he met McGrew at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda while recovering from injuries caused by an IUD explosion. “[Her] organization’s whole purpose of being is to help vets,” Oregon said. “She cares.” McGrew had been was working at Legg Mason in Gaithersburg in 2004, when she started volunteering her time at Walter Reed. Some friends joined her, and soon they were regularly visiting the wounded veterans and their families and helping in whatever way they could. When the Ride Allegheny group heard through a mem-

ber’s wife who worked with McGrew in 2005 that McGrew was forming a nonprofit, they offered to help. “We said, ‘This is for us,’” said Wagner. “Cindy puts her heart and soul into it. ... Now we’re civilians on a cause.” McGrew left her job at Legg Mason in 2008 and now runs the nonprofit full time. Also involved in the fundraising is Just Riding Along Bicycle Shop (JRABS) on MD 108 in Laytonsville, which is offering discounts on bikes purchased for Ride Allegheny, Wagner said. The store raised more than $5,000 for Operation Second Chance at a March 22 fundraising raffle and barbecue. Owner Travis Evans also participates in Ride Allegheny, helping people make repairs along the way, Wagner said. Although the route is the same every year, the people and some of the activities on the ride change. “We’re also now starting to get people’s kids,” Wagner said. “We still do it for fun, but there’s a higher calling now,” he said. For more information and photos from the trip, visit operationsecondchance.org and ridealleghency.org. vterhune@gazette.net

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LINDSAY A. POWERS STAFF WRITER

A Potomac teacher faces charges of secretly videotaping a foreign exchange student staying in his home by sliding an

iPad under the bathroom door. Darrien Lamont Tucker, 39, of the 10800 block of Deborah Drive in Potomac, is a physical education teacher at the McLean School of Maryland in Potomac, according to Montgomery County police. He was also a volunteer assistant coach for the football team at Walt Whitman High

School in Bethesda but decided before his arrest not to return next year because of “another opportunity,” said Dana Toﬁg, a spokesman for Montgomery County Public Schools. Tucker was arrested June 3 and charged with ﬁve counts of visual surveillance with prurient intent. Five times from May 27 to

May 31, Tucker slid an iPad under the bathroom door while the 18-year-old female foreign exchange student was inside, according to police. The student ﬁrst noticed the iPad on May 27 when she was in the bathroom showering. County police were notiﬁed about the incidents on June 1. The student used her phone

to film the iPad being slid under the door. She also placed a video camera in the hallway to film Tucker in the act. “The camera outside in the hallway showed him, the suspect, approach the door and place the iPad under the door,” said Cpl. Rebecca Innocenti, a spokeswoman for county police. There was no phone directory listing for Tucker. Online court records did not show an attorney for him. Police are not releasing the student’s name or where she attends school. She has lived with Tucker and his family since the fall of last year, Innocenti said. Tucker is due in court on July 15, according to online court records. He was released on bail. A statement from the McLean School of Maryland said police confirmed that the student involved in the incidents

does not attend the school. “The employee has been placed on a leave of absence and instructed not to return to campus, participate in or attend school functions or activities, or to make contact with any McLean student,” the statement said. “While employed at McLean, the School received no complaints of misconduct of this nature against the employee.” The statement also said that Tucker passed the school’s “comprehensive vetting process” before he was hired. According to the school’s website, Tucker teaches physical education and coaches cross-country, girls basketball, and track and ﬁeld. He is also co-captain of the Frederick Outlaws, a semi-professional football team, the website says. lpowers@gazette.net

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Great-grandmother flies plane for the first time Trip fulfills a lifetime wish n

BRITTANY CHENG

SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE

While Mary Hamilton Moe was growing up in suburban Philadelphia, her father would teach her to drive at the local cemetery, where she couldn’t “hurt anyone,” she said. But teenage Moe wasn’t interested in driving at all, she said. She wanted to fly. Life, however, always got in the way, said the 91-year-old great-grandmother of two. “Well, there were two children to raise and all sorts of things like that,” said Moe, a Chevy Chase, D.C., resident. After years of waiting, she finally saw her dream come true Wednesday afternoon at the Montgomery County Airpark in Gaithersburg. Her flight was emotional, said Carole Drake, Moe’s daughter who lives in Potomac. “My daughter even said, ‘look at grandmom go!’— just seeing her behind there,” Drake said. “Kind of fearless.” Moe co-piloted a plane for the first time, thanks to the help of Wish of a Lifetime, a Colorado-based organization that grants the wishes of deserving senior citizens, and the sponsorship of TAD Relocation, a Gaithersburg business that helps senior citizens downsize and transition into new homes across the country. “We partnered with Wish of a Lifetime to find seniors and honor them for their wonderful lives,” said Susie Danick, founder of TAD Relocation. “We just wanted to find a way to honor them and provide the funds to help them with a wish that they haven’t been able to do.” Moe’s interest in flight developed at age 10 after the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped. “I thought that was the most interesting thing in the world, and that got me into

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Lindbergh’s history,” she said. “And my sister, I remember, that Christmas gave me the book, ‘We,’ written by Charles Lindbergh, about his flight across the Atlantic. So that just fascinated me.” The 1930s were still some of the early years in aviation history. The first flight school had only opened two decades prior, and commercial airports only began surfacing in the 1920s. The first prototype of what would become known as a modern-day commercial jetliner wasn’t invented until 1952. But when aviator Amelia Earhart made the news— first for being the first female to fly solo across the Atlantic and later for her disappearance in the Pacific— Moe discovered her penchant for travel. “We lived in England for a while,” Drake said. “And ever since then, she would go a couple times a year across the Atlantic, and she would always count the number of times she had been.” But Moe didn’t think she would ever get to fly. She kept busy, juggling her work in advertising and raising her family, Drake said, and soon the dream got put on the backburner. It all changed when, in her early 30s, Moe was diagnosed with breast cancer. “At that time, I wished I would be a flying grandmother and that my children would be grown up and I would take off someday,” said Moe, who beat the cancer at 34. “So [today’s flight] is fulfilling that wish.” But before the booked limousine could pick up Moe at her home at the Knollwood Military Retirement Community in Chevy Chase, on Wednesday, months of preparation had to take place. Moe had initially heard about Wish of a Lifetime through Knollwood and brought up the idea to Drake, who helped submit the application.

PHOTOS BY BRITTANY CHENG

Above, Mary Hamilton Moe climbs into the cockpit for her first flying lesson at the Gaithersburg Airpark. Below, Batelle Rachmian, general manager of the flight school at the airpark, goes over a flight plan with Moe.

The concept of the wish fulﬁllment program is simple. All eligible senior citizens can apply for the chance to have their wish granted, and recipients are chosen based on the purpose of their wish and whether they have a compelling story, according to Wish of a Lifetime’s website. Meanwhile, around the same time, Danick and her husband, Joel, were inspired

to give back to the community. They liked Wish of a Lifetime’s mission because the foundation honors seniors, who are TAD Relocation’s core business, Danick said. “There aren’t a lot of organizations that focus on seniors from that aspect,” said Joel Danick, who joined the company 10 years ago. “There are a lot of senior support agencies … but nothing that really

focused on fulﬁlling [wishes].” They fundraised $5,000 through community efforts and sent the donation under one main condition: It would serve a senior citizen in the Washington Metropolitan area. Since then, the company has raised another $5,000, and the next recipient from the area will be announced in July, Susie Danick said. After receiving the donation, Wish of a Lifetime paired TAD Relocation with Moe and announced the surprise at a Knollwood anniversary celebration just after Christmas this past year. “She was really, really shocked,” Drake said. A few months later, Moe’s dream was ready to take off. The sleek black limousine picked up Moe at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday and brought Moe, her daughter, granddaughter, two great-granddaughters and three friends to the airpark. There she met Batelle Rachmian, general manager at the ﬂight school and Moe’s instructor for the day. In the

classroom, they reviewed the area, what to expect while in the air and taking off, plane controls and the flight plan, Rachmian said. Moe said she just felt “a couple of thumps” in her heart before the flight and was eager to get aboard. They took off in a singleengine Cessna 172 and went 15 miles north and returned within the hour. Rachmian said that although Moe is the oldest student she’s ever taught, Moe performed better than other beginners on their first lesson. “She really knew what was going on. If it’s other airplanes talking, she knew that there was someone telling us they’re coming, and she knew when she was doing something wrong, she could figure it out,” said Rachmian, who has been an instructor for eight years. “And there was one time that I held the [control] yoke, and she noticed. She could potentially do solo.” The Federal Aviation Administration mandates a minimum of 40 hours of practice, including five solo, for a private pilot’s license, according to the administration’s website. But the average is closer to 70, based on how often they fly, Rachmian said. Moe has about four more hours paid for by the wish. For now, Moe is just enjoying the experience — she even jokingly brought along a Neiman Marcus shopping bag for a barf bag — after plans derailed last month when she caught pneumonia, and she wasn’t sure if Wednesday work in her favor either. “I thought today, ‘Oh, it’s going to be rainy and stormy, or it’s going to be hot and sultry,’” Moe said. “But it’s a beautiful day, and I couldn’t wish for more.”

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Continued from Page A-1 Last year, the Buffingtons worked to resurrect the Clarksburg Chamber of Commerce, to help promote and legislate on behalf of the local business community. Beyond the Olney community, Bufﬁngton is a major supporter of the Children’s Miracle Network. In 2013, RE/MAX Realty Centre donated nearly $40,000 to the cause. She said she was touched by this recognition. “Olney is my first love,” she said. “It was such a special, beautiful night. So many people came out and my family was all there. It was just like being in heaven.” Since it opened in 2012, The Winery at Olney has been fully committed to being an active member of the local community. It was honored with the Chamber’s Partners in Business Award. The Winery is owned by Joe McCall, Jeremy Cronin, Joyce and Ray Simonsen, Johanna Ecker, and Dan and Kim McCall, all of who grew up in Montgomery County. “We spent six months searching for the ideal location and settled in Olney,” McCall

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Continued from Page A-1 The man took one branch off, ﬁlled a small hole with cement and charged her $2,000, Barr said. The county was eventually able to get the money back, he said. According to county police, a victim in Chevy Chase paid four contractors a total of $80,000 to perform the same job, while another resident in the southern

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said. “It has been wonderful, and very successful for us. From day one, we knew we wanted to give back to the community.” Unlike traditional wineries, this one has an urban setting in an Olney Shopping Center. Although the Winery makes all of its own wine, they do not grow their own grapes. This allows them to make more than 30 varieties, obtaining the grapes from the ﬁnest growing areas in the world, McCall said. They used to make all their wine in Olney, but the demand forced them to open a production facility in Beltsville. Olney remains a working winery, where customers can come in and make their own batch, and design their own label. They have forged working relationships with other local businesses and non-profits. They’ve partnered with several local businesses for events, and joint catering opportunities, and also supported the Sandy Spring Museum’s concert series by providing a post-event gathering spot. The Winery has actively supported numerous charitable and non-profit events by hosting fundraisers and donating products. Organizations including St Jude Children’s Hospital, The Olney Buccaneers, Lombardy

Cancer Center, the University of Maryland Scholarship Fund, and the Montgomery County Humane Society have all benefited from their efforts. McCall said they joined the chamber six months before the business opened. Last week, he was installed as a member of its board of directors. They have been a strong supporter of the chamber, participating in National Night Out and Community Night, and hosting several networking functions. “This award is an affirmation of our objective from day one, to be an active partner within the community,” McCall said. “For us, it’s not about making sales, it is about making friends with our customers. We are really committed to doing that.” Jon Hulsizer, executive director of the chamber, said that identifying this year’s award winners was relatively obvious, because of the contributions both Bette Buffington and the Winery at Olney have made to the business community. “We feel very fortunate to have both of them as Chamber members, and we were glad to share the recognition at this year’s Celebration of Excellence,” he said.

part of the county paid $160,000 for three different roof jobs, plus trimming and cutting of various trees. An elderly county resident paid $240,000 for work at his home with few results, according to police. Unsolicited contractors, or “woodchucks,” often provide a low estimate for how much work will cost, said county police Lt. Michael Hartnett. The problem is not just one for Montgomery County, but for

the Washington region, costing from $2 million to $3 million regionally each year, he said. Deputy State’s Attorney John Maloney said his ofﬁce welcomes the increased focus on the issue as his ofﬁce goes after anyone who preys on the county’s most vulnerable residents. “We will prosecute you, and we will prosecute to the full extent of the law,” Maloney said.

Montgomery County Public Schools, confirmed that Williams last attended Seneca Valley High School in 2013, but does not know if he graduated. On Tuesday, police said they

were still investigating the cause of death. thogan@gazette.net

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First meeting held in May was closed

LINDSAY A. POWERS STAFF WRITER

An ad-hoc committee examining credit cards given to Montgomery school board members will hold open meetings going forward after one meeting behind closed doors. The committee — consisting of school board president Philip Kauffman, board vice president Patricia O’Neill and board member Michael Durso — met for the first time in early May in a closed meeting. Kauffman formed the group in April after it was brought to light that school board member Christopher S. Barclay used his school system-issued credit card to make personal purchases totaling nearly $1,500 and later had to reimburse the school system for them. The committee will hold its next meeting on Thursday. Dana Tofig, a county school system spokesman, said in a Tuesday email that the meeting will be open and the committee members are scheduled to meet with the attorneys before the meeting. Kauffman had said in an interview earlier on Tuesday that the meeting would be closed because it would involve committee members’ discussions with school system attorneys. The school board has come under fire for the decision to closing some of its meetings as its reviewed the issue. The committee’s first meeting was closed because the members were following normal procedures for the board’s ad-hoc committees, which typically focus on school board operations rather than school system policy, Kauffman said. In the past, he said, the committees have not been

“There were issues that have come up where we’ve determined that we needed clarification of our expense guidelines.” Philip Kauffman, school board president required to comply with the Maryland Open Meetings Act. The current ad-hoc committee, Kauffman said, does not involve a quorum of board members and was formed by the board president rather than the full board. David Paulson, communications director for the state Attorney General’s Office, said he could not comment on the specific situation of the Montgomery board’s committee. Speaking generally, he said that — based on the state law and opinion from the state Open Meetings Compliance Board — it is OK for an ad-hoc committee or subcommittee to hold a closed meeting if the group does not constitute a quorum of the full body and was not formed by a rule, resolution or bylaw. The Montgomery school board consists of seven members plus a student member. A quorum is at least four members. Kauffman said public interest spurred the decision to open up the committee’s meetings. Danuta Wilson, a member of the Parents’ Coalition, filed a complaint dated May 31 with the Maryland Attorney General’s Office that raises “an apparent violation” by the county school board of the state Open Meetings Act. The complaint cites the committee’s closed meeting in early May. Paulson said the state Attorney General’s Office will reply to the complaint within about 30 days.

The committee members will meet on Thursday with school system attorneys who have been going through expense records from the past several years, Kauffman said. He said he’s “not sure where that review will lead us.” Kauffman said the committee members’ discussion during the early May meeting included the processes and guidelines associated with the cards. The minutes of that first meeting will be posted, he said. After its review, the Montgomery ad-hoc committee will make recommendations to the full school board. Kauffman said he anticipates recommendations related to the school board’s handbook, how the credit card expenses are processed and the requirements for expense approvals. “There were issues that have come up where we’ve determined that we needed clarification of our expense guidelines,” he said. Their discussion also will cover whether board members should have the cards at all, he said. Kauffman said he does not know how many meetings the committee will hold before the members make a recommendation and move the issue to the full board. The committee will conduct “as many as it will take to get the job done,” he said. lpowers@gazette.net

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Potomac man’s fond memory had a certain ring to it After half-century, sentimental piece of jewelry reappears n

PEGGY MCEWAN STAFF WRITER

Fred Glaser of Potomac was sure he would never see his college ring again. After all, he lost it in 1965, 49 years ago — before serving in Vietnam, before getting married, before raising two children, before becoming a grandfather. But in early May, he got a message from his alma mater, New York University, informing him that someone was trying to contact him about a lost class ring, one with his name inscribed inside. The story, Glaser said, started on a pleasant summer

day when he and his girlfriend, Nomi, went for a drive along the Bronx River Parkway in New York. “We pulled off on a grassy knoll,” he said. “It was a nice day.” They were serious sweethearts: In the parlance of the 1960s, they were “going steady,” dating only each other. As a symbol of their commitment, Glaser gave her his school ring and she wore it on a chain around her neck. Before they left, they noticed the ring was missing, Glaser said. They looked and looked in the grass where they had been, but could not ﬁnd the ring. “I felt really bad about it,” he said. “But it was nowhere to be found.” Soon, he said, the ring was forgotten and life went on. “I must have eventually

forgiven [Nomi] for losing it, because two years later, immediately upon returning from a duty in Vietnam, we got married,” he wrote in an email. The Glasers moved to Montgomery County 40 years ago and have lived in Potomac for 37 years. The ring, however, stayed in New York, buried in the grass until 1973, when Tony Zorabedian, who made a hobby of searching for hidden treasures with his metal detector found it. Zorabedian “made an attempt to locate me,” Glaser said. “There was no Internet and [NYU’s College of Science and Engineering] no longer existed so he tossed the ring into a box where he put items he had unearthed over the years.” There it stayed, with Zorabedian’s other trinkets, until his death seven years ago, Glaser said. “His wife found the ring

and made an attempt to find me again.” This time, with the help of the Internet, some younger relatives and the fact that Glaser’s alma mater had morphed into the current NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering and therefore was tied into the alumni office, Ann Zorabedian connected with Glaser through her nephew Carey Zorabedian. Within three days of that first phone call, after 49 years, Glaser said he had his ring back. He’s happy to have it, although it doesn’t really fit well anymore, he said. And he is not going to give it back to his wife. It turns out that over the years she has lost “a lot of other jewelry,” Glaser said. pmcewan@gazette.net

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Nomi and Fred Glaser of Potomac show off the college ring he gave Nomi a half-century ago — and which came back into their lives last month.

Army major turned acupuncturist ﬁnds home at Buddhist temple n

Woman uses Buddhism, Eastern medicine to alleviate suffering BY

SARAH SCULLY STAFF WRITER

Dolma Johanison runs a hand over the top of her buzzed speckled grey hair, laughs, and says it’s getting a little long. As a Buddhist nun she’s expected to keep it short. A relic of her Tennessee upbringing, Johanison’s southern twang may have picked up a few paces between Nashville and the Pentagon, where she held her last position in the Army as a major, but it lingers in most of her vowels. In college, Johanison started her career as a part-time police ofﬁcer in Tennessee; now at 48 she’s an acupuncturist and Buddhist nun. Johanison joined the Army National Guard after graduating from Middle Tennessee State University, ready for something beyond Tennessee. She had long eschewed the expectations of her as a young woman in the south, her younger brother Jason Tomlinson explained. “She was always ahead of the bell curve,” he said. Johanison described herself at the time: “I was like a shape with pointy edges.” She worked on Black Hawk

helicopters, and traveled to Central America on a peace keeping mission. She recalled one visit to a poor village, where she was accompanying a doctor. She gave away the team’s lunches to the kids—“skin across skeletons”— to the chagrin of the pilot. As the helicopter blades warmed up for them to leave, swinging low around the cabin, a woman approached Johanison, trying to hand her baby to her. When Johanison wouldn’t take the baby, the woman slipped a folded note into Johanison’s breast pocket. In Spanish it explained that the woman wanted Johanison to take her child for it to have a chance at a better life. Over 20 years later, Johanison cried. “I was really not ok for a long time after that,” she said. Back in the U.S., Johanison moved on to become a military police ofﬁcer and then a criminal analyst. The analysis work came as a relief. “I was never comfortable actually carrying a weapon,” Johanison said. In 1999 Johanison was standing in her driveway in Arizona when the Army National Guard chief of staff called her from Washington, D.C., to offer her a position at the Pentagon. “When she came up in the Army, I’m sure there were other women, but she was deﬁnitely a trailblazer,” said Tomlinson. “She really had a knack for tak-

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Dolma Johanison of Poolesville is a Buddhist nun and acupuncturist. ing challenges head on and not really paying attention to the status quo.” She moved to northern Virginia to start the job. At the same time she started reading more about Buddhism. Johanison had tried every religion she could find, toting her two adopted children to Protestant services and traditional Native American ceremonies. “Since I was 10 years old I had a thirst for spirituality that just could not be quenched,” she said. Then she came across Kunzang Palyul Choling Temple in Poolesville. “The ﬁrst time I walked in the door, I knew I was home

is the only way I know how to explain it. I saw pictures of my teachers on the wall and I just burst into tears,” she said. She moved to Poolesville after joining the temple, where she now runs an acupuncture practice at her home. A few days a week she works out of another ofﬁce in Ellicott City.

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In 2008 Johanison took over 200 vows to become a Tibetan Buddhist nun. The practice centers around ending suffering and disengaging from the earthly world. Instead of charity, Buddhists focus on affecting the energy of the world. “On the outside it may look like we sit around and we chant and we do prayers and we meditate.” But, she explained, “the process of that is a technology that changes the energy of the world, the energetic dynamic of the world and possible outcomes.” As Johanison got deeper into her practice, her work at the Pentagon doing criminal investigation began to feel more emotionally taxing. She also sensed an impending deployment to Afghanistan, and as a Buddhist she did not want to be involved in war. So she retired and enrolled at the University of Maryland’s Tai Sophia Institute, now called the Center for Integrative Medicine, for four years of studying acupuncture. It was the amount of suffering she had seen working as a cop

and a criminal analyst that had turned her to Buddhism. In a way, the military also prepared her for Buddhism, because it taught her discipline and “how to not be an individual,” she said. To keep to her monastic vows, Johanison has to turn down a lot of invitations. Quelling her social inclinations has been an adjustment. So has giving up a cold beer following an afternoon working in the garden. “It gave me the opportunity to learn a lot about myself, to be OK with myself, to be my own best friend, and to take a good hard look at my faults and imperfections and how I might transform them from something negative into something positive,” she said. Acupuncture also feeds into her practice because it’s a livelihood in which she can help others and alleviate suffering. She said it’s not all that different than being an investigator anyway, it’s still a puzzle, the pieces just look different. sscully@gazette.net

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Poolesville’s solar future Poolesville took a forward-thinking step recently by installing a solar array to provide the power necessary for its wastewater treatment plant. “We’re big enough and small enough to take on a project like this and bring it to fruition,” town commissioners president Jim Brown said. The project cost about $2.7 million, and Standard Solar of Rockville built it. Footing the bill was an energy company, UGI Corp. of King of Prussia, Pa., which then gets payments on the energy as well as renewable energy credits from the state. By powering the treatment plant with solar energy, the town has prevented nearly 600,000 pounds of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere since the array went online in February, the town says. The project also helps to show other communities what is possible. At a news conference announcing the completion of the project last week, former Poolesville commissioners president Eddie Kuhlman said he had wanted solar power to serve all of Poolesville’s public utility needs, but state laws limited how much power the town could produce, reserving large projects for utility companies. State Sen. Brian Feldman said he wanted to look at what prohibitions to solar power the state could remove. The General Assembly should scale back those restrictions, if for no other reason than Montgomery municipalities are ready to take signiﬁcant steps forward in solar energy.

Expanding the vote in Rockville A group of teenagers is hoping Rockville allows 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in the city’s 2015 elections. Members of the Maryland Youth Legislative Councils have met with Mayor Bridget Donnell Newton and several council members seeking the change. The Rockville students are collecting signatures and spreading the word via social media. Their efforts follow Takoma Park’s decision in May 2013 to lower the voting age in city elections. Although it’s only one election, it’s hard to say that expanding the franchise was anything other than successful. According to the election report from Takoma Park’s election last November, 44 percent of the registered 16- and 17-year-olds voted compared with 10.7 percent of all voters. Many 18-year-olds have left home before they get a chance to vote in their ﬁrst election. By granting 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote, they can start the habit of voting at a young age, or as we said before Takoma Park made its decision, it can be a “learner’s permit for democracy.” We hope Rockville follows suit.

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construction funds. We can’t Stop! Don’t throw away keep up with our exploding enthat political flier you just got rollments, 2,000 new students in the mail. Instead, carefully read it because it tells you what a year. When this year’s march the candidates think of you. Or, on Annapolis for more school more precisely, what the candiconstruction money ended in dates think you want to hear. utter failure, County Executive Political platforms and Ike Leggett raided $41 million promises have a single purfrom other county projects pose, getting your vote. So, while further delaying more here’s what most Montgomery school construction projects. MY MARYLAND We’re burning the candle at candidates are promising this election: both ends. BLAIR LEE They’re for: jobs, universal Montgomery’s politicians pre-K, raising the minimum wage (again), have known for years that the county’s “betrenewable energy, smaller class sizes, mass ter to be a donor” credo is fiscally unsustransit, taxing businesses and the rich, tainable, but they hoped the voters would closing the “achievement gap”, the Bay, never catch on. Yet, the school construction abortion, LGBT rights, diversity, seniors crisis is only the tip of the iceberg: MoCo’s and labor unions. statehouse delegation has capitulated on They’re against: climate change, inso many financial fronts (shifting the state’s come inequality, fracking, traffic congesteacher pension costs to the counties, tion, tax cuts, growth, estate tax reform, “equalizing” billions in classroom aid, cutbusiness and telling you how they’re going ting local highway, police and community to pay for all their promises. college funds) that the county’s long-term But a handful of MoCo candidates financial viability is in danger. sense a new, emerging voter concern: These long-term time bombs together getting short-changed in Annapolis. Norwith a stagnant federal spending economy, mally, MoCo’s fat, happy, disinterested ongoing tax-base flight and the governvoters don’t care how much tax revenue mental needs of MoCo’s new immigrant is exported to the rest of the state. So what population are a perfect storm. if MoCo gets $882 per capita in state aid American politics is the last free while Baltimore gets $2,033 and Prince market, anyone who correctly senses the George’s gets $1,341? We’re rich, we can public pulse and offers a new direction can afford to help other jurisdictions and, if win. Right now the way to win in Montthe state won’t help us, we’ll just pay for gomery is to appease the labor unions, the it ourselves. Or, as MoCo senator Rich environmentalists, the minority groups Madaleno puts it, “It’s better to be a donor and the gay lobby. In its recent statehouse than a recipient”. endorsements, the Washington Post But, now, all those decades of neglect mumbled that MoCo’s delegation “doesn’t are beginning to haunt Montgomery. The always exercise clout commensurate with wake-up call is school construction where its weight” and, then, endorsed all the inMoCo, with 17 percent of the state’s stucumbents except two. dents, gets 11 percent of the state school So change must come from outside,

not from within the establishment. Enter a breed of ﬁscally responsible, socially liberal Democratic challengers like Rick Kessler, who’s running for the House of Delegates in the Kensington, Wheaton, Garrett Park, Silver Spring district. He’s as liberal as they come: pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, pro-Dream Act, Save the Bay, tax corporations and so on. Plus, Kessler spent 20 years working for Capital Hill liberal lawmakers and his wife is the former director of the League of Conservation Voters. But Kessler is blowing the whistle on the delegation he hopes to join. “Rick Kessler is tired of Annapolis treating Montgomery County like an ATM, we can do better,” his ads say. He would have voted against the 2012 state pension shift and the income tax hike that came, 40 percent, from MoCo. And he’ll vote against any future budgets that penalize MoCo. Another whistleblower is County Executive candidate Phil Andrews, a fellow good-governent, social liberal courageous enough to take on the public employee unions and MoCo’s dysfunctional statehouse delegation. The political establishment is closing ranks against agitators like Kessler and Andrews because the incumbents don’t want to be accountable for the county’s looming ﬁscal crisis. It’s their futures, not the county’s that most concerns them. So, once again, the county’s fate is in the hands of its voters. Are they paying attention? Do they understand that nothing is going to change until the establishment starts losing elections? 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

Speaking of voting ... early voting starts Thursday. Judging solely by the sheer tonnage of candidates, voters are facing a hefty election, and early voting offers citizens a chance to cast ballots at their convenience. The Early Voting Centers will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. until June 19. Primary election day is June 24. According to the county, any registered voter may cast a ballot at any one of these sites on the same voting equipment used on Election Day. The early voting centers are: • Activity Center at Bohrer Park, 506 S. Frederick Ave., Gaithersburg • Damascus Community Recreation Center, 25520 Oak Drive, Damascus • Executive Ofﬁce Building, 101 Monroe St., Rockville • Germantown Recreation Center, 18905 Kingsview Road, Germantown • Jane E. Lawton Community Recreation Center, 4301 Willow Lane, Chevy Chase • Marilyn J. Praisner Community Recreation Center, 14906 Old Columbia Pike, Burtonsville • Mid-County Community Recreation Center, 2004 Queensguard Road, Silver Spring • Silver Spring Civic Building, One Veteran’s Plaza, Silver Spring • Wheaton Community Recreation Center, 11711 Georgia Ave., Wheaton

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Supporting Evan Glass I am writing in support of Evan Glass in the June 24 Democratic Primary for District 5 Councilmember. Evan is a no-nonsense, responsive community activist who has been working hard on our behalf for years and has made a difference in our community. Evan is progressive and understands

the need to support small businesses and bring jobs to District 5. Evan understands the need for the 11 high-poverty high schools identified in the County Council OLO Report (many of which are in District 5) to have the ﬁnancial and human resources they need to help close the achievement gap.

Salley Shannon, Derwood

Tom Moore was the only District 3 County Council candidate to testify in support of Councilman Phil Andrews’ innovative bill on public campaign financing. “Keeping corrupting money out of politics is why I led the fight on the Rockville City Council to ensure that elected officials follow the highest standards when disclosing financial interests,” he said. In his conclusion, Moore told the

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Jeanette Dixon, Silver Spring

Supporting Tom Moore

Vanilla Andrews Your endorsement of Phil Andrews for County Executive [“Andrews for county executive,” May 28] does not serve the citizens of Montgomery County. Mr. Andrews has had 16 years on the Council to reach out to any of our active and growing communities — Chinese, Indian, Hispanic, Ethiopian, African — who together now constitute a majority in our county. Yet he’s been missing in action, staying just in his comfort zone. A leader who’s only at ease with plain vanilla, when we have an all-spice county? Bite your tongue!

Evan is a man of integrity and a doer who will work collaboratively to solve identiﬁed problems not just give lip service. It will not be politics as usual with him. He has earned our votes and this opportunity to serve the people of District 5.

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council, “This bill will allow those with deep roots but shallow pockets to compete effectively. ... This bill will allow those with the best ideas, and not the best Rolodexes, to guide Montgomery County into the future.” Such practical idealism is one reason I support Tom Moore in this important election for County Council.

Ellen Ryan, Rockville

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LETTERS TOT HE EDITOR

Complete the M-83 study Opponents of the MidCounty Highway (M-83) project are trying to politicize and terminate the Midcounty Corridor Study, which after 12 years is ﬁnally nearing completion. This is wrong. The upcounty residents deserve the opportunity to see which alternative emerges as the best option that will meet their transportation needs. The unbuilt section of the Mid-County Highway is now being debated to run between Montgomery Village Avenue and Ridge Road. This would be a four-lane, median-divided roadway that has been part of county master plans for over 50 years and it’s southern end include a short connection tying MidCounty Highway to the ICC, designed to relieve local/regional congestion and connect residents in Damascus, Clarksburg, Germantown, Montgomery Village, Gaithersburg and Shady Grove to jobs up and down the corridor, and to the Shady Grove Metro Station, White Oak, University Of Maryland, BWI Airport, etc. — without forcing people onto MD 355 or I-270. Think of M-83 as the “Great Seneca Highway” of the eastern side I-270. Without it and regardless of additional transit services, trafﬁc in this part of our

county goes from bad to horriﬁc, and that’s not in dispute. After comprehensive reviews, completion of M-83 as it appears in local master plans was recently supported by the Montgomery County Planning Board, the City of Gaithersburg, and the Upcounty Citizens Advisory Board. Completion of M-83 is also supported by thousands of residents who purchased homes in the expectation that their master-planned communities will have access to the planned transportation system. This is the only realistic option for many upcounty residents to get where they need to go: local schools, stores, regional jobs, or mass-transit. We encourage all upcounty residents to learn about the planned Mid-County Highway and other major Upcounty transportation projects, and support the online petition for M-83 Alternative 9A at www.Coalition4U.org

Charles Tilford, President, Greater Goshen Civic Association, Barry Fantle, President, Clarksburg Civic Association, Cherian Eapen, Coalition for Upcounty

Supporting Brian Frosh I was pleased to read your editorial supporting Brian Frosh’s candidacy for Attorney General in the Democratic primary. Since your most recent issue went to press, Gov. O’Malley has added his endorsement to yours and the Washington Post’s. I have followed Brian Frosh’s public service from the time he ﬁrst entered the legislature representing the district in which I have lived for the last 17 years. He has consistently provided intelligent, informed and ethical leadership in bringing into being much of the legisla-

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tion that next attorney general will be called on to interpret and enforce. His knowledge is broad and his legal skills are well honed. But we voters must do more than nod our heads in agreement. In this election in which turnout is projected to be low, voters must take advantage of all the opportunities provided to make voting convenient and vote. The right to vote is precious. Exercise it, and be sure to vote for Brian Frosh for Attorney General.

David S. Davidson, Bethesda

Not supporting Cheryl Kagan Regarding Cheryl Kagan’s campaign for state senator. When the Washington Council of Governments held public hearings on the sale/privatization of the WSSC (late 1990’s), I asked Ms. Kagan’s staff for the minutes of the meetings I had attended, I never got the requested information, but did have one of her staff leave me a voice mail, telling me to call her IMMEDIATELY. I did, and was told that I would not get the assistance I requested. I recall reading of Ms. Kagan being a part of a play parodying medical patients who smoked marijuana, and I complained to her staff. At

that time my sister was terminally ill, and I objected to making light of anyone in that situation. One of her staff, told me that Ms. Kagan was only kidding. Ms. Kagans office, once responded to a letter I sent to her, telling me that “she had never heard of anything so mean spirited” (not a thank you for your comment etc). In contrast, I once met with Del. Simmons at his office, and his staff is to be commended for their professional and friendly manner. I feel Ms. Kagan would be a very poor choice to hold elected office in this state or any other

Bob Brewer, Gaithersburg

Services to children need ﬁnancial boost Many of your readers are unfamiliar with the array of free services in the county available to parents of young children, to help them with these very important years of growth and change. The most important number in this constellation is for Child Link, at (240) 777-4769. This county government initiative offers a live expert to listen to each particular parenting concern and help ﬁnd the best way to meet it. Unfortunately some of these services for young children are not up to par, because the county and state governments still do not adequately fund them at the level of quality the young children need and deserve to be able to succeed in life and in school. State child

care subsidies are the worstfunded of these services, but most of the other services have suffered because of unrestored cuts made during the recent recession. Now is the time that candidates for political ofﬁce are beginning to contemplate next ﬁscal year’s government and Montgomery County Public Schools budgets. I hope that they will step up to the plate with the additional resources we need to help Montgomery County’s youngest citizens thrive. The young children are going to be of working age when we are old and needing their help, so now is the time to build their capacity to help us when we need it.

John Surr, Bethesda

When you vote, remember the farms Montgomery County once was one of the most beautiful counties in the country. To take a ride from the district line up to Sugarloaf Mountain was an enjoyable, picturesque, even exciting, experience. As you’d enter each town, distinct in its own charm and uniqueness, it was like visiting an old friend. The county then gracefully transitioned to beautiful farms approaching Derwood, and on into Gaithersburg, a great agricultural country town. From there north, you’d drive through such beautiful farmland that to know it, brings tears to your eyes today. This was not 100 years ago. I’m talking as recent as 1990 — when far superior decisions should have been made on behalf of Montgomery County. Do you like the way your towns now look and function? Silver Spring, Rockville, Olney, Derwood, Gaithersburg, covered in incalculable tonnage of concrete, paved over, gone. Do you like living in a surveillancecamera police state; government implying you’re a criminal who must be watched? That’s Montgomery County today. Politicians, worshipping their god of developers, have ruined fully half of our oncebeautiful county.

Voters, remember this as politicians now slither around you ﬂicking their tongues, making hollow promises for your most-precious vote. Remember, too, Montgomery County men, women and children forced out of their homes by these same politicians hell-bent on forcing the barelyused Intercounty Connector. Voters must insist that county government legislate that needed population control, increased acreage zoning, and farmland preservation are not mutually exclusive of each other. Montgomery County doesn’t have a ﬁduciary duty to destroy itself to provide housing to millions of people. That isn’t in any county or state charter. Yet, this is exactly what developers have gotten politicians to tell you. Take your sorrow over the loss of our once-beautiful county into the voting booth. Research voting records. Consider voting only for politicians who fought against the ICC. At least that way you’ll have some indication that they do have a beating heart, a sense of right and wrong, and serve something other than the god of money.

Tess Foley Kochowicz, Derwood

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Posted online by 8 a.m. the following day. Schedules subject to change. BIG 33 FOOTBALL: Maryland at Pennsylvania, 7:06 p.m. Saturday Gaithersburg’s Solomon Vault among the all-stars traveling to Hershey, Pa.

BOYS’ BASKETBALL: Gaithersburg vs. Whitman, 8:30 p.m. Wednesday BASEBALL: Gaithersburg Post 295 vs. Mount Airy, 6 p.m. Thursday

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RM grad rewriting Hood’s record books

“We’re doing the whole build from the bottom up, as far as making sure everybody understands what’s going on and then getting everybody on the same page... What you did in the past is in the past and you’re going to earn your spots ... There are no incumbents.” Eddie Tolliver, Wootton coach

Softball: Fourcade has broken two program records, top 10 in many categories

BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN STAFF WRITER BILL RYAN/THE GAZETTE

Patriots new football coach, Ed Tolliver, talks to his team during half time at the Wootton vs Seneca Valley 7-on-7 passing league game at Seneca Valley on Thursday June 5, 2014.

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The Thomas S. Wootton High School football team had its fair share of miscues in Thursday’s 7-on-7 summer passing league competition, as is to be expected from a young group more than six months removed from its last live action, playing under a new coaching staff. But as the games progressed, so did the Patriots, who showed flashes of what they hope to become by summer’s end in losses to Seneca Valley and Quince Orchard. “The execution was better,” said Wootton coach Eddie Tolliver, who was hired in March. “As a coach you always want it to be perfect, but it’s never perfect. You strive for perfection. I guess [today was] the good and the bad together.” Jaron Woodyard, a transfer from Watkins Mill, was one of Wootton’s top performers; against Quince Orchard, the speedy junior had an interception and caught a long touchdown pass from senior quarterback Sam Ellis. “We got a lot of young guys,” said Woodyard, an All-Gazette first team indoor track and field athlete. “We just got to teach them. Teach them what they’re supposed to be doing. Leadership and communication, that’s all.” Tolliver returns to the sidelines after coaching the Patriots from 201011; he replaces Tyree Spinner, whose January dismissal stirred up controversy at the Rockville school. The coaching change hasn’t been easy on Wootton’s players. “It’s crazy. Hearing different

It took 2012 Richard Montgomery High School graduate Ashley Fourcade precisely 17 games — less than half of her freshman season — to break into the Hood College softball team’s record books last spring. “She had hits in the ﬁrst 17 games she played and broke [the hitting streak record] right there,” coach Terry Burdette said. “It was pretty impressive.” Fourcade, whose hitting streak lasted for 19 games and broke the previous record of 16 held by Sara Wastler (from 2006) and Karen Dudley (2003), ﬁnished the 2013 season in the top 10 of single-season records in six offensive categories — hits (fourth), doubles (second), home runs (seventh), runs batted in (fourth), slugging percentage (seventh) and hitting streak — and was

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Richard Montgomery High School graduate Ashley Fourcade broke Hood College’s home run record in 2014 and is headed toward the top in several other categories.

named the Commonwealth Conference’s Rookie of the Year and to the all-conference honorable mention list.

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Wheaton tries to avoid ‘one bad inning’ American Legion Post 268 looks for consistency after 0-5 start

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Thomas S. Wootton High School junior linebacker Patrick Bernardo drops into coverage against Seneca Valley in Thursday’s passing league game. things left and right. But you just have to keep your head right, keep looking forward to the goal: winning,” junior linebacker Patrick Bernardo said. “... At points it can be a distraction but you got to get rid of that. You just got to work out, play, have fun, get good.” Spinner, now coaching Avalon, a private Gaithersburg school, attended Thursday’s passing league games at Seneca Valley High School. As of Wednesday, no Wootton players had transferred to Avalon, Tolliver said. Tolliver said the Patriots are focused on improving ﬁtness and communication, particularly on defense. That showed against Seneca Valley and Quince Orchard, with Bernardo playing middle linebacker and directing the defense.

“We just need to build the chemistry of our team. We had some good flashes on defense and on offense,” said Bernardo, who had a pass deflection against Seneca Valley. “We lost, but it got better.” Wootton went 5-5 last season, losing four of its final six games. “We’re doing the whole build from the bottom up, as far as making sure everybody understands what’s going on and then getting everybody on the same page,” Tolliver said. “... What you did in the past is in the past and you’re going to earn your spots ... There are no incumbents.” egoldwein@gazette.net

BY TED BLACK STAFF WRITER

Following a season in which his team won only two games last summer, Wheaton American Leagion Post 268 shortstop Zeke Green remained optimistic that his team can rebound from an 0-5 start to the current American Legion schedule that included an 11-1 setback to Gaithersburg Post 295 last Friday afternoon. Green, a recent Walter Johnson High School graduate and rising freshman at Catholic University where he is hoping to play baseball next spring as a walk-on, was able to take the latest setback in stride. In many respects, the loss in six innings basically mirrored the Wheaton squad’s start to the summer. The losses have not been a result of

consistent poor play, but primarily hinged on one bad inning. “It always seems like that one inning gets us,” Green said. “I think we know that we can play with these better teams. We just have to avoid that one bad inning. Today it was the third inning and last week we had one bad inning when we lost to Damascus [14-2] and to Sandy Spring [10-0] and even against Laurel [4-0]. We were only down 1-0 against Laurel and then they got three runs in one inning. Today it was 1-1 until the third and then they got eight runs.” Wheaton has been outscored 51-3 in its first five losses, but firstyear coach Gabe Medina knew the squad would have a difficult time dramatically improving on last year’s 2-16 mark. Last Friday Wheaton yielded a run in the first, but countered with an unearned run in the second inning to draw even briefly. But Gaithersburg broke

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As a senior, Northwest High School’s Samer Manna was a key component of a defense that helped the Jaguars win the 2013 Class 4A football state championship. But as good as he was at linebacker, that’s not what made him stand out during tryouts for the 57th Big 33 Football Classic. Instead, it was his versatility — speciﬁcally, his long snapping — that set him apart from the other recent high

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school graduates and earned him a spot on Team Maryland, he said. “Honestly, I was really surprised because nothing has really happened like this,” said Manna, a second team All-Gazette linebacker. A Wesley College recruit, Manna is one of nine Montgomery County athletes in the all-star game between Maryland and Pennsylvania, scheduled for 7:06 p.m. Saturday at Hersheypark Stadium in Pennsylvania. “I’ve talked to a lot of the alumni [who] actually played in that game. They’re telling me to go up there and take it all in because it’s a once in a lifetime chance,” said Manna, who will be joined by Northwest teammates Josh

Gills (Duquesne) and Rasheed Gillis (Shepherd). Maryland returned to the Big 33 Football Classic last June after a 21-year hiatus, giving up the ﬁrst 28 points and losing 58-27. Pennsylvania holds a 7-2 advantage in the series, but Maryland players said they are expecting a different result this time. “We got a lot of talent, we got a lot more packages than we had last year,” said Seneca Valley defensive end Daniel Appouh, an Old Dominion recruit. “We’ll have a head start and it should be a closer game.” Other Montgomery County athletes

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Northwest High School’s Rasheed Gillis (left), Caleb Gills (back) and Samer Manna (right) tackle Gaithersburg’s Max Anderson during a Sept. 28, 2013 game in Rockville. TOM FEDOR/THE GAZETTE

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Nation taking notice of Bullis’s quarterback Rising junior a four-star recruit with 20-plus scholarship offers

KENT ZAKOUR STAFF WRITER

A year ago Dwayne Haskins Jr. was preparing to become the starting quarterback for the Bullis School football team. But the circumstances between then and now are signiﬁcantly different. Last summer, Haskins was just getting to know his teammates and a new playbook after moving into the area from New Jersey. Now, prepared to enter his junior year at the Potomac private school, the 6-foot-3, 185-pound four-star recruit (Scout.com) is one of the most sought after Class of 2016 college prospects in the county. “He can make every throw; there’s a reason he has the scholarship offers he does, but he works so hard,” Bullis coach Pat Cilento said. “Fundamentally, he is off the charts. Dwayne has a great head on his shoulders and when you put that together with his skill-set ... you get a pretty good football player.” Haskins was the Bulldogs starter from day one last fall and was solid, helping Bullis to the Interstate Athletic Conference title with a 9-1 record. He threw for 1,130 yards and 14 touchdowns with just three interceptions (two came in the season-opening loss to St. John’s College High). With that performance — and sending out game ﬁlm — he began to emerge as a potential recruit for power

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Continued from Page B-1 include Gaithersburg running back Solomon Vault (Northwestern), Gaithersburg defensive end Avery Taylor (Merrimack), Damascus linebacker Stephon Jacob (Richmond), Paint Branch wide receiver Javonn Curry (James Madison) and Quince Orchard running back Kevin Joppy (Shepherd). “We have a lot of speed in the backﬁeld and with our wide receivers, our defensive linemen are big, our defense

Bullis School rising junior quarterback Dwayne Haskins Jr. looks for a receiver Friday against Thomas S. Wootton. conference programs. But it wasn’t until a standout showing at the Elite 11 Eastern Regional camp in April that the verbal scholarship offers poured in. “He’s a totally different guy,” rising senior defensive end/tight end and Penn State recruit Jonathan Holland said. “That comes with time. Last year, he was a 15-year old sophomore starting on varsity at quarterback, which is arguably the toughest position on ﬁeld. ... After that St. John’s game, I think he

is looking nice. I think we have a good shot,” Joppy said. Gaithersburg coach Kreg Kephart, a Montgomery County Committee chair for Team Maryland, said the Big 33 Classic isn’t as prestigious as other all-star games, such as the Under Armour All-American Game, the Maryland Crab Bowl and the Chesapeake Bowl. This year, though, he said there is growing interest among local players and coaches. “I see it as a chance for Maryland High School football to show everybody else on the region the quality of

realized we were behind him and he knew this was his team.” With more than 20 scholarship offers — at least one from each of the ﬁve Division I power conferences (Pac-12, ACC, SEC, Big Ten, Big XII) — Haskins, whose notable offers come from defending national champion Florida State, Florida, Michigan, Notre Dame and Ohio State, should have his choice of where he wants to play college football.

the football we have,” Kephart said. The athletes traveled to Hershey Sunday and are staying with host families for the remainder of the week. The event also includes a service element, where participants are paired with special needs children as part of the Buddy program. “I just want to get in the game and help the team win,” Manna said. “I’ve heard we haven’t won in a while. I just want to contribute to the win.” egoldwein@gazette.net

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“I had an idea that [high-level recruitment] would happen, but didn’t realize it would all be so quickly,” Haskins said. “I’m so grateful and my hard work has paid off. Having said that, I can’t get complacent. I got to keep grinding and prove that I am worth the attention. Playing college football has been my dream since I was 8.” Haskins, who grew up watching Rutgers in New Jersey, is also an admittedly avid Ohio State fan. On April 28,

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Continued from Page B-1 Admittedly anxious about living up to that status in her sophomore season this spring, Fourcade had no trouble continuing on her historical path during a 2014 campaign for which she again earned all-conference honorable mention. Her teamhigh seven home runs moved her into ﬁrst place on the program’s career list — with 11 total she surpassed Melanie Muscar, who tallied 10 between 2003-04. In just two seasons Fourcade has already broken into the program’s top 10 in career hits with 81 and is ﬁfth with 63 runs batted in. “I never thought I would ever get [Rookie of the Year], I didn’t even know they had that,” Fourcade said. “It was amazing getting that but this year I just wanted to keep up my name and make sure I keep being the best I can be. I just wanted to keep my name up there.” Fourcade’s success earned her a spot on the Maryland AllStars team that is scheduled to play the USA Softball Women’s National Team in an exhibition game July 29 at Regency Fur-

Haskins tweeted that he “received my 8th offer from my dream school #ohiostate #buckeyes,” but he said he still wants to let the recruiting process play out. “He’s our leader and has handled the whole recruiting process very maturely,” Holland said. “Going to camps I think really helped his conﬁdence. You always knew he was talented so it was just a matter of time before he blew up.” Haskins, who says he’s focused on improving his deep ball accuracy, athleticism and mobility in the pocket during the offseason, shouldn’t have any shortage of talent surrounding him this fall with three legitimate Division I recruits lining up on Bullis’ offensive side of the ball. Rising junior wide receiver and McKinley Tech transfer Patrick Johnson, Holland, and highly touted senior running back Devonte Williams are all expected to make key contributions. During Friday’s Upper Montgomery County Passing League at Seneca Valley High School, Haskins arm strength was on display in a loss to Northwest and win against Thomas S. Wootton. He rolled out on several attempts and threw the ball deep down the sideline. “I’ve taken more of a leadership role,” Haskins said. “I’m kind of on a pedestal now with the attention I am getting so I have to be more accountable and a leader for our team, making sure everyone is doing the right things on and off the ﬁeld.” kzakour@gazette.net

niture Stadium in Waldorf in conjunction with the Amateur Softball Association of America 10U, 12U and 14U Class “B” Eastern Nationals. Also on the roster is former Poolesville pitcher Patti Maloney (Fordham University); Germantown native Tori Finucane was invited to play but is recovering from a right thumb injury that kept the Southeastern Conference’s Rookie of the Year out of the NCAA tournament. “Just the experience of playing against [Team USA], I never thought I’d ever get the chance to meet them, let alone play against them,” Fourcade said. “Playing with other top-notch players from Maryland is another big excitement of mine.” Burdette, who was asked to be part of the Maryland All-Stars coaching staff, said while softball isn’t currently in the Olympics, there is a good chance it could be reinstated in 2020. Keeping the national team, which still competes in elite level championships like the World Cup, visible, is important. Fourcade said she is hopeful exhibition games like the one she is on tap for later this summer will prove there is still an interest in fastpitch softball and that it is an exciting game to watch.

“When I was little I told my parents I wanted to play for the Olympic softball team and they were like, ‘Softball isn’t in the Olympics anymore,’” Fourcade said. “I was devastated.” Fourcade still has two years to pepper the Hood College record books and while doing that is an individual goal of hers — Fourcade said her love for breaking records has become a family joke — Burdette praised the multifaceted player’s team-ﬁrst approach to everything. Like the fact that she would prefer to play third base but spends most of her time behind the plate because that’s where the Blazers need her. “Unfortunately I have only one Ashley and she catches for us because she’s an outstanding catcher and it’s an important position,” Burdette said. “She does a great job back there, she has a tremendous arm, it’s hard to run on her. ...As Rookie of the Year nobody knew anything about her. This year coming back, once your opponent knows you’re a good player they pay special attention to try and get you out. [Even so] Ashley had a great season for us not only offensively but she is an outstanding defensive player.” jbeekman@gazette.net

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open the game in the bottom of the third by scoring eight unearned runs, capped by a three-run double by recent Georgetown Prep graduate Quentin Bubb, a rising freshman at Lafayette University, who had two hits and scored twice in the inning. “When we have that one bad inning, we tend to hang our heads,” Medina said. “Once you lose focus mentally in baseball, you have trouble getting it back. I think the guys have to understand that they can play with anyone in this league. They have to believe in themselves. That’s the toughest thing right now is just getting them to believe. Once they do, they’ll see how well they can play. Today it should have been a 1-1 game for a long time, but we gave them eight runs in one inning.” Even before last Friday afternoon’s contest, Gaithersburg Post 295 coach Pete White cautioned his players about looking past Wheaton. Through two innings to game was tied at 1-apiece and White had every reason to expect that perhaps one or two runs could make the difference. His team, however, scored eight unearned runs in the home half of the third to break the game open. “I told my guys when they got here that we can’t take [Wheaton] lightly,” White

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Wheaton American Legion’s Carson Scweickhart tags out Gaithersburg’s Cody Dorsey during Friday’s baseball game in Germantown. said. “They beat Damascus last year and Damascus had the best team in our league. We thought it was going to be a close game. Fortunately for us we had that one big inning, but their guys never gave up.

It took us three more innings to get some runs. That team came over here ready to play, so you can never look past a team like that.” tblack@gazette.net

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TENNIS

Girls’ First Team Singles

PLAYER OF YEAR

Miranda Deng

Wootton Freshman

Kamilla w

Lilly Lynham

Ines Vias

Steady ground game led to region title, reached county and state ﬁnals.

Finished 13-1 to help lead the Panthers to the ISL championship.

Her only loss was ﬁrst match coming off monthlong injury.

Walt Whitman Senior

Powerful southpaw won county No. 1 and state singles titles; led Patriots to county title.

COACH OF YEAR

Holton-Arms Junior

Lee Ingham

Good Counsel

Bullis Junior

Falcons moved from seventh to third in WCAC, only second time they ﬁnished that high in a decade.

Boys’ First Team Singles

PLAYER OF YEAR

Aries Wong

Walt Whitman Senior

Titas Bera

Kasey Countee

Dennis Wang

Adam Atwell

Reached county, region and state ﬁnal matches.

East Carolina University recruit completed undefeated season.

Undefeated regular season included win over Wong.

Led Bears to sole possession of IAC title for ﬁrst time in more than a decade.

Wootton Senior

Naval Academy recruit swept championship season with county, region and state titles.

Girls’ First Team Doubles

Kelly Chen

Wootton Junior

Katharine Kim Wootton Junior

No. 1 doubles county champion lost just one set all year.

Stephanie Grodecki

Good Counsel Junior

Megan Keller

Good Counsel Freshman

Won No. 1 doubles gold at WCAC tournament as third seed.

COACH OF YEAR

Bullis Senior

Landon

Poolesville Junior

Boys’ First Team Doubles

Karsyn Lawler

Holton-Arms Junior

Elise Lovett

Holton-Arms Sophomore

Only lost once in team’s ISL title run.

Tyler Jacobson

Walt Whitman Junior

Nathaniel Sherman

Walt Whitman Senior

Claimed No. 1 doubles county title and was undefeated.

Joseph Deng

Wootton Junior

Jason Liao

Wootton Senior

Second only to Whitman’s No. 1 doubles in county.

Joey Gumataotao

Walt Whitman Senior

Simon Amat

Walt Whitman Senior

No. 2 doubles county win was important for team title.

Second Team is online at Gazette.net

KEEPING IT BRIEF Two county baseball players drafted

Northwest grad earns Team USA spot

Olney native, St. John’s College High School graduate and current University of Virginia junior pitcher Nick Howard was selected in the second round of the Major League Baseball amatuer draft and 45th overall by the Chicago Cubs. Howard, who was 2-1 this season with a 2.15 earned run average and 11-5 in his career with a 2.92 era, is currently competing in the NCAA Super Regional Tournament against the University of Maryland. His father, Dale Howard, played baseball for Canisius College. Rockville native Garrett Pearson, a recent St. John’s graduate and rising freshman at Virginia Commonwealth University, was chosen by the Baltimore Orioles in the 34th round and 1,021st overall. Pearson, who is playing this summer for the Silver Spring-Takoma Thunderbolts in the Cal Ripken Collegiate baseball league, was an All-WCAC honorable mention selection in 2014. He was 7-2 with 99 strikeouts and a 2.43 ERA in 72 innings .

Northwest High School graduate Bianca Dalal was recently selected to USA Rugby’s sevens team. The recent Penn State University graduate ﬂew out to the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif. on Sunday to train with the team for the 2016 Olympics in Brazil. She began playing rugby midway through her freshman year at Penn State and went on to be a key member of the three-time defending national championship program. “It is a dream come true,” Dalal said.

— TED BLACK

The following athletes were selected for the ﬁrst team. Louis Dubick, Winston Churchill; Austin Schoenfeld, Thomas S. Wootton; Jake Christensen, Quince Orchard; Jordan Cooper, Walter Johnson; Matt Moshyedi, Churchill; Myles Romm, Wootton; Michael Crooks, Sherwood; Max Vanegas, Walter Johnson; Tatah Ndeh, Springbrook; Ben Vayer, Rockville; Cole Abid, Wootton; Joey Salisbury, Damascus; Chase Keller, Walter Johnson; Sam Hartzoge, Sherwood; Patrick Cornelius, Wootton. For the second team and AllDivision teams, visit www.montgomerymdboyslacrosse.org.

— ERIC GOLDWEIN

— KENT ZAKOUR

County boys’ lacrosse players recognized

Silver Spring native plays soccer in France

The Montgomery County Lacrosse Coaches’ Association (MCLCA) announced its All-County ﬁrst and second teams last month, featuring 30 players representing 11 Montgomery County public schools.

After a tremendous freshman season with the Harvard University women’s soccer team during which 2013 Our Lady of Good Counsel High School graduate and Silver Spring native Midge Purce became the ﬁrst rookie to be named Ivy

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Participating in summer golf tournaments is an excellent way for Montgomery County golfers to keep their skills sharp while away from school. Whether boy or girl, member of a country club or not, there’s something for everyone. While coaches don’t force players to participate, most do encourage it and even track their students’ progress over the summer. “I don’t mandate my kids do any tournaments over the summer, that’s really up to them,” said Paul Williams, coach of twotime defending state champion Thomas S. Wootton. “But the kids that are serious about the game, and they want to get better and want to get more competitive, those are the ones that are playing in tournaments.” Obviously, participating in summer golf renders players more prepared once the high school season comes back around in the fall, but Winston Churchill rising junior Luke Schaap said there’s more to it than just preparation. “It’s important to get noticed for colleges,” Schaap said, adding that he participates in 15 to 20 tournaments over the summer break. “I like the Williamson Cup,” played in Quebec, Canada. Wootton golfer, Justin Feldman agreed that summer golf is

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Thomas S. Wootton High School’s Justin Feldman and Winston Churchill’s both plan to play golf this summer. This photo was takent at the University of Maryland, College Park on Oct. 30, 2013. important for an athletes college prospects. The rising senior just recently committed to playing golf at the University of Maryland, College Park, once he graduates. “Tour tournaments are really important for us kids because it’s a way to get looks from colleges, as well as work on your game [and compete] at a lot of higherlevel events, compared to the school season,” Feldman said. “From a competitive standpoint, it’s a lot more competitive than the fall season. Summer tournaments also, you got the private school kids and public school kids playing in the same events so the ﬁelds are bigger, more competitive and it’s just a lot better.” For Feldman, summer golf

has become so important that the dual-athlete who led the 4A South Division in basketball scoring last season, had to drop his ﬁrst love andremovehimselffromsummer league basketball to focus on golf. “I’m not going to play summer league this year. I just told my basketball coach that I’m just going to focus on golf. It’s a big summer for me.” Feldman said. “During the basketball season I put down my club, so summer [is] my golf season and winter’s basketball season.” A lot of golf organizations, including the Maryland State Golf Association, began amateur tournaments in May, so some of the golfers have already played in a few events as the summer approaches.

League Player of the Year in league history — she was also named Rookie of the Year — the Falcons’ all-time leading scorer with career 101 goals headed to France last week with the U.S. U-20 Women’s National Team. Purce, who led Harvard and the Ivy League with 11 goals, was one of six forwards named to coach Michelle French’s 20-person squad that will play two international matches in preparation for the 2014 U-20 FIFA Women’s World Cup scheduled for Aug. 5-24 in Canada. The team was scheduled to play in Plabennec Tuesday and in Plougastel Wednesday but results were unavailable for this edition of The Gazette. Team USA will have one more training camp on American soil before the ﬁnal 21-person team heads north of the border for the elite competition, according the U.S. Soccer website.

— JENNIFER BEEKMAN

Walter Johnson golf coach retiring Richard Payne is resigning as the Walter Johnson High School golf coach after seven years. Payne had back surgery last fall and said that because of it, he won’t be able to give the time and devotion necessary. “There’s never a real good time to make a break,” Payne said. “With the players that you have, your seniors and sophomores and all, that you’d like to go through their whole high school career with, but you have to ﬁnally decide that you need to make the break.” Walter Johnson Athletic Director Sue Amos said that Payne was excellent with the kids and that the school is sorry to see him go. She also said that they are actively seek-

ing a replacement and that anyone interested in the position should contact her.

— PRINCE J. GRIMES

Four Gaithersburg player selected All-District Gaithersburg High School senior pitcher Nick DeCarlo, junior catcher Trey Martinez, sophomore pitcher Anthony Felitti and second baseman Nick Pantos were all recently selected to the Maryland State Association of Baseball Coaches 2014 All-State District 2 Baseball Team. DeCarlo was the All-Gazette Montgomery County player of the year in 2013 as a junior for the Trojans.

— TED BLACK

MOVIES

NOW SHOWING

Looking for a way to beat the heat? Summer blockbusters “Maleﬁcent” and “Edge of Tomorrow” are in theaters now.

The Gazette’s Guide to

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Springtime for ‘The Producers’ BY WILL C. FRANKLIN STAFF WRITER

For more than 60 years, professional funnyman Mel Brooks has provided the world with wit, wisdom and a look into the future. He’s also provided jokes about flatulence, racism, and hedonism. Nothing has ever really been off limits for the talented movie-

Director Kristofer Kauff said his homage to Brooks focuses more on his movie and less on the Broadway production. “When I think of ‘The Producers,’ the Broadway version that I saw, I don’t want to direct that version,” Kauff said. “… When I go back to the 1968 Mel Brooks movie, that’s something I’m interested in. I’m interested in characters and the comedy and relationships and why ‘The Producers’ is funny, not just a big spectacle of it.” Kauff said molding the show

around the movie version lends itself well to the small space they’re working in at the Arts Barn. “You really can’t do those big musical numbers without the audience feeling overwhelmed,” Kauff said. “… I think the audience is really going to feel that intimacy with the characters that they wouldn’t feel in the original Broadway version.” Matt Kopp has double his workload for this show. He

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Some highlights make a strong showing at the annual Bethesda Painting Awards n

Event celebrating its 10th year

CLAUDIA ROUSSEAU ON VIEW

Once again, the Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District has sponsored the Bethesda Painting Awards competition and exhibit of ﬁnalists at the Gallery B. The event, now in its 10th year, features four cash prizes totaling $14,000 donated by Carol Trawick, a community activist and supporter of the arts in the

region for more than 25 years. Mrs. Trawick’s generosity supports contemporary visual artists, but her inclination toward painting led her to establish this competition in addition to the Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards that is also an annual event with similar prize monies. From a submission pool of nearly 300, the jurors selected Kyle Hackett for ﬁrst place, a prize of $10,000. At 24 years old, Hackett is the youngest winner of the top prize. The artist is represented in the exhibit with a large (80” x 47”)

oil on panel, “Approbation Portrait,” that realistically portrays him in a suit looking down at the viewer with something of a sneer. The ﬁgure is painted in grayscale, like a black and white photograph, with only the wooden ﬂoor painted in color. This eliminates the artist’s skin color, if not his features as an African-American. There’s a deep irony here, which informs the work with a narrative about racial and personal identities. In his short presentation, Hackett mentioned

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Silver Spring writer’s life focuses on literature

Rachel Zampelli as Lucy the Slut and Stephen Gregory Smith as Trekkie Monster in Olney Theatre Center’s “Avenue Q.”

maker, who has directed ﬁlms such as “Blazing Saddles,” “History of the World, Part 1,” and “Young Frankenstein.” “The Producers,” Brooks’ little ﬁlm about two guys who try to swindle money from investors by producing a huge Broadway bomb, turned out to be a major musical hit on Broadway starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. Sandy Spring Theatre Group will present the area premiere of “The Producers” starting Friday at the Arts Barn in Gaithersburg.

Puppets get personal when Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx and Jeff Whitty’s uproarious, adults only “Avenue Q” opens tonight at the Olney Theatre Center. Featuring Tony Award-winning tunes such as “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist,” and “The Internet Is For Porn,” the felt and funny-business phenomenon became one of the longest-running Broadway shows by satirizing the best of children’s television. Directed by Jason Loewith, with music direction by Christopher Youstra, “Avenue Q” continues to July 6 and is recommended for audiences 16 and older, with parental advisement due to language and themes. For show times and information, visit olneytheatre.org.

Show at Arts Barn takes its cues from movie

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

All about Eve

Grown-up puppet show

ELLYN WEXLER

SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE

Summertime and the livin’ is easy for many a school system professional. Not so for veteran Prince George’s County Public Schools media specialist Eve Ottenberg. Instead of lazing around the pool and regrouping, the 61-year-old Silver Spring resident chooses to devote many of her vacation hours to writing ﬁction. “Two months is a good chunk of time to get started on a novel,” she said. “I maintain as regular a schedule as I can, getting to work early

Silver Spring Author Eve Ottenberg.

in the morning and going till evening.” The method seems to work well for Ottenberg, who

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Rockville man pens ‘The Last Personal Letter’ Book recounts Montgomery County childhood, friendship n

BY SAMANTHA SCHMIEDER SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE

Anthony Anastasi, 78, of Rockville honored his friend in the best way any author ever could; by writing a book for him. “The Last Personal Letter: Pranks for the Memories” was released in April and is Anastasi’s ﬁrst book. It stands as a tribute to his good friend John Stoneburner, who passed away and is dedicated to Stoneburner’s family and uncle, featuring many pictures of the boys growing up. “Well my friend who died of diabetes, probably about 10 years ago, asked me to write

something about our lives and I didn’t,” Anastasi said. “Then I ﬁnally got around to it.” Though it took him a while to start the book, Anastasi looks at it with a “better late than never” mentality hoping that it would have made his friend happy. Anastasi and Stoneburner knew each other since they were children growing up in Silver Spring. “We grew up together, right across the street from each other. We played sports together, we went on double dates together, I blame him for my ﬁrst marriage,” he said with a laugh. The author explained that one day Stoneburner had a date, but he had a bit too much to drink that day so he called Anastasi up and asked

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Kyle Hackett’s “Unmanned” shows the artist’s technical precision and surrealist feeling. His work often explores themes of identity and self-worth. KYLE HACKETT

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Blues, brother Harmonica master Curtis Salgado will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club, sharing songs from his Alligator debut, “Soul Shot.” Salgado was awarded the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Award, as well as being named the Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year for the second consecutive year during the 2013 Blues Music Awards. “Soul Shot” was awarded Soul Blues Album of the Year. Salgado has toured as a vocalist for Santana and The Robert Cray Band. Tickets are $15. For more information, visit bethesdabluesjazz.com.

Dorothy sings to her friends of her home in Kansas in The Puppet Co.’s “The Wizard of Oz.”

THE PUPPET CO.

Off to see ‘The Wizard’

Follow the yellow brick road to Glen Echo Park this Friday, where talented puppeteers will bring L. Frank Baum’s immortal classic “The Wizard of Oz” to life at The Puppet Co. playhouse. Featuring additional original dialogue not seen in the ﬁlm, with a slightly scaled-back and less frightening version of the Wicked Witch, the 45-minute production is tailor-made for children in grades PreK through 6. Show times are 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Thursdays and Fridays, and 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. For more information, visit thepuppetco.org.

Meeting Matsuev Acclaimed pianist Denis Matsuev will perform works by Haydn, Schumann, Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda. Matsuev, who was a featured performer during the closing ceremony for the 2014 Sochi Olympics, was originally scheduled to perform a recital at Strathmore in January, but had STRATHMORE to cancel due to illness. He Acclaimed pianist Denis Matsuev will perform Tuesday at the Music returns to North America Center at Strathmore. following a successful tour as a soloist with the Mariinsky Orchestra in the fall of 2013, as well as being named a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in April 2014. For information, visit strathmore.org.

‘Garden’ variety “The Life of the Garden,” mixed media works by Lisa Rosinni Johnson, is now on view to July 27 at the Sandy Spring Museum in Sandy Spring. Johnson, who received her ﬁrst camera at the age of 12, uses photography to LISA JOHNSON explore questions Lisa Johnson’s “Aquatic Wonderland,” from her current exhibit, “The Life of the such as “What is a Garden” at the Sandy Spring Museum. garden?” “What, and even who thrives there?” Also a painter, many of her works resemble watercolors, as the artist utilizes various forms of media in her non-traditional creations. Many of her pieces feature fairies, portrayed by members of the Washington Ballet, as well as local dancers from the Sandy Spring-based Studio of Ballet Arts. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. For more information, visit sandyspringmuseum. org.

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Now showing

DISNEY

Angelina Jolie stars as “Maleﬁcent,” which fell to second place in its second week of release, but managed to outperform the debut of Tom Cruise’s “Edge of Tomorrow” with $33.5 million. The Walt Disney picture has tallied an impressive $127.5 million nationwide thus far.

PHOTO DAVID JAMES

Elle Fanning stars as Aurora in Disney’s “Maleﬁcent.”

Emily Blunt stars as Rita in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Village Roadshow Pictures’ sci-ﬁ thriller “Edge of Tomorrow,” which, despite its star-power, opened in third place over the weekend with $29.1 million.

PHOTO BY FRANK CONNOR

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT DANCES Hollywood Ballroom, June 11, “step of the evening” Samba mini-lesson at 8:15 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8:30 p.m. ($16); June 12, 19, Tea Dance from 12:303:30 p.m. ($6); June 13, drop-in lessons from 7:30-9 p.m., West Coast Swing Dancing with Dance Jam Productions at 9 p.m. ($15); June 14, Tango lesson at 8 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 9 p.m.; June 15, free Quickstep lesson at 7 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8 p.m.; June 18, “step of the evening” Tango mini-lesson at 8:15 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8:30 p.m. ($16), 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 13, Woody Lane and the Glen Echo Open Band, 7:30 p.m. lesson, 8:30 p.m. dance, Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $10, www.fridaynightdance.org. Contra & Square, June 15, George Marshall with Maivish; June 22, Evo Bluestein with New Hip Trio; 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 11, Caller: Tom Spilsbury; June 18,

Caller: Bob Farrell; 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 15, Maivish, lesson from 2:45-3:30 p.m., dancing to live music from 3:30-6 p.m., $10, www.waltztimedances.org.

MUSIC & DANCE Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club, Billy Thompson Band with

Ron Holloway, Silver Spring Blues Festival Event, 7:30 p.m. June 11; Desean Jackson: Comedy Show for an Anti-Bullying Cause, 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. June 12; Father’s Day Brunch with Karen Gray, 10 a.m. June 15; The Nowhere Men, 7:30 p.m. June 16; Curtis Salgado with Opening Act, Andy Poxon Band, 7:30 p.m. June 18; Bria Skonberg, 8 p.m. June 19, call for prices, 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. 240330-4500, www.bethesdabluesjazz.com.

BlackRock Center for the Arts, The Crawdaddies – Free Summer Concert, 8 p.m. June 28, 12901 Town Commons Drive, Germantown. 301-528-2260, www.blackrockcenter.org. Fillmore Silver Spring, Meshuggah - 25 Years of Musical Deviance with Between the Buried and Me, 8 p.m. June 17, 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. www.ﬁllmoresilverspring.com. Strathmore, Afternoon Tea, 1 p.m. June 11, 14; Historic Home Tour, 11 a.m. June 13; John Prine, 8 p.m. June 13; BSO: Casablanca - Movie and Music, 8 p.m. June 14, call for venue, Locations: Mansion, 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda; Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, 301-581-5100, www.strathmore.org.

ON STAGE Adventure Theatre, “Pinkalicious,” June 20 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,” June 11 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,” June 13 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, 301-634-5380, www. thepuppetco.org. Round House Theatre, Bethesda, “Ordinary Days,” to June 22, 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. 240-644-1100, www. roundhousetheatre.org. Round House Theatre, Silver Spring, “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot,” to June 14, call for show times, 8641 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, $15 for general admission, $10 for subscribers, patrons 30 and younger and seniors, 244-6441100, www.roundhousetheatre. org. Silver Spring Stage, “Good

People,” June 27 to July 20, Woodmoor Shopping Center, 10145 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, see website for show times, www. ssstage.org. The Writer’s Center, Healing Through Writing: Shirley Brewer and Tom Glenn, 2 p.m. June 15; Poem|Poema|Poème|Gedicht: An Evening of Performance Poetry, 7:30 p.m. June 20, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, 301-654-8664, www.writer.org.

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Continued from Page B-4 has published a dozen books — 11 novels and a short story collection — since 2004, when her first “Glum and Mighty Pagans,” a comic novel about real estate in Manhattan, came out. Ottenberg does not restrict herself to a single genre. Four of her books are comedies; three are political, two, murder-dramas, and two, science fictionfantasy. “The most natural and enjoyable to write were the comedies. I was laughing out loud as I wrote them,” she said. “But now I’m embroiled in this scifi fantasy series, ‘The Human Struggle,’ which owes a lot to, of all people, [John] Milton.” Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” she noted, “was part of the inspiration for this series as were the novels of Philip K. Dick. Go figure.” “Realm of Shadows” (2013, 696 pages), the first in “The Human Struggle” series, is about the struggle to survive a war of the worlds, and “Zone of Illu-

PAINTING

Continued from Page B-4 that he had a group of photographs which he wanted to recycle, and found that crumpled up they made interesting and arresting compositions. One of the resulting paintings, “Unmanned” is much smaller scale (20” x 16”) but is perhaps even more compelling. Precisely rendered, with a strongly surrealist feeling, the folded and wrinkled paper reveals a face, probably that of the artist, peering out from its dark center. The crumpled photo lays on a set of keys and an envelope, again apparently exploring themes of identity and self-worth. As an already successful emerging artist, who has won other prizes since recently completing his MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Hackett deﬁnitely looks like someone to watch. Nevertheless, to my mind Dan Perkins, another young ﬁnalist, is at least as strong a painter, but did not win any of the prizes. A recent graduate of the MFA program at American University, Perkins’ large oil on canvas “X Marks the Spot” (90” x 92”) is a luminous composition with a complex iconography. A fantasy landscape, replete with rays recalling the aurora borealis, opens under a tent-like structure that glistens in perspective. The pictorial space in this work, and its scale lure the viewer into what seems at once like a meditation on the

sion” (2014, 569 pages), the second, is about the effort to avert the collapse of an alternate reality. Ottenberg’s influences reflect her education; her bachelor’s and master’s degrees are in general studies in the humanities, with a focus on philosophy and literature, from the University of Chicago. As a media specialist, with a second master’s degree in library science from the University of Maryland, she introduces young children to literature. During her Philadelphia childhood, Ottenberg’s affinity for writing stories and Charles Dickens were evident early. Both her parents, a musician and a psychoanalyst, she said, “were always very intellectually curious, and this had a big effect on me.” When she started writing “in earnest” during high school, her attempt at a modernist novel was a “fiasco.” In college, she wrote short stories and more realistic fiction, and favored reading European writers. Post-college, Ottenberg

Romantic theme of the sublime in nature, or a surrealist dreamscape. Perkins was represented in the show with two other very small works that did not have the same punch as the large one, but they do show that the artist is fascinated by the juxtaposition of architectonic forms and landscape, as well as the natural with the improbable. Second place was won by Philip Hinge, another young painter whose crudely painted expressionist canvases with disco and pinball iconography have been featured in three issues of the “New American Paintings” publication, and is already represented by an important gallery in Washington, D.C. Ryan Carr Johnson took third place with works that exist in an equivocal status between painting and sculpture. Carr deconstructed an apparently large number of paintings he deemed unsuccessful, and re-used the wood of the stretchers to create the series he calls “Vector-ViceVersa.” Looking something like corrugated cardboard, the wood is glued together to form vshaped reliefs to which the artist applies up to 300 layers of latex paint, sanding each one before applying the next. The result is a mottled but smooth surface that looks something like faux marble in different colors. In his presentation, the artist referred to them as “the blue one, the purple one, the green one,” etc., suggesting, quite rightly, that their repetitive minimalist objecthood is the only thing of in-

Silver Spring author Eve Ottenberg’s “Zone of Illusion.” AMERICA STAR BOOKS

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DAN PERKINS

Dan Perkins’ “X Marks the Spot” lures the viewer with its Romantic imagery. Perkins attempts to reinterpret the sublime in nature with surrealist and symbolist additions. terest about them despite their layered surfaces. Johnson’s is certainly an unusual technique, and the works are provocative in this setting because of their challenge to the deﬁnition of a “painting” — something that might be seen to have been answered some time ago with the appearance of shaped canvasses

portrays Carmen Ghia — an assistant to the director — on stage while playing the role of an actual producer off stage. This is the ﬁrst time both Kopp and Kauff have worked with the Sandy Spring Theatre Group. “I’ve produced a number of shows in the past with other theater companies,” Kopp said. “When I get involved in anything, whether it’s theatrical or otherwise, I like to get involved as much as I possibly can.” Although it’s been difﬁcult at time getting everything just right for “The Producers” at the Arts Barn, Kopp said working with everyone associated with the show and Sandy Spring Theatre Group has been a great experience. “Everyone works very, very hard,” Kopp said. “We work as a team to try to solve some problems, like putting a big show like ‘The Producers’ on a smaller stage … which, creatively, is a lot of fun to do. I love the concept of taking a giant show and trying to scale it down.” Kauff said he hopes audiences take away a better appreciation for Brooks and his works.

Continued from Page B-4 him to take his place. Like any good friend, he did and ended up marrying the girl sometime later. The book tells this and many other stories about Anas-

tasi’s time growing up in Maryland. He explained that he had wanted to write the book because he and John had so many “fun experiences together.” “I would write a little bit and then I would remember something else and go back and add a little more,” Anastasi said.

studies languages — excelling in Spanish, Russian and French, and dipping into four others. Ottenberg chose to self-publish her books because breaking into commercial publishing was so difﬁcult. “PublishAmerica, now America Star Books,” she said, “is a step or two up from selfpublishing. True, they use printon-demand technology and they do not put any money into advertising or promotion, but … they do not charge authors to publish them.” Ottenberg wouldn’t divulge what she is working on now. “Somehow that saps the creativity,” she explained. But for the future, she hopes her books will “gain some modest recognition. Ideally they’d do so well that I could retire on them, but I’m not holding my breath for that. There are so many of us novelists out there!” Eve Ottenberg’s books are available on amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com.

RYAN CARR JOHNSON

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reviewer, criminal justice reporter. She wrote features about local politics and covered the

Housing Court, which led to a regular column titled “Hard Times,” about the politics of housing in New York City. Subsequently, Ottenberg wrote book reviews for The New York Times and Vanity Fair, and served as an editor at The Soho News, Standard & Poor’s and The New Jersey Law Journal. When she and her family — her journalist husband and two of their three children — moved to Maryland in 1990, she worked on the copy desk at Congressional Quarterly. Ottenberg’s credentials as a journalist gave her credibility as a ﬁction writer. “Since I never took creative writing courses, I didn’t have a support system, or people to encourage me. It wasn’t until I was a known journalist that people began responding to my fiction,” she said. Working as a media specialist and writing ﬁction in “a very serious way” have complemented each other. She writes in the summer, and edits and rewrites through the school year. In the rare spare time, she

“Vector-Vice-Versa Pu1” is a three-dimensional painted relief by Ryan Carr Johnson, winner of third. The “Pu1” in the title refers to the color purple that dominates this piece in the series.

PRODUCERS

Mara Bayewitz stars as Shirley Markowitz in Mel Brooks’ “The Producers” at the Arts Barn in Gaithersburg this weekend At Right: Bill Spitz plays one of his many characters in the play.

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The title is a reference to letter writing, but also to Anastasi’s proclivity to pulling pranks on anyone and everyone while attending the all-boys Gonzaga College High School and eventually the University of Maryland. Anastasi majored in English

in the early 1960s. The Young Artist award, for an emerging artist under 30, was given to Ali Miller, the winner of the top “Best-in-Show” prize in this competition in 2012. Miller is also a narrative painter, with a complex sense of iconography that often seems to border on the surreal. She is also rep“Just the appreciation and brilliance of what was written there,” Kauff said. “His ability to not be [politically correct]. The ability to laugh at things that seem rough… anything that Mel Brooks has touched, nothing is PC. And that’s how I live my life. You can make fun of anything.” For Kopp, any opportunity to attract a younger audience is great. Teenagers and college students who are used to going to see shows such as “Bye, Bye Birdie,” and “Oklahoma,” with their parents might walk away from “The Producers” realizing how much fun it is to do musical theater. “[I hope they see] it’s fun, it’s edgy, it’s humorous, and that we on stage and everyone associated with Sandy Spring Theatre Group and the Arts Barn is having a good time,” Kopp said. “My hope for this show is to try to get more people involved. Community theater is a wonderful thing. It’s the most time-consuming extracurricular activity you can have, but it’s by far the most rewarding. “It’s like a never-ending softball league.” wfranklin@gazette.net

at the University of Maryland and went on to become a sports writer covering boxing and everything in between. When the paper he wrote for went out of business he went to work for the government writing speeches and press releases among other things. Although he said he’s not

resented with one very big (6’ x 8’) panel and two very small accompanying works. Also a graduate of MICA, Miller’s technique is a fascinating combination of smooth representative areas and bold active brushwork that results in a dizzying, hallucinatory effect in the large work (“To Help You See”), but achieves a darker, dreamlike feeling in the more abstract and much smaller “It Can’t All Fit” — a work that recalls the surrealist landscapes of Giorgio di Chirico and Salvador Dalí. Si Jae Byun is another ﬁnalist who deserves mention although she did not win a prize. A native of Korea, Byun earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her works

are a combination of extremely delicate ink drawings and acrylic colors on cut silk. The flowing graphic of these paintings, with long looping strokes of the pen, combine with the colors to suggest plant forms or even landscapes that allude to the traditions of Asian art while remaining abstract compositions. Bethesda Painting Awards, to June 28, Gallery B, 7700 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. Gallery hours are noon to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday; opening reception from 6-9 p.m. Friday, June 13. For more information, call 301-215-6660.

THE PRODUCERS n When: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, June 13-29 n Where: Gaithersburg Arts Barn, 311 Kent Square Rd., Gaithersburg n Tickets: $16, $18 non-residents n For information: 301-258-6394; sandyspringtheatregroup.org

sure whether or not he’ll write anymore books he did jokingly entertain the idea of a sequel entitled “P.S.” “I remember I would write to my friend John and I loved that,” Anastasi said. “The title of the book is ‘The Last Personal Letter,’ because everything is emails now

there are no personal letters. You used to have letters written by famous authors, we don’t have that anymore, you get junk mail and you get emails.” “The Last Personal Letter: Pranks for the Memories” is available on amazon.com.

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Property Management Company seeks an experienced bilingual, English/Spanish; individual for a full time year round position that requires 23 years of experience in the field and 1 year of management or supervisory experience. Responsibilities include working with and supervising a crew of 5, routine maintenance for 8 apartment complexes in MD and VA, maintaining equipment and coordinating purchases of all materials needed to complete jobs on schedule and within budget. Applicant must have knowledge of plant, flower and tree installation, have a clean driving record, and be highly organized and flexible. Benefits include a vehicle, life insurance, health insurance, and a 401-K plan. Please contact Anne at 301-509-8656 for more information. Real Estate

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Comprint Military Publications has an immediate opening for a full-time reporter/photojournalist in its Joint Base MyerHenderson Hall, Virginia office. News writing background, interviewing individuals for stories, and AP Style knowledge, & digital camera familiarity important. College degree in journalism preferred. Familiarity with military a plus. We offer a competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, pension, 401(k) and tuition reimbursement.

Position Location: Pentagram Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall 204 Lee Avenue Building 59, Room 116 Fort Myer, VA 22211-1199 EOE

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Busy Pediatric office in Rockville seeks reliable PT medical receptionist/billing assistant. Strong computer and customer service skills required. Medical billing knowledge preferred. Email resume to: jessicas@coleman-pediatrics.com

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Automotive

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1.9% Financing Available

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13,995

126K Miles

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2010 CC Sedan........#V043167A, Island Gray, 65,572 Miles..........$17,991 2012 Jetta SEL....#V075452A, Black, 39,128 Miles....................$17,991 2012 Jeep Liberty 4WD.....#V6113A, White, 26,187 Miles.........$18,494 2013 Passat SE.........#V532044A, Blue, 26,414 Miles..............$19,991 2011 Jetta TDI.............#VP0059, Black, 41,750 Miles................$19,991 2012 Jetta TDI MT......#V273915A, Red, 40,603 Miles...............$19,991 2013 Passat SE...........#VPR0060, White, 6,093 Miles...............$21,911 2013 GTI HB..................#V010407A, Red, 8,460 Miles............$25,491 2012 Honda CR-V EX-L.....#V274812A, Silver, 34,278 Miles.......$25,991

All prices exclude tax, tags, title, freight and $200 processing fee. Cannot be combined with any previous advertised or internet special. Pictures are for illustrative purposes only. See dealer for details. 0% APR Up To 60 Months on all models. See dealer for details. Ourisman VW World Auto Certified Pre Owned financing for 60 months based on credit approval thru VW. Excludes Title, Tax, Options & Dealer Fees. Special APR financing cannot be combined with sale prices. Ends 06/30/14.

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2008 GMC SIERRA: 1500 Denali Crew Cab, AWD, 46,480 miles, black, leather, sunroof, navigation, DVD, excellent condition, $11600, keca@netscape.co m

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30,480

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#P9037, Silver, 1-Owner, Auto, 2.5L 5-Cyl Turbocharged

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169/mo.**

PRICES AND PAYMENTS INCLUDE ANY APPLICABLE MANUFACTURE’S REBATES AND EXCLUDE MILITARY ($500) AND COLLEGE GRAD ($500) REBATES, TAX, TAGS, DEALER PROCESSING CHARGE ($200) AND FREIGHT: CARS $795 OR $810, TRUCKS, SPORT UTILITY AND SIENNAS $810, $845 AND $995. *0.9% APR & 0% APR FINANCING UP TO 60 MONTHS TO QUALIFIED BUYERS THRU TOYOTA FINANCIAL SERVICES. TOTAL FINANCED CANNOT EXCEED MSRP PLUS OPTIONS, TAX, AND LICENSE FEES. 0% APR 60 MONTHLY PAYMENTS OF $16.67 FOR EACH $1000 BORROWED. 0.9% APR 60 MONTHLY PAYMENTS OF $17.05 FOR EACH $1000 BORROWED. APR OFFERS ARE NOT VALID WITH ANY OTHER CASH BACK OR LEASE OFFER. NOT ALL BUYERS WILL QUALIFY.**LEASE PAYMENTS BASED ON 36 MONTHS, 12,000 MILES PER YEAR WITH $995 DOWN PLUS $650 ACQUISITION FEE, NO SECURITY DEPOSIT REQUIRED. SEE DEALER FOR COMPLETE DETAILS. 2014 COROLLAU & PRIUS PLUG-IN LEASES ARE FOR 24 MONTHS WITH $995 DOWN. EXPIRES 06/30/2014.

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08 Ford Mustang

$13,988

#KP41623,PREMIUM,SHARP! LTHR/PWR SEAT,P/OPTS

99 Toyota Camry LE $2,450

06 Chrysler PT Cruiser LTD $7,988

#KP98627, AUTO,PW, GREAT BUY, “HANDYMAN”

#KP21734, BEAUTY! WOODY CHROME, MNRF

07 GMC Acadia SLT

$14,990

12 Hyundai Elantra WGN $16,988

#KA38613A, AWD, SHOWROOM! NAV, DVD, MNRF

#KP45066, TRNG, RARE FIND! SHOWROOM COND!

UNDER $10,000

MORE VEHICLES

Toyota Corolla....................................$1,975

01 Honda Accord LX........................$5,988

09 VW Jetta.....................................$12,488 11 Ford Fusion SEL........................$16,988

98 Pontiac Grand Prix.......................$2,488

02 Suzuki Grand Vitara...................$6,450

12 Nissan Versa 1.8S.....................$12,988 11 Nissan Rogue SV......................$20,988

#KP93762, CLEAN! AT, AC, AIR BAGS, “HANDYMAN” #KP02715, SPORTY! SPLR, ALLOYS, P/OPTIONS

02 Dodge Stratus SXT.......................$2,788 #KP22884, CPE “RARE FIND! 5 SPD, AC, PW

03 Mercury Grand Marquis..............$5,988 #00723KP, PAMPERED, 46K!! PW/PLC, CC, DONT MISS!

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#KP40686, S-SRS, AT, AC, PW/PLC, A REALLY CLEAN CAR #KP61592, JLX + 4WD, WELL KEPT, 84K!! AT, PW, ABS

06 Scion XB Wagon............................$7,988 #KP16808, AT, AC, PW/PLC, CD, NICE

VW Beetle SE CPE ...........................$8,988 #KP10954, TRIPLE WHITE, GORGEOUS! MNRF, LTHR, P/OTS, AUT

#KP38457, “WOLFSBURG EDITION” DON’T MISS! LTHR, P/OPTS

#KA25787, BEAUTY, 38K! MNRF, LTHR/PWR SEATS, SYNC, CC

#KN45958, AT, AC, PW/PLC EASY TERMS AVAILABLE!

#KX60639, AWD, ALL-THE-TOYS!! NAV, MNRF, LTHR, ALLOYS

#KX63055, LTHR/PWR/HTD SEATS, P/OPTS

#KP10510, “HEMO” RARE FIND! MNRF, LTHR, AT, ACT NOW!

#KP59144, ONE OF A KIND! ONLY 3K MILES, DON’T MISS

#KA36020, “RALLEY” GORGEOUS! CHROME WHEELS, MNRF

10 Chrysler 300 Touring.................$15,988 09 Dodge Challenger R/T..............$22,988 12 Honda Civic LX...........................$15,988 12 Dodge Charger SXT..................$24,990