THE GAZETTE
Wednesday, September 11, 2013 r
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Rockville Senior Center is encouraging fitness for the fall emotional distress and encourages them to think positively about their future. “We shot most of the footage for it last year in Virginia,” Waters said. “We’re just trying to finish it.” But some of the footage he needs to complete the project is “stupidly expensive,” Waters said, running as much as $5,000 a second for scenes of Afghanistan and Iraq. To help finish the film, Waters’s production company, El Gato Rojo Productions, is hosting a fundraiser at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 18 at Tami’s Table Cafe and Wine Bar in Potomac. The director and producers will be on hand and there will be hors d’oeuvres and wine. At 7 p.m., there will be a screening of the film’s trailer.
PEOPLE & PL ACES ELIZABETH WAIBEL
The Rockville Senior Center held an all-day exercise event Sept. 4 to highlight fitness classes available this fall. Free, 25-minute fitness programs were offered throughout the day. The scheduled classes included yoga, Zumba, belly dancing and seniors boot camp. People also could explore the center’s recently expanded facilities, including new fitness equipment, and get blood pressure or body composition tests. Together with the new equipment, the center now has 18 pieces of cardiovascular equipment and 11 strength pieces, including some that are wheelchair accessible. Also, Grassroots Organization for the Well-being of Seniors is helping organize a series of events this month to help older adults prevent falls. The Rockville Senior Center will host a presentation on balance and falls from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Sept. 18. Individual balance screens also will be available. The center is at 1150 Carnation Drive; call 240-314-8810 for more information or visit rockvillemd.gov/seniorcenter. The Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, also in Rockville, will host its own falls prevention workshop at 1 p.m. Sept. 24. The center is at 6125 Montrose Road; call 301-348-3760 for details.
Public can weigh in on Wall Park plans The Montgomery County Department of Parks will hold a public meeting to discuss plans for Wall Park in the White Flint area. The meeting’s goal is to gather community input on the planned renovation of the park and to share preliminary plans for a new community recreatoin and swim center. The meeting is scheduled for 7 to 9 p.m. Sept. 18 at Kennedy Shriver Aquatic Center, 5900 Executive Blvd., North Bethesda. Visit parkplanning. org to learn more.
Great Pumpkin Race returns to Montgomery Village Montgomery Village will hold its annual Great Pumpkin Race at its fall festival Oct. 12. The race is a single-elimination event featuring handcrafted, decorated pumpkin race cars. Registered pumpkin car owners will compete for the Pumpkin Race Championship trophy at North Creek Community Center. Pumpkin race car kits are available for $12 at the Mont-
Organics advocate joining museum
PHOTOS BY BILL RYAN/THE GAZETTE
(From left) Rockville Senior Center members Liya Kaplinskaya, Christine Dillon and Vivian Mesays do chair exercises during the center’s all-day exercise event Sept. 4.
Bikeshare ready to roll this month
gomery Village Foundation office, at 10120 Apple Ridge Road. A limited number of free kits also are available for groups and families. Racers may use their own supplies to propel their pumpkins, but must follow race rules posted at montgomeryvillage.com. The fall festival will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 20125 Arrowhead Road, with pumpkin racing at 1 p.m. For more information, call 301-948-0110 or visit montgomeryvillage.com.
The Capital Bikeshare program is expected to start rolling out in Bethesda and Friendship Heights in late September. The bike station in downtown Bethesda will be on Bethesda Avenue outside the Bethesda Avenue-Elm Street parking garage. There are 15 planned Bikeshare locations in Bethesda and Chevy Chase, the busiest of which is expected to be at the Bethesda Metro station, where there may be up to 19 bike spaces. Twenty stations are planned for Rockville. For more information, visit montgomerycountymd.gov/ bikeshare/index.html.
Boyds gallery to host photography workshop The Art Connect gallery in
Boyds will offer a photography
workshop Sept. 21. Nature photographer Marsha Liebl will teach participants techniques to help improve their skills. The workshop will be held from 8 to 10:30 a.m. at Brookside Gardens at 1800 Glenallan Ave., Wheaton. The fee is $59. Participants should bring a point-and-shoot or 35mm camera, and no tripods are necessary. Call 301-820-1193 by Sept. 20 to register.
Suburban Hospital hosts open house for students Suburban Hospital will host an open house next week for Medical Exploring, a program that provides more than 1,500 area high school students with an inside look at what it’s like to work in the health care field. The open house will be held
Fundraiser supports documentary production
Rockville Senior Center members Lucia De Reus (left) and Barbara Samakow take a Zumba class during the center’s all-day exercise event Sept. 4. from 6 to 7 p.m. Monday at the hospital’s auditorium, 8600 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda. Suburban Hospital, in partnership with the Boy Scouts of America, sponsors the program. Students can learn from the region’s physicians, surgeons and health care professionals, and tour key hospital areas such as the trauma room and helipad. Medical Explorers have attended educational sessions on global health, open heart surgery and pathology, and a hands-on suturing lab. The pro-
gram also includes field trips to some of the premier medical museums in the Washington, D.C., region, as well as an opportunity to participate in community health events and earn community service hours. Presentations are held twice a month during the school year from 6 to 7:15 p.m. on Mondays from September through May. Field trips are held on school holidays. For more information, call 301-896-2494.
Paul Tukey is leaving his position as the director of the SafeLawns Foundation to become the first chief sustainability officer for Glenstone, a museum in Potomac housing a collection of post-war and contemporary art. SafeLawns, which Tukey founded in 2006, helped spearhead an international movement toward pesticide-free lawns and landscapes. Tukey, a former magazine publisher and HGTV host who wrote “The Organic Lawn Care Manual,” is known by some as “the godfather of the natural lawn care movement.” For the past year, Tukey has focused on Glenstone, where he has been an organic landscape consultant since 2010. Tukey said he is excited about Glenstone’s mission — the seamless integration of art, architecture and landscape — and thinks that it will provide the world with a living classroom about organic landscaping.
Send event information, photos and news items for People and Places to Elizabeth Waibel at ewaibel@gazette.net, or call 301-280-3005.
Potomac filmmaker and actor Thomas R. Waters is this close to finishing his first documentary, “The Best Thing For the Inside of a Marine Is the Outside of a Horse.” The film, which is in postproduction, will be shown by ConvergTV when it is completed. The documentary chronicles how one week’s participation in the Jinx McCain Wounded Warrior Horsemanship Program begins to change the lives of its participants as they continue to develop mind, body and spirit in their recovery. The film shows how working with horses and developing equestrian skills instills confidence in injured veterans, helps them overcome self-doubt and
DEATHS Neil C. Carmichael Sr. Neil C. Carmichael Sr., 75, of Woodlawn, died Aug. 30, 2013. Gasch’s Funeral Home handled the arrangements.
Roy Douglas Koppe Roy Douglas “Doug” Koppe, 85, formerly of Gaithersburg, died Sept. 2, 2013, in Berkeley Springs, W.Va. A funeral took place Sept. 6 at Helsley-Johnson Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Berkeley Springs. Interment was in Parklawn Memorial Park in Rockville.
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