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HOPE IS AGOOD THINGA former businesswoman,touched by cancer, joinsBethesda nonprofit.
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n Organized thieves may poseas utility employees
BY DANIEL LEADERMANSTAFF WRITER
County police are warning Bethesda residentsabout a string of organized, daytime burglaries, someof which have involved perpetrators posing as em-ployees of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Com-mission.
The incidents may be the work of so-called “tran-sient criminals,” who tend to come to the area fromout of state, stay in motels for a few weeks while theycommit a series of crimes, then head back to wherethey came from, Capt. David Falcinelli, commanderof county police’s Second District, which includesBethesda, wrote in a letter to residents this week.
The criminals tend to use women as lookouts,coordinate using walkie-talkies and will in some waymark thehomes that shouldbebroken into laterwhenthe owners are gone. If confronted, the burglars oftenpretend they’re looking for someone who used to liveat that address and apologize, Falcinelli wrote.
The thieves may also wear WSSC uniforms as apretense to lure the homeowners to their basements,after which an “entry team” will search upstairs forjewelry and silverware. Another ruse involves twowomen who approach a home and ask to use thephone; while one is making a call, the other will takethings while the owner is distracted, Falcinelli wrote.
Residents should be on the lookout for suspiciouscars parked in their neighborhoods — particularlythose with license plates from Ohio, Pennsylvania andNorth Carolina — and should try to write down the tagnumber and descriptions of the occupants and callpolice, Falcinelli wrote.
More thanadozen incidentswere reported inSep-tember and October, according to police.
The burglary at Carol Berkley’s home on WhittierBoulevard Oct. 17 is typical of the pattern police haveseen. The back door was pried open in the middleof the day, and her silver and other valuables fromaround the house were stolen. Several drawers hadbeen overturned and emptied and a cabinet had been
Police warnof burglariesin Bethesda
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Riya Vijayan, 4, a student at Bethesda Country Day School, places canned food in a box to be donated to Manna FoodCenter on Friday. Behind her is Matthew Moran, 4. The school’s students collected more than 1,000 cans of food thismonth.
The season for giving
n Santa already holdingcourt at Bethesda mall
BY ELIZABETH WAIBELSTAFF WRITER
For some people this year, the madshopping rush of Black Friday begins,as it did last year, on Thanksgiving.
For some, it starts even earlier. Infact, Santa has been at Westfield Mont-gomery mall in Bethesda for more thana week, since Nov. 14, probably beforethe Thanksgiving turkeys came out ofthe freezer to thaw.
Patti Green, senior director ofmarketing for the mall, said WestfieldMontgomerywill beopenThanksgivingfrom 8 p.m. until midnight, althoughSears will open earlier, at 6 p.m.
“A lot of the shoppers just have en-thusiasm about getting the [shopping]started early,” she said. “... We are reallyjust responding to what the retailers aredoing.”
On Black Friday, the mall will beopen 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., but some ofthe anchor stores are open all night.Green said Thanksgiving is typicallyone of the most-shopped holidays. Thisyear, Maryland retailers are expectingholiday sales to see a 3 percent to 3.5percent increase from last year, TheGazette reported.
Retailers and mall owners also arelooking to new stores and events tobring in customers. Pike & Rose, a newdevelopment in the White Flint area ofNorth Bethesda, has several new stores,including Gap, Francesca’s and the iPicmovie theater.
Westfield Montgomery’s neweststore is a Microsoft store that openedSaturday and started offering Black Fri-day deals Monday.
Retailersrampingit up forBlack Friday
n Pilot program in Bethesda will testfeasibility of permanent program
BY ELIZABETH WAIBEL
STAFF WRITER
Cyclists and runners who use the Capi-tal Crescent Trail year-round may be ableto leave their snow tires and spikes at homethis winter.
Parks Department staff are going toclear snow from the trail this winter — amove that trail advocates have been re-questing for years.
Thecounty is launchingapilot programto remove snow from the portion of the trailfrom Bethesda Avenue to the Washington,D.C., line. Snowplows will start clearing thisroughly 3.5-mile paved segment of the trailwithin 24 hours of when snow starts falling,according to the department.
Duetoenvironmentalconcerns, the trailwill not be salted or pretreated to help meltsnow and ice, according to the Department
of Parks, so slick spots may still develop.The success of the pilot program will
help determine whether the departmentcontinues to clear snow from the trail infuture winters. More information about
the snow removal program is at montgom-eryparks.org/weather/trail_snow_program.shtm.
The Coalition for the Capital CrescentTrail, an advocacy group, has asked for thetrail to be plowed for years, The Gazettereported in 2010. Last winter, CouncilmanRogerBerliner (D-Dist. 1) ofBethesdaaskedthe county’s parks and transportation de-partments to look into removing snow onthe trail.
The pilot program also includes auto-mated counters to provide updated num-bers on how many people use the trail. Themost recent count of trail users was in 2007;it found that about 500 people use the trailnear downtown Bethesda during the busi-est times, according to the Department ofParks.
Besides seeingplentyof recreationalus-ers, the trail is apopularbicyclingcommuterroute linking Bethesda and Georgetown.
Plows to clear snow fromCapital Crescent Trail
2014 FILE PHOTO
A runner negotiates snow and ice in Februaryat the Dalecarlia Tunnel on the Capital CrescentTrail in Bethesda.
n Planners say they tryto balance interestswith building heights
BY ELIZABETH WAIBEL
STAFF WRITER
A bigger Westbard may notbe a better Westbard, accordingto many people who showedup at a public meeting Tuesdayto help shape the future of theBethesda neighborhood.
Planners presented a con-cept for the neighborhood thatthey will now revise and expandupon before taking land-useand zoning proposals to thecounty Planning Board. Thecurrent concept shows that the
number of residential units inthe area could almost triple —adding 1,685 to 1,927 units tothe 1,104 already there.
Without any changes to thecurrent zoning, 554 to 971 moreunits could be built.
Some neighbors who spokeat the meeting questioned whyWestbardneeded to change thatmuch. The audience of about200 people audibly reactedagainst renderings of buildingsclose to the roadalongWestbardAvenue, next to the 15-storyWestwood Tower.
The Westbard area isroughlyborderedbyRiverRoad,Massachusetts Avenue and Lit-tle Falls Parkway.
Neighbors: Do notoverdevelopWestbard
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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 26Alzheimer’s and Dementia Support
Group, 6-7 p.m., Brightview Fallsgrove,9200Darnestown Road, Rockville. Discussproblems and solutions, andmeet withothers walking a similar path. Free, RSVPrequested. 240-314-7194.
FRIDAY, NOV. 28Garden Train Event, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.,
Brookside Gardens, 1800 Glenallan Ave.,Wheaton. Exhibit by theWashington Vir-giniaMarylandGarden Railway Society.Free. 301-384-5083.
History of H.S. Movie Night, 10 p.m.-midnight, Sandy SpringMuseum, 17901Bentley Road, Sandy Spring. Screening“Friday Night Lights.” [email protected].
SATURDAY, NOV. 29Boy Scout Troop 945 Christmas
Tree Sale, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Plantations IIPool Parking Lot, Rolling Fork Drive andRolling ForkWay, Gaithersburg. Everyweekend throughDec. 21. A selection ofDouglas and Fraser trees; 100 percentof profit goes to Boy Scouts. Free deliv-ery within Plantations II [email protected].
Brightview Fallsgrove 2nd Annual Holi-day Bazaar, 1-4:30 p.m., Brightview Falls-grove Assisted Living, 9200DarnestownRoad, Rockville. Vendors will be sellingjewelry, holiday decor andmore. Resi-dents of Brightview Fallsgrove AssistedLiving will be sellingmany homemadeitems to benefit the Alzheimer’s Associa-tion. Free. 240-314-7194.
A Christmas Carol, 1:30 p.m., F. ScottFitzgerald Theatre, 603 EdmunstonDrive,Rockville. Hope Garden Children’s BalletTheatre presents this original ballet basedon the holiday classic by Charles Dickens,with choreography by artistic directorFran Ichijo and featuring guest artistsfromBowenMcCauley Dance, The KirovAcademy of Ballet and SkyviewGymnas-tics. $19-$22. 301-466-1906.
Suitland String Youth Ensemble, 7-8p.m.,WashingtonD.C. Temple Visitors’Center, 9900 StoneybrookDrive, Kensing-ton. A group of young violinists and cellistsfrom theWashington,D.C., areawill pres-ent a concert of Christmas ensemblemu-sic. Free. [email protected].
SUNDAY, NOV. 30ARTsy Holiday Boutique and Craft
Show, 9:30 a.m.-7 p.m., Jewish Com-munity Center of GreaterWashington,
6125Montrose Road, Rockville; receptionalso from 2-4 p.m. Lasts throughDec. 23.Jewelry, glass, ceramics, Judaica, clothes,furniture andmore. Free admission. [email protected].
MONDAY, DEC. 1Holiday Gift Drive Begins, 10 a.m.-4
p.m.,Montgomery County Coalition fortheHomeless, 600-B E. GudeDrive, Rock-ville. Runs throughDec. 11. Donations tobrighten the holidays for homeless andformerly homeless clients in the commu-nity. 301-917-6660.
Suicide Grief Support Group, 5 p.m.,Jewish Social Service Agency, 6123Mon-trose Road, Rockville. A bereavementsupport group for those who have lost aloved one to suicide. Free; pre-registrationrequired. 301-816-2708.
Community Dinner, 6-8 p.m., GoodHopeUnionUnitedMethodist Church,14680GoodHopeRoad, Silver Spring. Adinner for anyone interested in a goodmealwith beneficial information and fel-lowship from sponsors. Free. 301-879-8100.
Solving Sibling Problems: How toGuide Your Kids from Fighting to Friend-ship, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Parent Encourage-ment Program, 10100 Connecticut Ave.,Kensington. For parents of children 4-12.$33; registration required. 301-929-8824.
TUESDAY, DEC. 2Women Business Owners of Montgom-
ery County, 8:15-9:30 a.m., Silver Diner,12276 Rockville Pike, Rockville. A breakfastnetworking event. Free formembers, $5for guests; everyone pays for what theyorder. RSVP requested. [email protected].
The Basics: Memory Loss, Dementiaand Alzheimer’s Disease, 1:30-2:30 p.m.,Holy Cross Senior Source, 8580 2nd Ave.,Silver Spring. For anyonewhowould liketo knowmore about Alzheimer’s diseaseand related dementias. Free. 800-272-3900.
Note From Home Drive, 6-8 p.m.,Branded ’72, 387 E. Gude Drive, Rockville.Help Operation Interdependence, a non-profit, send thank you notes to troops.Coloring pages will be available for chil-dren to color. [email protected].
Learn How Acupuncture Works, 7-9p.m., The Gilbert Clinic, 7315WisconsinAve., Suite 760E, Bethesda. Learnwhatacupuncture is, how it works andwhatstudies show about safety and effective-ness, especially for pain from illness orinjury. Free, RSVP requested. [email protected].
Emancipation Proclamation: 150
Years Later, 7-9 p.m., Olney Library, 3500Olney-Laytonsville Road, Olney. Join sixdynamic area residents for their personalstories and insights on the 150th anniver-sary of theMaryland Emancipation Proc-lamation. 240-773-9545.
Greater Olney Toastmasters Meeting,7:30 p.m.,MedstarMontgomeryMedicalCenter, 18101 Prince Philip Drive, Olney,every first and third Tuesday. Improvepresentation and speechwriting skillswhile growing leadership skills. Free forfirst-time guests. [email protected].
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3Senior Connection Volunteer Open
House, 9:30-11 a.m., Holiday Park SeniorCenter, 3950 Ferrara Drive, Silver Spring,also 7-8:30 p.m. Dec. 17. Available ser-vice opportunities include driving senioradults tomedical appointments, assistingwith grocery shopping andmoneyman-agement. Free. 301-942-1049.
The Truth about Consequences: Disci-pline without Punishment, 9:45-11:45 a.m.,Parent Encouragement Program, 10100Connecticut Ave., Kensington. Sponsoredby the Parent Encouragement Program.For parents of children 4-14. $33, registra-tion required. 301-929-8824.
Electoral Reform: Registration, Sup-pression and the New Jim Crow?, noon-1p.m., Sandy SpringMuseum, 17901 Bent-ley Road, Sandy Spring. A discussion ofelectoral reform, voter suppression, theNew JimCrow and the outcomes of theNovember elections. Free formuseummembers, $5 for non-members. 301-774-0022.
Orientation to Maryland Women’sBusiness Center and Small BusinessResources, 4-5 p.m., 51Monroe St., Rock-ville. Meet the staff to learn about theresources in the community to help startand grow a business. Free. 301-315-8091.
Christmas Tree Lighting, 6-7 p.m., Vil-lage Center, 19100Montgomery VillageAve., Montgomery Village. Join Santa, theMontgomery Village Community Bandand theWatkinsMill High School Chorusfor festivemusic and complimentary hotchocolate and treats. Free. www.mont-gomeryvillage.com.
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1-1:45 p.m. Nov. 29.Music fromTchaikovsky’s famous ballet withmarionettes and costume charac-ters. $10. [email protected].
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Filmmaker returns toBethesda for shoot
Russell E. Yaffe, a graduate ofWalter Johnson High School whois now a New York City filmmaker,returned to Bethesda this month toshoot “MyBrother Is a Zombie.”
Locations included Wyngate El-ementary School, theYMCAAyrlawnProgram Center, Brookville Marketand a home in the Maplewood-AltaVista area.
When living in Bethesda, Yaffealso tookfilmmakingclassesat Imag-ination Stage in town. For 15 years,he has run CDBC, a nonprofit sum-mer basketball clinic in Bethesda.
“My Brother Is A Zombie” tellsthe story of Abigail, an 11-year-oldtomboy whose younger brother,Norman, is the most annoyingbrother in theworld.He’salsoazom-bie, according to a news release. Thefilmexploreswhat happenswhen anolder siblingmust care for a youngersibling with his own set of specialneeds.
The film is now in post produc-tion. Producers are raising moneythrough a crowdfunding website, in-diegogo.com/projects/my-brother-is-a-zombie.
Students to raise moneyfor leukemia society
The Leukemia and LymphomaSociety, National Capital Area Chap-ter recentlyannounced themembersof its 2015 Student of the Year fund-raising competition.
Twelve students from Mont-gomery County or attending countyschools aremembers of the 15 teamsdedicated to raising money to sup-port blood cancer research.
They are Jessica Bosch andGabby Corral, Connelly School ofthe Holy Child in Potomac; EdenGray, Walt Whitman High Schoolin Bethesda; Lexi Catalano, StoneRidge School of the Sacred Heart inBethesda;MadisonKirchgessnerandGraceMcGill, Georgetown VisitationPreparatory School in Washington;Jack Laubach, Georgetown Prepara-tory High School in North Bethesda;Emily Moore, Julia Sheehan andClare Toner, Academy of the HolyCross in Kensington; Patrick Paolini,Quince Orchard High School inGaithersburg; and Patrick Sheehan,Gonzaga College High School inWashington.
Students will begin their fund-raising in January andhave sixweeksto collect the most money and benamed Student of the Year. Thewin-ner will be announced at a gala Feb.25.
More information is at bit.ly/SOYinfo or call 703-399-2963.
n Former businesswomanfrom Rockville helps mission of
Bethesda cancer nonprofit
BY PEGGYMCEWAN
STAFFWRITER
Hope Connections was there whenshe needed it and now Carole Kopit ishelpingothers learnabout theBethesdanonprofit that exists to support cancerpatients and their caregivers.
In fall 2011, Kopit’s husband of 47years, who had worked in education,was diagnosed with stage-four lungcancer. The diagnosis turned her lifearound — and so has her experiencewith the nonprofit.
“It was my first time as a full-timecaregiver, in spite of raising two daugh-ters,” said Kopit, of Rockville. “We hadto finddoctors, learn about treatments,schedule appointments.”
And she also had to face the realitythat the diagnosis was terminal.
“The shock of getting that initial di-agnosis is very isolating,” she said.
Someone told her about HopeConnections for Cancer Support, aBethesda nonprofit that helps patients
and their families deal with the emo-tional and physical aftermath of a can-cer diagnosis. So she signed up for theHope Connections email and joined aweekly caregiver group.
“I am a big proponent of supportgroups,” she said. “The experience ofsharing takes away the isolation.”
During the 15 months Kopit caredfor her husband, Hope Connectionswas a source of strength for her. Shestayed on the weekly email list, readingabout a group she had come to love.
Early this year she read that thegroup was looking for an outreach co-ordinator and thought, “That would bea good position forme,” she said.
Kopit had worked in sales for 38years and decided that experiencewould enable her to help Hope Con-nections.
“Our mission is to see that no onefaces a cancer diagnosis alone,” shesaid. “The challenge is to make surepeople know about us.”
Paula Rothenberg, president andCEO of Hope Connections, said havingKopit working with the organization isexactlywhat it needs toget thewordoutabout the free programs it offers.
“She’s amazing,” Rothenberg said.“Carole has a passion for what we do.She’s lived it. She taken part in our pro-grams.”
Kopit said she doesn’t try to sellpeople on Hope Connections — shejust wants them to know it is there.
Sooner or later, she said, a personwith cancer or a relative endsupat theirworkplace’s human resource depart-ment to talk about insurance coverage.
So the main part of her job is visit-ing area human resource offices andjust telling them about Hope Connec-tions, what it offers, where it is and thatall programs are free.
If she can, she said, she leavesHopeConnections brochures for employersto share with their workers.
“If no one knows about us we can’tdo our job,” Kopit said.
Working for Hope Connections hasbeen the single best experience of herlife.
“I’ve been is sales and marketingmost of my life, I’ve closed some bigdeals, but I never got a hug at the endofadeal,” she said. “[Here] I get the thank-yous and often a hug.”
‘I never got a hug at the end of a deal’
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“If no one knows about us we can’t do ourjob,” says Carole Kopit of Rockville, newoutreach coordinator for Hope Connectionsfor Cancer Support in Bethesda.
n Coffeehouse a fundraiserfor Kensington school’s
literary magazine
BY PEGGYMCEWAN
STAFFWRITER
It was a traditional coffeehouse inmany ways, with coffee to drink, anoverflowof students sitting on the flooranddim lighting. But instead of bongosand berets, a prevalent accoutrementwas the smartphone, which many ofthe performers used for prompts tohelp them remember their poetry.
For the second time this semester,students at Albert EinsteinHigh Schoolin Kensington filled the school’s LittleTheater at lunchtime Friday to heartheir peers perform.ThemonthlyOpenMic Coffeehouse is sponsored by thestaff of the school’s literary magazine,Relativity, to help raise funds to publishthe annualmagazine.
It is also away to promote themag-azine and showcase the school’s cre-ative talent, said Joanna Pappafotis, anEnglish teacher and one of Relativity’ssponsors, in an email.
The theater, which accommodatesabout 100 students,was full as the lightsdimmed and students, who had signedup in advance, prepared to take theirplace on the stage.
“This is a big deal for me,” saidSarah Pruski, a 15-year-old sopho-
more, as she prepared to perform apoem she wrote. “I usually don’t likegoing to huge social things but there’ssomething about performing and be-ing around all these artistic folks [that]is supporting.”
Amal Haddad, 14, a freshman whojust joined the staff of the literarymaga-zine, performed a slam poem, “RiggedGame” by Dylan Garity. She was the
first to use her phone to help her re-member thewords. But shewasnot thelast.
Amal said she signed up to performat the October Open Mic but the per-formers ran out of time. This month,she was one of the first to go.
Last month, she said, many stu-dents recited poetry, as didmost of thismonth’s presenters, but there were a
couple of piano performances and onesurprise performance.
“One guy got up and started talkingabout the history of Ethiopia,” she said.“It was nice.”
Admission to the coffeehouse isfree, limited only by the number of stu-dents who can fit in the room.
“[Last month] we had to close thedoors and turn over 50 students awaydue to the size of the room,” Pappafotiswrote. “We don’t want to [move it] tothe auditorium because we would losethe intimate coffeehouse feel.”
The group makes money by sellingdoughnuts and cookies — coffee andwater are free — which are donated bythe school’s alumni association.
Lastmonth everythingwas free andthe students just asked for donations,said Jillian McGuffey, a 17-year-old se-nior who is in charge of fundraising forthe literarymagazine.
But only about $16 was raised, sothe students decided to charge for thesnacks this time.
If the event was financially iffy, itsoverall success was not. Students per-formed up through the last bell signal-ing the end of lunch.
“I think it’s amazing, an incredibleidea,” said Sarah Singh, 16, a junior.“Einstein is a performing arts school— this gives [students] an outlet andexperience.”
Einstein’s poets put it out there during open mic
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Senior Wilber Medina performs an original rap piece during Friday’s OpenMic coffeehouseat Einstein High School in Kensington. Sponsors and staff of the school’s literary magazinebegan the monthly coffeehouse to raise money for the magazine.
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n Local organizations findways to give back
BY SAMANTHA SCHMIEDERSTAFFWRITER
The Bethesda-Chevy ChaseRotary Club has given the Ger-mantown nonprofit Hope forLives in Sierra Leone a $3,000grant to help its efforts fightingthe Ebola virus in Sierra Leone.
Thomas “Bobby” SmithfoundedHope for Lives in SierraLeone after visiting his homecountry three years ago and re-alizing he could help to improvethe lives of its citizens. Thisyear, with the recent outbreakof Ebola in the country, Smithhas been focusing his efforts onsending necessary medical sup-plies.
“Hope for Lives Sierra Leone
submittedagrant specifically formedical supplies and gloves forthe nurses and doctors who areworking with the Ebola patientsin Sierra Leone,” said GeorgeNash,presidentof theBethesda-Chevy Chase Rotary Club.
The club previously gaveHope for Lives a grant to builda library at a secondary schoolin Sierra Leone. Nash said theorganization’s success with thatproject helped show it was wor-thy of another grant, especiallywith the current state of SierraLeone.
“We as a foundation recog-nize the urgent need to assist inthe Ebola crisis,” Nash said.
To receive a grant from theBethesda-Chevy Chase RotaryClub, organizations must ap-ply and provide a detailed planof what they will do with the
money.“Normally we like to have
Rotarians in our club or in oth-ers around theworld to sponsor,basically vouch for, [the groupreceiving the grant],” Nash said,explaining that someone fromthe Rotary should know person-ally or professionally the peoplerunning theorganization receiv-ingmoney.
Smith is a member of an ex-perienced shock trauma teamatthe Emergency Shock Traumaunit at Suburban Hospital inBethesda, where Rotary mem-ber Monique Sanfuentes is thedirector of community healthand wellness. Sanfuentes wasable to vouch for Smith’s hardwork.
Nash also felt good about
giving Hope for Lives the grantbecause of Smith’s connectionto Sierra Leone.
“He has people over therethat he can trust andworkwith,”Nash said.
Smith and Hope for Liveshave been sending contain-ers filled with medical suppliessuch as gloves, gowns, masksand disposable stethoscopes toSierra Leone for the past coupleof months. This time around,Smith wants to put the focuson keeping safe the men andwomen treating Ebola patients.
“Instead of sending the con-tainer to the government, wewant to reach out to medicalpersonnel and send it straightto them,” Smith said, addingthat the people getting infectednow are the people treating thepatients and those burying the
dead.Currently,membersofHope
for Lives are going throughtraining with the Centers forDisease Control and PreventioninAtlanta tobecomequalified totravel to Sierra Leone and helptreat patients.
On Nov. 18, Smith made apresentation to theRotary abouthis organization and about theEbola crisis. Nash said it was in-teresting to hear Smith’s side.
“It’s very sad and tragic tohear how widespread the Ebolacrisis is in his homeland. It’stouching to see what he is will-ing to do for his people and puthimself at risk goingback there,”Nash said. “It gave a personalside to the story that we don’treally understand.”
Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rotarians help nonprofit fight Ebola
n Bill would align countypay hike with state’s
KATE S. ALEXANDER
STAFFWRITER
Workers who saw their paygo up Oct. 1 with the new in-crease in Montgomery Coun-
ty’s minimum wage could seetheir next pay increase nextsummer.
Council President Craig L.Rice planned to introduce a billon Tuesday to align the coun-ty’s schedule for increasing itsminimumwagewith the state’s,moving the effective date of thenewwages fromOctober to July
of each year.As passed, Montgomery
County’s new law will gradu-ally increase itsminimumwageevery October through 2017,when it will reach $11.50 perhour.
Maryland’s law, passeddur-ing the 2014 legislative session,raises the statewide minimumwage every July through 2018,when it will reach $10.10 perhour.
Rice’s bill would move theeffective date of future countyminimum wage increases toJuly, three months earlier. Hesaid it’s an effort to make it eas-ier for employers to handle theincreases.
On Oct. 1, the county mini-mum wage increased to $8.40per hour.
At a weekly meeting withthe press on Monday, Ricesaid his intent is to coordinatewith the state, so businesseshave a firmer grasp on whatto do.
Under Rice’s proposal,
Montgomery County stillwould reach a minimum wageof $11.50 per hour by 2017.
On July 1, 2015, under thebill, the wage would increase to$9.55 per hour. On July 1, 2016,the wage would increase to$10.75 per hour.
Matthew Hanson of Work-ing Families and an organizerwith Raise Maryland — themovement to raise thestatewideminimum wage — expressedsupport for the proposal.
“I think this makes senseand obviously we’re supportiveof legislation or fixes that speedup minimum wage increasesfor workers,” he said. “Workerswill obviously appreciate get-ting pay increases sooner ratherthan later.”
No other council membershad cosponsored Rice’s bill asof Monday.
The bill is tentatively sched-uled for a public hearing on Jan.20 at 1:30 p.m.
Rice proposes to shift minimum wage increases
“Hope for Lives Sierra Leone submitted agrant specifically for medical supplies and
gloves for the nurses and doctors whoare working with the Ebola patients.”
George Nash, president of the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rotary Club
n District 14 delegatehonored, excited
to take on new role
BY TERRIHOGANSTAFFWRITER
All that hard work is payingoff, saysDel. AnneR. Kaiser.
The District 14 Democratfrom Calverton was namedHouse majority leader last weekby Speaker Michael E. Busch (D-Dist. 30) of Annapolis.
“Anne Kaiser has workedtirelessly for the House Demo-cratic Caucus and demonstratedleadership capabilities on cruciallegislative priorities,” said Buschin anews release.
Kaiser, 46, who has been adelegate since2003,will continuechairing the House Ways andMeansEducationSubcommittee.
She said she is humbled, andthinks she received the new ap-pointment by “letting her workspeak for itself.”
“I think it’s a combination ofmy ability to be a team player, aleader on important issues andmy willingness to study anddelve deep into complex issues,”she said. “I’m not afraid of hardwork and I really like to dive intothe issues that affect our state’sfundamental quality of life. I’mthankful that Speaker Busch hasgivenmetheopportunity togrowmy influence in our citizen legis-lature.”
As majority leader, Kaisersaid she expects to advocate forcore Democratic issues such ascivil rights, equality, fairness inthe state’s tax structure and greatpublic schools.
Kaiser succeeds Del. KumarBarve (D-Dist. 17) of Gaithers-burg as majority leader. Barvewas named chairman of the En-vironment and TransportationCommittee.
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n Central Committee scheduledto hold election Tuesday
BY KATE S. ALEXANDERSTAFFWRITER
Kevin Walling of Bethesda has re-signed as chairmanof theMontgomeryCounty Democratic Central Commit-tee.
At a closed-door meeting of theCentral CommitteeThursday, the com-mittee acceptedWalling’s resignation.
In an email The Gazette obtained
before the meet-ing, Walling toldmembers of thecommittee that heintended to stepdown as chairman.
“As you canimagine this was adifficult decision tomake, but I believe
it is in the best interests of our localparty,” Walling wrote.
Walling, who was elected as com-mittee chairman in July, did not return
requests for comment.Montgomery County’s Democratic
party is going through a transition andthe committee is working to incorpo-rate its 11 new members and defineits path forward, at-large committeemember Chris Bradbury said Thurs-day.
“We’re focusedonbuilding a stron-ger party, keeping our Democratic val-ues and representing the people thatelected us,” he said. “I think the com-mittee is stronger now than it’s prob-ably ever been. It’s a matter of us all
talking it out.”In his email, Walling said the com-
mittee needs to focus on rebuildingtrust, saying that much of what wasdiscussed in closed meetings has beenshared outside the committee.
“These kinds of conversationshurt our party and we need to get to aplace where we can have frank discus-sions aboutmistakes and how tomoveforward without reading about themin the press or in blogs the next day,”Walling wrote. “It’s clear that this willlikely continue if I stay on as chair of
this committee, which will only hurtour party in the future.”
“Mistakes were made,” Wallingwrote, adding that he accepts full re-sponsibility for them. He did not detailwhat thosemistakes were.
Bradbury said Friday the party willhold an open election for a new chair-man at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
In the interim, Vice Chairman Ar-thur Edmunds (District 14) will serveas acting chairman.
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Red Cross holds blooddrive in Bethesda
The American Red Crossis conducting a holiday blooddrive to ramp up donations ata time when they typically dropoff, as people are busywith holi-day festivities and travel.
Also, winter weather andseasonal illnesses such as the flucan mean fewer donations, ac-cording to a news release.
All donors are needed, espe-cially those with O negative, Anegative and B negative blood,the nonprofit said.
Appointments can bescheduled by downloading theRed Cross blood donor app, atredcrossblood.org or by calling800-733-2767.
In Bethesda, donations maybe made from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.Dec. 3 at Suburban Hospital,8600 Old Georgetown Road.
Group launches literarycontest, visual arts show
The county’s Dr. Martin Lu-ther King, Jr. CommemorativeCommittee is seeking entriesfor its literary arts contest andvisual arts show in observanceof King’s life.
Both contests are open toall elementary, middle and highschool students in the county.The 2015 theme is “Dr. MartinLuther King, Jr.: His Words andIdeas in Our Time.”
Literary contest entriesmust be 150 words or less, andmust be in poetry or essay for-mat. Entries will be judged onunderstanding and apprecia-tion of King’s ideals, clarity andoriginality of expression, andad-herence to the 2015 theme. Thesubmission deadline is Dec. 12.
Participating schools maysubmit up to three entries each.Entries submitted from Gaith-ersburg-area schools will alsobe entered into the city’s annualDr.Martin Luther King, Jr. Liter-ary Arts Contest and awardeeswill receive a certificate from thecity and amonetary award fromTheGazette.
Entries for the visual artsshowcan includeprints,posters,collages, murals, photographsand all other two-dimensionalart. Entries should also portraythe2015 theme. Students shouldwork with their art teacher onmore specific submission cri-teria. The deadline is Dec. 5.There is no limit on the numberof visual arts entries from eachschool.
Entries for both contestsshould be sent to: MLK Entries,Montgomery County Office ofHuman Rights, 21 MarylandAve., Rockville, MD 20850.
The top three winners fromall literary entries will be invitedto read their essays and receivean award presented by thecounty executive and The Ga-zette as part of the countywideKing celebration Jan. 19 at theMusic Center at Strathmore inNorth Bethesda. All visual artssubmissions will be exhibited atthe program and at the Execu-tive Office Building in Rockvilleduring Black History Month inFebruary.
For more information, con-tact James Stowe, director ofthe County’s Office of HumanRights, at 240-777-8491 or [email protected].
Winter recreationguide available
The winter issue of thecounty’s recreation guide is nowavailable.
Theguide featureshundredsof activities and programs, in-cluding sports, therapeutic rec-reation services and active adult
senior programming.Registration for programs
and classes opened Nov. 17.Residents are encouraged toregister early, asmanyprogramsfill up quickly. Registration isavailable online, by mail, by faxor in person at the recreationoffices at 4010 Randolph Road,Silver Spring.
Copies of the guideare avail-able at recreation centers, parkfacilities, aquatic and seniorcenters, and public libraries.Residents can receive the guidebymailwithanannual subscrip-tion for $5 for five issues.
The guide and subscriptioninformationareatmontgomery-countymd.gov/rec.
For more information, call240-777-6840.
Literacy Council namesnew executive directorDanielle Verbiest of Ger-
mantown has been named
executive director of the Lit-eracy Council of MontgomeryCounty.
She previously was thecouncil’s deputy director. Ear-lier, shewas assistant director ofdevelopment and communica-tions at the Montgomery Coali-tion for the Homeless and thedevelopment and operationsmanager at theCourt AppointedSpecial Advocate Program ofMontgomery County.
The nonprofit LiteracyCouncil, founded in 1963, helpsadults learn to read, write andspeak English better so they canimprove the quality of their lifeand their ability to participate inthe community.
A native of the Netherlands,Verbiest holds a master’s in in-ternational nongovernmentalorganizations and a bachelor’sin Oriental languages and com-munication.
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n Officials: Sequestrationpartly to blame; spending
could be affected
BY KATE S. ALEXANDERSTAFFWRITER
Montgomery County re-ceived about $96million less in-cometaxrevenuethanexpectedfor November and officials be-lieve automatic federal budgetcutswerepartly toblame.
County Finance DirectorJoseph Beach said Montgom-ery County gets income taxdistributions from the stateabout once a month. Somemonths, the state sends esti-mates, but each November,the county receives actual rev-enues, he said.
In November, Montgom-ery expected to receive $443.1million, but got only $346.7million, a shortfall of $96.4million.
“We are in dialogue withthe [state]Comptroller’sOfficeto try and understand whatwas behind this. The obvioustheory and explanation is thatit was caused by a change infederal tax policy, the increasein the capital gains tax, as wellas the impact of sequestra-tion,” Beach said, referring toautomatic budget cuts auto-matically triggered in March2013whenCongress could notagree on a plan to reduce thefederal deficit.
County Executive IsiahLeggett (D) warned in 2013that the federal budget cutscould deal a significant blowto county revenue.
Although the $96.4 mil-lion income tax revenue lossis a fraction of Montgomery’s$4.36 billion tax-supportedbudget, Beach said it is theequivalent of several countydepartment budgets com-bined.
Withanexpected$380mil-lion in reserves by the end ofthe current fiscal year, Beachwas confident the county willnot have a budget shortfallheading into next fiscal year,which begins July 1. But theloss could curtail spending.
A letter to the CountyCouncil said the county hasseen continued weakness inrevenue growth.
The letter is from County
Executive IsiahLeggett (D), butit was signed by Chief Admin-istrativeOfficer Timothy Fires-tine, on the county executive’sbehalf, while Leggett was outof the country.
“It is clear to me that thislatest news requires us to beparticularly cautious aboutundertaking new initiatives oradopting legislations with afiscal impact, no matter howworthwhile or broadly sup-ported,” the letter says. “Suchmeasures simply cannot besustained in this fiscal envi-ronment without putting ourother priorities at risk.”
In addition to lost incometax revenue, the county hasseen third-quarter sales of ex-istinghomesdropabout 9per-cent from last year. The lettersays the drop, coupled with anincrease in mortgage interestrates, has reduced recordationtax revenue related to residen-tial refinancing. Recordationtaxes are imposed when prop-erty changes hands or is refi-nanced.
County staff will have up-dated projections on how the$96.4 million in lost revenuewill affect current and futurebudgets by Dec. 9, when thestaff is scheduled to brief thecouncil on the annual fiscalplan.
County Staff Administra-tor Steve Farber said that untiltheNovember income taxpay-ment, the county was runninga few million dollars ahead ofincome tax revenue projec-tions.
An outstanding questionfor the county is what the$96.4million revenue loss saysabout what it can expect in fu-ture income tax collections.
A pending U.S. SupremeCourt case on taxing out-of-state income, knownasComp-troller v. Wynne, is a loomingquestion.
Beach said the SupremeCourt’s decision could have asignificant impact on futurebudgets. The county conser-vatively set aside about $85million in the current budgetin anticipation of a ruling.
Beach said the latest wordon a ruling in the Wynne casesuggests the county canexpectthe court to rule by June.
Montgomery Countyincome tax revenuefalls $96 million short
n Silver Spring alliance holdsmeeting to air concerns, grievances
BY KEVIN JAMES SHAYSTAFFWRITER
Montgomery County CouncilmanMarcElrich told renters last week that he plans tointroduce legislation on rent stabilization,while new Councilman-elect Tom Huckercalled for a “strong discussion” of the issue.
Elrich (D-At Large) of TakomaPark,whohas been on the council for eight years, hastried to float rent stabilization proposalsin the past, but without support from col-leagues. But he noted that rents continue toincreaseabove thecounty’s voluntaryguide-lines formanypeople, andmore controls areneeded than just a voluntary program.
“I know that [rent stabilization] will be ahard sell,” Elrich said during aNov. 19meet-ing organized by the Montgomery CountyRentersAllianceat St.Michael theArchangelCatholic Church in downtown Silver Spring.
Some council members and propertymanagement representatives have arguedthat rent control measures could stifle eco-nomic development and the ability tomain-tain and improve properties.
Hucker, a Silver Spring Democrat, isslated to be sworn in as District 5 council-man the first week of December. He saidother jurisdictions, including Takoma Parkand Washington, D.C., have made rent-control lawswork.While the issue deservesto a review by the council, he said it mightbe easier, at least initially, to work on pro-posals such as ending month-to-monthlease fees.
“We can take more manageable bites,”Hucker said.
Many residents atthe meeting said theirrents increasedbymorethan the1.5percent vol-untary guideline issuedby the county this year.The guideline changesannually based on in-flation; in 2013, it was4 percent. County offi-cials saymost landlordsabide by the voluntaryguideline.
Matt Losak, ex-ecutive director of theRenters Alliance — aSilver Spring nonprofitthat formed in 2010 inresponse to a countytenants report — saidhe has heard of double-
digit increases for some.“Landlords in buildings in every part of
Montgomery County believe they can raiserents asmuch as they want,” he said.
Renters make up about one-third ofMontgomery County’s housing population,according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Thatnumber is expected to increase as more de-velopers build higher-density, urban-styleprojects.
Elrich helped pass Takoma Park’s rentcontrol law as a council member there.
He said the need for affordable housingin the county is “an endemic problem of in-equality that someone has to address.”
Hucker agreed that providing truly af-fordable housing “really hasn’t been aprior-ity for the county.”
Some residents complained about hav-ing to pay for utilities and other fees onceconsidered part of the rent, as well as visi-
tors’ cars being towed off unfairly.Predatory towing is the largest single
complaint by residents, said Eric Friedman,director of the county’s consumer protec-tion office. He urged people to file com-plaintswith the office if they think they havebeen unfairly towed. He said some partieshave gotten back more than their originaltowing fees.
Other residents said theyhad signs takendown about tenants’ meetings they triedto organize. Tenants have the right to postsigns of their meetings wherever propertymanagers post signs, said Rosie McCray-Moody, manager of the county’s landlord-tenant office. Tenants also cannot be legallydiscriminated against for organizing or at-tending ameeting, she said.
Elrich said he was not happy about re-cently being told he was being removedfrom the council’s planning, housing andeconomic development committee, thoughhe is scheduled to become chair of the pub-lic safety committee. He said he still will at-tend planning committeemeetings.
“And I’m not going to be quiet,” Elrichsaid.
Councilman plans rent stabilization bill
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Pink Floyd authorto share the darkside of the band
Author Beau Phillips will tellbehind-the-scenes stories aboutrock legend Pink Floyd at 7 p.m.Mondayat theBethesdaLibrary,7400 Arlington Road.
Phillips is head of market-ing at MTV Networks, a posi-tion that lets him meet manyrock stars. His new book, “IKilled Pink Floyd’s Pig,” takesfans behind the scenes withthe iconic group. Phillips alsotell stories about the RollingStones, Led Zeppelin and PaulMcCartney, among others. Thetalk is free.
For more information, call240-777-0970.
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“I know that[rent stabilization]will be a hard sell.”
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The following is a summary of inci-dents in the Bethesda area to whichMontgomery County police respondedrecently. The words “arrested” and“charged” do not imply guilt. This infor-mation was provided by the county.
Carjacking• 7800 block of Hampden Lane,
Bethesda, at 7 p.m. Nov. 5. The sub-jects threatened the victimwith aweapon and took the vehicle.
Strong-arm robbery• 5200 block ofWestport Road,
Chevy Chase, at 8 p.m. Nov. 7. Thesubjects threatened the victimwith aweapon and took property.
•Whittier Boulevard andWilsonLane, Bethesda, at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 10.The subjects assaulted the victimand took property.
Commercial burglary• Two incidents at EuroMotor-
cars, 5206 River Road, Bethesda,onNov. 4 or 5 andNov. 6 or 7. Tookproperty.
• Arby’s, 11710 Rockville Pike,North Bethesda, between 1 and6:45 a.m. Nov. 8. Forced entry, tookproperty.
• LouisVuitton, 5400 block ofWisconsin Avenue, Chevy Chase, at8:11 a.m. Nov. 10. No forced entry,took nothing.
Residential burglary• 9200 block of BeechHill Drive,
Bethesda, between 9:45 a.m. and2:30 p.m. Nov. 11. Forced entry, tookproperty.
• 9200 block of Fernwood Road,Bethesda, between 10:30 a.m. and4:30 p.m. Nov. 11. Forced entry, tookproperty.
Theft• 4900 block of Cordell Avenue,
Bethesda, between 7 and 10 p.m.Nov. 7. Took property from an un-knowing victimwhile shopping.
Vehicle larceny• County garages at 4910 Au-
burn Ave. and 4935 St. Elmo Ave.,Bethesda, onNov. 3. Took tires fromthree cars.
• Grosvenor Lane and FlemingAvenue, Bethesda, between 3:30 and6:15 a.m. Nov. 7. Unknown entry,took property.
• Seven incidents atVirgiliaStreet and Connecticut Avenue,Chevy Chase, at 2:30 a.m. Nov. 10.No sign of forced entry; subjects ar-rested.
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Rick Monk of Bethesda pedals his children Maddie, 4, and Samuel, 1, in Montgomery County’s annual Thanksgiving parade Saturday morning in SilverSpring. Monk and several others were representing Kaspers Cargos, Bicycle Copilots, who provide rides on their adapted bicycles for children with dis-abilities who cannot pedal themselves.
n Aging, rusty infrastructureneglected for years
BY KATHERINE SHAVERTHEWASHINGTON POST
Suburban Maryland’s waterutility found that more than halfof the valves needed to shut offlarge water pipes in emergencieswere “unusable,”mostlybecauseof severe corrosion, utility offi-cials said lastweek.
The Washington SuburbanSanitary Commission, whichsupplies drinkingwater toMont-gomery and Prince George’scounties, found that 60 percentof 350 large valves inspected sofar didn’t work, mostly becauseof years of rust buildup. Brokenvalves are being repaired as theyare discovered, officials said.
The aging valves draw lesspublic attention thanWSSC’s de-cayingwater pipes, but they are acritical part of the water-deliverysystem, particularly in emer-gencies. Utility workers turn thevalves, often hundreds or thou-sands of times, to isolate brokenwaterpipesand limit theamountof potential flood damage andwastedwater.
The valves also divert wateraround problem areas to keeptaps running and toilets flushingwhile the utility makes repairs ordoes preventive maintenance.The valves, particularly agingones, require regular “exercising”to limit rust buildup and ensurethat theywill workwhenneeded.
If a valve fails, particularly ona large transmission main, watercangush forhours fromabrokenpipe, and the utility may have touse valves farther from the prob-lem area, which shuts down alarger part of the network. Thatcan lead to widespread wateroutages.
Gene Counihan, who repre-sents Montgomery on WSSC’ssix-member board of commis-sioners, said he was “stunned”to hear how many valves didn’twork.
“That’s a serious problem,”said Counihan, who expressedhis concern toWSSCofficials at aNov.19boardmeeting. “Itmeansthat whenwewant to use a valveto turnoff thewater,60percentofthe timewe’re unable to.”
SomeMaryland residents feltthe brunt of the valve problem inJuly 2013, whenWSSC toldmore
than 100,000 people in south-ern Prince George’s to stock upon water because a stuck valvewould necessitate a widespreadwater outage.
Utility officials said theywould have to shut off the waterfor five days— in themiddle of aheatwave—becauseabadlycor-roded48-year-old valvewouldn’tlet them divert water around aweakening54-inchmainthatwasat risk of blowingopen.
The warning caused busi-nesses to shut down, firefighterstoactivatecontingencyplansandstores to run dry of bottled waterfor two days before WSSC said ithad fixed the valve, enabling theutility to isolate the vulnerablepipeandkeepwater runningdur-ing repairs.
WSSC has almost 64,500valves in its 5,600 miles of waterlines. About 1,700 of those are onthe large, high-volume transmis-sion mains that cause the mostdamage when they break. Utilityofficials acknowledge that theyneglected the valves for about adecade after they suspended theexercising program in the early2000s because of budget cuts.
WSSC resumed valve main-tenance a few years ago andstepped it up after the 2013 out-age scare inPrinceGeorge’s.
Utility officials said they planto exercise about 430 large valvesannually, putting the large valveson a four-year inspection cycle.
Jerry N. Johnson, WSSC’sgeneral manager, told the board,“We do have a handle on thatnow.”
Most valves don’t work,WSSC officials find
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n Donations help familiesserved by A Wider Circle
BY ELIZABETHWAIBELSTAFFWRITER
Achild’s concern that somekids might not have toys wasthe beginning of an annual toydrive in Kensington.Andrea Roe, a member of
the Moms Club of KensingtonPark, said the club started a toydrive after she took her chil-dren to the nonprofit A WiderCircle one year to donate sometoys for families who did nothave the resources to buy giftsthemselves. Her son, who wasabout 4 at the time, was verysober after seeing the room ofdonated toys.“My son was horrified,”
Roe said. “He was like, ‘Mom,you mean there are kids outthere who don’t have toys?’”Roe said the toy drive is
a good way to give childrenwhose families come to AWiderCircle a normal life, evenif they are in difficult circum-stances. The Silver Spring orga-nization has several programsto support families during theDecember holidays, includ-ing sponsorship programs, gift
card drives and a “North Pole”with toys, books and winterclothing for children.This is the second year for
theMoms Club to organize thetoy drive. This year, the grouppartnered with KensingtonBaptist Church to collect toy
donations.Roe said that she didn’t
know exactly how much wasdonated, but the people from
A Wider Circle who picked upthe donations said it lookedlike several thousand dollars’worth of toys, including bikes,books, stuffed toys, games, askateboard and a toy pony.Some items were new, whileothers were gently used andmight otherwise go to a resalestore.The toy drive collected
items Monday morning and afewweeks prior to that througha donation box at KensingtonBaptist Church.Bill George, the church’s
pastor, said the toy drive wasan opportunity to share hopeduring a busy time of the year.Church members are alreadytalking about ways they canpartner with theMoms Club tohelp the communitymore.“Sometimes we miss the
need and the poverty becausewe live in what is considereddto be a really affluent area,”George said. “... It’s a way thatwe can reachout andbe a light-house to our community.”People can still donate toys
and other items to AWider Cir-cle directly by visiting awider-circle.org or emailing [email protected].
Kensington moms, church pitch in on toy drive
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Brian Houdek (left) and Joe Kotapish of A Wider Circle arrange items collected in a toy drive by the KensingtonMoms Club at Kensington Baptist Church on Monday. The donated toys, books and coats will be given to needychildren.
n Dispute centers onRockville, Potomacschool soccer pitches
BY LINDSAY A. POWERSSTAFFWRITER
AMontgomery County judgeruled lastweekthatayouthsoccerorganizationcancontinue its law-suit in the county courts over theuseof twoartificial turffields.MontgomerySoccer Inc.filed
the suit July 1 in MontgomeryCounty Circuit Court, claimingthe county Board of Educationhad unfairly entered into agree-ments with other groups for theturf fields at two public schools.The lawsuit is filed against theschool board.One field at Richard Mont-
gomery High in Rockville andanother — yet to be installed— at Churchill High School inPotomac are at the center of thelegal battle.Attorneys for Montgomery
County Public Schools asked inAugust for thecourt todismiss thecase, arguing that Circuit Courtwasnot the rightarena for thedis-pute, amongother reasons.According to a transcript of
a Nov. 18 hearing, Judge DurkeThompson said that Montgom-ery Soccer “can continue to pur-sue their remedy in the courtsystem.”Thesoccergroupwaspleased
with the judge’s decision, DougSchuessler, its executive director,said Friday.“The judge in this case deliv-
eredaclearmessage that this caseshould not only go forward, butthe courts are the proper jurisdic-tion tohear thecase,”he said.Schuessler said in a previous
interview that his group had thebest proposals to use the fieldsand should have been chosenover its competitors in part be-cause it serves abroader groupofplayers around the county withmore economically disadvan-taged youths.The school board this sum-
mer awarded the Richard Mont-gomery field-use agreement toBethesda Soccer Club, and theChurchill agreement to BethesdaLacrosseandthePotomacSoccerAssociation. Montgomery Soc-cer was awarded GaithersburgHigh’s field.Montgomery Soccer has said
it thinks the school board did notconsider the different submis-sions for the agreements. Rather,it approved a recommendationand did not share how the sub-missions were evaluated basedon a point system, which wasdescribed in the school system’srequests for proposals.The organization alleges,
among other things, that schoolofficials involved in the selectionprocessdidnotrelyonapointsys-tem, weremisleading and, at onepoint, wouldn’t talk about Mont-gomery Soccer’s proposal for theChurchill field because they saidtherewasanother, betteroffer.The next step in the case,
Schuessler said, was to meet arequest from the judge to file anamended complaint that liststhe groups that won the twofield agreements as defendants.Schuessler was not certain onMonday if it hadbeenfiled yet.In an Oct. 22 letter, school
board President Phil Kauffmanwrote that school officials re-viewed the case and determinedit “lacks merit.” He requested inthe letter that the MontgomeryCounty Council vote on a $1.3million appropriation for theChurchill field.The councilwas set tomake a
decision on the funds in July, butheld off after the school board re-questedadelay in lightof the suit.Montgomery Soccer also has
appealed to the stateBoardofEd-ucation,buthadnotreceivedare-plyasofMonday, Schuessler said.School system attorney Ju-
dith S. Bresler wrote the stateschool board that the processused to determine who won theagreementswas fair and the stateboard shoulddeny the appeal.She also said in her motion
that Montgomery Soccer’s “fi-nancial offer was not as good asthose of its rivals.” The groupsthat won the two agreements in-clude players from “less wealthyareas of the County,” she wrote,andMontgomerySoccer includesplayers fromwealthier areas.
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n Montgomery studentsshare stories oftransition to U.S.
BY LINDSAY A. POWERSSTAFFWRITER
A forum at Kennedy HighSchool in Silver Spring last weekhighlightedthechallengesyouthsface in El Salvador, as well asMontgomery County students’stories about coming from Cen-tral America to theU.S.
Nestor Alvarenga, LatinAmerican community liaisonin the county’s Office of Com-munity Partnerships, said in aninterview that “it made sense” tohold the forum in light of the cur-rent situation in which childrenare fleeing violence in CentralAmerica and given the county’slarge population of immigrantsfromEl Salvador.
The “Forum on CentralAmericanInternationalStudents’Experiences” was held Nov. 19
by the Montgomery County De-partment of Health and HumanServices, Montgomery CountyPublic Schools, the Charles W.Gilchrist Center for Cultural Di-versity and the Committee inSolidarity with the People of ElSalvador. Several dozen peopleattended.
The event speakers includedseveral county students and Ro-berto Escobar, director of educa-tion promotion for the NationalYouth Institute of El Salvador.
KennedyHighstudentLinnyPortillo — whose commentswere translated from Spanish toEnglish — pointed to two ma-jor reasons why people migratefrom El Salvador: the tougheconomy, as well as crime andviolence.
Portillo, who came to theU.S. last year, said students inherhome country grow up with “theAmerican dream” to travel to theU.S. and create “a better future”for themselvesandtheirchildren.
Escobar said— in comments
also translated from Spanish toEnglish— that youth in El Salva-dorare facingmultiplehardships,including “disintegration”withinmany families and a sense of fearand lack of “social cohesion” indensely populated urban com-munities.
He also said there are feweducational opportunities.
Responding to an area prin-cipal who said he sees Latinostudents at his school struggleacademically, Escobar describedthe limited education studentsget in El Salvador. The country’sschool system, he said, is builtaround preparing students forwork as laborers on farms andin sweatshops and doesn’t teachahigh level of knowledgeor skill.
Montgomery Blair HighSchool student Kevin Leon Ma-tute said, in Spanish translatedto English, that he waited about10 years in El Salvador to join hismom in theU.S.When hemovedto the States, he said, it wasn’twhat he expected and learning
English has been more difficultthanhethoughtitwouldbe.Therewas “a lot missing” in the educa-tion inhishomecountry,he said.
Brandon Renderos, anotherKennedy student, said hemovedfrom Guatemala to the U.S. in2011 to live with his dad after hismom and stepfather lost theirjobs amid what he describedas “an economical crisis” in hishomecountry.
“Thefirstmonths [in theU.S.]were reallyhardbecause I startedschool like a week after I came
here and I didn’t know any Eng-lish,” he said after the event.
Asked how local residentscan help, Escobar said they canorganize fundraisers, collectclothes and support small busi-ness owners inCentral America.
He said youths also needhelpdeveloping their “emotionalintelligence,” aswell aswith theiracademics.
Portillo said students fromCentral America need helpthinking about their futureto become more enthusiastic
about school work. Matute saidstudents need people aroundthem tomotivate themandhelpthem realize their aspirations.
Role models within the La-tino community could workwith youths, Alvarenga said.
“The studentswere themostvaluable part [of the forum] forme to be honest because wehear directly from them what’sworking,what’snotworkingandwhat can be improved,” he said.
Silver Spring forum highlights youth experience in Central America
n Officials say newguidelines still carry
consequences
BY LINDSAY A. POWERS
STAFFWRITER
Someparents are concernedthat school administratorsmightnot be disciplining studentsseverely enough under Mont-gomery County Public Schools’new code of conduct and thedistrict’s efforts to reduce sus-pensions.
School officials, however,say students are facing conse-quences for badbehavior even ifthey aren’t suspended. Seriousoffenses are still often handledwith a suspension, officials say.
Concerns around the guide-lines were discussed Nov. 19during a meeting of the Mont-gomeryCountyCouncil of PTAs’health and safety committee.The county PTA does not havean official position on the code.
In light of the issues raised,committee members want togather more information abouthow the code is working inschools.
Thecode,whichisbeingusedfor the first time this school year,guides administrators on disci-plining students. The new guide-lines stem from state regulationsaimedinpartat reducingsuspen-sions and expulsions and givingadministrators greater discretiontodeterminediscipline.
Susan Burkinshaw, co-chairof the health and safety commit-tee, said she’s heard concernsabout the guidelines from teach-ers, PTA leaders, other parentsand school resource officers,who are police officers whoworkin schools.
Burkinshaw said she’s con-cerned that students are learningthey can be disrespectful to ad-ministrators, teachers andschoolresource officers and not face se-rious consequences.
Burkinshawsaidshehasspo-ken with school resource officerswho think they were not beingasked to handle some serious in-cidents.
Asked to comment on con-cerns about the code, Capt. PaulStarks, a Montgomery Countypolice spokesman, said, “That isanMCPS issue.”
“We respect their [the schoolsystem’s] internal protocols andwillworkcooperativelywiththemin the best interest of all parties,”he said in an email Friday.
Burkinshaw said it seemsthat schools want to “internally”discipline some studentswith re-peated offenses, to avoid report-ing out-of-school suspensions orreferring students to police.
Some students punishedthrough in-school suspensions,she said, “continue to be dis-
ruptive in the buildings” and are“great burdens on the teachers.”
If schoolsdon’t appropriatelyaddress students’ behavior, shesaid, they might not get neededresources outside the district,such asmental health services.
Burkinshaw said she agreeswith the school system’s goal tohavea“rehabilitativeandnotpu-nitive” disciplinary system, butdoesn’t think it’sworking.
“Arewereallydoing this toberehabilitative or keep reportingnumbers down?” she said.
Beth Kennington — a com-mittee member who spoke asa parent and not a committeerepresentative — said after theNov. 19 meeting she is hearingthat, under the new guidelines,behavior that led to punishmentor suspensiondoesn’t anymore.
She said she has heard con-cerns from parents, school staffand school resource officers.
“I think many are frustratedwith the lack of discipline andsome are feeling that the schoolsare being run by their misbehav-ing students,” she said.
Kennington said she thinksthe code isn’t creating a safe en-vironment in students’ mindsand doesn’t allow for strongenough punishments for seri-ous incidents such as bringinga weapon to school or bullying.
The school system’s StudentRights and Responsibilities pol-icy previously included severalstudent actions that called for amandatory recommendation ofexpulsion and mandatory refer-ral to police.
Those actions included,among others, making a bombthreat, a violent physical attack,and distribution of controlleddangerous substances.
The new code includes a“matrix” with a series of behav-iors and a corresponding rangeof possible discipline for admin-istratorsandstaff toconsider.Thelevels of action increase in sever-ity from1 to 5.
Christopher Garran, theschool system’s associate super-intendent for high schools, saidstudentsstill faceconsequences ifthey are not suspended. Thenewcodeallowsformorediscretionatthe school level, he said.
“It takes time, I think, tochange our perspective,” he said.“So we see suspensions now asone consequence, along with alot of others, when we might, inthe past, have seen that as the goto.”
Thenewcodeis“restorative,”Garran said, and involves a pro-gressionof consequences if a stu-dent continues tomisbehave.
Schools most often suspendstudents who commit more se-rious offenses, such as thoserelated to drug distribution andviolence, he said.
The ideathatprincipalsavoidcalling police, he said, “is abso-
lutely not true.”Garran said the systemwants
to improve its efforts to helpconnect students with outsideresources. All students caughtpossessing or using drugs or al-cohol are now referred to an ex-ternal assessment.
In recent discussions he hadwith high school principals, Gar-ran said, most supported thecode. Much of their feedbackpointed to a need to help staffmembers “understand the shiftin philosophy,” he said.
Jill Ortman-Fouse, who willjoin the school board in Decem-ber, saidsherecentlyspokewithaschoolsystemofficialaboutplansto get feedback on the code. Theofficial — who she did not wantto name— said the systemplansto form a group next semester todetermine how to collect input,Ortman-Fouse said.
She said she sees a focus onaddressing the “root causes” ofstudents’ behavior.
School board Vice PresidentPatricia O’Neill said the boardwants community feedback andwill discuss the code with princi-pals at the endof the school year.
“We want to hear first andforemost fromprincipalsbecausethey’re the ones that have to giveout the discipline and they’re liv-ing intimatelywith this,” shesaid.
She said she’s seeingchangesin discipline affecting cases ofinsubordination and disrespect,rather thanmore serious catego-ries.
“I think there are a lot of ru-mors out there among somecommunitymembers,andnotallof that isnecessarily true,”O’Neillsaid.
Some parents question disciplineunder schools’ code of conduct
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Among the other new re-tailers there are LululemonAthletica and True Religion Ap-parel. The mall also overhauledits food court in the past year,with a new level added abovethe dining area for a 16-screenArcLight Cinemas movie theaterand several full-service restau-rants, including Crave and Blaze
Pizza. Also, Chipotle MexicanGrill opened in the expandedfood court.
The mall also is hosting theRockville Brass Band for a con-cert Sunday. Bethesda Row isposting some weekend-after-Thanksgiving sales from itsstores on its website’s eventspage. The shopping area also isplanning a holiday market withoutdoor tents Dec. 5 through 7.
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Several residents questionedhow roads could handle anymore traffic in the already con-gested area. The area is servedby only four bus lines, and oneof them does not run on Sun-days, one of them has a shorterroute on the weekends and oneof them runs only in the morn-ings and evenings.
Others wondered whetherschools would have roomfor the additional children orwhether there would be enoughparks. Some said redevelopmentwould make the area look likedowntown Bethesda, pushingout their favorite local stores andmaking gas stations scarce.
“What you’re doing byadding density is creating awasteland,” said one Kenwoodresident, who did not give hisname.
Representatives from EquityOne, the company that boughtthe Westwood Shopping Centerand some surrounding prop-erties early this year, have saidthey want to redevelop the prop-erty with a mix of uses, but havenot submitted any applications.
Marc DeOcampo, a Mont-gomery County planner, said
the current concept purposelykept heights lower than whatsome landowners wanted.
Right now, zoning allowsbuildings of up to 45 feet inmost of the sector plan area,planner Paul Mortenson said.The concept planners are cur-rently working with would al-low buildings up to 50 feet tallin most areas. One area on RiverRoad could see buildings up to75 feet tall, and two sites couldhave buildings up to 80 feet tall.
The sector plan will influ-ence how much can be built andwhere roads or amenities mightgo. There are still several roundsof planning and review before aplan is adopted. And, after it isapproved, there is no guaran-tee that the area will take shapeas planners envision it. Plan-ners included an urban park inthe 1982 plan, for example, butsingle-family homes were builtthere instead.
Planners are expected tomake some initial recommen-dations for Westbard to thePlanning Board in March. Afterseveral more regulatory steps,the finished plan could be ad-opted by the County Counciland Planning Commission inMay 2016.
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pried open so a collection offigurines could be taken, Berk-ley said.
“A lot of jewelry was taken,”she said, adding that it was clearthe thief or thieves knew whichitems were valuable and whichitems were not.
Berkley told The Gazette shewent out for lunch with a friendat about 1:30 p.m. and returnedabout three hours later to findlittle bits of metal and wood on
the floor in her kitchen, and herfriend noticed the back door hadbeen pried open. Afterward, thetwo walked around the houseand noticed the extent of thedamage.
“It was very upsetting,”Berkley said.
Other incidents were re-ported on nearby ClearwoodRoad and Landon Lane, as wellas in other neighborhoods thatare close to Wilson Lane andBradley Boulevard, according tocounty police.
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Business hall of fameinducts three from county
Three Montgom-ery County business-men are among thefour new inducteesinto the WashingtonBusiness Hall of Fameestablished by Ju-nior Achievement ofGreater Washington,the Greater Washing-ton Board of Trade andWashingtonian maga-zine.
They are DennisRatner of Bethesda,who founded the HairCuttery in 1974 andis now founder, CEOand stylist with Rat-ner Cos.; Peter Bar-ris, managing generalpartner with New En-terprise Associatesof Chevy Chase; andSudhakar Kesavan,chairman and CEO ofICF International inRockville.
They are to be hon-ored at a dinner andceremony from 6 to9 p.m. Tuesday at theNational Building Mu-seum in Washington.
Cystic fibrosis groupsells royalties for $3.3B
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeu-tics, a nonprofit affiliate of the Cystic Fi-brosis Foundation of Bethesda, has sold for$3.3 billion its royalty rights for cystic fibro-sis treatments developed by Vertex Phar-maceuticals of Boston to Royalty Pharmaof New York.
The new capital will help the founda-tion expand its efforts to develop new ther-apies and provide patient care, accordingto a news release.
The sale is an example of the foun-dation’s venture philanthropy model,through which it has raised and investedhundreds of millions of dollars to help findtreatments for the lung disease. The foun-dation provides upfront money for drug-makers to help absorb their financial risk
of developing the drugs.“This is a transformational moment for
people with [cystic fibrosis] ... that will en-able us to accelerate our mission as neverbefore,” Robert J. Beall, president and CEOof the foundation, said in the release.
Fox Hill names general managerFox Hill, a retire-
ment communityin Bethesda, namedDavid Denton ofGaithersburg generalmanager.
Previously, Den-ton, 50, was execu-tive director at AsburyMethodist Village inGaithersburg.
He holds a bachelor’s in health servicesadministration with a minor in gerontologyfrom Ithaca (N.Y.) College and is a licensednursing home administrator in Californiaand New York.
Lockheed Martin promotes twoLockheed Martin of Bethesda pro-
moted Patricia L. Lewis, 52, to senior vicepresident of human resources and JenniferM. Whitlow, 42, to senior vice presidentof communications, both effective Jan. 1.Both also were elected corporate officers.
Lewis, who joined Lockheed in 2011as vice president, human resources for theElectronic Systems business area, is vicepresident, human resources for Informa-tion Systems & Global Solutions. Earlier,she worked for IBM and DuPont. She holdsa bachelor’s in industrial relations man-agement from the University of Bridgeport(Conn.).
Whitlow is vice president of corporatecommunications. Previously, she was vicepresident of media relations and chiefspokeswoman. Before joining Lockheed in2010, she worked for United Technologiesand Cessna Aircraft. She holds a masterof business administration from CarnegieMellon University’s Tepper School of Busi-ness and a bachelor’s in aviation businessadministration and aviation safety fromEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
WeddingWire wins chamber awardWeddingWire of Chevy Chase won the
Verl Zanders Emerging Business of theYear award from the Montgomery County
Chamber of Commerce at its annual awardsdinner Thursday in North Bethesda.
Bethesda accounting firm acquiredO’Connor Davies of New York, an ac-
counting and consulting firm, acquiredGrubman Anand of Bethesda.
The deal is designed to strengthenO’Connor Davies’ stake in affordable andsupportive housing services, according toa news release.
With the acquisition, O’Connor Daviesnow has eight offices in four states.
Bethesda ad agency promotes twoAugust, Lang &
Husak, a Bethesda ad-vertising agency, pro-moted Melissa Meyersto creative directorfrom associate creativedirector.
She succeedsChuck Husak, who waspromoted to chief cre-ative officer.
Northwest Biotherapeuticsraises $35 million
Northwest Biotherapeutics of Bethesda,which develops cancer vaccines, raised atotal of $35 million in two deals.
C.F. Woodford Equity Income Fund ofthe U.K. bought $25 million in stock andNorthwest took out a $10 million mortgageon its recently acquired U.K. facility, ac-cording to a news release.
The money will help the company ex-pand and accelerate its phase 3 clinical trialof its treatment for brain cancer.
United Bank celebrates new officeUnited Bank last week held a ribbon-
cutting ceremony to mark the grand open-ing of its recently renovated United BankFinancial Center in downtown Bethesda.
The new 16,000-square-foot office isat the corner of Chase and Wisconsin av-enues. Its financial services include retailbanking, home mortgages, brokerage,wealth management, small business lend-ing and commercial lending.
United Bank has $7.2 billion in assetsand 56 offices in Virginia, Maryland andWashington.
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Mr. Brian Galuska of Lay-tonsville and Mrs. Karen Ne-grey of Salisbury announce theengagement of their daugh-ter Dana Elizabeth Galuska ofGaithersburg to Ryan MatthewKenny of Gaithersburg, son ofJohn and Katherine Kenny ofLaytonsville.
Galuska is a 2008 graduateof Gaithersburg High Schooland a 2012 graduate of TowsonUniversitywhere she earnedherbachelor’s in accounting. Sheearned her master’s in educa-
tion in 2014 from JohnsHopkinsUniversity. She is a fifth-gradeteacher in Montgomery CountyPublic Schools.
Kenny is a 2008 graduate ofGaithersburg High School anda 2012 graduate of Towson Uni-versity. He received two bache-lor’s degrees, one in economicsand political science and an-other in philosophy. He is nowworking at PricewaterhouseC-oopers.
Galuska, Kenny
Yvonne Lawson and JoshDeMarino announce their en-gagement after eight years ofdating.
Lawson, of Radford, Va.,graduated fromTowsonUniver-sity in 2012 after studying masscommunicationwith an interest
in journalism.DeMarino, from Pasadena,
graduated fromDouglas Educa-tion Center in 2008 with an in-terest in special effectsmakeup.
They plan a June 2016 wed-ding.
Lawson, DeMarino
Brenna Mahoney and Rob-ert “Bob” William Rudd weremarried Aug. 16, 2014, at theGatekeeper’s Museum in TahoeCity, Calif.
The bride is the daughterof John and Fabia Mahoney ofBethesda. The groom is the sonof Jim and Nancy Rudd of Paw-ley’s Island, S.C.
Ginger Ames was the offici-ant for the ceremony,whichwasheld overlooking Lake Tahoeand was followed by a recep-tion on the grounds of the Gate-keeper’s.
Maia Mahoney Donahue,sister of the bride, was matronof honor. BridesmaidswereMe-gan Bond, cousin of the bride,Julia Meier, Erin McCreless,and Kim Brewitt (in absentia).Shaela Rose Mahoney, niece ofthe bride, was flower girl.
Elliot Jessup, Ryan Howat,
Chris Moriarty, Ethan Mc-Coy, and Jonny Wallace weregroomsmen. Devin Mahoneyand Quinn Mahoney, brothersof the bride, were ushers.
Mahoney graduated fromthe Sidwell Friends School inWashington, D.C., in 2001 andfrom Cornell University in 2005with a bachelor of science de-gree in biology. She receivedher doctorate degree in marineecology from the University ofCalifornia, Santa Cruz.
Rudd is a 2002 graduate ofCentennial High School in Ro-swell, Ga. He graduated in 2006with a bachelor’s in financefrom theUniversity ofColorado,Boulder. He is a developmentmanager at SolarCity in SanMa-teo, Calif.
The couple is planning ahoneymoon trip to Sri Lanka.They live in San Francisco.
Mahoney, Rudd
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ONGOINGAgape African Methodist Episcopal Church, 7700 Brink
Road, Gaithersburg, conducts Sundaymorning worship ser-vice at 11 a.m. Sunday School is at 10 a.m. Communion cel-ebration on first Sundays, men leading worship on secondSundays, youth leadingworshiponthirdSundays. “You’llGetThrough This” Bible Study from 7-8 p.m. Wednesdays. 301-924-8640; agapeamec.org.
DamascusUnitedMethodistChurch, 9700NewChurchSt.,Damascus,offers traditionalSundaymorningworshipser-vices at 8:15 a.m., a youth contemporary worship service at9:30 a.m. and a service of liturgy and theword at 11 a.m.withSunday school at 9:30 a.m. for all ages during the school year.damascusumc.org.
Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 7730 Bradley Blvd.,Bethesda,offersservicesat8:30and11a.m.eachSunday,withSunday School for all ages scheduled at 10 a.m. Child care isoffered from 8:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. A fellowship and coffeehour follows the8:30a.m. service. 301-365-5733, elcbethesda.org.
Emmanuel Lutheran Church will offer a special serviceof thanks at 10 a.m. on Thursday for Thanksgiving. Formoreinformation, visit 301-365-5733or visit elcbethesda.org.
Hughes United Methodist Church, 10700 Georgia Ave.,Wheaton, offers an informal Sunday morning worship ser-vice at 9 a.m., followed by a traditional worship service at10:30 a.m. Child care is available from 9 a.m. to noon. Hos-pitality time is at 9:45 a.m. in the Garden Entrance. El BuenSamaritano offers a Spanish service at Noon. Communion isCelebrated the first Sunday of themonth. Formore informa-tion, call 301-949-8383. VisitHughesUMC.org.
Kemptown United Methodist Church, 3716 KemptownChurch Road, Monrovia, conducts a contemporary serviceat 8 a.m. followed by a traditional service at 9:30 a.m. Sundaymornings, with children’s Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. andadultSundayschoolat11a.m.Formore information,call301-253-1768. Visitkemptownumc.org.
Liberty Grove United Methodist Church, 15225 Old Co-lumbia Pike, Burtonsville, conducts Sunday morning wor-ship services at 8:30, 9:30 and 11 a.m. Sunday school, nurserythrough adult, is at 9:30 a.m. 301-421-9166. For a schedule ofevents, visit libertygrovechurch.org.
MOMS In Prayer (MIP), moms and grandmas prayingfor children, teachers and local schools meet throughout thecounty at various times/days and locations.Groups currentlymeeting first and third Tuesdays/Fridays, second and fourthTuesdays/Thursdays, as well as evening groups. [email protected] informationorvisitmomsinprayer.org.
Neelsville Presbyterian Church, 20701 Frederick Road,Germantown, offersworship services at 8:30 a.m. and11a.m.on Sundays. Sunday School for all ages at 9:40 a.m. Formoreinformation, visit neelsville.org or call 301-972-3916.
Trinity Lutheran Church, 11200 Old Georgetown Road,North Bethesda, conducts services every Sunday, with childcare from 8 a.m. to noon and fellowship and a coffee hourfollowing each service. Call 301-881-7275. For a schedule ofevents, visit TrinityELCA.org.
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CELECELEBBRATRATIIONSONSCELEBRATIONSThe Gazette
Electionissues
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Siena needs to come to the table
Missing an opportunity
The general election isthree weeks past, and stillsome issues remain unre-solved. The MontgomeryCounty Board of Electionsheld a meeting Nov. 17 to goovermost of them.
First, there’s the questionover the procedures the Mo-tor Vehicle Administrationuses to register voters. Wereported in August that tworesidents could not vote inthe Democratic Party primarybecause their party affiliationhad changed. It appears thechange came at the MVA andthe elections board has askedthe Office of Legislative Au-dits to look into the agency’sequipment and the training ofits personnel. In a democracy,few rights are as sacred as theright to vote.
Second, there’s the ques-tion of why Montgomery wasthe last jurisdiction in the stateto report its election results.Staff Writer Kate Alexanderinterviewed an election judgewho described complicatedprocedures to close down apolling place. Those proce-dures delay the time elec-tion judges can drive electionequipment to the board’sGaithersburg offices, whichin turn means election resultstake longer to report.
Polling places can dial into the elections board’s com-
puter to report results, but thecountyhas too fewphone linesfor 250 precincts. It’s the 21stcentury — one has to wonderwhy a county as advanced asMontgomery hasn’t figuredout how to telecommunicateall the results into a centralcomputer.
At the Nov. 17 meeting,election supervisor Marga-ret Jurgensen said the boardcould consider adding morephone lines. We think this is agood investment.
And finally, the Mont-gomery County Board of Elec-tions last week asked for theOffice of Legislative Audits toinvestigate repeated reportsthat noncitizens were votingin county elections. It’s thekind of news, we would havethought, that our colleaguesat other media outlets wouldhave grabbed for sensationalheadlines — probably theywere too busy examining ourschool calendars.
These allegations havebeen made for years, andthough no one has produceda smoking gun, we think thisissue deserves investigation, ifonly to put it to rest.
We suspect, however, thatelection procedures could betoo lax. A Maryland congres-sional candidate in 2012 wasregistered to vote in Mary-land and Florida. In October,a Baltimore County lawmakerfiled a suit claiming FrederickCounty voter rolls included400 people who tried to getout of jury duty claiming theyweren’t U.S. citizens.
As we said, in a democ-racy, few rights are as sacredas the right to vote. If some-one has engaged in trickery,we need to know.
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On Friday, “The HungerGames: Mockingjay — Part I”opened in movie theaters na-tionwide.
It’s the third installmentin a hit cinematic franchise,which details the vicious,bloodthirsty clamor of strang-ers in a dystopian society asthey fight, tooth and nail, vy-ing for a cluster of weapons inthemiddle of a field.
On Thursday — Thanks-givingDay—asimilar plotwillplay out across this great, de-cidedly nondystopian coun-try of ours. Only instead of astockpile of clubs and hatch-ets that couldmean the differ-ence between life and death,the prize will be for items liketoaster ovens or toys on theendcap of Aisle 4 at a nearbystore.
Yes, this year, retailerslarge and small have falleninto step withWal-Mart’s suc-cessful 2013bid tobumpBlackFriday up 24 hours. At presstime, more than 35 chainswere listed as opening forbusiness Nov. 27 on aggregatesite theblackfriday.com.
It’s all part of amovement,some say, to offer customersa plethora — nay, a cornuco-
pia — of choices to best suittheir holiday shopping needs,with sales anddoorbusters ga-lore extending throughout theweekend.
Or is it, really, all just partof the never-ending quest tobolster the almighty bottomline paired with the often in-explicable nature of humanityto, likewise, endlessly con-sume?
Interestingly, it was Presi-dent George Washington —whose face isnowemblazonedon the $1 bill — who decreedthe first nationwide Thanks-giving onNov. 26, 1789.
Almost 200 years later, it issaid George H.W. Bush wouldbe thefirst in theOvalOffice toofficially “pardon” a Thanks-giving turkey, a practice thatcontinues to this day.
So why, increasingly, doesit feel like Thanksgiving, itself,is in need of a pardon?
Look, ours is not to judge,as we understand why manywill likely navigate the swarmsometime soon after (or be-fore) dinner is served. Afterall, hot video game property“Skylanders Trap Team” isnot going to play itself, andat the outrageously low priceof $37.50, who could expectit to?
But, just a casual reminderwhile we’re all waiting in line,to simply reflect on the abilityto do so— and to be grateful.
Thanksgiving 2014:Let the games begin
The Rockville PlanningCommission got it wrong.Again.
[Recently] the commissionvoted again to approve the EZStorage facility to be built atthe entrance to David ScullCourts, less than 250 feet fromMaryvale Elementary Schooland adjacent to the EastRockville residential neigh-borhood. Several residentsof David Scull Courts gavecompelling testimony on howthe proposed structure wouldfurther isolate them from thecommunity.
Nearly 400 people have ex-pressed opposition to the stor-
age facility due to its enormoussize, height, impact on welfareof residents and proximity toresidential neighborhoods anda school zone. Unfortunately,four commissioners were un-willing to reverse their decisionin order to protect the publicwelfare of residents.
Siena Corp. has continu-ously claimed they are a goodcorporate citizen and careabout the communities theyoperate in. It’s time for them toprove it.
If Siena was serious aboutbeing a partner with the com-munity they serve, they shouldimmediatelybeginnegotiations
with the residentsofDavidScullCourts and East Rockville tomitigate the concerns raisedby residents over the last eightmonths.
If they really cared aboutthe residents they profess toserve with their facility, theyshould care about how their fa-cilities would impact the well-being of community membersand the character and qualityof Rockville’s residential neigh-borhoods.
They should come to thetable with options for the com-munity to consider based onthe large volume of specific ac-tionable concernsalready in the
public record.Todate, theyhavenotmade
anyeffort to realistically addressresidents’ concerns. They haveonlymade an effort to convincepeople that their concerns arenot valid. That is not a modelof good corporate citizenshipSiena claims to follow. A goodneighbor does what’s right forthe community, even whenthey are not required to.
Our contact informationis in the public record of theseproceedings. But, I don’t thinkanyone should hold theirbreath waiting for a call.
Peter Witzler, Rockville
The media firestormaround our county’s boardof education decision [thismonth] to remove the word“Christmas” from the schoolcalendar provided auniqueop-portunity for Christians to havea public forum and express ourfaith.
We could have shown for-giveness perhaps realizing that
the board knew not what theydid. We could have expressedsolidarity with a marginal-ized community, our Muslimneighbors, who have tried for adecade to be able to have theirsons and daughters celebratetheir holy day in the same wayour sons and daughters do.We could have reaffirmed thatour diversity and multicultural
community was far too valu-able to us to ever allow anyoneto drive a wedge between usand our neighbors.
We could have simply re-frained from all the name-call-ing and hateful remarks to thepeople we disagreed with. Allthese options would have beenways to “bear witness” to whatChristianity is truly about …
that of being a community oflight, peace andmercy unto thenations.
Unfortunately, I think someof my Christian brothers andsisters missed this wonderfulopportunity and even perhapsportrayedmy faith in anegativelight.
Susan Kerin, Rockville
Your article was far tookind to Roberto ClementeMiddle School officials[“School officials to reviewlapses in communication,”Nov. 12]. Theheadline, bymyway of thinking, should haveincluded something aboutreckless endangerment ofminors.
Additionally, it is curi-ous to me why so many referto inappropriate acts ratherthan calling a spade a spadeand using more definitivelanguage. Sexual aggression
toward a minor; sexual pred-ator; sexual assault; sexualabuse; attempted sexual at-tack. Wouldn’t these wordsand phrases bemore clear?
Inappropriate is cursingor raising your voice. Sexualtouching is assault on a mi-nor.
Not informing parents ofthis incident and the likeli-hood that it was not a “oneand done” is reckless endan-germent of our kids.
Melissa King, Clarksburg
Assault is morethan ‘inappropriate’
WRITE TO USThe Gazette welcomes letters on subjects of local interest.No anonymous letters are printed. Letters are printed asspace permits. Include your name, address and daytime tele-phone number. Send submissions to: The Gazette, attentionCommentary Editor, 9030 Comprint Court, Gaithersburg, MD20877; fax to 301-670-7183; or email to [email protected].
The news is filled with spec-ulationabout thevictoryofLarryHogan in the election [Nov.4], and associated speculationabout the reasons that movedindividual voters to choose Mr.Hogan as our next governor.
I can’t speak for the rest ofthe voting public, but for me,it was personal. Readers mightremember the 2010 election,won byMartin O’Malley. In that2010 re-election campaign, thegovernor made a number ofcharges against his Republicanopponent,RobertEhrlich. Thesecharges included the facilitationof tax breaks for large cable TVcompanies, as well as responsi-bility for increases of 72 percentin utility rates and 60 percent inproperty taxes.
AfterMr. O’Malley’s re-elec-tion, I responded to these TVcampaign ads by letter, askingthe governor what he had doneabout these Ehrlich misdeedsduring his first term, and/orwhat he planned to do to rectify
them in his second term (suchas rolling back the utility rateand property tax increases).
I receivedareply to that letter,apparently composed by someflack on the governor’s staff. Thereply consisted mostly of irrel-evant fluff, bolstered by an abso-lutely preposterous claim, to theeffect that the O’Malley admin-istration had reduced taxes onMaryland’s taxpayers.
That totally false non-respon-sive reply to my quite specificinquiries is the most importantreasonIvotedagainstLt.Gov.An-thonyBrownonNov. 4.
I don’t like getting evasivereplies and false claims to legiti-mate inquiries. And I’m fairlysure that I’m not unique in ex-pecting public officials to an-swer their mail in a responsiveand truthful manner. The gov-ernor should keep this in mindas he considers a run for thepresidency.
James C. Giglio, Wheaton
Voting: For me,it was personal
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LET TERS TOTHEEDITOR
Your Nov. 19 “Dr. No” car-toon was funny, but I’m gladCouncilmember Leventhal andfour co-sponsors say no to un-necessary poisoning.
Bill 52-14 will end repeatedexposure to toxic lawn pesti-cides by restricting non-essen-tial use. It allows pesticides forinvasive species and noxiousweeds, and doesn’t impact ag-riculture or golf courses.
My kids have played onpesticide-treated neighbor-hood grass every year of theirchildhood. After my son’sbrain cancer diagnosis, I founda 2008 study linking medullo-blastoma to lawn pesticides. In2012, the American Academyof Pediatrics stated “epidemio-logic evidence demonstratesassociations between early lifeexposure to pesticides and pe-diatric cancers, decreased cog-
nitive function, and behavioralproblems.”
Another son got hives fromRoundup (glyphosate). I wasangry no signs were posted.The landscaper’s response:“People don’t want to see warn-ings posted every 7-10 days.” A2014 NIH-funded study identi-fied glyphosate as toxic to braindevelopment.
Our regulatory system can’tkeep up with science. The pes-ticide industry will deny risk —like the tobacco industry — foras long as possible. Years fromnow, attitudes on non-essentialpesticide use will resemble at-titudes about smoking: I can’tbelieve we did that.
Support Bill 52-14. Choosesafe old-fashioned lawn care:aerating, fertilizing and mow-ing high.
Jennifer Quinn, Gaithersburg
In support of safelawn care and ‘Dr. No’
When folks tell me thatthe Gazette doesn’t have acomics section, I reply, “Sureitdoes—BlairLee’s column.”
However, I thought hisNov. 12, 2014, column aboutLarry Hogan [“Larry Hogan:the ‘goalie governor’”] wasexcellent analysis of the chal-lenges facing the new gover-nor.
Only one quibble: Eitherhe or his proofreader needto bone up on the differencebetween “its” and “it’s.”
John J. O’Connell Jr., Olney
Lee gotit right
Gazette cartoonist ChrisCurtis hit a new low with hiscartoon depicting Council-man George Leventhal as Dr.No. (Gazette, 11/19/2014).According to Mr. Curtis, Mr.Leventhal is against “fun”because he is against “pup-pies.”
Nothing could be furtherfrom the truth. What Mr. Cur-tis was referring to was Mont-gomery County Bill 50-14,“Animal Control — Retail PetStores,” introduced by theCouncilman on October 14,2014. This bill would prohibitcounty stores from sellingpets obtained from puppyand kitten mills. Such millsare notorious for the crueltythey inflict on dogs and cats,who are condemned to livein cramped and filthy con-ditions while they are bred
over and over until theirbodies wear out. Anyonewho wishes to see videos ofanimals rescued from theseterrible places can find themeasily on the Internet, but beforewarned: the videos aredifficult to watch, and heart-breaking.
Councilmember Leven-thal is to be commended fordoing his part to end the cru-elty of puppy and kitten mills,and his fellow councilmem-bers should vote in favor of it.As for Chris Curtis: he mightwant to start researching theissues before drawing his car-toons. Puppy and kitten millsare many things, but they arenot “fun.”
Michael Gurwitz, Maria Schmit,Silver Spring
‘Dr. No’ should becommended for views
The Clean Water Act hasbrought progress to the Chesa-peake Bay, but in order to con-tinue the Bay on the path tosuccess, we must protect all thewaterways in Maryland, such asthe Anacostia River.
A loophole in the Clean Wa-terAct has left more than 59 per-cent of streams, including manythat feed into the Chesapeake,vulnerable to pollution. All ofMaryland’s waterways deserveprotection.
Fortunately, the U.S. Envi-ronmental Protection Agencyproposed restoring protectionsto all of the state’s waterwaysthis past March. After almosteight months, the public com-ment period ended [on Nov. 14].
In the last few days, the sub-mission of public commentswere essential, as powerful pol-luters are waging an acrimoni-ous campaign against the EPA’srule. Despite this bitter opposi-tion, over 740,000 supportivecomments were delivered toEPAofficials inWashington,D.C
We pushed back againstpolluters in the last few days torestore safeguards to all of thewaterways that support stronglocal economies and make ourstate beautiful. I thank and amgrateful to the EPA for takingthe steps needed to protect all ofMaryland’s waterways.
T. Aurelie Konin, Johns HopkinsUniversity, Silver Spring
Close the CleanWater Act loophole
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SPORTSSPORTSGAMES GAZETTE.NET IS STAFFINGPosted online by 8 a.m. the following day.
FOOTBALL: DuVal at Northwest, 7 p.m. Friday.
The defending 4A state champion Jaguars will look toget back to the title game against a Prince George’sCounty opponent with a stout defense.
FOOTBALL: Glenelg at Damascus, 7 p.m. Friday
G. BASKETBALL: Episcopal at SAES, 6 p.m. Tuesday
All-Gazette soccer team. B-3
Bullis Schoolfootball coach PatCilento toldme beforethe Episcopal game thisseason that a coupleof coaches from toppublic school footballteams inMontgomeryCountymade a visit tothe Potomac school.
There had beensome preliminary talksabout possibly playing inthe future. Then they saw the seven or so topcollege prospects on Bullis’ roster and thediscussion came to an end. TheMarylandPublic Secondary Schools Athletic Associa-tion doesn’t award any playoff points for los-ing to good teams.
Before the season,Wise football coachDaLawn Parrish toldme the top public highschool football teams inMaryland, not everyyear but some years, could compete with thetop private schools.
His point was that the top public schoolteams have skill players who are as good asthe private schools’ top players. Where theGood Counsels andDeMathas have an edgeis that they gobble up all the really big line-men.
If youwent to Saturday’s championshipgame in theWashington Catholic AthleticConference, you saw awhole lot of largemen on both lines. Public schoolsmay getan occasional Isaiah Prince at Eleanor Roos-evelt (6-foot-7, 280 pounds), but they almostnever get five of them.
Maryland, Virginia,Washington, D.C.and Texas are the only jurisdictions thatsegregate public and private high schools.That could be ending soon. Liberty ChristianAcademy in Lynchburg, Va. filed a lawsuitover the summer after eight years of theirrequests to join the public high school asso-ciationwere denied. They are trying to forcethat state to admit private schools and allowthem to compete for state championships.
The lawsuit was filed in theU.S. DistrictCourt ofWest Virginia and LCA is claimingthe Virginia High School League is in “bla-tant violation of antitrust laws.” A ruling inLCA’s favormight lead to changes inMary-land, D.C. and Texas.
Wouldn’t Damascus vs. Good Counselor Douglass vs. DeMatha in football be funfor fans?
I grew up in Arizonawhere privates playpublics all the time. St. Mary’s Catholic re-cruited away the best athlete frommy schooland he ended up quarterbacking againstmyWashingtonHigh Rams.
He lost and the Rams, led by future ColtsquarterbackMike Pagel, went on to play forthe state championship.
Yes, private schools would win a lot ofstate championships.Which public team isgoing to beat Landon or Georgetown Prep inlacrosse?Which public boys basketball teamis going tomake it to the state semifinalswith Riverdale Baptist, Clinton Christian,DeMatha, Bullis, etc. all competing?
But if you’re going to be a state cham-pion, shouldn’t you be the state’s best team?
I suspect the publics would surprisesome folks. Don’t you think the Sherwoodgirls volleyball teams that were led by cur-rent Florida star Alex Holstonwould havebeaten any private school? Sadly, we’ll neverknow.
There are toomany “champions” inMaryland as every eight-team league crownsits own. In some sports, there are state tour-naments for private schools. I’ve never beena fan of separate, but equal.
Bringing the privates in would level theplaying field. Nomore fifth-year seniors,Takoma Academy. Nomore 40-game sched-ules, Capitol Christian. All teamswould beplaying under the same rules.
It would savemoney. Instead of NationalChristian traveling to southern Virginia toplay a football game, the Eagles would beable to play schools only 10minutes away.Most importantly, it ends the separation andbrings the twoworlds together so that wehave true state champions.
Public, privateshould unite
SPORTS EDITORKEN SAIN
n Young Stags overcomeslow start to win WCAC
championship
BY PRINCE J. GRIMES
STAFF WRITER
The youth of the DeMathaCatholic and Good Counsel highschool football teams suggestedthat Saturday’s WashingtonCatholic Athletic Conference titlegame was just the first of manykey postseason meetings to comein future years.
This year’s contest went toDeMatha, as the Stags success-fully defended last year’s cham-pionship by defeating the Falcons24-20 at the University of Mary-land, College Park’s Byrd Stadium
“This [championship] is a littlebit more sweet,” DeMatha coachElijah Brooks said. The Stags de-feated St. John’s College 31-10 toclaim the title last season. “Justbecause we were senior-heavylast year, and everyone kind ofexpected it. A lot of people didn’tknow if wewere going tomake theplayoffs this year.”
As has been the case in somany games for DeMatha thisseason, the Stags fell behind earlyand trailed the Falcons 14-0 in thefirst quarter. But like those pastgames, DeMatha found a way tofight back and overcome the earlydeficit.
Picking up where it left off in a21-14 win over DeMatha on Oct.3, Good Counsel was able to find
GoodCounsel can’t hold off DeMatha
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Good Counsel High School’s Andres Castillodives into the end zone over DeMatha’s MylesOlufemi during Saturday’s WCAC title game.
n Little Hoyas return allscorers from last season’sMetros championship team
BY JENNIFERBEEKMANSTAFFWRITER
Very few Washington, D.C.area high school swimmers in thepast decade, with the exceptionof 2013 Good Counsel graduateJack Conger and former George-town Prep standout Josh Hafkin(Class of 2007), have finishedtheir tenures with five individualWashington Metropolitan Inter-scholastic Swimming and DivingChampionship titles, let aloneclaimed that many by the end oftheir junior seasons.
The Georgetown Prep swim-ming and diving team enters the2014-15 season with two suchswimmers—Metros recordhold-ers Carsten Vissering (100-yardbreaststroke) and Grant Goddard(100-yardbutterfly).Andthatonlyscratches the surface of why thisLittle Hoyas squad could poten-tially be most-dominant team inrecenthistory.
When this year’s senior class,led by Vissering, a University ofSouthern California recruit, God-dard (Harvard), Brandon Gold-stein (University of Virginia),Adrian Lin (Yale) and Joey Snod-derly (Indiana), arrived as argu-ably one of the most talentedfreshman classes ever, many areaswimming pundits expected im-mediate success — the previouswinter marked the first time ineight years that Prep hadn’t wonMetros.
But five freshmen does notmake a championship swimteam, Little Hoyas coach MattMongelli said.
Everything came togetherfor Prep last winter when theLittle Hoyas won seven out of 11swimming events to knock offthree-time defending championGonzaga for its first Metros winsince2010.AndPrepreturnsall itsscorers thiswinter.
The Little Hoyas have some-one in contention in every event,all the time. The addition of cur-rent sophomoreMatthewHirsch-berger midway through lastseason gave the Little Hoyas anextra spark in the distance free-style events.
The Little Hoyas are not onlypoised towinanotherMetros titlein February but it could be a his-torical one.
“We have some goals [forMetros], we want to lower somerecords, see howmany events wecan win,” Mongelli said. “We justwant to go out andhave fun. A lotof people have kind of put pres-sure [on this class] and they’vehandled it well over these fouryears.”
FavoritesBoys: Prep, of course, tops
this list.AndGonzagawill likelybeits closest competitor at Metros.But the defending Class 4A statechampion, Richard Montgom-ery, despite graduating two of itstop 3 swimmers, returns a slewof scorers capable of keeping the
Prep setto rulethe pool
n Barons return a youthfulgroup to be developed, not
setting expectations
BY PRINCE J. GRIMES
STAFFWRITER
Just two years removed from be-ing the county championship runner-up, the Bethesda-Chevy Chase HighSchool wrestling team is in the midstof retooling its lineup. The Barons areset to return a young group of wres-tlers this winter that gained some ex-perience last season.
B-CC seniors JackBanaszak (126),a state qualifier last season, and Rob-ert Bridenhagen (220), a regionalqualifier, are both returning for theBarons, which are hoping to surpriseteams this year, coach Nick Arnonesaid.
Banaszak and Bridenhagen, how-ever, are two of the few seniors for aB-CC team that will be junior-heavythis year, Arnone said. And becauseof the infusion of new wrestlers ex-pected to round out the lineup, Ar-none said, a lot of expectations aren’tbeing set this season.
“We have a lot of youth comingback,” Arnone said, adding that hislineup is balanced. “Overall, there are
a couple holes that we need to plugup, probably with some new wres-tlers, some inexperienced guys. Butwe’re really not setting too many ex-pectationson the season. I just kindofwant to improve day-by-day and seehow we pan out once we actually getinto the competition.”
The team has the potential to bereally goodnext year, once the juniorscome of age, and the new wrestlersget even more experience, Arnonesaid. For now, Arnone’s goal is tomake sure this team is competitive.
“It’s always a goal, to be competi-tive. I think we will be able to do that.No question about it,” Arnone said.“Our goal is just to be competitive. Ifwe can be competitive and give our-self a chance, you never know what’sgoing to happen.”
When it comes to Montgom-ery County Public School wrestling,there’s three-time state tournamentchampion Damascus, and thenthere’s everyone else.
In addition to their seeminglyannual county championship, theSwarmin’ Hornets captured a sec-ond consecutive state dual champi-onship title last season, and placedfourth in the season-ending statechampionship. It was their best statetournament showing since 2007, andDamascus returns a sizeable amount
of last season’s roster of state quali-fiers.
Damascus coach John Furgesonis bringing a new philosophy to theteamthis season inanattempt to cap-ture the title this time around.
“We were ready to take [the title]last year and someof our kidsweren’tready for the challenge the secondday of the tournament. Sowe’ve beenfocusing on that,” Furgeson said. “Wewent to Penn State and Virginia Techthe last couple years to try to ask themabout their philosophy, and I thoughtwe got some good information we’regoing to try to bring back to the highschool level — to try to get our kidsready for the end of the year push.”
The best of the rest entering thisseason appears to be Northwest,which returns a state runner-up anda handful of region qualifiers. Butwhereas Damascus appears to be un-touchable almost every year, North-west isn’t viewed asmuch.
Aside fromDamascus andNorth-west, it’s a toss up as to which team isexpected to arise from a pack wherethere isn’t a consensus best team,including Walter Johnson, PaintBranch, Churchill, andWhitman.
B-CC gets back to the futureTOM FEDOR/THE GAZETTE
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School s Jack Banaszak (left) Aryan Manglik practice on Friday afternoon.
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Rockets’ status as theNo. 1 teamin Montgomery County PublicSchools.
Girls: Churchill is on paceto win its second straight Met-ros and third in four years. TheBulldogs avoided the graduationcasualties experienced by someof their biggest rivals and returnthree swimmers who finishedin the top 10 of individual scor-ing at last year’s championship.Churchill alsoboasts thedeepestlineup of divers — when divingdoesn’t count towards teams’points at states, the Bulldogsare more vulnerable. Poolesvilleis in good position to reclaimthe Class 3A/2A/1A state title itmissed last season with four top11 individual scorers returning.
ContendersBoys: The usuals, Wootton,
Whitman, Walter Johnson, andresurgent Blair should all be intop 5 range this postseason. Infact, Walter Johnson droppedoff a little bit last year, but withthe majority of its top scorersback, could top this list. Whit-man returns it’s best swimmersand some young talent from ayear ago could be ready to break
out. The Patriots and Blazerseach graduated some importantpartsof their lineupsbut seemtohaveswimmersreadytofill thoseholes.
Girls: It’s going to be toughfor two-time defending statechampion Wootton to matchits recent results but the Patriotsshouldn’t be out of contention.Richard Montgomery couldsneak in as the county’s second-best squad with last year’s teamintact.WalterJohnsonpusheditsway back into the top 3 last win-terbutmightbemissing someofthatdepthwhile increaseddeptharound Morgan Hill could helpSherwood break back into thetop3.
DarkhorsesBoys: Einstein doesn’t have
the numbers to truly competefor a title but senior Rory Lewistopped the list of individualscoring at last year’s state meet.Churchill has fallen off a bit inrecent years but the Bulldogsshouldneverbeoverlooked.
Girls: Watch out for North-west. The Jaguars have beenbuilding from the bottom upand they should definitely notbe underestimated. Blair boastssome of the county’s best swim-mersbutmightnothaveenoughdepth to truly contend.
PREPContinued from Page B-1
room to run the ball at the startof Saturday’s contest.
Following a 27-yard runby Jonathon Lee on its firstpossession, Good Counselscored on a 29-yard pass fromquarterback Andres Castilloto Keon Paye. On the verynext Good Counsel posses-sion, a 74-yard drive of which68 yards came on the ground,Mohamed Ibrahim scored on a1-yard touchdown run.
While the Falcons scoredon each of its two first-quarterpossessions, DeMatha failedto record a single first down inthe quarter and punted on itsfirst three possessions of thegame.
“We had been in this situa-tion before,” Brooks said. “Ide-ally, you don’t want to start agame like that, especially achampionship game, but ourguys never wavered.”
The tide of the gameseemed to turn one play afterthe third DeMatha punt at thestart of the second quarter.Castillo was intercepted byDeMatha defensive back Dar-ryl Turner Jr., and three plays
later, DeMatha scored on a3-yard run by Khory Spruill.
On its next possession, De-Matha kicker Keegan Meyerdrilled an impressive 44-yardfield goal. And once DeMathareceived the ball again, aftera shanked punt, quarterbackBeau English threw a textbookpass to the left post of the endzone that only sophomore An-thony McFarland could catchin the midst of multiple GoodCounsel defenders. McFar-land’s touchdown gave De-Matha a 17-14 lead at halftime.
“That’s a play that we de-signed recently and it camethrough for us when weneeded it,” English said. “Weusually don’t practice it [withdefenders around]. Usually it’swide-open but we hit it when itcounted.”
“I’m a humble dude, but Ifeel like when I’m on the fieldnobody can checkme,”McFar-land added. “I had to do whatI had to [in order to] make theplay, and the quarterback putit in the same position where Ican get the ball.”
Good Counsel respondedon its first drive of the thirdquarter as Ibrahim, whorushed for 193 yards the firsttime these teams met, brokeoff a 43 yard run. Castillo fol-
lowed that with a 10-yardtouchdown scamper to putGood Counsel back ahead.
DeMatha responded im-mediately, though, puttingtogether a 64-yard drive whichEnglish finished with a 1-yardtouchdown run to put theStags up for good.
“Our kids are not going toquit playing until the game’sover,” Good Counsel coachBob Milloy said. “It’s just, [De-Matha’s] a good team and itwas their day, and congratula-tions to them.”
Good Counsel had ampleopportunities tomake a come-back, but the DeMatha defensewas up for the test. The Fal-cons best chance came late inthe fourth quarter when Payedropped a pass from Castilloafter beating the defense deep.Two plays later, Paye caught a20-yard pass fromCastillo onlyto fumble it away in DeMathaterritory.
“We knew we could stopthem, because we can stopanybody,” senior defensiveback Darryl Marshall Jr. said.“It feels so good [winningback-to-back titles]. Football iswhere my heart is. ... I love it.”
GOOD COUNSELContinued from Page B-1
FILE PHOTO
Georgetown Prep’s Carsten Vissering is expected to be one of the topswimmers in the area this winter.
n Cougars rally after slowstart, but fall short on final
chance
BY PRINCE J. GRIMESSTAFFWRITER
With just 12 seconds re-maining in the game, theQuince Orchard High Schoolfootball team was just 7 yardsaway from potentially tyingNorthwest and sending the 4AWest Region championshipplayoff game into overtime onFriday night.
QO quarterback CarsonKnight lobbed a third-downpass in the direction of a wideopen Kyle Green, only to seeit graze off of the star runningback’s finger tips in the endzone and fall incomplete.
On fourth down, Knightslippedonaplay-action roll out,and the clock expired as the Jag-uars defeated Quince Orchard28-21on theCougars homefield
in Gaithersburg.The Cougars (10-2) may
have made mistakes to fallshort on that final drive, but
the Northwest defense did thejob for most of the game. It wasone of the key differences be-tween a Jaguars team that won
on Friday, and the one that lostto Quince Orchard, 52-27, onNov. 1.
“Defense [was the differ-
ence],” Northwest coach Mi-chael Neubeiser said.
Northwest (11-1) advancesto the Class 4A state semifinals.They play host to 4A South Re-gion champion DuVal (9-3).The Tigers are 10-2 on the field,but had to take a forfeit for anoffseason workout issue. Theironly losses came to Wilson(Washington, D.C.) andWise.
DuVal is led by dual-threatjunior quarterback AntoineBrooks, who scored the game-winning touchdown in Sat-urday’s region championshipagainst Eleanor Roosevelt.
The Jaguars sacked Knightfive times and pressured himmost of the night, including thekey final plays. Northwest alsoheld QO to less than 200 yardsrushing, compared to the 300-plus rushing yards by the Cou-gars had in the first meeting.
“And we didn’t turn the ballover,” Neubeiser said. “Otherthan giving them the touch-down on the high snap, we
didn’t give them anything. Thatwas the biggest difference.”
Northwest quarterbackMark Pierce did throw one in-terception, to QO safety NateHill, but it came in thefinalmin-ute of the first half, once North-west already held a 21-7 lead.
The Jaguars jumped on topof QO immediately at the startof the game as running back E.J.Lee broke a 72-yard touchdownrun on the first play.
Ultimately, the Cougars fellshort to Northwest in the regionfinal for a second straight year,andby a similarmargin. (North-west beat QO 28-20 in 2013.)
“We didn’t have a great startthere, early in the game— bothsides of theball,”QOcoach JohnKelley said. “But I’m just proudof our kids. Our kids fought allgame...We talked about fightingthe whole entire time.”
Northwest football’s bid to repeat as 4A state champs still alive
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Northwest High School’s Caleb Gillis sacks Quince Orchard quarterback Carson Knight during Friday’s football game inGaithersburg.
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Armel TuenoNguimfackBlairSeniorDefense
Shutdown centerback helped Blaz-ers win divisionand tie two of thearea’s top teams inWhitman andDe-Matha.
Bryan Reyes-ArandaEinsteinSeniorMidfield
Clutch scorer hadnine goals and 10assists this fall,leading Titans todivision title. Fin-ishedwith 32 goalsover four seasons.
Aaron TanenbaumWhitmanSeniorForward
Teamed upwithMason to carrythe high-poweredVikings offense.Registered 12 goalsand six assists afterplaying academylast season.
Alla TesfuWalter JohnsonSeniorMidfield
Key to aWildcatsoffense that reg-istered a countyleading 36 regularseason goals.Selected to the all-state team.
Carlos ValdezBlake, seniorDefense
Bengals captainand fourth-yearvarsity playeranchored an in-experienced backline while tallyingtwo goals and fourassists.
Corbin BrailsfordSherwoodSeniorDefense
Anchored one ofcounty’s top backlines while alsocontributing onoffense; CatholicUniversity recruit.
Kevin HwangQuince OrchardSeniorMidfield
Technically giftedplayer with strongtouch, vision. Hadsix goals, includingfour game-winners.Committed toGeorgeWashing-ton.
Sepehr HoghooghiChurchillJuniorForward
Strong, physicalscorer tallied 13goals and four as-sists, scoring inevery game theBulldogs scored
Neal IannoneGaithersburgSeniorForward
Helped Trojans tohistoric season thatended in regionfinals. Selected sec-ond team all-stateby theMarylandAssociation ofCoaches of Soccer.
Matthew MightyNorthwestJuniorGoalkeeper
Tremendous ath-lete with excellentinstincts. Jaguarsgave up 13 goalsall seasonwith the6-foot-3 keeper innet.
Adrian BaezEinstein
Baez led theTitans to an11-2 seasonand their firstMontgom-ery 3A/2ADivision titlesince 2003.The former
Blair coach helped Einstein becomeone of only two county teams todefeat eventual Class 4A statechampionWhitman.
Delaney MuldoonHoly CrossSeniorMidfielder
Penn State lacrosserecruit’s physicalityin themiddle was atoughmatchup foreveryone, alwaysdangerous in pen-alty area.
Maddie PackGood CounselSeniorDefender
Doesn’t needpomp and circum-stance, SyracuseUniversity recruitwas the reason Fal-cons’ defense heldup despite losingone of nation’s bestkeepers.
Kate ReeseChurchillSeniorForward
Good luck tryingto push LoyolaUniversity recruitoff the ball, majorscoring threat tal-lied 11 goals, 13assists in 10 games— she hadwristsurgerymidseason.
Stephi ShinQuince OrchardSeniorMidfielder
Few can controlthe ball like oneof county’smostvaluable players toher team; four-yearstarter finished ten-ure with 21 goals,14 assists.
Sam SullengerQuince OrchardSeniorForward/defender
West Point recruit’sblend of athleti-cism, smarts andskill are hard tomatch; spent halfof tenure on de-fense but finishedsecond on school’sall-time scoring list.
Emma AndersonWhitmanSeniorForward
Columbia Univer-sity recruit scoredgamewinner instate champion-ship game, wasinvolved in nearlyevery scoring play.
Juliana ComerChurchillJuniorMidfielder
Few can out-maneuver adouble- or triple-team like Bulldogs’leading scorer (12goals); added 12assists.
Kristen DarraghPoolesvilleJuniorGoalkeeper
Division I recruitallowed 9 goals in14 games and shutout 9 opponents.While sidelined,12-win team lostin first round ofplayoffs.
Nia DorseyGood CounselJuniorMidfielder
Moved out of natu-ral forward positionto solidifymidfieldand technicallygifted player justthat for three-yearreigningWCACchampion.
Abby MeyersWhitmanSophomoreForward
Fast and fearless,Vikings’ top scorer(11 goals) workedhard in offseasonto addmuscle to6-foot frame andbecame vital in of-fensive third.
Greg HerbertWhitman10th year
This is notabout win-ning a secondstraightchampion-ship or anundefeatedseason, it’sabout somehow improving despitelosing the county’s best player tograduation.Managed extremelytalented team searching for identityas best anyone could.
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The Gazette sports staff picks the winners of this week’s football games involving Montgomery Countyteams. All games includes picksmade in Prince George’s County. Here are this week’s predictions:
This week’s schedule Ken Prince Kent Eric Jen Adam
Glenelg at Damascus Damascus Damascus Damascus Damascus Damascus DamascusDuVal at Northwest Northwest Northwest Northwest Northwest Northwest NorthwestSurrattsville at Fort Hill Fort Hill Fort Hill Fort Hill Fort Hill Fort Hill SurrattsvilleSouth Carroll at Douglass Douglass Douglass Douglass Douglass Douglass S. Carroll
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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
Davey MasonWhitmanJuniorForward
Led Vikings to the Class 4A statechampionship, tallying a team-high 16 goals and 10 assists.Scored twice in the champion-ship game and carriedWhitmanthroughout playoffs, bouncingback from an injury-plagued 2013season.
Clare SevereWhitmanSeniorMidfielder/defender/forward
Second on team in goals (7) andassists (3), LehighUniversity recruitis one of the fastest players in thestate and barely loses a stepwiththe ball at her feet. Arguably thecounty’s best player in any field po-sition, she’s the reason there was nodropoff from the talented class thatgraduated last year.
n Hornets senior shinesafter well-known star playgoes down with injury
BY JENNIFER BEEKMANSTAFFWRITER
The Damascus High Schoolfootball team found itself a bitdiscombobulated when Uni-versity of South Carolina recruitJalen Christian was carried offthe field late in the first quarterof Friday night’s 3A West Regionfinal against visiting Linganorewith an ankle injury, Swarmin’Hornets coach Eric Wallich said.Important utility playerAri Caco-pardowas also outwith an injurybyhalftime. And that’s notwherea teamwants to bewhen playingfor itsfirst state semifinalappear-ance in four years.While Damascus is best
known for workhorse runningback Jake Funk and Christian,it was senior La’Kye Alston whopickedup the slackonboth sides
of the ball to help the Swarmin’Hornets hold off a late challengefrom Linganore to win 14-13 inwhatWallich said was one of thecraziest games he’s ever been apartof—thestadiumlightswentoff twice, the below-freezingtemperatures resulted in slickfield conditions plus the two keyinjuries.“[Alston] is suchaplaymaker,
he’s oneof ourbest kept secrets,”Wallich said of Alston. “He nevercame off the field. We rode hima bit [Friday]. We know if we canget the ball in his hands, [he canmake somethinghappen].”With the win, seven-time
state championDamascus (12-0)moves on to the state semifinalsfor the first time since 2010. TheHornets are scheduled to hostHoward County’s Glenelg at 7p.m. Friday for a spot in the statechampionship game. Damascuswon its last state title in 2007.It was the approximately
30-minute break after the lightswent out for a second time—thestadium also went dark during
halftime and took about 20 min-utesbefore theypoweredbackup— that almost did the Swarmin’Hornets in. The teams went in-sidetheschool tokeepwarmwithDamascus leading, 14-0. Uponthe teams’ return to the field,Linganore scored13unansweredpoints and was a two-point con-version away fromawin.“That just tookabout10years
offmy life,”Wallich said of the fi-nal twominutes of regulation. “Itwas pure pandemonium whenwe saw [quarterback NathanielMusselman]was short.”Things could have gone
south for Damascus after losingChristian — he was on crutchesby halftime but Wallich said heis currently unsure of the injury’sseverity. But running back JakeFunk went to work — 34 carriesfor138yardsandatouchdown—and Wallich said he was pleasedwith the way other players tookonmore prominent roles in sup-port of him, especially Alston.
Damascus uses its ‘best kept secret’
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n Reasonably-pricedreds, whites go great
with stuffing
While Thanksgiving is atime for celebrating family andfriends, it is also an opportunityto try some unfamiliar wines.
The classicmeal of turkey,stuffing, and various side dishesprovide a broad palate of fla-vors, textures and aromas as astarting point for selecting ac-companying wines. As with anycomplexmeal, look for winesthat have good fruit flavors, re-freshing acidity for balance andare not too tannic or oaky.
Youngwines seem toworkbest for Turkey Day since thesubtle flavors that develop in awine properly cellared can beeasily overpowered by the bigflavors inherent in the typicalholiday fare. The half-hour ruleapplies; remove the white winesfrom the refrigerator and refrig-erate the red ones 30minutesbefore serving and don’t feelthe need to wash out the stem-ware between courses since thenewly poured redwines will notbe noticeably changed by a fewleftover drops remaining in thebottom of the glass.
For the beginning of themeal consider a white winefrom a small, family ownedproperty in France’s Bordeauxappellation, the surprisinglyaffordable Chateau de Bon-hoste Sec 2013 ($12). A blend ofSauvignon Blanc, Semillon andMuscadelle, it displays vibrantcitrus and floral aromas withgrapefruit, peach and red appleflavors and refreshing aciditymaking it ideal as an aperi-tif or to accompany creamysoups. Also goodwith starters
is another wine from the sameregion, the Château La Rame2013 ($16), a rounder versionof Sauvignon Blanc than typi-cally produced in other areas. Itshows apple, apricot and stonefruit flavors with hints of spiceand bright grapefruit acidity.
A classic “summer wine”that would still work during thefall food festivities is the NoticoAlvarinho 2013 ($15) that hascitrus and tropical fruit aromaswhich lead into crisp lemon,lime and peach accentedwithminerals and a palate cleaningfinish.
Moving further into themeal, think about serving theAttems Pinot Grigio Ramato2013 ($18) whose name (trans-lated as “coppery”) is the termused for the wine during the Re-public of Venice. Its orange hueis created by allowing the skinsto remain in contact with thejuice for 24 hours and the re-sulting wine is fuller andmoresubstantial than other PinotGrigios with honeyed floral andstrawberry scents alongwithpassion fruit, orange zest, stonefruit and lychee flavors.
Or try the Terras GaudaO’Rosal Albarino 2013 ($24)that includes some Loureiraand Caino Blanco as well giv-ing it herbal peach, beeswaxand tangerine aromas that flownicely into complexmineral ac-cented peach, pear and grape-fruit notes with a lengthy finish.
From the Tuscan region ofMontalcino is a silky-smoothblend of Sangiovese andMer-lot, the Luce della Vite Lucente
Thanksgiving perfecttime to try new wines
GRAPELINESB Y L O U I S M A R M O N
n Show uses dancing, songs, andNASA data
BY KIRSTY GROFF
STAFFWRITER
Out of more than seven billion peoplecurrently on Earth, only a few hundredhave ever glimpsed the planet from aboveits surface.
Founder, director, and composer KenjiWilliams is hoping to share that uniquespace traveler perspective with those whoremain Earth-bound through hismultime-dia artistic production “Bella Gaia.”
First conceived in late 2005, the loveletter to nature combines up-to-dateNASAdata visualizations of the Earth’s surfacewith music and dance, blending the sci-
entific and artistic worlds in one beautiful,90-minute performance, which debuts atStrathmore on Friday.
For Williams, a chance meeting withastronaut Mike Fincke at a barbecue inStar City, Russia, launched the concept. Heasked Fincke how he’s changed since go-ing to space, to which he responded that
he underwent a life-
changing transformation seeing the planetfrom space, creating a deeper relationshipwith Earth once he returned.
It’s an experience Williams was in-spired to pass on to everyone.
“We as humans have an amazing cre-ative ability,” he said, “but we’ve lost someof this dialogue with the natural world, it’snot part of our modern reality. We haveEarth Day and the environmental move-ment, but there’s nothing that really devel-ops a relationship with the planet itself.”
For two years he worked on the con-cept, partnering with the Denver Museumof Nature and Science for the first proto-type show in 2007 and working with NASAand theEarthSciencesDivisionatGoddardSpace FlightCenter to view imaging of data
For love of our beautiful planetPHOTO BY GION
Kenji Williams incorporated dancers and musicians performing works inspired by cultures around the globe as part of his “Bella Gaia” production, comingto Strathmore Nov. 28.
BELLA GAIAn When: 8 p.m. Friday
n Where: Music Center at Strathmore,5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda
n Tickets: $25-$42
n For information: strathmore.org;301-581-5100
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DANCESSocial Ballroom Dance, 8:30 p.m.,
“step of the evening” salsamini-lessons at 8:15 p.m., $16, Nov. 26; 2126Industrial Highway, Silver Spring, 301-326-1181, hollywoodballroomdc.com.
Scottish Country Dancing, 8 to 10p.m.Mondays, steps and formationstaught. No experience, partner neces-sary, T-39 Building onNIH campus,Wisconsin Avenue and SouthDrive,Bethesda, 240-505-0339.
Glen Echo Park is at 7300 MacAr-thur Blvd.
Blues, Capital Blues: Thursdays,8:15 p.m. beginner lesson, 9 to 11:30p.m. dancing toDJs, Glen Echo Park’sSpanish BallroomAnnex, $8, capital-blues.org.
Contra, Nov. 28. LukeDonforthcalls toMorrison Brothers with JimMorrison on fiddle, OwenMorrisonon guitars andWillMorrison onpercussion; From11:35 p.m. until1:30 a.m., FNDTechnoContra in theAnnex: BrianHamshar calls toDJImproper’smix. $7 as stand alone, $5if purchasedwith theMorrison Broth-ers’ contra dance ticket, Glen EchoPark Spanish Ballroom, 7:30 p.m., $10,fridaynightdance.org.
English Country, Nov. 26, BobFarrall, 8 p.m., Glen Echo TownHall(upstairs), fsgw.org.
Swing and Lindy, Dec. 27, DarylDavis. $18, $12, 17 and younger. GlenEcho Park Spanish Ballroom, flying-feet.org.
Waltz, Nov. 30, Cabaret Sauvignonwith AndreaHoag (fiddle), Karen Ash-brook (hammered dulcimer &woodenflute), DaveWiesler (piano& guitar),Paul Oorts (button accordion,mando-lin, banjo & guitar), waltztimedances.org.
Irish Dancing, “Ring of Kerry IrishDance class winter session began onSept. 9. Dancersmeet on Tuesday’suntilmid-December at RidgeviewMiddle School. Beginning class startsat 7 p.m., followed by themore ex-perienced class at 8:05 p.m. Cost is$40.We do ceili and set dances andno partner is required to enjoy thelessons. Formore information, email
Jean at [email protected] visitringofkerrydancers.org. Dancersmustbe at least 8 years old to senior. Any-one younger than 16must be accom-panied by an adult.
MUSICBethesda Blues & Jazz Supper
Club, The James BrownExperience, 8p.m.Nov. 28; BigNateNational Tour,10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m.Nov. 29; call forprices, 7719Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda.240-330-4500, bethesdabluesjazz.com.
BlackRock Center for the Arts,Salsa and BachataDance Party, 7:30p.m.Dec. 5; 12901 TownCommonsDrive, Germantown. 301-528-2260,blackrockcenter.org.
Fillmore Silver Spring, B.o.BwithKevinGates, Nov. 26; 8656 ColesvilleRoad, Silver Spring. fillmoresilver-spring.com.
Strathmore, The Brian SetzerOrchestra Christmas Rocks Extrava-ganza, Nov. 26; call for venue, times.Locations:Mansion, 10701 RockvillePike, North Bethesda;Music Centerat Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane,North Bethesda, 301-581-5100, strath-more.org.
ON STAGEAdventure Theatre-MTC, “Tiny
Tim’s Christmas Carol,” through Jan.1, call for prices, times, AdventureTheatreMTC, 7300MacArthur Blvd.,Glen Echo, 301-634-2270, adventure-theatre-mtc.org.
Imagination Stage, “101Dalma-tians,” Nov. 19 through Jan. 11, call forprices, times, Imagination Stage, 4908Auburn Ave., Bethesda, imagination-stage.org.
Highwood Theatre, “Improv Com-edyNight,” Dec. 5, call for prices,times, TheHighwood Theatre, 914 Sil-ver Spring Ave., thehighwoodtheatre.org, 301-587-0697.
Olney Theatre Center, “Disney’sThe LittleMermaid,” throughDec.28, call for prices, times, 2001Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney, 301-924-3400, olneytheatre.org.
The Puppet Co., “TheNutcracker,”Nov. 28 throughDec. 30; Tiny Tots@ 10, selectWednesdays, Saturdaysand Sundays, call for shows and showtimes, Puppet Co. Playhouse, GlenEcho Park’s North Arcade Building,7300MacArthur Blvd., $5, 301-634-5380, thepuppetco.org.
Rockville Musical Theatre, Fitzger-ald Theatre, 603 EdmonstonDrive,Rockville, 240-314-8690, r-m-t.org.
Round House Theatre, Bethesda,“TheNutcracker,” Nov. 26 through
Dec. 28, call for show times, 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. $15 for gen-eral admission, $10 for subscribers,patrons 30 and younger and seniors.240-644-1100, roundhousetheatre.org.
Lumina Studio Theatre, “TwelfthNight,” Silver Spring Black Box The-atre, 8641 Colesville Road, SilverSpring, 301-588-8277, luminastudio.org; [email protected].
Silver Spring Stage, “Orson’sShadow,” Jan. 9 through Jan. 31,Woodmoor Shopping Center, 10145Colesville Road, Silver Spring, seeWebsite for show times, ssstage.org.
VISUAL ARTAdah Rose Gallery, “Notes, Refer-
ences andMiscellaneousDebris,”BrianDupont, throughDec. 28, 3766Howard Ave., Kensington, 301-922-0162, adahrosegallery.com
Glenview Mansion, CharlesWeiss,Lois Levitan, Laura Chassy, thoughNov. 26, Rockville Civic Center Park,503 EdmonstonDrive, Rockville. rock-villemd.gov.
Marin-Price Galleries, Marla Korr,now throughNov. 27, 10:30 a.m. to 7p.m.Monday through Saturday, noonto 5 p.m. Sunday, 7022WisconsinAve., 301-718-0622,marin-price.com.
Montgomery Art Association,Laura-Leigh Palmer, throughNov. 30,WestfieldWheatonMall, 11160 ViersMill Road,Wheaton,montgomeryart.org.
VisArts, Steve Pearson:Manipular,Dec. 10 through Jan. 18; HappyNOTSappy, Dec. 10 through Jan. 18;Wil-liamPeirce, Dec. 10 through Jan. 18;Gibbs Street Gallery, 155Gibbs St.,Rockville, 301-315-8200, visartsatrock-ville.org.
Washington Printmakers Gallery,My 20 20 Vision, artist Terry Svat,Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, secondfloor, 8230Georgia Ave., Silver Spring,washingtonprintmakers.com.
Kentlands Mansion, CathyAbramson (oil), LynneOakes (oil), andElroyWilliams (multimedia), throughDec. 5, 320 Kent Square Road, Gaith-ersburg, 301-258-6425.
Arts Barn, 311 Kent Square Road,Gaithersburg, 301-258-6394
“You Are Here,” exhibit by DaveMontgomery, now through Jan. 4. Ta-koma Park Community Center, 7500Maple Ave., Takoma Park. photoart-beyond.com; 301-215-9224.
ET CETERAThe Writer’s Center, 4508Walsh
Street, Bethesda, 301-654-8664, writer.org.
IN THE ARTSfrom their work through an artistic lens.
“It’s so rewarding not only to work withtop scientists in the world,” he said, “but toclearly communicate their intentions froma different angle. I think they really see thevalue in using an artistic way to engage thepublic with their science and data.”
These visualizations include time lapseimages of global events such as arctic icemelts over the last five years, active fires inthe Amazon or flight paths of planes over a24-hour period.
Williams believes the data, presentedwithout any political agenda or religiousleanings, shines through against the back-drop of original music and dance perfor-mances, which include glimpses of andexamples from cultures around the globe.
“As an artist, to have real scientific dataand information inmy art really grounds it,”he said. “It’s not just pretty pictures; it’s bothartistic and educational entertainment. Forme, I can’t ask for anythingmore.”
Bella Gaia is extremely adaptable, andWilliams has brought versions of the pro-duction to 10 minute sessions at confer-ences, 20-30 minute school programs andsolo showswith just the projections, nomu-sic or dance. The Strathmore presentation isone of the largest, most complete produc-tions of Bella Gaia so far, featuring severallive dancers and musicians, including Wil-liams on violin.
Because of its adaptability, the produc-tion is great for introducing awide variety ofaudiences to the beauty of an Earth aboveour atmosphere, which could prove moreinspiring than even the largest environmen-tal protest or expansive Earth Day celebra-tion.
“I think that’s the heart of what’s some-times missing in the environmental move-ment — how do you make these large,complex, abstract global issues pertain toyou and your family today,” he said. “Weshould all look for better ways to engage
people in these larger issues.”Williams recently worked on the release
of the first Bella Gaia album, “Bella Gaia –Beautiful Earth,” and hopes to expand theproduct into a full brand eventually. He alsohopes to create a unique space combiningthe best aspects of a planetarium, wheresomeversions of BellaGaia takeplace, and atraditional stage.
“The planetarium provides an immer-sive, panoramic view that really takes youthrough the space sequences, but it doesn’thave great sound or lighting,” he said. “Ina traditional theater, made for live perfor-mance with a big stage, lighting and sound,you’re stuck with a square screen.”
Whether in a conventional theater, aconference roomor a dome filledwith stars,Bella Gaia attempts to fulfill William’s mis-sion of building as many relationships aspossible between humans and the earth un-derfoot that toomanypeople today forget toappreciate.
“I am inspired by indigenous culturesin that they had rituals that would remindthemof their place in theuniverse andnatu-ral world and strengthen that relationship,”he said. “Humans are a forgetful species; weneed constant reminding, and ‘Bella Gaia’is, in away, a ritual to establish that connec-tion.”
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2011 ($23). A collaboration between therenownwineries of RobertMondavi andVittorio Frescobaldi it has vibrant red fruitflavors including berries and cherries com-binedwith coffee, coconut and a pleasingearthiness with good balance and a longfinish which togethermake it delightfullyfood friendly. For those who prefer theirreds with a bitmore heft, open the Kaiken
Malbec Ultra 2011 ($22) a black cherry andtobacco scented, complex and full-bodiedeffort from a property inMendoza, Argen-tina, owned by the outstanding Chileanwinery VinaMontes. Named for the wildgeese that fly over themountains separat-ing the two countries, it begins with scentsof violets, raspberries and candied cherriesthat flow effortlessly into balanced, spicyplum, cassis and blackberry flavors withhints of smokedmeat, tobacco and oak.Open this an hour or so before serving orcellar it for a future family gathering.
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COURTESY OF THE DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE
“Bella Gaia” founder and director Kenji Williamsalso composed the featured music and plays violinin the production.
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“The seaweed is always greenerin somebody else’s lake.” Of course,it’s plenty green over at the OlneyTheatre Center, as “Disney’s TheLittleMermaid,” continues itsrun for all you “Poor, UnfortunateSouls.”Follow Ariel, Sebastian, Floun-
der, and the evil Ursula as youbecome “Part of TheirWorld.”Live-action actors work with pup-pets and special effects tomake theshow spectacular.Of course, Disney’s version of
“The LittleMermaid,” has a littlehappier ending than the originalstory written byHans Christian An-dersen, but at least in this version.Prince Eric gets to “Kiss the Girl.”Oops, sorry, SPOILERS!For those looking forward to
traveling “Under the Sea,” ticketsfor the show “don’t costmuch,
JUST YOURVOICE!” err ..., I mean,are $31-$63.50. Formore informa-
tion, visit olneytheatre.org or call301-924-3400.
Get your dinglehoppers ready
PHOTO BY STAN BAROUH
The cast of “Disney’s The Little Mermaid,” performs “Under the Sea” at the Olney TheatreCenter.
For the third year in a row, theFillmore Silver Spring is openingits doors on Thanksgiving for thoseless fortunate.Along with Shephard’s Table,
the “Giving Thanks,” event will runfrom 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. in SilverSpring. Seasonal treats, livemusic,and take away care packages will beavailable for those in need.The venue will feature a live jazz
band, dessert service and warmdrinks including apple cider andhot chocolate. Donated productsincluding food, toiletries, andclothes will be set out for attend-ees to assemble care packages bychoosing the products they need
most.Donations are being accepted
from noon to 6 p.m.Monday
through Friday at the venue. Dona-tions can also be dropped off whilethe venue is open for a show. Allvolunteer positions are currentlyfilled. Those looking to participatein Giving Thanks are invited to setup donation boxes at their work,schools, churches and other orga-nizations.Additionally, those looking to
lend their time are invited to pickup flyers at the venue box office fordistribution and posting at shelters,food banks, clinics and other loca-tions.Formore information, visit fill-
moresilverspring.com or call 301-960-9999.
Giving back at Fillmore
FILLMORE SILVER SPRING
On Thursday, the Fillmore Silver Spring willopen its doors and provide food, treats,music and warmth to those in need.
Famed jazz pianist GeorgeWinston, a fan-favorite at Strath-more, will once again return to theMusic Center in North Bethesdaon Sunday to perform a two-hourconcert.Youwon’t see him dressed in
tie and tails, however. No, usu-allyWinston dresses a littlemorecomfortably when performing,going so far as performing in flan-nel shirts, jeans and socks, sincewearing shoes tend to tap loudlythanks to his “hard beat pound-
ing” left foot.Winston has released 15
albums and six soundtracks,although themusic of VinceGuaraldi (of Charlie Brown TVspecials fame), has always beenhigh on list of favorites. In fact,in 1996,Winston released “Linusand Lucy—TheMusic of VinceGuaraldi.”Tickets for the show are $28-
$58. Formore information, visitstrathmore.org or call 301-581-5100.
Linus, as played byGeorge Winston
JOE DE TUFO
Pianist George Winston is set to perform at Strathmore on Sunday.
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GAITHERSBURG:Th, 3 Br, 2.5 Ba, HOCwelcome, newly reno-vated, $1700 (neg) +util 240-688-6178
GAITH/MV:TH 3BR,2.5BA $1700/mo + UtilNo Pets,No Smkr, NoSec 8 Avail Now!! Call301-208-9262
GERMANTOWN:4BD 2BA SFH.Remod. Near shops &transp. $2200 HOCokay. 301-570-0510
GAITHERSBURG-4 BR 3.5 BA, full bsmt,deck, $1750 + utilsnew carpet & paintCall 240-447-9961
GERMANTOWN:TH, 3Br, 2.5Ba,NP/NS, new paint,$1625 + util ANDROCKVILLE: 2Br,1Ba Condo $1450 +electric 240-472-5642(after 6pm)
GERMANTOWNTOWN CENTRE:3Br, 2.5Ba TH, grg &2 parking spaces,$1929/month + utils12852 Rexmore DriveCall: 240-888-0747
MONT. VILLAGE:3BR, 2FBA, 2HBA endunit TH with finishedbasement for rent infamily friendly neigh-borhood. Located inclose proximity topools and parks.Walkout deck from2nd floor. Washer,dryer, cable/wifi ready.Partially furnished(neg) No Smokers &No Pets. $1800+ utilit-ies. Call 240-595-3311
OLNEY- EU TH 3bd/2.5 ba new paint, car-pet in rec room, W/D,deck, fenced yard re-served parking, N/S,N/P $1650. Greatschools Call 301-774-7148 owner is agent.
OLNEY: SFH, 4 bed-room , 2.5 baths, W/D,deck, fpl, 2 car gar-age, non smoking$2500 . 301-740-3623.
ROCKVILLE- 2BR/2 BA fin Attic, sun-room, living & FamilyRM, no HOA, on oneacre land. $1800 call202-380-8885
WHEATON- 4 BR/2.5 BA TH 1600 sq fteat-in kitch, fin bsmtw/bar, W/D, off streetparking $2250 close tometro & beltway call301-656-4477
GAITHERSBURG-Olde Towne Spacious1 bedroom/1 ba Apt$1000 month + elecCall (240)388-0056
BETHESDA: Furn,1Br, 1Ba, kit, balcony,2 walk/in closets,pool, exercise club,tennis store andrestauarant $1,845/moinc utils and cableCall: 301-455-9608
GERMANTOWN-Luxury 1 Bedroom Apt1 person short termavail $1275 call 301-580-3769 see onlinead on craigslist.
SILVER SPRING:Remodeled basement2Br, + den, 1Ba, priventr, W/D, wifi, nrFDA/bus. $1400/utilinc Call: 202-841-9335
GBURG 2 BR/2 BAon the top floor, Woodfloors LR/ DR/ Hallareas. W/D Avail12/01$1275 240-601-7803
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GERMANTOWN:Spacious 3 BHK + 2Full Bath + 2 Half BathTownhome in thesought after ChurchillVillage community.Walking distance toGermantown TownCenter shopping,restaurants, theatersand library. Fencedbackyard, 2 car park-ing, community tot lotsand swimming pool.New carpet. Greatschools. Minutes to I-270. 301-906-0870
ASPEN HILL: 1BD,1BA in 2BD, 2BA apt.NS. $750 util incl. OffBelpre Rd. Avail now!Call 240-330-2330
DERWOOD: M/F. 1BR & den, pvt entry &ba, $950 (all utils.incl.), wifi/cable NP,NS. 240-620-5564
GAITHERSBURG:1 Br nr Metro/ShopsNo Pets, No Smoking$375 Avail Now.Call: 301-219-1066
GAITH:Furn RM formale (se rentacuarto). Nr metro,W/D, $475 incluutills. 301-785-0242
GAITHERSBURG:Furnished basementw/priv BA & Entra.$1000. Lg BD w/privBA $550. Int, DirectTV, priv pkg, utils incl.Avail Dec 15th. 240-398-6552
GAITH/MONT VILL.Master Bedroom$600/mo Avail nowNs/Np Nr Bus ShopsCall 240-426-5651
GBURG: Furn RMFem only 1BR, pvt BA$600 utils incl. CATVextra! Ns/Np nr MetroAvail Now! 240-601-9125
GERMANTOWN:1 furnished Br, shrdBa & Kit, nr bus, $450all util inc Call Jose:301-366-8689
GERMANTOWN:Full Bsmt in TH w/prvtba, $850 nr 355 busline. Avail 12/01 Call301-300-8908
GERMANTOWN:Lrg Br $550, Sm Br$450 utils incl shrd Bafor both, nr bus &shops, Call: 301-920-4988
GERMANTOWN:Med BD in SFH $460incl utils, WIFI, Cable,mini fridge/micro. SecDep req.301-529-5427
ROCKVILLE: 1Brshare bath in SFH.Male $500 utils cableincl. Near Metro/ BusNS/NP 240-483-9184
ROCKVILLE: 1 RMw/ shared bath & kitchnr metro $600 incl utilsMonth to Month. Call240-645-5307
SILVER SPRING-Room avail now! $475or $500 shared kitch,bath, & utils. W/D,CATV 301-404-2681
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGFOR PROPOSED SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTION ON
WYNGATE DRIVE
Pursuant to Section 49-53 of the Montgomery County Code (2004) as amended, a pub-lic hearing shall be held on TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2014, in the lobby level auditori-um of the EXECUTIVE OFFICE BUILDING (EOB) located at 101 MONROE STREET inROCKVILLE, MARYLAND. The sole purpose of a public hearing is to allow citizens anopportunity to present oral and written comments concerning construction of a sidewalkthat provides disabled citizens, pedestrians and bicyclists safer travel to schools andnearby public attractions or facilities. The information presented helps determine wheth-er or not to recommend constructing a portion of, or the entire proposed project. Thehearing will begin at 6:00 p.m.
WYNGATE DRIVE, Bethesda, MarylandOld Georgetown Road to Melvern Drive (north and south sides)
Project files are available for examination in the offices of the Department of Transporta-tion, Division of Transportation Engineering (DTE), 4th Floor, 100 Edison Park Drive,Gaithersburg, Maryland. You can call 240-777-7270 to schedule an appointment to re-view project files, obtain details and/or information related to a hearing, or to reservetime to present testimony at an upcoming hearing. Written comments for considerationby the Public Hearing Officer may be submitted to Annual Sidewalk Program, Depart-ment of Transportation, 100 Edison Park Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20878. Inter-preter services will be provided for the deaf or hearing impaired and Spanish-speakingcitizens upon request. Please allow (5) days advance notice when requesting interpret-er services. If special services or aids are needed to participate in this activity, pleasecall 240-777-7220 (voice), TTY users call Maryland Relay. The COB facility is handicapaccessible. DEPT: DOT/Division of Transportation Engineering FULL MAIL ADDRESS:100 Edison Park Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20878; PHONE NUMBER: 240-777-7270
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Montgomery Hospice-CookCasey House, our 14 bed inpatient facility, has apart time opening for an experienced cook toprepare meals for our patient’s and visitors. Theschedule is every other weekend, 6:00am-2:30pm.Must be a certified food manager and haveprevious experience cooking in an institutionalsetting. Healthcare experience preferred. Pleasecall Michelle Bentzel at 301-637-1877, stopby for an application, or visit our website atwww.montgomeryhospice.org 1355 PiccardDrive, Suite 100 Rockville, MD 20850 EOE
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$10,995
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#N0559, Auto,40k Miles, 1-Owner,Sedan
$25,950
2011 Lexus 350 GS
#526071A, Automatic,19K Miles, 1-Owner,PZEV Coupe
$14,995
2012 Volkswagen Beetle
2012 Volvo XC60 3.2L SUV
#429025A, Auto, VolvoCertified, 1-Owner, 55KMiles, 3.2L
$22,950
2012 Audi A3 2.0T Premium
#P9172, 1-Owner,34K Miles, Auto $19,995
2011 Mini Cooper CountryMan S............... $19,995#526051A, Auto, 29K Miles, 1-Owner, True Blue
2012 Volvo S60 T5 Sedan......................................... $20,950#526084A, Auto, 39k Miles, Volvo Certified, 1-Owner
2008 Mercedes Benz ML350............................... $21,950#526113A, Capri Blue, 59k Miles, 3.5L V6 SUV
2012 Volvo S60 T5 Sedan......................................... $25,950#P9158, Volvo Certified, 1-Owner, 9K Miles, Flamenco Red
2009 Volvo S60
2007 Acura TL................................................................................ $14,995#G0040, Auto, 3.2L V6 Engine, Sedan
2008 Volvo C70 Coupe.................................................... $16,995#N0553, Auto, Black, 1-Owner, 2.5L Turbo Engine
2012 Chevrolet Express.................................................$19,995#G0004, 2500 Cargo Van, Auto, 12K Miles, 4.8L Engine
2013 Subaru Forester...................................................... $19,995#526513B, 1-Owner, 2.5X Premium SUV, 35K Miles
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MODEL #11515
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2014 NISSANSENTRA SV
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$199/MO36 MO LEASE12K MILES/YR
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$279/MO39 MO LEASE12K MILES/YR
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