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Plumbing failure puts shelter in a bind on money Nonproﬁt looking to ﬁll shortfall in two fundraising events BY

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Rainbow Place, an overnight emergency shelter in Rockville, is scrambling to secure money to pay for the meals and warm beds it provides to scores of homeless women each year. A plumbing system failure during the recently ended ﬁvemonth sheltering season blew a hole in Rainbow Place’s budget that remains to be plugged. The expense came at a time when Rainbow Place provided bed and board to 105 women — up 50 percent over the 69 women the shelter served in the previous season and the most it has served in its 32-year history.

The cost of repairs to pipes and to the basement of Rockville Presbyterian Church, where the shelter operates rent-free, has totaled more than $20,000 already and is still being assessed, said shelter director Nancy J. Sushinsky. Meanwhile the shelter sought, but was not awarded, a $24,000 community development block grant that it had received in each of the past three years, she said. Faced with growing needs and fiscal uncertainties, Rainbow Shelter workers and volunteers are hoping to raise money through two events: a beneﬁt golf tournament at RedGate Golf Course in Rockville on May 9 and a fashion show and traditional tea at Rockville Presbyterian Church’s Calvin Room on May 2.

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Alice Miller says mourners have left hundreds of letters at the gravesite of her granddaughter, Michelle, who died on April 8, 2013. A candlelight vigil was held at her grave in Rockville last week on the one year anniversary of her death.

Remembering Michelle

Graveside memorial held for Rockville teen found dead with recruiter BY

TIFFANY ARNOLD STAFF WRITER

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Workers install Lorann Jacobs’ bronze sculpture, titled The Thinker, at the Rockville Town Square on April 9 in Rockville. Patrick Sells of Pennsylvania prepares the life-sized ﬁgure to be hoisted onto its base of metal gears.

Thinking tin Festival gears up in Rockville Free event will be held in early May

BY KRISTA BRICK STAFF WRITER

The tinman came to Rockville Town Square on April 9, but not by following the yellow brick road. It took a crane to lift this 1,500-pound piece of art in place. The public art installation of The Thinker will remind

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residents to “Think A-RTS” in the weeks leading up to the ARTS Festival at Rockville Town Square. The free festival is scheduled for 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. May 3 and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 4. Stickers will transform the sidewalk into a yellow brick road leading to the sculpture, according to Bob Deutsch, principal of the festival. The tinman is artist Lorann

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Loved ones held a memorial service at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Rockville on April 8 for Michelle Miller.

Patrick Miller stood along a moonlit dirt path at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Rockville on April 8 holding a candle with the words “RIP angel” wrapped around it. “I live like I don’t have tomorrow, now,” he said. His sister, Michelle Miller, was found dead along with her Army recruiter in his Germantown home April 8, 2013. Patrick, 23, and about 40 of her friends gathered at her gravesite to remember her. It would be a lie to say things were getting easier, that it actually felt like a year had passed since she died, Patrick

Miller said. “It’s like reliving it,” he said. “It’s like it happened yesterday. It actually feels impossible.” Police found U.S. Army recruiter Staff Sgt. Adam Anthony Arndt, 31, and Michelle Miller, 17, dead in Arndt’s home on Pinnacle Drive on April 8. A report from the Maryland Ofﬁce of the Chief Medical Examiner, which ruled the cause of death for Arndt as suicide, left the cause of death for Miller as undetermined. Miller’s relatives say she was planning to enter the U.S. Army Reserves after graduation, and had been training with Arndt, who helped recruit her.

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Rockville votes to support ethics disclosures Gaithersburg pushed for change, wants focus on relevant information

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The Rockville City Council is taking a stand against any attempt to soften statewide ethics requirements for public ofﬁcials, even though the Maryland Gen-

eral Assembly took no action this year. Led by Councilman Tom Moore, Rockville council members voted 3-2 March 17 to send a letter to the Montgomery County delegation and leaders in Annapolis expressing the city’s support of the legislation as it stands. The current law, passed in 2010, requires city ofﬁcials to disclose any interest in property they have and all salaried

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employment they and their immediate family members hold, among other things. Sen. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Dist. 20) of Takoma Park introduced legislation in January that would require officials to disclose property interests outside of the state under certain conditions. It would apply if the property were acquired from or in conjunction with a person who has either done business with the municipality at any time in the past 10

years or who is doing business with the municipality, according to online bill documents. The bill never emerged from committee. Moore called the proposed changes a “weakening” of the law. “I’ve talked with thousands of voters over the last couple of years and nobody says to me, ‘I think my ofﬁcials are too honest.

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Ophthalmologist takes medical mission

A Montgomery County doctor recently took a volunteer trip to the Caribbean. Gayatri S. Reilly, an ophthalmologist who lives in Bethesda, took a 10-day trip to the Turks and Caicos Islands to provide free eye exams and treatment to patients. Reilly is a retinal surgeon with the Retina Group of Washington. She practices at the group’s Chevy Chase and Rockville ofﬁces.

Twinbrook Partnership celebrates Extreme Cleanup Dozens of volunteers collected litter and hauled away tires and other debris from the Twinbrook portion of Rock Creek Park April 5. This site was organized by Twinbrook Partnership, a private neighborhood and business alliance promoting the Twinbrook community in Rockville.

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Volunteers hauled an estimated 30 bags of trash and other debris from the park. The effort was conducted in a wooded area off Fishers Lane, according to a news release from the partnership. “The positive impact we’ve been able to make on improving and protecting Twinbrook’s local watershed has been phenomenal,” said Ashley Lambdin, executive director of the Twinbrook Partnership. Matthew Fleischer, executive director of Rock Creek Conservancy, said in the release, “This is our 6th Annual Rock Creek Extreme Cleanup, and having the Twinbrook Partnership support our effort is invaluable to the work we do and the success of the event. We have cleaned 12,000 bags of lit-

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ter out of the creek in the past ﬁve years and this year builds on that success.” The Extreme Cleanup is part of the Alice Ferguson Foundation’s Potomac River Watershed Cleanup across four states and D.C. in April. The effort helps keep trash out of the Potomac River, the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. Also, the partnership has adopted a 1-mile stretch of Parklawn Drive through Montgomery County’s Adopt a Road program. Nine members gathered March 21 to remove litter and clean up sidewalks. Members collected 10 bags of trash from the roadway.

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Library, 21 Maryland Ave., Rockville. Free. 301-320-5863.

THURSDAY, APRIL 17 Women Business Owners of Montgomery County Networking Lunch,

5:30-8 p.m., Timpano Italian Chop House, 12021 Rockville Pike, Rockville. $48. 301-365-1755.

FRIDAY, APRIL 18 Moms In Prayer Group, times and

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Keeping Watch: Reﬂections on the Seven Last Words of Christ, noon-1:30

p.m., Shrine of St. Jude, 12701 Veirs Mill Road, Rockville. denise.lindekugel@stjuderockville.org. Community Easter Egg Hunt, noon-3 p.m., Bethesda Health and Rehab Center, 5721 Grosvenor Lane, Bethesda. Free. 301-530-1600. Teen Band Night: The Octagon, 7:30-10:30 p.m., Sandy Spring Museum, 17901 Bentley Road, Sandy Spring. $3. 301-774-0022.

SATURDAY, APRIL 19 Stream cleanup, 9-11 a.m., Woodley Gardens Park, 900 Nelson St., Rockville. Free. 301-637-9638. Bunny Business, 10-10:30 a.m., The Puppet Co. Playhouse, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo. Ages 0-4. $5. 301-634-5380. Art of Knotting, 2-4 p.m., Quince Orchard Library, 15831 Quince Orchard Road, Gaithersburg. Free. 240-

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County forum celebrates art in recovery The county will host a community forum, “Art in Recovery:

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Integrating Mind, Body and Spirit,” May 8 in Rockville and include an exhibit on the beneﬁt of art in the addiction recovery process. The public is invited to attend from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Rockville United Church, 355 Linthicum St. Representatives from the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, Peer Wellness & Recovery Services and Peer-2-Peer, along with members of the Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Advisory Council and the Mental Health Advisory Council, will hear residents’ suggestions, concerns and questions. Speakers may include recovering residents and families confronting substance-abuse problems. Email artrecovery14@gmail. com or call 240-777-4723.

Soul In Motion: Three Decades in the Performing Arts, 8 p.m., F. Scott

Fitzgerald Theater, 51 Mannakee St., Rockville. $30 general admission, $25 for students, seniors and artists, $20 for youth. www. soulinmotion.org.

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MONDAY, APRIL 21 Dining with the Chefs Fundraiser to Beneﬁt Low-Income Families, 6-10

p.m., The Universities at Shady Grove, 9630 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville. $25 for students, $120 per person or $800 per table of eight. 301-738-6391.

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Family Member Monthly Hoarding Support Group, 6:30-8 p.m., Jewish

Social Service Agency, 6123 Montrose Road, Rockville, every fourth Tuesday of the month. $15 per session; onetime pre-registration required. 301816-2665.

Long Distance Caregiving and Other Dilemmas for Families, 7:30-9:30

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Arrest made in 2010 sexual assault of pregnant woman Police are looking for a second man

TIFFANY ARNOLD STAFF WRITER

A Rockville man has been charged in an alleged rape and robbery of a pregnant woman at in Aspen Hill in 2010. Jose Antonio QuintanoClaros, 27, of the 13100 block of Twinbrook Parkway, was arrested on April 9 on charges of ﬁrst-degree rape and robbery, Montgomery County police said in a news release. Initially held on a no-bail

status, a judge on Thursday set Quintano-Claros’s bail at $10 million, according to online court records. An attorney was not listed for Quintano-Claros. Police allege that QuintanoClaros and another man accosted a 26-year-old pregnant woman who had just gotten off a bus and was walking along Veirs Mill Road at around 12:30 a.m. June 13, 2010. They forced the woman into a wooded area and sexually assaulted her, police alleged. One pulled out a knife and threatened to kill her if she didn’t comply. They also took her purse, police said in a news release. A warrant was issued for Quin-

tano-Claros’s arrest in 2010, but he left the country for Honduras before police could apprehend him, said police spokeswoman Cpl. Rebecca Innocenti. Innocenti said it’s unclear how long Quintano-Claros has been back in the U.S. Meanwhile, police are still looking for another man in connection to the incident. A photo composite of that person was posted at the police department’s blog on Friday. “He goes by the nickname ‘El Brown,’” Innocenti said. Police asked anyone with information to call the Major Crimes Division at 240-773-5070.

Literacy supporters gather for a spell Word warriors work their way through the dictionary in coalition fundraiser

BY ANDREW SCHOTZ STAFF WRITER

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Kathy Stevens (second from left), the executive director of the Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy, poses with the winning spelling bee team from Holy Cross Health — from left, Manny Ocasio, Elizabeth Dooley and Tim Delaney. The library group, called Spell Busters, nailed “verboten,” “Weltschmerz” and “trichotillomania.” Holy Cross was perfect on “oology,” “estivate” and “abecedarian.” The Holy Cross team of Manny Ocasio, Elizabeth Dooley and Tim Delaney won by correctly spelling “guttle” — to eat voraciously — after the library team got it wrong. People who bought tickets watched the contestants slug it

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The audience at the April 9 adult spelling bee in Silver Spring had a mild case of onychophagia — nail biting — while watching contestants try to spell that tricky word and many others. The competition was a fundraiser for the Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy in Rockville. Six teams took the stage at the Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center. Some competitors dressed in the spirit of the event, as yellowand-black bees. Early on, teams in the bee started dropping like flies. One was eliminated on “debonair.” Another flubbed “elliptical.” Two more went out on “firmament” and “pixelated.” That left Holy Cross Health against Friends of the Library in a showdown through several topsyturvy rounds.

out on stage, word by word, and cheered for their favorites. During two breaks in the bee, audience members were given words to spell on Twitter. They raced to get it right ﬁrst in a tweet, using a hashtag. Kathy Stevens, the executive director of the Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy, said the spelling bee had double the number of corporate sponsors from last year’s fundraiser, a Leaders for Literacy breakfast.

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Parents have more inﬂuence than they realize, organization says BY

SARAH SCULLY STAFF WRITER

As prom season and high school graduation approaches, underage drinking is on parents’ minds. How to keep kids from drinking, and driving drunk, is at the top of the agenda. Police say that underage drinking is a new and more dangerous phenomenon than it used to be, and parents are fighting an uphill battle against songs and movies that glorify drinking. On Monday night, MADD — Mothers Against Drunk Driving — representatives came to Rockville to meet with parents and people who work in their communities to combat underage drinking and drunken driving. Parents have more influence than they believe over kids’ drinking, Herman Bonaparte of MADD said. But access to 24/7 media on smartphones that puts drinking in kids’ faces and in the hands of their favorite musicians might be parents’ number one enemy, he argued. On 8tracks.com, a popular site where users can share playlists, one is titled “My Favorite Songs Before High School Graduation” and illustrated with a vodka bottle. In “Tik Tok,” Kesha sings that she brushes her teeth “with a bottle of Jack” (Daniel’s Whiskey). In another song, she says to live like you’ll “die young.” MADD advocates are trying to prevent just that — dying young — as teens dance to her songs all over. And just try to come up with a movie in which the cool kids eschew alcohol. Even outside of pop culture, “the community around us is very much one of alcohol,” said Katherine Wood, a parent on the wellness committee for the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School PTSA. “To model good behavior in our society is very difficult.” Police officers with the Montgomery County Alcohol Initiative Section also chimed in during the meeting about what they see as they crack down on underage drinking. Deputy John Durham, an alcohol enforcement specialist and drug recognition expert for the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, said teens are drinking more than they used to. “It’s not necessarily the number of kids who are drinking — it’s the intensity with which they’re drinking,” Durham said. “They’re starting at a younger age and

building tolerance.” Kids have more access to alcohol than they used to as well. “They have the disposable income,” he said. And they’re not taking care of each other the way they used to. In prior years, Durham said, teens had less alcohol and would look out for one another more. Now, the unit that tackles underage drinking will bust parties to find a dozen bottles of liquor — and not the cheap stuff, but specifically the kind of liquor that appears in music videos, like Ciroc vodka, promoted by Sean Combs. They also find kids taking videos of dangerously intoxicated friends, stumbling around or even seizing on the floor. Cops often face parents who tell the police to spend their time elsewhere. MADD cites research that shows that underage kids who get a strong message that drinking is not acceptable are 80 percent less likely to drink. Those whose parents allow a drink at home are much more likely to drink outside the house, Bonaparte said. And despite all the eye rolling, three in four kids say that parents are the number one influence over their decision over whether or not to drink. Initially formed to fight drunken driving, MADD now advocates against underage drinking, also. “I wish Alisa were around to roll her eyes at me,” said MADD National President Jan Withers. She told the story of her daughter Alisa, who died after getting in the car with a drunken driver. Alisa, a sophomore in high school in the early 1990s in Upper Marlboro, wasn’t drinking, but she and her friends were hanging out with senior boys during spring break who were. One of the boys was driving when he went off the road and Alisa was ejected from the car. In Maryland in 2012, there were more than 23,000 DUI arrests, according to MADD data, and 160 drunken-driving-related fatalities, accounting for 32 percent of all traffic deaths. MADD recommends that parents talk with their kids frequently about underage drinking and drinking and driving and set an example. For prom in particular, Bonaparte suggests recruiting popular students to plan a school-organized after-party to get kids to attend. It’s not only driving that’s the problem, but teens getting dangerously drunk, MADD says. sscully@gazette.net

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Obituary Mildred T. Villani Morano Millie of Sandwich, MA and

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Potomac, MD died on March 19, 2013 on Martha’s Vineyard, after a long struggle with cancer at the age of 91. Born in the Bronx, NYC. Millie attended Roosevelt High School. She married her sweetheart Charles Chas Morano in 1946. She was a Red Cross volunteer during World War II. She was the first woman in New York State to hold a wholesale liquor sales license and worked for Capital Wine and Liquor in NYC. She was a member of St. Anthony’s Church in Yonkers, NY where she was an active member of the Altar Society. Her life-long love of reading led her to Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, NY where she graduated with a degree in English Literature. Millie lived in the Bronx, Yonkers and Ardsley NY, where she was a Real Estate Broker and founded Milhomes Real Estate. Upon retiring, she moved to Sandwich, MA and Potomac, MD. Her love of life and children was realized in her work as a teacher of special needs children at the Cape Cod Collaborative. In Sandwich, Millie was a landscape artist and an active member in the Cape Cod Art Association and Heritage Plantation, Sandwich, MA. She loved to read, paint and spend time with her family and friends. Her time in Potomac was spent painting and enjoying her grandchildren. She is predeceased by her loving husband Angelo Charles “Chas” Morano and survived by her beloved children Charles A. Morano of Edgartown, MA and Christine Morano Magee and son-in-law Christopher Magee of Potomac, MD. She is also survived by her eight loving grandchildren, Mary Rose Morano, Charles H. Morano, C. Max Magee, Cara Magee Leroy, Philip Magee of DC, David Magee of DC, Julia Magee Rigolage of Kensington, MD and Greg Magee of Potomac, MD and three great-grandchildren, August Magee, Wilson Magee and Miles Magee. Her love of life and caring for all she knew will be greatly missed. A service and celebration of Millie’s life was held on Martha’s Vineyard officiated by Rev. John Schule and she was interred at The Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne. A scholarship fund has been established in remembrance of Millie at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, The Mildred T. Morano Scholarship Fund, PO Box 1509, Edgartown MA 02539. 1910383

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Ofﬁcials seek public’s opinion for its policy

LINDSAY A. POWERS STAFF WRITER

From gardens to benches, scoreboards to playground equipment, public schools across Montgomery County receive facility improvements that are paid for with private contributions rather than out of the county’s pocket. But that can lead to inequities between schools. Next month, Montgomery County Public Schools plans to hold three meetings to ask the public whether there’s a problem in the ability of wealthier schools to raise more money for nonessential improvements than other schools can. The meetings will be one part of a larger study aimed at making any necessary policy changes next school year. The policy on private contributions for facility improvements includes funds from PTAs, booster clubs, businesses and local government agencies. Such private funds cannot go toward capital projects that the school system, county and state are responsible for, according to the school system’s policy on its website. Bruce Crispell, director of the school system’s Division of Long-

range Planning, said the meetings will give community members the chance to say if they think the situation is fair. School officials want to promote involvement in schools, he said, but also want to explore ideas such as creating stronger policy language and providing support to school groups that need help building their fundraising capacities. Under current policy, school officials must consider during an approval process “whether the improvement would foster or exacerbate inequity.” Crispell said smaller contributions, which are most common, appear all over the county. “I think you see a little bigger totals when you get to the more affluent communities,” he said. From 2011 through 2013, he said, nearly half of private contributions made to schools were less than $1,000. Above that, most are in the $1,000 to $3,000 range, he said. In that three-year period, about 124 private contributions totaled nearly $2.1 million, Crispell said. More than $1 million of that came from Wootton High School’s booster club’s effort to add an artificial turf field at the Rockville school. Once in a while, a school receives a large contribution, Crispell said. “When those come up, that’s

something that the board gets concerned about,” Crispell said. Examples of other large contributions in recent years include the following: • Westbrook Elementary School in Bethesda received about $247,000 from its education foundation for various improvements. • Winston Churchill High School in Potomac received about $80,000 from its booster club for a scoreboard. • Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring received about $17,500 from its booster club for a new stadium scoreboard. School board Vice President Patricia O’Neill (Dist. 3) of Bethesda said the school system wants to create “a level playing ﬁeld” to help less-supported schools. Some communities want the ability to contribute to their schools without limitations, she said, while others say that is unfair. The board sees larger contributions about once or twice a year, O’Neill said. “Every time a large request has come to the board, the board sort of gasps at the size of some, although most of them are very small,” she said. The issue, she said, is a longstanding one that the school board has raised and the Montgomery County Council’s Education Committee discussed last summer. A steering committee with

members from PTAs, booster clubs and other groups also is looking at the issue and contributing its research on other school districts’ approaches, she said. Elizabeth Dunn — president of Northwood High School’s Parent, Teacher, Student Association — said she has seen the issue of private contributions appear in many forms at the school but most notably around its athletic ﬁeld lights. Northwood’s booster club raises money to cover part of the annual cost of the lights, which has been difﬁcult, she said. School system policy should address the issue of private, facility funds, Dunn said, but she added she thinks it’s also a matter of parent involvement, which she said is low at Northwood. While county schools have varying access to private funds, an involved community can make a big difference, she said. “I think the county should be wary of being a replacement parent or basically giving the message to parents it’s OK to not be involved because we’ll take care of it,” she said. The public meetings will take place May 5 at Seneca Valley High School in Germantown, May 7 at Springbrook High School in Silver Spring and May 8 at Churchill High in Potomac. lpowers@gazette.net

One cute bunny Kids got a chance to hop around with a larger-than-life bunny at the Thomas Farm Community Center in Rockville Saturday. Activities included D’s Magic show, spring crafts, egg hunt, Candy Land Challenge game and an opportunity to pose with the Bunny. The center is at 700 Fallsgrove Drive.

Konrad Bergandy of Rockville watches his 1-year-old daughter Madeline Bergandy hand an egg to the spring Bunny at the Thomas Crown community center, in Gaithersburg on Saturday.

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Gutierrez surprised District 18 challengers Incumbent contends she was clear about seeking re-election BY

PEGGY MCEWAN STAFF WRITER

Some candidates for the District 18 House of Delegates seat were expecting an easier path to victory — one that did not include facing incumbent Del. Ana Sol Gutierrez. But Gutierrez, who has served in the House since 2003, filed for reelection on Dec. 16. “She was very public with a lot of people that she was not going to run,” said candidate Emily Shetty, a Democrat from Silver Spring. But Gutierrez said her decision to file for re-election is being “played up,” to the detriment of her campaign. “I have never ever stated that I was not running,” she said. “I filed very early, back in December, before other candidates. They knew perfectly well by checking with the State Board of Elections if I was running or not.” All three delegates in District 18 are running for re-election, hoping to retain their seats in Annapolis. The district includes Kensington, Garrett Park, Chevy Chase, Wheaton and parts of Rockville and Silver Spring.

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Four candidates are hoping to unseat them. Some of those challengers expected the seat now held by Gutierrez, 72, of Chevy Chase, to be open. Elizabeth Matory of Silver Spring said it was common knowledge that Gutierrez wasn’t running again. Natali Fani-Gonzalez of Kensington said she was surprised Gutierrez changed her mind. “She told me she thought I would be a great person to take over her seat when she retired,” FaniGonzalez said. “She said she was not going to run in 2014.” Shetty, who filed preliminary paperwork to run during the summer of 2013, put off fundraising and filing her candidacy in Annapolis when she heard Gutierrez might change her mind and run. “I am an active member of the Democratic community, so I wanted to wait until she made her decision,” Shetty said. “I respect her as an elected official and as a candidate.” Shetty filed her candidacy in February 2014. Matory, who is black, said she met with Gutierrez over the summer. “She told me she wanted to retire, but she only wanted a Latino for her seat,” Matory said. That would make Fani-Gonzalez, the only Latina candidate besides Gutierrez, the heir apparent, Matory said, but she is not afraid to run. “I appreciate her place in his-

County leads state in trash diversion When it comes to diverting trash from landﬁlls and incinerators, Montgomery County was tops in the state again in 2012, the county reported last week. The county’s diversion rate — chieﬂy through recycling — was just under 60 percent, according to the Maryland Department of the Environment. “Leading the state is encouraging, because it shows that although my goal to have the County recycling 70 percent of our waste by 2020 may seem ambitious, it is by no means beyond the reach of our residents, businesses and organizations,” County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) said in a statement. Under state law, counties and Baltimore city are required to recycle 15 percent or 20 percent of their municipal trash, depending on population. More information about the county’s recycling programs is at montgomerycountymd. gov/recycling.

A visual day in the life on Tuesday Grab your smartphone, camera or video recorder and get ready to capture moments of your day to share with others who will participate Tuesday in “A Day in the Life of Montgomery County.” The program is a virtual collage that will accept photos and videos from anyone who uploads moments of their day around Montgomery County to pix@MyMCMedia.org. Through the virtual time capsule, county residents can share their selected moments with others within the 24-hour time period. Nearly 1,000 people submitted photos in last year’s event. Participants can also send photos or videos via Twitter to @MyMCMedia and add #ditl. A complete set of guidelines is at MyMCMedia.org/day. Earth Day volunteer opportunities available To mark Earth Month, and Earth Day on Tuesday, Montgomery County is seeking volunteers to host or contribute to environmentally focused projects. Projects include watershed cleanup activities and clearing trail paths. The county’s volunteer center is coordinating the events and maintains a database listing volunteer opportunities at volunteer.truist.com/ mcvc/volunteer/search.aspx. Participating students can receive student service learning hours.

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tory as the ﬁrst Latino [from Montgomery County to be elected to the House of Delegates],” Matory said, “but I think it is quite jarring that we have never elected an AfricanAmerican woman to the House of Delegates from Montgomery County.” Matory said she considers this year’s election important. “I’m running for a seat from District 18,” she said. “If [the current representatives] were effective, they would not have as many challengers. We are all doing amazing things in our personal lives, but we are mindful that Montgomery County could do better.” Fani-Gonzalez did not describe herself as an heir apparent, but said she has known Gutierrez a long time and considers her a mentor who encouraged her to run for ofﬁce. “This is something I’ve wanted to do for a while and I’m not going to back down because she is running,” Fani-Gonzalez said. “I’m not taking it personal. She made her decision and that’s the way it is. If I see her tomorrow, I’ll give her a hug. It was a disappointment, but I don’t want to have an attitude of anger. It’s not good for me.” The fourth challenger, Democrat Rick Kessler of Silver Spring, did not return a call for comment before deadline.

Fani-Gonzales wins, loses endorsement A Maryland pro-abortion rights organization last week stripped FaniGonzales of its endorsement, claiming it was an error. Instead, NARAL Pro-Choice Maryland PAC endorsed all three incumbents running for re-election. “The problem is that she would have been fourth endorsement in a three-person race,” said Ed Terry, chairman of the political action committee. Fani-Gonzales received an email on April 4 telling her she was endorsed for election by the PAC. Five days later, Terry called to say it was a mistake, she said. Terry said it was a volunteer’s clerical error. “It’s just a mistake,” Terry said. “I feel bad. We all feel bad.” Fani-Gonzales questioned why she was the only candidate to suffer this clerical error and criticized the organization for putting a volunteer in charge of something so important. “Honestly, this speaks poorly on them,” she said. “It’s just a lack of professionalism.” Terry said Fani-Gonzalez received a 100 percent pro-choice rating from the organization. pmcewan@gazette.net Staff Writer Kate S. Alexander contributed to this report.

The county is seeking ﬁve new members for its Board of Registration for Building Contractors. People of diverse backgrounds, professions, gender, geography, disability and ethnicity are encouraged to apply. Those interested should send a brief cover letter and resume to County Executive Isiah Leggett, 101 Monroe St., 2nd ﬂoor, Rockville, MD 20850; or by email to countyexecutive.boards@ montgomerycountymd.gov. Applicants should include home and employment addresses, contact phone numbers and email addresses. The application deadline is Monday. More information is at montgomerycountymd.gov.

POLICE BLOTTER Complete report at gazette.net

The following is a summary of incidents in the Rockville area to which Montgomery County and/or Rockville city police responded recently. The words “arrested” and “charged” do not imply guilt. This information was provided by the county and Rockville city police media services ofﬁce. Auto theft • On March 26 between midnight at 6:15 a.m. in the 1200 block of 1st Street, Rockville. • On March 31 or April 1 in the 100 block of Pasture Side Place, Rockville.

Aggravated assault • On March 29 at Rockville High School, 2100 Baltimore Road, Rockville. • On April 2 at 6:52 p.m. in the 400 block of South Horners Lane, Rockville. The complainant reported that he was approached by three unknown subjects, who surrounded him and pushed him. The complainant fought back. The subjects threw a basketball at the complainant, striking him in the back of his head, and kicked him. The subjects ﬂed in an unknown direction. Burglary • On March 30 at 11:57 p.m. at Churchill High School, 11300 Gainsborough Road, Rockville. Forced entry, took nothing. Residential Burglary • 10400 block of Lloyd Road, Rockville, on March 28. Forced entry, unknown what was taken. • 200 block of Currier Drive, Rockville, between noon and 4 p.m. March 29. Unknown subject gained entry by cutting a front window screen and opening the unlocked window. • 14000 block of Pellita Terrace, Rockville, at 8:40 a.m. April 1.

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Feldman aims to secure state Senate seat Montgomery College examines ways Faces no challengers in to cut cost, streamline student success Democratic primary n

SARAH SCULLY STAFF WRITER

After 11 years as District 15 delegate, Brian J. Feldman was appointed to represent the district in the Senate last year. In the 2014 elections, Feldman, of Potomac, seeks to keep his Senate seat. He wants to continue his work bolstering the biotechnology a n d cybersecurity sectors in the Feldman state and reviewing the tax code. Feldman, a Democrat, ﬁlled the seat vacated by Robert J. Garagiola, who resigned last September to spend more time with his children. A practicing tax attorney, Feldman said the Maryland tax code needs an in-depth review to “overall modernize and revamp our tax code to make us competitive.” He said it would be the ﬁrst major review since 1987 and is criti-

National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Association of University Technology Managers, Gov. Martin O’Malley said in 2012 that Maryland universities rank ﬁrst in federal research money per capita, but 37th in turning that research into commercial products and jobs. As a member of the Finance Committee, Feldman has helped oversee the establishment of Maryland’s health care exchange and the minimum wage bill that passed this year, raising the state minimum wage to $10.10 per hour by 2018. He also helped pass legislation requiring reliability standards for Maryland utilities in 2011. Reliability has improved signiﬁcantly since then, he said. Feldman teaches state policy making at Johns Hopkins University. He faces no opponents in the primary election on June 24, but will take on Republican challenger Robin Ficker of Boyds in the general election on Nov. 4. District 15 stretches along the western edge of the county, from Clarksburg through Germantown and Potomac to parts of Bethesda.

cal to attracting business and strengthening Maryland’s economy. This year, he introduced legislation to set up a review commission. The bill did not pass, but he plans to continue pushing. “Our tax structure in Maryland is very outdated,” he said. Feldman also has focused on building and supporting the biotechnology and cybersecurity industries in the state, which are concentrated in Montgomery County. “I think it’s the ticket to tremendous things down the road,” he said. He worked to create a 50 percent state income tax break for biotech companies to attract them to the area. To get more from the growing industry, Feldman wants to help companies figure out how to commercialize the work they’re doing. Though research money is pouring into Montgomery County, Feldman said, there’s much more than can be done to turn research into products, generating jobs and tax revenue. He’s been working with companies to help them ﬁgure out how to do that — for example, creating security software from cybersecurity research. Based on data from the

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Pollard describes institution goals in annual address

LINDSAY A. POWERS STAFF WRITER

Montgomery College President DeRionne P. Pollard said in a speech last week that the institution is working to better align its courses with four-year school requirements, provide consistent experiences for students across its three campuses and maintain affordability, among other goals. Students must receive an education at the college that is “deeply relevant and highly connected” to the school they want to do transfer to, Pollard said in her third annual State of the College address April 9 at the school’s Rockville campus. Many students enter Montgomery College with plans to transfer to a fouryear institution, she said, but the college currently requires students take general education courses that don’t always transfer to a student’s next school. As a result, some students

decide not to complete their degree at the college, Pollard said. College faculty are currently studying the general education curriculum to make sure students can transfer with their Montgomery credits and learn what they need to in the courses, she said. Montgomery College is also working to provide more consistency among the academics at its Rockville, Germantown and Takoma Park/ Silver Spring campuses, Pollard said. Pollard accepted in March a series of “academic restructuring” recommendations, including one to organize the college’s academic disciplines under four units. The college’s efforts will help it “realign in many different ways around critical curriculum issues,” she said. In a video shown during her address, several college students described issues they face related to inconsistencies between campuses, including the use of different textbooks at different campuses and the availability of certain classes limited to a particular campus. Pollard said the college is

also focused on affordability in a landscape where the college has seen a 60 percent increase over the last ﬁve years in ﬁnancial aid applications. Part of that work should involve making course materials more affordable, she said, citing the example of open sourcing used at the University of Maryland. The issue of affordability has also raised questions the college is still considering, she said, such as whether the institution should charge more for higher-cost programs, provide a fast track for some students, or offer a discount to students who take classes at less popular times. Pollard also addressed recent recommendations from a task force that studied the college’s achievement gaps. The group called for a wide range of measures that the college plans to implement, including increased mentoring services and more African-American and Hispanic faculty and staff. “They did not hold back any punches,” she said. lpowers@gazette.net

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Spiegel looks to capitalize on Gaithersburg council experience Aims to capture District 3 county seat n

RYAN MARSHALL STAFF WRITER

When Montgomery County Councilman Philip M. Andrews (D-Dist. 3) of Gaithersburg said he would leave the council seat he has held since 1998 to run for county executive, there was a flurry of activity among politicians to see who would fill the seat. The first to declare his intention to seek Andrews’ seat on the council was Gaithersburg City Councilman Ryan Spiegel (D).

Spiegel, 35, said he felt as if the County Council seat would be a good ﬁt for him to use the skills he’s developed during his seven years on the Gaithersburg council, such as making decisions Spiegel on land use, zoning and budgeting issues. Gaithersburg Mayor Sidney Katz, Rockville City Councilman Tom Moore and Guled Kassim of

Derwood are also running for the seat, which includes the Rockville and Gaithersburg areas, in the June 24 Democratic primary. No Republican candidate ﬁled, meaning the Democratic primary winner will not face a challenger in the Nov. 4 general election. The son of a Montgomery County Public Schools teacher, Spiegel said that if he’s elected to the council, one of his main priorities would be education. Montgomery has one of the best school systems in the country, but it faces a lot of challenges, he said. The county has to do a better job of attracting and retaining the best teachers, providing mentoring, training and competitive pay and beneﬁts, he said. The demographic shifts the county has experienced in recent

years, with more immigrant and low-income students, means the county needs to expand English as a Second Language programs to give every student the resources they need to succeed, he said. Spiegel would also focus on sustainability, building on a record of supporting ideas such as green development, stream restoration, hybrid fleets for Gaithersburg crews and moving more agendas and other items for meetings online rather than printing out paper copies. But he said the county also has to look at more sustainability in other areas such as its workforce and budget, making sure it’s looking more broadly at the long-term implications of its actions. In economic development,

Notice of Hearing Notice is hereby given that the Mayor and Council of Rockville will conduct public hearings on Monday, April 21, 2014, at 7:00 p.m., and Monday April 28, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. The public hearings will be heard in the Council Chambers, Rockville City Hall, 111 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, Maryland, in connection with a proposed budget and ordinance to appropriate funds and levy taxes for Fiscal Year 2015, including the levying of taxes on property located in special taxing districts in the Town Center. At the same time, the Council will hear testimony on a proposed Capital Improvements Program for Fiscal Year 2015 through 2019.

More detailed information can be found on file in the office of the City Clerk. Persons wishing to testify at the hearing are asked to call 240-314-8280 before 4:00 p.m. on the date of the hearing to have their names placed on the speakers’ list.

Persons wishing to testify at the hearings are asked to call 240-314-8280 before 4:00 p.m. on the date of the hearing to have their names placed on the speakers’ list.

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Spiegel said the county needs to do more than just focus on courting big businesses to build or move their corporate headquarters here, and provide more grants and other opportunities to nurture small businesses as well. The county can’t just throw money and tax incentives around in an effort to lure big businesses, he said. “I don’t think that is a sustainable way to do economic development,” he said. Spiegel said he supported Gaithersburg’s efforts to provide economic opportunity grants for local businesses even in the midst of the recession in an effort to let people know that Gaithersburg was open for business even during tough economic times. He said he supported the county’s successful effort to raise the minimum wage in Montgomery to $11.50 by 2017, and was disappointed a state bill that raised the wage statewide to $10.10 an hour wasn’t more robust. Spiegel said he’s hopeful that

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his history of having come “up through the ranks” of the local Democratic Party will help him in the primary through the relationships with local Democratic ofﬁcials it helped him generate. Before winning his council seat in 2007, Spiegel lost a 2006 race for a District 17 seat in the House of Delegates. Spiegel was surprised by Katz’s entry into the race, but said the mayor was a friend and a colleague that he has worked with for years. Moore has said he’s hopeful that Katz and Spiegel will split the vote in the Gaithersburg area and let him capture votes in the Rockville area. While each of the three ofﬁcials running for the council seat have their own constituencies, the people who vote in Democratic primaries are different than those who vote in municipal elections, Spiegel said, calling Moore’s strategy “uninformed.” rmarshall@gazette.net

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Staff support for 5-tower complex planned at White Flint BY SONNY GOLDREICH SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE

The Montgomery County planning department has recommended approval of 1.64 million square feet of residential and office space under a transitoriented proposal by Saul Centers of Bethesda to build five towers facing each across Rockville Pike next to the White Flint Metro station in Rockville. Under the sketch plan, which the Planning Board will consider April 17, the prized intersection of Rockville Pike and Nicholson Lane would be dramatically altered by buildings that would reach 300 feet high and add 1,430 multifamily units. The plan would transform the low-rise northwest and northeast corners into a high-rise skyline that dwarfing the highest-density blocks in downtown Bethesda and Silver Spring. But as massive as the plan is, it reflects the ongoing weakness of the county’s office market. The shortest of the buildings would rise 230 feet high on the west side, fronting both Rockville Pike and Nicholson Lane. It would include 178,500 square feet of office space above 5,000 square feet ground-floor retail. The office building wouldn’t reach the shoulders of the proposed twin Westside residential towers, which would top out at 300 feet high. Each building would offer 360 multifamily units and total a combined 720,000 square feet of space. With two more multifamily towers offering a combined 710 units on the east side, residential space would total 1,436,526 square feet at the intersection. The two buildings would be 300 and 200 feet tall. A total of 205,218 square feet of non-residential space is proposed, which would include 26,500 feet of retail in four of the five buildings. The plan was altered to boost retail and residential space from Saul Centers’ original proposal, which would have totaled about 1.4 million square feet. The project would sit north of JBG’s 740,528-square-foot, mixed-used development on the west side of Rockville Pike in North Bethesda, which will feature a 24-story apartment ziggurat, office tower and retail space. That complex will rise opposite the 26-story apartment project JBG built above a Whole Foods Market grocery, the county’s tallest building. The huge Saul Centers complex would include underground parking and take advantage of the site’s location immediately south of the White Flint Metro station. The Westside development would replace the Metro Pike Center strip mall and a McDonald’s restaurant on Marinelli Road facing the Metro station. On the east side, the two residential towers would displace another strip mall, which includes the Staples office supply store fronting Rockville Pike. The project also includes a 300-foot residential tower and a 200-foot residential tower on the east side of Rockville Pike near Nicholson Lane, on the site of the Staples-anchored shopping center at 11503 Rockville Pike. The Saul Centers plan comes to the board despite objections from Landow & Co., a neighboring property owner concerned that the Westside development would dwarf its one-story building that is home to the Pocelanosa kitchen and bath store. The planning staff report noted that talks between the two property owners have not resolved differences. Landow objects that the Saul Centers office building would rob it of space for future development. The report notes that Landow opposes the plan because locating the proposed Building C West at the shared property line will not allow for adequate light and air for future development on the Landow site; and the existing agreements for access easements and building restriction lines between the two properties have not been addressed.

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Power tool spark causes industrial ﬁre Damage to Kevin Smith Building and Design Carpentry Shop estimated at $1 million

TIFFANY ARNOLD STAFF WRITER

A ﬁre ignited by power tool sparks caused an estimated $1 million in damage to an indus-

trial building in Rockville on Monday, according to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue spokesman Pete Piringer. At around 9 a.m. Monday, firefighters reported heavy fire conditions at the Kevin Smith Building and Design Carpentry Shop at 1075 Taft St., according to Piringer, who tweeted photos and updates from the scene Monday morning. Part of the building col-

lapsed. More than 100 ﬁreﬁghters were on scene at the height of the blaze, according to Piringer’s tweets. Due to the fire, portions of East Gude Drive, Loftstrand Lane and Southlawn Drive were temporarily closed. There were no reports of injuries. tarnold@gazette.net

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The Montgomery County Police Department is announcing the addition of several new automated speed camera locations and corridors to the Safe Speed Program. The new locations are on roadways where the problem of excessive speed has been identified. By announcing these new locations, the police department continues to keep the public informed of the roadways that will be monitored by automated speed enforcement cameras. The continued expansion of the Safe Speed Program serves to enhance the safety of all who use the roadways in Montgomery County. April 16, 2014

Designated Speed Camera Corridors & Speed Camera Locations BRIGGS CHANEY ROAD CORRIDOR -700 Block @ New Hampshire Avenue to -2500 Block @ Fairdale Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 1000 Block (North & Southbound) 1900 Block (North and Southbound) 2000 Block (North and Southbound) 2100 Block (North and Southbound) COLESVILLE ROAD CORRIDOR - 9300 Block @ Sligo Creek Parkway to - 8800 Block @ Spring Street Speed Monitoring Device Located: 8900 Block (North and Southbound) 9000 Block (Northbound) 9200 Block (Southbound) EMORY LANE CORRIDOR -15900 Block @ Muncaster Mill Road to -16600 Block @ Georgia Avenue Speed Monitoring Device Located 16200 Block (East and Westbound) 16500 Block (East and Westbound) MAIN STREET/DAMASCUS ROAD CORRIDOR (Route 108) -9200 Block of Damascus Road/Route 108 to -9700 Block of Main Street @Woodfield Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 9200 Block Damascus Road (Eastbound) 9600 Block Main Street (East and Westbound)

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Coffee entrepreneur in Rockville works a mission, not just a business Mayorga focuses on ‘close relationships with the farmers and their communities’ n

KEVIN JAMES SHAY STAFF WRITER

As a young boy in Nicaragua, Martin Mayorga caught iguanas, collected bullet shells from revolutionary battles and sometimes slept in the car after major earthquakes. What stuck with him were the trips his father took him to visit farmers who grew coffee and other products. Years after his family settled in the United States, he and his wife, Kerry, founded Mayorga Coffee, making it part of their mission to help those farmers. “I focus on developing direct and close relationships with the farmers and their communities,” said Mayorga, 41, of Derwood. “The typical coffee conglomerate has exporters, brokers and distributors. I seek to cut out the middlemen and understand the farmers’ needs as fellow humans. Farmers in Latin America are facing a systematic cycle of poverty. I’m trying to help change that.” Mayorga’s family later moved to Florida, then the local area. He graduated from Churchill High and attended Montgomery College. He started a cigar business while studying business and ﬁnance at Georgetown University and became so consumed with the business, he left the university before graduating. His cigars were praised in magazines. The brand reached sales of about 3 million cigars annually. Along the way, Lew Rothman, who operated a large national cigar business, became a mentor. Mayorga later sold his cigar business to Rothman to focus on coffee. He and Kerry were still dating when they started Mayorga Coffee in 1997 through a credit card she had with a $1,000 limit. Soon after they married in 2001, Costco agreed to distribute their coffee. The business took off and had revenue of about $21 million in 2012.

Scholarship at Montgomery College. The gift will cover annual tuition for one student per year for at least ﬁve years. Mayorga plans to move its headquarters soon to a larger facility on Gude Drive. The 11,500-square-foot present home is on Southlawn Lane in an industrial section of East Rockville, near scrap metal yards and concrete plants. The business also operates several retail outlets, including in Wheaton, National Harbor and airports such as Baltimore/Washington

International Thurgood Marshall Airport. Mayorga has grown from the ninth-largest Hispanic business in Maryland in 2011 to third last year. It was the lone one among the top ﬁve last year to grow in revenues, according to the magazine Hispanic Business. But such growth isn’t what is most important, he said. “I don’t think it is enough to say you are growing revenues,” Mayorga said. “It’s important to make a difference in people’s lives.”

Martin Mayorga, president of Mayorga Coffee, in the company’s Rockville roasting plant.

Caring for the environment Quality and caring for the environment are important to Mayorga. Beans are organic without genetically modiﬁed organisms. He has about 50 employees, maintaining a lean operation. “I still head sales myself,” said Mayorga, who often is on the road in Central and South America. Mayorga last year established the Mayorga Latino Leadership

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Continued from Page A-1 I think they disclose too much information,’” he said. Rockville Mayor Bridget Donnell Newton argued with Moore. She bristled at the word “weakening,” saying that the changes would keep the law just as strong and would provide more security for ofﬁcials in the face of identity theft and other problems. “It just was a lot of information out there in the public format,” she said at the meeting. Raskin introduced the bill at the request of Gaithersburg, said Monica Sanchez, Gaith-

ersburg’s legislative affairs manager. Moore said he wanted to send the letter because he felt the city had not had the opportunity to weigh in on the issue previously. Even though the most recent effort to change the law was unsuccessful, Moore said, the issue could come back up in future legislative sessions. “We didn’t have any voice in this whatsoever this year and that really disturbs me,” he said. Moore and Councilwomen Beryl L. Feinberg and Julie Palakovich Carr voted for the measure, while Donnell Newton and Councilwoman Virginia D. Onley voted against. Maryland Municipal

League supported Raskin’s legislation in this year’s session, according to Linda Moran, the assistant to the Rockville city manager. Gaithersburg Councilman Jud Ashman said the changes are about “striking the right balance” between irrelevant and relevant information about public officials. “We want to serve the public by discouraging and detecting conflicts of interests,” he said. “But we also want to make sure that good people will run for office.” Keeping the strict disclosure requirements as they are could discourage prospective candidates from running, especially at a local level, Ashman

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said. He pointed to the city’s 2013 election in which three council incumbents ran uncontested. The last time the city had an uncontested election was in 1982, City Attorney N. Lynn Board said. Two of the seven members of the Chevy Chase Village Board of Managers resigned in 2012, citing the lengthy paperwork and nature of ﬁnancial disclosures required under the law, The Gazette previously reported. The town did not meet the criteria to be exempted by the State Ethics Commission because it has an annual budget of about $5 million. jedavis@gazette.net

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Continued from Page A-1 Rockville High School students, parents and friends of Michelle Miller circled her gravesite after Tuesday’s Rockville girls’ lacrosse team’s match against Damascus. Miller had been on Rockville’s team. Happy, loving, “goofy,” strong — those were the words they used to describe the teen, who had aspired to study psychology. Her gravesite is covered in ﬂowers, candles and mementos. There’s also a goldpainted mailbox next to a photo of her where family and friends can leave letters to and about her. The teen’s grandmother Alice Miller said the hundreds of letters have been a source of comfort. “She did more in those 17 years than most do in their entire lives,” Alice Miller said, “and we’re just finding out about it.” Miller’s mother Pacita Miller said the outpouring of support has helped get her through the pain of losing her daughter. “We are no longer a family of four,” Pacita Miller said. “We are a family of hundreds.” Noreeza Khan, 19, of Rockville has left several letters in Miller’s mailbox. “I write about her plans, her ambitions, what we wanted to do,” said Kahn, who attended Tuesday night’s memorial in military uniform. She and Miller enlisted in the Army together. Miller was Kahn’s platoon leader. They were supposed to attend boot camp at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C., that summer. Arndt had served in the Army since October 2003, and had served tours overseas before being assigned to work as a recruiter in Gaithersburg as a “Future Soldier Leader.” An Army spokeswoman told The Gazette in 2013 that Arndt was under investigation before Michelle Miller’s death. The investigation was spurred because he married Kaitlyn

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Workers install Lorann Jacobs’ bronze sculpture, titled The Thinker, at the Rockville Town Square on April 9 in Rockville. Stew Parker of Gaithersburg bolts the life-sized ﬁgure onto its base of metal gears.

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Continued from Page A-1 Jacobs’ “Wizard of Oz” twist on the Augustine Rodin original work of The Thinker in 1881 in Paris. The original piece portrayed a man deep in thought who was only able to express himself through art. Rockville’s bronze tinman sits on gears representing the mind churning, Deutsch said. The actual gears are from a paper mill in Pennsylvania.

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Pacita Miller lights candles at the gravesite of her daughter, Michelle Miller. The 17-year-old Rockville High School student died in 2013. Amy Schum Arndt, who was recruited at his Gaithersburg Army recruiting center. Recruiters are not supposed to have personal relationships with recruits. After Miller’s death, her parents found text messages between Arndt and Miller that were exchanged before she ofﬁcially signed with the military. There was also communication on Facebook, where some of the message chains seemed to go on for hours, the

family told The Gazette. “He aggressively sought her out and seduced her,” Alice Miller said. The day before Miller died, she and several friends were hanging out at Lake Needwood, singing songs, dancing and taking selfies. “This is not the kind of girl who was thinking of the end of her life,” said Connie Cremmins, whose daughter Sontanna, 18, was among the group at Lake Needwood.

Police discovered Arndt’s and Miller’s bodies 10 a.m., April 8. The family has ﬁled a claim with the Ofﬁce of the Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army, arguing that the Army negligently supervised Arndt and that better oversight could have prevented Miller’s death. The legal matter has not been resolved, according to the Miller family. tarnold@gazette.net

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Some new funding has come in, including a $5,000 grant from the Community Foundation for Montgomery County. Also, Rainbow Place workers hope the shelter will be one of the nonproﬁts that receive grants when the County Council makes its final budget decisions in the coming weeks. But Sushinsky estimated that the shelter still will need to ﬁll a $15,000 to $20,000 gap in its roughly $257,000 budget. In the next season, which runs from Nov. 1 through March 31, the number of women that Rainbow Place will serve “may hold steady at about 100, but [we] don’t think it will go back to the smaller number of the past, given the state of the economy,” Sushinsky said. Because social service agencies and advocacy groups are trying to stabilize the lives of homeless people by mov-

Jacobs studied at the Maryland Institute of Art and Design in Baltimore and York College of Pennsylvania. She has designed and produced more than 1,000 ﬁgurative sculptures in the last 20 years, often using animals and mythological ﬁgures as subjects. Deutsch said he expects about 10,000 people per day at the festival, which is in its second year. About 185 artists will exhibit work at the event. kbrick@gazette.net ing them quickly to more permanent housing, not all the women who stayed at Rainbow Place were there for the entire season or even for a long time, Sushinsky said. In addition to hot meals, a bag lunch and a safe place to sleep, Rainbow Place provides women with a shower and laundry facilities, some storage space, some transportation and help finding social services and treatment programs, if needed. More information on Rainbow Place, including how to volunteer, donate or register for the upcoming events, is available on its website, rainbowplace.org, or by calling it at 301-762-1496. Registration for the tea and fashion show is $35; $65 for two; or $240 for a table of eight. Registration for the golf tournament is $125, or $400 per foursome, and includes a continental breakfast, golf cart, practice balls, awards lunch and gifts.

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BUSINESS

Mixed results

Half of 10 highest-paid chief executives in Montgomery saw their pay fall or stay same

David M. Zaslav

Marillyn A. Hewson

Malon Wilkus

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Even though his compensation declined by one-third last year, Discovery Communications CEO David M. Zaslav was the highest-paid executive in Montgomery and Frederick counties for the fourth consecutive year in 2013, according to a review of public companies’ proxy statements ﬁled with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Zaslav, who took over as CEO of the Silver Spring broadcasting giant in 2007, had compensation of $33.4 million in

2013, down from $49.9 million in 2012. The large majority of his compensation — $22.5 million — was in stock option awards. A key reason for the decline from 2012 was that Zaslav exercised far fewer stock and option awards last year. Marillyn A. Hewson, CEO of Bethesda military giant Lockheed Martin, saw her total pay more than double last year to $25.2 million, thanks in large part to about $7 million more in stock awards. She also enjoyed about $5 million more in non-equity incentive pay. Last year was a mixed year for CEOs. Only half of the 10 highest-paid CEOs of

public companies in Montgomery and Frederick counties saw their compensation increase, with four experiencing declines and one seeing the same. Some of the decline is due to a slower stock market in 2013 than in 2012. Shareholders also have demanded that boards rein in compensation. About 60 percent of companies that ﬁled disclosures nationally raised “other compensation” spending, compensation data ﬁrm Equilar said. Zaslav saw his “other” compensation jump to $2 million in 2013 from $433,000 in 2102. This amount included $1.5 million

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for special contributions to his supplemental retirement plan. Zaslav also received $165,018 for personal use of aircraft, including family travel and commuting, $16,800 for a car allowance and $171,562 for personal security services, including a car and security-trained driver. Hewson saw her “other” compensation fall by about $100,000 last year to $238,000. That included $76,782 for use of a corporate jet, $55,115 for personal security and $27,106 for tax assistance. Spokespeople for Discovery and Lockheed said they do not discuss ex-

ecutive compensation beyond what is in proxy statements. Proxies are devoting more space to explaining their compensation policies, said Aaron Boyd, director of governance research for Equilar. “Some of this stems from changes in the regulatory environment,” Boyd said. “There has also been a shift toward enhancing the readability, with more companies writing proxy summaries in formats that make the content easily digestible for readers.” kshay@gazette.net

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SCHOOL LIFE EDUCATION NOTEBOOK

PHOTOS BY PEGGY MCEWAN/THE GAZETTE

(From left) Autumn Wang, Amanda Chu and Hannah Perez, students at Roberto Clemente Middle School in Germantown, work together on a lesson on personal credit during a ﬁnancial literacy program for seventh-graders at the school. Below: (From left) Eric Solis, Liam McCue, Dylan Snow and Bryan Foo, also seventh-graders at the school, discuss the lesson.

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The ABCs of personal finance include budgeting, credit, savings and investments — words most middle school students do not hear very often. Seventh-graders at Roberto Clemente Middle School, Germantown, studied those basics during Financial Literacy Day April 8 at the school. “The overall concept is to prepare students ﬁnancially for the future so they can proceed with dignity and respect,” said Colleen Roux, seventh grade team leader who planned the day. Roux worked with organizers from Banking on Our Future, Operation Hope, and volunteers from local banks and other ﬁnancial organizations who volunteered to facilitate lessons designed to get students thinking about using their money wisely now and in the future. Even seventh-graders have money, Michelle Hammonds, program manager with Banking on Our Future, Operation Hope, said. “They get money for chores, for during well in school, gifts, allowance,” she said. “It’s not a question of having money, it’s what to do with it once they

First-graders winners in White House ﬁlm festival

Bookmark contest seeks student submissions

A video produced by eight first-graders from East Silver Spring Elementary School was named one of 16 winners in the inaugural White House Student Film Festival. The students met President Barack Obama and Bill Nye the Science Guy on Feb. 28 at the White House. Eric Humpert, father of firstgrader Ashley Humpert, heard about a call for entries focusing on the president’s initiative “Technology and Education,” and discussed with her the idea of making a video with her classmates on the use of technology in the classroom. After visiting the school and brainstorming ideas with students and teacher Courtney Brooks, Humpert invited them and their parents to his home for the taping. Seven accepted, plus one of Ashley’s friends from a different class. Of 2,500 entries, their production, “Technology and Me,” was chosen a winner. The film included student drawings of technology in the past and the present, and possibilities for the future, Humpert said. “It was all the kids’ ideas, their words and their imaginations that made it,” he said. “I just got it on the screen.” In addition to having their photo taken with Obama and watching their video with him, the students received some White House souvenirs during their visit. “It was a long day, but it was great. The kids were pretty excited,” Humpert said.

Young artists and bibliophiles are invited to design an original bookmark that celebrates their love of reading for the First Book-Montgomery County fifth annual Bookmark Contest. The winning design will become an official bookmark of First Book-Montgomery County, the local chapter of the national First Book organization, whose mission is to give children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books. Prekindergartners through eighth-graders are eligible to participate. Awards will be presented in four age groups: pre-K/kindergarten; grades 1-3; grades 4-6; and grades 7-8. One grand-prize winner also will receive a $25 Barnes & Noble gift card. Entry forms are at firstbook. org/montgomerycountymd. Completed entry forms must be postmarked by May 17. For more information, email firstbookmcmd@gmail. com.

Two Bullis seniors named Jefferson Scholars

Brenda Ajavon, Seneca Valley High School, Germantown; Abigail Joy Cajayon, Rockville High School; Adonis Corvoisier, Thomas Edison High School of Technology, Silver Spring; Leena Daniel, Takoma Academy, Takoma Park; Whitney Geohagan, Academy of the Holy Cross, Kensington; Aaryn Godby, John F. Kennedy High School, Silver Spring; Charles Halverson, Winston Churchill High School, Potomac; Harry Laird, Landon School, Bethesda; Jana Lu, Richard Montgomery High School, Rockville; Shimona Malik, Clarksburg High School; Krishna Mudwari, Watkins Mill High School, Gaithersburg; Lisa Mutooni, Paint Branch High School, Burtonsville; Bala Natarajan, Springbrook High School, Silver Spring; Penelope Placide, Don Bosco Cristo Rey High School, Takoma Park; Renzo Reyes, Quince Orchard High School, Gaithersburg; Kierra Simpkins, Col. Zadok Magruder High School, Rockville; Margaret Simpson, James Hubert Blake High School, Silver Spring; Gislene Tasayco, Gaithersburg High School; Daniela Velasquez, Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring; Doopashika Welikala, Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School; and Bradley Wolanin, Northwest High School,

Brian Mitchell and Jack Chellman, seniors at Bullis

get it.” Hammonds said her organization usually works with students from low and moderate income homes. “A lot of these kids are not having this conversation around the dinner table because most of their parents don’t know about it,” she said. Dylan Snow, 13, said he thought what they were learning was important for the future, especially how to manage budgets. He said he gets a $5 weekly allowance and usually saves it until he can buy a video game or something else

he wants. Hannah Perez said she liked learning what the words mean when discussing loans and other ﬁnancial terms. She said she gets an allowance plus $5 for helping with chores, earns money babysitting and gets money for gifts. “I actually like saving it up for something important like video games or clothes or I give it to my parents for college,” she said. Using money wisely is key, Hammonds said. “A lot of times people assume that because you have a

lot of money, you know what to do with it, but people struggle with this across the spectrum,” she said. Her suggestions for ﬁnancial dignity: “Save for a rainy day and don’t let your outgoing exceed your incoming,” she said. Roux said she hopes to see ﬁnancial literacy embedded in the curriculum some day soon. “Budgeting, that’s huge,” she said. “It’s a fundamental concept that needs to be embedded in math.” pmcewan@gazette.net

School in Potomac, were selected to receive prestigious Jefferson Scholarships from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. MItchell is from Rockville. His activities at Bullis have included goalie for the varsity soccer team; founder, fundraiser and head of Robotics Club; varsity tennis; and editorin-chief of the school paper, The Bulldog. He also ran summer camps in his neighborhood to teach kids about technology. He doesn’t know yet what he’ll study at Virginia because, he said, his interests are far-ranging, from math and computers to philosophy and English. Chellman lives in Arlington, Va. His activities at Bullis have included co-president of Student Government; director of Student Tutors; International Thespian Society — he has participated in winter musicals every year since sixth grade; cross-country; school ambassador/tour guide; peer mentor; National Honor Society; and member of the Bullis Dance Ensemble. He plans to study creative writing at Virginia.

NOTICE OF HEARING Notice is hereby given that the Mayor and Council of Rockville, Maryland, will conduct a public hearing on Monday, May 5, 2014, at 7:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as it may be heard, in the Council Chamber, Rockville City Hall, 111 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, Maryland, in connection with a Resolution of the Mayor and Council of Rockville, pursuant to Article XI-E of the Constitution of Maryland, Section 4-304 of the Local Government Article, and the Charter of the City of Rockville, as amended, to amend Section 6 of Article VIII, “Personnel,” of the Charter of the City of Rockville so as to Expand the List of Prohibitions which in any way Discriminate against Any Person in the City’s Classified Civil Service or Anyone Seeking Admission to the Classified Civil Service; to Eliminate the Prohibition on Favoring Certain Individuals in the City’s Classified Civil Service or Certain Individuals Seeking Admission to the Classified Civil Service; and to Increase the Fine to $500.00 for a Violation of said Section 6 of Article VIII “Personnel.” More detailed information can be found on file in the office of the City Clerk. Persons wishing to testify at the hearing are asked to call 240-314-8280 before 4:00 p.m. on the date of the hearing to have their names placed on the speakers’ list. MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF ROCVILLE, MARYLAND By: Douglass A. Barber, City Clerk 1910574

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Students win Comcast scholarships Twenty-one students from Montgomery County schools last month were awarded $1,000 scholarships by the Comcast Leaders and Achievers Scholarship Program. The scholarship program recognizes students’ leadership skills, academic achievement and commitment to community service. The students are as follows:

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CELEBRATIONS

Baklarz, Tomasino Mr. and Mrs. Lenny and Betty Baklarz from Rockville announce the engagement of their daughter, Lauren Baklarz, to Capt. Kyle Tomasino, son of Robert and Kathleen Tomasino of Austin, Texas. The bride-to-be graduated from the Academy of the Holy Cross in 2006 and the University of Maryland College Park in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in family science. She received her master’s degree in marriage and family therapy from East Carolina University in 2012. She is currently a family therapist for Carolina Outreach, LLC in Raleigh, N.C.

The prospective groom graduated from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida in 2008 as a 2nd Lieutenant with the United States Army. He received his degree in aeronautical science and homeland security. After commissioning, Kyle attended ﬂight school and was awarded the Army Aviator Badge in the AH-64D Apache Longbow Attack Helicopter. Kyle is currently serving at Ft. Eustis, Va., as a Company Commander in the 128th Aviation Brigade. An April 2015 wedding is planned.

Hardwick, Carpenter Wade Carpenter and Alice Hardwick were united in marriage on March 21, 2014, in Rockville. Alice is the daughter of Joseph and Patricia Hardwick of Poolesville. She graduated from the University of Maryland in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in public health and currently works as a consumer safety of-

ﬁcer for the Food and Drug Administration in Rockville. Wade is the son of Robert and Nancy Carpenter of Damascus. As a 2009 graduate from Salisbury University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, Wade works as an account executive at The Hill Group in Bethesda.

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Roberts Jeff and Debbie Roberts of Gaithersburg will celebrate their 40th anniversary in June. After graduating from the College of William and Mary, Debra Houser and Jeff Roberts were married on June 15, 1974, in Keeling, Va. They have lived in Montgomery County since 1975, and in their current Gaithersburg home since 1980. All ﬁve of their children — Jennifer (Bid-

FRIDAY, APRIL 18 Mindfulness Meditation, from 10-10:45 a.m. Fridays through May 16 at Bethesda Regional Service Center, 4805 Edgemoor Lane, Second Floor, Bethesda. A Mindfulness Center instructor will guide participants to discover the basics of mindfulness meditation by focusing on posture, breathing and energy work. $55. www.suburbanhospital.org.

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Donald and Florence Combs of Mt. Airy announce the engagement of their daughter, Jessica Combs, to

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dison), Michael, Jason, Stephen and Daniel — still live in the greater Washington, D.C., area. Jeff and Debbie also have six grandchildren. Jeff and Debbie both currently work at Long and Foster’s Rockville Centre location. They enjoy visiting family, running and embracing challenges such as the Polar Bear Plunge.

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The Gazette endorses

Today, The Gazette begins its endorsements for contested races in the June 24 party primaries.

For sheriff In the Democratic primary for Montgomery County sheriff, incumbent Darren M. Popkin is running for a second term after succeeding longtime sheriff Raymond Kight following the 2010 election. His opponent is Thomas R. Falcinelli Jr., a lawyer and sergeant with the county police department. Popkin and Falcinelli ran in the 2010 Democratic primary and bring impressive resumes to the job. As it did four years ago, The Gazette endorses Popkin. Popkin has risen through the sheriff’s department, becoming Kight’s chief deputy before taking over the agency. His top priority has been tackling domestic violence through the county’s Family Justice Center. It’s a one-stop program that works with a range of agencies to help victims find shelter and other resources to protect themselves and their children from abusive partners. In its first five years, the center served more than 5,000 clients. Now, Popkin plans to expand educational programs to help teens dealing with domestic violence issues. He has demonstrated the ability to oversee an agency with 185 employees and an annual budget of $22 million. His colleagues think highly of him and elected him president of the Maryland Sheriffs’ Association. Falcinelli brings experience from running his own law firm and supervising county police officers, no doubt useful skills to be sheriff. He pledges to clean house at the department. He charges cronyism and a top-heavy management structure that too often means the department shifts duties and responsibilities — such as transporting prisoners — to county police, who are needed instead to fight crime. Even if he loses the primary, Falcinelli owes it to taxpayers to pursue, through county officials, his allegations of mismanagement at the department.

For clerk of Circuit Court Two Democrats seek their party’s nomination for clerk of the county’s circuit court. Alan Bowser, a lawyer, has a solid history of civic and political activity. He’s worked with several Silver Spring and countywide citizens groups, including the Montgomery County executive’s African American Advisory Group. However, his opponent, Barbara Meiklejohn, has an impressive record of running the day-to-day operations of the Circuit Court — which Bowser acknowledges provides an “excellent level of service.” She has been deputy clerk for nine years and worked in the court system for 38 years; she’s intimately familiar with how to keep it humming. Both she and Bowser would work toward implementing an electronic court ﬁling system to streamline the judiciary for lawyers and other residents. Bowser, who is black, says his election would be a “good signal for the county,” injecting more diversity into Montgomery’s judiciary. But Meiklejohn’s experience and skills trump that assessment and she earns The Gazette’s endorsement.

For Circuit Court judges Five candidates are running for four Montgomery County circuit judge seats. Judicial candidates observe a protocol of not debating “issues,” which could suggest inappropriate bias. Voters have little to turn to, other than a candidate’s legal resume. But Daniel Patrick Connell, the lone outsider in this year’s race, has voiced concern about the selection process. Connell, a former senior rule of adviser with the State Department, has advised civilian judges and police in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also worked as a public defender and ran unsuccessfully for circuit judge in 2004. He says a statutory nominating commission has an insular “closed-door” process for recommending judges to fill vacancies. As a rule, those selections win the next election. But four sitting judges running as a team — Audrey Anne Creighton, Nelson W. Rupp Jr., Joan E. Ryon and Gary E. Bair — cite an intense interview and vetting process with the commission and numerous specialty bar associations. It’s hard to argue against having people who best understand the courts — much more than average voters do — make informed judgments that benefit us all. Regardless, the judges, with decades of service, are eminently qualified, particularly in specialties they’ve developed. Bair has a strong background in criminal law and the appellate system. Ryon is well versed in family law matters. Creighton handled an array of criminal and civil cases as prosecutor and defender. Rupp also worked both sides and focused on civil matters in private practice. We were moved by Rupp’s yeoman’s work in creating an adult drug court for nonviolent offenders and devoting years of heartfelt time to it, allowing 130 graduates in 10 years to redeem themselves. We support new terms for the four current judges.

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LETTERS TOT HE EDITOR

The arts are a good investment

What do Bill Clinton and George W. Bush have in common? On its face, the answer is fairly obvious, but if you dig a bit deeper you will ﬁnd a striking similarity. As a candidate for president in 1992 Gov. Clinton appeared on the Arsenio Hall show playing a rendition of Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel” on the saxophone. Former President Bush has recently unveiled his paintings to the public for the ﬁrst time. The arts have, for many years, served as a bridge between those at different ends of not only the political, but also the socioeconomic, spectrum. Montgomery County is extremely lucky. This year, we are celebrating a major milestone as the Music Center at Strathmore celebrates its 10 year anniversary. We take pride in the prestige that comes with having the American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring. Outstanding arts and cultural facilities are located in county space, including Imagination Stage and Round House Theatre. The county also supports organizations like: Arts on the Block, which serves at risk middle school students; Class Acts Arts, which provides culturally diverse arts programs and artist residencies in the visual, literary and performing arts with youth who are court-involved or in correctional facilities; and InterPLAY, a 67 piece orchestra of adults with cognitive disabilities, playing

all genres of music with senior high school, college, professional musicians and guest artists. As chairman of the County Council’s Health and Human Services Committee that allocates county support for the arts, for the past 11 years I have made it a priority to ensure that our funding processes are fair and transparent by establishing the council grants process and providing the Arts and Humanities Council with the autonomy to allocate funding among our arts organizations. This process allows arts organizations to concentrate on what they do best — providing the highest quality performance, education and entertainment. I wanted all arts money to be allocated through the Arts and Humanities Council because I believed that it would strengthen and increase funding for the entire arts enterprise if political and community building efforts were focused on the whole pie rather than breaking down into competitive rivalry over funding for speciﬁc organizations. In fiscal 2014 Montgomery County invested $5,844,561 in capital, in-kind, operating and project support in the Arts and Humanities. The creative sector in turn pumped $204,120,430 into the local economy, supporting 3,843 Montgomery County jobs and $81,782,882 in local salaries. The Arts and Humanities are a smart

investment for Montgomery County with a huge return on investment. They stimulate our economy, support local jobs and heavily contribute to the vibrancy and livability of our neighborhoods. Of course, the government must not be, and is not, the sole source of support. We must do more to attract support from philanthropists, foundations and businesses, both large and small. The essential component to the success of our arts community is you, the consumer. I urge you to support the arts by taking part in them. Enjoy a gallery or live performance with your family, take advantage of the rich arts resources that Montgomery County has to offer. Arts and humanities provide opportunities for individuals regardless of their background, age, economic status, culture or language. The arts are a great equalizer, and this sector is essential for our economic future and cultural development. As long as I serve in public ofﬁce, I will continue my support for a thriving arts and humanities enterprise because Montgomery County’s identity and our high quality of life depends on it.

George Leventhal, Takoma Park The writer is an at-large county councilman.

Starr’s speech about more than hope If you run a big school system, criticism comes with the territory. Montgomery County Public Schools does not shy from accountability and that includes editorials that raise important questions. But in order to present informed opinions, the writers need the facts and the Gazette’s recent editorial on the superintendent’s speech at Interfaith Works [“The urgency of action,” April 9] didn’t meet that basic standard of journalism. The writer wasn’t at the speech, but based his editorial on a brief story done by a reporter who covers MCPS. The writer didn’t contact my ofﬁce to ask for a copy of the speech, which we would have happily provided. If he had, the writer would

have found out that Superintendent Joshua Starr’s speech was not simply about the concept of hope. Dr. Starr’s remarks — just 10 minutes long — spoke specifically about efforts MCPS is making to expand partnerships that provide health services and after school programs; the district’s commitment and progress in reducing racial disparities in out-of-school suspensions; the hard work of implementing a new curriculum and new state assessments; changes we are making to our alternative programs to better serve students, and much more. Yes, Dr. Starr talked about hope. He even used H-O-P-E as an acronym for Hard work, Opportunity, Preparation, and Eq-

uity. But he talked about much more and through a phone call or email, the writer would have known that. MCPS welcomes scrutiny and criticism. It leads to frank, honest discussions about our challenges and is an important part of the improvement process. But uninformed opinions, like this editorial, don’t move those discussions forward and, ultimately, do a disservice to the Gazette’s readers and our community.

Dana Toﬁg, Rockville The writer is the director of public information and web services for Montgomery County Public Schools.

Looking at hunger ‘with new eyes’ Brazil’s fourth largest city, Belo Horizonte, with 2.5 million people, has accomplished what we have been unable to do in America: end hunger. A former city ofﬁcial there says, “It is easy to end hunger if we are willing to break free of limiting frames and to see with new eyes.” In Montgomery County, one of the nation’s wealthiest counties, we face our own challenge with hunger. More than one in three children in county schools qualiﬁes for free and reduced meals. It’s not just children who lack access to food. Funding for the county Senior Food Program has remained unchanged since 2011, while seniors within the program have increased by 25 percent. Working closely with the Community Foundation and some of the county’s leading food providers — including Manna and Nourish Now — has led me to three principles that might put game-changing progress that is within our reach.

First, we need a 21st century solution based on collaboration among all the existing food providers and the agencies and groups that support them. Our antiquated model makes too little use of technology to link providers and those who need the food, and it involves nearly 50 different organizations housing and distributing food, with 50 different overheads, working out of 50 different locations — generally unconnected with each other. This is a countywide problem that demands a countywide approach. Second, our outdated operations are based on purchasing food rather than recovering it. Perfectly good food that goes uneaten in grocery stores, and at restaurants, parties, and cafeterias is thrown out. The challenge is not about producing more food. We have plenty of it. The county has a pioneering food recovery program. It needs to expand. Third, any solution must be sustain-

able. Solving hunger in this county cannot be contingent on favorable economic conditions. Planning must have more foresight than this quarter or this year. We can have small, but sizable wins along the road to the dramatic change we seek. We’ll know we’re succeeding when fewer people are hungry, with fewer organizations involved, working collaboratively, sharing resources, staff, data and technology. Our county must tackle food insecurity very differently, involving a business sector that steps up complement the pioneering work of our elected leadership and the demonstrated passion and excellence of our nonproﬁt sector. If a city twice the size of our county in a less prosperous country can end hunger, why can’t we take the ﬁrst steps on our own journey here in Montgomery County?

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Some session highlights, lowlights This year’s Maryland General Assembly session looks workmanlike compared to two years ago when casino expansion collided with tax hikes and the legislature adjourned with the Senate and House at war, the governor condemning both chambers and the state stuck with a “Doomsday Budget.” It took secret negotiations and two special sessions to straighten out the mess. Here are some of this year’s major highlights and lowlights:

State budget In order to balance a $39 billion budget the legislature swiped $200 million from the state’s employee pension fund payment. And, despite Gov. Martin O’Malley’s insistence that during his tenure he’d cut $9 billion in spending, his last budget is $9 billion greater than his ﬁrst.

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Minimum wage This year’s “feel good” bill was wildly popular because employers, not taxpayers, pay for the wage increases that, over four years, will rise from $7.25 to $10.10 per hour. Since they don’t have to pay for it, lawmakers and taxpayers were deaf to the pleas that some marginal businesses will close and some lowwage earners will lose jobs. Nor did they care about “pay scale ratcheting” — if a $7.25 per hour employee goes to $10.10, the wages of all the employees making more than $7.25 must go up proportionately. Only when it came to light that statereimbursed caretakers, who make $9.82 an hour helping the disabled, were caught in the “ratcheting” net, did lawmakers become alarmed. Their solution? Raise the caretaker’s state reimbursements to above $10.10 per hour.

Bail reform

This was the Maryland legislature at its worst. Currently, after First, lawmakers relaxed a criminal suspect is booked, he Maryland’s medical marijuana goes before a commissioner (not program by setting up a board to a judge) who decides bail. The license growers and dispensaries commissioner can release the and to let certain physicians preMY MARYLAND suspect pending trial, release the scribe medicinal pot. This conBLAIR LEE suspect on bond (bail) pending trolled system resembles D.C.’s, trial or incarcerate the suspect not California’s, which is merely until trial. a subterfuge for legalization. Within 24 hours the suspect’s bail status Next, to everyone’s surprise, the assembly decriminalized possession of 10 grams or less is reviewed by a judge who makes a final rulof pot. Two years ago the punishment was ing. Up until now, indigent suspects only had a year in jail and a $1,000 fine. A year ago it a right to counsel at the second (judicial) bail dropped to 90 days in jail. Now it’s a $100 cita- hearing. But last year the Maryland Court of tion with no record (much like a traffic ticket). Appeals (Maryland’s top court) interpreted a The governor, the House Speaker and state statute as requiring counsel at the initial the House Judiciary Committee chairman bail hearing, as well. Rather than abide by the court’s rulall opposed decriminalization. The House Judiciary Committee gutted the Senate’s ing, the legislature changed the statute. In decriminalization bill and turned it into a response, the court ruled that, as a constitutional matter, counsel was required. But, summer study. But when that measure reached the again rather than abiding by the ruling, the House floor a coalition of blacks and liberals, legislature tried getting the court to reverse led by Del. Keiffer “reefer” Mitchell (D-Balti- itself. When that failed, this year’s legislamore), switched it back to the Senate version ture had to face the problem. Maryland’s progressive lawmakers rouby labeling it a civil rights bill due to disparate racial arrest rates. Realizing that they lacked tinely champion poor, minority, criminal the votes to stop decriminalization, the gover- defendants. That’s why they repealed the death penalty, restored voting rights to felnor, the speaker and the chairman all caved. Unfortunately, the House mutineers for- ons and supported banning prospective emgot to decriminalize marijuana paraphernalia ployers from access to criminal records. But (pipes, papers, bongs) which remain illegal. providing legal counsel to these same, poor, Brownies anyone? Equally puzzling, while de- minority defendants could cost the state criminalizing pot, the same legislature simul- upwards of $50 million a year. Apparently, taneously banned grain alcohol and refused that’s where fiscal concern trumps liberal to legalize raw milk because they are health compassion. Instead of paying the tab, the Senate hazards. Their proponents need to convert recommended replacing the commissionboth items into civil rights issues.

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ers with computers which, based on a nationwide database, can supposedly, forecast the suspect’s suitability for bail. But many lawmakers, recently burned by Maryland’s malfunctioning Obamacare exchange and Baltimore’s faulty trafﬁc cameras, bridled at the Senate’s “robobail” proposal. However, their solution was even more callous; reverse the court’s ruling by amending the state constitution. Finally, the legislature punted by taking $10 million out of the court’s budget and telling the court to solve the problem itself. So, look for a constitutional crisis followed by a special session in the middle of an election year.

Obamacare exchange cover-up Apparently Maryland’s legislature will only launch a full-scale probe into governmental incompetence and corruption when the governor is a Republican. Remember the outrage and subsequent prolonged investigations into the Ehrlich administration’s political hiring practices and state trooper surveillance of peace groups? Meanwhile, Maryland’s trashed $200 million white elephant Obamacare exchange doesn’t seem to rise to the same level of concern. In December, O’Malley pronounced the exchange functional. Now, the entire monstrosity is being scrapped. Meanwhile, O’Malley is busy rearranging the goal posts and the scoreboard. Maryland’s initial Obamacare enrollment target was 180,000, then dropped to 150,000 then down to 70,000. The ﬁnal tally was only 63,000 enrollees. Having failed to meet the shrunken target, O’Malley is fudging the numbers by combining the 63,000 Obamacare sign-ups with Medicaid’s new 232,000 enrollees. “We’ve exceeded our overall goal of 260,000,” boasts O’Malley, mixing apples and oranges. Using O’Malley’s math, last year’s Washington Redskins (3 wins, 13 defeats) didn’t lose 81 percent of their games. If we simply add in the Redskin’s four preseason victories, they went 7 for 20 losing only 65 percent of their games. When you’re hiding from blame, who cares about the truth? Blair Lee is chairman of the board of Lee Development Group in Silver Spring and a regular commentator for WBAL radio. His past columns are available at www. gazette.net/blairlee. His email address is blairleeiv@gmail.com.

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LETTERS TOT HE EDITOR Schools need to pay for athletic trainers Sports safety experts say that if you can’t afford athletic trainers, you can’t afford to run a high school athletics program. We should not forget the death ﬁve years ago of Edwin “Dek” Miller from heat stroke during football practice at Northwest High School. Had an athletic trainer been present that day, Dek Miller might still be with us. Surrounding school systems have found a way to fund athletic trainers in their budgets. The Gazette reports that MCPS adopted a pilot program this year under which 11 of its 25 high schools are staffed with part-time athletic trainers [“Athletic trainers on the sidelines on Montgomery County,” March 12]. While the pilot program

is a start, keep in mind that the athletic trainers’ services were donated by local health care providers, not funded through MCPS’s operating budget. These health care providers are not charities, and if marketing and branding beneﬁts do not materialize, they may discontinue their donations. Having athletic trainers by donation at some high schools is better than no athletic trainers at all. But long term, Superintendent Joshua Starr and the school board need to make a grown-up decision to fund athletic trainers in the budget, rather than getting by on the kindness of strangers. After all, their primary mission is student safety.

Tom Hearn, Bethesda

School snow waivers are ‘March Madness’ The “snow day waiver” games have become our local version of “March Madness” [“Montgomery prepares second snow waiver request,” April 2]. With all of our education problems, it is incredible that our school officials are wasting resources on this periodic charade. As I understand it, the State Board of Education has decreed that counties may submit five-day waiver requests. In other words, the required academic year is reduced to only 175 days, rather than the normal 180. First of all, the five-day decision was arbitrary, and required no special knowledge to determine. Second, the counties have only one choice: open the schools for extra days. Again, this is a no-

brainer. No “evaluation” by the state board is needed. Nevertheless, Montgomery County wasted time going through the waiver process twice, because the state board has some meaningless “waiver procedure” that nobody understands. The simple solution is for the state board to decree how many instructional days the counties can knock off the 180-day calendar. The “waiver” process is silly, and should be abolished as a total waste of time. Finally, there is really no need to make up snow days at all. The disruptions associated with changing the school calendar are not worth the minimal educational beneﬁts.

John Hickey, Gaithersburg

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Former perennial power headed back toward top of county teams BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN STAFF WRITER

Fourth-year Richard Montgomery High School softball coach John Horton said he isn’t big on moral victories. But sometimes rules have exceptions and Horton made one after the Rockets’ 1-0 loss to undefeated Montgomery Blair on April 5. “Even though we lost by one run, I look at that game as a turning point and a win,” said Horton, a 1983 Richard Montgomery graduate. “I think that we deﬁnitely made a statement in that game.” The statement was that Richard Montgomery softball appears to be on its way back to the county’s top tier of teams. Though the Rockets have become an underdog in recent years, that was not always the case. In the early and mid2000s Richard Montgomery was a perennial Class 4A West Region contender. After falling on

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University of Maryland, College Park redshirt sophomore offensive lineman Michael Dunn blocks during Saturday’s Red-White Spring Game.

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Heading into last season, Walt Whitman High School graduate Michael Dunn was in open competition for the backup right tackle position for the University of Maryland, College Park football team. As just a redshirt freshman, Dunn was seen as a solid player who would provide depth for an

experienced offensive line group. Fast forward to Friday’s Red-White Spring Game at Maryland’s Byrd Stadium — the annual intrasquad scrimmage that marks the end of the football team’s spring practice — and Dunn is one of three returning lineman to start all 13 games last season, and the unquestioned starter at right tackle. “I am really excited,” Dunn said. “I think the

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biggest thing about last year is that I was still a freshman and I wasn’t so confident about my plan, but right now I’m just feeling myself moving a lot faster. You can just tell that the entire line is a lot more confident.” Dunn, who graduated from the Bethesda school in 2012, started nine games at right guard in 2013 before sliding out to the right tackle spot for the final three regular season games and the Military Bowl. In the Red-White Game, which the offense (White) won 187-143, Dunn’s ability was showcased on a pair of first-half touchdowns. On both scoring plays quarterback C.J. Brown rolled to his right behind Dunn, finding Kenneth Goins Jr. for a 3-yard touchdown pass on one play, and running it in himself from 10 yards out on the other. Dunn also helped open holes for Maryland’s stable of running backs, who amassed 314 total rushing yards in the scrimmage. Coach Randy Edsall was encouraged by the team’s performance throughout the spring semester, and highlighted consistency as a key factor in determining the final depth chart before the 2014 season begins with a scheduled Aug. 30

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The boys’ 300-meter hurdle event had just ended at the Coyote Invitational earlier this spring at Clarksburg High School, and John F. Kennedy coach Kevin Monroe found himself playing mediator in an argu-

ment any coach would likely be envious of. After sharing a post-race handshake, something Devon Hairston and Alieu Cole say they do after every event, the Kennedy hurdlers made their way to Monroe for him to settle a friendly debate. “You saw the race, coach,” said Hairston, flashing a light-hearted smile. “Tell Alieu I would’ve got him

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Washington Spirit assistant coach Kati Jo Spisak joined the women’s soccer team staff this season. This photo was taken at Sunday’s game in Boyds.

Lifting the Spirit Stone Ridge coach joins coaching staff after tough inaugural season

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There is a good chance former Washington Freedom goalkeeper Kati Jo Spisak would still be playing women’s professional soccer had she known in May 2012 what the coming fall had in store. A member of the Boston Breakers when the second installment of a women’s professional soccer league in the United States folded after three seasons just like its predecessor, Spisak said she questioned a future playing the highest level in this country. Then, on Nov. 21, 2012, the U.S. Soccer Federation announced it would back a new league in the spring of 2013. “There was no real promise of talks of a league and I was in a place in my life where I didn’t want to go play overseas,” Spisak said. “I always wanted to teach, so I started applying for jobs and I got one [at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart]. Had I known this [National Women’s Soccer League] would’ve been around I probably would’ve continued to play.” But the next best thing to playing at the highest level is coaching there, Spisak said, and

John F. Kennedy High School runners Alieu Cole (left) and Devon Hairston compete Friday in the 300-meter hurdles.

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Continued from Page B-1 times — it’s been ﬁve or six years since the Rockets have been truly competitive against Montgomery County’s top teams — Richard Montgomery seems to be moving closer to positioning itself as an upper echelon program. The close loss to Blair was reminiscent of 10 years ago when games between Richard Montgomery and top teams such as Blair, Sherwood and Damascus, were among the spring season’s marquee matchups. In addition to sending a message to county

foes, the Rockets’ performance against one of the best programs helped prove to themselves just how a high a level they’re capable of playing. “I deﬁnitely think [the Blair result] surprised people,” senior catcher Caitlin Grieve said. “To go 1-0 against the top team in the division shows what we’re capable of. I think it sets the tone [for our season] and shows we can hang with the best teams.” Richard Montgomery is currently 5-3 and in second place behind Blair in the Montgomery 4A South Division. Two of the Rockets’ three losses have been by one run — they lost, 2-1, to a Thomas

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Continued from Page B-1 this spring she was presented with an opportunity to do just that in the very town in which she made her professional playing debut. On March 11, the Washington Spirit announced Spisak, who spent time training with the team last season, would be joining its coaching staff as an assistant to general manager and coach Mark Parsons as the team looks to rebound from a subpar inaugural campaign. Parsons said he hoped Spisak’s relatability — she is

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Continued from Page B-1 if I didn’t hit that hurdle.” “Coach, tell him I hit that same hurdle,” Cole replied, beaming alongside his teammate. “We both messed up.” The pair Monroe describes as “two peas in a pod” had both faltered at the exact same hurdle. The misstep, however, did little to keep the duo from yet another good performance. Cole took the gold with a time of 39.20 seconds, barely edging out Hairston’s time of 39.50. The 1-2 ﬁnish is but yet

S. Wootton team they’ve struggled against in recent years. Richard Montgomery’s only other loss was 4-0 to 2012 4A state semiﬁnalist Col. Zadok Magruder. While Richard Montgomery’s return to the county softball conversation this spring may have snuck up on many, Horton said this is exactly what he expected when he went for youth during the 2012 tryouts. “I picked a young team, I just went with young players two years ago,” Horton said. “I said we’re going to have a youth movement. I knew we’d go through bumps and bruises and we did and we learned from

we are looking for the guys who can make plays. The great thing about the spring is we now have the chance to evaluate who can make the plays. It’s a chance for us to evaluate our roster and ﬁgure out who you can count on.” The Terps made a change in offensive line coach for 2014, replacing Tom Brattan with Greg Studrawa. “Coach

it. I knew some of them weren’t ready but I went with them anyway. I saw a light at the end of the tunnel, I saw the possibility of their talent.” With essentially the same squad for three years — bolstered last year by the arrival of current sophomore shortstop Devon Goetz among some other talented underclassmen this spring — the Rockets have not only adjusted to the rigors of varsity softball but have fallen into a comfort zone with one another. Richard Montgomery’s camaraderie and ability to efﬁciently communicate especially shines through on defense.

Stud” brings a high-energy approach from his time at Louisiana State University, where he spent the past seven seasons as offensive line coach including two seasons as offensive coordinator, Dunn said. “Coach Brattan was a great coach, but Coach Stud coaches in a different way,” Dunn said. “He is really high energy. That’s the big thing with Coach

Every team’s defense starts with its pitcher and catcher, and junior hurler Shannon Powell, who Horton said has gotten stronger each of the past three years, and Grieve have provided the Rockets with stability. Powell, who Horton said has been around the program since middle school thanks to an older sister who was on the team, has struck out 45 batters this spring with only nine walks and has given up just six earned runs. The Rockets have only committed ﬁve total errors in eight games and Grieve, who Horton said calls the pitches herself, has not given up a single stolen base this spring.

Stud, he’s always yelling — not at you, just yelling to pump you up and get you excited to play — he just motivates you. He’s a great player’s coach.” Finally Dunn is also excited about the new direction for Maryland football, moving to the Big Ten Conference after 60 years as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Terps ofﬁcially switch on July 1.

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friendly with many of the players and is fresh off her own professional soccer experiences — would help facilitate a comfortable environment for the players. “I’ve really gotten to know KJ in the offseason and she’s been an incredible person around the club,” Parsons said. “Her being a female and she’s been through loads of different experiences, she is someone who can see through the players’ eyes and the players deserve someone like that. But she will also know when to tell the players, ‘You need to buck up.’” Parsons hired Spisak knowing he already had a goalkeep-

ing coach but since goalies are a team’s eyes and often coach on the field, Spisak’s perspective enables her to provide valuable insight to players in every position, he said. While her skill set won her the job, Parsons said Spisak’s local ties were an added bonus as the Spirit aim to maintain a connection to the Washington, D.C. area’s soccer-rich community. “KJ has spent her whole life organizing the back and the midﬁeld and she knows the best types of movements forwards can make to cause problems for a goalkeeper,” Parsons said. “She can relate to almost any situation, she’s been through it.

She also has the communication skills and knowledge to really impact individuals. She can have a 60-second conversation and turn a player’s training session around.” Washington opened its season with a 3-1 loss to the 2013 regular season champion Western New York Flash Sunday at the Maryland SoccerPlex in Boyds. Parsons said with all the new personnel — Washington’s revamped roster includes world class players such as English striker Jodie Taylor, forward Tiffany Weimer, U.S. allocated player Yael Averbuch; top draft pick Crystal Dunn; Christine Nairn, who scored

Washington’s lone goal; and Mexican National Team striker Renae Cuellar, among others — and a fairly short preseason, he expects some early growing pains. But there were glimpses Sunday of what has the Spirit so excited about this season’s prospects. Last year’s leading scorer, Canadian National Team midfielder Diana Matheson, has been granted some muchneeded options to play off of and one could only expect an Ali Krieger-anchored backline that also features three-plus returning players and Dunn, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2014 NWSL College Draft, to be among the

league’s best. “You look at the goals [we scored in preseason] and they’re all very, very different goals from different areas and what I like is that every goal had a relationship,” Parsons said. “It was people combining, people crossing and linking. It wasn’t just Diana from the 18. It was two or three people being on the same page and last year I don’t think we could ever say we had two people on the same page. Fresh faces give us some different things and it’s an exciting thing, not just the goals, but the relationships we’re building.”

another chapter in the teammates’ friendly rivalry. “Usually when you lose to somebody, that’s the last person you want to be hanging around with because it’s just another reminder,” Monroe said. “But these guys are different.” Cole, 18, moved to Maryland from Gambia at age 11 and joined the track team his freshman year. That’s where he met Hairston, 17, a football convert whose relaxed and comical demeanor drew in Cole from the start. “Alieu is really outgoing and Devon is kind of laid back and cool,” Monroe said. “Alieu

would be the promoter or the hype man at the party and Devon would be the DJ.” “When we met, Devon said something funny to me and I just started laughing,” Cole said. “That’s how our friendship started.” While the friendship may have started with a joke, they showed considerable athletic ability early in their ﬁrst year, their coach said. During the ﬁrst week of track practice, Monroe usually puts out an assortment of equipment for different events to discover a niche talent in any of the new members.

Right away, he said, it was apparent to him where Cole and Hairston would shine. “With these guys, when I pulled the hurdles out, I just saw how easily they were able to jump over it,” Monroe said. “The form wasn’t good but they were able to get up over the hurdle really easily.” In his early evaluation, Monroe also noticed their talents for the triple jump and long jump — events they have competed in, along with hurdling, since their sophomore year. Cole, who managed just two ﬁrst-place ﬁnishes in outdoor

track events in his two previous seasons, has recorded six wins this season. Hairston, who specializes in the shorter-distances, has posted nine victories. “Everything. They’re always competing against each other,” said teammate Eudorah Vital, a 17-year-old senior who said he has known both since freshman year and watched their rivalry blossom into their current success. “They’re always going at one another and pushing each other to get better.” “It doesn’t matter what it is,” Monroe said. “They’ll ﬁnd a way.” “He’s like a brother to me

now,” Hairston said of his cocaptain. “We’ve grown so close over the years.” Now, the sport that brought these two friends together is destined to shape their future beyond Kennedy. Hairston is drawing interest from the likes of Morgan State University, Wesleyan College and Methodist College. Methodist, Wesleyan and Salisbury University are among the schools after Cole. “If they landed at the same school it’d be great,” Monroe said. “But they’re both set on their academic and athletic career wherever they go.”

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It’s numbers like that, Horton said, that keep Richard Montgomery competitive and put the Rockets in position to contend with anyone. Goetz has paced the Rockets with a team-high .510 batting average that includes 14 runs batted in and 16 stolen bases. Grieve (.482) and Parrish (.401) are right behind her. Despite its Class 4A status Richard Montgomery is in a unique position in that it only has one true feeder school: Julius West Middle.

“All of us are really pumped,” Dunn said. “Everybody is just so excited to play in the Big Ten. You want to play against the best teams, and that’s what we are doing now. We’re playing against all the best teams out there: Michigan, Ohio State, Michigan State. You won’t ﬁnd a single person who is not excited about going to the Big Ten on our team.”

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Morale is up and the Richard Montgomery High School girls’ lacrosse team showed improvement heading into spring break. Under second-year coach Brett Ponchione, the Rockets are 6-1 and have already surpassed last year’s four-win total (4-9) with ﬁve games remaining on the regular season schedule. “When they have fun, I’ve found players are a lot easier to coach,” Ponchione said. Last season, Ponchione would

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BY ERIC GOLDWEIN occasionally get strange looks from players as they adapted to his coaching style, he said. The team is happier a year later with the defense improved (6.4 goals against) and the offense — led by Nicole Burchett (30 goals, 14 assists), Jacqueline Page (25 goals, 20 assists) and Sydney Koubek (15 goals, six assists) — scoring 13.7 goals per game. Ponchione said he expected the team to turn it around with nearly all of its nucleus returning, but not to this extent. “I may have underestimated how receptive this group of girls is,” Ponchione said. “... They’re starting to believe [they can succeed] and as a result they’re having a good time.”

Mr. 200 It was a milestone weekend for the Winston Churchill boys’ lacrosse

Georgetown Prep lacrosse players celebrate their 9-7 victory Friday against rival Landon in North Bethesda. coaching staff, with coach Jeff Fritz winning his 200th game on Friday against Sherwood and assistants Wayne Olan and Stuart Orns reaching the 100-win marker the next day against Western Albemarle. Fritz earned his 200th win in dramatic fashion as the Bulldogs overcame a second-half deﬁcit to defeat the Warriors 14-13. “It was a thriller to say the least,”

Fritz said. Fritz took over a 1-9 team when he started coaching Churchill in 1994, going 5-7 in his ﬁrst season to take the ﬁnal playoff spot. The Bulldogs (8-1) have become a perennial contender, winning the last two Class 4A/3A West Region championships. “From that team to where we are right now, eons ago, we’ve made leaps and bounds,” Fritz said. “It’s been a lot

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of fun. I’ve really enjoyed the Churchill community the parents, athletes and the school. It’s been fantastic. It’s the reason why I’m still there after all these years.”

Streaks over After a winless 2013, the losing streak is ﬁnally over. The Seneca Valley boys’ team defeated Wheaton 13-5

last week to end a 17-game drought that dated back to May 2012. “The boys have been working hard and are very excited,” coach Sean McAleavey wrote in an email to The Gazette. The Holton-Arms girls’ team (4-7) snapped a six-game losing streak of its own, overcoming a slow start to defeat Connelly School of the Holy Child 18-15 last Thursday. “It was about time,” third-year coach Janet McCormick said. The Panthers, coming off a 9-9 season, have eight senior starters and 12 seniors on the roster. McCormick said the upperclassmen have played well against the tough early-season competition. “They’ve each taken it upon themselves to step up at different times,” she said. egoldwein@gazette.net

Rockville on pace to repeat as division champs Rams won ﬁrst division title since 2002 last spring

BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN

The 2013 season marked a turning point for the Rockville High School softball team. After winning its ﬁrst division title since 2002 last spring, the Rams came into 2014 expecting similar success, coach Matthew Quinn said. With seven returning starters, Rockville picked up in March right where it left off a year ago. With an undefeated (4-0) start to Montgomery 3A/2A Division play, the

Rams could clinch their second straight title with a win against Poolesville after spring break. “I think this year coming off such a good season, the girls had much expectations,” Quinn said. “I think the biggest thing [in our continued success] is that our team just has really awesome chemistry. We have a lot of upperclassmen this year, we’re a much more experienced team. I

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think in general, having your core group be juniors and seniors is a big deal, along with some talented freshmen, too.” Senior pitcher Kate Lipman has been a steady force for the Rams in the circle the past two years and Quinn said she has been taking this season even more seriously. Lipman, who relies mostly on hitting her spots with a decently-paced fastball, has struck out 51 batters in eight games. The team has supported her with good run production; Rockville is batting .360 as a team

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In a county where most of the schools compete in either the 4A or 3A classiﬁcation, the Poolesville High School baseball team is serving notice that it is truly a David among the Goliaths. As the county’s only Class 2A school, The Falcons (9-0) have outscored their opponents 97-9,

BASEBALL NOTEBOOK BY TED BLACK including an 8-1 victory against perennial 4A power Quince Orchard and a win vs. Paint Branch. “We’re playing good defense,” said Poolesville secondyear coach Steve Orsini, whose team is set to scrimmage Our Lady of Good Counsel Thursday. “We’re getting the routine outs, our pitchers are throwing strikes and we’re taking advantage of the other teams’ mistakes. We’re playing good baseball, but there’s still a lot of baseball left to be played this spring.” When Poolesville returns from spring break the Falcons will likely encounter their two toughest weeks of play. They are scheduled to face Winston Churchill, Montgomery Blair and Seneca Valley next week and their ﬁnal week of games should

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Sherwood High School’s Nick Forlenza slides behind Northwest’s Josh Levy during Monday’s baseball game in Sandy Spring. The Warriors won, 9-0.

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be against Sherwood, BethesdaChevy Chase and Gaithersburg, which is considered the favorite for the 4A West Region title. “I know the guys are really pumped up about playing Good Counsel on Thursday,” Orsini said. “But I keep reminding them it’s just a scrimmage. We have a lot of tough games when we

come back, so we’ll see where we stand when the dust settles at the end of the season.” Led by a quartet of solid seniors — Robbie Metz, Chris Convers, Thayer Seely and Hunter Pearre — the Falcons are hitting .349 (88 for 252) with 13 doubles, three triples and four home runs. Metz, a George Washington University recruit, is hitting .440 (11 for 25) with two doubles and one triple and is also the ace of the staff with a 3-0 record. Convers is batting .615 (16 for 26) with five doubles and two homers and leads the club with 18 runs batted in. Pearre is batting .500 (11 for 22) with one double and 10 RBI, while Seely is hitting .364 (8 for 22) with two doubles, two home runs and one triple and 12 RBI.

KEEPING IT BRIEF Three boys’ volleyball teams still perfect Through the midway point of the Montgomery County high school boys’ volleyball season, Clarksburg High School, Richard Montgomery and Thomas S. Wootton are the only remaining undefeated teams at 6-0. Col. Zadok Magruder and Wheaton are both 6-1, followed by Bethesda-

chevy Chase, Sherwood and Walter Johnson at 5-2. Defending league champion Wootton, led by senior Paul Malinauskas, has won 18 of 20 sets. Wootton defeated Richard Montgomery in ﬁve sets in last year’s championship match and both appear to be top contenders again this season when the playoffs begin. — TED BLACK

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with four players batting .400 or better — Megan Anderson (.483), Elizabeth Hubbard (.414), Caitlyn Ramsey (.407) and Elizabeth Bar-

rett (.400). But Rockville has also lost a couple close games, 3-0 to Col. Zadok Magruder and 3-2 to Seneca Valley due to an inability to string hits together when it needs to the most. “We’ve put up a lot of runs in some games and that makes a difference in the stats, I think in general we need those critical hits,” Quinn said. “I think not being able to see as much live pitching as we want with all the weather, but I told them no excuses because everyone has the same problem. We need to get

some more timely hitting to close out those close games.” Rockville lost in last year’s Class 3A West Region quarterﬁnal to Frederick County’s Tuscarora High, 12-4, an experience Quinn said he expects to pay dividends come this postseason. “I think it was good not only for the team but for me to see what other counties have to offer so we best know how to prepare,” Quinn said. “I think that will keep us a step ahead.” jbeekman@gazette.net

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HOWDY, HARMONIZED Takoma Park house concert rustles up cowboy singer Steve Cormier.

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Love is a very powerful emotion. It forges bonds between people and creates ﬁerce loyalty and a need to protect. Love can make you do and say crazy things, but it also can be a calming inﬂuence.

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For some, love is the strongest force on Earth. After surviving a terrible storm as a child, Ti Moune prays to the gods of the island, wanting to know the purpose of her life. While the gods laugh at her, Erzulie, the goddess of love, insists that she be given love as her purpose. So begins Ti Moune’s adventure in “Once on This Island,” a musical being staged at Olney Center. “Ti Moune is a free spirit,” said Aisha Jackson, who plays the character in the show. “She’s loving and caring. She wants to live life to the fullest.” Papa Ge, the demon of death, is furious that Ti Moune was given love and proceeds to make a bet with Erzulie to see which is stronger, love or death. Ti Moune then falls in love with Daniel, a man who’s been taken in after a bad car accident. When Papa Ge comes to take Daniel’s life, Ti Moune begs Papa Ge to spare him and offers her life in return. Papa Ge leaves, but vows to return one day. “It’s a story of love that overcomes racism, that overcomes social class and poverty,” Jackson said. “It’s showing that love can conquer all of those things. It doesn’t matter what color you are and it doesn’t matter

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Ti Moune, played by Aisha Jackson, looks off into the distance during a scene from “Once on This Island,” playing at the Olney Theatre Center.

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Olney Theatre Center presents the Caribbean-infused family musical “Once on This Island,” featuring Jackson as Ti Moune and Theresa Cunningham as Asaka (Mother of the Earth).

ONCE ON THIS ISLAND n When: To May 4 (contact theater for show times) n Where: Olney Theatre Center, 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney n Tickets: $38.50-$63.50 n For information: 301-924-3400; olneytheatre.org

In 1984, Michael Friend and his sister Khandi took the stage at Howard University and, under the name Soul in Motion Players, performed works from poets Maya Angelou and James Baldwin. On Saturday, that night and the three decades that followed will be celebrated in Rockville as Michael and the rest of Soul in Motion Players Inc. (SIMPINC) take the stage at the F. Scott Fitzgerald Theater in celebration of SOUL IN MOTION 30, their 30th anniversary. “It’s going to be quite CELEBRATING 30 a spectacle,” said Friend. YEARS IN THE ARTS “A lot of hard work and preparation has gone n When: 8 p.m. Saturday into this show.” SIMPINC has grown n Where: F. Scott Fitzgerald quite a bit since its twoTheater, 603 Edmonton Drive, Rockville person poetry performances at Howard in the n Tickets: $30 for adults, $25 1980s. They have gone for students and seniors, from poetry, to original $20 for youth. theater productions like n For information: “WE ARE AFRICA,” to soulinmotionplayers.org the most recent evolution of touring African dance and drum performances. There are currently 11 performers in SIMPINC — seven dancers and four drummers. The group usually does solo performances. However, for the big 30th anniversary performance, Friend said they are trying out a few new ideas. “We reached out to a few African dance groups that we have kept a connection with over the past 30 years,” said Friend. “And for the show we are going to be performing with seven other groups, something we have never done before.” Also performing Saturday will be groups An Ka Fo, Faraﬁna Kan, Taratibu, Balafon, VCDE, Coyaba, and The Finest. Friend said the coming together of these groups, some of which are traveling from as far as Atlanta, is just as meaningful as the 30-year milestone. “Yes, we are celebrating our 30th anniversary, but there is something more ground-breaking here,” said Friend. “It

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Michael Anthony Williams as Holloway in the Round House Theatre’s current production of “Two Trains Running.” Singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane and violinist/guitarist Rob Moose will perform in concert on Thursday at the Mansion at Strathmore.

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Round House Theatre recently announced its production of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “Two Trains Running” has been extended to May 4. Directed by Timothy Douglas, “Two Trains” chronicles African-American life in the late 1960s in a dying Pittsburgh neighborhood. Part of Wilson’s “Century Cycle,” the play is at once inspiring, humorous and heartfelt. For more information, visit roundhousetheatre.org.

Singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane and violinist and guitarist Rob Moose will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Mansion at Strathmore in North Bethesda. Kahane made his solo debut last spring at Carnegie Hall with the premiere of his musical travelogue, “Gabriel’s Guide to the 48 States,” accompanied by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and has been commissioned by groups as diverse as Kronos Quartet and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Moose is a member of the Grammy Award-winning band Bon Iver, and co-founded the musical sextet yMusic. Tickets are $30. For more information, visit strathmore.org.

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Paul Sharratt’s J Bar W Rodeo image is now on view as part of “Mirror to the World: Documentary Photography 2014” at the Photoworks gallery in Glen Echo.

“Mirror to the World,” an exhibition of documentary photography, is returning to the Photoworks gallery in Glen Echo Park for the sixth consecutive year. The exhibit, which opened on April 4 and will remain on view to May 5 at the gallery, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo, features the work of ﬁve photographers of different styles. Longtime Photoworks faculty member, award-winning author and documentary photographer Frank Van Riper, curates the exhibit, which features the work of Keith Hans, Lisa Tyson Ennis, Paul Sharratt, Eric Johnson and Eli Koppel. Gallery hours are 1-4 p.m. Saturdays and 1-8 p.m. Sundays. For more information, visit glenechophotoworks.org.

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Working with the Railroad Jim Gaudet and The Railroad Boys will deliver their blend of old time, bluegrass and rockabilly edge in concert at 7 p.m. Friday at VFW Post 350 in Takoma Park, following a guest spot that morning on WAMU’s Bluegrass Country with host Katy Daley. Hailing from Albany, N.Y., this will be the band’s ﬁrst performance in Maryland. Suggested donation is $10. For more information, visit jimgaudet.com.

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In the commercial animation realm, there are movies that reach for something, or many things. Others are content merely to baby-sit. The 2011 hit “Rio” was a baby sitter. And so is “Rio 2,” a routine sequel following the perilous adventures of the rare blue macaws Blu (wow, clever character name), Jewel and their offspring as they leave urban Rio life for a chaotic trip to Amazon rain forest country. In the jungle the birds’ sympathetic human protectors Linda and Tulio (now married) have discovered more endangered blue macaws. Instant family!

Jewel senses an opportunity to reconnect to her roots, even before she learns her father (Andy Garcia, growling his way through the Robert De Niro “Meet the Parents” role) is alive and missing his daughter. In the ﬁrst “Rio” the humor, however meager, came from Minnesota-bred Blu’s nervous immersion in the tropical Rio universe. The sequel throws the bird, again voiced by Jesse Eisenberg opposite Anne Hathaway’s Jewel, outside his latest comfort zone. Armed with a GPS and a most unbirdly fanny pack, the anxious urbanite Blu faces an onslaught of trouble. There’s Nigel, the vicious cockatoo (Jemaine Clement, doing what he can with weak faux-Shakespearean gags) and his henchfolk, a mute aardvark and a shrill, love-besotted pink frog

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voiced by Kristin Chenoweth. Directed by Carlos Saldanha, “Rio 2” offers roughly the same approach to story and to story clutter as did the ﬁrst movie. A little conﬂict, followed by domestic strife and reasons for Blu to panic, followed by something flying in your face (3-D, you know), followed by another ensemble samba number. Millions of kids and, I’m guessing, a few parents will like it well enough.

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On Saturday, Takoma Park will get a little taste of the Wild West when Kathie Mack welcomes folk music fans into her home to listen to Steve Cormier perform his cowboy music and talk about his life as a rancher in New Mexico. Cormier performs mainly traditional cowboy music, singing about life as a working cowboy, which he experienced for nine years as a ranch and farmhand. He recently began touring again after taking a break to teach history at the University of New Mexico and act in television and ﬁlms. (Cormier played roles in movies such as “White Sands” and “Wyatt Earp,” and served as an extra in the hit AMC series “Breaking Bad.”) This concert will be the third time Cormier has performed at Mack’s home. He and Mack met through a mutual friend in the 1970s and have kept in touch. Mack promotes the shows she hosts through a community listserv. Saturday’s concert is being sponsored by the Folklore Society of Greater Washington. At these shows, about 30 or so people can gather in Mack’s Takoma Park home to sing songs and enjoy an extremely personal concert. “House concerts are a good way to get people to performances, it’s wonderfully intimate, the cowboy is singing to you,” Mack said. “House concerts are just a wonderful way to enjoy concerts.” Mack opens up her home to people to come and watch these performers because, above all, she is a music fan. She enjoys giving everyone the opportunity to experience the music.

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Cowboy singer Steve Cormier will perform during a house concert Saturday in Takoma Park. “I like to sing and dance myself,” Mack said with a laugh. “I like helping people have a good time. I think it’s important to carry on the songs that were enjoyed [in the past] to other generations.” Though Mack is happy to welcome music fans into her home, she does request that those wanting to attend call ahead to RSVP. Because the concert is occurring in her private home, she cannot charge admission, however she requests a donation of $15, all of which goes straight to the performer. Cormier was raised in Minnesota and then worked in Kansas and New Mexico as a cowboy, when he began playing music that complimented his life style. “I mostly play traditional [songs], but I have penned a few when the moment

strikes,” Cormier said. “I sing old-time cowboy songs, also new-time cowboy songs, but some of them are as old as 130 years.” He said his performances at Mack’s house are informal affairs, with him sitting on a chair in front of the audience, singing and telling jokes about being a cowboy and hoping the crowd will “guffaw.” Mack is a fan of the storytelling and honesty in folk music, especially in Cormier’s work. “The saying ‘three chords and the truth’ is about country music, but also should be about folk music,” Mack said. For more information, call 301-2705367 or email kpmack2@gmail.com for reservations.

IN THE ARTS DANCES Hollywood Ballroom, April 16, “step of the evening” mini-lesson at 8:15 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8:30 p.m. ($16); April 17, 24, Tea Dance from 12:30-3:30 p.m. ($6); April 18, drop-in lessons from 7:30-9 p.m., West Coast Swing Dancing with Dance Jam Productions at 9 p.m. ($15); April 19, free Cha Cha lesson at 8 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 9 p.m. ($16); April 20, free West Coast Swing lesson at 7 p.m. ($16); April 23, “step of the evening” mini Tango lesson at 8:15 p.m. ($16), 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: Thursdays,

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, April 18, Janine Smith calls to Anadama; 7:30 p.m. lesson, 8:30 p.m. dance, Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $10, www.fridaynightdance.org. Contra & Square, April 20, Janine Smith with Anadama; April 25, DeLaura Padovan with Sibling Ribaldry, 7:30 p.m., Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $12 for general, $9 for members, $5 for students, www.fsgw.org. English Country, April 16, Carol Marsh; April 23, Martha Siegel, 8 p.m., Glen Echo Town Hall (upstairs), www.fsgw.org. Swing, May 3, Natty Beaux, lesson at 8 p.m., dancing at 9 p.m., Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $15, www.ﬂyingfeet.org. Waltz, April 20, DESTINO da ROSA , 2:45-3:30 p.m. lesson, 3:30-6 p.m., dance, $10, www.waltztimedances.org.

MUSIC & DANCE Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club, JazzFunk United, 7:30 p.m.

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Continued from Page B-5 how much money you have, doesn’t matter where you come from, you can always love. “Loving someone no matter how hurtful they are to you or no matter what they do to you, it speaks volumes and it can change people.” The show is being directed by a popular guy who lives on “Sesame Street.” Although this does seem like a show Big Bird would enjoy, the reins fall to Alan Muraoka, who plays Alan, the owner of Hooper’s Store. Muraoka joined the cast of “Sesame Street” in 1997. When he’s not ﬁlming scenes for the show, he’s usually involved in some sort of musical theater, either on stage or directing. He received good reviews for his role

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in “Pacific Overtures” on Broadway and has directed “Urinetown: The Musical” in Texas and “Falsettoland” for the National Asian American Theater Company in New York. Muraoka saw “Once on This Island” in 1989 on Broadway when he was performing in New York. “What struck me about it when I saw it was really the simplicity of the storytelling,” Muraoka said. “This was back in ’89 when all the megamusicals were coming in with chandeliers and helicopters. This was a simple story with 11 actors telling this beautiful, beautiful story with minimal props on one set and they told it through movement and just the words.” After seeing the show an additional four or five times, Muraoka was hooked and knew he wanted to direct it at formers will range from 6 to 65. “But that is what music does, man, it is the universal connection,” said Friend. The pieces performed by SIMPINC mainly pull their influence from the Senegal and Guinea regions of Africa. Since joining SIMPINC 14 years ago, Pamela Rhone has been the choreographer, and what Friend calls a key component to their success as dance and drum performers. For the anniversary show, they wanted to try something

some point. When he was approached to direct the show at Olney, he jumped at the chance. “It was something I knew I wanted to do and that I knew I had the respect [for] the materials to try to make it something worthy of what my heart feels is so special about it.” The show is particularly special for Jackson. When she was a girl in the sixth grade, her very ﬁrst performance was in “Once on This Island,” as Little Ti Moune. Now, years later, the actor has come full circle. “I was Little Ti Moune and I always wanted to be Big Ti Moune,” Jackson laughed. “Being able to have this opportunity really is a blessing. I’m so grateful for it. This show has just taught me to enjoy life and to be grateful for the things that I have every day. We have bad things happen every day, but

it’s nice to look at the positive side of things and Ti Moune always does that.” Muraoka knows that, at its heart, “Once on This Island” is a show about community and a story about the passing down of oral traditions of our past generations. It’s his hope that audiences pick up on that and take it back with them to their families and communities. “With so much technology in our world now, with so many iPads and iPhones and texting, we’re losing a sense of communityandcommunicationandsocial interaction with each other,” Muraoka said. “These things are slowly getting lost. For me, the idea of ‘Once on This Island,’ and the idea of this oral tradition being passed down … it’s something I hope people walk away with.”

different. “Thirty years is a big deal,” said Rhone. “We thought it would be a good idea to call someone else in to choreograph a new piece for us so we could give the audience something different.” Friend called in a choreographer from Ghana to teach the group a new, longer piece, which Rhone calls, “an exciting and high-energy performance that calls out for peace, it’s a must-see.” Monique Walker said this is going to be the biggest show she

wfranklin@gazette.net has performed in since joining SIMPINC as a dancer six years ago. “We usually perform in front of 50 to 100 people depending on the event,” said Walker. The F. Scott Fitzgerald Theater seats just over 450. “It’s a two-hour show of a multi-generational, multi-talented cast of artists who are displaying the African art and just how multi-faceted it is,” said Walker. “I expect the audience to be on a high that will hopefully

April 16; Coniece Washington with guest vocalist Gale Smith, 7:30 p.m. April 17; SoundConnection with Rhythm6, 8 p.m. April 18; The Blackbyrds, 8 p.m. April 19; Easter Brunch w/Bradie Frink & Ordinary People, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. April 20; Memphis Gold, Jay Summerour & Howlin’ at the Moon, 7:30 p.m. April 23; Four Freshmen, 7:30 p.m. April 24; America’s Got Talent Winner Landau Murphy, Jr., 8 p.m. April 25; The Sol Serenaders featuring Tommy Lepson & Billy Price, 8 p.m. April 26; Sunday Brunch with The Gospel Persuaders, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. April 27; Clayton Brothers Quintet featuring Obed Calvaire, John Clayton, Jeff Clayton, April 27, call for prices, 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. 240-330-4500, www. bethesdabluesjazz.com. BlackRock Center for the Arts, Dali Quartet, school matinee, 10:30 a.m. May 2; The Stray Birds, 8 p.m. May 2; Dali Quartet, Latin Fiesta Family Concert, 1 p.m. May 3; Dali Quartet, evening concert, 8 p.m. May 3; The Hit Men (featuring former stars of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons), 4 p.m. May 11, 12901 Town Commons Drive, Germantown. 301-528-2260, www. blackrockcenter.org. Fillmore Silver Spring, University Of Maryland Hip-Hop Conference French Montana Ty Dolla $ign, 8 p.m. April 17; Kid Ink, My Own Lane 2014 US Tour, 9 p.m. April 18; Badﬁsh, a Tribute to Sublime with Dale & The ZDubs and Higher Education, 7:30 p.m. April 19; 420 ReggaeFest w/ Zedicus and Abyssinia Roots, Machet, Anjahla, Footwerk, 6:30 p.m. April 20; 5 Seconds of Summer, 8 p.m. April 21; The Used and Taking Back Sunday, 7 p.m. April 22; Riff Raff with Grand Theft, 8 p.m. April 24; Live Nation Presents YG — My Krazy Life Tour, 8 p.m. April 25; Style to the Aisle...a Bride’s RUNWAY, 3 p.m. April 27; 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. www.ﬁllmoresilverspring.com.

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April 21, Saint Mark Presbyterian Church, 10701 Old Georgetown Road, Rockville, call for prices, www.imtfolk.org. Strathmore, Afternoon Tea, 1 p.m. April 15-16, 22-23, 29-30; AIR Education Workshop with

carry them beyond that night.” Before every performance over the past 30 years, Friend said there is a ritual. During the ﬁnal moments before they hit the stage, Friend brings together all of the performers to join hands in a circle and pray. Friend, who remembers holding hands with just his sister before their poetry performances, knows the circle on Saturday is going to be special. “I just know when I look around that circle and see over

Piotr Pakhomkin: Classical Guitar Technique in Modern Rock Music, 7 p.m. April 16; Gabriel Kahane & Rob Moose Duo, 7:30 p.m. April 17; AIR: Piotr Pakhomkin, classical guitar, 7:30 p.m. April 23; WPAS: Hilary Hahn, violin, 8 p.m. April 23; Historic Home Tour, 11 a.m. April 24; Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal, 7 p.m. April 25; History of Jazz Part II: Bright Lights Big City, 11 a.m. April 25; BSO: Off the Cuff - Mahler’s Titan, 8:15 p.m. April 25; Children’s Talk and Tour, 10:15 a.m. April 26; Art Talk, 1 p.m. April 26; 2014 Spring Gala at Strathmore: Julio Iglesias, 9 p.m. April 26; Beyond Text and Line: A Discussion on the Art of Comic Books, 2 p.m. April 27; Stripped, 4 p.m. April 27; Capital Wind Symphony: Winds for Warriors Charity Gala, 7:30 p.m. April 28; Portfolio Reviews 7 p.m., April 30, 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, “The Jungle Book,” to May 25, call for prices, times, Adventure Theatre MTC, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo, 301-634-2270, www.adventuretheatre-mtc.org. Arts Barn, “Great American Trailer Park Musical,” to April 20, 311 Kent Square Road, Gaithersburg. www.r-m-t.org, www.gaithersburgmd.gov. Imagination Stage, “Cinderella: The Remix:” to May 25, call for prices, times, Imagination Stage, 4908 Auburn Ave., Bethesda, www. imaginationstage.org. Olney Theatre Center, “Once On This Island,” to May 4, call for prices, times, 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney, 301-924-3400, www.olneytheatre.org. The Puppet Co., “Hansel and Gretel,” to April 27; 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, 301-6345380, www.thepuppetco.org. Round House Theatre, Bethesda, “Two Trains Running,” to May 4, 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. 240-644-1100, www. roundhousetheatre.org. Round House Theatre, Silver Spring, “Snow Angel,” to April 12, call for show times, 8641 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, $15 for general admission, $10 for subscribers, patrons 30 and younger and seniors, 244-644-1100, www.roundhousetheatre.org. Silver Spring Stage, “Other Desert Cities,” to April 27, Woodmoor Shopping Center, 10145 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, see website for show times, www. ssstage.org. The Writer’s Center, Joanna Chen and Zein El-Amine, 7:30 p.m. April 10; Bethesda Literary Festival, 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. April 11; Selby McPhee and Natasha Saje, 2 p.m. April 13, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, 301-654-8664, www. writer.org.

VISUAL ART Adah Rose Gallery, “An Allegory of Algorithms and Aesthetics,” Jessica Drenk, to May 12, opening reception from 6:30-8:30 p.m. April 12 with music by The Blackberry Blonde, 3766 Howard Ave., Kensington, 301-922-0162, www. adahrosegallery.com Gallery B, Group Exhibition, to April 26, gallery hours are noon to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, 7700 Wisconsin Ave., Suite E. www. bethesda.org. Glenview Mansion, National Capital Art Glass Guild, to April 25, Rockville Civic Center Park, 503 Edmonston Drive, Rockville. www. rockvillemd.gov. Marin-Price Galleries, “The Way of the Horse,” to April 18, 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, 7022 Wisconsin Ave., 301-718-0622. VisArts, Xiaosheng Bi, “Garden of My Mind,” to April 20, Common Ground Gallery, 155 Gibbs St., Rockville, 301-315-8200, www. visartsatrockville.org. Washington Printmakers Gallery, WPG April Members Exhibi-

tion, to April 27; Pyramid Atlantic Annual Juried Exhibition, to April 25; Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, second ﬂoor, 8230 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, www.washingtonprintmakers.com.

100 people, from 6 to 65, eight different groups, it’s going to be incredible.” The preparation for the performance has taken almost two years, and on Saturday, Soul in Motion Players Inc. will have two hours to celebrate the past 30 years. “It’s been a ride,” said Friend. “Right now, the roller coaster is going up, ‘tick, tick, tick,’ and then it is going to come to a stop, and we’re going to be in that circle prayer. “And then, we go.”

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2009 Volvo XC-90

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9,980

14,380

2010 Volvo S40

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16,480

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#327213B, 87k Miles

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#E0306, 34k Miles

#98885, 9k Miles

#E0313, 39k Miles

#P8827, Navigation, 32k Miles

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14,999

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14FordFocusSE $$

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14,990

2012 Toyota Camry SE........... $20,900 $20,900 #N0336, 6 SpeedAuto, 1-Owner, Magnetic Gray, 26K Miles

$12,795 $12,795

2011 BMW 328i.................. $24,490 $24,490 #472196A, 7 SpeedAuto, Black

2013 Toyota Corolla LE........ $14,900 $14,900 #E0322, Classic Silver, 1-Owner, 33K Miles 2012 Nissan Sentra 2.......... $14,490 $14,490 #P8858A, CVT Trans, 13k Miles, Bright Silver 2011 Chevrolet Traverse LS. . $17,495 $17,495 #363442A, 6 SpeedAuto, 1 Owner, Sport Utility, Blue Metallic

2013 New Beetle..........#VPR0038, Silver, 4,549 miles..................$17,694 2013 Passat S...........#VPR0026, Black, 6,891 miles................$17,994 2011 CC.....................#VP0035, White, 38,225 miles................$18,754 2011 GTI...................#V239376A, Gray, 52,553 Miles..............$18,991 2014 Passat Wolfsburg...#VPR0040, Grey, 5,227 miles.................$19,394 2014 Passat Wolfsburg. .#VPR0041, White, 2,878 miles................$19,754 2012 Mini Cooper County....#V241376B, Blue, 38,350 Miles........$21,991 2011 Tiguan............#V008756A, White, 47,559 Miles.............$21,991 2012 Nissan Maxima. .#V073708A, Gray, 47,457 miles..............$22,494 2013 Dodge Charger.#V411396A, Black, 19,344 Miles..............$26,491 2013 Nissan Pathfinder #V266506A, Gray, 4,735 Miles........$27,991

2012 Mitsubishi Outlander GT. $24,490 $24,490 #363225A, 6 SpeedAuto, 5k Miles, Sport Utility, Rally Red 2013 Toyota Highlander Sport Utility $25,900 $25,900 #R1755, 5 SpeedAuto, 1-Owner, 16K Miles, Blizzard Pearl

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2005 Toyota Camry.................. . $9,990 $9,990 #477466A, 98K Miles, One Owner

2006 Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer #372287B, Sport Utility, 5 Speed, Black

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13 Ford Escape S

2006 Toyota Camry................. $10,990 $10,990 #472438A, 66K Miles, One Owner

OURISMAN VW WORLD AUTO CERTIFIED PRE OWNED 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt....#V406575B, Green, 97,004 Miles.....$6,991 2008 Jetta MT..........#V272778B, Red, 63,409 Miles...............$10,391 2010 Passat Sedan..#VP0046, Black, 86,098 Miles................$11,991 2010 New Beetle CPE. #V606150B, Gray, 50,127 miles................$11,993 2012 Jetta SE...............#VPR6113, Silver, 34,537 miles.................$12,594 2008 GLI...................#V272695A, Gray, 58,369 Miles..............$13,792 2012 Nissan Versa. #V221107A, Silver, 21,215 Miles..............$13,991 2011 Jetta SE.........#V405443A, Black, 51, 598 Miles.............$13,991 2010 Honda Accord SDN......#V508537B, Silver, 48,011 Miles......$16,491 2009 Jetta TDI.........#VP0043A, Black, 68,842 Miles...............$16,992 2012 Nissan Juke..#V257168A, White, 57,565 miles.............$16,994 2013 Jetta SE............#VPR0030, Silver, 4,340 miles................$16,994

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2014 TIGUAN S 4WD 11 Nissan Juke S $$

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25,455

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2013 NISSAN SENTRA SR

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2014 NISSAN ALTIMA 2.5 S

18,495

13,977

#449000B, 6 Speed Manual, Leather, 1-Owner

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2010 Volkswagen New Beetle

13,977

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17,995 2012 Kia Forte EX

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14,977

2012 Volkswagen CC

16,977

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2014MSRP: NISSAN FRONTIER KC$21,255 4X2 S

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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 04/30/2014.

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12 VW Beetle.....................................$14,970

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12 Dodge Grand Caravan SXT......$15,970 #KP58740, PWR DRS/LIFT GATE, PSEAT/OPTS

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