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Pete Luaces of Frederick and Jeremy Freund of VOU cool off during their steamy single’s match at the Men’s Open Tennis Tournament in VOU. Freund later teamed up with Brian Clarke to take home the competition’s double’s title.

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Clarke Wins VOU Men’s Tennis Tournament; Urbana Open Set for August 6 By Patsy Beckman

T wenty-four partici-pants signed on to play in the singles’ matches

of the second annual Villages of Urbana (VOU) Men’s Open Tennis Tournament, but just one was crowned the winner.

This year, first place went to VOU’s Brian Clarke in the double-elimination competi-

tion. Over on the doubles’ side of play, Clarke teamed up with VOU’s Jeremy Freund for the championship prize.

Despite a rainy weekend of play, Brad Wakely, director of tennis at VOU, said the tourna-ment was a huge success as he watched match play from the sidelines, enjoying the skill lev-els of the participants and call-ing out pointers to those in-

terested in stepping up their games.

“Footwork is something all players must work on,” he said as he watched players from Urbana and throughout Frederick and Montgomery Counties compete for first prize. “The best players in the world play their best when they are in shape.”

Wakely also serves as a volun-

teer assistant coach at Virginia Tech.

The Open Tournament was not a United States Tennis Association (USTA) sponsored event.

“They play more seriously. This is a lot of fun,” Wakely said.

VOU’s Krishna Mohan played in his first VOU Men’s Open this summer. He gravi-

tated to the sport to help fos-ter a better exercise regiment and in hopes of meeting new friends.

“I’ve had no formal train-ing,” Mohan said. “I just prac-ticed hitting some balls.”

His skill set was good enough to knock off VOU resident Matt Marzicola, a sophomore

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ouT AnD ABouT Compiled by Carrie Dietz

A s the dog days of Summer make their way to Urbana, many area residents head out of town, but

there’s plenty of fun in our own backyard, too. Here are a few things to get you Out and About in August:

Dog Days of summerDowntown Frederick goes to the dogs

August 7, 5 – 9 p.m., with doggy costume contests for small and large breeds, dog friendly shops and restaurants, doggy good-ie bags, a Yappy Hour and more. More than 80 shops, galleries and restaurants are open until 9 p.m. or later, many of which are dog friendly for the event and year-round.

FCQG Quilt showFour County Quilters Guild (FCQG)

2010 Quilt Show, August 6 – 8 at the Frederick Fairgrounds, will feature more than 300 quilts, 20 vendors, a raffle quilt, raffle baskets, member boutique and a silent auction. Hours: Fri., 12 - 8 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m. – 6.p.m.; Sun., 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Vintage Jazz FestivalLinganore Cellars becomes home to the

Vintage Jazz Festival August 28 – 29 with artists including Night and Day Music open-ing night and headliner Dave Bach Consort on Sunday. Gates open at 11 a.m. and mu-sic starts at noon on Saturday. Sunday music starts at 3:30 p.m. The festival also features multiple artisans, food vendors, winery tours and wine tastings.

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nunsense A-Men!You’ve probably seen the movies or plays, but Way Off Broadway in Frederick adds a twist to the Nunsense series in “Nunsense A-Men” -- all the nuns are men. The only way to describe it is “Mrs. Doubtfire enters the convent,” said the theater director. The play runs through August 29. Showtimes: www.wayoffbroadway.com.


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Savoring Steinbeck CountryBy Nora H. Caplan

E ver since I read “John S te i nbeck :

A Writer” by Jay Parini, I’ve longed to visit his liter-ary landscape of Monterey County, Calif. I’ve yearned to see Cannery Row in Monterey, Monterey Bay, and especially Salinas, Calif., Steinbeck’s birthplace and now the home of the Steinbeck Center. The Center may be one of America’s less well-known treasures, at least for fans of this writer.

Recently, as a birthday gift, my fam-ily surprised me with a weekend visit to Steinbeck Country. For Steinbeck fans like me, Salinas is Mecca. For others, Steinbeck country can be an incompa-rable experience.

You won’t find much left of Steinbeck’s “Cannery Row” in Monterey. Most of the sardine factories that were flourish-ing in the early 20th century are tour-ist shops now, but Ed Ricketts’s Pacific Biological Lab, where many other writers besides Steinbeck met and had multi-day parties, is at 800 Cannery Row. Fishing boats still bob at anchor in the marina, and bevies of seals still loll on the rocky shores of the bay. At least there’s no longer the stench that used to hover around and above the canning plants. You can still:• Watch seals dive for their dinner from

a seafood restaurant on Fisherman’s Wharf.

• Visit the Aquarium on Cannery Row.• Rent a sailboat at the Monterey

marina.• Hike, bike or take a run along the

waterfront path from Monterey to Pacific Grove, where Steinbeck lived when he wrote his first short sto-ries and novels, “Cannery Row” and “Sweet Thursday.” Pacific Grove is a charming Victorian seaside resort, well worth viewing.

• Take the famous 17-mile drive to Carmel-by-the-Sea and stop on the way at the fabulous Pebble Beach Golf Resort. The clubhouse and gift shops are open to the public. (Club neckties cost $95, but a handsome, engraved-while-you-wait brass luggage tag is a best buy at $25.)Ed “Doc” Ricketts was a marine bi-

ologist and Steinbeck’s best friend. “Everyone who knew him was in-debted to him. And everyone who thought of him, thought next, ‘I really must do something nice for Doc,’” said Steinbeck.

Salinas is approximately a half-hour’s drive from Carmel through roll-ing countryside with a backdrop of the

Gabilan Mountains. As you approach Salinas, there are cultivated fields on ei-ther side of the highway as far as the eye can see. It is a rich tapestry of America’s produce, possible only by irrigation.

“The Salinas Valley ... is a long nar-row swale between two ranges of moun-tains and the Salinas River twists up the center until it falls at last into Monterey Bay,” wrote Steinbeck. “East of Eden” is a portrait of these fields, Steinbeck’s hometown and the people of ”The Long Valley.”

After one of the best breakfasts I’ve ever had, at First Awakenings restau-rant, we savored a leisurely tour of the National Steinbeck Center, appropriate-ly housed in a landmark building at One Main Street. Looking from it, down the center of historic Oldtown Salinas, you can visualize a streetscape that was fa-miliar to Steinbeck in his youth.

I concentrated on exploring the John Steinbeck Exhibition Hall rather than rationing my time between that and the Center’s other wings, Valley of the World Agricultural Wing and the Gabilan Gallery of art. I was so ab-sorbed in the former that I even had to browse quickly through the last part of Steinbeck’s “Adventures on Land and Sea Gallery” and “Steinbeck’s America Gallery — 1960s.”

The Exhibition Hall is a journey through Steinbeck’s life and works through “six themed galleries of arti-facts, photographs, movie clips, stage sets, and interactive exhibits” (Visitor’s Guide). For instance, in the Harness Room exhibit that relates to “The Red Pony,” children can “help” the young protagonist groom his pony’s coat. A young visitor can mount onto the sad-dle on a full-scale replica of the pony, Gabilan.

I think I enjoyed best the “Cannery Row Gallery’s” exhibit of a packing shed, Lee Chong’s grocery, the Bear Flag Restaurant, Doc’s Lab, and the Malloy’s boiler pipe home. The “Grapes of Wrath Gallery” brought back my memories of the Great Depression with its replicas of a Hooverville-type of cab-in that used to house migrant workers. You can view clips of the film, “The Grapes of Wrath.”

Another wondrous exhibit contained a carved wooden box that Steinbeck had made, with “East of Eden” and the Hebrew characters that spelled “Timshel” (“Thou Mayest”) carved on the lid. When it was opened, it contained the manuscript of “East of Eden” that Steinbeck had first sent to his editor.

After I left the Center, I resolved not only to set up an exhibit of Steinbeck’s works in the library of the retirement community where I live, but also to read all of his books I’ve missed. As the author himself said, “I guess there are never enough books.”

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Chili OutBy Sheilah Kaufman

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UnCLe D’s CHiLiIn Spike’s Mendelsohn’s new book,

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32 ounces ground beef2 tablespoons canola oil1 cup diced red onion1 green bell pepper, seeded and diced1 16-ounce can kidney beans,

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In a large skillet over medium heat, cook the beef, stirring and breaking it up until browned. Drain off the fat.

Heat the oil in another large skillet over medium-low heat. Add the onion and green pepper and cook, stirring, until softened and the onion is translu-cent, about 10 minutes. Add the beans, cumin, paprika, chili powder and black pepper. Increase the heat to medium and cook, stirring, until the mixture is fragrant, about 4 minutes.

Add the browned beef and continue cooking and stirring until well mixed. Add the tomato sauce and 1 cup water, reduce the heat to medium-low, and cook, stirring occasionally, until the mixture thickens, about 1 hour.

While beef is cooking, prepare the chipotle bbq sauce: Purée the chipot-les in a food processor or blender until smooth. Add the barbecue sauce, ketch-up, vinegar and molasses. Puree until smooth. Strain the mixture through a f ine-mesh strainer to remove the seeds. You should have about 3 cups, 1 is for this recipe. Cover and refrigerate re-maining 2 cups of the sauce and use as a barbecue sauce.

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By Mike Cuthbert

“The Twilight saga: eclipse” (PG-13) HH

I still don’t like vam-pire movies. Call me contrarian and I know that what the critics say will not touch these pic-tures, but that does not remove from us the responsibility for commenting on their weaknesses.

Start with the actors: Robert Pattison still mumbles, poses and slinks his way through these films; Taylor Lautner still has little more than his abs to deal with in terms of talent; and Kristen Stewart’s lines never reach her eyes. She looks eternally vapid, a worthy and willing target of the vampires who are trying to recruit her or, in the case of Edward (Pattison), trying to save her from a fate worse than death as a fellow vampire.

There is another problem with this film: The producers don’t seem to care about getting a new audience or are re-lying on DVD sales to let potential new viewers find out what the basic story line is in parts one and two. The first 30 minutes of “Eclipse” must be total gob-bledygook to the uninitiated.

In fact, it is an apparent assumption that no exposition at all is needed to en-joy this film, thus violating the primary rule of sequels: make sure the film stands on its own. This one simply does not.

Yes, there are touches of humor, sort of. Edward asks, wryly, of the bare-chested Jacob (Lautner): “Doesn’t he own a shirt?” And the only really clever line of the film, in which the high-tem-perature werewolf Lautner is stripping down to warm up a chilly Bella and says to Edward, the cold-blooded vampire, “After all, I am hotter than you.” In this series, that remark passes for profundity.

If you’re not careful, you forget that Bella is being asked to make a choice between dying as a “human” if she be-comes a vampire and becoming a were-wolf ’s bride. Some choice!

This stuff will rake in the dough be-cause there are readers of vampire litera-ture and the films are by now a franchise. But I still have the right and obligation to say that it is a lousy film.

“Predators” (R) HHThe actors in this film literally fall

from the heavens to take part in it. That is part of the plot to make them, all “predators” of one sort or another on earth, targets of superior predators on some unnamed planet. As soon as you realize this is an interplanetary explo-sion of violence with lots of gooey stuff oozing out of open wounds, lots of sort of maggots, exploding limbs and im-probably destructive fights that go on for a long time, you can relax because you know there is only one story line: Can the humans find a way to elimi-

nate the super-villains before they are all wiped out?

Some strange things happen here: Royce (Adrian Brody) tells the human predators they can survive only if they don’t run. A scene later they run like crazy. Noland (Laurence Fishburne) brags about being a survivor for 10 years and in the next scene gets blown away.

But like I said, once you realize what this is, no attention to plot is necessary. The director and writers didn’t pay much attention, so why should you?

“Despicable Me” (PG) HHHHThis film takes some time to adapt to.

Its atmosphere is strange, the cartooning old-fashioned in terms of exaggerated shapes and movement, and the premise a bit foggy. Once you get settled in and realize that this is the Scrooge story in terms of redemption of an old, crabby guy, and once you yield to the robots, you’re in good hands.

Gru (voiced extraordinarily by Steve Carell) is an arch-villain who finds him-self outdone by somebody who steals the Giza Pyramid. Gru wants to steal the moon to expand his reputation. In order to do that, he has to shrink it so he seeks funding for a Shrink Machine. That funding is to come from a bank for villains run by the father of Gru’s great-est competitor and the guy who stole the pyramid, Vector, (voiced by Jason Segel). Because only three orphans are

able to penetrate Vector’s lair to get the Shrinking Machine he steals from Gru, Gru “adopts” the three from Miss Hattie’s Home for Girls.

Take your pick: Either the robots or the trio of Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (Dana Geier) and Agnes (Elsie Fisher) steal the movie as well as the heart of Gru. The film is filled with fantastic machines and events, includ-ing the shrinking of the moon and a conscience-stirring missed ballet re-cital, even though Gru gave a “pinkie promise” to make it. (Some things never change.)

I didn’t understand a word of the ro-bots’ dialogue and will have to figure out the difference between the one-eyed ones and the two-eyed ones, but every appearance of them makes you chuckle if not giggle out loud. Certainly the kids in the audience related to them; the laughter that greeted their every ap-pearance was ample evidence of youth-ful audience appeal.

Many of the recent animated features have appealed to both adults and chil-dren. This one is more targeted at the younger set. Their world is still magi-cal enough for them to spend less time figuring out what’s going on and more time simply enjoying it.

Find more of Mike’s movie reviews on our website at www.towncourier.com.

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D uring a C h r i s t m a s s h o p p i n g

trip to a mega-book-seller in 2003, I noticed a display promoting the newly published “1,000 Places To See Before You Die: A Traveler’s Life List” by Patricia Schultz. It brought to mind an old Life magazine story I loved as a kid about a man who, as a 14-year-old, listed the things he wanted to do during his lifetime and then methodically checked them off over the years. His list included things like “become a doctor” and “be a father,” but also “see Victoria Falls” and “climb Mt. Kilimanjaro.”

The notion of taking an ac-tive role in planning life expe-riences appeals to me now as much as it did then, so I bought myself a Christmas present.

When I brought the chunky book home, I checked to see which local places were in-cluded. Schultz men-tions only two spots in Maryland — the Chesapeake Bay communities of St. Michael’s, Easton and Oxford and Obrycki’s, the family-run crab lovers’ restaurant in Baltimore. Her choice

of that atmospheric eatery in the residential section of Fells Point convinced me that she knew what she was talking about, and I was hooked.

At times, I can spend hours looking through its pages to see whether she includes some of the places I have loved over the years. I was pleased to see Route 66 through New Mexico, the Adirondacks town of Lake Placid, and California’s Monterey Peninsula to name a

few. Internationally she agreed with me about spots like the coastal town of Biarritz in France, the Canadian Rockies and the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland.

But I was surprised not to

see a blurb about Portland, Maine, and the charm-ing coastal towns east of it or more mention of the quirky, laid-back towns of Florida’s west coast.

The book comes in handy when I’m thinking about trips to new des-t i n a t i o n s , with Eastern Europe top-ping my current list. S c h u l t z ’ s d e s c r i p -tions are

so wonder-fully detailed. She has intro-duced me to many spots I’d like to include some day, like the spa town of Carlsbad in the Czech Republic about which Goethe said, “I feel as if I’m in some paradise of inno-cence and spontaneity.” When in Budapest, I’d love to have

a meal in the elegant Gundel restaurant or in its popular but more cozy sister restaurant next door, The Owl’s Castle.

This book certainly brings out the adventurer in me, so just for fun, I closed my eyes, opened the book randomly and pointed. Now I need to warn my husband that one January day (the suggested visiting month), I might pack up my bag and head out for Tromso, Norway, 1,084 miles north of Oslo, to watch the northern lights. Sounds good to me.

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Summer a Sizzler for Jr. Hawks in State Tourneys

By Patsy Beckman

A fter winning in Rockville, the 9-U team tried its hand at

the Maryland State Tournament in Lusby, Md., competing against 19 teams.

The Jr. Hawks suffered a dev-astating 13-12 first-round defeat against the Severna Park Green Hornets in the game’s bottom of the sixth inning, but from there the team went onto win its next four games pretty convincingly. The 10-run mercy rule went into effect in favor of the Hawks after just four innings of play in these games.

The team then played a rematch game against the Green Hornets in final-four action, winning the contest 11-6. However, in the “Loser-Bracket Championship” matchup, the Hawks’ bats were finally silenced by the Hickory Hornets 12-3.

The gritty Hawks finished the Tournament in third place, end-ing a successful 2010 campaign on the playing field. Over the last two seasons, this team has com-piled a 32-11-1 record.

Jr. Hawks Win Greater Washington July 4th TournamentBy Patsy Beckman

M embers of the Urbana Jr. Hawks’ 9-year-old division creat-

ed their own holiday fireworks this year with an 8-6 win in the championship game of the 2010 Rockville Greater Washington 4th of July Tournament.

These Jr. Hawks took home the first-place title after defeat-ing the Germantown Athletic Club at Dogwood Park. The Hawks — undefeated in all of their matchups — finished the tournament with five wins and no losses.

“I couldn’t be more proud of these kids,” said Mike Gilligan, head coach of the Hawks’ 9U Division. “They just started playing together as a team in ear-ly June.”

Several dominating pitching performances, two over-the-fence homeruns and a powerful

offensive display that garnered 69 runs in five games are what really helped lead the Hawks to the title.

However, capturing the tour-nament crown was anything but a walk in the park for the Hawks. After winning only one game in each of its first two June tour-naments, the Hawks somehow found a way to put together five-straight victories to hoist the championship trophy in what many observers are calling “dra-matic fashion.”

In the opening game of the July 4th tournament, the Hawks were down 13-0 in the top of the first inning against the Rockville Rockets.

“These kids never gave up,” said Gilligan. “And they fought all the way back to win that first game by a score of 19-14.”

In the semifinals, the Hawks were trailing the Arlington Rebels in the bottom of the sixth

inning before overcoming a one-run deficit to win the game 6-5.

The team closed out its championship run with anoth-er strong performance — this time coming against a very good Germantown squad.

This year’s team members included: Sam Downs; Brian Gardner; Max Steele; Wyatt McKoy; Ryan Hayden; Paul Papillo; Ryan Pleasants; Josh Taylor; Cole Galloway; Cole Jiron; Sean Berry; James Koogle; Carson Cooley; Ben Trogolo; Jake Wills; and Brendan, Ryan and Patrick Gilligan.

“What I’m most proud of is that every single boy on this team contributed in some way over this tournament. They all hit the ball, and they all played numerous innings in the infield. It was a great way to end the sea-son,” said Gilligan.

Along with Gilligan, the Hawks were coached by Mike

Hayden, Tim Taylor and Dave Trogolo.

The 11U Jr. Hawks made it all the way to the tournament’s championship game before exit-

ing in defeat, and the 10U team won its final game of the tourna-ment in a romp over Rockville 17-0.

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8-U Jr. Hawks Finish Third in stateThe 8-U Jr. Hawks’ A Team Finished Third in its State Tournament. Undaunted by the task of facing 33 other area ball clubs entered in the Cal Ripken Maryland State Tournament, the 8-U Jr. Hawks captured the third place trophy. “The Hawks played hard, and had a lot of fun competing with all the other teams in the state of Maryland,” said Head Coach Shawn Meade. The 8-U A team (shown here) finished its travel season at 18-8. The 8-U Jr. Hawks’ B team finished with a record of 3-1 in the Cal Ripken State Tournament in Elkridge, overcoming an eight-run deficit in its final game for a 23-20 victory; these Urbana Hawks averaged 19 runs per game.

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Top row: Bob Wills, Mike Gilligan, Mike Hayden, Mark Orens and Pete Beach coached the 9-U Jr. Hawks to a third place finish in the Maryland state Tournament. Middle row: Ryan Hayden, Brian Gardner, sam Downs, sean Barry, Patrick and Brendan Gilligan.


11-U Jr. Hawks Score Runs, FriendsBy Patsy Beckman

T he 11-U Jr. Hawks played in the Under Armour Instinct Fast Tournament in Aberdeen, Md.,

this summer against teams from all over the country. One team was even entered from Mexico, and it was players from this team who made the biggest impression on the Jr. Hawks.

“The highlight of the Tournament was playing the Mexico team, Lobos, on Cal Sr. Yard, which is a replica of Camden Yards,” said Jr. Hawks’ vice president, Tim Mellott.

Urbana went on to win that game 11-7.“The Hawks and the Lobos’ players be-

came good friends, played soccer in the eve-ning, as well as rooted for each other in the other games,” said Mellott. “The Hawk

players now have many new friends from Mexico City.”

The tournament took place during the World Cup frenzy, so the players put away their bats in favor of soccer balls, challenging the kids from Mexico to a friendly match on the baseball diamond. They even taught each other their respective languages.

“I believe none of our players ever met or competed against someone from another country. It was a big deal,” said Mellott.

The Hawks also beat teams from Ohio and New Jersey when baseball play resumed.

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For those with a desire for more ten-nis, VOU and Wakely will host The Urbana Open, beginning on August 6 and running through August 9. Singles and doubles’ matches will be open to both women and men.

“If you want to play tennis and learn how to play better, it is a great oppor-

tunity,” Wakely said.Also throughout the summer,

Wakely has been hosting tennis socials at the VOU courts for entire families, complete with tennis, music and food.

There are also camps for kids be-tween the ages of 4 – 12 and clinics being held for both juniors and adults with Wakely at the helm.

To learn more about VOU ten-nis action or to sign up for this month’s Urbana Open, call Wakely at: 678.849.3550 or e-mail him at: [email protected].

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